(Chinese translation)“Asahi Shimbun” Coverage of the Comfort Women Issue Through the Years

May 4 at 10:00am

(Chinese translation)

“Asahi Shimbun” Coverage of the Comfort Women Issue Through the Years 

《朝日新闻》多年来报道慰安妇问题

This article is excellent. Bravo to the authors. I agree with 99% of the article, and so it seems unbalanced to point out the 1% that I disagree with. But this 1% is a recurring theme in many other debates related and unrelated to this topic.

这是篇好文章。我想告诉著者‘太好了’。关于99%内容我同意，所以我指出我不同意的1%也许看起来不平衡。但这1%是一个会在其他许多辩论中反复出现的主题，不论那个辩论是不是于这个话题有关。

My disagreement is with the idea, "Managed prostitution was no less than officially sanctioned human trafficking, and there is no question that it grossly violated the human rights of those subject to it."

我不同意的内容是，“有管理的卖淫和正式许可的人口贩卖差不多，而且毫无疑问这严重违反了那些遭受它的人们的人权。”

Human trafficking is a slippery label. If they volunteered as prostitutes (which was a legal occupation at the time), the brokers were involved in human transport, but not trafficking in the sense that the phrase is commonly understood.

人身买卖是一个狡猾的标签。如果她们自愿卖淫（当时这是一个合法职业），经纪人参与了她们的移送，而不是一般人理解的买卖。

Example: Coyotes who lead Mexicans across the border into the USA are often called human traffickers. Human trafficking in common lexicon indicates that some form of exploitation such as forced labor (slavery) or forced prostitution (real sex slavery) is at the end of the trail.  

例如：帮墨西哥人越过边境进入美国的秘密入境向导人（叫郊狼），通常被称为人口贩子。人口贩子在一般的词典里解释：某些形式的剥削利用，最终结果是比如强迫劳动（奴隶）或强迫卖淫（真正的性奴）等等。

Yet it is known that many people PAY to have coyotes guide them across the border. The entry into the USA is illegal, but they are not bringing in slaves. 

然而，实际的话，许多人要付钱给秘密入境向导人（叫郊狼）引导他们越过边境。进入美国是违法的，但他们不是引入奴隶。

Likewise some people automatically assume that all prostitutes are exploited, when in reality the highest paid prostitutes in Japan are said to make up to a million dollars per year. Who is exploiting who? Many prostitutes make big money. Some obviously are exploited, but others are businesswomen. 

同样，一些人想当然地认为所有的妓女都是被剥削的，在日本现实中收入最高的妓女，一般认为每年收入一百万美元。谁剥削谁？许多妓女赚大钱。一些很明显的剥削存在，但其他人都是职业者。

Numerous Koreans and Chinese recently were arrested for human trafficking about 500 prostitutes from Asia to Canada. A question: are these women knowingly and willfully coming to be prostitutes, or is there some form of coercion? Some people say that poverty itself is the coercion, yet that does not address that billions of people live in poverty or near poverty and still do not take this work.

许多韩国人和中国人最近被捕了，嫌疑是从亚洲到加拿大买卖了约500个妓女。一个问题：这些女人是故意来做妓女？或者有某种形式的胁迫？有人说，贫穷本身是强迫的，但是那些数十亿的生活在贫穷或接近贫穷里的人们，仍然没有做这样的工作。

The other 99% is excellent and lays out in detail the sex-slave debate:

其他99%内容太好了，细致的展示出了性奴的辩论：

http://www.nippon.com/en/features/h00074/?pnum=1

translator: Hideyuki MATSUI  松井秀幸

Donation:

寄付の受付　http://michaelyonjp.blogspot.jp/2015/03/blog-post.html

Chinese translation

• Takashi Uemura: Dishonest Japanese Journalist Touring America 

translator: Hideyuki MATSUI  松井秀幸

Donation:

寄付の受付　http://michaelyonjp.blogspot.jp/2015/03/blog-post.html

Sunday, April 26, 2015

(Chinese translation)

Takashi Uemura: Dishonest Japanese Journalist Touring America 

植村隆：在美国巡回演讲的不诚实的日本记者

The comfort women issue was suddenly created in the late 1980’s to early 1990’s, just as the generations who knew the truth of the matter became lessened in population. Meanwhile, some Japanese anti-Japan activists travelled to South Korea and instigated litigation demanding reparations from the Japanese government. This was backed by the Asahi Newspaper which launched a public awareness campaign built on fictions, causing the comfort women issue to become a major diplomatic theme between Japan and South Korea.  Eventually China became involved and began using this in an information operation.  

