text: Hibakusha ( or ;  or ;  "survivor of the bomb" or "person affected by exposure [to radioactivity]") is a word of Japanese origin generally designating the people affected by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States at the end of World War II.
  Definition
  The word hibakusha is Japanese, originally written in kanji. While the term Hibakusha  (hi  "affected" + baku  "bomb" + sha  "person") has been used before in Japanese to designate any victim of bombs, its worldwide democratization led to a definition concerning the survivors of the atomic bombs dropped in Japan by the United States Army Air Forces on the 6 and 9 August 1945.
  Anti-nuclear movements and associations, among others of hibakusha, spread the term to designate any direct victim of nuclear disaster, including the ones of the nuclear plant in Fukushima. They, therefore, prefer the writing  (replacing baku  "bomb" with the homophonous  "exposure") or "person affected by the exposure", implying "person affected by nuclear exposure". This definition tends to be adopted since 2011.
  The juridic status of hibakusha is allocated to certain people, mainly by the Japanese government.