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Lecturer Yorio Takeshige, in anatomy department about 5 years (in army until surrender). Sometime in the fall or 1946 Takeshige, a lecturer in the anatomy department, told Ishisawa that he had received a letter from Hirako at Sugamo asking him to send the ashes of the fliers, which were in the crematory crypt, to him at Sugamo. Ishisawa told Takeshige that he could not send the ashes. (Takeshige was in the army until surrender) |
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.