Shozo Tominaga

Shozo Tominaga 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.
In 2001, shortly prior to his death, he participated in the Japanese documentary film Japanese Devils.