(4) At 0440 hours on March 2, the vessol shiftcd ite course townrd ite home port of Yaizu, whore it arrived at 0600 on Merch 14, <r (5) In the following two or thrcoc days, all the crow rcportod slight headaches and some of thom wero n=uscous, In 7 or 8 days, ovidence of burne on cxposcd parte of the body began to apporr, In response to certain quostions which th Ambassador askod tho forcign Scerviec, the following information was roecivod, It shods some light on the scquones of cvents during tho 2 days following tho roturn of the Fukuryu Maru to Yaizu, but boforce the mishap had come to the attontion of the Embassy. (1) The crow first contactod tho ship's ownar, and the dircctor of tho Fishermen's Union, On the day of their rcturn crow members who wore scriously affocted consulted « physician of tne Kyoritsu Hospital, (2) Two of the fishcrmen, and , who wore in moro scrious condition left the Kyoritsu on Mareh 15 for Tokvo where they visited Doctor Shimizu at tho Tokyo University Hospital, (3) Profogsor Shiokawa mado radiation mossuromonts of tho ship on March 16 and on the basis of his findings all of the crow mombors consultod a& physician who rcocommcndod that the mon bo hospitelizod. er PRIVACY LOT MATTERIAL REMOVED cmt TEE ROLS OF THE JAP aNeSe SCIENTISTS During the lattcr half of March the Japancsc pross was fcd conta&nually with scnsationsal statomonts from Japancso Scicntists, of the Japancse were nevor quite understood by us The motivations but tho following factors may be cnumcersted as pertinent to our lack of progross in dealing with than: (1) In a long privetec conversation that I had with Dr, Teuzuki at his home on the cvening of March 24, he was frank in stating his. aoprchension that tho Amcrican scicntists would dony him and his associatoe profossional recognition duc thom for their accomplishments in the diagnosis and treat- ment of the fishermen, He rceforrod frequently to his oxporionce in 1945 whon he lead the teams of Japancse invostigstors into Hiroshima and Negasaki only to have his work intcrruptod by the Occupation invostigatore who . undcrtook thcir own studics, Dr, Teuguki scemed to accopt my assurancce that in the present situation it was the intont of the Amcrican eciontists to assist the Japuncsc and thet all of our findings would bo available to thom and could be uscd as thoy sew fit in their own publications, Dr. Teuzuki was outwardly fricndly to both Dr. Morton and mysclf until tho timo of his dcperture for Genova on March 31. Despite this, tho lack of cooperation contimucd to be manifcst on the part of tho Japanosc investigators, I do not know whothor this was bocauso wo miejudgod Dr, Tsuzuki's fricndlinces, or because he lackod influcnec on his Japanoso collcagucs, (2) Thore was much ovidonee of rivalry among various Japanose medical groups. in particular, tho staff at Tokyo Univorsity. hnordod by Dr. Tsuzuki, were initielly at odds with the group at the National institvse of headed by Dr, Kobayashi, Morcovor, the local physicians at iaigu, ell but two of tho prticnts wore hospitalizcd until Mrarch 29, wore for various roasons that the pationts romain thoro, Their leck of Henlth, where anxious cooperation with tho Amcrican scicntiste may have boon motivatod by their kmowlodgo that the Amcricans adviscd thet the paticnts bo transforod to Tokyo, FSONRD PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL RE:OVED