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anthrax were used.

Question: Which division of the detachment was in charge of the prison?

Answer: The 1st Division.

Question: Were only men confined in that prison, or women too?

Answer: Women too.

Question: Were any specific experiments performed on the women confined in the Ishii
Detachment's prison?

Answer: I did not take part in these experiments, but they were infected with syphilis with
the object of investigating preventive means against this disease.

Question: Thus, women confined in the prison of Detachment 731 were infected with
venereal diseases?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Tell us, were freezing experiments performed in Detachment 731?

Answer: Yes, I saw such experiments performed.

Question: Which of the researchers directed these experiments?

Answer: Researcher Yoshimura.

Question: Tell us about the experiments in freezing human beings. •

Answer: Experiments in freezing human beings were performed every year in the
detachment, in the coldest months of the year: November, December, January and February.
The technique of these experiments was as follows: theexperimentees were taken out into the
frost at night, at about 11 o'clock, and compelled to dip their hands into a barrel of cold water.
Then they were compelled to take their hands out and stand with wet hands in the frost for a
long time. Or else the following was done: the people were taken out dressed, but with bare
feet and compelled to stand at night in the frost in the coldest period of the year.

When these people had gotten frostbite, they were taken to a room and forced to put their
feet in water of 5°C. temperature, and then the temperature was gradually increased. In this
way means for healing frostbite were investigated. I myself did not see the subsequent
experiments when the people were taken into the room; I only saw, when I uas on duty,
people being taken out into the frost and there getting frostbitten, but about the experiments
in the rooms where the people kept their hands in water, I heard from eyewitnesses.

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