Statement of Tokuji ENATSU (23 Sep - 31 Oct 47):
1st Lt. Michio IKEDA of the Med Section was responsible for giving medical treatment to PCS’. He was the only doctor in the medical section that gave medital treat ment to EM with WAH.
Statements re: execution by IKEDA on SO June:
Hozak: Ikeda told him he executed a prisoner.
Hakamura: Saw Ikeda cleaning sword after a prisoner was executed.
Ikeda: Confesses to execution of 4th and 5th prisoners on 20 June.
Statement of Tamotsu ONISHI (24 Nov 47):
Onishi thinks Sgt. IKEDA of the Staff Sec. beheaded the 3rd flyer.
Statement of Kaneyoshi IKEDA (19 Jan 48):
When WAKO came to the Mobilization Office 20 June, he first went to see Major Sunao TSURU the Sr. Officer there, and about five minutes later came to IKEDA (Kaneyoshi) and said, “There will be an execution of PWs - so, M/Sgt Ikeda, you will come, too.”
Report (Japanese) to Transfer ofB-29 Pilots to Army (possibly written by YANASE):
Hearsay re Murder of Pilots
20 Jun in rear of Army Hq. 8 killed
Executioners: IKEDA and others.
Statement of MAEKAWA (Jan 48):
About October 1945 Maekawa heard that 1st Lt. IKEDA was persistently asked by SATO to write a false death certificate for a B29 airman for whom he was not responsible and. which he refused. TSURUMARU said, he advised Ikeda to refuse, which Maekawa told IKEDA the next day also. IKEDA told Maekawa that the airman was to be reported as dying outside WA jurisdiction.
Statement of Shigeru HOZAKI (1 Oct 48) :
IKEDA told HOZAKI he executed a flyer. HOZAKI heard that air defense personnel performed an execution; about 22-23 June IKEDA told HOZAKI of the 20 June execution.
Statement of Matsuzo SHIMASAKI (26 Sept 48):
IKEDA decapitated the third flyer.