In Hiroshima, Japan, the Committee has the honor to meet with
Fumio Shigeto who,
as mentioned earlier,
is an A-homb survivor
and director of the Hiroshima A-bomb Hospital.
Dr. Shigeto mentioned
the uneasiness or the feeling of uncertainty survivors like himself
a feeling which,
he said, was shared by "all
survivors".
Later, during its first trip to meet with the people of Rongelan
and Utirik, the Committee posed the question of whether or not the
ceople who were exposed felt uneasy ahout their exposure.
"Whenever we have a cold,
—my
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at meetings on both islands was generally:
The answer
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felt ahout the future,
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Dr.
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by H-homb fallout nearly 19 vears ago.
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Islands, people are still being found with diseases apparently caused
my
the bombs dropned there nearly 28 years ago and today in the
Marshall
or some other kind of sickness, we think of the bomb."
mitted to the Institute where Dr. Kumatori works,
ease?
Did he feel uneasy?
"Psychologicallv,
‘ir,
I trust Dr.
Oshi's remarks,
Was his mind at
as translated,
were,
Kumatori and I am satisfied.”
He was
then asked how he felt when he contracted a normal illness,
Pid he
think of the bomh and the fallout?
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how he felt about the annual examinations he suh-
His answer was, “Immediatelv."
The Committee thus helieves that one of the late or long term
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was first asked,
He
roy
Dr. Kumatori, when asked about his anxiety over his experience,
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in a meeting in Tokyo with
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Dragon survivor, Mr. Matashigi Oshi,
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is that of the anxiety they share about the future.
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effects of irradiation in the case of the Rongelarese and Utirikese