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Aug 16, 2015 7:20 AM

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(150816) -- BEIJING, Aug. 16, 2015 (Xinhua) -- Photo released on Aug. 16, 2015 by the State Archives Administration of China on its website shows the image of Japanese war criminal Sadakichi Yamaguchi. In the sixth of a series of 31 handwritten confessions from Japanese war criminals published online, Sadakichi Yamaguchi, born in Chiba Prefecture, Japan in 1920 confessed how he raped Chinese women and killed Chinese civilians. In the 1954 confession he detailed how he and a friend raped a 30-year-old woman in Shandong Province in October 1942. He recounted that in February 1943, he saw a soldier named Matsui "hack a Chinese woman to death from overhead" and then stabbed her crying child to death also in Shandong Province. When entering a civilian house, he "saw Sergeant Matsui, commander of the third squad, and private first class Otani inserting a stick into the vagina of a woman aged about 40." "When I heard Otani say the longer, the better, I gave him a shoulder pole, and he exerted himself to insert the pole into the woman's vagina, brutally killing her," said the confession. (Xinhua)(mcg)