「第五福竜丸」大石さん死去　米の水爆実験で被ばく、８７歳―反核活動に注力

　マーシャル諸島ビキニ環礁での米国の水爆実験で被ばくした遠洋マグロ漁船「第五福竜丸」の元乗組員、大石又七（おおいし・またしち）さんが７日、誤嚥（ごえん）性肺炎のため神奈川県三浦市の病院で死去した。８７歳だった。葬儀は近親者で済ませた。
　１９３４年１月、静岡県吉田町生まれ。新制中学校を中退して漁師になった。第五福竜丸では冷凍士として乗船。５４年３月１日、ビキニ環礁近海で操業中に水爆実験に遭遇、被ばくした。
　差別や偏見を恐れ、東京に移り住んでクリーニング店を営んだ。被ばくから約３０年が過ぎた８３年、都内の中学生からの依頼で初めて自身の体験を明かし、以降、講演活動に注力。小中学校を中心に、「核は人類に害を与え続ける」などと、平和憲法の維持や核兵器の廃絶を訴えた。（2021/03/21-16:57）

Matashichi Oishi, one of the crew members of the Japanese tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5, who were exposed to radiation from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll, died of aspiration pneumonia on March 7 at a hospital in the city of Miura, Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo. He was 87.
   Oishi, who was born in the town of Yoshida, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, in January 1934, started to work as a fisher after graduating from a junior high school.
   Oishi and other crew members of the Fukuryu Maru No. 5 were exposed to radiation from the March 1, 1954, U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean when the tuna fishing boat was operating in the area.
   Out of fear of discrimination and prejudice, Oishi moved to Tokyo after the incident and ran a laundry shop.
   In 1983, about 30 years after the Bikini Atoll incident, Oishi spoke about his experience publicly for the first time, at the request of junior high school students in Tokyo. Since then, he gave lectures numerous times, mainly at elementary and junior high schools, stressing the need for Japan to maintain its pacifist Constitution and calling for the abolition of nuclear arms. Nuclear weapons "continue to harm humans," he said, among things.