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China?

Answer: I know that Lieutenant Colonel Ikari and researcher Tanaka, and some others as
well, took part in this expedition.

Question: What do you know about the beginning of Ishii's experiments on human beings?
When were the experiments started?

Answer: I am not certain, but I think these experiments were begun immediately after the
so-called Mukden incidents.

Question: Did Ishii ever say anything to you on this subject?

Answer: I remember very well that I was told about it when I joined the detachment in
1939.

Question: Will you tell us which leading officers of the Kwantung Army visited the
detachment when you were serving with it?

Answer: The detachment was visited by General Umezu, formerly Commander-in-Chief of
the Japanese Kwanlung Army, by his Chief of Staff Lieutenant General, later General,
Kimura, Lieutenant Colonel Miyata, otherwise Prince Takeda, and Lieutenant General of the
Medical Service Kajitsuka, formerly Chief of the Medical Administration of the Japanese
Kwantung Army.

Question: Tell us, did you ever see persons being delivered to the detachment to be
experimented on?

Answer: On occasions I acted as the detachment's officer on-duty, and I saw people being
delivered twice.

Question: Did anyone who was incarcerated in Detachment 731's prison ever regain his
liberty?

Answer: No one, as far as I know.

Question: That is, all these people were killed?

Answer: That is so.

Question: Where were their bodies taken after they were killed?

Answer: To the detachment's incinerator.

Question: Will you tell us why you, who were attached to the 4th Division, attended

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