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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.
周二上午，清水英男低着头，双手合十站在中国东北黑龙江省哈尔滨市的“谢罪与不战和平之碑”前，他曾是二战期间臭名昭著的日军细菌战部队731部队的一名成员。
"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，我向中国的受害者、731部队的受害者和逝去的受害表示诚挚的歉意和忏悔。”
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).
79年后，现年94岁的清水英男回到了731部队位于哈尔滨的旧址，揭发他所在部队在抗日战争（1931年至1945年）期间所犯下的罪行。
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.
周二，清水英男先后前往侵华日军第731部队罪证陈列馆的卫兵所旧址、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，并在陈列馆的“谢罪与不战和平之碑”前公开表达了忏悔。
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.
1945年3月被派往哈尔滨时，清水英男大约14岁，是731部队“少年队”最后一期的成员。
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.
他在四个多月的时间里，目睹了他所在部队犯下的战争罪行，包括病毒培养、解剖人体和人体实验。
On Aug 14, 1945, Shimizu fled China with the retreating Japanese forces.
1945年8月14日，清水英男随撤退的日军逃离中国。
Before leaving China, Unit 731 tried to gun down all survivors and destroy incriminating evidence of the atrocities it committed.
在离开中国之前，731部队试图枪杀所有幸存者，销毁其所犯暴行的罪证。
After returning to Japan, Shimizu was haunted by the guilt of what he saw and what he was forced to participate in.
回到日本后，清水英男一直被他所看到的和他被迫参与的罪行所困扰。
In 2016, he revealed his identity as a former Unit 731 member and began to expose the atrocities committed by the Japanese Imperial Army through public speeches and interviews, aiming to reveal historical truths.
2016年，他公开了自己前731部队成员的身份，并开始通过公开演讲和采访揭露日军犯下的暴行，旨在揭示历史真相。
On Saturday, before departure from his home in Nagano prefecture, Shimizu told Xinhua News Agency that it was his "first return to China in 79 years" and he had two wishes.
周六，在离开自己位于长野县的家之前，清水英男接受新华社采访时称，这是他“时隔79年重返中国”，他有两个愿望。
"One is to sincerely pray for those who perished at the hands of Unit 731 and to apologize to their families, while the other wish is to learn more about the impact of the plague released by the Japanese Imperial Army in Harbin after the war, a topic on which there is little testimony in Japan," he said.
他说：“一是想真诚地为那些死于731部队的人祈祷，并向他们的家人谢罪。另一个愿望是想更多地了解日军战败后在哈尔滨释放的鼠疫的影响，这是一个在日本几乎没有证言的话题。”
