The story of A-bomb survivor Toshie Une
As some of you may already know, today was the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Here’s a partially-translated “NEWS ZERO” report about Toshie Une, a 90-year-old woman who still remembers the horrors she experienced on August 6, 1945:
An English language write-up of her experience can be found at the Spirit of Hiroshima homepage and her book can be found at Amazon Japan.
[The subbing of the video was done with great haste, so there may be errors. If you catch any, let me know and I'll attempt to fix them.]
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i’m not from japan, but we Filipino people, always remember the terror happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki…
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Thanks for sharing this amazing story.
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Ditto…thanks for sharing.
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Really moving, thanks for the translation.
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and the lesson?
Never ever invade any other country ever again! The poor poor japanese and their pain…
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Thank you. That was a very touching video. Such a sweet old lady. She reminds me of my grandmother, who would’ve been just a few years older than Une-san this year.
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The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki showed what a terrible weapon even very weak (compared to typical weapons in the US and Russian arsenals) atomic bombs are. Without these examples that made the dire consequences of using atomic bombs clear to everyone the chances of a nuclear war would have been much larger. This does not make the bombings any better but the thought that the victims did not die altogether in vain but saved mankind from murdering itself may at least give a little comfort.
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I agree. If they had not been used in Japan, the chances that they would have been used in the Korean War would have been far higher, and the bombs would have been far more powerful. To say nothing of the Cold War standoff – the imagery of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was an unarguable warning about how nasty the effects of these bombs were.
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