My heart is in my throat....... my God the horror , pain & human suffering. Only another victim could ever understand what their suffering must feel like.
Captain Lewis could not be found for hours before the taping of this show because after finding out he would not be compensated for the appearance he decided to get drunk instead. He was located shortly before this was filmed and appeared on the show intoxicated (Source, John Hersey's acclaimed book Hiroshima). Completely despicable.
2 days ago, I heard Rev Tanimoto's daughter, now 67, speak in Victoria, BC. Koko Tanimoto Kondo was 8 months in Aug '45. As a child, she was fuelled w/rage & vowed revenge at those who caused so much suffering to those around her...her parents never uttered a word about "that day" & she never asked, b/c she knew it caused them unbearable pain to remember...teen girls who, w/their fused, deformed fingers, combed her hair for her, & spoke of never having a chance to get married.
Koko was even more infuriated, when she discovered as a kid on this show, she was actually meeting this American bomber but couldn't do any damage to him since she was only 10! But she saw his sadness when he spoke on the show, and saw his tears...and it completely turned her world around: she realized, they too, felt sadness about what they did & were even suffering in their own way.
In this age, where war can be played out like video games, the humanity of Cpt Lewis' realization of the human impact of the atomic bombings strikes me as the polar opposite of despicable.
It goes without mentioning it was also courageous of him--he was given #&() by the US military for his comments.
@davelister2005 You realise it's usually only the losers who get convicted of war crimes? Bomber Harris committed worse atrocities than Field Marshal Goering yet Goering was sentenced to death for war crimes while Harris was never charged with anything. The same is true here. If Japan had dropped the A bomb on US cities & lost the war they would have been tried for war crimes over it. That is a fact. This was a war crime. I think it was justified but it was still an atrocity .
@Jellyform What a load of left wing, politically correct swill. War is war with the ultimate aim of winning however you can. There is no "Play nicely" about it.
@BluebirdintheSky So according to your logic nobody should be tried for war crimes ever then? All of the Nazis and Japanese should have been let go despite the atrocities they committed?
@BluebirdintheSky Also, seeing as Al Qaeda have declared war on the US none of them should be tried for terrorism against the US either right? After all "There is no "Play nicely" about it".
It's nice how US media depicted the Army as charitable after treating the victims after one of the most horrible war-crimes in the history of mankind.
As tragic as the bombs were this stopped the Japanese murder count at somewhere under 10 million as well as saving a dozen cultures from being exterminated and subsumed under a racist, facist regime that would have gone on to kill many more millions and perpetuating many more war atrocities. The Japanese also developed pestilence by testing and performing vivasections on Koreans and Chinese and floated plague balloons into US midwest in hopes of starting plagued in US. It failed.
With this I am reminded why my generation rebelled in the 60's-70's..the totally shameless ,commercial and insincere amorality was threatening to cause America to loose it's soul ... this film clip is made like some sort of game show ..scary
@dlanigersirrom Don't be so ignorant. Look up Capitalism, then Imperialism. Then do it again until you comprehend the ideas. Then take it upon yourself to gain some education upon WWII and the Pacific Campaign. After you've completed such basic tasks apologize and remove your comment.
Let's be real. If the Japanese military in WWII would have had the technology to detonate an atomic weapon, they would have. They killed countless civilians in China and elsewhere.
However, only in America could you drop an atomic bomb on a civilian population center and then invite them over for plastic surgery.
I knew about this TV episode, but I never got to see it until now.
This TV episode was written about in the book HIROSHIMA by John Hersey. Rev. Tanimoto didn't know he was going to have to meet the pilot of the Enola Gay. He worked like a horse to bring those girls to the USA for free plastic surgery, and most of the money he raised was embezzled by his "friends" in the USA who took advantage of him.
The poor fella was just doing his duty. How ever the REAL culprits are hiding in plain sight. The Jewish President , Roosevelt , A.hole Ein-stain , Oppenheimer and his team of Jewish scientists (not the ordinary workers) The Jewish Bankers on Wall Street who financed the operation.
