Japanese war criminal confession reveals persecuion of Chinese patriots
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A written confession by Teruhiko Yokoyama, a World War II Japanese war criminal, was released on Friday by the State Archives Administration (SAA).
Born in Tokyo Prefecture, Japan in 1901, Teruhiko went to China in April 1938 to join the Japanese invasion of China, not as a soldier but as a judge in the "Manchukuo" judicial system.
According to the confession, before Teruhiko's capture in March 1946, he facilitated the arrests and execution of hundreds of Chinese anti-Japanese fighters.
In June 1945, when the war was coming to an end, more than 60 anti-Japanese patriots of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army were tried by a court presided over by Teruhiko, who served as "chief judge." Ten of them were sentenced to death.
Teruhiko also confessed that he sentenced three leaders of the Communist Party of China North Manchuria branch to death in December 1942.
This is the latest in a series of Japanese war criminal confessions the SAA plans to publish. The SAA has been issuing one a day since July 3. The move follows denials of war crimes in China by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and right-wing politicians.
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