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2nd operation that Noda witnessed, latter part of May (2nd series?) Later that day Makino ordered Noda to sweep the autopsy room floor. Present were Makino, Goshima, Tanaka, Komori, Torisu, and Hirao on his return. The 2 Prisoners were lying on the dissecting table dead. Tanaka was helping Makino cut the Prisoner's scalp, held the head still while Makino sawed through the skull. Goshima was working on another Prisoner. Tanaka took a human brain. (not the entire head??) One PW had an incision in his forehead, Noda believes, so that Makino and Tanaka could remove the brain. |
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1st series- 2 PWs- Assistant Professor Tanaka was there, assisted in the injection of sea water. |
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1st series- (after operations) When they finished washing, Hirao noticed Tanaka and Makino in the room, they being of the Autopsy Section. One of them prepared to remove parts of the bodies for histology classes from the 1st Prisoner, Hirao believes. Tanaka and Makino had a bottle of what smelled like formaldehyde and a few other bottles to put specimens in. All Hirao saw them take for a specimen was a small piece of skin; there were also 1-2 others from the Autopsy Section with Tanaka. 2nd series- after operations- Hirao again noticed that Tanaka, Makino and 1-2 others from the Autopsy Section had entered the room and were gathered around the Prisoner on the left side of the room. Hirao noticed them when he returned from the latrine. As soon as the liver operation was over they started to take histology specimens of the body, putting them in in the bottle of formaldehyde. 4th series- Senba and Hirao performed leg artery operation. At this time 3-4 persons from the Autopsy Section, including Tanaka, came in and watched Senba, Kubo and Hirao. When Senba and Hirao finished, they washed their hands, collected the instruments, at which time they heard that the body of the Prisoner they had just worked on was going to be preserved. Hirao believes Tanaka said this. About the middle of Sept. Ishiyama asked Hirao to go to the autopsy section to ask again and make certain that there was no evidence left of the operations, if so, to destroy it. Hirao went to Tanaka on a personal matter, but gave him this information also. Tanaka said the body they had kept had not been preserved well and had been cremated. Hirao told him that ashes and specimens would have to be destroyed; he said he understood. |
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After 1st series of operations were finished, Tanaka and 2 anatomy students came in, started to dissect the right leg of the 1st Prisoner. Senba the left. 4th series- As operators were leaving, Tanaka and 2-3 of his students came into the room wearing gowns, went to the 1st Prisoner and injected formaline solution into the left femoral artery. Senba returned to his room. |