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Question: Did you reckon that the amount of bacteria produced by Detachment 100 would
meet the demands of bacteriological warfare?

Answer: No, I did not consider it was enough.

Question: At any rate, after 1941 measures were taken, on your insistence, to increase the
mass production of bacteria for purposes of bacteriological warfare?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Who was the initiator in sending a group of members of Detachment 100 to the
district of North Khingan Province in 1944?

Answer: The Sabotage Section of the 2nd Intelligence Division of the Kwantung Army.

Question: Did you take part in this?

Answer: Yes, on the orders of the Commander-in-Chief.

Question: What document authorized the despatch of this group to the district of North
Khingan Province?

Answer: Operations Order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Kwantung Army.

Question: Who was Commander-in-Chief of the Kwantung Army at the time?

Answer: General Umezu.

Question: What assignment was given the group sent to North Khingan Province?

Answer: This group was given the assignment of inspecting rivers, reservoirs, pastures, the
number of cattle and also the seasonal transfer of cattle.

Question: What was the ultimate aim of this reconnaissance?

Answer: General Umezu told me that in the event of war against the Soviet Union and if
the Japanese Army retreated to Greater Khingan, where it would go over to defence,
Detachment 100 was to infect all the cattle of North Khingan Province with epizootic
diseases and if possible, destroy it, so that the enemy should not be able to use this cattle. As
for the horses, seeing they could move swiftly, they were to be transferred to the east of
Khingan.

Question: In other words, this reconnaissance in North Khingan Province was conducted
also for the purpose of preparing bacteriological warfare against the Soviet Union. Is that
right?

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