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Henry Scott-Stokes

Henry Scott-Stokes (15 June 1938 – 19 April 2022) was a British journalist who was the Tokyo bureau chief for ''The Financial Times'' (1964–67), ''The Times'' (1967-1970s?), and ''The New York Times'' (1978–83).

He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford. After graduating, he moved to Japan, where he became a journalist of the Tokyo bureau of ''The Times''. Also around this time, he became close friends with famous Japanese author Yukio Mishima.

He was alleged to be a revisionist of the Nanjing Massacre (allegedly viewing that it shouldn’t be described as a ‘massacre’).

He was the father of Henry Sugiyama Adrian Folliott Scott-Stokes. He suffered from advanced Parkinson's disease. Provided by Wikipedia