A British journalist quoted rejecting historians' accounts about Japan's actions after occupying Nanking has restated that he believes the 1937 Nanking Massacre did not occur, after saying he was "shocked and horrified" by his Japanese book's conclusion, which said the Chinese government fabricated the massacre.
Former New York Times Tokyo bureau chief Henry S. Stokes rejected as "just ridiculous" a recent Kyodo News report that quoted him as saying that his translator, Hiroyuki Fujita, "smuggled" rogue passages into the work and had the apparently contradictory conclusion "just spooned into the text" without Stokes' approval.
In a six-minute video interview posted on YouTube by a group called Watchdog for Accuracy in News-reporting Japan last week, Stokes, who cannot read or write Japanese well, said he was "fully aware" of what the book contained.