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Question: You admit that, by their very nature, these experiments were such as to
particularly interest the Medical Administration of the Kwantung Army?

Answer: I do.

Question: And do you admit, lastly, that you were informed of the attacks made by
Detachment 731 on the Chinese population with the help of plague-infected fleas?

Answer: I do.

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

Counsel Sannikov: When Detachment 731 was being formed in 1936, did you know that
its real purpose was to prepare for bacteriological warfare, or did you not?

Accused Kajitsuka: I knew that the detachment would engage in researches in this field,
but I thought that it would chiefly function as part of the antiepidemic service.

Question: Will you tell us by whom, and when, you were first informed of Detachment
731's work in preparation for bacteriological warfare?

Answer: I definitely learned that the detachment was conducting such researches from
what the Commander-inChief of the Kwantung Army told me when I was about to leave for
my first inspection visit to this detachment.

Question: You knew definitely which part of Detachment 731's activities were under the
direction of the Operations Division of the Kwantung Army Headquarters?

Answer: I did.

Question: When you visited Detachment 731 in March 1940, did you examine all the
detachment's divisions, and if not, why?

Answer: When I visited Detachment 731 in March 1940, the written permit issued to me
by the Kwantung Army Headquarters restricted the places I was allowed to visit. Irecall, for
instance, that I was not permitted to visit buildings 7 and 8, or it may have been 6 and 8, I
cannot remember exactly. I might familiarize myself with everything else, and when I was
met in the detachment, I was conducted through all its premises, but not through these. From
this I understood that I was forbidden to visit and acquaint myself with the detachment's
secret premises.

Question: That which Major General Ishii told you about the work of Detachment 731, did
he tell it to you in performance of his official duties, or in the way of private conversation?

Answer: In the way of private conversation.

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