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:

Keiji Saganaka

He was born in 1916 in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.