@malmakil You forget the fact that the Nuclear "Manhattan Project" was an entirely Jewish enterprise - President Roosevelt who was Jewish , was approached by the Jewish Scientist Einstein with the idea to produce a nuclear bomb and drop it on Germany - Jewish President Roosevelt enlisted the Jewish Scientist Oppenheimer and his Jewish team to make the bomb , and they were funded by Jewish Bankers of America. The only role Whites had was to follow military orders and drop the God cursed bomb !
@WhereEaglesDareWWII That is sad because Japanese government/people saved thousands of Jewish people even though they were ally with German. Though I watched a documentary before about Hiroshima that nuclear scientists were against the bomb getting dropped on the city and fought with Truman. ( I don't remember what film) I am sure there were people wanted to test and show this bomb to the world. Sad...
@lehua16 I have research about the bomb, japan surrender in early summer, The Us Goverment know that japan summer, it just that truman wanted to bomb japan because he wanted to scared stalin,
"1st atomic power was dropped over Hiroshima"...it wasn't a nuclear reactor that was released from the Enola Gay,although Fat Man contains uranium also.
@bowIegdwombat History and facts have proven what you've said to be true. It's only because people are ignorant of history, facts, and taking these things into consideration that they make the quick, rash, knee-jerk assessment that the US is the guilty party. War is hell, and war led by imperialistic dictators is even a worse kind of hell.
It doesn't mean we can't and shouldn't study, experience, and sympathize with the horror and pain of the enemy at the end of such war. It's up to the ppl.
The announcer said something about the horror of the bomb (and it was horrible), but what about the horror of them trying to conquer the USA? They were killing millions, cutting off arms, legs, heads, etc. And we're the only country that when we win a war, we rebuild the country of the losers. Stop bashing the greatest country on Earth.
It is my hope that religious zealots of Christian crusades, militant Buddhism, Islamic jihad, or any other cultist movement will never again be so ignorant of defeat that it takes a nuclear device to compel surrender.
@lolland30 Read "Zen at War" by Brian Victoria, any of Gudo Nishijima Roshi's works on the period, or a history book. I'm not confused and my assertion is historically factual. Buddhist principles, unlike the popular, violent, and hateful doctrines of Mesopotamian sun-god cults, are intrinsically peaceful but were perverted during World War II to invoke militant nationalism. Thanks for chipping in
@manonthemount , Again if you read the original buddhist teachings you will see that the belief that an emperor is a god has nothing to do with buddhism.
The general notion is that zen was neither the vehicle nor the brake on theese actions, and creative use of the "in the moment" or zatori, by nathionalists was used, but again this has more to do with the dominating shintoism in japan.
I think it is simplistic to just blame religion, considoring the attrocities made by non religous people
@lolland30 i never said belief the emperor as god has anything to do with buddhism; you superimposed that over my original comment and have twice corrected an invention of your imagination
i'm not just blaming religion. religion in itself is nothing more than fairy tales for adults. the weak minded simpletons who rely on religion for decision making and the secular forces that manipulate the fools are to blame
& the kill or convert, imperialist mandates of many religions should need no mention
@manonthemount , I cant find your original comment, but If I remember it correctly it it seemed as you blamed buddhism for Japans recistance despite the fact that they knew they were loosing, which is what this video is about, the a bomb being dropped partly due to American aggression and The emperor who refused to be rathional.
The emperor based his decitions on Shintoism.
Im am not saying that zen wasnt misused for instance kamikazee et.c, but the main issue was the emperor, shintoism
In many western societies, a large majority is in reality atheist, you go against the stream being religous.
As for decision making, being religous do not make you a robot, for instance many of Buddhas teachings is highly regarded by modern thinkers as a source for inspiration to be open minded, and critical in rathional manner.
It is quite sad that this cliche about the "weak minded believers",is so often used as a psychological cheap shot.
@manonthemount from wik- " During World War II, the government forced every subject, regardless of his or her adherence or belief, to practice State Shinto and admit that the Emperor was divine. Religions were strongly controlled by the government and those against Imperial cult, notably Oomoto and Soka Gakkai, were persecuted"
ps, I did not say that horrible things have been done in the name of religion, but if you look at the biggest attrocities in the last century, it was done cont...
