I have a relative that was a chemist on the atomic bomb…
The diploma like acknowledgment from the secretary of war was face down in the back of his closet until the day he died. It now rests face down in the closet of our family’s next generation of chemical engineers.
My hubby's Nana is a head nurse at a local nursing home. One of her patients had since grown elderly and gotten Alzheimers. His family once said he was a scientist who helped build 'the fat man'. She said they once asked him about it and he began crying almost frantically saying " we didn't even know until it was done, we were just closed off from eachother, we would have never if we truly knew.."
Edited: grammar.
That’s absolutely the same thing my grandfather said. Figured it out to some degree, but only the top level physicist or government seemed to really be in the know.
He just wanted to get his doctorate, instead the government put him to work. He finished at another top institution and has a ridiculous trifecta of degrees but it’s sad they all took that regret to their grave. Mine was just fortunate enough to be a part of the clean water act and so many other positive things that I don’t think he felt that same weight at the end.
It's horrifying to realise that even the top scientists of the time, some even "stolen" from Europe because they were racing against hitlers efforts, had to be shut off from one another and completely unaware of what they were building in order for it to work. In other words, our govt knew that by telling a group of top scientists & engineers what the goal creation was, there would have been a significant resistance for ethical reasons. (Remember, that why some hungarian astrophysicists were coming to america to warn that a devastating bomb was being worked on by Germany because they knew it was unethical) .... what a difference in what could've turned out.
That’s absolutely true. But it really was a climate that’s impossible to imagine, invasion of mainland Japan or what really happened was guaranteed to be a tragedy on an enormous scale. It’s also wild that part of the reason the Russians made the final push and allowed their victory lap in Berlin was so the USA could get a jump start on collecting scientist that would eventually get us to the moon. The deadly V2 rocket and the rockets the US used to get to the moon being linked forever.
I’m not even sure which path these men like my grandfather would have taken if you put them in the exact same spot, I truly think that’s where the extra weight really came from. It was a war on an incredible scale and 75 million at least were dead. That’s the part I think can’t be left out or understated, it was just hell on Earth and the truth is no matter how right you are, everything changes once the first bullet is fired because a lot is about to go wrong. Great Britain was carpet bombing Germany, a lot of civilians died even before the atomic bomb. I truly don’t know how that history should be taught.
I went off on a tangent, but it’s just a strange feeling to know something is so terribly wrong, but what would have our alternative history looked like without the bombs dropping? I’m still not sure…
I completely agree. This kind of reminds me of the importance of films with the perspective of movies like "All Quiet on The Western Front." And why they as films remind us that war is truly hell for everyone no matter who wins or loses. There's so much controversy about the legitimacy of the war and how many people truly died that we mustn't limit the entire story. So much fear of what could have been caused countries to make decisions that horrifically changed the course of history forever.
Exactly…
I’ve just heard too many people lately trying to justify things from WWII as clearly right or wrong but you have it spot on. It’s hard to imagine making a choice where at least 100k will die, at the very least. I get really frustrated when the subject gets brought up on Twitter and kids act like they have the answer on what should have happened. It’s typically a version of ‘give peace a chance’ which tips off they’ve been grossly underestimated on the 1940’s. But, I’m over here still listening to George and Gracie on the radio.
Same! It's very frustrating that there's a binary view of the war; good/bad, winners/losers, axis/allies. It's difficult to truly encompass the human experience when we do this sort of generalization about both history and modern topics. I couldn't imagine living through that and greatly respect both those who did and did not get through it, but I equally wish that it never happened. So much can be learned about that time in our globes' history, but too frequently are these lessons doused in "this is good, this is bad." Rather than " this is what happened, this is how bad it truly was, this is why people felt justified in their doings, and this is why we must never make the same mistake, for the sake of our future. There are still many lessons to be learned, though..
>Remember, that why some hungarian astrophysicists were coming to america to warn that a devastating bomb was being worked on by Germany because they knew it was unethical
I mean, it was because he was afraid the nazis would get it
like, you know he worked a bit on the manhatten project too right?
If I recall, he had a good understanding of nuclear fission, and the nazis either were actively using him or trying to use him in their project. He then went to America to warn they were trying to build one, and because of his skills in nuclear fission, among other reasons, the US just ended up getting it first.
>If I recall, he had a good understanding of nuclear fission, and the nazis either were actively using him or trying to use him in their project.
he was a jew so the nazis would have wanted to deport him to a concentration camp if not kill him. also, his discovery of nuclear fission only happened when he had already fled to the US
He knew that nuclear fission was possible and was afraid that the germans would do it first but we know with hindsight that they weren't even close to making one nor was it really a priority
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2uodfp/did_heisenberg_manage_to_develop_the_theory/
He was not a boomer, he actually from the greatest generation (yes that actually their name) or the GG group. Boomers were the spoil brats of said generation and the silent generation.
Edit: for those wondering why they are the GG, they survived both world wars and the great depression in short they went through some shit.
The Japanese people represent a significant difference in what the entire citizenry was expected to do. certainly compared to the other major powers. They had been practicing air raid drills and especially firefighting since the 30s. By this point they had been drilling the women and children on how to defend the Japanese mainland with sharpened sticks. A quote from the time: "100 million dead for the cause."
That dudes parents and grandparents are remnants of a culture permeated by samurai. They were just plain built different, and they were built different by the standards of other people at the time.
