Akira Nakamura (academic), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Historian, academic
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Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
About Akira Nakamura (academic)
- Akira Nakamura (?? ?, Nakamura Akira, 24 April 1934 – 23 June 2010) was a Japanese academic of English literature and self-trained historian specialising in Japan's wartime role in the first half of the 20th century.
- Born in Tokyo, Nakamura studied English literature and graduated from University of Tokyo in March 1959.
- He worked as a senior high school teacher of English until he clashed with the school principal.
- From April 1964 onwards he lectured at the newly founded Dokkyo University on a full-time basis until his retirement in March 2005 to become an emeritus professor.
- A representative of Showa History Research Institute, he frequently joined controversies surrounding Japan's wartime past, particularly the denialism or minimization of the Nanking Massacre of 1937-38.
- He completely rejected the Chinese government's claim of 300,000 death toll as mere propaganda, giving his own estimate of around 10,000 deaths.
- He was also a supporter of the film, The Truth about Nanjing, containing apologism for Japan's wartime past, and which denied the existence of the Nanking Massacre.
- He detested what he viewed as "left leaning" mass media, especially The Asahi Shimbun newspaper and NHK public broadcasting organisation.
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