Statements Concerning Shiokawa

SHIOKAWA, FUJIKO (Shiyokawa ?) [Marginal Note: (KIU) ] [Additional Marginal Note: (Confined Sugamo) ] (Shiokawa's statement comes under OGAWA. FUJIKO) (OGAWA is her married name.)

Statement of Ito (11 July 1947) Ito walked into the Officers Club Hospital Dining Room at noon where Kishi, Kanehisa, Miyamoto, Komori, Momota, Shinno and Sasaki were already seated at the table. After Ito say down Oda and Nurse Shiokawa entered and sat down.

Sake cups were distributed to each person and sake was poured in each cup by, Ito believes, Shiokawa.

Ito asked Shiokawa why the special food and wine were being served, and she "just laughed" and didn’t answer. After everyone had been served the meat, Shiokawa then got up walked to the side of the table and got the plate of meat, gave Shinno, Sasaki and Oda a piece, then took one herself.

Statement of Kishi (2 June 1947) Personnel of Kaikosha Hospital: Fujiko Shiyokawa - head nurse.

Statement of Kishi (10 July 1947)

Kishi believes Matake was on furlough at the time and merely stopped in (liver feast) - he believes he heard this from Head Nurse Shiokawa.

Shiokawa was not at the human liver feast, may have come in after they had all finished eating. Komori and Kishi did tell here about it. Shiokawa asked "Is this true?" and Kishi replied, "That is right."

About the end of September or early October 1945, when part of the Officers Club Hospital had moved to Futsukaichi, Shiokawa and Kishi were waiting for a bus in the street after they had finished taking a bath. Sato stopped his car, picked them up. Told Kishi he wanted him to write a death certifi­cate for a PW who was executed, stating that he died of sickness. Kishi refused. Shiokawa did not hear this conversation, was some distance away, However, Kishi may have told her about it.

Statement of Matake (17 July 1947) Matake recalls that Shiokawa (she poured the drinks)was present at the noon meal at Officers Club Hospital.

Everyone ate the liver except Shiokawa, who he thinks left the room after she served the sake.

Matake states that on the day following his return to Fukuoka, he stopped in at the Officers Club Hospital about 1000 on his way to headquarters to tend to his business (financial). While there the first time, he heard Head Nurse Shiokawa telling someone in a loud voice, "PO Komori brought back a big ugly liver; oh, how horrid." At the hospital, Matake talked with Miyamoto, Ito, Komori, Kanehisa, Shiokawa and "with about everyone."

When Matake entered the room, several were already seated. Doesn't recall whether Shiokawa was already in the roan or not.

Shiokawa passed around the sake, believes she also passed around the human liver; doesnft remember whether she ate it or not.

SHIOKAWA (OGAWA) , FUJIKO (Before marriage in Mar. 1946 was Fujiko Shiokawa)

Statement of Miyamoto (23 July 1947) At the meal given for Matake, fish, tomatoes, rice and sake were served by the nurses. Present at this meal: Komori, Matake, Kanehisa, Ito, Shiokawa, Reiko, Takechi, Kishi, Shinno, Asamizu, Momota, Tsurumaru. This was not an ordinary lunch, but a party given for Matake

Statement of Kamada (23 July 1947) About one week after Kamada was assigned to work at the Kaikosha Hospital, around 28 May, there was a special lunch for Matake, who visited the hospital at that time. Those attending: Miyamoto, Shinno, Kishi, Kanehisa, Komori, Matake, Ito, Sakai, Kamada. Oda might have been there; Kamada believes that Shiokawa served them. Kamada believes Tsuru­maru came in late; does remember having a drink with,him. 

Believes that they ate fish: Kamada ate everything at the lunch that was served, is quite evasive about human liver— states that he did not know about human liver, if he had known it was human liver he would not have eaten it.

Statement of Oda (16 July 1947) At the human liver dinner: Oda, Komori, Kanehisa, Shinno, Shiokawa, Miyamoto, Sasaki, Momota, Matake, Ito, and a sgt. maj. whose name Oda doesn't recall. All of these persons ate human liver. PO Komori said that it was human liver before everyone started to eat, that it was the liver of a PW.

Statement of Oda (17 July 1947) About 3 June 1945, Shiokawa notified Oda to attend a dinner which was to be held at the Kaikosha Hospital mess hall, to which Oda went at 1200 that day. When Oda arrived there were present; Ito, Shinno, Komori, Matake, Miyamoto, Sasaki, Momota, Shiokawa. and an unknown sgt. maj. (In this statement he does not mention Kanehisa)

Shiokawa passed sake, and a toast was made by Matake in honor of a PO, Sasaki, who had been promoted to 2nd Lt. .

Shiokawa then passed the human liver around the table to everyone— it was sliced thin and had been boiled in shoyu sauce. Oda took some and ate it. To the best of Oda's knowledge, everyone present ate some of it. During, the dinner, Oda recalls Komori stating that the liver that they were eating was from aa PW that had been taken to KIU.