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Grandma, I have something to show you.

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What?

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I think this is a scene with Grandpa.

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It's in colour
and I believe it's Grandpa.

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- Really?
- I'm not quite sure.

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Yes, it looks like him!

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- It does, doesn't it?
- Yes.

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He'd lost a lot of weight during the war.

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I'll play it to you again.

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He seems to be demonstrating something.

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What is he trying to show?

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The atomic blast made the door...

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- ...cave in?
- Yes, it imploded.

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Yes, that's his face.

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How do you feel, seeing him like this?

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It's nice to remember him.

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The day the atomic bomb
detonated over Hiroshima,

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my mother's family
was living in this country house.

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70 km away from the city.

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My grandfather was an internist
at the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital.

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After the atomic bomb was dropped,

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he tried to rescue the wounded.

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Amidst death and destruction.

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Never in his life did he speak about
what he experienced during that period.

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Oh dear, this album has got old.

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Oh yes, this photo...

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Doesn't he look handsome?

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And this one?

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- This photo?
- Yes.

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It was taken randomly.
There is no special meaning to it.

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We weren't even engaged yet.

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I was still a student

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and he was working
at the Red Cross Hospital.

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These were his colleagues.

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The war was getting worse every day.

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War planes were flying over Hiroshima.

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Because of this danger,

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everyone who had
accommodation in the countryside

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was ordered to evacuate to it.

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That's why we moved
to your grandfather's parents' house.

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During the week, your grandpa
worked at the hospital in Hiroshima

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and came home at weekends.

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He was happy to see your mother.

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The day the atomic bomb was dropped,

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he took the first train to Hiroshima
as usual.

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When he came home ten days later,

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he didn't say anything.

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Not a single word.

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Except that "there had been a bombing".

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So I had no idea what had happened.

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We didn't have a radio.
Nor a TV, of course.

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We received no information at all.

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All I heard was from a young woman
coming back from Hiroshima.

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She said a "big bomb" had been dropped.

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That was all.
There was no other information.

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This photo I received many years later.

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He seems to be examining an
atomic bomb victim's white blood cells.

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If you want to find out more,

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you should look for nurses

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who worked with your
grandfather back then

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and listen to their stories.

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Who is this?

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Who could this be... She's wounded.

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I don't know...

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She wasn't in my class.

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- That's Sumiko Miyahara!
- Oh, that's me!

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- Is that you, Kayoko?
- Yes.

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That looks like your neck.

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I just told you
how I had to take off the gauze.

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Yeah, that was terrible...

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There weren't many doctors around.

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We heard that your grandfather
had taken the train,

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then walked to the city
to treat patients.

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But we didn't know exactly
where he was working.

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Everyone was in a panic.

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People were lying on the floor,
squashed together like sardines.

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Every morning we carried
the dead outside on stretchers.

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Then we burned them.
We did it.

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It went on for about a month.

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Meanwhile, flies left eggs in wounds.

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The wounds were filled with maggots.

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Have you ever seen fly maggots?

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Living bodies were full of maggots.

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- I don't want to talk about the bomb.
- But that's the topic.

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- Should we be silent?
- Yes, it's enough.

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It's all because of the bomb.

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The bomb destroyed us.
I don't want to talk about it.

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I suppose this tree
is about 200 years old.

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It was already this big
when I was a child.

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I have nearly lived 100 years.

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I'll soon be 90.

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It was already huge then.

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I feel my childhood
is at the far end of an old tunnel.

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It was the time
when the Japanese provoked

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the Manchurian Incident.

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Three soldiers
blew up a barbed wire barrier

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in a suicide attack.

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After that they were hailed
as heroes throughout Japan.

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I was in the 2nd grade back then,

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and I deeply wanted to become someone
who received such praise.

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That's why I wanted
to become a Red Cross nurse.

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It was the female equivalent
of becoming a soldier.

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A whiny face...

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People used to say I had a whiny face.

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My mother was afraid
I wouldn't find a husband

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because I looked like this.

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She said that I should work,

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since with a face like mine
one had to work.

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But when I look at these pictures,

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I think I became prettier and prettier.

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I'm not so bad!

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I love nurses.

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When I grow up,

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I'll apply to the Red Cross

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and I'll serve my country.

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I would sing this song
at elementary school.

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Songs like that
were a great influence on us.

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The roar of the cannon is fading away

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Even the insects have fallen silent

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The blowing wind reeks of blood

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The colour red tints the grass

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What is more deathly, friends or foes?