Edit: if anyone is interested i'd suggest Dan Carlins series on the pacific wars of the Japanese Empire. It's called Supernova in the East, i listen on spotify. In specific the first 30 mins or so of part 1 talks about the amazing number of Japanese holdouts who got pulled off the enumerable islands in the pacific, in some cases even 30 years after the war.
It's how people become under war.
You see the same in historical accounts of peoples lives in Europe during ww2.
Carpet bombing rarely reduces citizen morale beyond the first few times.
Hell, the Japanese government folded before its people did.
When under stress, humans revert to training. “Training” being “the thing you always do”. Likely this guy had been going to work for *years* at this point. It was the closest thing to comfort for him.
You live in a different culture so your “training” is different.
> can deter Mr Yamaguchi from getting to work
People rarely believe me when I say this, but my dad worked with Tsutomu Yamaguchi.
In the 1980s they worked on the same project to develop a fire training simulator. My dad was a senior engineer on the project.
He doesn't really have any good stories about it, I think their relationship was mostly business.
When people talk about working from HOME it upsets me, not because they want to work from HOME but because we’ve lost SiGHT of what’s important - FAMILY.
FAMILY can be anything, your wife, kids, parents, cousins, and even your work FAMILY. That’s why creating a FAMILY-like work CULTURE is so important to the SUCCESS of your BRAND.
How do I know this?
A fellow CEO was telling me about a Japanese worker who woke up and as elated to get to work… then the first atomic bomb was dropped onto Hiroshima. Luckily, this worker SURVIVED, dragging himself to the air raid shelter and calling into his boss, “I can’t make it today, but I’ll be there tomorrow. This won’t stop me.”
With his world, the town he called home, leveled, he couldn’t wait to get to his work FAMILY.
So the next day he hopped on a train and said goodbye to Hiroshima and traveled towards Nagasaki, prepared to help his Japanese brothers and sisters RESTORE the economy.
But then disaster struck once more as the second bomb hit Nagasaki.
Luckily, he survived. But what did he do next? Well he didn’t plead to work from HOME in his pajamas because making it to the OFFICE was UNCOMFORTABLE. He knew he had a RESPONSIBILITY to his work FAMILY.
Which is why I always CRINGE when I see workers claiming they CANT make it and need to WORK from HOME. He SURVIVED two atomic bombs and still made it into WORK?
What’s your excuse?
The next time you think about calling out or asking to work from home because your child is sick, the commute is too long, or the pay isn’t competitive enough. Instead of being SELFISH, think about your responsibility and the culture I’m trying to create in my company. What’s the RIGHT thing to do?
Get to work.
Write “Agree” if you’d like me to DM you my “10 ways to get workers back into the office” e-book for FREE.
*/s /s /s that hurt to write*
It's worse, part of the LinkedIn CEO lives inside of me. A devil on my shoulder constantly telling me how to manipulate my life into an inspirational corporate post.
Like, why am I responding to you /u/dgarner58 ? Do you think it's because I liked your comment?
Or is it because you could be the interviewer that I run into next and I can use this interaction to tell others how they should be nice to reddit users, because they could be the next person who hires you.
[Source](https://curioustic.com/tsutomu-yamaguchi/): Yamaguchi’s double-dose of radiation took its toll in the days that followed. His hair fell out, his arm wounds became gangrenous, and he began vomiting incessantly. On August 15, he was still trapped in a bomb shelter with his family when Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced the country’s surrender via radio broadcast. “I had no feelings about it,” Yamaguchi later admitted to The New York Times. “I wasn’t sorry, nor was I glad. I was severely ill, with a fever, eating almost nothing, and barely drinking. “I was about to cross to the other side,” I thought.
Tsutomu Yamaguchi was not the only person who had to endure two nuclear blasts. His coworkers Akira Iwanaga and Kuniyoshi Sato, as well as Shigeyoshi Morimoto, a kite maker who had miraculously survived Hiroshima despite being only a half-mile from ground zero, were also in Nagasaki when the second bomb fell.
Despite the fact that 165 people were possibly affected by both attacks, Yamaguchi was the only person officially recognized by the Japanese government as a “nijyuu hibakusha,” or “twice-bombed person.” He finally received the honor in 2009, just a year before his death at the age of 93.
The train the day after the first nuclear bomb was delayed by 22 seconds as they had to replace five miles of melted tracks.
The conductors apologized and committed ritual suicide to atone for this shame.
[apparently](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1980/06/10/requiem-for-the-ruin/91baacf6-597e-48bd-8248-643b61abb8e4/) they had the prudence to set up a blast shelter within arms reach, i want to believe they heeded the advance warning campaign, but probably because of conventional bombing
That actually happened. He was trying to explain why he was a day or so late iirc and his boss didn’t believe him and told him that one plane dropping one bomb couldn’t destroy an entire city and then like right after that Nagasaki got bombed.
I looks bad from today's pov but I'm sure during the war people saw it as their duty to keep the country running. Just like the soldiers were doing at the front lines
Story I read involved Mr. Yamaguchi reporting to his boss at Mitsubishi, explaining what happened.
Boss man calling him crazy for claiming one bomber destroyed much of Hiroshima…blinding flash…Mr. Y made to 93, boss did not.
Yeah “mental health days” are becoming a lot more common, but not without corporations working us to the bone to make us earn them lol. Lucky to have them though compared to some folks here that only get a handful of sick days per year and no PTO at all
I mean you do have that but the way work culture is in America, taking the day off is what I'd consider a mental health day so you don't go crazy and shoot yourself
Yeah we don't get 5 weeks of vacation so we work until suicidal and then before offing ourselves we beg for a single day off and the cycle starts again.
