大本營發表:
米内光政が「原爆とソ連の参戦は、ある意味で日本が降伏を表明するための天照大神(アメリカ)からの贈り物だった」と語った 。
日本の裕仁と大臣たちは、軍隊と飢餓への憤りから、日本国民がいつ共產主義革命を起こすかわからないと恐れ始めていた。
"[T]he atomic bombs and the Soviet entry into the war are, in a sense, gifts from the gods. This way we don't have to say that we quit the war because of domestic circumstances."
Japanese Navy Minister Yonai Mitsumasa to Admiral Takagi Sokichi, August 12, 1945.
「原爆とソ連の参戦は、ある意味で神からの贈り物だ。 こうすれば、国内の事情で戦争をやめたと言わなくて済む」。
米内光政海軍大臣から高木惣吉提督へ、1945年8月12日。
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**A-bombs were `God's gifts' to Japanese regime**
* AFP
The US atomic bomb attacks and the Soviet Union's entry into World War II that led to Japan's surrender were "God's gifts," the Japanese navy minister was quoted as saying at that time in documents released on Friday by the US National Security Archive.
Navy minister Mitsumasa Yonai told an adviser to the Japanese ruling elite that the two events provided a good excuse to surrender at a time when local hostility to Emperor Hirohito and his government was increasing rapidly.
The conversation was among the first complete published translations from the Japanese of accounts of key high-level meetings and discussions in Tokyo leading to the end of the war, the archive said.
**ONLINE COLLECTION**
The translations were released on the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima as part of a comprehensive online collection, including declassified US government documents, on the first use of the atomic bomb and the end of the war in the Pacific.
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2005/08/07/2003266728
“[T]he atomic bombs and the Soviet entry into the war are, in a sense, gifts from the gods. This way we don't have to say that we quit the war because of domestic circumstances.” Japanese Navy Minister Yonai Mitsumasa to Admiral Takagi Sokichi, August 12, 1945.
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