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GENERAL HEADQUARTERS SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS LEGAL SECTION ___PROSECUTION___ (Requesting Agency) DATE: 24 February 1948 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: KUBO, TOSHIYUKI b. Rank or Title: Civilian Medical Member of First Surgery Clinic, Kyushu Imperial University Medical College. c. Units to which attached: d. Dates and places of service: August 1944 - March 1946 Fukuoka City, Kyushu e. Home address (if known): Fukuoku-Shi, Yo-Ha-No-Cho #16 f. Synopsis of Charges presently prepared, subject to amendment, against subject Suspected War Criminal: A participant in killings by vivisecting of American flyers at Kyushu Imperial University. g. Synopsis of Evidence to support charges: Statements of accused and co-participants h. Anticipated place of trial: Yokohama. i. Other information that might assist in apprehension of desired person: Presently employed at Teishin Hospital j. This Division presently has charges /being prepared, subject to amendment, and sufficient supporting evidence to constitute a prima facie case against this man.
(Bergen) _________________ Chief of Division. |
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.