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The servants in the Anatomy Section, were Takata, Takagi, and Nakamura. Takata received the bodies, injected preservative fluid into them, put tags on the bodies, placed them in vats of preservative. The wooden tags were put on each body so they could always be identified. The servants received pay for taking the bodies to the crematory. 50 sen or 1 yen a body. Takata had a little book in which he entered the names every time the servants brought bodies to the crematory, which were paid by the Accounting Section. On the day of the second series of operations, Hirako went to his office about 1420. When the operations were in progress. Probably Takata told him about it, saying "again they are performing an operation." A few days after the operations, Hirako talked to Takata and learned that the bodies had been cremated. Hirako told him to bring the ashes to him and he brought 4 envelopes of ashes all at one time, which Hirako kept in his office and numbered each envelope. After the fourth series of operations, Hirako told Takata that if there were mor bones he should bring them.
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One day in May, Takata told Katayama that a Prisoner was operated on and his body taken to the crematory, that he had been told by Hirako to bring the bones back. |
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One day Takagi saw a truck with several Japanese soldiers and 2 blindfolded Prisoners in the back, back of the Anatomy Building. Takagi then went back and told the other servants. Takata, Yano, Nakamura and Yayami, he believes, that they were bringing more Prisoners. This was just a little while after dinner, someone came in the servants room and told them to stay away from the Autopsy Room. Takagi then saw Ishiyama and 4 or 5 other professors and a couple of nurses walking in the hallway toward the Autopsy Room. |
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About the time of the airraid (19 June 45), 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. Takata said, "this Prisoner went to the toilet". |
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Takata an Anatomy Section servant, injected fluid into the bodies for preservation. Takata and Nomiyama always knew which body and which report went together. At one time tags were made of wood and had information on them to identify the bodies. 2 or more such tags were placed on each body and stayed there. Nomiyama kept a record of all bodies, and he made an entry in his book as soon as papers on a body were received. Uriyu thinks he checked with Takata on this also. As soon as Takata injected the body with fluid and put on the tags he put the body in a vat of preservative. |
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Takata, the janitor, told Yata that Prisoners taken from a B29 were being operated on very secretly. 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 Prisoners, coming down the hall toward Yata as he was going toward the latrine. The janitors (Takata & Takgi) further told Yata that they cremated the bodies of the Prisoners at the crematory. The day after the second operation, Takahashi and Yata went to the Autopsy Room and saw the 3 bodies, Takata was there at the time. When Yata, Takahashi and Takata were in the janitors quarters, Takata said that the bodies were still in the Autopsy Room, so they went to see.
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About May 1945, Yayami carried the bodies of 4 American Prisoners to the crematory. Takata told Yayami he wanted him to help carry a body to the crematory, the body was already put on a cart, and the coffin was nailed, so Yayami didn't see the body. Over a period of about 2 weeks, Yayami carried out 4 bodies that he recalls. It might have been 5, if they took out 2 bodies the time he helped Takata. 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 few days after taking the 4th body, Takata said that the last 4 bodies taken from the Anatomy Section were those of American Prisoners. |
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Takata, an Anatomy Section servant, told Igarashi when he brought particular bodies, that they were of American Prisoners. The first time he brought 2 bodies, told Igarashi they were American Prisoners. The next morning, he came back and told her to pick up the bones, brought two envelopes, told her that Hirako wanted him to bring the bones to the Office. This was in late April or early May 1945. 2 or 3 days later, Takata brought 2 more bodies, told her they were bodies of Prisoners, to keep the bones. He came back next day and Igarashi picked the bones and put them in 2 envelopes he brought, said that Hirako had told him to bring the bones. Perhaps Yayami came with Takata both times, or perhaps Toyofuku or Nakamura of Pathology Section. Igarashi was told to keep this matter quiet. Takata told Igarashi that 4 of the bodies were of Americans, knows nothing of any others. |
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Joint statement of Yata, Zeno, Takata, Shunzo, Takahashi, Mamoru and Takagi, 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 Dissecting Room where there was an operation the day before, and he had seen a Japanese soldier leading a person who looked as tho he were a Prisoners, heard later that an operation was performed. Looked into the room, saw a body in each of 3 coffins that looked like Americans. Takashi 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 them, so Takata, Yata and possibly Takagi went over there, where Takahashi saw 2 coffins, close together, with bodies face down, the heads cut off. All the bodies had on shorts. The left in about 3 minutes. Takata said "that Prisoner went to the latrine yesterday." Takata doesn't remember going with either Yata or Takahashi has a feeling he was, is not sure. |