Japanese war criminal confesses to observing vivisection of Chinese prisoner (3)

Photo released on Aug. 26, 2015 by the State Archives Administration of China on its website shows the Chinese version of an excerpt from Japanese war criminal Tadashi Hayashi's handwritten confession. The sixteenth in a series of 31 handwritten confessions from Japanese war criminals published online, the confession features Tadashi Hayashi, who was born in 1920. He joined the Japanese War of Aggression against China in 1941, and was captured in August 1945. Hayashi wrote that during one anatomy lesson for medical trainees, a military doctor injected a prisoner to put him into a "trance". The doctor then "dissected [the man] from chest to belly [...] while he discussed the major organs of the body." Hayashi also confessed to fatally shooting a Chinese escapee, aged around 30, in Hubei's Zhongxiang County, in May 1941. In November 1942, Hayashi watched another soldier inject water into the stomach of a Chinese prisoner and then broil him by fire. To prevent him from regaining consciousness, Hayashi stabbed the prisoner in the neck with a bayonet and another soldier stabbed him in the heart. (Xinhua)