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『新しい歴史教科書』（新版・中学社会）（自由社）
英訳シリーズ　その７－第４章「近代の日本と世界（I）―幕末から明治時代」
第１節、第２節

　『新しい歴史教科書』英訳シリーズその７―第４章「近代の日本と世界（I）」、第１節、第２節をお届けします。

第１節：欧米諸国のアジア進出
　　　　47 市民革命と産業革命
　　　　48 欧米列強のアジア進出　
　第２節：開国から明治維新へ
　　　　49 ペリーの来航と開国
　　　　　＊ペリーは日本人をどう見たか
　　　　50 尊王攘夷運動の展開
　　　　　＊日米修好通商条約
　　　　　＊対馬事件
51 薩長同盟と討幕運動
　　　　52 明治新政府
　　 ＊五箇条のご誓文
　　　　53 廃藩置県と四民平等
　　　　　＊廃藩置県を武士はどう受け止めたか
　　　　　＊太政官（新政府）を構成する要人　　　　　
　　　　　＊学制・兵制・税制の三大改革
　　　　　＊学事奨励に関する大制出され書
　　　　　＊明治維新とは何か
　　　　54 近隣諸国との国境画定
　　　　　＊日清修好条規
　　　　　＊華夷秩序と国際法秩序
　　　　　＊琉球処分とは何か
　　　　　＊日本の近代化とアイヌ
　　　　55 岩倉使節団と征韓論
　　　　56 殖産興業と文明開化
　　　　　＊殖産興業に関する大久保利通の建白書
　　　　　＊太陰暦から太陽暦に
　　　　　＊幕末・明治期の日本人の生き方
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
　　　対訳版：http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_2/Chapter%204%20Section%201,%202.pdf

平成２９年９月７日　「史実を世界に発信する会」茂木弘道拝
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New History Textbook for Middle School Students
Series No. 7, Chapter 4: Modern Japan and the World (Part 1) – From the Final Years of the Edo Shogunate to the End of the Meiji Period
Sections 1, 2

Series No. 7 contains Chapter 4, Sections 1 & 2.

Chapter 4, Section 1: The encroachment of the Western powers in Asia
Topic 47 – Industrial and people’s revolutions
What events led to the birth of Europe’s modern nations?
Topic 48 – The Western invasion of Asia
How did the Western powers advance into Asia?
Chapter 4, Section 2 – From the end of isolationism to the Meiji Restoration
Topic 49 – Commodore Perry and the opening of Japan to the West
What events forced Japan to open its doors to the outside world?
* What Did Perry Think of the Japanese People?
Topic 50 – The rise of the sonno joi movement
How did the sonno joi movement arise during the waning years of the Edo shogunate?
* Excerpts from the Treaty of Amity and Commerce
* The Tsushima Incident
Topic 51 – The Satcho Alliance and restoration of imperial rule
How did the Edo shogunate come to an end?
Topic 52 – The Meiji Government
What nation-building principles did Japan adopt at the time of the Meiji Restoration?
* The Charter Oath
Topic 53 – The abolition of the domains and equality of all citizens
How did Japan achieve social equality and establish a centralized state under the Meiji government?
* The Key Figures in the Great Council of State (The Meiji Government)
* How Did the Samurai React to the Abolition of the Domains?
Topic 54 – Groundbreaking educational, military, and fiscal reforms
How did the Meiji Government implement its three greatest reforms?
* An Excerpt from the Imperial Proclamation on the Encouragement of Education
*The Meaning of the Meiji Restoration
Topic 55 – Defining Japan’s national boundaries
How did Japan demarcate its national borders with neighboring countries?
* An Excerpt from the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Friendship (1871)
* The Tributary System Versus the Rule of International Law
* The Annexation of Ryukyu
* The Ainu and the Modernization of Japan
Topic 56 – The Iwakura Mission and the “Debate on Punishing Korea”
How did the Iwakura Mission’s observations of the world impact Japan’s subsequent nation-building efforts?
Topic 57 – Industrialization and westernization
How did government policies designed to promote industrialism and Western culture progress?
* An Excerpt from Okubo Toshimichi’s Official Address on the “Increase Production and Promote Industry” Campaign (1874)
* From the Lunar Calendar to the Solar Calendar
* The Lifestyles of the Japanese People in the late-Edo and Meiji Periods

URL: http://www.sdh-fact.com/book-article/1019/
PDF: http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_2/Chapter%204%20Section%201,%202.pdf

Questions are welcome.

