★★★★☆  東京裁判にて死刑を受けた、唯一軍人ではなかった元総理、元外相の広田弘毅の一生。知らなかった。外交官として戦争を始めないように努力した人物。でも歴史は勝利したものによって書かれるとは正にこの事で。
★★★★☆  Ex-PM Hirota, the only politician who received the death sentence at Tokyo Trial who was not a military person. This ex diplomat tried not to start the war, but the history is always written by the victors.
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🔽 基本情報 🔽
落日燃ゆ
城山三郎 1974
War Criminal: The Life and Death of Hirota Koki
Saburo Shiroyama
464 pages 
2024.11 読了

🔽🔽 読書記録 🔽🔽
東京裁判にて死刑を受けた、唯一軍人ではなかった元総理、元外相の広田弘毅の一生。
知らなかった。

福岡の石屋に生まれ、苦学の後に総理大臣にまでなる彼は、外交官として戦争を始めないように努力した人物。
でも当時の日本人の官僚つまり軍人を押さえることができず結局は自らも認めるよう、戦争を阻止できなかったという罪によって、死刑。

平和へのどんな苦労も、結局はノリに乗った軍人の前では無駄で、さらには勝利を手にしたアメリカ人に対しても無駄である。
さらにさらに、当時の日本政府だって、戦後のゴタゴタでそれどころではない。

歴史は勝利したものによって書かれるとは正にこの事で。
今の世界の傾向を見ていても考えさせられる所が多い。

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★★★★☆  Ex-PM Hirota, the only politician who received the death sentence at Tokyo Trial who was not a military person. This ex diplomat tried not to start the war, but the history is always written by the victors.

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War Criminal: The Life and Death of Hirota Koki
Saburo Shiroyama, 1974
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Shiroyama, the only politician who received the death sentence at Tokyo Trial who was not a military person. A diplomat, a prime minister.

Born in a regular family in Fukuoka, he was bright so he was encourage to study hard to go to Tokyo.
Until he became a prime minister, as a diplomat, he did what he could to avoid starting the war, but it was already too late, Japanese military already had too much power by then.
He did not utter any word of defense during the Trial, though many did feel it was unfair, but as he himself says, his crime is he was too powerless to stop the war from starting - thus death penalty.

Any effort for peace meant nothing in front of the military force who took over the government, and any effort to prove his innocence also would have meant nothing in front of the US government who could rule the loser however they wanted to.

History is always written by the victors.
There is no time to waste when you have so much power over someone else.
It makes you ponder if we ever change.

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