The Written Confessions By Goro Nakamura

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     Goro Nakamura

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Goro Nakamura(中村五郎)

Using poison gas against captives, bayoneting people for training purposes and burning civilians alive -- a Japanese war criminal confession published on Thursday reveals how Chinese people were treated "like animals" by Japanese invaders in World War II.

Goro Nakamura from the Aichi Prefecture, who joined the war of aggression in 1942, wrote in a confession that they "used Chinese people to test the effectiveness" of poison gas. At one point, a Chinese war captive "became unconscious five minutes later" after he was pushed into a room full of "Type-98" poison gas cannisters.

Goro said he "felt it was like using animals for experiments."

The confession, which was written in 1954, is part of the State Archives Administration's efforts to commemorate the 70th anniversary of China's victory in WWII.

He also wrote that while at a village in north China's Hebei Province, after finding a tunnel under an old woman's house, he "dragged her to the entrance, pushed her into the hole, ... filling it with straw, I lit it myself with a match and burnt the old woman alive."

The Japanese soldier also confessed to raping Chinese women.

 

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The Written Confessions By Kazuto Tsukamoto

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   Kazuto Tsukamoto

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Kazuto Tsukamoto(塚本一登)

A Japanese soldier admitted to a massacring and raping innocent civilians in China during World War II, according to a written confession released Wednesday.

The State Archives Administration (SAA) published the hand-written confession by Kazuto Tsukamoto, who was born in 1919, joined the Japanese army in 1939 and was captured in China in August 1945.

In the document, Tsukamoto wrote that he and other soldiers descended on Dangyang County in Hubei on Dec. 25, 1943 and carried out murder, arson and looting.

About 100 villagers, including newborns, children, the elderly and pregnant women, were set on fire, bayoneted, shot and their heads "broken in two with stone," he wrote.

About 100 houses were razed and the Japanese pillaged a temple on Jinfeng Mountain, destroying many artifacts, it added.

Tsukamoto also detailed how he raped a Chinese woman and tortured anti-Japanese underground operatives during interrogation.

In July 1942, Tsukamoto raped a woman while holding her at knife point, after he found the 20-year-old hiding under a bed in Jiangshan County, Zhejiang Province.

The war criminal also said he "bloated 12 underground operatives with water during interrogation, trampled on their bodies and dripped hot wax oil over their naked bodies", in Dangyang County, Hubei, in November 1944.

"Japanese soldiers slashed to death 11 operatives and shot the other in the chest with a handgun before beheading him with a katana," he said in the confession.

The shocking admission is the 30th in a series of 31 handwritten confessions from Japanese war criminals being released online by the archives as China marks the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII.

 

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The Written Confessions By Kesao Nogami

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      Kesao Nogami

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Kesao Nogami(野上今朝雄)

A Japanese World War II soldier mutilated a Chinese woman's corpse by ramming a bamboo batten up her vagina "until it reached her intestines," according to his confession published by the State Archives Administration on Tuesday.

The shocking admission from Kesao Nogami, who served in east China from 1937 until his capture in August 1945, comes in the 29th of a series of 31 handwritten confessions from Japanese war criminals being released online by the archives as China marks the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII.

In the confession, Nogami also detailed how he slaughtered civilians, deployed poison gas against Chinese troops and raped seven women.

His mutilation of the corpse of a half-naked 50-year-old peasant came in Anhui Province in February 1938.

Three months later, Nogami wrote, he used a rifle to beat unconscious a man who was then trampled to death by other Japanese soldiers.

The war criminal also confessed to "spreading poison gas toward 500 Kuomintang troops" in Jiangxi Province in March 1939, and to participating along with other Japanese troops in murdering "40 peaceful peasants, including women, men in their 30s and 40s, old people and three children aged about 10" in Shandong Province in February 1945.

In Beijing, between January 1941 and February 1944, Nogami raped five Chinese women eight times and two Korean women 10 times, he confessed.

 

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The Written Confessions By Sakujiro Noguchi

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Sakujiro Noguchi(野口作次郎)

A World War II Japanese soldier kicked a new-born infant to death in north China in 1943, according to a written confession published Monday.

