• A file image shows Matashichi Oishi with the tuna boat he was aboard when the U.S. detonated a hydrogen bomb on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands in 1954. Now aging and in ill-health, Oishi is still meeting with groups to recount how fallout settled on the boat and sickened the crew. | KYODO
    A file image shows Matashichi Oishi with the tuna boat he was aboard when the U.S. detonated a hydrogen bomb on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands in 1954. Now aging and in ill-health, Oishi is still meeting with groups to recount how fallout settled on the boat and sickened the crew. | KYODO
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A Tokyo museum housing a tuna boat that was coated with radioactive fallout from an American hydrogen bomb test in 1954 is fighting quietly to remind people about the horror of nuclear weapons.

Crew members of the Fukuryu Maru No. 5 who sickened and died are memorialized at the museum, which marks its 40th anniversary on Friday.

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