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Statement Concerning Ishimura

Statement Title Statement of Ishimura
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Shachiko Ishimura
Statement Provided By Shachiko Ishimura

Statement of Ishimura (420, 9 May 1947)

ISHIMURA, SACHIKO

Around May 1945 heard from Sato of KIU, Sato was going to see Ishi­yama, he said, about American flyers to be used at KIU, but Sato said he could not give her reason. Ishimura met Ishiyama at Western Army Headquarters after war when he came to see Sato, but Sato had gone to KIU to meet Ishiyama. Middle of May. Ishimura then decided that flyers to be used for guineau pigs, but she doesn’t know how she . comes to this conclusion.

Then she relates that the next night Sato told her that the American Flyers were given Masui - anaesthetic - to drink, that he, Sato, saw this — that they were doing something big and different, but secret, Sato and Ishimura were having affair. Sato told her that Ishiyama had done a good thing for the country, that the flyers died at the hospital,- that experimental operations were performed on the chest, abdomen and head at KIU. Ishimura heard from Mrs. Koshin Sato, his legal wife, that Sato had told her that-Komori proposed to use the American Flyers for experiment at KIU Hospital.