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What does hibakusha mean?

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Noun
  1. A survivor of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Countless others, the hibakusha, were exposed to the blast and remained unsure of their futures.
With huge photographs of the carnage, and stories from hibakusha, they eloquently conveyed the heartfelt plea of most Japanese people for nuclear abolition.
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.
Lifting up that light, the aging hibakusha are calling for U.S. President George Bush to visit Hiroshima.
You're a hibakusha,' she said, 'We don't need a bombed bride.

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