中国就南京大屠杀对日本正式提出交涉大纲

China says it has lodged an official complaint with Tokyo, after the mayor of a Japanese city again denied the well-documented pre-World War Two massacre of several hundred thousand Chinese civilians by Japanese troops in 1937. Nanjing officials suspended all contacts late Tuesday with its Japanese sister city, Nagoya. The action came hours after the Chinese consulate in Nagoya protested Mayor Takashi Kawamura's assertion that the so-called Nanjing massacre "probably never happened." Chinese and Western historians estimate that between 200,000 and 300,000 Chinese were killed by Imperial Japanese forces during a six-week period beginning in December 1937. Many Chinese, including war survivors, still voice resentment toward Japan.

Kawamura also raised the ire of China in 2009, when he told the Nagoya city council that the Nanjing death toll cited by Beijing was inflated. In 2005, protests erupted across much of East Asia over Japan's approval of revisionist history textbooks that also minimize the impact of its wartime activities. Protesters also targeted Japanese efforts to gain a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council.中国表示已向日本提出正式交涉。在此之前，日本名古屋市长再次否认第二次世界大战前日本军队于1937年屠杀了成千上万名中国平民，尽管有详实的记录记载这次屠杀。南京官员星期二晚中断了与日本姊妹城市名古屋的一切联系。在南京采取这一行动前几个小时，中国驻名古屋领事馆抗议名古屋市长河村隆之所说的所谓南京屠杀“可能根本没有发生过”。 中国和西方历史学家估计有大约20万到30万中国人在1937年12月开始的六个星期期间被日本帝国军队杀死。 很多中国人，包括一些战争幸存者仍然仇视日本。

河村隆之2009年的言论也曾惹恼中国。他当时对名古屋市议会说，南京的死亡人数被北京夸大了。2005年，东亚各地爆发示威，抗议日本通过修改历史教科书。修改的历史教科书把日本在战争时期活动的影响最小化。抗议者还抗议日本争取获得联合国安理会常任理事国地位。