Survivor hopes Obama to reflect on 1954 H-bomb test in Hiroshima visit

Survivor hopes Obama to reflect on 1954 H-bomb test in Hiroshima visit

Matashichi Oishi, 82, speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in a hospital in Fuefuki, Yamanashi Prefecture, central Japan, on May 12, 2016. Oishi was a crew member aboard the Japanese tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 when it was hit by radioactive fallout from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific in 1954. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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