據城野宏1955年1月筆供，他1914年出生在日本長崎市，1938年到中國東北參加侵華戰爭，1949年4月被俘。

城野宏

重要罪行有：

1941年，掠奪中國的資源，“加強了對日帝鐵等軍事物資的供應”。

1943年11月－1945年8月，“4次派遣1500余名機動兵力配合日軍攻擊中國人民和八路軍。派遣兩個大隊掩護開采煤鐵礦產，并以保安隊在全省掩護征集食糧15萬噸，鐵約20萬噸獻于日軍。”

1946年－1949年，“我參加5次閻錫山所進行的反人民作戰，抵抗解放軍，給解放軍二千幾百名的損害，給與居民以巨大的損害與破壞”。

1948年10月，“我和今村方策共謀策劃，使第10總隊加入太原東山戰斗，給與解放軍約一千余名的損害，組織（阻止）了太原的解放。”“我曾目睹十余發瓦斯彈落于解放軍陣地炸裂”。

城野宏筆供中文譯文

According to the written confession of Hiroshi Jōno in January 1955, he was born in Nagasaki City, Japan in 1914. He joined the war of aggression in northeast China in 1938 and was arrested in April 1949.

The confessions of Japanese war criminal Hiroshi Jōno

Major offences:

1941: plundered China’s resources to "strengthen the supply of Japanese military resources, such as iron";

From November 1943 to August 1945: "dispatched more than 1,500 reserve soldiers in four batches to cooperate with the Japanese army in attacking the Chinese people and the Eighth Route Army; dispatched two battalions to cover for the exploitation of coal and iron, and used the security forces to cover the collection of 150,000 tons of grain and about 200,000 tons of iron in the whole province for the Japanese army";

From 1946 to 1949: "I took part in the battles waged by Yan Xishan for five times to fight the people and resist the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), causing over twenty hundred casualties to the PLA and extremely huge damages to the local inhabitants";

October 1948: "I planned with Housaku Imamura to let the 10th Brigade join in the battles in Dongshan, Taiyuan, causing about 1,000 casualties to the PLA and organizing (blocking) the liberation of Taiyuan." "I saw more than ten gas shells dropped on the position of the PLA and exploded."

（來源：國家檔案局網站，編輯 Helen）