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Japanese scientist letter displayed at atomic museum in Nevada

LAS VEGAS, United States - Photo shows parts of a letter by Japanese biophysicist Yasushi Nishiwaki dated March 17, 1954, with his signature, which has been on display at the Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada. The late scientist wrote to the chief of the then U.S. Atomic Energy Commission asking for information on how to help Japanese fishermen exposed to high-level radiation due to a U.S. nuclear test at Bikini Atoll on March 1.

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Yamaguchi, former film star known as Li Xianglan, dies at 94

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in March 1954 shows Yoshiko Yamaguchi (R), a China-born Japanese singer and actress who appeared in several films under the name of Li Xianglan, and American sculptor Isamu Noguchi, who was Yamaguchi's husband at the time, upon their arrival at Tokyo's Haneda airport. Yamaguchi, who later became a House of Councillors member, died of heart failure on Sept. 7, 2014, aged 94, her office said Sept. 14.

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Rongelap, Marshall Islands, 60 years since Bikini fallout

RONGELAP, Marshall Islands - A church stands against the sunrise glow in March 2014 in Rongelap, an atoll of the Marshall Islands that was severely affected by nuclear fallout from the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll.

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Rongelap, Marshall Islands, 60 years since Bikini fallout

RONGELAP, Marshall Islands - A dilapidated basketball goal is pictured in March 2014 in Rongelap, an atoll of the Marshall Islands that was severely affected by nuclear fallout from the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll. In the back are homes built under a resettlement plan for residents who have evacuated from Bikini.

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Rongelap, Marshall Islands, 60 years since Bikini fallout

RONGELAP, Marshall Islands - A whole body counter to check internal exposure to radioactive substances, set up by the United States on the Marshall Islands atoll of Rongelap, is pictured in March 2014. Rongelap was severely affected by nuclear fallout from the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll.

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Rongelap, Marshall Islands, 60 years since Bikini fallout

RONGELAP, Marshall Islands - Members of a family of an unidentified worker on the Marshall Islands atoll of Rongelap are pictured in March 2014. Rongelap was severely affected by nuclear fallout from the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll.

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Rongelap, Marshall Islands, 60 years since Bikini fallout

RONGELAP, Marshall Islands - Homes built under a resettlement plan for residents who have evacuated from the Marshall Islands atoll of Rongelap are pictured in March 2014. Rongelap was severely affected by the nuclear fallout from the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll. No residents have yet returned.

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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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Rongelap women sing in honor of H-bomb test victims

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Women from Rongelap Atoll sing a song about missing their native island during an event held March 1, 2014 in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands, in honor of victims of the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test on the Bikini Atoll.

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Bikini nuclear test marks 60th anniversary

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation chairperson Yasuyoshi Komizo makes a speech on March 1, 2014, during a memorial ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the 1954 U.S. H-bomb test at Bikini Atoll in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands republic.

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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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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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Hiroshima mayor's letter handed to Marshall Islands president

MAJURO, Republic of Marshall Islands - Yasuyoshi Komizo (R), head of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation, presents a letter from Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui to President Christopher Loeak of the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific republic's capital of Majuro on Feb. 27, 2014, before the 60th anniversary on March 1 of the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test, codenamed "Bravo," at Bikini Atoll.

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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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59th anniv. of Bikini Atoll test

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Marshall Islands Senator Kenneth Kedi speaks during a rally in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on March 1, 2013. Protesters called for the elimination of nuclear weapons at the rally held on the 59th anniversary of the exposure of a Japanese tuna fishing boat to radiation from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in 1954.

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59th anniv. of Bikini Atoll test

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Protesters call for the elimination of nuclear weapons at a rally in Yaizo, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on March 1, 2013, the 59th anniversary of the exposure of a Japanese tuna fishing boat to radiation from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll 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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Ichiro makes outstanding catch

PEORIA, United States - Seattle Mariners right fielder Ichiro Suzuki leaps to catch the ball off the bat of the Los Angeles Angels' Jeff Mathis during the second inning of an exhibition game in Peoria, Arizona, on March 23, 2010. The Japanese outfielder's catch was likened to that of Willie Mays in the 1954 World Series.

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Japan's largest 'helicopter carrier' commissioned amid concerns

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Women personnel board the Hyuga, the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's largest helicopter-carrying destroyer, in a ceremony for the vessel to be commissioned at a shipyard in Yokohama March 18. The Hyuga has women officers and sailors on board a destroyer for the first time since the establishment of the Self-Defense Forces in 1954.

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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.

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Peace march held to mark 1954 Bikini Atoll H-bomb test

YAIZU, Japan - People march in the fishing town of Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, after holding a rally to mark the 52nd anniversary of the irradiation of the crew of a Japanese fishing ship in 1954 by a U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

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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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(5)Survivors mark 50th anniversary of Bikini H-bomb test

YAIZU, Japan - John Anjain, who was the community leader of Rongelap Island when the U.S. tested the hydrogen bomb ''Bravo'' at Bikini Atoll on March 1, 1954, speaks at an assembly in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, to mark the 50th anniversary of the test.

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(3)50th anniv. of Bikini H-bomb test held in Majuro

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Marshall Islands President Kessai Note speaks at the 50th anniversary in Majuro on March 1 of the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.

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(1)50th anniv. of Bikini H-bomb test held in Majuro

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - The 50th anniversary of the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific is marked in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands, on March l.

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(2)50th anniv. of Bikini H-bomb test held in Majuro

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Marshall islanders on March 1 march to a site in Majuro to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.

