Jono Hiroshi admits to war crimes during Japan's invasion
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China's State Archives Administration has released the 10th set of 45 confessions from Japanese war criminals during the Second World War. Jono Hiroshi, born in Nagasaki in 1914, was a military officer who commanded units in northeast China, during Japan's invasion of the country.
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Jono Hiroshi |
Plundering China's resources to aid the Japanese military. This is the role Jono Hiroshi played during Japan's invasion of China.
The military unit under his command looted a total of 150-thousand tons of grain and about 200-thousand tons of iron to supply the Japanese army.
"From November 1943 to August 1945, I dispatched more than 1,500 reserve soldiers in four batches to cooperate with the Japanese army in attacking the Chinese people and the Eighth Route Army. I also dispatched two battalions to help loot supplies of coal and iron," from his written confession.
After Japan's surrender in 1945, Hiroshi remained in China to assist the Kuomintang against the Communist Party during the Chinese civil war.
From 1946 to 1949, Hiroshi helped KMT warlord Yan Xishan kill over 2,000 PLA soldiers, using poison gas.
In 1948, Hiroshi, along with another Japanese general, Housaku Imamura, sent the 10th Brigade to join the fighting in the north Chinese city of Taiyuan, causing about 1-thousand PLA deaths.
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Jono Hiroshi's confession |
Hiroshi wrote a book named The Stance of the Japanese, in which he admitted that he encouraged Japanese soldiers to stay in China after the war.
"The Stance of the Japanese includes the following key content. First, Japan lost its sovereignty after being defeated, so Japanese must make efforts to restore our sovereignty. Second, Japan has three options after the war, to follow the pathway of the Americans, or the Soviet Union, or seek the revival of Imperial Japan. So I came to the conclusion that we should rebuild Japan with the help of warlord Yan Xishan. I called on remaining Japanese soldiers to stay in China, for the rejuvenation of our nation," he said.
Hiroshi was later tried in China by a special military tribunal in 1956 and was sentenced to 18 years in prison. After serving out his sentence, he was sent back to Japan.
In his written confession, Hiroshi admitted to committing brutal crimes against the people of China, but he vowed to safeguard peace and oppose wars of aggression in the future.
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