For 70 years, Hideo Shimizu said nothing about what he had seen, and even those closest to him had no inkling of what had happened in those terrible months in China in 1945. He was 14 when he came home from the war, and his life since then has been one of affluent respectability. He qualified as an architect and founded a construction company. He married and had a family, and today, at the age of 93, he has six grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren. But when he looked at the babies’ faces he