Confessions of Japanese war criminal Hironoshin Fujiwara

According to the written confession of Hironoshin Fujiwara from July to August 1954, he was born in Ehime Prefecture, Japan in 1897. In 1935, he went to northeast China and joined in Japan's War of Aggression against China. He served as unit commander of Japanese Military Police in Muleng, Tangyuan and Xinjing. He was arrested on 31 August 1945.

File photo of Hironoshin Fujiwara

Major offences:

February 1936:captured "Zhuang Junzhe and another 9" anti-Japanese patriots in Banjiehe and other places, later, ordered the military police to "severely punish" (kill) 9 people on 15 March;

March 1938: "arrested" "204 people" of "(the Communist Party's) North ‘Manchukuo' Temporary Provincial Party Committee and Jidong Provincial Party Committee"; later, "68 were sent to Harbin Procuratorate for sentences", and "7 of them got death penalty";

Mid-April 1938: in suppressing the Anti-Japanese United Army in Tangyuan County, "arrested 4 peaceful residents" "I ordered my subordinates to kill 3 and I stabbed the 4th to death by myself with Yokogawa's bayonet";

Mid-March1944: sent the arrested "underground anti-Japanese patriot named Zhi to the Ishii Unitin Harbin".