Statements Concerning Miyamoto

Statement of Ito (11 July 1947) In late May or early June 1945, when Ito walked into the dining room of the Officers Club Hospital at noon, already seated at the table were Kishi, Kanehisa, Miyamoto, Komori, Momota, Shinno and Sasaki.

Everyone, except perhaps Miyamoto, ate the [Note: human] liver.

Ito believes that Miyamoto did eat of the liver. All at the dinner, including the liver and occasional cups of sake.

Statement of Kishi (10 July 1947) Kishi then recalls that also at the [Note: human] liver feast were Miyamoto, the head of Administration at the hospital and Oda, a civilian dentist at the hospital.

As Kishi recalls, Oda and Miyamoto sat on the Japanese mat portion of the room fartherest from the entrance.

Statement of Matake (17 July 1947) When Matake visited WAH in early June 1945, he ate noon meal at Officers Club Hospital; Miyamoto made a toast to Matake, the former hospital head. Recalls that there were present Miya­moto, Komori, Shinno, Ito, Shiokawa, Kanehisa, Kishi, and M/Sgt Asamizu. Tsurumaru may have come in at the end of the meal; Momoda and Sasaki may have been there.

Already seated when Matake entered dining room were Ito, Komori, Kanehisa, Shinno, Miyamoto, Oda, M/Sgt. Asamizu. Matake sat with Miyamoto at the far end of the table from the entrance— they did not sit at chairs, but on the elevated edge of the Japanese mat portion of the room fartherest from the door.

After they were seated Miyamoto said a word by way of greeting to Matake representing the others present. [Marginal Note: all continued to eat the liver after Komori told them it was taken from a PW at KIU. ]