Growing Expectations for the US-Japan Alliance - YouTube
3月に一度拝見し、印象に残った北村滋氏の講演である。岸田総理の米国訪問を控えた日米同盟を中心とする内容だ。
1941年から1945年に太平洋の覇権を争った日米がたどり着いた日米同盟、と北村氏は指摘するが、この地域の歴史を知る私は1921年のワシントン軍縮会議で締結されたヤップ協定から開始したい。なぜヤップなのか？そこに米独とアジアを結ぶ海底ケーブルの接続施設があったからだ。
安倍ー岸田につながる日本の安全保障政策の大転換。この日本の安全保障の大転換に北村氏が関わって来たのであろう。
経済と軍事は切り離せない。ビスマルクが言っているのではないか。
"Die Soldaten foegen den Kaufleute" 「軍人は商人に続く」
北村氏は会場からの質問に答えて、非常に重要な事実を述べている。
ICT政策が一つ目の博士号の私にはここが一番印象に残った。ウクライナの情報通信網は米国の私企業が全体を再構築している、ということだ。（米国はなぜパラオでそれができなのか？）日本の電話通信が国有から戦後公社になり、民営化するという歴史しか知らないと、米国が最初から民営で、第一次世界大戦中の1918年7月31日から1年間だけ国有化されたと言う世界でも特殊な国であることに気がつかないであろう。それだけではない。冷戦期の米国の衛星開発は最初からCOMSATと言う民間会社に委託していたことなどを知ると、日本のJAXAはなんなんだろう？と逆に疑問に思う。米国は民間企業が国を運営するのだ。通信という安全保障の要所においても、だ。
This is a lecture by Shigeru Kitamura, which I saw once in March and which left a lasting impression on me. It centred on the US-Japan alliance in the run-up to Prime Minister Kishida's visit to the US.
Mr Kitamura points out that the Japan-US alliance is the result of the struggle between the two countries for supremacy in the Pacific between 1941 and 1945, but knowing the history of the region, I would like to start with the Yap Agreement concluded at the Washington Conference on Disarmament in 1921. Why Yap? Because there was a submarine cable connection facility there linking the US and Germany to Asia.
A major shift in Japanese security policy leading to Abe - Kishida. Mr Kitamura was probably involved in this major shift in Japan's security policy.
The economy and the military cannot be separated. Bismarck may have said.
"Die Soldaten foegen den Kaufleute", "The soldier follows the merchant".
In response to a question from the audience, Mr Kitamura stated a very important fact.
This is the part that impressed me the most, as ICT policy is my first PhD. He said that the entire ICT network in Ukraine is being restructured by a private US company. (Why can't the US do that in Palau?) If you only know the history of telecommunications in Japan, from state-owned to publicly owned and then privatised after the war, you would not realise that the US is a unique country in the world in that it was privately owned from the beginning and was only nationalised for one year from 31 July 1918 during World War I. Not only that. When you know that US satellite development during the Cold War was outsourced to a private company called COMSAT from the very beginning, you wonder what Japan's JAXA is all about. In the US, private companies run the country. Even in the key area of natinal security, communications.
＜関連論文＞
The Wires Go to War: The U.S. Experiment with Government Ownership of the Telephone System During World War I
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1466&context=faculty_scholarship
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India and the Future of the Free and Open Indo-Pacific - YouTube
こちらの動画は見逃していました。
FOIPにおけるインドの立ち位置。ロシアとの軍事協力が濃厚なインドに対するクアド、即ち米豪日の懐疑的な姿勢が見えます。しかし北村氏はそれは合理性はあること、中国との60年代の戦争と今も続く国境問題。そして中国を越える人口を抱える国民主国家であることなどが指摘されていました。
日本とインドの関係を欧米人はあまり知らないような気がします。まず仏教を通して、それがインド的なものと気がつく以前からインド文化は日本にある。それから日露戦争初めインドの独立運動に日本が複雑に関与していること。最後にFOIPに重要なインド洋島嶼国との関係がある。この自ら管理も開発もできない広大なEEZを抱える小島嶼国の存在こそがFOIPの課題であることを安倍総理に教えたのが私なのです。
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India's position in the FOIP. The sceptical attitude of the Quad, i.e. the US, Australia and Japan, towards India, which has a strong military cooperation with Russia, is visible. However, Mr Kitamura says that there is a rationale for this: the war with China in the 1960s and the border problems that still persist today. He also pointed out that India is a democracy sovereign nation with a population larger than that of China.
I don't think Westerners know much about the relationship between Japan and India. First of all, Indian culture has been in Japan since before we realised that it was Indian through Buddhism. Then there is Japan's complex involvement in the Indian independence movement from the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War. Finally, there is the relationship with the Indian Ocean island countries, which are important for the FOIP. I was the one who taught Prime Minister Abe that the existence of these small island states with vast EEZs, which they cannot manage or develop themselves, is the challenge for FOIP.
Putting SAGAR in Operation Under Modi 3.0 – The Diplomat
