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Statement of Tomoda (420, 16 May 47) Hirako in Anatomy Department with Masao Ishizawa, not under Ishiyama, who could not issue him orders. |
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Statement of Ohno (420, 9 June 47) Ishizawa-was senior in length of service in 1945, but evidently Hirako enjoyed more prestige. No one professor was in charge of anatomy department, but three equally. Each anatomy professor had his own laboratory, but class rooms and autopsy rooms were for common use. Hirako and Ishizawa had joint jurisdiction over their autopsy room in the Anatomy Section and would have to give permission to use it. Anatomy autopsy cadavers were obtained from the Fukuoka city prison and other prisons.' During the war there were more stiffs than the University could use because of the shortage of preservation supplies. The autopsy rooms in Pathology and Anatomy were never used for operations on live patients. |
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Statement of Jinnaka (420, 9 June 1947) Jinnaka questioned Ishizawa, a doctor in anatomy, About PW operations, who said he only knew of the operations through rumor, that Hirako would know about it. Jinnaka said that this would be contrary to the rules of humanity, and Ishizawa promptly told this to Hirako. |
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.