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ATOMIC BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI | 10 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ★ 10 Things You Didn’t Know About FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR DISASTER: https://youtu.be/HpOG4WFKBZQ ★ How My Grandpa Survived The HIROSHIMA ATOMIC BOMB: https://youtu.be/WJTiMgAzVEg ★ 10 Things You Didn’t Know About 2011 JAPANESE TSUNAMI & TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE: https://youtu.be/VuWTETyzR9Y ★ 10 Things You Didn’t Know About THE JAPANESE EMPEROR: https://youtu.be/h--roytkH3Q SUBTITLES! ► If you want to help subtitle this video into your native language, please let us know so we can give you credit~ http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_video?v=wETSBaFwzu0 *CORRECTION: In the video, the location of Nagasaki is off. It should be more on the left side of Kyushu island. (thanks longtlam!) Right now, is the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki. They are the first and only instances in history of nuclear weapons being used in warfare. 1) Godzilla Godzilla or Gojira, the giant Japanese dinosaur-looking monster, a worldwide pop culture icon; who’s been in numerous movies. Why am I mentioning this? Well, Godzilla owes its existence to the atomic bombs. In the aftermath, with the devastation still fresh in the Japanese consciousness, Godzilla was created as a metaphor for nuclear weapons and their destructive capabilities. 2) The Korean Casualties An enormous number of Koreans also perished in the blast. In fact, around 25% of casualties were Koreans. Korea was under Japanese rule at the time so there were many drafted or conscripted Koreans in Hiroshima & Nagasaki. It’s unfortunate that the Korean victims of this tragedy have often been neglected. 3) Close Call Kyoto Today’s Kyoto landscape would have been greatly altered, and not for the better, if the Americans had gone about their original plan. The targets were in fact supposed to be Hiroshima & Kyoto. However, the US Secretary of War at the time, Henry L Stimson, insisted on sparing the so called City of Ten Thousand Shrines. 4) The Pamphlet Warnings Just prior to dropping the Atomic bombs, the US Airforce released pamphlets or leaflets from their planes warning Japanese citizens of the impending destruction. They were largely ineffective. 5) The Little Boy & The Fat Man These were the American codenames of the two atomic bombs. 6) The American Casualties 12 American airmen were captured, then taken to the Chugoku Military Police Headquarters in Hiroshima, where the American weapon of mass destruction indiscriminately took them out. 7) Go An important Go tournament was held in the suburbs of Hiroshima, about 5 km from ground zero; and on August 6th 1945, a pivotal match up was ongoing between champion Hashimoto and the challenger Iwamoto. When the atomic bomb went off, people were injured, buildings were damaged, and the game came to an immediate halt. Fortunately no one died as tournament officials had earlier moved the game away from the blast radius after coming across the American pamphlets. The players took this opportunity to have a quick lunch break. Afterwards on the same day, they finished the game. White won. 8) Operation Meetinghouse As devastating as the atomic bombs were, it didn’t even rank as the most destructive bombing event of WW2. That title goes to the deathly firebombing of Tokyo by the US Air Force, also known as Operation Meetinghouse. This was estimated to be the single most destructive bombing attack not just in Japan, but in history. 9) The Flame Of Peace The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park was built in dedication to the legacy of Hiroshima as the first city in the world to suffer a nuclear attack. In the park, sits The Flame of Peace which has burned continuously since 1964, and will remain lit until all nuclear weapons are removed from the world and the planet is free from nuclear threat. 10) The Improbable Survivor Tsutomu Yamaguchi worked for the Mitsubishi company, and on August 6th, 1945, he was away from home on a business trip in Hiroshima. He witnessed the Little Boy dropping from the sky and the explosion ruptured his eardrums, blinded him, and left him with serious burns. But he was alive. The very next day, he dragged his body to a station, made his way out of Hiroshima and back to his hometown. At home, he finally received treatment for his wounds. Two days later, despite being seriously injured and heavily bandaged, he informed Mitsubishi that he was back from his Hiroshima business trip and ready to report to work. So, he went to work, as if nothing major had happened. Yamaguchi was lucky to have survived the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb. However, he was unlucky that he went back home.. ..to Nagasaki.. Thanks for watching! And if you enjoyed this video, don't forget to LIKE, SHARE & SUBSCRIBE ^^ SOCIAL MEDIA Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kentobento2015 Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kento-Bento/1541570546113993
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3. WRONG! it was to cloudy to drop the bomb to kyoto don't say nonsence war is no love its only mercy
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Tsutomu Yamaguchi is a bad ass! He survived two atomic bombs! :D
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they deserved it for killing all those innocent people in china
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Nagasaki was serviced because of weather. Not some bull.
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Pearl harbors revenge
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I would buy your Grandfather several rounds of Saki given the chance. In 1982, a foreign exchange student from Japan being Jun Onatani joined my H.S. swim team. He was the first Japanese National I really got to know and I missed him dearly when he returned to his homeland. Subscribed!!!!!!!!!
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"Conscripted" is a clever way of not saying the Koreans killed were SLAVES.
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why don't you research the videos by Galen Winsor and stop propagating the government B.S.....
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Great content as always. I never knew we warned japan before dropping the bomb. Why was the US not worried that the Japanese would prepare to shoot down the single plane carrying a single bomb? Talk about some bad luck being in both bombing locations. Did he have any health problems How long did he live?
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Fat man.... reminds me of fallout
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That is very badass how your grandpa survived a weaponized star falling from the sky. The atomic bombs saved more japs than they killed, as preventing a large mainland invasion. Also, one of the American captives survived the blast only to be stoned to death by horrified japs on the same bridge that was the main target.
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Koreans conscripted ?? That's one way to put it. My father fought in the Pacific over two years and lost friends in the Bataan Death March. I'm glad they dropped the bombs.
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white won.....You bet we did!
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Bruh that beard weird as fuck
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If I was in 2 nuclear attacks, I would get the hell out of japan
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American just destroy every country
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My grandfather and a lot of his family were wiped out in the incendiary bombing in Toyko, I never got to meet him/them, wiped out a lot of my father's side of the family's history, records, etc. Meanwhile, my grandmother was living in the US with her kids and they were moved to Manzanar, while dad's father was dying in Japan. Dad refused to ever talk about any of it, he could never make any sense of any of it.