I tried to imagine being told my whole city is annihilated. I’d probably ask the same thing, assuming they couldn’t possibly mean the entire city is literally gone. And of course they didn’t yet know such a thing was possible, leveling an entire city in an instant. Her response is so chilling: “We’ve been hit by a new kind of bomb”
@@JC-yy8ivActually 60%of the city was destroyed the target was the aioi bridge but blew up right above the shima hospital instead thousands were wiped instantly the shock wave travelled from 10 to 767 mph temperatures reached 5k degrees Celsius as hot as the sun after that a massive firestorm spreaded Futher finally radiation poisoning would effect the survivors for years to come even today if they are even alive.
What's crazy is in the days between the bomb drop on Hiroshima and the drop on Nagasaki, many Japanese people chose not to believe the reports of a single bomb destroying an entire city. The bomb was so destructive and devastating that people in other parts of Japan couldn't fathom it. Let that sink in.
What's worse is it took TWO bombs to make them surrender. If the US was evil, we could have taken Japan and owned the land. But we didn't. Sometimes an aggressive country has to hit rock bottom before they have their "come to jesus" moment. And they haven't stepped out of line since.
How could anyone begin to comprehend such an atrocity? I still think even now even with however many documentaries you watch, no matter how many pictures or videos you see, no matter how many first hand stories you hear, no one could ever truly comprehend the magnitude or depth of this atrocity. Just imagining everything and everyone within 3miles of your home gone in just a slit second and even then that’s just the start of the suffering. When in such a traumatic situation like that your brain can’t comprehend such a thing, you might be able to say what you’ve seen and witnessed but even those hours, days, or years that go by you can only begin to slowly comprehend it all. WWII brought out the worst of the world.
The way Takashi still speaks with deep sadness reminded me how devastating the bombs really were, you always read about the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings in school but hearing these individual accounts just puts it into a new perspective.
I live in Japan and I visited Hiroshima once to see the photos at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial museum stays with me til now. It was horrible to see even sample of the people’s skin of people who suffered from the burns.
@@tiffanyshanley1419 Unfortunately it is too late to turn back. There is literally no way to discard of those weapons now as multiple countries have them to keep others in check now amongst other reasons I'm sure.
1st stage Founding of the American Communist Party Second stage Build a People's United Front 3rd stage Takeover of think tank IPR 4th stage Amerasia, a magazine that supports the Chinese Communist Party, is launched. 5th stage "Take in the Roosevelt family" Sorge behind the 'Nanjing' propaganda 6th stage Lobbying Using Former Secretary of State Stimson "Operation Trojan" 7th stage Spies inside the government enforced a policy of oppression against Japan In November, he drafted the draft ``Hull Note'', which was a de facto ultimatum to Japan in negotiations between Japan and the United States, and drove the Tojo Cabinet into war with the United States. According to the Venona documents, both President Curry (19), who promoted these anti-Japanese policies, and White, the Director of the Monetary Research Bureau of the Ministry of Finance (20), were Soviet spies. Thus, in December 1941, the US-Japan War broke out. On December 9, two days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Chinese Communist Party issued a statement that the Pacific Anti-Japanese United Front had been completed with the outbreak of the US-Japan War. The Soviet Comintern's strategy of using the United States to crush Japan became a reality 21 years later. As described above, the Venona documents, the Comintern documents, the confidential documents of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, etc. became public, and the Roosevelt administration, which used the Comintern, the Chinese Communist Party, and "Soviet spies" as important, before and during the war. And what he did after the war is gradually becoming clearer.
@@hman99 japan germany britan and russia were all trying to do the same thing that the americans did it was messed up but I wouldnt call it the brutality of the americans
@@tysonpruitt2252 it was... brutality of war tbh. germany didnt want no nuclear war if everyone surrenders to them peacefully. thats clear. im not sure of britain, russia, japan tho.
@@hman99 russia did one of the most successful covert opporations ever infultrating the manhattan project they truely were close to beating the americans to the bomb ever
Entire people evaporated, reduced to atoms.. leaving behind but a shadow on the ground signifying their last position; much like Pompeii but far more harrowing.
ZxINoluv The crazy thing is, technically the shadows weren’t burnt into the ground. But rather the flash was so bright it bleached everything bathed directly in light.
And thats exactly what the book of Revelation says. That book is obviously talking about thermo nuclear warfare. It happened with atomic bombs how much worse is nuclear.
The level of devastation in such a short amount of time is just mind-boggling. It's one thing to be in a city that's being bombed over days and weeks but to enter a building and your city is intact and when you exit it's been leveled to rubble is just impossible to comprehend
S C --- Nobody wins in war, humanity loses. Wayne Patterson --- You are simply repeating old and false propaganda. The Alled defensive warfare defeated the ability of the Axis to continue killing and murdering tens of millions of unarmed Human beings and won the war to save the lives of tens of millions of people in the Allied, Neutral, and Axis populations. Humanity won the right to end the Axis destruction of humanity.
@@APSAL07 --- Yea that must be it. I mean after all history repeats itself right? Wayne Patterson --- There is nothing funny about your remarks given your advocacy for a course of action which would have allowed Japan to go from the 500,000 people they had already killed with chemical weapons of mass destruction (Tabun and Serin nerve gases) and biological weapons of mass destruction (Bubonic Plague, Anthrax, and other lethal pathogens) to killing uncountable millions more people with their OPERATION FALLING CHERRY BLOSSOMS AT NIGHT series of attacks against San Diego, California and other cities around the world with those same biological weapons of mass destruction. What you advocate for would have allowed Japan to not only repeat its earlier history of biological weapons, it would have threatened all of humanity with the risk of setting loose a pathogen which could adapt to become a disease capable of killing a significant percentage of the world's entire population of Humans; i.e. hundreds of millions to more than 1-2 billion people. Not very funny what you advocate.
@@waynepatterson5843 Actually they made a cowardly move when they attacked pearl harbor. Then after there was two bombs that dropped on there country. Now they're allies with the USA. That's crazy isn't it? PS I was laughing at you. Never mind my comments.
