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Jump to Comments Tissue from Bikini Atoll N-test victim uncovered The Yomiuri Shimbun HIROSHIMA–A science laboratory in Hiroshima is in possession of tissue samples believed to be from a Japanese sailor who died soon after being exposed to radiation during a U.S. hydrogen bomb test in 1954, it has been learned. Aikichi Kuboyama, then 40, was a radio operator aboard the fishing trawler Fukuryu Maru No. 5, which was near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean when the test was conducted. He died six months later.