According to the written confession of Tadashi Hayashi on 9 October 1954, he was born in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan in 1920. He joined the Japanese War of Aggression against China in 1941 and was captured in August 1945.

Major offences:

In May 1941: In Zhongxiang County, Hubei Province, “arrested one Chinese aged around 30” and forced him to “be ‘a guide’; he walked about 50 meters and tried to escape”, and “I ... shot him to death from behind”.

In November 1942: In Yichang County, Hubei Province, a companion bloated cold water into the belly of an arrested Chinese man and burned him with fire; “as a result, the Chinese man was dying”; “after dragging him into a pit, to prevent him from regaining consciousness, I bayoneted him at the neck” and another companion “bayoneted him at the heart, thus killing him”.

In June 1943: In Yichang County, a military doctor from the battalion headquarters, under the pretext of giving “field training” to newly recruited noviciate medical soldiers, got “one POW” “into trance through injection, dissected him from chest to belly, then stabbed him at the heart with a lancet, while making explanations on his internal organs to the medical soldier trainees”.

In August 1943: In Yichang County, the squadron commander “threatened” a Chinese man “during interrogation but got nothing from him; so the commander slashed him to death”. Because initially “he didn’t slash well and the blood was everywhere, he ordered me to bayonet the man to death”.

In December 1943: In Yidu County, Hubei Province, together with one companion, “sexually assaulted one peaceful Chinese woman aged around 40”.