GENERAL HEADQUARTERS
SUPREME COMMANDER FOR THE ALLIED POWERS
LEGAL SECTION
___PROSECUTION___ (Requesting Agency)
DATE: 7 August 1947
SUBJECT" Apprehension of Suspected War Criminals.
TO: Criminal Registry Division Legal Section.
1. Request that the following named person be apprehended and interned in prison for trial as a Suspected War Criminal:
a. Name: KANEHISA, Takuya
b. Rank or Title: Second Lieutenant (Doctor)
c. Units to which attached: Kaikosha Hospital, Western Army Headquarters, Fukuoka City.
d. Dates and places of service: 1945.
e. Home address (if known): Fukuoka-Shi, Hakosaki-Machi, Tonomoto, Number 2249
f. Synopsis of Charges presently prepared, subject to amendment, against subject Suspected War Criminal: Knowingly ate human liver of American Prisoner of War.
g. Synopsis of Evidence to support charges: Affidavits of Ito, Kishi. Tsurumaru, Matake, Oda.
h. Anticipated place of trial: Yokohama.
i. Other information that might assist in apprehension of desired person: Now being held in protective custody by Fukuoka Branch Office, Investigation Division, Legal Section.
j. This Division presently has charges /being prepared, subject to amendment, and sufficient supporting evidence to constitute a prima facie case against this man.
_________________ Chief of Division.
Paul von Bergen