Confessions of convicted Japanese war criminals

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:

Teruhiko Yokoyama

Teruhiko Yokoyama was born in Tokyo prefecture, Japan, in 1901 and went to Northeast China in April 1938 to join the Japanese War of Aggression against China, serving as a judge at the Mukden High Court of the "Manchukuo". From July 1940, he served successively as the undersecretary and head of Special Magistrates' Court at High Court in Qiqihar, Jinzhou and Harbin. He was captured in March 1946.