Statements Concerning Ibe

Case
USA v. Kajuro Aihara et al.
Statement Title Statement of Morotomi
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Saburo Ibe
Statement Provided By Takefumi Morotomi

IBE, SABURO (MAJ. GEN.) (KIU)

Statement of Morotomi (-- May 19, 1947) Ibe was head of army hos­pital, consulted occasionally with Ishiyama about operations.
Statement Title Statement of Morotomi
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Saburo Ibe
Statement Provided By Takefumi Morotomi

Statement of Morotomi (supplement, taken 22 May 1947) In May 1945 Ishiyama came to the Fukuoka 2nd Army Hospital, and Morotomi heard a conversation between him and Ibe, the head of the hospital, in which Ishiyama told Ibe that in cases where it was necessary to give blood transfusions to patients it was possible to use diluted sea water, that he wanted clean sea water, but that it would have to be brought some distance, wondered whether Ibe would send a hospital truck to such a place and bring such water back to him, Ibe saying that he would if he could. Ibe later told Morotomi that he could see no sense in using sea water as a blood substitute since there were already such substitutes as Sodium Chloride solution, the Rock Solu­tion, and the Ringer Solution, which were plentiful and had been tested.