Statements Concerning Ishiyama

Statement of Maekawa (23 May - 3 June 1947) Maekawa has met Ishiyama once at Tanomachi Hospital treating injured persons - he was there 30 minutes the area around WA badly bombed.

Sato gave permission for experimental operations; Ishiyama had asked Komori to secure the B-29 survivors. Komori said that Ishiyama had told him that he wanted to perform experimental operations, i.e., an unnecessary operation performed for the purpose of research in medicine or surgery.

In March or April 1946, when visiting Tsurumaru at KIU Hospital, he told Maekawa that it seemed that Ishiyama and the persons under him were involved in the operations.

Statement of Kanehisa (28 May 1947) It was general knowledge among the hos­pital workers that Komori, along with some staff officers had gone to the University and requested that Ishiyama permit them to conduct the operations at the University Hospital.

Memo of Jinnaka written 11 June 1947 - There was a public vote of confidence of Medics and Students in June 1946 wherein if a professor received less than a 60% vote, he was again considered as to dropping him. Most professors got 90% vote, Ishiyama 70%. Jinnaka had previously suggested that Ishiyama re­sign. The voters were advised previously that Ishiyama was the responsible man as to the PW incident.

Ishiyama was interested in lung operations, but at the end of the war he was interested in the surgical application of sea water, epilepsy operations, and chololithiasis operation. So he assumes that the experiments were of this sort.

Someone in Ishiyama's house extorted money from him.

Statement of Ono (11 June 1947) On 1 June, Ono saw Urabe Kaoru, professor of Kurume Medical College, who said that it was rumored in the Kurume district that Ono refused to permit the use of the dissecting room belinging to the Pathology department to Ishiyama, and had thus escaped involvement in the Ishiyama case. This rumor bears no truth.

Statement of Takayama (28 May 1947) Main doctors in Ishiyama surgery: Senba, Torisu, Hirao, and Ishiyama.

Statement of Marotomi (supplement taken 22 May 1947) In May 1945 Ishiyama cane to the Fukuoka 2nd Army Hospital, and Marotomi heard a conversation between him and Ibe, the head of the hospital, in which Ishiyama that in cases where it was necessary to give blood transfusions to patients it was possible to use diluted sea water, that he wanted clean sea water, but that it would have to be brought some distance, wondered whether Ibe would send a hospital truck to such a place and bring such water back to him, Ibe saying that he would if he could. Ibe later told Morotomi that he could see no sense in using sea water as a blood substitute since there were already such substitutes as Sodium Chloride Solution, the Rock Solution, and the Ringer Solution, which were plentiful and had been tested.