Statement Concerning Oda

ODA, TAYURU  [Marginal Note: (KIU) ]

Statement of Oda (16 July 1947)

38, civilian dental lab technician at Kaikosha Army Officers and Dependent Hospital in Fukuoka City from March to October 1945, recalls a dinner there in which he ate human liver at the Hospital dining room. Komori said it was human before everyone started to eat, that it was of a PW. Komori, Kanekisa, Skinno, Shiokawa, Miyamoto, Sasaki, Momota, Matake, Ito and an unknown sgt. maj. were present, all ate the human liver.

(Vitold Jankowski, Capt. M.C., on 17 July 1947, states that he examined Oda at 118th Station Hospital, found no evidence of bruises, etc.)