UNCLASSIFIED.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
January 3, 1955
3:08 a.m,
INCOMING TELEGRAM
FROMs
Tokyo
TOs
Secretary of State
NO:
1565, January 3, 3 p.m.
PRIORITY
Reference Embassy telegram 1564, January 3, 1955.
Following texts US and Japanese notes
VERBATIM TEXT
US NOTE
I have the honor to refer to our recent conversations
regarding compensation for Japanese Nationals who sustained
personal and property damage as a result of nuclear tests in the
Marshall Islandse
Your Excellendy knows of the deep concern and sincere
regret the Government and people of the USA have manifested over
the injuries suffered by Japanese fishermen in the course of these
tests, and of the earnest hopes held in the US for the welfare and
wellbeing of these injured fishermen. The Government of the US
of America has made clear that it is prepared to make monetary
compensation as an additional expression of its concern and regret
over the injuries sustained,
I now desire to inform Your Excellency that the Government
of the US of America hereby tenders, ex gratia, to the Government
of Japan, without reference to the question of legal liability,
the sum of two million dollars for purposes of compensation for
the injuries or demages sustained as a result of nuclear tests in
the Marshall Islands in 1954.
The Government of the US of America understands that the
tendered sum will be distributed in such an equitable manner as
may be determined in the sole discretion of the Government of
Japan,
end also wishes to observe
that this
sum ineludes provision
for a solatium on behalf of each of the Japanese fishermen involved and for the claims advanced by the Japanese Government
for their medical and hospitalization expenses,
It is the understending of the Government of the US of
America that the Government of Japan, in accepting the tendered
sum of two million dollars, does so in full settlement of any and
all claims against the US of America or its egents, Nationals, or
juridicial entities, on the part of Japen and its Nationals and