Photo released on Sept. 3, 2015 by the State Archives Administration of China on its website shows an excerpt from Japanese war criminal Saburo Miyagawa's written confession. The State Archives Administration (SAA) of China published the confession of Saburo Miyagawa on Thursday. The man, born in 1920, joined the Japanese invasion troops in 1942 and was captured in China in August 1945. A handwritten confession by Miyagawa describes Japanese troops' killing of 12 Chinese civilians collectively using hand grenades in east China's Shandong Province in August 1942. Miyagawa also recalled that he murdered two peasants with a bayonet in the village after the 12 were killed. Japanese troops employed toxic gas against Chinese and burned down about 100 homes in Shandong in June 1943, according to Miyagawa's confession. (Xinhua)