It's important to share these experiences so future generations will understand and remember. Oka-san in this video passed away in 2017 and Yonezawa-san in 2022. The others are still alive, but Hibakusha are becoming fewer and fewer. It's important we carry on their memories.
You are spining kind of cleverly , and making war crimes non existant with this statement, i know your tricks…in the end THIS IS THE WAR CRIMES OF ALL WAR CRIMES
@@yahya2925 dropping the bombs saved countless lives on all sides. The Japanese weren't going to give up. Many of us are alive today because our grandfathers knew they were going to live to see their children and grandchildren after the bombs were dropped. I once read in an article "the soldiers first thanked Truman and then they thanked god."
the crazy thing is that afaik hiroshima had largely been spared from regular bombing in order to foster the maximum amount of deterrence by demonstrating the effects of the bomb as clearly as possible.
this disgusts me. no human deserves to experience this. these people were innocent citizens begging the war to end as they were suffering from hunger. i feel bad that they didn't have time to react in time to head straight into the bomb shelters.
If they didn't do this more people would have died they would have had to invade Japan and people on both sides would have died a lot more than what happened doesn't change the fact that it's horrible
well that is why we have what is known as mutually assured destruction, and that's what is keeping russia and the US from going to nuclear war with each other. and seeing what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki is just a tiny taste of what can happen to every city and town on the planet if nuclear war broke out
and it did NOT have to happen. Contrary to whatever the US says following this horrific bombing, there was NO actual need for bombing these cities! They just wanted to test the bombs and show the world who is the Master. since the commi Russians were winning the war, American gov had to show who is the number 1 in the post-war world. They were scared to bomb Russia, but Japan seemed to be a fair game... Make your own conclusions for the rest.
Nato imperialists are extending through Eastern Europe on the doorsteps of Russia and expect Russia to go to sleep calmly as if it would not retaliate if it were Russia. War is not improbable in a world of greed.
Eh, most felt mothing, there simply wasent enough time for the human body to feel pain that fast, but i get you, it truly is horrible for the civillians
The destruction of the city is staggering!! And this was with a weapon of 20,000 KT. Puny. I can't even imagine what something like Castle Bravo would do. 15 Million tons equivalent? The human race is INSANE.
Go back in time and see what Japanese did to anyone in their path. Without these bombs the war would have continued and millions more would have been killed by the Japanese.
0:16 If you've seen the artwork "Ghost-Like" made by another survivor, this entire description is the pinnacle of disturbing. No jumpscare, horror game or movie will be as disturbing at this.
I remembered there was a 17 year old girl who drew on what she saw in the aftermath of hiroshima. Talking about in the distance seeing a bunch of people walking but how horrid sight she saw, that these people flesh were hanging just like spirits roaming around to find help.
"That's war, Tucker. Not everyone makes it back." As evil as Felix was, many of the things he said were true and could be applied to the real world. Not everyone survives war. Not even the civilians are safe from the brutality of war.
Looking back at this as a 23 year old, it’s hard to deny how cruel this was from a Japanese citizens perspective. Yes it ended a war, but perspectives of war are different all around the world. I’m American so we see it as the necessary cost to end the war. But I don’t think someone in Japan would have that same perspective. War is complicated, at least to talk about. There will always be multiple angles and arguments. All we can do is take what’s happened in the past and try to better our society from the knowledge Gained. But what do I know, I’m a 23 year old American who is just going off of what I feel is right. Just an opinion.
That's the thing about humanity. The world will most likely never be peaceful. To know that innocent people will ALWAYS die, in the name of power, depresses me. How many innocents die on a regular basis on this planet is just disgusting and the fact that this will never change makes it more disturbing. We fight against if for hundred of years, but it is just impossible to live in peace. This is also not only about war. We as individuals are so incredibly lucky that we are born in another time and in another place. Others don't and they're in my mind, all the time. I feel so sorry for them and it makes me hate humanity even more. Sorry for my little rant.
I disagree, the Japanese aren't taught that America did that, they're not taught we're the bad guys. If they do happen to learn so in the future, I'm sure most understand the context. If anything, despite how scary living in a post nuclear war can be... I also believe if shocked humanity enough to make us question our decisions from then on. Unfortunately people have forgotten the horror of nuclear detonation.
The truth is that as far as nuclear explosives go, these were very "clean" bombs, meaning the amount of radiation they left behind to poison people is a miniscule fraction of what is released by a power plant's containment falure (like Chernobyl) or a "dirty bomb". A lot of people entered those cities after the nukes and lived full lives. There were health problems, but a lot of them were not fatal.
No there's not an excuse! There's a reason! The blood of those poor citizens is on the Japanese govt. They were given every opportunity to surrender before and after that bomb was dropped!
I agree. The Japanese should never have eaten Indian soldiers. Point I am making is there were atrocities committed by all parties. All of war is EVIL.
Never forget the millions murdered by the Japanese. Google 'nanking' and 'unit 731' What happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was nothing compared to the savagery of the Japanese.
I think we can all agree that WW2 was a pretty embarrassing showcase for our species. It’s just all bad ok. Instead of discounting this group of innocent people because that group did this to that group of innocent people, let’s just be compassionate. You came here just to discount these people. Put some respect on their souls. It’s so incredibly rude what you’re doing I’m not a fan.
@@joshuatealeaveswe live in a time where privileged people like you don’t have to put yourselves in the shoes of the millions who would’ve died from a conventional invasion. The bombings saved countless. You should take your own advice to understand why history happened the way it did.
the same fate those people suffered in Hiroshima will befall all of us on this planet if we ended up in an all out nuclear war. the USA has 6800 nuclear weapons, russia has 7200 nuclear weapons, china has fewer than 200 nukes, and north korea has less than 60. but if you combine the arsenals of all 4 countries the amount of firepower that would be released during a full out nuclear war would kill at least 2/3 of the world population, and the other 1/3 would likely perish due to fallout and famine
The Japanese leaders should have surrendered after Germany did in May 1945. They continued to fight until August. These poor people suffered so much because of the hubris of their leaders. 😔
lotus frintz no there main goal wasn’t to protect the people it was to make Japan seem more powerful and superior there motive was “fight and die with honor” so they probably fine with the people dying
Regardless of what the Japanese army did during the war, it is wrong to bomb two whole cities even in a war with weapons that you don't even know the true power of. This says a lot more about the USA than it does about Japan.