慰安妇问题在1980年代后期到1990年代早期突然被创造了，这个期间正是知道真相的那代人减少的时期。与此同时，日本的一些反日人士前往韩国策动了要求日本政府赔偿的诉讼。这是由朝日新闻发起的，用来唤起公共意识的没有事实基础的活动，使慰安妇问题成为日本和韩国之间的一个重大的外交主题。最终，中国也参与进来并开始将其作为情报战使用。

The Asahi Newspaper’s reporter who played the central role at that time was Mr Takashi Uemura.  Uemura continues his battle even after his former employer admitted its wrong doing and made a public apology. 

当时发挥核心作用的朝日新闻记者是植村隆。即使在他的前雇主承认这是错误的做法并公开道歉以后植村仍然继续他的战斗。

Letter from a concerned Japanese man:

来自一位有关联的日本男人的信：

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Mr. Takashi Uemura, do you really want to hurt us more ? 

植村隆先生，您真的想伤害我们更多吗？

 Mr. Uemura, the former Asahi Newspaper reporter, who is directly responsible for disseminating inaccurate information and inflaming the comfort woman issue, is planning to give speeches at renowned universities in the United States from the end of April to early May this year. Despite the clear evidence that Mr. Uemura misled general public regarding the controversial comfort woman issue he claims that he has been unfairly "slammed and threatened by right wing revisionists". 

植村隆，原朝日新闻记者，是直接负责传播不准确的信息和煽动慰安妇问题的人，计划今年从四月末到5月上旬在美国知名大学演讲。尽管关于有争议的慰安妇问题植村隆误导公众的明确的证据存在，他声称他已经被不公平的”被右派修正主义者抨击威胁了”。

I would like to take this opportunity to make it very clear that it is totally incorrect for him to make the claim that it is only right wing extremists who are angered and unfairly harassing him. The truth of the matter is in fact that a significant portion of the Japanese general public is outraged at what he has done. We do sympathise with some of the inappropriate actions which have occurred and the safety of his family should be guaranteed but this situation could have been avoided from the beginning if he had taken responsibility for his actions as his former employer, Asahi Newspaper has done. 

我想利用这个机会澄清，他所说的“只有右翼极端分子被激怒了，不公平的扰乱他“是错误的。事情的真相是，对于他的行为日本民众的重大一部分都是愤怒的。我们对已经发生的一些不当行为感到同情，他家人的安全应该得到保障，但是如果他对自己的行为负责，像他的前雇主朝日新闻的做法一样的话，这种情况本来是可以避免的。

Mr. Uemura should have never been permitted to write articles regarding the comfort woman issue in the first place, because his mother-in-law heads the "Association for the Pacific War Victims and Bereaved Families" that organised a lawsuit, seeking an official apology and reparations from the Japanese government. He denies this clear conflict, but if that were the case, why did he write inaccurate articles in support of the court case without revealing this relationship? 

从一开始植村隆就不应该被允许写关于慰安妇问题的文章，因为他的岳母是前“太平洋战争受害者协会”的理事，这个团体组织了对日本政府要求正式道歉和赔偿的诉讼。他否认了这明显的矛盾，但如果情况属实，为什么他写了错误的文章支持诉讼案件而不公开这个他和岳母的关系？

What he wrote was also highly questionable.

On August 11,1991, the Asahi Newspaper published a major scoop written by Mr. Uemura. The article featured the statements of Kim Hak Sun, a former comfort women living in Seoul. The opening paragraph of the article began: "A 'Korean military comfort woman' forced to provide sexual services for Japanese military personnel after being taken to the combat zone under the name of the Women's Volunteer Corps during the Sino-Japanese War and World War II has been found living in Seoul … " From the beginning, the article gave the impression that the woman had been forcibly taken away by the Japanese military and forced to be a comfort woman. (Recently Mr. Uemura admitted that he confused the "Comfort women" with the "Women’s Volunteer Corps," but he made an excuse that previously not only himself but also many others confused the two organisations.) 

他写的东西也有大问题。

在1991年8月11号，朝日新闻刊登了植村隆写的快特消息。本文以金学顺的陈述为特色，她是一名住在汉城的前慰安妇。文章的第一段开始写着：“一位朝鲜从军慰安妇”被发现还生活在首尔市内……她是日中战争和二战的时候，被以“女子挺身队（女志愿队）”名义下被带到战场，被日本军人强迫提供性服务。从一开始，文章给人的印象是，女人被日军绑架后被迫成为慰安妇。（最近植村隆承认他混淆了“从军慰安妇”与“女子挺身队（女志愿队）”，但是他找了一个借口，以前不仅他自己，而且很多人混淆了这两个组织。）

On August 11,1991, the Asahi Newspaper published a major scoop written by Mr. Uemura. The article featured the statements of Kim Hak Sun, a former comfort women living in Seoul. The opening paragraph of the article began: "A 'Korean military comfort woman' forced to provide sexual services for Japanese military personnel after being taken to the combat zone under the name of the Women's Volunteer Corps during the Sino-Japanese War and World War II has been found living in Seoul … " From the beginning, the article gave the impression that the woman had been forcibly taken away by the Japanese military and forced to be a comfort woman. (Recently Mr. Uemura admitted that he confused the "Comfort women" with the "Women’s Volunteer Corps," but he made an excuse that previously not only himself but also many others confused the two organisations.)

