Kanji Nishio (西尾 幹二, Nishio Kanji, July 20, 1935 – November 1, 2024) was a Japanese intellectual and professor emeritus of literature at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo, Japan.
[1] Nishio, who was regarded as a rightist intellectual,[2][3] was the head of the Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform (新しい歴史教科書を作る会, Atarashii Rekishi Kyokasho wo Tsukuru Kai).
This was founded in January 1997 by right-wing scholars and cartoonists to devise a new Japanese history textbook because they considered existing ones to be "self-torturing".
I think it is ridiculous, and very sad and tragic that Japan cannot write its own patriotic history.
We lost the war, and a fantasy was born that by talking bad about yourself, you can strengthen your position.