Talk:Hibakusha

Can this be its own page?

There is a lot about this that I would like to understand.

In The Good War by Studs Turkel there is mention on pg. 538-542.

Discrimination

Why are hibakusha discriminated against? I just cannot understand why this would be the case. If anyone with an insight into this could expand the entry to explain the justification for this kind of discrimination, I would be greatful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PhennPhawcks (talk • contribs)

A quote from John Hersey's Hiroshima -- "Non-hibakusha employers developed a prejudice against the survivors as word got around that they were prone to all sorts of ailments, and that even those, like Nakamura-san, who were not cruelly maimed and had not developed any serious overt symptoms were unreliable workers, since most of them seemed to suffer, as she did, from the mysterious but real malaise that came to be known as one kind of A-bomb sickness: a nagging weakness and weariness, dizziness now and then, digestive troubles, all aggravated by a feeling of oppression, a sense of doom, for it was said that unspeakable diseases might at any time plant nasty flowers in the bodies of their victims, and even those of their descendents." (pp. 93). Towards the end of the book it talks about the discrimination against hibakusha; you may want to take a look. - S. Komae (talk) 16:25, 23 March 2006 (UTC)