The Written Confessions By Giichi Sumioka

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Giichi Sumioka

 

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Giichi Sumioka(住刚义一)

　　According to the written confession of Giichi Sumioka in May 1955, he was born in Osaka, Japan in 1917. In 1939, he joined the army and invaded Xuancheng County, Anhui Province, China in the same month. After Japan's surrender in August 1945, he took refuge in Yan Xishan's troops. He was arrested on 10 July 1948 in Taiyuan, Shanxi.

　　 Major offences:

　　 January 1940: while training the new recruits in Xuancheng, Anhui, "stabbed to death about 10 captives from the New Fourth Army and the anti-Japanese army as 'educational materials'";

　　 February 1940: while taking a break between battles, "I stabbed on the back of an old man who was running away from a civilian house", and "the old man spit out blood and died";

　　 December 1941: in Taiyuan, Shanxi, arrested two villagers, "stabbed with a Japanese sword on the chest of one of them and killed him" and "ordered my subordinates to kill" the other one;

　　 Mid-February 1942: captured four villagers in a cave on the back hills of Xinzhuang Village, Taigu County, "I raped a woman aged 22 or 23 among them in my room, and another 27-year-old woman was gang-raped by two or three of my subordinates". The two men were interrogated with torture and said nothing, so one of them was killed;

　　 Mid-February 1942: in a village to the southeast of Motianling, "assaulted a hospital of the Eighth Route Army on its way of evacuating; arrested 5 patients in a civilian house", after interrogating with torture two of them, "I killed them with a Japanese sword by myself";

　　 Late February 1942: "covered up for about 10 surgeon senior captains from the Headquarters Dispensary of the Battalion to spread typhoid and cholera bacteria", "in the process, my Platoon worked together with the Company, occupying vantage points in Longmen Village, Guanchitang, Yanglezhuang and another two or three villages (names not clear) in Heshun County, where we covered the medical staff as they smeared bacteria on bowls, chopsticks, kitchen knives, rolling pins, cutting boards and tables in villagers' houses and threw bacteria into their water vats, wells and rivers nearby";

　　 Late March 1942: "raped a female operator (aged around 25) of the Eighth Route Army, who was in custody, and then let the County Police gang rape her". In order to keep it secret from the Battalion Chief, the Company Commander "ordered me to kill the above-mentioned woman and two other captured operators of the Eighth Route Army and a businessman from Dayu Township, a total of 4 people";

　　 Late May 1942: in a civilian house in the west of Jiangjunmu Village, "I personally killed with Japanese sword" 5 soldiers and cadres of the Eighth Route Army, who had been captured in the battle the day before;

　　 June 1942: while camping in the streets of Shuizhi Township, Zhangde County, "I raped a 20-year-old girl in her home and ordered my subordinates to rape her mother";

　　 July 1942: when stationing in Houjiaxiang, Taiyuan City, "when we conducted an inspection on bayoneting living targets … about 220 captives (mostly soldiers and cadres of the Eighth Route Army, students, and some soldiers of the anti-Japanese army) were brought here, one for each Japanese soldier to kill". "The active service education policy was: … to use live Chinese people as educational materials to test Japanese soldiers' courage and train them … all the instructors (including myself) prepared accordingly …… change the imaginary enemy into live targets in the stabbing course for inspection";

　　 Around 2 August 1942: "ordered 70 new recruits of the machine gun units to … stab 70 captives (about 50 of them were women) as educational materials"; "during this inspection, all instructors, teaching assistants and about 340 new recruits killed a total of about 340 captives"　;

　 Late June 1943: "ordered Second Lieutenant Tanaka to kill with Japanese sword one villager, who was detained in the Company as an Eighth Route Army soldier suspect, in a little trench to the south of the village";

　　 Late August 1944: in Qinxian County, "we captured one villager each from Nuanliu Village and Xiaohe Village"; "I ordered Captain Ma to shoot these two captives to death on the riverside to the west of Qinxian County".

 

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The Written Confessions By Hiroyuki Nagatomi

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Hiroyuki Nagatomi

 

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Hiroyuki Nagatomi(永富博之)

　　According to the written confession of Hiroyuki Nagatomi in February 1955, he was born in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan in 1916. In 1938, he was dispatched to Wujiang County, Jiangsu Province, China as a member of Propaganda Squad in Japan's Central China Expeditionary Army. After Japan' surrender in August 1945, he took refuge in the troops of Yan Xishan, a military officer of the Kuomintang. He was captured and taken into custody in Shanxi in 1949 and he was arrested on 9 December 1950.

　　Major offences:

　　 January 1938: as a student of Kokushikan University, "I saw tens of thousands of bodies, countless in fact" on the way to Xiaguan, Nanjing, and "I shot dead a captive" who jumped into the river;

　　 April 1938: to give generals and officers a demonstration, "beheaded a captive with Japanese sword" in Wujiang County"; "raped a Chinese female. One week later when I went to Suzhou again, I took her to Wujiang and raped her for a whole week";

　　 November 1938: in Anqing, "called a Chinese female to the administration office and raped her there"; and raped another Chinese female in a Chinese people's home the next day. In December, "raped a 16-year-old girl at night in a Chinese people's home in Anqing City";

　　 October 1940: in Wuzhong Hotel of Suzhou City, told a clerk to bring a Chinese woman (aged around 20) and raped her once;

