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Tokyo Imperial University. In one of the speeches, he stated, “Our God given
mission as doctors is to challenge all variet ies of diseases causing micro-

organism; to block all roads of intrusion into the human body ; to annihilate

all foreign matter resident in our bodies; and to devise the most expeditious

treatment possible. However, the research work upon which we are now

about to embark is the completely opposite of thes e principles, and may

cause us some anguish as doctors. Never theless, I bes eech you to pursue this
research, based on the dual thrill of (1), a scientist to exer t efforts to probing

for the truth in natural science and res earch into, and discover y of, the

unknown world and (2), as a militar y person to successfully build a
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powerful militar y weapon against the enemy.”

Sometimes in the same speeches, he used charts, slides, and even 8mm
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motion picture lms of his human exper imentation work. By 1942, Ishii
was overloaded with responsibilities and made Lieutenant General Masaji

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Kitano the 2 commander of Unit 731.
One could discern the activities of Unit 731, the Ishii’s Net work’s

headquarters, by checking out the map unearthed by the Soviet Union
during the Khabarovsk Trial in the Mater ials on the Trial of Former

Ser vicemen of the Japanese Army Charged with Manufacturing and

Employing Bacteriological Weapons.