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On March 1, 1954, the United States conducted a hydrogen bomb test in Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The bomb is believed to have been 1000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima atomic bomb. The entire 23-member crew aboard the Daigo Fukuryu-maru, a fishing boat that happened to be near the testing ground, were exposed to radiation. Aikichi Kuboyama, the boat's radio operator, eventually died as a result. This nuclear experiment had a global impact in that it involved innocent citizens. The crew members of the Daigo Fukuryu-maru who had survived the fallout of deadly ashes continued to live in fear of the after-effects of radiation on their health. Matashichi Oishi is no exception. 37 years after the incident, he decided to write and publish a book about his experience of the event for future generations.
In the program Matashichi Oishi expresses his dissatisfaction with the way the Fukuryu-maru's tragedy is fading into oblivion without any clarification of the US responsibility for the victims of radiation in the test, including Oishi himself.
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