"Abandoned" sufferers of U.S. nuke tests may offer lessons to Japan

Masatoshi Yamashita, a 71-year-old member of a civic group in Kochi Prefecture, explains at an event in Tokyo on Feb. 27, 2016, how crew members on Japanese ships in addition to the tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 were likely exposed to radiation from the U.S. nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands in 1954. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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