英語検定ライティング準１級（第484回）

百田尚樹「カエルの楽園を読んだ話」

カエルの楽園という物語がある。中国が日本を侵略することを予言する。米軍基地の存在だけが中国を牽制している。憲法９条は日本を守らない。近隣の諸国を侵略した過去は精算されることがない。だから永久に謝罪するべきだと洗脳されている。
There is the fable whose title “frog’s paradise” written by a certain famous author, which implies that China should invade Japan with money and violence, everyone knows.
We won’t fail to learn that America’s military base camps might prevent China from attacking Japan in advance.
On the other hand, the 9th articles fail to protect Japan because our nation invaded China and Korea before the war against America ended and Japan’s behaviors won’t be forgiven by numerous victim countries, she assumes.
In conclusion, we have been brainwashed that we should apologize to them forever, to our disappointments.

体臭の問題が世間を騒がせている。あるアナウンサーがそれに言及して会社を解雇されたのは先月だった。近くの図書館も高齢者の体臭が不快で呼吸が困難な時もある。デオドラント製品は月に1000円くらいかける。特に最近は注意しているのだ。
A notorious subject about our bodies’ odors has been featured in various kinds of fields in our society in recent weeks, in fact, a certain female announcer was fired by the production company due to uttering about someone extremely smelly the other day, which actually attracted numerous negative and malicious comments, she says.
There are not a few elderly users whose odors are so extremely uncomfortable in the library nearby, in fact, someone sometimes vomits in the restroom, he assumes.
Almost all of ordinary citizens spend nearly 1000 yen on something deodorant, which won’t fail to prevent us from forcing others around us to feel unpleasant, actually, we should be too careful about our bodies’ odors, she says.

中国人が日本人を殺した事件は反日教育が原因だ。中国政府は謝罪しない。その代わり日本の海産物の輸入を再開する。反日教育は米国が導入したものだ。日中関係が悪化すれば米国は日本に武器を売ることが出来る。武力は米国に依存させながら。
Almost all of the ordinary citizens in China have negative attitudes towards Japan because they must be educated to remember that Japan invaded China and killed many ordinary innocent people about 90 years ago since they are elementary school children, which caused the murder case the other day, however, Japan’s government don’t have any furies and angers towards China in the least.
China won’t apologize to us for something vicious, but they promised to import Japanese seafoods again.
In fact, America introduced anti-Japan educations into China since 8964 incidents because heated hostilities between China and Japan enable America to sell various types of weapons to both nations and become profitable.
Simultaneously, Japan must continue to be dependent on America in the military perspectives, an article says.