　　 May 1941: "to give new recruits a lesson on hand-to-hand combat", "charged from 10 meters away and assaulted a captive";

　　 May 1942: in mopping up Wenxi County, Shanxi Province, told the Chinese working group (Chinese traitors' group) to shoot dead those Chinese who refused to lead the way and "left their bodies on the road";

　　 August 1942: while searching Donghao Village, Hengshui Township, Wenxi County, "beheaded 5 residents by Japanese sword in the open space outside the small north gate of Hengshui Township";

　　 October 1942: while searching areas around Yunquan Village and Niuzhuang Village in Wenxi County, all the captured Chinese people were "killed by bayonets or rifles";

　　 November 1942: during a mopping up operation in Wenxi County, arrested 3 soldiers of South Shanxi Field Army, who were "behead beside a well in the fields of Hengshui Township, in order to test whether the Japanese sword made by the Chinese blacksmith in the Information Section of Hengshui Township could behead people" ;

　　 December 1942: in Xiayukou Village, Wenxi County, "used lances to stab on the buttocks of eight people and finally killed them"; arrested over 20 residents in Dongshandi Village, Wenxi County and "killed them brutally with Japanese swords and straw cutters" and "hanged the heads of two Chinese people publicly on the south gate";

　　 February 1943: while mopping up the Beibaishi Village, Wenxi County, "took 15 people to a hollow area to the north of the village, then shot all of them dead with rifles". On the same day, in Gaizhai Village, "under my command", the working group (Chinese traitors' group) killed 9 people with rifles and burned the guide to death;

　　 From October to November 1943: in Taiyue Mountains, "pushed" 6 Chinese residents "all off the mountain top to kill them"; and "drove 20 Chinese women and children in some village to a cave and burned them to death";

　　 July 1944: when serving as the instructor of the Security Team in Huoxian County, set up a comfort station "in order to indulge  the Security Team members with women and prevent their escape", "and I could satisfy my own animal desire too";

　　 December 1944: while mopping up areas around Lijiashan, Huoxian County, arrested 3 villagers and interrogated them with torture, failing to get any information from them, "ordered the soldiers to kill them all"; killed 11 people with rifle to the south of Xixu Village;

　　 April 1945: instructed the Security Team to take over the captives, "blindfolded 9 captives, tied their hands and shot them to death";

　　 "During my service in the Japanese Army, in the Yan Xishan troops and in the war of liberation, I committed the following crimes: to the residents: shooting to death 88, stabbing to death 9, burying alive 2, burning to death 26, drowning 1, dropping from height and killing 6, and killing with Japanese sword or straw cutter 41; and killed 61 soldiers from the Central Army, South Shanxi Field Army and Anti-Japanese Army";

　　 "All the crimes I committed from the start of Japan's invasion of China to Japan's surrender include: personally killed 61 Chinese people", ordered the killing of 166 people, and ordered the killing of 41 people under a superior order";

　　 "Crime of rape in 7 cases (including 5 married women and 2 unmarried girls); established a comfort station, where Japanese soldiers and Security Team members committed three crimes of animal desire, involving 12 women; I myself raped 18 Chinese women (5 comfort women, 4 restaurant waitresses, 8 unlicensed prostitutes and a maidservant)".

 

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The Written Confessions By Shuichi Kikuchi

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Shuichi Kikuchi

 

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Shuichi Kikuchi(菊地修一)

　　According to the written confession of Shuichi Kikuchi in December 1954, he was born in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan in 1915. He was dispatched to the "Manchukuo" in 1937. After Japan's surrender, he then took refuge in the troops of Yan Xishan, a military officer of the Kuomintang, in August 1945 and served as major general and commander of Artillery Regiment of the Instruction Corps of Taiyuan Pacification Government Office. He was arrested in Shanxi on 24 April 1949.

　　Major offences:

　　Late September 1938: while searching around Yaoshan City, Yaoshan County, Hebei Province, "I encountered a woman aged around 25 and a 4-year-old girl at the east gate. I said that those who still stayed inside the town must be enemy relatives and ordered my subordinates to shoot dead the woman with light machine guns and rifles. Later the girl, crying and dragging the mother's body, was also shot dead by rifle";

　　Early October 1938: in Gaoyi County, Hebei Province, "ordered the new recruits to stab the captives to boost their courage", "First, three soldiers were ordered to charge one by one from 30 meters away at a captive tied to a pole. Then, another two soldiers were told to stab two other captives near a pit and make them fall into the pit";

　　Late March 1939: in Ekou Township, Daixian County, Shanxi Province, beat two women who refused to lend their cooking utensils, "and stabbed to death a 30-year-old woman inside the house as well as her two children. Later, we killed another 3 residents in their houses";

　　Mid-December 1939: "I raped a Chinese woman in her house in Taiyuan City";

　　Late March 1940: in Shanxi Province, "on the riverside 70 meters to the northeast of Jiazhuang, Guoxian County, five soldiers of our Company assaulted with bayonet and then shot dead three Eighth Route Army captives";

　　Early April 1940: "in mopping up the mountainous area to the east of Shuiquanliang, we stabbed or shot to death over 20 captured residents" in Shenchi County, Shanxi Province;

　　Mid-May 1940: "with the power of a unit commander, I raped a Chinese female who was around 16";

　　Mid-July 1940: "under the command of the battalion chief, I sent an 18-year-old wounded Eighth Route Army soldier to the military police for inquisition, and later the military police killed him by shooting on his head with a handgun";

