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Statement of Ishisawa (13 June 47). Ishisawa heard that Hirako kept the ashes in his room for a while, heard that Tanaka and Sakai had disposed of them.
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Statement of Takeshige (16 July 47). Takoshige asked Sakai, who was a Hirako assistant, who made specimen slides. She just said that just before the American Forces were ready to land, much of the University equipment was moved, that she had done something with the ashes at the time, that she emptied them in a newspaper, burned the envelopes, left the newspaper on the desk of Hirako. She burned 4 envelopes. Takeshige doens’t know which person to believe. Many of the Anatomy Section personnel have made a search for the ashes. |
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.