nntsuzu/KFTT huggingface dataset:
English: In 1686, at the age of 31, Sorai was recruited by Yoshiyasu YANAGISAWA, who was a close associate of the fifth shogun Tsunayoshi TOKUGAWA and Edo bakufu Sobayonin (lord chamberlain), and he served Yoshiyasu on the salary of 15 man fuchi (the equivalent of an annual ten-man rice stipend).
Japanese: 元禄9年（1696年）、徂徠31歳のとき、5代将軍・徳川綱吉側近で江戸幕府側用人の柳沢吉保に抜擢され、15人扶持を支給されて彼に仕えた。
English: Later, his salary was increased to 500 koku, and he studied in the Yanagisawa's residence and responded to requests of political advice.
Japanese: のち500石取りに加増されて柳沢邸で講学、ならびに政治上の諮問に応えた。
English: In 1709, at the age of 44, because of Yoshiyasu's downfall, Sorai left Mr. Yanagisawa's residence and moved to Kayabacho, Nihonbashi (current Chuo Ward, Tokyo Prefecture), and here opened a private school, Kenenjuku.
Japanese: 宝永6年（1709年）、徂徠44歳のとき、吉保の失脚にあって柳沢邸を出て日本橋(東京都中央区)茅場町に居を移し、そこで私塾蘐園塾を開いた。
English: Incidentally, the school's name 'Kenen' is associated with its location, Kayabacho (Kikaku TAKARAI lived adjacently and there is a poem that 'Fragrant of plum trees, next door is Soemon OGYU').
Japanese: なお、塾名の「蘐園」とは塾の所在地・茅場町にちなむ（隣接して宝井其角が住み、「梅が香や隣は荻生惣右衛門｣の句がある〉。
English: He won the confidence of the eighth Shogun Yoshimune TOKUGAWA, and had responded to Yoshimune's requests for advice after 1722.
Japanese: 享保7年（1722年）以後は8代将軍・徳川吉宗の信任を得て、その諮問にあずかった。
English: He was daring and built on his own capability, and he was interested in Chinese taste and fluent in Chinese language.
Japanese: 豪胆でみずから恃むところ多く、中華趣味をもっており、中国語にも堪能だったという。
English: Refuting Neo-Confucianism as 'just a delusional theory based on hypothesis', he criticized the interpretation of classical writings based on Neo-Confucianism, and established Kobunjigaku (study of ancient rhetoric school) (the Kenengaku school) as a method for deciphering classical writings of ancient China.
Japanese: 朱子学を「憶測にもとづく虚妄の説にすぎない」と喝破、朱子学に立脚した古典解釈を批判し、古代中国の古典を読み解く方法論としての古文辞学（蘐園学派）を確立した。
English: The political reform theory "Seidan" (discussion of law cases), which was submitted to Yoshimune, shows Sorai's political ideas in the concrete.
Japanese: 吉宗に提出した政治改革論『政談』には、徂徠の政治思想が具体的に示されている。
English: This is an epoch-making literary work that pushs forward the isolation of politics and religious morality in Japanese intellectual history, and after this, Keisei thought (Keiseiron (policies planned for governing a nation and providing relief to people, or ideas behind those)) was generated.
Japanese: これは、日本思想史の流れのなかで政治と宗教道徳の分離を推し進める画期的な著作でもあり、こののち経世思想（経世論）が本格的に生まれてくる。
English: In the debate of punishment decision for Ako Roshi (lordless samurai of Ako domain) in the Genroku Ako Incident, as competition with people including Hoko HAYASHI, Kyuso MURO and Keisai ASAMI who confirmed the theory of admiring and saving life, Sorai insisted on the theory of private duty and Seppuku (suiside by disembowelment), and escalated as 'Sorai Giritsusho' as follows.
