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the Medical Service Megura, we shared a room together. One day he came into the room with
some kind of a document. This was a report on freezing experiments. He also showed me
some photographs depicting 2-3 prisoners being exposed to frost; one of the photographs
showed a man wearing a fur coat and hat sitting next to what looked like a bucket. Another
photograph showed a Chinese lying on a bed with his feet uncovered. One foot was sound,
the other was frostbitten. It looked as though the feet were being compared to show the
effectiveness of the freezing experiment.

Question: Thus, you know that in addition to bacteriological experiments on living people,
Detachment 731 also conducted freezing experiments?

Answer: Yes, that is so.

Question: Tell us, did the people in the prison who were to be experimented on implicitly
submit to these experiments, or were there cases of resistance on the part of prisoners?

Answer: In the summer of 1945, Megura invited me to visit him in the laboratory. I came
somewhat late, but when I came in I saw that he was extremely agitated and angry about
something. I asked him what he was angry about and he told me that the prisoners had
offered resistance in the prison. By way of the third floor I went to the prison. This was my
first visit to the prison.

From a roof two men armed with rifles were watching the prison. Near the prison doors
there were 4-5 men, also armed with rifles. The first two and the group of 4-5, were all
members of the Special Group. By this time, however, all was quiet in the prison.

Two or three days later, Megura told me that one of the experimentees had shown violence
and had struck the experimenter with a door handle.

Question: What happened to this prisoner?

Answer: After striking the experimenter with a door handle, this prisoner jumped out of the
cell and ran down the corridor, seized the keys and opened some of the cells. Some of the
prisoners managed to jump out, but these were only the bold ones. These bold ones were
shot.

Question: Thus, people who resisted the experiments were shot? Is that correct?

Answer: Yes, that is correct.

EXAMINATION OF WITNESS SEGOSHI

President of the Court: Witness Segoshi, have you signed a warning that you must tell the
Court nothing but the truth and that you are liable to prosecution if you give false evidence?

Witness Segoshi: Yes.

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