在1991年8月11号，朝日新闻刊登了植村隆写的独家新闻。本文以金学顺的陈述为特色，她是一名住在汉城的前慰安妇。文章的第一段开始写着：一位“朝鲜从军慰安妇”被发现还生活在首尔市内……她是日中战争和二战的时候，被以“女子挺身队（女志愿队）”名义下被带到战场，被日本军人强迫提供性服务。从一开始，文章给人的印象是，女人被日军绑架后被迫成为慰安妇。（最近植村隆承认他混淆了“从军慰安妇”与“女子挺身队（女志愿队）”，但是他找了一个借口，以前不仅他自己，而且很多人混淆了这两个组织。）

Only three days later, on August 14 1991, Ms. Kim Hak-sun held a press conference in Seoul. South Korean newspaper articles clearly depicted Ms. Kim’s personal history that “she was sold by her mother to a kisaeng( female entertainment) house in Pyonyang at the age of 14. After finishing three years of training, her adoptive father told her that she could make money if she went to China and took her to Northern China where the Japanese troops were stationed."(Kisaeng is the traditional Korean prostitution system which legally operated until 2004) 

仅仅三天之后，1991年8月14号，金学顺女士在汉城举行记者招待会。韩国报纸上的文章清楚地描绘金学顺女士的个人历史， “她14岁的时候被她的母亲卖到在平壤的妓生（女招待）设施。结束了三年的训练后，她的养父告诉她，“你去中华民国的话你可以赚很多钱”，“他把她带到日军部队驻扎的中国北部了”。（妓生是到2004年合法经营朝鲜传统的卖淫制度。）

Moreover, on December 6, 1991, when she sued the Japanese government, Ms. Kim firmly stated at the Tokyo District Court, “I had been in kisaeng house for three years from the age of 14 when, at 17 years old in the spring of 1939, I was told about a place where ‘if you go, you can make money.…’ ‘Accompanied by my adoptive father, I was delivered to that place in China.'” 

此外，在1991年12月6日，金女士诉讼日本政府的时候，她在东京地方法院清楚地说，“我从14岁开始一直在妓生设施待了三年，在17岁的1939年春天，我听说有一个地方，“如果你去，你可以赚钱，…” ”我的养父陪伴我，我被送到中华民国的那个地方。”

Although we are deeply sympathetic with Ms. Kim’s plight, the implications of "a comfort woman forcibly taken away by the Japanese military" and an "unfortunate comfort woman sold off by her parents" are strikingly different. Mr. Uemura is fluent in Korean, so he had to have known what "being sold to a kisaeng house" meant, but he made no mention that she had been sold by her parent – only that she had been taken to the battlefield under the designation as a Woman Volunteer. 

虽然我们对金女士的遭遇深表同情，“日军绑架慰安妇”和“被她父母卖掉的不幸的慰安妇”是非常不同的。植村隆会说韩语很流利，所以他已经知道“被卖到妓生设施”的意思，但他没有提到她被母亲已经卖了–只提到她“女子挺身队（女志愿队）”名义下被送到战场。

Today Mr. Uemura contends that he never fabricated the story. If he had made genuine mistakes, then he should've corrected or retracted his articles when he realised these mistakes. No matter what his intensions were it cannot be denied that what he did was at the very least highly unethical, unprofessional and misleading which significantly damaged Japan’s international reputation. 

现在还植村声称他从未用编造。但是如果他真的只是犯了失误的话，那么他应该在已经意识到这些失误的时候，纠正或收回他的文章。不管他的意图如何，可否认的是，他做的事至少是非常不道德的，非专业的，误导性的，大大损害了日本的国际声誉。

His former employer, the Asashi Newspaper, officially apologized in 2014 for continuously reporting these fabricated stories without any verification and for not withdrawing them following the revelation that those stories were totally unfounded. Mr. Uemura, should he wish to repair his integrity as a professional reporter must take responsibility for these inaccurate articles he published. Contrary to this, however, he is falsely painting himself as being a victim of some backlash from right wing extremists. 

