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Japan's Public Security Intelligence Agency removes Turkey's PKK and Palestine's HAMAS from "List of Global Terrorist and Armed Organizations"

by Hiroyuki Aoyama, Professor

Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

November 29, 2023

Originally posted on Yahoo!News:

Translated/Post-edited using DeepL.com

On November 28, Turkey's Haber 7, Yeni Yasam, and Harwar News (ANHA) - which is close to the Democratic Unity Party (PYD), a Syrian Kurdish nationalist organization - all reported that Japan's Public Security Intelligence Agency had removed the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) from "List of Global Terrorist and Armed Organizations" section on its official website.

トルコのハベル7、イェニ・ヤシャム、シリアのクルド民族主義組織の民主統一党（PYD）に近いハーワール・ニュース（ANHA）などは11月28日、日本の公安調査庁が公式サイト内の「世界のテロ・武装組織等」欄から、クルディスタン労働者党（PKK）を削除したと一斉に伝えた。

Lyrics from Onew’s “Rainy Blue” from SHINee WORLD 2014  Originally composed & performed by Hideaki Tokunaga  Translated by Office BALÉS 

人影も見えない　午前0時 電話BOXの外は　雨 かけなれたダイアル　回しかけて ふと指を　止める

On a midnight where no soul can be seen Outside the phone booth it’s raining Still trying to dial the number I used to call But I remembered and stopped dialing

冷たい雨に打たれながら 哀しい物語　想い出した あなたの帰り道　交差点 ふと足を　止める

Pierced by an ice cold rain Still remembering that sad story On the way back to your place At the intersection  But I remembered and stopped walking

レイニーブルー もう終わったはずなのに レイニーブルー 何故追いかけるの あなたの幻　消すように 私も今日はそっと　雨

Oh, rainy blue I know it’s been long since it all ended Oh, rainy blue Why am I still chasing your shadows? As if to erase my phantom memory of you It’s raining inside me too ... only so quietly

行き過ぎる車の　ヘッドライトが ひとりぼっちの　影をつくる あなたの白い車　捜しかけて ふと瞳を　ふせる

The headlights of cars passing by Carving a lonely shadow of myself Still looking for your white car But I remembered and shun my eyes

レイニーブルー もう終わったはずなのに レイニーブルー 何時まで追いかけるの あなたの幻　消すように 私も今日はそっと　雨

Oh, rainy blue I know it’s been long since it all ended Oh, rainy blue When can I stop chasing your shadows? As if to erase my phantom memory of you It’s raining inside me too ... only so quietly

レイニーブルー もう終わったはずなのに レイニーブルー 何故追いかけるの あなたの幻　消すように 私も今日はそっと　雨

Oh, rainy blue I know it’s been long since it all ended Oh, rainy blue Why am I still chasing your shadows? As if to erase my phantom memory of you It’s raining inside me too ... only so quietly

あの頃のやさしさに つつまれてた想い出が

流れてく　この街に

It’s a rainy blue It’s a rainy blue

ゆれる心　ぬらす涙

It’s rainy blue… Loneliness

The memory of the gentleness That surrounded me back in those days Flows into this one place

It’s a rainy blue It’s a rainy blue

Oh, the trembling heart Oh, the falling tears

It’s rainy blue… Loneliness

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英日対訳（公式）

Child sexual exploitation policy

児童の性的搾取に関するポリシー

Overview 概要

October 2020 2020年10月

We have a zero-tolerance child sexual exploitation policy on Twitter.

Twitterは、児童の性的搾取に関するポリシーに対し、例外を認めません。

witter has zero tolerance towards any material that features or promotes child sexual exploitation, one of the most serious violations of the Twitter Rules. This may include media, text, illustrated, or computer-generated images.

Twitterでは、児童の性的搾取に該当するコンテンツやこれを助長する行為を一切禁止しており、非常に深刻なTwitterルール違反とみなします。これには画像/動画、テキスト、イラスト、コンピューターで作成した画像が含まれます。

Regardless of the intent, viewing, sharing, or linking to child sexual exploitation material contributes to the re-victimization of the depicted children.

児童の性的搾取についての表示、共有、またはリンクを貼ることは、その意図にかかわらず、描写された児童の再犠牲者化につながります。※1

This also applies to content that may further contribute to victimization of children through the promotion or glorification of child sexual exploitation.

児童の性的搾取を助長または賛美することで児童を危険にさらしうるコンテンツも同様です。

For the purposes of this policy, a minor is any person under the age of 18.

このポリシーの解釈において、未成年者とは18歳未満の者をいいます。

※1 [改訳] 児童の性的搾取についての表示、共有、またはリンクを貼ることは、その意図にかかわらず、描写される児童の再被害化につながります。

What is in violation of this policy? このポリシーへの違反とはどのようなものですか？

Any content that depicts or promotes child sexual exploitation including, but not limited to:

児童の性的搾取を描写または助長するコンテンツには以下が挙げられますが、これらに限定されません。

The following behaviors are also not permitted:

以下の行為も禁じられています。

What is not a violation of this policy?

このポリシーの違反にならないケースとは？

Who can report violations of this policy?

このポリシーへの違反があった場合、誰が報告できますか？

Anyone can report potential violations of this policy, whether they have a Twitter account or not.

このポリシーに抵触する可能性のある投稿については、誰でも報告できます（Twitterアカウントの保有者である必要はありません）。

How can I report violations of this policy? このポリシーの違反を報告するにはどうすればよいですか？

If you think you've found a Twitter account distributing or promoting child sexual exploitation, you can report it via our child sexual exploitation form. Provide the username and links to all relevant Tweets that led you to believe the account should be reviewed.

児童の性的搾取に該当するコンテンツを公開している、またはそのような行為を助長していると思われるTwitterアカウントを発見した場合は、児童の性的搾取に関する問題を報告するフォームから報告してください。報告の際には、当該アカウントのユーザー名と、そのアカウントの確認が必要だと判断する根拠となったツイート（複数可）のリンクを記載してください。

What happens if you violate this policy? このポリシーに違反した場合はどうなりますか？

In the majority of cases, the consequence for violating our child sexual exploitation policy is immediate and permanent suspension. In addition, violators will be prohibited from creating any new accounts in the future. Note: when we’re made aware of content depicting or promoting child sexual exploitation, including links to third party sites where this content can be accessed, they will be removed without further notice and reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC).

多くのケースにおいて、児童の性的搾取に関するポリシーに違反したアカウントは即時かつ永久に凍結されます。違反者はさらに、今後新規アカウントを作成することも禁じられます。注記: Twitterは、児童の性的搾取を描写または助長するコンテンツ（当該コンテンツへアクセス可能なサードパーティーウェブサイトへのリンクを含む）を発見した場合、予告なくその投稿を削除し、全米行方不明/被搾取児童センター（NCMEC）に通報します。

In a limited number of situations, where we haven’t identified any malicious intent, we will require you to remove this content. We will also temporarily lock you out of your account before you can Tweet again. Further violations will lead to your account being permanently suspended. If you believe that your account was suspended in error, you can submit an appeal.

違反者に悪意が認められなかった限定的な状況において、Twitterは投稿者にコンテンツの削除を要請します。アカウントを一時的にロックしてツイートできないようにすることもあります。ポリシー違反が繰り返された場合、アカウントは永久に凍結されます。アカウントが誤って凍結されたと思われる場合は、異議申し立てを提出できます。

Additional resources その他の情報

Learn more about our range of enforcement options and our approach to policy development and enforcement.

強制的対応の適用レベルと適用範囲とポリシーの策定に対するTwitterのアプローチと対応についての理念についての詳細もご覧ください。

If you’ve found content elsewhere on the internet that is distributing or promoting child sexual exploitation, you should file a report with NCMEC, or with your local law enforcement. If you believe the content is hosted on a website outside of the United States, you can report it on the International Association of Internet Hotlines website.

児童の性的搾取に該当するコンテンツ、またはそのような行為を助長するコンテンツをTwitter以外のインターネット上で発見した場合、全米行方不明/被搾取児童センター（NCMEC）または自国の捜査機関に通報してください。当該コンテンツが米国以外の場所にあるウェブサイトでホスティングされていると思われる場合は、INHOPE（International Association of Internet Hotlines）のウェブサイトで報告することもできます。

We partner with multiple organisations whose work is dedicated to fighting child sexual exploitation around the world. Please see the full list of our child protection partners.

Twitterは、児童の性的搾取と戦う世界中のさまざまな組織と協力しています。Twitterの児童保護パートナーの一覧もご覧ください。

When you put this in someone’s hands, you’re acknowledging the choices that they make as an actor, moment by moment, scene by scene, day by day, but you’re also acknowledging the choices they make as a person; the education they pursued, the training they sought, the hours they put in.

