2018年3月31日土曜日

英語で書きたい文学の言葉
Impressive Literary Words



「私は日々音楽を手放せないように詩から離れることができない。」


(辻邦生『季節の宴から』より)




”I can't live apart from poetry, as I can't get along without music in my daily life.”


ーKunio Tsuji (Japanese novelist)






(英訳は管理人の試訳です。)
(English version is my trial translation.)

2018年3月30日金曜日

英語で書く季節のエントリー(マイ俳句編)
My Haiku Today into English




答弁は控へるといふ霞かな




The witness refrains


from answering questions in the Diet,


which is a kind of spring haze



2018年3月28日水曜日

From the Latest News

NHK World News

Sagawa denies Abes' involvement

key figure in the Finance Ministry's document-falsifying scandal related to a shady land deal has testified that neither Prime Minister Shinzo Abe nor his wife Akie was involved in the matter.

Nobuhisa Sagawa gave sworn testimony before the budget committees of both houses of the Diet on Tuesday.

Sagawa formerly headed the Finance Ministry's Financial Bureau, which doctored papers pertaining to the steeply discounted sale in 2016 of state-owned land in Osaka to private school operator Moritomo Gakuen.



 ☆Hmm...but I have to say again that it's impossible to do such things only by the bureaucrats, because they have no reason for taking risks of document-falsifying. We have to wait for the investigations of the prosecutors' office.


2018年3月25日日曜日

From the Latest News

毎日新聞

森友学園
国有地売却問題 文書改ざん 本省、メールで指示 近畿財務局に「国会対策のため」

学校法人「森友学園」(大阪市)への国有地売却に関する決裁文書改ざん問題で、財務省が同省近畿財務局に改ざんを指示するメールを送っていたことが分かった。

大阪地検特捜部はメールを入手し内容を精査している。

財務局は当初、改ざん後の決裁文書を特捜部に提出していた。しかし、職員が任意で提出したパソコンなどを分析する中で、昨夏ごろにメールの存在を把握。削除されたデータを復元するデジタルフォレンジック(電子鑑識)などの手法で、改ざん前の文書も入手した。


The Japan Times 

In the document falsification scandal, the Finance Ministry deleted the name of Akie Abe and related descriptions from some of the papers on Moritomo Gakuen.



☆The Prosecutors Office is investigating the case in detail.



2018年3月24日土曜日

英語で書く時節のエントリー(マイ短歌編)
My Tanka into English




決裁済み公文書でもかまわない
                                    都合の悪きは全て消すのだ
                 
                   


It does not matter to me


if they are approved official documents or not


Delete all the parts of them


that are inconvenient to me




2018年3月19日月曜日

From the Latest News

「安倍政権は自壊する」(佐藤優氏)

〈週刊朝日〉3/19(月) 8:43配信

「検察は何もできなければ、政権の手先と謗られるので、今回はレゾンデートル(存在価値)を賭けざるを得ない。その過程で安倍政権は自壊していくのではないかと思う。」

☆We are watching the investigations of the Prosecutors Office on the Moritomo scandal with bated breath.

2018年3月14日水曜日

From the Latest News

英紙「身びいきのスキャンダル」 文書改ざん各国で報道

朝日新聞デジタル

ロンドン、ニューヨーク、パリ、ソウル、モスクワ、北京
2018年3月13日20時38分

 財務省の決裁文書改ざん問題は、世界各国のメディアでも報じられている。安倍晋三首相の政権運営に大きな痛手になるとの観測とともに、学校法人・森友学園を巡る政治的な背景にも改めて注目が集まっている。

 英紙タイムズは13日、「偽造された文書、ゆがんだ不動産取引、自殺、そして子どもたちが戦前の軍国主義を習う国家主義的な幼稚園――。1年間のスキャンダルの後、こうした疑わしい要素が一つになって、右派の安倍首相を脅かす政治危機となっている」とこれまでの経緯を伝えた。森友学園については「戦前の日本で主流だった愛国主義と自己犠牲を教える幼稚園」と描写した。

 英紙ガーディアン(電子版)も12日、「夫人が関わった身びいきのスキャンダルで、安倍晋三首相の政治的将来は不確かに」との見出しで報じた。

 同紙は森友学園の籠池泰典理事長について「大阪の右翼の学校運営者」と表現。「官僚は、保守ロビー団体、日本会議への安倍氏の支援に言及した部分も削除していた」と報じた。


The New York Times

Shinzo Abe of Japan Back in Spotlight Over Tampered Documents

MARCH 12, 2018

TOKYO — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan offered to resign a year ago if evidence emerged linking him to a sweetheart land deal. No such evidence ever surfaced, allowing him to ride out the scandal and hang on to power.

