| Nevertheless, those hibakusha, atomic bomb survivors, whose bodies were eaten away by radiation, and who continue to suffer from the aftereffects, can never forget that day. |
| Lifting up that light, the aging hibakusha are calling for U.S. President George Bush to visit Hiroshima. |
| At the same time, we applaud those who survived to become hibakusha. |
| But Shunichi Yamashita, son of a hibakusha, or atomic-bomb survivor, and vice-president of Fukushima Medical University, is adamant. |
| The hibakusha, as they are known, are a political lobby, lending the moral weight of their suffering to the global anti-nuclear cause. |
| To be a hibakusha, they explained, was not an honorific but a source of shame, a secret to be closely held. |
