Statement of Tsurumaru July 1 & s, 1947 - 1-5 May 1945, 1250, went to Officers Club Hospital dining room to visit after finishing lunch at Headquarters dining room, where there mere seated Komori. Kishi, Kanehisa and Ito, perhaps also Matake. [Marginal Note: human liver was served ]
Statement of Sada. 7 June 1947 - 6 May 1945 Soda went to Hakata Station to see Matake, Komori also there to send off Matake who was being sent to O̶f̶f̶i̶c̶e̶r̶s̶ ̶C̶l̶u̶b̶ ̶H̶o̶s̶p̶i̶t̶a̶l̶ Oita
Statement of Yoshimura. 16-28 June 1947 - Matake, army civilian, also held this position for a time, (director of Officers Club Hospital). Matake became a capt. while there, was head for a short time. During latter part of Matake's stay, he was a civilian, but army personnel were assigned to Kokura Army Hospital.
Yoshimura first heard of PW operations 24-27 April one PH while going to headquarters via road passing Officers Club where he met Matake, head of Officers Club Hospital, who said that he had heard from someone on administration staff that enemy air craft flyers were forced down, that they were going after them in a truck and wanted a doctor to accompany them since one wounded, and so Matake was sending Komori, who told Matake that he wanted to treat the wounded Prisoners.
If Komori had permission, as he stated, it would have had to have come from:
Matake, head of Komori9s Hospital
Inada, chief of staff
Jin, senior adjutant
Sato, air defense staff officer and staff officer in charge of PWs.
Col. Akita
Maj. Gen. Fukushima
Lt. Gen. Yoshinaka
Lt. Gen. Yokoyama
Statement of Kanehisa (28 May 1947) Komori1 s best friend was probably Shiehiro Matake, who was not at the hospital at the times of the operations. While Matake was at the hospital, he was an army civilian, then called into army sometime before operations, (and presumably left.)