Saburo Ienaga was a Japanese historian known partly for his involvement in controversies regarding school history textbooks . 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 2001 Nobel Peace Prize by Noam Chomsky among others
Japanese war crimes
Japanese war crimes
Japanese history textbook controversies