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The Joint Committee has in its files a copy of an unclassified
Department of State Intelligence Report No.
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that
6941,
dated May 19,
1955.
the United States Government gave $2,000,000 to
the Japanese Government, and, after some 15 consulting sessions among
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government agencies, the Japanese Cabinet distributed the money in
various ways.
Most of the money, about 88.6 percent of the total
$2,000,000 went to fishing companies and dealers.
A little more than
ll percent went to the Japanese fishermen on the Lucky Dragon and this
included certain medical payments.
The actual amount of the money
went directly to the fishermen was about 7.6 percent.
that
The payments to
the 23 people, which were determined by the Japanese Government, and
not
the U.S.
government, were as follows.
Family of Mr.
ween neeY 5,500.000 (U.S. $15,2780)
Other 22 fishermen ~-~-~~~-------~~---~ Y 2,000.000 (U.S. $ 5,555]
Thus it can be seen that the fishermen got the equivalent of $5,000
U.S. while the only exception to this was the *one fisherman who died.
(Mr.
) whose family received $15,000 U.S.
money went
to fishing firms and others who had
lost
The rest of the
fish and money because
of the radioactivity from the bomb that fell into the ocean.
The $2,000,000 per person figure might have been gotten from reading
Sages
Japanese newspaper which might have
reported the amount to the fishermen
fo
as ¥ 1,800,000 which is close to two million Japanese Yen, however,
this
amount is equivalent to only $5,000 at the exchange rate of 360 yen to
dollar prevailing only a few years ago.
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