Nagasaki only to have his work ingerrupted by the Secupatioa. fe investigators who undertook’ their own atudies, Dr, Teuzuki:%:; seemed to accept my’ assurances that in the present Situation, it was the intent of the American scientists to assist the--.:7: Japanese and that all of our findings would be availabe to 4°." ~, then andcould be used as they! saw fitin‘their,“own publications.oan cenTete RS : mt) wate . <5’: aUEeeyet 2: Jr 40 - ‘Dr. Tsuzuki was “utwardly ‘trtenaly.‘to both’‘Dr,. Norton.and myself until the time of his departure, for Geneva, ‘onMarch 31,°. Despite this, the lackof cooperationcontinued to be “manifest : on the part of the Japanese investigators,’. I do not “know ~. whether this was because. we mis judged Dr, Tsuzuki's friendli-:- ness, or because he jacked influence onhis _Japanese| colleagues. oe ~ ‘ . (2) There via much’‘evidence bf rivalry, among”“Various. Japanese medical groups;,. In ‘particular, thestaff at, Tokyo: - University, headed byDr, Tsuzuki; “were ‘anitially -at. “odds wathSs the groupat the, National Institute of Health, headed by:“Dri Kobayashi. Moreover, the local’physicians’ at. Yaizu,; where“‘all: wg npbut twoof the’ patients”were hospitalized’ until March 29," vere .. anxiousfor. various rezsons_ that thepatients remain there. iis been motivated. by, their. Kncwledge_ that the Americans.“advised: that the “patients,be transfered to.-TOKyO, TE Deeeenee Mees: ~ yt2 = ta a ewe SF 7f ae Aa —_— 2 al ton in oa Oe rate . = 45 ' il re ie “es oe © ee mA (3): Many,”“of.“the:‘acceptedprocedures,of.“modern, ‘American: medical practice’ Seemed strange to theJapanese,and their’Done cepts are Btrange tous, For exemple, access to. patients by. any physicians was denied for several days because the. Japanese: —_- physicians found their patients to be ina highly excited state and preferred not to disturb them, Japanese physicians indi-*- i" ceted on several occasions that the taking of duplicate blood -- simears by Japanese and. American investigators was an’ unneces>24 sary duplication, énd an “ordeal thatthe patients” shouldnot“per ~~ mk expected to. undergo, - eenora Seeger! Ta TES eet ~~ OL a2 25 > De wow eleSe ¥, Ay 2 ra oy Te X a a - r- ~~ . owt = a .. - - - we 2 7 In my‘Anitial, ‘conference with the Japznese scientists I: was forced to the conclusicn tnat they were not well eauipzsed to Geal properly with the radiological aspects of the probien, - For example: . 4 : = - ~ ear. a - .Le 7 . - 7” oO . mg vo. . . x ie “CRUSE anew Ving of boxb ves involved, the orcblem 4tself was @rew cne, and tnet unless they }mew &11 about tne bomb, they eculd evaluate neither the injury to the fishermen nor the esrect of long-range conténination of Japan and its fishing crews throughcut the Facific. (2) They were quick to identify qualitatively scre of the recioactive isotopes in the ash end irmedietely concluced that cerceition of these radioisotopes in the tissues of the rmen'wKas the prime factor in their redicél status, Tnis decision was - reached without _benefit_ of radicchemical urine énalyses of thes yee patients,~ This]procedure “which"as beyond, the’ capabilityOf: 42 Clit their laboratories is of “Coursea prerequisite to understending-“- OSs the enount, and ‘kind of fission“product absorption that actually- | =le t occurred, DOF 2 22eeaS net a Siyee ae re ‘ 7 - 7 a 3 . : ; 0 - ate! . ve xt Witt ae Depts SER, ; a Doe’ ARCH,— 21S 7 jie atte:‘jena os ae ay hletgurtoateTenal