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Statements regarding executions by Ikeda on 20 June: HOZAK: Ikeda told him he executed a Prisoner. NAKAMURA: Saw Ikeda cleaning sword after a Prisoner was executed. IKEDA: Confesses to execution of 4 or 5 Prisoners on 20 June. |
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.