According to the written confession of Kiyokazu Hiranaka in June and August 1954, he wasborn in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan in 1895. He joined the Japanese War of Aggressionagainst China in 1933 and was captured in August 1945.
Major offences:
In June 1934: As detachment captain of Anshan Military Police, ordered the squad leaderand other three soldiers to execute by shooting two Chinese anti-Japanese people.
In October 1934: Sent people to take part in “special exercises”, “ordered the SipingEpidemic Prevention and Water Supply Unit of the Kwantung Army to carry out the plotto spread bacteria, killing about 1,000 Chinese people”.
From September to October 1935: “The Kwantung Army conducted poison gas exercisesnear Xiajiutai, Jilin Province”. Commander of the Military Police Major General HidekiTojo, in order to keep that secret, ordered branches of the Military Police to send officersto Hsinking to “serve as guards for exercises”; was ordered to send three subordinates totake part in the exercises. “During the exercises, about 20 Chinese people, who weredetained in prisons in regions including Hsinking and Jilin, were used for poison gastesting”.
In February 1936: Took part in the “arrest of Jin Yuanfeng, chief of the PropagandaDepartment of Liuhe County Committee, and other 119 people”; in March 1937, took partin the “arrest of Feng Jianying, Party Secretary of Liuhe County Committee, and other 26people; after interrogation by torture, executed them by shooting in the garrison inShancheng Township”.
In October 1943: In Dalian, “arrested a Chinese man Shen Delong, a radio translatorassociated with the Soviet Union”, “arrested another Chinese man with such connections LiZhongshan in Fengtian, arrested Wang Yaoxuan and a member of the Chinese CommunistParty (name unknown) in Tianjin, after interrogation by torture, at the order by thecommander of the Military Police, sent the above-mentioned four people to the Ishii Unitin Harbin for bacteriological testing”. “I ... served as team captain when the team arrestedShen Delong, a radio operator, in Dalian.”
On 15 August 1945: The chief of the Secret Service in Dalian invited “Third-class GeneralLitokov of the Soviet Union” to Dalian, “then shot him dead in the Secret Service building”.Afterwards, jointly deliberated and decided that the president of Dalian Army Hospitalwould “fake a diagnosis, and cremate the corpse”.
