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Manchurian events, and the Order of the Golden Hawk and the Order of the Rising Sun,
Third Class, for taking part in the Chinese events.

Question: Did you receive any decorations from 1941 on?

Answer: I did not.

EXAMINATION OF ACCUSED HIRAZAKURA

State Prosecutor: Accused Hirazakura, from what date, and in what capacity, did you serve
in Detachment 100 of the Kwantung Army?

Accused Hirazakura: I served with Detachment 100 from July 1942.

Question: In what section of Detachment 100 did you serve?

Answer: From 1942 to December 1943, I worked in the 1st Section of the 2nd Division,
then I worked in the newlyformed 6th Section, and from April 1944 until Japan's surrender I
worked with an expedition of the detachment in the Hailar area.

Question: Will you tell the Court in detail what was the character of Detachment 100, in
which you served since 1942?

Answer: According to its official name, Detachment 100 was outwardly a hippo-epizootic
unit of the Kwantung Army. Actually, it engaged in preparations for bacteriological warfare.

Question: Where was the detachment's headquarters located?

Answer: Its headquarters were located in the village of Menchiangtung, 10 kilometres
south of the city of Changchun.

Question: To whom was Detachment 100 directly subordinated?

Answer: It was directly subordinated to the Command of the Kwantung Army.

Question: Who directed the activities of Detachment 100?

Answer: Lieutenant General Takahashi, who was then Chief of the Veterinary
Administration of the Kwantung Army.

Question: Did Detachment 100 have branches?

Answer: The detachment had a branch in Dairen, and there were also hippo-epizootic
branches in Dairen and Hailar, but the Hailar Branch was later transferred to Koshan.

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