vogelのChina and Japan: Facing Historyを読み始める(12)

Vogel (2019)

But by the late 1930s, as the Japanese right wing was killing political leaders who opposed them and the Japanese military was establishing firm control over the national government, the vast majority of Japanese intellectuals chose not to publicly criticize the Japanese government.

どんどん，軍の独走が始まったということ。

Because there were so many Japanese people in Manchuria at the time, many of the Chinese living there under Japanese rule had become familiar with the Japanese through local businesses, schools, and workplaces, and therefore they had a more nuanced view of the Japanese than those who had known them only as enemy soldiers.

自分が見ききした範囲でも，このような感情を持つ人はいた。複雑な関係である。中国と言っても地域によっていろいろだ。日本国内の違いは誤差の範囲だろう。

わからない単語

skirmish	小衝突
impetuous	衝動的な
Zhang Zuolin	張 作霖（ちょう さくりん）
Zhang Xueliang,	張 学良（ちょう がくりょう）
garrison	守備隊
reverberated	反響を呼ぶ

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