Photo released on Aug. 22, 2015 by the State Archives Administration of China on its website shows an excerpt from Japanese war criminal Seizaburo Katagiri's handwritten confession. According to the written confession of Seizaburo Katagiri, published by the State Archives Administration (SAA), he was part of a team that performed a vivisection on a Chinese man "to study human anatomy". Seizaburo, who was captured in 1945, confessed that at Harbin Army Hospital in 1936 he was tasked with removing the man's organs, a procedure that resulted in his death on the operating table. Seizaburo also participated in a mission to spread the cholera bacteria in 1943, he was complicit in the death of more than 20,000 people. The Japanese soldier also raped and murdered people during the war, according to his confessions. (Xinhua)
