米紙ニューヨーク・タイムズ社説。
安倍晋三首相が従軍慰安婦問題を含む過去の侵略に対する日本政府の謝罪(注:村山・河野談話だと思う)を見直す考えを示唆したとして、首相を厳しく批判。
「安倍首相は戦争の歴史を書き換える願望をむき出しにしている。戦争犯罪の否定は“恥ずべき衝動”」であると懸念。
☆Another Attempt to Deny Japan’s History
(米紙ニューヨーク・タイムズ)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/03/opinion/another-attempt-to-deny-japans-history.html
In an interview with the Sankei Shimbun newspaper, Mr. Abe, a right-wing nationalist, was quoted by Reuters on Monday as saying he wants to replace the 1995 apology with an unspecified “forward looking statement.” He said that his previous administration, in 2006-7, had found no evidence that the women who served as sex slaves to Japan’s wartime military had, in fact, been coerced.