Eigo Ka Ha Gumin Ka Nippon no Kokuryoku Ga Chi Ni Ochiru (Shueisha Shinsho)

[Machine Translation] From education reforms that give huge subsidies to universities that promote English-language education to proposals for English-language special zones where English will be the official language. The policy of English-ization of Japanese society has begun to run amok. The English-language proponents' goal is to increase Japan's international competitiveness. But this is a lie. If the front lines of society become English-speaking, the middle class, which has been engaged in intellectual activities in Japanese, will fall, and the disparity will be fixed. This would run counter to the analysis at the forefront of modern political science, which argues that a nation and its economy can only develop if a large number of its citizens are active in their native language. Will the people who are forced to become "democratized" become slaves to global capital? An up-and-coming political scientist shoots down the delusion of the English-language policy!

英語化を進める大学に巨額の補助金を与える教育改革から、英語を公用語とする英語特区の提案まで。日本社会を英語化する政策の暴走が始まった。英語化推進派のお題目は国際競争力の向上。しかし、それはまやかしだ。社会の第一線が英語化されれば、知的な活動を日本語で行ってきた中間層は没落し、格差が固定化。多数の国民が母国語で活躍してこそ国家と経済が発展するという現代政治学の最前線の分析と逆行する道を歩むことになるのだ。「愚民化」を強いられた国民はグローバル資本に仕える奴隷と化すのか。気鋭の政治学者が英語化政策の虚妄を撃つ!