日本の戦争目的は自衛のためであった：MacArthur

2021年3月7日

STRATEGY AGAINST JAPAN IN WORLD WAR Ⅱ：後半部分だけ訳を入れておきます。
Senator Hickenlooper, Question No. 5 ：
Isn’t your proposal for sea and air blockade of Red China the same strategy by which Americans achieved victory over the Japanese in the Pacific ?

General MacArthur：
Yes, sir. In the Pacific we bypassed them. We closed in. You must understand that Japan had an enormous population of nearly 80 million people, crowded into 4 islands. It was about half a farm population. The other half was engaged in industry.
Potentially the labor pool in Japan, both in quantity and quality, is as good as anything that I have ever known. Some place down the line they have discovered what you might call the dignity of labor, that men are happier when they are working and constructing than when they are idling.
This enormous capacity for work meant that they had to have something to work on. They built the factories, they had the labor, but they didn’t have the basic materials.
There is practically nothing indigenous to Japan except the silkworm. They lack cotton, they lack wool, they lack petroleum products, they lack tin, they lack rubber, they lack a great many other things, all of which was in the Asiatic basin.
They feared that if those supplies were cut off, there would be 10 to 12 million people unoccupied in Japan.
Their purpose, therefore, in going to war was largely dictated by security.

前略　後半部分訳
「日本が持つ莫大な労働力のためには、その職場が必要であった。日本人は工場を建て、労働者もいたが、原材料がなかった。
実際に日本には蚕以外の原産品は無かった。綿花、羊毛、石油、錫、ゴム、その他アジアの大地にはある多くの原材料が無かった。
日本人は、もしこれらの原料供給が止められたら、一千万から一千二百万人の失業者が出ることを恐れた。それ故に日本が戦争に乗り出した大きな目的は、自衛のためであった」訳終わり。

こうなると、東京裁判(極東軍事裁判を含む)そのものが意味を持たなくなってしまいます。当然今騒いでいるＡ級戦犯などは虚構の産物です。
朝鮮戦争の勃発で中共軍が北に加担し、共産主義対民主主義の戦いが始まりました。 この時やっとマッカーサーは日本が何に対して脅威を感じ、防衛してきたのかを覚ります。そして非武装を強要したにも拘わらず、日本に再軍備の要求までしてきたのです。