| Lifting up that light, the aging hibakusha are calling for U.S. President George Bush to visit Hiroshima. |
| 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. |
| To be a hibakusha, they explained, was not an honorific but a source of shame, a secret to be closely held. |
| At the same time, we applaud those who survived to become hibakusha. |
| You're a hibakusha,' she said, 'We don't need a bombed bride. |
