This happened in reverse to an elderly Japanese woman my aunt was friends with. Absolute fluke that she got sent from Hiroshima to visit her grandparents in Nagasaki, then called back to Hiroshima to help with the survivors and, missed both bombs.
@@635574 I don't think you know what "survivorship bias" is. Survivorship bias is when you measure a variable across a group in order to determine how common it is, but the results are skewed by that variable affecting the survival of members of the test group, which affects the distribution of the variable across your test sample. When survival *is* the variable you are comparing, survivorship bias is not applicable.
Dude. Imagine being that Boss who looked straight at a man who survived something so devastating and saying *"Prove it."* The audacity made the Universe take notice and oblige.
You're telling me this man survived getting nuked twice, one stronger than the other, was left with permanent damages to his body... And still outlived his son and wife... And somehow still made it to be 93 years old? This guy is straight up built different
@@artofzetsu6130True, also a lot of people who get radiation sickness don't even do so from the initial blast, it's mostly from inhaling irradiated particles of dust in the air
He simply got lucky twice by being in the right spot at the right time. Ppl who syrvived because they had pillars or other things obstructing direct path
According to what I've read from Tsutomu Yamaguchi, it didn't play out like that but more that they heard air raid sirens 5 seconds later. Granted stories change over time and its not like there are many surviving people who could dispute it
Yea but 3 days seems excessive probably. Should get to work right away when the radiation sickness hasn't melted your cells yet. You may rest for three days when you don't have any more energy to keep picking up your falling body parts Gnarly? Yeah, I agree
You think American work culture is hard core. You're a kid, you know nothing. If the Japanese had invented the nuke. They would probably be running the world now, we wouldn't have China or Soviet Union or United States.
Absolutely. That person almost doesn't even seem real but their knowledge of the body and nature based medicine was exactly what was needed at the time. Wouldn't be surprised if they did a lot of camping or living rough at the time
Fun fact: the inventor of the fujita scale, aka the f scale used for tornadoes, narrowly escaped the nuclear blasts due to where he lived at the time being fire bombed the day before. You can thank the current EF scale widely used today on him surviving this.
We need to readjust the scale. Going off of damage dealt in a monetary scale is beyond ignorant. We've had so many ef4's that should be ef5's it's not even funny.
So, if you ever by chance get a chance to visit or live in Japan, I strongly encourage you to visit both Nagasaki and Hiroshima's museums devoted to this topic as well as Peace Park. Seeing the leftover bank building's skeletal frame, the bomb-burned shadow image of a person who couldn't escape in time (and was disintegrated on the spot, leaving *only* that image burned onto concrete) as well as all the artifacts, stories and displays in both museums is a truly humbling experience.
Don't encourage people to live in Japan, everyone I know who did that had a horrible experience, also Japanese people don't want foreigners living there.
technically, the image isn't burned into concrete, everything else around the shadows were bleached, leaving the after-images more or less untouched from the blast.
Imagine waking up watching the sky explode with the brightness of 100 suns, destroying your home, reducing people you know and love into puddles of unvaporized flesh and bone, and then finding out you still have to go to work 😢
Might happen if morons don't stop provoking WWIII. But, I fear these 'human cuckoos' in charge would rather the planet burn than be held accountable for what they've done...
He was the unluckiest luckiest man in the world because he was unlucky getting into nuclear bombs during his work and was lucky to survive till died in old age.
I was so glad to hear that his wife and child survived. When he found the little bones I felt nauseous. This level of devastation is hard to comprehend.
Unfortunately, Japanese culture was very cruel and apathetic to those they deemed different. They considered Okinawans as beneath them due to not being "pure" Japanese. Many of those civilian "casualties" in Okinawa may have been from being human shields and cannon fodder.
still happening until today. with US military base in the area, Okinawans face so many problems with those "peace" forces. those soldiers were behaving as if they are in their hometown. noise complaint, harassment, rap* case, sanitation, first covid case, etc. despite demonstration by local citizens, JP gov isn't really care to what happen to their people.
@jameswatson5807 the Ryukyu Kingdom was its own thing before becoming part of Japan. They're racially different. Darker-skinned, different features. They have their own Okinawan language and their own dances and songs and culture. Pure and simple racism and colorism.
I was born at Yokota Air base, my father was stationed there while int he US Air Force. We moved away in 1986 when I was 4, but returned in around 1994 for a few months as he was still in the service and is occupation had him stationed there again through the JASDF. We stayed apparently in the same apartment he had in Machida, a prefecture of Yokohama. Growing up, we moved several times. Many time once a year, and always to base sin Japan or the Philippines. Around 2004, I went back to Japan again as an adult, staying with some friends I made online. They took me to Hiroshima and we went to the Genbaku Domu, my father has a picture of me and my mom there shortly before we left when I was four. I still have no words for how I felt about it, but on that return visit, I must have subconsciously recalled stories or something and I started crying. My friend's sister held my head in her hands and cried with me, though we were all separated from the incident by a generation or two. She later confessed she was just touched at how I felt for the suffering a people not of my own went through. It is amazing how transformed and alive Hiroshima is. I really hope something like that never happens again, in my lifetime or ever again. I've recently reconnected with that same woman and she and her husband have invited me to stay with them next year when I get everything sorted out and renew my passport. The plan is to visit Nagasaki
Fun fact during one of the nuclear explosions a game of Go is being played at the time. Both players were thrown into the back wall managed to pick themselves up and then go right back to their game
@@MillieBlackRose It has similarities to chess and checkers but is the oldest (*oldest continually played, invented in China 2,500 years ago) and most popular strategy board game in East Asia.
