Hata's "Nankin jiken" has continued to receive plaudits from some scholars. In 2000 Marius Jansen endorsed it as "the most reasonable of many Japanese studies" on the massacre and in 2001 prominent Nanking Massacre scholar Yutaka Yoshida deemed it one of the top five books he recommends that people read on the Nanking Massacre, despite disagreeing with its death toll estimate. In 2003 Joshua Fogel called the book "still an authority in the field", and Ritsumeikan University professor David Askew designated it "the best introductory work on the Nanjing Incident in any language". By 1999 the book was in its nineteenth printing.