Japanese and Chinese researchers who have been working for three years in an attempt to produce an historical study and demonstrate that the old adversaries could jointly produce an objective account of Sino-Japanese relations that includes the dark days of World War II have elected instead to agree that they disagree about a key event.
Thus, when describing the Nanking massacre of 1937, whereas the Chinese scholars speak of a death toll exceeding 300,000 victims - using both the Tokyo trials and a military tribunal held in Nanking as the basis for their estimate - Japanese researchers came to a very different conclusion. The Japanese capped their estimate at 200,000, while continuing to insist "there are also
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