RYU, MIKI [Marginal NOte: (KIU) ] [Marginal Note: Sugamo 2 Sep 47 ] Statement of Ryu [Marginal Note: 17 July - 21 July 1947 ] 37, a Christian, now a doctor at Kenmin Kachi Hospital, graduate of KIU Medical College in 1939, a special student in ear, nose and throat disease until 1942. Came back to the University in November 1944 as a graduate student in the exolympha of the labyrinth of the inner ear, left University July 1945. Worked in Anatomy Section. Senior professor in Anatomy Section was Goichi Hirako. Ryu worked in lab in 1945 with Shiro Goshima. Ryu usually had lunch with Hirako, and sometime about mid May and 2-3 days before the first operation, Hirako told Ryu that American PWs were to be operated on. He states that B-29 fliers who had bombarded the cities and who had been taken Prisoner have been sent to courts martial and sentenced to death, that they will be operated on by Ishiyama, that Ishiyama had asked him to use the autopsy training room in which to perform the operations and that he had consented. 2-3 days later, about 1400, Ryu heard footsteps in the hall and went to investigate. There was a Japanese soldier standing guard at a door leading to a cloak roan. About 30 minutes before this, Ryu had seen a group of doctors and 2-3 nurses walking down the hall in the direction of the autopsy training room. Ryu believes that Goshima was with him when he saw this. Some time later, Ryu went to autopsy room, entered from hall entrance,saw a group of doctors standing around a dissecting table performing an operation. The patient was lying on his back with his feet toward the door. There was an instrument table at the head and to the left of the dissecting table. Ishiyama was standing at the Prisoner's right side in the angle formed by the dissecting table and the instrument table. A nurse was standing behind Ishiyama at the instrument table, handing him the instruments. There was a doctor at Ishiyama's right assisting him, and 2 doctors across the table from him also seeming to assist him. One doctor was standing at the Prisoner*s head, giving anaesthesia. There was an army staff officer (Sato?) standing about 5 feet behind the doctor at the Prisoner's head. A P.O. (Komori?) was standing at the table near Ishiyama. There was another doctor seated at the Prisoner's left, who had the patient's left arm outstretched and was taking his pulse. Ryu walked to the foot of the dissecting table to observe what was going on. There was an incision in the patient*s chest, and Ishiyama was working within the incision with both hands. He seemed to be tying the blood vessels to stop the bleeding. Ryu walked around the table and stood behind the doctor taking the patient's pulse, watched until the right lung had been removed and taken from the incision by Ishiyama. The patient was a white man, and, as Ryu knew American Prisoners were to be operated on, Ryu believes he was an American. Ishiyama looked over the lung for a while, then put it in a metal container on the instrument table, said, "It is easy to remove a human lung. However, it is very difficult to prevent infection at the point of separation." Ryu - 2 - Ryu only recognized Ishiyama, doesn't know whether anything was wrong with the lung. Ryu then returned to his lab; believes Goshima was still there. Ryu only said to Goshima. "There is an operation going on." Ryu noticed a large bottle of Meullers solution on the table which Goshima had made up from materials which Sakai, Hirako's assistant, had brought in at noon. Shortly after Ryu got back to the lab, Goshima told Ryu that Hirako had said that Ryu should help him inject the Meullers solution. Neither Ryu or Goshima had ever used it before. Goshima told Ryu that Hirako had told him to take out the Prisoner's brain if he died from the operation. The Meullers Solution was to be injected into the brain to make it more firm before it was removed. At about 1700, Ryu heard the doctors leaving, and a few minutes later Goshima left the lab taking surgery knives, scissors, a saw, and injection equipment with him. Ryu followed a few seconds later and went to the autopsy room, saw the body of the Prisoner from whom Ishiyama had removed the lung still on the dissecting table, with no clothes. Tanaka, Makino, and Goshima were at the table. Ryu saw that the Prisoner was dead. There was an open incision on the chest and one in the abdomen. Tanaka was working in the stomach cavity, and he cut small specimens from the organs. He tagged each specimen and placed it in a bottle. Makino was putting tags on specimens and helping Tanaka. He was holding the incision open and holding the intestines and other organs aside so Tanaka could cut out the specimens. Goshima and Ryu were getting the equipment ready for the injection of Meullers Solution. Goshima took no specimens from the chest or abdominal walls. Goshima made an incision on the dead Prisoner's neck, exposing the veins. They could not locate the artery, so they asked Tanaka, and he showed them where it was. Ryu tied the artery below where Goshima was going to inject the solution and, then Ryu cut the artery and inserted the glass tube to the artery. Goshima held the container of Meullers Solution and it was injected into the artery. Goshima then tied the artery and removed the glass tube. Ryu believes Makino and Tanaka had left after Goshima and Ryu started to inject the solution. Ryu left after the injection, at 1800, went home and Goshima had told Ryu that because it takes quite a while for the brain to become firm, he was going to remove the entire head and remove the brain later— hence the surgical knives. About 2 weeks later Ryu saw a brain in Meullers Solution on a table in the lab he shared with Goshima, who then told him that it was the brain from the American Prisoner. When Goshima dnd Ryu injected the Meullers Solution Ryu noticed an empty coffin with the lid off. There was but one dead body, and that was on the dissecting table. About 3-4 days after the first operation, at about 1500 or 1600, Ryu heard a group of persons walking down the hall, looked out and saw that several persons carrying instruments and several others whom he believed were from the Ishiyama Clinic dressed in white. Ryu stayed in his office about an hour, then went to the benjo, and as he entered the hall he noticed a Jap soldier standing guard at a dressing room across the hall. The door was partly open, and Ryu saw an Ryu - 3 - American Prisoner sitting on a mat. As Ryu came back from the benjo, he walked into the autopsy room, saw that 2 operations were going on, with a group around each table. Ryu recognized only Ishiyama, who was wearing a mask. There were 2-3 nurses and others dressed in white. Ryu went past the dissecting tables and out the door leading to the adjoining autopsy training room, and back to his lab. He believes that the same staff Officer (Sato?) was there. At that time the Japanese guard was still standing at the door. Ryu went home about 1700 About a week after the 2nd series, Ryu again heard a group of persons walking down the hall in the afternoon, noticed persons dressed in white walking toward the autopsy room. However Ryu did not go to the autopsy room. Ryu knows of no others. These operations were experimental. They were on Prisoners who had been court martialed and sentenced to death. It is not practical to remove the entire lung even if it were affected with TB. According to Japanese medical practice, there is never a total resection of a lung. Ryu believes that this is the general feeling in medical circles anywhere in the worl. There was nothing visibly wrong with the Prisoner's lung which Ryu saw removed. |
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Statement of Goshima (14-15 July 1947) About 15 May 1945, between 1300-1400, Goshima had to go to the servants' room and saw a Japanese soldier standing guard near the door of a side room off the hall. When Goshima returned to his lab, which he shared with Ryu, either Ryu or Makino was there and told Goshimo. "By permission of the army authorities, the operation on American PWs is going to take place." After taking the equipment from the lab to the autopsy room, where Makino and Tanaka were taking specimens from the PW's body, Goshima went back to his lab to prepare some Meuller's solution, Ryu followed him, and he asked Ryu to help him in the autopsy room because he could not make the injection alone. Goshima asked Ryu to make preparations in injecting the Meuller's solution, so he made an incision in the neck, exposing the artery, then inserted the needle into the artery and injected the solution into the artery. Goshima held the container of solution during the injection. The artery was then tied. Ryu did not help in removing the head; he left after .injecting the Meuller Solution. |