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731 and its branches with equipment and other technical appliances, and trained cadres for
conducting bacteriological warfare.

I also admit that Japan prepared to conduct bacteriological warfare chiefly against the
Soviet Union, the Mongolian People's Republic and China, and also against England and the
United States of America.

Question: Tell us, what do you know about the freezing experiments that were performed
by Detachment 731?

Answer: I know that Detachment 731 performed freezing experiments for the purpose of
devising the most effective means and methods of healing frostbite. Concerning the results of
these experiments the Chief of Detachment 731 submitted to me written reports in which it
was stated that freezing experiments were made on animals.

Question: We will read to you the evidence of witnesses: that of Oosawa Matsuo of
October 23, 1949, and of Furuichi Yoshio of December 5, 1949, to the effect that Detachment
731 performed freezing experiments on living people. Do you confirm the evidence of these
witnesses?

Answer: I cannot deny the evidence read to me of the witnesses Oosawa Matsuo and
Furuichi Yoshio on the question of the freezing experiments on living people conducted by
Detachment 731, because Detachment 731 did perform freezing experiments, and the
researcher of the 1st Division of Detachment 731 Yoshimura, to whom the witness Furuichi
refers in his evidence, sent me written reports about the freezing experiments he performed
and their results. But in his reports Yoshimura did not say that these experiments were
performed on human beings.

Question: And so, you took part in forming Detachment 731 and its branches, which
engaged in devising, making and testing bacteriological weapons intended for war chiefly
against the Soviet Union, the Mongolian People's Republic and China, and also against
England and the United States; you knew about the experiments Detachment 731 performed
on human beings in testing bacteriological weapons, and you trained cadres for
bacteriological warfare?

Answer: Yes, that is so.

This record of my statements is correct and was read to me in Japanese.

Kojttsuka

INTERROGATORS

Military Prosecutor; Member of the staff

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