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GOTO, SHICHIRO (KIU) Statement of Goto (1 August 1947) 67, semi-retired, was a KIU professor from‘1919 to 1942, became a major general as an army doctor in 1928, retiring same year to reserve Officer. Son, Shozo Goto, an assistant professor at KIU in the pathology section, in hospital with TB since November 1946. From 1942 to March 1945 Shichiro Goto was a surgical lecturer at Kurume Medical College, then practiced in Fukuoka City until 19 June 1945. Studied war surgery in Europe in World War I. Further served as a War Department Temporary Civilian Official; first received orders and financial reimbursements from WD, then from 1941 through Medical Section of WA, but still from the Chief of Staff or CG, since head of WA Medical Section (Horiuchi) was lower in rank than WD Temp. Civ, Officials. Such orders originated in Medical Bureau of WD, passed through WAH, then to Medical Section, then to WDTCO. Occasionally an unimportant order would come directly from If AH in name of the Chief of Staff or CG, but such would still demand approval of WD. Goto attended meetings of WDTCOs at Medical Bureau of WD about 3 times, the first in 1941, then twice more, and after about 1944 these were held at WAH, which Goto attended about 4 times, all of the meetings. Goto also remembers attending these meetings were: Ishiyama of Surgery, Jinnaka of Orthopedics, Misao of Internal Diseases, and Nakashima of X-ray and TB of the lung. The Chief of Staff, Yoshinaka, would either appear personally or have a message read in his behalf. Then Horiuchi would take over, assign research projects to the professors who were in active service in the University, then an informal discussion in which research projects would be discussed and requests to do research. The meetings would usually start shortly before noon, then lunch, and the first 2 or 3 meetings ended at a restaurant for the evening meal. Jinnaka was conducting research in making artificial limbs, Misao in Dengue Fever, Nakashima in X-ray therapeutics of TB of the lung, Ishiyama general research in surgery. Personally Ishiyama was doing research in epilepsy, surgery of the brain, and gastronic or intestinal surgery. He also studied the pathology of the post operative collapse of the lung. Goto recalls that Ishiyama once said that sea water, brought from off shore, where clean, can be diluted 4 times and used in place of Ringer Solution, where Ringer Solution is scarce, that it is safe to use and effective. Goto first heard of KIU operations on in May 1946, when a former student told him of the rumor among the University students. Goto said he didn’t know, but that the student should not talk about it. This student was Dr. Yuichi Aiga of the Omuta Mitsui Hospital. After the newspaper story, about July 1946, the Educational Department telegraphed Goto through the university asking him to appear at the office of the Vice Minister of Education; Goto declined because of reasons of health; in August 1946 Toyoda, Chief Secretary of the University visited him, told him the Education Department wanted to know of the Ishiyama affair, Goto asserting ignorance. Medical Research believed important by the Medical Bureau of the WD was conducted by the Medical College at Tokyo or by the WDTCO at some University. Secret research was conducted at the Army Medical College. Where the research was assigned GOTO -2- to a WDTCO, the professors of the Army Medical College would meet with the head of the Medical Bureau and decide who was to conduct the research, assigned in the name of the Ministry of War by the head of the Medical Bureau, Goto thinks. |