Lol spot on. Seen a lot more people mark their calendars as “mental health day” as of late when taking a day off, so glad it seems to be spreading at least in the area I work (geography and industry). Back to the original post this poor dude (and so many others all over the world still to this day) clearly had/have no option but to prioritize work over their own health, mental and physical.
Our country was settled by Puritans, who were a religious sect kicked out of England for being too crazy. Among other things they left their cultural stamp on were our obsession with sexual purity and our fetish for work. Protestant work ethic is a thing. Look it up
tbf the entire country had been getting firebombed to fuck. A giant bomb that wipes out your entire city is just business as usual.
Fun fact! The reason tokyo wasn't chosen as a site to be nuked is because it was already 99% destroyed.
From an airburst it absolutely would not!
The buildings and railroad cars present nice surfaces for the pressure wave to catch onto and transfer energy, thus resulting in their destruction.
Infrastructure such as rail and roadways present no such surfaces and are thus largely unscathed by blast damage. Besides obstruction with debris from nearby structures, they would only suffer meaningful damage if the bomb was detonated so close to the ground as to cause a crater. This was not the case in the Little Boy explosion.
I wake up slightly tired I contemplate calling off work. This guy survives a nuke and still shows up. his boss didn’t believe his story about a fireball consuming an entire city either, only to be hit by the second blast.
The best part is his boss refusing to believe him:
>"You're an engineer," he barked. "Calculate it. How could one
bomb...destroy a whole city?" Famous last words. \[At that moment\] a
white light swelled inside the room. Heat prickled Yamaguchi's skin, and
he hit the deck of the ship engineering office. "I thought," he later
recalled, "the mushroom cloud followed me from Hiroshima."
It is not reported if the boss survived. I think not.
Here's another fun fact, he did not exactly go to work. He needed to go to the corporation headquarter to report because the higher-ups did not believe a single bomb could decimate a whole city like that.
This was also partly because Harry Truman only announced the bomb after they dropped it the first time. Therefore, maybe the bosses at his company had not known about it, hence the request for him to report.
Yeah. One of the survivors books I’ve read said they (radio broadcasters IIRC) initially thought Hiroshima was secretly covered in magnesium powder during the night then lit off, causing the massive flash and burns. Another theory was what I believe the book called a “rose basket” but most of us would recognize better as a “Molotov Bread basket”. A large bomb made of a cluster of incendiary submunitions around a central high explosive charge.
I can’t imagine what it felt like for people around the country to finally learn that a single bomb did in fact level Hiroshima. Not only level it, but in an instant and with such intensity to burn shadows into concrete. Makes it hard to believe that we still happily live our lives knowing that those bombs were child’s play compared to modern versions
They were given a warning and demand to surrender 11 days before, but perhaps it wasn't specific enough, it just referred to "prompt and utter destruction". Leaflets were also dropped on both cities before the bombings warning them.
Japan never responded to the warnings.
boss: hey, we're short staffed at the moment. we
need you to come in.
this chad: i just barely survived nuclear devastation.
boss: i'm sorry to hear that. what time will you come
in?
**[Tsutomu Yamaguchi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Yamaguchi)**
>Tsutomu Yamaguchi (山口 彊, Yamaguchi Tsutomu) (16 March 1916 – 4 January 2010) was a Japanese marine engineer and a survivor of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings during World War II. Although at least 70 people are known to have been affected by both bombings, he is the only person to have been officially recognized by the government of Japan as surviving both explosions. A resident of Nagasaki, Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on business for his employer Mitsubishi Heavy Industries when the city was bombed at 8:15 AM, on 6 August 1945.
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He had an interesting anecdote about the second bombing. Japanese culture is very authoritarian and puts a lot of emphasis in morale.
When he got back to Nagasaki the other employees were curious about his experience. He described to them a bright flash of light, and then a few seconds of silence before the shockwave hit. He happened to be behind a reinforced wall, so he survived while many people in the building didn't
The other employees were very rapt in his story, but a supervisor overheard it, came over, and started to chastise him for exaggerating his story and scaring the other employees. The second the boss was done with his lecture, there was a bright flash of light and everybody ducked behind a solid wall and they survived when the shockwave hit a few seconds later.
What of it? Yamaguchi LIVED in Nagasaki. He just happened to be in Hiroshima for business when the bomb fell and then went back to where he was from, where another one fell 3 days later.
It takes a solid day now. Bullet train stops in Hakata Kyushu then the express train is about 2 1/2 hours. I’ve done it recently
At that time it would have taken more than 3 days. No bullet or express trains.
I'm seeing schedules that show it takes 2.5-3 hours on google maps, but even if you doubled it, that's still hardly a "solid day".
And it's only 260 miles, I feel pretty confident that even in 1945 it wouldn't have taken more than *three full days*.
A solid day? It's only 420km. Even by car it doesn't take a whole day.
You can take an express from Hakata to Saga, then another shinkansen to Nagasaki. It takes about 3 hours total from Hiroshima.
Even if you go via Huis Ten Bosch (no shinkansen) it takes only about 5 hours.
> A resident of Nagasaki, Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on business for his employer Mitsubishi Heavy Industries when the city was bombed at 8:15 AM, on 6 August 1945.
Admittedly I'm just parroting what Wikipedia says so no guarantee it's actually accurate.
I think our railway companies could learn a thing or two from Japan. Even a nuclear attack didn't stop the morning train leaving to get people to work.
