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[Marginal Note: In U.S.: Chief operation nurse in U.S. usually supervises open room, doesn't usually...., ..... sponges, gets surgeon what he needs, "............" ] MORI, Yoshio [Marginal Note: (KIU) ] Incarcerated in Sugamo 20 July. Interrogation by Dory (399). Two days before the first operation, Mori talked to Ishyama and a second party. Further, he heard that Komori talked to Ishlyama,and Dr. Torlsu Informed Mori that the POWs were supposed to be sentenced to death and because of this were to be brought to the University and that the Staff MDs were to do the operation. As it was a secret; Ishlyama asked Mori to assist. On 21 - 22 May Ishlyama told Mori that the POWs were to be operated on 4 that day. Accordingly, Mori made preparation In the afternoon. Present in the operating room were Japanese Doctors Ishlyana, Hirao, Torlsu, Mogawa, Tashiro, Kuba, Senba and Formosan doctors Sha, Lin and Iwasaki. [Marginal Note: usual approach to lung: not under breast but .... - back - patient lies on side ] Two blindfolded POWs were brought in. Mori believes that they were drugged, in answer to inquiry. Ishlyama directed Mori to inject 0.3 ccs naracopon scopolamln Into the POWs, this being done In the dressing room. Drs. Torlsu, Ishlyama and Hirao, and Nurse Takayama, Chief of the Surgical Nurses, prepared for the operation and then began the operation. Sato was present. The POW operated on in the lung experiment died. Statement of Mori (399). Mori is 36. professor of surgery at Kagoshima Medical College and at the time of the experiments was assistant surgeon under Ishiyama at Kyushu University. In a statement Mori states that he heard that "Komori performed operations on American POWs - that there was a bullet wound operation, and a stomach resection operation In which Komori was assisted by other medical corps officers." Mori himself perforned two experimental operations, the first being a gastric resection and the second a lung operation. Mori states that the second operation was unnecessary and further states that both patients died. Accused attended three operations on two POWs. The first operation was on 21 or 22 May 1945. Ishiyama told him that there was to be an operation about 1600. a lobectomy; that the operation had to be kept secret sold that, therefore, It was held In the dissection room. Accused from heard from Torisu or Ishiyama that the POWs Would not be handled or treated by civilian doctors and this Is the reason suggested for secrecy. The accused gave the anaesthetic. He heard that Komori had previously given them a drug. The accused Injected Harcopan Scopolamin Into both POWs as an anaesthetic. One POW spoke to the accused, but the accused did not know what he said. Ishiyama made an incision under the right breast Into the pleura and the accused believes the middle lobe was taken out. (The lung was removed.) Mori does not know whether anything was wrong with the lung; he does starts it was an unnecessary operation. Ishiyama was the Chief Surgeon. Torlsu stopped the bleeding. Komori retracted the ribs, as well as Mori. He does not recall whether Hires was there. During the operation the accused examined the lung and saw no pathological signs. In the second operation, which followed immediately, Ishiyama. Torisu. Komori, and Tsutsui operated, going to a second operating table and operating on a second POW. This was a partial liver operation with the patient bleeding profusely - it was an experimental operation - "the liver showed no pathological signs". "We"then performed an operation on the first POW who was still alive, the purpose was to discover the quickest way to get to his heart and determine if the patient would live until the heart was reached. Hirao was shown the incision technique - the incision was Into the heart sack which was then sutured ~ the object being to determine how wide a stitch was necessary. Senba noted the blood pressure and pulse - the patient was still alive,then they all watched the other operation, the patient died some ten minutes later. Mori took the clothes of the deceased POW to Kagoshima where he claims they were burned in an air raid. Statement of Tsutsui (399). Accused present at all operations. Suicide statement of Ishiyama (399). Accused ordered by Ishiyama to perform operations. Statement of Hirao (604) (not in file). Mori, a participant in experimental lung operation in the Biddle of May. In the second or brain experimental operation, Mori advised what to do. Manuscript of Hirako (604). Mori an assistant in heart operation. |