对于在没有任何验证的情况下连续报道这些编造的故事以及在发现“那些故事是完全没有根据的”之后，却没有撤回该文章，2014年他的前雇主朝日新闻正式道歉了。植村隆，如果他想要挽回作为职业记者的正直，必须承担发表这些错误的文章的责任。与此相反，然而，他是他把自己粉饰成一个来自右翼极端分子强烈抨击的受害者。

We once trusted the Asashi Newspaper and his reporting of this issue. The Japanese general public have been deeply hurt and offended not only by his misleading stories but even more so by his arrogance in refusing to accept responsibility for his actions and instead playing the role of a victim despite irrefutable evidence to the contrary. We sincerely request that he refrain from causing further damage with his filing of a lawsuit claiming he is the victim of ultra-nationalism. 

我们关于这个问题曾经信任朝日新闻和它的报道。日本民众，被深深的伤害和冒犯，不仅由于他的让人误解的故事，更深的是由于他的 “拒绝承认自己行为的责任 和在完全的相反证据下扮演一个受害者 ”这样的傲慢行为。我们真诚地希望他不要提起“他是一个端民族主义的受害者”的诉讼，来以此引起更多伤害。

Japanese citizen Ken 

日本市民 Ken

缅甸

• Myanmar today: Private meeting with Princess Devi Thant Cin, in which we discussed Japan, China, USA, Israel, Norway, sex slaves, and the environment
• Myanmar -- Japanese sex-slave issue

translated by Hideyuki MATSUI : 松井秀幸

April 19 at 4:14pm

(Chinese translation )

Myanmar today: Private meeting with Princess Devi Thant Cin, in which we discussed Japan, China, USA, Israel, Norway, sex slaves, and the environment

缅甸的今天：在和Devi Thant Cin公主的私人见面，我们讨论了日本，中国，美国，以色列，挪威，性奴，和环境

I requested a meeting with Princess Devi Thant Cin to ask for any family memories of sex slavery by Japanese during World War II. I have now asked dozens of Burmese people, and every one of them thinks the idea is crazy. They say it never happened.

我提出了和Devi公主见面的要求，为了问关于二战时日本性奴的任何家庭记忆。现在我已经问了几十个缅甸人，他们每个人都认为这个想法很疯狂。他们说，它从来没有发生过。

The royal family no longer has any power in Myanmar -- the British moved the last king and queen out to India in the 1800s. The last King is Princess Devi's great, great grandfather.

在缅甸王室已经没有任何权力——1800年代英国让最后国王和王妃移居到印度。最后国王是Devi公主的祖父的祖父。

On the sex-slave issue, Princess Devi had the same reaction most Burmese have, which is the same reaction Thai's have.

在性奴问题，Devi公主也和大多数缅甸人有着同样反应，和泰国人的反应一样。

She seemed to think the idea was crazy, and who even thought up this silly idea? She was polite and did not use the word silly, but I strongly sensed that is what she was thinking. Some people actually have said the idea is silly.

她似乎认为这个性奴想法很疯狂，谁竟然想出了这个愚蠢的想法？她很有礼貌而且没有使用愚蠢’这个词，但我强烈地感觉到，这就是她所认为的。有些人真的说这个性奴想法是‘愚蠢’的。

If you have Burmese or Thai friends, please ask them and see for yourself.

如果你有缅甸或泰国朋友，请自己问和见他们。

I gave Princess Devi the low-down on Yoshida Seiji, what Asahi Shimbum has done, the many books and films, Article 9, the Korean madness, and the Chinese information war.

我给了Devi公主，吉田清治的内幕，朝日新闻做了的行为，许多书籍和电影，9号消息，韩国的疯狂，以及中国的情报战。

Princess Devi speaks english at a very high level and she understood where this was going.

Devi公主的英语水平很高，她理解了在哪里这种事进行。

In any case, she said she never heard such a thing, and so we only talked about the issue for about 10 minutes. She said her family greatly like Japanese and that in the 1950s, a Japanese man lived with her family in Yangon. She was born in 1947 so has no direct memories of the war.

无论如何，她说她从来没听过这样事，所以我们关于性奴问题只谈了约10分钟。她说她的家人非常喜欢日本，1950年代一个日本男人在仰光和他们家人一起住过。她在1947年出生，所以没有直接的战争记忆。

Her current home is about 200 meters from Schwedagon, just close by the grave of her great grandmother, which is just next to the grave of Aung San Suu Kyi's mom.

她现在的家在从schwedagon约200米，她（外）曾祖母的坟墓很近，这坟墓就在昂山素姬的母亲的坟墓旁边。

So we invested about 10 minutes talking about the sex slave narrative, and the rest of the 2-hour conversation was mostly about environmental issues.

所以我们花了约10分钟谈论性奴叙事，其余两个小时的谈话的主要部分是关于环境问题。

Princess Devi is the editor of an environmental magazine and I always am extremely interested in environmental issues.

Devi公主是一个环保杂志的编辑，我也对环境问题非常感兴趣。

After about an hour, Princess Devi said that I should call her auntie, but in Burmese language. She was very pleasant to speak with and did seem like I was talking with a relative. So we talked and talked about the environment, and she said that though she has no royal power, she feels responsible for Myanmar and so she champions for the environment.

