Col. Takada, CO of the KT Units in the Fukuoka area, told Sato in about April or May 1945, that the Prisoners could be killed, that this was told to him by the CO of the KT when he was in Fukuoka.
Col. Takada was the CO of the Western KT. The KT's duties were enforcing military criminal law and sabotage regulations.
About middle May, Ito told Enatsu that Sato had recommended to him that Prisoners be executed without trial, that such was impossible, that they should be tried by a military committee, that he was going to order the KT to conduct an investigation (which he could do only thru Yokoyama). Enatsu conveyed this order to Takada, who ordered Major Seijuro Ono to conduct it, who reported to Ito, conducted it with a W/O Kotegawa and an unknown Sgt. Maj.