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2014-08-16
The Written Confessions By Shoji Nishinaga
Shoji Nishinaga(西永彰治)
According to the written confession of Shoji Nishinaga (alias Ryosuke Nakamura) in July 1954, he was born in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan in 1899. During the Japanese War of Aggression against China, he served successively as chief of the Japanese Yanjijian Island Dispatch Military Police and unit commander of the Kaifeng Japanese Military Police.
Major offences:
From August 1933 to March 1934:led the subordinate military police to kill 20 Communist guerrillas and anti-Japanese people "on the riverside under the Yanji Bridge in Yanji River region";
From autumn 1934 to early summer 1935:led the subordinate military police to kill 16 Communist guerrillas and anti-Japanese people "in Yanji River region along the north side of Tumen City";
Early summer 1939:in structed the subordinate military police to "give severe punishment (killing) to the 6 arrested Communist guerrillas and Kuomintang intelligence operators by sending them with trucks to a field near the streets of Tongzhou, Beijing";
From August 1939 to November 1940:while serving as unit commander of the Kaifeng Military Police, ordered the subordinate military police to kill 12 anti-Japanese Chinese patriots.
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The Written Confessions By Kiichi Kobayashi
Kiichi Kobayashi(小林喜一)
According to the written confession of Kiichi Kobayashi in June 1954, he was born in Saitama Prefecture, Japan in 1895. During the Japanese War of Aggression against China, he was unit commander of the Mukden Military Police. On 20 August 1945, he was arrested by the Soviet Army in Shenyang.
Major offences:
Mid-November 1935:ordered the subordinates to send an arrested Chinese to the military surgeon for appendectomy experiment and later, "ordered the subordinates to kill with saber this person and another 3 (a total of 4) people on the riverside one kilometer to the north of Chifeng";
Early July 1936:ordered the subordinates to "kill 6 Chinese with saber on the riverside one kilometer to the north of Chifeng";
Early September 1936: ordered the subordinates to "kill with saber" 3 Chinese "on the riverside one kilometer to the north of Chifeng", and send another one by truck to Manchurian Railway's Chifeng Hospital, where "Director Kawasaki and another Japanese surgeon (the name is forgotten) injected poison into the person, killed him, dissected the body and buried the body in the hospital compound";
Mid-October 1936:ordered the subordinates to "kill with handguns" 3 Chinese patriots "on the riverside one kilometer to the north of Chifeng";
3 September 1937: ordered the subordinates to "shoot the 9" Chinese who were imprisoned in Zhangjiakou No.1 Prison, "in the grass about 100 meters from the south gate of the prison";
4 September 1937:ordered the subordinates to "shoot to death" two Chinese "on the grassland one kilometer to the east of Zhangjiakou";
15 September 1937:ordered the subordinates to "transport by a heavy truck" a Chinese captive "to the field two kilometers to the west of Datong and shoot the person dead there";
January 1944: sent the "useless""Soviet spies""in 'special transfer' to Ishii Unit in Harbin for bacteriological experiments";
11 August 1945: claiming that "the war is still going on and it is not appropriate to release these war-time enemies, so they should be disposed of before our retreat", killed the Chinese people who had not been released.
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2014-08-14
The Written Confessions By Yukio Shimura
Yukio Shimura(志村行雄)
According to the written confession of Yukio Shimura in June 1954, he was born in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan in 1902. During the Japanese War of Aggression against China, he served as captain of the Hailar Japanese Military Police.
Major offences:
Around June 1944:arrested 4 or 5 people who tried to sabotage the coal mine and power station in Jalainur; "some of them were disposed of in special transfer and some were sent to the Procuratorate for sentencing";
Around 20 December 1944: Military Surgeon Matsumoto (name not very clearly remembered), Colonel of Ishii Unit in Harbin, came to Hailar for research on frostbite. People were escorted from the train station to the frostbite research center. "Whenever I received the notice that some people had been escorted to Hailar Station, I would order the Hailar Military Police Branch to escort them. I could not remember which military police unit had sent these people, but I remember there were 3 or 4 people sent here during the research period";
March 1945:"The Hailar Military Police Branch arrested a Communist Party member who was dispatched from Yanan. We disposed of this person in special transfer";
April 1945: "The Contingent of Sanhe Military Police arrested 3 Communists and disposed of them in special transfer";
Early July 1945:The Manzhouli Military Police Branch uncovered a case where a Chinese agent for the Soviet Consulate in Manzhouli set fire to the Japanese army in Manzhouli under the command of consular officers, and "the person was disposed of in special transfer";
18 August 1945:ordered the subordinates to "kill and bury in the military camp" the wounded Chinese people.
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2014-08-13
The Written Confessions By Yoshio Mizoguchi
Yoshio Mizoguchi(沟口嘉夫)
According to the written confession of Yoshio Mizoguchi in August 1954 and June 1956, he was born in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan in 1910. In October 1933, he went to northeast China to take part in the War of Aggression against China. He was procurator of Harbin Local Procuratorate of the "Manchukuo".