@@charlotteshenkenberger345 incorrect. Go is board game where the entire goal is to surround more territory than your opponent on the board. Thus making points. The game you are thinking is called gomoku
I remember that day too, I was violently thrown from the toilet, after regaining consciousness I was able to squat over the remains of the shattered toilet and finish my business but horrifically, the toilet roll hadn't survived the heat from the blast and was turned to ash. I will never forgive this world for the injustice.
How tragic that they went ostracized for so long! I'm glad he found his wife and son... those bones are horrific. The man who knew folk medicine, appeared and disappeared, felt like an angel...
Barefoot Gen is a manga series and anime movie that follows a kid and his family living as hibakusha. The creator of it drew from his own life experience living through this stuff. I haven't seen it myself, but I know it's another devastating series.
i saw it because of a history school project and it showed the realities of war in the normally peaceful areas, for example it showed the famine that everyone felt
I saw the movie and the begining of the manga series, and I absolutely second this. It's devestating, but I can also absolutely recommend reading/watching it anyways
Grave Of The Fireflies isn’t about the atomic bombs like Barefoot Gen is. Grave Of the Fireflies is a simi-autobiographical book/movie about war orphans trying to survive after losing their mother to the fire bombings. Barefoot Gen is about the actual A-bombs and the movie is pretty graphic. I love it though and have managed to sit through it twice.
Unfortunately, they probably didn't due to how disposable their employees are. You either dedicate 99% of your life to work or you don't work at all. It's very cutthroat and has led to suicides and even death by overworking.
@@blessedsinner8686 You act like the US isn't one step below that. To most of us here in Europe, there is little difference between work culture in Japan and in the US.
In the 2013 movie The Wolverine, Logan/Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) saves a Japanese soldier named Yashida (Hal Yamanouchi) from the atomic bomb in Nagasaki during World War II. This story reminds me of that eerie scene in that film. Rest in Paradise to everyone who got killed and those who was affected by bombs in Nagasaki and Hiroshima!⛼
A movie like that could definitely not be made before the 90s because people did not have balanced nuance thinking back then. If it was made in the 50s, 60s, 70s or maybe even the 80s it would be called "fascist" propaganda
I've seen several videos about Mr. Tsutomu Yamaguchi in the past. This one, by far, exceeds the information, the vibe, and the effort of those. Thank you for another fantastic video- and for honoring his memory- and that of all of the other poor unfortunate souls to experiance those bombings
I have heard this story before, I first heard it from a WWII Vet who was stationed there early in the Occupation. It was such a shock. I pray we never have to use such weapons again. They are too terrible to use again.
@NealCamerlengo Yes, I think under those situations it was the right choice, it was a hard call for Harry, but the right one. It was a terrible choice to make.
Was this vet Japanophobic? Did he think the civilians deserved it, did he use Japanese government crimes as a whataboutism, did he support internment camps? I really hope not or else he was evil.
@@NealCamerlengothe war was already going to end. The Soviets were preparing to occupy Japan and the Americans didn’t want that, so they nuked Japan and forced Japan to surrender to American occupation
The topic of nuclear science and weaponry is a heavy one, but you need to factor in things like politics, the state of the war, and how close the war is to ending.
Saying someone is a lier when they survived being nuked is just rude and disrespectful but instantly after saying they lied getting nuked yourself and them also surviving, now that’s karma.
I'm glad that stories like these are covered with the respect they deserve without any cheap jokes from grill, don't get me wrong, grill is fun to watch but It would rob such tragedies of their gravitas
Or being one of the people living in hiroshima or nagasaki that just so happened to be away from those cities around this time. Their friends and loved ones just gone in a moment....
@@jtadevich not strange. Its like as if german students want to make a report of concentration camps and genocide and are super excited about talking about this nice occasion. Obviously you stop them, and maybe contact child services.
To think your life is a blessing after EVERYTHING this man went through and fighting to make sure no one goes through what he went through..... what kind of unbreakable spirit did this this man possess
I remember when my chemistry teacher had us watch ALL of the footage that was taken of the immediate aftermath. It was horrific and I'm still appalled that none of my classmates seemed to grasp how truly just abominable, breath stealing MONSTEROUS those bombs are. I watched that footage back in 2006-2007 and it is as clearly burned into my memory as the Shadows on the pavement in Hiroshima are. Everyone should weep that little boy and Fat Man were ever necessary.
they weren’t necessary. truman didn’t want stalin/the ussr to have any influence in japan. oppenheimer didn’t even want to use it over a populated civilian area - he wanted to detonate it in tokyo bay as a warning (still bad, but much less so). they were NOT necessary.
My brother and I often discuss with each other about about Yamaguchi and surviving a nuke twice, but there was a lot you discussed I was unaware of, thank you for the info.
12:40 Good to see the 442nd regiment's photo being included in the video, even though they didn't really participate in combats against Imperial Japan...
I've had that kind of bosses. I had one that blatantly just forbade us to go to the bathroom, the instruction lasted fifteen minutes after I told her in private that she was probably some eight labor hours away from a lawsuit. Some people are not made to have people on charge.
The most ironic “I told you so” event ever……. Can’t blame him for leaving his boss after the 2nd blast. Especially after being shamed and called a lier in front of everyone like that…..
I watched this exact story in a documentary shown at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Listening to the interviews of Japanese survivors and radio logs surrounded by the remnants of the tragedy is absolutely heartbreaking.
