「この国は全体主義に一歩一歩進んでいる」百田尚樹氏に琉球新報と沖縄タイムスが反論

作家の百田尚樹氏が自民党の勉強会で「沖縄の2つの新聞は潰さないといけない」と発言したことを受けて、ターゲットとされた琉球新報と沖縄タイムスの両編集局長が7月2日、日本外国特派員協会で記者会見を開いた。
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Kenji Ando

作家の百田尚樹氏が自民党の勉強会で「沖縄の2つの新聞は潰さないといけない」と発言したことを受けて、ターゲットとされた琉球新報と沖縄タイムスの両編集局長が7月2日、日本外国特派員協会で記者会見を開いた。

琉球新報と、沖縄タイムスは沖縄県の2大地元紙で、主に沖縄本島で発行されている。「FACTA」2007年7月号の集計によると、県内でのシェアは琉球新報が38.6%、沖縄タイムスが41.3%で分け合っており、2紙合わせて80%近いシェアを誇っている。朝日が0.3%、読売が0.1%などの全国紙が軒並み1%以下なのとは対照的だ。

両紙とも、アメリカ軍普天間基地の名護市辺野古への移設計画について反対の主張を貫いており、辺野古移設を進める日本政府と与党の姿勢に強く反発してきた。両編集局長の会見での主な発言は以下の通り。

■沖縄タイムスの武富和彦・編集局長の発言 「報道の自由を否定する暴論」

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武富さん:沖縄の新聞社として、沖縄県内で発行していて、沖縄の民衆の声を県内では思い切り発信している自負はあるんですが、なかなかそれが日本本土には伝わっていない現状があります。

そうしたジレンマを抱えている中で、今度の百田氏の発言には強い憤りを覚えています。琉球新報さんとの共同声明でも触れましたが、「政権の意志に沿わない新聞は許さないんだ」という言論弾圧の発想には、民主主義の根幹である表現の自由、報道の自由を否定する暴論だと受け止めています。

ただ一番の問題と感じているのは、百田さんの言葉を引き出した自民党の国会議員だと思っています。「沖縄の世論をゆがめている」として「正しい方向に持っていくにはどうしたらいいか」という質問は、沖縄県民を愚弄するものであり、大変失礼だと思います。新聞社について「潰さないといけない」と言われた以上に、「沖縄の世論をゆがめている」というのは沖縄県民をバカにした発言だということで憤りを感じています。

沖縄の民意は明確です。去年の選挙、県知事選にしても名護市長選にしても、全て自民党が応援する候補が負けました。そういう選挙結果について「沖縄の民意がゆがんでいる」と言いたいんでしょうけど、そういう選挙結果を否定すること自体が民主主義の否定にほかなりません。

この数年、沖縄のメディアに対する自民党の攻撃的な姿勢が目立っています。沖縄が政権の意のままにならないことを、メディアのせいにしている格好ですが、「メディアが世論を操っている」という見方に凝り固まっていると、問題の本質を見誤ります。

沖縄は国土面積の0.6%にしか過ぎない土地に、74%の米軍専用施設が集中しています。基地あるがゆえに米軍機が爆音をまきちらして上空を飛び交う。道路も軍用車両が走る。事件事故は多発する。戦後70年、沖縄はそういう苦しみを背負わされてきた。「これ以上の苦しみは嫌だ」と声を上げたにもかかわらず、聞いてくれない。

辺野古への新基地建設に対しては、6割以上の反対があります。もちろん賛成の声もありますが、2割前後です。住民の意志は固いものがあります。その住民の意志を捉えて「世論はゆがんでいる」と捉えるのは、あまりにも無神経ではないでしょうか。

戦後、沖縄には10以上の新聞社がありましたが、今日まで残っているのは沖縄タイムスと琉球新報の2つだけです。米軍の圧制下であっても、常に民衆の側に立った報道をしてきたことが支持をされて今日に至っています。民衆の支持がないと新聞は存続できないと思います。沖縄の新聞社の報道は、新聞社が世論をコントロールしているのではなく、世論に突き動かされて新聞社の報道があると思っています。為政者にとって都合の悪い報道だったとしても、民意をしっかりと受け止めるべきだと思っています。

「潰さないといけない」とターゲットにされたのは沖縄の2紙ですが、その発言を引き出したのは自民党の国会議員です。彼らは「マスコミをこらしめる」と言いました。自分たちの気に入らない報道・論説は許さないという、表現の自由、報道の自由を否定する思考が根底にあります。

