Two Hibakusha (survivors of Japan's atomic bomb attacks) describe their experiences surviving the blast near ground zero and its terrible aftermath in Hiroshima. [5/2009] [Humanities] [Show ID: 16446]
@J M dude do u just hang out on this video all day and comment on other peoples comments cause your a racist against jaoan i mean shut the fuck up every time i read a comment there is your bitch ass commenting something to there comment
I hate Japan but stil you are right and all of you are being racist to Japan,they did most harm to East Asians and China not too much to US,America doesnt have more dead from Japan than Japan have from them.Even China isnt this racist to them...
Do you understand the biological weapons they were developing could, and would have decimated populations, no matter what people were going to die. And if the mass population can't make a hard decision, maybe they shouldn't be invited in the conversation
You are right that innocent people caught in the middle but you wrong when you say today's people didn't want war .People become more revenge taker rebel type nowadays
she was a little girl. she had nothing to do with killing. they were at the wrong place at the wrong time....poor kids. this kind of killing is wrong! I have difficulty understanding some of these angry comments. This is so sad. Politically, whatever but look, these little children innocent. telling the story. respect please for these people! compassion.
I agree with you. It must've been a horrific experience beyond our imagining! People may argue that they brought it on themselves and yes, it was inevitable that America wanted Japan to suffer in the way they did; however, I do not believe that this justified the use of such a terrible weapon! That is all I'm going to say and if anyone disagrees or trolls me, then I think they're very sad individuals. This is really sad! I would not wish nuclear anihilation on anyone!
yeh, there might of been another little girl who was sent to Unit 731, Injected to with a plague, dissected while still alive with no pain killers by a honorable doctor of the imperial force. that little girl died proberly crying for her mother not understanding why its happening to her. Japan Deserve every fucking nuke it got and if not more.
@@pizzaki582 First, there is no such term in English as "would of." It's "would've," a contraction of "would have." Second, there is no such word as "proberly." It's "probably." Simple 5th grade English grammar is a good thing. Third, shame on you for your disgusting comments!
FYI, Hiroshima was the headquarters of the 2nd Area Army, under Field Marshal Hata. 43,000 J soldiers were in the city and 20k-30k died in the bombing.
Doesn't justify the annihilation of 100.000+ civilians, the inclusion and targeting of civilians falls under the category of war crimes. So now you now...
Has UC or anyone else ever held a conference interviewing survivors of the Rape of Nanking(300,000 dead)? Or survivors of retribution for the Doolittle Raid(250,000 dead)? Or any family/friends of the 25 million civilians(mostly Chinese) Japan killed in WWII? Does anyone remember their trauma? I have no problem with UC holding this conf, but it needs to give equal time to the victims of Japan, which is hundreds of times greater than Hiroshima.
To be honest I think both comments are biased. If you are from the US or from Japan your opinion will reflect the decisions your country has made and will argue in favor of your country. However, from a perspective that is not related to either country, I believe that there was no reason for nuclear bombs to be dropped. Thousands of people were killed and people are still being born with defects due to the bomb. Yes people did face psychological damage, but they still had the chance to live.
I feel sad to see on this boards arguing which side was more justified for violence. The issue here of society is someone always tried to feel superior of one another, not sharing everyone can have the right to live well.
If you bothered to listen to the women speak they both speak about how humans and nuclear weapons can not coexist. They do not once say that japan and japan solely were the victims. They are criticizing the nuclear giants who continue to produce nuclear weapons which includes but is not exclusive to your own country. Because your country were the culprits for this particular attack does not mean you need to be rude and down right racist to somehow justify the actions of your own government.
@Naterz100 yeah i just think it's messed up how all of those innocent people would have had to suffer. It just doesn't sit well with me, they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. That's no reason for them to have been punished/killed
@MrMike3865 Did you not pay attention to the beginning of this? In clear english you were told that they were only children at that time. A child doesn't understand what things like this mean... If they're cheering then they're only doing what everyone else is. They don't deserve to suffer the consequences of something that they're GOVERNMENT did.
It makes a huge difference; more precisely, people are killing others on increasingly larger scale and there is less and less discriminating of military targets from civilians. The larger a weapon's individual scale of destruction, the more the civilian:military casualties balance leans to the civilian side. A-bombs, cruise missiles, cluster bombs, uranium projectiles ... war has shifted to "accidentally" killing civilians in the hopes of having hostile targets caught in the blast radiuses.
@MrMike3865 You're kinda furthering my own point. I understand that, and made no argument against it. My argument is simply that they do not deserve to, and that's the point of this video.
There seems to be more comments that say what SHOULD have or COULD have been. Is it possible that we (regardless of our take on the morality of this event) understand how to PREVENT this from ever happening? Perhaps that means, subduing the ego (shown by Japan's resistance to back down, as well as America's unwillingness to be held down)... This requires both sides to understand the horrific consequences of warfare (spoken in this video) -- and take all genuine steps necessary to stop it.
