Question: Shūdō Higashinakano (東中野 修道 , Higashinakano Shūdō , born October 19, 1947) is a Japanese historian, He is a professor of intellectual history at Asia University who maintains that which titled event, an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing, is a hoax?
Sentence (from "Nanking Massacre"): The Nanking Massacre was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing ("Nanking"), then the capital of the Republic of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Relevant evidence: Yes