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

Takahashi

INTERROGATORS

Military Prosecutor, Member of the staff

Lieutenant Colonel of the Office of the Ministry

of Jurisprudence ANTONOV for Internal Affairs

for the Khabarovsk Territory, Captain SEROV

Interpreter PROTASOV

RECORD OF INTERROGATION
OF ACCUSED KAWASHIMA KIYOSHI

December 6, 1949 City of Khabarovsk

The interrogation is conducted through interpreter Plyachenko, who was warned of his
liability to prosecution under Art.95oftheCriminalCodeoftheR.S.F.S.R.

Signed: Plyachenko

Question: You are charged with a crime punishable under Art. 1 of the Decree of the
Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. of April 19, 1943. Do you plead guilty to
the charge?

Answer: The substance of the charge set forth in the order of December 5, 1949 is clear to
me. I fully plead guilty, and on the substance of the charge brought against me I admit that
from 1941 to 1943 I served in Detachment 731, in which I performed the duties of Chief of
the General, the 1st, the Production, and the 3rd divisions.

Detachment 731 of the Kwantung Army conducted research in bacteriological weapons,
and with my active participation prepared large quantities of pathogenic germs for use as a
weapon of war. I admit that Detachment 731 manufactured means of bacteriological warfare
against the Soviet Union and China.

Detachment 731 was to have been a unit of about 3,000 officers, men and employees. A
large part of the detachment's personnel consisted of men who had received special training

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