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World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs

HIROSHIMA, Japan, Dec. 18 Kyodo - Photo shows the first World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1955, the 10th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japan city. The conference gained momentum after Japanese tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 was irradiated by fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

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World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 18 Kyodo - Photo shows the first World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs in Tokyo on Aug. 15, 1955, the 10th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II. The conference gained momentum after Japanese tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 was irradiated by fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

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70th anniversary of Lucky Dragon tragedy

Photo shows the tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5, also known as the Lucky Dragon, at an exhibition hall in Tokyo on Feb. 29, 2024, on the eve of the 70th anniversary of its crew tragically being exposed to radiation in a U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. The crew suffered acute radiation sickness, and the chief radio operator died six months later at age 40.

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70th anniversary of Lucky Dragon tragedy

Photo shows the tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5, also known as the Lucky Dragon, at an exhibition hall in Tokyo on Feb. 29, 2024, on the eve of the 70th anniversary of its crew tragically being exposed to radiation in a U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. The crew suffered acute radiation sickness, and the chief radio operator died six months later at age 40.

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ICAN chief Melissa Parke in Tokyo

Melissa Parke, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, visits the Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall in Tokyo on Jan. 23, 2024.

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ICAN chief Melissa Parke in Tokyo

Melissa Parke (R), executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, visits the Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall in Tokyo on Jan. 23, 2024.

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Bikini nuclear test marks 60th anniversary

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Matashichi Oishi (C), a former crew member of the Japanese fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 that was contaminated by nuclear fallout from the 1954 U.S. H-bomb test at Bikini Atoll, shakes hands with a Marshallese survivor (L) in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands republic, on March 1, 2014, the 60th anniversary of the test. To the right is Kaede Nagashima, a Japanese university student from Fukushima, home to the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Japanese survivor of H-bomb test meets U.S. official

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Matashichi Oishi (L), a former crew member of the Japanese fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 that was contaminated by the nuclear fallout from the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test on the Bikini Atoll, chats with Rose Gottemoeller, U.S. acting undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands on March 1, 2014.

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Japan fisherman exposed to Bikini nuke fallout recalls ordeal

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Former Japanese fisherman Matashichi Oishi speaks of his exposure to nuclear fallout from the 1954 U.S. H-bomb test on Bikini Atoll at a school in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands republic, on Feb. 27, 2014. He was aboard the Fukuryu Maru No.5 near the atoll at that time.

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Japanese survivor of Bikini nuclear test speaks 60 years on

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Matashichi Oishi (R), a former crew member of the Japanese fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 that was contaminated by nuclear fallout from a 1954 U.S. H-bomb test at Bikini Atoll, speaks during a memorial ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the test in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands republic, on March 1, 2014.

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Bikini nuclear test 60th anniversary

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Nerje Joseph (R), 65, a Marshallese survivor of the 1954 powerful nuclear test by the United States at Bikini Atoll, shakes hands with Matashichi Oishi (C), 80, a former crew member of the Japanese fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 that was contaminated by nuclear fallout from the bomb test, when they meet in Majuro, the capital of Marshall Islands, on Feb. 28, 2014.

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Fallout from U.S. nuke tests continues to take toll

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in December 2013 shows Masatoshi Yamashita, a former high school teacher, giving an interview at his home in Sukumo, Kochi Prefecture. Yamashita, together with his students, confirmed after 30 years of studies that some 1,000 Japanese fishing boats were exposed to "death ash" caused by a series of U.S. nuclear tests in the central Pacific Ocean around 60 years ago, in addition to the Fukuryu Maru No. 5 tuna fishing boat that was exposed to fallout from a U.S. hydrogen bomb detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands on March 1, 1954.

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Bikini Atoll radiation survivor continues antinuclear fight

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Jan. 19, 2014 shows Matashichi Oishi (L), a former crew member of the Fukuryu Maru No. 5, and his daughter, Yoshiko Tanaka, standing in front of the trawler preserved and displayed at the Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall run by the Tokyo metropolitan government in Tokyo's Koto Ward. The tuna fishing boat was exposed to nuclear fallout from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands on March 1, 1954, while fishing about 160 kilometers east of the atoll.

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Bikini Atoll radiation survivor continues antinuclear fight

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows officials measuring radiation levels of a tuna landed at the Tsukiji Market in Tokyo from the Fukuryu Maru No. 5 on March 16, 1954. The tuna fishing boat was exposed to nuclear fallout from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands on March 1 that year, while fishing about 160 kilometers east of the atoll.

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TV director sheds fresh light on 1954 H-bomb tests

TOKYO, Japan - TV director Hideaki Ito speaks about his documentary film "'X' Years Later" during an interview on July 6, 2013 in Tokyo. Ito investigates in the film whether more boats than the Fukuryu Maru No. 5 were exposed to radioactive ash when the United States conducted hydrogen bomb tests in the Pacific in 1954.

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Antinuclear rally

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Matashichi Oishi, a 78-year-old former crew member of the trawler Fukuryu Maru No. 5, speaks during a rally in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on March 1, 2012. Antinuclear activists called for an end to reliance on nuclear power at the rally on the 58th anniversary of the exposure of the tuna fishing boat to radiation from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific in 1954.