What an amazing man. For him to be able to tell his story and write his book as testimony for the rest of the world and a huge part in telling the story of how people can be so cruel to other people. The atrocities committed in the name of Imperial Japan were savage and cruel, but the actions taken in retaliation and to "persuade" Emperor Hirohito to order their surrender were worse and have lasted for generations. I will buy a copy of Mr Yamaguchi's book if I can find it.
My partner's grandfather heard both bombs go off. He was a Taiwanese forced recruit in the Japanese army. His job was logging returning kamikaze planes, he said he had an easy job. He was on a ship, the second one he dove off and into the ocean. He only died a few years ago.
It surprises me how accurate folk medicine can be. Maggots don't eat live flesh, and leaches excrete substances that stops clotting. And Liver is rich in Vitamin that's essential for cell regeneration.
I still can’t believe humans actually did this to one another… I don’t care how many people would’ve died if the bombs hadn’t been dropped- there’s no excuse for unleashing that level of depravity.
It’s true that deliberately applying maggots and/or leeches is still used as a treatment for some serious injuries. The old methods were used because they did, at least sometimes, work. 🤷♀️
For real! And mind you they (at least the civilians) had no way of knowing what was coming to them. Just normal people starting off their day like the rest of us..Cooking breakfast, showering,chatting with neighbors, putting on their work attire, parents sending their kids off to school with a good lunch packed for them.. Probably even taking the time to grab themselves a quick cup of coffee and the morning paper before heading to work. Maybe even stealing a quick kiss from their husbands and wives before walking out the door and then the next thing you know ..poof...! Life as they knew it gone forever within a matter of seconds. I hope nobody has to live through an event like that ever again
It's difficult to imagine after a flash of light that everything you are, with all your thoughts, hopes, and memories, could in a instant be reduced to bone and ash etched into concrete. And now every super power country, to include the US, China, and Russia, have even bigger, more devasting nukes that would even destroy underground shelters. To live through interesting times is a curse on humanity.
Excellent video, and perfect timing as I've just finished reading: To Hell And Back - The Last Train From Hiroshima, by Charles Pellegrino, story of those bombed in the two attacks and their effect on history. Highly recommended.
The stranger who helped him knew that the vitamins in the liver and the vitamins in the plants would help him heal. It sounds like he was given a high dose of b vitamins, iron, vitamins A, D, E & K. Doses so high they would be toxic to almost anyone else. Too bad the rest of the family didn't also eat those things too when they needed to purge the radioactive particles from their own bodies.😢
It's discovery was inevitable. If we hadn't done basic science, tens of millions would have been lost to disease, famine, etc. The losses in Tokyo to "conventional" fire bombing were larger than Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
You got to love it when your boss doesn't believe any excuse for you not showing up to work. Such as a parent or family member dies, you were in a car accident, you are severely sick, or in this case you literally get blown up. You could be in death's door, in your employer will still say I want you to show up to work.
There was another project that could have ended the war sooner and with less loss of life. The Bat Bomb was basically completed when it was de-funded to help with the Manhattan project, which was suppose to be finishing up soon, as well. Unfortunately, the Manhattan project took about an extra year to complete. The Bat Bomb was a means to burn houses and infrastructure, but in a way that would allow residents and workers to escape the blaze, Hitting Nagasaki was actually more psychologically damaging than the US was aware of at the time. The modern Nagasaki prefecture is where Protugese merchants forced trade and where the Dutch traders had (more or less) invaded during the isolationist period. Nagasaki was an incredibly symbolic city from the Meiji restoration; for it to be wiped out in an instant was truly proof that they faced humiliation or annihilation. While, individually, the Japanese people would rather face the latter, they would never want to force that decision on every soul within their empire, so accepted humiliation to spare those they held dear.
The truth is a lot more complicated. It’s actually a little bit sad to hear that the one even after both were dropped, this only resulted in the Japanese military arguing with each other whether to surrender. The decision to surrender was decided by the emperor himself with strong resistance with members of the imperial military planning a coup with the goal to continue the war that failed.
You can't really fault those superiors for not wanting to believe Yamaguchi. A pandora's box was opened that day. Unforeseen levels of destruction and evil were being unleashed.
His first thought , and instinct, was to get back to work LOL not to check up on family and friends, not to contact anyone he might know. No, It was to get back to the work place.
That's just how folks are built over there. The Japanese didn't, and still don't mess around when it comes to working. They take their work culture very seriously
The way I understood the video is that he received ORDERS to return to work. Also, it was three days after he was bombed so no, not immediate first thought.
Then no military and no military industrial targets should ever be near civilians. Hiroshima was the headquarters of the Southern army. It lost over 20,000 staff officers. When you have that prohibition, the military will always place civilians near military targets.. And even when you don't, the military industrial complex needs civilian workers.
@jimurrata6785 If that's the point, then they never should have been made. Oppenheimer seriously regreted making the technology to begin with. From what I hear, it's like he was forced to make it. People have been living in fear of nukes since the 40s. They are the worst thing ever made.
Yamaguchi : sorry boss, i got nuked Boss : Liar, there is no a bomb like that, this is just your excuses!!! Yamaguchi : *sigh.... just wait then Boss : wait? what do you m- *KABOOOOOOOOOM*
Wait the second bombing happened WHILE he was explaining the first bombing to his boss that didn't believe him? I believe some liberties have been taken with this story.
No, they understand that so many were lost in much more terrible ways in China at the hands of this nation soldiers. Unless you read what they did at their germ warfare lab and what their soldiers did in Nanking, you just can't understand.
I'm happy for the fact that he got to survive and see the 21st century, but I'm so sad for the fact that he outlived his wife and kid. At least they're all together again now.
