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今日の言葉「自由」

 

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Saturday, November 15, 2014

Free

自由

Today, I choose to be free.

今日、私は自由を選ぶのである


Freedom is a state of being beyond external circumstances. I can experience freedom regardless of what I see outside myself. I choose to be positive in my thoughts and feelings, attitudes and perceptions. By choosing to focus on the good, I am free.

自由とは外部の環境を超えた、人間の存在の状態のことをいうのである。私が外部に如何なるものを見ようとも私は自由でいることができるのである。私の思考、感情、態度、認識において、常に、肯定的な姿勢を選ぶのである。善なるものに集中することによって、私は自由なのである。

I release negative thoughts and emotions, and feel lighter in mind, body, and soul. I nurture my mind with ideas of health and well-being and experience the freedom of a balanced and productive life. My outlook is positive—I expect only good.

否定的な思い、感情を私の心から放り出し、私の心、身体、魂がより爽快になっていくのを感じるのである。健康で、幸福な思考で私の心を満たしながら、バランスの取れた、生産的な人生の自由を経験するのである。私の姿勢は常に肯定的であり、善のみを思い描く。

Freedom is a choice, a state of mind. By holding positive thoughts and feelings, I experience life to the fullest. Today I choose to be optimistic. Today I choose my freedom.

自由とは選択であり、心の状態のことをいうのである。肯定的な思考、感情のみを抱くことによって、私は、自分の人生を最大限に生きるのである。今日、私は、楽天的な態度、姿勢を選ぶのである。今日、私は私の自由を選ぶのである。


I have set before you life and death ... Choose life so that you and your descendants may live.—Deuteronomy 30:19

我は命を死を汝らの前に置けり、、、、汝生命をえらぶべし然せば汝と汝の子孫生存らふることを得ん　申命記30:19

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この曲、ＡＦＮで最近よく聞きます。

America Needs Shinzo Abe

 

 

 

America Needs Shinzo Abe

Building a relationship with Japan’s prime minister would do more than just strengthen the U.S.-Japan strategic alliance.

By 
Arthur Herman 

Nov. 10, 2014 12:53 p.m. ET 

 

http://online.wsj.com/articles/america-needs-shinzo-abe-1415641980

The  Obama  administration excels at annoying U.S. allies. A senior official’s recent labeling of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a form of avian excrement was only the latest misstep. Besides aggravating Israel and Saudi Arabia over how to check Iran’s Middle East ambitions, Canada has been left waiting for years on the Keystone XL pipeline, and Britain still remembers the 2012 debate over whether a bust of Winston Churchill belonged in the Oval Office. 

This week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Beijing presents President Barack Obama with an opportunity to break that cycle by bolstering his relationship with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Despite differing political perspectives—Mr. Abe sits right of center while Mr. Obama leans to the left—and Mr. Abe’s slumping popularity at home, the prime minister has put his reputation on the line to strengthen the U.S.-Japan alliance. Were Mr. Obama to meet him in the middle, Japan could become an important key to the future modernization of the U.S. military and the security of East Asia. 

To Mr. Obama’s credit, he had some reassuring words to say about Mr. Abe and Japan during a joint press conference in April. The president thanked Mr. Abe “for your friendship, your partnership, and the progress we’ve made together” on economic issues as well as on regional security as a result of Mr. Abe’s new, if controversial, emphasis on Japan’s right to collective self-defense. 

The Obama administration has also made it clear that it will not let China bully Japan over the Senkaku Islands, with the president saying that Japan’s administration of the islands is “a consistent part of the alliance” between the U.S. and Japan. 

Still, there will be those at the APEC meeting who would like to put some distance between Messrs. Obama and Abe. One of them is South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye. She’s been furious with Mr. Abe ever since his controversial visit to the Yasukuni Shrine for Japanese war dead, some of whom South Koreans consider war criminals. Ms. Park also attacked Mr. Abe on the issue of Korean “comfort women,” who were forced to service Japanese soldiers during World War II. Ms. Park and her compatriots are seeking a profuse public apology from Mr. Abe.

Likewise, China’s Supreme Leader  Xi Jinping  would be delighted to see the rift between South Korea and Japan widen. Mr. Xi and the Chinese media have relentlessly emphasized the comfort-women issue. At the APEC summit Mr. Xi will no doubt encourage Mr. Obama to take a more “even handed” approach to the Senkaku dispute. He will also hope that Mr. Obama will distance himself from Mr. Abe’s new defense policy if he suggests it could injure relations between Beijing and Washington, as well as those between Beijing and Tokyo. 

Mr. Obama will also be aware of Mr. Abe’s steady drop in popularity at home. “Abenomics” has stalled, and Mr. Abe’s policies on defense and closer military cooperation with the U.S. has come under attack from the pacifist Japanese left.

