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. |