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Chinese there were five women. Question: Consequently, women were also confined in the
Ishii Detachment prison?

Answer: Yes. I forgot to say that on one occasion I convoyed a woman from Harbin
Station. I also forgot to say that the prison was a two-storey building.

Question: Did you yourself see experiments performed on human beings?

Answer: Yes, I did. I saw experiments performed on liv

• ing people for the first time in December 1940. I was shown

these experiments by researcher Yoshimura, a member of

the 1st Division. These experiments were performed in the

prison laboratory.

When I walked into the prison laboratory, five Chinese experimentees were sitting on a
long form; two of these Chinese had no fingers at all, their hands were black; in those of three
others the bones were visible. They had fingers, but they were only bones. Yoshimura told
me that this was the result of freezing experiments.

Question: What do you know about the fate of the people who got into the detachment's
prison?

Answer: The people who got into this prison never came out.

Question: Do you know of even a single case, during the period you served in the
detachment, of a man being released from the Ishii Detachment's prison?

Answer: I don't know of any such cases.

Question: Thus, those who got into that prison—men and women—were bound to perish?

Answer: Yes.

MORNING SITTING, DECEMBER 29
EXAMINATION OF WITNESS HOTTA

President of the Court: Witness Hotta, have you signed the warning that you must speak
the truth and that you are liable to criminal prosecution if you give false evidence?

Witness Hotta: Yes.

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