Imagine if he was an angel?the way he appeared unscathed in Yamaguchi's time of need and disappeared when he wasn't needed anymore? That had to have been some form of divine intervention
This happened in reverse to an elderly Japanese woman my aunt was friends with. Absolute fluke that she got sent from Hiroshima to visit her grandparents in Nagasaki, then called back to Hiroshima to help with the survivors and, missed both bombs.
That’s amazing and extremely lucky.
Out of all the words that apply there survivorship bias is a lot better than lucky.
@@635574 I don't think you know what "survivorship bias" is.
Survivorship bias is when you measure a variable across a group in order to determine how common it is, but the results are skewed by that variable affecting the survival of members of the test group, which affects the distribution of the variable across your test sample.
When survival *is* the variable you are comparing, survivorship bias is not applicable.
@@nathangamble125 Thanks for the explanation cos, l'd never heard of it.
Wow, that's amazing
Dude.
Imagine being that Boss who looked straight at a man who survived something so devastating and saying *"Prove it."*
The audacity made the Universe take notice and oblige.
😂
irony
It was fear. Old man fear. He was so afraid he lashed out in denial.
Universe " I gotchu g"
Karma
You're telling me this man survived getting nuked twice, one stronger than the other, was left with permanent damages to his body... And still outlived his son and wife... And somehow still made it to be 93 years old? This guy is straight up built different
God isn't too terribly fair when divvying out the stats.
@@artofzetsu6130True, also a lot of people who get radiation sickness don't even do so from the initial blast, it's mostly from inhaling irradiated particles of dust in the air
Radiation, man, it just does things to you
He simply got lucky twice by being in the right spot at the right time. Ppl who syrvived because they had pillars or other things obstructing direct path
And he didn’t get radiation poisoning!
Imagine your boss doesn’t believe that the nuke you survived is real only to get nuked 5 seconds later💀
According to what I've read from Tsutomu Yamaguchi, it didn't play out like that but more that they heard air raid sirens 5 seconds later. Granted stories change over time and its not like there are many surviving people who could dispute it
Honestly I wouldn't even be at work by then, I'd be in the autopsy room
@@HelloWorldPrintIf there were any autopsy rooms left
If his boss survived I hope the irony wasn't lost to him.
Why do you suspect so many anime feature this happening to someone
At 71 years old, I’ve always been amazed by this man. To think of the horrors he went through, yet he survived as a good man.
Tsutomu Yamaguchi: I got nuked TWICE
His boss: 3 days off seems like enough
Should be plenty of time to recover. Eat fish and rice you be fine
Yea but 3 days seems excessive probably. Should get to work right away when the radiation sickness hasn't melted your cells yet. You may rest for three days when you don't have any more energy to keep picking up your falling body parts Gnarly? Yeah, I agree
Japan would never. 3 days is far too many days off.
Drink water take a Tylenol come to work tomrw. You'll b ok.
You think American work culture is hard core. You're a kid, you know nothing.
If the Japanese had invented the nuke. They would probably be running the world now, we wouldn't have China or Soviet Union or United States.
wow, this mustve given him serious ptsd. I can’t even imagine surviving one of these, let alone two.
condolences to him and everyone affected by these terrifying bombs.
I cant imagine throwing those bombs. I mean what kind of garbage traash country do you have to be?
stuff like ptsd didnt exist back then, people are too soft these days
@churaqgaming it didnt? Lol!! You think people had no PTSD "back in the day"? Are you mental?
@@churaqgaming it always existed, times were just so nobody really spoke about it
Guy :* gets nuked*
Bosses: Nuh uh
*explodes again*
*must be the fireworks
@@Nulley0*must be the towers
144p 👍
Musta been the wind.
Damn I was literally about to post this word for word and you beat me!!! Well played, well played.
That stranger in the tunnel truly saved his life.
actual mvp
honestly that part of the story sound like a Folklore story
@@TeRenner123well he was out of it but the maggots eat bacteria
Absolutely. That person almost doesn't even seem real but their knowledge of the body and nature based medicine was exactly what was needed at the time. Wouldn't be surprised if they did a lot of camping or living rough at the time
That was a shaman, who probably went on to save many others, silently, quickly, no praise required.
Boss: "You expect me to believe that story?"
*ka-fuggin-boom*
Yamaguchi: "Consider this my resignation"
I imagined this dialogue in my head as a comic and man is it funny
Fun fact: the inventor of the fujita scale, aka the f scale used for tornadoes, narrowly escaped the nuclear blasts due to where he lived at the time being fire bombed the day before. You can thank the current EF scale widely used today on him surviving this.
Wrong scale, the one that's used today is different from the original and was invented by an American who took inspiration from the original
@@LewisAndLewisLawFirm I'm aware, but we still wouldn't have that if the original guy died. It's called enhanced fujita for a reason.
and it's actually worse@@arthurmartin4616
We need to readjust the scale. Going off of damage dealt in a monetary scale is beyond ignorant. We've had so many ef4's that should be ef5's it's not even funny.
Wow
So, if you ever by chance get a chance to visit or live in Japan, I strongly encourage you to visit both Nagasaki and Hiroshima's museums devoted to this topic as well as Peace Park. Seeing the leftover bank building's skeletal frame, the bomb-burned shadow image of a person who couldn't escape in time (and was disintegrated on the spot, leaving *only* that image burned onto concrete) as well as all the artifacts, stories and displays in both museums is a truly humbling experience.
Don't encourage people to live in Japan, everyone I know who did that had a horrible experience, also Japanese people don't want foreigners living there.
