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Atis Translation of Oki Report. On the night of 15 August, 15 or 16 Prisoners were executed at Aburayama, in roughly 4 separate groups. 1st Lt. Akamine and 3 NCOs of the Operations Room, decapitated 4. 1st Lt. Maida (Maeda) decapitated 2. There were 2 NCOs of the Operations Room, in Maeda's group, but Oki doesn’t know how many they decapitated. In late March, Akita asked Oki to list the executioners, Oki named 1st Lt. Akamine as having executed 4, in the third execution. |
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.