约一小时后，Devi公主说我应该叫她阿姨，但是用缅甸语。她说话非常愉快，我也确实感觉真像和亲戚谈话。所以我们谈了环境蛮多，她说虽然她没有王权，她也觉得为缅甸负有责任，所以她保护环境。

She said the Chinese are destroying parts of Myanmar with their filthy copper mining and other practices which dumps mercury, cyanide, and other poisons into the rivers. And Chinese dismantled some nasty coal plants and sent them to Myanmar!

她说，中国人正在破坏缅甸的部分地区，通过肮脏的铜矿和其他行为，把水银和氰化物和其他毒物排出到河里。还有，中国人在中国国内拆除一些肮脏的燃煤电厂，把它们送到缅甸！

Meanwhile, Princess Devi said that Japanese are ideal investors because they keep everything clean, they obey the law, and help Myanmar. She said that Americans and Norwegians and some others also are very helpful and appreciated, and even the Israelis help. (It is amazing all the countries that little Israel helps.)

同时，Devi公主说，日本人是理想的投资者，因为他们保持一切清洁，他们遵守法律，并帮助缅甸。她说，美国人和挪威人和其他一些国家人也非常有帮助的和有感激的，甚至以色列人的帮助。（小小的以色列也帮助缅甸，这个事实惊世界各地人。）

She has no love for Chinese! But she greatly appreciates the Japanese, Norwegians, USA, Israel, and some others, and she said Germans are doing good works.

她不喜欢中国！但是她非常欣赏日本，挪威，美国，以色列，和其他一些国家，她说，德国人做好事。

So we kept talking about the environment and I said I would rather be writing about the environment than about these Chinese and Korean lies about sex slaves, but this needs to be done.

所以我们持续谈着环境，我说我宁愿写关于环境问题也不愿写中国和韩国的性奴谎言，但性奴问题是需要做的。

She publishes a bi-monthly magazine on environmental issues. Unfortunately it is written in Burmese language. So that is six issues per year, and they only print 1,000 copies per issue, with a staff of only three. They have very little funding, and do not even have a website or Facebook page.

她出版过环境问题的双月刊杂志。不幸的是，这是用缅甸语写。所以，每年六刊，每刊只印刷1000本，只有三名员工。她们只有很少的资金，甚至没有一个网站或者facebook页面。

I said that many well educated people read my work and with her permission, I will publish her card with her contact information, in hopes that a likeminded people will join her cause in saving the environment.

我说，很多受过良好教育的人读我的作品，如果她许可的话，我会公开有联系方法的她的名片，希望有志同道合的人将加入她的拯救环境的事业中。

In particular she seems to have taken ideas from Japanese and even quoted one Japanese Prime Minister in regard to environmental issues. She reiterated numerous times how poorly the Chinese behave, and destroy the environment.

特别的是，她似乎已经采用了来自日本人的想法、甚至在环境问题方面引述了一个日本首相。她无数次重申了中国人的不好行为和破坏环境。

Again, her English is perfect, and she is very pleasant. She checks email daily.

再次，她的英语是完美的，她是和蔼可亲的。她每天查看电子邮件。

Her card, and two copies of their magazine:

她的名片，两本杂志：

April 18 at 9:57am

(Chinese translation)

Myanmar -- Japanese sex-slave issue

缅甸——日本的性奴隶问题

I am digging hard for dirt on Japanese. Talking with many people. Others are working to vindicate Japanese. I am taking a different approach and am prosecuting and digging for dirt. I am paying people to help me find dirt on the Japanese sex slave issue. Still not finding anything noteworthy.

我正在努力的对日本人的污名进行挖掘收集。与许多人的说话。其他人正在为了辩护日本人做活动。我正在用不同的方式，正在告发和挖掘收集污名。我花钱雇人来帮助我找到对日本的性奴问题的污名。还没有找到什么值得注意的。

There were 19 slaves in Indonesia (I have been there but not on this research yet), and some in Philippines and elsewhere, but these were small instances and were abuses of the system, not a system of abuses. Nowhere near the 200,000 alleged by Chinese and Koreans.

在印度尼西亚有19个性奴了（我曾经去过那里，但不是研究这个），也有一些在菲律宾和其他地方，但这是小的例外和制度的滥用，不是滥用的制度。远不及中国、韩国宣称的20万左右的性奴。

I found some exculpatory evidence today that strongly favors Japanese, and will put it up in the next few days.

我今天找到了一些申明无罪的证据，该证据强烈支持日本人，我过几天上载这个证据。

So far as I have seen so far, Japanese are coming up clean on this issue. Japanese ran the comfort women brothels, but those were just brothels and Americans did this too.

