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時は迫れり!!

Time is running out!

皆様!!日本々土は今や、未曽有の危機に直面しています。

Ladies and gentlemen! Mainland Japan is now facing an unprecedented crisis.

開戦当初は必勝を叫んでいた軍部が戦局の悪化に狼狽して「勝利かしからずんば滅亡か？」と全く捨鉢的な文句を弄し自己の責任を棚にあげ更に国民に新なる犠牲を求めています。

The military, which had been crying out "victory is inevitable" at the outbreak of the war, became dismayed at the worsening of the war situation, and began to complain "Victory or annihilation? They are asking the people to make new sacrifices, while putting their own responsibility on the back burner.

軍部のそば杖を喰って現在の如き連日の空襲の惨害に曝されている皆様に米軍は非常に同情してはいりますが、此の様な「国家の将来と国民の幸福」を踏み躙った軍部を完全に打倒するまで、より一層烈しい戦を遂行しなければなりません、しかし皆様の指導者達は其の決心一つで今直ぐに祖国日本をその平和に導く事も出来るしまた歴史上かって見ざる悲惨なる破滅に陥し入れる事も出来るのです。

The U.S. military is very sympathetic to those of you who have suffered the ravages of daily air raids, as you are now seeing, but we must carry on an even more intense campaign until the military, which has trampled on the "future of the nation and the happiness of its people," is completely overthrown. However your leaders can, with a single decision, either lead Japan back to the peace it once enjoyed, or plunge it into a catastrophic ruin never seen before in its history.

「無条件降伏」は単に軍事用語で取りも直さず戦争の中止と軍部の崩伝を意味するのです、所が軍部はこれを以て国民の奴隷化、民族の根絶を意味するものなりと盛に宣伝していますがこれは自己の面目保持に躍起となっている軍部が最後の土壇場で何んとか国民を絶望的抗戦に駆り立てんとする仕業に過ぎません。

Unconditional surrender" is simply a military term that means the cessation of war and the collapse of the military. The military leadership, however, has been actively advertising that this means the enslavement of the people and the eradication of the nation. This is nothing more than a last-ditch effort by the military, eager to save its own face, to rouse the people to desperate defiance in the final moments of the war.

皆様は軍部が自己の敗戦の責任を恐れ差し延べられた平和の手を振り払い日本を破滅に陥れるのをだまって見ていられますか？

Can you stand by and watch as the military, fearing responsibility for its own defeat, waves off the hand of peace extended to it and plunges Japan into ruin?

皆様!!今の内に徹底的破滅から救い新しい日本の再建に努力しようではありませんか。

Ladies and Gentlemen! Let us save ourselves from total ruin and work to rebuild a new Japan while we still can.

Starting at 13:00 Clockwise:

Guadalcanal, Attu, Bougainville, Tarawa, the Marshalls, the Admiralties, New Guinea, Saipan, Guam, the Philippines, Okinawa, Japan