But they are one in the same as you did not choose to join the army. Japan and Hitler both brainwashed their soldiers to believe everything they told them (like ever government does) If someone believes that are doing what's right, are they evil? (The answer is sometimes yes)
J M yes yes suuuuper guilty. The ancestor that risked his life for other many time is definitely guilty, the one that was just a child when all of this happened was definitely guilty, the one who was sent to a concentration camp but escaped on the train with some other, who traveled for months through several country’s to arrive at his house with his companions, who’s dad helped them al hide until those people could return to their family’s , is also definitely guilty. I’m not saying everything they did was right or brave, not even that they were good people. But those people are not guilty of freaking war
omg people.... just watch the video, leave your opinion, and stop criticizing people for leaving THEIR opinions... no one really cares what someone on the internet things of what they're saying... honestly... get a life.
Potsdam Declaration made NO mention of the emperor. (it also stated J ppl would eventually choose their own govt) J govt did not ask for clarification, PM Suzuki: "mokusatsu" All Japanese news outlets derided PD
Thank you for the Exact Details in these Personal Accounts. About the Horrendous Two Bombs. Of Course This is Nor the Time Nor the Place to the Time 0f course Both Sides give their View. The Reason for the Bombs were explained to us Citizens and put into our Minds (1) The Beheading by Sword of Citizens and Soldiers (2) The Starvation of Men - Women - Children in Camps (3) The Mental and Physical Torture Applied (4) The Fanatic Loyalty to the Emperor in Kamikaze Attacks (5) The Obsessive Feeling of Honor by Personally giving up Your Own Life and that of Your Sons by Killing in Seppuku and Harakiri and Kamikaze - Maniacal and Useless in Western Eyes. (6) This Reflecting and Emphasizing the Different Mind Set of the Japanese. (7) The Unbelievably Surprising Attack and Gruesome Loss of 3000 Lives at Once in Pearl Harbour. (8) All This was All Used to Blind us for the Question ⁉️ WHY TWO ⁉️ DIFFERENT ⁉️ DEVASTATING BOMBS were TOLD to Us. Were ABSOLUTELY NEEDED to END the War and SAVE Millions of Lives. (9) Until my 50th Birthday I did Not Realise this Could be Untrue. (10) Even Till Today More and Other Arguments Are Carried Along and Added. To DEFEND the Use and Underline the NECESSITY of this CHOICE. (11) Even the Original American Inventors and Scientists Could Not Challenge or Postpone or Change this Military View. (12) Gradually through Time (75 years) and Hearing and Reading All the Different Aspects and About All the Events in Wide Spread Places. A More Detailed Awareness Unrolled Before My Eyes. (13) How Could this be Applied. And Was it Really Necessary. Against Such A Civilized and Artistic People. A Country Full of Beauty and Rituals. Excelling in Ceremonies and Architecture. The Meaning of The Tea Ceremony. Their Reverence to The Ancestors. Their Love for Flowers and The Ikebana. (13) For me as A European would Somebody Explain to me. About This Gaping Discrepancy. Of a Country. Praising Awareness of Silence and Environmental Beauty. Also at the Same Time Capable of Autistic Obsessiveness and Cruelty. (14) And The Same Sets of Mind on The Other Side. With the Allies. Who Had Other Reasons of Mind to Discuss Form Their View on the Situation in August 1945. And Finally Carry Out Their Dicision. (15) That is What Made Two Different Bombs Come Down. (16) Burning Beautiful Mothers and Father's and Children. And Destroying Wooden Structures. Ancient Libraries. Intelligent Minds. Peaceful Gardens. The Planet Stood Still. In A Giant Flash. And Smoked.
Why does it have to be just one way? Nobody can deny that both sides committed atrocities; it does not make it any more right or wrong that these things occurred. It is the correct response for a 14 year old to cry at a video of a Hibakusha describing her experiences I can not see why you need to be so condescending; attempting to impose your views on others in an attempt to justify one side or the other. You are entitled to your own opinion but respect others' as well.
When General MacArthur got to Japan in late 8/45, he found the country as on the verge of famine. He cabled DC "Send me food or send me bullets" Only the prompt shipment of >500,000 tons of US grain averted mass starvation. It as only due to the sudden end of the war that MILLIONS of J civilians and 100,000 Allied POWs- lived- starving and massacring POWs was Standard Operating Procedure for the Japanese.
Its complicated. Various persons within the military refused to surrender. Most of them where loyal to Emperor Hirohito. The Potsdam declaration was faulty. It included some points which posed impossibility for Japanese to accept. 1 the elimination of all of those who "embarked" on world domination. It included Hirohito himself to step down. Japanese people would never support it. The other fact was that Russia was on the way to invade Japan. So removing all military force was also hard.
