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"The fight goes on against Japanese right-wingers who deny the 1937 Nanjing Massacre," a former Japanese soldier has written in the preface of a new book.
Azuma Shiro, now 88, fought with the Japanese army during the massacre, when about 300,000 people in Nanjing were slaughtered.
In 1993, he was taken to court by Kouji Hashimoto, his old battle companion, after publishing his wartime diaries in 1987.
In his diaries, he spoke of Kouji Hashimoto slaughtering civilians in Nanjing. However, Hashimoto and other right-wingers denied his claims and took Shiro to Tokyo's local court.
The local court ruled that the diaries were groundless and defamed Japanese soldiers, and fined Shiro and the diary's publisher 500,000 yen (US$4,460).
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