HIROSHIMA: What its like today | THE FULL TOUR ft. A Survivors Story
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This video will take you on a full tour though Hiroshima, Japan, to explore what its like today and how it has changed since the atomic bombing in 1945. I look at the physical landscape, how the lives of the people have changed, and how the city has become a symbol of peace and resilience. I also discuss the lasting effects of the bombing and the importance of never forgetting the impact of nuclear weapons with a Hiroshima survivor. Join me as I uncover Hiroshima's past and present!
You can read Mito's full story, on his blog here: blog.livedoor.jp/mitokosei/
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If Give 'em Hell Harry didn't drop the bomb a million American soldiers would've lost their lives fighting the Japanese, they were ruthless in their Pacific campaign. The death march across the Phillipines and pacific Island killed tens of thousands. War is hell, Hoover and Roosevelt couldn't get it right, it took a meek common sense type of guy, War is hell. Thank you Harry for making their gd minds up, you stop the slaughter if possibly hundreds of thousand American lives.
I was born in Nagasaki, an atomic bombed city, and learned the terror of the atomic bomb from an early age. Thank you for taking up Hiroshima and leaving it in the video. However, when reading the comments section, it is a pity that too many people say, "The atomic bomb was dropped to end the war." The past cannot be changed. What we, who live in the 21st century, should do is learn and convey the terror of the atomic bomb. The terror of the atomic bomb must have been well understood from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This world does not need nuclear bombs.
And i hope we really learn our lesson
Estimated 60M deaths from WW2 is what prompted the people to drop the bombs because they thought much more would die if not. As tragic as this was, and I hope another one is ever used again, I can see how they thought it was the right thing at the time. It was no easy decision I am sure for anyone to make knowing what would happen. I agree the world does not need these weapons, and I hope some deranged leader never decides to use them ever again.
I agree with you - learning the terror of the bombing incidents and conveying it everyone in the world.
Watching this as an American is heart breaking war is awful and it hurts everyone...
Agreed
You Americans should take a responsibility for this and need to pay for you crimes
@@Ashleysplanet This Is WORSE Than The Holocaust
Then stop participating in all the wars
@@fanalysis6734oreans probably didn’t care that much. North Korea hates Japan but I believe this is before Korea separated. Japanese on the other hand? I wonder how the actual victim country felt/feels
Horrifying event but definitely important to learn about. Thank you for sharing your conversation with Mito - super interesting to hear his perspective!!
It’s my pleasure! Education on these topics are so important
I think it's been a defining weaponry-use that has put actual fear into humanity as a whole. I highly doubt the cold war would have remained so after WWII if the atomic bombs hadn't been put to use one way or the other at the end of WWII... There's a difference between knowing the theoretical effects, and then ACTUALLY seeing the effects and aftermath. Add on top of that the very scary levels of development to such weapons so it's no longer 'mere' kiloton weaponry, but into the megaton range.
An emotional and powerful experience. Yep, you have that right. Have visited twice, on both occasions, in the grounds people are talking and acting normally, as they enter the museum and you come face to face with the reality of what happened, the place is almost silent.
This seems to be a very interesting place, I hope I can visit sometime in the future. Seeing and sharing places like this is why I love traveling and make videos so much! And please keep up the great job! Subscribed!!
Who else is here after watching Oppenheimer?
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Bro im here after watching the film and having a nightmare about nuclear bomb in my country syria.
Yeah bc they didnt show 💩 in the movie. We just hear about it. Small scale movie.
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That interview was priceless.
Something I will never forget
WOW, great video. very interesting
Thank you so much!
Great video thank you
I was stationed in Iwakuni in 62 and 63. I visited tha park . It looks different now than then. It made a huge impression on me.
Very good work
Thank you!
another great video, how you haven't got hundreds of thousands of subs is beyond me!!
Thank you so much 🙏🏽
Thank you very much.
Japan survived two atomic bomb drops and went on to lead the world in technology, innovation and culture. Kudos
Because of us.
I’m very thankful to Americans soldiers because they sacrificed they’re life to save my country Philippines 🇵🇭, because of them they free city of manila to the Japanese soldiers 😇😇😇😇
How can you write such a foolish statement, when your country was occupied by America from 1898 - 1946 and the Japanese from 1941 - 1945.
