我们习惯于用“一衣带水”、“同文同种”来形容我们的近邻日本。但扪心自问,对这个近邻我们又有多少了解?(日本亦如此)。中日关系对于准备在新世纪起飞的中国来说如此重要,因此我们把这个话题作为新辟“大家谈”栏目的首篇。 We are accustomed to using “a strip of water ”, “the same text ” to describe our neighbor Japan. But ask ourselves, how much do we know about this neighbor? (So does Japan.) Sino-Japanese relations are so important to China, which is about to take off in the new century. Therefore, we regard this topic as the first chapter of the new “we talked about.”