黄文雄の「歴史とは何か」（自由社）
＜日・中・台・韓＞の歴史の差異を巨視的にとらえる
その５―第四章 人を殺さないで発展した日本の歴史
１万６千年にわたる縄文時代以来日本は人を殺さないという原理で発展してきた文明である、と黄文雄氏は述べます。
もちろん日本でも皇位継承をめぐっての大きな戦いもありました。壬申の乱がその最たるものです。戦国時代もありました。しかし、これらを前回紹介しました中国の歴史と比べるとけた違いの規模であり、本質的に異なるも言えるものであるといいます。
武士道は日本のこの文化伝統を体現したものあると黄文雄氏は説きます。一見逆説的ですが、武士道は平和でなければ生まれてこないということです。武士によって平和がもたらされると、その良い方向でのスパイラルが働き、平和な社会で武士道がいっそう強化されます。もしこのスパイラルを外部から破壊され、理不尽に多くの人が殺されるようなことが起れば、このスパイラルは消えてなくなります。そうなると武士道は育ちようがなくなります。こういう論理です。
中国のように民が「戮民」として他人のなす戦闘に巻き込まれて無造作に殺されている状況では、武士は絶対に現れません。武士と平和の良きスパイラルは絶対にできはしません。この意味で武士道は日本文明の本質を体現しているわけです。
日本語原文：http://hassin.org/01/wp-content/uploads/ko5.pdf
英訳文：http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/KO-BUNYU-No.5.pdf
黄文雄プロファイル：http://hassin.org/01/wp-content/uploads/ko.pdf
海外には、下記の通り英文で発信しました。
平成２９年１２月２２日「史実を世界に発信する会」会長代行 茂木弘道拝
http://hassin.org
KO BUN’YU’S DEFINING HISTORY
A macroscopic analysis of the differences among the histories of
East Asian nations: Japan, China, Taiwan, and Korea
No.5- Chapter 4 Japanese History: Progress Without Murder
Over 16,000 years of the Jomon period, Japan did not develop a culture of murder.
Of course, there were wars in Japanese history. Even during imperial succession, there were occasional battles, the largest of them was the Jinshin War, which erupted in AD 672. But it was small in scale and random killing was officially prohibited. This Japanese battle pales in comparison with, for example, the huge and extremely brutal war of succession of the second Emperor of the Tang dynasty, which took place in 626.
The author presents a unique point–that Bushido would never have come into being if Japan had not been at peace, which may seem, at first glance, contrary to conventional wisdom. But the fact is that while samurai kept Japan at peace, a spiral turning to a favorable direction was at work, and Bushido became even stronger in a peaceful society. If the spiral had been broken from the outside and a great number of people were unjustly killed, Bushido would soon have disappeared.
Since warfare was the objective of the samurai, a casual glimpse makes one think that the existence of samurai and warfare were two sides of the same coin. In that case, one could conclude that the mere existence of samurai was harmful to peace because they destroyed peace and caused wars. But this is a simplistic conclusion.
While the samurai needed to be strong, they were also required to be kind. Since they had the power to kill, when Bushido, which restrains the samurai from meaningless killing, was created, the samurai’s objective became maintaining and preserving peace.
URL: http://www.sdh-fact.com/book-article/1092/
PDF: http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/KO-BUNYU-No.5.pdf
Profile of Ko Bunyu: http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/72_S3.pdf
Questions are welcome.
MOTEKI Hiromichi, Acting Chairman
for KASE Hideaki, Chairman
Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact