最近，美国一家学术出版社计划出版一本由一名日本学者和一名旅日中国学者合写的一本书，书名是《不情愿的战斗员》。该书的主题是，有证据表明在中日战争期间日本政治领导人不情愿与中国发生全面冲突。该书提出几个方面的内容，包括中国内部反日阵线非常脆弱，日本人认为苏俄是主要的潜在对手以及可能与中国进行持久战对日本国防的威胁等。该书还透露，共产党、国民政府、地方绅士、农民和土匪有时与日军合作以便扩大势力范围。请见以下出版社网站上的英文说明。

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.

该书作者中一位华人应该是个汉奸。至少有汉奸嫌疑。请看以下说明。

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.

日本京都大学一位教授发表书评称，关于第二次中日战争的主流观点是，日本想摧毁中国。但是，仔细地研究全局，可发现，中国人不是现在人们所说的无辜的侵略受害者。请看以下的英文说明。

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

日本国防研究院的一位人士表示，该书对导致中日战争的原因的研究表明，战争既不是日本人的野蛮战争，中国也不是一个无助的受害者。请看下面的说明。

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

日本人非常不老实。他们想歪曲历史，以便为历史翻案。这样的人怎么可信，怎么可能走和平主义道路。完全是骗人的！