is a Japanese intellectual and professor emeritus of literature at the

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, Japan. He was awarded a degree in German literature and a PhD in literature from the

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. He has translated the works of

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and

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into Japanese and has written over seventy published works and over thirty translations. Nishio, regarded as a rightist intellectual, was the head of the

Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform The is a group founded in December 1996 to promote a nationalistic view of the history of Japan. Productions and views The group was responsible for authoring a history textbook published from Fusōsha (扶桑社), which was heavily criticised ...

(新しい歴史教科書を作る会, Atarashii Rekishi Kyokasho wo Tsukuru Kai). This was founded in January 1997 by right-wing scholars and cartoonists to devise a new Japanese history textbook because they considered existing ones to be "self-torturing". Nishio has a wide following in Japan. He opposes immigration into Japan because he believes it would cause social disorganisation and threaten social cohesion; the subtitle of one of his works is "foreign workers will destroy Japan". Nishio claimed "This is not necessarily an economic problem. Frankly speaking, it is a problem of ‘cultural defense’".John Lie, ''Multi-Ethnic Japan'' (Harvard University Press, 2001), p. 15.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nishio, Kanji 1935 births Living people Japanese literature academics University of Tokyo alumni Historical negationism