★★★ More than 210,000 civilians died and more than 150,000 were injured in the two atomic bombings on Japan. ★★★ In addition, before the atomic bombings, more than 100,000 civilians died and more than one million were injured in the Great Tokyo Air Raid.
…kind of like Pearl Harbor. Or did you conveniently forget about that little tidbit of history? Maybe you should actually read history before you open your mouth and reveal how ignorant you really are.
How come these witnesses saw peoples flesh melting yet they pulled through just fine? How is that possible if they were in the same area as those who were badly burned/melting?
Ok...as i read your comment, at 1 minute into the video it actually says how some people survived The first woman was inside a bunker. The thick cement walls would of protected her from.the blast.
So it was an instance type thing? Like the bomb went off and those out in the open at that exact moment got burned but those in the bunkers came out just after so the immense heat etc was near enough gone?
How can humans do this to their own people I will never understand. People suffering cause of greedy power hungry politicians. One day we will live in harmony once again, till then. I love you all
"I have not ceased to regret the war, nor shall I cease to censure your invincible general until I see the war concluded on some tolerable terms; nor will any thing except a new peace put a period to my regret for the loss of the old one." - Livy, XXIII. 12
@Spetsnaz it should have the same regime as biological weapons, sure everyone have some in case of anything but any use of it would mean breaking the law
@@aperson7772 --- They were right after this Wayne Patterson --- That is a false statement. The use of nuclear weapons are not "outlawed" by the Geneva Convention, notwithstanding efforts to make it so. The International Court of Justice concluded an advisory opinion which found that international law does not necessarily preclude the use of nuclear weapons in all circumstances.
Not only that they have never been punished for there wrongful acts. God knows how many other countries have been affected by the acts of america. I can't believe that this country leads the world, and is appraised by many. A shame to american, you can burn to hell!!!
Best Vids did u know that Dai Nippon enslaved & killed millions of Asians & Pacific Islanders before the bombing? They even mutilated, burn, & did other shitty experiment against Chinese civillians in a military lab. They even tried to invade Western Parts of North America by sending deadly balloons to attack North Americans, a group of American Sunday School kids died as a result. No wonder many Asians don't feel bad for the bombing, including my country.
Everyone’s hating on the US and justifying this happening to Japan and I’m for both but I’m mostly just thinking off the assholes in charge at the time, who made this awful situation possible... getting off scot free! XD
@@danor6812 أقصد لمادا تدهب امريكا بٱسطولها العسكري إلى المحيط الهادي ! إدن انت امام عتبة الباب الخاصة باليابان ! شءت ام أبيت امريكا سبب حروب ونزاعات العالم !
@deatharrow1994 Yes but what Japan did was nothing compared to what the USA did to Japan. Dropping a nuclear bomb on a country. men, women and innocent children nuked.
Everyone condemning the United States for choosing the bomb consider this: WWII in the Pacific started because Imperial Japan invaded China and wanted to acquire more territory. They slaughtered innocent civilians by the thousands and even proudly printed these atrocities in newspapers. When the war in Europe ended Japan should have surrendered. They were offered that option and refused to drag out the war and cause more unnecessary death. The last battles in the Pacific were absolute bloodbaths for both sides and Japan didn’t care. If we didn’t drop the bomb an invasion of Mainland Japan would have probably happened and thousands more people would have died and the war would have dragged on even longer. Japan condemned their own citizens to death because they couldn’t accept defeat.
bing aquino Its because the USA helped Japan rebuild after that, executed those in power and turning Hirohito into an simple ambassador, and by help, I mean economically. USA doesn’t want Japan to have an big military force, so they just back them.
did u know that Dai Nippon enslaved & killed millions of Asians & Pacific Islanders before the bombing? They even mutilated, burn, & did other shitty experiment against Chinese civillians in a military lab. They even tried to invade Western Parts of North America by sending deadly balloons to attack North Americans, a group of American Sunday School kids died as a result. No wonder many Asians don't feel bad for the bombing, including my country
Its funny, you hear about the 25,000 people murdered in the bombing of Germany, but barely a mention of the 1000,000 odd murdered in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, these for a majority where innocent people not part of a war,, I think these situations should be remembered but never repeated, war is perhaps the most futile waste of energy mankind has ever produced, one would hope we live in unison with peace as the forefront of the human priority, RIP to all who died needlessly, ,,, F.M
Its important to remember, though it was terrible, it prevented many more deaths. It was the end of WW2 and made an all out invasion of Japan unnecessary.
0:49 That is not at all how you say her name. Yo, like yo dawg what up. Shi, like that's what SHE said. E, like put some Effort into your narration. O, like oh I see now, ka like coffee. Yo-shi-e O-ka. Geeze... Have at least the decency to learn how to say her name if you're going to interview her over such a horrific incident.
When people watch this video and begin their notations of sympathy,,,,, they should think of the horrible atrocities and inhumane acts the Japaneses did to captured Allies including civilians of other nationalities,,,
I think having sympathy for the innocent people and understanding that it was a necessity because of the awful leadership can live synonymously... The more we divide people who's lives are affected from the leaders who infect, the more power will be in the people's hands
This is probably done by a fire bomb attack, the new type of bomb was incendiaries. "The whole of Hiroshima has been annihilated", no, it was a part of the city.
When a government can do this to human beings is disgusting. The usa has a track record of cruelty....let's see native Americans, civil war, ww1 ww2 Korea Vietnam....
All Asians who were victims of Japan are allowed and have the right to erase all Japanese. Especially the Chinese and Koreans. What they have done: Nanking Massacre, Unit 731 etc.