I’m grateful for the acknowledgment of the choices I’ve made, and I’m also grateful to have lived at a moment in our society where choice exists, because as women and as girls, things can happen to our bodies that are not our choice.

I’ve tried my very best to live a life of my own making, and not just a series of events that happened to me, but one that I can stand back and look at and recognize my handwriting all over—sometimes messy and scrawling, sometimes careful and precise—but one that I carved with my own hand. I wouldn’t have been able to do this without employing a woman’s right to choose; to choose when to have my children and with whom when I felt supported and able to balance our lives, knowing—as all mothers know—that the scales must and will tip towards our children.

Now, I know my choices might look different than yours. But thank God, or whomever you pray to, that we live in a country founded on the principle that I am free to live by my faith and you are free to live by yours.

So women, 18 to 118, when it is time to vote, please do so in your own self-interest. It’s what men have been doing for years. It’s what men have been doing for years, which is why the world looks so much like them. Don’t forget: We are the largest voting body in this country. Let’s make it look more like us.

Trump Muses Privately About Ending Postwar Japan Defense Pact | 関係者「トランプ大統領は日米安保破棄の可能性を側近に漏らしていた」

by Jennifer Jacobs

2019年6月25日 11:07 JST Updated on 2019年6月25日 17:06 JST

• President wants compensation for Okinawa Marine base move

• Japan says there’s been no talk of reviewing the alliance

1. President Donald Trump has recently mused to confidants about withdrawing from a longstanding defense treaty with Japan, according to three people familiar with the matter, in his latest complaint about what he sees as unfair U.S. security pacts.

2. Trump regards the accord as too one-sided because it promises U.S. aid if Japan is ever attacked, but doesn’t oblige Japan’s military to come to America’s defense, the people said. The treaty, signed more than 60 years ago, forms the foundation of the alliance between the countries that emerged from World War II

3. Even so, the president hasn’t taken any steps toward pulling out of the treaty, and administration officials said such a move is highly unlikely. All of the people asked not to be identified discussing Trump’s private conversations.

4. While Trump’s repeated criticism of security pacts around the world has alarmed allies from Seoul to Paris, he hasn’t moved to withdraw from such agreements the way he has with trade deals.

5. Exiting the pact would jeopardize a postwar alliance that has helped guarantee security in the Asia Pacific, laying the foundation for the region’s economic rise. Under the terms of its surrender in World War II, Japan agreed to a pacifist constitution in which it renounced the right to wage war.

6. Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Tuesday in response to a question about the Bloomberg News report that the security framework was at the core of the country’s alliance with the U.S. “There is no talk at all of a review of the Japan-U.S. security alliance as has been reported in the media,” Suga said, echoing a statement by the foreign ministry.

【記者会見】河野外務大臣会見記録www.mofa.go.jp

7. Scrapping the treaty would risk ceding security of the Western Pacific to China and potentially spurring a fresh nuclear arms race, if Japan decided it needed to protect itself from nuclear-armed neighbors.

8. It would also call into question the U.S.’s military commitments to Australia, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan and a host of other allies around the world.

Meeting With Abe 安倍首相との二度目の会談

9. The president will make his second trip to Japan in a matter of weeks on Wednesday when he travels for the Group of 20 summit in Osaka. He’s expected to again meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who enjoys as good a relationship with the mercurial and unpredictable American president as any foreign leader.

10. Yet as with many U.S. allies, there are growing tensions between the countries over Trump’s attitude toward trade. The president has said he may enact tariffs on imports of foreign cars, calling them a threat to national security – an allegation called preposterous by automakers and many U.S. lawmakers.

11. The question of whether an American president can withdraw from a ratified treaty without congressional approval is unsettled. President George W. Bush withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2002 without lawmakers’ consent.

12.Trump regards Japan’s repeated efforts to move a large U.S. military base in Okinawa as a sort of land-grab, the people said, and has raised the idea of seeking financial compensation for American forces to relocate. Trump’s focus on the U.S. defense pact with Japan may foreshadow broader scrutiny of American treaty obligations across the world, two people familiar with the matter said.

13. The White House communications staff declined to comment Monday night.

14. The president has said in private conversations previously that he has Japan’s back and is aware of the U.S.’s obligations under the treaty. But, as with his stance on other multilateral agreements, he wants the relationship to be more reciprocal.

15. “The U.S.-Japan alliance has never been stronger,” Trump told sailors and Marines last month aboard the USS Wasp, an amphibious assault ship at the naval base in Yokosuka, shared by the U.S. and Japan’s Self-Defense Forces.

16/ “This remarkable port is the only one in the world where an American naval fleet and an allied naval fleet headquartered side by side, a testament to the ironclad partnership between U.S. and Japanese forces,” he said.

17. At the same time, the president has long expressed skepticism of arrangements such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the United Nations. He withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement and the Paris climate accord, both agreed by President Barack Obama, and has re-negotiated the North American Free Trade Agreement.

18. The U.S. defense treaty with Japan was first signed in 1951 along with the Treaty of San Francisco that officially ended World War II. The defense pact, revised in 1960, grants the U.S. the right to base military forces in Japan in exchange for the promise that America will defend the island nation if it’s ever attacked.

19. For decades after the war, Japan refrained from developing offensive capabilities such as long-range bombers, aircraft carriers and nuclear weapons. But Abe, a relatively hawkish leader, believes his nation should take a more robust role in its own defense. He pushed through a controversial interpretation of the constitution to allow Japanese forces to come to the aid of allies.

20. Japan is buying advanced F-35 fighter planes from the U.S. and will fly some of them off warships effectively refashioned as aircraft carriers, its first since the war. In May, the country’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party recommended the government eventually raise defense spending to about 2% of gross domestic product, in line with NATO recommendations for its members and a threshold Trump has said should be a minimum for U.S. allies.

‘Cornerstone of Peace’ 「平和の礎」

21. There are currently about 54,000 U.S. military personnel based in Japan, a permanent troop presence that allows the U.S. to more easily project force across the Pacific. U.S. Forces, Japan, calls the arrangement “the cornerstone of peace and security in the Pacific” on its website.

22. It isn’t clear how those forces would be affected if Trump withdrew from the treaty. The president has frequently complained that U.S. allies hosting American bases don’t pay enough money for what he considers a privilege, and he could seek to negotiate a new or revised treaty that entails more Japanese financial support for the U.S. military presence.

23. While the president did not refer to the base by name in his recent conversations, there has been a running dispute surrounding Marine Corps Air Station Futenma on Okinawa. The American presence has been controversial for more than two decades, since three servicemen raped a 12-year-old Okinawan girl in 1995. Local people still attribute the presence of the base to higher rates of crime and accidents in the area, according to the Council on Foreign Relations.

The U.S.-Japan Security AllianceThe U.S.-Japan alliance has been the cornerstone of Washingtowww.cfr.org

24. James Carafano, vice president of foreign and defense policy studies at the Heritage Foundation, said he doubts the U.S. will withdraw from the treaty with Japan.

25. “There’s nothing that says we have to abide by treaties for all eternity,” Carafano said. “I just doubt we will revisit U.S. policy on the U.S.-Japan strategic alliance,” which he also referred to as the “cornerstone” of U.S. foreign policy in Asia.

26. Abe reached a deal in 2013 with Obama to move the base out of Okinawa as early as 2022 if a replacement could be constructed. But Trump believes the land underneath the base is valuable for development, and has told confidants the real estate could be worth about $10 billion, the people said.

27. He considers the situation another example of a wealthy country taking advantage of the U.S., the people said.

— With assistance by Isabel Reynolds, Emi Nobuhiro, and Jon Herskovitz

(Updates with response for Japanese government in fifth paragraph.)

