Statements Concerning Ishiyama

Statement of Miki (15 July 1947) Yayama was a nurse in Ishiyama surgery who worked under Miki. When Ishiyama made his rounds, she went along, passed instruments sometimes during operations in Ishiyama Surgery.

Statement of Ryu                Ryu usually had lunch with Hirako, and sometime about mid May and 2-3 days before the first operation, Hirako told Ryu that American PWs were to be operated on, That they will be operated on by Ishi­yama, that Ishiyama had asked him to use the autopsy!training room in which to perform the operations and that he had consented.

2-3 days later, about 1400, Ryu heard footsteps in the hall and went to in­vestigate. There was a Jap soldier standing guard at a door leading to a cloak room.

Some time later, Ryu went to the autopsy room. Ishiyama was standing at the Prisoner's right side in the angle formed by the dissecting table and the instrument table. The patient was lying on his back;on the dissecting table with his feet toward the door. A nurse was standing behind Ishiyama at the instrument table, which was at the head and to the left of the dissecting table. The nurse was handing him the instruments. There was a doctor at Ishiyama's right, assisting him, and 2 doctors across the table from him also seeming to assist him.

There was an incision in the patient's chest, and Ishiyama was working within the incision with both hands. He seemed to be tying;the blood vessels to stop the bleeding. Ryu walked around the table and stood'behind the doctor taking the patient's pulse, watched until the right lung had been removed and taken from the incision by Ishiyama.

Ishiyama looked over the lung for a while, then put it in a metal container on the instrument table, said, "It is easy to remove a human lung. However, it is very difficult to prevent infection at the point of separation."

Ryu only recognized Ishiyama, doesn't know whether anything was wrong with the lung.

About 3-4 days after the first operation, at about 1500 or 1600, Ryu heard a group of persons walking down the hall, looked out and saw that several persons carrying instruments and several others whom he believed were from the Ishiyama Clinic dressed in white. Later as Ryu came back from the benjo, he walked into the autopsy room, saw that 2 operations were going on, with a group around each table. Ryu recognized only Ishiyama, who was wearing a mask. There were 2-3 nurses and others dressed in white.

Statement of Nakamura (25 July 1947) When Nakamura peeked through the key hole of the door to dissection room at the time of the 2nd series of operations (2 PWs operated on) he saw Ishiyama in the dissection room, walking from place to place.