この思想は沖縄の2紙に留まらず、いずれ全てのメディアに向けられる恐れがあると思います。「マスコミをこらしめるには、広告料収入がなくなるのが一番だ」と広告を通して報道に圧力をかけようという発言があったために、日頃は主義主張の違うメディアも「言論封殺は許さない」と共通の認識で報道しています。

これまでの日本国内にただよっていた戦争へと繋がりかねない危険な空気が、今回の国会議員の発言で、国民の目や耳に触れる形で表面化した意味は大きいと思います。名指しされたのは沖縄の新聞ですが、全国共通の問題が横たわっていることが認識できたかと思います。

沖縄タイムスは、1948年に創刊されました。戦前の新聞人が「戦争に加担した」という罪の意識を抱えながら、戦犯的な意識を持ちつつ「二度と戦争のためにはペンを取らないんだ」「平和な暮らしを守り、作る」という決意が出発点になりました。この姿勢は今日にも継承されており、今後も変わることはないと確信しています。

沖縄タイムスも琉球新報も、偏向報道という批判もあります。でも、沖縄タイムスの創刊メンバーはこんなことを言っていました。「一方に圧倒的な力を持つ権力者がいて、一方に基本的な人権すら守られない住民がいる。そういう力の不均衡がある場合には、客観公正を保つには、力のない側に立って少しでも均衡をとり戻すことが大事なんだ」と。この言葉は、本土復帰前の言葉ですが、沖縄の状況は今も変わらないものがあります。創刊メンバーのこの言葉は、今に通じるものがあると思っています。

■琉球新報の潮平芳和(しおひら・よしかず)編集局長 「この国の言論の自由は、危機的な状況」

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潮平さん:ここにお集まりのジャーナリストの皆様が心の中で思っているように、この国の民主主義、表現の自由、言論の自由はやはり危機的な状況にあると思います。

今回の自民党勉強会における一連の報道圧力発言は、事実に基づかない無責任な暴論であり、断じて許せないという思いでいっぱいであります。

議員の一人が「マスコミをこらしめるには広告料がなくなるのが一番だ」と、文化人や民間人が経団連などに働きかけてほしいとした発言は、政権の意に沿わないメディアは兵糧攻めにして経営難に追い込み、そのメディアの表現の自由、言論の自由を取り上げるという言論弾圧そのものだと考えております。

このような言説を目の当たりすると、「この国は民主主義国家をやめて全体主義の国に一歩一歩進んでいるのか」という懸念を持たざるを得ません。

別の議員が「沖縄の2紙が、沖縄の世論をゆがめている」「沖縄が左翼勢力に乗っ取られている」という趣旨の発言をしたようですが、沖縄の新聞がもし、世論をもてあそんでいた思い上がった新聞であったら、とっくに県民の支持を失い、地域社会から退場勧告を受けていたことでしょう。

地域住民、読者の支持なくして新聞は成り立ちません。持続可能な平和と環境を創造する新聞、社会的弱者に寄り添う新聞がおごり高ぶることなどあろうはずがありません。

少しだけ歴史の話をします。1940年に沖縄では3つの新聞が統合し、沖縄新報という新聞が設立されました。沖縄新報は国家権力の戦争遂行に協力し、県民の戦意を高揚させる役割を果たしました。そのことによって、おびただしい数の住民が犠牲となりました。沖縄の新聞にとって、そういう末路を招いたことは痛恨の極みであります。

戦後の沖縄の新聞は、戦争に荷担した新聞人の反省から出発しました。「戦争に繋がるような報道は二度としない」という考えが報道姿勢のベースにあります。琉球新報についていえば、一貫して戦争に反対するとともに、苛酷な沖縄戦や戦後の米軍支配を踏まえて、民主主義、基本的人権の尊重、法の支配というような価値を、日米両国民と同じように適用してほしい。平和憲法の恩恵を沖縄にも、もたらしてほしいということで、そういった主張を論説で続けておりますし、その精神で日々の紙面を作っております。

軍事偏重の日米関係ではなく、国民の信頼と国際協調の精神に根ざした持続可能な日米関係を目指すべきだと主張しています、こうした主張をすることが、どうして世論をゆがめているのか不可解ですし、沖縄2紙が偏向呼ばわりされるのは極めて遺憾であります。

