| 宿谷睦夫訳 加藤方寅著「新日本人論」 “New Japanology” by Dr. Michinobu Kato |
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translator: Mutsuo Shukuya auditor: Bruce Wyman supervisor: Boye Lafayette De Mente |
| (Ⅴ) Aspects of the Japanese Language While considering that the unique behavior of the people who speak Japanese depend upon nothing except Japanese itself, I found some writings by an emeritus professor of Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Dr. Tadanobu Tsunoda, who proves these theories are right. Dr. Tsunoda’s research convinced me that what I am thinking is not fundamentally wrong. Especially as Dr. Hideki Yukawa, one of Japan’s greatest scientists and thinkers whom I cannot help but respect, thought highly of Dr. Tsunoda’s theories. That, indeed, deepened my convictions. Dr. Tsunoda made clear that the physiological brain mechanism of people is deeply influenced by the language which one learns between the ages of six and nine through his research on the relation between voice and the sense of hearing. The influence of the language which people learned during this period reaches to a deep psychological state or the emotion. That is to say, the subconscious organization of people’s brains is determined by the language environment which they learned from the age of six to nine.. It should be noted that this phenomenon is not connected to race. It is strictly a matter of language. People of Japanese ancestry who are raised in non-Japanese language environments do not become Japanese in their thinking and behavior. They become American, or French, or British, etc. By the same token, Europeans and others who have been raised in a Japanese language environment tend to think and act like traditional Japanese. It is also interesting to note that Dr. Tsunoda’s experiments proved that all Chinese and Korean as well as the people of India, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran and Africa are similar to Europeans in their brain patterns. His research made clear, only Japanese and Polynesians have different subconscious brain organizations from other people in many countries. That is to say, Japanese and Polynesian languages have quite unique structures. Dr. Tsunoda thinks that the starting point of the differences between Japanese and Polynesian languages and other languages is based on the number and importance of vowels in these two languages. Europeans and Americans manage vowels, which have no meanings, in their right-brains, while Japanese and Polynesian do so in their left-brains. (Furthermore, the sounds of insects and the murmur of a stream are also managed as well as vowels, which have no meanings.) That is to say, Japanese and Polynesian unconsciously tend to take some intention or feelings from the natural sounds as well as from languages. In other words, Europeans, Americans and others tend to treat only logical or intellectual information in their left-brain, while Japanese and Polynesian tend to treat not only logical and intellectual but also emotional and natural sounds as well concurrently in their left-brains. It seems to be fundamentally dependent upon these mechanisms that the ideas of Europeans and Americans tend to be digital regarding their languages, while those of Japanese tend to be analog regarding their language. As I have just discussed, it had been proven scientifically that Japanese and Polynesians have a unique subconscious brain organization compared to Europeans, Americans and others. |
第 5章 日本語の特性 日本人の発想が特殊であるのは日本語に原因があるのとしか思えないと考えていた時、東京医科歯科大学の角田忠信氏の著作を知り、このような考えが基本的に間違っていないという確信を得ました。とりわけ、角田忠信氏の研究を、私が敬愛して止まない、勝れた自然科学者であると同時に勝れた思想家とも考えておりました湯川秀樹博士が極めて高く評価しておられたことを知り私の確信は一層深められたわけです。 角田氏は聴覚と音声の研究を通して、脳の生理機能が生後６歳から９歳くらいまでに学んだ言語の影響を強く受けることを明らかにしておられます。この時期に形成された言語の影響は極めて深く強く、それは深層心理、情念のレベルにまで達しているというのです。つまり、人の無意識構造の違いは生後６歳から９歳くらいまでに学んだ言語の環境によって決まるというのです。 注目すべきことは、この場合、遺伝は無関係であるということです。つまり、血統的には純粋な日本人でも、生後６歳から９歳くらいまでの間に日本語以外の言語環境で生育すれば無意識構造は日本人でなくなり、逆に、血統的には日本人以外の外国人であっても生後６歳から９歳くらいまでの間に日本語環境で生育すれば無意識構造は日本人と同じになるということです。極めて興味深いことに、同じ東洋人でも、中国人、韓国人は欧米型であること、さらに、（ポリネシア地域を除いて）インド、パキスタン、イラク、イランあるいはアフリカでさえも欧米型であることが検証されているとのことです。 |
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