I went to Hiroshima and we learned all about the a-bomb, 😢 and the next night I had a terrible dream that I had woken up and I had two red dots on a piece of clothing and i showed it to my mom and she said “oh no!😢 it has happened to you to! I am sorry but this means that you will die on October 21 this year”. I do not know why October 21.
They should have surrendered months earlier when it was clear they had lost the war. So many innocent people could have kept their lives but hubris and ego led to all this death.
It was the worst case of excessive force ever seen. It was like they were ground zero for the opening of Pandoras Box but at the same time, don’t comitt acts of terror. The United States had nothing to do with WW2 until the unwarranted terrorist attack on Pearl Harbor. The USA was Neutral up until that moment, you should’ve let them stay that way. Acts of Aggression must be met with consequences, however the consequences were too great. The USA did things the World wasn’t capable of imagining, that’s why they called it a new type of Bomb. It was so sad what happened to those innocent people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
"We've been hit by a new type of bomb"- is one of the most chilling things I've ever heard.
I have a feeling we're gonna see it too
I would say you have been buddy!
We have been hit by a new type of virus .....
2020
Absolutely!! Cannot imagine what they were going through!!! Just can not.
Be ready.
"I don't understand what you mean by the city is annihilated" that's crazy, they can't even comprehend how big the explosion was
I tried to imagine being told my whole city is annihilated. I’d probably ask the same thing, assuming they couldn’t possibly mean the entire city is literally gone. And of course they didn’t yet know such a thing was possible, leveling an entire city in an instant. Her response is so chilling: “We’ve been hit by a new kind of bomb”
@@JC-yy8ivActually 60%of the city was destroyed the target was the aioi bridge but blew up right above the shima hospital instead thousands were wiped instantly the shock wave travelled from 10 to 767 mph temperatures reached 5k degrees Celsius as hot as the sun after that a massive firestorm spreaded Futher finally radiation poisoning would effect the survivors for years to come even today if they are even alive.
What's crazy is in the days between the bomb drop on Hiroshima and the drop on Nagasaki, many Japanese people chose not to believe the reports of a single bomb destroying an entire city. The bomb was so destructive and devastating that people in other parts of Japan couldn't fathom it. Let that sink in.
What's worse is it took TWO bombs to make them surrender. If the US was evil, we could have taken Japan and owned the land. But we didn't. Sometimes an aggressive country has to hit rock bottom before they have their "come to jesus" moment. And they haven't stepped out of line since.
If you think about it hard, it is actually insane how that’s possible
How could anyone begin to comprehend such an atrocity? I still think even now even with however many documentaries you watch, no matter how many pictures or videos you see, no matter how many first hand stories you hear, no one could ever truly comprehend the magnitude or depth of this atrocity. Just imagining everything and everyone within 3miles of your home gone in just a slit second and even then that’s just the start of the suffering. When in such a traumatic situation like that your brain can’t comprehend such a thing, you might be able to say what you’ve seen and witnessed but even those hours, days, or years that go by you can only begin to slowly comprehend it all. WWII brought out the worst of the world.
The way Takashi still speaks with deep sadness reminded me how devastating the bombs really were, you always read about the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings in school but hearing these individual accounts just puts it into a new perspective.
I live in Japan and I visited Hiroshima once to see the photos at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial museum stays with me til now. It was horrible to see even sample of the people’s skin of people who suffered from the burns.
MANY thanks for your comments and still am not happy with the USA doing this
@@toneybucket2051 We're not very happy about it either Toney. No one should have such weapons. No one.
@@tiffanyshanley1419 Unfortunately it is too late to turn back. There is literally no way to discard of those weapons now as multiple countries have them to keep others in check now amongst other reasons I'm sure.
1st stage
Founding of the American Communist Party
Second stage
Build a People's United Front
3rd stage
Takeover of think tank IPR
4th stage
Amerasia, a magazine that supports the Chinese Communist Party, is launched.
5th stage
"Take in the Roosevelt family"
Sorge behind the 'Nanjing' propaganda
6th stage
Lobbying Using Former Secretary of State Stimson
"Operation Trojan"
7th stage
Spies inside the government enforced a policy of oppression against Japan
In November, he drafted the draft ``Hull Note'', which was a de facto ultimatum to Japan in negotiations between Japan and the United States, and drove the Tojo Cabinet into war with the United States.
According to the Venona documents, both President Curry (19), who promoted these anti-Japanese policies, and White, the Director of the Monetary Research Bureau of the Ministry of Finance (20), were Soviet spies.
Thus, in December 1941, the US-Japan War broke out. On December 9, two days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Chinese Communist Party issued a statement that the Pacific Anti-Japanese United Front had been completed with the outbreak of the US-Japan War. The Soviet Comintern's strategy of using the United States to crush Japan became a reality 21 years later.
As described above, the Venona documents, the Comintern documents, the confidential documents of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, etc. became public, and the Roosevelt administration, which used the Comintern, the Chinese Communist Party, and "Soviet spies" as important, before and during the war. And what he did after the war is gradually becoming clearer.
Yes, incendiary bombs cause that kind of injury, but they were thrown at 69 Japanese cities, not just this one.
These specific people did not make the decision to not surrender. Innocent people died for the actions of few at the top.
died cuz of brutality of the usa
@@hman99 japan germany britan and russia were all trying to do the same thing that the americans did it was messed up but I wouldnt call it the brutality of the americans
@@tysonpruitt2252 it was... brutality of war tbh. germany didnt want no nuclear war if everyone surrenders to them peacefully. thats clear. im not sure of britain, russia, japan tho.
@@hman99 germany wanted the nuclear bomb not to destroy everything but to tip the tide of war back in their favor
@@hman99 russia did one of the most successful covert opporations ever infultrating the manhattan project they truely were close to beating the americans to the bomb ever
I heard an account where a 7 year old girl said the people’s eyes evaporated out of their sockets.
Entire people evaporated, reduced to atoms.. leaving behind but a shadow on the ground signifying their last position; much like Pompeii but far more harrowing.
