Statements Concerning Nogawa

Statment of Miki        First operation, May 1945, (liver) Miki went to the Autopsy room with Tfcutsui, Drs. Tashiro and Nogawa, and Nurses Suyama and Manabe.

Tashiro, Nogawa, and Seriba may have been present (at fir s t operation) and possibly others.

An operating lamp was used at operations; Nogawa may have held it at the lung operation.

Statement of Nakashima In July 1946 (Hirao having been taken into custody), Nakashima asked members of Ishiyama Clinic about operations, including Tashiro and Nogawa, from whom he learned that there were operations on the brain, liver and stomach.

Statement of Tashiro (5 June - 9 July 1947) Nogawa was one of Tashiro's superiors at 1st Surgery.

At 27 May meeting of Fukuoka Surgical Council at the 2nd Surgery, Nogawa spoke about epilepsy.

Tashiro heard from Nogawa in the 1st surgery clinic that he had seen a liver, in a basin, which had been taken from a Prisoner.

About Sept, or Oct. 1946 Nakashima, Nakayama, Kimura, and Yoshiteru Senba (cousin to the Senba) came to 1st Surgery Clinic and asked Nogawa and Tashiro to explain in detail the type of operations performed on the Prisoners and who had performed and attended the operations.

Tashiro, Nogawa and Kubo always told people outside the 1st Surgery Clinic that they didn't know anything about the operations.

Statement of Manabe 2nd series of operations - (stomach resection?) Either Senba, Nogawa, or Tashiro, one of whom was standing at the head of the Prisoner took the Prisoner's pulse and made a written record of it . Senba gave the either to the Prisoner.

Manabe believes that Nogawa was recording the pulse. Manabe could not see very much from her position. Nogawa, recording the pulse, stood to the right of Morimoto by the Prisoner's chest.

3rd series - Miki, Yayama and Manabe prepared the equipment for the opera­tions to be held about 1500 that afternoon. They then pushed the cart with the equipment on it to the Autopsy Section. During this time Ishiyama, Torisu, Hirao, Morimoto, Nogawa and head nurses Tsutsui and Suyama went to the Autopsy Section classroom where the operations were to be held. When a ll the equipment was there, the doctors washed their hands,and Miki and Suyama. Yayama, Manabe, Nogawa, and some of the other doctors went out behind the autopsy section and sat on the grass awaiting the arrival of the Prisoners. In autopsy room, there was sufficient light because of the windows at the east end of the room, but not sufficient at the other end, where an operating lamp was used, believes that Nogawa held it . Nogawa also attached the lamp when it was to be used.