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The servants in the Anatomy Section were Takata, Takagi and Nakamura. While at Sugamo, Hirako asked Takeshige to make a thorough search for the bones, but he replied he was unable to find them. Hirako put a slip of paper in the box with "A.P." written on it, standing for "American Prisoner." The box was covered with newspaper. |
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About the time of the 19 June airraid, Takahashi went to the servants room. Someone said there were some Prisoners killed in the building, Takahashi said he didn't believe it. Yata said he would show him, took him to the Dissection Room. Takata and Takagi came with them. They all looked at the bodies. Takahashi was about a meter away from the bodies. |
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Takagi helps Takata in the cremation of bodies at the crematorium. |
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About a week later, Yata saw a superior private standing in front of the room where the students change their clothes. There was a truck parked in the back. Takata and Takagi, the janitors, told him "it's going on again". Yata could see the soldiers guiding a blindfolded Prisoner, coming down the hall toward Yata as he was going toward the latrine. The janitors (Takata & Takagi?) further told Yata that they cremated the bodies of the Prisoners at the Crematory. |
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About May 1945, Yayami carried the bodies of 4 American Prisoners to the crematory. A few days later, Yayami helped Takagi carry a body to the crematory on a cart. Yayami does not think there were any markings on the box, doesn't know of anything said to Igarashi, the woman at the crematory. Yayami isn't sure it was Takagi. A few days after the second time, either Takata, Takagi or Nakamura of the Anatomy Section, asked him to help carry a body from the Anatomy Section, to the Crematory. The situation was the same as before. A 4th body was also taken. A few days after the the 4th body, Takata said that the last 4 bodies taken were those of American Prisoners. Takagi was present. |
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Takata is somewhat the head servant over Takagi and Urago. |
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Joint statement of Yata, Zeno, Takata, Shunzo, Takahashi, Mamoru, Takagi and Mozo. Yata recounts that in May 1945, he went to the Anatomy Section servants room and then he, Takahashi, Takata, and possibly Takagi went to the Dissection Room, where there was an operation the day before, and he had seen a Japanese soldier leading another person who looked as though he were a Prisoner, heard later that an operation had been performed. The looked into the room, saw a body in each of the coffins that looked like Americans. Takahashi then recounts that in May or June 1945, he went to the servants room, someone said there were bodies of American Prisoners in the Autopsy Room, Takahashi said he didn't believe it, someone said he would show him. So Takata, Yata and possibly Takagi went over there, where Takahashi saw 2 coffins close together, with bodies of men, face down, heads cut off. All the bodies had on shorts. They left in about 3 minutes. Takata said, "that Prisoner went to the latrine yesterday." Takagi doesn't "remember anything like that". |