黒くろい雨あめ

expression, noun

black rain; radioactive fallout rain

Refers to the heavily polluted, radioactive rain that fell after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima (and sometimes other nuclear explosions). The term is strongly associated with that historical event.

• 広ひろ島しまに黒くろい雨あめが降ふった後あと、多おおくの人ひとが被ひ曝ばくした。

  After the black rain fell on Hiroshima, many people were exposed to radiation.

• 黒くろい雨あめの体たい験けんを語かたり継つぐことが大たい切せつだ。

  It is important to pass on the experiences of the black rain.