Confessions of 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:

Yuichi Kashiwaba

Yuichi Kashiwaba was born in Hiroshima prefecture, Japan, in 1890. In 1932, Kashiwaba went to northeast China to join the War of Aggression against China and served successively as detachment captain of Hailun Military Police and director-general of the Police Department in Fushun City of the Manchukuo (Manchuria).