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17th April 1945: Okinawa civilians returning from hiding places in the hills following the invasion of the island by American soldiers. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images) (credit:Fox Photos via Getty Images)
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Simple medical care for refugees in Okinawa after their liberation from Japanese rule. Two of the women have tattoos on their hands. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
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27th April 1945: A severely malnourished girl from Okinawa is given a sponge bath in a refugee camp on the island, which is part of south-west Japan. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
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Spring 1945: Rockets from an American LSM(R) (Landing Ship, Medium (Rocket)) stream towards Okinawa Island of the Ryukyu archipelago (Loochoos) just before the invasion by US 10th Army forces. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
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Japanese leaders of prisoner of war platoons line up with large cans to receive soup rations for their men at a prisoner of war camp located near Kadena on Okinawa, Aug. 2, 1945. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Okinawa(07 of51)
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U.S. Military inspect a Japanese \"dummy\" plane on Okinawa, June 16, 1945. (AP Photo/Charles Gorry) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII: Okinawa(08 of51)
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Airborne troops wait on the runway of an Okinawa airfield for the order to board planes for Japan, Aug. 29, 1945. They landed on Atsugi airfield near Tokyo. (AP Photo/Frank Filan) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Stray Japs should come along on Okinawa, these marines would be ready with a machine gun and a browning automatic rifle on August 9, 1945. Left to right: Pvt. Edward Grossman, 710 Union St., Hudson, N.Y., and Pvt. Arthur Welborn, 6811 Washington Ave, St. Louis, Mo. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Japanese Surrender(11 of51)
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14th July 1945: His face covered with blood from a head wound, a Japanese naval lieutenant surrendered to American forces after hiding in caves on the island of Okinawa. He decided to make his own \'separate peace\' after he heard a Japanese compatriot broadcast from an American landing craft telling of his experience as a prisoner in American hands and recommending it. The broadcast resulted in one of the biggest Japanese mass surrenders of World War Two. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
Japanese Surrender(12 of51)
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14th July 1945: A Japanese naval lieutenant, blood pouring from a head wound surrenders to the American army at Okinawa at the end of World War II. His surrender and that of many his countrymen followed a radio broadcast by a captured Japanese soldier, assuring others of his good treatment at the hands of the enemy. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
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8th June 1945: On the slope of a hill on Okinawa a marine gun crew take on Japanese pillboxes across the way. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
Pinned Down(14 of51)
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8th June 1945: A group of 6th Division Marines take cover behind a wall during their fight amid the wrecked homes and rubble of Naha, capital city of the Japanese island of Okinawa. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
Last Photograph Of General Buckner(15 of51)
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The last photograph of American Army Lieutenant general Simon Bolivar Buckner (1886 - 1945) commander of the Tenth Army and the overall invasion of Okinawa, June 1945. Buckner was killed on June 18 by Japanese artillery during a visit to observe the front line. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Hulton Archive via Getty Images)
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5th June 1945: On the small island of Ie Shima (near Okinawa) in the Ryukyu archipelago an American Army chaplain leads a service over the graves of fallen Americans who had died while fighting the Japanese in World War Two. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
Phosphorous Attack(17 of51)
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30 May 1945: American infantrymen of the 77th Division of the 10th Army use spliced ladders to bridge a gulch on the road to the town of Shuri on the island of Okinawa. Despite the dogged Japanese resistance, the Americans are pressing relentlessly, overcoming all obstacles. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
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American soldiers use phosphorous and hand grenades to clear the jungle of Japanese snipers during the struggle for Okinawa Island, Japan, Spring 1945. The battle continued for two months and cost 12,000 American lives, 120,000 Japanese military dead, and 42,000 civilians. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Hulton Archive via Getty Images)
Amphibious Assault(22 of51)
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1945: American amphibious tanks and landing craft approach the beach at Aguni Jima, 30 miles west of Okinawa. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
Battle For Okinawa(23 of51)
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1945: American tanks and infantrymen advance under Japanese attack during the Battle for Okinawa. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
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1945: American Marines advance on trapped Japanese soldiers bombed during the Battle for Okinawa. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) (credit:Keystone via Getty Images)
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A US GI guarding a beachhead on the island of Okinawa during war in the Pacific. A dynamited coral reef blows up in the background, to provide a landing place for US supply ships. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Hulton Archive via Getty Images)
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A U.S. Marine spotter plane flies an artillery control mission over the front lines on Okinawa, Japan on June 2, 1945 during World War II. Below, smoke rises from artillery and mortar fire on enemy strongpoints. (AP Photo/U.S. Marines Corps) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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WWII Okinawa(30 of51)