@lolland30 ... in the name of one ideology which was atheistic, and another ideology which cultured a strange mix of atheism and occult myths... communism and nazism.
I totally agree with the notion that religion can and are misused, but these actions often contradicts the original intent, and the driving force behind the violence will find an alternative way to justify theyre actions, if no religion is present.
America you never cease to amazed me. How incredulous! drop an A-bomb and then think you can make good buy giving away a free Cosmetic Surgery Holiday. (((Vomit)))
I don't feel any remorse that the Americans killed 150,000 CIVILLIANS + SOLDIERS.
Japanese did worse during WWII. Flea bomb, Maggot bombs on the Chinese killed way more than 150,000 CIVILLIANS. Also, Rape of Nan King, forced annex of Korea, exploitation of South East Asia. They have done far more evil than what the Americans did with two atomic bomb. The only reason why the Americans are being told they are evil is because you can easily see two atomic bomb explosions.
@punture2 ya that's what people lose sight of. In fact, we aren't really taught that part of history. I think the moral of the story is that war is horrible no matter what weapons you use. But the United States was responding to something in this case. What is sad is that many of the Japanese people were against what the Japanese military-controlled government was doing, but they got punished for it.
@punture2 What disturbs me about this video, though, is the way it seems to be all for show. "Look how much remorse we feel. We're giving 25 (out of how many thousand) women plastic surgery for their horrible disfigurement that we caused!" And that Japanese man does not look pleased at first to be shaking hands with the bomber. I mean really, no matter what his side did, why make him show forgiveness to that man? But you know, that bomber's emotion was genuine, and I think he saw that, too.
@punture2 in a way is true, but you cannot blame on the Japanese, it was the Japanese authorities and indoctrination, BIG difference. WW2 is not the German people's fault, it was the Nazi propaganda, as always involving innocent people to do evil. Very moving film, is incredible how the scenes with the Americans try to remedy their tragedy but they don't show the least regret at all. lets hope this tragedy doesn't occur never again against anyone.
@verdebuster: "in a way is true, but you cannot blame on the Japanese, it was the Japanese authorities and indoctrination, BIG difference. WW2 is not the German people's fault, it was the Nazi propaganda, as always involving innocent people to do evil."
Very true. War can never be truly blamed on ALL the people of any nation.
@saa001 I'm not sure you know this but the Japanese had surrendered before the bomb was dropped. They wanted a conditional surrender and the U.S.A wanted unconditional.
@wajaahathusain That's not quite accurate. The Emperor put that the conditional surrender forth, but his generals all disagreed. In addition, the terms of the conditional surrender weren't all that great. At the end of the day, they needed to unconditionally surrender, and they chose not to.
Imagine how the Japanese man must have felt, that pilot killed 140,000 of his countrymen and they were forced to shake hands on television. Those slightly familiar with Japanese customs should understand how awkward this must have been.
For Americans, 140,000 people is like 9/11 happening every single day for one and a half month.
@Baldurpet How could you not forgive him. All you had to do was to look at his face and see the deep sense of remorse in his face to see that he too in a sick way was also a victim of all this. Although he was just carring his duty, he had to live with the concience for the rest of his life with the fact that he had taken the lives of 140 000 people, men, women and children. That is a burden that I wish I never have to carry.
@Baldurpet Yeah how many Pearl Harbors does it equal? Seems to me they fucking started shit and we ended it.
The way I see it...if you poke the hornets nest and get stung you have no right to complain. That goes for 9/11 as well. The US kept and keeps fucking around in the middle east pissing people off we got what we got because of that.
@Baldurpet dude you did math. Does it feel good? educate yourself a bit more on Japanese customs and the plans in place to defend against a mainland invasion by American forces. A great deal more would have perished on both sides, the Atomic Bombs were used as a deterrent for such extreme measures.
If you read the book Hiroshima, its about Mr. Tanimota (the man in this video) and other survivors, it tells about this encounter from his perspective. Its a great book.
They shook the hands of a Hero, a person who helped prevent the massacre that would have ensued if the land Invasion went ahead. The US still have a surplus of purple hearts manufactured in anticipation of the casualties expected from the land invasion. Japan would have been completely wiped out if the invasion went ahead. Would you kill 1 person to save 100? I sure would.
