(3)Survivors mark 50th anniv. of Bikini H-bomb test

(3)Survivors mark 50th anniv. of Bikini H-bomb test

YAIZU, Japan - Survivors and peace activists on March 1 mark the 50th anniversary of an incident in which 23 crew members of the Japanese trawler Fukuryu Maru No. 5 from Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, and Rongelap Island residents were irradiated by a blast from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. People paid tribute at the grave of Aikichi Kuboyama, chief radio operator of the Fukuryu Maru, with red roses.

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