Photo released on Sept. 8, 2015 by the State Archives Administration of China (SAA) on its website shows the Chinese version of an excerpt from Japanese war criminal Kesao Nogami's written confession. Born in Japan in 1912, Nogami joined the Japanese invasion in 1937 and was captured in August 1945. According to the confession by Kesao Nogami, he mutilated the corpse of a half-naked 50-year-old peasant in Anhui Province in February 1938. Also, he confessed "spreading poison gas toward 500 Kuomintang troops" in Jiangxi Province in March 1939, and participating along with other Japanese troops in murdering "40 peaceful peasants, including women, men in their 30s and 40s, old people and three children aged about 10" in Shandong Province in February 1945. The document is the 29th in a series of 31 written confessions by Japanese war criminals published on the SAA website to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII. (Xinhua)
