SESSION VII 359 FREMONT-SMITH: SCHULL: Yes; in fact they would be sending people out. Yes. CONARD: What was your impression of the psychological reaction of the war on the Japanese people as you observed it” SCHULL: How they respond to it now? Then? CONARD: At the time you first saw them, did you see any residual psychological effect in the people that you could relate to the war? SCHULL: No, but it would have been a very difficult evaluation for me to have made then. I spent the war years in the Pacific and must confess my reactions, when first landed in Tckyo after the conclusion of the war, were ambivalent. I frankly didn't know whether I harbored any residual hostility to the Japanese. If I did, I may have over-compensated with time, at least so my wife accusea me. I've :nuch admiration for Japan and its culture, and may, as a consequence, have lost the objectivity to critically evaluate certain aspects of that culture and the people. It is my impression, however, that most Japanese felt they had been badly misled in getting into the war in the first place and few seemed to feel any personal guilt. Some were stunned by the events, I suppose, but most seemed prepared to accept, almost enthusiastically, the dictates of the occupying forces. UPTON: I would like to ask Bob Miller. He spent a good bit of time over there. How would you respond to this question, Bob? MILLER: Unfortunately, Dr. Lifton should answer, but he is not here. It was my feeling in the pediatric clinic, without being able to document a word of it, that the most prevalent late effect from the atomic bomb was the fear of late effects—a fear of all somatic and genetic consequences. FREMONT-SMITH: bomb particularly? From the bomb—not from the war but from the MILLER: From the bombs, right. But the physical effects were very infrequent. They were large enough to showthat they were the result of radiation, but they were still small in numbers. We did see children and mothers who were fearful of late effects, and sometimes