訳者あとがき

2019-04-15

奇怪なこと

奇怪なことが私の身辺に起こったので、ご報告します。

大変に長くなりますが、事の次第で仕方が無い。

お読み頂ければ大変に幸せです。

話しは２０１４年に遡ります。

その年の４月末に発売された「ビッグコミック　スピリッツ」誌の第２２・２３合併号に「美味しんぼ　福島の真実編」第22話が掲載されると、突然、新聞、テレビ、週刊誌、インターネットで私に対する非難が巻き起こり、しかも、国会議員、大臣、最後には総理大臣まで乗り出してきました。

安倍晋三首相が「美味しんぼ」を風評被害を巻き起こすと非難するのがテレビで流されました。

その回の「美味しんぼ」で、主人公の山岡が福島の取材から帰ってきた直後に食事中に鼻血を出す場面が描かれています。

この、鼻血がいけないと言うのです。

これでは、福島は放射線量が高くて危険なところであるように思われる。

それは、福島に対する風評被害を生み出す、のだそうです。 「風評」とは「デマ」「うわさ」のことです。

しかし、この鼻血が出た問題は根拠のないことではありません。

私自身が、福島の取材から帰って来た次の日の夕食時に突然たらたらと鼻血が出始めたのです。

私はそれ以前に鼻血を出したことは中学生の時に友人たちとふざけていて、自分で自分の膝に鼻をぶつけたときに一回あるだけでした。

それが、食事中に何もしないのにいきなりだらだらと出始めたので、驚き慌てました。

慌てて、近くのソファに横になりましたが、鼻血は頭を高く上げていないといけないそうで、横になるのは間違いなんですね。

さらに、その頃から、非常な疲労感を覚えるようになりました。

最初は取材旅行が重なったからその疲労なんだろうと思っていましたが、日を重ねてもその疲労感は消えないどころか、ますますひどくなります。

誰かが、私の背骨を摑んで地面に引きずり込もうとしているような感じです。

鼻血は一回だけでなく、翌日また出ました。

私は自分の体験をそのまま「美味しんぼ」に書いたのです。

誰に聞いた物でもなく、噂を書いた物でもありません。

実際に私が経験したことを書いたのです。

私は取材の最後に、2013年４月に、埼玉県に避難していた福島第一原発事故の際の双葉町の町長井戸川克隆さんを訪ねました。

たまたまその際に、偶然、岐阜環境医学研究所の所長の松井英介先生が同席されていました。

松井先生が、「福島に取材に何度か行かれたそうですが、体調に変わりはありませんか」と私に尋ねられます。

で、私が「理由が分からないのに突然鼻血が出まして」といったら、松井先生は「やはり」と仰言います。

同時に、福島取材で色々と力を貸して下さった、斎藤博之さんが、驚いて、「えっ！雁屋さんもなの！僕もそうなんだよ。あれ以来何度か出るようになった。病院に行っても理由が分からないと言うんだ」

すると、取材にずっと同行してくれていた安井敏雄カメラマンが、「僕もそうなんですよ」と言います。

なんと、福島取材に行った我々取材班４人の中の３人が鼻血を出していたんです。

ついでに私が耐え難い疲労感について言うと、斎藤博之さんも、安井敏雄さんも「ああ、私もそうですよ」「いや、ひどく疲れてたまらないんです」といいます。

驚いたことに、それを聞いて井戸川前町長が、「私も鼻血が出ます。今度の町長選の立候補を取りやめたのは、疲労感が耐え難いまでになったからです」と仰言るではありませんか。

さらに、「私が知るだけでも同じ症状の人が大勢いますよ。ただ、言わないだけです」と仰言る。

すると松井英介先生が、「大坂で放射能に汚染されたがれきの焼却処理が行われた際、大阪の市民団体がインターネットで体調変化を訴える声を募ったところ、声を寄せた９４６人中、８４２人が、鼻血、目、喉や皮膚など空気に触れる部分の症状を訴えている」と仰言った。

放射線だけの影響とは断定できないと松井先生は仰言ったが、それは大変なことではないでしょうか。

松井先生の説明では、

ということです。

福島で人びとが受けている放射能被害は、福島第一原発から放出された放射性微粒子によるものです。

放射性微粒子は呼吸によって肺から血管に入り体中に回ります。食べ物や水と一緒に取り込まれ、消化器から血管内にはいり込み、やはり体内に回ります。

そのようにして体内に入った放射性微粒子は何処かの臓器に付着すると、その臓器の付着した部分に害を与える。

微粒子一個はマイクロの単位で極めて小さいけれど、付着した臓器の微粒子の周辺の細胞は破壊される。しかも、その微粒子の数が極めて多い。結果的に臓器の被害は大きくなる。

空間線量が１ミリ・シーベルトとすると、その空間に浮遊している微粒子の数はそれこそ無数。

一呼吸だけで何千・何万の放射性微粒子が体内に入る。

一個当たりの微粒子の害は小さくても、それが、何千・何万となると鼻血を出させたり、疲労感を感じさせる原因を作るのでしょう。

（斎藤博之さんは、私達の福島取材の前に、取材に適した場所を選ぶために何度も福島に通い、結果として私達の数倍被爆したことになります。

その後、斎藤さんの体調は回復せず、歯茎からも血が出るようになり、2017年に脳梗塞で亡くなりました。死因が放射能によるものかどうかは明かではありませんが、私が「鉄の胃袋魔神」とあだ名をつけたほど、活発で食欲旺盛だった斎藤さんが、福島の取材を終えた後、鼻血、激しい疲労感、歯茎からの出血などで、衰弱したことは確かです。東北地方の民俗学的知識の豊富なことと言ったら歩く民俗学事典のような人で、おまけにマルクスの資本論は端から端まで頭の中に入っているという凄さでした。例えば、私が、マルクスが、ルイ１５世の愛妾・マダム・ポンパドールの「我が亡き後に洪水は来たれ」という言葉を引用したのは何処だっけ、と尋ねたら、ちょっと待ってねと言って、３，４分後に、あれは第1部『資本の生産過程』第3篇『絶対的剰余価値の生産』第8章『労働日』に書かれているよ、と返事がありました。感性豊かで、明敏な頭脳。本当に惜しい人を亡くしました。私にとって真の友人であり、同志でした。斎藤さん本当に有り難うございました。ご冥福をお祈りします。

斎藤博之さんについてはこのブログにも書きました。

http://kariyatetsu.com/blog/1902.php

ご一読下されば幸せです。）

以上に述べたように、私が鼻血を出したことは、また私以外の多くの人間が福島第一原発の事故以後福島で鼻血を出していること、疲労感に苦しんでいることは、事実私が体験したことなのです。

風評でもデモまでもない。

私は、嘘を自分の作品に書くような破廉恥な人間ではありません。

私は自分の書くものは全て第三者にも検証可能な事実しか書きません。

自分で調査した資料は保存してあります。

であるのに、安倍晋三首相を始め、テレビ、雑誌、インターネットでは私の言うことを風評だと決めつけ、私を風評被害を福島に与えると言って非難します。

実に理不尽極まりないことで、私の心は煮えくりかえりました。

ところが、「スピリッツ」誌の編集部は私よりもっと大変な目に遭っていました。

担当の編集者から「朝から抗議の電話が鳴り止まずに、編集部全体が困っています」と聞かされたときには私は驚きました。

読者には私の連絡先が分からないから、安倍晋三首相の言葉を真に受けた人たちが、「スピリッツ」誌に文句を言うために電話をかけてくるのだろうと思いました。

そこで、私は、このブログに「私に文句のある人は、私のこのページ宛てに書いて貰いたい。編集部に電話をかけると、編集部が迷惑するから」と書きました。

それで編集部に対する電話攻撃が収まったから思ったらその逆でした。

「雁屋哲は自分のホームページにこんなことを書いているが、そんな奴の漫画を掲載している『スピリッツ』が悪い」と前より一層激しく電話がかかってくるようになったというのです。おかしなことに、私のこのページには一件も文句の書き込みはありません。

安倍晋三首相の言葉に躍らされて私を風評被害引き起こす悪者扱いするような人たちは、ただ騒ぎたいだけで私に直接文句を言ってくる根性も勇気も無い人たちなのだと私は思いました。しかし、そんな単純なことではないことが後になって分かりました。

鼻血問題が掲載されたのは福島編の第２２話です。それから第２４話まで２話残っていました。電話をかけ来た人たちは自分たちの抗議に「スピリッツ」誌は恐れをなして、次週から「美味しんぼ」の掲載をやめるだろうと思ったのでしょう。

しかし、第２２話が掲載された段階で、花咲アキラさんは第２４話まで完成させていました。

「スピリッツ」誌編集部も馬鹿げた脅迫電話に怯むような根性なしではありません。当然、第２３話、第２４話と最後まで掲載しました。

それで、電話をかけてきた人たちは更にいきり立ったようです。

第２３話が掲載された直ぐ後、編集長が善後策を検討するためにシドニーまで来てくれました。

その時編集長から詳しく聞いた話は私の想像を絶するものでした。

編集部には電話が２０回線引いてあります。

その２０回線の電話に朝１０時の業務開始時間から夜７時、時には１０時近くまで電話が鳴り止まないというのです。

それもいきなり怒鳴る、喚く。電話を受けた編集者が返事をすると、その返事が気にいらないと喚く。返事をしないと、なぜ返事をしないと怒鳴る。それが、１時間にわたって続くのです。

