People from the Japanese Tobacco Society of Public Health(1) Takashi Sugimura, President of the National Cancer Center
Due to a legal ruling in the United States, internal documents from the tobacco
industry have now been disclosed to the public. Let's take a look at them.
This was the first time that Japan Tobacco (JT), Phillip Morris (PM) and thePresident of the National Cancer Center, Takashi Sugimura, held a meeting.
Professor Hirayama's article was published in January 1981, and on the Emperor'sbirthday (at that time) in April, JT arranged for them to meet at a hotel and totalk for over an hour.
https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/#id=hkwv0093
Of all people, imagine the president of the National Cancer Center being sitting
next to people from JT and PM in a hotel, and then I wonder if it would it befine to act as they say?
President Sugimura disparaged the ideas of his subordinate Dr. Hirayama by
calling them "religious". However, as we can see from today's Surgeon General'sReport, Dr. Hirayama has maintained his job.
To show contempt to those of us who are non-smokers, they are often disparaged
as being religious, based on the remark by Takashi Sugimura, the presidentof the National Cancer Center, during a meeting with JT and PM in April 1981.
At this time, President Takashi Sugimura reviewed the article of Director
Takeshhi Hirayama, who was his subordinate at that time, and disparaged it
as "religious."
https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/#id=hkwv0093
Now, it is now apparent which person is more religious.
It seems that Takashi Sugimura did not know that such documents were stillavailable.
At least until recently, Dr. Hirayama was one of the directors of the NationalCancer Research Center. Accordingly, he told one of the board members "thesedocuments remain", and it seems that he spoke about them at a board meeting.
When Takashi Sugimura heard this, he seemed to be quite upset. This might
have led to the link to Dr. Hirayama's commemorative article (1981/1) being
recently deleted from the National Cancer Research Center's records. But
records can not be erased like cleverly erasing a mistake with an eraser.
(2) Hitoshi Kasuga (Professor at Tokai University)

Among collaborators with the tobacco industry, it seems that no one ought to be
more despicable and absurd than this man.
When he first appeared before us, he was praising the prevention of passivesmoking. But by 28 April 1981, the tobacco industry had already contacted him.
He acquired the trust of Professor Hirayama and was given responsibility for thelatter professor's data. According to a 1985 letter, it was all given to thetobacco industry.
Then, by using this access, the tobacco industry then began denouncing Dr.
Hirayama's research by picking on minute details.
From 30 March to 3 April 1992 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the symposium ``8thWorld Conference on Tobacco and Health'' was held. The moderator, Professor
Judith Mackay, reprimanded some in the audience, ``This assembly hall... There
are persons from the tobacco industry here! Leave immediately!'' she said,
pointing at Mr. Kasuga. Under the gaze of everyone in the assembly hall, Hitoshi
Kasuga appeared sluggishly leaving the assembly hall with his grey hair
fluttering.
This is a letter addressed from Mr. Shimizu of JT to Mr. Hoel of PM:

(3)https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/#id=glfw0198

Before the 6th Tobacco and Health Conference (9-12 November 1987), a summary ofresearch funds and projects from JT was published. (dated 4 June 1986)
It is a terrible list. During 1985, JT paid over 300 million yen on research
projects. On the list of research projects titled "smorking (sic) andcancer"(1), if you look at item 12, there is even research on polonium (210Po).
The important point about these research projects is that their results remainedinternal to JT and were never transmitted to the public.
(4)These people are classified into 3 main categories. They are(1) Ministry of Treasury - Ministry of Finance(2) Japan Tobacco (JT)(3) Phillip Morris (PM)Category (1) includes people near the Ministry of Treasury/Ministry of Finance,starting with Itsuzo Shigematsu. Itzo Shigematsu said that lung cancer has norelationship to tobacco. He is famous for saying that Minamata disease(methylmercury poisoning) has no relationship to mercury and that itai-itaidisease (cadmium poisoning) has no relationship to cadmium. These statements
tied him to members of the Tobacco Business Subcommittee of the Fiscal SystemCouncil. https://www.mof.go.jp/about_mof/councils/fiscal_system_council/subof_tabacco/index.html However, this category excludes those who were forced to resign

because they adamantly insisted that images of health effects should be put on
tobacco packages.
Category (2) includes people tied to the Smoking Science Research Foundation.
Until now, it has provided approximately 6 million yen over three years toapproximately 100 people each year. This amount is overwhelming.
Category (3) includes people near Phillip Morris, starting with Takashi
Sugimura. Recently, even if people smoke, cases of the novel coronavirus have
not worsened, and deaths have not increased. Perhaps this has led people toclaim that heated tobacco has reduced harm relative to combusted tobacco.
Although the number of contaminants in heated tobacco is low, their malignancy
is high(5) Dr. Wataru Mori (Professor of Pathology, University of Tokyo; President of
the University of Tokyo)

