HIROSHIMA (Kyodo) The Hiroshima Municipal Government will send two officials to South Korea to meet with six bedridden hibakusha and examine their applications for health books for atomic-bomb survivors, it said Wednesday.

The overseas interviews to be conducted between Jan. 15 and 20 will be the first since the revision last month of a law to enable survivors living abroad to file applications for the health books without having to visit Japan.

The six survivors, aged between 67 and 99, will be issued with the health books as soon as the officials are able to verify their identities.