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MAEKAWA S/D (Ja 48) ATIS #37552 About October 1945 Defendant heart that 1st Lt. IKEDA was persistently asked by SATO to write a false death dertificate for a B29 airman for whom he was not responsible and which he refused. TSURUMARU said he advised Ikeda to refuse, which Defendant told IKEDA the next day also. IKEDA told Defendant that the airman was to he reported as dying outside WA juris. |
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.