A: The Japanese Ministry of Culture put up a lot of money and invited scholars from all over the country to take part in a large-scale research program about "intercultural friction." I was responsible for the part about the Japanese occupation of China, studying the historical, political and cultural aspects of Japanese rule, how your people felt about it and so forth.
答：有關「文化摩擦」的研究計畫，是日本文部省給的錢，邀集各方學者來參加的一個很龐大的計畫；我負責的是日治時期中國部分，即日本人統治貴國時期等歷史、政治、文化等方面的研究。