'전범을 영웅으로 둔갑시킨 아베의 미 의회 연설을 저지합시다!'
미주 한인들이 일본 아베 신조(安倍晋三) 총리의 미의회 연설 시나리오를 저지하기 위한 실력행사에 들어갔다.
뉴욕의 풀뿔리로비단체 시민참여센터(대표 김동찬)는 18일 아베 총리가 방미기간중 상하 양원 합동연설을 추진하는 것과 관련, 웹사이트를 통한 서명운동에 동참해줄 것을 호소했다.
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시민참여센터는 "아베 총리가 4월말에서 5월초로 예정된 방미기간중 상하원 합동 연설을 위해 의원들과 하원의장에게 계속 추파를 던지고 있다"면서 "일본 총리가 의회 연설을 과거 역사의 면죄부로 삼지 않도록 미국의 한인 유권자들이 연방 정치인들에게 목소리를 전달해야 한다"고 독려했다.
이어 연방하원이 ▲ 일본의 전범들이 '전쟁 범죄자'라는 것을 확인할 것 ▲ 다시는 야스쿠니 신사를 참배하지 않겠다고 약속할 것 ▲ 공개적으로 일본의 역사 왜곡을 반박할 것 등 3개항의 약속이 전제되지 않는 한 아베 총리에게 상하원 합동 연설을 허용해선 안된다고 주장했다.
아베 총리는 일본엔 전범이 없다면서 A급 전범 14명을 포함한 1천여명 전범들의 위패가 있는 야스쿠니 신사를 수차례 방문했고, 특히 2013년 12월에는 일본 총리의 자격으로 방문했다.
일본의 지도층 인사들은 루즈벨트 대통령이 경제 봉쇄를 해 일본이 진주만을 습격할 수 밖에 없었기때문에 책임을 져야 한다는 적반하장(賊反荷杖)의 태도로 나오고 일본에 원자폭탄을 투하한 투루만 대통령도 전범이라는 주장을 하고 있다.
시민참여센터는 "아베 총리와 일본 우익들은 진주만 공격의 직접적인 책임자 히테기 도조가 전범이 아니라는 주장을 하고 있다"면서 "미국의 연방의원들에게도 하원 의사당은 진주만 습격 다음날 일본을 상대로 전쟁을 선포한 역사적인 장소"라고 환기시켰다.
시민참여센터는 "이러한 장소에서 일본의 역사적 과오(過誤)를 인정하지 않고 역사 왜곡에 여념이 없는 일본 총리가 연설을 하고 돌아가야스쿠니 신사를 참배한다면 미국과 미국 시민들, 특히 2차 대전 참전 용사와 그 가족들에게는 매우 불명예 스러운 일이 될 것"이라고 강조했다.
온라인 서명운동은 시민참여센터 웹사이트(www.kafus.org) 를 방문하면 간단하게 진행할 수 있다. 또한 스마트 폰에서 웹사이트에 들어가 바로 서명에 참여할 수 있다.
시민참여센터는 2차대전 태평양 전쟁에 참전했던 주위의 재향군인들에게 이같은 사실을 알려 이들이 적극적으로 나설 수 있도록 하는 한편, 페이스북을 통해서 미국의 시민들에게 널리 전파해줄 것을 당부했다.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should make it clear if he wants to address a Joint Session of Congress.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is due to visit Washington in late April or early May 2015 for a meeting with President Obama and is seeking to address the joint session of Congress.
While Mr. Abe is welcome to Washington, as a leader of America’s good allies in Asia, there are serious concerns among Americans on his revisionist view of the past, especially denying the verdicts of the Tokyo Tribunal after World War II. Mr. Abe’s revisionist view of history is a direct challenge to American people who sacrificed their lives during World War II and to the United States.
On March 12, 2013, Mr. Abe remarked at a meeting of the Japanese House of Representatives Budget Committee that “the view of that great war was not formed by the Japanese themselves, but by the victorious Allies, and it is by their judgment only that Japanese were condemned.” On another occasion, Mr. Abe maintained that “those convicted by the tribunal set up by Allied forces after the war are not considered war criminals under Japanese law.”
Further, on February 11, 2015, Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Koichi Hagiuda, who serves as a special advisor to Mr. Abe, shocked the world with his remark “in Japan, according to a National Diet resolution, war criminals do not exist and their honor was recovered.”
Denying the verdicts of the Tokyo Tribunal, Mr. Abe has visited the controversial Yasukuni Shrine numerous times as recently as December 2013 in his official capacity as the Prime Minister. Yasukuni Shrine is a national religious institution in Japan, where about 2.4 million souls are enshrined and revered. Among them are over 1,000 war criminals from World War II, including 14 Class A war criminals who were convicted and executed by the Tokyo Tribunal, or who died in jail.
Mr. Abe’s revisionist view of history represents only a tip of the iceberg that is the dangerous and widespread anti-American distortions of the history of World War II. For instance, the Yushukan Museum in Tokyo suggests that President Roosevelt was responsible for the Pearl Harbor attack since his oil embargo left Imperial Japan no choice.
Others even go on to argue that Hideki Tojo is not a war criminal for his attack on Pearl Harbor: they claim, instead, that President Truman is one, for dropping atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Such revisionist efforts to distort the history—that cost hundreds of thousands’ of innocent lives—have intensified recently. Some of Japan’s opinion leaders have even gone on to deny the sufferings of U.S. Prisoners of War and criticized as distortions and outright lies the depictions of gruesome agony the late hero Louis Zamperini in the recent film Unbroken.
Moreover, the Japanese Government recently demanded that an American textbook manufacturer, McGraw-Hill, change its depiction of Imperial Japan’s war crimes during World War II, which include the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Bataan Death March, the Comfort Women tragedy, and the Nanking Massacre.
These claims disrespect and challenge the fact that the Government of Japan accepted the verdicts of the Tokyo Tribunal when it signed the Treaty of San Francisco.
The House Chamber is a sacred ground in American history, where President Roosevelt passionately delivered his “Infamy Speech” and where Congress then declared war on Imperial Japan—as opposed to Nazi Germany, or Fascist Italy. If Prime Minister Abe speaks on the same floor as President, and then subsequently honors in Tokyo those who launched the Pearl Harbor attack, it is utterly disrespectful to the memory of both President Roosevelt and all the American heroes before us.
No patriot can stand these dishonorable distortions of the truth—the history of our patriots, heroes, grandfathers who bravely and selflessly sacrificed their lives for our country.
Therefore, we, as proud American citizens, need to tell our members of the House of Representatives and House Speaker John Boehner that we should not allow Prime Minister Abe to address a joint session of Congress unless that
(1) he acknowledges the war criminals convicted in the Tokyo Tribunal as war criminals under all laws;
(2) he promises not to visit the controversial Yasukuni Shrine; and
(3) he publicly refutes all anti-American distortions of the history.
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