YOSHIMURA HIROSHI

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005403458
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• Document Creation Date: June 23, 2015
• Document Release Date: July 29, 2009
• Case Number: F-2009-01109
• Publication Date: August 18, 1955

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SOURCE FOrMer Japanese :intelligence officer (B) from an acquaintance of /*WHIM. (F).
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YOSHIMURA Hiroshila head of the Asian Problems Research Association (Ails:
!Sendai Kenkyu Kai), has always been interested more-in intelligence activities
than in medicine, in spite of the fact that he was former1z7 a medici officer
in the J6.paness'Army. He is said to he a.very resourceful person.
/ :?SureeComment. YOSHIMURA was pith tha?HIi Baal., the bacteriological
warfare unit of the Japanese Army in M&huria during the war.
.Ccament. YCSHILTURA was a Captain in the Japanese Array- Hedical Corps..
and is a?graduate of the Medical College of the Kydto University. For more-
background information see- ZJ.J.d86-2;
2 Cement. According to a different informant, although there was
connection between this Association and the Contirnta/ Protle9.s Research
Institute (Tairfkii Mondai Kenkyu 511)) when the foi-,rer was first organized,
there is none at present.
?:Field Comment. ZJJ.L186-repo ed .;11a.t this Aliso :1.ation was fo.:.nded in late
"?Spring ?a 1951 by TOSHIPIRIRA OKAWA Shumei, Choung-hsi to collect
information necessary for Japan to mainr. ab elute neutrality and to
disseminate it to those sympathetic with the aim of the organization.
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