Obituary: Shozo Tominaga. Japan Times, January 15, 2002 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.Reily et al., 305 He served with the 39th Division, based in Hiroshima, and from July 1941 onward was deployed in central China.Article about Tominaga 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.Cook, 463
Tominaga was released in 1957 and returned to Japan.Cook 40 says he left Japan in June 1941. Cook 468 says he arrived home 16 years later. 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.Data at IMDB
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External links "Recalling Japanese POWs' Life in Fushun" (China Daily August 25, 2005)