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FUKUSHIMA, [Marginal Note: Kyushaku] [Additional Marginal Note: (Sugano)] Statement of Yakumaru (604 - not in file). Fukushima. Major General of the Western Army, who, with Sate, attempted to conceal the experiments by reporting that the POWs involved had been sent to Hiroshima. [Marginal Note: no] |
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Statement of Torisu. (604 - not in file). Torisu contacted Fukushima who claimed that he knew nothing whatsoever of the operations, but who asserted that the Army would try to keep then secret from the Occupation Forces. [Marginal Note: no] |
This book documents the legal proceedings of the December 1949 Khabarovsk trial in which twelve members of the Japanese Army's covert biological warfare Unit 731 were prosecuted for their war crimes. The trial sought to hold key leaders in Japan's bio-weapons program accountable for atrocities after WWII.