以下は、『月刊日本』平成25年10月号に掲載した稲村公望先生の「日本、情報戦に敗北す」の全文英訳です。

Japan Losing the Information War
Kobo Inamura
Visiting Professor
Chuo University

Japan Falls from Position as Representative of Asia

Interviewer: Professor Inamura, you went back to the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in the United States, where you studied in the mid-1970s, and were shocked to see how much Japan’s presence has declined.

Kobo Inamura: Until the mid-1980s interest in Japan was extremely high in the United States, and Japanese studies were lively. The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies was established at Harvard University in 1973, Harvard Professor Ezra Vogel wrote Japan as Number One in praise of Japanese-style management in 1979, and the Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies was opened at Johns Hopkins University in 1984. 続きを読む 稲村公望先生「日本、情報戦に敗北す」全文英訳 →

以下は、『月刊日本』2013年4月号に掲載された稲村公望先生のインタビュー記事「マハティールに見捨てられる日本」の全文英訳です。

The Japan That Dr. Mahathir Abandoned (?!)

INAMURA Kobo, Visiting Professor, Graduate School, Chuo University

(This is an excerpt from the April 2013 issue of Gekkan Nippon magazine.)

Japan, once the up-and-coming star for the countries of Asia

NIPPON: As someone who has struggled against neoliberalism, why is it that you have long taken note of the things that former Malaysian Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir has to say?

INAMURA: It’s because Dr. Mahathir’s words have included a strong message that can make we Japanese remember something important that we ourselves have forgotten.

Japanese society westernized after the war, and neoliberalism took hold with the end of the Cold War. As a result, the culture and civilization that the Japanese people themselves developed, along with the shape of the country supported by them, has been disappearing. Dr. Mahathir constantly offered words of encouragement: “Japanese, take pride in Japan’s traditional values!” “Use the power of Japanese civilization to develop the world!”

If I could speak without fear of being misunderstood, I would say that at one time Japan was like the big brother on which Malaysia could depend. In their younger days, it was a splendid older brother, and the younger brother learned many things. Once the older brother got his own household, however, he strayed from the path. His family didn’t have the power to stop it. The younger brother frantically cried out, “Brother, open your eyes!” The older brother should have quickly taken note of his younger brother’s strenuous cries.

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以下は、『月刊日本』平成25年4月号に掲載された、稲村公望先生のインタビュー記事「マハティールに見捨てられる日本」の全文英訳です。

The Japan That Dr. Mahathir Abandoned (?!)

INAMURA Kobo, Visiting Professor, Graduate School, Chuo University

(This is an excerpt from the April 2013 issue of Gekkan Nippon magazine.)

Japan, once the up-and-coming star for the countries of Asia

NIPPON: As someone who has struggled against neoliberalism, why is it that you have long taken note of the things that former Malaysian Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir has to say?

INAMURA: It’s because Dr. Mahathir’s words have included a strong message that can make we Japanese remember something important that we ourselves have forgotten.

Japanese society westernized after the war, and neoliberalism took hold with the end of the Cold War. As a result, the culture and civilization that the Japanese people themselves developed, along with the shape of the country supported by them, has been disappearing. Dr. Mahathir constantly offered words of encouragement: “Japanese, take pride in Japan’s traditional values!” “Use the power of Japanese civilization to develop the world!”

If I could speak without fear of being misunderstood, I would say that at one time Japan was like the big brother on which Malaysia could depend. In their younger days, it was a splendid older brother, and the younger brother learned many things. Once the older brother got his own household, however, he strayed from the path. His family didn’t have the power to stop it. The younger brother frantically cried out, “Brother, open your eyes!” The older brother should have quickly taken note of his younger brother’s strenuous cries.
続きを読む 「マハティールに見捨てられる日本」全文英訳 →