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Answer: Until Japan's surrender.

Question: How did you come to work in the detachment?

Answer: At first I joined the detachment as a truck driver, later I was offered a job as an
employee of the detachment in the capacity of office clerk.

State Prosecutor: Tell us, witness Saito, when was a special section for the mass breeding
of fleas organized at the Mutankiang Branch?

Witness Saito: The section that began to breed fleas was organized on June 13, 1945.

Question: How is it that you so well remember the date when this section was organized?

Answer: Because, from May 31, 1945 to June 13, I was absent, I was not in the
detachment, I was away on matters of the service. When I returned on June 13, I read the
order to form this section, so that I remember that date without mistake.

Question: By whose order was the section for the mass breeding of fleas organized?

Answer: This section was organized by order of the Chief of Branch 643, Major Onoue.

Question: Look at the defendants' box, is that the Major Onoue who is seated in the box?

Answer: Yes, that's the one.

Question: What number was this section given?

Answer: Number three.

Question: Who was the Chief of the 3rd Section?

Answer: Sergeant Major Yamada Tadashi.

Question: Who directly engaged in the breeding of fleas?

Answer: Two members engaged in this: Onizaki and Suzuki, who went through a special
training course in Detachment 731.

Question: How long did they go through this special course?

Answer: I do not remember exactly, ten days or two weeks.

Question: Thus, in Detachment 731, special training courses were organized for the

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