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Question: Tell us, did you have to submit a R-port to General Umezu, Commander-in-
Chief of the Kwantung Army, regarding the preparedness of Detachment 100 for
bacteriological warfare?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Please tell us about the reports you made to General Umezu in this connection.

Answer: Detachment 100 began to work in all earnestness in the sphere of bacteriological
warfare beginning with December 1943. Different experts were detailed to the 6th Section of
the detachment and began research on glanders, anthrax, mosaic disease, cattle and sheep
plague. In view of the fact that Japan was waging war against the United States and Britain at
the time it was very difficult to secure the necessary equipment, but the detachment directed
all its efforts toward research in pathogenic microbes, and their cultivation.

Question: When you reported to General Umezu the first time regarding the preparedness
of Detachment 100 to start work to manufacture bacteriological weapons, did you suggest
definite figures for cultivating the corresponding germs?

Answer: Yes, I did.

Question: Did General Umezu accept the figures you proposed?

Answer: He did.

Question: In your report to General Umezu at the time what germs did you propose as the
most effective means of bacteriological warfare?

Answer: The glanders, anthrax, cattle-plague, sheepplague and mosaic-disease germs.

Question: Did you report to Umezu on the concrete amount of germs Detachment 100
could produce?

Answer: Yes, I did at the time.

Question: Name the figures.

Answer: I reported that Detachment 100 could produce in the course of the year: 1,000
kilograms of anthrax germs, 500 kilograms of glanders germs, 100 kilograms of redrust
germs. I submitted these figures, and it was possible to do it, providing there was sufficient
equipment. This equipment began to arrive beginning with December 1943, and began to be
installed in the 6th Section of the 2nd Division. But we did not succeed in carrying out this
plan and at the end of March 1944 I reported to the Commander-in-Chief that only 200
kilograms of anthrax germs, 100 kilograms of glanders and 20-30 kilograms of red rust had
been produced.

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