Statements Concerning Senba

Case
USA v. Kajuro Aihara et al.
Statement Title Statement of Tomoda
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Yoshitaka Senba
Statement Provided By Tomoda

Statement of Tomoda (420, 16 May 47) Senba worked in Ishiyama's clinic and specialized in shock, maybe seawater.
Statement Title Statement of Miki
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Yoshitaka Senba
Statement Provided By Akiye Miki

Statement of Miki             First operation (liver) - Tashiro, Nogawa, and Senba may have been present and possibly others.

2nd operation (lung) first time sea water was used as a blood sub­stitute when Miki present. Senba had been working on sea water ex­periments, Miki heard Ishiyama tell Senba to use sea water on this man, just before lung taken out.

Does not recall Senba at liver or brain operations; was present at lung operation.
Statement Title Statement of Jinnaka
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Yoshitaka Senba
Statement Provided By Seichi Jinnaka

Statement of Jinnaka (420, 9 June 1947) Senba and Torisu worked with Ishiyama on use of sea water, probably since 1944, believed that it has been discontinued, unlike Tomoda's.
Statement Title Statement of Ishiyama
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Yoshitaka Senba
Statement Provided By Fukujiro Ishiyama

Statement of Shizuko Ishiyama. wife of Ishiyama (2-5 June 1947

Wife "entreats the discharge" of Torisu, Morimoto, Mori, Senba, and Tsutsui, in keeping with her husband's desires.
Statement Title Statement of Takayama
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Yoshitaka Senba
Statement Provided By Shizue Takayama

Statement of Takayama (28 May 1947) Main doctors in Ishiyama surgery: Senba, Torisu, Hirao, and Ishiyama.
Statement Title Statement of Makino
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Yoshitaka Senba
Statement Provided By Reiichiro Makino

Statement of Makino (18 June 1947) Makino was shown a picture of Yoshitaka Senba, and Makino identified him as the one who was taking the Prisoner's pulse and blood pressure and who seemed to be in charge of the injection of sea water.

Makino then identified a picture of Torisu, answered the one who helped Senba.
Statement Title Statement of Tashiro
Record Type Statement
Subject of Statement Yoshitaka Senba
Statement Provided By Jiro Tashiro

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

10 May, about 1330 Senba, Kubo, Takayama and Tashiro carried the instru­ments to the autopsy room for the first operation.

Tashiro believes Rin, Senba and Sato were standing at the head of the table observing the operation.

About a week or 10 days after the operation, on his way to autopsy section, Tashiro saw Morimoto, Senba and Komori on their way walking toward 1st Surgery.

Ishiyama said that Senba, of his staff, was conducting experiments. Tashiro heard Torisu tell Senba, while they sat together in the 1st sur­gery clinic auditorium at the rehearsal of the Fukuoka Surgical Council, that salt water could be used as a substitute for Ringer Solution as was shown when used on the PW - this in a low voice.