战后70周年安倍讲话（双语全文）

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday released a statement marking 70 years since the end of World War II.
日本首相安倍晋三8月14日发表了战后70年谈话。

以下是日本首相办公室和日本驻华大使馆分别发布的讲话全文英文版和中文版：

Statement by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
日本首相安倍晋三讲话

On the 70th anniversary of the end of the war, we must calmly reflect upon the road to war, the path we have taken since it ended, and the era of the 20th century. We must learn from the lessons of history the wisdom for our future.
正值战争结束七十周年之际，我们认为，必须平静地回顾走向那场战争的道路、战后的进程、二十世纪那一时代，并从历史的教训中学习面向未来的智慧。

More than one hundred years ago, vast colonies possessed mainly by the Western powers stretched out across the world. With their overwhelming supremacy in technology, waves of colonial rule surged toward Asia in the 19th century. There is no doubt that the resultant sense of crisis drove Japan forward to achieve modernization. Japan built a constitutional government earlier than any other nation in Asia. The country preserved its independence throughout. The Japan-Russia War gave encouragement to many people under colonial rule from Asia to Africa.
一百多年前，以西方国家为主的各国的广大殖民地遍及世界各地。十九世纪，以技术的绝对优势为背景，殖民统治亦波及到亚洲。毫无疑问，其带来的危机感变成日本实现近代化的动力。日本首次在亚洲实现立宪政治，守住了国家独立。日俄战争鼓舞了许多处在殖民统治之下的亚洲和非洲的人们。

After World War I, which embroiled the world, the movement for self-determination gained momentum and put brakes on colonization that had been underway. It was a horrible war that claimed as many as ten million lives. With a strong desire for peace stirred in them, people founded the League of Nations and brought forth the General Treaty for Renunciation of War. There emerged in the international community a new tide of outlawing war itself.
经过席卷全世界的第一次世界大战，民族自决运动的扩大阻止了此前的殖民地化。那场战争造成了一千多万死难者，是一场悲惨的战争。人们渴望和平，创立国际联盟，创造出不战条约，诞生出使战争本身违法化的新的国际社会潮流。

At the beginning, Japan, too, kept steps with other nations. However, with the Great Depression setting in and the Western countries launching economic blocs by involving colonial economies, Japan's economy suffered a major blow. In such circumstances, Japan's sense of isolation deepened and it attempted to overcome its diplomatic and economic deadlock through the use of force. Its domestic political system could not serve as a brake to stop such attempts. In this way, Japan lost sight of the overall trends in the world.
当初，日本也统一了步调。但是，在世界经济危机发生后，欧美各国以卷入殖民地经济来推动区域经济集团化，从而日本经济受到重大打击。此间，日本的孤立感加深，试图依靠实力解决外交和经济上的困境。对此，国内政治机制也未能予以阻止。其结果，日本迷失了世界大局。

With the Manchurian Incident, followed by the withdrawal from the League of Nations, Japan gradually transformed itself into a challenger to the new international order that the international community sought to establish after tremendous sacrifices. Japan took the wrong course and advanced along the road to war.
满洲事变以及退出国际联盟—日本逐渐变成国际社会经过巨大灾难而建立起来的新的国际秩序的挑战者，该走的方向有错误，而走上了战争的道路。

And, seventy years ago, Japan was defeated.
其结果，七十年前，日本战败了。

On the 70th anniversary of the end of the war, I bow my head deeply before the souls of all those who perished both at home and abroad. I express my feelings of profound grief and my eternal, sincere condolences.
正当战后七十周年之际，我在国内外所有死遇者面前，深深地鞠躬，并表示痛惜，表达永久的哀悼之意。