But Japan is exactly the kind of ally the U.S. needs in the region. With more naval vessels than France and an army larger than Germany’s, Japan can no longer shrug off its share of the military burden in the U.S.-Japan alliance. At the same time, Japan is going to need American help in developing and deploying advanced technology for protecting Japan’s homeland, from antiballistic missile defense systems to unmanned arial vehicles. 

And here’s where Mr. Abe’s recent lifting of a decades-old ban on Japanese defense exports becomes crucial. The ban’s end isn’t just good news for Japanese defense firms or for countries like India and Australia, who want to buy advanced submarines and seaplanes from Japan—it’s also good news for the U.S. It raises the possibility of joint ventures between the world’s two most sophisticated high-tech economies in developing future defense systems, from space and cyber defense to robotics and high-end electronic warfare. 

Last year, a Japanese company won highest honors at the Robotics Challenge sponsored by the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. It’s a harbinger of the military transformation that could arise if Japan continues on the path Mr. Abe has taken—and could counter worries recently expressed by a senior Pentagon official that the U.S. is losing its long-standing military-technology edge to China.

Mr. Abe’s steadfast stand on Japan’s defense doesn’t just bode well for his country’s future or the health of the U.S.-Japan alliance. It’s also good for America’s own future security. Mr. Obama needs to show his support for Mr. Abe at APEC. He must prove that this alliance is built to last.

Mr. Herman is senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and author of “Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II” (Random House, 2012). 

 

 

Chikamori Mukai 
4 days ago

The U.S.-Japan alliance is the first. That's Japanese national policy.


Unlike a stupid outlaw country pursuing territorial ambition today, the U.S. and Japan had surmounted over past emotional matters such as Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima & Nagasaki, and has cherished the U.S.-Japan alliance by whatever way. The U.S. and Japan know each country has its own respectable history, and do not make historical view into political issue which never contributes to world peace and mutual respect.

We know how strong U.S.-U.K. tie after surmounting over Boston Tea Party or Independent war.


As subtitle shows "Building a relationship with Japan’s prime minister would do more than just strengthen the U.S.-Japan strategic alliance.", P.M. Abe chosen and supported by majority of Japanese eager to strengthen the U.S.-Japan tie not as just a defense ally but as an unshakable political strategic ally which surely contribute to world peace and mutual respect as well as bilateral national interest. 


Benito Medero 
4 days ago

Mr, Herman is absolutely right 


Justin Zhou 
5 days ago

With more naval vessels than France and an army larger than Germany’s, Japan can no longer shrug off its share of the military burden in the U.S.-Japan alliance.

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Does author know Japan was like that even 30 years ago and they used that army only to chase dolphins? And now he helps Japan play victim. Don't be a hypocrite. If you want arm Japan to counter China, say that. Just be careful what you wish for. Remember, it was not Chinese dropped bombs and rained hell on pearl harbor. 

It is simple as it is.


DAVID OH 
5 days ago

"...some of whom South Koreans consider war criminals..."

Uh... you mean those japanese murderers and rapists who also executed and experimented on AMERICAN PRISONERS.... thanks for spitting in the face of those who suffered under the japanese by making it seem as if it's only the koreans who viewed the japanese as barbarian war criminals. 


we should be letting the germans honor the memory of Hitler, Goebbels, Goering etc if we're ok with letting the japanese celebrate their genocidal murderers and rapists. 



Justin Zhou 
5 days ago


@DAVID OH 

This author thinks like Abe in denial and cries like a thief about innocence. 


Pin Kui Ting 
5 days ago

If right wing fascism revives again in Japan, US is shooting herself on the foot. I suspect Japan right wing fascists still remember those two nuclear bombs ,Plaza Accord/lost decade and Okinawa us military base. 

David Corwin 
5 days ago

The author couldn't be more wrong.  America needs Japan, or more precisely, America needs Japan to work towards enhancing American interest in the Asian Pacific, but we certainly don't need Shinzo Abe, who has a habit of going rogue on his own script and stir up unnecessary conflicts that can drag us into a war with our most important business partner.  We need the Gulf State, but when they prop up ISIS, we suffer as a consequence.  Abe, in particular, is the product of a group of political elite families in Japan that was instrumental in creating the Imperialist Japan prior to WWII, and fascism runs deep in his blood.  America needs to manage him carefully instead of giving him carte blanche support to irresponsible pursuits. 


DEBBIE CHENGPin Kui Ting


DAVID OH 
5 days ago


@David Corwin well said, the author's an example of someone who's too ignorant of history to be influencing these kinds of foreign policy matters.