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MINAMI (Professor) [Marginal Note: (KIU) ] Statement of Itirako (24 March 47). Minami was still on the KIU Staff, when Hirako retired in 1946. Hirako stated that Ishiyama had told him to be sure to keep the operations on Prisoners a secret, that it would be bad for KIU if the secret were learned. Hirako did not keep them a secret, Minami told someone else, and for this Ishiyama scolded Hirako. |
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Statement of Hirako (26 Aug-4 Sept 47). Hirako didn’t talk to Ishiyama after the third operation, decided it was of no use. Hirako told Minami, Fukuda, Ogata, and Jinnaka in February or March 1946, as to the intrusions in the room without permission to operate first. There were rumors at the University that Ishiyama was responsible for some operations. Hirako told Fukuda, Ogata, Minami, Jinnaka and a student that the Army was responsible, that Ishiyama had been ordered by the Army. (Suggests he told them not to talk about it) |
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.