奥巴马在日本东京的演讲

Remarks by President Obama on Issues Affecting Asia-Pacific Nations
Suntory Hall, Tokyo, Japan
November 14, 2009

美国总统奥巴马在日本东京的演讲
日本东京 三得利音乐厅
2009年11月14日

Thank you so much. Arigatou. Thank you very much.  Good morning. It is a great honor to be in Tokyo — the first stop on my first visit to Asia as President of the United States.  Thank you. It is good to be among so many of you — Japanese and I see a few Americans here — (applause) — who work every day to strengthen the bonds between our two countries, including my longtime friend and our new ambassador to Japan, John Roos.
十分感谢。ありがとう（谢谢）。多谢大家。早上好。十分荣幸来到东京，我作为美国总统首次亚洲之行的第一站。谢谢。来到你们这么多人中间感到十分高兴，这里有日本人士，我还看见一些美国人。大家每天都在为增强我们两国间的关系而工作，包括我的老朋友和新任驻日大使约翰∙鲁斯。
 
It is wonderful to be back in Japan. Some of you may be aware that when I was a young boy, my mother brought me to Kamakura, where I looked up at that centuries-old symbol of peace and tranquility — the great bronze Amida Buddha. And as a child, I was more focused on the matcha ice cream. (Laughter.) And I want to thank Prime Minister Hatoyama for sharing some of those memories with more ice cream last night at dinner. (Laughter and applause.) Thank you very much. But I have never forgotten the warmth and the hospitality that the Japanese people showed a young American far from home.

再次来到日本真令人高兴。我小时候，母亲带我来过镰仓，在那里，我抬头望见历史悠久的和平与安宁的象征——巨大的青铜阿弥陀佛。作为一个孩子，抹茶冰淇淋对我更有吸引力。（笑声）我要感谢鸠山首相，昨天的晚宴上有更多的冰淇淋，与我一起分享了过去的一些回忆。（笑声和掌声）多谢大家。但我从未忘记日本人民对一个远离家乡的美国孩子所表现的热情好客。

And I feel that same spirit on this visit: In the gracious welcome of Prime Minister Hatoyama. In the extraordinary honor of the meeting with Their Imperial Majesties, the Emperor and Empress, on the 20th anniversary of his ascension to the Chrysanthemum Throne. In the hospitality shown by the Japanese people. And of course, I could not come here without sending my greetings and gratitude to the citizens of Obama, Japan.

在此次访问期间，我感受到了同样的热情。因为鸠山首相给予了殷勤的接待。我还有幸在天皇即位20周年之际会见天皇和皇后陛下。日本人民也展示了热情好客的风貌。当然，我来到这里不可能不向日本小滨市（Obama）市民表示我的问候和感激之情。

Now, I am beginning my journey here for a simple reason. Since taking office, I have worked to renew American leadership and pursue a new era of engagement with the world based on mutual interests and mutual respect. And our efforts in the Asia Pacific will be rooted, in no small measure, through an enduring and revitalized alliance between the United States and Japan.

我的亚洲之行从这里开始，理由很简单。我自就职以来，努力恢复美国的主导地位，在共同利益和相互尊重的基础上寻求与世界交往的新时代。而我们在亚太地区的努力在很大程度上将植根于美日之间历久弥新的同盟关系。

From my very first days in office, we have worked to strengthen the ties that bind our nations. The first foreign leader that I welcomed to the White House was the Prime Minister of Japan, and for the first time in nearly 50 years, the first foreign trip by an American Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, was to Asia, starting in Japan.

从我就职之初开始，我就努力加强紧密联系我们两国的纽带。我在白宫迎来的首位外国领导人就是日本首相，而且，国务卿希拉里∙克林顿的首次出访目的地是亚洲，首站为日本，这是将近50年来美国国务卿第一次这样做。

In two months, our alliance will mark its 50th anniversary — a day when President Dwight Eisenhower stood next to Japan’s Prime Minister and said that our two nations were creating “an indestructible partnership” based on “equality and mutual understanding.”

再过两个月，我们的同盟将迎来50周年纪念日，50年前的这一天，德怀特．艾森豪威尔总统与日本首相并肩而立，他说，我们两国正在建立基于“平等和相互理解”的“牢不可破的伙伴关系”。

In the half-century since, that alliance has endured as a foundation for our security and prosperity. It has helped us become the world’s two largest economies, with Japan emerging as America’s second-largest trading partner outside of North America. It has evolved as Japan has played a larger role on the world stage, and made important contributions to stability around the world — from reconstruction in Iraq, to combating piracy off the Horn of Africa, to assistance for the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan — most recently through its remarkable leadership in providing additional commitments to international development efforts there.

在此后半个世纪中，这一同盟作为两国安全与繁荣的基础持续至今。这一同盟帮助我们成为世界上最大的两个经济体，日本成为美国在北美以外的最大的贸易伙伴。随着日本在世界舞台上发挥更大的作用，这一同盟关系也不断演变，对世界各地的稳定作出了重大贡献——从伊拉克重建到在非洲之角沿海地区打击海盗活动，乃至向阿富汗和巴基斯坦人民提供援助，最近一次则是在进一步承诺支持该地区的国际发展努力中发挥了重大的带头作用。

Above all, our alliance has endured because it reflects our common values — a belief in the democratic right of free people to choose their own leaders and realize their own dreams; a belief that made possible the election of both Prime Minister Hatoyama and myself on the promise of change. And together, we are committed to providing a new generation of leadership for our people and our alliance.

