信:请让日本成为美国的殖民地。
1946年2月18日
尊敬的美国代表麦克阿瑟
亲爱的先生
为了日本的未来和我们的后代,请让日本成为美国的殖民地。
我相信,无论谁当大臣,无论谁组建政府,我们的领导人都不会为人民着想,因为所有日本人都只为自己着想。
战争期间,领导人欺骗人民,告诉他们美国人很可怕。
美国士兵是善良的。
有传言说,美国士兵一来,就会抢走我们的手表、钱和其他东西,所以大多数日本人都把值钱的东西都藏了起来。
与传言相反,他们没有做错任何事。
因为日本作恶多端,所以他们骗我们说美国人会疯狂,但他们反而比日本人善良。
如果我还年轻,我想去美国,但我已经六十二岁了,所以这是不可能的。
我的长子太郎现年 23 岁,曾是一名军医和少尉,两年前作为森 1353d 中队的一员在缅甸失踪。
如果他能活着回来,我会带他来见你。
我希望他能去美国,请您协助实现这一愿望。
去年 3 月,报纸报道缅甸军队全军覆没。
军医是非战斗人员,所以如果他被英国当作战俘,他可能还活着。
我很担心,因为他被日本国教导要拼死战斗。
如果日本人是善良的,即使他们身材矮小,也能为世界做出贡献,但无论谁组建政府,都不会为日本人民着想,他们只会为自己着想。
为了所有日本人和我们的子孙后代,我相信在美国的控制下,日本的未来会更加光明。
白见喜多郎 [印章] 冈山市
18-Feb-46
The Honorable Representative of the United States MacArthur
Dear Sir:
It is with great reluctance that I write to ask you, for the sake of Japan's future and our descendants, to please make Japan a colony of the United States.
I believe that no matter who becomes a minister, no matter who forms a government, our leaders will not think of the people, as all Japanese think only of themselves.
During the war, the leaders deceived the people by telling them that Americans are terrible.
American soldiers are kind.
There were rumors that when American soldiers came, they would take our watches and money and everything else, so most Japanese hid all of their valuables.
Contrary to the rumors, they did nothing wrong.
Because Japan was doing evil, they lied to us that Americans would go wild, but instead they are kinder than the Japanese.
If I were young, I would like to go to the United States, but I am sixty-two so this is not possible.
My eldest son, Taro, twenty-three, is a former army doctor and second lieutenant who was reported missing two years ago as a member of the Mori 1353d Squadron in Burma.
If he is so lucky as to return alive, I will bring him to see you.
I want him to go to America, and I beg you to assist in making this happen.
In March of last year, the newspaper reported that the whole army in Burma had been annihilated.
An army doctor is a noncombatant, so if he was taken as a prisoner of war by Britain, he may still be alive.
I am worried because he was taught by the Japanese state to fight to the death.
If the Japanese were kind, they could contribute to the world, even with their small stature, but whoever forms a government will not think about the Japanese people, they will only think about themselves.
For the sake of all Japanese and our descendants, I believe that the future of Japan will be brighter under American control.
Shiomi Kitaro [seal] Okayama City
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