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obvious that this was conducted when he was with Unit 731. From this, we
can understand that he used babies born to imprisoned mothers. Records
from China identify babies being born to pregnant captives, and also to

women made pregnant through forced sex in venereal disease experiments,
and these babies were also made use of in the unit's experiments.
One of the former researchers I located told me that one day he had a
human experiment scheduled, but there was still time to kill. So he and
another unit member took the keys to the cells and opened one that housed

a Chinese woman. One of the unit members raped her; the other member
took the keys and opened another cell. There was a Chinese woman in there
who had been used in a frostbite experiment. She had several fingers
missing and her bones were black, with gangrene set in. He was about to
rape her anyway, then he saw that her sex organ was festering, with pus
oozing to the surface. He gave up the idea, left, and locked the door, then

later went on to his experimental work.

Youth Corps member (Anonymous)

[The speaker, seventy-two years old at the time he gave this account, spoke
at Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture, in July 1994.]
In 1937, when I was fourteen, they were recruiting for the Naval Air

Corps Youth Unit here in Morioka. I stole some money from my father's
bureau and went to the recruitment center to join. But there was an army
medical officer there, and he called to me and said, "You! Go to the Army
Medical College."
I did. In June I entered the Army Medical College in Shinjuku, Tokyo.

The officer who told me to go was killed in the Nomonhan Incident in
Manchuria.
At school, we were given tough exams, and out of fifty in my class, six

or seven were selected. Ishii, the boss, had been to Germany and was our
instructor. Afterwards, I was assigned to the Kwantung Army Epidemic
Prevention and Water Supply Unit as a civilian employee.
In December, we left the port of Niigata and were taken to Harbin via
Korea. I still have an old calling card with my Harbin address. At first we