　　Early September 1940: "raped a woman aged around 20 in Wuzhai City, Wuzhai County and raped her twice later";

　　Early September 1941: "in the Military Police Station in Pianguan City, the Agent Squad brought three women to pour liquor at the banquet. At 23:00 in the Military Police Station, I raped a woman aged around 22 and I allowed two of my subordinate officers to rape two other women";

　　Early September 1941: Surgeon Lieutenant attached to the Company Shinji Kawagen requested a vivisection on one of the captives. "He is given the permission … First, he cut the throat apart to stop the captive from making a sound. After the appendectomy, he shot at the gut of that captive with a handgun. He then sutured the gut and laid the captive in the dispensary to see the result. At around 14:00 on third day, he conducted a joint separation surgery on that captive, who was later carried out to the yard of the Company camp. Shinji Kawagen shot the captive on the head when he was still alive and the dead body was buried on the spot";

　　Mid-September: "conducted vivisection in our blockhouse in Pianguan City, cut the gut before suturing it up, checking the result on the afternoon of the next day, at 17:00, carried the man to the city wall to the southeast of the Company camp in Pianguan City, Surgeon Kawagen killed him by shooting on the head";

　　Early February 1942: "in the fields to the southeast of Sanchabao, Tadasaku Kanai, Sergeant Major of the 3rd Company, stabbed to death the 6 residents captured by the Battalion";

　　Mid-February: in Bawangshan, Kelan County, "burned down at least 200 civilian houses";

　　Early May: "asked the interpreter to bring a 19-year-old Chinese girl, who came to Shenchi from Datong City, to the interpreter's home in Shenchi, where I raped her and did it three more times later";

　　Mid-April 1943: "I enslaved 250 residents and 50 donkeys in Mengjiawa, Pingshan County for 15 days. … Claiming two of them were slackers, I commanded the Squad Commander to beat them up and shot them dead in a place to the northeast of Mengjiawa";

　　Late June: "after assaulting Shijia Village, Shenchi County, … captured 4 soldiers of the Eighth Route Army and 2 residents… and 3 captives from the Eighth Route Army were then stabbed to death with bayonets";

　　Early July: to test the courage of new recruits and boost the morale, two captives of unclear background were stabbed to death by the new recruits;

　　From late July 1938 to 3 September 1945: crimes summary: killing 1,122 people in 292 cases, including 845 killed in normal times and 277 killed in battles; "methods of killing: …slashing to death 10 people in 7 cases, beating to death 3 people in 2 cases, vivisection of 4 people in 4 cases, … smashing to death 5 people in 3 cases, torturing to death 1 people in 1 case, burying live 2 people in 1 case, shooting and stabbing to death after using poison gas 1 people in 1 case, using bacteria to kill 33 people in 2 cases"; "victim type: 727 residents in 202 cases", raping 60 people and personally raping 39 people.

 

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The Written Confessions By Keiji Saganaka

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Keiji Saganaka

 

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Keiji Saganaka(相乐圭二)

　　According to the written confession of Keiji Saganaka in November 1954, he was born in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan in 1916. He was stationed in Sanjiang County of the "Manchukuo" in April 1937. After July 1938, he successively served as second lieutenant and infantry platoon leader, lieutenant and company commander, police captain, acting battalion commander and battalion commander. After Japan's surrender, he served in Yan Xishan's troops as major general and chief of staff, and regiment commander, etc. He was arrested in April 1949.

　　Major offences:

　　27 July 1938: following the order of the battalion commander of "kill well with saber", took part in the killing of captives from the Eighth Route Army. "I killed a peasant-like person aged around 40 with saber";

　　26 October 1938: when making attacks from Nangong County to Xinhe County, "I cut off with saber one arm of a young local resident who was hiding in a hollow";

　　May 1940: in Shenchi County, "shot dead three militiamen in plain clothes", "shot dead outside the south gate of Bajiaobao two militiamen, who were captured by the Company in a place near Dayanbei Township,";

　　July 1940: captured 12 local inhabitants from areas around Zhujiachuan and interrogated them with torture, and then "stabbed 8 of them to death and shot dead the other 4"; in addition, also "captured about 70 inhabitants in areas around Xinggongyan, buried 30 of them waist-high, and shot them dead with machine guns in a place about 1,000 meters to the east of Xinggongyan"; Surgeon Lieutenant Izumi and Health Sergeant Jyoda of the Headquarters also jointly "killed through vivisection" a severely sick soldier in the sanatorium of the Eighth Route Army;

　　September 1940: while fighting with the Eighth Route Army in the counter-attack of the Great Campaign with One Hundred Regiments in Renjia Village, "Commander Kato Yuki of the Third Company captured 20 local villagers and shot all of them dead in Ninghuabao";

　　Late September 1941: while commanding the attack on Wangjiagou, ordered that "Any inhabitant who tries to flee the Japanese army is an enemy. Kill them all! The result of shooting was injuring 7 inhabitants"; "In Dongzhai Township, I indulged them with torturing 10 inhabitants and gang-raping 5 women";

　　From August to mid-October 1941: the Sato Agent Team "captured and tortured about 40 residents and 20 of them were beaten, shot or stabbed to death";

　　February 1942: "mopped up Majiahe Village, ordered the shooting of 3 local inhabitants"; "ordered the pursuit and attack on escaping inhabitants, killing 3 and wounding another 3 inhabitants";

