- JAPAN: A former Japanese
soldier yesterday told a Tokyo court how he helped produce deadly germs
and performed vivisections on Chinese civilians without an anaesthetic
during the Second World War.
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- Though Yoshio Shinozuka, 77, has previously spoken out
publicly about his role, his testimony makes him the first member of Unit
731 to acknowledge before a court its role in Japan's biological warfare
in northern China.
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- Shinozuka was called as a witness for nearly 180 Chinese
suing the Japanese government for compensation and an apology for the deaths
of family members allegedly killed by the unit's activities.
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- Shinozuka told the court he was still haunted by the
ghoulish experiments he helped carry out on captured Chinese civilians
and soldiers as part of his unit's top-secret biological-warfare programme.
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- He said the Japanese military had performed vivisections
without anaesthesia in northern China, casually referring to the people
as "logs."
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- "I remember using the word as we compared how many
logs we cut that day with other unit members," he said.
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- He told the Tokyo District Court about participating
in the mass production of cholera, dysentery and typhoid germs.
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- Former Unit 731 pilot Shoichi Matsumoto told the court
he helped spread plague-infected fleas from an aeroplane in 1940 and 1941.
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