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Takada was the Colonel in charge of the Fukuoka Kempetai. In October 1945 he gave Sato a compilation of all prisoners received in the Western Army jurisdiction. He listed 39 prisoners but not their names. Sato stated this might be inaccurate but there were no more than 41 prisoners. |
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.