中國就南京大屠殺對日本正式提出交涉大綱

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.中國表示已向日本提出正式交涉。在此之前，日本名古屋市長再次否認第二次世界大戰前日本軍隊於1937年屠殺了成千上萬名中國平民，儘管有詳實的記錄記載這次屠殺。南京官員星期二晚中斷了與日本姊妹城市名古屋的一切聯繫。在南京採取這一行動前幾個小時，中國駐名古屋領事館抗議名古屋市長河村隆之所說的所謂南京屠殺“可能根本沒有發生過”。 中國和西方歷史學家估計有大約20萬到30萬中國人在1937年12月開始的六個星期期間被日本帝國軍隊殺死。 很多中國人，包括一些戰爭倖存者仍然仇視日本。

河村隆之2009年的言論也曾惹惱中國。他當時對名古屋市議會說，南京的死亡人數被北京誇大了。2005年，東亞各地爆發示威，抗議日本通過修改歷史教科書。修改的歷史教科書把日本在戰爭時期活動的影響最小化。抗議者還抗議日本爭取獲得聯合國安理會常任理事國地位。