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KAMBAYASHI, Hiroshi [Marginal Note: (KIU) ] Statement OF Kambavashi (16-19 August 1947) 45, has been ill since 1945, home Nagano-ken, graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in 1916, entered army, was chief of the ID Medical Bureau in 1945, his duties being to function under the orders of the War Minister in a medical advisory capacity over the Medical Bureau, handled all administrative matters except personnel, could make recommendations to the heads of the Medical Sections, but who in turn must get approval from the local CG, could supervise and order Medical Bureau. The Hygiene Section of the Medical Bureau passed on reports of research conducted by army medical units to the Army College Hospital, but Kambayashi doesn’t believe that there was any research of any importance carried on during the war years. Col. Saburo Idezuki was chief of the Hygiene Section. The Medical Section under Col. Bunro Otsuba was responsible for the medical treatment of PWs through reports and inspections. The Hygiene Section was responsible for the supervision of the work of WD Temporary Civilians. In about April or Kay 1945, by order of the Minister of War, all WD Temporary Civilian Officials were ordered to Tokyo for conference of 1 day, in which Kambayashi talked to them on the matter of their assisting in treatment of war wounded in hospitals, told them that the army would be interested in any research which in their opinion would be beneficial to the army, asked them for recommendations on the army medical manual. Kambayashi is chary as to admitting that research was done under the Medical Bureau, and when confronted with Jinnaka's, situation in which the Medical Bureau asked him' to do research on artifical limbs etc., he states that probably the instructors at the Army Medical College thought he was best suited, apprised Lt. Col. Sakuro Koide, 2nd in command of the Hygiene Section of the Medical Bureau and the authority on research and who kept contact with Army Medical College research. Koide would ordinarily bring this to the attention of his chief Idezuki. Kambayashi received no reports concerning the WD Temporary Civilian Officials; the Medical Bureau had little to do with them after the meeting in 1944. Any order for work by a WDTCO would have to come from the Minister of War. A communication sent to the WD asking permission to do experimentation on PWs would be received by the Adjutant Section of the WD, would be sent to the Military Affairs Bureau (which handles PWs), might then be brought to the Medical Bureau for its opinion, which would have little influence, and if approved it would be brought to the attention of the Minister of War through the Vice Minister of War, but Kambayashi never saw such a matter. If the CG of the WA decided to accept the entire responsibility, experimental operations on PWs could have been conducted by a WDTCO without the permission of the WD, but the CG could not have done it legally, since such WDTCO would come under the command of the WD. No report on the KIU incident was announced to Kambayashi; if a report had been made, it would be received by Kambayashi or Koide. In the 1944 meeting of the WDTCO's, Kambayashi informed them that the patients were not to be used for medical experiments. |