編集部員は相手をそれ以上刺激しないように応対するので、神経がくたくたになってしまいます。

編集部員はその度に応対しなければならないし、電話回線は塞がれてしまい、作家との打ち合わせなども通常の時間に出来ない。

そういうことが、毎晩続く。

編集部員は疲れ切ってしまって、このままでは編集作業が出来ないから「スピリッツ」誌を休刊しなければならないかも知れないところまで、追い詰められていると言います。

これには私は驚きました。

こんなすさまじい話は聞いたことがない。

私はこの電話攻撃は大変に不自然だと思います。

私が最初に考えたような単純な問題では無い。

電話をかけてくるのは最初に私が考えたような普通の市民ではない。特殊な人たちだと私には分かりました。

普通の抗議電話とは違います。明らかに、「スピリッツ」誌の編集を妨害して、小学館を傷つけ、「鼻血問題」について謝罪させようという意図を持ったものだと思います。

私個人に対してではなく、小学館を標的にした行為です。

小学館に謝罪をさせた方が社会的に効果が大きいからです。

これは、そのような意図を持った指導者が脅迫のプロたちに命じてさせたことだと思います。

編集部員に対する脅迫の仕方が、あまりに手慣れている。普通の人間には出来ないことです。

世の中には、様々な企業に難癖をつけるのを職業にしている人間がいます。

企業を脅して、嫌がらせを続けて、企業にことを収めるために何らかの金品などを差し出させるのが目的です。

その連中は、プロのクレーマーと呼ばれています。

私は編集長に、そんなことをして来る人間はプロの集団だから相手にしなければ良いと言いましたが、編集長によれば出版社は読者と称して電話をかけてきた相手には丁寧に応対しなければならないのだそうです。

しかも、卑怯なことに私がこのブログに何か書くたびにそれについての文句の電話が殺到するというのです。

実に卑劣な連中です。

私は編集部に迷惑をかけたくないので、しばらくは自分のブログの書き込みをやめました。

小学館は私を守り、「美味しんぼ」福島編も最終回まで、きちんと掲載を続けました。

あの卑劣な集団は目的を達することが出来なかったわけです。

そして話しは2019年に飛びます。

当時の編集長からメールが来ました。

以下に、氏の承諾を得て、そのメールを書き写します。

さて、この後、この話を私のブログに書いて良いだろうかと、氏に問い合わせたところ次のようなメールを頂きました。

さて、この元編集長の味わったと同じようなことを私が味わいました。

それを以下に記します。

それは、今年（2019年）の３月半ば過ぎのことです。

あるテレビ局のディレクター氏からメールが入りました。

と言う内容でした。

その番組の内容からして断る理由は私には全くありません。

私は、承諾して、シドニーの自宅の電話番号も相手に知らせました。

それが週半ばのことでした。

ところが、その次の週の初めに、そのディレクター氏から、

一体これはどう受取れば良いのでしょう。

安倍晋三首相が私のことを「風評被害を流す人間」と非難するのがテレビで流れて以来、私はなんだかおかしな感じを懐くようになったのです。

おかしな感じというのは、テレビ、雑誌、などのジャーナリズム関係の人が、妙に私に対して白々しい態度を取ることが気になり始めたのです。

私は2015年に「美味しんぼ『鼻血問題』に答える」という本を出版しました。

これは、私の鼻血問題について「風評被害」だと非難した人びとに対する反論の本です。

その本を、今話に出ているテレビ局とは別のテレビ局が取り上げて私に話を聞きたいと言ってきました。

私は自分の本を多くの人に知ってもらう機会になるだろうと考え、番組に出演しました。

私はあるジャーナリストと対談をする形になりました。

そのジャーナリストは三十代か四十代前半という若い人で、売れっ子であるらしく、書くものを最近週刊誌のコラムで読むことがあります。

そのジャーナリストは、私との対談をするのに開口一番「僕は雁屋さんに反対です」と言いました。

私は、会うやいなやそんなことを言われて驚き、気をそがれました。

何も話をしないうちに、対話の最初にいきなり「雁屋さんには反対で」とは何のことでしょう。

私は私の何に対して反対なのですか、と聞こうと思ったのですが、そのジャーナリストは私に聞く暇を与えず、どんどん話を進めて行きます。

私の何かの意見に反対なのではなく、私という人間の存在に反対だというのでしょう。

その口調もなんだか、事件の被疑者を詰問するような調子で、私は大変に居心地の悪い思いをしました。

いきなり冒頭で、「雁屋さんに反対です」と言ってしまっては、それからのそのジャーナリストは私に反対する立場から私に何か訊くという形になるので、全体の流れは当然私の意見をきちんと伝えることからはほど遠いものになりました。

番組を見ている人たちは、私が懸命に何か弁解しているように思ったことでしょう。

それは一つの例で、その後も何度か頼まれて幾つかの集まりに出席したのですが、そこに集まった人たちの態度が何かおかしい。

私から、一歩引いて接する。よそよそしい。

以前は「美味しんぼ」の原作者と言うことで、非常に好意的に親しく私の話を聞きたいと言う態度を取る人が圧倒的に多数でした。しかし、今は、私を見る目つきが違う。関わり合いになるまいとするように、用心深く私から引く。

私の話しも、話半分程度に聞いている、という感じがするのです。

これは決して、私のひがみ根性のせいではありません。

以前と比べれば、自分がそれまでとは違った受取られ方をしていることは、どんな人間でも皮膚感覚みたいなもので感じ取ることが出来ます。

こんなことがあったので、「美味しんぼ」を番組内で使いたいとテレビ局のディレクター氏が言ってきたときに、私は「大丈夫なのかな」と思ったのです。 それが、「上司からの進言で番組の内容がガラッと変わってしまい」ということになったので、私は「スピリッツ」元編集長の受けた仕打ちや、鼻血問題以来私自身が受けている厭な感じの延長で、この件も受取りかけています。

どうして上司は番組をガラッと変えるような進言をしたのか。

私はそんなことでなければ良いがと思いますが、心の隅に、その上司は安倍晋三首相に「風評被害を流す人間」と名指しで非難された私と関わり合いになることは避けたい、と考えたのではないか、と言う思いが浮かんでくるのです。

こんなことを言うのは、私の一方的な思いこみだと、言われるかも知れません。

しかし、最近こんなことが続いているので、どうしてもそういう考えが浮かんでくるのです。

私がブログにこんな内容のことを書く、と「スピリッツ」の元編集長にメールを送ったところ、元編集長からこんな返事が来ました。

私もそう願っています。

このテレビ局の話は別にして、私の鼻血問題を通じて言えることは、この国では真実を語ってはいけないと言うことです。

反対に、安倍晋三首相とその取り巻きたちはどんな嘘を言っても誰もとがめません。

安倍晋三首相は2013年９月７日にIOC総会で、オリンピックを東京に招致するための演説を行いましたが、福島第一原発について、

「福島の放射能は、福島第原発からの放射能に汚染された水は福島第一原発の港湾から0.3キロ平方メートル以内に完全にブロックした」

「福島の現状は完全にコントロールされている」

「福島第一原発はこれまでに東京にダメージを与えていないし、これからも与えない」

と言いました。

私は、2013年10月3日付けのこのブログに、「Open letter to the IOC」と言う記事を書き、それが、全部嘘であることを指摘しました。

http://kariyatetsu.com/blog/1611.php

外国人にも読んでもらえるように英文で書いてあります。

私の書く英文だから、極めて平易です。ご一読下さい。

そんな嘘を言った人間が、私が実際に体験した鼻血を風評だというのですから呆れるばかりです。

また、その嘘を見逃すこの日本の社会にも呆れるばかりです。

一つの国が滅びるときには必ずおなじことが起こります。

支配階級の腐敗と傲慢。

政治道徳の退廃。

社会全体の無気力。

社会全体の支配階級の不正をただす勇気の喪失。

同時に、不正と知りながら支配階級に対する社会全体の隷従、媚び、へつらい。

経済の破綻による社会全体の自信喪失。

これは、今の日本にぴったりと当てはまります。

私は社会は良い方向に進んでいくものだと思っていました。

まさか、日本と言う国が駄目になっていくのを自分の目で見ることになるとは思いませんでした。

一番悲しいのは、腐敗した支配者を糾弾することはせず、逆に支配者にとっては不都合な真実を語る人間を、つまはじきする日本の社会の姿です。

雁屋 哲

ツイッターのポリシーは、更新履歴を残すことなく人知れず更新されてきた（例：2018.11.21時点）。唯一ツイッターのポリシー改変を探る術は、公式ツイッターの告知ツイートを辿ることくらいだろうか。正直、いち企業として、この更新履歴の取扱い方は全く評価できない。ひじょうに不透明であるし、何が変更されたかユーザー側にはトラッキングできない。 極めて不誠実な対応であるといえる。だから、ユーザー側でこうしてアナログにトラッキングするしかない。いつまでも追跡していられないが。

英語版（2019.02.26時点）

日本語版（2019.02.26時点）

英日対訳（公式）

Child sexual exploitation policy

児童の性的搾取に関するポリシー

Twitter rules

Twitterルール

Twitter does not tolerate any material that features or promotes child sexual exploitation. This may include media, text, illustrated, or computer generated images.

