Word: yoshio
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...Some individuals, however, have come forward with the truth and confessed their shame. The day before the Tokyo court decision, a former official in charge of raising bacteria for biological warfare, Yoshio Shinozuka, visited the unit's site?one of 10,000 Japanese who do so every year. The retreating Japanese army had destroyed all buildings except the main office, which now houses a small, tasteful exhibition explaining what happened and showing items such as scalpels and poison gas canisters. Curator Wang Peng says Shinozuka told him how sorry he was for what he had done and had laid...
...families [of the dead Japanese], but I was told by someone higher up that feelings were running high and that I should not go. So on Tuesday night last week [Feb. 27], I went to meet the Japanese Consul General, Minoru Shibuya, and Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Yoshio Mochizuki [who was visiting Hawaii], and I presented them with letters of apology to Prime Minister [Yoshiro] Mori and to the nine families of the deceased. I wanted them to see my face and know my apology and my emotions are sincere. In those letters I told the family members...