| Lifting up that light, the aging hibakusha are calling for U.S. President George Bush to visit Hiroshima. |
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| The hibakusha, as they are known, are a political lobby, lending the moral weight of their suffering to the global anti-nuclear cause. |
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| To be a hibakusha, they explained, was not an honorific but a source of shame, a secret to be closely held. |
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| With huge photographs of the carnage, and stories from hibakusha, they eloquently conveyed the heartfelt plea of most Japanese people for nuclear abolition. |
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| But Shunichi Yamashita, son of a hibakusha, or atomic-bomb survivor, and vice-president of Fukushima Medical University, is adamant. |
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| For the hibakusha, the victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the overriding imperative is 'no one should ever suffer as we did. |
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| Countless others, the hibakusha, were exposed to the blast and remained unsure of their futures. |
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| 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. |
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| You're a hibakusha,' she said, 'We don't need a bombed bride. |
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| At the same time, we applaud those who survived to become hibakusha. |
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| When the last hibakusha die, it will be our turn to keep on telling their stories to our children in the hope that we can live in a world free of nuclear arms. |
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