据我所看，到目前位置这个问题上我已经看到日本人正变得越来越清白。日本人运营了妓院（慰安所），但那只是妓院，美国也做了这个。

(Wait until you see what I have found in an old Burmese bookstore...)

（请你等待到你看到 我在缅甸古书店里找到的书。。。）

Meanwhile, this video is from a random street interview today. I wanted to see the Yangon Synagogue and in the process found this Muslim gentlemen and made a random street interview.

同时，这视频是今天街上随机做的采访。我想去看仰光的犹太教堂，在去路上我找到这个穆斯林绅士，做了随机路上采访。

Street interviews are like soil samples and can provide serious information when you do enough, but you must do many of these over a broad spectrum to find any pattern. This one is typical in Myanmar so far.

路上采访是像土壤标本，如果你做的很好你能够提供重要的情报，但为了发现任何一个样品你必须达到很大的范围做很多采访。这一个是到目前在缅甸的有典型性的采访。

I like how Muslims in so many countries typically look you in the eye. It is unlikely that this man has any allegiance to Japan, yet watch how he defends Japanese on the rape issue:

我喜欢在许多国家的穆斯林人们如何用有特色的眼神看你。这个男人对日本有忠诚是不太可能的，但观察他对日本人的强奸问题是如何辩解的：

April 21 at 3:02am ·

(Chinese translation)

Vietnam asked Philippines to form pact to counter China, Aquino reveals

越南对菲律宾要求形成对抗中国的协定，阿基诺揭示了

Chinese translation (April 9, 14 - 20)

• Intelligence Report on Japanese POWs
• Video of Japanese at the Glendale, California Comfort Women Statue
• "When Modi met Netaji's 99-year-old aide in Japan"
• "Large crowds welcome Japan's emperor and empress to Palau during visit to mourn war dead"
• Japan-Burma:

April 17 at 11:18pm

(Chinese translation)

Intelligence Report on Japanese POWs

日军战俘的情报报告

 I found this today while looking through WWII books in Yangon, Myanmar.

今天我在缅甸仰光在寻找二战的书的时候，我找到这个了。

April 10 at 9:31pm 

(Chinese translation)

Video of Japanese at the Glendale, California Comfort Women Statue

日本视频在Glendale，加利福尼亚慰安妇雕像

The lady giving the talk wearing the black and white striped shirt is Phyllis Kim. Phyllis works at the Korean American Forum of California. (KAFC.)

穿黑色和白色条纹衬衫讲话的这位女士是Phyllis Kim。Phyllis在 KAFC(在加利福尼亚韩国系美国人协会)上班。

KAFC exists only to create problems for Japanese in the United States.

KAFC存在只是为了在美国创造对日本的问题。

Chinese are the mostly unseen hand operating the Korean puppets. As we investigate, we find Chinese footprints everywhere, including that Global Alliance (Chinese) filed an amicus curiae in the lawsuit filed by Dr. Mera against the local government. The purpose of the lawsuit was to keep this statue and the hatred it brings out of Glendale. The lawsuit did not succeed.

中国人是主要的操作韩国傀儡的看不见的手。当我们研究，我们发现中国的足迹无处不在，包括Mera博士对本地政府提起诉讼的时候全球联盟（中国）派了“法庭之友(于特殊案件中,为法院提供中立建议之人)”。该诉讼的目的是将把这座雕像和仇恨从Glendale去掉。诉讼没有成功。

My apologies for the low quality of the video. I made it with an old camera phone and I had a heavier DSLR over my shoulder. Unfortunately I broke my good video camera in Afghanistan and have not replaced it. Judging by the low quality of this video, it is time to replace it.

我为视频的质量低而道歉。我用的是一个老的照相机和我在我的肩膀上有一个较重的数码单反相机。不幸的是，我在阿富汗打破了我的很好摄像机，但我并没替换它。从这段视频的低质量来判断，是时候来替换它了。

April 20 at 6:46pm

(Chinese translation) 

"When Modi met Netaji's 99-year-old aide in Japan"

“当莫迪会见内达吉99岁的助手在日本的时候”

Again, this 2014 piece goes against the narrative that we are taught that all of Asia hates Japan. The narrative is just not true. From my travels to about 19 Asian countries (currently in Myanmar), it seems that most of Asia respects and likes Japan. This article was written by someone I do not know:

再次，这个2014年的文章违背了叙述——我们已经知道的，所有亚洲国家都讨厌日本这样的叙述。叙述是不正确的。由于我的旅行在亚洲19个国家（目前在缅甸），看来，大多数亚洲国家尊重和喜欢日本。这篇文章是一个我不认识的人写的：

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"The meeting was rare and poignant - an Indian prime minister" kneeling down to greet a 99-year-old Japanese associate of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, in Tokyo.

