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Kwantung Army.

Question: And before that, what positions did you hold?

Answer: In 1903 I was promoted to the rank of SubLieutenant of the Japanese Army, and
in 1930 I was promoted to Major General rank.

Question: And what positions did you hold at that moment?

Answer: For the first year after I became a Major General I worked as director of the
training department of a military cavalry school.

Question: What positions did you hold after that?

Answer: I was then commander of the 4th Cavalry Brigade.

Question: And after that?

Answer: And then for a year I was director of a military communications school. The next
year I was Chief of the 3rd Division of the General Staff, and then for a year and one month I
was Chief of the General Division of the General Staff. From December 1935 to March 1937
I was director of an army officers' school, and from March 1937 to December of the same
year I was commander of the 12th Division in Mutankiang, Manchuria. From January 1938 to
December 1938 I was commander of the 3rd Army, which was stationed in Mutankiang.
From December 1938 to October 1939 I commanded the Japanese Expeditionary Army in
Central China, which had its headquarters in Nanking. From October 1939 to July 1944 I was
Inspector-General of Military Training of the Japanese Army. During this period I was also a
member of the Supreme War Council, and from 1943 onward, Imperial Defence Commander.
I have got that date wrong, I shall correct it: I was Imperial Defence Commander from
August 1941 until the end of that year; later, in July 1944, I became commander of the
Kwantung Army.

State Prosecutor: Who was your predecessor as Commander-in-Chief of the Kwantung
Army?

Accused Yamada: General Umezu Yoshijiro.

Question: Accused Yamada, will you tell us what bacteriological detachments were
attached to the Kwantung Army?

Answer: The Kwantung Army had two bacteriological detachments—Detachment 731 and
Detachment 100, which were directly subordinated to the Commander-in-Chief of the
Kwantung Army.

Question: Consequently, when General Umezu was Commander-in-Chief of the Kwantung
Army the detachments were subordinated to him, and from July 1944, when you became

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