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Toyosato, physician and bacteriologist, Major of the Medical Service, formerly sectional
chief of the Production Division of Detachment 731 of the Japanese Kwantung Army;

7. Onoue Masao, born 1910 in the Prefecture of Kagoshima, Izumi County, town of
Komenotsu, physician and bacteriologist, Major of the Medical Service, formerly Chief of
Branch 643 of Detachment 731 of the Japanese Kwantung Army;

8. Sato Shunji, born 1896 in the Prefecture of Aichi, town of Toyohashi, physician and
bacteriologist, Major General of the Medical Service, formerly Chief of the Medical Service
of the 5th Army of the Japanese Kwantung Army;

9. Hirazakura Zensaku, born 1916 in the Prefecture of Ishikawa, town of Kanazawa,
veterinary surgeon, Lieutenant of the Veterinary Service, formerly member of Detachment
100 of the Japanese Kwantung Army;

10. Mitomo Kazuo, born 1924 in the Prefecture of Saitama, Chichibu County, village of
Haraya, Senior Sergeant, formerly member of Detachment 100 of the Japanese Kwantung
Army;

11. Kikuchi Norimitsu, born 1922 in the Prefecture of Ehime, nine years of schooling,
corporal, formerly probationer laboratory orderly of Branch 643 of Detachment 731 of the
Japanese Kwantung Army;

12. Kurushima Yuji, born 1923 in the Prefecture of Kagawa, Shoozu County, village of
Noo, eight years of schooling, formerly laboratory orderly of Branch 162 of Detachment 731
of the Japanese Kwantung Army—

ARE HEREBY CHARGED:

Yamada, Kajitsuka, Takahashi and Sato, with having, when occupying commanding
positions in the Japanese Army, supervised the activities of the special bacteriological units
of the Japanese Army and directed these activities to the production of bacteriological
weapons in preparation for bacteriological warfare against the U.S.S.R. and other states.

Thereby these accused took an active part in implementing the criminal plans of the ruling
clique of imperialist Japan to unleash aggressive wars and prepare bacteriological weapons
for the mass extermination of civilians.

Furthermore, accused Yamada, Kajitsuka and Takahashi wittingly allowed criminal and
inhuman experiments to be performed on living people, which resulted in the painful death of
not less than 3,000 persons, while accused Sato, as Chief of-the Nami and Ei detachments,
personally directed the production of bacteriological weapons by these detachments.

The criminal actions of Yamada, Kajitsuka, Takahashi and Sato are punishable under Art.
1 of the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. of April 19, 1943.

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