The Route

This picture showed the route that was taken by Daigo Fukuryu Maru.

They changed the route and went to east of Japan.

On the middle, they found out that the net was broken and at last they decided to change the route and headed south while trying to save the fuel and went back to Japan. Unfortunately, they apparently were crossing the area where the hydrogen bomb was tested in Bikini Atoll.

The Other Victims

They are not the crewman of Daigo Fukuryu Maru, but they are some of the other fishermen that also exposed by the "Bravo" fallout.

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Aikichi Kuboyama's Family

Aikichi Kuboyama

Additional Pictures

Here some addition useful pictures which I think can describe the situation when the bombing took place


This is the picture that portrayed the crews working to clean the ship, taking care of the fish.






These are the pictures when the bomb test was held. It portrayed the bomb exploding.



This is the picture when the crew witness the bomb exploding.


This showed how the skin became after being exposed to the radiation.


This is the picture of the 23 crews that witness the H-Bomb test at Bikini Atoll and suffered radiation sickness.

H-BOMB Danger Zone

The Lucky Dragon Fifth reached 160km east coast of Bikini Atoll, Marshal Islands, on March 1, 1954, 3:45 AM. That was the position set as the "danger zone" for U.S. hydrogen bomb test.

On March 1st, 1954, at 3:42 am, near the Bikini Atoll H-bomb area the Lucky Dragon 5# heard a roaring noise and saw a fireball for a few minutes in the dark. Then the crew began to suffer from the exposed fallouts. After this incident happened, "Perhaps we can..." became popular because of the fallout and the aftermath has caused various incidents to occur.

(This was the advertisement for the movie Daigo Fukuryu Maru on the 2005 Hiroshima Peace Film Festival)

The movie was included in the Hiroshime festival in order to remind people the capability of the nuclear weapon. That nuclear weapon causes suffering for human race and does not bring peace nor solve any peace problem.

The Daigo Fukuryu Maru-1954 (Yaidu city, Shizuoka Perfecture)

The National Council which was formed in August to ban atomic and hydrogen bombs was meassuring the radioactivity of the tuna that was caught by vessel Daigo Fukuryu Maru, in Tsukiji the Tokyo fish market

2 days after the Daigo Fukuryu Maru vessel returned to its ports in Yaidu port, Shizuoka perfecture, Yomiuri Shimbun reported an article saying that "Japanese Fishermen, encountered Bikini bomb incident" followed by "radiation sickness suffered by 23 people" in the headline title. After that, Japan quickly became the centre of attention, since the news was heards worldwide. The story was told to the Yomiuri reporters not by Daigo Fukuryu Maru fishermens themselves but instead through a third party that was told the story of a strong light near Bikini Atoll.

Daigo Fukuryu Maru's Engine

Aikichi Kuboyama Monument

“I pray that I am the last victim of an atomic or hydrogen bomb”
is his last request before he died

Monument in the Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall, Tokyo