Japanese: 元禄赤穂事件における赤穂浪士の処分裁定論議では、林鳳岡をはじめ室鳩巣・浅見絅斎などが賛美助命論を展開したのに対し、次のように私義切腹論を主張し、「徂徠擬律書」として上申。
English: Gi (justice/honor) is a way to judge yourself correctly, and law is a standard to govern the world.'
Japanese: 「義は自分を正しく律するための道であり、法は天下を正しく治めるための基準である。」
English: Now, Ako Roshi's revenge for their lord is an honorable way for samurai.'
Japanese: 「今、赤穂浪士が主君のために復讐するのは、武士としての恥を知るものである。」
English: That is the way of self-control with propriety, and the revenge itself serves Gi.'
Japanese: 「それは自分を正しく律するやり方であり、それ自体は義に適うものである。」
English: In the first place, Naganori ASANO was punished for causing injury but Ako Roshi raised a fuss to revenge for Yoshinaka KIRA without permission of bakufu, which cannot be forgiven from a legal standpoint.'
Japanese: 「そもそも浅野長矩は殿中をも憚らず刃傷に及んで処罰されたのに、これを赤穂浪士は吉良義央を仇として幕府の許可も得ずに騒動を起こしたのは、法として許せぬことである。」
English: Now, if we reveal the crime of Ako Roshi and they are punished by Seppuku based on Rei of samurai, they must be satisfied and also the wish of the Uesugi family, who was stopped from avenging the killing of their father, must be fulfilled, and the order that allegiance must not be understated will make sense.'
Japanese: 「今、赤穂浪士の罪を明らかにし、武士の礼でもって切腹に処せられれば、彼らも本懐であろうし、実父を討たれたのに手出しすることを止められた上杉家の願いも満たされようし、また、忠義を軽視してはならないという道理も立つ。」
English: Sorai Tofu' is a story that Sorai, who became Goyo-gakusha (a scholar pander to the government) of Shogun, and the tofu seller, who was Sorai's benefactor in his lean days, met again at the time of the raid of Ako Roshi.
Japanese: 「徂徠豆腐」は将軍の御用学者となった徂徠と貧窮時代の恩人の豆腐屋が赤穂浪士の討ち入りを契機に再会する話。
English: The tofu seller not only forgave Sorai and also supported him in poverty.
Japanese: 豆腐屋は、それを許してくれたばかりか、貧しい中で徂徠に支援してくれた。
English: Sorai found out that the tofu seller had been burned out by a great fire the next day of the raid of Ako Roshi, and he gave money and new shop to the tofu seller.
Japanese: その豆腐屋が、浪士討ち入りの翌日の大火で焼けだされたことを知り、金と新しい店を豆腐屋に贈る。
English: However, the tofu seller refused the charity from Sorai who forced the loyal samurai to take Seppuku.
Japanese: ところが、義士に切腹をさせた徂徠からの施しは受けないと豆腐屋はつっぱねた。
English: Mr. tofu seller relieved me of being a 'pincher' by making a contract for Shusebarai (paying after career progress) of my act of eating tofu without money because of my poverty.'
Japanese: 「豆腐屋殿は貧しくて豆腐をタダ食いした自分の行為を「出世払い」の契約にして「盗人」となることから自分を救ってくれた。」
English: I didn't bend law as a scholar and showed ultimate mercy to the Roshi, which is the same way as Mr. tofu seller.'
Japanese: 「自分も学者として法を曲げずに浪士に最大の情けをかけた、それは豆腐屋殿とおなじ。」
English: The story ends with the words of the tofu seller that 'Sensei (indicates Sorai, literally, "teacher") cut his own belly for me" (means "paid out of his own pocket for me") associating Ako Roshi's Seppuku (suicide by disembowelment) and Sorai's gift.
Japanese: 浪士の切腹と徂徠の贈り物をかけて「先生はあっしのために自腹をきって下さった」と豆腐屋の言葉でオチになる。
English: Prince Naruhiko HIGASHIKUNINOMIYA (December 3, 1887 - January 20, 1990) was the 43rd Prime Minister of Japan (in office August 17, 1945 - October 9, 1945).
