Ex-fisherman exposed to 1954 U.S. nuke test dies of pneumonia at 87

Matashichi Oishi, a former crew member of a Japanese tuna fishing boat that was exposed to radioactive fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific, died of aspiration pneumonia earlier this month, a foundation preserving the boat said Sunday. He was 87.Oishi, who died at a hospital in Kanagawa Prefecture on March 7, was among the fishermen exposed to nuclear fallout when the United States conducted its largest-ever nuclear weapon test at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands on March 1, 1954.A native of Shizuoka Prefecture, Oishi began working aboard the fishing boat Fukuryu M…READ FULL ARTICLE