In late September 1945, a joint U.S.-Japan survey team was formed in response to a request for medical cooperation from the U.S. In mid-October, the Hiroshima team, which had arrived in Japan and visited the city of Hiroshima, began a joint survey at the Hiroshima First Army Hospital, Ujina Branch. On November 7, 1945, medical examinations of A-bomb survivors were conducted at the temporary home of the Hiroshima Railroad Bureau in Ujina.
On September 22, 1945, a meeting was held at the Faculty of Medicine of Tokyo Imperial University between U.S. military medical personnel and Professor Takeo Nagamiya of the Tokyo Imperial University School of Medicine. As a result, "the Japan-US Joint Commission" (called "the Joint Commission" by the Americans) was formed. The members of the Japan-US Joint Commission were selected mainly by Professor Tsuzuki. The Japanese team consisted of 36 researchers and 21 medical students from various departments of the Tokyo Imperial University School of Medicine, Koichi Murachi from RIKEN, and members from the Army Medical College and the Tokyo Military Hospital.
The Hiroshima group of the joint Japanese-U.S. survey team (10 members from the U.S. side, including Colonel Mason, and 37 from the Japanese side) arrived in Hiroshima on October 12. They began their joint investigation at the Ujina Branch of the Hiroshima First Army Hospital. The American and Japanese doctors in the joint survey team worked together to examine A-bomb survivors. The first American survey was completed in September 1946, and the materials collected were brought back to the United States.
The American side reported on the contents of the survey in the "Medical Effects of the Atomic Bombing on Japan" in the November 1946 report of the Joint Committee, and the Japanese side reported in the "Report of the Atomic Bomb Disaster Survey" of the Science Research Council of Japan.
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