Statement Concerning Jinnaka

Statement of Jinnaka (11 June 1947 - certified translation)

11 June 1947 Jinnaka called a meeting of the head of medical department, chief of staff dispensary, and staff members of the first section and the anatomical classrooms, for the purpose of aiding Legal Section in KIU case.

Jinnaka states that Nakajima, Yoshisada, was head of the staff dispensary of KIU medical department form 1944 to 1946, took every precaution to pro­tect the hospital from air raid damage. He is the father in law of Hirao, but he states that Hirao never mentioned KIU affair to him at the time, that it occurred, but learned about it from letters and written information from anonymous sources after the termination of hostilities. Jinnaka believes that Hirao resigned on advice of Nakajima. About the spring of 1946 Nakajima re­ceived an anonymous letter stating that the hospital latrines were filthy and that if they weren’t cleaned the author would notify the Allied Forces of the Ishiyama incident.

Since the end of the weir, similar letters have been addressed to the news­papers and the chief of the medical department. Nakajima feels that possibly they were sent by a communist group in the University. Nakajima seems to know the name of one of the authors of such statements, one who has left the group and therefore out of consideration to him, does not care to expose him.

Jinnaka then repeats his story of the purge of militaristic and ultra-nation­alistic professors, in which the reform committe did not ask Ishiyama to re­sign because he received a 70$ confidence vote, had only to obtain 60%. Okuda of hygiene department was asked to resign, adjudged incompetent. This vote was of students and professors.

Toward the end of the war Ishiyama became interested in the surgical applica­tion of sea water, epildptic brain operations, and gall stone operations. Jinnaka did ask for his resignation.

Rumors heard by Jinnaka:

1. Ishiyama was blackmailed at his home by someone because of this affair.

2. The Allied Prisoner (singular) was taken to the anatomical classroom in an army truck.

3. An anaesthesia was administered to the Allied Prisoner under the pretense of typhus vaccine.

4. The Prisoner was blindfolded and taken, on foot, to the operating room; no one saw him return.

5. It was reported that the corpse was too large to fit into the casket; and that someone saw it left lying on the operating table for quite sometime.

6. At the Kaikosha Hospital Komori had cut out an object which looked like a human liver, was drying it, intending to create some new kind of medicine. (Jinnaka heard this rumor in June (1947?) from Kanehisa).