Statements Concerning Fukushima

Case
USA v. Kajuro Aihara et al.
Statement Title Statement of Yoshimura
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Kyusaku Fukushima
Statement Provided By Seizuke Yoshimura

FUKUSHIMA

Statement of Yoahimura (16-28 June 1947) If Komori had permission to perform PW experiments, as he stated, it would have had to have come from Maj Gen Fukushima, or other personnel of authority.
Statement Title Statement of Nakamura
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Kyusaku Fukushima
Statement Provided By

Statement pf (30 June - 2 July 1947) Col. Akita was senior staff officer under Fukushima. If a matter pertained to Staff, it would probably go from staff Officer concerned to Fukushima, vice chief of staff to Yoshinaka, Chief of Staff (?), to Yokoyama, CG.

If a secret medical matter, Nakamura conjectures it would go from Horiuchi to Akita to Fukushima and through Chief of Staff to CG.
Statement Title Statement of Goiyama
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Kyusaku Fukushima
Statement Provided By Shinju Goiyama

Statement of Goivama (l-S July 1947) At the end of Oct. or the beginning of Nov. 1945, at the Keigo School in Fukuoka, Gen. Fukushima called a meeting of Sato, Kusumoto, Goiyama, and possibly Jin for the purpose of concealing the University operations and the executions. Fukushima stated, f,If we are ever asked about what happened to the Prisoners who were in WAH we will say that they were all sent to Hiroshima. He cautioned them (Goiyama says wusn) that they should all tell the same story.

Fukushima stated that the best thing to do was to say that the Prisoners had been sent to Hiroshima, and that ended the argument (Kusumoto argued that it would be best to state the truth), and they just listened to Fukushima. Sato and Fukushima were writing something on paper about the date and the number of Prisoners who were sent to Hiroshima. 

About 1 Dec. 45 another meeting was held at the Keigo School, at which Fukushima, Kusumoto and Goiyama attended. Sato was supposed to have attended, was not there. [Marginal Note: no] Fukushima stated that "we” would not be able to say that the Prisoners were sent to Hiroshima, but that they must still hide the fact that the Prisoners were sent to the University because it would mean a lot of trouble for them and that they should say that they were executed on 20 June. This was the story as to 14-15 Prisoners, who actually were executed or killed at the University. 

At the time Goiyama was questioned last year, he told SCAP Legal Section that he didn't know anything about Prisoners being sent to the University , for medical experiments because of orders from Fukushima and Sato not to divulge such information.