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The present edition includes only the official materials relating to the trial.

Documents of the preliminary investigation: the Indictment and certain documentary
evidence and records of the interrogation relating to the main points of the Indictment have
been taken from the case files for publication.

The materials of the Court proceedings: testimony and last pleas of the accused, the
testimony of Court witnesses (abridged), the findings of the medicolegal experts, the
speeches of the State Prosecutor and Defence Counsel are given verbatim.

Documents of the Preliminary Investigation

INDICTMENT

IN THE CASE OF FORMER SERVICEMEN
OF THE JAPANESE ARMY

YAMADA OTOZOO, KAJITSUKA RYUJI, TAKAHASHI TAKAATSU,
KAWASHIMA KIYOSHI, NISHI TOSHIHIDE, KARASAWA TOMIO,
ONOUE MASAO, SATO SHUNJI, HIRAZAKURA ZENSAKU, MI-
TOMO KAZUO, KIKUCHI NORIM1TSU AND KURUSHIMA YUJI
CHARGED WITH MANUFACTURING AND EMPLOYING BACTERIO-
LOGICAL WEAPONS, i.e., WITH A CRIME PUNISHABLE UNDER
ARTICLE 1 OF THE DECREE OF THE PRESIDIUM OF THE
SUPREME SOVIET OF THE U.S.S.R. OF APRIL 19, 1943

Imperialist Japan was for many years the principal seat of aggression in the Far East.

Having entered into a criminal conspiracy with Hitler Germany and fascist Italy, the ruling
clique of imperialist Japan planned, launched and waged aggressive wars against peaceable
nations with the object, in conjunction with Hitler Germany, of establishing their domination
over the world.

These aggressive wars were aimed at creating a so-called "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity
Sphere"—a colonial state under Japanese rule. The aim of creating such a state by the forcible
severance of extensive territories from peaceable neighbours of Japan was a reflection of the
extreme expansionist designs of the Japanese imperialists.

How voracious were the aggressive appetites of the Japanese ruling clique may be judged
by a number of public statements made by responsible Japanese political leaders.

In an article entitled "The Greater East Asia Imperial Sphere," published on January 5,
1942, in the newspaper Tayo Dainippon, Hashimoto Kingoro, one of the major Japanese war
criminals and "ideologist" of the aggressive Japanese militarist clique, wrote that this
"sphere" was to include the following countries: "Japan, Manchuria, China, the Soviet Far

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