倒不是由于五十年前打败了，而是五十年 后对自家为千千万万的人们所带来的祸害，采取抵赖、死不认帐的态 度"。
Not that Japan was defeated 50 years ago, but that it today persists in denying the disaster it brought upon millions upon millions of common people.
在亚洲人面前(或是心目中），是个赖帐的。
In the eyes of all Asians, Japan remains absolutely unrepentant.
明明六十多年前是 自家的关东军制造事端抢了邻人的东北大片土地，五十多年前又从卢 沟桥掀起东亚大战。
As is known to all, over 60 years ago, the Japanese Guandong Army occupied by making a pretext the vast expanse of land in Northeast China\*, and over 50 years ago Japan started the War of East Asia by staging the Lugou Bridge Incident\*\*, Wherever the flag of the Rising Sun fluttered, burning, killing and looting would follow and people would be plunged into the abyss of untold suffering.
太阳旗所到之处，烧杀掠夺，生灵涂炭。
And then Japan spread the flames of war to Southeast Asia and even Oceania.
接着， 又把战火推向东南亚以至大洋洲。
The Japanese Imperial Army left behind great destruction and mass graves everywhere.
皇军闯到哪儿，祸水就冲到哪儿。
And yet they now describe their acts of aggression euphemistically as "making an entry" and insist on caling the hell of their doing by the good name of "land of happiness"!
遍地留下了万人坑。
Only by comparison can we distinguish between right and wrong.
可如今，连"侵略"两个字都不承认，说是"进 人〞！
Japan's Nazi buddies during WWIl brought equally frightful calamity to Europe, killing, for instance, at least a total of several million people in the On the night of September 18, 1931. the Japancse Guandong Army seized Shenyang (formerly known as Mukden) of Liaoning Province by making pretext, prior to their imminent occupation of the entire Northeast China (formerly known as Manchuria). in Also known in the West as Marco Polo Bridge Incident.
还把造成的地狱硬说成是"乐土"。
On July 1,1937, the Japanese invaders raided the Chinese garrison at the Lugou Bridge to the southwest of presenl-day Beijing. and the Chinesc army TOSC in a counterattack, thus unveiling the War of Resistance Against Japan. concentration camps by means of crematories, gas chambers and vivisection.
凡事都怕一比。
Nevertheless, after Germany was defeated, the Germans had the courage to accept the consequences of their own actions.
当年欧洲那些纳粹哥儿们所造成的祸害也不 小啊！
They, from top to bottom, hung their heads to admit their guilt rather than deny facts.
光死在那些集中营的焚尸炉、毒气室，人体实验上的，就足有 几百万。
They bowed with hands clasped or went down on their knees.
可是人家打败了仗，好汉做事好汉当。
They owned up to everything they had said or done.
首先从上层就低头认 罪，绝不抵赖。
Consequently, standing erect and with chin up, they have won the trust and respect of the world community of nations.
该作揖的作揖，该下跪的就下跪。
France, the first European country victimized by Nazi invasion, has now been happy for years about Franco-German friendship.
欠下的帐，一五一 十，分文不赖。
As a Japanese, I would be disgusted with my higher-ups' tricky hems and haws On the subject of the last war and their flat refusal to acknowledge Japan's crimes.
如今，在国际社会中，人家又挺起腰板，成为可以 信赖、受到尊重的一员了。
Our bigwigs continue to burn incense and kowtow before the memorial tablets of the notorious war criminals an act tantamount to expressing gratitude to slaughterers for massacring common people.
多年来曾经首先受害的法国一直愉快地 谈着法德友谊。
They are telling lies not only to the Asians and the world at large, but also in school textbooks to mislead their own younger generations.
可我当个日本人，只由于一提那场战争，上头就刁钻 古怪，闪烁其辞d，死不认帐。
As a Japanese at the turn of the century I would be heavy-hearted and unable to raise my head.
而且大官儿们还去给当年干尽坏事的 头儿们的阴魂烧香磕头，等于感谢他们杀得好，杀得痛快、漂亮。
But I'm not a Japanese.
不 但对世界、对亚洲人要赖，在教科书里，对儿孙们也撒谎、抵赖。
I'm an old man of 86 from China having experienced many vicissitudes of life.
站 在二十一世纪的门坎，当个日本人，我忧心忡忡，而且抬不起头来。
While the young folks around me will burn with rage at the mention of Japan's stubborn refusal to own up, I, being a world- wise old man, will stay calm and collected.
然而我不是个日本人。
Everything, however, has two aspects. think Japan's refusal to admit its crimes is due to its failure to be mentally prepared to drop the butcher's knife.
我是一个八十六岁饱经沧桑的中国老头儿。
So long as the ghost of Tojo lingers on, none can assure you that militarism will never revive in a new guise in the next century.