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On the substance of the charge I wish to state the following:
It is true that after I was enrolled in the Japanese Army, and after going through general
military training in the 97th Infantry Regiment, I, in April 1944, was sent to serve in Branch
162 of Detachment 731, located in Linkow.
Soon after my arrival at this branch I realized from the nature of the work that was
conducted and from the warnings I received about the secret character of the activities of
Detachment 731 that, although Detachment 731 was officially supposed to be engaged with
questions concerning water supply and prophylaxis, it actually engaged in breeding the germs
of severe infectious diseases (typhoid, paratyphoid, cholera, plague, etc.), and also in
breeding fleas and rodents for this purpose.
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