Statements Concerning Komori

Case
USA v. Kajuro Aihara et al.
Statement Title Statement Concerning Komori
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Taku Komori
Statement Provided By

KOMORI, Taku   [Marginal Note: (KIU) ]

(604) Death certificate as of 9 September 1945. At Fukuoka City. According to the Certificate and information from Investigation, Komori sustained a broken right leg and bomb wounds in the Fukuoka a̶r̶e̶a̶ air raid. Tetanus developed - the injury having been sustained 19 July, 1945. This death is too convenient. Suggest careful eheck be mKffeu
Statement Title Statement of Tsutsui
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Taku Komori
Statement Provided By Tsutsui

Statement of Tsutsui (399). Komori present at all operations.
Statement Title Statement of Hirako
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Taku Komori
Statement Provided By Hirako

Statement of Hirako (399). At all three operations that Hirako saw, Komori was a participant.
Statement Title Manuscript of Hirako
Record Type
Subject of Statement Taku Komori
Statement Provided By Hirako

Manuscript of Hirako (604). With Ishiyama, Komori was the main participant in a lung, heart and brain operation. Komori was a military surgeon and the bridge between military and Kyushu University Medical College.
Statement Title Statement of Morimoto
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Taku Komori
Statement Provided By Kenji Morimoto

Statement of Morimoto (399). Komori told Morimoto of operations on POWs, including one involving a bullet wound in the shoulder. Also Morimoto assisted in an operation upon a POW by Ishiyama and Komori in the anatomy room.

Morimoto speaks of two or three POWs and two operations at the same time in the autopsy room. Komori assisted Ishiyama on the chest operation in May or June of 1945. Komori told Morimoto that the purpose was to remove a bullet and the operation was evidently an experiment.
Statement Title Statement of Senba
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Taku Komori
Statement Provided By Yoshitaka Senba

Statement of Senba (399). Mori watched the first operation which was on the lung. Mori and Ishiyama performed, the liver operation and the gall bladder operation. [Marginal Note: Liver operation a serious one - few operations on liver - might be for ab.... metastasis (co...) ]
Statement Title Statement of Torisu
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Taku Komori
Statement Provided By Torisu

Statement of Torisu (399). Before the second operation,Komori told Torisu that they were to remove a lung again. Torisu head Ishiyama tell Komori how difficult such an operation was. He also heard Sato thanking the group, including Komori, for the operation. According to Ishiyama either Ishiyama or Komori did the second series. Hirao told Torisu that Komori had brought more POWs, and that they had been operated upon.
Statement Title Statement of Mori
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Taku Komori
Statement Provided By Yoshio Mori

Statement of Mori (399). Mori had heard that Komori gave two POWs a drug previous to the first operation. In the first lung operation Mori retracted the rib, then went to the second table to work on a partial liver rejection. [Marginal Note: ? Schwartz doesn't know what Vips could be doing. ]
Statement Title Statement of Ishiyama
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Taku Komori
Statement Provided By Fukujiro Ishiyama

Statement of Ishiyama- (604 - not In file). Komori an assistant in the experiments to Ishiyama.
Statement Title Statement of Yakumaru
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Taku Komori
Statement Provided By Katsuya Yakumaru

Statement of Yakamaru (604 - not in file). Witnessed the removal of the liver by Ishiyama and Komori and others, such operation being experimental.
Statement Title Statement of Hirao
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Taku Komori
Statement Provided By Hirao

Statement of Hirao (604 - not in file). Komori a participant in an experimental operation in the middle of May, said operation being to remove a lung.
Statement Title Statement of Sato
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Taku Komori
Statement Provided By Kesao Sato

Statement of Sato. (604 - 2 July). Komori was a medical probationary officer. Previous to the experimental operation he had given medical care to Sato. Komori commented on the weak condition of the POWs and suggested that they be medically treated. On 27 May Komori told Sato that he was taking one POW to Kyushu University Hospital! actually he took two. The only permission that Komori professed to have was that of Sato. Sato went into Kyushu University Hospital with Komori and at this time Komori told Sato that the POWs were to be operated upon. Only at this time, according to Sato, did he become suspicious. Komori was an assistant to Ishiyama in the operations* Komori described to Sato that the first operation was to determine the effectiveness of the salt water drug. He also said that the patient would recover (but was killed). According to Komori, the surgeons would remove one and one-half lungs [illegible marginal note] in the second operation. Upon the death of Komori, Tarisu, Ishiyama and Hirako decided to blame Komori for all the operations.
Statement Title Statement of Aihara
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Taku Komori
Statement Provided By Kajuro Aihara

Statement of Aihara (604 - 2 July). Komori was in the operating room when the experiment took place on the back of the head of a POW this being in early June or late May.
Statement Title Statement of Ishiyama
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Taku Komori
Statement Provided By Fukujiro Ishiyama

Statement of Ishiyama (604 - 16 July). On the 16th or 17th June 1945, Komori called Ishiyama for a consultation of a sea water injection of "wounded foreign soldier" - however, the patient died three hours later; surgery not being advisable. The dead POW was given another injection.