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2023年03月13日

Ireland this time. The history of British invasion dates back to the 12th century, but with the formation of the nation-state in Europe in the 19th century, the Irish independence movement also intensified. After World War I, an autonomous country achieved independence to a certain degree with the establishment of the British Commonwealth by the Westminster Charter in 1931, but the conflict between the Army of the Republic of Ireland (IRA) and the moderate de Valera, who insists on the restoration of Northern Ireland, was advantageous or convenient to Nazi Germany Japan's exchanges with Ireland also dates back to the 18th century, and the mission to Europe immediately after the Meiji Restoration also visited Ireland, so the relationship was good. De-Valera, who was the president at the time of World War II, was saved by American citizenship when he was sentenced to death in the Easter Uprising, so it may be said that he was pro-German in private. The refusal of the Allied side to participate in the war in exchange for Churchill's proposal to cession Northern Ireland may have brought the annexation of Northern Ireland as a neutral reward on the premise of Germany's victory. For Hitler's suicide, de Valera himself expressed his condolences to the German minister in Dublin, Eduardo Hempell（even in Japan, an Axis, an manager class official of the Foreign Ministry was sent to German Embassy in Setagaya Ward which was evacuated to the outskirts of Tokyo to avoid air raid), but against the Japanese occupation of Singapore, the president acquiesced to the celebration of the Japanese consul in Dublin,Setsuya Beppu and the IRA executive Tom Mullins, and bought the frown of the Allies, but the treatment of the soldiers who made an incidental landing in Ireland and provision of weather information were clearly dealing in favor of the Allies. It can be said that the diplomatic isolation of Ireland after the war also shows how the country was pro-German and pro-Japanese during the war, such as refusing the closure of the Japanese consulate after World War II for three years and the request for extradition.