Photo released on Sept. 5, 2015 by the State Archives Administration of China on its website shows an excerpt from Japanese war criminal Kihachiro Sibayama's written confession. Born in Japan in 1922, Sibayama joined the Japanese invasion in 1940 and was captured in August 1945. According to the confession by Kihachiro Sibayama, in May 1940 in Shandong Province, the Japanese soldier "shot 30 bullets" "at Chinese people of about 40 to 50 years old who were carrying shoulder poles and walking," in order to test the effectiveness of the heavy machine gun, thus "brutally killed five Chinese." Also, he confessed that in June 1943, Japanese soldiers did not give any medical treatment to the captured Kuomintang soldiers who suffered from colitis. They gave the patients nothing to eat and therefore tortured 12 men (of around 25 years old) to death. He also ordered Japanese guards to kill five other patients. (Photo/Xinhua)