Japanese: 東久邇宮稔彦王（ひがしくにのみやなるひこおう、1887年（明治20年）12月3日-1990年（平成2年）1月20日）は、日本の第43代内閣総理大臣（在任1945年8月17日-1945年10月9日）。
English: After the WWII, he formed the first and last cabinet comprised of Imperial family members to form the constitution during the post-war settlements.
Japanese: 第二次世界大戦後、敗戦処理内閣として憲政史上最初で最後の皇族内閣を組閣した。
English: The cabinet carried out the formal signing of the Instrument of Surrender with the Allied Nations, calling for the break up of the army and navy, demobilization of soldiers, a national confession of Japanese war guilt.
Japanese: 連合国に対する降伏文書の調印、陸海軍の解体、復員の処理を行い、一億総懺悔を唱えた。
English: However, the cabinet was unable to keep up with schedule of the democratization policies of the General Headquarters of the Allied Powers (GHQ) and resigned en masse after 54 days, making it the shortest-lived of the post-WWII cabinets.
Japanese: ただし、連合国軍最高司令官総司令部の民主化方針についてゆけず、歴代内閣在任最短期間の54日で総辞職した。
English: In 1915, he married Princess Toshiko, the ninth Princess of Emperor Meiji.
Japanese: 1915年（大正4年）に予定どおり明治天皇の第9皇女稔彦王妃聡子内親王と結婚。
English: Even after graduation, he stayed with his lover in Paris and rejected frequent orders to return to Japan.
Japanese: 卒業後もパリでの愛人との生活に耽溺し、たびたびの帰国命令を拒み続けた。
English: Using the demise of Emperor Taisho and the imperial funeral as pretext, Chichibunomiya Imperial Prince Yasuhito, who was a student in London at the time, went to Paris and persuaded him to return to Japan.
Japanese: 結局、大正天皇の崩御と大葬を契機に、おりからロンドンに留学中だった秩父宮雍仁親王がパリに乗り込んで直談判し、ようやく帰国させた。
English: Upon returning to Japan, he became known as a liberal within the Imperial family.
Japanese: 帰国した時には皇族のなかでも自由主義者として知られるようになっていた。
English: Afterward, he successively filled the positions of the head of the Second division of the Imperial Army, and the head of the Fourth division as well as head of the aviation headquarters of the Army.
Japanese: その後、第2師団(日本軍)長・第4師団(日本軍)長・陸軍航空本部長を歴任。
English: In 1941, immediately preceding the outbreak of war between Japan and the United States, the third Konoe Cabinet resigned en masse and his name was mentioned as a possibility for the next Prime Minister.
Japanese: 日米開戦直前の1941年（昭和16年）、第3次近衛内閣総辞職を受け、後継内閣総理大臣に名が挙がる。
English: Although it was proposed as a means of averting crises at home and abroad by making a member of the Imperial family Prime Minister, the nomination was killed by Koichi KIDO, Minister of the Interior, who opposed it as he thought it might bring trouble to the Imperial family.
Japanese: 皇族を首相にして内外の危機を押さえようとする構想であったが、皇室に累を及ぼさぬようにということで木戸幸一内大臣の反対によりこの構想は潰れた。
English: HIGASHIKUNINOMIYA who knew of the technological gap between Western countries and Japan from his experience of studying abroad participated in establishment of educational institutions such as the Koa Kogyo Daigaku (Established in 1942 and which later became the Chiba Institute of Technology) which aimed at improving technology in Asia.
