黴菌。 🔗

  • 黴菌 ばい菌§; 黴菌 【ばいきん】 (n) (1) (col) germ; germs; bacteria; mold
    (mould); (2) something harmful (used figuratively); vermin; §; ED

This term is commonly used against those whom escaped the nuclear fallout regions…

From: http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110513f1.html

Farmers in the vicinity claim their produce is safe to eat, but that the country has become hysterical about Fukushima’s fallout. Many have heard stories of children evacuated from the village, sometimes hundreds of kilometers away, being bullied, a painful echo of the decades-long discrimination that dogged survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

“I’ve heard that other kids shout ‘baikin’ (vermin) at them,” said Shoji’s granddaughter, Hiroko, 22.