Rationale 基本原則

Regardless of the intent, viewing, sharing, or linking to child sexual exploitation media contributes to the re-victimization of the depicted minor and, therefore, is not allowed on Twitter. This also applies to content that may further contribute to victimization of children through promotion or glorification of child sexual exploitation.

When this applies 適用範囲

For the purposes of this policy, a minor means any person under the age of 18 years. Examples of content that depicts or promotes child sexual exploitation include, but are not limited to:

The following behaviors are also not allowed on Twitter:

Consequences 措置

In the majority of cases, the consequence for violating our child sexual exploitation policy is immediate and permanent suspension. In addition, violators will not be allowed to create new accounts in the future.

In a limited number of situations when no malicious intent has been identified, users may instead be asked to remove the violating Tweet and be temporarily locked out of their account before they can Tweet again.

When we are made aware of links depicting or promoting child sexual exploitation they will be removed from the site without further notice and reported to The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC).

What you can do あなたにできること

If you think you’ve found a Twitter account distributing or promoting child sexual exploitation, please report it through our designated form. Please provide the username and links to the relevant tweets that lead you to believe the account should be investigated. For help on how to find the direct status links to individual Tweets, see our help page.

If you have found content elsewhere on the internet that is distributing or promoting child sexual exploitation, you should file a report with NCMEC here or with your local law enforcement.

If you believe the content is hosted on a website outside of the United States, you can report it on the International Association of Internet Hotlines website.

Our partners 我々のパートナー

We partner with multiple organisations around the world whose work is dedicated to fighting child sexual exploitation. You can find a full list of our safety partners here.

ツイッターのポリシーは、更新履歴を残すことなく人知れず更新されてきた。唯一ツイッターのポリシー改変を探る術は、公式ツイッターの告知ツイートを辿ることくらいだろうか。正直、いち企業として、この更新履歴の取扱い方は全く評価できない。ひじょうに不透明であるし、何が変更されたかユーザー側にはトラッキングできない。 極めて不誠実な対応であるといえる。

英語版（2018.11.21当時）

日本語版（2018.11.21当時）

以下英日対訳（※ただしリンク等は反映しない）

Child sexual exploitation policy

児童の性的搾取に関するポリシー

Twitter removes content promoting child sexual exploitation

We do not tolerate child sexual exploitation on Twitter. When we are made aware of links to images of or content promoting child sexual exploitation they will be removed from the site without further notice and reported to The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children ("NCMEC"); we permanently suspend accounts promoting or containing updates with links to child sexual exploitation. Reporting content promoting child sexual exploitation

児童の性的搾取を助長するコンテンツを報告するには  [※日本語版のみ]

If you think you've found a Twitter account distributing or promoting child sexual exploitation while using Twitter, report it here. Please provide the username and links to the relevant tweets that lead you to believe the account should be investigated. To find the direct status links to individual Tweets, see our help page.

If you have found content elsewhere on the internet that is distributing or promoting child sexual exploitation, you should file a report with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children here, or your local law enforcement. If you believe that the content was hosted on a website outside of the United States, you can report it here on the International Association of Internet Hotlines website.

Note: Please do NOT tweet, retweet or repost child sexual exploitation for any reason. Click here to report it to us immediately and we will take steps to remove it.

Law Enforcement Agencies

捜査機関向け情報

If you are a member of a law enforcement agency seeking information regarding Twitter accounts promoting or distributing child sexual exploitation, please see our Guidelines for Law Enforcement for information on our process; we also suggest you contact the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) here, regardless of jurisdiction, to determine whether or not information on those accounts is already on file.

For general law enforcement inquiries, please see our Guidelines for Law Enforcement for more information.

OPSC履行指針(案）抜粋｜抄訳

CRC総括所見全文（未定稿）｜原文

Follow up to the Committee’s previous concluding observations on the Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography

「児童の売買、児童買春及び児童ポルノに関する選択議定書」に関する当委員会による前回の勧告からの継続対応事項

47. While noting with appreciation the State party’s efforts to implement the Committee’s recommendations from 2010 on the State party’s report under the Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography (CRC/C/OPSC/JPN/CO/1), the Committee recommends that the State party:

(a) Criminalize the production, distribution, dissemination, offering, selling, accessing, viewing and possession of images and representations of children, or persons predominantly depicted as children, engaging in explicit sexual activities, or any representation of the sexual parts of a child for sexual purposes;

(b) Ban commercial activities that facilitate or lead to child prostitution and sexual exploitation of children, such as “joshi-kosei services ” and child erotica;

© Increase efforts to investigate, prosecute and sanction offences related to online and offline sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, to ensure accountability of perpetrators and redress for child victims;

(d) Continue increasing the funds and support to one-stop crisis centres to provide high quality and integrated care and assistance, focused on child victims of sexual abuse and exploitation;

(e) Strengthen awareness raising programmes, including campaigns, on the risks associated with new technologies and on safe Internet usage, targeting students, parents, teachers and carers;

(f) Implement the recommendations made by the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography (A/HRC/31/58/Add.1, para.74).

訳者あとがき付モーメント版

DRAFT Guidelines on the implementation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography「児童の売買、児童買春及び児童ポルノに係る児童の権利に関する条約選択議定書（OPSC）の履行に関する指針（案）」

Call for comments The Committee on the Rights of the Child is currently preparing Guidelines on the implementation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.

The Committee invites all interested parties to comment on the current draft of the Guidelines. Comments are welcome on all aspects of the draft Guidelines, and after due consideration of inputs provided, the Committee will decide on the contents of the final version of the Guidelines.

All comments:

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Deadline: Comments must be submitted by 31 March 2019. No submissions received after this deadline will be considered or posted on the webpage. The draft Guidelines may be found here: Word

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V. Prohibition of the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography 児童の売買、児童買春及び児童ポルノの禁止

61. Child pornography is defined in article 2 OPSC as “any representation of a child engaged in real or simulated explicit sexual activities, regardless of the means used, or any representation of the sexual parts of a child for primarily sexual purposes”. The qualification “by whatever means” reflects the broad range of material available in a variety of media, online and offline. It includes, inter alia: visual material such as photographs, movies, drawings and cartoons; audio representations; any digital media representation; live performances; written materials in print or online; and physical objects such as sculptures, toys, or ornaments.[1]

62. The Committee urges States parties to prohibit, by law, child sexual abuse material in any form. The Committee notes that such material is increasingly circulating online, and strongly recommends States parties to ensure that relevant provisions of their Criminal Codes cover all forms of material, including when the acts listed in article 3.1© are committed online and including when such material represents realistic representations of non-existing children.

63. The Committee is of the view that “simulated explicit sexual activities” should be interpreted as including any material, online or offline, that depicts or otherwise represents any person appearing to be a child engaged in real or simulated sexually explicit conduct and realistic and/or virtual depictions of a child engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Such depictions contribute to normalising the sexualisation of children and fuels the demand of child sexual abuse material.

64. Moreover, for the reasons explained in paragraph 63, any representation of the sexual parts of a child, including realistic images of the sexual organs of a child, for primarily sexual purposes falls under the definition of this offence. Where it may be complicated to establish with certainty if a representation is intended or used for “primarily sexual purposes”, the Committee deems it necessary to consider the context in which it is being used.

65. The Committee draws the attention of States parties to an increasing international reluctance to use the term “child pornography”. The term is considered to undermine the situation of the victim because it suggests a connection with pornography - an activity that is often legal, in which the subject participates voluntarily and to which the subject is capable of consenting, i.e. an adult. This is far from the reality of child victims of sexual exploitation and abuse.

66. The Committee therefore recommends that States parties, in line with recent developments, avoid the term “child pornography” to the extent possible in legislation and policy, and use other terms such as the “use of children in pornographic performances and materials”,[2] “child sexual abuse material” and/or “child sexual exploitation material”.

67. In addition, the Committee encourages States parties to criminalise the acts of recruiting, causing or coercing a child into participating in pornographic performances, profiting from or otherwise exploiting a child for such purposes, and knowingly attending pornographic performances involving children.

68. Article 3.1© OPSC obliges Sates Parties to criminalise the acts of producing, distributing, disseminating, importing, exporting, offering, selling or possessing, for specific purposes[3], “child pornography”. The Committee strongly recommends States Parties to criminalise the mere possession of such material, while granting due consideration to potential exceptions to this prohibition, for instance where professional requirements justify the possession of such material. Exceptions should be clearly framed by law and accompanied by procedures that establish when such material can be possessed and by whom.

69. In accordance with article 9.5 OPSC, States parties should also ensure that the production and dissemination of material that advertises the offences described in the OPSC is criminalised. For instance, any insertion on an online or offline medium, such as an ad or a commercial, promoting the sexual exploitation of children in any way, must be criminalised.

70. The Committee emphasises the need to pay special attention to the increasing number of children who produce sexual images, e.g. representations of their own sexual parts, either exclusively for themselves or to share them with their boy/girlfriends or a wider group of peers.