The executive office of the Japanese Society for Tobacco Control has collectedsummaries of commissioned research reports on smoking and health from Japan
Tobacco Inc., as well as annual research reports from the Smoking Science
Research Foundation up to the latest issue.
If there is a concern that he may have conducted this kind of research, ouroffice can investigate immediately.
Around 1986, a certain professor met Dr. Wataru Mori by chance on the campus of
the University of Tokyo. Based on the rumors, that professor asked, "Have you
been doing research on tobacco companies recently?" "No", Dr. Mori said bluntly.
That professor shook his head and walked away.
Let's examine the 1984 commissioned research report and the 1986 annual research
report. The former examined 2987 cases that had recently analyzed autopsies overthe past 40 years. From these results, a high rate of cancer associated withsmoking was seen in the lungs, maxillary sinuses, salivary glands, esophagus,
tongue, pleura, laryngo-pharynx, kidneys, and other areas. However, in theseresearch reports, something strange was stated: "The fact that the relative risk
for lung cancer from cigarettes has decreased over time properly correspondswith recent improvements in cigarettes themselves, such as lower tar content,
and the increasing rate of carcinogenic factors in the environment, such as airpollution." Then, "This was understood to mean that factors other thancigarettes are strongly influencing the prevalence of lung cancer," they stated,with an obscure meaning.
Regarding the 1986 annual research report, Professor Wataru Mori said: "Fromcases in each previous year, we investigated the relationship between malignant
tumors and a history of drinking and smoking. The subjects were 9107 cases from1936 to 1983." The results in each year were almost the same as the results fromthe previous year's study. As for the effects of smoking, higher rates ofesophageal cancer, sinus tumors, and lung cancer were found in men; and higherrates of esophageal cancer and lung cancer were found in women. From theseresults, the report concluded: "If we assume the hypothesis that chronic
irritation from alcohol, nicotine, tar, et cetera extends over many years, thencarcinogenesis is promoted, and we believe that the relative frequency of eachtumor reflects to some extent the risk of each tumor associated respectivelywith drinking and smoking." For reference literature, see the epidemiology ofgastric cancer from professor Takeshhi Hirayama, cited in Internal Medicine MOOK
8:4-10, 1979.
This view is generally correct today.

When a professor told Professor Morithat Professr Mori was researching tobacco, he must have thought that he wascorrect when he immediately said, "I am not doing that." As a metaphor, even if
one to starts to turn into a zombie, one can return to the right path.
By the way, to cite a few names in the 1986 research annual report, the names ofresearch presenters such as Takatoshi Ishikawa, Kazuo Takemoto, Shigeyoshi
Kanizawa, Yutaka Abe, Takahide Izumi, Yoshinosuke Fukuchi, Satoshi Yanagida,Hitoshi Kasuga and Hiomi Homma were recognized immediately.
(6) Seigo Fukuma (Director of Chiba Cancer Center)
PM and JT recruited people who could make nice comments that wereconvenient for them. PM described these researchers as "in our pockets". It
seems that these would include Hitoshi Kasuga, Seigo Fukuma, Yutami
Tominaga, Satoshi Yanagita and many others who had repeatedly collaboratedwith overseas PM researchers. Seigo Fukuma even gave a lecture aboutthe "advantages of smoking" at the Tobacco Institute of Japan (TIOJ) inJuly 1993, lasting 1 hour and 40 minutes and using 84 slides.
Because of this, Dr. Takeshhi Hirayama was practically isolated in Japan,
and the things he wanted to do, like to prevent passive smoking, were met
with derision at academic societies.

(7) Ministry of Finance, Financial Affairs Bureau, Tobacco and Salt BusinessOffice?
These people might even end up having a hand in committing crimes.
A letter dated 9 December 1986 from JT to Alan Rodgman, head of the Tobacco andHealth Committee of the Japan Tobacco Association. (524131447)
The following is what is written there:
During briefing session with Mr. Guilfoie, one subject came up that was notdiscussed with JTI staff. In March ,1987 the Japanese Ministry of Health isscheduled to publish a "white paper" on smoking and health. Through contacts
within the ministry, JTI scientists have obtained a copy of the first of
three drafts of this paper. Since a large portion of the references cited in
the review are not Japanese, JTI scientists would prefer to have some outside
experts review and comment on the Ministry of Health draft.
This is illegal. First, one wonders if the money flowed from the Ministry ofHealth, Labor and Welfare or the Ministry of Finance? It could not have been
the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. There is no way they would takesuch a great risk by doing such a thing. Therefore, it would undoubtedly be
the Tobacco and Salt Business Office in the Financial Affairs Bureau of theMinistry of Finance.
ThereareJTpersonnel

working in the Tobacco andSalt Business Office, so I
think that it is possiblethat the draft paper leaked
from there.
Regarding this white paper, PM and RJ Reynolds (RJR) greedily wanted to see
all of its contents, and they were trying to obstruct the results from anational white paper by dissecting its contents.