信：日本绝对有必要成为一个共和国

 信：日本绝对有必要成为一个共和国

关于废除天皇制[出现在页边] 致：

道格拉斯-麦克阿瑟将军 道格拉斯-麦克阿瑟将军

1945年12月23日

谨以此文献给我尊敬和爱戴的道格拉斯-麦克阿瑟将军，他正在努力建立一个民主的日本。

我只是日本的一个卑微公民，既无学历也无地位。

盟军总司令部为铲除日本现存的束缚、压迫、剥削广大人民群众的封建、反动、野蛮的政权结构，让绝大多数日本人真正享受到政治、经济、社会民主的热情，给我留下了深刻的印象。

我怀着感激之情，在激动万分的心情驱使下，尽管我的字写得不好，也没有受过什么教育，但我还是敢于写这封信。

请听一听，这是一个对民主日本的未来深感忧虑的公民的心声。

目前，在日本的国家政体--天皇制问题上，有人主张延续天皇制，也有人希望废除天皇制。

我坚持认为，现在是果断废除天皇制的时候了。

我的理由如下：

1. 延续天皇制意味着，将来当盟军占领军撤出日本时，封建势力和反动势力，如军国主义分子、官僚、资本家、地主、贵族，他们曾鲁莽而愚蠢地把日本引向抗美援朝战争，他们将恢复对日本人民的控制，民主将崩溃，军国主义日本的复活将不可避免。

2. 维持天皇制是对日本人民进行民主教育的最大障碍。

这是因为日本人的政治水平低于美国人和欧洲人，自明治维新以来，军国主义者和官僚统治阶级一直教导日本人相信天皇是活神仙，他们利用不科学的神话传说将天皇神秘化、神圣化，从而加强了对人民的控制。

结果，愚昧无知的民众仍然把皇帝奉若神明。

在这种情况下，要使日本人的思想转变为民主思维是绝对不可能的。

要实现这一目标，必须彻底揭露天皇的封建主义、非民主主义和军国主义方式，必须解除天皇的职务，日本绝对有必要成为一个共和国。

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3. 维持天皇制将成为日本政治、经济和社会民主改革的最大障碍。

原因在于，由军国主义者、贵族、政客、资本家和地主组成的统治阶级以天皇制为堡垒，很可能会抵制最高统帅麦克阿瑟的民主改革命令，或日本人民自下而上的民主要求。

就像我们现在看到的，他们不是以审议不充分为借口，试图阻挠国会通过农业土地改革法和工会法吗？

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4. 日本天皇是引发和实施日美战争的战犯。

日美战争是在敌对行动开始之前由所谓的御前会议批准的，该会议由天皇参加并得到其批准。

无视国际法，珍珠港事件之所以发生，是因为天皇表示同意日本军国主义者对美国太平洋舰队发动肮脏 "偷袭 "的计划。

日本关于天皇在偷袭珍珠港后签署宣战书的辩解已被无可争辩的证据戳穿。

天皇是最大的战犯。

他应立即被捕并接受审判。

因此，我支持废除天皇制。

英明的麦克阿瑟将军：

你必须认识到，维持天皇制将使日本无法建设民主国家，并将为军国主义者策划复仇战争提供机会。

废除天皇制也是美日永久和平的必要条件。

在废除天皇制之后，必须消除天皇和皇室的政治和经济特权，使其无法复活。

此致敬礼、

[A. M.］

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On Abolishing the Imperial System [appears in margin] To: 

 General Douglas MacArthur

23-Dec-45

I offer this letter to the person I respect and love, General Douglas MacArthur, who is striving to establish a democratic Japan.

I am only a humble citizen of Japan with neither education nor status.

 I am deeply impressed with the enthusiasm of the General Headquarters of the Allied forces in their effort to eradicate Japan's existing feudal, reactionary, and barbaric power structure that constrained, oppressed, and exploited the masses of the people, and to allow the great majority of the Japanese to truly enjoy political, economic, and social democracy.

 With gratitude and compelled by galloping emotion, I dare send this letter despite my poor penmanship and lack of education.

 Please hear this as the voice of one citizen who is deeply concerned about the future of democratic Japan.

At present, on the issue of Japan's national polity-the emperor systemthere are those who advocate its continuation, and there are those who desire the abolition of the system.

 I am one who insists that this is the time to deci sively abolish the system.

 I give the following reasons: 

1. To continue the imperial system means that in the future when the Allied occupation army in Japan withdraws, the feudal powers and reactionary powers, e.

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, the militarists, the bureaucrats, the capitalists, the landowners, the aristocrats, who recklessly and stupidly led Japan to war against the United States, will restore their control over the Japanese people, democracy will collapse, and the resurgence of militarist Japan will be inevitable.

2. Maintaining the imperial system is the greatest obstacle to the democratic education of the Japanese people.

 This is because the Japanese people, whose political standards are lower than Americans and Europeans, have been taught, since the Meiji Restoration, to believe that the emperor is a living god by the ruling class of militarists and bureaucrats, who have strengthened their control over the people by using unscientific mythology and legends to mystify and sanctify the emperor.

 As a result, the ignorant public still worships the emperor as if he were a god.

 Under these conditions, it is absolutely impossible to convert Japanese minds to think in a democratic way.

 To achieve this, the emperor's feudalistic, undemocratic, and militaristic ways must be completely exposed, he must be removed from his position, and it is absolutely necessary for Japan to become a republic.

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3. Maintaining the imperial system will become the greatest barrier to the political, economic, and social democratic reform of Japan.

 The reason is that the ruling class of militarists, aristocrats, politicians, capitalists, and landowners have the imperial system as their fortress and would likely resist Supreme Commander MacArthur's orders for democratic reform, or the Japanese people's demands for democracy that rise up from below.

 Just as we are seeing right now, haven't they tried to obstruct the passage in the Diet of the agricultural land reform act and the labor union act, with the excuse that there has been insufficient deliberation?

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4. The Japanese emperor is a war criminal who triggered and carried out the Japanese-U.S. war.

 The Japanese-U.S. war was approved before the hostilities began by the so-called Imperial Council attended by and sanctioned by the emperor.

 Ignoring international law, the Pearl Harbor incident occurred because the emperor expressed agreement with the jingoistic Japanese militarists' plan to launch a dirty "sneak attack" on the U.S. Pacific Fleet.

 The Japanese defense that the emperor signed the declaration of war after the attack on Pearl Harbor has been undermined by indisputable evidence.

 The emperor is the greatest war criminal.

 He should be arrested immediately and put on trial.

For these reasons, I support the abolition of the emperor system.

 Wise General MacArthur: 

 You must realize that maintaining the imperial system will make the construction of a democratic Japan impossible, and that it will provide an opportunity for the militarists to plan a war of revenge.

The abolition of the imperial system is also necessary for the everlasting peace between the United States and Japan.

 After the abolition of the imperial system, it is essential that the political and economic privileges of the emperor and imperial family be eliminated so that their revival will not be possible.

Respectfully,

[A. M.]