Tsutomu Yamaguchi || The man Who Survived two NUCLEAR attacks || Survivor of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — Transcript

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1. 0:01[Music]
2. 0:05on the morning of august 6 1945 the
3. 0:08united states dropped the atomic bomb on
4. 0:11the japanese city of hiroshima three
5. 0:14days later a second bomb was dropped on
6. 0:16the city of nagasaki the attack brought
7. 0:19world war ii to an end but also caused
8. 0:22hundreds of thousands of deaths it is
9. 0:25estimated that at least
10. 0:27125 000 people were killed many people
11. 0:30managed to survive the attacks but only
12. 0:33one man can say that he survived both
13. 0:35hiroshima and nagasaki tatum yamaguchi
14. 0:38it said there were around 160 people
15. 0:42affected by both bombings but yamaguchi
16. 0:45was the only one that was officially
17. 0:48recognized by the government of japan as
18. 0:51surviving both explosions yamaguchi was
19. 0:5329 years old when he was on a business
20. 0:57trip to hiroshima at that time he worked
21. 0:59at mitsubishi heavy industries on august
22. 1:026 1945 when the atomic bomb was dropped
23. 1:07on hiroshima he was just two miles away
24. 1:09from ground zero i didn't know what had
25. 1:13happened he later told the british
26. 1:15newspaper the times i think i fainted
27. 1:18for a while when i opened my eyes
28. 1:21everything was dark and i couldn't see
29. 1:24much it was like the start of a film at
30. 1:26the cinema before the picture has begun
31. 1:29when the blank frames are just flashing
32. 1:31up without any sound he could see a
33. 1:33mushroom cloud of fire rising the sky
34. 1:36over hiroshima his face and forearms had
35. 1:39been badly burned and both his eardrums
36. 1:42were ruptured he was one of the lucky
37. 1:44survivors and spent the night in a
38. 1:47hiroshima bomb shelter trying to figure
39. 1:49out what to do next detonation ruptured
40. 1:52his eardrums and he was temporarily
41. 1:55blinded by the bright flesh of light he
42. 1:58remembers seeing the mushroom could
43. 2:00before he
44. 2:01passed out in the shelter where he went
45. 2:04to spend the night he found his three
46. 2:06work colleagues who had also survived
47. 2:09the blast the four of them left the
48. 2:11shelter the next morning they reached
49. 2:13the train station and took a train to
50. 2:16their hometown of nagasaki mr yamaguchi
51. 2:19was seriously injured but he decided
52. 2:21that he was well enough to return to
53. 2:24work on august 9. just three days after
54. 2:27the hiroshima explosion yamaguchi
55. 2:30dragged himself out of bed on the
56. 2:32morning of august 9 and reported for
57. 2:35work at mitsubishi's nagasaki office
58. 2:38around 11 am he found himself in a
59. 2:41meeting with a company director who
60. 2:43demanded a full report on hiroshima the
61. 2:46engineer recounted the scattered events
62. 2:49of agustics the blinding light the
63. 2:52deafening boom but his superiors accused
64. 2:55him of being made how could a single
65. 2:58bomb destroy an entire city yamaguchi
66. 3:01was trying to explain himself when the
67. 3:03landscape outside exploded with another
68. 3:06irredecent white flesh yamaguchi dropped
69. 3:09to the ground just seconds before the
70. 3:12shock wave shattered the office windows
71. 3:14and sent broken glass and debris
72. 3:17carrying through the room i thought the
73. 3:19mushroom cloud had followed me from
74. 3:22hiroshima he later told the newspaper
75. 3:25the independent the us wasn't planning
76. 3:28to drop the bomb on nagasaki nagasaki
77. 3:31was the secondary target the original
78. 3:34objective was the city of kakura but
79. 3:36because of the bad weather nagasaki was
80. 3:38chosen instead japan surrendered six
81. 3:41days after the nagasaki attack for the
82. 3:44second time in three days his he'd had
83. 3:47the misfortune of being within two miles
84. 3:50of a nuclear explosion for the second
85. 3:52time he had been fortunate enough to
86. 3:54survive after fleeing from the skeleton
87. 3:57of the building yamaguchi rushed through
88. 4:00a bomb revenge nagasaki to check on his
89. 4:03wife and son he feared the worst when he
90. 4:06saw a section of his house had been
91. 4:09reduced the rubble but he soon found
92. 4:11both heads sustained only superficial
93. 4:14injury injuries his wife
94. 4:16had been out looking for burn ointment
95. 4:19for her husband and when the explosion
96. 4:21came she and the baby had taken refuge
97. 4:24in eternal it was yet another strange
98. 4:27twist of fate if yamaguchi hadn't been
99. 4:30hurt at hiroshima his family might have
100. 4:33been killed at nagasaki mr yamaguchi
101. 4:35slowly recovered
102. 4:37and went on the live a relatively normal
103. 4:40life what is more interesting mr
104. 4:43yamaguchi was 93 years old
105. 4:46when he died in january 2010 because of
106. 4:49his death was stomach cancer
107. 4:57you