據(jù)藤田茂1954年8月筆供，他1889年生于日本廣島縣。1938年8月到中國山西參加侵華戰(zhàn)爭，任陸軍騎兵第28聯(lián)隊(duì)大佐聯(lián)隊(duì)長。1945年3月任第43軍第59師團(tuán)中將師團(tuán)長。1945年8月在朝鮮咸興被俘。
重要罪行有：
1938年8月，在山西河津逮捕住民6名，“訊問這些被逮捕的人民時(shí)使用拷問、毆打等方法手段且殺害了”。
1938年11月，在山西運(yùn)城東北40公里的三路李村，“搜索屠殺了多數(shù)三路李村住民”。
1939年1月中旬，在山西安邑縣張良村，“對(duì)軍官全體教育說"為使兵習(xí)慣于戰(zhàn)場，殺人是快的方法，就是試膽。對(duì)此使用俘虜比較好"。"刺殺比槍殺有效果"。4月，在夏縣，“我命令第1中隊(duì)長……讓部下的9名兵刺殺了俘虜”9名。8月15日，在山西澤州，“我讓把8名俘虜交給第1中隊(duì)，把9名交給第2中隊(duì)作為教育材料刺殺了”。
1944年3月—1945年4月，任騎兵第4旅團(tuán)長期間，“瓦斯彈：使用74發(fā)(綠彈)”。
1944年4月10日，“我在歸德旅團(tuán)司令部，召集各隊(duì)長，命令”“使用瓦斯彈的權(quán)限給予聯(lián)隊(duì)長，在此作戰(zhàn)期間，騎炮1門攜帶20發(fā)瓦斯彈，聯(lián)隊(duì)炮1門攜帶10發(fā)瓦斯彈”，“俘虜盡量在戰(zhàn)場殺害，算入"戰(zhàn)果"。
1944年5月2日，在河南許昌西南10公里的黃旗衛(wèi)村，“刺殺俘虜4名”。
1944年5月21日，在河南洛陽，“擊斃中國人民12名(1名是婦女)”。
1944年10月26日，在河南太康附近，“拷問殺害中國人民6名”。12月16日，在黃河北左岸歸德北方地區(qū)，“拷問殺害中國人民11名”。
1945年3月27日，“在竹林橋北200米的鄧縣—老河口道上的約50戶村莊，把合住民，連老人、婦女、小孩，……屠殺了這些住民”。同日，“在馬屈山攻擊使用了瓦斯彈”。
1945年5月9日，在山東沂水西北25公里的石橋“殺害很多中國人民”，“放火，全部燒毀石橋村”。同月“作戰(zhàn)期間，使令防疫給水班使用霍亂菌，實(shí)施了細(xì)菌戰(zhàn)”。攻擊在豪山的八路軍時(shí)，“使用了瓦斯彈、瓦斯筒”。“為了預(yù)防遭受八路軍所埋設(shè)的地雷之害，則稱謂領(lǐng)路，使十幾名人民先行的事實(shí)是使令實(shí)地趟地雷了”。
1945年6月，“在濟(jì)南的虐殺俘虜”，“把使用于陣地構(gòu)筑的濟(jì)南俘虜收容所600名以上的俘虜，在6月15日以后使用于教育刺殺了”。
“停戰(zhàn)后的處理。(1945年)8月17日召集各大隊(duì)長命令如左：1.銷毀各種文件(消滅日本帝國主義的罪行，尤其湮滅對(duì)共產(chǎn)黨彈壓的證據(jù))，2.埋沒特種彈(瓦斯彈、燒夷彈、發(fā)煙彈、曳火彈、及一部分信管)，3.銷毀防毒面(具)……”
According to the written confession of Fujita Shigeru in August 1954, he was born in 1889 in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan and went to Shanxi, China in August 1938 to join the Japanese War of Aggression against China, serving as colonel and commander of the 28th Cavalry Regiment. He took the position of lieutenant general and commander of the 59th Division of the 43rd Army in March 1945. He was captured in Hamhung, the Korean Peninsula in August 1945.
The confessions of Japanese war criminal Fujita Shigeru
Major offences:
August 1938: arrested 6 local inhabitants in Hejin, Shanxi, "interrogated these arrested people through torture and beating, and killed them";
November 1938: "searched for and killed most of the inhabitants of Sanluli Village" in Sanluli Village, 40 kilometers to the northeast of Yuncheng, Shanxi;
Mid-January 1939: in Zhangliang Village, Anyi County, Shanxi, "told all officers, 'Killing people is a quick way to get soldiers accustomed to the battlefield, as it can test their courage. For this purpose, it is better to use the captives.' 'Bayoneting is more effective than shooting.'" In April, in Xiaxian County, "I ordered the commander of the First Squadron…to order 9 soldiers under his command to bayonet to death 9 captives." On 15 August, in Zezhou, Shanxi, "I ordered the First Squadron and the Second Squadron to take 8 and 9 captives respectively as teaching materials and bayonet those captives to death";
From March 1944 to April 1945: "used 74 gas shells (green colored shells)" while serving as commander of the 4th Cavalry Brigade;
April 10, 1944: "I called all regiment commanders together at the Brigade Headquarters in Guide and ordered that" "regiment commanders could authorize the use of gas shells. During the battles, 20 gas shells are equipped for each cannon of the cavalry and 10 gas shells for each cannon of the regiment", and "try to kill captives on the battlefield as far as possible and calculate them into 'combat achievements'";
May 2, 1944: "bayoneted 4 captives" in Huangqiwei Village, 10 kilometers southwest to Xuchang, Henan;
May 21, 1944: "shot dead 12 Chinese people (including 1 woman)" in Luoyang, Henan;
March 27, 1945: "massacred all inhabitants of about 50 households in a village along the Dengxian County-Laohekou road, which is 200 meters to the north of Zhulinqiao, killing seniors, women, children... and other inhabitants"; "used gas shells during the attack in Maqushan" on the same day;
May 9, 1945: "killed many Chinese people" in Shiqiao, 25 kilometers northwest to Yishui, Shandong, and "burned down the entire Shiqiao Village"; in the same month, "ordered the Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Squad to use cholera virus to fight a germ war during the battles"; "gas shells and gas canisters were used" when attacking the Eighth Route Army in Haoshan; "to prevent soldiers from stepping on land mines placed by the Eighth Route Army, more than ten Chinese people were ordered to lead the way, i.e. to walk in the mine field in front of the troops";
June 1945: "maltreated and killed captives in Jinan", and "over 600 captives of the Jinan Internment Camp who had been forced to build battle positions were bayoneted to death in soldier training after 15 June";
"Arrangements after announcement of armistice: I called all squad commanders together on 17 August (1945) and ordered them to do the following: first, to destroy all kinds of documents (to get rid of criminal records of the Japanese imperialism, especially the evidence of cracking down on the Communist Party of China); second, to bury special bombs (gas shells, incendiary ammunition, smoke projectiles, light tracers and some fuse tubes); third, to destroy gas masks..."
