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Mikie Igarashi was in charge of the Crematorium. When the student had finished with the bodies, they were taken to the crematory in the coffins, by servants, where Igarashi built fires in the ovens and cremated the bodies, then picked the choice bones, put them in small wooden boxes, which were brought to Nomiyama, who entered the information in his cremation record book. |
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Shortly before the airraid (19 June) in May or June, Takagi bodes of Americans to the crematory, At that time saw several people standing in the Autopsy Room, 2 American Prisoners blindfolded, with them. The next day someone told Takagi to go to the Autopsy Room and take some bodies to the crematory. One of the Pathology Section servants, he believes Yayami, helped him carry the bodies to the crematory, using the small cart, making a trip for each body. Takagi didn't see Igarashi, so they put the bodies in 2 ovens and left. |
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When the students had finished with a body, and it was ready for cremation, Uriyu was notified. The bodies were taken to Igarashi to burn. The wooden tags were used to identify the bodies, so papers were probably not taken out there. Bodies were kept in vats, ready for use by the University students, then brought to the dissection room, put back in the vats each day so they would not rot. After the body was burned, Igarashi put the ashes in a little box and brought it with the tag to Nomiyama, who made an entry in his book and gave Igarashi the same papers which Uriyu had sent to him when the body was first sent to the University. Igarashi then brought those up to Uriyu. Igarashi told Uriyu that she burned the bodies of four Americans. |
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A few days after 19 June, Yayami helped Takagi carry a body to the crematory on a cart. Yayami doesn't think there were any markings on the box. Doesn't know of anything said to Igarashi, the woman at the crematory. Yayami is not sure it was Takagi. The coffin lied had been nailed down. |
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Ishisawa had sais that the ashes had been brought back to Hirako in a little box, but he heard from Uriyu, at the Medical College Office, that these ashes had been brought back to Hirako in 4 envelopes, that Uriyu heard this from Igarashi. |