自民党版・日本国憲法改正草案Q&Aの英訳の試み （おこじょさんによる）

　　

追記。次の記事でいくつかの条文を弁護士グループが英訳したものを紹介しています。ぜひご覧ください。

■Draft of LDP's (Jiminto's) anti-democratic constitutional change : Its translation in English by a liberal democratic group of young Japanese lawyers.
http://muranoserena.blog91.fc2.com/blog-entry-4973.html
2013-11-05

（追記ここまで）

自民党や英語名日本王政復古の会（自称日本維新の会）をはじめとする、権力を持った国家主義勢力と反民主勢力による民主主義廃止の企てである自民党の日本国憲法改正草案。それに対する恐怖と警戒を次のような記事で書きました。

■自民党の「日本国憲法改正草案」は国民主権と基本的人権を実質的に制約縮小することを目指す
http://muranoserena.blog91.fc2.com/blog-entry-3943.html
2012-12-03

「Ａｆｔｅｒｎｏｏｎ　Ｃａｆｅ」の秋原葉月さんも次のような、私よりも詳しい記事を書いています。復習のためにリンク。

●Ａｆｔｅｒｎｏｏｎ　Ｃａｆｅ
■2012年版自民党憲法改正案批判～（１）国民主権
http://akiharahaduki.blog31.fc2.com/blog-entry-1096.html
2012.12.05 ( Wed ) 21:00:00

■2012年版自民党憲法改正案批判～（２）平和主義
http://akiharahaduki.blog31.fc2.com/blog-entry-1095.html
2012.12.07 ( Fri ) 07:00:00

■2012年版自民党憲法改正案批判～（３）基本的人権の尊重
http://akiharahaduki.blog31.fc2.com/blog-entry-910.html
2012.12.08 ( Sat ) 07:00:00


さて、日本のマスコミにも日本の有権者にも警戒感が非常に薄いことが非常に残念ですが、この際は外国に積極的にジミントーのカイケンの企てについて知らせれば、「New York Times」や「The Economist」といった、すでに従軍慰安婦をめぐる安倍流の歴史修正主義に警告の社説を出している海外のマスメディアが反応することに期待もしなければならないのでしょうか。

おこじょさんが、試しに二つだけ自民党改憲草案のQ&Aを英訳していますので、参考としてお持ち帰りさせていただきましょう。

●おこじょの日記
■Why do we need to revise our Constitution NOW?
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/o-kojo2/20121212#p1
2012-12-12

■[記録]Question and answers from the LDP

リクエストにお答えして、Q1だけ。http://www.jimin.jp/policy/pamphlet/pdf/kenpou_qa.pdf

Q1.Why do we need a new constitution now? For what purpose has the Liberal Democratic Party (Jiminto) presented their “Draft Revision of the Japanese Constitution”?

Our LDP has focused on the issue of drafting an independent constitution since our foundation. To free ourselves from the occupation of the allied forces, and to achieve our sovereignty, we have published various proposals for revising the Constitution.

The present Constitution was first drafted when Japan was under occupation of the allied forces, and enacted upon their consent. We think that the free will of the Japanese people was not reflected then, because Japan’s sovereignty was limited at that time. For example, the Article 9 may be considered as the denial of self-defense, and there are also many problems. Our party has founded the Constitution Research Assembly in 2000, implemented the National Constitution Revision Poll Act in 2007, and played a leading role in efforts to revise the Constitution.

We have proposed a “Draft of a New Constitution” in 2005. But we have further gone over and brushed up the Draft to keep up with renewed discussion for revision, as the National Constitution Revision Poll Act has been enacted, and the Review Committee for Constitutional Revision has been established in both houses of the Diet. This Act enables to revise the Constitution if more than two-thirds of approval from Diet members in both houses is achieved.

Many countries around the world have revised their Constitution according to the changing society. Major countries such as the United States, France, Italy, and Germany have revised 6, 27, 15, and 58 times, respectively. However, Japan has not revised its Constitution even once since the Second World War. Our Party platform of 2010 states that “We aim to develop a new Constitution to present the world a true Japanese state, and to contribute to the international society”. Other countries revise their constitutions if they don’t apply to the current status of society.

これ訳してみたけど、なんで今改正が必要なのかという答えになってないよね。「占領下に作られた」「一度も改正されていないから」「時代とあってないから」ってとってつけてるだけじゃん。なんで改正すれば国際貢献になるのか、まるでわかんねーし。「日本らしい日本」てわけわかんないし。日本らしくない日本て、どんな？


■[記録]Q2. Could you explain the details of the present “Draft Revision”?
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/o-kojo2/20121214
2012-12-14

Why do we need to revise our Constitution NOW? - おこじょの日記の続き

The present Draft was revised in order to develop a Constitution which is worthy of our country. The stiff wordings due to the translation and the articles based on inborn human rights have been fully revised. Furthermore, we added the rules regarding the head of state, national flag and anthem, naming of the era, official acts of the emperor in the Chapter about the Emperor. The right to self-defense was added in the National Security chapter, together with the founding of the “National Defense Force”, and the duty of defending the national territory was also added. In the rights and duties of the citizens, we added the protection of the national environment, security of overseas citizens, protection of crime victims, and maintenance of the educational environment. On the other hand, we have not made big changes to the Diet, Parliament, and the Justice System. We need more discussions regarding the governmental bodies. We considered changing to a single chamber Diet, but we decided to keep on discussing the pros and cons of the two-chamber system.

In the local government Chapter, we revised it so the local governments could cooperate. We added a new chapter on emergency, so that in cases of mass disaster, the government can issue a state of emergency and the prime minister can exert power according to the law. Citizens are required to obey the orders of the government. Constitutional revision has been changed so that two-thirds of Diet members’ approval is unnecessary, and only more than half is mandatory.

The Headquarters of the Constitutional Revision have held intense discussions and opinions from various fields of experts have been heard since December 4, 2009. After numerous intense discussions, we presented this Draft on April 27, 2012.

「天賦人権説」はあかんので見直したそうです。人権制限したいの見え見えだな。

（転載ここまで）

このまま自民党の思い通りにカイケンされてしまうようであれば、日本国と日本人は本当に民主主義を捨てた人権後退国、人権廃棄民族として世界の歴史に恥辱とともに刻まれることでしょう。そうなったら「人権後進国」ですらありません。「人権後退国」です。ハイスペックの憲法を捨ててすでに歴史の遺物となったような古い社会に好んで逆戻りしようというのですから。

憲法を専門とする学者とか、国際的法律家とか弁護士さんとか、そういう人の中に自民党によるカイケンに企てに反対する人は大勢いるはずです。学者や法律家としての専門を生かして英訳してもらえないかと思うのですが...。

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●国会議員への投書のための「議員名簿」→http://www.eda-jp.com/link/link1.html
●マスメディアへの投書のための「News for the people in Japan」マスメディア問い合わせ用リンク集→http://www.news-pj.net/link/media.html
●他の社会系ブログに行くにはうちの「私的リンク集　（適宜更新）」経由で→http://muranoserena.blog91.fc2.com/blog-entry-136.html