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testing of bacteriological weapons upon living people by forcible infection were criminal and
inhuman.

I have no more to say on the case, this record of my statement is correct and was read to
me by interpreter of Japanese Lamanov.

Nishi

INTERROGATORS

Military Prosecutor, Member of the staff

Major of Jurisprudence BOGOD of the Office of the Ministry

for Internal Affairs

for the Khabarovsk Territory,

Major NIKITIN

Interpreter LAMANOV

RECORD OF INTERROGATION
OF ACCUSED KARASAWA TOMIO

December 6, 1949 City of Khabarovsk

Interrogation conducted through interpreter Pakhomov, Mikhail Yakovlevich, who was
warned of his liability to prosecution under Art. 95 of the Criminal Code of the R.S.F.S.R.

Signed: Pakhomov

Question: You are presented with the order of December 5, 1949, to charge you with
crimes 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 brought against you?

Answer: I fully plead guilty to the charge brought against me under Art. 1 of the Decree of
the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. of April 19, 1943.

From 1939 to 1944 I did indeed serve in Detachment 731 of the Japanese Kwantung Army
in Manchuria, which detachment carried on active research in devising the most perfect
methods of producing bacteria on a mass scale and of using them as means of bacteriological

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