Questionnaire in 2019 (excerpts)
1. Did you experience anything useful in this training?
 This training in RERF was instructive and really beneficial. I learned new skills, newmethods and approaches, deepened my knowledge about radiation effects and got better
understanding about radiation exposure effects in human organism.
 Lectures given by both Dr. Hirohashi and Dr, Kamada became opportunities for me torenew the idea on response to radiation emergency. Now I understand that in an
unpredictable situation, we need to make a decision without being constrained byconventional fixed ideas.

 I came to Hiroshima, as a Japanese Descendant, and Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Historyis heart touching. The explanation of the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb and theconsequences is clear for me now, as a medical doctor.

2. For what purposes exactly are you going to use the knowledge and skills
that you have acquired through this training?
 I hope to be able to share this knowledge with the Disaster Healthcare Volunteers.
There are many topics I could choose from. I believe most would be interested in what I
learned about chromosomal damage due to radiation exposure.
 I would like to make a manual on radiation protection by going further out of general
concepts of it and considering how we should response under unpredictable situations.
 I hope to share what I have learned here with our students and colleagues at my academic
institution, raising their awareness of health effects of radiation exposure from nuclear
weapons/incidents. I hope that these interactions will inspire new efforts to engage bothscientifically and clinically to build collaborative linkages with Japanese researchers andclinicians.

3. Please tell us your opinion of this training in order to improve HICARE’sprojects. What do you think of the curriculum and the length of thistraining?
 The programs on actual responses to the events as well as listening to the A-bomb
survivor’s story were good. Furthermore, practical workshop on response to radiation
emergency would be helpful for me. (In the case, the training program would need twoor three more days) Personally, I wanted to see the facilities of Radiation therapy. Unfortunately, there
wasn’t any opportunity in the curriculum.

4. Stay in Hiroshima(1) What impression did you have of staying in Hiroshima?
 Very nice city – not too large of a city. People are kind, educated+ health-conscious.
 The experience of walking around Peace Park and Hiroshima Castle.

(2) Please tell us about what you felt to be inconvenient during the stay inHiroshima.

 My stay in Hiroshima is amazing, without inconveniences. The city is very easy andsafety to move in downtown and arounds. The hotel is near the restaurants and thebus stop is in front the hotel.
 I would have also liked to hear more about the difficulties encountered by the researchfoundation (RERF) and hospitals; the psychologic effects on the people , and the social
support system.

5. Impressions about the training
 Listening to A-bomb survivor’s story at A-bomb survivors’ nursing home was truly
painful as if I had actual experience of the incidents which I had learned at Peace
Memorial Park, Peace Park and A-Bomb dome beforehand.
 I am so grateful for your hospitality and the opportunity to meet you all. I hope that
this visit was the beginning of new and broader conversations into how we might
engage again in the future.