MOTEKI Hiromichi, Acting Chairman
for KASE Hideaki, Chairman
Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact

『新しい歴史教科書』（新版・中学社会）（自由社）
英訳シリーズ　その６－第３章「近世の日本―安土桃山・江戸時代」
第３節、第４節

　『新しい歴史教科書』英訳シリーズのそ６―第３章「近世の日本」、第３節、第４節をお届けします。

第３節：産業の発達と教育・文化の普及
　　　　㊶綱吉の文治英治と元禄文化
　　　　　＊武士の忠義の観念
　　　　　＊二宮尊徳と勤勉の精神
　　　　㊷農業・産業・交通の発達　
　　　　㊸教育・文化の普及
　　　　　＊正確な日本地図をつくった伊能忠敬
　第４節：幕府政治の展開
　　　　㊹幕府の政治改革
　　　　㊺化政文化
　　　　　＊町人が育てた歌舞伎
　　　　　＊エコロジー都市江戸
　　　　㊻幕府政治の動揺　　　　　　
　　　　㊲江戸幕府の成立
　　　　　＊浮世絵とジャポニスム　　　　　　
　第３章のまとめ：近世とはどんな時代か
　　　　歴史豆辞典（１００字用語解説）
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
　　　対訳版：http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_2/Chapter%203%20Section%203,%204.pdf

平成２９年８月２２日　「史実を世界に発信する会」茂木弘道拝
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New History Textbook for Middle School Students
Series No. 6, Chapter 3: Premodern Japan
– The Azuchi-Momoyama and Edo Period –
Sections 3, 4

Series No. 6 contains Chapter 3, Sections 3&4.

Chapter 3, Section 3: The spread of education and culture and the growth of manufacturing
Topic41 – Tsunayoshi’s Government of Law and Reason and the Genroku culture
What were the distinguishing characteristics of the Genroku culture that flourished in the Kyoto area?
* The Samurai and the Spirit of Loyalty
* Ninomiya Sontoku and the Virtue of Diligence
Topic 42 – The development of agriculture, manufacturing, and transportation
In what ways did Japanese agriculture, manufacturing, and transportation develop during the first half of the Edo period?
Topic 43 – The spread of education and culture
In what ways did education and modes of culture spread throughout Japan during the Edo period?
* Education at the Temple Schools
* Ino Tadataka, Creator of the First Accurate Map of Japan
Chapter 3, Section 4: The political development of the Edo shogunate
Topic 44 – Political reform of the shogunate
How did the shogunate react to the changing economic situation in eighteenth century Japan?
* Aoki Konyo(1698 – 1769)
* Uesugi Yozan(1751 – 1822)
Topic 45 – The Kasei culture
What were the distinguishing characteristics of the Kasei culture that flourished in the Edo area?
* Kabuki Created by Townspeople
* Edo, an Eco-Friendly City
Topic 46 – The shogunate in crisis
In what ways was the shogunate undermined by both the intrusions of foreign ships and internal rebellion and famine?
* Ukiyo-e and Japanism How did the culture of Edo Japan spread worldwide?
CHAPTER 3 SUMMARY:
SUMMING UP THE PREMODERN PERIOD
MINI HISTORICAL DICTIONARY

URL: http://www.sdh-fact.com/book-article/1016/
PDF: http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_2/Chapter%203%20Section%203,%204.pdf

Questions are welcome.

MOTEKI Hiromichi, Acting Chairman
for KASE Hideaki, Chairman
Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact

日本人の目から見た「大東亜戦争」への道（アルドリック・ハマ）
論文と書評（杉原誠四郎）

　本論文は日本の第二次世界大戦直前の状況について、日本人は欧米人とは全く違った記憶を持っていると指摘して、そのあまりの違いを明らかにしようとしているものです。
欧米人の教えられている公式のストーリーは、端的に言えば東京裁判で示された見解をほぼそのまま取り入れているものです。日本の「犯罪的で軍国主義的な一派」が東アジアと残りの全世界を「支配」するために「侵略戦争」を始めたという、言ってみれば荒唐無稽な見解です。
日本人の中でも「政治的に正しい」見解を持つ人々は東京裁判の判決を受け入れていますが、多くの日本人が持っている考え方は今なお東京裁判で述べられた考え方とは著しい対照をなしていると著者は述べています。
そして日本人のこの考え方を丹念に検証していけば、戦後の日本の行動に関して理解が深まるであろうという考えで著者は本論文を書いています。
本論文の英語原文は、The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies,
Volume 42, Number 1, Spring 2017　に掲載されたものです。出版社の許可を得て、原文・日本語訳を「史実を世界に発信する会」 のサイトに掲載したものです。
　本論文の書評を元城西大学教授杉原誠四郎氏にお書きいただきました。長文の本論文の前にお読みいただくと理解の助けにもなり、また参考になるかと思います。

　＊書評：http://hassin.org/01/wp-content/uploads/BuildupR.pdf
＊論文：http://hassin.org/01/wp-content/uploads/Buildup.pdf

英文版は、下記の内容で海外４０００のアドレスに発信しました。

平成２９年８月１４日　「史実を世界に発信する会」茂木弘道拝
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The Buildup to the ‘Greater East Asian War’
from the Japanese Perspectives
By Aldric Hama
Reviewed by Sugihara Seishiro, Former Professor at Josai University

Aldric Hama’s essay, “The Buildup to the ‘Greater East Asian War’ from the Japanese Perspective,” notes how differently the people of Japan and the West view the origins of the so-called Pacific War, and attempts to explain this vast discrepancy in perceptions.
The Western image is, in a word, a regurgitation of the opinions put forward at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (the IMTFE or Tokyo Trials) that World War II was an illegal war of aggression launched by Japan’s militarist faction in order to dominate East Asia and the rest of the world.
Although it is true that Japan did ultimately initiate the Greater East Asian War, the series of events that led Japan to the war were not at all conveyed in an accurate manner by the IMTFE. Mr. Hama’s essay makes this point very clear.
Prof. Sugihara’s review of this essay will be a useful introduction to this long essay.
The essay was first published in The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Volume 42, Number 1, Spring 2017. The essay has been uploaded to our website and now presented here.

