25-L Action FE FROM Tokyo ss TO Secretary of State SP 0 NO SAE L H p Eisenbud arrived last night Briefed at a'a fit · sulted with Morton and ABCC associates 8 C l ·Qit fj '54J' Q sentat J _vefl at US fish industry Japanese Government notified ri- anee-'a J _ -· ig courtesies extended but unable arrange meeting wit interested official agencies until tomorrow j j Info G OLI USIA CIA OSD NAVY DCLC ----- -----------i-r' s - - _ ______ _ te of'Action 2279 March 23 8 p m SECTION 0NEt Ri n'l' fPJ1ae Pf - rt I · i tj c $ 2 Despite repeated assurances of full cooperation rom Oka Zak L· strong representations to Tsuchiya who called Ambass at mid- 01 g night to repeat intentions to cooperate and designation of 0 « Haruai Takeuchi as Central Liais on Officer official Japanese _ _ cooperation continues decline i 1 'c OJ 9 Cl »-l A Morton and ABCC physicians have only limited access t o the two patients at Tokyo University Hospital and have not be en I • Qt permitted to make independent blood zounts urinalysis et cete '· 1 or to take full case histories · OJ·• 01 B Th 21 patients have not been moved from Yaizu Excuse is some are reluctant to go to Tokyo Foreign Office inform us privately real difficulty is with hospital officials Yaizu authorities want to retain patients Tokyo doctors and bureauc ta cannot agree whether Tokyo University or National Health Institute should have custody · ' C FUKURYU MARU still held at Yaizu For1 lgn Office says Japanese doctors and scientists pressuring government not to release vessel so that they may continue indefinitely study of its radioactivity and have opportunity publish necessary scien tific papers so whole world will know how to treat such ease n ·0-J D Emo tional press stories continue alleging US wishes obtain V 1 1hip to destroy the evidence · e nd U$ i pterest d in P ayien ts 6 only a s guinea pigs note 21 patients left in Provincial Hospital at Yaizu and denied US aid while Japanese doctors argue over prescriptive rights to futu e monographs Pr se vying in i sensationalism with reports of radioact ive illness throughout r t nation new cargoes of radioactive fish or boats arrivingifrom-c 1 11t bPacific co tamination of ocean currents et cetera leadjfor C9a much of this given by normally reputable Japanese scientists· c o l tj Doctor Tsuzuki of Tokyo University for instance predicted toc 5 % iet yesterday two patients would die called Japan vj__Q ---- ' coun tzSECK t l · lCl t PERMANENT RECORD COPY • This copy must be returned nur 1 A FIED i•vfres -- C't'° -' 'nt 1s 1 Q with notatjon of action faken 11 -- - -7 -- -_ ___ DECLASSIFIED _ Authority NO j$2- q3L -2- 2279 I ch 23 8 p u mt1 OF TWO from Tokyo country US irresponsible and said no need exists for US interference or assi tance 3 Explanation this state of affairs probably combination of following A Inability government to control scientists and doctors weakness of security framework for legal controls and lack of sense of responsibility to devise means to cope with this emergency B In-fighting among Japanese official agencies whose scientists and bureaucrats sense moment of glory and opportunity for future atomic research leadership Principal rivals are Ministry of Education Tokyo University Ministry of Welfare National Institute Health C Peculiar psychology Japanese scientists compounded of nationalism neutralism utopianism softness toward communism and for many of them bitter resentment over their treatment under occupation Tsuzuki for example had his reports on Hiroshima and Nagasaki confiscated published under occupationnaires names was purged prevented from becoming full professor at Tokyo ALLISON LMS MEJ 8 -l • As received correction to follow Note Read by Miss Jensen H 1 30 p m 3 23 54 DES i -- -- ----- ----------- ----- r-- - - -I DECLASSIFIED _ Authority NrJ O $2- q3L ·11 ' I 11 Ac_ io Info SS G SP Department of State CORRECTED C9 J X Contro 9946 3 24 '@ 1 3 a m · ·- ' FROM Tokyo Rtc•d March 23 1954 Action ll1 t J n trlto q f - TO Action Taken ______ _ NO gAE - c- - FD 'c F ·· _ - Secretary of State - 2 -- - - - - - -•JIIB'l 2279 March 23 SECTION TWO OF TW0 ------ -----1--------Date of Ac'tion - ------ University and has been unable recover frpm µs nu b - -oi his ___ _ original monographs ·J oe S1rmbo1 ____ _ L H i t p --- Name of' Offir OLI USIA CIA OSD 7 _ D Morbidity of national attitude re nuclear w-e pons·-ana_- -------• widespread feelings of racial inferiorttyu 9 D8 Wlear ex' --·· · perience involved - -------- ----- 4 Whatever cause and despite assurance of cooperation which Okumura has just renewed to me in be lf Foreign Office we can no longer permit situation to deteriorate Unless Department D_CL C objects I plan signal limit our toleration tomorrow with letter to Dkazaki withdrawing offer for US Navy to decontaminate FUKURYU MARU Morton Meek and Eisenbud concur we have no further security interest in vessel and Navy tectmicians feel success of operation would in any event be doubtful I shall cite continued Japanese delays in acknowledging offer and irresponsible press campaign as reasons We will offer technical advice if requested for whatever decontamination Japanese may undertake This does not of course affect question compensation to o ner NAVY 5 My recommendations re compensation still stand We continue regard them justified by all we know of merits of case and on public relations grounds We must howeve be prepared make major effort to impress on Japanese Government seriousness of its ' present attitude If its irresponsibility toward security its bureaucratic competitions and its scientific malice continue entire range our future cooperation -- in peaceful atomic coopera- ' 1 tion in MSA and in economic policy -- may be jeopardized This is a major teEt of post-war Japanese responsibility and not only ' US but other nations free world are watching how they meet it l -1- 6 c· Please pass this telegram and all others th ts seri$S - of_ Bugher AEC ALLi£0N tJ t ' BB GB MRM GB 12 - UNCt Mlf1£D J -L PERMANENT• ' RECORD COPY J rr-- · REPROOOCTION FROM THIS COPY IF CLASSI Fl ED_J $ • This copy must be returned to DC R central files with notation of action taken lf ROHl BITEO ·