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Detachment 2630 were used.

EXAMINATION OF WITNESS HATAKI

President of the Court: Witness Hataki, you have given the Court your signature to the
warning that you are liable to prosecution if you give false evidence. You must tell the Court
nothing but the truth.

In what capacity did you serve in the Japanese Army?

Witness Hataki: At one time I worked in Detachment 100 in Changchun, and later in a
military unit in the town of Kunchuling.

Question: Are you a private?

Answer: Yes, a private.

Question: What duties did you perform in the latter period?

Answer: I was a rifleman. Question: And in Detachment 100? Answer: In Detachment 100
I was a civilian employee of the detachment.

State Prosecutor: What work did you do in the detachment?

Witness Hataki: I worked on bacteriological research.

Question: In what capacity?

Answer: As a technical worker.

Question: Tell us, do you know anything about experiments having been performed on
living people?

Answer: Yes, I do.

Question: Where were the people kept upon whom experiments were to be made?

Answer: In an isolation cell in the guardroom of Detachment 100.

Question: Did you yourself see these people?

Answer: I myself saw them when I took them food.

Question: How many people were in the isolation cell when you went there?

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