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SHITAMITSU, Gunji 420 - 7 Feb. 1947 Born: 1914 Domicile: Hiroshima Prefecture Address: Tokyo Graduate of Nippon University and Law Dept, of Chuo University. 1942: Probationary Officer of 1st Tokyo Lawyers' Assn. 1943: 1945 )Sept) - Army August 1944 - Probationary Officer Legal Dept of Western Army. Sept. 1944 - Acting Probationary Court Martial, Western Army. 23 August 1945 - 2nd Lt. of Legal Service (previously "cadet") 9 Sept. 1945 - Demobilized. |
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.