最近，美國一家學術出版社計劃出版一本由一名日本學者和一名旅日中國學者合寫的一本書，書名是《不情願的戰鬥員》。該書的主題是，有證據表明在中日戰爭期間日本政治領導人不情願與中國發生全面衝突。該書提出幾個方面的內容，包括中國內部反日陣線非常脆弱，日本人認為蘇俄是主要的潛在對手以及可能與中國進行持久戰對日本國防的威脅等。該書還透露，共產黨、國民政府、地方紳士、農民和土匪有時與日軍合作以便擴大勢力範圍。請見以下出版社網站上的英文說明。

The Reluctant Combatant offers proof that Japanese political leaders were reluctant to engage China in a full-scale conflict during the Second Sino-Japanese War. This book identifies several key aspects of the political context surrounding the Second Sino-Japanese War, including the extreme fragility of the national united front against Japan, the view of Soviet Russia as Japan’s principal potential adversary, and the potential threat to Japanese national defense a protracted war with China would pose. This book reveals that the Communists, the National Government, local gentry, peasants, and bandits occasionally collaborated with the enemy—Japanese troops—to expand their spheres of influence.

該書作者中一位華人應該是個漢奸。至少有漢奸嫌疑。請看以下說明。

Kitamura Minoru graduated Kyoto University in 1973. He is now a professor at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto where he teaches Modern Chinese History.

Lin Si-Yun graduated Nanjing University in 1985. He has authored several books in Japanese on the cultural differences between Japan and China.

日本京都大學一位教授發表書評稱，關於第二次中日戰爭的主流觀點是，日本想摧毀中國。但是，仔細地研究全局，可發現，中國人不是現在人們所說的無辜的侵略受害者。請看以下的英文說明。

The mainstream view on the Second Sino-Japanese War is that Imperial Japan was bent on destroying China, and the rest of Asia, for purely selfish reasons. However, careful analysis of the global situation, particularly of the social and political development of China and the attitudes of the Chinese leadership, indicates that the Chinese were not the innocent victims of ‘aggression’ as is currently claimed.

— Terumasa Nakanishi, Kyoto University

日本國防研究院的一位人士表示，該書對導致中日戰爭的原因的研究表明，戰爭既不是日本人的野蠻戰爭，中國也不是一個無助的受害者。請看下面的說明。

Authors Kitamura and Lin recount the circumstances that ultimately lead to the Second Sino-Japanese War, demonstrating that the war was neither a Japanese ‘brutal war of aggression’ or that China was a ‘helpless’ victim.
— Haruo Tohmatsu, National Defense Academy of Japan

日本人非常不老實。他們想歪曲歷史，以便為歷史翻案。這樣的人怎麼可信，怎麼可能走和平主義道路。完全是騙人的！