安倍首相は「ごまかし」と批判、ワシントンポスト社説で
2007年3月25日（日）23:16 （朝日新聞）
米紙ワシントン・ポストは２４日付で「安倍晋三のダブル・トーク（ごまかし）」と題する社説を載せ、拉致問題に熱心な安倍首相が従軍慰安婦問題には目をつぶっていると批判した。首相に「拉致問題で国際的な支援を求めるなら、彼は日本の犯した罪の責任を率直に認め、彼が名誉を傷つけた被害者に謝罪すべきだ」と求めている。
同紙は、６者協議で拉致問題の進展を最重要課題とする日本政府の姿勢について「この一本調子の政策は、国内で落ち込む支持の回復のため拉致被害者を利用する安倍首相によって、高い道義性を持つ問題として描かれている」と皮肉った。拉致問題については「平壌の妨害に文句を言う権利がある」としながら「第２次大戦中に数万人の女性を拉致し、強姦（ごうかん）し、性の奴隷としたことへの日本の責任を軽くしようとしているのは、奇妙で不快だ」と批判した。
さらに政府が１６日に決定した答弁書は、９３年の河野官房長官談話を「弱めるものだ」と指摘し、歴史的な記録は「北朝鮮が日本の市民を拉致した証拠に劣らず説得力がある」と主張。首相が河野談話を後退させることは「民主主義大国の指導者として不名誉なことだ。日本政府の直接の関与を否定すれば、北朝鮮に拉致問題の回答を求める正当性を高めると考えているかもしれないが、それは逆だ」としている。
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「日本軍関与せず」と表明 下村副長官、慰安婦問題で
2007年3月26日（月）18:44 （共同通信）
下村博文官房副長官は、戦時中の従軍慰安婦問題に関し２６日午後の会見で「日本軍の関与はなかったと私自身は認識している」と表明した。政府は１９９３年の河野洋平官房長官談話で慰安所の設置や管理、慰安婦の移送について軍の関与を認めており「河野談話を逸脱する発言」として内外の批判を招きそうだ。下村氏は２５日のラジオ番組でも「日本軍が関与していたわけではない」と指摘していた。
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二枚舌原文：
Shinzo Abe's Double Talk
He's passionate about Japanese victims of North Korea -- and blind to Japan's own war crimes.
Saturday, March 24, 2007; Page A16
THE TOUGHEST player in the "six-party" talks on North Korea this week was not the Bush administration -- which was engaged in an unseemly scramble to deliver $25 million in bank funds demanded by the regime of Kim Jong Il -- but Japan. Tokyo is insisting that North Korea supply information about 17 Japanese citizens allegedly kidnapped by the North decades ago, refusing to discuss any improvement in relations until it receives answers. This single-note policy is portrayed as a matter of high moral principle by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has used Japan's victims -- including a girl said to have been abducted when she was 13 -- to rally his wilting domestic support.
Mr. Abe has a right to complain about Pyongyang's stonewalling. What's odd -- and offensive -- is his parallel campaign to roll back Japan's acceptance of responsibility for the abduction, rape and sexual enslavement of tens of thousands of women during World War II. Responding to a pending resolution in the U.S. Congress calling for an official apology, Mr. Abe has twice this month issued statements claiming there is no documentation proving that the Japanese military participated in abducting the women. A written statement endorsed by his cabinet last week weakened a 1993 government declaration that acknowledged Japan's brutal treatment of the so-called comfort women.
In fact the historical record on this issue is no less convincing than the evidence that North Korea kidnapped Japanese citizens, some of whom were used as teachers or translators. Historians say that up to 200,000 women from Korea, China, the Philippines and other Asian countries were enslaved and that Japanese soldiers participated in abductions. Many survivors of the system have described their horrifying experiences, including three who recently testified to Congress. That the Japanese government has never fully accepted responsibility for their suffering or paid compensation is bad enough; that Mr. Abe would retreat from previous statements is a disgrace for a leader of a major democracy.
Mr. Abe may imagine that denying direct participation by the Japanese government in abductions may strengthen its moral authority in demanding answers from North Korea. It does the opposite. If Mr. Abe seeks international support in learning the fate of Japan's kidnapped citizens, he should straightforwardly accept responsibility for Japan's own crimes -- and apologize to the victims he has slandered.
