Shintaro Ishihara was a denier of which historical event?
Nanjing Massacre
Hiroshima bombing
Pearl Harbor Attack
Tokyo Firebombing
Answer
Shintaro Ishihara was a Japanese politician and author who was a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. He served as the Governor of Tokyo from 1999 to 2012. He was a denier of the Nanjing Massacre, which was a Japanese military atrocity that occurred during the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 and 1938. Ishihara claimed that the massacre was a fabrication and that there was no evidence to support it.
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