Major offences:
From March to June 1943:"I sentenced 9 Chinese patriots to death penalty in Bayan. With another 4 dead in prison during the interrogation, I killed a total of 13 people";
May 1945:"I prosecuted 26 Chinese patriots" arrested for their assaulting the "Manchukuo" Police Department and "requested death penalty for 9 of them". The 9 people were executed on 10 July;
June 1945: "I prosecuted 30 Chinese patriots" who had been arrested "and requested death penalty for 3 of them." "From 10 to 13 August, the 3 Chinese patriots were executed in Daoli Prison of Harbin";
June 1945:prosecuted 35 captured people, including soldiers and officers of the 3rd Route Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army and anti-Japanese patriots, "requesting death penalty for 15 people, including Captain Sun Guodong, and over 15 years of imprisonment each for the other 20 people". "From 10 to 13 August of the same year, the 15 Chinese, including Captain Sun Guodong, were executed in Daoli Prison of Harbin."
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2014-08-12
The Written Confessions By Shigesaku Nozaki
Shigesaku Nozaki(野崎茂作)
According to the written confession of Shigesaku Nozaki in August 1954, he was born in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan in 1898. In 1931, he went to northeast China to take part in the War of Aggression against China. He served successively as sergeant of Munitions Factory Squad of Mukden Japanese Military Police and chief of Police Division in Huaide County.
Major offences:
From October to December 1931: led the subordinates to arrest a total of "15 soldiers of Zhang Xueliang's troops" on three occasions and "ordered the subordinate Sergeant Inoue to interrogate and torture them"; on 25 December, "shot them to death with handguns";
August 1932:led the subordinates to interrogate with torture 5 soldiers of Zhang Haipeng's troops in Mukden and shot them to death with handguns;
December 1932:led the military police to arrest and interrogate with torture 18 soldiers of Deng Tiemei's anti-Japanese troops in Zhuanghe County;"on the sand beach 500 meters to the north of the Zhuanghe County seat, instructed 15 military police to line up the 18 captives and shot them to death with carbines.";
December 1932: led the military police to arrest 5 anti-Japanese operators and Communist Party members in a village to the west of Dagushan and shot them to death after interrogation with torture;
February 1933:when serving as squad leader and sergeant of the Jilin Branch of Xinjing Military Police, led the subordinates to take 5 soldiers of Liu Dongbo's troops to a place 2 kilometers to the southwest of Jilin City and shot them to death;
June 1935: while serving in the local branch of Mukden Japanese Military Police, reported that 12 anti-Japanese soldiers of Li Du's troops were captured in Mishan County, who were then shot to death upon a superior order.
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2014-08-11
The Written Confessions By Masao Horiguchi
Masao Horiguchi(堀口正雄)
According to the written confession of Masao Horiguchi in August 1954, he was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1901. He went to northeast China to join the War of Aggression against China in 1937 and served successively as unit commander of Dunhua Branch of the Japanese Xinjing Military Police and colonel and commander of Jinzhou Military Police.
Major offences:
August 1937: had a captured anti-Japanese patriot of the Anti-Japanese United Army "escorted to the highland on Paotaishanto the west of Dunhua County, and then ordered the subordinate sergeant of military police to cruelly behead that person with Japanese sword";
From the end of 1938 to August 1939: after interrogating with torture the 8 captured Chinese patriots, "sent 3 of them in special transfer (special punishment) to Unit 731 in Harbin";
June 1939: after a Chinese was tortured to death while being interrogated by the subordinate military police, "ordered them to bury the body in the mountains at night";
August 1939:the subordinates shot a Chinese to death during an arrest, ordered them "to throw the body into Mudanjiang River at night";
From August 1942 to August 1943: arrested a total of 80 anti-Japanese people, "with the permission and instruction of the commander of the military police, 20 of them were sent to Unit 731 in Harbin".
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2014-08-10
The Written Confessions By Shigeo Hachisuka
Shigeo Hachisuka(蜂须贺重雄)
According to the written confession of Shigeo Hachisuka in December 1954, he was born in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan in 1896. In 1918, he went to the Japan-occupied Lvshun, China to serve as a policeman. He became colonel and regiment commander of the puppet Mukden Railway Security Police. He was arrested on 28 September 1945.