　　"From April 1937 to 3 September 1945, a summary of my crimes in the Japanese army committed against the Chinese people: killing a total of 831 people, including 420 male inhabitants, 14 female inhabitants, 98 militiamen, 252 soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, 38 anti-Japanese soldiers, and 9 captive soldiers." Methods of killing: shooting, bayoneting, beheading, burning, smashing, starving and imprisoning;

　　"Wounded 519 people" through shooting, slashing, exploding (with landmines) and bayoneting";

　　"Raped a total of 34 Chinese women";

　　"Arrested a total of 112 inhabitants, and captured 368 soldiers on the battlefield, how these people were treated after being sent to the rear is not clear; also 215 inhabitants were tortured during the interrogation after their arrest or capture; in addition, 1,171 civilians were captured and forced to step on landmines, lead the way, keep the horses, carry luggage, and work for free in the construction of motorways for military use and city fortifications";

　　"Used poison gas (a dozen red colored canisters) against the Eighth Route Army once in the battlefield".

 

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The Written Confessions By Hiroshi Jōno

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Hiroshi Jōno(城野宏)

　　According to the written confession of Hiroshi Jōno in January 1955, he was born in Nagasaki City, Japan in 1914. He joined the war of aggression in northeast China in 1938 and was arrested in April 1949.

　　Major offences:

　　1941: plundered China's resources to "strengthen the supply of Japanese military resources, such as iron";

　　From November 1943 to August 1945: "dispatched more than 1,500 reserve soldiers in four batches to cooperate with the Japanese army in attacking the Chinese people and the Eighth Route Army; dispatched two battalions to cover for the exploitation of coal and iron, and used the security forces to cover the collection of 150,000 tons of grain and about 200,000 tons of iron in the whole province for the Japanese army";

　　From 1946 to 1949: "I took part in the battles waged by Yan Xishan for five times to fight the people and resist the People's Liberation Army (PLA), causing over twenty hundred casualties to the PLA and extremely huge damages to the local inhabitants";

　　October 1948: "I planned with Housaku Imamura to let the 10th Brigade join in the battles in Dongshan, Taiyuan, causing about 1,000 casualties to the PLA and organizing (blocking) the liberation of Taiyuan." "I saw more than ten gas shells dropped on the position of the PLA and exploded."

 

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The Written Confessions By Juntarō Tominaga

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Juntarō Tominaga(富永顺太郎)

　　According to the written confession of Juntarō Tominaga from February to December in 1955, he was born in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan in 1895. From 1926 to January 1931, he worked in the office of Japan's Interior Affairs Officer Kinzō Ishikawa in Harbin, China. After June 1939, he served successively as section supervisor, deputy director of Information & Operation Office and chief of Transportation Chorography Office of the President's Office of North China Transportation Co. Ltd.

　　Major offences:

　　"I was appointed section supervisor of the 2nd Transportation Department of the Information & Operation Office in June 1938." "In the name of railway police, I did countless illegal acts to passengers and residents along the railways. Later, the railway police had become totally a tool to suppress the people";

　　After December 1941: "as I was concurrently head of the Central Agent Squad of the Police Administrative Division of North China Transportation Co. Ltd. in Beijing", "strictly monitored and suppressed nationals from third countries, especially those from the belligerent countries such as the UK, the US and France"; "arrested and interrogated those highly suspected of being spies, among which three or four were sent to the above-mentioned Japanese Secrete Service. One of them was a White Russian, and the others were Chinese";

　　October 1943: "sent Japanese technicians to the northwest as secret agents to collect transportation information";

　　1943: "found the new base for the US heavy bomber B29 and reported it to the Japanese Army";

　　1944: "made the reconstruction plan of the southern section of Beijing-Wuhan Railway to assist the Japanese army in invading and waging wars in Henan".

 

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The Written Confessions By Hideo Sakakibara

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Hideo Sakakibara

 

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Hideo Sakakibara(榊原秀夫)

　　According to the written confession of Hideo Sakakibara from April to May 1956, he was born in Okayama Prefecture, Japan in 1908. He served as military doctor of the 57th Infantry Regiment of the 1st Division in the "Manchukuo" in September 1936. From November 1944 to August 1945, he was head of the Linkou Branch of the Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Detachment of the Kwantung Army.

　　Major offences:

　　"According to the mission of the Linkou Branch, I prepared for germ warfare during my term of office. I ordered Section Supervisor of the First Section Major Nishiya to do the bacteria preservation and cultivation work." With the production volume of that time, "if the bacteria were spread on the ground of the east section of the China-Soviet border, we would have enough bacteria to not only destroy a sizable number of Soviet forces, but also kill all the civilians in both China and the Soviet Union.";

　　"To find enough mice for germ warfare", "I mobilized all the soldiers to catch mice", "organized a regular mice-catching squad of 25 soldiers under the leadership of Second Lieutenant Madokoro", and "after the catching started, the following numbers of mice were successively sent to Unit 731: 1,000 in April, 10,000 in May, 8,000 in June and 7,000 in July 1945, totaling 26,000 mice";

　　Early March 1945:"I followed the instructions of Unit 731", and "brought two test tubes of typhoid bacteria and type-A paratyphoid bacteria, which had been preserved and cultivated in our Branch, to the Toxicity Testing Squad of the First Division of Unit 731". "The two bacteria varieties were in conformity with the toxicity standards of preserved bacteria set by the First Division of Unit 731." "They were ready for preservation and cultivation for the germ warfare." "To ensure its effectiveness in the well water, I made the plan that only by putting one or two test tubes of the bacteria into a well, the water will be toxic enough to kill people." "To test this effect, I killed 4 patriotic Chinese people";