@@TheShadowBannedBandit theres shadows burnt in to the ground so yeah:(
ZxINoluv The crazy thing is, technically the shadows weren’t burnt into the ground. But rather the flash was so bright it bleached everything bathed directly in light.
And thats exactly what the book of Revelation says. That book is obviously talking about thermo nuclear warfare. It happened with atomic bombs how much worse is nuclear.
The level of devastation in such a short amount of time is just mind-boggling. It's one thing to be in a city that's being bombed over days and weeks but to enter a building and your city is intact and when you exit it's been leveled to rubble is just impossible to comprehend
It is pretty much the exact same thing that happened in the Joplin Tornado.
Nobody wins in war, humanity loses.
S C --- Nobody wins in war, humanity loses.
Wayne Patterson --- You are simply repeating old and false propaganda. The Alled defensive warfare defeated the ability of the Axis to continue killing and murdering tens of millions of unarmed Human beings and won the war to save the lives of tens of millions of people in the Allied, Neutral, and Axis populations. Humanity won the right to end the Axis destruction of humanity.
@@waynepatterson5843 Yea that must be it. I mean after all history repeats itself right?
lol at you.
@@APSAL07 --- Yea that must be it. I mean after all history repeats itself right?
Wayne Patterson --- There is nothing funny about your remarks given your advocacy for a course of action which would have allowed Japan to go from the 500,000 people they had already killed with chemical weapons of mass destruction (Tabun and Serin nerve gases) and biological weapons of mass destruction (Bubonic Plague, Anthrax, and other lethal pathogens) to killing uncountable millions more people with their OPERATION FALLING CHERRY BLOSSOMS AT NIGHT series of attacks against San Diego, California and other cities around the world with those same biological weapons of mass destruction. What you advocate for would have allowed Japan to not only repeat its earlier history of biological weapons, it would have threatened all of humanity with the risk of setting loose a pathogen which could adapt to become a disease capable of killing a significant percentage of the world's entire population of Humans; i.e. hundreds of millions to more than 1-2 billion people. Not very funny what you advocate.
@@waynepatterson5843 Actually they made a cowardly move when they attacked pearl harbor. Then after there was two bombs that dropped on there country. Now they're allies with the USA. That's crazy isn't it? PS I was laughing at you. Never mind my comments.
govt does......
It's important to share these experiences so future generations will understand and remember. Oka-san in this video passed away in 2017 and Yonezawa-san in 2022. The others are still alive, but Hibakusha are becoming fewer and fewer. It's important we carry on their memories.
And it looks like we are heading thay way again...
i dont think that anything done during the war could ever be justified. everything’s just plain cruelty
That’s what they get for attacking the United States.
You are spining kind of cleverly , and making war crimes non existant with this statement, i know your tricks…in the end THIS IS THE WAR CRIMES OF ALL WAR CRIMES
Tell the people at Pearl Harbor.
@@patriciaschuster1371 As if that justified nuking a entire city of civilians. My God.
@@yahya2925 dropping the bombs saved countless lives on all sides. The Japanese weren't going to give up. Many of us are alive today because our grandfathers knew they were going to live to see their children and grandchildren after the bombs were dropped. I once read in an article "the soldiers first thanked Truman and then they thanked god."
the crazy thing is that afaik hiroshima had largely been spared from regular bombing in order to foster the maximum amount of deterrence by demonstrating the effects of the bomb as clearly as possible.
this disgusts me. no human deserves to experience this. these people were innocent citizens begging the war to end as they were suffering from hunger. i feel bad that they didn't have time to react in time to head straight into the bomb shelters.
It really is sad but we can prevent this by teaching future generations so history doesn’t repeat itself
They were warned before hand by pamphlets dropped from aircraft.
The world is full of cruelty to both human and animal.
If they didn't do this more people would have died they would have had to invade Japan and people on both sides would have died a lot more than what happened doesn't change the fact that it's horrible
No one deserved WW2 to happen as a whole
the stubbornness of two world leaders lead to the suffering of the people that they're supposed to protect
Alex & ra you are from which country?
You haven't read much history have you. Either go research this war or get off this site making nñ
they had plenty of support!!!
Kind of like Pearl Harbor. Or did you conveniently forget about that little tidbit of history?
I wish that it didn’t have to happen... all we can do now is prevent a tragedy like this from happening again in the future.
well that is why we have what is known as mutually assured destruction, and that's what is keeping russia and the US from going to nuclear war with each other. and seeing what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki is just a tiny taste of what can happen to every city and town on the planet if nuclear war broke out
and it did NOT have to happen. Contrary to whatever the US says following this horrific bombing, there was NO actual need for bombing these cities! They just wanted to test the bombs and show the world who is the Master. since the commi Russians were winning the war, American gov had to show who is the number 1 in the post-war world. They were scared to bomb Russia, but Japan seemed to be a fair game... Make your own conclusions for the rest.
It didn't have to happen but when you poke the bear there's going to be repercussions
Nato imperialists are extending through Eastern Europe on the doorsteps of Russia and expect Russia to go to sleep calmly as if it would not retaliate if it were Russia. War is not improbable in a world of greed.
It didn't have to happen. Japan would have surrendered the moment the USSR got involved and America knew that.
The suffering of these people is impossible to comprehend. They are in heaven.
Some of them didn’t really feel pain tho. They just incinerated
they were future kamikaze pilots.
Eh, most felt mothing, there simply wasent enough time for the human body to feel pain that fast, but i get you, it truly is horrible for the civillians
The destruction of the city is staggering!! And this was with a weapon of 20,000 KT. Puny. I can't even imagine what something like Castle Bravo would do. 15 Million tons equivalent? The human race is INSANE.
And these devices were created by mad scientist that were into black magic
@@Blackowl44 It wasn't black magic, just humans exploiting nuclear physics in order to create stronger and stronger weapons
@@Blackowl44 Um.. it's not magic.
War doesn't care about who lives and who die.
Mystical Poptart who tells your story
War is a term that is used for conflict, therefore it can not care.
False.
War does not care who is right or wrong. Only who is left.
@@jefitzgerald2851 eliZA
luv pls Um what
This is terrible. I feel so bad for them having to experience this.
