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NAKAMURA [Marginal Note: (KIU) ] Statement .of Hirako (26 Aug-4 Sept 47). The servants in the Anatomy Section were Takata, Takagi and Nakamura. |
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Statement of Takagi (24 June 47). Takagi saw a truck with several Japanese soldiers and 2 blindfolded Prisoners in the back, back of the Anatomy Building. Takagi then went back and told the other servants, Takata, Yano, Nakamura and Yayami, he believes, that they were bringing more Prisoners. This was just a little while after dinner. Someone came in the servants room and told them to stay away from the Autopsy Room. Takagi then saw Ishiyama and 4 or 5 other professors and a couple of nurses walking in the hallway toward the Autopsy Room. |
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Statement of Yayami (20 June 47). A few days after the second time that Yayami carried out bodies, either Takata, Takagi or Nakamura of the Anatomy Section, asked him to help carry a body from the Anatomy Section to the crematory. The situation was the same as before. A 4th body was also taken. |
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Igarashi (18 June 47). Perhaps Yayami came to Takata both times he brought bodies to be cremated, or perhaps Toyofuku or Nakamura of Pathology Section. Igarashi was never told to keep this matter quiet. |
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Statement of Takata (17-24 June 47). Takata knew the bodies had been cremated as Nakamura had told him so. There were 2 bodies there one time, because one of the other servants, probably Nakamura, Takagi or Yamani, said he had brought 2 more bodies to the crematory just recently, that they were bodies of Americans. |
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.