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Hideo Shimizu, a former member of Unit 731, the notorious germ warfare detachment of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, stood with his head bowed and hands folded on Tuesday morning in front of the Apology and Peace Monument in Harbin, Northeast China's Heilongjiang province.

清水英男（Hideo Shimizu）是二战期间日本侵华实施细菌战的731部队的前成员。8月13日，他低着头，双手合十站在位于哈尔滨的“谢罪与不战和平之碑”前表示忏悔。

"I would like to express my sincere apologies and repentance to the Chinese victims, the victims of Unit 731, and the deceased," he said.

他说：“在这里我真的深感抱歉，向逝去的受害者表达哀悼，因为我们的种种暴行给受害者带来了巨大的灾难，我们深感抱歉。”

After 79 years, Shimizu, who is now 94, returned to Harbin, where Unit 731 was once located, to expose and testify to the crimes committed by his detachment during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931-45).

时隔79年，现年94岁的清水英男重返让他背负一生沉重记忆的原点——位于中国哈尔滨的侵华日军第七三一部队旧址（现为侵华日军第七三一部队罪证陈列馆），揭发731部队在抗日战争（1931-1945）期间犯下的罪行。

He boarded a flight from Osaka's Kansai International Airport on Monday morning and arrived in Harbin in the evening.

12日，刚过完94岁生日的清水英男从日本大阪关西国际机场出发，并于晚上抵达哈尔滨。

On Tuesday, Shimizu visited and identified the notorious Japanese force's old guardhouse sites, the headquarters building, the bacteriology laboratory, the special prison and the frostbite laboratory at the Museum of Evidence of War Crimes by the Japanese Army Unit 731, before publicly expressing his repentance at the museum's Apology and Peace Monument.

清水英男先后到卫兵所旧址、本部大楼旧址、细菌实验室遗址、特设监狱遗址、冻伤实验室旧址等地指认，后来到“谢罪与不战和平之碑”前进行忏悔谢罪。

Shimizu was about 14 years old and among the last batches of Unit 731 Youth Corps members when he was sent to Harbin in March 1945. He spent more than four months witnessing the war crimes committed by his unit, including the cultivation of pathogens, human dissections and experiments on humans.

1945 年 3 月，清水英男大约14岁，是731部队“少年队”最后一期的成员。当时他被派往哈尔滨，4个多月的经历目睹了731部队犯下的战争罪行，包括病毒培养、人体解剖和人体实验。

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