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IDEZUKI, SABURO (KIU) Statement of Idezuki (4 Sept 1947) 47, a surgeon, graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in 1928, entered army, made ecd. March 1944, becoming at that time Chief of Hygiene Section, Medical Bureau, War Ministry, was demobilized 20 Nov. 1945. Had been an instructor in the Army Medical College. As Chief of the hygiene Section Idezuki was concerned with research concerning army medicine. Lt. Col. Koide was liaison officer between the army and civilian medical scientists, which included the procurement of funds to carry on research, was liaison with the War Research Committee (composed of civilian organizations for research), and the army medical school. If an army wanted to conduct research, it would have to go to the Minister of Education who would ask the Society for the Promotion of Scientific Research and the Society for the Development of Scientific Research, (both societies of the War Research Committee.) Idezuki knows Horiuchi very well, spoke to him in March at the War Ministry, Tokyo, at a medical meeting. No authority was granted to conduct experimental operation on PWs from the Medical Bureau. Such operations would be Illegal.
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