日本战犯侵华罪行自供——住冈义一

据住冈义一1955年5月笔供，他1917年出生在日本大阪市，1939年入伍并于同月侵入中国安徽宣城县。1945年8月日军投降后投靠国民党阎锡山部。1948年7月10日在山西太原被俘。

住冈义一

重要罪行有：

1940年1月，在安徽宣城新兵训练中，“把新四军和抗日军的俘虏约10名，当作"教育材料"刺杀了”。

1940年2月，在作战休息时，将“从民房中逃出来的1名老人，我先用刺刀刺其背部”，“该老人口吐鲜血死去”。

1941年12月，在山西太原，逮捕村民两人，“用日本刀刺第1名的胸部杀死”。对另1名同样“命部下将其斩杀”。

1942年2月中旬，在太谷县新庄村后山的山洞中捉来村民4名，“我将其中二十二三岁的妇女在我的房中将其强奸了，另外的约27岁的妇女，由部下二三名轮奸”。对两名男人因拷问不回答，将其1名杀害。

同在2月中旬，在摩天岭东南某村，“袭击转移中的八路军医院，在民房中逮捕病员5名”，对其中两名拷打后，“我亲自用日本刀将其斩杀”。

1942年2月下旬，“掩护大队本部医务室曾根军医大尉以下约10名，撒布伤寒菌和霍乱菌”。“此间我的小队与中队一齐，在和顺县龙门村、官池堂、阳乐庄其他二三个村庄（村名不详）占领要点，对医务室的人员在民房中，向碗、筷、菜刀、面杖、面板、桌子等食器类上涂抹细菌，又向盛饮水用的水缸中投细菌，或向村中的井中及附近的河中投入细菌的行动进行掩护”。

1942年3月下旬，“把拘留着的八路军女工作员（25岁左右）强奸后又由县警备队的士兵轮奸”。中队长为了不让大队长知道，“命我将上述的妇女及拘留着的八路军工作员2名、大盂镇的商人1名共4名杀害之”。

1942年5月下旬，在将军墓村西头民房中，将前一天在战斗中俘虏的八路军作战员及干部5名，“我亲自用日本刀斩杀”。

1942年6月，在彰德县水冶镇大街宿营，“我将一家中20岁左右的姑娘强奸了，此后又叫部下强奸了其母亲”。

1942年7月，在太原市侯家巷驻扎期间，“实施刺杀活肉靶检阅时，……带来的俘虏（大部分是八路军的战士、干部、学生，一部分是抗日军的战士）约220名，每人刺杀1名”。“现兵役教育方针是：……要以活着的中国人作教育材料，进行试胆、锻炼为方针。……各教官（包括我在内）根据此进行准备教育后，……把检阅课目中的刺杀假设敌改变为刺杀活肉靶”。

1942年8月2日前后，“指挥机关枪新兵约70名，把……俘虏约70名（其中有约50名是妇女），当作教育材料将其刺杀”。“于此次检阅期间，各教官、助教及约340名新兵，共杀害了约340名俘虏”。

1943年6月下旬，“指示中队附田中少尉把以八路军的嫌疑拘留在中队拘留所的村民1名，在该村外南侧小沟内用日本刀斩杀”。

1944年8月下旬，在沁县，“暖柳村及小河村逮捕村民各1名”，“我命马队长将上述2名在沁县城西侧河滩射杀”。

According to the written confession of Giichi Sumioka in May 1955, he was born in Osaka, Japan in 1917. In 1939, he joined the army and invaded Xuancheng County, Anhui Province, China in the same month. After Japan's surrender in August 1945, he took refuge in Yan Xishan's troops. He was arrested on 10 July 1948 in Taiyuan, Shanxi.

Confessions of Japanese war criminal Giichi Sumioka

Major offences:

January 1940: while training the new recruits in Xuancheng, Anhui, "stabbed to death about 10 captives from the New Fourth Army and the anti-Japanese army as 'educational materials'";

February 1940: while taking a break between battles, "I stabbed on the back of an old man who was running away from a civilian house", and "the old man spit out blood and died";

December 1941: in Taiyuan, Shanxi, arrested two villagers, "stabbed with a Japanese sword on the chest of one of them and killed him" and "ordered my subordinates to kill" the other one;

Mid-February 1942: captured four villagers in a cave on the back hills of Xinzhuang Village, Taigu County, "I raped a woman aged 22 or 23 among them in my room, and another 27-year-old woman was gang-raped by two or three of my subordinates". The two men were interrogated with torture and said nothing, so one of them was killed;

Mid-February 1942: in a village to the southeast of Motianling, "assaulted a hospital of the Eighth Route Army on its way of evacuating; arrested 5 patients in a civilian house", after interrogating with torture two of them, "I killed them with a Japanese sword by myself";

Late February 1942: "covered up for about 10 surgeon senior captains from the Headquarters Dispensary of the Battalion to spread typhoid and cholera bacteria", "in the process, my Platoon worked together with the Company, occupying vantage points in Longmen Village, Guanchitang, Yanglezhuang and another two or three villages (names not clear) in Heshun County, wher we covered the medical staff as they smeared bacteria on bowls, chopsticks, kitchen knives, rolling pins, cutting boards and tables in villagers' houses and threw bacteria into their water vats, wells and rivers nearby";

Late March 1942: "raped a female operator (aged around 25) of the Eighth Route Army, who was in custody, and then let the County Police gang rape her". In order to keep it secret from the Battalion Chief, the Company Commander "ordered me to kill the above-mentioned woman and two other captured operators of the Eighth Route Army and a businessman from Dayu Township, a total of 4 people";

Late May 1942: in a civilian house in the west of Jiangjunmu Village, "I personally killed with Japanese sword" 5 soldiers and cadres of the Eighth Route Army, who had been captured in the battle the day before;

June 1942: while camping in the streets of Shuizhi Township, Zhangde County, "I raped a 20-year-old girl in her home and ordered my subordinates to rape her mother";

July 1942: when stationing in Houjiaxiang, Taiyuan City, "when we conducted an inspection on bayoneting living targets … about 220 captives (mostly soldiers and cadres of the Eighth Route Army, students, and some soldiers of the anti-Japanese army) were brought here, one for each Japanese soldier to kill". "The active service education policy was: … to use live Chinese people as educational materials to test Japanese soldiers' courage and train them … all the instructors (including myself) prepared accordingly …… change the imaginary enemy into live targets in the stabbing course for inspection";

Around 2 August 1942: "ordered 70 new recruits of the machine gun units to … stab 70 captives (about 50 of them were women) as educational materials"; "during this inspection, all instructors, teaching assistants and about 340 new recruits killed a total of about 340 captives"　;

Late June 1943: "ordered Second Lieutenant Tanaka to kill with Japanese sword one villager, who was detained in the Company as an Eighth Route Army soldier suspect, in a little trench to the south of the village";

Late August 1944: in Qinxian County, "we captured one villager each from Nuanliu Village and Xiaohe Village"; "I ordered Captain Ma to shoot these two captives to death on the riverside to the west of Qinxian County".

（来源：国家档案局网站，编辑 Helen）