Don’t argue in the comments. It happened and nothing will ever be perfect. Just pray we keep peace now.
very important to have memorials to know the effect the bomb caused, hopefully no actomic bomb is dropped ever again so that people never have to experience such a thing.
Leave Pearl Harbor alone.
Mr. Kosei needs to realize the atrocities that the Japanese soldiers had done during the war. I'm from the Philippines and my grandparents has shared some harrowing stories that occured during the invasion of Japanese Empire in my country. As the history told, some other Asian countries suffered from these inhumane treatment of their soldiers.They never apologize for what they did...until now! As Truman said, "more lives will be lost if Japan did not surrender"
PEACE✌️✌️✌️
That’s rubbish
Americans have done far worse than anyone on this planet, so should someone do to them what they did to the civilians in Japan? I mean if they dont, far more lives will be lost WORLDWIDE.
@@isabelreyes6387 It's called history but okay, You can keep deluding yourself into believing what you want.
Wow
Wouldn’t this city be radioactive? Like no people could live there since there would be radiation after the bombs? 🤔
Mito is such a handsome man for 77.
Nanjijg Massacre needs more exposure
Crazy how this is told like Japan was just a victim in ww2
What ive taken notice to, is the GREAT deal of forgivness the Japanese have displayed, as in our country the people that endure oppression from a diverse people wont forgive and carry hate from one generation to another, and the Japanese truley have a right to feel anyway they choose, I say May GOD bless you 10x, for your strength and compassion, You definitely make the world a better place, and now we are allies, And i believe the U.S. would stand to never let Japan endure any conflict alone, we owe it to you. GOD BLESS. 🇯🇵🇺🇲
I wonder if Oppenheimer and Tibbets had a peaceful sleep at night
It saved the lives of thousands of American and Japanese soldiers who would have died in fighting if the war continued on. The government cared so little about civilians that they did not stop the war until after Nagasaki.
This was sad 😢
But very informative ❤
sad words from a surviver
In Fl. they can teach this history. It makes yt people uncomfortable and feel bad. 😔
The man in the suit
Thank you for actually pausing on the artifacts❤
6:00 They interviewer thought his idol obama had apologized. LOL . Like Mito said, get all the facts and not propaganda.
it's heartbreaking to see what a government would put its people through. it's heartbreaking to see what a government is willing to do for a war. but regardless of a blockade, a nuclear warhead, firebombing, an invasion.. it doesn't matter.. the end result of war is death.
war is hell
rest in peace to the souls who had absolutely no part in any of it. to those who knew and exacerbated.. i pray for you
IT WAS HARD
Cool they're taking the higher road, because I'd still hold a big ole grudge
The evil empire didn't know what they were doing fukn with the USA, They, the Japanese fukked around and found out.
The real high road would be to not launch a sneak attack against America on a Sunday morning and murder 2400 of our boys; thereby plunging America into a world war. Another high road would be to refrain from raping Nanking which was done by Japan's sadistic Kwantung Army. Still another high road would be not to murder and decapitate American and Filipino soldiers on the Bataan Death March. I can name many other high roads the Japanese could have taken to avoid this entire horrific chapter in human history.
@@samzavala1368well they decided to do pearl harbor first and drag us into the war
@@samzavala1368You're only listing the tip of Imperial Japan's iceberg.
Too bad there wasn’t another way of showing the devastating power the Americans had in their hands. Dropping them on civilians was the most harshest form of display. I hope the world doesn’t ever forget this extreme tragedy or it will repeat itself.
I am sorry but having both Chinese and Korean relatives this infuriates me. Why should the US apologize? Has Japan apologized to what it did in China, Korea, Unit 731? No, so why should the Americans. They dropped those bombs to end a war, to stop a country that was perpetrating atrocities. And a country that still to this day has a shrine to countless war criminals. Imagine if Germany had a memorial to Hitler. I love modern Japan, been there many times, but to say the U.S. should apologize is trivializing history and spitting in the face of the millions Japan slaughtered.
so I'm supposed to feel bad that some kids died from the atomic blast? who was there from forced child labor in the name of the Emporer? seems pretty awful to me. i guess they should have surrendered when they were warned we were going to use it. maybe you should do a vid on the shrine honoring the Zamakazi pilots. just saying.
