APA酒店连锁因否定南京大屠杀书籍遭到严厉批评 [日本媒体]

APA hotel chain under fire over book denying Rape of Nanking

APA酒店连锁因否定南京大屠杀书籍遭到严厉批评



TOKYO —A fast-growing Japanese hotel chain is facing criticism over a book penned by the hotel’s owner that says the Rape of Nanking was fabricated.

东京——一家快速发展的日本酒店连锁企业因为酒店主人的一本否认南京大屠杀的书籍而面临批评。

APA Group, a Tokyo-based land developer and operator of 400-plus hotels, drew fire for spreading the revisionist views of company president Toshio Motoya by putting the books in hotel guestrooms and also selling them.

APA集团是位于东京的一家土地开发商，运营着400多家酒店，因为酒店主席Toshio Motoya修正主义的观点而遭到人们猛烈批评，该公司主席将相关书籍放在酒店客房里而且销售这些书籍。


DisillusionedJAN. 19, 2017 - 07:19AM JST
The video shows passages from the book calling the 1937 massacre an “imaginary” event concocted by China to blame Japan. The book also denies that Japan’s use of “comfort women” involved forced prostitution.
And, the saddest thing is, in his mind, this is the truth.

“视频中可以看出书籍里的内容称1937年的屠杀是中国为了怪罪日本而想象出来的捏造事件。书中还否认了日本使用涉及慰安妇在内的强制卖淫。”
最悲哀的是在他的脑中这才是事实。

MoonrakerJAN. 19, 2017 - 07:24AM JST
“Japan guarantees freedom of speech, and no one-sided pressure should be allowed to cause a retraction of a statement.”
And truth should not intervene because it doesn't exist, right? It's becoming just about he or she who shouts loudest. How miserable is the post-truth world.

“日本保证言论自由，单方面的压力不应该导致声明的撤回。”
事实不应该干涉，因为它不存在，是吗？好像谁说话大声谁就有理似的。这个后事实的世界多么的可悲吖。

katsu78JAN. 19, 2017 - 07:26AM JST
Proof the conspiracy theory-loving fanatic isn't just a western right-wing phenomenon.

这表明了喜欢阴谋论的狂热者并非独有的西方右翼现象。

YubaruJAN. 19, 2017 - 07:28AM JST
In a statement on its website, APA also reiterated its position that there is no documentary proof 300,000 people were massacred in the Rape of Nanking.
This whole thing is wrong on so many levels. This excuse here is often used and repeated by JAPANESE wing-nuts because there are no documents left in JAPANESE, or at least never been found, as they were burned or destroyed before the end of or just following the war.
Japanese, nuts like this, will only accept documentation in Japanese and since there is none, it never happened.

在其网站的一份声明上，APA还重申了自己的立场，即没有文件记录表明30万人在南京大屠杀中被杀死。
这真是大错特错。日本右翼疯子经常使用这个借口，因为没有相关的日语文件记录留下来，或者至少从来没被发现，因为在战后这些文件都会烧掉或者摧毁了。
这些日本人只接受日文版的文件记录，所以他们觉得从来没有发生过。

slowguy2JAN. 19, 2017 - 07:29AM JST
And, the saddest thing is, in his mind, this is the truth.
Well, perhaps not. It could be that he knows he is propagating a lie, but continues to do it on the theory that "A lie repeated endlessly becomes..." -- you know the rest. In fact, I suspect this is probably not a rare thing in Japan, where beautiful packaging is what REALLY matters.

“最悲哀的是在他的脑中这才是事实。”
或许不是。他可能知道自己在散播谎言，因为他相信谎言重复一千遍就会变成真理。事实上我猜测这种情况在日本并非鲜见，在日本美丽的包装意味着一切。

SenseNotSoCommonJAN. 19, 2017 - 07:30AM JST
“We have no intention of withdrawing the book from our guestrooms even if we receive criticisms from those with different viewpoints,”
Wow. There's a place to avoid.