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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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Japan's largest 'helicopter carrier' commissioned amid concerns

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Women personnel board the Hyuga, the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's largest helicopter-carrying destroyer, in a ceremony for the vessel to be commissioned at a shipyard in Yokohama March 18. The Hyuga has women officers and sailors on board a destroyer for the first time since the establishment of the Self-Defense Forces in 1954. (Kyodo)

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Cheaper By The Dozen film (1950)

Jeanne Crain & Clifton Webb Characters: Ann Gilbreth & Frank Bunker Gilbreth Film: Cheaper By The Dozen (1954) Director: Walter Lang 31 March 1950 Date: 31-Mar-50

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Night People film (1954)

Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford & Marianne Koch Characters: Col. Steve Van Dyke, Charles Leatherby, Kathy Gerhardt Film: Night People (1954) Director: Nunnally Johnson 12 March 1954 Date: 12-Mar-54

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Royal Affairs In Versailles film (1954)

Movie Poster Film: Royal Affairs In Versailles; Fabulous Versailles; Si Versailles M'Etait Conte (1952) Director: Sacha Guitry 09 March 1954 Date: 09-Mar-54

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A Star Is Born film (1954)

Janet Gaynor & Fredric March Characters: Esther Victoria Blodgett, aka Vicki Lester & Norman Maine Film: A Star Is Born (USA 1954) Director: George Cukor 29 September 1954 Date: 29-Sep-54

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Side Street film (1950)

Movie Poster Film: Side Street (1954) Director: Anthony Mann 23 March 1950 Date: 23-Mar-50

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Doctor In The House film (1954)

Donald Houston, Kenneth More, Donald Sinden & Dirk Bogarde Film: Doctor In The House (1954) Director: Ralph Thomas 23 March 1954 Date: 23-Mar-54

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The Battle At Apache Pass film (1951)

Jeff Chandler, Beverly Tyler & Susan Cabot Characters: Cochise,Mary Kearney & Nono Film: The Battle At Apache Pass (1954) Director: George Sherman 24 March 1951 Date: 24-Mar-51

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Murder By Proxy film (1954)

Dane Clark, Belinda Lee & Eleanor Summerfield Characters: Casey Morrow,Phyllis Brunner & Margaret 'Maggie' Doone Film: Murder By Proxy (1952) Director: Terence Fisher 19 March 1954 Date: 19-Mar-54

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Captain Lightfoot film (1955)

Kathleen Ryan On Set Film: Captain Lightfoot (1954) Director: Douglas Sirk 26 March 1955 Date: 26-Mar-55

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An Inspector Calls film (1954)

Eileen Moore & Alastair Sim Characters: Sheila Birling, Inspector Poole Film: An Inspector Calls (UK 1854) / Literaturverfilmung (Based On The Play By J.B. Priestley) Director: Guy Hamilton 16 March 1954 Date: 16-Mar-54

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An Inspector Calls film (1954)

Alastair Sim Characters: Inspector Poole Film: An Inspector Calls (UK 1854) / Literaturverfilmung (Based On The Play By J.B. Priestley) Director: Guy Hamilton 16 March 1954 Date: 16-Mar-54

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An Inspector Calls film (1954)

Arthur Young, Eileen Moore, Olga Lindo & Bryan Forbes Characters: Arthur Birling,Eva Smith,Sybil Birling & Eric Birling Film: An Inspector Calls (UK 1854) / Literaturverfilmung (Based On The Play By J.B. Priestley) Director: Guy Hamilton 16 March 1954 Date: 16-Mar-54

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An Inspector Calls film (1954)

Eileen Moore & Brian Worth Characters: Sheila Birling, Gerald Croft Film: An Inspector Calls (UK 1854) / Literaturverfilmung (Based On The Play By J.B. Priestley) Director: Guy Hamilton 16 March 1954 Date: 16-Mar-54

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An Inspector Calls film (1954)

Alastair Sim, Bryan Forbes & Brian Worth Characters: Inspector Poole,Eric Birling & Gerald Croft Film: An Inspector Calls (UK 1854) / Literaturverfilmung (Based On The Play By J.B. Priestley) Director: Guy Hamilton 16 March 1954 Date: 16-Mar-54

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Wyoming Renegades film (1954)

Philip Carey & Martha Hyer Characters: Brady Sutton (as Phil Carey) & Nancy Warren Film: Wyoming Renegades (USA 1955) Director: Fred F. Sears 27 March 1954 Date: 27-Mar-54

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Wyoming Renegades film (1954)

Philip Carey & Martha Hyer Characters: Brady Sutton (as Phil Carey) & Nancy Warren Film: Wyoming Renegades (USA 1955) Director: Fred F. Sears 27 March 1954 Date: 27-Mar-54

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Shadow Of Fear film (1954)

Mona Freeman & Maxwell Reed Film: Shadow Of Fear (1957) Director: Albert S.Rogell 29 March 1954 Date: 29-Mar-54

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Night People film (1954)

Buddy Ebsen, Jill Esmond & Broderick Crawford Characters: Sgt. Eddie McColloch,Frau Schindler aka Rachel Cameron & Charles Leatherby Film: Night People (1956) Director: Nunnally Johnson 12 March 1954 Date: 12-Mar-54

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Never Say Goodbye film (1956)

Cornell Borchers & Rock Hudson Poster Characters: Lisa Gosting & Film: Never Say Goodbye (1954) Director: Jerry Hopper 10 March 1956 Date: 10-Mar-56