European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 14, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 17 treating japans radiation victims by Sally Solo associated press four decades after Hiroshima and Nagasaki became the Only cities Ever destroyed by atomic about people in Japan carry certificates designating them As or bomb eligible for free medical in 40 years of the i Bakshas lives and deaths have provided doctors and scientists the Only information available on what happens to the human body when it is exposed to nuclear an estimated died in the explosions and sub sequent radiation of the Hiroshima and thousands More died in the following of the hib Kusha who died in 1945 and have been Ridenti their names Are listed each year in a memorial Cenotaph in the in where an estimated people initially victims have been files overflow at the radiations effects re search foundation where the Case studies of tens of thousands of Hiroshima hib Kusha have been kept since and at the Hiroshima hib Kusha health where about survivors go for checkups twice a but the documents Only begin to explain the correlation Between radiation and maybe half is known against the total knowledge of the effects of Itsuzo Japa Nese director of the said in an inter the spread across the top of a Mountain in the Eastern part of the until 10 years ago was the atomic bomb casualty the first institution to begin a systematic study of the hib Kusha among its Early findings were that hib Kusha showed an increase in thyroid cataracts and other malignant depending on their proximity to the blast epicentre and their age at the Many babies were born with Small Heads and were mentally Chikako a director at the Hiroshima we cant distinguish the cause whether its natural or an effect of the bomb but we know that compared with the the rates of some diseases Are who escaped the bomb because As a preschool child she was sent to the Countryside during the its still too Early to know the effects on people who were exposed when they were because they Haven yet reached the years when cancers normally Well probably know More in a few Over the the number of diseases attributed to radiation exposure has increased and the definition of hib Kusha has a hib Kusha May be someone who was exposed directly to the 6 blast in Hiroshima or the 9 blast in someone who entered one of the cities up to two weeks or someone affected by radioactive the Black rain that fell Over the hib Kusha say they have suffered effects that cant be explained within the limits of current medical the doctor May say the body is in Normal but the i Bakshas body Doest believe where it May take most people four to five Days to shake a it takes some hib Kusha two said Satoru Koni a professor of German at Tokyo Oritsu who was in Junior High when he wandered into Hiroshima on the Day after the i know it said who carries acupuncture Needles to relieve chronic pains in his current Medicine is too weak to prove anything concerning subjective Shigematsu he said Many problems hib Kusha cite can Only be listed As due to neurosis or As for the effect on the next the doctor As of we Haven found any significant but that Doest mean we can say there Are apart from the limits of Medicine and the fact that the hib Kusha population is still in the study was impeded by the United states until a few years to release full information on the makeup of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki the new data sent scientists from Japan and the United states scrambling to revise conclusions drawn from the empirical information gathered from the Hiba whose exposure to Neutron rays were estimated to be about 10 times too Shigematsu were he adding that the diseases were caused by on tenth the so the present nuclear safety standards have been too easy and they should be made More the standards were based on data gathered from the survivors and what scientists believed were the Gamma and Neutron rays emitted by the an ref newsletter says that by each of eight binational working groups reviewing this question will submit final reports to be compiled in a single summary next Shigematsu said the 1979 leak of a radioactive Cloud at the three mile Island nuclear Plant in Pennsylvania was the Best example of How the danger of radiation May have been the air there was but according to the present Standard it was according to the new it was very much Leo Sako is one of the Hiroshima bomb victims who received medical treatment in the United new York times photo