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Ex-Lucky Dragon crewman Oishi with his new book

TOKYO, Japan - Matashichi Oishi, former crew member of Japanese trawler the Fukuryu Maru No. 5, or Lucky Dragon No. 5, holds his new book on war and the history of nuclear weapons titled ''Mujun'' (L), meaning contradiction, and the English translation of another of his books, ''The Day the Sun Rose in the West'' (R), in Tokyo in November 2011. The boat and crew members were exposed to radiation from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean in 1954.

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Exhibition on nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll

TOKYO, Japan - A man looks at a photo panel at an exhibition in Tokyo on Oct. 20, 2010, on the U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in 1954, in which a Japanese tuna fishing boat, the Fukuryu Maru No. 5 from Shizuoka Prefecture, was hit by radiation.

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Ex-fisherman seeks antinuclear stone monument at Tsukiji Market

TOKYO, Japan - Matashichi Oishi, a former crewman of the Japanese trawler Fukuryu Maru No. 5, visits a section of Tokyo's Tsukiji Market where ''A-bomb maguro'' (tuna) is said to have been buried.

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Peace march commemorates 1954 Bikini Atoll H-bomb blast

YAIZU, Japan - People march through the fishing town of Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on March 1 to mark the 51st anniversary of the irradiation of the crew of the fishing ship Fukuryu Maru No. 5 in 1954 by fallout from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

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(2)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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(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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(1)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. About 2,000 people marched to the grave of Aikichi Kuboyama, who was chief radio operator of the Fukuryu Maru.

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(4)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. Photo shows the Fukuryu Maru displayed at Yumenoshima in Tokyo's Koto Ward.

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U.S. examined autopsy tissue of Bikini Atoll blast victim

LAS VEGAS, United States - Declassified documents discovered recently at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) archives in Nevada show the United States had studied tissue from the autopsy of Japanese fisherman Aikichi Kuboyama, a crew member on the No. 5 Fukuryu Maru fishing boat, who died after exposure to radiation from the 1954 Bikini Atoll hydrogen bomb test.

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Monument to tuna contaminated by H-bomb test

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken April 14, 2000 shows a stone "tuna monument" erected in the yard of the Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall on Yumenoshima in Tokyo's Koto Ward and Matashichi Oishi, a former crew member of the Fukuryu Maru No. 5, a tuna fishing boat exposed to contamination by the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll, who created the monument in 1999 as a reminder of the dreadful effects of the test and a symbol of peace.

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Protesters march in Japan for nuclear abolition

Holding a photo of Aikichi Kuboyama, who died of irradiation after a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific in 1954, a woman and fellow antinuclear group members march in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on March 1 to appeal for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Kuboyama was one of the crew members of the Japanese fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5, that was exposed to radioactive fallout near the Bikini Atoll on the same day 45 years ago.

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Peace march commemorates 1954 Bikini Atoll H-bomb blast

YAIZU, Japan - People march through the fishing town of Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on March 1 to mark the 51st anniversary of the irradiation of the crew of the fishing ship Fukuryu Maru No. 5 in 1954 by fallout from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. (Kyodo)

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Lucky Dragon museum marks 40th anniversary

Photo taken June 9, 2016, in Tokyo shows the Fukuryu Maru No. 5, known as the Lucky Dragon, which was hit by nuclear fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific. The exhibition hall marked its 40th anniversary on June 10, and a panel will soon consider how to preserve the dilapidated tuna fishing boat, a symbol of the horror of nuclear weapons and radiation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Marshall Islands resident visits Fukuryu Maru exhibition hall

Desmond Doulatram from the Marshall Islands touches the hull of Japanese tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5, which was irradiated by fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll and is now displayed in Tokyo, on March 30, 2016. During an exchange program between nuclear-affected people, hosted by a nongovernmental organization, Doulatram will also visit Fukushima, home of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Marshall Islands resident visits Fukuryu Maru exhibition hall

Desmond Doulatram (3rd from L) from the Marshall Islands and others visit the exhibition hall of Japanese tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5, which was irradiated by fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll, on March 30, 2016, in Tokyo. During an exchange program between nuclear-affected people, hosted by a nongovernmental organization, Doulatram will also visit Fukushima, home of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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62 yrs since Lucky Dragon hit by hydrogen bomb test

Demonstrators march through the central Japan city of Yaizu on March 1, 2016, to commemorate Aikichi Kuboyama, a crew member of Fukuryu Maru No. 5, known as the Lucky Dragon, who died after the tuna fishing boat encountered U.S. hydrogen bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands 62 years ago. The participants call for elimination of nuclear weapons. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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62 yrs since Lucky Dragon hit by hydrogen bomb test

Demonstrators march through the central Japan city of Yaizu on March 1, 2016, to commemorate Aikichi Kuboyama, a crew member of Fukuryu Maru No. 5, known as the Lucky Dragon, who died after the tuna fishing boat encountered U.S. hydrogen bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands 62 years ago. The participants called for elimination of nuclear weapons. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese victims of 1954 U.S. H-bomb test enraged by N. Korea

