I visited the Daigo Fukuryu Maru memorial hall on my way home from a Saturday assignment. I have some shots I took. I asked my Japanese mother-in-law is she knew of this, and yes she remembered it, plus one of the last survivors recently passed away. My pictures I will attach later.
From wikipedia:
Daigo Fukuryū Maru (第五福龍丸?, S.S. Lucky Dragon 5) was a Japanese tuna fishing boat, with a crew of 23 men, which was exposed to and contaminated by nuclear fallout from the United States' Castle Bravo thermonuclear device test on Bikini Atoll, on March 1, 1954.
Aikichi Kuboyama, the boat's chief radioman, died less than seven months later of liver cirrhosis on September 23, 1954, having suffered along with the 22 other crew members of acute radiation syndrome (ARS) for a number of weeks after the Bravo test in March. Due toARS treatment, the crew began to recover, Kuboyama's cause of death in late September is regarded to have been due to underlyingliver cirrhosis compounded by an infection.[1][better source needed] The majority of medical experts believe that the crew members were infected with hepatitis C through blood transfusions during part of their ARS treatment.[2] Kuboyama is considered[by whom?] the first victim of the hydrogen bomb of test shot Castle Bravo.[citation needed]