　　April 1945: in Anda County, Heilongjiang Province, "I took part in the killing experiment in Anda", "4 patriotic Chinese people""were tied to the poles, which were buried half in the proving ground and placed 25 to 30 meters apart from each other". "A light bomber flied over the proving ground, dropping from 150-meter high pottery bombs which exploded 50 meters above the ground." "Wearing a full set of protective clothing, I watched the whole process of this extremely cruel atrocity from 5 to 6 hundred meters away. The bombs were filled with anthrax bacteria, which were inhaled by them through the respiratory tract, causing the incurable pulmonary anthrax, or caused cutaneous anthrax in them through the broken pieces. It was really an extremely brutal crime. I also took part in the crime";

　　August 1945: "Learning from the radio that we were at war with the Soviet Army, I immediately gave orders to get the trucks ready to deliver, except for the horses, all the animals kept in the Detachment, including the captured mice, white mice, beavers, rabbits and fleas, as well as the preserved and cultivated bacteria, to Unit 731." "I ordered the Detachment to cover all our houses with straw, prepare enough gasoline and get ready for burning everything down." "All trucks and equipment were burned up." "Any evidence of the preparations for germ warfare was destroyed."

 

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The Written Confessions By Shintarō Uno

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Shintarō Uno(鹈野晋太郎)

　　According to the written confession of Shintarō Uno in August 1954, he was born in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan in 1920. From April to September 1941, he was in Hankou, Hubei as a soldier of the 232nd Regiment of the 39th Division of Japan, and later he returned to Japan. From April 1942 to May 1945, he served in the 232nd Regiment in Hubei. He became encampment officer of the 232nd Regiment in May 1945 and was captured by the Soviet Army in August 1945.

　　Major offences:

　　10 May 1941: in a place about 30 kilometers northwest to Nanqiaopu, Jingmen County, Hubei Province, "broke into a civilian house, and when I was demanding a cooking pot from a Chinese people, Lieutenant Tanaka, Commander of the 2nd Platoon, came over and asked, 'What are you doing?' I told him, 'This Chinese said the cooking pot had already been robbed by the Japanese army.' Tanaka said, 'He is not obedient. Kill him'", "so the Chinese was killed by Tanaka";

　　Late May 1942: in Guoliuwan, Zhongxiang County, Hubei, "burnt down all the houses of 10 households (30 rooms) of the Chinese people", and "arrested one Chinese peasant living in the village (aged around 40, male) under the excuse that he was a New Fourth Army soldier suspect. I ordered my subordinate Unit Commander Nakada to extort a confession by bloating his belly with water, and then I killed him with a sword";

　　From February to March 1943: on the west side of Yinjia, Xianrenzhai, Dangyang County, Hubei Province, "launched small and medium-sized red-colored canisters (both sneezing gas, of unclear amount) to cause chaos in the Anti-Japanese Army, then used rifles and cannons to beat the righteous resistance and slaughtered 200 soldiers in the whole process";

　　Early April 1943: in Tianbaoshan, Yichang County, Hubei Province, "the 8th Company occupied a place and arrested 3 Chinese peasants living there (all around 25 years old). I shot dead 2 of them with a handgun, and ordered Iwasa, a trainee officer of the 7th Company who had also retreated from the frontline, to shoot dead the last peasant with a handgun." "Later, the 7th Company arrested 2 anti-Japanese soldiers and 8 Chinese peasants living there. I told the four soldiers of the 7th Company who came with me that 'they are such a burden. Kill them.' Then, the 10 Chinese were handed over to the Sapper Company under the 2nd Battalion, whose soldiers tied up their hands and feet and threw them into a trench. They were then killed with an explosion";

　　Late April 1943: in Yaolingbao, Dangyang County, Hubei Province, "after torturing a Chinese soldier (around 25 years old) who lay on the ground suffering a serious wound on his thigh, I ordered my subordinate Umesaki Kojiro, a first class private, to kill him by shooting his head with a rifle";

　　Late October 1943: in Dangyang County, Hubei Province, "I launched 50 medium-sized red-colored canisters (sneezing gas), aiming at Xiongjiapo Village and the hill on the east side of it", "causing death to more than 100 Chinese residents in about 20 households in the village";

　　Mid-November 1943: in Zhijiang County, Hubei Province, "arrested one soldier (around 25 years old, belong to the 13th and 18th divisions) of the Supplies Company of the anti-Japanese forces, tied up his hands and feet, kicked him into the river and drowned him as he still carried a box of mortar shells on his back";

　　Mid-November 1943: "in a village about 5 kilometers to the south of Mijitai, Songzi County, Hubei Province", "interrogated with torture one local Chinese peasant (40 years old) and killed him by bloating his belly with water;

　　Mid-December 1943: in Renheping, Zhijiang County, Hubei Province, "arrested a local Chinese peasant (around 40 years old), I first thrust a square timber 10 cm thick between his legs and feet and forced him to kneel down while he was being tortured. Later I beat him over his legs and feet with a carrying pole. Finally he died of knee-joint dislocation and broken thigh-bones";