They shook the hands of a Hero, a person who helped prevent the massacre that would have ensued if the land Invasion went ahead. The US still have a surplus of purple hearts manufactured in anticipation of the casualties expected from the land invasion. Japan would have been completely wiped out if the invasion went ahead. Would you kill 1 person to save 100? I sure would.
@hhstroll you can find more information at wikipedia under "Operation Plowshare." I guess after putting in all the effort, the government wanted to get more out of the Manhatten Project.
@SSselfsponsored "If only the atom were never again used... In war." The narrator implied that the women were all for using the power of the atom for nuclear power plants and such... just not bombs.
@SSselfsponsored in blowing up brown people in the middle east, as is the USA's pastime. it doesn't actually qualify as war, since one side can't fight back
the women are so resilient...
LemonLimeGrl 3 months ago
My heart is in my throat....... my God the horror , pain & human suffering. Only another victim could ever understand what their suffering must feel like.
dujaa74 3 months ago
Truly heartbreaking ..
glimmertwin67 3 months ago
I just finished reading Hiroshima, and if I were Mr. Tanimoto, I would have decked the pilot.
OwnageMuffinStudios 4 months ago
First we'll burn your face and then we'll invite you to have plastic surgery in our own country! Great idea....
Cristinact 4 months ago
Captain Lewis could not be found for hours before the taping of this show because after finding out he would not be compensated for the appearance he decided to get drunk instead. He was located shortly before this was filmed and appeared on the show intoxicated (Source, John Hersey's acclaimed book Hiroshima). Completely despicable.
chelseaborgman 7 months ago 6
2 days ago, I heard Rev Tanimoto's daughter, now 67, speak in Victoria, BC. Koko Tanimoto Kondo was 8 months in Aug '45. As a child, she was fuelled w/rage & vowed revenge at those who caused so much suffering to those around her...her parents never uttered a word about "that day" & she never asked, b/c she knew it caused them unbearable pain to remember...teen girls who, w/their fused, deformed fingers, combed her hair for her, & spoke of never having a chance to get married.
mossbjam 1 month ago
Koko was even more infuriated, when she discovered as a kid on this show, she was actually meeting this American bomber but couldn't do any damage to him since she was only 10! But she saw his sadness when he spoke on the show, and saw his tears...and it completely turned her world around: she realized, they too, felt sadness about what they did & were even suffering in their own way.
mossbjam 1 month ago
In this age, where war can be played out like video games, the humanity of Cpt Lewis' realization of the human impact of the atomic bombings strikes me as the polar opposite of despicable.
It goes without mentioning it was also courageous of him--he was given #&() by the US military for his comments.
mossbjam 1 month ago
For other perspectives, including from US military personnel:
google:
Was Hiroshima Necessary? Mark Weber
mossbjam 1 month ago
This show is kinda messed up
they mean well but
some of it goes to far
MisWillo 7 months ago
Man, that was painful to watch. I can't imagine a meeting more awkward.
SolidShroom 8 months ago
@job187 If it were a war crime, where are the convictions? Surely you have proof.
davelister2005 8 months ago
@davelister2005 You realise it's usually only the losers who get convicted of war crimes? Bomber Harris committed worse atrocities than Field Marshal Goering yet Goering was sentenced to death for war crimes while Harris was never charged with anything. The same is true here. If Japan had dropped the A bomb on US cities & lost the war they would have been tried for war crimes over it. That is a fact. This was a war crime. I think it was justified but it was still an atrocity .
Jellyform 3 months ago 4
@Jellyform What a load of left wing, politically correct swill. War is war with the ultimate aim of winning however you can. There is no "Play nicely" about it.
BluebirdintheSky 3 months ago
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@BluebirdintheSky So according to your logic nobody should be tried for war crimes ever then? All of the Nazis and Japanese should have been let go despite the atrocities they committed?
Jellyform 3 months ago
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@BluebirdintheSky Also, seeing as Al Qaeda have declared war on the US none of them should be tried for terrorism against the US either right? After all "There is no "Play nicely" about it".
