Who gets to decide what are facts?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/...cific-war.html
'An association of veterans and nationalist Japanese politicians and scholars is to hold a conference in Tokyo on Thursday to consider the question of why the United States started the war in the Pacific in 1941.
The conflict is generally understood to have started with the Japanese attack on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii, on the morning of December 7. But the Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact is marking the 70th anniversary of the raid in Tokyo on Thursday to discuss America's "responsibility" for the war.
"The ultimate goal of the association is to explain the true facts of history, especially when it comes to major events, such as the causes of the Pacific War," Hiromichi Moteki, secretary general of the society, told The Daily Telegraph.
"For this event, the main point is to show that the responsibility for the war was not Japan's, but America's," he said.
The society's primary aims are to promote its own understanding of history, with its scholars claiming the Nanjing Masacre is a fabrication of the Chinese government, that no women were forced into sexual slavery as "comfort women" for Japan's troops in the 1930s and 1940s and that the violent subjugation of the Korean peninsula was in the best interests of the local population.'