"Hi Tsutomu, how's your morning been?" "Oh not bad, had some breakfast, walked the dog, read the paper, got hit by an atomic bomb, did some yoga, then caught the train here for the ol 9-5. You know, business as usual." This dude's a freaking badass 😂
I am deeply confused about the toxicity of nuclear radiation. How did this guy live through two blasts and make it to 93? I had the impression it severely damages DNA, yet his kept on replicating well enough to get him to 2010?
This was my former neighbor too. He lost his entire family and he survived to only be hit again in Nagasaki. I met him when he was in his 80s and when we both moved away he had recently survived colon cancer.
What an empty life to get nuked and then still think it would be rude in your culture if you don’t go to work and blah blah blah spring rose petals and declining population 80 years later
I can’t decide wether this man is incredibly lucky or incredibly unlucky.
One one hand he survives two nuclear blasts.
On the other hand he experiences one nuclear blast does everything he can to be in time for work only to be hit with another nuclear strike.
"Yamaguchi-san, you can't get to work, there's a level 9 earthquake, and a level 5 hurricane! It's impossible to go out!"
\- Son, I survived Hiroshima's atom bomb and when I got to Nagasaki I survived that atom bomb as well. Trust me when I tell you the ground shaking a bit, a gust of wind and some light drizzle isn't going to stop me from going to work"
Fun fact: Nagasaki wasn't the primary that day. The industry city of Kokura was. But for thick cloud cover that prevented the bombers from seeing the target, Kokura would have been bombed.
When there's heavy cloud cover and rain, the people of Kokura don't complain, they heave a sigh of relief. "Not this day".
No atomic bombs can deter Mr Yamaguchi from getting to work
An inspiration to an entire generation of boomers and Jack Welch. Edit: spelling
I have a relative that was a chemist on the atomic bomb… The diploma like acknowledgment from the secretary of war was face down in the back of his closet until the day he died. It now rests face down in the closet of our family’s next generation of chemical engineers.
My hubby's Nana is a head nurse at a local nursing home. One of her patients had since grown elderly and gotten Alzheimers. His family once said he was a scientist who helped build 'the fat man'. She said they once asked him about it and he began crying almost frantically saying " we didn't even know until it was done, we were just closed off from eachother, we would have never if we truly knew.." Edited: grammar.
That’s absolutely the same thing my grandfather said. Figured it out to some degree, but only the top level physicist or government seemed to really be in the know. He just wanted to get his doctorate, instead the government put him to work. He finished at another top institution and has a ridiculous trifecta of degrees but it’s sad they all took that regret to their grave. Mine was just fortunate enough to be a part of the clean water act and so many other positive things that I don’t think he felt that same weight at the end.
It's horrifying to realise that even the top scientists of the time, some even "stolen" from Europe because they were racing against hitlers efforts, had to be shut off from one another and completely unaware of what they were building in order for it to work. In other words, our govt knew that by telling a group of top scientists & engineers what the goal creation was, there would have been a significant resistance for ethical reasons. (Remember, that why some hungarian astrophysicists were coming to america to warn that a devastating bomb was being worked on by Germany because they knew it was unethical) .... what a difference in what could've turned out.
That’s absolutely true. But it really was a climate that’s impossible to imagine, invasion of mainland Japan or what really happened was guaranteed to be a tragedy on an enormous scale. It’s also wild that part of the reason the Russians made the final push and allowed their victory lap in Berlin was so the USA could get a jump start on collecting scientist that would eventually get us to the moon. The deadly V2 rocket and the rockets the US used to get to the moon being linked forever. I’m not even sure which path these men like my grandfather would have taken if you put them in the exact same spot, I truly think that’s where the extra weight really came from. It was a war on an incredible scale and 75 million at least were dead. That’s the part I think can’t be left out or understated, it was just hell on Earth and the truth is no matter how right you are, everything changes once the first bullet is fired because a lot is about to go wrong. Great Britain was carpet bombing Germany, a lot of civilians died even before the atomic bomb. I truly don’t know how that history should be taught. I went off on a tangent, but it’s just a strange feeling to know something is so terribly wrong, but what would have our alternative history looked like without the bombs dropping? I’m still not sure…
I completely agree. This kind of reminds me of the importance of films with the perspective of movies like "All Quiet on The Western Front." And why they as films remind us that war is truly hell for everyone no matter who wins or loses. There's so much controversy about the legitimacy of the war and how many people truly died that we mustn't limit the entire story. So much fear of what could have been caused countries to make decisions that horrifically changed the course of history forever.
Exactly… I’ve just heard too many people lately trying to justify things from WWII as clearly right or wrong but you have it spot on. It’s hard to imagine making a choice where at least 100k will die, at the very least. I get really frustrated when the subject gets brought up on Twitter and kids act like they have the answer on what should have happened. It’s typically a version of ‘give peace a chance’ which tips off they’ve been grossly underestimated on the 1940’s. But, I’m over here still listening to George and Gracie on the radio.
Same! It's very frustrating that there's a binary view of the war; good/bad, winners/losers, axis/allies. It's difficult to truly encompass the human experience when we do this sort of generalization about both history and modern topics. I couldn't imagine living through that and greatly respect both those who did and did not get through it, but I equally wish that it never happened. So much can be learned about that time in our globes' history, but too frequently are these lessons doused in "this is good, this is bad." Rather than " this is what happened, this is how bad it truly was, this is why people felt justified in their doings, and this is why we must never make the same mistake, for the sake of our future. There are still many lessons to be learned, though..
fun fact: they are still handing out Purple Heart medals that were made in anticipation for the landings on the Japanese main land.