　　Evening of 23 December 1943: in Songzi County, Hubei Province, "burnt down a total of 60 rooms of 20 households of the Chinese people";

　　March 1944: in Dangyang County, Hubei Province, for "one anti-Japanese intelligence agent suspect (around 40 years old) who was captured and sent there", "ordered my subordinate Yasuo Hamada to interrogate him while hanging him up by the arms, resulting in broken and prolapsed skins around the first joint of both arms"; "After pulling him out of the guardhouse, the army surgeon Senior Captain Kondo examined him and said, 'It is too late to cure'. I said, 'It is too much trouble. You can kill him." And I left the captive to Kondo, who then used an injector (with a capacity of 100cc) to inject air twice into the vein on the inside of his elbow and killed him";

　　April 1944: in Xiongjiapo, Dangyang County, Hubei Province, "under the command of the regiment commander, 5 soldiers (aged 20 to 25, belonging to the 37th Division and the 132nd Division) and 2 intelligence agents for the Anti-Japanese Army (aged around 30), who had been arrested by the battalions in the frontline and imprisoned, were used as live targets in bayonet training for new recruits of the 4th Company and stabbed to death. In this slaughter, I personally killed an intelligence agent";

　　September 1944: in the northeast corner of Dangyang Airport of Hubei Province, slashed to death a captive who was an intelligence agent of the Anti-Japanese Army, "I slashed to death an intelligence agent (aged around 25) with a saber";

　　10 September 1945: in Siping, Jilin Province, "after the surrender of Japanese imperialists, when we were moving from Siping to the Soviet Union under the supervision of the Soviet Army", "when ordering the loading of luggage to trucks, to fight back the local Chinese people in their righteous rebellion against the Japanese imperialists, I ordered the soldiers to kill two Chinese people with clubs".

 

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The Written Confessions By Kenjirō Funaki

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Kenjirō Funaki(船木健次郎)

　　According to the written confession of Kenjirō Funakifrom May to June 1954, he was born in Toyama Prefecture, Japan in 1897. He went to northeast China in December 1937 and served as major and battalion commander of the 4th Frontier-Guard Infantry. He returned to Japan in August 1943 and later went to the Korean Peninsula. He became colonel and commander of the 375th Regiment of the 137th Division in June 1945. He was captured by the Soviet Army on 15 August 1945.　

　　Major offences:

　　"There were several cases when my battalion was instructed by the division commander to destroy the villages. The exact year, month, date or place could not be remembered. One village was about 15 kilometers to the south of Dongzhaitang and had about 15 households; another village was 20 kilometers to the southwest of Dongzhaitang and had around 15 households; and the third was 20 to 30 kilometers to the northwest of Dongzhaitang and had about 15 households";

　　"In August 1941, in a brigade battle to the southwest of Wanping County", "the reserve forces burnt down a village (about 45 kilometers southwest to Dongzhaitang) which had about 15 households as I remember";

　　"In April 1943, in a brigade battle to the south of Wanping County", "the reserve forces burnt down several villages (about 60 kilometers to the southwest of Dongzhaitang) in that area";

　　"About enslaving local residents", "I remember 6 positions with the capacity of holding 7 to 20 guards each were built, for which 1,500 person-time were needed. Also to consolidate the existing positions in about three places from Dongzhaitang as I recall, 1,000 person-time was needed." "To build the 'interception trench' for the purpose of economic blockade", "about 15 kilometers of the trench was actually built, for which 1,000 to 2,000 labors were needed every day in about one month";

　　"As for the use of poison gas, our battalion was not issued the poison gas, but was issued the red colored canisters. I think it was in 1942. When the Brigade Armament Department issued them, a Battalion Armament Department officer told me that the red colored canisters were categorized as poison gas weapons. I do not remember the exact number of the red colored canisters issued. I think they were evenly distributed among the companies. I do not remember the details of how each company used it."

 

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The Written Confessions By Tsutomu Nagashima

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Tsutomu Nagashima

 

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Tsutomu Nagashima(长岛勤)

　　According to the written confession of Tsutomu Nagashima in May 1955, he was born in Saitama Prefecture, Japan in 1888. He came to China in December 1938 and served as a special agent in Central China Expeditionary Army. He became commander of the 54th Brigade of the 59th Division of the Japanese Army in April 1942. From June 1943 to April 1945, he was concurrently defense commander of Jinan City. He was arrested by the Soviet Army on 22 August 1945 in Hamhung, the Korean Peninsula.　
　　Major offences:　　

     From May to June 1942: in Shandong, commanding his forces in the "Tai'an-Laiwu-Mengyin Battles", "killing: 40 anti-Japanese soldiers and 20 civilians, burning down and damaging more than 100 civilian houses";

　　Mid-May 1943: commanding the forces to fight in the "Central Shandong Battles", "resulted in killing 130 anti-Japanese soldiers and 20 civilians, arresting 380 anti-Japanese soldiers and burning down and damaging more than 20 civilian houses";

　　June 1943: commanding the forces to fight in the "Donglindao Battles" (to the north of Liaocheng County), "resulted in killing 60 anti-Japanese soldiers, 30 civilians and 250 captives";

　　From July to August 1943: commanding the forces to fight in the "Summer 1943 South Tai-hang Mountains Battles", "resulted in killing 40 anti-Japanese soldiers and 30 civilians, taking 30 prisoners";

