摄影术传到日本的时间晚于中国,但日本人对于摄影功能的开发与利用,远甚于中国。尤其是在甲午中日之战到1945年日本战败期间,日本成了拍摄中国最为全面、系统的国家——其拍摄内容的广度与深度,远远超过中国人对于自己国家的拍摄。然而,日本人拍摄的中国,并不仅仅止于记录。在这五十余年时间里,日本人镜头里的中国,有风景地理、城镇概貌、建筑构造、民众生态、风尚习俗,有对中国物产、环境、生态和 Photography came to Japan later than China, but the Japanese developed and utilized photographic functions much more than those in China. Especially during the Sino-Japanese war between Japan and Japan and Japan’s defeat in 1945, Japan became the most comprehensive and systematic country in China. The breadth and depth of its filming far surpassed that of the Chinese people in shooting their own country. However, the Japanese shot by China did not stop at recording. In these fifty years, the Japanese people in the lens of China, landscape geography, urban overview, architectural structure, public ecology, customs and customs of China’s property, environment, ecology and