Gerard Baker
Editor-at-Large and Columnist at The Wall Street Journal
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Editor-at-Large / Free Expression Columnist @WSJ. Host of WSJ's Opinion #FreeExpressionPodcast. Telling people what they don’t want to hear.
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2 weeks ago |
jp.wsj.com | Gerard Baker
トランプ氏の外交政策は、最も偉大な地政学的ブランドに取り返しのつかない打撃を与えている 筆者が1990年代に東京で働いていたとき、ある日本人の同僚が、米国人の特質をよく物語る彼女の父親の体験について話してくれた。 日本の降伏で第2次世界大戦が終結した後の時期に、幼い少年だった彼は小さな町に住んでいた。米軍が日本を占領しようとやってきたとき、パニック時の恐怖のようなムードが漂っていた。日本人は彼らの指導者たちから、勝利を収めた米国人が殺人やレイプ、略奪をするだろうと聞かされていた。それは日本軍が打ち負かした敵に対して行ったことと同じだったが、もちろん日本の人々はそのことを知らなかった。Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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2 weeks ago |
wallstreetjournal.postimees.ee | Gerard Baker
Päevil pärast Jaapani alistumist teise maailmasõja lõpus oli ta väike poiss ühes väikelinnas. Kui Ameerika väed sisse sõitsid, valdas kõiki paanika ja õud. Olid ju juhid jaapanlastele öelnud, et ameeriklased kukuvad siin tapma, vägistama ja rüüstama – täpselt nagu nende omad sõdurid võidetud vaenlastega teinud olid, mida jaapanlased muidugi ei teadnud. Kui Ameerika veoautod lõpuks linnatänavatele vurasid, kössitas ta perega toas ja ootas kõige hullemat.
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2 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Gerard Baker
Eventually American trucks rolled through the town and he and his family cowered indoors, awaiting the inevitable savagery. They watched as GIs jumped down from their vehicles and began placing heavy boxes on the street. At first they assumed the boxes contained some terrible weapon—poison gas perhaps, or booby-trapped bombs—but when the troops were gone and the boxes remained, some of the more curious and braver kids ventured out and began opening them.
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2 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Gerard Baker
Eventually American trucks rolled through the town and he and his family cowered indoors, awaiting the inevitable savagery. They watched as GIs jumped down from their vehicles and began placing heavy boxes on the street. At first they assumed the boxes contained some terrible weapon—poison gas perhaps, or booby-trapped bombs—but when the troops were gone and the boxes remained, some of the more curious and braver kids ventured out and began opening them.
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2 weeks ago |
conservativereview.com | Gerard Baker
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