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SHIMASAKA (Lt.) Lt. Shimasaka supervised the NCOs of the detention barracks and advised Wako as to its operation. Shimasaka was at the prison about twice a day for 10-20 minutes each time. He was also a member of the LS. The prosecutor would make out a confinement order on a Prisoner. The highest ranking guard would put the Prisoner in a cell, a report then being made to Shimasake or Wako, Shimasaki reporting to Wako immediately if report first made to him and Wako would make a full daily report to the Chief of LS (Ito). 20 June execution - Present: Sato, Murata, Shimazaki, PCs Ohnishi, Saito, Shimonitsu and Soda. |
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.