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Question: Did you have occasion to inspect the detachment's stores?

Answer: I would ask you to say more precisely what stores you have in mind?

Question: The detachment's stores in the proving ground near Anta Station.

Answer: I do not remember the exact date, it was in the summer of 1945; together with
Quartermaster Tomizuka I went to the proving ground near Vnta Station where we were to
inspect the stores.

We took stock of all the materia s, goods and equipment in the stores.

While inspecting one of the stores I foundj some iron shields and I asked civilian employee
Tomizuka what these shields were used for. He answered that although they were not
supplied by the Quartermaster's Section, they were kept in the stores and were used in
experiments on living people, that they were fastened to the chests and backs of
experimentees to protect them from being injured.

Then civilian employee Tomizuka showed me a pile of blankets and requested to be
allowed, whenever possible, to strike them off the list as unfit for use. There were about
eighty of these blankets. Dried blood was visible on them. These blankets were extremely
tattered. In reply to my enquiry as to why they were in that condition, he said that they, too,
were used to protect the bodies of experimentees while experiments were being performed on
them.

Question: And on these padded blankets you yourself saw the dried blood of the
experimentees?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Tell us, when did the Chief of the detachment, Ishii Shiro, arrive at Detachment
731?

Answer: In March 1945.

Question: What changes in the work of the detachment took place after Ishii's arrival?

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