is a Japanese historian. His area of expertise is modern Chinese history and Sino-Japanese relations. Since 2001 he has been a professor in the faculty of law at
Surugadai University
is a private university in Hannō, Saitama, Japan, established in 1987. Aiming to produce people who can contribute to today's internationalized, information-oriented society, the university places emphasis on thorough small-class teaching, fore ...
after having served as associate professor at the same university.
He received a master's degree from
Hitotsubashi University’s department of sociological research and then attained a doctorate in the same field.
He is the managing director of the “Chūgokujin Sensō Higaisha no Yōkyū wo Sasaeru Kai”, which provides legal support for Chinese victims of Japanese war crimes, and within that organization he heads an executive committee charged with seeking a formal apology and reparations from the Japanese government for the
Pingdingshan massacre The Pingdingshan village massacre was a massacre committed by the Imperial Japanese Army on September 16, 1932.
On September 15, Anti-Japanese Red Spear militia, not from the area but passing through Pingdingshan, fired on Japanese soldiers and la ...
.
Inoue is an active researcher on the
Nanjing massacre
The Nanjing Massacre (, ja, 南京大虐殺, Nankin Daigyakusatsu) or the Rape of Nanjing (formerly romanized as ''Nanking'') was the mass murder of Chinese civilians in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, immediately after the Ba ...
and believes that more than 100,000 POWs, captured plainclothes guerrillas, and civilians were murdered by the Japanese army in Nanjing city and its vicinity and in the surrounding six counties.
He and his colleague
Akira Fujiwara
was a Japanese historian. His academic speciality was modern Japanese history and he was a professor emeritus at Hitotsubashi University. In 1980 he became a member of the Science Council of Japan and was a former chairman of the Historical Scien ...
supervised the first Japanese translation of Iris Chang's ''
The Rape of Nanking
The Nanjing Massacre (, ja, 南京大虐殺, Nankin Daigyakusatsu) or the Rape of Nanjing (formerly romanized as ''Nanking'') was the mass murder of Chinese civilians in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, immediately after the Ba ...
'' which was not released because Chang refused to change the text in 62 places where Inoue had advised making corrections.
[Takashi Yoshida, The Making of the "Rape of Nanking" (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 174-175.]
Works
*『中国国民政府史の研究』（汲古書院）
*「南京事件と遺体埋葬問題」、「南京事件と中国共産党」『南京事件を考える』Edited with
Akira Fujiwara
was a Japanese historian. His academic speciality was modern Japanese history and he was a professor emeritus at Hitotsubashi University. In 1980 he became a member of the Science Council of Japan and was a former chairman of the Historical Scien ...
,
Katsuichi Honda, and
Tomio Hora Tomio Hora (洞 富雄, ''Hora Tomio'', (born 14 November 1906 in Higashichikuma District, Nagano Prefecture, modern-day Chikuhoku; died 15 March 2000) was a Japanese historian and Waseda University professor, well known for his pioneering work on ...
（大月書店、1987）
*「遺体埋葬からみた南京事件犠性者数」『南京大虐殺の現場へ』Edited with Akira Fujiwara, Katsuichi Honda, and Tomio Hora（朝日新聞社、1988）
*『南京大虐殺否定論 13のウソ』南京事件調査研究会 編（柏書房、1999）
*「南京大虐殺と中国国民党国際宣伝処」『現代歴史学と南京事件』Edited with
Tokushi Kasahara
is a Japanese historian. He is a professor emeritus at Tsuru University and his area of expertise is modern Chinese history.
Life and career
He was born in Gunma Prefecture and graduated from Gunma Prefectural Maebashi High School and the depar ...
and Yutaka Yoshida（柏書房、2006）
References
20th-century Japanese historians
1950 births
Living people
Hitotsubashi University alumni
21st-century Japanese historians
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