A distinction must be made between what the OPSC refers to as “child pornography” and which constitutes a criminal offence, and the production by a child of self-generated sexual content/material representing her/himself.

The Committee is concerned that the “self-generated” aspect of such material could increase the risk that the child is considered responsible instead of treated as a victim, and underscores that a child should never be held criminally liable for the production of images of her-/himself.

On the other hand, if these images are produced as a result of coercion, blackmailing or other forms of undue pressure against the will of the child, the person who made the child produce such content should be brought to justice.[4]

For any self-generated sexual material depicting very young children (e.g. pre-pubescent children), the assumption ought to be that it is the result of an abusive or coercive relationship.[5]

Furthermore, if such images are subsequently distributed, disseminated, imported, exported, offered, or sold as child sexual abuse material, the persons responsible for such acts should be held criminally liable.

[1] See Luxembourg Guidelines, p.36.

[2] See also the CRC, article 34©, the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, article 27© and ILO Convention 182 article 3(b).

[3] Article 3.1© reads: “Producing, distributing, disseminating, importing, exporting, offering, selling or possessing for the above purposes child pornography as defined in Article 2”.

[4] In case the person who made the child produce the material is, her/himself, a minor, relevant laws regarding criminal reponsibility and juvenile justice should be applied.

[5] OHCHR report ADRC 2016; Luxembourg Guidelines, p.43-44.

その他抄訳内容のまとめ

[参考仮訳]（CRC指針案全文）

児童売買、児童搾取および児童ポルノに関する子どもの権利条約の選択議定書の履行におけるガイドライン案（仮訳） | @beniuo 氏訳

[F.1-3 児童ポルノ（p.35～38）]

http://tkatsumi06j.tumblr.com/post/150525710596

[F.4.i-iv 関連する用語（p.38～43）]

[その他、ICPOのプレスリリース、FAQ等]

In her latest interview with Vanity Fair, Emma Watson revealed a lot more than she probably intended.

No, I’m not talking about her revelation that she refuses to take selfies, nor am I even talking about the infamous ‘underboob’ featured in the cover story that has seemingly overtaken the discussion of Trump’s latest tweet (a welcome tangent, might I add).

I am talking about the fact that Emma Watson has revealed that our culture cannot handle a woman who is both “sexual AND serious,” to quote Naomi Wolf.

In one simple photo, Watson has inadvertently bared a troubling truth that our society still, in 2017, cannot fathom the possibility that women can both express themselves sexually AND express a desire for equality, simultaneously.

It appears as though flaunting one’s figure and a feminist agenda are mutually exclusive.

Throughout her career, Watson has been a champion for women’s rights.

Yet with one photograph, she has allegedly been stripped (no pun intended) of recognition for her leadership towards equality and of her title as a feminist.

After the cover story made its rounds on the internet, many took the productive and always-amicable route of airing their grievances with Watson on Twitter, claiming this photo undermined her fight to diminish the gender wage gap and that she was being hypocritical by baring her body while still touting notions of female equality.

The most egregious of the claims against Watson in the aftermath of this photo, though, is that she is a “bad feminist.”

This accusation is the most offensive because it is rooted in a complete and utter misunderstanding of feminism and its core values.

The fight towards gender equality is contingent on women having a CHOICE. The choice to enter the workforce or stay at home. The choice to have children or use contraception. The choice to dress how we please or the choice to bare it all.

The choices we make as women do not undermine our loyalty to equality for our gender, but rather support it, nay embolden it.

Intrinsic in anyone’s feminist agenda should lie the power of choice and the power to be multi-dimensional human beings of society.

Women can be smart and sexual and sassy and sophisticated and still want to make the same amount of money as their male counterparts, ALL AT THE SAME TIME.

Maybe we’re just expert multi-taskers or maybe we are just sick and tired of being put in a box that continuously deprives us of our humanity.

One expression of self does not detract from the other. Our messages and means of expression all work in concert to create the multi-faceted, multi- layered, and multi-talented badasses that we, as women, are and will continue to be.

THREAD: Today Abe Shinzo is coming to Moscow seeking solution to a territorial dispute with Russia over Kurili islands. But expect no miracles. Putin is unlikely to move an inch, and the main reason why he's playing with Abe is desire to wreck US-Japan alliance. Here is why: 1/

2/ Resolution of territorial dispute with Russia and detente with the Kremlin is one of Abe's major foreign policy priorities. Despite crisis in Russia's relations with the West since 2014, Abe has met Putin 24 times, this will be the 25th summit.

3/ Policy of engaging Russia is pushed personally by Abe. His main goals include: 1) secure a place in history if he succeeds; 2) finish an endeavor his father started as Japanese FM; 3) push Russia away from China's embrace.

4/ Abe has pushed for economic engagement of Russia to create a positive momentum for talks. After a meeting in Singapore last November, Abe made another step: Tokyo wants to sign a peace treaty, then get back 2 small islands, putting off debate about 2 larger islands into future

5/ This is what Abe is selling at home: we give Russia a piece of paper (peace treaty), get the 2 islands now, which is max we can realistically get, and continue to claim 2 larger islands which allows Tokyo not to lose face. Upsides: 2 small islands plus wedge between China and Russia

6/ Abe's problem: Russia has 0 incentives to follow this path, and Moscow clearly knows that. Key question for the Kremlin is: what is Russia getting for accepting this deal, and what are the downsides? Let's address the downsides first.

7/ Habomai and Shikotan have a strategic to Russia: sovereignty over the 2 islands supports Moscow's de-facto control over Sea of Okhotsk (and Vilyuchinsk, the main base of Russian subs in the Pacific, is very close). This is why the Russian military is against any transfer.

8/ There is a strong consensus in the Russian public against any transfer of territories to Japan. According to polls by @levada_ru, over 70% of Russians are opposed to it for the last 27 years (now this number stands at 78%, with just 14% supportive) https://www.levada.ru/en/2018/12/07/the-kuril-islands/?

9/ Putin's approval rating is down following unpopular pensions reform. Far-left @s_udaltsov and far-right @strelkov_i_i joined forces this Sunday to protest "surrender of Kurili." Even @navalny jumps on the topic:

https://twitter.com/navalnylive/status/1065657222829694977?s=21

10/ Against this background, the Kremlin needs a really substantive prize to challenge public consensus on Kurili islands. What could Japan possibly offer that's of value? Tokyo's answer is: Peace Treaty, investment, alternative to China in Asia. Let's dissect all 3.

11/ Russian officials know, that a Peace Treaty is just a piece of paper and has no practical meaning. Russia and Japan have survived without this document over 70 years, and the relationship was normal by any standards: visits of heads of states, trade, investment, tourism etc.

12/ Japan's investment to Russia since 2014 is scant despite Abe's best efforts (stock is $1.5b by JETRO count). Combination of volatile commodity prices, challenging legal environment, weak economic growth, corruption and Western sanctions is to blame. https://www.jetro.go.jp/en/reports/statistics/ …

13/ Peace Treaty with Japan and even transfer of islands won't make Japanese CEOs to change their minds about Russia. The reverse is also true: major JAP investment to RU (Sakhalin-2, Toyota etc.) happened in despite absence of a Peace Treaty, and were driven by commercial logic

14/ Russia's problem with Abe is: unlike Xi Jinping, who helped secure CN investment and loans to sanctioned companies of Putin's friends, the Japanese PM can't pick up a phone and tell CEO of JBIC or Mitsui to give money to Rottenberg. The Kremlin tried, but failed.

15/ No matter how much Abe's concessions look fresh domestically compared to Japan's stubborn, old school approach to territorial dispute. For Moscow there is nothing of real value there, and now people in the Kremlin know it well.

16/ Signs of the Kremlin's frustration were very visible in 2018. Russia has replaced the key interlocutor on trade&investment talks: the new head of intergovernmental commission Max Oreshkin, a minister, is a lightweight compared to his predecessor Igor Shuvalov, 1st deputy PM.

17/ This explains Moscow's hard-nose approach to current negotiations, manifested in @mfa_russia's Lavrov comments after meeting with @konotaromp. http://www.mid.ru/foreign_policy/news/-/asset_publisher/cKNonkJE02Bw/content/id/3472147?

18/ Lavrov: "Russia's first condition is full recognition by Japan of the outcome of WWII, including Russian sovereignty over all the islands of the South Kuril Ridge." = Even if Russia transfers 2 smaller islands, the 2 big islands will remain with legal recognition.

