信：人民已经厌倦了占领政策

 信：人民已经厌倦了占领政策

东京都丰岛区池袋 2-457 1947 年 9 月 18 日

尊敬和敬爱的麦克阿瑟将军 亲爱的先生：

凉爽的秋天已经到来，我向阁下致以最良好的祝愿，祝阁下身体健康，勤奋工作。

恕我直言

我之所以提交这封信，是因为我怀有一些疑问

你们的 "占领政策"。

许多日本人也感到不满。

战争结束后，我们呼吸到了自由的空气，在您的良好政策下，天皇的奴隶变成了自由的公民，开始重视民主，工人运动和农民运动也日益壮大。

我从心底里由衷地感激和感动。

然而，最近占领军士兵的暴行已经到了忍无可忍的地步：

强奸、持枪抢劫和暴力事件数不胜数。

现在的情况是，天黑后，妇女和儿童甚至其他人都不愿从占领军军营附近经过，而选择绕道而行。

为占领军工作的人的工资如何？

你们知道他们的抱怨吗？

翻译和其他人似乎通过在黑市上出售军用物资过着奢侈的生活。

这些问题很容易传入日本人的耳目；

它们很快就会蔓延到全体民众，并助长对美国的不信任。

荒谬的思想正在蔓延：

 "我们输了，所以我们无能为力。

我们被占领了，所以即使共产主义是对的，我们现在也要听美国的话。

然后，我们将在美苏战争中脱颖而出。

我们应该晚点再进攻美国"

杜鲁门先生、艾森豪威尔将军以及贵国的政府高层都称赞美国是唯一的民主国家，并坚持认为苏联是独裁极权国家。

即使是曾经相信这种观点的人，在亲政府报纸的宣传下，现在也通过你们的占领政策感受到了一个反民主的美国。

越来越多的人开始觉得，独裁这个词并不仅仅适用于苏联。

2-457 Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku [Tokyo] September 18, 1947

The Respected and Beloved Honorable General MacArthur Dear Sir: 

 The cool autumn has arrived, and I offer my best wishes for Your Excellency's health and diligence in the handling of your duties.

 Without respect to

proper protocol, I am submitting this letter because I harbor some questions

about your "occupation policies.

" Many Japanese people are also dissatisfied.

 Since the end of the war, we have breathed the air of freedom, and through your good policies, the slaves of the emperor have become free citizens and have come to value democracy, and the labor movement and farmers' movement have grown by the day.

 I am truly grateful and moved from the bottom of my heart in so many ways.

Recently, however, the excesses of the soldiers of the occupation have become intolerable: 

 incidents of rape, armed robbery, and violence are too numerous to count.

 The present situation is that after dark women and children and even others do not want to pass near the barracks of the occupation forces, so they choose a roundabout way.

 How about the wages of those who work for the occupation forces?

 Are you aware of their complaints?

 It seems that interpreters and others are living in luxury by selling military goods on the black market.

These problems easily reach the eyes and ears of the Japanese people;

 they spread to the whole population in no time and foster mistrust of America.

 Absurd ideas are spreading: 

 "We lost, so we cannot help it.

 We are under occupation, so even if communism is right, let's do as America says for now.

 Then, we'll distinguish ourselves in an American-Soviet war.

 We should attack America later.

"

Mr. Truman, General Eisenhower, and your country's top government of ficials praise America as the only democracy and insist that the Soviet Union is a dictatorial and totalitarian state.

Even people who once believed this view, as propagandized in progovernment newspapers, are now experiencing an antidemocratic America through your occupation policies.

 More and more people are beginning to feel that the word dictatorship does not apply to the Soviet Union alone.