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KISHIMOTO, Iwao, Captain Statement of Itezona - 6 January 1947 (4201 At 1100 on 10 August Itezona went to the Guerilla Unit Hqs and briefed them on their part in the execution to be had the next day. Kishimoto said he would like to go but could not because he had a sore foot. On 12 August Kishimoto told Itezona that he was sorry he could not attend the execution. On 16 August, on order of Itezona to dispose of flyers possesions, he asked Itezona to contact the Army Port and Service Command to get a boat to go out on the bay and the non-combustible articles were thrown in the water. Kishimoto was on the boat. |
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.