Statement of Tsurumaru, July 1 & 2, 1947 - 1-5 May 1945, 1250, went to Officers Club Hospital Dining room to visit after finishing lunch at Headquarters dining room, where there were seated Komori, Kishi, Kanehisa and Ito, perhaps also Matake. [Marginal Note: Human liver was served. ]
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Statement of Kishi (10 July 1947) Between 1 and 5 June 1945, at Officers Club Hospital Dining Room, human liver was served at noon. Komori and Kishi were in the dining room by themselves before the others arrived. Shortly after, Kanehisa, Ito, Shinno and Kamada come in. Kishi did see Komori, Kanehisa, Ito, Kamada, Shinno, Tsurumaru eat the human liver, all knowing that it was human liver, taken from a PW during an operation at KIU. |
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Statement of Matake (17 July 1947) Matake recalls that'there were present Miyamoto, Komori, Shinno, Ito, Shiokawa, Kanehisa, Kishi, and M / Sgt. Asamizu. Tsurumaru may have come in at the end of the meal; Momoda and Sasaki may have been there. At the hospital, Matake talked with Miyamoto, Ito, Komori, Kanehisa, Shiokawa and "with about everyone.” Already seated when Matake entered dining room were Ito, Komori, Kanehisa, Shinno, Miyamoto, Oda, M/Sgt. Asamizu. [Marginal Note: all ate human liver. ] |
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.