CONFESSIONS of wartime atrocities made by Japanese soldiers, complete with their finger prints, have been made public by a Shanghai woman.

These include accounts of the drowning of 200 Chinese prisoners, the rape and murder of women and daily executions at a prison during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1937-45).

The documents belong to a Minhang District resident surnamed Hu and were collected by her great-grandfather, Hu Zhichao.