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Mokusatsu (黙殺) is a Japanese word meaning "ignore", "take no notice of" or "treat with silent contempt".[1][2][a][3][4] It is composed of two kanjis: 黙 (moku "silence") and 殺 (satsu "killing"). It is frequently cited to argue that problems encountered by Japanese in the sphere of international politics arise from misunderstandings or mistranslations of their language.[5]
In 1945, mokusatsu was used in Japan's initial rejection of the Potsdam Declaration, the Allied demand that Japan surrender unconditionally in World War II. To this day, the argument, or myth,[6] that mokusatsu was misunderstood, and that the misunderstanding interrupted a negotiation for a peaceful end to the war, still resurfaces from time to time.[7][8][9][10] The consensus of modern historians is that the Allies had understood the word correctly.[11][12]
- ^ Butow 1967, pp. 142–49 [145].
- ^ Rogers & Bartlit 2005, p. 307.
- ^ Ham 2012, p. 261.
- ^ Wheeler-Bennett & Nicholls 1974, p. 380.
- ^ Johnson 1980, pp. 89–90, n.2.
- ^ Naimushin 2021.
- ^ Zanettin 2016.
- ^ Polizzotti 2018a.
- ^ Polizzotti 2018b, p. 146.
- ^ Aslanyan 2021.
- ^ Johnson 1980, pp. 89–90, n. 1.
- ^ Bix 1995, p. 206.
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