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Answer: I do.

Question: For what reasons were the preparations for bacteriological warfare made in
Manchuria, and not in Japan?

Answer: Manchuria is a country which borders on the Soviet Union, and in the event of
war it would be easier and more convenient to employ the bacteriological means from there.

In addition, Manchuria was very convenient for experimentation in means of
bacteriological warfare.

Question: In what precisely did the "convenience" of conducting experiments in Manchuria
consist?

Answer: Manchuria was very convenient because there was adequate experimental
material there.

Question: What do you mean by "experimental material"? People sent to the detachment
for experimentation?

Answer: Exactly.

Question: What code word was used in the detachment to designate the victims of the
experiments?

Answer: They were called "logs."

Question: Were the people held in the inner prison called by their names?

Answer: No, they were given numbers.

Question: And all these people were to be killed?

Answer: They were.'

Question: You, as a bacteriological expert, knew of course that the dissemination of deadly
infectious diseases as a means of warfare might cause dreadful pestilences?

Answer: Yes, I realized that.

Question: You knew of course that the dreadful pestilences caused by the dissemination of
plague and other epidemics might also afflict neutral countries?

Answer: I did.

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