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Answer: It did not conduct experiments on human beings.

State Prosecutor: Since the accused denies this fact, I have no more questions to put to him.
But I have a request to make to the Court. I request the Court to have read out the
stenographic record of the sitting of the International Military Tribunal of the Far East in
Tokyo on August 29, 1946. At this sitting of the International Military Tribunal for the Far
East in Tokyo a report of the District Prosecutor's Office of Nanking was read out of an
investigation it had made of Japanese atrocities in Nanking, and, in particular, of the criminal
activities of Detachment Tama, or Detachment Ei 1644. It was established that atrocities had
been committed similar to those perpetrated by the Ishii Detachment. This excerpt from the
stenographic record of the sitting of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in
Tokyo is to be found in Vol. 22, p. 36. I request the Tribunal to have this excerpt read out.

President of the Court: The Military Tribunal has ruled that the excerpt from the
stenographic record of the sitting of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in
Tokyo shall be read out.

(The President reads the excerpt from the stenographic report of the sitting of the
International Military Tribunal for the Far East. The document is also read in Japanese.*)

Counsel Bogachov: Accused Sato, what is your social origin?

Sato: I come from a family of nobles.

Question: What is your medical speciality?

Answer: Pathology.

Question: What is your scientific degree, when did you receive it and for what scientific
work?

Answer: In 1931 I received the degree of Doctor of Medical Sciences for a work on
"Experimental Infusion of Glucose Solutions."

Question: Did you specialize in bacteriology?

* See p. 220.

Answer: No.

Question: For what were you decorated, and when?

Answer: I was granted the Order of the Rising Sun, Fourth Class, for taking part in the

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