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Answer: I did.

Question: And you were familiar with his written reports?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Did you direct Detachment 731 's researches in haemorrhagic fever, and also in
vaccines of typhoid, plague and cholera?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And you knew that all these experiments were being conducted on human
beings?

Answer: Yes, I was told about it.

Question: Hence, you knew Detachment 731 was conducting experiments on human
beings on a very wide scale?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Did you report to General Yamada, Commander of the Kwantung Army, that
Detachment 731 was conducting secret researches on the practical application of the
bacteriological weapon?

Answer: Yes, I told him about this.

State Prosecutor (to the Court): Permit me, in this connection, to put a question to accused
Yamada.

President of the Court: Accused Yamada, will you go up to the microphone.

State Prosecutor: Accused Yamada, from whom did you first learn that Detachment 731
was engaged in active work on the study and practical application of bacteriological
weapons?

Accused Yamada: From Kajitsuka, Chief of the Medical Administration of the Kwantung
Army Headquarters.

Question: The same Kajitsuka who is standing by your side?

Answer: Yes.

State Prosecutor: I have no more questions to put to accused Yamada.

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