# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/masaaki-tanaka
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:36:17.606Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/masaaki-tanaka"
name: "Masaaki Tanaka"
slug: "masaaki-tanaka"
description: "Masaaki Tanaka  was a Japanese author notable for his book What Really Happened in Nanking: The Refutation of a Common Myth, which denies that the Nanjing Massacre as traditionally understood took place. Originally written in Japanese in 1987, an English version was published in 2000 in response to Iris Chang's book, The Rape of Nanking."
tagline: "Japanese writer (1911-2006)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1911-02-11"
deathDate: "2006-01-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.77
  momentum:             1.194444444444444
  historical:           5.695682666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaaki_Tanaka"
    title: "Masaaki Tanaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8)"
    title: "ماساكي تاناكا (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaaki_Tanaka"
    title: "Masaaki Tanaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%94%B0%E4%B8%AD%E6%AD%A3%E6%98%8E"
    title: "田中正明"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%A1%D5%BD%D5%A1%D5%A1%D5%AF%D5%AB_%D5%8F%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%A1%D5%AF%D5%A1"
    title: "Մասաակի Տանակա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%94%B0%E4%B8%AD%E6%AD%A3%E6%98%8E"
    title: "田中正明"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6782270"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump