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KIKKAWA Report of Chugoku Hqs. to Vice Minister of 1st Demob, of late May 46 (ATIS 38382) ____________________________________________________________________ 48 Allied personnel killed in Chugoku area, 21 instantly (lists group), then gives 6 members of Watkins' group as transferred from Western Army on 31 Jul 45, states 9 transferred, adds Capt. "Nolson" and 2nd Lt. (or Cpl.) Hayward, the Western Army group killed 6 Aug, interned in 2nd floor of 224 Inf. Div. bldg., the remains mixed with the Japanese, handed over to American X Corps 7 Dec 45.
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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.