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Statement of MIKI Miki helped Shizuko Suyama, who was assistant nurse to head nurse Tsutsui, by being responsible for 5-6 student nurses, teaching them in nurses courses. Nurse hierarchy at Ishiyama Surgery: head nurse - Tsutsui assistant - Shizuko Suyama etc. Suyama would take over when Tsutsui was busy; assembled the 5 assistants under her each AM, gave them their special duties and supervised them; took charge of incoming patients, helped Ishiyama when he examined them. 1st operation - Miki went to Autopsy room with Tsutsui, Drs. Tashiro and Nogawa, and Nurses Suyama and Manabe. When American PW brought in to be operated on, Suyama, Manabe, and Miki began talking about leaving because they thought something was wrong. Ishiyama came over, said everything was all right, they they should stay and help. Group around operating table: SUYAMA 0 0 MANABE HIRAO 0 0 MIKI KOMORI 0 0 ISHIYAMA 0 unknown 0 army officer Manabe, Suyama and Miki talked about the operation the same day, were scared because of locale of operation, and because it was on a foreigner. While they were getting the instruments ready, someone said the Prisoner had died. They had a feeling it was an experimental operation. Afterwards Tsutsui came up to Ishiyama Surgery operating room and told Manabe, Suyama, and Miki that she knew they didn't like to be involved, but that they should just listen to Ishiyama and not to worry. 2nd operation was about 4-5 days after first. Tsutsui told Suyama and Miki they would help, Suyama and Miki didn’t want to go if on a Prisoner, but felt superiors had to be obeyed. Suyama, Manabe, and Miki pushed cart from Ishiyama Surgery to Anatomy Bldg, in the PM, brought instruments over as before; cart let outside, instruments taken from cart into autopsy room. SUYAMA - 2 - Statement of Miki (Cont’d) After completing lung operation, Ishiyama reopened incision, untied the cords that tied off the artery that had been cut. Miki passed the tools and thread to Ishiyama when he re-sutured wound, with help of Suyama. About 7 days after 2nd operation, either Tsutsui or Suyama told Miki just before dinner that she should prepare instruments for a brain operations, to bring instruments to autopsy room about 1330-1430. Suyama, Manabe, Yayama and Miki took instruments down on cart as before. Suyama, whose rank next to that of Tsutsui, did little of actual work, helped doctors get ready, did not pass instruments in 3rd operation, wore no gown. |
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Statement of Tashiro (5 June - 9 July 1947) Suyama was one of the nurses assigned to the 1st Surgical Clinic. |
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Statement of Miki (15 July 1947) Where Miki stated that Suyama, Manabe, and herself wanted to leave the room, they actually had no chance to talk about it. They looked at each other as if to say, "let’s get out of here." |
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Statement of Manabe (Oki) About 1500 in the middle of May 1945, Manabe took the instruments to the Autopsy Section classroom. Miki, Suyama and some of the assistant professors went with them. About 30 minutes after the completion of the brain operation, on cleaning up the instruments and equipment, Miki and Manabe returned to the Surgery Clinic ahead of the others. Manabe believes Suyama and Tsutsui left shortly after them. At the operations, Suyama would pick up pieces of gauze which were covered with blood and put them in water— and she helped clean up the instruments after the operation. At 3rd series of operations - Miki, Yayama and Manhbe prepared the equipment for the operations to be held about 1500 that afternoon. They then pushed the car 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 all the equipment was there, the doctors washed their hands, and Miki and Suyama. After 3rd PW had been operated (in 3rd series of operations) Suyama later told Manabe that she had heard from Hirao that this Prisoner was a capt. or 1st lt. in the air corps. After this operation was over, Miki, Suyama, Tsutsui, Yayama and Manabe cleaned up the instruments and returned to the Surgery Clinic, with the equipment on a cart. Suyama Statement of Manabe Cont’d. The nurses who went to this brain operation (4th series) were Tsutsui, Suyama, Miki, and, Manabe believes, Yayama. Statement of Yavama (30 July 1947) In late May or early June, Tsutsui told Yayama to report to the Autopsy Room and bring the cart that had all the operating instruments on it. Miki, Manabe, and Yayama pulled the cart from the first floor of the 1st Surgery Clinic to the Autopsy Room. Tsutsui was already at the Autopsy Room when they arrived along with Suyama, Ishiyama, Hirao, Torisu, - Miki, Manabe and Yayama took the instruments from the cart and prepared for operating. Persons present during these 3 operations on this date: Torisu, Komori, Suyama, Manabe, Tsutsui, Hirao, Miki, Ishiyama, Senba, Yayama. The 2nd PW who was operated on in the first series was at the 2nd table. Suyama shaved the upper part of the left leg, the operation being performed on the artery of the left leg. Suyama - was in the autopsy room, but Yayama doesn’t know what her specific job was. She helped pass gauze to the various operations, helped wash the instruments after the operations were completed. After the operations were completed, Miki, Manabe and Yayama returned to the 1st Surgery Clinic. Remaining in the Autopsy Room at that time; Ishiyama, Komori, Hirao, Senba, Mori, Morimoto, Suyama. |