Jellyform 3 months ago
@Jellyform
You sound like one of those illegals who complain how awful America treats you and how great your motherland is but wouldn't go back for anything.
ms1981ify 3 months ago
@Jellyform Again, where is the proof? Can't we see this convictions? Find some PROOF.
davelister2005 2 months ago
Heart Breaking.....
Acida000 9 months ago
This documentary its heart braiking.... poor pleople ....
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indyfan22k 10 months ago
The war didn't end with the atomic bomb!!!!!!! stupid!!!
caguzman2 10 months ago
@caguzman2 you are right. it ended with the second atomic bomb.
IrishMug 10 months ago
@nadia3510 In fact, the last firebombing over populated areas in Japan was made after they surrendered but just before it was official.
job187 10 months ago
It's nice how US media depicted the Army as charitable after treating the victims after one of the most horrible war-crimes in the history of mankind.
job187 10 months ago
As tragic as the bombs were this stopped the Japanese murder count at somewhere under 10 million as well as saving a dozen cultures from being exterminated and subsumed under a racist, facist regime that would have gone on to kill many more millions and perpetuating many more war atrocities. The Japanese also developed pestilence by testing and performing vivasections on Koreans and Chinese and floated plague balloons into US midwest in hopes of starting plagued in US. It failed.
melonbarmonster 11 months ago
what we did was 100% necessary it was the only way to make japan surrender so the war can end it really is a sin how it had to end like that though
305bonez 11 months ago
I first heard about this on This American Life. My god the tactlessness is beyond me. What did they want from this man? It's messed up.
SLUBBERD 11 months ago 2
With this I am reminded why my generation rebelled in the 60's-70's..the totally shameless ,commercial and insincere amorality was threatening to cause America to loose it's soul ... this film clip is made like some sort of game show ..scary
edantila 1 year ago
her hand looks like shes flipping those imperialist assholes off.as she should.capitalists are some twisted sickos!
dlanigersirrom 1 year ago
@dlanigersirrom Don't be so ignorant. Look up Capitalism, then Imperialism. Then do it again until you comprehend the ideas. Then take it upon yourself to gain some education upon WWII and the Pacific Campaign. After you've completed such basic tasks apologize and remove your comment.
IrishMug 10 months ago
Let's be real. If the Japanese military in WWII would have had the technology to detonate an atomic weapon, they would have. They killed countless civilians in China and elsewhere.
However, only in America could you drop an atomic bomb on a civilian population center and then invite them over for plastic surgery.
schwabbamoose 1 year ago
Why are they clapping for that mass murderer?
bruiser07 1 year ago
So Hermes isn't black?
Zycadellic 1 year ago
I knew about this TV episode, but I never got to see it until now.
This TV episode was written about in the book HIROSHIMA by John Hersey. Rev. Tanimoto didn't know he was going to have to meet the pilot of the Enola Gay. He worked like a horse to bring those girls to the USA for free plastic surgery, and most of the money he raised was embezzled by his "friends" in the USA who took advantage of him.
MondoBeno 1 year ago
The poor fella was just doing his duty. How ever the REAL culprits are hiding in plain sight. The Jewish President , Roosevelt , A.hole Ein-stain , Oppenheimer and his team of Jewish scientists (not the ordinary workers) The Jewish Bankers on Wall Street who financed the operation.
WhereEaglesDareWWII 1 year ago
I'm sure the Devil is american.
malmakil 1 year ago
@malmakil You forget the fact that the Nuclear "Manhattan Project" was an entirely Jewish enterprise - President Roosevelt who was Jewish , was approached by the Jewish Scientist Einstein with the idea to produce a nuclear bomb and drop it on Germany - Jewish President Roosevelt enlisted the Jewish Scientist Oppenheimer and his Jewish team to make the bomb , and they were funded by Jewish Bankers of America. The only role Whites had was to follow military orders and drop the God cursed bomb !