Go back in time and see what Japanese did to anyone in their path. Without these bombs the war would have continued and millions more would have been killed by the Japanese.
They had it coming. It was this or months more fire bombing which would have killed even more.
@@Harkness78the Sounders had it coming not civilians with Hiroshima and Nagasaki together it killed 400,000 pepole
0:16 If you've seen the artwork "Ghost-Like" made by another survivor, this entire description is the pinnacle of disturbing. No jumpscare, horror game or movie will be as disturbing at this.
I couldn't imagine what this Lady saw!! So sad. War is just heartbreaking, vile, atrocious, HORRIBLE and the innocent suffer.
I remembered there was a 17 year old girl who drew on what she saw in the aftermath of hiroshima.
Talking about in the distance seeing a bunch of people walking but how horrid sight she saw, that these people flesh were hanging just like spirits roaming around to find help.
"That's war, Tucker. Not everyone makes it back." As evil as Felix was, many of the things he said were true and could be applied to the real world. Not everyone survives war. Not even the civilians are safe from the brutality of war.
Wrong the royals always survive
They attacked a military base, we attacked their civilians
@@Vlad-oy8ew they attacked Eastern and South East Asian countries military and civilians.
I’m with you. War is war
War is War! Period!!!! Nobody is untouchable! Nobody! Pearl Harbor meant war! Sorry but not sorry
"who lives who dies who tells your story"
Hamilton? Also that’s chilling I feel so bad for everyone in this event
I'd like to hear the rest of these stories.
Me too!! Do you know if theres any second part?
Looking back at this as a 23 year old, it’s hard to deny how cruel this was from a Japanese citizens perspective. Yes it ended a war, but perspectives of war are different all around the world. I’m American so we see it as the necessary cost to end the war. But I don’t think someone in Japan would have that same perspective. War is complicated, at least to talk about. There will always be multiple angles and arguments. All we can do is take what’s happened in the past and try to better our society from the knowledge Gained. But what do I know, I’m a 23 year old American who is just going off of what I feel is right. Just an opinion.
That's the thing about humanity. The world will most likely never be peaceful. To know that innocent people will ALWAYS die, in the name of power, depresses me. How many innocents die on a regular basis on this planet is just disgusting and the fact that this will never change makes it more disturbing. We fight against if for hundred of years, but it is just impossible to live in peace. This is also not only about war. We as individuals are so incredibly lucky that we are born in another time and in another place. Others don't and they're in my mind, all the time. I feel so sorry for them and it makes me hate humanity even more. Sorry for my little rant.
@@infamousmercy4735 no you’re fine I feel you the most we can do is fight for world peace and hope someone will listen
No citizens should die in wars ..... It's really unfair.
I disagree, the Japanese aren't taught that America did that, they're not taught we're the bad guys. If they do happen to learn so in the future, I'm sure most understand the context. If anything, despite how scary living in a post nuclear war can be... I also believe if shocked humanity enough to make us question our decisions from then on. Unfortunately people have forgotten the horror of nuclear detonation.
Beautifully said
The thought that humans can do this to each other is horrifying
How did some of those survivors not die from the radiation afterwards?
Most did. Very very few survived it
The truth is that as far as nuclear explosives go, these were very "clean" bombs, meaning the amount of radiation they left behind to poison people is a miniscule fraction of what is released by a power plant's containment falure (like Chernobyl) or a "dirty bomb". A lot of people entered those cities after the nukes and lived full lives. There were health problems, but a lot of them were not fatal.
Never will there be an excuse for such cruelty
Japan sided with literal Nazis and fascists, they deserved it
@Jedistache nop
No there's not an excuse! There's a reason! The blood of those poor citizens is on the Japanese govt. They were given every opportunity to surrender before and after that bomb was dropped!
I agree. The Japanese should never have eaten Indian soldiers. Point I am making is there were atrocities committed by all parties. All of war is EVIL.
Dios ha tenido qe desintegrar espíritus de los responsables de esto. Sobre todo el emperador de japon y el presi de eeuu
Never forget the millions murdered by the Japanese. Google 'nanking' and 'unit 731'
What happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was nothing compared to the savagery of the Japanese.
I think we can all agree that WW2 was a pretty embarrassing showcase for our species. It’s just all bad ok.
Instead of discounting this group of innocent people because that group did this to that group of innocent people, let’s just be compassionate. You came here just to discount these people. Put some respect on their souls. It’s so incredibly rude what you’re doing I’m not a fan.
@@joshuatealeaveswe live in a time where privileged people like you don’t have to put yourselves in the shoes of the millions who would’ve died from a conventional invasion. The bombings saved countless. You should take your own advice to understand why history happened the way it did.
my brother in christ WHY are you even trying to compare?
your sick
It is true but reacting by killing innocent civilians (from the other side even) is frowned apon
I'm very thankful that both countries can live in peace now
the same fate those people suffered in Hiroshima will befall all of us on this planet if we ended up in an all out nuclear war. the USA has 6800 nuclear weapons, russia has 7200 nuclear weapons, china has fewer than 200 nukes, and north korea has less than 60. but if you combine the arsenals of all 4 countries the amount of firepower that would be released during a full out nuclear war would kill at least 2/3 of the world population, and the other 1/3 would likely perish due to fallout and famine
All nuclear weapons were destroyed in 70's 🐑
The US had the audacity to tell people about nuclear weapons . The nerve of them . Stupidity on the highest level.
The Japanese Empire should have done more to protect its people. They were so willing to sacrifice them.
David Monson How do you protect people from a surprise nuclear attack?
by not invading someones terrirtory and killing innocent people in the first place like in china korea and some parts of south east asia
The Japanese leaders should have surrendered after Germany did in May 1945. They continued to fight until August. These poor people suffered so much because of the hubris of their leaders. 😔
lotus frintz no there main goal wasn’t to protect the people it was to make Japan seem more powerful and superior there motive was “fight and die with honor” so they probably fine with the people dying
Regardless of what the Japanese army did during the war, it is wrong to bomb two whole cities even in a war with weapons that you don't even know the true power of. This says a lot more about the USA than it does about Japan.