「Barefoot gen」please read it.the story is based writer of barefootgen keiji nakazawa's true experienses. He is 71 years old now. he keep on telling us that terribly of atomicboms now too.this manga isn't for plotect Japan , able to know Japan and America's fact about Hiroshima atmicboms in those days. and Japan's did things in Asia too.There are 8 language trancelate version , now on sell in US from 2009. already,somecountrys a few library have barefootgen. please.
@gogman25 (1)Your first comment; "I cry for neither side but I feel sorrow, and I can promise you no matter what they did it's something the USA shouldn't have done. "Be careful when fighting monsters lest you become one."" Since the U.S. and the U.K. have had past wars because of U.K. aggression (oops this isn't about WWII) you just may be right or maybe NOT. Gosh golly gee limey boy do you think that if the U.S. wasn't attacked by japan we wouldn't be talking about this? Duh.
Obviously these ladies feel genuine sorrow for both sides; it was a time of war in which many people lost their lives. The atomic bomb killed thousands upon thousands indiscriminately; men, women and children lost their lives for a war that caused millions of deaths worldwide. They were not taught that they were victims the reason being: these people are without a shadow of a doubt victims. I'm sure that America has never used any atrocity to gain any politic leverage at all; has it?
Its a shame that innocent civilians suffered. However, our boys buried inside the USS Arizona were also deliberately attacked, and we were not at war with Japan at the time. Nobody wins in a war.
To the female officer with her irritating voice, this man was just a junkie. She couldn't care less. What were the million questions about? Problem is she will never live in peace. She'll be riddled with PTSD be on medication for life. This is a very traumatic event. She'll be asking herself "could I've acted faster, etc".
The primary "warring nation" of the 21st century is the "holier than though" USA. What on Earth makes you claim that Japan still is a warring nation, when it hasn't started a war since World War II. I bet you also see Germany as a warring nation, when it is one of the most pacifist of all European nations by now. Things change, people change, even whole nations change. And it is not proven at ALL that the atomic bombs truly made any difference to the outcome of the war.
@gogman25 The Allies shouldn't have stopped a long and bloody war? You prefer to have the fighting go on for a much longer period of time in which most likely many millions more would have died terrible and gruesome deaths? You are freaky.
Nothing good comes from war, full stop. Seek other means. Suffering can be imposed by economic predation too. Just think about what you're doing, what's going on. Civialian populations usually have no quarrel with one another. It's the vested interests that whip things up
@gogman25 My 1st reply to your 1st comment; "The Allies shouldn't have stopped a long and bloody war? You prefer to have the fighting go on for a much longer period of time in which most likely many millions more would have died terrible and gruesome deaths? You are freaky." And then your comment to that was about 250,00 civilian deaths. How WRONG you are. Those "civilians" were in FACT trained by the j-govt to fight and kill the would be Allied invasion. They were in FACT soldiers.
Many of Hibakusya had experienced harsy discrimination for employment and marriage in Japan. For women, it was a lot more difficult to marry since the future huband re-consider of theri fertility. I heard some women killed themrselve due to those severe discrimination. and also they do not receive enough compensation fee from government to live comfortably due to very limited social policies.
Haha Nice where did you get your facts from History channel ? Unit 731 was a very small group of Japanese scientists doing shit in CHINA. I live in Hiroshima and I can tell you that the only military target was a mustard gas factory on an island 27.5 miles from the impact zone of the a bomb. I can tell you that the factory wasnt destroyed by the bomb. What was destroyed by the bomb was the city and civilian homes. The troops you are talking about where students helping out building air defences.
Hiroshima had 43,000 Japanese soldiers of the 2nd Army, under Field Marshal Hata in the city and 20k-30k died in the bombing, it was a legitimate military target just like the cities in Germany.
its not about JAPAN or the USA OR ANY CONTRY FOR THAT MATTER it is much much bigger then that its about being a HUMAN BEING CAN YOU COMPREHEND THAT OPEN YOUR CLOSED MINDS WE ALL HAVE TO SHARE THIS PLANET
It wasn’t right what happened with Pearl Harbor, but it also wasn’t right with what happened to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. No one has any control over where they were born. If an American was actually born in Japan instead, America would’ve been the enemy to them. Both Pearl Harbor and the atomic bombs were bad and wrong. During those times people didn’t have a choice to enter the military. It’s sad and wrong that so many innocent people die because of war. The worst thing about humanity is to kill others and have an insane lack of compassion for each other.
Well America and Japan was on the right way to sit down and try to make a surrender. Problem was America wanted to deal with it quickly. They wrote the Potsdam declaration which was completely useless. It basically said "you do as we say otherwise we nuke you" It did not take much in consideration. Well I would have used Hirohito to end the war , and also proposed protection against russian / chinese invasion If weapons where completely put down. Much like the arrangement of today.
