"I admit my guilt and have thought over what I did." He began seriously telling his stories in the early 1980s shortly before his retirement.
Shinozuka has visited China a number of times, cooperating also with 180 Chinese victims of the biological warfare experiments who filed a joint lawsuit seeking damages and apologies from the Japanese government.
A ruling in the suit will be handed down on Aug 27 at the Tokyo District Court, and he has lately been unsettled about whether justice will be served.
Even though he was invited by human rights groups to speak in the United States and Canada in June 1998, he was barred from entering the U.S. at the airport in Chicago because he was considered to be a war criminal.
Shinozuka has come a long way, but he is aware that the road to peace is never smooth.
"Biological weapons are devilishly cruel, and their cruelties are not only in the past," said Shinozuka. "We must avoid the same mistake."
"By confessing and revealing what we have done in China, we can pursue the war crimes and responsibilities of the Japanese government," Shinozuka added.
(Kyodo News)
Article courtesy of Japan Today: http://www.japantoday.com
Shinozuka has visited China a number of times, cooperating also with 180 Chinese victims of the biological warfare experiments who filed a joint lawsuit seeking damages and apologies from the Japanese government.
A ruling in the suit will be handed down on Aug 27 at the Tokyo District Court, and he has lately been unsettled about whether justice will be served.
Even though he was invited by human rights groups to speak in the United States and Canada in June 1998, he was barred from entering the U.S. at the airport in Chicago because he was considered to be a war criminal.
Shinozuka has come a long way, but he is aware that the road to peace is never smooth.
"Biological weapons are devilishly cruel, and their cruelties are not only in the past," said Shinozuka. "We must avoid the same mistake."
"By confessing and revealing what we have done in China, we can pursue the war crimes and responsibilities of the Japanese government," Shinozuka added.
(Kyodo News)
Article courtesy of Japan Today: http://www.japantoday.com