(参考) 2019.01.14付ロシア外務省セルゲイ・ラブロフ外務大臣と日本の河野太郎外務大臣による会談後に行われたラブロフ外務大臣による冒頭発言と質疑応答 於・モスクワ（関連部分の抜粋と仮訳）

19/ Obviously, even the first precondition is a non-starter for the Japanese public. Russia doubles down and puts more demands on the table, without stating them officially: 1) no U.S. troops on Shikotan and Habomai; 2) reverse of Tokyo's approach welcoming U.S. missile defense

20/ BOTTOM LINE: Russia has no intention to compromise on the 2 smaller islands now. If Abe gives Putin a peace treaty without the islands, Moscow will be happy to pocket it. If not - the Kremlin won't be upset as it pays no price for playing a game of diplomacy with Tokyo.

21/ If the current negotiations between Moscow and Tokyo increase suspicions and distrust between Japan and the U.S. or hint on possibility of Tokyo lifting/softening G7 sanctions (highly unlikely) - this is a major price for the Kremlin, and Putin will get it for free.

22/ Even if Moscow decided that 2 small islands are worth giving for improved relations with Japan in order to have more maneuvering space in Asia, poisonous combination of factors described above leaves Russia with just one option - growing dependence on China. END

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訳者あとがき

本論考の和訳では、特定の場合（公人の発言等）を除き、ガブエフ氏が”Krill Islands"と表記したものは全て日本語読者向けに「北方領土」と訳した。ラブロフ外相に「北方領土という名称を使うな」と言われた手前タブー視された表現に訳すのは憚れるかもしれないが、首尾徹底した。

一度は英語で精読したが、この論考を翻訳してみてあらためて、ガブエフ氏の論旨の明解さと確固たる根拠に裏付けられた主張に感心した。昨今のいわゆる日本で「専門家」と言われるご意見番としてTVに登場する輩からは久しく得られない感覚だった。

今回の論考でガブエフ氏が挙げた、ロシアが平和条約締結交渉に本腰を入れる必要のない理由は、大きく３つに分類される。

ガブエフ氏はそれぞれの「理由」について一つずつ論拠を添えた。

１）領土返還ができない理由については、①世論の反対、②低迷する支持率、③軍の反対、④国際法上の問題を挙げ、まったく検討の余地がないことを明確に示してみせた。

２）平和条約を結ぶ旨みがない理由については、①外交・貿易・経済・観光等すでに良好であること、②形ばかりの株式投資は不十分であることを挙げ、条約を締結してもしなくてもロシア側のメリットは少ないことを示してみせた。

３）経済協力すら旨みがない理由については、①G7による経済制裁の足並みを乱すような投資は日本（安倍政権）には無理であること、②日本企業の消極的な対露投資姿勢は変わらないことを挙げ、経済協力のパッケージすらとくにロシア側は必要としていないことを示した。

最後に、「中国の代替的存在になる」＝取って代わるという日本のウリに対し、ロシア側が暗に、①色丹・歯舞には米軍を駐留させないこと、②米ミサイル防衛（イージスアショア）の展開を歓迎する日本政府の姿勢を翻すことがなければ、容易く中国に目が向くという現実を突きつける。

要は、プーチンは、日本が何をしようと満足はしないし領土は返還しない（できない）。だが、日本の譲歩の結果として日米同盟に楔を打ち込み亀裂を生じさせることができれば、それが漁夫の利であるという程度にしか考えていないということ。すなわち、日本はノーオプション状態であるということだ。

これが25回の実のない会談の実態であることが、今回の論考からあらためてよく理解できた。つまり日本としては、ロシア”領土”における共同経済開発に、ロシア側の条件で参画させてもらうのが関の山であるということだ。中国に”取って代わろう”にも、G7合意に拘束される日本は身動きがとれない。

百歩譲って、ロシア側があらゆるリスクを考慮した上で二島返還に踏み切ったとしても、日本には中国を上回るスケールメリットを提供することができない。そこまでの外交力も、財政力も、経済力も、産業力もないのである。下手をすると26回目の会談で、協議取りやめになるかもしれない。

でなければずっと生殺しである。

理性ある国家首脳ならばこれ以上の血税の無駄遣いを避ける賢明な判断を行うべきだが、ガブエフ氏が指摘したように、個人的野心、功名心の充足、対中包囲しか見据えていない安倍には、この選択肢は無いに等しいだろう。願わくば、26回目の会談前にロシア側から引導を渡して貰いたいものだ。

Fukushima's ghost towns

福島に残るゴーストタウン

More than 7 years after one of the worst nuclear disasters in history, towns around Japan's nuclear power plant struggle to rebuild

2018 Nov 25

By Brit McCandless Farmer

The streets are motionless. Items hang untouched on clotheslines, bleached by the sun. A clock shows 2:46, and it always will. More than seven years after an earthquake and tsunami caused a meltdown at a nuclear power plant in Japan's Fukushima prefecture, surrounding towns are still frozen in time.

"At the moment, there are huge areas that are still ghost towns," correspondent Lesley Stahl told 60 Minutes Overtime in the video above.

"People can come back into some of the areas because they have been decontaminated. But people are afraid to go back home."

In March 2011, meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant triggered huge explosions that sent plumes of radioactive debris into the atmosphere. Wind then carried that debris, contaminating all the towns in its path. The government evacuated more than 150,000 people.

Huge explosions at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant sent plumes of radioactive debris into the atmosphere, which was carried to towns surrounding the plant　CBS News

Today, areas like Tomioka are still ghost towns where few residents have returned.　CBS News

Today, residents of those towns are reluctant to return, even as the Japanese government works to assure the towns' safety.

"They've sent millions of workers out to literally wipe down rails, power hose leaves on trees, clean the tops of houses, dig up all the topsoil from a tree, a garden bed," said 60 Minutes associate producer Ayesha Siddiqi.

"It's so detailed. Every single last crevice of the town will be cleaned up somehow."

A lot of residents have moved homes—and moved on, rebuilding their lives elsewhere. Others are afraid of returning to an area that had been covered with radioactive particles. Still, some people are starting to filter back in.

"This is their home, had always been their home," Stahl said. "But I don't know if they'll ever restore the surrounding towns and have really whole, healthy communities."

To watch Lesley Stahl's report on how robots have finally found the reactors' melted uranium fuel, click here.

Robots come to the rescue after Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster（福島第一原発事故でロボットたちに託される事故後の処理）

2018 Nov 25 Correspondent Lesley Stahl

Seven years after a powerful earthquake and tsunami caused a massive nuclear meltdown in the Daiichi Power Plant, Lesley Stahl reports on the unprecedented cleanup effort.

More than seven years have passed since a monster earthquake and tsunami struck northeast Japan and triggered what became, after Chernobyl, the worst nuclear disaster in history at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

When three of its six reactors melted down, hot fuel turned to molten lava. And burned through steel walls and concrete floors. To this day no one knows exactly where inside the reactor buildings the fuel is. And it is so deadly, no human can go inside to look for it. So the Japanese company that owns the crippled plant has turned to robots.

Reactors two and three at the Daiichi Power Plant © CBS News

There are four-legged robots, robots that climb stairs and even robots that can swim into reactors flooded with water. They’re equipped with 3D scanners, sensors and cameras that map the terrain, measure radiation levels and look for the missing fuel.

This is part of a massive clean up that’s expected to cost nearly $200 billion and take decades.

Lesley Stahl: Has anything like this cleanup, in terms of the scope, ever happened before?

Lake Barrett:  No, this is a unique situation here.  It’s never happened in human history. It’s a challenge we’ve never had before.

“It was truly Hell on Earth.”

「まさに”この世の地獄”でした」

Lake Barrett is a nuclear engineer and former Department of Energy official who oversaw the cleanup of the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history, Three Mile Island. He was hired as a senior adviser by TEPCO, the Tokyo Electric Power Company that owns the plant and is in charge of the effort to find the missing fuel.

He’s also advising on the development of new robots like this six-legged spider robot that engineers are designing to hang from scaffolding and climb onto equipment. He describes them as…

Lake Barrett: Very advanced working robots that will actually be the ones with long, muscular arms and laser cutters and such that will go in and actually take the molten fuel and put it in an engineered canister and retrieve it.

Lesley Stahl: Should we think of this as a project like sending someone to the moon?

Lake Barrett: It’s even a bigger project in my view. But there’s a will here to clean this up as there was a will to put a man on the moon. And these engineering tasks can be done successfully.

Lesley Stahl: Why not just bury this place? Why not do what they did at Chernobyl? Just cover it up, bury it, and just leave it here all– you know, enclosed?

Lake Barrett: Number one this is right next to the sea. We’re 100 yards from the ocean. We have typhoons here in Japan. This is also a high earthquake zone. And there’s gonna be future earthquakes. So these are unknowns that the Japanese and no one wants to deal with.

Lake Barrett, who oversaw the cleanup of the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history, Three Mile Island © CBS News

The earthquake that caused the meltdown measured 9.0, The most powerful ever recorded in Japan and triggered a series of tsunami waves that swept away cars, houses and entire towns. Killing more than 15,000 people.