*Plays happy music* It;s always brighter here
Brighter then the Sun...
I know! The irony! 😶
1:12 no need for throwing up them gang signs. The war is over
I get the joke but that not cool at all
@@Idontcareatall-s5cyeah there’s a time and place for everything 😭 maturity lacks in some people lol
Yikes
The amount of innocent people, the amount of babies, I hate this.
That must have hurt so bad
★★★ More than 210,000 civilians died and more than 150,000 were injured in the two atomic bombings on Japan.
★★★ In addition, before the atomic bombings, more than 100,000 civilians died and more than one million were injured in the Great Tokyo Air Raid.
…kind of like Pearl Harbor. Or did you conveniently forget about that little tidbit of history? Maybe you should actually read history before you open your mouth and reveal how ignorant you really are.
Why do innocent citizens have to die for the war to end?.War is indeed cruel second to none.
All Japanese at that time were guilty.
Mankind has still not learned anything from horrors of wars.
I haven't words describes the cruelty my grand father described the story of this war he was says no words
This gives me chills...
Japanese actress Midori Naka was the first person in the world to die from radiation poisoning from the bombings of Hiroshima, and Nagasaki
How come these witnesses saw peoples flesh melting yet they pulled through just fine? How is that possible if they were in the same area as those who were badly burned/melting?
I am guessing cause they were protected from the heat by something, which made them safe from any burns, but not the radiation
Ok...as i read your comment, at 1 minute into the video it actually says how some people survived
The first woman was inside a bunker. The thick cement walls would of protected her from.the blast.
So it was an instance type thing? Like the bomb went off and those out in the open at that exact moment got burned but those in the bunkers came out just after so the immense heat etc was near enough gone?
@@spirit_of_gaming95 Yeah its pretty much exactly like that!
I heard an account of someone being entirely protected by a school building.
How can humans do this to their own people I will never understand. People suffering cause of greedy power hungry politicians. One day we will live in harmony once again, till then. I love you all
Good that these stories are told... Scary
War what is it good for? Absolutely nothing
BY SINGER EDWIN STARR
War, war never changes.
bombshell938 r: it does. it can get more deadlier unfortunately.
bombshell938 r fuck you took my reference
Rotem Haddad r/woosh
But humans do, through the road they walk.
Codsworth loved that.
where's the rest of it?
Their is no good war and bad peace
"I have not ceased to regret the war, nor shall I cease to censure your invincible general until I see the war concluded on some tolerable terms; nor will any thing except a new peace put a period to my regret for the loss of the old one." - Livy, XXIII. 12
and we are so close of this happening again
Very
@That's Not Funny, That's Sick! God?
😂
Uh, no
Lol fearmongering little sheep
World leaders should be forced to listen to these witnesses. Show them the consequences of the wars they use for financial and political again.
May Allah protect us from that incident
CRUELITY... nothing more to say
And what the Japanese did wasn't cruelty?
Nuclear weapons should be outlawed by the Geneva convention.
They were right after this
@Spetsnaz it should have the same regime as biological weapons, sure everyone have some in case of anything but any use of it would mean breaking the law
@@aperson7772 --- They were right after this
Wayne Patterson --- That is a false statement. The use of nuclear weapons are not "outlawed" by the Geneva Convention, notwithstanding efforts to make it so. The International Court of Justice concluded an advisory opinion which found that international law does not necessarily preclude the use of nuclear weapons in all circumstances.
Agreed.
The majority of americans are not and will never be sorry.
Not only that they have never been punished for there wrongful acts. God knows how many other countries have been affected by the acts of america. I can't believe that this country leads the world, and is appraised by many. A shame to american, you can burn to hell!!!
Ryan Krekeler exactly why we wont be
Best Vids fuck you
Best Vids did u know that Dai Nippon enslaved & killed millions of Asians & Pacific Islanders before the bombing? They even mutilated, burn, & did other shitty experiment against Chinese civillians in a military lab. They even tried to invade Western Parts of North America by sending deadly balloons to attack North Americans, a group of American Sunday School kids died as a result. No wonder many Asians don't feel bad for the bombing, including my country.
John Helton /got that right
Here after Oppenheimer.
Everyone’s hating on the US and justifying this happening to Japan and I’m for both but I’m mostly just thinking off the assholes in charge at the time, who made this awful situation possible... getting off scot free! XD
You mean the Emperor of Japan that started this war with the US?
@@danor6812 أقصد لمادا تدهب امريكا بٱسطولها العسكري إلى المحيط الهادي !
إدن انت امام عتبة الباب الخاصة باليابان !
شءت ام أبيت امريكا سبب حروب ونزاعات العالم !
@@saide18chchi82Japan was raping all of Asia during World War 2. Asians died in the millions because of the Japanese, and you want to blame the USA?
It’s always terrible when civilians perish for the actions of their corrupt rulers.
How can USA justify dropping a bomb like that
Uhh Japan bombed Pearl Harbor? Do you seriously not know what war does?
@deatharrow1994 Yes but what Japan did was nothing compared to what the USA did to Japan. Dropping a nuclear bomb on a country. men, women and innocent children nuked.
ohh dear!!!...ohh dear!!!.. may their souls RIP...:(
Everyone condemning the United States for choosing the bomb consider this: WWII in the Pacific started because Imperial Japan invaded China and wanted to acquire more territory. They slaughtered innocent civilians by the thousands and even proudly printed these atrocities in newspapers. When the war in Europe ended Japan should have surrendered. They were offered that option and refused to drag out the war and cause more unnecessary death. The last battles in the Pacific were absolute bloodbaths for both sides and Japan didn’t care. If we didn’t drop the bomb an invasion of Mainland Japan would have probably happened and thousands more people would have died and the war would have dragged on even longer. Japan condemned their own citizens to death because they couldn’t accept defeat.
Punish the imperial goverment
why to punish civilians who have nothing to do with the war?
