ABSTRACT
In the report based on Hiroaki Yamada’s survey, hibakusha were reduced to abstract statistics, faceless human beings who carried within their bodies a certain amount of radioactivity. But, of course, each hibakusha did have a face, a body, a mind, and a unique way of responding to the experience of the bomb. Thus, the jigsaw puzzle comprising the one thousand hibakusha across the United States was not monochromatic. It contained many colors and shades.
