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Henry Scott-Stokes (15 June 1938 – 19 April 2022) was a British journalist who was the Tokyo bureau chief for The Financial Times (1964–67), The Times (1967-1970s?), and The New York Times (1978–83).

He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford. After graduating, he moved to Japan, where he became a journalist of the Tokyo bureau of The Times. Also around this time, he became close friends with famous Japanese author Yukio Mishima.

He was a denier of the Nanjing Massacre.

He was the father of Henry Sugiyama Adrian Folliott Scott-Stokes. He suffered from advanced Parkinson's disease.

Bibliography

• Henry Scott Stokes (1 September 1985). Vida Y Muerte De Yukio Mishima/the Life and Death of Yukio Mishima. Lectorum Pubns Inc. ISBN 978-8485501861.
• Henry Scott-Stokes (1999). 100 Samurai Companies: Japan's Top 100 Growth OTC Companies. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-028588-8.
• Henry Scott Stokes (8 August 2000). The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima. Cooper Square Press. ISBN 978-1-4616-2422-6.
• Henry Scott Stokes (17 November 2016). Fallacies in the Allied Nations' Historical Perception as Observed by a British Journalist. Hamilton Books. ISBN 978-0-7618-6810-1.
• Henry Scott Stokes; Lily Xiao Hong Lee (16 September 2016). The Kwangju Uprising: A Miracle of Asian Democracy as Seen by the Western and the Korean Press. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-315-29175-8.

References

1. ８３歳、ヘンリー・ストークスさん死去　本紙でも憲法改正など訴えた英ジャーナリスト　息子のハリー杉山がツイッターで明らかに (in Japanese)
2. Tokyo Weekender - Writer Bio - Henry Scott-Stokes Archived 7 July 2003 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 12 April 2007.
3. "Best-Selling Author Feels the Heat in Japan's History Wars". Time Magazine. 5 November 2014. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
4. "Creating The Big Lie". Asia Policy Point. Retrieved 30 October 2021.

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