JD: Oh, about three miles. Three miles from hypocenter. That's where the Mukainada Toyo koujo was located, three miles. Two and a half miles the critical area, they say. But so I've been checked by, the doctors from Hiroshima come every two years. They'll be coming this summer again, and the reason is to see how we are changing as a survivor of Hiroshima. And in 2001 they found I had prostate cancer cropping up, moving very fast, so I said to everybody have 'em take care of it right away, so I had an operation in 2001 in the fall. I had that taken up, and right now from a medical, every year I go and check up on my operation. Said it's down to zero now, so, "You're okay, so you don't have to come up anymore." So that's my news. But they said I have a thyroid condition and a liver condition you have to be careful of. That's what I've been watching.

Well, that's the typical condition of the hibakusha, thyroid, liver, blood pressure. Leukemia is a major problem they have, so it's one of the items that they keep on checking that is the cause of, they seen to be the cause, everybody has it, but for the hibakusha it seems to more in frequency and more in the younger age, this condition, so double alert for hibakusha. And I was able to obtain a medical certificate that I could travel to Japan and get a free treatment if I needed, but now they have it so that they made it into international affair that if I'm traveling around the world and if I get, become ill I could go to a certain hospital in any country and get free treatment, long as you have your certificate with you. Looks like a passport, you just show it to them and it has a certain number on it, name on it, and the, what the cause of having the certificate, and you'll probably get a free treatment.

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