Saburō Ienaga, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Saburō Ienaga

Japanese historian

Date of Birth: 03-Sep-1913

Place of Birth: Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 29-Nov-2002

Profession: historian

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Saburo Ienaga (?? ??, Ienaga Saburo, September 3, 1913 – November 29, 2002) was a Japanese historian.
In 1953, the Japanese Ministry of Education published a textbook by Ienaga, but censored what they said were factual errors and matters of opinion, regarding Japanese war crimes.
Ienaga undertook a series of lawsuits against the Ministry for violation of his freedom of speech.
He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999 and 2001 by Noam Chomsky among others.
He also recorded the history of the Japanese resistance in World War II in his book The Pacific War, 1931–1945.