What if this would have happened to America??? You guys would not debate who is the good guy and who was the bad... it would be obvious, and so it is obvious in this situation
/watch?v=4E4WuCq2owQ You may find that video interesting since your convinced that an advanced nation do not seem to criticize their own government. "Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living." - Omar N. Bradley.
@dreamrealm3 Do you also cry for the Allied civilians who were interned by the japanese? They were enslaved, beaten, tortured, raped, and murdered for absolutely no reason. Do you cry for them too or is this a one way street with you?
@sonamybaby102 i mean it was bad that this happen but shit lol they started it they had it coming, but do understand that my heart is with those innocent families
Well im tired to talk with American nationalists who has already made up they´re mind that it was justifiable. Yes the second and fifth Japanese troups where located in Hiroshima prefecture and there where also a mustard gas factory....Problem is that they where unaffected by it (physically) the companies where located outside hiroshima shi (city) and the mustard gas factory was on a island pretty far away. So what did they bomb destroy and who died?
There where some lack of communication about that towards the Japanese. Furthermore victorious nations such as America kept on doing war crimes trials which where highly biased. I´m really sure that if an non combatant country would have hold the war crimes tribunal , America would as well be convicted for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atom bombings.
@gogman25 Hypocrite much? Argument? Take a look in the mirror again. Besides you invented concentration camps well before WWII and calling them The Naughty Juniors camp is an exercise in denial.
@Coolbeanzow 1st- japan didn't need to start a war. 2nd- Those American military people were sleeping when they were attacked. wow, how brave of the "honorable" japanese. 3rd- The j- civilians were in FACT trained by their leaders to fight and kill against the would be Allied invasion. They already did so on Okinawa. Would you of rather seen Okinawa x 10? The j-civs were in FACT soldiers.
Excuses? NOT HARDLY! For Truman NOT to have used the the bombs would have been inexcuseable. To quote a great book (which I'm sure you never have and never will read- William Manchester's "Goodbye, Darkness" (Manchester was a USMC sergeant whose regiment fought on Okinawa, and suffered 81% casualties): "Thank God for the Atomic bombs"
1. Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the deaths were overwhelming civilian, not soldiers. 2. The idea that millions would have dies in an invasion is bull shit, every major US General from Eisenhower to Mac Arthur opposed the use of the bomb because Japan was effectively defeated. Do a little bit of research instead of spewing out the official party lines
@palcatt Of course the world would be a better place if we all held hands and sang kumbaya together. That would be great. But the world isn't like that and The Germans and the Japanessee in the 30's certainly weren't like that when they were violently and forcefully taking over countries to expand their empires. And let's remember, we wouldn't have got involved if the Japanesse didn't strike us first.
I know I’m probably not going to be popular in saying this but as my man Will Smith said, “don’t start none there won’t be none” what about the family’s of those entombed at Pearl Harbor? No we shouldn’t apologize, it was started by them, it ended by us. Hatred isn’t the answer, but we are not going to sit idly by while we are slaughtered......
well they were communist and they were smart enough and evil enough to fight with the nazis and the communist but its when these sad individual stories com eout and they act all sad then thats when they are all inoccient
@lofotkillern yes if you know your histor yand actualy looked into this you would know, the US droped fliers the privious weeks and days tellin all civilians to leave, but th civilians didnt listen because they had never been bombed before and they were tired of leaving again and again after false warnings
Biological? No. Atomic. Ironically enough, my godfather, a retired DVM who is now past 90 was working on bioweapons at a base in the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Had the war continued to the end of '45, we would've used them and the results for Japan would've been catastrophic. The justification for the A bombs was ending the war rapidly- with less loss of life than any other alternative PS have you *ever* talked to a vet of the Pacific War?
"We need to abolish atomic/nuclear bombs/weapons" Well, sure they are not great when they are actually used on you, but we didn't bomb Japan when they had nuclear weapons, we had no risk of being bombed back with the same power. Unlike today, where some country would bomb back with nuclear power if you bombed them, ex, if you bombed North Korea, either they would bomb you back, or one of their allies would do it, effectively starting WW3. So you can thank nuclear weapons for existing to prevent more wars and more importantly, World Wars.
Should have thought about that Before Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, Wake Island, Guam the Baton Deathmarch, ect ect ect. I have little to sympathy, I'm not sorry. You would have happily dropped it on us. You got what you had coming and personally I would have dropped more than just two.
Excuses? HELL, NO! Try actually looking at Truman's other alternatives: 1. Compromise peace? J militarists retain power; start planning Pacific War II 2. Invasion? S. Kyushu alone would've been Okinawa x5 3. Indefinite blockade? How many MILLIONS of J civilians would've died before Hirohito gave the order to surrender? Secretary of War Stimson was 100% correct when he said the atomic bombs were "our least abhorrent choice"
