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4月13日[水曜日]東北最大の都市仙台の空港から民間機が飛び立った。3月11日の巨大地震以来始めての民間機だった。しかし空港が再開したとき、空港の片付けを行なった米空軍第 353 在沖縄特殊作戦部隊の 20 名を越える隊員も、海兵隊ほかの 260 名の兵隊も、空港には残っていなかった。

On Wednesday, the airport in Sendai, one of northern Japan’s largest cities, nearly 200 miles northeast of Tokyo, reopened to commercial flights for the first time since the earthquake and tsunami struck on March 11. But when the airport resumed civilian operations, the two dozen members of the Air Force unit, the 353rd Special Operations Group, were not on hand to celebrate. Nor were most of the 260 Marines and soldiers who also joined the cleanup.

彼らはすでに身仕舞をして立ち去っていたのだ。彼らがいなかったことは日本における米軍の微妙な立場を示すものだ。日本で最大の救助作戦を行なったにもかかわらず、米軍基地のホスト国日本の立場を害することがないよう慎重に配慮したものだ。

They had already packed up and gone. Their absence reflected the balance the United States military has tried to strike in Japan, where it has undertaken one of its largest relief operations, while also being careful not to be seen as taking a role that might upstage its hosts.

「我々の目的は、我々がここにいたことさえ気づかないようにすることだった」と第 353 部隊のひとり John Traxler 少佐は語った。先週彼は、ラジオを背負って、航空機の滑走路管制を行なっていた。コントロールタワーはまだ修理が済んでいなかったからだ。

“Our goal is for no one to notice that we were even here,” one of the 353rd’s members, Maj. John Traxler, said last week. At that time, he was directing taxiing aircraft with a radio on his back because the control tower was still under repair.
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