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Fukushima students visit Marshall Islands

http://www.houseofjapan.com/local/fukushima-students-visit-marshall-islands

Wednesday, 26 February 2014

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Four university students from Japan are undertaking a weeklong tour of the Marshall Islands to share their experience about the nuclear disaster in Fukushima and learn about the Marshallese struggle in the aftermath of U.S. nuclear testing there 60 years ago.

“I try to establish this kind of connection among global hibakusha. Marshallese people are also hibakusha, being exposed to radiation from the U.S. nuclear testing,” said Seiichiro Takemine, a professor at Meisei University in Tokyo, who organized the trip for the university students.

Hibakusha is the Japanese term for people who were exposed to radiation from the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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