Statement of Hirako (26 Aug-4 Sept 47). Hirako told Tanaka, Makino, Goshina and Ryu, they could get specimens because Hirako knew they were working for degrees and coud use them. However, he told them to get the specimens from the operation, not to take them from the bodies, Japanese custom is that if a superior gives an order, or permission, the inferior will report when he has done as ordered or suggested. Those men did not report to Hirako that they had gotten specimens. |
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Statement of Tanaka (3-15 July 47). Hirako told Tanaka that the Prisoners Tanaka saw at KIU, from a B29 that was shot down. Tanaka recognized the Prisoners as of Caucasian ancestry. The first time was in late April 1945, when he saw one Prisoner in the Autopsy loom, then went to his office for about 40 minutes, then returned to see a lung operation performed, then left after 20 minutes to see his wife in hospital, returned about 1730 with Makino. Goshima, and Ryu were there. Goshima took specimens from the wrist of the Prisoner, and he and Ryu were going to remove the brain, Ryu injected Mueller Solution into a large blood vessel in the Prisoner's neck, which ruined the rest of the body for specimens, and Makino and Tanaka left. Goshima and Ryu were the only 2 left in the operating room when Tanaka left. |