“OG 3 WVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED * Cy 2 (4) At 0440 hours on March 2, tho vossol shiftedits tcirsc towed ~ ~~ “> ite home port of Yaizu, whore it arrivod at 0600 on March 14, (5) In tho following two or throo days, all tho crow rcoportod slight headachss and some of thom were neuscous, In 7 or 8 days, ovidonco of burns on cxposod parts of the body began to apponr, In rosponse to corteain quostions which tho Ambassador askod the forcign Sorvicc, tho following information wag rocoivod. It shods some light on the soquenes of cvonts during tho 2 days following tho roturn of the Fukuryu Maru to Yaizu, but bofore the mishap had como to tho attontion of the Embassy. (1) The crew first contactod the ship's owncr, and the dircetor of the Fishcrmen's Union, On the day of their roturn crow members who wore scriously affcctcd consultod e physician of tne Kyoritsu Hospital. (2) Two of tho fishcrmen, and » who wore in moro scrious condition left the Kyoriteu on March 15 for Tokvo where thoy visitod Doctor Shimizu at tho Tokyo Univcrsity Hospital, (3) Profossor Shiokawe mado radiation mossuromente of the ship on March 16 and on the basis of his findings all of the crow mombcre consultod & physician who rccommondod that tho mon bo hospitelizod, TES ROLS OF THE JAPANESE SCIENTISTS During the lattcr half of March the Japancsec pross wes fed contanually with scnsational statomonts from Japancso Scicntistea, Tho notivations of tha Japenoso woro nevor quito understood by us but the following factors mey ho cnumcratod as portincnt to our lack of progross in dealing with than: (1) In a long privste conversation that I hed with Dr. Teuzuki at his home on the cvoning of Morch 24, he was frank in stating his avprohonsion that tho Amcricean scicntists would dony him and his associates profossional recognition duc thom for their accomplishmonts in tho diagnosis and trcat— ment of the ffshormon, Ho rcforrod frequently to his oxperionce in 1945 when tc load /the teams of Japancse invostigstors into Hiroshima ond Nagasaki only to havd his work intcrruptod by tho Occupation invostigators who undertook their own studice, Dr, Tsuzuki scomod to acccpt my assurancce that in the presont situation it was the intont of the Amcrican scicntists to assist tho Japenese and thrt all of our findings would be available to them and could be uscd as thoy saw fit in their own publications, Dr, Teuguki was outwardly fricndly to both Dr. Morton and mysclf until the time of his dopsrturc for Genova on Merch 31. Despite thie, tho lack of cooperation contimicd to de manifcet on the part of tho Japancsac investigators, I do not know whothor this was becauso wo misjudgod Dr, Teazuki's friondlincss, or because ho lackod influcneo on his Japsanoso colloaguos, PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED (2) Thoro was much ovidones of rivalry among variousJapencse modical groups, In particular, tho staff at Tokyo University. ioadod by Dr, Tsuzuki, were initielly at odds with the group at the National Tustitvsc of Henlth, headed by Dr. Kobayashi, Moroovor, the local physicinns at Yalzu, where ell but two of tho pationts woro hospitalized until March 29, worc anxious Sor verious roasons that the pationts romain thero, Their leck of coopersticn with‘tao émorican scicntistse may have boon motivated by their ee o that To aetna d bhndt ha matdanta hn tranafarad to Tokyo,