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Tokyo, Thursday, March 18, 1954
SCARE GRIPS, IN
The price of fish and fish products in Tokyo and_ other ‘major cities
plumetted by 20to 50 per cent yesterday and sushi sales dropped to almost.
zero in the wake of the news that Japanese fishermen brought back radio<
active tuna and shark from the US atom testing area in theCentral Pacific.
At leasf one family in Yatzu, the home port of the
Fukeryu flaru which browvahfback fhe radicactive cately, |
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was known fo have eafen the affected tuna.
A shipinent of the “atomic
fish,? which arrived in phe To
kyo Cen:ral Fish Market, in
- Tsukiji, was buried ini a hole,
pine feet deep.
Authoitics “cok
measures to |:
track down and stcp distribution }
ef other shipments which were L
sent to Osaka,
Kyoto, “Kobe, |,
hayama. Kagessima and many
cther centres,
In
Z
were alt
and buried.
sweat
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fram the Fuku-
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orkergs who had
s.ere under observation §
cts of radiation,
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ich ate the
atone fis4 v2, clso under obser-
vation Sut had not yet sown 254
¢ ffects.
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Steps were being taken to burn:
,end scuttle
the
Fukuryu Maruj
_ because of its stro-g radioactivity.4
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Two out of the 23 fishermen+
of the F t:uryu Maru were heing*
j treated a, Tokyo Un'vercsity Hos-.
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“€ the res; Were isolated”
Ral ia Yaizu.
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of Japan’s foremast ]
nuclear physicsts, Dr M, Ta- ,
keva, commenting on the case
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sald: “If a typhoan had hap-?
Poned to hi€ ite test ground, ,
Japan ccald have heen affected }
by resulting rad*cactive clouds
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of dusts?
It was ez
‘ eles that
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ted in some cir-
@ cfi2 could be an
fexamrie of f€ future “germ warfare,”
ting Gat that a large
area hed teen contsm'nated,
The dicp in the fish puice
affected
not cn'y the
types
the Pacific but also
Facts
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osutted fish end
rroducts wera)
nt in Texye-.
“0r by 29 to
Oszka,
were
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wats
TINS 100-ton ship, the Number 5 Fukuryu Maru, has t
constcration to the fishmarkets of Japan. Xt all bezun
_ the ship brought back 23 naclear explosica victims and
10 tons of radioactive fish from the central Pacifie US atc
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