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BEIJING, Aug. 12 (Xinhuanet) -- As part of commemorations for the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two, China's State Archives Administration has been releasing handwritten confessions from Japanese war criminals. The latest, published online on Wednesday, came from Ken Yuasa.
The Tokyo-born doctor said he and his fellow military surgeons "conducted live-body operations" on captives and performed "operation demonstrations by killing" two prisoners. His confession, dated November 20th, 1954, goes on to say he "carried out vivisection demonstrations" on captives, and "forced down a large dose of anesthetic into the live body of a captive in order to examine the symptoms when the victim was alive and dead".
Ken joined the Japanese War of Aggression against China in January 1942, when he was just 25 years old. His crimes were committed just months later, in March, at the Lu'an Army Hospital in north China's Shanxi Province.
Ken's statement is the second in a series of 31 never-before-released confessions from Japanese war criminals. They offer chilling new details about the war crimes perpetrated by the Japanese against Chinese people, including killings, enslavement and poisonings, as well as the use of biological and chemical weapons on live human subjects. The aim is to ensure younger generations, and the world, never forget the crimes committed by Japan in China during World War Two.
(Source: CNTV.cn)
