Banned reports detail Nagasaki's 'disease X'
Sunday, June 19, 2005; Posted: 4:14 p.m. EDT (20:14 GMT)
TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- Censored stories written by an American journalist who sneaked into Japan soon after Nagasaki was leveled by a U.S. atomic bomb have surfaced six decades later.
They offer an unflinching account about the "wasteland of war" and its radiation-sickened inhabitants.
The national Mainichi newspaper this month began serializing George Weller's stories and photographs from Nagasaki, about 614 miles southwest of Tokyo, for the first time since they were rejected by U.S. military censors and lost 60 years ago. <snip>
By hiring a Japanese rowboat, catching trains and later posing as a U.S. Army colonel, Weller, an award-winning reporter for the now-defunct Chicago Daily News, slipped into Nagasaki in early September 1945, the paper said. <snip>
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/06/19/japan.atomic.ap/index.htmlA Nagasaki Report
By George Weller
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/specials/0506/0617weller.html