Naoki Hyakuta

Naoki Hyakuta
百田尚樹
Hyakuta in 2017

Leader of the Conservative Party of Japan
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 September 2023
Deputy	Vacant
Preceded by	Position established
Member of the House of Councillors
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 July 2025
Constituency	National PR

Personal details
Born	(1956-02-23) February 23, 1956 Higashiyodogawa, Osaka, Japan
Party	Conservative
Alma mater	Doshisha University (dropped out)
Writing career
Language	Japanese
Period	2006–2019
Genre	War, historical fiction, non-fiction, fiction
Notable works	The Eternal Zero A Man Called Pirate
Notable awards	Japan Booksellers' Award (2009, 2011, 2012, 2013)

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Politicians Abe Asō Fukuda Hara Hashimoto Hatoyama Hiranuma (Kiichirō) Hiranuma (Takeo) Hirohito Hyakuta Inada Inoue Ishiba (Shigeru) Ishiba (Jirō) Ishihara Itō Kamiya Kaneko Katsura Kawamura Kishi Kishida Koike Koizumi (Junichiro) Koizumi (Shinjirō) Mori Makino Nakagawa Nakasone Ōhira Ōkubo Saigō Saionji Suga Sugita Takaichi Tamaki Tojo (Hideki) Tojo (Yuko) Yamagata Yoshida
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Organisations Active Ganbare Nippon Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform Nippon Kaigi Zaitokukai Conservative Political Action Conference (J-CPAC) Defunct Black Dragon Society Genyōsha Kenkokukai Kokuryūkai Sakurakai Tatenokai Tōseiha
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Intellectuals Chogyū Etō Fukuda Hayashi Hirata Hyakuta Ishiwara Kakuzō Kanokogi Kita Kobayashi (Hideo) Kobayashi (Yoshinori) Masaki Minobe Mayuzumi Mizushima Mishima Miyake Nishibe Nishio Ōen Oh Ōkawa Oshikawa Sakurai Shiga Shimoi Shinkichi Sono Sugiyama Tadayuki Takabatake Tanaka Tetsujirō Watanabe Yatsuka Yanagita
Literature Bushido: The Soul of Japan (1899) Kokutairon and Pure Socialism (1906) An Investigation of Global Policy (1943) Patriotism (1960) Sun and Steel (1968) The Japan That Can Say No (1989) The Dignity of the Nation (2005) The Eternal Zero (2006)
Politicians Abe Akamatsu Araki Asō Hashimoto (Kingoro) Hashimoto (Tōru) Hiranuma Hirohito Hyakuta Hirota Inada Ishihara Kamiya Kawamura Kiichirō Kishi Koike Koiso Koizumi (Junichiro) Koizumi (Shinjirō) Konoe Masaki Matsuoka Nakano Nakasone Saigō Suga Sugita Takaichi Tsuji Tojo (Hideki) Tojo (Yuko)
Activists Akao Inoue Kase Kodama Ryōhei Sakurai Sasakawa Tachibana Toyama Yamaguchi
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Naoki Hyakuta (百田尚樹, Hyakuta Naoki; born February 23, 1956) is a Japanese novelist, television producer, and politician. He is the co-founder and leader of the Conservative Party of Japan. He has been a member of the House of Councillors since 2025, after being elected in that year's election.

Hyakuta is particularly known for his 2006 novel The Eternal Zero, which was adapted into an eponymous 2013 film. Other books of his, several of which have also been adapted into films, include Bokkusu and Monsuta. From 2013 to 2015, he served as a governor of the public broadcaster NHK.

Hyakuta is known for his far-right political views, including his denial of Japanese war crimes before and during World War II, particularly the Nanjing Massacre. On October 30, 2023, party leader Hyakuta and secretary general Arimoto made derogatory remarks against the Korean people on a Niconico live stream, with both stating that the "Korean people are human scum" and "I want to sever diplomatic relations with South Korea and go to war."