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In this image provided by the U.S. Marine Corps, American fires a 30 Caliber water cooled machine-gun to protect advancing Marines in Okinawa, Japan on June 1, 1945. (AP Photo/U.S. Marine Corps) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Greeting comic sheets with smiles on Okinawa on June 2, 1945 in front lines are P1/SGT. John W. Splelse, left, Spartanberg, S.C., and CPL. A. Waddington, St. Louis, Mo. others in picture are not identified. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Okinawa(33 of51)
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In this image provided by the U.S. Marine Corps, a Marine of the Sixth Division stands in his foxhole observation post to check accuracy of rocket fire and relay data to station of rocket firing trucks on Okinawa on June 1, 1945. His partner checks position of trucks which keep moving to present a difficult target for Japanese. Smoke of American rockets lifts over horizon in background. (AP Photo/U.S. Marine Corps) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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In this image provided by the U.S. Marines, with the pilot visible, a U.S. Navy Chance-Vought F4U Corsair fighter plane is firing its load of rocket projectiles on the run against a Japanese stronghold on Okinawa island, in June 1945 during World War II. Battle smoke is seen rising up in the lower background, as U.S. Marine Corps ground forces follow up with the invasion. (AP Photo/U.S. Marines, David D. Duncan) (credit:AP)
WWII KAMIKAZE CRASH OKINAWA(35 of51)
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Seen from a U.S. carrier, a Japanese suicide bomber crashes into the sea as he is shot down by antiaircraft fire, off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, in June 1945. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII BATTLE OF OKINAWA(36 of51)
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U.S. Marines of the 1st Division head for the front lines on Okinawa, on May 21, 1945, during the U.S. invasion of the island in southwestern Japan. ( AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Okinawa(37 of51)
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A dynamite blast showers debris high into the air as the U.S. Marines demolition crew eliminates Japanese resistance in a cave on Okinawa on the Ryukyu Islands on May 21, 1945 during World War II. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Okinawa(39 of51)
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In this image provided by the U.S. Marine Corps, a First Marine Division machine gun crew on Okinawa watches while a flame-throwing tank, left, puts a Japanese pillbox out of action on May 19, 1945. The machine gunners had previously âspottedâ the position with their weapons. (AP Photo/U.S. Marine Corps) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII BATTLE OF OKINAWA(40 of51)
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A Japanese suicide bomber goes down next to a U.S. Navy destroyer, during the Battle of Okinawa, on May 16, 1945. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII U.S. BATTLE OF OKINAWA(41 of51)
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An unknown U.S. Navy carrier in the background is attacked by salvos from a Japanese warship, while the flight deck crew aboard the U.S. carrier in the foreground rushes to launch their fighter planes, during a battle off Okinawa island, on May 16, 1945. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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First Division Marines advance past burning buildings in Naha, capital of Okinawa, in the fight to wrest the Ryukyu island from the Japanese on May 14, 1945. The building was set afire to dislodge Japanese snipers. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Exploding in a bright ball of flame during its death dive, a Japanese kamikaze plane pays unintended tribute to the Marksmanship of Navy gunners in task force 58, May 14, 1945, aboard the U.S.S. hornet off Okinawa, the debris of the shattered plane plummets from the cloud into the pacific. Men of the hornet line the flight beck to watch in jubilant intensity as the Kamikaze disappears. The U.S.S. Bennington (center) was the intended target of the Jap. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII U.S. Okinawa(44 of51)
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While American cities were going wild on an unconfirmed report of Germanyâs unconditional surrender, American soldiers and marines were dying on Okinawa and showing checking of the identification of the dead on May 9, 1945, were being enacted. Resistance continues to be savage on this island in Japanâs front yard. (AP Photo/Sam Goldstein) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
USS BUNKER HILL KAMIKAZE ATTACK(45 of51)
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In the morning of May 11, 1945, while supporting the Okinawa invasion, the USS Bunker Hill is heavily hit by two Japanese kamikaze planes off the coast of Kyushu, Japan. Several explosions took place and the ship suffered 372 dead and 264 injured. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Ryukyu Islands(46 of51)
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Wrecked town and burning houses as 6th Marines advance on Motobu peninsula on Okinawa, Japan on April 26, 1945. (AP Photo/Charles Gorry) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Ryukyu Islands(47 of51)
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Scene of wrecked town with Japanese landing barges in foreground and cruiser firing in background at Okinawa, Japan on April 26, 1945. (AP Photo/Charles Gorry) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Okinawa(48 of51)
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A U.S. soldier inspects a damaged Japanese fighter plane on the airfield at Okinawa, April 16, 1945. (AP Photo/Charles Gorry) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Okinawa(49 of51)
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U.S. Marines clean out cave on Okinawa, Japan on April 16, 1945. (AP Photo/Charles P. Gorry) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII BATTLE OF OKINAWA(50 of51)
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Sitting on a tank, these U.S. infantrymen are seen on their way to take the town of Ghuta on Okinawa, on April 1, 1945. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
WWII Color(51 of51)
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U.S. cruiser fires her main batteries at Japanese positions on the southern tip of Okinawa, Japan in 1945. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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