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Statement of Shinno (21 July 1947) (Liver dinner) Rice, vegetables, fish, pickles, sake, not meat served. Present: Komori, Matake, Kanehisa, Kishi, Ito, Oda, Nakamura, Shinno, Also the following nurses were present: Shiokawa, Nakae, Talcechi, Nishimura, Ooba, Tatera, Tanaka, Ikeda, Tone, Takahashi. Shinno spoke with Shiokawa at LS, who said that she didn’t know why she was being questioned at LS, later told him that she was being questioned about eating human liver. |
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Statement of Matake (11-19 June 1947) On staff of OC Hospital: Fujiko Shiokawa - head nurse. |
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Statement of Oda (16 July 1947) (Liver dinner) Komori said it was human before everyone started to eat, that it was of a PW. Komori, Kanehisa, Shinno, Shiokawa, Miyamoto, Sasaki, Momota, Matake, Ito and an unknown sgt. maj. were present, all ate the human liver. |
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Statement of Nakamura. Aiko (Liver dinner) On one occasion Shiokawa was present at the noon meal, although she did not usually eat there. Nakamura knows of no special occasion, of Matake being present, of liver being served. |
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.