Statements Concerning Goshima

Statement of Makino (18 June 1947) After first operation before Makino went home, he went to the servants quarters to get hot water to wash his hands. On the way back, he heard voices from the Autopsy Room, started walking that way, saw Goshima, Ryu and Hirako in the autospy room.

Tanaka told Makino that Hirako said that if Makino wanted any specimens from the body of the PW for histology research to take them. Tanaka and Makino went directly to the Autopsy room to get their histology specimens. Goshima and Ryu were already there. Goshima and Ryu had already started work.

Goshima took the gauze from the Prisoner's right shoulder, and Makino then noticed that the right lung had been removed. Goshima asked Makino what the various parts were around the heart and Makino explained.

Goshima then cut a part from the lower part of the heart with his scissors and held it in his hand. He then cut it in small pieces and put half of them in Tanaka's bottle of formaldehyde solution. The balance he placed in a bottle he had which contained a yellowish solution.

Tanaka stated, "Con you take part of the lung out?" turning to Goshima, who thereupon reached into the chest incision with his pincers and probed toward the left lung.. He got hold on something and then reached in with his scis­sors and snipped off a specimen and gave it to Tanaka.

Goshima helped Ryu inject Mueller's solution into the P's neck artery by holding the container of solution while it drained into the artery. After a while Goshima said that enough solution had been injected, so the needle was pulled out. They injected Mueller*s Solution to preserve the brain.

When Goshima took the specimens from the heart and lung, he first gave them to Makino, and Makino gave them to Tanaka. It was then Makino was explain­ing the parts of the heart that Tanaka asked for a specimen and Goshima then cut it off.

On the way back to Makino*s lab with the hot water, Makino heard voices in the Autopsy Room, went in, saw Hirako, Goshima and Ryu talking, saw that the body was not on the table, but in on open coffin, alongside of the dissecting table. Hirako was talking to Goshima and Ryu in a soft voice and pointing to the coffin. Hirako was hold a large round container, it must have been the Prisoner's brain because Goshima and Ryu had started to remove the brain when Tanaka and Makino left.