2007年3月25日（日）23:16 （朝日新聞）
米紙ワシントン・ポストは２４日付で「安倍晋三のダブル・トーク（ごまかし）」と題する社説を載せ、拉致問題に熱心な安倍首相が従軍慰安婦問題には目をつぶっていると批判した。首相に「拉致問題で国際的な支援を求めるなら、彼は日本の犯した罪の責任を率直に認め、彼が名誉を傷つけた被害者に謝罪すべきだ」と求めている。
同紙は、６者協議で拉致問題の進展を最重要課題とする日本政府の姿勢について「この一本調子の政策は、国内で落ち込む支持の回復のため拉致被害者を利用する安倍首相によって、高い道義性を持つ問題として描かれている」と皮肉った。拉致問題については「平壌の妨害に文句を言う権利がある」としながら「第２次大戦中に数万人の女性を拉致し、強姦（ごうかん）し、性の奴隷としたことへの日本の責任を軽くしようとしているのは、奇妙で不快だ」と批判した。
さらに政府が１６日に決定した答弁書は、９３年の河野官房長官談話を「弱めるものだ」と指摘し、歴史的な記録は「北朝鮮が日本の市民を拉致した証拠に劣らず説得力がある」と主張。首相が河野談話を後退させることは「民主主義大国の指導者として不名誉なことだ。日本政府の直接の関与を否定すれば、北朝鮮に拉致問題の回答を求める正当性を高めると考えているかもしれないが、それは逆だ」としている。
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「日本軍関与せず」と表明 下村副長官、慰安婦問題で
2007年3月26日（月）18:44 （共同通信）
下村博文官房副長官は、戦時中の従軍慰安婦問題に関し２６日午後の会見で「日本軍の関与はなかったと私自身は認識している」と表明した。政府は１９９３年の河野洋平官房長官談話で慰安所の設置や管理、慰安婦の移送について軍の関与を認めており「河野談話を逸脱する発言」として内外の批判を招きそうだ。下村氏は２５日のラジオ番組でも「日本軍が関与していたわけではない」と指摘していた。
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二枚舌原文：
Shinzo Abe's Double Talk
He's passionate about Japanese victims of North Korea -- and blind to Japan's own war crimes.
Saturday, March 24, 2007; Page A16
THE TOUGHEST player in the "six-party" talks on North Korea this week was not the Bush administration -- which was engaged in an unseemly scramble to deliver $25 million in bank funds demanded by the regime of Kim Jong Il -- but Japan. Tokyo is insisting that North Korea supply information about 17 Japanese citizens allegedly kidnapped by the North decades ago, refusing to discuss any improvement in relations until it receives answers. This single-note policy is portrayed as a matter of high moral principle by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has used Japan's victims -- including a girl said to have been abducted when she was 13 -- to rally his wilting domestic support.
Mr. Abe has a right to complain about Pyongyang's stonewalling. What's odd -- and offensive -- is his parallel campaign to roll back Japan's acceptance of responsibility for the abduction, rape and sexual enslavement of tens of thousands of women during World War II. Responding to a pending resolution in the U.S. Congress calling for an official apology, Mr. Abe has twice this month issued statements claiming there is no documentation proving that the Japanese military participated in abducting the women. A written statement endorsed by his cabinet last week weakened a 1993 government declaration that acknowledged Japan's brutal treatment of the so-called comfort women.
In fact the historical record on this issue is no less convincing than the evidence that North Korea kidnapped Japanese citizens, some of whom were used as teachers or translators. Historians say that up to 200,000 women from Korea, China, the Philippines and other Asian countries were enslaved and that Japanese soldiers participated in abductions. Many survivors of the system have described their horrifying experiences, including three who recently testified to Congress. That the Japanese government has never fully accepted responsibility for their suffering or paid compensation is bad enough; that Mr. Abe would retreat from previous statements is a disgrace for a leader of a major democracy.
Mr. Abe may imagine that denying direct participation by the Japanese government in abductions may strengthen its moral authority in demanding answers from North Korea. It does the opposite. If Mr. Abe seeks international support in learning the fate of Japan's kidnapped citizens, he should straightforwardly accept responsibility for Japan's own crimes -- and apologize to the victims he has slandered.