Matashichi Oishi, a 81-year-old former crew member of the fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 that was exposed to radioactive fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific, speaks in Tokyo on Jan. 7, 2015, about the alleged North Korean hydrogen bomb test. He said, "If (the bomb is) used, it is the end of humankind. I know the horror of it as a person who experienced it." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Event to mark Russell-Einstein Manifesto's 60th anniversary

Takao Takahara, a professor at Meiji Gakuin University, speaks during a ceremony at the exhibition hall of Fukuryu Mmaru No.5, a trawler exposed to radioactive fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, in Yumenoshima Park in Tokyo on July 5, 2015, to mark the 60th anniversary of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto issued against weapons of mass destruction. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Event to mark Russell-Einstein Manifesto's 60th anniversary

Michiji Konuma, a professor emeritus at Keio University, speaks during a ceremony at the exhibition hall of Fukuryu Mmaru No.5, a trawler exposed to radioactive fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, in Yumenoshima Park in Tokyo on July 5, 2015, to mark the 60th anniversary of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto issued against weapons of mass destruction. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-fisherman exposed to 1954 U.S. nuke test dies at 87

Photo taken in April 2015 shows Matashichi Oishi, a former crew member of the Japanese tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 that was exposed to radioactive fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, at its exhibition hall in Tokyo. Oishi died of pneumonia on March 7, 2021.

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Rare photos show inside of Fukuryu Maru No. 5

Kazuya Yasuda, chief curator at the exhibition hall of the Fukuryu Maru No. 5 in Tokyo, explains on Aug. 2, 2017, histories of the tuna boat, also known as Lucky Dragon, hit by radioactive fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific Ocean. Kyodo News reporters were allowed to shoot pictures inside the 70-year-old vessel. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rare photos show inside of Fukuryu Maru No. 5

Photo taken Aug. 2, 2017, shows the deck of the Fukuryu Maru No. 5, displayed at an exhibition hall in Tokyo. Kyodo News reporters were allowed to shoot pictures of inside of the 70-year-old tuna boat, also known as Lucky Dragon, hit by radioactive fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific Ocean. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rare photos show inside of Fukuryu Maru No. 5

Photo taken Aug. 2, 2017, shows the radio shack of the Fukuryu Maru No. 5, displayed at an exhibition hall in Tokyo. Kyodo News reporters were allowed to shoot pictures of inside of the 70-year-old tuna boat, also known as Lucky Dragon, hit by radioactive fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific Ocean. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rare photos show inside of Fukuryu Maru No. 5

Photo taken Aug. 2, 2017, shows the Fukuryu Maru No. 5, displayed at an exhibition hall in Tokyo. Kyodo News reporters were allowed to shoot pictures of inside of the 70-year-old tuna boat, also known as Lucky Dragon, hit by radioactive fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific Ocean. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rare photos show inside of Fukuryu Maru No. 5

Kazuya Yasuda, chief curator at the exhibition hall of the Fukuryu Maru No. 5 in Tokyo, shows on Aug. 2, 2017, the wheelhouse of the tuna boat, also known as Luck Dragon, hit by radioactive fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific Ocean. Kyodo News reporters were allowed to shoot pictures of inside of the 70-year-old vessel. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Former crew member of Lucky Dragon

Matashichi Oishi, a former crew member of the fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 that was exposed to radioactive fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific, stands beside the ship, also known as the Lucky Dragon, at its exhibition hall in Tokyo in April 2015. (Photo by Tatsuya Hagiwara)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Aging H-bomb victim lobbies to bring antinuke monument to Tsukiji

People visit an antinuclear "Tuna Memorial" next to a Tokyo museum exhibiting the Japanese tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5, which was contaminated with radioactive fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific, in April 2016. Former Fukuryu Maru crew member Matashichi Oishi, who led a fundraising campaign in the late 1990s to erect the monument, hopes to transfer it to the Tsukiji fish market site. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Aging H-bomb victim lobbies to bring antinuke monument to Tsukiji

Matashichi Oishi, an 82-year-old former crew member of the Japanese tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5 that was contaminated with radioactive fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific, seeks support for his petition to set up an antinuclear "Tuna Memorial" at the Tsukiji fish market site, during a gathering in Tokyo on Sept. 22, 2016. The toxic tuna catch, unloaded from the Fukuryu Maru, was shipped to Tsukiji and buried there. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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40-yr-old museum on H-bomb test-hit boat continues nuke-free quest

Mari Ichida (L), 48, a curator of the Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall, offers explanations to a group of students visiting the museum in Tokyo on May 27, 2016. The wooden object on display is the actual tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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40-yr-old museum on H-bomb test-hit boat continues nuke-free quest

Matashichi Oishi (R), 82, a former crew member of Japanese tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5, speaks in front of students at Miwada Girls' Junior and Senior High School in Tokyo on Jan. 22, 2016. Next to him is Mari Ichida, 48, a curator of the Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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

Hajime Kikima, a 71-year-old doctor in Shizuoka Prefecture, speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Osaka Prefecture on Feb. 7, 2016, about 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