最重要的是，我们的同盟经受住了考验，因为它反映了我们共同的价值观——一种对自由的人民自行选择领导人并实现自己的梦想的民主权利之信念； 一种让鸠山首相和我自己能以誓言变革而竞选成功的信念。让我们同心协力，为我们的人民和我们的同盟发挥新一代领导人的作用。

That is why, at this critical moment in history, the two of us have not only reaffirmed our alliance — we’ve agreed to deepen it. We’ve agreed to move expeditiously through a joint working group to implement the agreement that our two governments reached on restructuring U.S. forces in Okinawa. And as our alliance evolves and adapts for the future, we will always strive to uphold the spirit that President Eisenhower described long ago — a partnership of equality and mutual respect.

正是出于这个原因，在这个历史的紧要关头，我们两人不仅再次肯定了我们的同盟——还同意深化这种同盟。我们已经同意，将通过联合工作组加速实施我们两国政府就调整驻冲绳美军问题达成的协议。在我们的同盟不断发展并适应未来的过程中，我们始终不遗余力地维护艾森豪威尔总统很久以前阐明的那种精神，即一种平等且相互尊重的伙伴关系。

But while our commitment to this region begins in Japan, it doesn’t end here. The United States of America may have started as a series of ports and cities along the Atlantic Ocean, but for generations we have also been a nation of the Pacific. Asia and the United States are not separated by this great ocean; we are bound by it. We are bound by our past — by the Asian immigrants who helped build America, and the generations of Americans in uniform who served and sacrificed to keep this region secure and free. We are bound by our shared prosperity — by the trade and commerce upon which millions of jobs and families depend. And we are bound by our people — by the Asian Americans who enrich every segment of American life, and all the people whose lives, like our countries, are interwoven.

我们在本地区的承诺虽然以日本为开端，但并不以这里为终点。美利坚合众国虽然发源于大西洋沿岸的一系列港口和城市，但我们世世代代始终是一个太平洋国家。亚洲和美国并没有被太平洋阻断，而是被太平洋联系在一起。我们依靠历史联系在一起——通过为建设美国出力的亚洲移民，还有一代又一代为保障这个地区的安全和自由而服役并做出奉献的美国军人。我们依靠共同繁荣联系在一起——贸易和商业与千百万个就业机会和众多家庭的生计息息相关。我们依靠我们的人民联系在一起——丰富了美国生活方方面面的美国亚裔，还有各自的生活相互交织在一起的所有的人，就像我们各个国家紧密相连一样。

My own life is a part of that story. I am an American President who was born in Hawaii and lived in Indonesia as a boy. My sister Maya was born in Jakarta, and later married a Chinese-Canadian. My mother spent nearly a decade working in the villages of Southeast Asia, helping women buy a sewing machine or an education that might give them a foothold in the world economy. So the Pacific Rim has helped shape my view of the world.

我的人生经历就是这个历程的一部分。我作为美国总统，出生在夏威夷，年少时曾在印度尼西亚生活。我妹妹马娅出生在雅加达，后来嫁给了一位加拿大籍华人。我母亲在东南亚地区的村庄里工作了近十年，帮助妇女购买缝纫机或接受教育，使她们有可能在世界经济中有一个立足之地。因此，太平洋周边地区影响了我的世界观的形成。

And since that time, perhaps no region has changed as swiftly or dramatically. Controlled economies have given way to open markets. Dictatorships have become democracies. Living standards have risen while poverty has plummeted. And through all these changes, the fortunes of America and the Asia Pacific have become more closely linked than ever before.

从那时至今，也许没有任何一个地区的变化如此之快、如此之大。统制经济已让位于开放的市场。专制政权转变成民主制度。生活水平上升，贫困程度下降。通过所有这些变化，美国和亚太地区的命运比以往更加紧密地联系在一起。

So I want everyone to know, and I want everybody in America to know, that we have a stake in the future of this region, because what happens here has a direct effect on our lives at home. This is where we engage in much of our commerce and buy many of our goods. And this is where we can export more of our own products and create jobs back home in the process. This is a place where the risk of a nuclear arms race threatens the security of the wider world, and where extremists who defile a great religion plan attacks on both our continents. And there can be no solution to our energy security and our climate challenge without the rising powers and developing nations of the Asia Pacific.

因此，我希望每一个人都知道，我希望美国每一个人都知道，这个地区的未来与我们利害攸关，因为这里发生的一切对我们国内的生活有着直接的影响。在这里，我们从事大量的商务活动，购进了大多数商品。在这里，我们可以出口我国更多的产品，这个过程也为国内创造了就业机会。在这里，核武器竞赛的危险威胁着整个世界的安全。在这里，玷污了一个伟大宗教的极端主义分子试图策划对我们两个大洲发动袭击。没有亚太地区崛起的大国和发展中国家的参与，就不会有解决能源安全和应对气候挑战的办法。