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{{Short description|Japanese historical revisionist (1936–2022)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2022}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Hideaki Kase
| native_name = 加瀬 英明
| native_name_lang = ja
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1936|12|22}}
| birth_place = [[Tokyo]], [[Empire of Japan|Japan]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2022|11|15|1936|12|22}}
| death_place =
| nationality = [[Japanese people|Japanese]]
| other_names =
| known_for = [[Historical revisionism]]<br />[[Historical negationism]]<br />[[Anti-Korean sentiment in Japan|Anti-Korean sentiment]]
| occupation = Chairman of Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact<br>[[Takushoku University]] Lecturer
}}
{{Nihongo|'''Hideaki Kase'''|加瀬 英明|Kase Hideaki|22 December 1936 – 15 November 2022}} was a Japanese diplomatic critic known for promoting [[historical negationism]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Morris-Suzuki |first1=Tessa |title=Un-remembering the Massacre: How Japan’s “History Wars” are Challenging Research Integrity Domestically and Abroad |url=https://gjia.georgetown.edu/2021/10/25/un-remembering-the-massacre-how-japans-history-wars-are-challenging-research-integrity-domestically-and-abroad/ |publisher=Georgetown Journal of International Affairs}}</ref> His father, [[Toshikazu Kase]], was a diplomat under [[Shigenori Tōgō]] who negotiated an end to the Pacific war. [[Yoko Ono]] is his cousin.
==Revisionist organizations==
Kase was the Chairman of Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sdh-fact.com/about.html |title=About Us |publisher=Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact |accessdate=28 April 2007 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070703161604/http://www.sdh-fact.com/about.html |archivedate=3 July 2007 }}</ref> a right-wing<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dw.com/en/japans-nationalist-school-books-teach-a-different-view-of-history/a-40092325|title=Japan's 'nationalist' school books teach a different view of history|website=[[Deutsche Welle]] }}</ref> organization promoting historical revisionism,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611105132/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/08/national/history/journalist-backtracks-best-seller-revisionist-switcheroo/#.V1vtPezP1qY/|title=Journalist backtracks on best-seller after Nanjing switcheroo|website=[[The Japan Times]]|date=8 May 2014}}</ref> including denial of Imperial Japan's war crimes, such as the [[Nanjing Massacre]] and abduction of [[comfort women]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Arbes |first1=Ross |title=How the Talmud Became a Best-Seller in South Korea |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310093518/https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/how-the-talmud-became-a-best-seller-in-south-korea |publisher=The New Yorker |date=2015-06-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Ryall |first1=Julian |title=Japan's anger at UNESCO |url=https://www.dw.com/en/japan-furious-at-unesco-listing-nanjing-massacre-documents/a-18790477 |publisher=Deutsche Welle |date=2015-10-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Ryall |first1=Julian |title=Japan marks 70 years since WWII surrender |url=https://www.dw.com/en/japan-marks-70-years-since-its-surrender-ended-world-war-ii/a-18650794 |publisher=Deutsche Welle |date=2015-08-15}}</ref> In an interview with [[BBC]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4145356.stm|title=Japan's problem over the past|date=15 August 2005}}</ref> journalist Bethan Jinkinson, Kase said: "The majority of our people believe that Japan was forced into war by the United States. America was making unreasonable demands upon us. So we were fighting a war of national self-defence". Kase wrote episodes of friendship with [[John Lennon]] for the [[Sankei Shinbun]] newspaper on 8 December 2016. Kase said to John Lennon, "the USA forced Japan to fight the USA and reluctantly Japan fought in self-defense. Japanese were the same as Vietnamese who were attacked by the USA." John Lennon visited many Japanese [[Shinto Shrine]]s, and one of them was [[Yasukuni Shrine]]. Kase and Ono were in the family of [[ Yasuda zaibatsu]], and [[Yoko Ono]] was seen as a nuisance in this prestigious financial clan, but Hideaki Kase got along with [[Yoko Ono]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sankei.com/entertainments/news/161208/ent1612080002-n1.html|title=【ジョン・レノン没後３６年】ジョン・レノンは靖国の英霊に祈った 外交評論家・加瀬英明（正論１１月号より）|date=8 December 2016}}</ref>
Also a member of [[Nippon Kaigi]], Kase said about that openly [[Historical revisionism|revisionist]] lobby: "We are dedicated to our conservative cause. We are [[Monarchism|monarchists]]. We are for revising the [[Constitution of Japan|constitution]]. We are for the glory of the nation".<ref>Linda Sieg, Reuters, 15 June 2006</ref>
== "Ugly Korean" ==
{{Anti-Korean sentiment in Japan|Prominent figures}}
He was published in March 1993 and is the author of "Ugly Korean" (醜い韓国人), a ''[[Kenkan]]'' genre book that has gained considerable popularity in Japan. The contents of the book are accused of maliciously distorting Korean culture and history.<ref>{{cite web|title=1993년 봄, 도쿄 '추한 한국인' 날조사건을 떠올리다 |url=http://www.mediatoday.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=201612 |publisher=미디어오늘|date=2019-08-06|access-date=2023-02-26}}</ref>
==Revisionist films==
Hideaki Kase had a history of promoting controversial films that contest [[Japanese war crimes]]:
*Kase was the head of the production committee for the Japanese film "''[[Merdeka 17805]]''" (2001),<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2001/03/27/national/war-flick-touting-japans-role-in-indonesias-birth-irks-jakarta/ | title=War flick touting Japan's role in Indonesia's birth irks Jakarta | newspaper=Japan Times | date=27 March 2001}}</ref> which caused minor outrage in [[Indonesia]]{{citation needed|date=August 2015}} because it depicted Imperial Japan as a liberating force instead of the aggressor.
*Merdeka 17805 was produced in partnership with Katsuaki Asano, the president of Tokyo Film Production, also his partner in the movie "''Pride, the Fateful Moment''" (1998), that stirred debate by the way it depicted the [[Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal|Tokyo war crimes tribunal]] and General [[Hideki Tojo]].
*Kase was also among the main advocates of the movie ''[[The Truth about Nanjing]]'' (2007), that negates Japan's responsibility in the [[Nanjing massacre]].
==Personal life and death==
Kase died on 15 November 2022, at the age of 85.<ref>{{cite news |title=外交評論家の加瀬英明氏死去 保守派の論客 |url=https://www.iza.ne.jp/article/20221115-OKVHW7FQGJPNJJWKJRR7WAPCXQ/ |access-date=15 November 2022 |publisher=SankeiBiz |date=15 November 2022}}</ref>
== See also ==
* Kowner, Rotem. "Hidea Kase, the Ultranationalist Figure Who wanted to Make Japan Great Again", online ''Haartz Weekend Brief'', 25 Nov. 2022.
*[[Japanese nationalism]]
*[[Nippon Kaigi]]
*[[Nanking Massacre denial]]
*[[Historical revisionism (negationism)]]
==Notes==
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== External links ==
*[http://www.kase-hideaki.co.jp/ Official Web Site] (In Japanese)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081021170107/http://mobile.newsweek.com/detail.jsp?key=7898&rc=wo&p=0&all=1 "World View: Hideaki Kase", ''Newsweek'' 24 March 2007.] Retrieved 31 March 2007
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[[Category:Keio University alumni]]
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[[Category:Recipients of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus]]
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