爱知大学的江口圭一教授是日本著名的近现代史专家。他近年主要致力于研究日本侵略中国的十五年战争史(1931年至1945年),著述颇丰。1988年岩波书店筹划出版“昭和史丛书”时,特邀江口教授撰写了《卢沟桥事件》一书。这本《卢沟桥事件》篇幅不大,但资料丰富,论述扼要,它所表述的观点,在日本研究 Professor Aikawa Eguchi of Aichi University is a famous Japanese expert in modern history. In recent years, he mainly devoted himself to studying the history of 15 years of Japan’s invasion of China (1931-1945). In 1988, Iwaomi Shoten planned and published the Showa History Series, and Professor Jiangkou was invited to write a book entitled The Lugouqiao Event. This “Marco Polo Bridge Incident” is not large in length, but the information is rich. He elaborates briefly, and the views expressed in the study in Japan