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:

Shigeo Hachisuka

Hachisuka was born in Kagoshima prefecture, Japan, in 1896 and went to Japan-occupied Lyushun, in Liaoning province, in 1918, serving as a policeman. He became colonel and regiment commander of the puppet Mukden Railway Security Police. He was arrested on Sept 28, 1945. Among his major offenses, in August 1933, he led his subordinates in an arrest of armed Chinese patriots in Anshan, causing one to die.