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them for a long time"?

(This testimony is read in Japanese.)

Answer: Yes, I do.

Question: In the branch in which you served, was work organized for the mass breeding of
rodents?

Answer: Yes, such work was done.

Question: Were fleas bred in this branch?

Answer: Yes, fleas were bred in the basement under the premises of the 1st Section.

Question: Who engaged in the work of breeding fleas on a mass scale?

Answer: As far as I remember, this was done by Senior Sergeant Suda, Aito, Private First
Class Nishiyama, Sergeant Okiyama, and Suzuki.

Question: More briefly, the five members of the detachment you have mentioned were
especially engaged in this section, is that right?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Where did Branch 643 send the parasites and rodents it bred?

Answer: To Detachment 731.

Question: For what purpose did the branch send these rodents and fleas to Detachment
731? What do you know about this, accused?

Answer: At first I did not know for what purpose the fleas that were bred and the rodents
that were caught were sent there, but gradually this question as to why this was being done
rose in my mind and later I learned that these mice and rats were sent to Detachment 731 for
the purpose of bacteriological research»

Question: With what ultimate object?

Answer: In preparation to conduct bacteriological warfare.

Question: While you were at the medical orderly courses conducted by the 3rd Division of
Detachment 731, did you hear anything from the men of that division about the activities of
Detachment 731?

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