1. Did you experience anything useful in this training?
● I was surprised to learn of the streamlined relationship established between HICARE
and the government to support and conduct research on people who had been exposed toA-bomb radiation and the systematic management and the quality of the medical caresystem in Japan. What I learned through this training is very useful.
● I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the staff members for speciallyarranging the destinations of my visit to include a neuropsychiatry department of amunicipal hospital even under the time constraints of the short one-week training
period.
● I learned many things from the attitudes of the Japanese such as their kindness,modesty and mindset of doing their best to deal with even trivial things.
● It was an honor to directly listen to the lectures of prominent doctors.

2. For what actual purposes are you going to use the knowledge and skills thatyou have acquired through this training?
● I would like to establish a branch office of the International Physicians for thePrevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) in Hawaii.
● I would like to utilize the knowledge as basic information to advance Korea’s radiation
emergency medical management system.

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?
● It would have been better if we could have had an opportunity to meet “hibakusha” andhear their experiences and anxieties beyond the framework of the doctor-patient
relationship.
● It would have been better if I could have had more opportunities to exchange views andtalk with the doctors who delivered lectures.
● I recommend to extend the amount of time to observe facilities in hospitals.
● Since it is difficult to understand clearly what services each institution or hospitalprovides to those who were exposed to radiation, an information sheet systematicallyexplaining the services would have been helpful.
● We repeatedly received explanations of the damage caused by A-bombs in every
introduction lecture at every institute we visited. This redundancy should be avoided tosave precious time. I propose that practical lectures and discussions start immediately
at training institutions.
● It would have been better if I could have experienced the actual work of treating
residents with staff members at the nursing home that I visited.
● It would have been better if I could have received practical training in nucleardecontamination for patients with acute exposure to radiation.

4. Stay in Hiroshima(1) What impression did you have of living in Hiroshima● I felt that Hiroshima is a relatively lifeless city.
● Hiroshima is a miracle city, proving that nothing can destroy the human soul.
● Although Hiroshima is not an especially gorgeous city, it is filled with a quiet and calm
atmosphere and its residents seem to maintain an emotional stability.

(2) Please tell us about what you felt to be inconvenient during the stay inHiroshima.
● I recommend to increase guide signs written in Korean.

5. Impressions about the training●Although I had had a partly negative impression of Japan, this was changed
significantly through the training. I will talk about this experience to other Koreans.
● I was impressed by the HICARE-related institutions, which were still making efforts
to improve themselves even though they already had excellent systems to respond
immediately to emergency exposure to radiation, based on the experience of restorationfrom the A-bomb, thorough management of patients, and continuing research.
● I am deeply appreciative to all doctors who delivered inspiring lectures and guidance
regardless of their ages and positions. I was impressed by their enthusiasm in giving us
lectures and guidance by themselves instead of leaving these jobs to their younger orjunior colleagues.
● I was impressed by seeing HICARE’s attitude of extending a hand voluntarily to help
“hibakusha” to receive medical checks (for example, the mobile medical examination
service extended by Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Casualty Council).
● I would like to engage in pilot research on hibakusha in Hawaii, using standard
examinations of psychological and mental analysis and other relevant methods.
● I reflected on the situation in which I had been busily occupied with my work as chief
nurse in my hospital, so that I had been working just to work. Through this training, Iwas able to go back to the start of my career when my main motivation was to help
suffering people. I affirm again that I will treat patients kindly and be a beneficial
person for others. (This training gave me a good opportunity to reconsider what role I
should play in my work.)● I met people who are still suffering from the injuries that they incurred 65 years ago
and became warier about the danger of exposure to radiation.
● I was surprised at the efforts continuously being made to conduct epidemiologicalinvestigations and research for as long as 50 years under the situation in which geneticdamage to the children of those who were exposed to radiation from A-bomb has still not

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been clarified.
One picture is worth a thousand words. HICARE’s training has served as publicity forinternational cooperation and given it a certain meaning. I expect HICARE tocontribute to promote international cooperation in realizing world peace through thistraining.
HICARE is making a contribution to the world by accumulating the findings of its
research based on records of the diagnosis of patients suffering injuries caused byA-bomb radiation, and sharing a massive amount of data about the impact of radiationon the human body. I would like to use the materials in Korea.
I learned many things from the attitudes of all HICARE members who were engaged
in their work with professionalism and responsibility for their mission in their own
specialized fields.
I was able to establish a connection with Hiroshima University Hospital. This was themost valuable result of this training for me.
The hospital where I work at is likely to be attacked by terrorists because of its location(the west coast of the United States). I realized the necessity of accurate measurementsof the types and doses of radiation that our patients may be exposed to if an emergency
nuclear accident occurs.
Ever since I was an infant I have frequently seen photographs of Hiroshima that myfather had taken when he visited Hiroshima immediately after the the A-bomb attack
as a sailor. Compared with the images in the photographs, I was amazed and impressedby seeing today’s Hiroshima and its recovery as a lively modern city.