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    Daigo Fukuryū Maru (第五福龍丸, F/V Lucky Dragon 5) was a Japanese tuna fishing boat with a crew of 23 men which was contaminated by nuclear fallout from the...
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    few months before the film was made, the Japanese fishing vessel Daigo Fukuryū Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") had been showered with radioactive fallout...
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    soldiers stationed there, as well as a nearby Japanese fishing boat (the Daigo Fukuryū Maru), resulting in one direct fatality and continued health problems for...
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  • neighbouring atolls and 23 crew members of the Japanese fishing vessel Daigo Fukuryū Maru. This led to the formation of the Japan Council against Atomic and...
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    sickness. Twenty-three crew members of the Japanese fishing vessel Daigo Fukuryū Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") were also contaminated by the heavy fallout...
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    (第五福竜丸, Daigo Fukuryū Maru) is a 1959 Japanese drama film directed by Kaneto Shindō. It is based on events involving the fishing boat Daigo Fukuryū Maru and...
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    anti-war and anti-nuclear. The panels also depict the accident of the Daigo Fukuryu Maru on the Bikini Atoll in 1954 which the Marukis believed showed the...
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  • Orleans collision USS Fitzgerald and MV ACX Crystal collision, 2017 Daigo Fukuryū Maru 1959 Okinawa F-100 crash 1964 Machida F-8 crash 1977 Yokohama F-4...
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    Maru (洞爺丸) was a Japanese train ferry constructed by Japanese National Railways (JNR) which sank during Typhoon Marie, known locally as the Tōya Maru...
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    March 1, 1954. He was one of twenty-three fisherman on the vessel Daigo Fukuryū Maru. Their catch of tuna and shark was also found to be contaminated with...
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    the detonation, 23 crew members of the Japanese fishing boat the Daigo Fukuryū Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") were contaminated by the snow-like irradiated...
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    the re-emerged Japanese fears of atomic weapons that arose from the Daigo Fukuryū Maru fishing boat incident; and so he put a team together and created the...
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    exposure to the inhabitants of the nearby atolls and the crew of the Daigo Fukuryū Maru fishing boat. The scientists called the fallout Bikini snow. For subsurface...
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    fallout over the Rongelap Atoll, forcing its evacuation. The crew of Daigo Fukuryu Maru, a Japanese fishing boat located outside of the predicted danger zone...
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    were inhabited, and some that had not been evacuated. 1 March 1954: Daigo Fukuryū Maru, Japanese fishing vessel contaminated by fallout from Castle Bravo...
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    fallout, which caught in its plume the Japanese fishing boat the Daigo Fukuryū Maru or Lucky Dragon outside the initially predicted ~5 Mt fallout area...
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  • or affected by nuclear events. The first of these events was the Daigo Fukuryū Maru fishing boat, a vessel that was affected by nuclear fallout from the...
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    rate and birth defects, as did the crew of the Japanese fishing boat Daigo Fukuryū Maru. One crewman died from radiation sickness after returning to port...
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    populated areas of the atoll and Japanese fishermen on board the Daigo Fukuryu Maru. After an initial period focused on making multi-megaton hydrogen...
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  • the rubble. He also did a series, called Lucky Dragon, about the Daigo Fukuryū Maru (literally, Lucky Dragon No. 5), the Japanese fishing boat caught...
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    attempt to sink Bergall. The patrol vessel No. 7 Taiwan Maru picked up ten of Shinshu Maru′s survivors Bergall then moved farther south, cruising along...
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    by residents of nearby Rongelap Atoll and Utirik Atoll and by the Daigo Fukuryū Maru, a Japanese fishing vessel. The AEC initially tried to keep the contamination...
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    incineration facility for Koto Ward Today, Yumenoshima also houses the Daigo Fukuryū Maru, a wooden fishing boat exposed to nuclear fallout during the Bikini...
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    the Japanese fishermen exposed to Bravo fallout on the fishing boat Daigo Fukuryū Maru, the long-term effects were more pronounced as they depended largely...
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    Tōya Maru 25 Oct: Cervia 26 Oct: Faidherbe 2 Nov: Olive Cam 14 Nov: ROCS Tai Ping Other incidents 17 Jan: RFA Wave Victor 1 Mar: USS Bairoko, Daigo Fukuryū...
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  • film inspired by The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms and the then-recent Daigo Fukuryū Maru incident. Tanaka then succeeded in convincing executive producer Iwao...
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    Rongerik and Rongelap atolls, and a Japanese fishing boat known as the Daigo Fukuryū Maru (Lucky Dragon). Prior to this test, there was "insufficient" appreciation...
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    Nagasaki Peace Park and Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, Nagasaki The Daigo Fukuryū Maru ship, a Japanese fishing boat that was contaminated after the Castle...
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    dusting, suffering similar fates as the Japanese fishermen aboard the Daigo Fukuryū Maru, but have received little, if any, compensation from the federal government...
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    as the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and the Daigo Fukuryū Maru incident in 1954. The film's success spawned the Godzilla franchise...
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