Confessions of Japanese war criminals
Editor's note: Earlier this month, China's State Archives Administration released a number of files on 45 Japanese war criminals who were tried and convicted in China after World War II. The criminals received sentences of eight-to-20 years' imprisonment from the special military tribunal of the Supreme People's Court, China's top court. China Daily is publishing abstracts of the criminals' confessions:
Tsutomu Nagashima
He was born in 1888 in Saitama prefecture, Japan. He came to China in December 1938 and served as a special agent in the 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, Shandong province. He was arrested by the Soviet army on Aug 22, 1945 in Hamhung, on the Korean Peninsula. His major offenses include:
