Hiroshima maiden

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Noun

Hiroshima maiden (plural Hiroshima maidens)

  1. (historical) Any of a group of Japanese women who were disfigured by the thermal flash from the fission bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, and who subsequently went on a highly publicized journey to get reconstructive surgery in the United States in 1955.

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