Tamura and Adachi, both lawyers, talk about how they got involved in helping hibakusha. Tamura began to work with hibakusha and to attend study groups on the legal issues related to support for hibakusha beginning in 1992. At that time, the issue of overseas hibakusha had not yet been brought up. Adachi and Tamura talk about the history of how assistance for overseas hibakusha started to develop, beginning with the lawsuit by Korean hibakusha against Mitsubishi. Tamura talks about meeting Kanji Kuramoto, the president of the Committee of Atomic Bomb Survivors in the U.S.A. (CABS), and Takashi Morita, the president of the Association Hibakusha-Brasil Pele Paz (Association of Hibakusha-Brazil for Peace), which made him more aware of the existence of hibakusha in North and South America. They discuss the differences between Korean, American, and Brazilian hibakusha and mention how many American hibakusha want to hide their identities so they won't lose their health insurance. They talk about the difficulties involved with getting support for survivors who are American citizens from the U.S. government and the previous lack of any kind of public health insurance in Brazil, which left hibakusha there liable for their own medical care. Tamura talks about his participation in writing a short section for a book about the Korean hibakusha vs Mitsubishi case.
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