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Reference News reported on August 13According to a report on the Singapore Lianhe Zaobao website on August 13, former member of the Japanese Army's Unit 731, Shimizu Hideo, returned to Harbin, confessed his crimes and apologized.

According to Chinese media reports, Shimizu Hideo and his delegation went to the Exhibition Hall of Evidence of Crimes of Unit 731 of the Japanese Army in Pingfang District of Harbin on the 13th, where they identified the crimes of Unit 731 and apologized.

Jin Chengmin, the museum's director, said: "Shimizu Hideo is likely to be the last former member of Unit 731 to return to Harbin to confess his crimes."

Unit 731 was an organization within the former Japanese army that secretly developed biological weapons and conducted human experiments on prisoners.

Shimizu Hideo is 94 years old this year. In March 1945, at the age of 14, he was drafted into the Japanese Army as a "boy soldier" and was sent to the headquarters of the Japanese Army Unit 731 in Harbin. On August 14, 1945, he returned to Japan with the Japanese troops. In 2016, he revealed his identity and exposed the crimes of Unit 731 through public speeches and interviews.

According to a report by Japan's "Modern Business" website on August 13, on August 12, 94-year-old Shimizu Hideo said when he took a plane from Japan, "I want to apologize to the people there." This was his first return to his former post in China after the war.

In March 1945, Shimizu was sent to Harbin at the age of 14 without knowing it as a member of the "boy corps" of Unit 731. Unit 731, officially known as the "Kwantung Army Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Unit," had a research facility outside Harbin and conducted research mainly on the prevention of infectious diseases, but was also notorious for developing biological weapons for germ warfare.