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NAKAMURA, Minora (1st Lt., IJA) 420 (no dat.) Yukino. et al. Interview with Nakamura On 15 August about 1500 Major Eu sumo to ordered Nakamura to his office. Yukino was there. Nakamura was ordered to get some coffins made and to cremate fliers to be executed that date. The war at this time was over. He did so at 2000 hours and finished the job at 0400 hours 16 August. Murata took the ashes away and Nakamura went with hin to dump the larger box of ashes Into the sea on 22 or 23 August. Yukino asked Nakamura to accompany him to Mt. Hirao where they burled a small box of ashes. |
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Statement of Yukino (not in file). Nakamura and Yukino went to Mt. Hirao and burled the ashes of nine, which Yukino asserts were those of Japanese civilians. These ashes were taken from the Komoji Temple on Kusumoto's order two or three days after the war was over in a square eight inch square box. Yukino had taken them there In August. He received them from Nakamura on 16 August; that Is the ashes of the executed filers. |