信：美軍在黑市出售清酒和啤酒

 信：美軍在黑市出售清酒和啤酒

1945 年 10 月 19 日

致尊敬的最高指挥官，亲爱的麦克阿瑟将军：

 请允许我说，美国士兵以其严明的纪律给我们日本人上了一堂触及心底的课，但他们中也有人的行为是不可接受的。

10 月 19 日中午刚过，两名美国占领军成员出现在大阪府三岛郡春日村茨城高尔夫俱乐部的[前日军]补给站。

他们在一辆卡车上装满了清酒和啤酒，在下禾隅村的一条公路上以黑市价格出售。

也许有办法解释这种行为，但一定有更公平合理的办法。

我认为这样做是不合法的，所以特此通知。

日本人购买这些商品也是不对的，但我们就像饿狼一样，所以我觉得那些煽动不法行为的人难辞其咎。

October 19 [1945]

To the Honorable Supreme Commander, Dear General MacArthur: 

 May I say that American soldiers, with their strict discipline, have taught us Japanese a lesson that strikes the bottom of our hearts, but there are those among them whose conduct is not acceptable.

 On the 19th of October shortly after noon, two members of the American occupation army appeared at the provisions depot [of the former Japanese army] at the Ibaraki Golf Club, Kasuga-mura, Mishima-gun, Osaka Prefecture.

 They loaded a truck with sake and beer and sold them at black market prices along a road in [the vil lage of] Shimohozumi.

There may be ways to explain this activity, but there must be a more fair and rational way.

 I believe this was not done legally, so I am notifying you.

 It was also wrong for the Japanese to buy the goods, but we are like hungry wolves, so I feel those who instigated the wrongdoing are to blame.