Confessions of Japanese war criminal

Editor's note: To offer a clearer picture of history, the State Archives Administration released a large number of files on 45 Japanese war criminals who were tried and convicted in China after World War II. The special military tribunal of the Supreme People's Court held public trials, sentencing the criminals to eight-to-20 years prison term. China Daily is publishing abstracts of the criminals' confessions:

Hiroyuki Nagatomi

He was born in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan, in 1916. In 1938, he was dispatched to Wujiang county, Jiangsu province, in China as a member of the propaganda branch of Japan's Central China Expeditionary Army. After Japan's surrender in August 1945, he took refuge among the troops of Yan Xishan, a military officer of the Kuomintang. He was captured and taken into custody in Shanxi in 1949 and arrested on Dec 9, 1950.