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GENERAL HEADQUARTERS SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS LEGAL SECTION ___PROSECUTION___ (Requesting Agency) DATE: 7 August 1947 SUBJECT" Apprehension of Suspected War Criminals. TO: Criminal Registry Division Legal Section. 1. Request that the following named person be apprehended and interned in prison for trial as a Suspected War Criminal: a. Name: GOSHIMA, Shiro b. Rank or Title: c. Units to which attached: d. Dates and places of service: e. Home address (if known) Gifu-ken Inaga-gun, Uakami-Nura, Kekai 4883-4. f. Synopsis of Charges presently prepared, subject to amendment, against subject Suspected War Criminal: Took specimens from American Prisoners of War, dead from experimental operations at Kyushu Imperial University. g. Synopsis of Evidence to support charges: Affidavits of accused. Tanaka, and Ryu. h. Anticipated place of trial: Yokohama i. Other information that might assist in apprehension of desired person: Now being held in protective custody by Fukuoka Branch Office, Investigation Division, Legal Section. j. This Division presently has charges /being prepared, subject to amendment, and sufficient supporting evidence to constitute a prima facie case against this man. _________________ Chief of Division. Paul von Bergen |
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.