Uhhhhh this was not an “atrocity.” Will look forward to your detailed video on the 6 million innocents slaughtered by the Nazis.
I see alot of people sympathizing with the japanese and saying that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were terrible crimes against humanity. I should remind you that very few people in Central Asia (More specifically China and Korea) cried when the two cities were nuked and for good reason.
was it dropped on who committed those atrocities?
@@user-td2jw9ze2c Effectively, yes. Japan is a shame driven society and is thus very collectivist throughout history. which means the people of Hiroshima were indirectly supporting Unit 731 and Nanjing by proxy due to their undying loyalty to the state.
@@jeremychicken3339 so women and children sitting at home were also to blame in what the military did? Should we blame the american people for what the goverment and military did in Iraq?
@@user-td2jw9ze2c Not the American people, because due to the fact that the US is a more Guilt driven society, the people are less like a hive and more independent.
@@jeremychicken3339no wonder everyone hate america
Man U tryna make me 😢
As an American I like how the people of Hiroshima do not blame or hate us citizens, and realize it was our government responsible for this. I'd love to go there one day. I'll apologize for what happened. Even if our government won't.
Because new generation is brainwashed
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@@soapbullet-tq8zf don't get me wrong, I'm happy about the amount of mutually assured destruction we have. But the amount of innocent people who died was unreal.
it was the responsibility of both governments
What good is an apology when it was Tokyo's hubris that killed those people?
And even after this, here we are today, worrying about nuclear war.
Can we all just stop killing each other?
If you don't beget children, u will have everlasting life. Heb 7:3.
American here. We’ll apologize if he apologizes for the millions of Chinese murdered and raped by his fellow countrymen 🤝
Did Japan apologize for Pearl Harbor?
War IS HELL, BUT Japan Attacked Pearl Harbour first. And it took two atomic bombs and a week for the stubborn Japanese Empire to surrender.
The Japanese were every bit as brutal to their prisoners during the war as the Nazi's were to the Jews.
Next time you jump on a plane take yourself to Kanchanaburi visit The War Cemetery or maybe Burma and 'The Death Railway.'
I'm not saying two wrongs make a right but there is a good argument to be made for the Americans bringing an early end to the war and saving many more lives than were lost in the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Fact is, estimates of Japanese (and American) deaths in an invasion of Japan would've been in the millions. Horrible as it was, the atom bombs actually saved lives because the Japanese - who a lot of people are saying here "were going to surrender", REFUSED even after the first drop.
War was going on since 1940. We got involved when they attacked us in 1941
Japan was brutal to soldiers and civilian during ww2. Jst ask the locals in Philippines, China, Solomon Islands l, Papua New Guinea, etc. They showed no mercy. Yes it's inhuman what Japanese faced post-atomic bombs but we must be reminded they thought they were intouchable prior.
Oh hun, they were more psychopath than the Nazis. more sadist, hard to describe by any word human can say.
my grandma told me her stories, with tears and pain she has to live everyday in her life till today.
“Cant be shown.” This is the internet lmao. Its allowed here.
Atomic bombs are also supposed to destroy their environment so how is it that after 50 years you can have a normal life growing food and vegetation??
US helped re building
They did an air burst on purpose so there would be less radiation.
I'm so sorry. Was not born but I don't believe in killing. My worst belief is in water balloon fights and lipsticking my enemies while they sleep. Death is never the answer.
So Glad the bombs ended the war and saved lives , a lot of lives . Sorry so many innocents were killed , but war is Hell , looking back it is easy to say what you want , so what is the answer? JESUS is the Answer
I would never expect an apology. The Japanese were very brutal to human beings never mind an soldier.
And that makes all this ok?
