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OTSUKA, FUMIO [Marginal Note: (KIU) ] Statement of Otsuka (15 August 1947) 46, a Tokyo internist, entered army in 1928, was transferred in 1937 to the Military Department, Bureau of Medical Affairs, assisting in prevention of communicable diseases, was chief of Medical Service Section in 1943, made colonel in 1944, was demobilized in 1946. (Otsuka gives list of Medical Bureau personnel with duties). Otsuka did not visit Fukuoka in April, May, or June of 1945, didn't know of KIU incident until he read the papers in 1946. Army doctors could not get permission to conduct experimental operations on PWs, from the Medical Bureau of CO. |