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Question: What do you wish to add to your testimony?

Answer: I have nothing more to add to my testimony. . . .

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

Kikuchi

INTERROGATORS

Assistant Military Prosecutor Member of the staff

of the Primorye Military Area, of the Office of the Ministry

Lieutenant Colonel for Internal Affairs

of Jurisprudence ANTONOV for the Khabarovsk Territory,

Senior Lieutenant BULANOV

Interpreter POLUYANOV

RECORD OF INTERROGATION
OF ACCUSED KURUSHIMA YUJI

December 10, 1949 City of Khabarovsk

The interrogation is conducted through interpreter Storozhkov, who was warned of his
liability to prosecution for deliberately false interpretation under Art. 95 of the Criminal Code
of the R.S.F.S.R.

Signed: Storozhkov

Question: You are presented with a charge 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 understand the substance of the
charge against you, and do you plead guilty?

Answer: The substance of the charge against me set forth in the Military Prosecutor's order
of December 9, 1949 and defined in Art. 1 of the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme
Soviet of the U.S.S.R. of April 19, 1943 is clear to me, and I fully plead guilty to the charge
brought against me.

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