Japanese vivisection confession published
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CHINA has published Japanese officer Shuichi Kikuchi’s written confession that he killed 1,122 Chinese, including 727 civilians, and committed rape, torture and vivisection from 1938 to 1945.
The State Archives Administration posted the document on its website yesterday.
Kikuchi was born in Miyagi Prefecture of Japan in 1915 and served in the Japanese army from 1937 to 1945 in northeast and north China. He took refuge among the troops of a Chinese warlord named Yan Xishan in north China’s Shanxi Province after Japan’s defeat in 1945 and was arrested in April 1949.
In the document, Kikuchi recalled approving military surgeon Shinji Kawagen to conduct two brutal vivisections on Chinese in September 1941. The officer witnessed the procedures.
“First, Kawagen cut the throat apart to stop the captive from making a sound. After the appendectomy, he shot at the gut of the captive with a handgun,” Kikuchi wrote.
On the third day after the first operation, Kawagen performed separation surgery on the joints of the captive and shot him in the head while he was still alive, according to Kikuchi.
He confessed that Kawagen performed a similar surgery on a 16-year-old villager.
He also confessed of “personally raping 39 people.”
This is the latest in a series of 45 Japanese war criminal confessions which the SAA plans to publish. It has been issuing one a day since July 3.
The move followed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and right-wing politicians’ denial of war crimes in China.
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