I recently watched an Anime movie that tackled with victims of the atomic bombings. It dealt with the obvious health problems but also dealt with discrimnation against them, even in Japan. The flim was set in the 1960s. Did victims really have to face any sort of discrimnation during this time period?
Yes. The hibakusha were shunned, excluded, more or less treated like pariahs. There was widespread belief that their genes were manipulated, that their offspring would be monstrous. The fact that they basically could not be spoken of in the press during the US Occupation did not help — they were rendered invisible, which allows rumors and misconceptions to fester. The Japanese also put a great deal of stock in the idea of "blood purity," and the hibakusha were considered "contaminated."
On their treatment, see Robert J. Lifton's Death in Life. On the occupation censorship, see Monica Braw's The Atomic Bomb Suppressed.