Ikuhiko Hata, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Ikuhiko Hata

Japanese historian

Date of Birth: 12-Dec-1932

Place of Birth: Hōfu, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan

Profession: historian, linguist, lexicographer

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Ikuhiko Hata (? ??, Hata Ikuhiko, born 12 December 1932) is a Japanese historian.
He acquired his PhD at the University of Tokyo and has taught history at several universities.
He is the author of a number of influential and well-received scholarly works, particularly on topics related to Japan's role in the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. Hata is variously regarded as being a "conservative" historian or a "centrist".
He has written extensively on such controversial subjects as the Nanking Massacre and the comfort women.
Fellow historian Edward Drea has called him "the doyen of Japanese military historians".