Satoru Mizushima

Satoru Mizushima (水島 総, Mizushima Satoru, born June 18, 1949 in Kakegawa, Shizuoka Prefecture) is a Japanese film maker and right-wing activist. He graduated from Waseda University majoring in German literature. He is also the main host of the right-wing Japanese media organization, Channel Sakura, which maintains an active YouTube broadcasting account "SakuraSoTV". He can often be seen and heard during nationalist rallies in Tokyo, especially during anti-Chinese protests. He denies Japan's destructive role in World War II.

Satoru Mizushima (October 11, 2012)

In 1988, he released his first film, The Story of the Panda, about a Japanese woman who helps Chinese people raise a panda. In 1992, he released his second film, Goodbye Heiji, about a blind girl and her seeing-eye dog.

In 2007, he released The Truth about Nanjing, a Japanese film that denies the occurrence of the Nanjing Massacre.[1][2] Mizushima has said it is an "indisputable fact" that no massacre occurred[3] and he is "certain there was no bloodshed and rapes of civilians".[4] He dismissed evidence of the massacre, calling it "faked" and "Chinese Communist propaganda", including a photograph of a Chinese victim's decapitated head with a cigarette in their mouth.[5]

In 2010 he was one of the founders of Ganbare Nippon.[6]

References
  1. Hongo, Jun (2007-01-25). "Filmmaker to paint Nanjing slaughter as just myth". The Japan Times.
  2. "revisionist nanking film now playing". Archived from the original on 2011-07-07.
  3. Reynolds, Isabel (December 14, 2007). "Japanese filmmaker says "Nanjing never happened"". Reuters.
  4. "Japan Nanking". AP Archive.
  5. McNeill, David; Coonan, Clifford (December 5, 2007). "Propaganda war is declared in cinemas over Nanking massacre". The Independent.
  6. "Japan's Nationalist Movement Strengthens". The Wall Street Journal. August 14, 2012. Retrieved August 20, 2012.
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