No side is to blame , that’s why we are close Allie’s today . Both sides know what they did & understand war . Japan was out for just as much blood and got what was coming but it ended the war and We are in a better place because of it now . The atomic bomb is scary but tbh is why we haven’t seen a WW3 . The auto bomb is what is keeping us safe tbh
It was uneccary even the US admirals at the time we’re saying that the Japanese were about to surrender
@@Nikolaievich9837 no they were not lmao. Japan was more violent than Germans.
They fucked around by bombing pearl harbor and they sure did find out.
Ps: I am south asian. Had nothing to do with the wars. Just unbiased perspective.
@@lzcats7431 were the Japanese the one that put 6 million Jews in to gas chambers?
@@Nikolaievich9837 was in Eu was larger scale so death toll was higher. Go read history. Read about Nanjing Massacre. Germans killed because of racism . Japan killed because they felt like killing and were 100 time more savage than germans. Not the same. Ask any historian and they will tell you which side were more violent.
@@lzcats7431 no it’s because both Japan and Germany had superior beliefs. Germans saw the white Aryan race as superior. The Japanese killed about 6 million Chinese, Korean, Malaysian, Philippino, Indonesian, Indochinese and westerners between 1937-45.
The Nazis killed 6 million Jews and new estimates recently emerged claiming they killed between 15-20 million people total during WWII
The Nazis carried executions out on a massive scale with these camps away from cities. These atrocities/executions were not so visible to the public. Most people are aware of the atrocities of the holocaust so I won’t explain in detail but there were gas chambers, shootings, starvation, mass experiments carried out by the Angel of Death Mengele… you should read about the mass excauations the Nazis we’re doing in the Soviet Union. My grandfather told me the stories of the horror when he was growing up
The Japanese on the other hand were highly motivated to be brutal when attacking their enemies as they were rewarded money and gold per each victim head they brought back into chests. Once the heads were too heavy to bring back to Japan as trophies, eg Hideyoshi ordered the ears to be cut as proof of having killed many barbarians(non Japanese Asians)
Что изменилось после этих событий? Не че го! Гонка вооружения сплошная.одни хотят доминировать над другими сея хаус в странах с безрозличием на страдания народов. Войны делают политики.а страдают народы.
There is no such thing as the abomb
That man should at least be 80 years old if he's a survivor. He looks too young for an 80 year old.
I've seen people be 80-90 years old and looking like they are 60-70 years of age, so looking younger shouldn't be a disqualification so to say. Also if he was in utero on that day then he's most likely 78.
them fuckin japs can be 90 & look 35 anyway.
It's nuclear NOO-KLEE-AR not NOO-KYOO-LER!
Women and children damn that made me sick hearing that
You japanese, were never apologize to us, most of South east asian countries, that japan were colonized, horribly. crueler than those puny nuclear bombin' u guys were experienced.
Compensation of $550 million to the Philippines, $39 million to Vietnam. Payment of £4.5 million to the International Committee of the Red Cross as reparation for prisoners of war (POWs). Waiver of overseas assets worth $81 million.
Screw Albert Einstein for inventing atomic bomb
He didn't , ASSHOLE! Stop living in your mom's basement !!
Albert Einstein dis not invent the atomic bomb... :slap forehead:
He didn't invent the bomb, he only got the formula E=MC² which means that matter and energy are interchangeable. Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared.
Quote from Forbes:
"For hundreds of years, there was an immutable law of physics that was never challenged: that in any reaction occurring in the Universe, mass was conserved. That no matter what you put in, what reacted, and what came out, the sum of what you began with and the sum of what you ended with would be equal. But under the laws of special relativity, mass simply couldn't be the ultimate conserved quantity, since different observers would disagree about what the energy of a system was. Instead, Einstein was able to derive a law that we still use today, governed by one of the simplest but most powerful equations ever to be written down, E = mc2."
With that in mind, if I take the value from atomicarchive which states Hiroshima bomb had 13 kilotons of TNT yield, when a single kilogram should have 21 megatons of TNT yield, it would mean that the effective mass responsible for the chaos is 0.000619047619 kg. Thats 0.619 grams. Almost the same weight as a microSD card. Mindblowing, but also terrifying.
