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Saga-ken, Saga-shi, Mizugae-CAO, Dokke-Toji, C/0 Funatsu Former Rank: 1st Lt. Section: Legal Section Charges: Executed an American flyer on or about 10 August 1945 at Aburayama, Fukuoka-ken. Evidence: Tatsuo ITEZONO'S testimony PP-122, while describing execution on or about 10 August 1945, "Then EGUCHI with a single downward stroke of his samurai sword, half severed the flyer's head". Takashi OHTSUKI, former Prob. Officer, U A , testimony, PP-32, when questioned about the 10 August 1945 execution stated: "TOMOMORI said he will give whiskey to all of the executioners (after the execution was finished) I noticed that EGUCHI..................., were among the persons that went to where TOMOMORI........... were and received whiskey." Takashi OHTSUKI, former Prob. Officer, IJA, testimony PP-35, when questioned about the executions of the American Prisoners on about 10 August 1945, execution, named 1st Lt. EGUCHI, Guerilla Unit... " |
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.