WhereEaglesDareWWII 1 year ago
@WhereEaglesDareWWII That is sad because Japanese government/people saved thousands of Jewish people even though they were ally with German. Though I watched a documentary before about Hiroshima that nuclear scientists were against the bomb getting dropped on the city and fought with Truman. ( I don't remember what film) I am sure there were people wanted to test and show this bomb to the world. Sad...
lehua16 1 year ago
@lehua16 I have research about the bomb, japan surrender in early summer, The Us Goverment know that japan summer, it just that truman wanted to bomb japan because he wanted to scared stalin,
martinezmarcio1 1 year ago
You should be ashemed of yourselves.
malmakil 1 year ago
"1st atomic power was dropped over Hiroshima"...it wasn't a nuclear reactor that was released from the Enola Gay,although Fat Man contains uranium also.
kevlar21059 1 year ago
That japanese man should have had a baseball bat with him so he could crack that demons skull!!!
godessworshipper 1 year ago
@bowIegdwombat History and facts have proven what you've said to be true. It's only because people are ignorant of history, facts, and taking these things into consideration that they make the quick, rash, knee-jerk assessment that the US is the guilty party. War is hell, and war led by imperialistic dictators is even a worse kind of hell.
It doesn't mean we can't and shouldn't study, experience, and sympathize with the horror and pain of the enemy at the end of such war. It's up to the ppl.
brothermoon 1 year ago
The announcer said something about the horror of the bomb (and it was horrible), but what about the horror of them trying to conquer the USA? They were killing millions, cutting off arms, legs, heads, etc. And we're the only country that when we win a war, we rebuild the country of the losers. Stop bashing the greatest country on Earth.
AirstripBum 1 year ago
@bowIegdwombat - Thank you. True comment. That pilot saved millions of lives and is the reason that we live in a free (somewhat) country today.
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It is my hope that religious zealots of Christian crusades, militant Buddhism, Islamic jihad, or any other cultist movement will never again be so ignorant of defeat that it takes a nuclear device to compel surrender.
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manonthemount 1 year ago
I think you are mixing up Buddhism and Shintoism, The belief that the emperor is a god has nothing to do with Buddhism.
lolland30 1 year ago
@lolland30 Read "Zen at War" by Brian Victoria, any of Gudo Nishijima Roshi's works on the period, or a history book. I'm not confused and my assertion is historically factual. Buddhist principles, unlike the popular, violent, and hateful doctrines of Mesopotamian sun-god cults, are intrinsically peaceful but were perverted during World War II to invoke militant nationalism. Thanks for chipping in
manonthemount 1 year ago
@manonthemount , Again if you read the original buddhist teachings you will see that the belief that an emperor is a god has nothing to do with buddhism.
The general notion is that zen was neither the vehicle nor the brake on theese actions, and creative use of the "in the moment" or zatori, by nathionalists was used, but again this has more to do with the dominating shintoism in japan.
I think it is simplistic to just blame religion, considoring the attrocities made by non religous people
lolland30 1 year ago
@lolland30 i never said belief the emperor as god has anything to do with buddhism; you superimposed that over my original comment and have twice corrected an invention of your imagination
i'm not just blaming religion. religion in itself is nothing more than fairy tales for adults. the weak minded simpletons who rely on religion for decision making and the secular forces that manipulate the fools are to blame
& the kill or convert, imperialist mandates of many religions should need no mention
manonthemount 1 year ago
@manonthemount , I cant find your original comment, but If I remember it correctly it it seemed as you blamed buddhism for Japans recistance despite the fact that they knew they were loosing, which is what this video is about, the a bomb being dropped partly due to American aggression and The emperor who refused to be rathional.
The emperor based his decitions on Shintoism.
Im am not saying that zen wasnt misused for instance kamikazee et.c, but the main issue was the emperor, shintoism
lolland30 1 year ago
@manonthemount you call it weak minded to believe.
In many western societies, a large majority is in reality atheist, you go against the stream being religous.
As for decision making, being religous do not make you a robot, for instance many of Buddhas teachings is highly regarded by modern thinkers as a source for inspiration to be open minded, and critical in rathional manner.