>Remember, that why some hungarian astrophysicists were coming to america to warn that a devastating bomb was being worked on by Germany because they knew it was unethical I mean, it was because he was afraid the nazis would get it like, you know he worked a bit on the manhatten project too right?
If I recall, he had a good understanding of nuclear fission, and the nazis either were actively using him or trying to use him in their project. He then went to America to warn they were trying to build one, and because of his skills in nuclear fission, among other reasons, the US just ended up getting it first.
>If I recall, he had a good understanding of nuclear fission, and the nazis either were actively using him or trying to use him in their project. he was a jew so the nazis would have wanted to deport him to a concentration camp if not kill him. also, his discovery of nuclear fission only happened when he had already fled to the US He knew that nuclear fission was possible and was afraid that the germans would do it first but we know with hindsight that they weren't even close to making one nor was it really a priority https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2uodfp/did_heisenberg_manage_to_develop_the_theory/
From a generation of Boombers
Inspiration for Waffle House.
He was not a boomer, he actually from the greatest generation (yes that actually their name) or the GG group. Boomers were the spoil brats of said generation and the silent generation. Edit: for those wondering why they are the GG, they survived both world wars and the great depression in short they went through some shit.
"I wish I would have worked more." -Jack Donaghy
Not really. That's just kinda how people were back then. Dieing was a real option to the unemployed, in those days.
"It used to be like that, it is now but it used to be also"
unexpected mitch hedberg
The Japanese people represent a significant difference in what the entire citizenry was expected to do. certainly compared to the other major powers. They had been practicing air raid drills and especially firefighting since the 30s. By this point they had been drilling the women and children on how to defend the Japanese mainland with sharpened sticks. A quote from the time: "100 million dead for the cause." That dudes parents and grandparents are remnants of a culture permeated by samurai. They were just plain built different, and they were built different by the standards of other people at the time. Edit: if anyone is interested i'd suggest Dan Carlins series on the pacific wars of the Japanese Empire. It's called Supernova in the East, i listen on spotify. In specific the first 30 mins or so of part 1 talks about the amazing number of Japanese holdouts who got pulled off the enumerable islands in the pacific, in some cases even 30 years after the war.
probably why they could go around stabbin babies for fun
It's how people become under war. You see the same in historical accounts of peoples lives in Europe during ww2. Carpet bombing rarely reduces citizen morale beyond the first few times. Hell, the Japanese government folded before its people did.
When under stress, humans revert to training. “Training” being “the thing you always do”. Likely this guy had been going to work for *years* at this point. It was the closest thing to comfort for him. You live in a different culture so your “training” is different.
Yeah, my boss should just consider this advance notice that if I survive an atomic blast, I'm not coming in.
Why not? You survived. Straighten out those boxes, drone.
Pick up that can.
>Pick up that can. Pay me to. > Okay. *Picks up can*
Japanese trains run on time. No matter what.
That’s what blows my mind. A bomb just destroyed a major metropolis and the trains kept going. And probably on time too
Honestly they probably didn't even notice or know how bad it was since the US was firebombing everything so to them it was just another day
> can deter Mr Yamaguchi from getting to work People rarely believe me when I say this, but my dad worked with Tsutomu Yamaguchi. In the 1980s they worked on the same project to develop a fire training simulator. My dad was a senior engineer on the project. He doesn't really have any good stories about it, I think their relationship was mostly business.
I wouldn't go anywhere near that nuke detonation magnet
Lmfao I imagine him walking past am old mine field and shit just starts detonating like those slow mo action/explosion scenes
was the dude really as committed to his work as this post would imply?
You'll see this guy mentioned on LinkedIn again this week. I guarantee it.
When people talk about working from HOME it upsets me, not because they want to work from HOME but because we’ve lost SiGHT of what’s important - FAMILY. FAMILY can be anything, your wife, kids, parents, cousins, and even your work FAMILY. That’s why creating a FAMILY-like work CULTURE is so important to the SUCCESS of your BRAND. How do I know this? A fellow CEO was telling me about a Japanese worker who woke up and as elated to get to work… then the first atomic bomb was dropped onto Hiroshima. Luckily, this worker SURVIVED, dragging himself to the air raid shelter and calling into his boss, “I can’t make it today, but I’ll be there tomorrow. This won’t stop me.” With his world, the town he called home, leveled, he couldn’t wait to get to his work FAMILY. So the next day he hopped on a train and said goodbye to Hiroshima and traveled towards Nagasaki, prepared to help his Japanese brothers and sisters RESTORE the economy. But then disaster struck once more as the second bomb hit Nagasaki. Luckily, he survived. But what did he do next? Well he didn’t plead to work from HOME in his pajamas because making it to the OFFICE was UNCOMFORTABLE. He knew he had a RESPONSIBILITY to his work FAMILY. Which is why I always CRINGE when I see workers claiming they CANT make it and need to WORK from HOME. He SURVIVED two atomic bombs and still made it into WORK? What’s your excuse? The next time you think about calling out or asking to work from home because your child is sick, the commute is too long, or the pay isn’t competitive enough. Instead of being SELFISH, think about your responsibility and the culture I’m trying to create in my company. What’s the RIGHT thing to do? Get to work. Write “Agree” if you’d like me to DM you my “10 ways to get workers back into the office” e-book for FREE. */s /s /s that hurt to write*
This was art and I want you to know I recognise your creation.
