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Question: Of whom did the personnel of the detachment and its branches consist?

Answer: The personnel of the detachment consisted of chemists, bacteriologists, botanists
and veterinary specialists.

Question: Will you tell what you know of the structure and work of Detachment 100?

Answer: The detachment had a personnel of roughly 600 to 800. The number varied from
time to time, so I give an approximate figure. Besides the headquarters of the detachment,
there was a General Division, and 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th divisions. TheGeneral Division
consisted of several sections— a Planning Section, and a Research Section, for example—
and it had a special plantation, or experimental field, at its disposal. The 1st Division chiefly
engaged in making blood tests of the horses and other animals of the Kwantung Army for the
purpose of determining such diseases as glanders, piroplasmose and infectious anemia.

The 1st Division was divided into several sections, but how many I do not recollect.

At first, until 1943, the 2nd Division consisted of five sections, and later of six sections,
and chiefly engaged in experimental and research work in bacteriological warfare. The 1st
Section was a bacteriological section, the 2nd a pathological section, the 3rd had charge of
the experimental animals, the 4th was an organic chemistry section, the 5th botanical, and
also dealt with questions of plant pathology, and the 6th engaged exclusively in preparations
for bacteriological warfare.

The 3rd Section had experimental animals—horses, for example—at its disposal.

The chiefs of the sections, whether army officers or civilian scientific workers, were
specialists in bacteriology, botany, organic chemistry, or pathology. After Lieutenant General
Takahashi, former Chief of the Veterinary Administration of the Kwantung Army, inspected
the detachment in December 1943, a sixth section of the 2nd Division was organized. It
engaged in preparation for bacteriological warfare. I should add that the 5th Section of the
2nd Division conducted research on means of poisoning, or infecting, plants with the help of
bacteria. That is all I can say.

Question: What infectious diseases were adopted by the 2nd Division as the basic means of
bacteriological warfare?

Answer: Glanders, sheep plague, cattle plague and anthrax, to my knowledge.

Question: How many men worked in the 2nd Division on the mass cultivation of microbes
for bacteriological warfare?

Answer: I know that at the time of my transfer to the Hailar area, a group of about 20 men
had been working for a long time under researcher Nishida and laboratory assistant
Yamaguchi on research on anthrax and glanders. In addition, there was Captain Takaaki's
group, which studied and also prepared mass quantities of cattle-plague and sheepplague

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