About 30 lawmakers from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the Democratic Party of Japan gathered Tuesday to hear a controversial historian talk about why he figures the Nanjing Massacre is a "complete fabrication."

At the second of a three-part lecture series held in a building housing lawmakers' offices across from the Diet building, Shudo Higashinakano, a history professor at Asia University in Tokyo, told the small group that the Nanjing Massacre was simply Chinese government propaganda.

"I've investigated many materials and come to the conclusion that a massacre never took place," Higashinakano claimed.