秦永章博士的新著《日本涉藏史:近代日本与中国西藏》(中国藏学出版社2005年8月出版)是一部比较全面地介绍和论述近代日本与我国西藏地方之间关系的学术专著。19世纪末,当日本推行其“大陆政策”对亚洲大陆进行侵略扩张时,地处南亚、中亚、东亚交合点的西藏具有相当重要的战略 Dr. Qin Yongzhang’s new book, “History of Japan Involving Tibet: Modern Japan and Tibet of China” (published by China Tibetology Press, August 2005) is a monograph that comprehensively introduces and discusses the relationship between modern Japan and the Tibetan areas in our country . At the end of the 19th century, when Japan implemented its “mainland policy” to aggressively expand the continent of Asia, Tibet, which is located at the intersection of South Asia, Central Asia and East Asia, has a very important strategy