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Statements Concerning Kenyoshi Ikeda

Statement Title Statement of Enatsu
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Kenyoshi Ikeda
Statement Provided By Tokuji Enatsu

Statement of Tokuji ENATSU (23 Sep - 31 Oct 47):

1st Lt. Michio IKEDA of the Med Section was responsible for giving medical treat­ment to PCS’. He was the only doctor in the medical section that gave medital treat­ ment to EM with WAH.

 

Statement Title Statements re: execution by Ikeda
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Kenyoshi Ikeda
Statement Provided By Kenyoshi Ikeda

Statements re: execution by IKEDA on SO June:

Hozak: Ikeda told him he executed a prisoner.

Hakamura: Saw Ikeda cleaning sword after a prisoner was executed.

Ikeda: Confesses to execution of 4th and 5th prisoners on 20 June.

Statement Title Statement of Onishi
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Kenyoshi Ikeda
Statement Provided By Tamotsu Onishi

Statement of Tamotsu ONISHI (24 Nov 47):

Onishi thinks Sgt. IKEDA of the Staff Sec. beheaded the 3rd flyer.

Statement Title Statement of Ikeda
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Kenyoshi Ikeda
Statement Provided By Kenyoshi Ikeda

Statement of Kaneyoshi IKEDA (19 Jan 48):

When WAKO came to the Mobilization Office 20 June, he first went to see Major Sunao TSURU the Sr. Officer there, and about five minutes later came to IKEDA (Kaneyoshi) and said, “There will be an execution of PWs - so, M/Sgt Ikeda, you will come, too.”

Statement Title Report (Japanese) to Transfer ofB-29 Pilots to Army (possibly written by YANASE)
Record Type Report
Subject of Statement Kenyoshi Ikeda
Statement Provided By

Report (Japanese) to Transfer ofB-29 Pilots to Army (possibly written by YANASE):

Hearsay re Murder of Pilots

20 Jun in rear of Army Hq. 8 killed

Executioners: IKEDA and others.

Statement Title Statement of Maekawa
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Kenyoshi Ikeda
Statement Provided By Tozo Maekawa

Statement of MAEKAWA (Jan 48):

About October 1945 Maekawa heard that 1st Lt. IKEDA was persistently asked by SATO to write a false death certificate for a B29 airman for whom he was not responsible and. which he refused. TSURUMARU said, he advised Ikeda to refuse, which Maekawa told IKEDA the next day also. IKEDA told Maekawa that the airman was to be reported as dying outside WA jurisdiction.

Statement Title Statement of Hozaki
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Kenyoshi Ikeda
Statement Provided By Shigeru Hozaki

Statement of Shigeru HOZAKI (1 Oct 48) :

IKEDA told HOZAKI he executed a flyer. HOZAKI heard that air defense personnel per­formed an execution; about 22-23 June IKEDA told HOZAKI of the 20 June execution.

Statement Title Statement of Shimasaki
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Kenyoshi Ikeda
Statement Provided By Matsuzo Shimasaki

Statement of Matsuzo SHIMASAKI (26 Sept 48):

IKEDA decapitated the third flyer.