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KANEHISA, TAKUYAStatement of Kanehisa (21-22 July 1947) Previously made statement 28 May 1947. Recalls Matake, who worked at Officers Club Hospital from about March until the first port of May 1945, believes he then went to Oita-ken, but came back once before the end of the war before 19 June, sometime before Komori's liver appeared, which was about 10 June. Matake first appeared at the hospital in the AM; arrangements were made by Sgt. Asamizu for him to havelunch there. He left and returned at noon, at which time the people were sitting in the small staff dining room of the OCH in this manner: [Diagram displaying seating arrangement of perpetrators Matake, Komori, Momose, Ito, Shinno, Kanehisa, Sasaki, Miyamoto at dinner where they supposedly ate human liver] [Typed Marginal Note: Raised Straw Mat Portion of Room] Kanehisa is not certain of the seating arrangement except of himself and Matake. The nurses and perhaps Oda, Asamizu, Shinno, Ito, and Nakamura, the woman dentist, all sat at the table nearer to the entrance. Miyamoto made a short speech greeting Matake, then a toast of sake, then a general discussion in which Matake described his new location. Kanehisa believes Tsurumaru may have come in later. Kanehisa believes that Kamada was there (he treated EM at OCH, was attached to Adjutants Section. Kanehisa knows nothing of liver being served at OCH. Kanehisa states that the dishes were simple, that there was no fish at this Matake lunch. |