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Question: Did the officers who were showing you around the detachment's territory tell
you for what purpose the detachment was breeding these fleas?

Answer: Yes, they told me that these fleas were intended to be infected with plague germs.

Question: Did you, when you visited Ishii's detachment, see specimens of the bomb
designed by Ishii?

Answer: I did.

Question: What were these bombs intended for?

Answer: They were intended to be used for the dissemination of plague-infected fleas. At
the required altitude the bombs would burst and release the fleas, thus infecting the territory
with plague.

Question: Where were these bombs tested?

Answer: They were tested at the proving ground at Anta Station.

Question: When you visited Detachment 731, did General Kitano report to you on the
work of the detachment's branches?

Answer: He did. General Kitano told me that Detachment 731's branches were also
engaged on the production of means of bacteriological warfare.

Question: Did Colonel Tamura, Chief of the Personnel Division of the Kwantung Army,
inspect Detachment 731, on your instructions, in June 1945?

Answer: Yes, he did inspect Detachment 731 in June 1945.

Question: To whom did Colonel Tamura report on the results of the inspection?

Answer: Colonel Tamura reported to me.

Question: Consequently, from the information you received, and from your personal visit
to Detachment 731, you were aware of the work Detachment 731 and Detachment 100 were
doing on the mass production of bacteriological weapons?

Answer: Yes, I knew that both detachments were conducting research on bacteriological
weapons and methods of employing them.

Question: You testified on November 3, 1949, during the preliminary investigation, that
Detachment 731, located in Manchuria, was formed with the object of preparing for
bacteriological warfare, chiefly against the Soviet Union, Mongolia and China. Do you

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