原子彈的日本譯名(II)

The Asahi News recently reported the following:

両記者の上司だった木下秀夫氏は、文芸春秋７１年１２月号への寄稿で、分室開設について「すべて極秘のうちに行われた」と記し、こう述懐している。「トルーマン大統領の原爆投下声明も、ポツダム宣言も、日本の降伏受諾が先方に届いたことの確認も、その第一報はすべてここでキャッチされた」
　東郷外相への伝達直後の８月７日午後、大本営は広島に投下された核兵器を「新型爆弾」と発表した。軍が「原子爆弾」と認め、被爆地の残留放射能の危険性を公表したのは同１４日だったとされる。
　核開発の歴史に詳しい山崎正勝・東工大名誉教授（科学史）は、通信社からの情報が生かされなかったことも、２次被爆の拡大の一因とみる。「日本で戦時中にウランの軍事利用を研究していた専門家は、残留放射能の危険性を知っていたが、軍や政府から知らされずに原爆投下直後の広島、長崎に入り、命を失った人たちがたくさんいる」
　鳥居氏は、新聞通信調査会の会報「メディア展望」で、川越分室に関する連載を始める予定という。

Hideo Kinoshita as the superior of the two journalists recorded the branch's set up by contributing an article to the December 71st year edition of the Bungeishunju, noting that "everything was done in the deepest secrecy", and that was the recollection. "As for President Truman's atomic bombing statement, Potsdam Declaration, and the confirmation that Japan had reached the surrender acceptance with other parties, all the first reporting were captured here".

Immediately after the message was transmitted to Foreign Minister Togo in the afternoon of 7th August, the Imperial HQs announced that the nuclear weapon dropped at Hiroshima was a "New Bomb". It was on the 14th that the army acknowledged the "Atomic bomb" and made public the danger of residual radioactivity in the bombed area.

Professor emeritus (history of science) Masakatsu Yamazaki of Tokyo Institute of Technology who knew in details the history of the nuclear development thought that without making the best use of information from the news agency was one reason for the large amount of secondary radiation exposure. "During the war in Japan specialists who were researching on the military application of uranium knew the danger of residual radioactivity, but neither the army nor the government were told and they entered Hiroshima and Nagasaki immediately after the atomic bombing, and a lot of people lost their life".

Torii had planned on publishing a series concerning the Kawagoe branch in "Media Prospect", the bulletin of the Newspaper Communication Investigation Committee.

The event happened in the Kawagoe branch is quite an interesting historical finding in Japan about WWII.