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• Marshall Islands (inc. Bikini Atoll)

  Japan: Fukuryu Maru No. 5 was not the only victim of the 1954 Bikini hydrogen bomb test

  4 September 2013, by HARA Shin

  Director sheds light on Bikini Atoll
  TV director Hideaki Ito could not stay silent when he learned that the Fukuryu Maru No. 5 was not the only victim of the 1954 hydrogen bomb test conducted by the United States in the Pacific, and that more Japanese fishing boats were exposed to the fallout (...)

• Marshall Islands (inc. Bikini Atoll)

  Japan: Rally calls for elimination of nukes on 59^th anniv. of Bikini Atoll test

  2 March 2013, by Kyodo News, Mainichi Shimbun

  SHIZUOKA, Japan (Kyodo) — Protesters called for the elimination of nuclear weapons at a rally on Friday, the 59^th 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.
  Around 1,700 people attended the (...)

• Marshall Islands (inc. Bikini Atoll)

  Activists call for end to nuclear power 58 years after Bikini incident

  2 March 2012, by Kyodo News

  SHIZUOKA, Japan (Kyodo) — Antinuclear activists called for an end to reliance on nuclear power at a rally in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Thursday, the 58^th anniversary of the exposure of a Japanese tuna fishing boat to radiation from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the South (...)