It is quite sad that this cliche about the "weak minded believers",is so often used as a psychological cheap shot.
lolland30 1 year ago
@manonthemount from wik- " During World War II, the government forced every subject, regardless of his or her adherence or belief, to practice State Shinto and admit that the Emperor was divine. Religions were strongly controlled by the government and those against Imperial cult, notably Oomoto and Soka Gakkai, were persecuted"
ps, I did not say that horrible things have been done in the name of religion, but if you look at the biggest attrocities in the last century, it was done cont...
lolland30 1 year ago
@lolland30 ... in the name of one ideology which was atheistic, and another ideology which cultured a strange mix of atheism and occult myths... communism and nazism.
I totally agree with the notion that religion can and are misused, but these actions often contradicts the original intent, and the driving force behind the violence will find an alternative way to justify theyre actions, if no religion is present.
lolland30 1 year ago
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manonthemount 1 year ago
how disgusting, wtf kind of propaganda is this? im ashamed of my country for what they did then, and what they are doing right now
littlegiantkennel 1 year ago 4
America you never cease to amazed me. How incredulous! drop an A-bomb and then think you can make good buy giving away a free Cosmetic Surgery Holiday. (((Vomit)))
aaronbloomers 1 year ago 3
nice how the lady has a permanent "Fuck you" in her right hand
ircimager 1 year ago
I feel weird "liking" this, but this is reality. Hopefully we will one day learn from our atrocities and end an era of violent governing.
Ha!
srussian 1 year ago
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but, you can't really see what the Japanese did in the shroud of secret documents.
punture2 1 year ago
but, you can't really see what the Japanese did in the shroud of secret documents.
punture2 1 year ago
I don't feel any remorse that the Americans killed 150,000 CIVILLIANS + SOLDIERS.
Japanese did worse during WWII. Flea bomb, Maggot bombs on the Chinese killed way more than 150,000 CIVILLIANS. Also, Rape of Nan King, forced annex of Korea, exploitation of South East Asia. They have done far more evil than what the Americans did with two atomic bomb. The only reason why the Americans are being told they are evil is because you can easily see two atomic bomb explosions.
punture2 1 year ago
@punture2 ya that's what people lose sight of. In fact, we aren't really taught that part of history. I think the moral of the story is that war is horrible no matter what weapons you use. But the United States was responding to something in this case. What is sad is that many of the Japanese people were against what the Japanese military-controlled government was doing, but they got punished for it.
publicjewelrybox 1 year ago
@punture2 What disturbs me about this video, though, is the way it seems to be all for show. "Look how much remorse we feel. We're giving 25 (out of how many thousand) women plastic surgery for their horrible disfigurement that we caused!" And that Japanese man does not look pleased at first to be shaking hands with the bomber. I mean really, no matter what his side did, why make him show forgiveness to that man? But you know, that bomber's emotion was genuine, and I think he saw that, too.
publicjewelrybox 1 year ago
@punture2 in a way is true, but you cannot blame on the Japanese, it was the Japanese authorities and indoctrination, BIG difference. WW2 is not the German people's fault, it was the Nazi propaganda, as always involving innocent people to do evil. Very moving film, is incredible how the scenes with the Americans try to remedy their tragedy but they don't show the least regret at all. lets hope this tragedy doesn't occur never again against anyone.
verdebuster 1 year ago
@verdebuster: "in a way is true, but you cannot blame on the Japanese, it was the Japanese authorities and indoctrination, BIG difference. WW2 is not the German people's fault, it was the Nazi propaganda, as always involving innocent people to do evil."
Very true. War can never be truly blamed on ALL the people of any nation.
JohnnyDart76 1 year ago
Dropping the bombs actually saved lives in the long run.
saa001 1 year ago
@saa001 I'm not sure you know this but the Japanese had surrendered before the bomb was dropped. They wanted a conditional surrender and the U.S.A wanted unconditional.
wajaahathusain 1 year ago
@wajaahathusain That's not quite accurate. The Emperor put that the conditional surrender forth, but his generals all disagreed. In addition, the terms of the conditional surrender weren't all that great. At the end of the day, they needed to unconditionally surrender, and they chose not to.
particle409 1 year ago
genocide
zuoken 1 year ago 6
Imagine how the Japanese man must have felt, that pilot killed 140,000 of his countrymen and they were forced to shake hands on television. Those slightly familiar with Japanese customs should understand how awkward this must have been.
