ABSTRACT
The hearing in Los Angeles represented success in the long effort of the American hibakusha to gain the attention of the Congress of the United States. The hibakusha in America remained too weak to exert influence by themselves, but the Japanese American Citizens League promised to start lobbying for the bill through its representative in Washington. Over the years, the United States has been producing a great many "hibakusha," and this fact was being discovered at last. It was increasingly evident that the nuclear industry in the United States had been producing new hibakusha in large numbers. There were no delegates representing the American hibakusha at the symposium in Hiroshima. So great was the gap in consciousness between the Japanese and American hibakusha that they chose not to take the opportunity to appeal the plight of the American bomb survivors to the world. The American hibakusha apparently saw this hurried request as egotism on the part of the Japanese delegation.
