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MATSUMOTO [Marginal Note: (KIU) ] Statement of Yoshimura (16-28 June 1947) Personnel of WA Medical Section: Capt. Matsumoto— arrived Medical Section August 1945. |
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Statement of Tashiro (5 June - 9 July 1947) Akita wrote a petition requesting the release of all KIU personnel in Sugamo. Tashiro signed it, copied the body of the petition and requested the release of only Hirao and Morimoto, which was distributed by Dr. Matsumoto to be signed by alumni of 5th High School at KIU. |
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.