Shozo_Tominaga

Shozo Tominaga

Shozo Tominaga

Japanese war criminal

Shozo Tominaga (富永 正三, Tominaga Shōzō, 1914 or 1915 – January 13, 2002)[1] was a Japanese war criminal turned peace activist.

Tominaga served in Manchuria during the Second Sino-Japanese War. In that time, he participated in many war crimes.[2] He served with the 39th Division, based in Hiroshima, and from July 1941 onward served in Central China.[3] Tominaga was captured during the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in 1945. As with many other Japanese prisoners of war in the Soviet Union, he was interred in a harsh POW camp in Siberia. In 1950, he was handed over to People's Republic of China.[4]

Tominaga was released in 1957 and returned to Japan.[5] That same year, he co-founded a peace activist group[1]

In 2001, shortly prior to his death, he participated in the Japanese documentary film Japanese Devils (Riben guizi).[6]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Obituary: Shozo Tominaga. Japan Times, January 15, 2002
  2. [2]
    Reily et al., 305
  3. [3]
    Article about Tominaga
  4. [4]
    Cook, 463
  5. [5]
    Cook 40 says he left Japan in June 1941. Cook 468 says he arrived home 16 years later.
  6. [6]
    Data at IMDB

Sources

  • Cook, Haruko Taya; Theodore F. Cook (1992). Japan at War: An Oral History. New Press. ISBN 1-56584-039-9.
  • Reilly, Kevin Taya; Stephen Kaufman; Angela Bodino (2003). Racism: A Global Reader. M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 0-7656-1059-0.


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