Statements Concerning Ishiyama

Statement of Ishisawa (21 May -2 June 1947) Ishisawa was quite a close friend of Ishiyama, seeing him about once a month at the faculty meeting, and in the fall of 1945, when Ishisawa was ill, about 3 times in 10 days.

In latter Feb. or early Mar. 1946 Ishiyama told Ishisawa that he had experi­mented with a sea water tranfusion and synthetic blood substitute on a Prisoner, while Ishiyama and Ishisawa were alone in his surgery class room.

Ishisawa believes that he mentionedd Ishiyama fs name to Ohno, because Ishiyama is the type of man who would do such unusual things and because Ishisawa heard that he was a part time experimental research man for the army. Ishiyama was the type of man who would conduct experiments on FWs, even if they would die, in interest of research.

In Feb. 1946, when alone in Ishiyama's office, Ishiyama told Ishisawa that medical officer Komori from WA came and told him that they had some prisoners that Ishiyama could experiment on for the advancement of medicine, that at the operations they had experimented on blood transfusions, that they had ex­perimented with natural "sea water", Ringer Solution and Physiological Solu­tion (.0.9 salt solution) on the prisoners. He did not say in what specific operations these transfusions had been used or even mention results. He showed Ishisawa an anonymous post card from a student who said "You are a War Criminal and the one who is responsible,. so will you resign." The writing was Japanese; very bad; Ishiyama seemed to take it as a joke.

After talking to Ohno, Ishisawa met Ishiyama going into Ohno's office. A few days after talking to Ohno, Ishiyama came to Ishisawa, asked him to go with him into the Dean’s office, at which time Ishiyama said to Ohno: "There have been many rumors about the incident of the operation. Please do not believe all you hear in these rumors." He also said, "Nobody knows when or where this operations was conducted, and also nobody knows what kind of operation it was" Also: "No one can bring the facts together and^say just exactly what happened." Ohno merely said, "Ohno merely said, "Oh, is that right?" Ishiyama then said, "There is nothing to worry about at the present time."

Later Ishisawa heard that the operation was held in Ishiyama's surgical opera­ting room, but actually they were held in the autopsy room of the Anatomy Department.

Before Ishiyama was arrested Ishisawa thought only 4 fliers were operated on since Takada told him in the fall of 1946 that Hirako had told him to bring the ashes back to him and he did bring 4 sets of ashes to him.

In February 1946 the quest arose as to who had granted Ishiyama permission to use the autopsy room, and Jinnaka had asked Ishisawa to find out. Hirako told Ishisawa that Ishiyama had come with the request from the army and that he had granted permission to use the autopsy room, since these were conditions which could not be helped.

Ishiyama could only have accepted the PWs from the army and conducted experimental operations without asked permission from Higher University authorities if he kept it secret.

Statement of Tsurumaru (20 - 25 May 1947) Tsurumaru conjectures that if Komori did lecture at the University it would probably be through Ishiyama, since he

Ishiyama

Statement of Tsurumaru Cont'd. ......knew Komori and had worked with him in the past.

In 1946 Tsurumaru heard from Maekawa that when the professors met to elect new instructors someone suggested that no one from Ishiyama surgery be elected because of the fact that Ishiyama hod been Involved in experimental operations on PWs, and it would give the University a bdd if men who might have been assistants or helped in the operations were given higher positions.

Statement of Honjo (18 June 1947) Honjo saw Ishiyama at the WA medical department 4-5 times between May and the latter part of June. Honjo be­lieves that he was one of the army employees. Sometimes, after exchanging greetings with Maekawa, he would go directly into Horiuchi,s office. Sometimes he would exchange greetings with Yoshimura and then go into Horiuchi's office. The usual length of his visit— at the most, one hour.

Statement of Furukawa (20 June 1947) Furukawa saw Ishiyama at WAH 4-5 times during April and May, saw him go into Horiuchi's office 2-3 times.

Statement of Kishi (2 June 1947) The evening of the day that Kishi saw the human liver in the surgery room with Komori, Kishi believes, Komori told him that some experiments were being conducted by Ishiyama and himself on PWs taken from B-29 planes.

Statement of Kishi (10 July 1947). About 6 June 1945 Komori and Kishi were taking a bath together in the evening. Kishi stated that Miyagi had died of cancer of the lung, thought that if he had been operated on earlier he might have lived a little longer, asked Komori if it were possible to remove one complete side of the lung, Komori answered, "Yes it can be done. Dr. Ishi­yama removed one complete side of a lung of a PW and the PW did not die." Kishi then asked if the operation were performed under ether or with the injection of a local anaesthetic. Komori replied that the operation was performed without anaesthetic, local or ether.

Statement of Jinnaka (11 June 1947 - certified translation) Jinnaka repeats his story of the purge of militaristic and ultra-nationalistic professors, in which the reform committee did not ask Ishiyama to resign because he received a 70% of confidence vote, had only to obtain 60%.

Toward the end of the war Ishiyama became interested in the surgical applica­tion of sea water, epileptic brain operations, and gall stone operations. Jinnaka did ask for his resignation.

Rumors heard by Jinnaka:

1. Ishiyama was blackmailed at his home by someone because of this affair.