Yes I second this, go to peace park and will open your eyes of the disaster.
Its tragic and should never happen again.
technically, the image isn't burned into concrete, everything else around the shadows were bleached, leaving the after-images more or less untouched from the blast.
@@CipherVR luckily it so far hasnt it does seem while lots of nukes were made and are taunted no one has directly used the on another nation since
@@admiralkaede May they never be used again!
Imagine waking up watching the sky explode with the brightness of 100 suns, destroying your home, reducing people you know and love into puddles of unvaporized flesh and bone, and then finding out you still have to go to work 😢
And the people who suffered were objects of segregation after.:(
Might happen if morons don't stop provoking WWIII. But, I fear these 'human cuckoos' in charge would rather the planet burn than be held accountable for what they've done...
Fate worse than death.
@@Tormekia Wrong.
Japanese internment camps existed since the beginning of the war.
@@Tormekia The R@pe of Nanjing....
Ever heard of it?
Of course you haven't....
He was the unluckiest luckiest man in the world because he was unlucky getting into nuclear bombs during his work and was lucky to survive till died in old age.
twice at that
@@stevenyee1055 yeah
I was so glad to hear that his wife and child survived. When he found the little bones I felt nauseous. This level of devastation is hard to comprehend.
This guy's boss must be quite happy with his dedication
Yeah right, probably didn't care
He got nucked and when they thought he lied days later
"Why are you seven minutes late!?!?"
Unfortunately, Japanese culture was very cruel and apathetic to those they deemed different. They considered Okinawans as beneath them due to not being "pure" Japanese. Many of those civilian "casualties" in Okinawa may have been from being human shields and cannon fodder.
still happening until today. with US military base in the area, Okinawans face so many problems with those "peace" forces. those soldiers were behaving as if they are in their hometown. noise complaint, harassment, rap* case, sanitation, first covid case, etc. despite demonstration by local citizens, JP gov isn't really care to what happen to their people.
how are they not pure Japanese
@jameswatson5807 the Ryukyu Kingdom was its own thing before becoming part of Japan. They're racially different. Darker-skinned, different features. They have their own Okinawan language and their own dances and songs and culture. Pure and simple racism and colorism.
@@jameswatson5807 the same way Hawaii is a part of the USA and kinda not. The island has always been separate and has it's own culture.
@@fmusoppnothing compare to Puerto Rico
I was born at Yokota Air base, my father was stationed there while int he US Air Force. We moved away in 1986 when I was 4, but returned in around 1994 for a few months as he was still in the service and is occupation had him stationed there again through the JASDF. We stayed apparently in the same apartment he had in Machida, a prefecture of Yokohama. Growing up, we moved several times. Many time once a year, and always to base sin Japan or the Philippines. Around 2004, I went back to Japan again as an adult, staying with some friends I made online. They took me to Hiroshima and we went to the Genbaku Domu, my father has a picture of me and my mom there shortly before we left when I was four. I still have no words for how I felt about it, but on that return visit, I must have subconsciously recalled stories or something and I started crying. My friend's sister held my head in her hands and cried with me, though we were all separated from the incident by a generation or two. She later confessed she was just touched at how I felt for the suffering a people not of my own went through. It is amazing how transformed and alive Hiroshima is. I really hope something like that never happens again, in my lifetime or ever again. I've recently reconnected with that same woman and she and her husband have invited me to stay with them next year when I get everything sorted out and renew my passport. The plan is to visit Nagasaki
none of this really happened. nice fictional story though. why are there so many obsessed weebs on the internet
Fun fact during one of the nuclear explosions a game of Go is being played at the time. Both players were thrown into the back wall managed to pick themselves up and then go right back to their game
What is the game of Go?
@@MillieBlackRose It has similarities to chess and checkers but is the oldest (*oldest continually played, invented in China 2,500 years ago) and most popular strategy board game in East Asia.
@MillieBlackRose You can think of it as cross between chess, checkers, and Tic-Tac-Toe. The main goal is to get 5 stones of the same color in a row.
@@charlotteshenkenberger345 incorrect. Go is board game where the entire goal is to surround more territory than your opponent on the board. Thus making points. The game you are thinking is called gomoku
I remember that day too, I was violently thrown from the toilet, after regaining consciousness I was able to squat over the remains of the shattered toilet and finish my business but horrifically, the toilet roll hadn't survived the heat from the blast and was turned to ash. I will never forgive this world for the injustice.
boss be like: "but you are still coming to work, right?"
How tragic that they went ostracized for so long! I'm glad he found his wife and son... those bones are horrific. The man who knew folk medicine, appeared and disappeared, felt like an angel...
That had to have been an angel sent to him. I refuse to believe otherwise.
Even back then, Japan seems to have an overbearing work culture.
The only difference is Japan can replace them then
Barefoot Gen is a manga series and anime movie that follows a kid and his family living as hibakusha. The creator of it drew from his own life experience living through this stuff. I haven't seen it myself, but I know it's another devastating series.
i saw it because of a history school project and it showed the realities of war in the normally peaceful areas, for example it showed the famine that everyone felt
Grave of the Fireflies movie. Very moving.
I saw the movie and the begining of the manga series, and I absolutely second this. It's devestating, but I can also absolutely recommend reading/watching it anyways
Grave Of The Fireflies isn’t about the atomic bombs like Barefoot Gen is.
Grave Of the Fireflies is a simi-autobiographical book/movie about war orphans trying to survive after losing their mother to the fire bombings.
Barefoot Gen is about the actual A-bombs and the movie is pretty graphic. I love it though and have managed to sit through it twice.
