Consequently, Askew estimates that the true number of corpses buried in and around Nanking was 17,500, whereas military historian Masahiro Yamamoto puts the number at 43,000.
因此阿斯丘估计埋在南京及周边的尸体的真实数目为17,500，而军事历史学家山本昌弘提出的数字为43,000。