Editor's note: To offer a clearer picture of history, the State Archives Administration released a large number of files on 45 Japanese war criminals who were tried and convicted in China after World War II. The special military tribunal of the Supreme People's Court held public trials, sentencing the criminals to eight-to-20 years prison term. China Daily is publishing abstracts of the criminals' confessions:

Shoji Nishinaga

Shoji Nishinaga, alias Ryosuke Nakamura, was born in Yamaguchi prefecture, Japan, in 1899.