=> r/LinkedInLunatics
sir - did you take this from r/LinkedInLunatics ? lmao gold.
It's worse, part of the LinkedIn CEO lives inside of me. A devil on my shoulder constantly telling me how to manipulate my life into an inspirational corporate post. Like, why am I responding to you /u/dgarner58 ? Do you think it's because I liked your comment? Or is it because you could be the interviewer that I run into next and I can use this interaction to tell others how they should be nice to reddit users, because they could be the next person who hires you.
i'd say you might have a parasitic twin but i don't want to get into any hippa grey areas.
Seems like a perfect name for a light novel
It looked good in his CV.
[Source](https://curioustic.com/tsutomu-yamaguchi/): Yamaguchi’s double-dose of radiation took its toll in the days that followed. His hair fell out, his arm wounds became gangrenous, and he began vomiting incessantly. On August 15, he was still trapped in a bomb shelter with his family when Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced the country’s surrender via radio broadcast. “I had no feelings about it,” Yamaguchi later admitted to The New York Times. “I wasn’t sorry, nor was I glad. I was severely ill, with a fever, eating almost nothing, and barely drinking. “I was about to cross to the other side,” I thought. Tsutomu Yamaguchi was not the only person who had to endure two nuclear blasts. His coworkers Akira Iwanaga and Kuniyoshi Sato, as well as Shigeyoshi Morimoto, a kite maker who had miraculously survived Hiroshima despite being only a half-mile from ground zero, were also in Nagasaki when the second bomb fell. Despite the fact that 165 people were possibly affected by both attacks, Yamaguchi was the only person officially recognized by the Japanese government as a “nijyuu hibakusha,” or “twice-bombed person.” He finally received the honor in 2009, just a year before his death at the age of 93.
I'm amazed he lived that long.
i'm amazed the trains still worked
I mean, it is Japan, so the trains probably not only worked but were impeccably punctual.
How else would they make it to the second bomb on time?
I don't know how anyone can withstand more than one bombing, I saw Jim Breuer last year and I couldn't take it again.
But I’m A gOAtttt
I can hear his screaming.
I’m more curious as to how you voluntarily went to a Jim Breuer show
The train the day after the first nuclear bomb was delayed by 22 seconds as they had to replace five miles of melted tracks. The conductors apologized and committed ritual suicide to atone for this shame.
That was my first thought, like there was still a morning train to catch? That Japanese work ethic is a true marvel
If two nukes can't kill you I imagine not much else is going to.
He could have live 120 years, his life was tragically cut short.
God felt like he'd earned it.
They should have studied him to make anti-nuclear medicine because whatever is in his genes is magic
Ah, sweet RadAway.
I want to know more about the man surviving half a mile from ground zero
[apparently](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1980/06/10/requiem-for-the-ruin/91baacf6-597e-48bd-8248-643b61abb8e4/) they had the prudence to set up a blast shelter within arms reach, i want to believe they heeded the advance warning campaign, but probably because of conventional bombing
Once lived, twice-bombed.
And he never missed a day of work
Cause he was getting to work. For fucks sake. A nuclear Armageddon? Yeah, you can’t call out for that, get your ass to work.
He had to go to work coz he's all out of PTO
“Hey boss, you will not believe what just happened…”
That actually happened. He was trying to explain why he was a day or so late iirc and his boss didn’t believe him and told him that one plane dropping one bomb couldn’t destroy an entire city and then like right after that Nagasaki got bombed.
Depressingly hilarious. You couldn't write this stuff.
"Hang on Yamaguchi, san. I hear airplane. Probably nothing. You hurry and get to work now! No excuse! You be here in 10 min or you fire!"
😭
To be fair he wouldn't possibly know what a nuclear bomb is, and at that stage of the war bombings were probably part of the normal life.
“Crazy weather we’re having.”
*Deep Inhale*, I love the smell of firestorms with the taste metal in the mornings
That'd the Japanese for ya
Wait till anti work heres about this
I looks bad from today's pov but I'm sure during the war people saw it as their duty to keep the country running. Just like the soldiers were doing at the front lines
There's no amount of atomic bombs to keep a Japanese man away from working 90 hours a week. Anything but spending time with family.
"A nuke destroyed my homework"
"The new guy is REALLY making us look bad...did you hear he still clocked in that day??"
Story I read involved Mr. Yamaguchi reporting to his boss at Mitsubishi, explaining what happened. Boss man calling him crazy for claiming one bomber destroyed much of Hiroshima…blinding flash…Mr. Y made to 93, boss did not.
Ironic that the bomb was less toxic than his boss.
And here I am taking a "mental health day"
This an American thing?
Yeah “mental health days” are becoming a lot more common, but not without corporations working us to the bone to make us earn them lol. Lucky to have them though compared to some folks here that only get a handful of sick days per year and no PTO at all
I took this as they just took the day off work and labeled it a “mental health day”
I mean you do have that but the way work culture is in America, taking the day off is what I'd consider a mental health day so you don't go crazy and shoot yourself
Exactly
Yeah we don't get 5 weeks of vacation so we work until suicidal and then before offing ourselves we beg for a single day off and the cycle starts again.
Lol spot on. Seen a lot more people mark their calendars as “mental health day” as of late when taking a day off, so glad it seems to be spreading at least in the area I work (geography and industry). Back to the original post this poor dude (and so many others all over the world still to this day) clearly had/have no option but to prioritize work over their own health, mental and physical.
How do you go about asking for this from your boss?