*Essay:
URL: http://www.sdh-fact.com/essay-article/1011/
PDF: http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/Greater-East-Asian-War-from-Japanese-Perspective1.pdf *Review:
URL: http://www.sdh-fact.com/review-article/1013/PDF: http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/Review-of-the-Aldric-Hama.pdf

MOTEKI Hiromichi, Acting Chairman
for KASE Hideaki, Chairman
Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact

オバマ大統領広島訪問の歴史的意義
―アメリカは原爆の呪縛から解かれた
元城西大学教授
杉原誠四郎

　平成２８年（２０１６年）５月１７日、アメリカのオバマ大統領が原爆を投下したアメリカの現職大統領として、初めて被爆地広島を訪れ、原爆死没者慰霊碑に献花し、演説し、そして被爆者と対話した。演説では「われわれは歴史を直視し、そのような苦しみを繰り返さないために何をしなければならないかを問う共通の責任がある」と語った。
　謝罪の言葉はなかったが、このオバマ大統領の広島訪問には歴史的な意義があることを掘り下げて論じたのが本論文である。
　８月６日の今日、この論文を改めて内外の心ある人々に読んでいただきたく、英訳版とともに発信する次第である。（６日が日曜日なので、実際の発信は７日の月曜日。）
　論文は、次のような構成、内容となっている。

　　　　はじめに
（１）広島平和公園でオバマ大統領の行ったこと
（２）オバマ大統領の広島訪問による歴史認識の修正の必要
（３）日米戦争は実質的にはアメリカ政府によって始められた戦争であり、なおかつアメリカ政府によって必要以上に凄惨になった戦争である
（４）原爆投下まで戦争が続いたことに関する日本側の責任
（５）原爆投下は直近の状況の中では避けるのは難しかったが、長い時間の中で見れば全く必要のないものだった
（６）オバマ大統領の広島訪問の歴史的意義の最大のものは、アメリカをして原爆の呪縛から解放したことにある

　　＊全文：http://hassin.org/01/wp-content/uploads/hiroshima.pdf

英文版は、下記の内容で海外４０００のアドレスに発信した。

平成２９年８月６日　「史実を世界に発信する会」茂木弘道拝
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The historical significance of President Obama’s visit to Hiroshima
—The U.S. freed from the spell of the atomic bomb
By Sugihara Seishiro, Former Professor at Josai University

On this day of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, I would like to present Prof. Sugihara’s thoughtful essay on the meaning of President Obama’s visit to Hiroshima on May 27, 2016. The following is the translator’s introduction, written by Mr. Norman Hu:

Few have commented on the importance of President Obama’s visit to Hiroshima on May 27, 2016. But among these, Sugihara Seishiro discusses its significance as an act of reconciliation between Japan and the United States, even while he decries the atomic bombings as crimes against countless innocents. Sugihara emphasizes how important it is that this reconciliation was born from the use of the atomic bombs, and how it is a critical and bold statement in the 21st century, when it has become all too commonplace for nations to criticize each other without regard for the long-term consequences.
Japan is the only nation to have experienced the impact of an atomic bomb, and the United States is the only one to have dropped such a weapon in an act of war. Western scholars often discuss Hiroshima with a view to justify what the U.S. did to Japan at war’s end, while Asians may see that action as excessive and entirely preventable. While many Americans argue that the atomic bombs shortened the war and saved further loss of life (both among the Japanese but in particular those of American troops), Japanese people continue to regard the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as a supreme tragedy. President Obama highlighted “the remarkable transformation” in relations between the U.S. and Japan inasmuch as seventy years ago, “it would have been very difficult to imagine given the hostility between our two countries.”
This essay was recognized in 2016 for its contribution to modern and contemporary history by the APA Group’s 9th Annual Essay Competition. It is presented here in English for the benefit of readers outside of Japan. Sugihara presents the case that these close ties between erstwhile bitter enemies are a testament to humanity’s ability to reconcile given even the most virulent of enmities. Crucially, it is a clear statement that one not only needs to acknowledge and learn from history, but above all, to look forward.

URL: http://www.sdh-fact.com/essay-article/1005/
PDF: http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/Sugihara_ObamaHiroshima4.pdf

MOTEKI Hiromichi, Acting Chairman
for KASE Hideaki, Chairman
Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact