『「南京事件」―日本人４８人の証言』（小学館文庫）
阿羅健一著
その４―第一章 ジャーナリストの見た南京 ５、その他（地方紙）
今回は第１章「ジャーナリストの見た南京」のうちの
５、その他（地方紙）の４人のジャーナリストの証言です。
いずれも虐殺など見てもいないし、聞いていないといっているのは、これまでの記者、カメラマンの証言と基本的に同じです。
逆に、新愛知新聞の南正義記者は、中山門から城内に入っていくと街路樹のプラタナスの木に２，３体の日本兵が吊るされているのを見たということです。
殺して吊るし下から火であぶってあったそうです。一番印象に残っていて、戦後４０年ほどたって南京に行ったときに確かめたところ、木は大きくなっていましたが、そのままのところにあったそうです。
新聞などに虐殺が載らないのは、厳しい情報統制のせいではないかと思っている人もいるようですが、そもそも虐殺など見ていないし、聞いていないとみな戦後になっても言ってるのですから、その見方は見当外れであるということになります。また検閲はありましたが、厳しかったのは場所、部隊名で、○○の二文字にしか書けなかったと福島民報の箭内正五郎記者が述べています。これが実態であったようです。
日本語原文：http://hassin.org/01/wp-content/uploads/48-4.pdf
英訳文：http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/Ara-Nanjing-4.pdf
海外には、下記の通り英文で発信しました。
平成２９年１１月１０日「史実を世界に発信する会」会長代行 茂木弘道拝
http://hassin.org
The Nanjing Incident: Japanese Eyewitness Accounts
-Testimony from 48 Japanese Who Were There-
By Ara Ken’ichi
No. 4: Chapter 1 Nanjing, as Observed by Journalists
5. Others (local newspapers)
We present No. 4 in this series, which contains Chapter 1: Nanjing, as Observed by Journalists, 5. Other newspapers (four staffers).
Similar to other journalists who were interviewed earlier in this series, all four journalists in this segment said that they neither saw nor heard of a massacre at that time.
On the contrary, Mr. Minami Masayoshi, Shin Aichi Shimbun, was shocked to see Japanese soldiers being hanged from plane trees that lined the streets. This was at the Zhongshan East Road, stretching from the Zhongshan Gate. The bodies were burned from below. He said that this was the most impressive incident, among others things, that he saw in Nanjing. After the war, he visited Nanjing again and went to see the plane trees. Time had passed–40 years–but the trees were still there.
Some would think that the reason why no reports of massacres appeared in the papers was because of military censorship. However, as seen thus far, most of the journalists who were in Nanjing said they neither saw or heard of any massacres. Even after the war, most of the journalists did not report of any massacres. So, the assumption that journalists were censored is invalid.
Mr. Yanai Shogoro, of the Fukushima Minpo Newspaper , said that they didn’t report on prisoners or massacres, not because of censorship, but because they were simply not raised as topics. Reporters were, however, strictly prohibited from writing names of places and the name of units since revealing locations or units could be exploited by the enemy.
URL: http://www.sdh-fact.com/book-article/1065/
PDF: http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL/Ara-Nanjing-4.pdf
Questions are welcome.
MOTEKI Hiromichi, Acting Chairman
for KASE Hideaki, Chairman
Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact