James Yamazaki

former Lead Physician, US Atomic Bomb Medical Team

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Clinical Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at the UCLA School of Medicine; lead physician of the US Atomic Bomb Medical Team assigned to Nagasaki to survey the effects of the bomb (1949), who has since charted the effects of the atomic bomb on three generations of Japanese

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This year, for the first time since 1945, the US ambassador to Japan attended the  annual commemoration  of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Should President Obama make a visit?

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This year, for the first time since 1945, the US ambassador to Japan attended the annual commemoration of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Should President Obama make a visit?

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