Shozo Tominaga
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Shozo Tominaga (富永 正三, Tominaga Shōzō; 1914 or 1915 – January 13, 2002)[1] was a Japanese convicted war criminal turned peace activist.
Tominaga served in Manchuria during the Second Sino-Japanese War, in which he participated in multiple war crimes.[2] He served with the 39th Division, based in Hiroshima, and from July 1941 onward was deployed 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 interned in a harsh POW camp in Siberia. In 1950, he was handed over to the 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.[6]
