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Question: What other experiments and tests were made on human beings?

Answer: I know that researcher Yoshimura performed experiments in applying ulcerating
gas to people. I saw people in the prison on whom the action of this ulcerating gas had been
tested, but what the technique of these experiments was I do not know.

Question: In what condition were these people? What symptoms of illness did they show?

Answer: I saw people with big ulcers on their hands and feet; I know nothing more.

President of the Court: In conformity with the order of procedure adopted by the Court, the
Court will proceed to discuss what questions should be put in connection with this case to the
medicolegal experts.

State Prosecutor, what questions have you to put to the medicolegal experts?

State Prosecutor: In conformity with Art. 63 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the
R.S.F.S.R., the State Prosecution requests that the following questions be put to the experts:

1. What was the object of the experimental and production activities of detachments 731
and 100 of the Japanese Kwantung Army and of Detachment Ei 1644 of the Japanese
Expeditionary Army in China?

2. What was the production potential of these detachments for supplying the Japanese
Army with bacteriological weapons?

3. What might have been the consequences of the employment of the bacteriological
weapons produced by detachments 731, 100 and Ei 1644?

I place these questions in writing at the disposal of the Court.

President of the Court: Interpreter, please translate into Japanese all the questions the State
Prosecutor is submitting to the experts.

(The interpreter translates.)

Has the defence any questions to put to the medicolegal experts?

Counsel Belov: Our clients, having acquainted themselves during the preliminary
investigation with the findings of the medicolegal experts, fully agree with them. No
unclarity or questions have arisen in their minds, consequently, at the present moment the
defence has no supplementary questions to put to the medicolegal experts.

President of the Court: Have the accused any questions to put to the medicolegal experts?

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