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ISHIYAMA, SHIZUKO (Statement of wife taken between 2-5 June 1947) Has three children, 23, 22, 20. Ishiyama kept no records or papers at home. However, she found a piece of paper in one of his suits reading as follows: In September 1946. "10 May . Komori telephone ..... lung rupture at the same time ..... gunshott Situation during that time: - No foreigners ore allowed to become hospitalized patients Lung rupture: - anaesthesia of the entire body Gunshott: - local anaesthesia Sato - Kaikosha take 300 blood No wound in lung. During the time the dondition became worse and died. Sea water. Gunshott - local anaesthesia Komori operated. Result was bod so we do not make any report concerning it. In the case of 17 June Injection ............* ______________________ Fracture of the Cranium the third patient of May” *Not legible. Son worked at KIU MG, told mother about June 1945 that he had heard rumors at the University that Ishiyama had treated Prisoners. On asking Ishiyama, he said that Komori had brought them and he had treated them as a doctor, but that they hod caused him trouble, and he hated to do it. During the war the army was all powerful; any order it gave was treated as an order of the Emperor. After the war he always stated that even though the army had given the orders for treatment of the Prisoners, he was the responsible man at the hospital and would assume full responsibility for those under him. The chief of a section is the head man, and although the assistants can quit if they want to, the section head still has a great deal of authority. She believes army orders came only to Ishiyama, not to his assistants. Hirao, son in law of Nakajima, "Did not feel too well” toward Ishiyama,” and is not named in Ishiyama's will. Ishiyama told his wife that Komori had brought the Prisoners to KIU; he had not asked for them. Because Komori had been a member of the Ishiyama Clinic, he had brought him the Prisoners. One eveing, before surrender, Ishiyama told wife that it was a catastrophe that Komori had brought the Prisoners to him; Ishiyama, Shizuko -2- that if Komori had not brought the Prisoners, such a thing would not have happened. In February 1946 Sato came to see Ishiyama, had dinner; wife heard nothing about operations. This was the first time he ever came; wife did not know him. He came twice after that; but Ishiyama was not at home. While wife "entreats the discharge" of Torisu, Morimoto, Mori, Senba, and Tsutsui, in keeping with her husband's desires, she specifically does not include Hirao, who she suggests be investigated. During war, army ordered Ishiyama by order of the Emperor. (Ed.— Ishiyama is a Christian). Tsutsui should be discharged, is only a woman, "has no relations to it." Wife states that to the last Ishiyama did not certify that it was an order from the army. |