Henry Scott-Stokes (15 June 1938 – 19 April 2022)[1] 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).[2]

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.[3]

He was the father of Henry Sugiyama Adrian Folliott Scott-Stokes. He suffered from advanced Parkinson's disease.[4]

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  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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