That man deserved an employee of the century award. I really hope his company valued him.
Unfortunately, they probably didn't due to how disposable their employees are. You either dedicate 99% of your life to work or you don't work at all. It's very cutthroat and has led to suicides and even death by overworking.
Probably not. Japanese culture is way different than the US. Their view is that if you can walk, you can come to work. 😢
I bet the managers debated throwing him a pizza party.
@@blessedsinner8686 You act like the US isn't one step below that. To most of us here in Europe, there is little difference between work culture in Japan and in the US.
@@rendomstranger8698the difference the japanese not upfront while american more denial about issues in working conditions.
In the 2013 movie The Wolverine, Logan/Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) saves a Japanese soldier named Yashida (Hal Yamanouchi) from the atomic bomb in Nagasaki during World War II. This story reminds me of that eerie scene in that film. Rest in Paradise to everyone who got killed and those who was affected by bombs in Nagasaki and Hiroshima!⛼
A movie like that could definitely not be made before the 90s because people did not have balanced nuance thinking back then. If it was made in the 50s, 60s, 70s or maybe even the 80s it would be called "fascist" propaganda
@finland4ever55 I see you and raise you 2010's 😅😅😅
I've seen several videos about Mr. Tsutomu Yamaguchi in the past. This one, by far, exceeds the information, the vibe, and the effort of those. Thank you for another fantastic video- and for honoring his memory- and that of all of the other poor unfortunate souls to experiance those bombings
I have heard this story before, I first heard it from a WWII Vet who was stationed there early in the Occupation. It was such a shock. I pray we never have to use such weapons again. They are too terrible to use again.
But it did lead to the end of the war though.
@NealCamerlengo Yes, I think under those situations it was the right choice, it was a hard call for Harry, but the right one. It was a terrible choice to make.
Was this vet Japanophobic? Did he think the civilians deserved it, did he use Japanese government crimes as a whataboutism, did he support internment camps? I really hope not or else he was evil.
@@NealCamerlengothe war was already going to end. The Soviets were preparing to occupy Japan and the Americans didn’t want that, so they nuked Japan and forced Japan to surrender to American occupation
The topic of nuclear science and weaponry is a heavy one, but you need to factor in things like politics, the state of the war, and how close the war is to ending.
Saying someone is a lier when they survived being nuked is just rude and disrespectful but instantly after saying they lied getting nuked yourself and them also surviving, now that’s karma.
Keep in mind that nukes didn’t exist to them yet
Bro probably still never got a raise
I'm glad that stories like these are covered with the respect they deserve without any cheap jokes from grill, don't get me wrong, grill is fun to watch but It would rob such tragedies of their gravitas
Imagine being covered in burns and still have to report to work. Japan ain't for the faint of heart
Guy : i got nuke
Boss : nuh uh
*yuh uh*
Bruh imagine getting bombed twice with nuclear weapons then outlive your wife and son who both died of cancer. This dude is resilient to the max.
imagine you survive a LITERAL NUKE and then you get hit by another one right after😰
Or being one of the people living in hiroshima or nagasaki that just so happened to be away from those cities around this time. Their friends and loved ones just gone in a moment....
The disappointment would be immeasurable, and my day would be ruined.
"you gotta be fking kidding"
Thank you Brew it's so interesting how this guy isn't the only one who survived both very few did but some other did!
My friend and I did a report on fat man and little boy. The teacher didn't let us present it because of how excited we were to do the project.
strange.
@@jtadevich not strange. Its like as if german students want to make a report of concentration camps and genocide and are super excited about talking about this nice occasion.
Obviously you stop them, and maybe contact child services.
@@BatLBStill they have passion on learning the subject it's not like they would do it
did they get nuked seconds later?
@@mymop4422😂😂
This guy should be a final boss
Final boss chain
Final boss
@@Boeing737-dy5veLEGOS final boss
Final boss
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This is such an interesting story, he had such bad and good luck at the same time
To think your life is a blessing after EVERYTHING this man went through and fighting to make sure no one goes through what he went through..... what kind of unbreakable spirit did this this man possess
I remember when my chemistry teacher had us watch ALL of the footage that was taken of the immediate aftermath.
It was horrific and I'm still appalled that none of my classmates seemed to grasp how truly just abominable, breath stealing MONSTEROUS those bombs are.
I watched that footage back in 2006-2007 and it is as clearly burned into my memory as the Shadows on the pavement in Hiroshima are.
Everyone should weep that little boy and Fat Man were ever necessary.
Arguably, they weren't necessary, but that's a very touchy subject. Let's just hope that it never happens again. Ever. Like. EVER. 😳🥺
They were never necessary.
they weren’t necessary. truman didn’t want stalin/the ussr to have any influence in japan. oppenheimer didn’t even want to use it over a populated civilian area - he wanted to detonate it in tokyo bay as a warning (still bad, but much less so). they were NOT necessary.
@@lisaswinson8187 They were necessary to avoid a land invasion or blockade.
A land invasion would have been far, far worse. A blockade would have starved millions. The nukes cost fewer lives.
My brother and I often discuss with each other about about Yamaguchi and surviving a nuke twice, but there was a lot you discussed I was unaware of, thank you for the info.
What the.. how does someone manage to survives 2 BOMBS!??
It's the law of the universe he was on his way to work so we made it, if it was a beach trip dead for sure
Magic
Incredibly lucky and unlucky.
Nanomachines, son.
We missed that's how
FINALLY, a Video about the Two-Time Survivor of Bombings!
And Honestly it must've been Traumatic for him and his Home!
I guess those bosses learned the hard way.
