wee ee ee (3) Many of the accoptec procedures of nodern Amorican modical preactico scemce etranze to the Jevanesc, ni thoir concopts are strango to us, For oxenzlo, secoss to ~ationts tr any mhreiciane wea “cnicc for several dsye becauso the Jazancse physicians fount their setimte to be in 9 hichly oxcited state an> prceferc’ not to disturb them, Japenceo physiciens incicatec on scvoral occasions that the taking of cuplicste bloc’ eme-rs by Jap -neec anc dncrican investicntors wes an unncccssary CMpliction, enc =n orceel that the peticnte shoulc not be expecto® to UNCCT20 6 In ny initiel confcronce with the Japancse scientists I was forced to the conclusion that they wore not woll oquinpec to coal proporly with the raciclocicsl .specte of the problon, For oxanplc: (1) Sone of the top sciontists tock the position th.t because a now kint of bond wis involved, the problom iteclf wis a now ono, and that unlcss thoy Imcow 211 about the bond, thoy could cvaluate noithor the injury to the fishcrmon nor the aspect of long-range contminntion of Japan anc its fishin: crows throughout tho Pacific. (2) They were quick tz idontify qualitatively some of the radioactive isotopes in the ash and immediately concluded that deposition of these racio—isotopes in the tissucs of tho non was the prime factor in their medicsl et2tus, This @ccisizn was roachcoe withcut bonefit of readio—choemical urinc anplyses of the »aticnts. This procelure which was beyond the cape-~ bility of their leborstories is of courso » prerequisite to uncorstanding the amount and kind cf fission procuct esbsorption that actually occuroc, (3) The University of Tokyo group anministcred parontally a massive fosc of ash to ne mouse, and, followine sacrifice 12 nours lator, do terninec by racio-raphy that redioactivity was present in the mouse skelcton, The activity of the cosc was not moasurec, The fact that the racioactivity was cotcctcc by the scicntists in the skeloton of the mouso ws wiccly publicized 28 cvilenec for their corelusion that the paticnts wore carrying wengerous intornal ceposits of radicactive isotopes, As inCivliuals, the sciontists sccomce’ anxious to cooperste, In ny initisl conversations with then thoy froecly -skec for help snc scemed eretificd at some of the things tht we coulé co for thon, My participetion on the Ancrican toam was linitec to the reciolovicsl =spcete cf the caso anc. only incicontally to the pationts thenseclves. Unfcrtunrtcly the nature of Dr, Morton's participation roquircéd that he be given “Jircet accces to the pationts anc this the Japanese consistontly rofusec ts grant. As the crys wont by encthe Japenese trcane nore resslute in thoir <cocision to deny access to the pationts, othor arons of tho probloam -ecame infoctod by tho uncooperative atmosphore, This will become app rent in subscquant portions of the report. OSTERS OF ASSISTANCE TO THES JaPavese When I arrivoc in Tokyo on March 22 Dr. Morton had alrenty offeroi to the Japeanose the full fecilitics of the Atomic Bomb Crguslity Commission, Gcnoral Hull hat likowise offoroc tne facilitice of tho Far Z-st Command, These offors were sccompenic’ by © spirit of sympathy an. the desire to assist the Jepenoso investigators in thoir efforts to evalusto the incicent anc to restoro the health of the fishernon, © at 2 mectine with top