Yoshio Shinozuka (篠塚良雄; 1923 – 20 April 2014) was a Japanese
Imperial Army soldier who served as an army medic with a top secret biological warfare group called
Unit 731 in
World War II.
[According t]
Asahi Television
and other sources He was a member of the
Association of Returnees from China The , was an organization formed on 24 September 1957 following the repatriation to Japan of soldiers from the former Imperial Japanese Army who were interned as war criminals in China's Fushun War Criminals Management Centre, where interns were sub ...
.
According to his testimony, he was conscripted into Unit 731 at the age of 16.
[Yoshio Shinozuka]
アメリカ・カナダの入国を拒否されて
1998. Shinozuka claimed to have been involved in conducting experiments and
vivisections on
Chinese captives near the northern Chinese city of
Harbin
Harbin (; mnc, , v=Halbin; ) is a sub-provincial city and the provincial capital and the largest city of Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China, as well as the second largest city by urban population after Shenyang and largest ...
. He was held in detention in China for many years, finally being released in 1965.
In 1997, Shinozuka gave testimony on the activities of Unit 731 on behalf of 180 Chinese who were suing the Japanese government for compensation and an apology for deaths of family members they claimed were killed in experiments at the biological warfare laboratory. "I was a member of Unit 731 and I have done what no human being should ever do", Shinozuka said.
In 1998, he wanted to give a speech at a peace conference in the United States and Canada. However, the government administrations denied his entry into their countries claiming it was because he had been a war criminal.
References
External links
Japan germ program in dock BBC News
1923 births
2014 deaths
{{Japan-mil-bio-stub
Imperial Japanese Army personnel of World War II
Japanese mass murderers
War criminals