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Yakumaru was responsible for all records regarding Prisoners in WA. Sent a cablegram report of the 20 June executions to the Deputy Minister of War, Tadakosu, Wakamatsu, to whom it was customary to report all executions. This was sent 4 or 5 days after the executions. |
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.