Hirofumi Hayashi (林 博史, Hayashi Hirofumi, born April 6, 1955) is a historian, an authority on modern *anese history, and is a professor of politics at the Kanto Gakuin University. He has been conducting research on the *anese occupation of Southeast Asia, *anese war crimes, and war crimes trials including the subject of comfort women.

Contents

• 1 Education and career
• 2 Historical research
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Education and career

Hayashi graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1979, and then obtained master's degree from Hitotsubashi University. In 1985, he was accepted as a full-time lecturer in the College of Economics at the Kanto Gakuin University, became an *istant professor, and was granted his current position as professor in 1999.

Historical research

Over the course of his career Hayashi has researched *anese history during World War II. He has researched the Sook Ching m*acres in Singapore, discovered that US war crimes trials began on Guam before the *anese surrender in 1945.

When consulted on school textbooks, he criticised the Textbook Authorization Council for distorting p*ages from his 2001 book The Battle of Okinawa. He argued that Okinawa residents' m* suicides were effectively under the control of the *anese military, even if no direct orders were given.

Hayashi has discovered do*entary proof of *anese military's wide and common involvement in the forced sexual slavery of the comfort women on Java in Indonesia, in Lansong Province in Vietnam, and in Guilin City in China.　

On Feb 25, 2014 Hayashi said, "The claims to inspect the credibility of the testimony made by these comfort women are intended to deny the whole existence of the comfort women itself".

On April 7, 2014, Hayashi found evidence of the forced sexual slavery on Bali in Indonesia.

References

External links

• Hayashi Hirofumi's Homepage on Modern History and *an's War Responsibility
• Kanto Gakuin University Homepage