COPY TIME-LIFE INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL OFFICES TOKYO MEMORANDUM TO: Carl Mydans Date 7 February '48 FROM: Trevor SUBJECT: Karate Expert The address of the chief of the "Funakoshi” school of "karate" is: Motonobu Hironishi, 27 Kutsukake-machi, Suganami-ku, Tokyo, Office: Editorial Offices, Sekai Bunka Publishing Co,, 7th floor. Dentsu Bldg, (two blocks south of Mazda Electric Bldg.) over former Newsweek offices. Hironishi can get us all the karate champions we could use. All he has to do is to phone the schools where he teaches and they will send out groups of karate students. |
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.