一位山东老人跨越时空的调查

AN INVESTIGATION ACROSS TIME AND SPACE BY AN OLD MAN FROM SHANDONG

现任台儿庄战役研究会顾问、84岁的任世淦说，台儿庄战役爆发时他只有2岁，父母抱着他死里逃生。1997年，从山东滕州官桥中学校长岗位退休后，任世淦并未在家清闲下来，而是给自己定下了新的目标——调查日军侵华罪证。

84-year-old Ren Shigan, the counselor of Taierzhuang Battle Research Association, said that when the Battle of Taierzhuang broke out,he was only 2 years old and his parents hugged him to escape death.In 1997, after retiring as the principal of the Guanqiao Middle School in Tengzhou, Shandong Province, Ren Shigan did not idle at home but set a new goal for himself-to investigate the evidence of Japanese aggression against China.Ren Shigan spent 20 years in walking almost 70,000 miles, visiting more than1,500 villages and more than 5,000 old people familiar with the battle, recording more than one million words in more than 20 notebooks, and taking more than1,000 important photos from the north of Jiangsu Province to the south of Shandong Province. He recorded more than 190 large and small campaigns in total.Ren Shigan said, "Japan has various records of attacking China, but the authority won't describe their crimes.""The result of Ren Shigan's investigation is a cast-iron evidence of Japanese atrocities in China." Jiang Keshi, a Chinese scholar of Japanese history and a professor at the Literature Department of Okayama University in Japan, said, "It fills the gap in Japanese data."