"Blood-splattered Samurai Sword" (formerly known as "Record of the Massacre by the Japanese Invading Army") is a book that records the Japanese invaders during the war of aggression against China, mainly in the eight years after the July 7th Incident in 1937. Massacre.This book collects and compiles 51 historical materials on the massacre of our compatriots by the Japanese army, most of which were compiled after investigation and verification by the party history data collection offices in various places. I collected the memories of many parties involved, and verified the newspaper reports, historical documents and archives at that time, so the historical materials in this book are true and reliable.

However, I want to explain to readers that this book only reflects some of the incidents of massacres committed by the Japanese invaders in China. Most of the 51 articles are typical cases of the massacre of about a thousand Chinese people by the Japanese invaders.The so-called typical cases are the massacres committed by the Japanese invaders against our villages, districts, counties, and cities at one time and one period at a time.In that dark age when the land of China was bloodbathed, the Japanese invaders massacred a few, dozens, hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of our compatriots at a time, and there were more than tens of millions of tragedies!

Take the battlefield behind the enemy in China as an example. During the eight years of the War of Resistance, the Japanese army massacred millions of people in the liberated areas behind the enemy. According to incomplete statistics: 150,000 people were killed in the Jinsui Border Region, and 480,000 people were killed in the Jinchaji Border Region. 350,000 people were killed in the Jire-Liao border region, 980,000 people were killed in the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan border region, 900,000 people were killed in the Shandong region, 240,000 people were killed in the Jiangsu-Anhui border region, and 70,000 people were killed in the Central Plains region. ...If the number of people massacred in the Kuomintang-ruled areas and enemy-occupied areas is added, even more people will be massacred.According to statistics, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Chinese people suffered more than 21 million casualties, of which 10 million died, and property losses exceeded US$60 billion.Readers please note that the vast majority of the huge number of deaths are unarmed civilians in urban and rural areas of our country, including the elderly, weak, women and children. They were all brutally massacred to death by the Japanese invaders.

It can be seen that the tragedy materials published in this book are only some of the cases in which the Japanese invaders slaughtered our compatriots. Even the appendix of this book, "A Brief Note on Major Atrocities by the Japanese Invaders in my country", are only some of the cases involving more than a hundred people.Because after 40 to 50 years, many historical materials have been lost, most of the survivors of the tragedy have passed away, and the massacres committed by the Japanese invaders at that time were often carried out in secret. easy job. From the perspective of modern Chinese history, the great victory of the Anti-Japanese War was a turning point in the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the most glorious and heroic chapter in the history of the Chinese people's resistance to imperialist aggression.The great historical epic of the Chinese nation was written with the blood of the Chinese people, and the magnificent building of the People's Republic of China today was laid with the bones of our countless ancestors.

The "Three Alls Policy" of "burning, killing, and looting" was practiced by the Japanese invaders everywhere in China. However, in recent years, a small group of militarists have appeared in Japan, trying to tamper with their criminal history of aggression against China.General Ningci Okamura, who once served as the commander-in-chief of the Japanese North China Front Army and the commander-in-chief of the Chinese Expeditionary Army, did not repent for the war crimes he committed, but brazenly praised him. In his "Memoirs", he openly denied the war crimes he commanded. The Japanese invaders implemented the "Three Alls Policy", and he boasted that he always abided by the creed of "abstinence from burning, prostitution, and killing".He said, "Turning my slogan of the Three Precepts into 'Ningz Okamura's three-light policy that can be burned, shot, and killed' is hyped." Yes, he used to be the head of the division of the Japanese Army that invaded China. In the book "Political Relations" published on June 10, 1960, he wrote the article "Misunderstandings Full of Insults to the Imperial Army", saying that "the 'Sanguang Policy' We are still the first to hear the words. As a historian, it is ridiculous to copy historical materials from one aspect and publish them in a serious manner." "Besides, this three-light policy is completely contrary to the facts." "Such rashness What kind of impact will it have on young people if the history books are flooded for a long time."

What's more, there are people in Japan who write books.He tried his best to deny the fact that Japan invaded China, saying that Japan did not cause massacres in China. Nakayama Akira, the aide of Japanese war criminal Matsui Iwane, published the book "Japan's Innocence" in 1972, and published "Japan Is Not Invasion" by Tachibanagawa University in 1984. In 1935, Masaaki Tanaka published the book "The Fiction of the Nanjing Massacre", denying the fact that the Japanese invaders bloodbathed Nanjing.Some people in Japan also said that the tragedies caused by the Japanese army in China were all fictional "myths". They even said that the trial in Tokyo was an "unjust prison" and that the Japanese war criminals sentenced to death were "heroes".The book "The Illusion of the Nanjing Massacre" (Bunyi Chunqiu, 1972 Japanese edition) written by Akira Suzuki of Japan even claimed that the Nanjing Massacre was "rumored" by the Chinese.It is regrettable that such a book that absolves war criminals of crimes has won the "Big House Award".Of course, this trend of overturning the verdict is just a small countercurrent in Japan, but it also shows from the negative side that it is very necessary to publish the book "Blood-Splattered Samurai Sword".

Today, the friendly exchanges and economic and cultural exchanges between the people of China and Japan are developing day by day, and the cooperative relationship between China and Japan has also entered a new period of development.In order to consolidate and develop the friendly relations between the peoples of the two countries, strengthen the peaceful coexistence between the two countries, and safeguard world peace, recording the unbearable historical truth and passing it on to future generations is only beneficial and harmless. Of course, we must treat history correctly, oppose holding grudges, and not allow past misfortunes to hinder current and future friendly cooperation, but we must also never allow history to be distorted to reverse the case for aggressors, especially a few militarists, who are condoned and sheltered .

There is a famous saying in ancient China: "Never forget the past, the teacher of the future".The lessons of history should be remembered by the people of both China and Japan.The people of China and Japan must rely on the continuous efforts and development of the new generation to maintain friendship forever. However, they have not experienced war and can only look at history from history books. deceived by lies.The survivors of the war have the responsibility and obligation to leave the true face of history to future generations. The war of aggression against China launched by the Japanese militarists brought disasters to the Chinese and Japanese peoples, which cannot be recorded in any pen or ink.For the Japanese people, the disaster of this war is also serious, and the tens of thousands of Japanese orphans and widows are witnesses.It was the Japanese war criminals who forced their husbands and sons to die in a foreign land, and their families were destroyed.Therefore, the Chinese and Japanese people should not forget this historical lesson.

The history of China's Anti-Japanese War has already been compiled by historians. We edited "The Blood-Splattered Samurai Sword" just to provide some history books for such history books and to contribute to world peace.If this wish has been realized, then the author and editor of this book will feel sincerely happy. Here I would like to point out that the materials we have collected on the atrocities committed by the Japanese invaders are very incomplete, and there may be mistakes, omissions and inadequacies in the history of the book, readers are welcome to correct them.