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I, Captain P i s a r e v, member of the staff of the Office of the Ministry for Internal Affairs
for the Khabarovsk Territory, interrogated as a witness, prisoner of war, formerly Major in
the Japanese Army, lijinia Yoshio, born 1917, in Japan, in the Gumma Prefecture, Seta
County, village of Arata, of a peasant family, of Japanese nationality, secondary education.

I was warned of my liability to prosecution for giving false testimony under Art. 95 of the
Criminal Code of the R.S.F.S.R.

Signed: lijima

Question: In what language do you wish to give testimony?

Answer: I can speak Russian and can read Russian, but I would like to give testimony in
my native language.

Question: The interrogation will be conducted through interpreter Negorozhenko, Anatoli
Nikolayevich. Have you any objection?

Answer: I have not.

Interpreter Negorozhenko, A. N., was warned of his liability to prosecution for deliberately
false interpretation under Art. 95 of the Criminal Code of the R .S.F.S.R.

Signed: Negorozhenko

Question: Tell us briefly about your military service.

Answer: I was conscripted for military service as a private on April 20, 1938, before that I
was engaged in agriculture. From September 1938 to March 1939 I attended the Sendai
Reserve Officers' School and then served in the 15th Infantry Regiment in the city of
Takasaki as probationer officer. In December 1939 I was promoted to the rank of
sublieutenant and was among the first contingent of officers to be sent to the Nakano School
in the city of Tokyo.

The Nakano School trained directors of intelligence service work for Japanese military
missions. In the Nakano School there were three departments: Chinese, English and Russian.
I was appointed to the Russian department where I first began to learn Russian and made
good progress. In addition to Russian, I gained knowledge about the geographical, economic
and political position of the Soviet Union. The chief subject in all three departments was a
special subject, i.e., the methods of operation of foreign intelligence services, mainly Soviet,
American, English and Chinese.

The instructors at the school illustrated to us students, by examples, whom it was possible
and necessary to enlist for the intelligence service for espionage, sabotage and propaganda
work, how to get into the good graces of Russian Whiteguard emigrants and Chinese marked
out for enlistment. Thus, the school put out theoretically trained directors of intelligence

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