Major offences:
August 1933: led his subordinates to arrest armed Chinese patriots in Anshan, causing one Chinese to die of wound;
Early July 1943:sent people to arrest a young Chinese patriot who had assisted the Anti-Japanese Army in Songzhangzi Village, where they found people in a house refused to open the door, the subordinate secret agents "opened fire and an old man (the young man's father) in the house was shot to death".
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2014-08-09
The Written Confessions By Tetsuichi Uetsubo
Tetsuichi Uetsubo(上坪铁一)
According to the written confession of Tetsuichi Uetsubo from May to July 1954, he was born in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan in 1902. In May 1933, he went to north China to take part in the Japanese War of Aggression against China. He was colonel and captain of the Japanese Military Police in Jining, Dong'an and Siping. He was arrested by the Soviet Army on 24 August 1945.
Major offences:
From August 1944 to February 1945: "ordered my subordinate unit commanders to arrest 9 underground anti-Japanese operators (whose names could not be remembered) in Jining, Pingyang and Dong'an regions; after interrogation with torture, 8 of them were sent in special transfer to Ishii Unit through the Secret Service of Harbin";
From September to October 1944:an arrested Chinese people (a Soviet spy) "was treated in 'special transfer'""sent to the military police in Harbin, which then sent him to Ishii Unit"; "the instruction on 'special transfer' was: applications should be made to the military police commander for 'those important spy-related (ideology) criminals and those with no potentials for future use to be sent in 'special transfer' to the military police in Harbin upon permission and order from the commander', and the military police in Harbin would send them to Ishii Unit for bacteriological research and experiment, that was what I heard from the chief of War Affairs Division of the Harbin Military Police";
November 1944: ordered Boli Detachment to arrest about 90 anti-Japanese underground operators, in April 1945, "sent 10 of them (whose names could not be remembered) in special transfer to Ishii Unit through the Secret Service in Harbin";
Early April 1945: sent 8 anti-Japanese people, who had been captured by Pingyang Detachment, "in 'special transfer' to the military police in Harbin, which then sent these people to Ishii Unit";
May 1945: sent 2 anti-Japanese people, arrested by Boli Detachment, "in special transfer to Ishii Unit";
"The above-mentioned Chinese people arrested during my terms as captain in Jining and Dong'an were all anti-Japanese patriots. I sent most of them to Ishii Unit to be used in the most inhuman bacteriological experiments";
"When I served as military police captain in Jining and Dong'an, I ordered my subordinate military policemen to arrest anti-Japanese underground operators. More than 150 were interrogated with severe torture. Among them, 44 were sent in special transfer to Harbin Ishii Unit and another 2 died in the interrogation with torture"; "There was indeed still a considerable number of cases which had not been confessed."
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2014-08-08
The Written Confessions By Hironoshin Fujiwara
Hironoshin Fujiwara(藤原广之进)
According to the written confession of Hironoshin Fujiwara from July to August 1954, he was born in Ehime Prefecture, Japan in 1897. In 1935, he went to northeast China and joined in Japan's War of Aggression against China. He served as unit commander of Japanese Military Police in Muleng, Tangyuan and Xinjing. He was arrested on 31 August 1945.
Major offences:
February 1936:captured "Zhuang Junzhe and another 9" anti-Japanese patriots in Banjiehe and other places, later, ordered the military police to "severely punish" (kill) 9 people on 15 March;
March 1938: "arrested""204 people" of"(the Communist Party's) North 'Manchukuo' Temporary Provincial Party Committee and Jidong Provincial Party Committee"; later, "68 were sent to Harbin Procuratorate for sentences", and "7 of them got death penalty";
Mid-April 1938: in suppressing the Anti-Japanese United Army in Tangyuan County, "arrested 4 peaceful residents" "I ordered my subordinates to kill 3 and I stabbed the 4th to death by myself with Yokogawa's bayonet";
Mid-March1944: sent the arrested "underground anti-Japanese patriot named Zhi to the Ishii Unitin Harbin".
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2014-08-07
The Written Confessions By Yuichi Kashiwaba
Yuichi Kashiwaba(柏叶勇一)
According to the written confession of Yuichi Kashiwaba from July to August 1954, he was born in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan in 1890. In 1932, he went to northeast China to join the War of Aggression against China and served successively as detachment captain of Hailun Military Police and director-general of Police Department in Fushun City of the "Manchukuo".