　　September 1943: commanding the forces to fight in the "Three Churches Battles" (Yucheng, Jiyang and Linyi), "resulted in killing 60 anti-Japanese soldiers and over 10 civilians";

　　From mid-November to early December 1943: commanding the forces to fight in "Autumn 1943 Central and Northern Shandong Battles", "result: killing over 30 anti-Japanese soldiers and more than 10 civilians; burning down 2 military camps and over 300 civilian houses"; and "plundering over 300 tons of grain";

　　From March to April 1944: commanding the forces to fight in the "Spring 1944 Communist Suppression Battles" (Laiwu, Changqing, Licheng, Qihe and Zhangqiu), "resulted in killing 210 anti-Japanese soldiers and 70 civilians, and burning down 300 civilian houses";

　　From June to July 1944: commanding the forces to fight in the "Summer 1944 Shandong Battles", "resulted in killing 270 anti-Japanese soldiers and 160 civilians, and plundering 5,700 tons of wheat";

　　From August to September 1944: commanding the forces to fight in the "Summer 1944 Shandong Battles", "result: killing 120 anti-Japanese soldiers and 70 civilians, arresting 250 civilians and plundering more than 1,000 baskets of peanut oil";

　　From September to December 1944: commanding the forces to fight in the "Autumn 1944 Shandong Battles", "resulted in killing 190 anti-Japanese soldiers and 110 civilians, burning down more than 200 civilian houses";

　　From January to March1945:commanding the forces to fight in the "Spring 1945 Shandong Battles", "result: killing 410 anti-Japanese soldiers and 230 civilians, damaging and burning down more than 300 civilian houses";

　　May 1945: commanding the forces to fight in the "No.1 Xiuling Battles", "resulted in killing 80 anti-Japanese soldiers and 210 civilians, burning down and damaging more than 1,000 civilian houses";

　　From April 1942 to July 1945: "conducted 15 battles of all scales, killing 1,660 anti-Japanese soldiers and 970 civilians, burning down over 2,220 civilian houses, arresting 970 anti-Japanese soldiers and 250 civilians, plundering 6,000 tons of grain, forcing labors to work for 120,000 work days"; "Besides shooting, other extremely cruel killing methods such as bayoneting, hacking, beheading, exploding, burning, hanging and sending to gas chamber were also used during the battles, and captives were often killed too. In early February 1945, under my command, the 111th Battalion killed 7 wounded captives with bayonets in an attack in Majiahaizi, Dong'e County. In July 1942, the 110th Battalion killed 15 civilians, old people and children, by gas shells in Jiudingshan, Laiwu County."

 

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The Written Confessions By Nosuke Sasaki

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Nosuke Sasaki

 

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Nosuke Sasaki( 佐佐真之助)

　　According to the written confession of Nosuke Sasaki from August 1954 to May 1956, he was born in 1893 in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. In September 1932, he came to China to join the Japanese War of Aggression against China and served as major and battalion chief of the 3rd Brigade of the 63rd Infantry Regiment of the 10th Division of the Kwantung Army. In July 1945, he became lieutenant general and commander of the 39th Division of the 3rd Front Army of the Kwantung Army. On 23 August 1945, he was arrested by the Soviet Army.
     Major offences:　　

     October 1932: "during my garrison duty in Jiamusi", "about 30 Chinese people were arrested as spy suspects". "Among them, 15 soldiers and 6 civilians were killed after interrogation with torture." In a village 10 kilometers to the northeast of Jiamusi", "damage was made to people in the villages on the battlefield and 5 people were killed under my command";

     August 1940: in Moganshan, Zhejiang, "the battalion under my command inflicted great damage to the soldiers of the Chongqing Army (i.e. the Kuomintang Army, note by the editor) by using poison gas (green colored canisters)". In October in Zhuji, Zhejiang, "about 600 soldiers of Chongqing Army were killed, and among them, 40 had been seriously wounded in combat or taken as captives. This crime was due to my daily instruction that the captives should be killed. All the battalions used poison gas (green colored canisters) in the battles to do great damage to the Chongqing Army soldiers";

     January 1941: in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, the First Battalion under his command "arrested about 20 spy suspects and around 7 of them were killed after interrogation with torture"; the Second Battalion "arrested about 20 spy suspects and around 9 of them were killed after interrogation with torture"; and the Third Battalion "arrested about 25 spy suspects and around 8 of them were killed after interrogation with torture";

     December 1943: in "Ambon Island, Dutch East Indies", " forced more than 10 Indonesian women to work in a comfort station to serve Japanese soldiers, which was a gross insult to the Indonesian women";

     June 1944: in the battles from Jinhua to Quzhou, Zhejiang, "killed about 50 people";

     From December 1944 to May 1945: in Hubei, "arrested about 90 spy suspects of the Anti-Japanese Army and anti-Japanese groups, killing about 30 of them through interrogation with torture", and "in the Propaganda Team of the Infantry Regiment, we made deceptive propaganda for the Chinese people, and maltreated them in practice , killing about 6 people". In Dangyang, Hubei, "for the majority of the people who rose in a just act against the aggression, about 20 of them were killed through beating and torture". "To teach Japanese soldiers how to use bayonets and swords, 5 captives were brutally killed". "When the Division is stationed in Hubei, an existing Japanese-run comfort station in Dangyang was used to serve the Japanese soldiers. The Division supported the operation of this comfort station. There were over ten Chinese women in the comfort station, who were subject to hardship by the war of aggression waged by the Japanese imperialists and forced to come here and work in this humiliating business. I think there were similar comfort stations in Yichang and Jingmen";

