European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes monday August 19, 1991era atrocities on display in Japan Tokyo apr a Man in uniform grins for the camera. In one hand dangles the head of one of his victims in the other a sword. In another scene one Soldier holds a chinese civilian while another drives a Bayonet into his ribs. Former members of Japan a Imperial army Are providing these images and graphic personal accounts of their participation in such atrocities As the 1937 Nanjing massacre at an annual anti War exhibition in Tokyo. As the 50th anniversary of Japan a attack on Pearl Harbor approaches some older japanese Are seeking to remind their younger compatriots of their nations responsibility for world War ii. The reminders have come in apologies to the countries that suffered under Japan a Militarist expansion in documentaries and dramas on the wartime Era and in the accounts of veterans who fought for Japan in the War. In a videotaped testimony of a War of aggression shown at the War exhibition for peace three former military officers describe indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians in China during the War. Shozo Tominaga 78, tells of learning How to kill. A a a ill show you How to chop off a Many a head a a senior officer told me a Tominaga recounts. A then i was ordered to do the same and i  after that initiation Tominaga says he had no problem ordering other executions. Another former officer Hiromichi Nagatomi 75, describes slaying chinese in Nanjing after the City fell under japanese control a i killed people for several months without feeling any guilt a Nagatomi says. A i shot at the fleeing chinese a eventually killing As Many As 200 people he adds. The number of chinese killed in the so called a rape of Nanjing remains a matter of speculation ome prominent japanese such As legislator Shintaro Ishihara claim that chinese death tolls of 200,000 to 300,000 Are propaganda. At least one former japanese officer puts the figure at 150,000. Yoshio Tsuchiya 79, a former military police officer tells of his experiments in torture a of burning people with hot Irons and of forcing them to drink water until they died. A it was excruciating for them a he says. All three of the sex soldiers were imprisoned for War crimes after the War. Tiey also sometimes visit schools to describe the history of the War to children according to the videotape. A Japan occupied neighbouring countries for its own profit under the Guise that it was for the Sake of peace. Japan itself started the War a the narrator says. About 5,000-6,000 people were expected to see the five Day exhibition which was to close sunday. It is sponsored by the War exhibition for peace a private anti War group with about 300 members and co sponsored by the Japan China Friendship association. The display criticizes Japan a cooperative role in the korean Vietnam and persian Gulf wars. A Japan has participated in those wars too a says Mitsuharu Yazaki an organizer of the exhibition. A it still Hasni to apologized to All those  some japanese fear their country May be losing its postwar commitment to pacifism because younger generations Are taught with textbooks that tend to gloss Over wartime history and because of the Gulf War. Partly in response to . Criticism Over Japan a limited role in that conflict parliament is debating legislation that would enable japanese troops to go overseas for International peacekeeping operations. . Gives Back old gravestones stolen from Ireland Shannon Ireland a the United states on saturday returned four 1,000-year-old gravestones stolen from an Early Christian burial site in Ireland. The Fri recovered the stones which were stolen from a monastic site on Inchcl Craun Island in Lough  in Western Ireland two years ago after they were offered for Sale to Boston College. Thomas Hughes head of the Fri office in Boston and special agent de Clark accompanied the coffin shaped boxes containing the slabs to Ireland. They turned them Over to minister of Public works Vincent Brady at Shannon Airport. A these two special agents were instrumental in frustrating the criminal efforts to convert part of our heritage into Dollar Bills a Brady said. A thankfully Public spirited vigilance is alive and Well both in the United slates and Here in Ireland. I give my personal undertaking that no Effort will be spared by this government in pursuing anyone who unlawfully interferes with our archaeological heritage a he said. The office of Public works said in a statement that an Irish policeman has resigned and an irishman has been jailed by a Boston court in connection with the affair. Eumon Barnes Ireland a director of Public prosecutions is considering evidence against them and an unidentified county Longford businessman allegedly involved in the illegal Export of Irish antiquities to the United states the statement said. The Fri has said the Irish Republican army May have acted As a go Between with academic institutions in the United slates. The gravestones were recovered after Robert of Neill director of the Burns Library at Boston College called in the Fri when he was contacted about buying them the office of Public works said. An Fri agent posing As a Rich collector with Irish roots agreed to buy the slabs for 260,000 pounds $435,000. Photos of the stones were sent to Dublin where they were identified As stolen property by Eamon Kelly keeper of antiquities at the National mus Thuli in Dublin. Election Mexico style visitors to the downtown of san Luis Potosi Mexico Are engulfed with Campaign signs saturday in preparation for sundays elections. Voters were to elect 500 Federal deputies and six governors.10 killed in China train mishap Beijing up1 a panicked passengers fleeing a fire on a train sunday leapt into the path of a freight train which struck and killed at least 10 persons police in Southern Huangdong province reported. At least 19 other passengers were injured in the 12 15 . Accident according to railways ministry police in the Huangdong capital of Canton. A your investigators Are still at the scene so we still Are not dear about the circumstances a one officer said. A we can confirm that 10 people died and 19 were  the trains scheduled route its number of passengers and their nationalities w Ere not immediately disclosed. Preliminary reports said a piece of Luggage caught fire aboard the southbound passenger train As it entered the Daya Oshan Tunnel police said. A conductor quickly extinguished the flames but passengers panicked As smoke billowed through the crowded train. Someone activated the trains emergency brakes apparently bringing it to a Stop before it exited the Tunnel police said. Scores of passengers leapt from the Smoky train onto an adjacent track. In the darkness some were struck after being unable to avoid a freight train travelling in the opposite  has no roof Over his head despite 30-year wait Moscow apr an elderly soviet pensioner is living in a partially destroyed apartment with no Root or running water despite a 30-year wait to get government housing a newspaper reported saturday. A i done to want to live anymore a the daily Rab Ochaya Tribuna workers Tribune quoted Ivan Savinov As saying. Savinov moved into the apartment building More than 30 years ago in the russian City of Smolensk. It was run by his employer a local construction firm. Then he changed jobs and got on an other list presumably for a better apartment allocated by his new employer a factory. Savinov continued to live in the apartment run by his former company. Three years ago he retired and he was still waiting Rab Ochaya Tribuna reported. A there is just one a but a a the paper said. A the original apartment building. No longer  a the construction firm sold the building to private investors who have begun tearing it Down to make Way for new projects. His apartment is the Only one left in the eight apartment Complex now without a roof and several of its Walls. A there Are rumours that they Are going to give him a Small room in a dormitory Quot the paper said referring to local government authorities. A but so far they Haven to come up with anything. One thing is Clear Busy people work in our local government committees. For them this is a trifling  Savinov is now struggling to survive the paper said. He is forced to walk a tens of meters to get drinking water. As a result he has recently sustained a broken leg the paper said. To add to his woes a pipeline being built next to the building has caused puddles of water and Sand to leak into his apartment when it Rains the paper said. Housing is scarce in the soviet Union. Nationwide 18 percent of All families have been on housing waiting list for More than 10 years. One in six Moscow residents has registered for new housing