For Americans, 140,000 people is like 9/11 happening every single day for one and a half month.
Baldurpet 1 year ago 51
@Baldurpet How could you not forgive him. All you had to do was to look at his face and see the deep sense of remorse in his face to see that he too in a sick way was also a victim of all this. Although he was just carring his duty, he had to live with the concience for the rest of his life with the fact that he had taken the lives of 140 000 people, men, women and children. That is a burden that I wish I never have to carry.
madrid23 1 year ago
@madrid23 Alcohol will enhance that. It's documented Lewis was under the influece, at the time.
PappaWheelie 1 year ago
@PappaWheelie
You'd want to be under the influence too, if you were living with the knowledge that you helped destroy the lives of that many people.
LockeXIII 1 year ago
@Baldurpet Yeah how many Pearl Harbors does it equal? Seems to me they fucking started shit and we ended it.
The way I see it...if you poke the hornets nest and get stung you have no right to complain. That goes for 9/11 as well. The US kept and keeps fucking around in the middle east pissing people off we got what we got because of that.
zippy476 1 year ago
@zippy476 By the same evaluation, 2456 Pearl Harbors.
Baldurpet 1 year ago
@Baldurpet dude you did math. Does it feel good? educate yourself a bit more on Japanese customs and the plans in place to defend against a mainland invasion by American forces. A great deal more would have perished on both sides, the Atomic Bombs were used as a deterrent for such extreme measures.
IrishMug 10 months ago
@Baldurpet
If you read the book Hiroshima, its about Mr. Tanimota (the man in this video) and other survivors, it tells about this encounter from his perspective. Its a great book.
cartervail 9 months ago
@Baldurpet
They shook the hands of a Hero, a person who helped prevent the massacre that would have ensued if the land Invasion went ahead. The US still have a surplus of purple hearts manufactured in anticipation of the casualties expected from the land invasion. Japan would have been completely wiped out if the invasion went ahead. Would you kill 1 person to save 100? I sure would.
marmaladekamikaze 6 months ago
@Baldurpet
They shook the hands of a Hero, a person who helped prevent the massacre that would have ensued if the land Invasion went ahead. The US still have a surplus of purple hearts manufactured in anticipation of the casualties expected from the land invasion. Japan would have been completely wiped out if the invasion went ahead. Would you kill 1 person to save 100? I sure would.
marmaladekamikaze 6 months ago
Revolting.
therealxevious 1 year ago 6
WHAT. THE. FUCK.
This is the gratest perversion in the history of television.
quirks1 1 year ago 32
@hhstroll you can find more information at wikipedia under "Operation Plowshare." I guess after putting in all the effort, the government wanted to get more out of the Manhatten Project.
statswithcats 1 year ago
we've got a surprise guest backstage we would like you to meet! this is the man who dropped a bomb on your people!
[chair fight]
JERRY! JERRY! JERRY!
fornello123 1 year ago 2
WTF
ryanonfire 1 year ago
That guy must have used God like restraint not to strangled him...
SlayersOfTrolls 1 year ago 6
one more comment....
at the end hes like "never again used....in war" whats with the pause between 'used' and 'in'? where else are they gonna use it?
SSselfsponsored 1 year ago 3
@SSselfsponsored "If only the atom were never again used... In war." The narrator implied that the women were all for using the power of the atom for nuclear power plants and such... just not bombs.
eugenedouglas 1 year ago
@SSselfsponsored oh thanks
SSselfsponsored 1 year ago
@SSselfsponsored eat a dick fag
hubbard 1 year ago
@SSselfsponsored in blowing up brown people in the middle east, as is the USA's pastime. it doesn't actually qualify as war, since one side can't fight back
JLOPDNG 1 year ago
@SSselfsponsored
Used to nuke the whales, dumby.
SandraBullcocked 1 year ago
2:30 = awkward
SSselfsponsored 1 year ago 3
1:42 the japanese guys thinking "goddammit"
SSselfsponsored 1 year ago
That poor air force captain. I bet he never slept soundly again.
RachelHC 1 year ago 6
@RachelHC: Probably not.
JohnnyDart76 1 year ago