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One day in May someone in 1st Surgery (maybe Kubo) told Tashiro there was to be an operation on a Prisoner that day. Tashiro went. Present: Ishiyama Torisu, Hirao, Morimoto, Nogawa, Tomoki Tashiro, Semba, Kubo, Mori Miki, Suyama, Tsutsui and Tashiro believes Manave. Also present Sha and Tei. Tei, also known as Iwasaki, a Formosan doctor, told Tashiro that his shoes were taken from a Prisoner, a short time later Tashiro saw Mori wearing a similar pair of shoes. |
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.