Former New York Times Tokyo bureau chief Henry S. Stokes is standing by a claim made in his new book that the Nanjing Massacre never took place, describing the event as a "propaganda tool of the KMT government."
Kyodo News reported Thursday that Stokes' book, titled "Eikokujin Kisha ga Mita Rengokoku Sensho Shikan no Kyomo ("Falsehoods of the Allied Nations' Victorious View of History, as Seen by a British Journalist"), contained "rogue passages" that didn't reflect the author's view of the event.
The news agency accused translator Hiroyuki Fujita of adding lines to "fabricate" Stokes' denial of Japan's wartime responsibility for the 1937 Nanjing Massacre.