摘要
During the seven decades since the war ended, Japan has undergone ＂changes of direction＂ involving group expressions of regret, accompanied by the intellectual ＂soul- searching＂ of quite a few academics. Ultimately, however, the country has been unable to complete the ＂transformation＂ of its political values. Its consciousness of superiority, dating back to the Meiji era, and its dream of being restored to the status of a ＂normal country＂ have distorted Japan＇s idea of the war and its interpretation of history. As a result, at the critical postwar moment when Japan most needed to develop a truthful view of its history, its national will expressed itself in the rejection of this possibility. Japan has manufactured Sino-Japanese friction and manipulated the United States, on the pretext of a supposed ＂China threat＂ into relaxing the constraints upon Japan, and has attempted to abandon the thought and deeds of the postwar international order. Not only has this repeatedly subverted the standards by which the intemational ＂left＂ and ＂right＂ assess Japan; it has also once again placed the Asia-Pacific region in a precarious position.
战后日本,虽有过集团性的忏悔“转向”,也不乏学术界的思想“反省”,但最终却没能完成政治上的价值“转换”。“明治近代”的优越意识和“正常国家”的复原梦想,决定了其扭曲的战争观念和错误的历史认知。结果,在战后最需要形成正确历史观的关键时刻,日本的国家意志却抛却了这种可能性。它制造中日摩擦,以所谓“中国威胁”来利用和倒逼美国对己松绑并试图摆脱战后国际秩序。日本的思想和行动,不但使“左翼”、“右翼”等国际社会的对日观察标准屡遭颠覆,也使亚太地区被再度置身于险象环生的境遇。
