Hiroshima Atomic Bomb survivors Share their Stories. Never Again.

[MagaSmash]

Unfortunately; there is donald trump.

[YoshidaYui]

1. Kami sama onegai

カミサマは二度としないでください。

[panfluteman]

4. Translation: "Dear God, Please Don't Let Us Do This a Second Time."

[Docreed2003]

2. When I was a younger surgeon at NHCL, about ten years ago

One of my sweetest and favorite patients was a woman who was a Hiroshima survivor. Her father, a local political leader, was at work in the city center when the bombing occurred. She recalled to me running from her school which was in the hills overlooking the city...running and then being knocked from her shoes by the blast. She said the sky and her environment went black as night and then felt like she was standing next to the sun. This beautiful, special woman survived a horrific event but the event certainly chased her for many years. She had already survived leukemia when I first met her and found her to have breast cancer. She then developed colon cancer a couple years later.

Unleashing that hell has been justified six ways to Sunday by many historians. Trust me, I understand and appreciate the reasons for avoiding an invasion of the Japanese mainland. My own grandfather was in the South Pacific training for such and invasion on his birthday, Aug 6th. That being said, I can't shake the notion that this unfathomable weapon, which had been built to defeat the Germans, was used not just to end the war but to send a message about American military strength.

All that so say, thank for for sharing this video.

[panfluteman]

3. When I Was in High School in Japan I Visited Hrioshima, Which Means, "Broad Island" in Japanese.

And when I lived in Japan, very time August rolled around, there was some remembrance of the atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But even more than this, December 7, or Pearl Harbor Day, was the occasion for a lot of public remorse on the part of the Japanese, because the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was the single incident that started the whole train of events that led to the atomic bombs. So, the remorseful sense that, "If only we hadn't attacked Pearl Harbor..." haunted the Japanese, and probably still does today. But by this, I am talking mainly about the older Japanese, who still remember the war, and most especially the tremendous hardship and deprivation they had to endure in its aftermath. A lot of older Japanese, who had to live through these tough times, lament that the younger generation is too hedonistic and lacks the same spiritual backbone because they never had to go through what they went through. "Gaman suru" or "enduring it" is something that is a very important part of Japanese social ethics.

"Heiwa" is commonly translated as "Peace", but literally it means, "Level Harmony"

Harmony is very important to the Japanese, and is often seen as the foundation for their culture and way of life. Japanese people are said to have a "Yamato Damashi", or a Japanese soul, able to endure things that most people can't but when "Yamato" is written in Chinese characters, it is written as "Daiwa" or "Great Harmony". Often times Japanese things are simply referred to as "Harmony this" or "Harmony that". For example, "Washoku" or traditional Japanese food, literally means, "Harmony Food", and "Washi" or traditional Japanese paper, literally means, "Harmony Paper". I hope that these few words of mine have given you some interesting insights into traditional Japanese society, character and spirituality.

[YoshidaYui]

5. honto desu ne

ほんと です ね