“这次会见是罕见的和尖锐的 - 印度总理在东京跪下来迎接一位99岁的内达吉 钱德拉•鲍斯 的日本人朋友。

"In a photos released on Tuesday, Narendra Modi was seen peering into the eyes of Saichiro Misumi and then warmly clasping his hands.

“在照片上星期二公布，Narendra莫迪被三角佐一郎 的眼睛凝视然后热忱紧紧握住他的手。

""Poignant moment! PMOIndia reaches out to Netaji's oldest living associate in Japan the 99 year old Saichiro Misumi," said a tweet by Ministry of External Affairs Ministry spokesman Syed Akabaruddin.

“痛苦的时刻！印度总理伸手向内达吉现存的最大年纪的日本人朋友——99岁的三角佐一郎，”外交部部长的发言人Syed Akabaruddin说。

"Earlier in the day, Modi at a function in the Japan capital, spoke about Misumi, saying there was a man in Japan who still vividly remembered all details about Netaji.

“在那天的早些时候，莫迪在日本首都参加宴会的时候，提到了三角，说在日本他是一个仍然生动的记着所有关于内达吉所有细节的人。

"This was Modi's second public tryst with an old comrade of Netaji.

“这是莫迪的第二次和内达吉老朋友的公开会见。

"On May 8, during the Lok Sabha election campaign, Colonel Nizamuddin, a 114-year-old former INA officer, shared the stage with Modi at a rally in Varanasi. Modi had touched the war veteran's feet.

“五月八日，人民院选举，在Nizamuddin上校，一名114岁的前印度国民军将军，在瓦拉纳西的集会上与莫迪共同上了舞台。莫迪触摸了战争老兵的脚。

"Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was the founder of the Indian National Army (INA) that fought the British with help from the Japanese in India during the Second World War.

“内达吉钱德拉•鲍斯 是印度国民军的创始人（INA），二战期间在印度接受日军帮助与英军战斗。

"He was believed to have been killed in a plane crash in Formosa (now Taiwan). The region was under Japanese occupation at the time of crash. The ashes were taken to Tokyo and are kept at Renkoji Temple in the city."

“曾经有人信他在台湾的飞机事故时被杀了。那个事故发生的时候该地区是日军占领下。骨灰被送往东京和保存在东京的莲光寺。”

April 9 at 8:19pm

(Chinese translation)

"Large crowds welcome Japan's emperor and empress to Palau during visit to mourn war dead"

“许多人群欢迎，为了追悼战争牺牲者访问帕劳群岛的日本天皇皇后”

There is a common thought that all of Asia hates Japan. This is false. I used to think the same, but now I have spent many years in about 19 Asian countries and my views have become reality based.

有一种普遍的认为全亚洲国家讨厌日本。这是错误的。我曾经认为同样的，但现在我已经在亚洲19个国家花了很多年，我的意见成为了有现实基础的意见。

The problems come from only four countries:

问题出来来自只四个国家：

1) China

1）中国

 2) North Korea

 2）朝鲜

 3) South Korea

 3）韩国

 4) Japan

 4）日本

As example, here in Thailand, Thais have great respect and affection for Japanese. I spent about a year in Nepal and close to a year in India. They also respect Japanese. Indonesia has good relations. Philippines is fine. The problems come from the four countries listed about. Even Afghans, way over there across Asia, like Japanese. People in my hometown in Florida like Japanese.

例如，在我在的泰国，泰国人对日本巨大的尊敬和爱戴。我在尼泊尔待了大约一年，在印度待了几乎一年。他们也尊重日本。印度尼西亚有良好的关系。菲律宾也是好的。问题来自于四个国家上述。即使是阿富汗人，在穿过亚洲的路上，喜欢日本人。我家乡佛罗里达州的人喜欢日本人。

One problem is that Japan is practically hermetically sealed off from the world. Sure, you can come and go. Japanese have freedom to travel and Japan's borders are open, and Japan has a vibrant press and open internet. But the language obstacle is enormous.

一个问题是，日本实际上是隔绝的世界。当然，你们可以来往。日本有自由旅行和日本的边界是开放的，和日本有一个充满活力的报纸和开放的互网络。但是语言障碍是巨大的。

Few Japanese speak English, and few foreigners speak Japanese. So we have this wall. One of the most educated and informed populations on earth is basically sealed off by language right in front of us. The entire world could benefit if that wall was not there.

很少有日本人说英语，和不多外国人说日语。所以我们有这个墙。地球上最受教育和知情的人群基本上被我们面前的语言权封闭。如果那个墙没有的话全世界都会受益。

However, some Japanese resist the idea that Japanese should widely study English. And they have a good point when you sit down and listen to the argument. In a nutshell, the Japanese culture is superior in many ways. They do not say that to me, but I can see it, and I think I know what they are thinking.