Japanese: 留学の経験から欧米と日本の技術力差を感じた東久邇宮は、遅れをとっていたアジアの技術力の向上を目指して興亜工業大学（1942年（昭和17年）設置、のち千葉工業大学）等の教育機関の創設に携わった。
English: He is said to have devoted all his energies towards establishing the Department of Aviation Engineering (Abolished by GHQ after the War) and the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Japanese: 特に同大学の航空工学科（戦後GHQにより閉科される）・機械工学科の設置に心血を注いだとされる。
English: On August 17, he became the first post-WWII Prime Minister and organized the Higashikuninomiya Cabinet.
Japanese: 1945年（昭和20年）8月17日、戦後最初の首相となり東久邇宮内閣を組閣。
English: While the cabinet carried out as its main duty the general postwar settlements, including the formal signing of the Instrument of Surrender, disarmament, breaking up of the military authorities and democratization, it did not consider a large-scale reform of the old political system.
Japanese: 降伏文書の調印、武装解除・軍部解体、民主化など、敗戦処理全般を主たる任務としてこなしたが、一方で旧来の政治体制の大規模な変革までは考えていなかった。
English: On October 4, the 'Memorandum on the Removal of Restrictions on Political, Civilian and Religious Freedom' was sent by GHQ to the cabinet, which found itself in a difficult position and resigned en mass the following day.
Japanese: これに対して、10月4日GHQから「政治的・民事的・宗教的自由に対する制限撤廃の覚書」を突き付けられ、窮した内閣は翌日総辞職した。
English: On October 14, 1947, Prince Naruhiko was demoted to the status of a commoner as one of the 51 Imperial members of 11 Miyake (families allowed to have the status of Imperial family) and after that he went by the name of Naruhiko HIGASHIKUNI.
Japanese: 1947年（昭和22年）10月14日、稔彦王も11宮家51名の皇族の1人として臣籍降下し、以後は東久邇稔彦（ひがしくになるひこ）と名乗った。
English: He first opened an unsuccessful black market grocery, then a teahouse, then eventually tried to sell Miyake antiques, although none of these kept going for long.
Japanese: 最初に新宿に闇市の食料品店を開店したが売上が全く伸びず、その後喫茶店の営業や宮家所蔵の骨董品の販売などを行ったがいずれも長続きしなかった。
English: Although he started a Zen religious organization known as 'Higashikuni-kyo' on April 15, 1950, he was notified in June of that same year by the Ministry of Justice that the use of the name 'Higashikuni-kyo' was prohibited because it might cause a problem if a former member of the imperial family founded a religious organization.
Japanese: 1950年（昭和25年）4月15日に禅宗系の新宗教団体「ひがしくに教」を開教したが、同年6月、元皇族が宗教団体を興すことには問題があるとして法務府から「ひがしくに教」の教名使用の禁止を通告された。
English: In 1960, at the time of revision of the Japan-US Security Treaty, he, along with Tanzan ISHIBASHI and Tetsu KATAYAMA, also a former Prime Minister, urged Nobusuke KISHI, the current Prime Minister, to resign.
Japanese: 1960年（昭和35年）、日米安全保障条約の改定に際して、同じ首相経験者の石橋湛山、片山哲とともに岸信介首相（当時）に退陣を勧告している。
English: In 1971, he became the first President of the Association for the Promotion of Japanese Culture founded by Katsumasa KAKEHASHI (The first Chief Director).
Japanese: 1971年（昭和46年）には桟勝正が創設した日本文化振興会の初代総裁になる（桟勝正は初代理事長）。
English: In his later years, his Koseki (household registers) was taken over by a woman called Kinu MASUDA (self-proclaimed: Shiko HIGASHIKUNI).
Japanese: 晩年には増田きぬ（自称：東久邇紫香）なる女性に戸籍を乗っ取られる事件が起こった。
English: This made him the longest living person ever to have served as prime minister, and one of only two to have lived past 100, the other being enWillem Drees of the Netherlands (July 5, 1886 - May 14, 1988), in countries where the date of birth has been recorded, as listed in the Guinness Book of Records.
