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-“Please test my fish,’9° 7”
said an anxious man,;.“We've already eaten aipart of it.’ It was a huge] -;
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— Hxelusive Account Given —.
tuna which would have
meant many meals for: .::
several familles,
OSAKA, Mar, 19.—It was “with a sense of duty
to my people in the United States” that Mrs. Jane
Nishiwaki, an American lady married to a Japanese
atomic expert now investigating the Fukuryu Maru
incident has taken up the pen to report the case
to America.
Mrs. Nishiwaki, a member of the Fellowship of
he
“Test my little boy, is
alright?”
asked
a
worried mother as she
edged in with a crowd of
people holding their fish
and children and clothing all seeking help because of being exposed to
Reconciliation, stayed in the trouble spot of Yaizu
from March 16 to 18 with her husband, Dr. Yasushi
Nishiwaki of Osaka Municipal Medical University.
She, herself an expert in biolegy, assisted her
radioactive rays from ayP
hydrogen
explosion
on'&
March 1.
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husband in investigating the ‘radioactivity seen
among fishermen and their catch resuiting from
hydrozen bomb explosion at Bikini.
She returned to Osaka on March 18 and penned
the below article which she sent specially to the
Mainichi Newspapers. It is also to appear in .magazine Newsweek, St. Louis Post Dispatch and the
Chicago Daily News.
Her
She is an instructor at Osaka Jogakuin..
The
U.S.
¢
Joint ~ Atomic, Waki typin
Energy Conimittee Chairman hard repert
of Congress W, Sterling Cole ‘victims of
said “the best of our medical
talent” wilf be available to',
1
the Japanese Who were in- er dollars,
jured. This is a very fine!
The Japa
offer but actually when peo- , °xperienced
ple are exposed to radioac. ' long-lasting
roe
tive radiation, even with the
Be FONE
atornic bom
best treatment complete cure icans conti
is very difficult,
.
fering
and
.
them _becat
warnings! atom” and
about the recent test explo-
Mr,
Cole
said
sions Were issued as far back{
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special contrivution follows:
svt
On Mar:
as 1952, Yet the Maritime ;&otists left
Safety Board of Japan con- j senting the
[firmed Wednesday, the 17th | tests on th
(March)
that this tuna boat,, stances
an.
was 14 miles eastnortheast of | fer 1 shot
the forbidden area.
ately es 5 a
so
f
Today another ship’s
the €patsfe
eargo of fish was also|fects of t!
found to contajn radio-| knew you
activity,a Yet this ship was}
ould
i}
would
be
Want
reported to be 600 miles! known,
from the “bombing on Since! the
March 1.
>
great amou
Within the last 24) 7thought
hours I have witnessed 3 appeal
tests being made and: magazine,
heard the pleas of the ; the St Le
fishermen, mothers and {and the ciCi
all who have had or eaten serthetar
radioactive tuna fish.| the’ drastic
Yes there is worry and ding furthe
tension
because
this some.equa.
“.
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catch
was
distributed
to 66° e atomic
almost all parts of Ja-ltriends an
pan.
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Because the men reported
c We hay
for treatment of their burns,
Ongress:
the atomic disease was dis-} When les
covered and some of the fish!sues wer
was immedctiately tested, so
Let’s a
much of it wes not. eaten.
et’s
dc
Just how many people will|feeling sc
be affected in years to come! fers,
by the radioactivity of tbe
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fish already consumed is yet
Let’s
tg be uncovered, but the loss amount
of money from the large
fish! through
markets to the small fish! ey ots
monger With cart going from h -
house to hose can be told) SOW Si
or rather estimated at yen ition toda,