Statements Concerning Kanehisa

Case
USA v. Kajuro Aihara et al.
Statement Title Petition of Kanehisa
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Takuya Kanehisa
Statement Provided By Takuya Kanehisa

KANEHISA       [Marginal Note: (KIU) ]

Petition of Kanehisa (27 Oct 47).

Those who testified falsely as to liver eating in confused and "special mental conditions" are "here retrieving self possession and unanimously apologizing to me for their fault”. Legal Section, SCAP, frightened and confused them with various kinds of threats and compelled and. skill­ fully induced then to so state.
Statement Title Note of Bergen
Record Type
Subject of Statement Takuya Kanehisa
Statement Provided By

Note of Bergen (Dec 47).

Kaneshisha's brother came in office, stated that he met his brother at the Station on coming to Tokyo. Kanehisa told him that he couldn't tell him about the case because of the policeman.
Statement Title Petition of Kanehisa
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Takuya Kanehisa
Statement Provided By Takuya Kanehisa

Petition of Kanehisa (8 Sept 47).

Confined in Sugamo without formal arrest, thru Japanese; police, on a lie. States further that he was in confinement 40 odd days before Sugamo, then speaks of spending 40-60 days in confinement.
Statement Title Petition of Kanehisa
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Takuya Kanehisa
Statement Provided By Takuya Kanehisa

Petition of Kanehisa (5 Dec 47).

Wife has 2 yeard old child, wants reinvestigation. Suggests that invest­igators forced timid, feebleminded men, easily confused, to state a lie, that intimidation used, that "a leading question as substitutes for torture to obtain a confession"used,
Statement Title MacKnight's notes on reinterrogation of Kanehisa
Record Type
Subject of Statement Takuya Kanehisa
Statement Provided By

MacKnight's notes on reinterrogation of Kanehisa (Dec 47).

Kanehisa suggests investigation dogmatic, caused physchological confusion, not thorough, Kanehisa wasn't allowed to confront accusers.

Kanehisa states that Oda who is very excitable thought he was going to be operated on when taken to the hospital to be given a check-up"(Note: confirmed previously).

Kanehisa further states that the hose incident was an atrocity "unbecoming" that the interrogation in general was forceful.

MacKnight further states that Kanehisa is nervous, appears neurotic.

Kanehisa states that Kishi had great respect for Legal Section, believed everything told him and thus got confused and confessed.

Kanehisa wants to correct his statement to say that what he saw during in the lab was dried blood(?), not liver, that he didn't see liver, but that since everyone claims liver was brought to the Hospital, it must have been brought.