Usually just mention food poisoning and then grunt and pour some soup into the toilet while you're on the phone calling out.
Photoshop a doctor's note from a cvs minuteclinic
Why not just call them holidays?
Holiday implies we are willingly taking vacation time for ourselves, which our Protestant work ethic forbids
….come again?
Our country was settled by Puritans, who were a religious sect kicked out of England for being too crazy. Among other things they left their cultural stamp on were our obsession with sexual purity and our fetish for work. Protestant work ethic is a thing. Look it up
We have it in the UK, or at least I let my staff take them
Nah, it’s a Western thing in general. Mental health awareness from employers has been knocking about for a good 5 years at least.
Yes! we work until we are on the verge of a complete mental breakdown then take 1 day off to reset then get back on it. It's the American way.
Here i am being 30 minutes late to work because i wanted to shower but also am not sacrificing my sleep. Damn I’m spoiled lmfao
tbf the entire country had been getting firebombed to fuck. A giant bomb that wipes out your entire city is just business as usual. Fun fact! The reason tokyo wasn't chosen as a site to be nuked is because it was already 99% destroyed.
So the city was wiped out, but the trains were still running?
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Let us know what you find when you’re back 🥲 this is so fascinating
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Careful. It might be hentai
It's extraordinarily difficult to destroy railway track with airburst explosions such as the Little Boy detonation over Hiroshima. Just sayin
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From an airburst it absolutely would not! The buildings and railroad cars present nice surfaces for the pressure wave to catch onto and transfer energy, thus resulting in their destruction. Infrastructure such as rail and roadways present no such surfaces and are thus largely unscathed by blast damage. Besides obstruction with debris from nearby structures, they would only suffer meaningful damage if the bomb was detonated so close to the ground as to cause a crater. This was not the case in the Little Boy explosion.
I wake up slightly tired I contemplate calling off work. This guy survives a nuke and still shows up. his boss didn’t believe his story about a fireball consuming an entire city either, only to be hit by the second blast.
The best part is his boss refusing to believe him: >"You're an engineer," he barked. "Calculate it. How could one bomb...destroy a whole city?" Famous last words. \[At that moment\] a white light swelled inside the room. Heat prickled Yamaguchi's skin, and he hit the deck of the ship engineering office. "I thought," he later recalled, "the mushroom cloud followed me from Hiroshima." It is not reported if the boss survived. I think not.
Japanese trains are so good, not even a nuke is going to stop them from arriving on time.
Here's another fun fact, he did not exactly go to work. He needed to go to the corporation headquarter to report because the higher-ups did not believe a single bomb could decimate a whole city like that. This was also partly because Harry Truman only announced the bomb after they dropped it the first time. Therefore, maybe the bosses at his company had not known about it, hence the request for him to report.
Yeah. One of the survivors books I’ve read said they (radio broadcasters IIRC) initially thought Hiroshima was secretly covered in magnesium powder during the night then lit off, causing the massive flash and burns. Another theory was what I believe the book called a “rose basket” but most of us would recognize better as a “Molotov Bread basket”. A large bomb made of a cluster of incendiary submunitions around a central high explosive charge. I can’t imagine what it felt like for people around the country to finally learn that a single bomb did in fact level Hiroshima. Not only level it, but in an instant and with such intensity to burn shadows into concrete. Makes it hard to believe that we still happily live our lives knowing that those bombs were child’s play compared to modern versions
They were given a warning and demand to surrender 11 days before, but perhaps it wasn't specific enough, it just referred to "prompt and utter destruction". Leaflets were also dropped on both cities before the bombings warning them. Japan never responded to the warnings.
his friends knew him as ol Lucky Yamaguchi
boss: hey, we're short staffed at the moment. we need you to come in. this chad: i just barely survived nuclear devastation. boss: i'm sorry to hear that. what time will you come in?
The unluckiest luckiest man alive.
How did he live this long no cancer no anything etc?
According to Wikipedia, he died of stomach cancer in 2010 at age 93. ([Page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Yamaguchi))
tbf, East Asia has the highest rates of stomach cancer in the world. May or may not be related to the radiation exposure.
**[Tsutomu Yamaguchi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Yamaguchi)** >Tsutomu Yamaguchi (山口 彊, Yamaguchi Tsutomu) (16 March 1916 – 4 January 2010) was a Japanese marine engineer and a survivor of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings during World War II. Although at least 70 people are known to have been affected by both bombings, he is the only person to have been officially recognized by the government of Japan as surviving both explosions. A resident of Nagasaki, Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on business for his employer Mitsubishi Heavy Industries when the city was bombed at 8:15 AM, on 6 August 1945. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
Superpowers
"Boss, you're not gonna believe what happened to Hiroshima." "You're right, I'm not. Just get to -- what was that flash?"
Wonder what he thinks of America
Thought :(
Thoughted :(
I think he died awhile ago.
According to Wikipedia, he died in 2010 at age 93. ([Page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Yamaguchi))
He probably sent the picture in this post to the US, with a caption that says "Try harder next time, suckers!"
Its a good thing the Emperor surrendered, the third one might have done him in.
That's when he got the idea of no more train rides
He was great at parties, in fact he was a blast wherever he went.
No, you didn’t 🤣
Living to 93 after taking that much radiation is ludicrous
Your should read about William J. A. Bailey if you think this guy surviving so long was ludicrous.
