Ikuhiko Hata

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Ikuhiko Hata (秦郁彦 Hata Ikuhiko: December 12, 1932 - ) is a Japanese historian. He published many textbooks and interpretive studies in both Japanese military and modern history.

Hata was born in Yamaguchi Prefecture. He graduated from University of Tokyo in 1956, and later studied at Columbia University. During the four-year bachelor program in Tokyo, he interviewed many former Japanese army officers, including A-class criminals in the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. After graduation, he joinned Ministry of Finance and later transfered to the Defense Agency, where he engaged in historiographic works of the Japanese financial and military history. His collaborative study at the Japan Association of International Relations is later published as Road to the Pacific War, which is now regarded as a classic textbook of the diplomatic studies before the Pacific War. Also he published some dictionaries from the University of Tokyo Press.

He teached as a guest professor at Princeton University, and served as a professor at Takushoku University, Chiba University and Nihon University.

He is known as objectivist and he has emphasized on experimental studies.

[edit] Selected works

History of Sino-Japanese war. Tokyo: Hara Shobo, 1961. (『日中戦争史』河出書房新社, 1961年／増訂版, 1972年／新装版, 原書房, 1979年）
Hisitory of Japanese Military Fascism. Tokyo: Kawade Shobo, 1962. (『軍ファシズム運動史――3月事件から2・26後まで』（河出書房新社, 1962年／増訂版, 1972年／新装版, 原書房, 1980年）
Nanking Massacre. Tokyo: Chuo Koron, 1986. (『南京事件　虐殺の構造』中公新書 1986年)
Comfort Women and the Sex in War. Tokyo: Shinchosha, 1999. (『慰安婦と戦場の性』新潮社新潮選書）
Japanese Army Air Force Fighter Units and Their Aces, 1931-1945. Grub Street the Basement, 2002 ISBN 1902304896
Hirohito: The Showa Emperor in War and Peace. University of Hawaii Press, 2007 ISBN 1905246358