     January 1945: in Dangyang, Hubei, "We killed around 5 captives". "When the Division gathered all the officers in Dangyang and conducted the poison gas training, 2 captives were sent to the gas chamber to test the gas effect. The Medical Department of the Division then put another 4 captives into the gas chamber for the gas effect test. All of them were eventually killed by the poison gas";

     February 1945: "we killed about 15 innocent Chinese people" in Mashantun, to the northwest of Shashi, Hubei;

     March 1945: during the battles in Xiangfan, Hubei, "killed about 3,500 soldiers of the Chongqing Army (including some captives)", "killed about 200 Chinese people", "raped approximately 50 Chinese women" and "burned down houses of about 200 households"; "In order to conceal the combat intention of the Division", "stopped 3 people from passing through and killed them, besides, on other village roads, arrested and tortured people, and killed over ten people"; "during the battles in Nanzhang, found 2 wounded soldiers of the Chongqing Army carried on stretchers by 4 Chinese people, then killed the two wounded soldiers and shot dead the 4 men when they tried to escape"; "during the battles, all infantry forces used poison gas and the artillery launched gas shells to cause damage to the Chongqing Army";

     In addition:

     From September to December 1932: "killing people: approximately 35 people in battles and 8 in normal times, totaling about 43";

From March 1934 to December 1934: "killing people: about 10 people";

From March 1936 to May 1937: "killing people: about 7 people";

From March 1940 to March 1941: "killing people: about 3 people in battles and 24 in normal times, totaling about 27"; "raping women: one woman in normal times";

From December 1942 to January 1944: "killing people: approximately 3 in battles and 21 in normal times (wounding about 15 in addition), totaling about 24"; "abused women (comfort station): more than 10 women";

From February to November 1944: "killing people: approximately 50 in battles; 2 in normal times"; "raping women: one woman";

From December 1944 to August 1945: "killing captives: approximately 6 in battles, about 5 in normal times for bayonet teaching, 6 for poison gas training and 5 for other purposes, totaling about 22"; "killing people: approximately 204 in battles" and "65 in normal times", "totaling about 269"; "raping women: about 50 (estimated figure) in battles" and "17 in normal times (including comfort station)", "totaling about 67".

 

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Kamisaka Katsu( 上坂胜 )

　　According to the written confession of Kamisaka Katsuin July 1954, he was born in 1892 in Oita Prefecture, Japan. He served as deputy battalion chief and battalion chief of the Infantry Regiment in Taiwan with the rank of major and lieutenant colonel respectively from March 1934 to November 1941. He became major general and commander of the 53rd Infantry Brigade of the 59th Division in June 1945. On 20 August 1945, he was captured by the Soviet Army near Hamhung, the Korean Peninsula.

　　Major offences:

　　"In February 1942 when I served as commander of the 163rd Infantry Regiment stationed in Baoding, Hebei", "I arrested or put into jail about 20 Chinese people" and "killed them through beheading, bayoneting, etc."; "around March", "for the reason that about 10 meters of rails were removed from the Beijing-Hankou railway between Wangdu Station and Qingfengdian Station", "more than 10 suspects were arrested and 3 or 4 of them were killed after interrogation and torture"; "around May, a Japanese blockhouse along the railway near Wangdu (about 1 kilometers west to Wangdu) was attacked and destroyed by the Eighth Route Army", "30 residents were interrogated and tortured, 6 conspirators were killed, and 3 civilian houses close to the blockhouse were burned down"; "around June", because another Japanese blockhouse in Wangdu was attacked and destroyed by the Eighth Route Army, "many residents were interrogated and tortured, 6 conspirator suspects were killed, and several civilian houses were burned down";

　　27 May 1942: during the battle in central Hebei, in a place 22 kilometers to the southeast of Dingxian County, Hebei, "I ordered the 1st Battalion to kill over 800 people, including soldiers of the Eighth Route Army and local inhabitants", and "poison gas in red and green canisters were used; not only soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, but also the local inhabitants who lost their way in the escape, were shot by machine guns. We carried out a mopping up operation in the village and threw poison gas contained in red and green canisters into the tunnel where many local inhabitants hid, suffocating many and killing through shooting, bayoneting and hacking those who could not stand the poison gas and ran out." "The result of the war" in central Hebei "was the following losses on the Chinese people: around 1,100 people were killed, 10 houses damaged, 3 houses burned down, 450 houses appropriated for 10 days, and 240 Chinese people were forced to build 8 blockhouses (for 10 days)";

　　Spring 1943: in the mountainous area in the northwest of Xingtang, Hebei, the 2nd Battalion "killed about 250 people, including soldiers of the Eighth Route Army and residents, and burned down about 50 houses", and "all troops (vanguard troops as mentioned before) organized residents into detection groups and ordered them to go in front of the troops to detect land mines, killing them in this way";

　　May 1944: because one Japanese soldier was missing in Songxian County, Henan, "more than ten residents were arrested, 5 or 6 of them were killed and 12 or 13 houses were burned down";

　　June 1945: During "the march from Xichuan to Xixia" in Henan, "we took (I think maybe 50) captives along with the troops. When we got to a place to the south of Doufudian, we felt it increasingly difficult to move forward with these captives, so I ordered that all troops 'must kill burdensome captives'", "and all captives were killed".

 

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