寻找证据——1984年日本调查团的南京之行及其意义

Searching for Evidences: Japanese Investigation Group's Trip to Nanjing in 1984

1984年12月,日本民间学术团体"南京事件调查研究会"派出调查团访问南京,旨在获取更多有关南京大屠杀的证据,以应对日本国内的争论。在"南京大屠杀编史建馆立碑工作领导小组办公室"的安排下,调查团一行除收集史料、会见幸存者、参观遗迹外,还同南京的研究者、南京大学的学生们进行了交流。此次南京之行不仅进一步将日本国内关于南京大屠杀的争议传播到中国,也开创了中日合作研究南京大屠杀的先河。

In December,1984,'Investigation and Research Association of Nanjing Incident',a Japanese civil academic association dispatched a delegation to Nanjing,which aimed to search for more evidences of Nanjing Massacre and to settle disputes over the incident. Under the arrangement of 'the Historiography and Construction of Memorials of Nanjing Massacre Leading Group Department',the Japanese group collected the historical data,met with survivors,visited historical sites and communicated with local researchers and students in Nanjing University. Due to this trip,China got further understanding of the disputes over Nanjing Massacre which originated in Japan. Meanwhile,it resulted in groundbreaking cooperative research between Japanese and Chinese researchers.