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Statement Concerning Akira Ito

Statement Title Statement of Tsurumaru
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Akira Ito
Statement Provided By Tsurumaru

Statement of Tsurumaru, July 1 & 2, 1947 - 1-5 May 1945, 1250, went to Officers Club Hospital Dining room to visit after finishing lunch at Headquarters dining room, where there were seated Komori, Kishi, Kanehisa and Ito, perhaps also Matake. [Marginal Note: Human liver was served. ]

 

Statement Title Statement of Kishi
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Akira Ito
Statement Provided By Tatsuro Kishi

Statement of Kishi (10 July 1947) Between 1 and 5 June 1945,  at Officers Club Hospital Dining Room, human liver was served at noon. Komori and Kishi were in the dining room by themselves before the others arrived. Shortly after, Kanehisa, Ito, Shinno and Kamada come in.

Kishi did see Komori, Kanehisa, Ito, Kamada, Shinno, Tsurumaru eat the human liver, all knowing that it was human liver, taken from a PW dur­ing an operation at KIU.

Statement Title Statement of Matake
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Akira Ito
Statement Provided By Shichiro Matake

Statement of Matake (17 July 1947) Matake recalls that'there were present Miyamoto, Komori, Shinno, Ito, Shiokawa, Kanehisa, Kishi, and M / Sgt. Asamizu. Tsurumaru may have come in at the end of the meal; Momoda and Sasaki may have been there.

At the hospital, Matake talked with Miyamoto, Ito, Komori, Kanehisa, Shiokawa and "with about everyone.”

Already seated when Matake entered dining room were Ito, Komori, Kanehisa, Shinno, Miyamoto, Oda, M/Sgt. Asamizu.

[Marginal Note: all ate human liver. ]