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GENERAL HEADQUARTERS SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS LEGAL SECTION ___PROSECUTION___ (Requesting Agency) DATE: 5 November 1947 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: NOGAWA, Nobuyoshi b. Rank or Title: Civilian Doctor c. Units to which attached: d. Dates and places of service: e. Home address (if known): Fukuoka-Shi, Shino Kegi, ............ f. Synopsis of Charges presently prepared, subject to amendment, against subject Suspected War Criminal: Participated in vivisection of American flyers at Kyushu Imperial University g. Synopsis of Evidence to support charges: Confession and statements of co-participation h. Anticipated place of trial: Yokohama. i. Other information that might assist in apprehension of desired person: Attached to First Surgery Clinic, Kyushu Imperial University Medical College, Fukuoka City, Kyushu j. This Division presently has charges /being prepared, subject to amendment, and sufficient supporting evidence to constitute a prima facie case against this man.
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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.