But a government report released on Monday suggests that some crucial evidence may have been deleted — and that has put Mr. Abe back in the hot seat. An internal investigation by the Finance Ministry concluded that unidentified officials tampered with official documents related to the land deal by deleting references to Mr. Abe’s wife and senior members of his party.

The Times

Land scandal threatens to engulf Shinzo Abe

March 12 2018, 9:00am

Forged documents, a crooked property deal, a suicide and a nationalist kindergarten where children are taught the ways of prewar militarism: after a year of scandal these shady elements have come together in a political crisis that threatens to overwhelm Shinzo Abe, Japan’s right-wing prime minister.

The scandal centres on Moritomo Gakuen, a kindergarten in Osaka which teaches the patriotism and self-sacrifice that prevailed in prewar Japan. Last year the founders were charged with fraud over a plan to build a nationalist school.

The Guardian

Japan: Shinzo Abe's political future in doubt as wife linked to cronyism scandal

Mon 12 Mar 2018 06.32 GMT Last modified on Mon 12 Mar 2018 22.00 GMT

Controversy deepens after finance ministry admitted to tampering with records relating to land sale to remove references to the first lady

A spiralling cronyism scandal linked to the Japanese prime minister and his wife has reached fever pitch after the finance ministry admitted to tampering with records to remove references to the pair.

Shinzo Abe acknowledged the new revelations “could undermine trust in the entire government” and added: “I deeply apologise to the people.”

The prime minister had previously said he would resign if he or his wife were shown to be involved in heavily cutting the price of public land sold to a right-wing school operator in Osaka.



2018年3月13日火曜日

From the Latest News

Finance Ministry admits to secretly redacting official papers on Moritomo land scandal

The Japan Times

In a revelation that could have dramatic implications for the Abe administration, the Finance Ministry admitted Monday to making dozens of deletions to 14 documents related to the shady 2016 sale of state land to nationalist school operator Moritomo Gakuen between late February 2017 and April the same year, weeks after the heavily discounted sale was first reported.

The deleted sections include the names of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife, including passages that said the head of Moritomo Gakuen at the time, Yasunori Kagoike, mentioned Akie Abe during talks with the ministry on April 28, 2016.

During an April 25, 2016, meeting with Kagoike, the first lady was quoted as saying “this is a good land plot and please promote” its plan to build an elementary school, according to a 80-page report the ministry submitted to the Diet on Monday.



☆This case now presents a serious aspect, which is pregnant with grave consequences.


2018年3月10日土曜日

From the Latest News

財務省、書き換え認める方針=森友決裁文書、政権に大打撃
3/10(土) 19:14配信 JIJI.COM

時事通信社

学校法人「森友学園」への国有地売却問題をめぐり、財務省が決裁文書の書き換えを認める方針であることが分かった。

 


☆The news (JIJI.COM) says that the Ministry of Finance of Japan has taken the policy decision to admit their altering the official documents relating to the Moritomo scandal. It's beyond my belief.

☆I don't think that it's possible to do such things only by the bureaucrats.


英語で書く季節のエントリー(マイ俳句編)
My Haiku Today into English 




もう一度机に触れて卒業す




Just before the ceremony, I came back to my classroom



Touching my desk a little bit once again,



I graduated




2018年3月5日月曜日

英語で書く季節のエントリー(マイ俳句編)
My Haiku Today into English



肩濡らす雨けふよりは春の雨



My shoulders are wetted by a rain,


which is called the spring rain


from today



2018年3月4日日曜日

英語で書く季節のエントリー(マイ俳句編)
My Haiku Today into English



聳え立つ客船春の港にて



A luxury passenger liner soars,


anchoring at the port


in spring