23 FEB. 1946 Date and Time: 23 February 1946, 1340-1615 hours Place: Sugamo Prison, Tokyo, Japan Present: General Hiroshi OSHIMA G. Osmond Hyde, Interrogator Lt. Comdr. F.B. Huggins, U.S.N.R., Interpreter Miss Lucille G. Brunner, Stenographer. Questions by: Mr. Hyde. OATH OF INTERPRETER Mr. Hyde: “Lt. Comdr. Huggins, the Interpreter, having been duly sworn on previous interrogations of General OSHIMA, now continues to interpret from English to Japanese and from Japanese into English, as required in this proceeding. Q. General, today we are going to depart from your narrative and ask you about Karl Haushofer. Do you know Karl Haushofer? 1 A. Yes. Q. How long have you known him? A. I met him for the first time in 1922. Q. Was that while you were in Japan? A. I did not know him when he was in Japan. I met him after I had gone to Berlin. Q. You know, do you not, General, that he was in Japan for some time and he was an instructor in a military school in Japan? A. He was not an instructor. He was over here as a military student (resident officer) and was at one time attached to a Kyoto Regiment. Q. Do you know when he was here in that capacity? A. I am not sure of the time, but I believe it was soon after the Russo-Japanese War. 2 1 He and his wife drank arsenic and killed themselves in March 1946 less than a month after this interrogation. He was closely associated with Rudolf Hess mentioned below. Haushofer contributed to the expansionist ideas of Lebensraum, meaning “living space”. 2 This war was 1904 - 1905 and was a humiliating defeat for Russia. 131