ie sae? "Snritea 3 ca wy oe (5). Ink : - wwe ee: yon . ju aa Feitseen we vurse Lowara eR VAG) ACT MATERIAL TEyayED following two.or ivee Gay Talltin crewreported slight baadaches intsome of thea were.nagpeedst, pitaFor § days, evidence of bums onyexppedparts of the bey began to appear. In response to certain questions which the Ambassador asked the 2 Foreign Service, the following information was received, It sheds some light on the sequence of events during the 2 days following the retum 1 i f of the Fukuryu Maru to Yaisu, but before the mishap had come to the attention of the Embassy, The crew first contacted the ship's owner, and the uirector of the I “EPR ee 8 (1) Fisherman's union. On the day of their return crew members tho were seriously affected consulted a physician of the Kyoritau Hospita:, (2) Two of the fishermen, and , Who were in more serious condition left the Kyoritsu on March 15 for Tokyo where they visited Doctor Shimisu at the Tokyo University Hospital, (3) Professor Shiokawa made radiation measurements of the ship on March 16 and on the basis of his findings all of the crew members consulted a physician who recommended that the men be hospitalized. tleee ae THE ROLE OF THE JAPANESE SCIENTISTS During the latter half of March the Japanese presa was fed continually with sensational statements from Japanese Scientists, The motivations of the Japanese wore never quite understood by us but the following factors may be enumerated as pertinent to our lack of progress in dealing with then: (1) In a long private conversation that I had with Dr. Tavzul § his home on the evening of March 2h, he was frank in stating his appr that the American scientists would deny him and his asvrociates pr te. crin - recognition due them for their accomplishments in the diagnosis and treatment of the fishermen. He referred frequently to his experience in 19L5 . when he lead the teams of Japanese investigators into Hiroshima and Nagasaki only to have his work interrupted by the Occupation investigators wh- undertook their own studies. Dr, Tsuzuki seemed to accept my assuruaces thac in the present situation it was the intent of the American scientists tc assist the Japanese and that all of our findings would be available to them and could be used as they saw fit in their own publications, Dr..Tsuzuki was outwardly frierijly to both Dr. Morton and myself until the time of his departure for Geneva on March 31. Despite this, the lack of cooperation continued to be manifest on the part of the Japanese 3§ 3% (2) There was much evidence of rivalry among varic. ~ .pancse :sdical groups. In particular, the staff at T.nyo Universivy © 6 SY 7 eT we Oy were initaally at odds with the group at the National institurve of Yea. -, headed by Dr. Kobayashi, Moreover, the local ph‘s‘cians at Yaizu, mere all but two of the patients were hospitalized until Maret: 23 were anxious for various reasons that the patients remain there. [heir lack of cuoneration with the American scientists may have been motivated by their krowiedge that f g Q 3 colleagues, the Americans advised that the patients be transferred to Toky-,. “" 2 PRIVACY ACT MATERIA @iAVOVED ¥ OF ‘s 3200.16 @ investigators, Ido not know whether this was because we misjudged Dr. Tauzukils friendliness, or because he ldcked influence on his japanese A ba 9