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Answer: In the capacity of a technical worker.

Question: What work did you perform?

Answer: I performed the work of analyzing blood and engaged in pathological research.

State Prosecutor: Where did you serve?

Witness Kuwabara: In Branch 2630 of Detachment 100.

Question: Tell the Court what you know about the infection of horses with glanders.

Answer: This was on August 20, 1945. I was then on the way to the stables of our branch
and near the stables I saw six members from our branch. These were detachment members
Kubota, Ikeda, Yada, Kimura, Ishii and Hasegawa. In those stables there were 60 horses that
were kept in the detachment. Before I could reach this group I was warned that they were
engaged in infecting the horses with glanders by contaminating the oats with glanders germs.
I went back to the branch's laboratory. When I got back to the laboratory I saw empty test
tubes that had contained cultures of glanders; then I asked researcher Kimura whether the
horses had been infected with these germs. He confirmed this and said that the horses had
been infected with glanders.

Question: What was done with those horses later?

Answer: The group that had caused the infection broke down the fences and drove the
horses in different directions. All the horses scattered to the near-by villages and along
different roads.

Question: Were the horses which had been infected with glanders to have served as the
cause for the outbreak of a glanders epidemic?

Answer: Yes.

Question: This took place on August 20, 1945?

Answer: Yes.

Question: That is, after the order for the surrender of the Japanese Army?

Answer: Yes.

Question: Where were the glanders germs with which the animals were infected
cultivated?

Answer: For this purpose, glanders germs cultivated in the Bacteriological Section of

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