Somebody needs to get educated
America has always been cool fun and interesting. helped us people in Europe Pearl Harbor sure it was an Island but still this is the worst war crime in history I want to puke and get my katana which I buy one day and chop every president in history’s head off for what they did here in Japan and it’s my favorite country in the entire world America is third or fourth. And I know how to handle them professionally and speak Japanese. Because I have been practicing Aikido for 7 years and Japanese for 6 months but I will continue 2 years in college and after graduating work for Hollywood and Toho.
easy there killer
The atomic bombs saved millions of lives, both American and Japanese. Don't forget that the japanese acted like the nazis in murdering millions in labor camps and vowed to never surrender. Also more japanese civilians were killed by firebombing than there were from nukes. The beautiful japan we know today was preserved from complete annihilation by the shock of nuclear weapons which forced japan to surrender before it was wiped from existence
@@djsonicc yeah I know I overreacted a bit my bad 🤦♂️😅
Leave Pearl Harbor alone.
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The radiation would have to be there and very dangerous still to this day...
Sorry but this whole video is not correct. Japan was killing 1000's of people every day. They were a violent and corrupt nation. There were very few "innocent" civilians. Japan as a people were sadistic, take a look into the real world of history. Yes the atomic bomb was horrendous, but it is so much more important to understand why the Allies were forced to take these steps to stop the war.
So others do war crimes and you are heros? Don't lie you killed people in Iraq,Liby,a,Sirija and others you are most evil people who walk in the world
With that mentality you can justify any massacre against its civilians just saying.. Just because your people do it doesn’t make you innocent. The Us is paying now with what they’ve done to these people with moral decay.
Yeah but the Allies could’ve bombed a military base instead of a village of innocent people. Don’t be so naive.
@@JabbaJohnson you're being naive. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were highly militarized cities with military infrastructure surrounded by civilian infrastructure. There was no way of attack without civilians dying. Even after Hiroshima, Japan STILL didn't surrender. Atomic bombs saved more lives than they took away. point blank period.
Lol bro this is war we’re talking about. You expect a nation to not be violent? Are you saying this like America isn’t the most violent nation to date both inside and out.. such a weird comment…
To include the civilians, the children, in the matter is kinda wild lol 😅😅 Japan was LOSING at the point when the bombs were dropped. The US wanted to flex their new weaponry.
You preach to look into history, but clearly you know nothing of the Manhattan project, or Oppenheimer. Just stfu and stop regurgitating/parroting wherever you heard this nonsense from.
American way of giving freedom 🖕
I don't care how much the US glorifies this. This is pure Injustice
War is hell, but in all fairness. They sucker punched us. And we had no morale obligation to not do the same. The feeling was mutual. They would have definitely did the same thing if given the technology at the time. As an American. No hard feelings glad we learned peace is better than war. The only apology that I feel is needed is for those who had to endure until the Japanese came to their senses.
Japan had the technology for the bomb
@@user-td2jw9ze2c in that time. All I see is a pile of rocks. You sure?
@@trevorlahey1956 U boat 234
Damn that man has a ton of Botox in his forehead
That War should have been the end of all wars. We were all in the wrong in the end, nobody won, everyone only lost. In every war there is nothing but loss and waste. Why we as a people on this planet allow the people we do to lead us. We the people of the world vastly outnumber those in control, several million to 1. So we should not be allowing these horrible people to lead us and govern us, we need better in place and it's far overdue to replace the shitty leadership around the world. There is some good, but a lot of them need to be replaced with better people.
Fkd as this is the marshal plan would not have happened otherwise . And that led to the massive development of japan . Sucks they got nuked to do it though. And it was the end of imperial japan .
Damn right no president apologised for the necessary bombing. If the bombs hadn't been dropped, Japan wouldn't have surrendered and the war would have gone on for years. No apology needed.
The war was already ending. Once the Soviet Union pushed into Germany it was over. Japan was only instrumental in the West.
That’s not true Colbi. Educate yourself. War was already almost over.
This is a biggest war crime in history they should put trial for this
@@harge4091 haha, you spanner. That’s not a war crime lol
It was uneccary even the US admirals at the time we’re saying that the Japanese were about to surrender
What do you call a citizen of Hiroshima?
A rice crispy.