Japanese: これにより、生年月日の記録のある世界の首相経験者としては最も長命かつ100歳を超えて他界した人物（後者は2人おり、もう1人はオランダのヴィレム・ドレース（enWillemDrees、1886年7月5日-1988年5月14日））であるとしてギネス・ワールド・レコーズにもその名が掲載されている。
English: HIGASHIKUNINOMIYA was appointed Prime Minister on August 17, 1945, two days after Emperor Showa informed the people that Japan would accept the Potsdam Declaration.
Japanese: 日本がポツダム宣言を受諾することを昭和天皇が国民に伝えた翌々日の1945年8月17日、東久邇宮が内閣総理大臣に任命された。
English: The appointment was based on the thought that HIGASHIKUNINOMIYA, an Imperial family member and Army General, was suitable candidate to disarm the Army, which had not agreed with the surrender of Japan, and to smoothly proceed with the formalities relating to the termination of the War under the Potsdam Declaration.
Japanese: 日本の降伏に納得しない陸軍の武装を解き、ポツダム宣言に基づく終戦にともなう手続を円滑に進めるためには、皇族であり陸軍大将でもある東久邇宮がふさわしいと考えられたためであり、昭和天皇もこれを了承した。
English: Nationally popular Fumimaro KONOE was appointed to Deputy Prime Minister-status as Minister of State (without portfolio), Mamoru SHIGEMITSU as Foreign Minister and Juichi TSUSHIMA as Finance Minister.
Japanese: 副総理格の国務大臣（無任所）には国民的に人気が高かった近衛文麿、外務大臣(日本)には重光葵、大蔵大臣には津島寿一が任命された。
English: HIGASHIKUNINOMIYA served concurrently as the Minister of Army until the return of Sadamu SHIMOMURA, Army General (August 17 - August 23) who was tentatively appointed as Minister of Army.
Japanese: 陸軍大臣は任命が内定していた下村定陸軍大将が帰国するまでの間（8月17日-8月23日）東久邇宮が兼任した。
English: The newspapers referred to the Prime Minister from the Imperial family as 'Higashikuni Shusho no Miya' (Prince Premier Higashikuni).
Japanese: 新聞表記では、皇族出身の首相を「東久邇首相宮（ひがしくにしゅしょうのみや）」と記した。
English: Although they had been notified of the surrender of Japan, the Army and Navy were still deployed at home and abroad, and so the first order of business of the Higashikuninomiya Cabinet was to disarm the Japanese military, which had been demanded by the Allied Nations.
Japanese: 日本の降伏が告知されたものの依然として陸海軍は内外に展開しており、東久邇宮内閣の第一の仕事は連合国の求める日本軍の武装解除であった。
English: For that purpose, HIGASHIKUNINOMIYA sent the members of the Imperial family as imperial messengers to former Japanese territories and occupied areas to persuade the local Army divisions to disarm.
Japanese: この目的のため、東久邇宮は旧日本領や占領地に皇族を勅使として派遣し、現地師団の説得に当たらせている。
English: Furthermore, another important duty was to ensure that preparations for accepting the allied forces were flawlessso that the occupation authorities could start governing without trouble; the cabinet successfully achieved the purpose.
Japanese: また、連合国による占領統治の開始が滞りなく行われるように、受け入れ準備に万全を期すことも重要な任務としてこれを達成した。
English: Among the remarks of HIGASHIKUNINOMIYA while in office, the one which is particularly well-known is the following passage from a policy speech made to the Diet on September 5.
Japanese: 在任中の東久邇宮の発言として特に有名なものは、9月5日に国会で行われた施政方針演説の以下のくだりである。
English: The opinion of a so-called 'national confession of Japanese war guilt' was regarded as the main political doctrine of Prime Minister HIGASHIKUNINOMIYA.
Japanese: このいわゆる「一億総懺悔論」が東久邇宮首相の主要な政治理念とみなされた。
English: Immediately before the surrender, the Information Board of the Ministry of Interior (the pre-war Ministry of Home Affairs) issued the following notice to the media.
