Former New York Times Tokyo bureau chief Henry S. Stokes is standing by a claim made in his new book that the Nanjing Massacre never took place, describing the event as a ¡°propaganda tool of the KMT government.¡±
Kyodo News reported Thursday that Stokes¡¯ book, titled ¡°Eikokujin Kisha ga Mita Rengokoku Sensho Shikan no Kyomo (¡°Falsehoods of the Allied Nations¡¯ Victorious View of History, as Seen by a British Journalist¡°), contained ¡°rogue passages¡± that didn¡¯t reflect the author¡¯s view of the event.
The news agency accused translator Hiroyuki Fujita of adding lines to ¡°fabricate¡± Stokes¡¯ denial of Japan¡¯s wartime responsibility for the 1937 Nanjing Massacre.
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