信：批判东京战争罪法庭和战争责任问题
致麦克阿瑟司令
作为一名日本人，我认为目前正在进行的东京法庭使用战争罪一词是极其不公平的。
既然是世界大战，那么通过世界大战的审判来判断对与错才是最公平的。
在审判过程中，每当证词提到美军的非法行为时，法官总是避而不谈，封存证词。
这能叫公平审判吗？
战争是以命相搏的行为，各种极端、嗜血的行为层出不穷。
但在投降后的今天，我认为不应该对战时发生的杀戮进行评判。
就我们日本人而言，当像甲府这样的不设防城市被焚毁时，有五百名无辜者丧生。
此外，有明显标记的医院船在战斗中被击沉，在瓜达尔卡纳尔岛上，受伤的日本士兵像纸一样被压扁在蒸汽滚筒下；
这些都是像我这样把孩子送上战场的父母心中无法抹去的记忆。
让我印象深刻的是，一个吃肉的种族对女人甜言蜜语，却以犯下如此残忍的罪行为乐。
目前，东京法庭正在就 24 名被告是有罪还是无罪的问题大做文章。
然而，正如美国律师所说，当日本人试图通过移民到拥有广阔领土的美国来缓解人口增长时，美国政府禁止移民。
当我们出于无奈开始对满洲进行殖民统治时，美国和苏联进行了干涉，并用经济抵制来威胁我们。
当 ABCD 包围圈的收紧胁迫日本时，日本人就像走投无路的老鼠咬猫一样，开始了战争，将其作为合法的防御或自卫行为。
这是大多数日本人的看法。
二十四名被告的行为只是为了帮助人民；
他们只是为了国家而采取了不可避免的措施。
从美国人的角度来看，这也许是一场沉重的战争，但其起因是美国人排斥日本移民，这是你们自己的错，所以我认为应该判他们无罪。
你们应该教训他们，诉诸武力是一种过激行为，并释放他们，从而展示一个文明国家的宽宏大量。
惩罚这 24 名被告就等于惩罚全体日本人民。
鉴于东京审判的现状，人们不得不从语言中删除 "自卫措施 "一词，因为它已经失去了意义。
在这些审判之后，世界人民将到哪里去审判焚烧手无寸铁的城市、焚烧平民或用原子弹杀人的罪行呢？
除非美国适当承认错误就是错误，否则即使是战败国的人民也不会接受美国的方法是公平的。
如果不解决苏联违反与日本签订的条约的问题，美国的尊严也会受到损害。
只关注日本的违约行为，不能算是对真相的评判，不是吗？
这是一个房屋被烧毁的轰炸受害者的想法。
请把手放在心口，好好想想。
我知道这些想法并非不合逻辑。
我敢于提交这封信，是希望阁下能给予公正的考虑。
在家，坐在草席上、
小学教师，公民
3 月 15 日-47 日
To Commander MacArthur:
As a Japanese, I feel that it is extremely unfair that the term war crimes is being used at the Tokyo tribunal that is now taking place.
Since it was a world war, it would be most fair to judge right as right and wrong as wrong through a world war trial.
During the trial, whenever testimony refers to illegal acts of American forces, the judges always avoid the subject and seal the testimony.
Can this be called a fair trial?
War is the act of fighting over lives, and many kinds of extreme, bloodthirsty actions occur.
But today, after surrender, I don't think one should be judging the killing that took place in wartime.
We Japanese, for our part, when undefended cities like Kofu were incinerated, five hundred innocent lives were lost.
Also, clearly marked hospital ships were sunk during battle, and on Guadalcanal Island wounded Japanese soldiers were flattened like paper under a steam roller;
these are memories that cannot be erased from the mind of a parent like myself who sent his child to war.
I am impressed that a race of meat eaters is sweet toward women but then takes pleasure in committing such cruel deeds.
There is a lot of fuss being made at the Tokyo tribunal right now over whether the twenty-four defendants are guilty or innocent.
However, as the American lawyer has stated, when the Japanese tried to ease their population growth by emigrating to America with its vast territory, the American government banned immigration.
When we began, out of necessity, to colonize Manchuria, the United States and the Soviet Union interfered and threatened us with economic boycott.
When the tightening of the ABCD encirclements coerced Japan, the Japanese, like a cornered mouse biting a cat, began the war as a legitimate act of defense or self-defense.
This is what most of the Japanese people believe.
The twenty-four defendants only acted in order to help the people;
they only took unavoidable measures for the country's sake.
From the American standpoint, it may have been a burdensome war, but its cause originated in the American exclusion of Japanese immigrants, it is your own fault, so I think they should be found not guilty.
You should lecture them that resorting to arms was an overreaction and set them free, thus displaying the magnanimity of a civilized country.
Punishing the twentyfour defendants is the same as punishing all of the Japanese people.
Given the current state of the Tokyo trials, one would have to delete the term "measures for self defense" from the language, because it has lost its meaning.
After these trials, where will the people of the world turn to hold trials for the crimes of burning a defenseless city, or incinerating civilians, or murder with an atomic bomb?
Unless America provides appropriate acknowledgment that what is wrong is wrong, even a defeated people cannot accept American methods as fair.
American dignity would also be damaged if the Soviet Union's violation of its treaties with Japan is left unaddressed.
To only focus on Japanese treaty violations cannot be considered judging the truth, can it?
These are the thoughts of a victim of the bombing whose house was burned.
Please place your hand on your heart and think about it.
I know these thoughts are not illogical.
I have dared to submit this letter in the hope that Your Excellency will give it fair consideration.
At home, sitting on straw mats,
An elementary school teacher, citizen
15-Mar-47
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