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Sey Nishimura, MSc, PhD

JAMA. 1995;274(5):436-438.

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Beginning with the Allied Occupation in August 1945, US General Douglas MacArthur came to possess greater authority than Hirohito, Emperor of Japan. Similarly, in the field of medicine, Crawford F. Sams (Figure 1), Colonel of the Medical Corps of the US Army, had greater power than the Minister of Welfare of the Japanese government.

Born in East St Louis, Ill, in 1902, Sams was the son of a lawyer who died when Sams was an adolescent. He attended Washington University Medical School in St Louis, Mo, and graduated fourth in his class while working at night for the St Louis office of the Great Northern Railroad.¹ During the Second World War, Sams served in North Africa, Europe, and Washington. Prior to the end of the Pacific War, MacArthur recruited Sams to assume the post of Chief, Public Health and Welfare Section (PHW), Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP) . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From Kyoto, Japan, and the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto (Ontario).

Footnotes
Edited by Annette Flanagin, RN, MA, Associate Senior Editor.

This article, the first in a series of articles on US censorship of medical information in Occupied Japan, has been translated and adapted from an article by the author that appeared in the April 1995 issue of JAMA-Japan.

Correspondence to 26-2 Higashi-tsukamoto-chô, Shimogamo, Sakyô-ku, Kyoto, 606 Japan (Dr Nishimura).

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