ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the trial of Japanese biowarfare scientists which took place in Khabarovsk, in the Russian Far East, on December 25-30, 1949. One of the points of indictment against the 12 Japanese military defendants referred to “criminal experiments on living humans” performed during the Second World War in Manchuria. This was the first time these experiments, which had been carried out with extreme cruelty over a 15-year period, had been investigated by a court. Aspects of the trial, such as its setting, timing, its rapid execution, and the leniency of the sentences handed down by the court, are discussed.
