Testimony
According to his testimony he raped many Chinese women during the invasion of China.
"They cried out, but it didn't matter to us whether the women lived or died," Kaneko said in an interview with The Associated Press at his Tokyo home. "We were the emperor's soldiers. Whether in military brothels or in the villages, we raped without reluctance."
In an interview with the Japan Times on September 26, 1996, Yasuji stated "I murdered 100 people or more by torture." He also claimed that he joined the Nanking Massacre and murdered and raped many Chinese people.
He testified during a private trial Yun Chung-Ok sponsored in December 2000: "Comfort women were expensive. Therefore, I kidnapped, raped, and killed the Chinese woman." Kaneko has also admitted to participating in the use of chemical and biological weapons against Chinese as part of Unit 731.
In the Japanese documentary Japanese Devils, which features 14 Japanese soldiers retelling their roles in war crimes committed by Japan during World War II, Kaneko describes an incident in which he and his unit surrounded and wiped out an entire village for the thrill of it, rather than any threat it offered. The reviewer notes that all soldiers interviewed in Minori Matsui's film were ex-POWs of the Chinese government and subjected to a long "re-education" that may call their testimony into question. However, the reviewer, Mark Schilling felt that "they give impression of being not communist controlled-robots but elderly men who have little time and nothing to lose" .
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