アンチナショナリズム宣言

今朝の朝日新聞を今頃になって読むと、
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ジャーナリズム再興

主筆　船橋洋一

　そうした状況の中、私はこのたび朝日新聞社主筆の任につくことになった。新たに定められた本社の主筆規定によれば、主筆は「本社ジャーナリズム精神を体現し、紙面と報道の声価を高めることを責務とする」と定められている。
　朝日新聞のジャーナリスト精神とは何か。
　私はそれを「権力監視」にあくまで食らいつく記者根性であると思っている。権力を握るのが誰だろうが、どの政党だろうが、暴力装置を持つ権力が、国民の権利を守るのか、侵すのか。国家が人々の心の奥や財布の中にまで手を突っ込んでくることはないか。政府の外交、防衛政策が、日本と世界の平和と安全を高めているのか、損なってはいないのか。しっかりと見張り、性格に報道していく。戦前アジア太平洋戦争に対しては誤った報道をし、読者を裏切った。朝日新聞は、戦後、その反省から出直した。「権力監視」と正確な報道というジャーナリズムの原点に今一度、立ち返る。そして、それを踏まえて、時代の要請により鋭敏に応えるべく、紙面と報道の質を不断に向上させる。それによって「紙面、報道の声価を高める」責任を果たしたい。

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ジャーナリズム再興などと相変わらず偉そうな態度で書いているが、朝日新聞が言うジャーナリズム精神を発揮したことが今まであったのだろうか？エリートの船橋洋一氏はこれまで真実を報道するために危険を冒したことなどあるのだろうか？そんなお題目は誰でも言える。現実に朝日新聞が「権力監視」にあくまで食らいつく記者根性を出していると自信を持って言えるのか？やってもいないことを口先だけで語るのならジャーナリズムを口に出す資格はない。

日本のマスコミが書かないタブーを、堂々と書きまくり国際社会に大きな影響力を与えている本物のジャーナリスト　ニューヨークタイムズ紙のオオニシ　ノリミツ記者の7/23日ニューヨークタイムズ紙の一面の記事
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Bomb by Bomb, Japan Sheds Military Restraints

By NORIMITSU ONISHI
Published: July 23, 2007

ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam ― To take part in its annual exercises with the United States Air Force here last month, Japan practiced dropping 500-pound live bombs on Farallon de Medinilla, a tiny island in the western Pacific’s turquoise waters more than 150 miles north of here.

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The exercise would have been unremarkable for almost any other military, but it was highly significant for Japan, a country still restrained by a Constitution that renounces war and allows forces only for its defense. Dropping live bombs on land had long been considered too offensive, so much so that Japan does not have a single live-bombing range.

Flying directly from Japan and practicing live-bombing runs on distant foreign soil would have been regarded as unacceptably provocative because the implicit message was clear: these fighter jets could perhaps fly to North Korea and take out some targets before returning home safely.

But from here in Micronesia to Iraq, Japan’s military has been rapidly crossing out items from its list of can’t-dos. The incremental changes, especially since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, amount to the most significant transformation in Japan’s military since World War II, one that has brought it ever closer operationally to America’s military while rattling nerves throughout northeast Asia.

In a little over half a decade, Japan’s military has carried out changes considered unthinkable a few years back. In the Indian Ocean, Japanese destroyers and refueling ships are helping American and other militaries fight in Afghanistan. In Iraq, Japanese planes are transporting cargo and American troops to Baghdad from Kuwait.

Japan is acquiring weapons that blur the lines between defensive and offensive. For the Guam bombing run, Japan deployed its newest fighter jets, the F-2’s, the first developed jointly by Japan and the United States, on their maiden trip here. Unlike its older jets, the F-2’s were able to fly the 1,700 miles from northern Japan to Guam without refueling ― a “straight shot,” as the Japanese said with unconcealed pride.

Japan recently indicated strongly its desire to buy the F-22 Raptor, a stealth fighter known mainly for its offensive abilities such as penetrating contested airspace and destroying enemy targets, whose export is prohibited by United States law.

At home, the Defense Agency, whose profile had been intentionally kept low, became a full ministry this year. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe used the parliamentary majority he inherited from his wildly popular predecessor, Junichiro Koizumi, to ram through a law that could lead to a revision of the pacifist Constitution.

Japan’s 241,000-member military, though smaller than those of its neighbors, is considered Asia’s most sophisticated. Though flat, its $40 billion military budget has ranked among the world’s top five in recent years. Japan has also tapped nonmilitary budgets to launch spy satellites and strengthen its coast guard recently.

Japanese politicians like Mr. Abe have justified the military’s transformation by seizing on the threat from North Korea; the rise of China, whose annual military budget has been growing by double digits; and the Sept. 11 attacks ― even fanning those threats, critics say. At the same time, Mr. Abe has tried to rehabilitate the reputation of Japan’s imperial forces by whitewashing their crimes, including wartime sexual slavery.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/23/world/asia/23japan.html?em&ex=1185508800&en=8101f244e744cbe9&ei=5087%0A
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自衛隊が北朝鮮を想定して爆撃投下訓練をやっていたことを朝日新聞はなぜ報じないのか？
もともと朝日新聞や船橋洋一なぞに期待はしていないが、彼らに恥という気持ちはないのか？