“安全区”和“大屠杀”是出现在日军南京大屠杀研究中一对似乎矛盾的词语。本文认为所以出现这一现象 ,是由于南京“安全区”的功能发生了错位 ,即 ,安全区某些未定或是次要功能得到充分的发挥而超过主要的功能。其原因是日军拒绝承认“安全区”;“安全区”的建立系个人行为 ,并非国际政治学意义上的“国际组织”,对主权国家不具约束力。因而“安全区”被赋予的功能能否正常发挥很大程度上取决于日本当局的意愿 “Safe Area” and “Holocaust” are a pair of seemingly contradictory words that appear in the study of the Nanjing Massacre in Japan. This paper argues that this phenomenon is due to the dislocation of the function of Nanjing’s “safe area”. That is, certain uncertainties or secondary functions of the safe area have been fully exploited over the main functions. The reason is that the Japanese refused to recognize the “safe area”. The establishment of “safe area” was a personal act and was not an “international organization” in the sense of international politics. It was not binding on sovereign countries. The normal functioning of the “safe area” to be conferred is therefore very much dependent on the wishes of the Japanese authorities