古森さんが、5月6日付け記事で、AP報紹介から割愛したところ。
産経新聞ワシントン特別特派員、古森義久さんのブログのコメント欄に私は、
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※）策士づらをしたマイク・ホンダ氏にも一定の信頼があるのは、彼が第二次大戦中に日系人収容施設に放り込まれた体験者だからでした。かれは、「決議案の目的は？」と聞かれると「レーガン大統領が日系人の強制収容を謝罪したような日本政府の表明だ」と答えてるようです。（5月6日の古森さんのAP記事紹介で古森さんが削除した部分など）
http://komoriy.iza.ne.jp/blog/entry/182004/
と書き込みましたので、トラックバックして補足します。
「レーガン大統領が日系人の強制収容を謝罪したような日本政府の表明だ」と私が要約しました部分は、原文のAP記事では次のようになっています。
Supporters of Honda's nonbinding resolution want an apology similar to the one the U.S. government gave to Japanese-Americans, including Honda as a child, forced into internment camps during World War II. That apology was approved by the Congress and signed into law by President Ronald Reagan in 1988.
【拙訳】
ホンダ非拘束決議案の支持者たちが求めているのは、米国政府が、子供だったホンダ氏を含む日系アメリカ人に対して行ったと同様の謝罪だ。日系アメリカ人は第二次大戦中強制的に収容キャンプに入らされた。その謝罪とは、1988年に連邦議会で承認され、ロナルド・レーガン大統領のサインによって立法化されたものである。
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なお、
「米軍の命令」という偽訳が施される前の、AP記事全文は以下のとおりです。
再掲します。
U.S. lawmaker calls for investigation of post-WWII brothels for U.S. troops in
Japan
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/04/america/NA-GEN-US-Japan-Comfort-Women.php
The Associated PressPublished: May 3, 2007
WASHINGTON: A U.S. lawmaker said Thursday he wants a closer look at reports that American authorities allowed the operation of an official brothel system for GIs occupying Japan in the aftermath of World War II.
Democratic Rep. Mike Honda, sponsor of a resolution urging Japan to apologize
formally for coercing thousands of Asian women into sexual slavery as the
Imperial Japanese during the war, said he has asked the Congressional Research
Service to look into allegations of brothels set up for American soldiers after
Japan's surrender in 1945.
Honda rejected comparisons between the actions of the Japanese during the war
and the U.S. occupation forces. He said the Japanese comfort women system was
set up and sanctioned by the Japanese government and armed forces.
"It's different," he said. "This is the military of the imperial government,
the imperial military's policy, in capturing, coercing and kidnapping girls and
women for the purpose of sexual slavery."
Honda said it was important to find out what role the U.S. military played in
the postwar system.
An Associated Press review of historical documents and records shows that
American authorities permitted an official brothel system to operate despite
internal reports that women were being coerced into prostitution.
Tens of thousands of women were employed to provide cheap sex to American troops until the spring of 1946, when Gen. Douglas MacArthur shut down the system, documents show.
There is no clear evidence that non- Japanese comfort women were imported to
Japan as part of the program.
Supporters of Honda's nonbinding resolution want an apology similar to the one
the U.S. government gave to Japanese-
Americans, including Honda as a child, forced into internment camps during World War II. That apology was approved by the Congress and signed into law by President Ronald Reagan in 1988.
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Associated Press writer Foster Klug contributed to this report.
