He confessed that when he was in the 54th Brigade of the 59th Division of the Japanese Army he taught 30 recruits how to kill people with swords and so several civilians were killed and he personally killed a teenager begging for quarter.

He also confessed that his unit captured a woman to make her a sexual slave and killed her and ate her flesh when food was in short supply.

At that time killing of civilians and sexual abuses against women were common in the Imperial Japanese Army, he said, adding:

There were many "comfort stations" in the areas under the control of the Japanese army and I could see "comfort women" in the area our unit was stationed.