page_title: Naoki Hyakuta
section_title: Historical views
hierarchical_section_title: Naoki Hyakuta / Historical views
caption_attribution_description: Naoki Hyakuta, television writer, met Kiyoaki Kawanami, Commander of the 9th Air Wing, Southwestern Air Defense Force, Air Defense Command, Air Self-Defense Force, at Naha Airbase, Air Self-Defense Force in Naha City, Okinawa Prefecture on October 29, 2017.
context_page_description: Naoki Hyakuta is a Japanese novelist and television producer. He is known for his right-wing political views and denying Japanese war crimes prior to and during World War II. He is particularly known for his 2006 novel The Eternal Zero, which became a popular 2013 film, his controversial period as a governor of government broadcaster NHK, as well as his support of Nanjing Massacre denial.
  Hyakuta has written a number of books. Several have been turned into films, such as Bokkusu and Monsuta.
context_section_description: During a speech on March 3, 2014, in support of Toshio Tamogami's bid for the governorship of Tokyo, Hyakuta stated that the Nanjing Massacre "never happened", and stated that the Tokyo War Crimes Trials were a "sham" to cover up US war crimes such as firebombing and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He also stated that he didn't see a need to teach such things to children, as they should be taught what a great country Japan is. He said that claims about the Nanjing Massacre were brought up at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunals only to cancel out the crimes the US had committed. A press officer at the US embassy in Tokyo described Hyakuta's views as "preposterous".
  In 2014 as an NHK governor he claimed that it was wrong to state that ethnic Koreans were forcibly brought to Japan during the Japanese colonial period.
caption: Hyakuta met Kiyoaki Kawanami, Commander of the 9th Air Wing, Air Self-Defense Force (on 29 October 2017)
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