http://debianws.lexgopc.com/wiki143/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Sh%C5%ABd%C5%8D_HigashinakanoShūdō Higashinakano - Revision history2026-06-02T10:19:42ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.43.1http://debianws.lexgopc.com/wiki143/index.php?title=Sh%C5%ABd%C5%8D_Higashinakano&diff=7888666&oldid=previmported>CVECHT0316 at 08:11, 18 March 20252025-03-18T08:11:36Z<p></p>
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{{Infobox academic<br />
| name = Shūdō Higashinakano<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|10|19}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Kagoshima Prefecture]], Japan<br />
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| othername = 東中野 修道<br />
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| education = {{Unbulleted list<br />
| [[Kagoshima University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br />
| [[Osaka University]]<br />
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| discipline = History<br />
| workplaces = Asia University<br />
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{{nihongo|'''Shūdō Higashinakano'''|東中野 修道|Higashinakano Shūdō|born October 19, 1947}} is a Japanese [[historian]]. He is an emeritus professor of [[intellectual history]] at [[Asia University (Japan)|Asia University]], who [[Nanjing Massacre denial|maintains]] that the [[Nanjing Massacre]] committed by Japanese troops during the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]] is a hoax.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Higashinakano came to public attention when he criticized [[Iris Chang]]'s 1997 book ''[[The Rape of Nanking (book)|The Rape of Nanking]]''. He argued in an opinion column that appeared in ''[[Sankei Shimbun]]'' that the book was "pure baloney", alleging that there was "no witness of illegal executions or murders". Referring to the war crimes trial in Tokyo after [[World War II]], he opined that "there existed no 'Rape of Nanking' as alleged by the Tokyo Trial."<ref name="Higashinakano">{{cite web |date=September 5, 1999 |title=California State Assembly Should Indict the Atomic Bomb Droppings on Japan |url=http://www.jiyuu-shikan.org/e/nanking4.html |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070810191502/http://www.jiyuu-shikan.org/e/nanking4.html |archivedate=August 10, 2007 |accessdate=July 22, 2007 |publisher=Association for Advancement of Unbiased View of History}}</ref> He claimed to have identified 90 historical factual errors in the first 64 pages of ''The Rape of Nanking.'' In the 1998 [[Penguin Books]] edition, four minor edits were made, none of which were related to the Japanese atrocities committed in China.<ref name="Mistakes">{{cite web |title=Thanks for correcting some mistakes |url=http://www.jiyuu-shikan.org/nanjing/errors.html |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070705013557/http://www.jiyuu-shikan.org/nanjing/errors.html |archivedate=July 5, 2007 |accessdate=July 22, 2007 |publisher=Association for Advancement of Unbiased View of History}}</ref><br />
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Higashinakano presented his arguments in his book ''Thorough Review of Nanjing Massacre'' (published in English as ''The Nanking Massacre: Fact versus Fiction'', 1998). In 2006, Xia Shuqin (夏淑琴), a Chinese woman whose testimony he sought to discredit in his book, took Higashinakano to court in China, winning 1.6 million yuan in damages.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200609141726/http://en.people.cn/200608/23/eng20060823_296084.html "Nanjing Massacre survivor wins lawsuit against Japanese rightest historians", ''The People's Daily'', August 24, 2006.] Archived from [http://en.people.cn/200608/23/eng20060823_296084.html the original] on August 28, 2023.</ref> Higashinakano had claimed that she had not been a witness of the Nanjing Massacre and was not the child filmed by the missionary [[John Magee (missionary)|John Magee]] during the event.<br />
The case was later pursued in Japanese courts. On February 5, 2009, the [[Supreme Court of Japan]] ordered Higashinakano to pay [[Japanese yen|JPY]] 4 million in [[damages]] to Xia Shuqin, asserting that he had [[libelous]]ly defamed her. Higashinakano and his publisher {{Ill|Tendensha|ja|展転社}} appealed, but lost their case. Higashinakano was unable to prove that Xia and the girl in the film were different people.<ref>{{Cite web |date=February 7, 2009 |title=Author on Nanjing loses libel appeal |url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20090207b2.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607002315/http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20090207b2.html |archive-date=June 7, 2011 |website=The Japan Times}}<!--New URL: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/02/07/national/author-on-nanjing-loses-libel-appeal/--></ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=February 9, 2009 |title=Chinese hail Nanjing Massacre witness' libel suit victory |url=http://en.people.cn/90001/90776/90883/6587967.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190307034126/http://en.people.cn/90001/90776/90883/6587967.html |archive-date=March 7, 2019 |website=People's Daily}}</ref><br />
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