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Question: When were you taken prisoner by the Soviet Army?

Answer: On August 20, 1945.

Question: Where were you at the time?

Answer: At that time I was in Hailar, working in the branch of the Prophylaxis and Water
Supply Administration.

Question: What post did you occupy there?

Answer: Quartermaster.

Question: Were you in military service?

Answer: Yes.

Question: What was your military rank?

Answer: At that time I was probationer officer in the Quartermaster Service.

State Prosecutor: Tell us, witness Hotta, did you serve in the Quartermaster's Section of
Detachment 731?

Witness Hotta: Yes.

Question: When did you arrive to serve in Detachment 731?

Answer: I arrived in Detachment 731 on November 29, 1944, and began to take up my
duties a week later; I was in Detachment 731 until August 1945.

Question: To whom did you present yourself on arrival in Detachment 731?

Answer: First of all I presented myself to the Chief of Detachment 731, Major General of
the Medical Service Kitano. This was on November 30, 1944.

Question: Did you have any conversation with anyone after your arrival in Detachment
731?

Answer: Yes. With the Chief of the Training Division of the detachment, Lieutenant
Colonel Nishi.

Question: What did Nishi talk to you about? Answer: On November 30, 1944, I presented
myself to the Chief of the detachment, after which I went to the Chief of the Training

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