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KISHI, Tatsuro [Marginal Note: (KIU) ] Statement of Kishi (2 June 1947) [Marginal Note: (Confined Sugamo) 2 Sep 47 ] 32, a surgical doctor, served at Miyagi Hospital until he entered the army May 1944, served at Kokura Army Hospital, then Beppu Branch Hospital, made 2nd It., and on 25 May 1945 transferred and assigned to Officers Club Hospital, demobilized 2 November 1945. Was a surgical doctor at Officers Club Hospital along with Komori, Komori being Kishi's superior. Konehisa and Kamada were the doctors of internal medicine at the hospital. Kishi heard from Komori that PWs were operated on for experimental purposes. One day in early June Kishi was in the surgery room, when Komori walked in with a covered pan in his hands. When he removed the lid Kishi saw that it was a human liver in the pan with also a great deal of blood. Kishi said "What is that?" Komori answered "This is a pig's liver." Kishi replied, "That,s no pig's liver; that is human liver." Komori simply said, "Hmmm," meaning "that is so." There were 2-3 surgical nurses present at the time and Komori asked one of them to take this pan away, and she took the liver to the Medical Exhibit Room. At that time Komori said "I will use this to make a toxin for bed bugs." He was referring to the excess blood. That evening, Kishi believes, Komori told him that some experiments were being conducted by Ishiyama and himself on the PWs taken from B-29 planes. Kishi asked him what sort of experiments; he replied that he wasn*t ready to announce that yet. Kishi stated that that sort of experiment is no good and it would be best for Komori to discontinue that sort of thing. Komori merely laughed. While Kishi was superior in rank to Komori, he made no attempt to inform "responsible authority" of these facts, since, he states, Komori could not have performed such experiments on PWs without permission of the proper authority. It would have been necessary for him to have had the permission of Horiuchi and Sato, who was the head interrogator of PWs. Personnel of Kaikosha Hospitals Kame Ikeda - surgical Reiko Takechi - surgical Chizuko Nakae - surgical FNU Tanaka - internal medicine FNU Takahashi - deceased, Fukuoka air raid Kyoko Oba - internal medicine Fujiko Shiyokawa - head nurse FNU Tone - internal medicine 2-3 others, unknown The operation performed by Komori appears to have been the removal of a complete liver. Inasmuch as it is never necessary to remove a complete liver, this was an unnecessary and an illegal operation, and for this reason Kishi does not respect Komori as a physician. Komori and Kishi were "business acquaintances only, had worked together as assistants to Professor Miyagi at Miyagi Hospital, and Komori requested that Kishi -2 Kishi be transferred to the Officers Club Hospital. Two or three days after having been transferred to the Officers Club Hospital (27-28 May) Kishi noticed in the lavatory a pan with some hardened blood. When Komori brought back the liver from the University, he also had in his hand a jar filled with blood. This is the blood that he was talking about when he said he was going to make toxin for bed bugs.
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