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NOMIYAMA, MITSUMARO [Marginal Note: (KIU) ] Statement of Nomiyama (16 July 1947) Around 60, doesn't know how long he's worked there, is interested in natural science. Nomiyama worked in the Anatomy Section of the Medical College, brought out specimens for the students to use, taught the students to perform autopsies, he kept a record of bodies to be cremated, in a book; When Nomiyama was absent someone else kept them. When bodies are burned, Igarashi brings the ashes to Nomiyama, who puts them in the book— the name of the person, the date of cremation, the date the bones are sent to Uriyu. Nomiyama puts his seal in one column after he has received the ashes and then sends the ashes and book to the Administration Office. Igarashi usually does this; she then, turns the ashes over to Uriyu and Uriyu’s seal is put in the other column; thus Nomiyama has a receipt to show that the ashes have been delivered. In the 1st column, Nomiyama puts in whether a special or common body. A numbered body is one used for dissection by the students. There are separate records for bodies that are brought in for dissection; information is put on the wooden tags and the tags come back from the crematory with the ashes, can tell if it is a numbered body if there is a tag on it. The tag states the age, the number of the body, the name, and type of sickness. It usually has "Fukuoka Prison” on it because the prison accounts for most of the bodies. Nomiyama thinks a "special body" is one of a person who died from a special kind of sickness. Nomiyama receives a book from Uriyu's office and it says that it is a special body, not used for autopsy purposes, is usually the body of a person who died at the hospital and probably the pathology section did something with it. Igarashi takes the ashes to Uriyu. (very poor, incoherent witness) |