日本现存南京大屠杀史料概论

Summary of Existing Historical Materials Preserved in Japan about Nanjing Massacre

长期以来,日本一直有一种论调,认为东京审判是“胜者的审判”,日军在二次大战中的行为被歪曲丑化了;而在所有对日军的不实指控中,“南京大屠杀”是一个最大的谎言。由于日方文献在战后遭到了大规模焚毁,而日本又有人不承认事发当时中国和西方文献的客观性,使得这一观点对海外不知情的第三者,尤其是日本民众至今仍有影响。本文通过对日本烬余的相关史料,特别是日本右翼也不得不认可的公私文献的辨析和梳理,基本廓清了日本虚构派布下的迷雾,证明以屠杀为代表的日军在南京的各种暴行,即使仅据日方文献也完全可以证明。同时,本文也概述了历史进程不同于“概念”的曲折的一面。

For a long period, there is an argument in Japan which believes that Tokyo Trial was the 'trial of winners', and that what Japanese army did in the Second World War had been misrepresented. This argument also insists that among all the false accusation against the Japanese army, 'Nanjing Massacre' is the biggest lie. Since the Japanese literatures has been largely destroyed after the war, and some Japanese deny the objectivity of Chinese and Western literatures, this argument has some in...