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confirm this testimony?

Answer: I do.

Question: Was it only against the Soviet Union that the bacteriological weapon was to be
employed?

Answer: No, not only against the Soviet Union. It was also intended to employ the
bacteriological weapon against any other enemy state or enemy army.

Question: Which "other states" do you have in mind?

Answer: The United States and Great Britain in particular. It was intended to employ the
bacteriological weapon against them too.

Question: Regarded in this light, Detachment 731, located in Manchuria, was a centre of
preparation for bacteriological warfare against a number of states. Is that so?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Who from July 1944 onward directed the work of Detachment 731 in the sphere
of preparation for bacteriological warfare and production of bacteriological weapons?

Answer: It was directed by me, as Commander-in-Chief of the Kwantung Army.

Question: What was the role of the Operations Division of the Kwantung Army
Headquarters in directing the work of detachments 731 and 100?

Answer: Operations and strategical direction of the bacteriological detachments in
preparation for bacteriological warfare.

Question: For what purpose were staff officers of the Operations and Intelligence divisions,
notably Lieutenant Colonel Miyata, sent from time to time to Detachment 731?

Answer: In order to exercise operations and strategical direction of the detachment's
preparations for bacteriological warfare it was necessary to have constant information about
the work of the detachment, and it was for this, that is, for information purposes, that officers
of the Operations and Intelligence divisions were sent there.

Question: In other words, the Operations Division of Headquarters, which was under your
subordination, exercised permanent supervision of the work of Detachment 731 in producing
bacteriological weapons, and elaborated concrete methods of employing these weapons for
military purposes?

Answer: That is correct.

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