To think something like this happened, and theres still at least 2 guys that consider using these weapons is unbelievable and horrifying
12:40 Good to see the 442nd regiment's photo being included in the video, even though they didn't really participate in combats against Imperial Japan...
I've had that kind of bosses. I had one that blatantly just forbade us to go to the bathroom, the instruction lasted fifteen minutes after I told her in private that she was probably some eight labor hours away from a lawsuit.
Some people are not made to have people on charge.
“Whew, that was the end of the final boss right?”
“REGENERATION!”
Thank you for sharing this man's story! The combination of pure horror and the amazing power of human perseverance...
Thank you for actually saying Hiroshima correctly. My teachers all hated me for correcting them every time.
That probably wasn't the only reason.....😅
That one boss after the blast, "We expect you tomorrow at 8. On second thought, make it 8:30!"
The most ironic “I told you so” event ever…….
Can’t blame him for leaving his boss after the 2nd blast. Especially after being shamed and called a lier in front of everyone like that…..
I remember hearing about this before. Can’t imagine surviving one nuke but twice? That’s crazy.
I watched this exact story in a documentary shown at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Listening to the interviews of Japanese survivors and radio logs surrounded by the remnants of the tragedy is absolutely heartbreaking.
Bro got the "Nuclear Pwner" badge for surviving 2 nukes
Dude comes in, survives a nuclear explosion. refuses to elaborate. Leaves.
Seems like Japanese corporate culture is very old. Imagine coming to work covered in bandages and your bosses still give you a hard time.
"Hey you know that thing that changed world history forever... yeah I survived it"
Boss: "I don't believe you."
More likely scenario-„You are 5 minutes late to work, and you think being nuked is a good enough excuse? It’s not!!!!“
What an amazing man. For him to be able to tell his story and write his book as testimony for the rest of the world and a huge part in telling the story of how people can be so cruel to other people. The atrocities committed in the name of Imperial Japan were savage and cruel, but the actions taken in retaliation and to "persuade" Emperor Hirohito to order their surrender were worse and have lasted for generations. I will buy a copy of Mr Yamaguchi's book if I can find it.
My partner's grandfather heard both bombs go off. He was a Taiwanese forced recruit in the Japanese army. His job was logging returning kamikaze planes, he said he had an easy job. He was on a ship, the second one he dove off and into the ocean. He only died a few years ago.
And here we are looking at potential WWIII, who knows how much these weapons have developed over so much time.
It surprises me how accurate folk medicine can be. Maggots don't eat live flesh, and leaches excrete substances that stops clotting. And Liver is rich in Vitamin that's essential for cell regeneration.
Folk medicine is the precursor to modern medicine. It's not like we didn't know anything until modern medicine developed.
Thanks for the message at the end, BREW!!❤
I still can’t believe humans actually did this to one another… I don’t care how many people would’ve died if the bombs hadn’t been dropped- there’s no excuse for unleashing that level of depravity.
Almost 2M subscribers! Congrats Brew!
Peace is always on the table ✌🏼 I think more world leaders need to hear this
He witnessed the ultimate forbidden object: the forbidden sun.
It’s true that deliberately applying maggots and/or leeches is still used as a treatment for some serious injuries. The old methods were used because they did, at least sometimes, work. 🤷♀️
Damn, so impactful. I really hope humanity can learn to come together.
it won't...
@@quertiest I know, but I can keep hoping.
Human beings will never understand each other and they never will
@@kidbuumajin7315 not with that attitude!
@@juanmacias5922 there no such thing is real peace in this world you can keep trying but it will never happen
someone being inside their house one moment and then them and their house just being gone the next is scary
For real! And mind you they (at least the civilians) had no way of knowing what was coming to them. Just normal people starting off their day like the rest of us..Cooking breakfast, showering,chatting with neighbors, putting on their work attire, parents sending their kids off to school with a good lunch packed for them..
Probably even taking the time to grab themselves a quick cup of coffee and the morning paper before heading to work. Maybe even stealing a quick kiss from their husbands and wives before walking out the door and then the next thing you know ..poof...! Life as they knew it gone forever within a matter of seconds. I hope nobody has to live through an event like that ever again
Dude survived 2 Nukes, and out lived his kids who died of cancer.
It's difficult to imagine after a flash of light that everything you are, with all your thoughts, hopes, and memories, could in a instant be reduced to bone and ash etched into concrete. And now every super power country, to include the US, China, and Russia, have even bigger, more devasting nukes that would even destroy underground shelters. To live through interesting times is a curse on humanity.
Excellent video, and perfect timing as I've just finished reading: To Hell And Back - The Last Train From Hiroshima, by Charles Pellegrino, story of those bombed in the two attacks and their effect on history. Highly recommended.
That is a great book! 😺
The stranger who helped him knew that the vitamins in the liver and the vitamins in the plants would help him heal. It sounds like he was given a high dose of b vitamins, iron, vitamins A, D, E & K. Doses so high they would be toxic to almost anyone else. Too bad the rest of the family didn't also eat those things too when they needed to purge the radioactive particles from their own bodies.😢
This is one weapon that should have stayed undiscovered.
It's discovery was inevitable.
If we hadn't done basic science, tens of millions would have been lost to disease, famine, etc.
The losses in Tokyo to "conventional" fire bombing were larger than Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
When one of those puffy mushroom explode in my backyard, I am not going to work!
You got to love it when your boss doesn't believe any excuse for you not showing up to work. Such as a parent or family member dies, you were in a car accident, you are severely sick, or in this case you literally get blown up. You could be in death's door, in your employer will still say I want you to show up to work.