Yeah right
So the radiation thing is not true since there are survivors near ground zero
Why is Japanese not mad at USA
bing aquino Its because the USA helped Japan rebuild after that, executed those in power and turning Hirohito into an simple ambassador, and by help, I mean economically. USA doesn’t want Japan to have an big military force, so they just back them.
did u know that Dai Nippon enslaved & killed millions of Asians & Pacific Islanders before the bombing? They even mutilated, burn, & did other shitty experiment against Chinese civillians in a military lab. They even tried to invade Western Parts of North America by sending deadly balloons to attack North Americans, a group of American Sunday School kids died as a result. No wonder many Asians don't feel bad for the bombing, including my country
they hate man hate and they are not alone in that hate mood
Probably because they built that nation up to what it is today..
Because Japan deserved it?
Its funny, you hear about the 25,000 people murdered in the bombing of Germany, but barely a mention of the 1000,000 odd murdered in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, these for a majority where innocent people not part of a war,, I think these situations should be remembered but never repeated, war is perhaps the most futile waste of energy mankind has ever produced, one would hope we live in unison with peace as the forefront of the human priority, RIP to all who died needlessly, ,,, F.M
Many more than 25,000 died in Germany from bombings.
And Japan still thinks they are above all other countries.
Look up Japanese Korean Occupation, Look up Japanese Unit 731, Look up Bataan Death March.. Understand now? Much more too.
Two wrongs never make a right
yea ikr they had it comming to them after the Atrocities they commited and especially for pearl harbor
All done by soldiers.
And of course the citizens have to answer
The death marches were horrid it’s so sad what people will do for no good reason
Very painfully
Never again...🙏🏻🇺🇸
The only way to ensure this never happens again is to destroy America.
Its important to remember, though it was terrible, it prevented many more deaths. It was the end of WW2 and made an all out invasion of Japan unnecessary.
here comes the sun
How awful. ☹️
Tokyo Firebombing
Too bad guys below water on Battleship Row couldn't tell their stories
I hate that this happened but the sucker punch Japan hit us with at Pearl Harbor wasn’t cool either
Pearl Harbor was army focused not civilians.
No wonder city was wiped out. Mostly light wooden structures.
0:49
That is not at all how you say her name.
Yo, like yo dawg what up. Shi, like that's what SHE said. E, like put some Effort into your narration. O, like oh I see now, ka like coffee.
Yo-shi-e O-ka.
Geeze... Have at least the decency to learn how to say her name if you're going to interview her over such a horrific incident.
You’re right I wish I knew Japanese it’s my lifelong dream
@@aperson7772 Lots of time to study these days.
Good music opening!...👀...👀...👁️!👍
Nothing can justify this. Europe plz don't start the war again
@Dani Masterson where is germany and UK ,i think europe😑
Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931.
So sad
*discussions about horrific deaths and trauma*
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SMITHSONIAN IT'S BRIGHTER HERE
after 75 years it still affecting how about the SHADOWS OF THE PAST baka bigay si Mam Quizz
Blame that on hirohito leaders of that time didnt surrender to stop the war.. stupidity cost them life of innocent civilians
When people watch this video and begin their notations of sympathy,,,,, they should think of the horrible atrocities and inhumane acts the Japaneses did to captured Allies including civilians of other nationalities,,,
I think having sympathy for the innocent people and understanding that it was a necessity because of the awful leadership can live synonymously... The more we divide people who's lives are affected from the leaders who infect, the more power will be in the people's hands
That doesn’t really have anything to do with this since most of the people who died were just normal citizens who never did anything wrong
@@admiralAlfonso9001and what did the soldiers do? They were innocent as well.
★★★ The brutal war crimes of the Allies will never disappear from history ❢❢❢ 😖😖😖
Prime example of a government bringing its people to demise.
the biden administration????
Someday all war will end!
This is probably done by a fire bomb attack, the new type of bomb was incendiaries. "The whole of Hiroshima has been annihilated", no, it was a part of the city.
Let me guess, you also think the Earth is flat...
When a government can do this to human beings is disgusting. The usa has a track record of cruelty....let's see native Americans, civil war, ww1 ww2 Korea Vietnam....
Sucks that so many lives can be lost just because some idiots in suits and ties have beef with eachother.
Maybe Putin needs to watch this. About a thousand times.
All i can say is that they never attacked us again
They awoke the giant
Dead dino agreed
If only the civilians would not face the wrath of that bloodthirsty giant .
Harsh but true lol
@@Pedro_Le_Chef tit for tat ya know... what about pearl harbor?
@@democracy_is_truth7620 And don't forget Bataan
@@rithvikmuthyalapati9754 Nanjing
All Asians who were victims of Japan are allowed and have the right to erase all Japanese.
Especially the Chinese and Koreans. What they have done: Nanking Massacre, Unit 731 etc.
Doesn't mean innocent people have to suffer
The Empire of the Rising Sun, ended by two blows from their own namesake.
I went to Hiroshima and we learned all about the a-bomb, 😢 and the next night I had a terrible dream that I had woken up and I had two red dots on a piece of clothing and i showed it to my mom and she said “oh no!😢 it has happened to you to! I am sorry but this means that you will die on October 21 this year”. I do not know why October 21.
4 square miles. Wow
Terribile, spero che nn accada mai più!!!!!!!! Sono molto spaventata
They should have surrendered months earlier when it was clear they had lost the war. So many innocent people could have kept their lives but hubris and ego led to all this death.
Surrender was in progress apparently it was three days away according to newly released government documents
It was the worst case of excessive force ever seen. It was like they were ground zero for the opening of Pandoras Box but at the same time, don’t comitt acts of terror. The United States had nothing to do with WW2 until the unwarranted terrorist attack on Pearl Harbor. The USA was Neutral up until that moment, you should’ve let them stay that way. Acts of Aggression must be met with consequences, however the consequences were too great. The USA did things the World wasn’t capable of imagining, that’s why they called it a new type of Bomb. It was so sad what happened to those innocent people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
If this makes you feel bad look up Nanking massacre and what their people did the babies with their bayonets. As they say Karma has a way 😉