Statement Concerning Takada

During 1945 Shinzo Takada and Nakamura were janitors.

A Shinzo or Hanuzo Takada and Hisashi Nakamura used to clean up after the students and remove the corpses to the crematorium after dissection.

Before Ishiyama was arrested Ishisawa thought only 4 fliers were operated on since Takada told him in the fall of 1946 that Hirako had told him to bring the ashes back to him and he did bring 4 sets of ashes to him.

In May 1947 Haruzo Takada came to Ishisawa's home to tell him of something stolen from the department, at the time told him that Goshima, Kida, assistants to Hirako and Makino, Ishisawa's assistant should know about the operations because they were around the department at the time.

Takagi, Takada and several other unknown persons were in the room when Makino came in and told them what Ishiyama had said ("Someone tell someone to bring a coffin.") at end of first operation.

Hirako told Makino to tell the servants to have the body cremated, and he then continued to his office and told Takada and Takagi that Hirako had said to cremate the body.

Other two servants of Anatomy Section: Takata and Takagi.

In about May 1945 Nakamura saw PWs in the anatomy section. In early May Nakamura was absent. When he returned, he was told by Takata that there had been some PWs operated on, and shortly after that he saw some himself.

At that time American planes were raiding Japan, and many Allied planes were shot down and captured. Nakamura saw the bodies, and these people looked like the Americans Nakamura had seen before the war. Takata stated that they were American PWs.

On Nakamura's return in early May after the recent deaths of his sons in the war, he was talking to Takata who told him about the operations on American Prisoners.

Takata and/or Takagi had told Nakamura that there were going to be operations (2 PWs) and that everyone should stay away.

Nakamura was gone from the University again for several days and when he came back, Takata told him that some more Prisoners had been brought in and operations performed on them.