Photo released on Aug. 13, 2015 by the State Archives Administration of China on its website shows the Chinese version of an excerpt from Japanese war criminal Yoshio Miura's handwritten confession. The third in a series of 31 handwritten confessions from Japanese war criminals published online, the confession features Yoshio Miura, who was born in Chiba Prefecture, Japan in 1920. He joined the Japanese War of Aggression against China in 1940. Miura, "together with others, killed two peasants to seize concealed weapons" in Laiwu County of Shandong Province in September 1941. "In April 1942, I broke into a civilian house in a village of Xintai County of Shandong, threatened a Chinese woman aged 27 to 28 with a bayonet and raped her," he said in the confession. Yoshio Miura said in late August 1942, for the purpose of seizing concealed weapons, they "interrogated 74 peasants using torture", 11 of which he personally interrogated and killed. (Xinhua)
