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Interview 20 Oct 48 with von Bergen Most of civilian women of Hq. witnessed 20 August execution (200-300?) In May 1946 MAIDA came to NAKAO when he was at W. Demob. , inquired as to what he should do re his participation in the executions, whether Americans would hang him. NAKAO told him he couldn't advise him, and MAIDA told him that he, AKAMINE, HASHIYAMA would go into hiding. NAKAO lent him money to perpetrate scheme of hiding, and MAIDA visited him twice subsequently. Is a friend of JIKUYA. At time of airraid, when NAKAO proposed to FUKUSHIMA that Flyers be killed FUKUSHIMA asked him whether he wanted to use swords or pistols then went to see INADA concerning 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.