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Question: What, precisely, did you report to General Yamada?

Answer: Presenting myself to General Yamada, Commander-in-Chief of the Kwantung
Army, I gave him a circumstantial report of my conclusions and observations.

First of all, I reported to him that Detachment 731 was ready for action and could carry out
the assignment—commence bacteriological warfare at any moment. I also reported to him
that General Ishii insisted that additional specialists and officers for the material supplies
section be placed at his disposal.

On this question, I expressed to General Yamada my own opinion that the situation as
regards personnel was quite satisfactory and that in view of the general shortage of cadres I
thought it was possible to refrain from sending General Ishii additional officers, and General
Yamada agreed with this.

At the same time I expressed to General Yamada my admiration of the wealth of excellent
equipment at the disposal of Detachment 731. From General Yamada's comments and
questions I became convinced that he was very well informed about the situation in
Detachment 731.

At the time I visited Detachment 731 General Ishii told me that General Yamada had
himself visited Detachment 731 in the autumn of 1944 and had made himself thoroughly
acquainted with the activities and location of Detachment 731.

At the same time that I reported the afore-mentioned, I reported to General Yamada the
interesting experiments General Ishii and his men were performing on human beings, which I
had heard about in Detachment 731, and told him about my visit to the detachment's prison,
and about all I had seen there.

General Yamada expressed satisfaction with my information and soon after this we
returned to Changchun....

Tamura

INTERROGATOR

Member of the staff

of the Office of the Ministry

for Internal Affairs

for the Khabarovsk Territory,

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