The document, published by China's State Archives Administration (SAA), was written by Sakujiro Noguchi in 1954. Noguchi was born in Tokyo in 1921, joined the army in 1942 and was captured in China in August 1945.

Noguchi said he came across a crying baby at a train station in Hebei Province in February 1943. The baby had just been delivered by its mother in a toilet on a train, which had stopped at the station, according to his account. He admitted he had kicked the child to death.

He also confessed to raping and torturing Chinese women. One particularly cruel incident occurred in March 1944 in Boshan County in Shandong Province, east China.

Noguchi captured three woman, stripped one of them naked, whipped her with a bandolier and then "jumped onto her crotch ten times in his leather shoes [and killed her by] trampling on it four times". He ordered his subordinates to kill the other two, who were 13 and 16, in the same way.

The document is the 28th in a series of 31 written statements by Japanese war criminals published on the SAA website to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII.

 

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The Written Confessions By Bunpei Nozawa

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Bunpei Nozawa(野泽文平)

A handwritten confession by a Japanese soldier from World War II describes troops setting fire to about 100 homes in East China's Shandong province in September 1941, burning some 50 Chinese civilians to death inside their homes.

The State Archives Administration (SAA) of China published the confession by Bunpei Nozawa on Sunday.

Nozawa, born in 1920, joined the Japanese invasion in 1940 and was captured in China in August 1945.

Nozawa recalled that the civilians killed in the fires included the elderly and children.

He wrote he burned down two homes himself with one old woman lying in bed inside one of the rooms.

Nozawa also confessed to multiple cases of rape and murder from September 1941 to May 1945.

In one of the worst cases, which occurred in January 1945, the battalion commander ordered troops to attack peasants and they killed 20, he wrote. Two of them were killed under his direct command.

Nozawa's confession is the 27th in a series of 31 written statements by Japanese war criminals published on the SAA website in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII.

 

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The Written Confessions By Kihachiro Sibayama

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Kihachiro Sibayama(柴山喜八郎)

A handwritten confession by a Japanese World War II soldier confessed to brutal killing of innocent Chinese people to test weapon.

According to the confession by Kihachiro Sibayama, which was published by the State Archives Administration (SAA) of China on Saturday, in May 1940 in Shandong Province, the Japanese soldier "shot 30 bullets" "at Chinese people of about 40 to 50 years old who were carrying shoulder poles and walking," in order to test the effectiveness of the heavy machine gun, thus "brutally killed five Chinese."

Also, he confessed that in June 1943, Japanese soldiers did not give any medical treatment to the captured Kuomintang soldiers who suffered from colitis. They gave the patients nothing to eat and therefore tortured 12 men (of around 25 years old) to death. He also ordered Japanese guards to kill five other patients.

Sibayama said that in July 1943 he delivered 60 small red canisters of poison gas and 20 small cyan ones as well as a secret documents of using such weapons to a commander of a squadron. Later that month, the commander ordered the use of poison during the fight against the Eighth Route Army and "six red and cyan canisters of poison gas were fired."

He also confessed to breaking dikes to submerge the liberated areas in water, which has affected one million people. Due to lack of food and an outbreak of epidemic, 20,000 people starved to death.

He said he raped a total of 30 "comfort women"-- wartime forced sexual slaves, including Chinese and Korean, from September 1940 to May 1945.

Born in Japan in 1922, Sibayama joined the the Japanese invasion in 1940 and was captured in August 1945.

His confession is the 26th in a series of written statements by Japanese war criminals published on the SAA website in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII. 

 

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The Written Confessions By Shozo Noto

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Shozo Noto(能登圣造)

A handwritten confession by a Japanese World War II soldier confessed to raping a woman who gave birth to a baby less than a week prior in east Shandong Province in May 1945.

The State Archives Administration (SAA) of China published the confession of Shozo Noto on Friday.

The man, born in 1920, joined the Japanese invasion in 1940 and was captured in China in August 1945.