Japanese: すでに敗戦直前の時期に内務省情報局から各マスコミに対して次ぎの通達がなされた。
English: 'It is useless to try, after the war, to establish responsibility for the outbreak of the war and the war itself, and it will not be allowed.'
Japanese: 「終戦後も、開戦及び戦争責任の追及などは全く不毛で非生産的であるので、許さない。」
English: Furthermore, after the war, the government ministries and agencies actively and systematically burned and disposed of relevant documents to prevent them from being seized by occupation authorities as evidence for war responsibility.
Japanese: また、敗戦後、各省庁は、占領軍により戦争責任追及の証拠として押収されるのを防ぐため、積極的・組織的に関係書類の焼却・廃棄を行っている。
English: On the other hand, GHQ tried to curb the spread of 'a national confession of Japanese war guilt' using guidance orders such as the order for prohibition of newspaper publication and so on, then started to prepare for the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in an attempt to make it clear that government and military leaders must take the responsibility for the Japanese war crimes.
Japanese: 一方でGHQは、指導命令・新聞発行停止命令などを使い「一億総懺悔論」の伸張を抑え、日本の戦争犯罪を当時の政府・軍のトップに負わせることを明確にすべく極東国際軍事裁判の準備にとりかかっている。
English: The Prime Minister announced his plan to accept the release of political prisoners and allow freedom of speech, assembly, and association immediately after forming a cabinet, and indicated his vision of an amendment to the Election law and the implementation of a general election.
Japanese: 首相は、政治犯の釈放や言論・集会・結社の自由容認の方針を組閣直後に明らかにし、選挙法の改正と総選挙の実施の展望も示した。
English: However, the release of political prisoners was not realized due to the opposition of the Ministry of Interior and then, in opposition to the impediment of democratization, GHQ sent out the 'Memorandum on Removal of the Restrictions on the Political, Civilian and Religious Freedom' on October 4, 1945, in which GHQ ordered the Peace Preservation Law and the Special Higher Police abolished and the officials of the Ministry of Interior who opposed liberalization and democratization dismissed.
Japanese: しかしながら内務省(日本)の反対により政治犯釈放は実現せず、その民主化を阻害する姿勢に対し、GHQから1945年10月4日に「政治的・民事的・宗教的自由に対する制限撤廃の覚書」を突き付けられ、治安維持法・特別高等警察等の廃止、政治犯・思想犯の釈放、自由化・民主化に抵抗する内務省幹部の更迭などを命じられた。
English: Iwao YAMAZAKI, Home Minister expressed his intention to resign as he could not be responsible for maintaining security without the Peace Preservation Law, which the Prime Minister supported, and the cabinet resigned en masse on the next day.
Japanese: 内務大臣(日本)山崎巌は治安維持法なしでは治安維持に責任が持てないとして辞意を表明し、首相もこれを支持するかたちで内閣は翌日総辞職した。
English: The fact that only held office for 54 days may be due to the fact that he became Prime Minister at an extremely difficult time when a large number of military personnel advocated the continuation of the war (Refer to the Kyujo [place where Emperor lives] Incident) and this was at the time of the broadcast of the Emperor's announcement of Japan's surrender as well as an Imperial family member, Nashimoto no Miya was arrested, thus some say that it was only Prime Minister Naruhiko Higashikuninomiya who could pull the country through the crisis.
Japanese: 総理在任期間は54日と最短であるものの、玉音放送の時点では戦争継続を唱える軍人も少なくなかったり（宮城事件参照）、同じ皇族の梨本宮も逮捕されるという非常に困難な時期に総理となったわけで、東久邇宮稔彦首相でなければこの急場を凌げなかったとも言われる。
English: It can be credited to him that surrender was accepted within ten days while ensuring that nobody attempted to inflict bodily harm to GHQ members as they landed in Japan and quickly disarmed military forces.
