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trained.

This is established both by Kikuchi's own admissions and by the testimony of Saito
Masateru, Okada Mitsushige and other witnesses. (Vol. 19, pp. 11-15 and 25-27.)

12. Kurushima Yuji, after receiving special training in October 1944, served in Branch 162
of Detachment 731 and, as a laboratory orderly in the 1st Section of the branch, took part in
cultivating cholera, typhoid and other germs.

Kurushima has admitted to having been aware that Detachment 731 was preparing for
bacteriological warfare and was manufacturing bacteriological weapons. (Vol. 20, pp. H-16.)

The accused Yamada Otozoo, Takahashi Takaatsu, Karasawa Tomio, Kawashima Kiyoshi,
Onoue Masao, NishiToshihide, Hirazakura Zensaku, Sato Shunji, Mitomo Kazuo, Kikuchi
Norimitsu and Kurushima Yuji have fully pleaded guilty to the charges preferred against
them.

Accused Kajitsuka Ryuji has pleaded guilty in part.

Besides their own admissions, the guilt of all the accused in this case is established by
abundant testimony of witnesses, documentary evidence and the findings of medicolegal
experts.

On the Basis of the Aforesaid:

1. Yamada Otozoo, born 1881 in the city of Tokyo, General, formerly Commander-in-
Chief of the Japanese Kwantung Army;

2. Kajitsuka Ryuji, born 1888 in the town of Tajiri, physician and bacteriologist,
Lieutenant General of the Medical Service, formerly Chief of the Medical Administration of
the Japanese Kwantung Army;

3. Takahashi Takaatsu, born 1888 in the Prefecture of Akita, Yuri County, town of Honze,
biological chemist, Lieutenant General of the Veterinary Service, formerly Chief of the
Veterinary Service of the Japanese Kwantung Army;

4. Kawashima Kiyoshi, born 1893 in the Prefecture of Chiba, Sanimu County, village of
Hasunuma, physician and bacteriologist, Major General of the Medical Service, formerly
Chief of the Production Division of Detachment 731 of the Japanese Kwantung Army;

5. Nishi Toshihide, born 1904 in the Prefecture of Kagoshima, Satsuma County, village of
Hiwaki, physician and bacteriologist, Lieutenant Colonel of the Medical Service, formerly
Chief of the Training and Education Division of Detachment 731 of the Japanese Kwantung
Army;

6. Karasawa Tomio, born 1911 in the Prefecture of Nagano, Chisagata County, village of

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