Page 174 - Unit 731 Testimony

written in educated script. Whoever wrote that had obviously cut his finger
to get the blood. He was undoubtedly suffering from experiments and on
the verge of death. Those characters will remain with me for life; they are

etched into my heart.
I thought that the person in that cell must have been a key figure
directly under the authority of Jiang Jieshi. I ran outside, but the layers of
firewood and maruta were already piled up. I looked for someone with
blood on his hands that would indicate who he was, but I was not able to

find him.
On August 14, at 6 P.M., the order came to blow up Unit 731. The
laboratory equipment and the specimens in the glass cases were being

loaded onto trucks from the evening of the thirteenth, and through the next
morning, numerous trips were made to the Songhua [Sungari] River to
dump the specimens. Most of the unit members pulled out, and there were
only about thirty people left when the facilities were blown up. Before the
facilities were blown up, I went through the different cells for a farewell
look. There was not even one item to be seen in any cell. Everything had
been stripped bare.

The switch to set off the charges was thrown, and we boarded the train
with the sound of explosions ringing in the air.

We headed south, toward the northern border of Korea, picked up the
advance group that had left the grounds ahead of us, and started crossing
the Korean peninsula. The fifteenth and sixteenth passed without incident.
On the train, an officer came and told us "On September 1, you men will fly
to Okinawa and spread bacteria among the American forces. You will be the
Yozakura Special Forces." We were carrying bacteriological bombs with us

on the train, but they ended up being disposed of in the Sea of Japan. After
that, the local situation became restless, and guns were set up in the freight
cars. We reached Pusan on the twentieth, and from there we were placed on
a ship for Japan, eventually docking in Yamaguchi Prefecture. Then, we
scattered like butterflies and returned to our hometowns.

Later, I found a job on the Japanese National Railways. On January 26,
1946, there was a detestable incident at a branch of the Teikoku Bank. A
man faked the identity of an official from the Ministry of Health and
Welfare and appeared at a branch of the bank. He told the manager that an
epidemic disease had broken out in the vicinity and asked to have all the