[AL (3) Many of the accoptod procedures of modern Amcrican modical practice sounce etrencc to the Japsneso, sani thoir concopts aro strange to us. For exemcle, sccoss t: mationte ty any chreicians wes “onicd for sevorel cys because tho Japancec physicians foun’ thoir vatimts to be in © hichly oxcited state an* preferc’ not to disturb then, Japencec physicians indicated on scveral occasions that the taking of cup- Licxtc bloc’ smewrs by Japz-nese anc Amcorican investisntors wee an unnoccessary cxpLlic*tion, and =n ordesl thet the patients shoule not bo expceto™ to unecor70, In my initiel confcoronco with tho J=pancse eciontists I wis forcod to the conclusion that they wore not well cquinped to coal proporly with the radiclocie?] .apects of the problom, For cxanzle: (1) Some cf the top sciontists tock thc pogition tht becauso a now kin? of bond ws involved, the problem itsclf wes ® now ono, and that unloss thoy Imow all about tho bomb, thoy could cvaluste noithor the injury to the fishcermon ner the »spect of long-renge contaminntion of J=pan one its fishin> erews throughout the Pacific. (2) Thoy wore quick ts icontify quelitatively ecne of the radioactive isotopes in tho ash anc inmcdiatcly coneluced that deposition of these ralio-isotopes in the tissucse of the mon was the prime factor in thoir medical strtus, This cocisicn was reachoi withcut benefit of redio~chomical urinc anslyses of the nationts. This procelure which was beyond the caper bility £ thoir leborstories is of courso ~ prorcquisite to undorstanding the amount and kind cf fission procuct spsorption that actually occured, “ (3) The University of Tokyo group a‘ninistored parontally a massive cose of ash to no mouse, snd, followins secrifico 12 hours lator, dotermined by racdosraphy that ratioactivity was present in the mouso skelcton, The activity cf the cosc was not measured, The fact that tho radioactivity was Getcctoau by the scientists in the skelcton of the mouse was widely puctlicizec =s cevilence for their conclusion that the pationts wore carrying Engorous intornal cepositse of rediocective isotopes, 4s incividzuels, the sciontists socnme. anxious to cooperate, In ny initi-1 convorsations with then thoy frecly sskec. for help anc seemed eretifict at some of the things th-t wo coulc co for thom, hy particip=tion on the Ancricnn toan was linitoc to the reciolocicnl -epecete of the casc anc. only incicontally to the pationts thomsclves, Unfcrtunrtely the nature of Dr. Morton's participation requircd that he be given Jircct accoss to the patiocnts an. this tho Japanese consistently rofusod to creant. As the Cvs wont by enotho Japencse bu.cane more resslute in thoir cocision to cony nccess to the pationts, other arcas of the problom tecenc infocted by tho uncooperative atmosphere, This will dDccome apo rrcnt in subsoguont portions of tho report, OFTERS OF ASSISTANCE TO THS JnPavess When I arrivod in Tokyo on March 22 Dr. Morton had alrenacy offerac to the Jepanose the full facilitics cf the Atomic Bomb Cxsuslity Commission, Genoreal Hull hat likcowise offore. the facilitice of tho Far fret Commend, Theec offors were sccomp-nic® by 2 spirit of syapeathy an. the desire to assist the Japanose investigators in thoir efforts to evalusto the ineicent anc to restoro the health of tho fishermon, =t 2 mocting with top