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The day after the second operation, Takahaski and Yata went to the Autopsy Room of the Anatomy Dept and saw 3 bodies of the American Prisoners of War; they were nude, each in different coffins; each body had a vertical incision approximately 6" on the stomach ending below the naval all let open. When Yata, Takahashi and Takata were in the janitors' quarters, Takata said that the bodies were still in the Autopsy Room, so they went to see, entering the Sutopsy Room from the east entrance adjoining the Autopsy Training Room. As Yata entered, he saw a coffin on his right parallel with the length of the room and a little to the east but near the center. |
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Takahashi states that Yata told him in the summer of 1945, that operations had been held on Prisoners of War, that Yata had taken Takahashi back to examine the Autopsy Room of the Anatomy Dept at that time, had seen 3 bodies without heads there, that it was a day or so after the operations, that he heard the bodies were kept there a few days. |
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Takahashi recounts that in May or June 1945 he went to the servants room, someone said there were bodies of American Prisoners of War in the Autopsy Room, Takahashi said he didn't believe it, someone said he would show him, so Takata, Yata, and possibly Takagi went over there, where Takahashi saw 2 coffins close together, with bodies face down, the heads cuts off. Yata recounts that in May 1945, he went to the Anatomy Section, servants room, and then he, Takahashi, Takata and possibly Takagi went to the dissection room where there was an operation the day before and he had seen a Japanese soldier leading a person who looked as though he was a Prisoner of War, heard later that an operation had been performed. |
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Wamitsu (Wako) had the personnel of the army stockade bring the flight personnel to a corner of the Hq area, and they were executed on the 20th. When Oki was about tot write the report, Inada and Col. Takahashi of the Prisoner of War Investigation Section, 1st Demobilization, came to see Oki. Inada stated that Takahashi told him to submit the WA report to Tokyo at once, wanted to know how it was proceeding. Oki read him the draft whereupon he said that it was not true that Sato got approval from Yokoyama thru Akita, that Akita was on detached service at that time and not present. |
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Tomomori left the Army 26 Jan 1946, at which time Col, Takahashi showed Tomomori a false report of the Atrocities and Tomomori made a written statement at the War Dept Legal Investigation Section, but did not submit it. |