is a Japanese

Japanese people

The are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...

 diplomatic critic.

Hideaki Kase was the head of the production committee for a Japanese film "Merdeka" (2001).
His father, Toshikazu Kase

Toshikazu Kase

was a Japanese civil servant and career diplomat. During World War II he was a high-ranking Foreign Ministry official.Kase was born in Chiba, Japan. After passing his Foreign Service Examination in 1925 he left Tokyo Higher Commercial College and attended Amherst College and Harvard as a Research...

, was a diplomat under Shigenori Tōgō

Shigenori Togo

was Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Empire of Japan at both the start and the end of the Japanese-American conflict during World War II...

 who negotiated an end to the Pacific war.

Kase is the Chairman of Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact.

In an interview with BBC 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".

He is an assenter of "The Truth about Nanjing

The Truth about Nanjing

is a forthcoming film by Japanese filmmaker about the 1937 Nanking Massacre.The film, backed by nationalistic figures including Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara and public donation, is intended to expose alleged propaganda aspects of the Nanking Massacre...

(movie)."

External links

• Official Web Site (In Japanese)
• "World View: Hideaki Kase", Newsweek 24 March 2007. Retrieved 31 March 2007