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...gave an official opinion about the much-disputed case of Aikichi Kuboyama, radioman of the Japanese fishing boat Fortunate Dragon, who died last year of hepatitis (with jaundice symptoms) six months after his craft was hit by fallout ashes from the first U.S. experimental H-bomb blast at Bikini. Japanese doctors insisted that the hepatitis had been caused by radiation damage, and Kuboyama became a propaganda hero to the Communists. But, said Assistant U.S. Defense Secretary Frank B. Berry last week, endorsing the opinion of U.S. doctors who had investigated the case, "the man most certainly died of ordinary jaundice...
...Aikichi Kuboyama was only an obscure Japanese tuna fisherman on the January morning he put to sea with crewmates of the trawler Fortunate Dragon. The father of three girls, he liked to spend his time ashore tinkering with neighbors' ailing radios and puttering in his garden. Sometimes he dreamed of quitting the sea and becoming a florist...
Unawaredly, the Fortunate Dragon cruised too close to the site of the U.S. H-bomb test in the Pacific (TIME, March 29). The test released more energy than the scientists had anticipated; Aikichi and his crewmates were liberally sprinkled with the fine white dust of the blast, which the Japanese have since come to know as shi no hai (the ashes of death...
...Radioman Kuboyama, who reportedly had a medical history of liver trouble, was not so lucky. Early last month, after seemingly recovering only to relapse again, he fell into a coma. Three weeks ago he revived slightly, but last week, as two doctors and his devoted family kept vigil, Aikichi Kuboyama died...
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