Major offences:
September 1941: while in Fushun, ordered the subordinate policemen to trace the 250 prisoner-laborers who fled Laohutai Coal Mine, after encircling the laborers, "shot some dead with handguns and arrested most of them";
In Fushun, ordered the subordinate policemen to "arrest a total of about 200 to 300 (in his confession written on 1 August 1954, the figure was changed to 50) beggars" "inside the city once or twice a year"; "beggars were sent to the mountains in Xingjing County by car" causing "some of them to die of poor health conditions";
September 1942: personally arranged for the "special isolation alert for epidemic areas" in Fushun Coal Mine, "97 people were isolated in the dormitory and 54 died"; "In Yongantai No.25 Isolation Station, there were no adequate supplies and the people in isolation were in poor health, and many of them were thrown into the iron ore furnace in the repair workshop and burnt to death."
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2014-08-06
The Written Confessions By Torao Yoshifusa
Torao Yoshifusa(吉房虎雄)
According to the written confession of Torao Yoshifusa from July to August 1954, he was born in 1897. During Japan's invasion of China, he was captain of Dalian Military Police and lieutenant of Kanto Military Police Headquarters. He was arrested in Pyongyang in September 1945.
Major offences:
Early June 1932: while invading Ji'an, the artillery "opened fire towards civilians who were taking refugee outside the west gate";
Early June 1932: in Ji'an, the subordinate military police "arrested about 40 civilians inside the city, claiming that they were collaborating with the Anti-Japanese Army, and killed them by the riverside outside the west gate after interrogation with torture"; in mid and late June, "arrested and interrogated about 20 civilians inside Ji'an" respectively on two occasions for the same reason and "cruelly killed them by the riverside outside the west gate after interrogation with torture";
Early June: in Linjiang, the subordinate military police arrested "over 50 civilians inside the city, claiming that they were collaborating with the Anti-Japanese Army, killed the captives on the bank of the Yalu River near the southwest side of Linjiang after interrogation with torture"; in late June, "claiming that they were collaborating with the Anti-Japanese Army", "brutally killed over 40 civilians";
Late September 1932: in a village between Ji'an and Tonghua, the subordinate infantry "shot 30 bullets from the machine gun" and killed about 10 people, "while knowing clearly that they were civilians";
Mid-October 1932: the garrison brought two civilians from a village to the west of Ji'an, "after interrogation with torture, claiming that they were plotting with the Anti-Japanese Army", "ordered the garrison corporal to kill them on the riverside to the west of Ji'an";
Late October 1932: on the way "from Ji'an to Tonghua", instructed the subordinates to "shoot to death about 10 civilians who came from Tonghua for asylum".
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2014-08-05
The Written Confessions By Shozo Tsukutani
Shozo Tsukutani(筑谷章造)
According to the written confession of Shozo Tsukutani in October 1954, he was born in Tottori Prefecture, Japan in 1894. During Japan's aggression against China, he served as chief of Secret Service Division, Shenyang Police Department and chief of Police Division, Police Department of Chengde, Rehe Province of the "Manchukuo".
Major offences:
April 1936: arrested 78 people, "interrogated them with most brutal acts such as bloating water into their body, beating, clamping their fingers together with iron bars in between, etc."; Later, 11 party members among them were sent to the Procuratorate and 4 were sentenced to death;
After June 1939: ordered the subordinates "to destroy 500 households (with 500 residents) and construct 10 tribal groups".
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2014-08-04
The Written Confessions By Shigeta Kage
Shigeta Kage(鹿毛繁太)
According to the written confession of Shigeta Kage from August to November 1954, he was born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan in 1899. During the Japanese imperialists' aggression against China, he served as chief instructor of Liuhe County Police Administration of the puppet Mukden Province and chief of Police Division of Police Bureau in Jinzhou City. Major offences:
May 1937: in Liuhe County, "sent 5 to 6 anti-Japanese armed guerrilla soldiers and staff" to the Japanese garrison army to be killed, and "I killed one of them with my Japanese sword";
From July 1936: in Liuhe County, "forced 2,500 (in the supplementary confession written on 20 November 1954, the number was changed to 6,500) households to move out of their houses (in order to construct depopulated zones); meanwhile, with the accusation of "entering the depopulated zone", "killed 8 peaceful Chinese residents".
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2014-08-03
The Written Confessions By Saburo Shimamura
Saburo Shimamura(岛村三郎)
According to the written confession of Saburo Shimamura in July 1954, he was born in Kochi Prefecture, Japan in 1908. In October 1934, he served as staff of Investigation Division of Mongolian and Tibetan Ministry of the "Manchukuo". In July 1945, he became chief of Investigation Division in Secret Service Department of the puppet Police Administration and concurrently chief of the 5th Division of the puppet Central Security Bureau.
