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?

Context articles: Marocchinate
Merle Curti
Dragon Seed (novel)
Aida Yūji
Jinling Library
Battle of Manila (1945)
Shūdō Higashinakano
Mack Walker
Dominick LaCapra
Nanking Massacre

Marocchinate (] , Italian for "those [feminine plural] given the Moroccan treatment" meaning "women/girls raped by Moroccans") is a term applied to women who were victims of the mass rape and killings committed during World War II after the Battle of Monte Cassino in Italy.
 These were committed mainly by the Moroccan Goumiers, colonial troops of the French Expeditionary Corps (FEC), commanded by General Alphonse Juin.
Merle Eugene Curti (September 15, 1897 in Papillion, Nebraska – March 9, 1996 in Madison, Wisconsin) was a leading American historian, who taught many graduate students at Columbia University and the University of Wisconsin, and was a leader in developing the fields of social history and intellectual history.
 He directed 86 finished PhD dissertations and had an unusually wide range of correspondents.
 As a Progressive historian he was deeply committed to democracy, and to the Turnerian thesis that social and economic forces shape American life, thought and character.
 He was a pioneer in peace studies, intellectual history, and social history, and helped develop quantitative methods based on census samples as a tool in historical research.
Dragon Seed is a novel by Pearl S. Buck first published in 1942.
 It describes the lives of Chinese peasants in a village outside Nanjing, China immediately prior to and during the Japanese invasion in 1937.
 Some characters seek protection in the city while others become collaborators.
 This story focuses less on the details of the attack and more on the characters’ reactions to the events in Nanking.
 The Nanking Massacre (commonly called the Rape of Nanking) involved months of horrific violence by the Imperial Japanese Army as they conquered the city; the novel takes place during these events.
 Buck opines in the novel that Japanese troops passing through China feel no responsibility for their conduct as they won’t be present to be confronted after the violence is over.
Aida Yūji (会田 雄次 , 5 March 1916 – 17 September 1997) was a Japanese historian specialising in the Renaissance.
 He was active as a conservative thinker, commentator and major exponent of the Nihonjinron.
 He was born in Kyōto on 5 March 1916.
 He graduated from Kyoto University in 1940 and had his master's degree in history interrupted in 1943, when he was drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army.
 He fought on the Burmese front against the British as an infantryman.
 He surrendered to the British Army at the war's end and was detained at Ahlone Camp in the British-controlled Burma.
 His experiences, especially mental torture in the hands of his captors through their cruel nonchalance towards the Japanese PoWs, are vividly described in his best-selling memoir, "Aaron Shūyōjo" (1962) On his repatriation in 1947, he began to teach at Kobe University.
 He was appointed full professor at Kyoto University's Humanities Department in 1952.
 He retired from the University in 1979, when he became an emeritus professor.
 He died of pneumonia on 17 September 1997.
Jinling Library () is a Nanjing Municipal Library, founded in 1927, located at the former Pingjiangfu Chapel.
 Originally, it was called Nanjing Special (No.1) Popular Library.
 In 1928, it changed its name into Nanjing No.1 Municipal Library, and in 1930 to Nanjing Special Municipal Demotic Library.
 It was then moved to the Pan Palace.
 Jinling Library merged with the Domestic Science Museum in 1932 and was renamed as Nanjing Municipal Library the following year.
 On December 13, 1932 , after the Japanese troops took over Nanjing, the Pan Palace, together with the library, was badly damaged and most of the books were destroyed.
 In 1952, Nanjing was demoted from the national capital to the capital of Jiangsu Province.
 Six years later, the Municipal Government decided to reestablish the library.
 In October 1980, the library was completed and open to the public at 262 Changjiang Road.
 The new pavilion had been constructed since 2005 and was open for trial in 2009.
 Jinling Library, with a total of two million books, is now located at 158 Leshan Road, Jianye District.
The Battle of Manila (February 3, 1945 – March 3, 1945) was a major battle of the Philippine campaign of 1944-45, during the Second World War.
 It was fought by American and Filipino forces against Japanese troops in Manila, the capital city of the Philippines.
 The month-long battle, which resulted in the death of over 100,000 civilians and the complete devastation of the city, was the scene of the worst urban fighting in the Pacific theater.
 Japanese forces committed mass murder against Filipino civilians during the battle.
 Along with massive loss of life, the battle also destroyed architectural and cultural heritage dating back to the city's foundation.
 The battle ended the almost three years of Japanese military occupation in the Philippines (1942–1945).
 The city's capture was marked as General Douglas MacArthur's key to victory in the campaign of reconquest.
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 the 1937 Nanking Massacre ("The Rape of Nanking") committed by Japanese troops during the Second Sino-Japanese War is a hoax.
Mack Walker, an American historian of German intellectual history, was born on 6 June 1929.
 He began teaching German history in the 1950s, and has an interest in German intellectual history of the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
 He began teaching at Johns Hopkins University in 1974 and retired in June 1999.
 He has published several books on German history, including the influential "German Home Town" (1971), in which he examined the nature of small town life in Early Modern Germany.
 He has been recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship and awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Dominick LaCapra (born 1939) is an American-born historian of European intellectual history, best known for his work in intellectual history and trauma studies.
 He served as the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies at Cornell University, where he is now a professor emeritus.
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.
 The massacre is also known as the Rape of Nanking or, using Pinyin romanization, the Nanjing Massacre or Rape of Nanjing.