In Hiroshima, Japan, the Committee has the honor to meet with
Fumio Shigeto who,

as mentioned earlier,

is an A-homb survivor

and director of the Hiroshima A-bomb Hospital.

Dr. Shigeto mentioned

the uneasiness or the feeling of uncertainty survivors like himself
a feeling which,

he said, was shared by "all

survivors".
Later, during its first trip to meet with the people of Rongelan
and Utirik, the Committee posed the question of whether or not the
ceople who were exposed felt uneasy ahout their exposure.

"Whenever we have a cold,

—my
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at meetings on both islands was generally:

The answer

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felt ahout the future,

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by H-homb fallout nearly 19 vears ago.

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Islands, people are still being found with diseases apparently caused

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the bombs dropned there nearly 28 years ago and today in the
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or some other kind of sickness, we think of the bomb."

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ease?

Did he feel uneasy?

"Psychologicallv,

‘ir,

I trust Dr.

Oshi's remarks,

Was his mind at

as translated,

were,

Kumatori and I am satisfied.”

He was

then asked how he felt when he contracted a normal illness,

Pid he

think of the bomh and the fallout?

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how he felt about the annual examinations he suh-

His answer was, “Immediatelv."

The Committee thus helieves that one of the late or long term

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was first asked,

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Dr. Kumatori, when asked about his anxiety over his experience,

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in a meeting in Tokyo with

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Dragon survivor, Mr. Matashigi Oshi,

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effects of irradiation in the case of the Rongelarese and Utirikese

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