Japanese: 十数日で国内を「降伏」で統一し、上陸してきたGHQに誰も危害を加えないようにし、速やかに日本の武装を解除したことを実績として評価できる。
English: The logic of Higashikuninomiya shown in 'A national confession of Japanese war guilt' was in contrast to that of Foreign Minister Shigemitsu who insisted that past political leaders were exactly the persons who should take responsibility.
Japanese: 一億総懺悔論に見られる東久邇宮の考え方は、過去の政治指導者こそが責任を負うべきとの重光外相の考え方とは対照的であった。
English: Siblings: Prince Kuninori KAYANOMIYA - Prince Kuniyoshi KUNINOMIYA- Prince Morimasa NASHIMOTONOMIYA- Prince Taka - Prince Nobu - Prince Yasuhiko ASAKANOMIYA- Prince Naruhiko (Female persons omitted).
Japanese: 兄弟：男子-賀陽宮邦憲王-久邇宮邦彦王-梨本宮守正王-多嘉王-暢王-男子-朝香宮鳩彦王-稔彦王（女子省略）
English: Although 'Higashikuni-kyo' should have been disbanded, it was restored as a religious corporation in recent years.
Japanese: 「ひがしくに教」は解散したはずであるが、なぜか近年になって宗教法人として復活している。
English: A temple called the 'Ryukai-ji Temple' located in Ueno, Iwatsuki Ward, Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture is operated under 'Founder: Naruhiko HIGASHIKUNINOMIYA' and 'Originator: Ryukai OHARA,' but how it relates to HIGASHIKUNINOMIYA is unknown.
Japanese: 埼玉県さいたま市岩槻区上野にある「龍海寺」という寺院が「創立者：東久邇宮稔彦」「開祖：小原龍海」として運営されているが、どのような繋がりがあるのかは不明である。
English: His classmates in the Gakushuin Primary School included Prince Tanehito ARISUGAWANOMIYA, Prince Naruhisa KITASHIRAKAWANOMIYA, Prince Yoshiteru KITASHIRAKAWANOMIYA (later demoted to commoner under the name Marquis Teruhisa KOMATSU) and Prince Yasuhiko ASAKANOMIYA.
Japanese: 学習院初等科の同期生に、有栖川宮栽仁王、北白川宮成久王、北白川宮喜輝王（のちに臣籍降下し侯爵小松輝久）、朝香宮鳩彦王がいた。
English: Minetaro YAMANAKA, who attended military academy a year ahead of him, later, as a novelist, wrote the popular novel 'Tekichu Odan Sanbyakuri' (Crossing 300-ri Behind Enemy Lines) and influenced him to read Roan UCHIDA's translation of the controversial novel "Resurrection" written Lev Tolstoi.
Japanese: 陸軍士官学校では、「敵中横断三百里」で人気を呼ぶ小説家山中峯太郎が一級上にいて、その影響から内田魯庵訳のレフ・トルストイの『復活(小説)』を読み、物議をかもした。
English: While at the Rikugun Daigakko (Army War College), he had the honor of dining with Emperor Meiji, but he declined the invitation on the grounds that he had diarrhea, for which he was reprimanded by Prince Yoshihito, the Crown Prince (who was later to become Emperor Taisho).
Japanese: 陸軍大学校在学中に明治天皇に陪食を命じられたが、下痢を理由にこれを断り、皇太子嘉仁親王（のちの大正天皇）に叱責された。
English: Although he made a direct appeal to Emperor Meiji for his demotion from nobility to commoner, the Emperor turned a deaf ear to the appeal saying, 'Don't create a headache for an old man!'
Japanese: 明治天皇に臣籍降下を直訴したが、天皇は「年寄りを困らせるものではない」と取り合わなかった。
English: When he had learned to drive before going to France to study, driving had been regarded as something that was only to be done by an uncouth man or a man of humble position at that time in Japan, therefore, it was considered outrageous that an Imperial family member would be seen behind the wheel.