然而，一些日本不认为日本应该广泛地学习英语。他们有很好的一点，当你坐下来听争论的时候。简而言之，日本文化在许多方面更好。他们不对我说，但我能够看到它，我想我知道他们在想什么。

The high quality of the culture is undeniable. Look at the country. Their concern is that if kids learn English before learning their own culture, this will dilute the best parts of Japanese culture. My argument is that if Japanese speak English this will improve debate going on in the world forum, and positive Japanese qualities can radiate out of Japan.

文化的高质量是不可否认的。看看这个国家。他们担心的是，如果孩子们学习他们的文化之前学习英语的话，这将降低日本文化最好的部分。我的论点是，如果日本人讲英语很好，这将提高世界论坛上的辩论，积极的日本品质也可以从日本流露出来。

And we cannot read most Japanese press because it mostly is not translated (except for the leftwing papers). Few Japanese books are in English.

我们无法阅读大多数日本新闻，因为它大多没有被翻译（除了左翼报纸）。被翻译成英文的日本书籍很少。

The Great Wall of Japan is language.

日本最大的墙壁是语言。

April 14 at 6:05pm 

(Chinese translation)

Japan-Burma:

日本缅甸：

I talked with 8 women today. One was 93 and another 99. The rest were their daughters and granddaughters.

今天我和8个女人交谈。一个93岁另一个99岁。其余的是她们的的女儿和孙女。

They have almost no collective memory of WWII. They never even met a Japanese or any foreigner until today. Just got electricity last year. I was the first foreigner that any had spoken with.

她们几乎没有共同的二战记忆。她们甚至从来直到今天没有见过一个日本人或任何外国人。她们就去年有了电力。我是说话的第一个外国人。

None of the 8 ladies ever has spoken on a phone. 116 families live in the village for a total of 472 people. None of the children have a computer.

8的女士中没有人打过电话。116个家庭合计472个人住在村里。没有孩子有电脑。

They go to bed at 9PM and wake up at 4 or 5. They love the electricity but still go to bed at 9PM.

他们晚上9点睡觉，早上4或5点起床。他们很喜欢电但还是晚上9点睡觉。

I asked if they are happy. All women said they are very happy. One woman started fanning me and I said thank you. She was very nice and all were happy for the visit. They never even asked what country I am from.

我问了他们是不是幸福。所有的女人都说他们很幸福。一个女人开始煽动我和我说谢谢你。她是非常好的，大家都高兴参观我。他们甚至没问我从哪里来的。

I asked many questions about WWII memories, but the only collective memory was of hiding underground from Japanese.

我问了许多关于二战的记忆的质询，但唯一的集体记忆是从日本士兵隐藏在地下。

They said Japanese came but they never saw Japanese. I asked if men went to fight and they said no.

她们说日本士兵来的但她们从来没有看到日本士兵。我问男人去不去战斗了，她们说没有。

I asked if they heard any stories of rape or murder. They said they heard stories of rape but not in their village. I asked which village this story came from. They did not know.

我问她们是否听过的故事强奸或谋杀。她们说她们听到的强奸故事不在她们的村庄。我问从哪个村这个故事来自。她们不知道。

I asked if the village headman was here and they said he is out due to New Years.

我问了村长在不在这里，她们说他不在由于新年刚开始。

They all said I am the first foreigner they ever spoke with and were very happy with the visit, and they all said how happy they have been even without phones or electricity.

她们都说我是她们说话的第一个外国人，我访问了她们感觉很幸福，她们都说她们有多高兴了即使没有电话或电。

They do not even know how to use a phone. I said they are lucky.

她们甚至不知道如何使用电话。我说她们是幸运的。

Separately, if you get a chance to travel in Burma, you should do it now.

另外，如果你有机会去缅甸旅游，你应该现在就做。

The people are especially friendly. Little kids come up with their parents trying their English. They are not begging, just smiling and wishing to talk. (I have no great experience in Myanmar -- others who have seen more will have better informed opinions.)

人民是友好的。小孩子们拿出他们的父母让试试英语。他们不乞讨，只是微笑和想说话。（我在缅甸没有伟大的经验——有人看到更多的话将有更详细的意见。）

This is a very big, extremely complex country. My observations are from just a few short trips, but I can say that I like these people.

这是个非常大非常复杂的国家。我的观察只是源自从两三次的短途旅行，但我可以说，我喜欢这些人。

Burmese I have met in Thailand also have been nice. Reminds me of Thai villagers, Laotians, and sometimes of Nepalese.

我在泰国遇到的缅甸人也很好。让我想起了泰国村民，老挝人，有时是尼泊尔人。

In nearly every country I go to, the villagers are the friendliest.

我去的几乎国家中，那个村民们是最友好的。