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State Prosecutor: Accused [Kajitsuka, do you confirm that the special military zone at
Pingfan Station was very strictly guarded, that it was a strictly secret military zone?

Accused Kajitsuka: I do.

Question: Did you know what was the productive capacity of the equipment of
Detachment 731 's 4th Division?

Answer: I knew that this division had a very high productive capacity, but I had no inkling
it was as big as it appears to have been from the testimony of other accused.

Question: Were you familiar with the construction of the Ishii cultivator?

Answer: I was.

Question: Was it not clear to you, as a bacteriological specialist, that by the very nature of
the process by which the bacteria were bred in the Ishii cultivator, these bacteria could not be
used for the preparation of vaccines, and could only be used for the mass production of
microbes for use in bacteriological warfare?

Answer: Yes, that was clear to me.

Question: Hence you were aware that the 4th Division of the Ishii Detachment was
engaged in the mass cultivation of bacteria for purposes of bacteriological warfare?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Do you confirm the testimony you gave to the effect that you were fully aware
that the experiments in testing deadly infectious diseases were being performed by
Detachment 731 on human beings?

Answer: I do.

Question: You admit that you directed the detachment's research work on ,,songo" fever
and on vaccines of typhus, plague and cholera?

Answer: I do.

Question: And you also admit that you were fully aware of the experiments being
conducted by experimenter Yoshimura, researcher of Detachment 731, namely, his
experiments on frostbite?

Answer: I do.

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