Statement Concerning Akita

AKITA. Hiroshi. Col.

Statement of ITO 6 Jan 1947 (420) Staff

AKITA was Senior/Officer from March 1945 to 30 November 1945. He would have seen the false Tokyo report concerning the 20 June execution, with its Fukuoka air raid alibi. Sato, Fukushima, Inada and possibly Akita agreed on the atom bomb alibi and then disagreed as to the other alibi phase, possibly included Akita.

In April 1946 Akita told Ito not to implicate any other than Sato if questioned about the execution.