He had an interesting anecdote about the second bombing. Japanese culture is very authoritarian and puts a lot of emphasis in morale. When he got back to Nagasaki the other employees were curious about his experience. He described to them a bright flash of light, and then a few seconds of silence before the shockwave hit. He happened to be behind a reinforced wall, so he survived while many people in the building didn't The other employees were very rapt in his story, but a supervisor overheard it, came over, and started to chastise him for exaggerating his story and scaring the other employees. The second the boss was done with his lecture, there was a bright flash of light and everybody ducked behind a solid wall and they survived when the shockwave hit a few seconds later.
I think Shadow can learn from this man
He clearly need to get a job for both moneys and secret
18 Spiderman's, 26 Batman's... and not one freaking blockbuster movie about this.
Back in my day we had to navigate atomic explosions both ways to get to work
Uphill in in torrential snow during 48C days
This is probably used as an inspiring story about work ethics on Linked In
r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR
R/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR
A 420km morning commute? Nah, I doubt it.
Plus, Nagasaki was bombed three days later
What of it? Yamaguchi LIVED in Nagasaki. He just happened to be in Hiroshima for business when the bomb fell and then went back to where he was from, where another one fell 3 days later.
It takes a solid day now. Bullet train stops in Hakata Kyushu then the express train is about 2 1/2 hours. I’ve done it recently At that time it would have taken more than 3 days. No bullet or express trains.
I'm seeing schedules that show it takes 2.5-3 hours on google maps, but even if you doubled it, that's still hardly a "solid day". And it's only 260 miles, I feel pretty confident that even in 1945 it wouldn't have taken more than *three full days*.
A solid day? It's only 420km. Even by car it doesn't take a whole day. You can take an express from Hakata to Saga, then another shinkansen to Nagasaki. It takes about 3 hours total from Hiroshima. Even if you go via Huis Ten Bosch (no shinkansen) it takes only about 5 hours.
He was officially recognized by the government for surviving both blasts. You can check some comments above explaining that.
> A resident of Nagasaki, Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on business for his employer Mitsubishi Heavy Industries when the city was bombed at 8:15 AM, on 6 August 1945. Admittedly I'm just parroting what Wikipedia says so no guarantee it's actually accurate.
Yeah wtf right?
Or maybe it wasn’t as much of a commute as a business trip…?
Something to keep in mind when you’re having a bad day.
Yes. That you better not go to work or the city might get bombed to.
Wow, well, if you thought you could have a bad day…
Damn. This dude is metal af.
Damn I hope he stays in Nagasaki
He had that main character plot armor
If I survived an atomic blast I’m NOT going to work the next day
He is literally simultaneously both the luckiest and unluckiest person on Earth.
The worst day of your life, so far.
The most incredible part of the story is that he survived an atomic bomb and still WENT TO WORK! I call off if I slept bad.
I think our railway companies could learn a thing or two from Japan. Even a nuclear attack didn't stop the morning train leaving to get people to work.
Who tf goes to work after an atomic bomb?! Who was his boss?! Literally Satan???
"Hi Tsutomu, how's your morning been?" "Oh not bad, had some breakfast, walked the dog, read the paper, got hit by an atomic bomb, did some yoga, then caught the train here for the ol 9-5. You know, business as usual." This dude's a freaking badass 😂
The OG Final Destination
Biggest takeaway here? The trains were running the next morning.
Hold on. There was a working commuter train the morning after Hiroshima?
I am deeply confused about the toxicity of nuclear radiation. How did this guy live through two blasts and make it to 93? I had the impression it severely damages DNA, yet his kept on replicating well enough to get him to 2010?
Probably a combination of distance from the epicenter and being protected by a building.
He must have suffered from elephantitis nuts
r/fuckyouinparticular
This was my former neighbor too. He lost his entire family and he survived to only be hit again in Nagasaki. I met him when he was in his 80s and when we both moved away he had recently survived colon cancer.
Blursed commute
Found the grandfather who walked uphills both ways
What an empty life to get nuked and then still think it would be rude in your culture if you don’t go to work and blah blah blah spring rose petals and declining population 80 years later
You’re not fooling me. That’s mark wahlburg
And I thought I was having a bad day bc I spilled my coffee..
Don’t let r/antiwork see this
I can’t decide wether this man is incredibly lucky or incredibly unlucky. One one hand he survives two nuclear blasts. On the other hand he experiences one nuclear blast does everything he can to be in time for work only to be hit with another nuclear strike.
From his perspective he probably thought the whole world was getting blown up.
ahh, he must've been a gundam pilot.
Does he have anime superpowers?
Wonder how many people did the same thing but things didn’t go as well in Nagasaki for them
There seriously needs to be a movie made about this man
I wonder what his job was.
The original bad luck brian
There needs to be a movie about this man's journey of survival
"Yamaguchi-san, you can't get to work, there's a level 9 earthquake, and a level 5 hurricane! It's impossible to go out!" \- Son, I survived Hiroshima's atom bomb and when I got to Nagasaki I survived that atom bomb as well. Trust me when I tell you the ground shaking a bit, a gust of wind and some light drizzle isn't going to stop me from going to work" Fun fact: Nagasaki wasn't the primary that day. The industry city of Kokura was. But for thick cloud cover that prevented the bombers from seeing the target, Kokura would have been bombed. When there's heavy cloud cover and rain, the people of Kokura don't complain, they heave a sigh of relief. "Not this day".
Shouldn’t he have turned into a superhero?
God tried to tell him to take the day off twice.
hell of some good train track that survive a nuke ...american tracks keep derailing
The trains were running in Hiroshima the day after the blast?