Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BOMB VICTIMS are highly discriminated against in Japanese society. We are not hired for jobs and people do not want to marry us because they fear that we carry radiation disease within us. We are taught to be ashamed and to hide the fact that we are victims of the atom bomb...
Hiseido was formed on August 6, 1970, the 25th anniversary of the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima. Since that time, Hiseido has been working to expose the plight that A-Bomb victims still face in Japan...
...Japanese government that perpetuates this discrimination. They take no responsibility for A-Bomb victims. It is a conscious policy of the Japanese government to push us aside to protect the image of the nation. Twenty-six years ago--as soon as the bomb was dropped--the Allied forces came in and took control of our city. They censored all information so no one even knew that it was an A-Bomb that had been dropped...
...Hiroshima A-Bomb Hospital, seventy to eighty people still die each year from leukemia--a disease directly linked to radiation effects. Resentment against the hospital which is run by the Japanese government was expressed by Masaho Suzuki, a twenty-two year-old resident of Hiroshima whose father was burned in the bombing...
...Patients are told that their symptoms have nothing to do with radioactivity poisoning. It is only their autopsy which proves their death was linked to the A-Bomb. The very poor can't even afford to go to the hospital, and their diseases remain untreated and unexplained...