OKI REPORT (ATIS translation) According to the statements of ENATSU and Itaru MAJIRI, 2d Lt. Fukuich YAMAMOTO was present at a killing about 10 August 1945. MAJIRI stated that YAMAMOTO said "I would like to try karate." After the killing, he said "Although I used karate and a bow, they were not effective." YAMAMOTO then told Defendant he knew nothing about the employment of karate and a bow, was not there; Defendant thinks he was lying. Kafuku KUBOTO was a private in the telegraph section of the Operations Department of the Western Army; transferred to Yamae headquarters in late July 1946 (sic), whom Defendant wanted to investigate. 2nd Lt. Hajime SUEJI was with the guerrilla unit; D wanted to contact him. |
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.