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I admit that in directing the Production Division of Detachment 731, which produced
enormous quantities of bacteriological material as a weapon of war, and in exercising
temporary direction of the 1st Division, which engaged in scientific research in devising new
types of bacteriological weapons, I committed a crime against humanity.

I admit that testing the action of bacteriological weapons on living people by forcibly
infecting them with severe infectious diseases, as was practised by the detachment with my
participation, and also the wholesale slaughter of the experimentees with lethal bacteria are
barbarous and criminal.

I admit that Detachment 731, commanded by General Ishii and later by General Kitano,
was a criminal organization . . . and I, as a member of it,am ready to pay the penalty.

Question: What would you like to add to your testimony?

Answer: At all the previous interrogations I gave truthful testimony about the activities of
Detachment 731 and set forth in detail the nature of the duties I performed during the period I
served in that detachment. I have tried earnestly to help the investigation to expose the
criminal character of Detachment 731 and quite objectively threw light on the facts known to
me, hence I have nothing to add to my testimony. It is quite possible that I have not
mentioned certain details of the criminal activities of Detachment 731 because I have
forgotten them owing to the lapse of time.

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

Kawashima

INTERROGATORS

Military Prosecutor, Member of the staff

Lieutenant Colonel of the Office of the Ministry

of Jurisprudence BUSLOVICH for Internal Affairs

for the Khabarovsk Territory, Captain BRAVE

Interpreter PL YACHENKO

RECORD OF INTERROGATION
OF ACCUSED NISHI TOSHIHIDE

December 6, 1949 City of Khabarovsk

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