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Question: Are you responsible for these experiments?

Answer: Yes, I am responsible for these experiments. But I did not know about the
experiments at the time, they were made without my knowledge. Nonetheless I recognize the
great responsibility for these experiments.

Question: Accused Takahashi, to summarize your testimony. Do you admit that it was you
precisely who supervised the work of Detachment 100 in actively preparing for
bacteriological warfare?

Answer: Yes, I do.

Question: And the active preparations for bacteriological warfare conducted by
Detachment 100 under your supervision were directed, chiefly, against the Soviet Union. Is
that right?

Answer: Yes, that is correct.

State Prosecutor: I have no further questions to accused Takahashi.

Counsel Zveryev: Accused Takahashi, why were you receiving a stipend from the War
Ministry when a student of the Tokyo University?

Accused Takahashi: I was in great financial straits at the time I entered the University. I
had to pay for my brother and therefore was compelled myself to accept a stipend.

Question: Tell us, did not the War Ministry stipend oblige you to enter the army after
graduating the educational establishment?

Answer: Yes, it imposed such an obligation..

Question: Tell us, did you visit England on a scientific mission? When in England did you
not study problems relating to bacteriology?

Answer: I studied vitamins in England.

Question: How do you account for your ignorance about the experiments on human beings
in Detachment 100?

Answer: Before any new experiment could be started there had to be a War Ministry order;
it could only be done by order of the Ministry for War, but there was no such order; at the
same time, when sanction for this had to be obtained at Headquarters of the Kwantung Army,
it was granted not by me, the Chief of the Veterinary Administration, but by the Commander-
in-Chief of the Kwantung Army. But no such request was addressed to the Commander of the
Kwantung Army. I have just heard, during the examination of another accused, about the

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