power of Tokyo University, and the supposed sequcsteriig of the Japanese investigetors' Hiroshima-Nagesaki medical’ data by * ericen scientists all were factors which assumed prominence at one tise or another. On March 1, 1954, at Bikini, a thermonuclear-', »o weapon was detonated. At this time, a Japanese fishing vessel was trolli.g for tuna supposedly outside the danger area set up by U. S. scientist:, ‘Tie course of this vessel, the Fukuryu haru No. 5, was directly towar’ i} island of Bikini. If the weapon had been detonated several hours letter end the ship had not changed course, the vessel would undoubtedly have ion. .ithin the restricted gone. Following the flash from the weapon, the v-.:e] chenged course and eventually headed into a "radioactive fall-out". (“ils vessel was part of a fishing cooperative operating out of the port of Y tzu. by wireless tiice deily to its home port. u reported The shi, was supposed to report éll untoward incidents or sicksess of personnel. i no t*-e did the Fukuryu Maru transmit by wireless any report of tl. t.erronuclear flash, the radioactive fallout, cr the beginning illnesses of the crew. It is reasonable to assume that the United States agernci s would have been most anxious to remove the men from the potential heazars of the radioactive ship and to remove the snip and its cargo of tuna fro workers and Japanese tuna consumers. -- Jinzcring Japanese The irrefvia te f-ct that Japanese Nationals allowed their catcn to be handled and co.veyed through fish wholesale and retail channels without regard to co su.er safety has never been questioned officially by the Japanese goveinuct o. emotionally by the Japanese people. It is possible that a large p-rt of the hysteria that accompanied the newspaper reports of the "fall-out" ..°5 « comaercially tinged outlook. Japan is predominatly a fish-cat’ ccmbry; large segments mame Ty