Ikuhiko Hata

Ikuhiko Hata
Born	(1932-12-12) 12 December 1932 (age 91) Hōfu, Japan
Alma mater	University of Tokyo
Spouse	Kazuko ​ (m. 1973)​
Awards	Kikuchi Kan Prize
Scientific career
Fields	Japanese history modern history military history
Institutions	Japanese Ministry of Finance Takushoku University Chiba University Nihon University

Ikuhiko Hata (秦 郁彦, Hata Ikuhiko, born 12 December 1932) is a Japanese historian. He earned his PhD at the University of Tokyo and has taught history at several universities. He is the author of a number of influential and well-received scholarly works, particularly on topics related to Japan's role in the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.

Hata is variously regarded as being a "conservative" historian or a "centrist". He has written extensively on such controversial subjects as the Nanjing Massacre and the comfort women. He does not believe that comfort women were coerced by the Japanese military to work. Fellow historian Edward Drea has called him "the doyen of Japanese military historians".