安村三郎与南京国际救济委员会

Yasumura Saburo and Nanjing International Relief Committee

日本基督教牧师安村三郎受日本外务省、日本军方的委托,于1938年12月前往南京。他一方面试图说服南京国际救济委员会的欧美人士理解日本的立场,一方面作为日方委员,为救济南京难民解决了一些难题。虽然,在身份上安村隶属于日本军方,赴南京工作也是为了执行军方的指令,不过他在一定程度上认可欧美人士的观点,并在道义上谴责日军的占领。安村尽管没有目睹过南京大屠杀,但却是日本基督教界为数不多的了解南京大屠杀情况的人。

Commissioned by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Japanese military authorities, Japanese Christian missionary Yasumura Saburo went to Nanjing in December of 1938. On one hand, he tried to persuade the European and American members of Nanking International Relief Committee to understand the Japanese position, on the other hand, as a Japanese member of the Nanking International Relief Committee he did solve some problems in the relief work.Though he was attached to the Japanese military and his work in Nanjing was also to carry out the order from the Japanese military, yet Yasumura Saburo agreed with the Europeans and Americans to some degree, and morally condemned the occupation of the Japanese army. Although he did not witness the Nanjing Massacre, he was actually one of the few people in the Japanese Christendom who understood the situations of the Nanjing Massacre.