Major offences:
Early February 1939: received intelligence that, "found an underground organization of the Communist Party in Yilan County", ordered Nakano, Chief of Police Division in Yilan County, to "arrest more than 100 people involved, after interrogation with torture, one patriot died from deterioration of enteropathy; another one was forced to commit suicide by jumping into the Songhua River during his transportation to Jiamusi";
August: "arrested over 60 Chinese patriots, after an interrogation with torture, over 17 of them were sent to the court and over 10 of them were sentenced to death";
October: the underground Communist Party of Tonghe County launched an insurgence in prison with the help of patriotic wardens inside the prison and the puppet regime; in order to suppress the uprising, "arrested more than 100 patriots who were determined to be involved in this case, more than 30 of them were sent to court, and I committed the crime of making over 10 of them sentenced to death";
November: since we found that some Soviet agents had stayed for two nights in a farmhouse near Shuipaozi, Tangyuan County, I sent police officer Kato to "arrest two peaceful people living in that house and interrogated them with torture, killing one of them";
From February to July 1941: during my term in Zhaozhou County, "arrested a total of about 200 patriots, 70 of them were sent to court and as many as 30 of them were sentenced to death".
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2014-08-02
The Written Confessions By Mitsuaki Kimura
Mitsuaki Kimura(木村光明)
According to the written confession of Mitsuaki Kimura from June to July 1954, he served as lieutenant captain of the Japanese Garrison Army in Handan, Hebei in January 1939. From November 1944 to 1945, he was captain of Boli County Military Police Branch of the "Manchukuo".
Major offences:
March 1939: "searched and investigated" ordinary Chinese people in Handan County Seat, willfully "arrested two suspects and sent them to Sergeant Oshima of the attached Military Police";
March 1942: led and instructed Gubeikou Military Police "to arrest about 30 underground operators of the Eighth Route Army" in Shixia Township, Miyun County, and "ordered Unit Commander Sato to interrogate them on the spot"; in April, in Xinglong County, "arrested about 150 underground operators of the Eighth Route Army in Liudaohezi and about 130 of them were put into prison";
January 1943: "instructed the military police of Xifengkou… to arrest about 150 underground operators of the Eighth Route Army at Jiuhuling"; after interrogation, "70 were handed in and 7 died during the interrogation with torture";
September: instructed the military police of Xifengkou to "arrest about 50 underground operators of the Eighth Route Army in a place 8 kilometers to the west of Xifengkou, Qinglong County; meanwhile, arrested another 30 in a place 4 kilometers to the west of Tiemenguan; I ordered Unit Commander Kasai to conduct the interrogation";
In the same year, ordered the military police to barbarously drive away the peasants who lived separately, tear down their houses, "forced them to relocate to existing villages" and "formed several depopulated zones in Xinglong, Qinglong, Luanping and Kharatsin Middle Banner of Rehe Province";
From May 1941 to October 1944: "I arrested about 80 patriotic soldiers of the Eighth Route Army in about 30 cases in the Chengde Military Police Headquarters; …and combined with the previous memory, an estimated total number of 163 captives were sent to the Procuratorate";
April 1945: claiming that a businessman in Jining County in the puppet Donganhe Administration was an agent of the Soviet Union, arrested his daughter aged about 20 for interrogation and forced her to serve as a servant in my home. In July, when my wife was not home and "I was sexually stimulated on seeing her……I raped her once." and from then on, she had been occupied by me for a long time;
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2014-08-01
The Written Confessions By Hisajiro Tai
Hisajiro Tai(田井久二郎)
According to the written confession of Hisajiro Tai in July 1954, he was born in Kochi Prefecture, Japan in 1903. In September 1933, he served as affiliated officer of Secret Agent Division under Police Force of North "Manchukuo" Special District Government Office. In April 1944, he became chief of Secret Service Division of Police Department and chief of Police Office in Qiqihar, the puppet Longjiang Province of the "Manchukuo".
Major offences:
From November 1942 to March 1943:while in office in Baicheng County, Longjiang Province, "often in the name of 'officiating' and 'searching', 'arrested, detained and interrogated' about 15 peaceful Chinese people every month";From January to April 1944:"found, arrested and interrogated" about 200 Chinese patriots in Qingping County"; during the term in the Police Department in Rehe Province, "special search teams of all counties 'found and arrested' about 4,000 anti-Japanese patriots", "killing about 500 members of the Eighth Route Army and the Communist anti-Japanese armed forces" and "killing about 100 anti-Japanese patriotic people and ordinary Chinese civilians".
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