(February 11, 1911 – January 8, 2006) was a

Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

author notable for his book ''What Really Happened in Nanking: The Refutation of a Common Myth'', which denies that the

Nanjing Massacre The Nanjing Massacre, or the Rape of Nanjing (formerly Chinese postal romanization, romanized as ''Nanking'') was the mass murder of Chinese civilians, noncombatants, and surrendered prisoners of war by the Imperial Japanese Army in Nanji ...

as traditionally understood took place. Originally written in Japanese in 1987, an English version was published in 2000 in response to Iris Chang's book, ''

The Rape of Nanking The Nanjing Massacre, or the Rape of Nanjing (formerly romanized as ''Nanking'') was the mass murder of Chinese civilians, noncombatants, and surrendered prisoners of war by the Imperial Japanese Army in Nanjing, the capital of the Republ ...

''.

Document Tampering Controversy

A Japanese

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veteran, Tanaka served as General

Iwane Matsui was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, the commander of the expeditionary force sent to China in 1937, and convicted war criminal executed by the Allies for his involvement in the Nanjing Massacre. Born in Nagoya, Matsui chose a military ...

's secretary at the time of Nanjing Massacre in 1937 during the

Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War was fought between the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China and the Empire of Japan between 1937 and 1945, following a period of war localized to Manchuria that started in 1931. It is considered part ...

. He was involved in a controversy in 1986 when he was found to have altered a key historical document, , in several hundred places when serving as the editor for its publication in 1985. He suffered academic ostracism after the controversy but remained an active author for the non-academic market.

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