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 in prison. China Daily is publishing abstracts of the criminals' confessions:

Hironoshin Fujiwara

Fujiwara was born in Japan's Ehime prefecture in 1897 and went to Northeast China in 1935 to join the Japanese War of Aggression against China. He served as a unit commander in the military police in Muleng, Tangyuan and Xinjing, parts of "Manchukuo".