Ikuhiko Hata
Japanese historian (born 1932) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ikuhiko Hata (秦 郁彦, Hata Ikuhiko, born 12 December 1932) is a Japanese historian. He earned 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.
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Born | (1932-12-12) 12 December 1932 (age 91) Hōfu, Japan |
Alma mater | University of Tokyo |
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Kazuko (m. 1973) |
Awards | Kikuchi Kan Prize |
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Hata is variously regarded as being a "conservative" historian or a "centrist". He has written extensively on such controversial subjects as the Nanjing Massacre and the comfort women. Fellow historian Edward Drea has called him "the doyen of Japanese military historians".