Name: Hiroshima Bombing Story | Tour around the Atomic Hypocenter ★ ONLY in JAPAN
Uploaded: 2020-03-21T08:30:46.000Z
Duration: 20 min 44 s
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It's been about 75 years since the bomb was dropped. Its impact felt for generations which is why I'm here.

City can't erase its past but it can build on its long history.

Move to the next chapter which is what I think is happening in Hiroshima today.

This is the last generation that will grow up hearing first-hand accounts of the bomb.

And its aftermath: the red sky, the black rain, and the tragedies to follow.

The third generation is now the one sharing the stories and I thought I'd share one with you too.

Today I'm gonna be meeting a father who is sharing those experiences he learned from his family elders.

And now passing the baton to his ten-year-old son.

So we will never forget that tragic day: August 6th, 1945.

The Enola Gay was a B-29 Superfortress bomber, departed Tinian near Saipan in the Pacific loaded with a nuclear bomb.

The T-shaped Aioi Bridge, easy to see from above.

It was dropped from a height of 31,060ft (9470m)

The Enola Gay turned around and the bomb detonated 43 seconds later.

The cloud seen from the air, rocking the plane 11.5 miles or about 19km away.

Hiroshima, on the ground around the hypocenter, the city was devastated.

Fast forward about 75 years later. The city has come back to life.

Lessons of the past are all around the city.

Third and fourth generation Hiroshima residents after the bomb.

Yuji decided to become a guide to share the city's history with international visitors

As well as make sure his son doesn't forget about the past.

He grew up hearing stories from other family members who were nearby on that day.

Hiroshima's Memorial Peace Park is where you'll see some of the most striking reminders of that day because it's very near to the hypocenter of the bomb.

Yuji took me to the initial target where a streetcar just passed.

Aioi Bridge is easily identifiable from the air.

"Yeah this is, what we call a T-shaped bridge."

"The air-man, I mean... pilot missed the target from here to [the] original's."

"But, at that way, I mean that [range] is kind of a little accurate I think."

Hiroshima is a castle town on a delta in the Seto inland sea.

An important port, military, and industrial center during the war.

The bomb detonated 600 meters from the ground, triggered by an altimeter at that height, which forced the blast down and out.

This increased the radius of the blast, destroying more of the city.

It's estimated that 12 sq km (4.7 sq miles) of the city were destroyed as a result.

You can see just how close the atomic bomb dome was to the hypocenter.

The building here is known as Genbaku Dome in Japanese and it's one of the most striking reminders of that day.

"This is Genbaku Dome. We call it the Atomic Bomb Dome as you know."

"So, we have to keep it forever for the, you know, history."

"So hypocenter is over there. So the top is bending, this way, that way, right?"

"It's warped a little bit because of that."

Only 150 meters (500ft) from the hypocenter, is the ruins of the Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall.

The building was completed in April 1915 with its distinctive dome and solid concrete construction to prevent it from being destroyed in an earthquake.

Video footage of it seven months after the bomb shows it in nearly the same as it lies today.

It was one of the only surviving buildings so close to the hypocenter.

And because if its importance in on the river before

It's now a symbol of the city's past from that day in 1945.

Despite its strong construction, everyone inside perished seconds after the blast.

Yuji explained its significance to the city of Hiroshima but he wasn't alive on that day.

The reason he wants to share Hiroshima's past to visitors comes as a result from stories of family, especially the one who was nearby when the bomb dropped.

And went into the city to help the following day.

This is Mr. Koji Numata, Yuji's great-uncle.

I traveled to Saitama where he lives today.

At age 92 to ask him about his experience.

He shared some of his family pictures with me.

The stories that impacted Yuji when he was a kid.

I had heard from Yuji that Numata-san had some incredible stories to share about that day.

And it would be best to hear it first-hand from him.

These are the stories that impacted Yuji when he was growing up.

One of the most important places Yuji took me on the tour was the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.

A place to remember what happened that day, from the bomb to its effects, and the loved ones lost over the years that followed.

The visual exhibits and layout taking advantage of the technology of the day.

If you have been to the museum before, it's worth another visit now.

It takes you back to that day. A vibrant city before the bomb.

From the clothing of the victims to the personal stories of lost lives and heroism after, it's a museum that will leave a very strong impression.

Hiroshima is now a few generations past the war and how the generations learn about its history from all over the world is very important to the city.

Remembering the past is now as important as finding ways to move on from it.

Where the annual memorial event of August 6th takes place.

-"Stone box. There is a mini notebook. It's the victim's names on it."

"So every year, we used to add new names."

Over 200,090 names are currently in that box.

The flame in the center is the fire preserved from August 6th, 1945 to this day.

There are still a number of survivors known as Hibakusha alive today.

But they were quite young when it happened.

Many lost loved ones and have built up their families since.

It's a place where survivors come to connect the past to the future lives that they have now.

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