Shozo Tominaga
Japanese war criminal
About Shozo Tominaga
Lived 1914 – 2002 (aged 87–88).
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. He served with the 39th Division, based in Hiroshima, and from July 1941 onward was deployed in central China. 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.
Tominaga was released in 1957 and returned to Japan. That same year, he co-founded a peace activist group.
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Who was Shozo Tominaga?
Japanese war criminal
When was Shozo Tominaga born?
Shozo Tominaga was born in 1914.
When did Shozo Tominaga die?
Shozo Tominaga died on 13 January 2002.
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