March held in Shizuoka to mark 1954 Bikini Atoll H-bomb test

March held in Shizuoka to mark 1954 Bikini Atoll H-bomb test

SHIZUOKA, Japan - About 1,000 people march in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture on March 1, calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons in commemoration of the 54th anniversary of the irradiation of the crew of a Yaizu-based Japanese fishing ship by a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. A march participant carried a photo of Aikichi Kuboyama, the ship's chief radio operator who died six months after the irradiation at the age of 40 and became a symbol of the 1954 incident. (Kyodo)

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