First of all, there is doubt surrounding the fact that responsibility for the beriberi disaster was not taken by the Army Department of the Imperial headquarters which was supposed to bear all responsibility for Army hygiene during the war (Tadanori ISHIGURO, in charge of Japanese Army casualties in the Sino-Japanese War, Masanao KOIKE, in charge of securing peace after the Russo-Japanese War), but by a director of the military medicine department, who was of a lower rank than them.
まず、陸軍の脚気惨害の責任について、戦時下で陸軍の衛生に関する総責任を負う大本営陸軍部の大本営組織（日清戦争日本軍の損害・石黒忠悳、日露戦争講和へ・小池正直）ではなく、隷下の一軍医部長を矢面に立たせることへの疑問である。