Chinese communist scholars recently acknowledged its propagandism, which was widely broadcasted by media in Japan. "Japanese large-scale invasion plans", which was so often reverted here is baseless. See below.
Director Jiang Li-feng, Institute of Japanese Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, speaking to Japanese historians visiting China in early 2006.
"...I felt scolars in Japan must learn much more about Chinese history. For example, someone talked about Tanaka Memorandum earlier. But actually, it has increasingly become a mainstream opinion among Chinese historians to think that Tanaka Memorandum in fact did not exist. Do you have knowledge in Japan, about such achievement of ours in history research?"
 - Japanese magazine "Seiron" April 2006.