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Besides me there were two other men in the gendarme group in Detachment 731 .we were
,
three in all.

Sergeant Major Tasaka gave us instructions and we, in a special convoy car, drove to
Harbin railway station and there went to the gendarme picket in the station, where, in the
presence of the senior gendarme of the station, we took over from gendarmes from other
towns such as Linkow, Kjamusze and others, people who were to be sent to Detachment 731.

Question: When were prisoners sent to the detachment, in the daytime or at night?

Answer: Mainly at night. After taking over the prisoners, we put them into the convoy car
and drove to Pingfari Station to the headquarters of Detachment 731. There we pulled up at
the main gates, one of us went 1o the guardroom and reported to the guard, and he telephoned
to the man on duty in the inner prison, then that man sent somebody to convoy these
prisoners to the prison.

Question: Who was the warden of the prison?

Answer: Civilian employee Ishii, 'the elder brother of the Chief of the detachment, General
Ishii Shiro.

Question: Did you yourself visit the prison?

Answer: Yes, I visited the prison twice.

Question: Describe this prison.

Answer: I visited the prison for the first time in March 1940. This was soon after my
arrival in Detachment 731. On arriving in the detachment I learned that the detachment had
an inner prison, then this prison interested me and I asked Sergeant Major Tasaka, who was
the senior in our group, to allow me to go into the prison to see it. He asked for permission
from the war.den of the prison, civilian employee Ishii; he consented and the three of us;
Tasaka, Ishii and I, went over the prison. We went to- the main building of Detachment 731,
which was of rectangular shape, in the middle of which was the prison building hidden from
the view of strangers. The prison was divided into two wings—left and right. On my first
visit I inspected the left wing. We entered the building and passed through a corridor; on the
left was the guardroom, to the right there was a staircase, then another room and beyond that
the cells.

Question: Did you look into the cells when you inspected the prison building?

Answer: I did not go into the cells, but I looked through the peepholes.

Question: Of what nationality were the people confined in the prison?

Answer: Mainly Chinese, but there were also Russians among them, and among the

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