(b. 1913), Japanese historian. Born in Aichi Prefecture in 1913, Ienaga Saburo graduated from Tokyo Imperial University (now the University of Tokyo) in 1937. He began his career as a high school teacher, later moving to Tokyo University of Education...

Saburo Ienaga (家永 三郎 Ienaga Saburō: September 3, 1913 - November 29 2002) was a Japanese historian famous for controversies regarding school history textbooks. In 1953, the Japanese Ministry of Education published a textbook by Ienaga, but...

Saburo Ienaga, 89 Japanese historian Wednesday, December 4, 2002 Tokyo -- Saburo Ienaga, a historian who devoted his life to battling government censorship of Japan's wartime atrocities in school textbooks, has died, a Japanese news agency reported. He was 89. Ienaga,...

THE JAPANESE historian Saburo Ienaga spent more than 50 years of his life challenging the bureaucracy and pedantry of the Japanese Ministry of Education (Mombusho). Last year he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Mombusho's screening and mutilation of school and university...

Today is Wednesday, Aug. 29, the 241st day of 2007. There are 124 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:Fifty years ago, on Aug. 29, 1957, the Senate gave final congressional approval to a Civil Rights Act after South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond (then...