Editor's note: To offer a clearer picture of history, the State Archives Administration released a large number of files on 45 Japanese war criminals who were tried and convicted in China after World War II. The special military tribunal of the Supreme People's Court held public trials, sentencing the criminals to eight-to-20 years prison term. China Daily is publishing abstracts of the criminals' confessions:

Yohei Kibe

Yohei Kibe was born in Oita prefecture, Japan, in 1895. In June 1921, he served as officer of the Japanese Kwantung government and chief of the finance division of the puppet Dalian civil affairs bureau. He became director-general of the social welfare department of the "Manchukuo" area in northeast China in April 1944. On Oct 26, 1945, he was arrested by the Soviet Army in Changchun.