Japan hands over new modern airport facility to SI – Solomon Star News
１９４２年7月にガダルカナル島のホニアラに日本軍は基地とすべく滑走路を作った。１ヶ月後の8月7日、米軍に占領されてしまう。
あれから８０年。日本ODA約５０億円をかけホニアラ空港の近代化改修終了し、ソロモン政府に引き渡された。
旧宗主国の英国も、日本軍を追い出した米国も、そして英国の後を継いだ豪州NZもソロモン諸島の開発にほとんど無関心であった。
あれから八十年。100近い民族が住む離島は、中国のHuaweiがやっと無線通信で結ぶ計画がある。２０２３年の太平洋ゲームに向けて立派な試合会場を建てているのも中国である。
第二次世界大戦で米軍は、連合軍は何を守ったのか？自分たちの権益を守ろうとしただけで、ソロモン諸島の人々の福利、安全、健康、教育は関心がなかったのか？
実は日本の委任統治領であったミクロネシアも同じだ。米領のサイパンとグアムには「解放の日」があるが、パラオ、ミクロネシア連邦、マーシャル諸島にはない。誰も米国に日本から解放して欲しいと頼んだ事はないし、米国は日本人とミクロネシアの人々が作ったインフラを壊してそのままだ、という。
それだけではない。何の罪もないマーシャル諸島に原子力爆弾を落としたのだ。
ソロモン諸島の空港の話であった。
先の戦争は東亜の解放を目的としていたはずだが、当時の政府も軍隊も解放とは何かをよく知らずに侵略戦争を行った。戦後80年は人権、開発、人種問題がさんざん議論されてきたのである。日本や米国、豪州の安全保障ではなく、まずは島の人々の安全保障、すなわち安寧と発展を考える時である。
80 years after that day, the 5 billion yen Honiara Airport was completed.
In July 1942, the Japanese military built an airstrip at Honiara on the island of Guadalcanal to serve as a base, but it was occupied by U.S. forces one month later on August 7.
Eighty years have passed since then. The Honiara Airport was renovated to modernize it at a cost of about 5 billion yen.
The United Kingdom, the former sovereign nation of the Solomon Islands, the United States, which had expelled the Japanese, and Australia and New Zealand, which had taken over from the British, were largely ignored in the development of the Solomon Islands.
Eighty years later, China's Huawei is finally planning to link the remote islands, home to nearly 100 ethnic groups, via wireless communications, and China is building a magnificent venue for the 2023 Pacific Games.
What did the U.S. military and the Allied Forces protect in World War II? Were they only trying to protect their own interests and not concerned about the welfare, safety, health, and education of the people of the Solomon Islands?
Actually, the same is true of Micronesia, which was a Japanese mandate territory. The U.S. territories of Saipan and Guam have "Liberation Day," but Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Marshall Islands do not. No one has ever asked the U.S. to liberate them from Japan, and the U.S. has destroyed the infrastructure built by the Japanese and Micronesian people and left it untouched.
Not only that. The US dropped a nuclear bomb on the innocent Marshall Islands.
We were talking about the airport in the Solomon Islands.
The purpose of the last war was supposedly to liberate Asia Pacific, but the government and military of the time waged a war of aggression without really knowing what liberation meant. In the 80 years since the war, human rights, development, and racial issues have been discussed at length. It is time to think first of all about the security of the people of the islands, that is, their peace and development, and not about the security of Japan, the U.S., or Australia.
中国が全面的に支援している太平洋ゲーム会場
