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Testimony of Accused and Witnesses at the Trial

RECORD
OF COURT SESSION

December 25.30, 1949 City of Khabarovsk

Military Tribunal of the Primorye Military Area in open court session in the city of
Khabarovsk, consisting of:

President: Major General of Jurisprudence C h e r t k o v, D. D. Members: Colonel of
Jurisprudence I 1 n i t s k y, M. L., Lieutenant Colonel of Jurisprudence Vorobyov, I. G.
Reserve judge: Lieutenant Colonel of Jurisprudence S h c h e rb a k o v, T. P. Secretaries:
Senior Lieutenant K o r k i n, N. A., and Lieutenant V a r a v k o, V. V. Participating:
representative of the State Prosecution, State Counsellor of Jurisprudence Third Class S m i r
n o v, L. N., and the defence in the persons of counsel: B e 1 o v, N. P., defending accused
Yaniada; S a n n ik o v, S. E., defending accused Kajitsuka; Z v e r y e v, A. V., defending
accused Takahashi; B o r o v i k, N. K., defending accused Kawashima; Bogachov, P. Y.,
defending accused Sato; Lukiantsev, V. P., defending accused Karasawa and Onoue; B o 1 k
h o v i t i n o v, D. E., defending accused Nishi and Hirazakura; P r o k o p e n k o, Q. K.,
defending accused Mitomo, Kikuchi and Kurushima,

investigated the charges against Yamada Otozoo, Kajitsuka Ryuji, Takahashi Takaatsu,
Kawashima Kiyoshi, Nishi Toshihide, Karasawa Tomio, Onoue Masao, Sato Shunji,
Hirazakura Zensaku, Mitomo Kazuo, Kikuchi Norimitsu and Kurushima Yuji.

At 12 hours on December 25, the President declared the Court session open.

The President announced that the charges will be investigated in the case ef Yamada
Otozoo, Kajitsuka Ryuji, Takahashi Takaatsu, Kawashima Kiyoshi, Nishi Toshihide,
Karasawa Tomio, Onoue Masao, Sato Shunji, Hirazakura Zensaku, Mitomo Kazuo, Kikuchi
Norimitsu and Kurushima Yuji, accused of crimes punishable under Art. 1 of the Decree of
the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. of April 19, 1943.

The Secretary reported that all the accused, who had been in custody until the trial, have
been brought under escort and were now in court.

The President explains to interpreters Permyakov, Kim, Tsvirov, Baikov and Ogorodnikov,
who had been summoned to court, their duties in the Court proceedings; he then warned the
interpreters of their liability to prosecution for deliberately false interpretation under Art. 95
of the Criminal Code of the R.S.F.S.R. and took their signatures in receipt thereof.

The President assures himself of the presence of the accused who, to the questions put to

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