-------------译者：塞北狼烟-审核者：rumor四起------------
The killing competition is worth studying for what it shockingly reveals about Japanese attitudes towards the Chinese at the time, but the stories themselves were fictional. Of the two officers concerned, one was an artillery officer and the other was an adjutant to a battalion commander, i.e. neither were front-line soldiers and couldn't possibly have done what was described (that is, in the original articles), such as charging Chinese pillboxes whilst shouting out their names.
If you actually read these original reports, it is clear that it was just wartime propaganda. However, there is reason to believe that the story originated from boasting by one of the officers to a newspaper reporter, and the two went along with the story for the fame it gave them. This is the reason why the extremely ill-advised lawsuit by the family of Noda failed, before any wiki-experts mention it.
We cannot discount totally the possibility that one or both of the two may have been involved in war crimes, but the 'killing competition' as described was undoubtedly fictional.
杀人比赛是值得研究的，它揭示了当时日本对中国的骇人的态度，但故事本身是虚构的。两个军官一个是炮兵军官，一个是副官营长，二者都不是前线士兵，所以不可能像原始文章中所称的那样在冲向中国碉堡时喊出自己的名字。
如果你真的读过这些原始报道，那就会发现那是战时的政治宣传。无论如何，有理由相信这是一个军官向记者吹嘘的故事。他们俩带着故事赋予的名声一起走了，这就是野田家因为极不理智的诉讼而失败的原因，在维基专家提到这事之前。
我们不能排除这二人犯下战争罪行的可能性，但杀人比赛的描述无疑是虚构的。
-------------译者：rumor四起-审核者：rumor四起------------
