hibakusha

• A-bomb illness list set to be expanded court defeats on the issue, the government is set to approve more diseases to a list used to certify hibakusha atomic-bomb survivors as suffering from radiation-related illnesses. —  WN.com - Business News
• The survivor, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, had already been a certified hibakusha, or radiation survivor, of the bombing on Aug. 9, 1945, in Nagasaki, but he has now been confirmed as surviving the attack on Hiroshima three days earlier, in which he suffered serious burns to his upper body. —  The Nation: Top Stories
• Those who survived are called "hibakusha" -- people exposed to the bomb -- and there are an estimated 200,000 living today —  Mininova
• "This agenda found me composing a framing story in which Syms Thorley, now retired from the silver screen, attends a monster-movie convention in Baltimore; there he meets a Japanese fan whose aunt was one of the hibakusha, the 'explosion-affected persons'-victims of the atomic bombs," —  SCI FI Wire
• Although Japan has paid for medical treatment for its own victims - known as hibakusha, or "explosion-affected people" - foreign survivors were ignored until November 2007, when the Supreme Court voided a 1974 government declaration that atomic bomb survivors living outside Japan could not receive benefits. —  ROK Drop

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