As A Japanese Nationalist
Sugiyama is also a historical revisionist of Japanese history, especially concerning the Nanking Massacre, Comfort Women, and Japanese war crimes during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. Sugiyama completely denies guilt of the Japanese Empire. He is one of the first signatories in approval of the "The Facts" advertisement in the Washington Post.
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