"[1][2] His book Nankin Daigyakusatsu No Maboroshi ("The Illusion of the Nanjing Massacre"), which he wrote while working at TBS, won the 4th Soichi Oya Nonfiction Award in 1973.
[5] All the incumbent members of the Soichi Oya Award nomination panel acknowledged the correctness of his argument in praising the work.
In a special edition of Shokun magazine, Suzuki argued that estimating the number of victims accurately would be impossible.
[6] Though he has been classified as middle of the road in the debate on the massacre, the historian Tokushi Kasahara has criticized him as “a central member of the Nanjing denial faction”.
that former officer Sadaharu Hirabayashi, who later became president of the veterans’ association Senyukai, made statements of dubious credibility to Suzuki and in addition was not actually present at Mufushan.