Truly intense story 😅 Appreciate your work man
🎉❤🎉Thanks for covering this, Brew. Your stories always are great to watch. Love your channel, Brew. You're about to reach 2 million, congrats🎉❤🎉
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There was another project that could have ended the war sooner and with less loss of life. The Bat Bomb was basically completed when it was de-funded to help with the Manhattan project, which was suppose to be finishing up soon, as well. Unfortunately, the Manhattan project took about an extra year to complete.
The Bat Bomb was a means to burn houses and infrastructure, but in a way that would allow residents and workers to escape the blaze,
Hitting Nagasaki was actually more psychologically damaging than the US was aware of at the time. The modern Nagasaki prefecture is where Protugese merchants forced trade and where the Dutch traders had (more or less) invaded during the isolationist period. Nagasaki was an incredibly symbolic city from the Meiji restoration; for it to be wiped out in an instant was truly proof that they faced humiliation or annihilation. While, individually, the Japanese people would rather face the latter, they would never want to force that decision on every soul within their empire, so accepted humiliation to spare those they held dear.
The truth is a lot more complicated.
It’s actually a little bit sad to hear that the one even after both were dropped, this only resulted in the Japanese military arguing with each other whether to surrender.
The decision to surrender was decided by the emperor himself with strong resistance with members of the imperial military planning a coup with the goal to continue the war that failed.
15:57 Jokes on them.... we had THREE cores. One went to Hiroshima,One went to Nagasaki and the third..... had to settle for Louis Slotin's soul.
You can't really fault those superiors for not wanting to believe Yamaguchi. A pandora's box was opened that day. Unforeseen levels of destruction and evil were being unleashed.
His first thought , and instinct, was to get back to work LOL not to check up on family and friends, not to contact anyone he might know. No, It was to get back to the work place.
That's just how folks are built over there. The Japanese didn't, and still don't mess around when it comes to working. They take their work culture very seriously
The way I understood the video is that he received ORDERS to return to work. Also, it was three days after he was bombed so no, not immediate first thought.
@@sissysovereign1294 Yeah our working motto is that it's work before family LOL (I am from Japan)
@@lulylulyanka2676consider where this way of thinking comes from 😉
Nuclear bombs should never be used on civilians.
Then no military and no military industrial targets should ever be near civilians.
Hiroshima was the headquarters of the Southern army. It lost over 20,000 staff officers.
When you have that prohibition, the military will always place civilians near military targets..
And even when you don't, the military industrial complex needs civilian workers.
And civilians shouldn't work for the military.
Isn't that the point?
@jimurrata6785 If that's the point, then they never should have been made. Oppenheimer seriously regreted making the technology to begin with. From what I hear, it's like he was forced to make it. People have been living in fear of nukes since the 40s. They are the worst thing ever made.
@malic_zarith shoulda woulda woulda 😂
Blah blah blah
And it doesn't relate to reality
Yamaguchi : sorry boss, i got nuked
Boss : Liar, there is no a bomb like that, this is just your excuses!!!
Yamaguchi : *sigh.... just wait then
Boss : wait? what do you m-
*KABOOOOOOOOOM*
Imagine you go to work, and then BOOM, a nuke explodes infront of you, what if that happened to you, TWICE.
Wait the second bombing happened WHILE he was explaining the first bombing to his boss that didn't believe him? I believe some liberties have been taken with this story.
1:27 1945 wasn't _that_ long ago, scary stuff
I mean it was 80 years ago
Think of things that were going on even 100-150 years ago. Not long at all. People have such short memories...
80 years is only a single lifetime though, nothing at all compared to the sum total of recorded human history.
I think the incident was so horrific it couldn't even register in his mind at the time.
"Well I guess the world's endin' now..."
man late for work blown up twice, never works again
The good ol days. Hiding under a desk at school.
Yup
Crouch down under your desk, face away from the windows, cover your ears...
"I can't understand why the world cannot understand the agony of the nuclear bombs..." that's the thing. they DO understand. that agony is their goal.
No, they understand that so many were lost in much more terrible ways in China at the hands of this nation soldiers.
Unless you read what they did at their germ warfare lab and what their soldiers did in Nanking, you just can't understand.
Any sane person would have chosen to be in Hiroshima or Nagasaki rather than in Nanking or in that germ warfare lab.
back when I was in middle school I remember reading, Sodoko and the thousand cranes.
"... it is my destiny to talk about it"
he lived with a purpose
Not denying the trauma of the bombs, but stomach cancer is common in Japan. They eat very salty food
It's not the salt as much as the pickling. Nitrates and nitrites deal with parasites and bacteria, but have long term negative effects
He's 90, it's very normal to him to have cancer at that age. Not because food but age.
@@ririfiri3243under 2% of people live to the age of 90.
Under 1% of people make it to the age of 91.
And most who do are women.
Also radiation damages your DNA causing mutations that become cancers
Imagine you are walking to work one day and BOOM! You get nuked by a atomic bomb now imagine you get bombed again
you'd think the missing city would be a clue
I cant decide if he was the luckiest man alive?? or the unluckiest????
The luckiest man in two extremely unlucky situations.
lot of both.
I'm happy for the fact that he got to survive and see the 21st century, but I'm so sad for the fact that he outlived his wife and kid. At least they're all together again now.
I want to know what happened to the stranger that helped him.
I’d imagine he went on to do the same for others.
Imagine if he was an angel?the way he appeared unscathed in Yamaguchi's time of need and disappeared when he wasn't needed anymore? That had to have been some form of divine intervention