Japanese taught surgery using live captives

A Japanese war criminal from World War II confessed that he and fellow military surgeons conducted live-body operations on captives, the State Archives Administration said on Wednesday.

They also performed "demonstrations of operations" by killing two captives, the administration said.

The second in a series of 31 handwritten confessions from Japanese war criminals published online features that of Ken Yuasa, who was born in Tokyo prefecture in 1916. He joined the Japanese war effort in January 1942.