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Education Division, Clinical Division, and General Division.

Question: What did the lst Division do?

Answer: It was the function"of the lst Division to conduct basic research work in
preparation for bacteriological warfare.

Question: Which division conducted experiments on human beings under so-called
laboratory conditions?

Answer: Experiments on human beings under laboratory conditions were performed by the
lst Division. The lst Division also had charge of the detachment's prison where the
experimentees were kept.

Question: Where was Detachment 731's prison located?

Answer: The prison was located in the quadrangle of the main block.

Question: Consequently, the prison was concealed from outside view inside a closed
quadrangle formed by the detachment's buildings. Is that so?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Was the prison housed in one block or in several?

Answer: In two blocks.

Question: What was the work of the 2nd Division?

Answer: The 2nd Division conducted field experiments with the lethal bacteria prepared by
the lst Division.

. Question: Which division designed the models of the bacteriological weapons—the
microbe-charged bombs, the plague-flea sprayers in the shape of fountain pens or walking
sticks, and the other types of bacteriological weapons?

Answer: The 2nd Division.

Question: What special sections were subordinated to the 2nd Division?

Answer: Besides the functions I have just mentioned, that is, experimentation under field
conditions, the 2nd Division had a section which bred fleas for infection with the germs of
plague.

Question: Who was in charge of the 2nd Division?

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