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Question: As a doctor, you realized of course the inhumanity of experimenting on living
people?

Answer: I did.

Question: You were for some time Chief of the 1st Division, which conducted experiments
on human beings, and were then Chief of the 4th, or production, Division, which prepared
huge quantities of disease microbes?

Answer: That is so.

Question: Do you admit your guilt in this?

Answer: I do.

State Prosecutor: I have no more questions.

Counsel Borovik: As is known, you served in the Japanese Army since 1916. Please tell us,
was service in the army a tradition in your family, a tradition handed down from generation
to generation? Was your father a military man?

Accused Kawashima: My father was a farmer.

Question: In the testimony you gave at the preliminary investigation, and also here, in the
Military Tribunal, you stated that the bacteriological detachment subsequently known as
Detachment 731 was formed in 1936. I request you to state briefly what duties you were
performing in the Japanese Army at that period.

Answer: At that period I was serving in the Medical Department of a guards division in the
city of Tokyo.

Question: In what capacity?

Answer: As Deputy Chief of the Medical Department.

Question: You also stated in your testimony at the preliminary investigation, and here too,
that an order of the emperor in 1940 provided for the enlargement of the personnel of
Detachment 731, as well as for the expansion of its work. Will you tell us what you were
doing in 1940?

Answer: At that time I was Chief of the Medical Department of the 38th Division.

Question: Consequently, as I understand you, Detachment 731 was organized and its
activities vastly expanded at a time when you still knew nothing of its existence. Have I
understood you correctly?

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