Page 133 - Unit 731 Testimony

When we entered the prison buildings, we had to walk through a tray
of disinfectant. Then we were inspected at a door, and finally met the
person we were to hand the samples to. Miyamoto, the man who worked

there, later died of typhoid. I used to meet him and a technician there all the
time; I never met them outside of that room.
The blood samples I received from them were taken from maruta who
were infected with viruses. The samples were in prepared slides. I traveled
by truck between Pingfang and the south wing twice a day, carrying

specimens and papers. Another part of my job was carrying human organs.
There was no real research in vaccine at the examination and treatment
division. The Pingfang teams developed an invigorative solution, and we

injected it into patients who were close to recovery. The base was garlic,
and I injected it into myself sometimes to overcome fatigue.
We used a lot of Chinese workers. Some couldn't work without heroin,
and we gave it to them.

At the south wing we also performed dissection. One of the
researchers had dissected a huge number of maruta at Pingfang and came to
be known as the "dissection wizard." He's now active in the medical world.

We had a patient at the south wing who was a member of Unit 731. I
thought that he had contracted syphilis, but he had the plague, and he died. I
think his body was sent to Pingfang. And people who died at the south wing
were all dissected. If no family member came we would dissect
immediately and preserve them. The preserved bodies were probably sent to
Pingfang.

There were nutrition specialists at south wing, and they were consulted
by Pingfang for advice on diets for the maruta.

An order came from Unit 731 to form examination and treatment
teams, and go out into the villages to treat the people. An unknown disease
broke out among one of the tribes and we went out there. It was typhus, and
we treated it for fifteen days, then came back. Another time we went out to
a town between Harbin and Xinjing when typhoid broke out. Our job was to
keep it from spreading.

Unit 731 was working to make biological weapons. For that, it is also
necessary to have a knowledge of treatment of disease. Our division went to
treat people, but our work required the dissection of maruta. Our data was