Katsuaki Aoki is a physician at Hiroshima Kyoritsu Hospital. He began working with the Hiroshima Committee to Invite Korean A-bomb Survivors to Japan for Medical Treatment in the 1990s. He discusses treating hibakusha, including overseas patients from Korea, Australia, and the US. He also provides some brief thoughts on the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission and its successor, the Radiation Effects Research Foundation. He discusses his time at a Catholic school in the post-war period where he interacted with Americans, and says that he had a relatively good impression of the US, but he also criticizes some of the common reasons given for dropping the bomb on Hiroshima. He talks about why he wanted to become a physician and about the challenges of being a physician in Japan, including costs of treatment. He speaks about his involvement with anti-nuclear groups such as the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and the Hankaku Ishi no Kai.
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