At Fukushima Daiichi, the enormous waves washed over the plant, flooding the reactors and knocking out power to the cooling pumps that had kept the reactor cores from overheating. Lake Barrett took us to a hill overlooking the reactors where the radiation levels are still relatively high.

Lesley Stahl: So this is actually right where– where it all happened? The heart of the disaster, right here?

Lake Barrett: Correct. There’s reactor number one, reactor number two, reactor number three. And when the earthquake happened, 100 miles away, these buildings all shook and these towers all shook. But the design was such that they were safe. But 45 minutes later, waves were racing in, tsunami waves, from the earthquake, and there were seven waves that came in at 45 feet high. And put the station in what we call “station blackout.” They had no power. And the cores got hotter inside, and hotter, and hotter again until the uranium started to melt.

Lesley Stahl: How many tons of radioactive waste was developed here?

Lake Barrett: Probably 500 to 1,000 tons in each building.

Lesley Stahl: So how long will it be lethal?

Lake Barrett: It will be lethal for thousands of years.

Lesley Stahl: What we’re talking about really is three meltdowns?

Lake Barrett: Yes. It was truly Hell on Earth.

“No one is gonna send a worker in there because they’d be overexposed in just a matter of seconds.”

「誰も作業員を送ろうとは思いません。ものの数秒で過剰被曝してしまいますから」

The meltdowns triggered huge explosions that sent plumes of radioactive debris into the atmosphere, forcing the evacuation of everyone within a 12-mile radius – about 160,000 people in all. Weeks later, TEPCO officials engaged in so-called kowtow diplomacy – allowing townspeople to berate them as they prostrated themselves in apology.

複数のメルトダウンは巨大な爆発を引き起こし、放射性堆積物を含むプルームを大気に吐き出しました。半径１９キロ圏内の住人、約１６万人が全員避難を余儀なくされました。数週間後、TEPCOの責任者たちはいわゆる「叩頭（土下座）」対応を余儀なくされました。住民は彼らに激しい怒りをぶつけ、彼らは平身低頭して謝り続けるしかありませんでした。

Thousands of workers were sent to the countryside to decontaminate everything touched by radiation including digging up dirt and putting it in bags – lots of bags.

But while much of the evacuation zone has been decontaminated, there are still entire neighborhoods that are like ghost towns, silent and lifeless with radiation levels that remain too high.

At the plant they’re capturing contaminated groundwater, about 150 tons a day, and storing it in tanks, as far as the eye can see.

Lake Barrett: Water is always the major challenge here. And it’s going to remain a major challenge until the entire cores are removed.

The closer workers get to the reactors, the more protective gear they have to wear, as we discovered.

Correspondent Lesley Stahl and Lake Barrett suit up © CBS News

We were zipped into Tyvek coveralls and made to wear two pairs of socks and 3 pairs of gloves.

Lake Barrett: Okay, we’ve got tape.

Not an inch of skin was exposed. The layers of protection include a mask…

Lesley Stahl: It’s a little loose.

Lake Barrett: We’ll tighten it up.

…That often fogged up.

Lake Barrett: How do you feel?

Lesley Stahl: Good.

And a dosimeter to register the amount of radiation we’d be exposed to.

We were ready for battle. We went with a team of TEPCO workers to unit three, one of the reactors that melted down on that March day, seven years ago, that the Japanese call, simply 3/11.

Lesley Stahl: Lake!

Lake Barrett: There you are, Unit 3.

Lesley Stahl: Watch it. Step.

Lake Barrett: These are shield plates because there’s cesium in the ground.

In the years since the accident, much of the damage to the building has been repaired.

But it’s still dangerous to spend a lot of time here. We could stay only 15 minutes.

Lesley Stahl: There’s this number I’ve been seeing, 566.

Lake Barrett: Right. That’s telling you the radiation level that we’re in. It’s fairly high here. That’s why we’re gonna be here a short time.

Lesley Stahl: How close are you and I, right this minute, to the core?

Lake Barrett: The– the melted cores are about 70 feet that way.

Lesley Stahl: Seventy from here–

Lake Barrett: From here.

Lesley Stahl: –is the melted core?

Lake Barrett: Correct, that’s right over in here. We don’t know quite where other than it fell down into the floor.

Lesley Stahl: So if you sent a worker in right now to find it, how long would they survive?

Lake Barrett: No one is gonna send a worker in there because they’d be overexposed in just a matter of seconds.

Enter the robots.

Lesley Stahl: This is the robot research center.

Dr. Kuniaki Kawabata: Yes. This is for remote control technology development.

In 2016, the Japanese government opened this $100 million research center near the plant where a new generation of robots is being developed by teams of engineers and scientists from the nation’s top universities and tech companies.

Dr. Kuniaki Kawabata is the center’s principal researcher.

Dr. Kuniaki Kawabata: This is our newest robot, J-11.

Lesley Stahl: So, number 11. And it’s an obstacle course.

Dr. Kuniaki Kawabata: Yes. the operators use the camera image in front of the robot. But it’s so many hours required to train. Because it looks very easy, but it’s quite difficult.

They also train here in this virtual-reality room where 3D data taken inside the reactors by the robots is projected onto this screen. Operators, using special glasses, can go where no humans can.

Lesley Stahl: So we’re actually walking through–

Dr. Kuniaki Kawabata: Uh-huh.

Lesley Stahl: –a part of a reactor.

Dr. Kuniaki Kawabata: Uh-huh. You feel some immersive experience.

Lesley Stahl: Y– so as if you’re in there.

Dr. Kuniaki Kawabata: Yes.

Lesley Stahl: I actually wanna duck. I mean, that’s how real it feels to me. Like here we’re going under this thing. I have to duck.

Dr. Kuniaki Kawabata: Ah, yes.

But even with all the high-tech training and know-how, the robots have run into problems. For the early models, it was the intense levels of radiation - that fried their electronics and cameras.

Lake Barrett: Their lifetime was hours. We hoped it would be days, but it was for hours.

Lesley Stahl: Tell us what happened to the robot named Scorpion. This is a highly sophisticated, and I gather everybody thought this was the answer.

Lake Barrett: That was gonna be the first robot we were going to put inside the containment vessel, which is where we need the information the most ‘cause that’s where the core is.

This is Scorpion, whose mission cost an estimated $100 million. It was designed to flatten out and slither through narrow pipes and passageways on its way to the core. And, like a scorpion, it raises its tail.

Lake Barrett: The tail would come up with a camera on top with lights. Because you have to have its own lights. It’s all dark inside. There’re no regular lights. So that was the plan. And we had great expectations and hope for that. We all did. Took a year to prepare, and it was hard work.

But when Scorpion went inside, it hit some debris and got stuck after traveling less than 10 feet.

Lesley Stahl: I can’t imagine the frustration l– levels.

Lake Barrett: Well, but you learn more from– from failure sometimes than you do from success.

They had more success with this robot named Little Sunfish, which was designed to swim inside one of the reactors flooded with water. In preparing for Little Sunfish’s mission, engineers spent months doing test runs inside this enormous simulation tank, fine-tuning the propellers, cameras, sensors and 65 yards of electric cable – all built to withstand intense levels of radiation.

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They used nuclear reactor number five to help plan the mission. It didn’t melt down when the tsunami hit and is nearly identical to the one Little Sunfish would scout. Finally, last year, the swimming robot made its foray into the heart of the reactor. To look for the missing fuel. Barrett took us into unit 5 to show us how it maneuvered through the labyrinth of pipes and debris inside the reactor.

Lake Barrett: The Little Sunfish came down on the edge and it swam underwater down through this little entryway here underneath the reactor vessel.

Lesley Stahl: Is this the route Little Sunfish took?

Lake Barrett: Yes this is. The Little Sunfish swam thru this portal, down into this area, it went around the side. It went down through this grating, which was gone. We are standing directly underneath the reactor vessel. Molten fuel came through here and it jetted out under very high pressure. And then it came out slowly like a lava in a volcano, and it fell down and burned its way through this grating down to the floor.

This is what Little Sunfish saw as technicians guided it through the pipes and hatchways of the flooded interior. It beamed back images revealing clumps of debris, fuel rods, half-destroyed equipment and murky glimpses of what looks like solidified lava – the first signs, TEPCO officials say, of the missing fuel.

Lake Barrett: These robotic steps so far have been significant steps. But it is only a small step on a very, very long journey.

Lesley Stahl: This is gonna take you said decades with an “S.” How many decades?

Lake Barrett: We don’t know for sure. The goal here is 40– 30– 40 years. You know, I personally think it may be even 50– 60, but it’s–

Lesley Stahl: Oh, maybe longer.

Lake Barrett: It, well, it may be longer. But the reality is this is a challenge that’s never been dealt with before. But every step is a positive step. You learn from that and go forward to another step.