Statements Concerning Murata

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Statement Title Interview with Nakamura
Record Type
Subject of Statement Sadayoshi Murata
Statement Provided By

MURATA, Sadayoshi (Lt.)  [Marginal NOte: Sugamo) ]  [Marginal Note: 6 Feb 47]

420 (no date) Yukino. et al

Interview with Nakamura

On 16 August 1946, 0500, Murata took the ashes from each of the fliers executed on the 15th and placed them in separate envelopes then put the envelopes in a square box of about eight inches and took the remaining ashes and put them in a box of about eighty inches square. At Murata's request, Nakamura accompanied him to the beach where the ashes were dumped ,into the sea. (This was ordered by Sato, according to Murata.
Statement Title Statement of Yukino
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Sadayoshi Murata
Statement Provided By Koshi Yukino

Statement of Yukino (not in file).

Yukino heard that Murata was in charge of cremating PCWs.
Statement Title Statement of Murata
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Sadayoshi Murata
Statement Provided By Sadayoshi Murata

Statement of Murata (420 - 6 Jan 1947).

About 22 or 23 June, after lunch at the officers' mess, in which three or four were present, including 1st Lt. Maegawa (WA Medical Corps) Maegawa stated that he had witnessed several days before a most terrible thing; an autopsy on a living human. Maegawa stated that injured prisoners were taken to KIU for treatment, but instead were put under ether and killed before regaining consciousness.

Murata went back to the office and told Wako about it and Wako told him it was a terrible thing that had happened and he had heard a rumor such a thing had happened under the Staff Section, (Not of 4 prisoners scheduled to be tried by the Military Commission since that 4 had been beheaded 20 June.) Later Murata stated that he was wrong about this happening at officers' mess. Instead he stated he heard the rumor from Maegawa at Legal Section Staff Office in a personal conversation just after lunch and at this conversation Maegawa lowered his voice.
Statement Title Statement of Maekawa
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Sadayoshi Murata
Statement Provided By Tozo Maekawa

MAEGAWA (420 - 6 Jan.)

About 22 or 23 June at the Legal Section Staff Office, after lunch Maegawa, a 1st Lt., in Western Army Medical Corps, in a lowered voice told Murata that he had witnessed several days before a most terrible thing, an autopsy on a living human. He further related that injured prisoners were taken to KIU for treatment, put under ether, and operated upon and killed before regaining consciousness.