Japanese: フランス留学前に自動車の運転を覚えていたが、当時の日本では運転は匹夫野人のすることで、皇族がハンドルを握ることなどもってのほかとされていた。
English: Prince Naruhisa KITASIRAKAWANOMIYA learned driving during his stay in France and went for a drive with Prince Naruhiko, saying 'I want Prince Naruhiko to check out my driving skill,' however, as his skill was untrustworthy, Prince Naruhiko said to him that 'As you are not yet a good driver, you should refrain from driving.'
Japanese: 北白川宮成久王は滞仏中に運転を覚え、「一度、稔彦王に腕前を見てほしい」とのことで一緒にドライブに行ったが、成久王の腕前は怪しく「あなたはまだ危ないからおやめなさい。
English: A very safe and wide road would be OK, but you had better be careful.'
Japanese: よほど安全な広い通りならいいが、お気をつけになった方がいい」と忠告した。
English: However, Prince Naruhisa refused to be persuaded, and on April 1, 1923, he invited Prince Naruhiko to go for another drive saying 'Shall we take a few days' drive to the summer resort of Deauville on the Normandy coast?'
Japanese: しかし成久王は聞き入れず、1923年4月1日に「ノルマンディー海岸の避暑地ドーヴィルまで泊りがけでドライブに行かないか」と誘った。
English: Prince Naruhiko refused the invitation, replying 'Forgive me for saying so, but I think your driving skill is as yet not perfect, so you had best refrain from driving.
Japanese: 稔彦王は「あなたの運転は、失礼ですが、まだ十分でないからお止めなさい。
English: Changing driving companions, Prince Naruhisa invited Prince Yasuhiko ASAKANOMIYA, who also was studying in France, and together they headed off on a road trip with Princess Fusako, the wife of Prince Naruhisa, a French driver and a few others the morning of that same day.
Japanese: そこで成久王はドライブの相手を同じく留学中の朝香宮鳩彦王に変え、同日朝に妃の成久王妃房子内親王やフランス人の運転手等と共にドライブに出発した。
English: He picked up Prince Yasuhiko on the way and, after stopping off for lunch at Évreux, Prince Naruhisa took the wheel.
Japanese: 途中で鳩彦王を拾いエヴルーで昼食をとったあと、成久王がハンドルを握った。
English: At a place not far from the village of Perrier la Campagne, he lost control of the vehicle while trying to pass the car in front, skidding sideways before flying off the road and colliding with a large acacia tree at the roadside.
Japanese: ペリエ・ラ・カンパーニュの村から遠くない地点で前の車を追い抜こうとした際に、スピードの出し過ぎで車は大きく横に滑って道路を飛び出し、路傍のアカシアの大木に衝突した。
English: The accident instantly killed Prince Naruhisa and the French driver while Princess Fusako and Prince Yasuhiko were seriously injured.
Japanese: この事故で成久王とフランス人運転手は即死、房子内親王と鳩彦王は重傷を負った。
English: Prince Naruhiko, informed by a news agency of the accident at his hotel in London, came back to France the following day to see the place where Prince Naruhisa had been killed.
Japanese: 稔彦王は、滞在中のロンドンのホテルで通信社からの連絡でこの事故を知り、翌日フランスへ戻り、現地で成久王の遺体と対面した。
English: When he met with Marshal Philippe Pétain and Clemenceau, both of them said to him that 'The United States is preparing to attack Japan', which, upon his return to Japan, he related this opinion of inevitable war between Japan and the United States to those in all quarters, where nobody except Kinmochi SAIONJI gave careful attention to it.
Japanese: フィリップ・ペタン元帥やクレマンソーと会見した時に、両人より「アメリカが日本を撃つ用意をしている」との忠言を受け、帰国後、各方面に日米戦争不可避論を説いて回ったが、西園寺公望以外は誰も耳を傾ける者はいなかった。