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EXAMINATION OF WITNESS KURAKAZU

President of the Court: Witness Kurakazu, have you signed a warning that you must speak
nothing but the truth and that you are liable to prosecution if you give false evidence?

Witness Kurakazu: Yes.

Question: Witness Kurakazu, how did you come to be in the Soviet Union?

Answer: In August 1945 I was taken prisoner by the Soviet troops and on September 12,
1945, I was sent to the Soviet Union via Pogranichnaya Station.

Question: Where were you serving at the time you were taken prisoner?

Answer: In the Harbin Gendarmerie Administration.

Question: What post did you occupy?

Answer: I was Chief of a section of the Special Division of the Gendarmerie
Administration.

Question: What was your military rank?

Answer: Sergeant Major of Gendarmerie.

State Prosecutor: Tell us, witness Kurakazu, when were you sent to Detachment 731, how
long and in what capacity did you serve in that detachment?

Witness Kurakazu: In Detachment 731 I served as a gendarme in the gendarme group of
the detachment from March 1940, for one year. My functions were to perform operative
service for the officers of the detachment.

Question: What other functions did you have? Answer: In addition, it was my duty to
convoy prisoners sent from Harbin to Detachment 731. In the detachment, these prisoners
were called "logs" and they were used for experiments.

Question: That is to say, you convoyed from Harbin to Detachment 731, people who were
to be used for experiments, and who were sent to the detachment in "special consignments
"— "Tokui -Atsukai"? Answer: Yes.

Question: Tell us about the order in which these people were taken to Detachment 731.

Answer: First of all the Gendarmerie Administration telephoned us and ordered us to come
to take the people. These orders were communicated to Sergeant Major Tasaka.

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