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carriers of the germ. Fifty of them developed cholera, and five of them died.
These five men, for some reason or other, did not receive preventive
inoculations. The ones who were detected as carrying the germs were

treated, but it took many days before they were completely cleared of the
disease.
We were operating in an area that produced wheat and raw cotton, and
these became materials for the Japanese army operations. At harvest time,
we picked out areas for surrounding, tortured the villagers, then plundered

everything.
The mountains in the southern part of the province had coal mines, and
we plundered the coal by capturing Chinese and forcing them to work in the

mines. And when we were not involved in major operations, we would go
out into our own immediate area on continuous three-day operations to see
if there were any of the enemy around. On such occasions, we stole,
tortured, and slaughtered people. The Chinese had a saying about us, that
Japan had a "three-way complete policy: burned completely, killed
completely, and pillaged completely." Yet, when we were doing those
things, we had no sense of guilt or of doing anything wrong. It was for the

emperor—for the country!