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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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Japanese survivor of 1954 nuclear test

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Matashichi Oishi (C), a former Japanese fisherman who survived a nuclear bomb test by the United States in 1954 in the South Pacific country of Marshall Islands, meets with students of a local school in the capital Majuro on Feb. 27, 2014.

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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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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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Ex-crewman of irradiated Lucky Dragon No.5

TOKYO, Japan - Matashichi Oishi, a former crew member of the Japanese trawler Lucky Dragon No. 5 which was exposed to radiation from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, speaks about his experience during a meeting in Tokyo on Feb. 26, 2011. Oishi said people should not forget about the terrors of nuclear weapons.

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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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Ex-Lucky Dragon crew member to visit Marshall Islands in Feb.

TOKYO, Japan - Matashichi Oishi, a former crew member of the Lucky Dragon No. 5, a Japanese fishing boat exposed to radiation during a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific, tells reporters in Tokyo on Jan. 11 that he will visit the Marshall Islands, the site of the incident, in February to attend a memorial ceremony.

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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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Ex-Lucky Dragon crew member to visit Marshall Islands in Feb.

TOKYO, Japan - Matashichi Oishi, a former crew member of the Lucky Dragon No. 5, a Japanese fishing boat exposed to radiation during a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific, tells reporters in Tokyo on Jan. 11 that he will visit the Marshall Islands, the site of the incident, in February to attend a memorial ceremony.

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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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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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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

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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N. Korea needs to know horror of nukes: 1954 U.S. H-bomb test victim

Matashichi Oishi, 81, calls for abolishing nuclear weapons while speaking as a former crew member of a Japanese tuna fishing boat exposed to radioactive fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific, at a private school in Tokyo on Jan. 22, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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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. (Kyodo)

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Ex-crewman of irradiated Lucky Dragon No.5

TOKYO, Japan - Matashichi Oishi, a former crew member of the Japanese trawler Lucky Dragon No. 5 which was exposed to radiation from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, speaks about his experience during a meeting in Tokyo on Feb. 26, 2011. Oishi said people should not forget about the terrors of nuclear weapons. (Kyodo)

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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. (Kyodo)