He raped another woman in the province in March 1944 by threatening to kill her with his bayonet.

A group of 48 Japanese soldiers were divided into 4 teams and took turns bayoneting 4 Chinese patriots as training in March 1941, he wrote, adding the four were stabbed to death.

Noto also recalled that he tortured peasants imprisoned in the province by beating them with clubs and forcing them to drink pots of water in February 1945. He also confessed to killing a peasant with a Japanese sword.

His confession is the 25th in a series of 31 written statements by Japanese war criminals published on the SAA website in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII.

 

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The Written Confessions By Saburo Miyagawa

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    Saburo Miyagawa

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Saburo Miyagawa(宫川三郎)

A handwritten confession by a Japanese World War II soldier describes Japanese troops' killing of 12 Chinese civilians collectively using hand grenades in east China's Shandong Province in August 1942.

The State Archives Administration (SAA) of China published the confession of Saburo Miyagawa on Thursday.

The man, born in 1920, joined the Japanese invasion troops in 1942 and was captured in China in August 1945.

Miyagawa also recalled that he murdered two peasants with a bayonet in the village after the 12 were killed.

Japanese troops employed toxic gas against Chinese and burned down about 100 homes in Shandong in June 1943, according to Miyagawa's confession.

He wrote that the invading Japanese troops shot dead 20 peasants and 10 soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, led by the Communist Party of China, who were stripped of their clothes after being captured, in Shandong.

Miyagawa also confessed to several rape cases from 1942 to 1945 in the province.

His confession is the 24th in a series of 31 written statements by Japanese war criminals published on the SAA website in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII.

 

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The Written Confessions By Noboru Miyamoto

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Noboru Miyamoto(宫本昇)

A Japanese war criminal confessed to raping 17 Chinese women during World War II, including new mothers, according to an account of the crimes that he wrote.

Noboru Miyamoto also raped, tortured and killed a new mother in east China's Shandong Province in 1943, just because his trousers had been splattered by the woman's blood, he wrote in the 1954 confession, which was released by the State Archives Administration on Wednesday.

The archives has been releasing a document every day since the middle of last month as China marks the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII.

Miyamoto, who was born in Tokyo in 1920 and came to China in 1940, killed four Chinese civilians in 1944 by setting them on fire, including a two-year-old baby and a boy aged about five or six. His fellows also "threw a children into a well and smashed him over his head."

He also participated in the gang-rape of four Chinese women and killed another four Chinese men, all civilians, according to his confession. 

 

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The Written Confessions By Kingo Okano

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Kingo Okano(冈野金吾)

A Japanese war criminal confession released Tuesday details the killing of Chinese civilians during Japan's War of Aggression against China.

The State Archives Administration (SAA) published the hand-written confession by Kingo Okano, who was born in 1912 and joined the invasion army in 1937. He was captured in August 1945.

According to the document, Okano said he killed two captured anti-Japanese soldiers in north China's Hebei Province in 1937. He also captured a man and woman and "forced them to have sexual intercourse in front of us and beat them," the confession said.

He confessed that in May 1938 he "beat and tortured" a captured man for two weeks and "beheaded him with a katana" in Chengde, where he also broke into a Chinese house, "threatened the wife with my own power, sexually assaulted her in the inner room, and infected her with gonorrhea."

Okano said that in May 1939, he was ordered to transport 250 POWs of the Eighth Route Army and "hand them over to the headquarters of the Fourth Army," who "enslaved them and later killed them all, with some used in a bacterial experiment."

Okana confessed that in October 1940 in northeast China's Jilin Province, he worked with puppet police to assist 200 military doctors in conducting so-called "epidemic prevention." He "had 5,000 people in town injected, broke into houses to force disinfection and dissected 50 people to conduct experiments to prepare for bacterial warfare," the confession stated.

Okana also confessed he provided intelligence in August 1945, the result of which was that a squadron "fired at about 2,000 rioting Chinese with machine guns and shot dead 150 of them."

This was the 22nd of 31 written confessions by Japanese war criminals to be published on the SAA website to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII.

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