“我们没有打算从客房里撤出这些书籍，即使我们受到了不同观点的人们的批评。”
哇。抵制这家酒店。

Alistair CarnellJAN. 19, 2017 - 07:48AM JST
“We have no intention of withdrawing the book from our guestrooms even if we receive criticisms from those with different viewpoints,” it said. “Japan guarantees freedom of speech, and no one-sided pressure should be allowed to cause a retraction of a statement.”

Well, ok then... Why not stock a book alongside it, which gives the 'different viewpoint' ?

“我们没有打算从客房里撤出这些书籍，即使我们受到了不同观点的人们的批评。日本保证言论自由，单方面的压力不应该导致声明的撤回。”
好吧，既然这样，为什么不放一本持“不同观点”的书籍在客房里呢？

StrangerlandJAN. 19, 2017 - 07:48AM JST
I'm usually not one to boycott places easily, nor to stop using/going to a place simply because of a staff member or even the owner's opinions on a matter.
But when the guy is writing books, and both presenting them and selling them in the hotel, that's when I draw the line. He's decided to bind his business to these opinions.
I stay in an APA hotel at least once a month, on one of my monthly business trips. I'll be looking for a different hotel when I next go at the end of these month.

通常我不会因为某个员工或者老板对某件事情的观点而轻易的去抵制某个地方。
但是当这个人写了书，并且放在自己的酒店里出售，那这就是我的底线了。他决意要将自己的生意同自己的这些观点绑在一起。
我每个月至少去一次APA，出差的时候。所以接下来我不会住这家酒店了。

randomnatorJAN. 19, 2017 - 07:52AM JST
Well we all know that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed by Japanese forces to garner sympathy from their victims. Blaming America just helps their cause of playing the victim card every August.

我们都知道广岛和长崎是日本人自己炸的，为了获得他们受害人的同情。指责美国有助于他们每年八月份的时候扮演受害人的把戏。

marcelitoJAN. 19, 2017 - 08:11AM JST
Agree with Strangerland. The first and last time I stayed in APA hotel I came across their in house magazine that published same right wing stuff about WW2. After reading some of it ,decided I,d never stay in one again. There are plenty of other business hotels in Japan to choose from. Just as I wouldn't choose to stay in a hotel say in Europe that is run by some Holocaust denialsts , I won't be supporting the same with my hard earned in Japan.

同意前面某人的观点。第一次也是最后一次我去APA酒店时看到他们的内部杂志上出版了有关二战的右翼内容。读完后，我就决定不再入住。日本还有好多商业酒店可供选择。就好比我在欧洲也不会住进某家由大屠杀否认者开办的酒店。

Laptop_WarriorJAN. 19, 2017 - 08:22AM JST
What makes the argument so ridiculous is that even if you disregard the number of deaths due to the "Nanjing Incident" (between 0 and 300,000, depending on who's making the claim), over 20 million Chinese civilian deaths were recorded as a result of Japan's "incursions" between 1928 (Jinan Incident) and 1945. So when you look at the totals (China was 2nd in WW2 civilian deaths after the Soviet Union), how is denying what occurred in China's capital city (at that time) over a period of several weeks in 1937-38 going to matter that much? Or to consider matters from the other perspective, how many Japanese civilians, in Japan, were killed or subjected to atrocities at the hands of Chinese soldiers?
This is not just world-class denial on the part of APA Hotel's owner; it's callous disrespect for human life.

他的这个论据之所以如此荒谬，是因为即使你忽视“南京事件”的死亡数据（0到30万之间，根据给出数据的人的不同而不同），但是在1928年（济南事件）到1945年的日本入侵期间，据记录中国有2000多万人被日本人杀死。所以着眼于总体数据（中国二战死亡人数仅次于苏联），那么否认1937-38年期间的几周时间里发生在当时中国首都的事情真的就那么重要吗？或者从另一个角度考虑问题，有多少在日本的日本公民被中国士兵杀死？
这不仅仅是APA酒店老板所做出的世界级否认，也是对人命的无情与不敬。