日本作家村上春樹新作承認南京大屠殺

Japanese contemporary best-selling author Haruki Murakami has earned plaudits from many Chinese citizens after releasing his latest novel, "Killing Commendatore," which acknowledges the large-scale loss of civilian life during the Nanjing Massacre.

在發佈新書《騎士團長殺人事件》之後，日本當代暢銷書作者村上春樹贏得了許多中國人的一致喝彩，因爲在書中村上承認了南京大屠殺。

During the massacre, Japanese troops committed mass murder and rape in Nanjing, then the capital of the Republic of China, in December 1937.

在1937年12月的南京大屠殺中，日軍在當時中華民國首都南京犯下了大屠殺和強姦慘案。

To the fury of many in China and around the world, some conservative Japanese politicians and historians now deny that the massacre took place, or they put the death toll at a much lower number than most believe to be true.

但是讓中國和全世界許多人都憤怒的是，一些保守派日本政客和歷史學家現在都在否認曾經發生過南京大屠殺，或者他們認爲南京大屠殺中遇難者人數要遠少於大多數人認爲的那個數字。

In the novel, which was published in Japan on Feb. 24, Murakami writes: " the exact number of civilian victims [of the Nanjing Massacre], debates existed among historians. But generally, it is not in dispute that the majority of residents were embroiled and killed in the war."

在新書中（該書於2月24日在日本出版），村上寫道：“對於南京大屠殺遇難平民的確切數字，史學家之間存在爭論。但總的來說，沒有爭議的是大多數平民都被捲入戰爭並被屠殺。”

He adds that some put the Chinese death toll at 400,000, while others say it was 100,000. "But what is the difference?" he wonders in the book.

他還表示，一些人認爲南京大屠殺遇難者人數多達40萬，但另一些人則說只有10萬。他在書中發問：“但是這又有什麼區別呢？”

The remarks have electrified Chinese netizens, leading some web users to hail Murakami as a "conscientious and upright writer of integrity."

這些言論使得中國網民非常激動，一些人致敬村上春樹是一個“有良心、正直的作家”。

Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall posted a comment on the site's official Weibo account: "As Murakami said, there's no difference between 400,000 and 100,000 ... According to the verdict of the Tribunal for Tani in 1947, there were more than 300,000 victims in total. Eighty years have passed, yet many Japanese still eschew the appropriate reflection on and repentance of the country's militarism."

南京大屠殺紀念館也在其新浪微博上發文稱：“正如村上所說，不管是40萬，還是10萬，這其實沒有區別。據1947年東京審判《判決書》指出，死難者人數總共超過了30萬人。80年過去了，但是許多日本人仍然沒有對日本軍國主義進行反思和懺悔。”