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KUBOYAMA. Hideto Fukuoka-Ken, Asakura-Gun, Tateichi-Mura, Iehiki Former Rank: Sergeant Major Sections Western Army Hqs. Charges: Executing an American Flyer at Aburayama, Fukuoka-Ken, on 15 August 1945. Evidences: Yoshinao SATO, former Col., IJA, Testimony PP-35. "I later learned that Sgt. Major KUBOYAMA was the next executioner. In early June 1946, KUBOYAMA came to the Western Demobilization Office and told me that he was one of the executioners......". (Referring to 15 August 1945 execution) |
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.