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Hats and torn sleeves are scattered

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And the pale faces
of the collapsed bodies

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Are the same colour
as the grass

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I wanted to be a Red Cross nurse

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because it was a short cut
to receiving a badge of honour.

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I believed war was a good thing.

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But then

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the atomic bomb was dropped.
And when I came to Hiroshima

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there was nothing left.

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No houses, no trees, nothing at all.

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So many people were killed.

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And those who had survived were dying.

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Is that what you called a "holy war"?

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Is that something to be decorated for?

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That's what I asked myself.

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Ever since I've always said
war is terrible.

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War is terrible.

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I have to talk about it.

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Otherwise no one
will know what really happened.

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Only once did I ask my grandfather

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what he experienced in Hiroshima
after the atomic bombing.

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He answered

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that it was impossible to put into words.

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Those who had not been there
would never understand.

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I remember that he
was laughing and crying at the same time.

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How was he when he first came home
after the bombing?

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How he was?

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He said "I'm home", as always.

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He hadn't changed at all.

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What was the first thing he did?

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The first thing he did?

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He went into the garden

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and ate tomatoes
and other fresh vegetables.

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I thought it was strange.

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But since everything
had been vaporized in Hiroshima,

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there probably wasn't
any fresh food there.

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Everyone lived on canned food.

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I think he just wanted
to eat something fresh.

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It left a big impression on me.

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When you heard Hiroshima was bombed,

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weren't you worried?

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War was all I knew back then.

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First the war against Manchuria,
then against China.

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War went on and on.

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And then the war against the USA started.

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I'd known only war
since my primary school days.

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That's why I was desensitized.

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"Desensitized"
might not be the right word.

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All I thought was:
yet another bombardment.

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Good morning!

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Here I am.

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Thank you for coming.

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Before beginning my speech,

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I'd like to inform you
that there is a film crew here today.

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The director is Aya Domenig,
from Switzerland.

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Like me, her grandfather
was an army doctor in Hiroshima

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at the time of the atomic bombing.

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Now,

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the Japanese
are the only people in the world

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who have been exposed
to high levels of radiation,

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who've been dying
and suffering for a very long time.

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Only doctors who experienced Hiroshima
know what really happened.

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I'm the last surviving doctor
from that era,

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so when I die,
this knowledge will vanish with me.

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Dr. Hida, you were working
at the army hospital back then.

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But where were you
at the moment of the detonation?

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I wasn't there.
Otherwise I'd have been killed.

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And I wouldn't be talking to you now.

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As it happens,
the night before the bombing,

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I made a house call to check up
on a child 6 km outside Hiroshima.

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I stayed there overnight,

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intending to return to Hiroshima
the next morning at 7 am,

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but I overslept until 8 am.

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Shortly after 8 am,
I saw planes flying over.

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While giving an injection to the child,
I was blinded by a flash of light.

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Everyone I examined
in such a condition died.

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Hardly anyone survived.

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Where nuclear weapons detonate,

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medical care is at an end.

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During the first three days,

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people died from burn injuries.

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But on the morning of the fourth day,

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people began to die
from bizarre symptoms.

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I'd never before seen cases like these.

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They started bleeding
from the nose and mouth.

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I'd seen that before.
It's not particularly unusual.

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But what I had never seen

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was people bleeding from the eyes.

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And then,
when I'd examine their mouths,

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there was an awful stench.

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It smelled rotten.

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I couldn't understand

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how a living human body could be rotting.

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And as they approached death,

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large amounts of blood
came out of their noses and mouths.

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They would bleed from the anus,
and women from the vagina.

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In the end they really bled a lot.

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And then they died.

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I'd never seen anyone
die like this before.

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Only Japanese doctors back then
witnessed that.

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No other doctors in the world
have seen such things.

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Well, I can't read these poems.

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He wrote these poems about me.

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Why not? Please read them!

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- You want me to read them?
- Yes.

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Having a beloved young lady
I sit alone in this room

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In a quiet night

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On the way home
Feeling somewhat melancholic

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I count for a while
My steps

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After our date
he felt lonely on his way home.

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00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:39,239
So he counted his footsteps.
That's what this poem means.

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This wasn't a dramatic love scene
like you see today!

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00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:48,680
But he wrote many poems like this one.

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Grandpa loved you very much, didn't he?

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00:22:54,479 --> 00:22:56,160
Yes, I think so.

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Here are some poems about your mom.

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He wrote these poems
in 1946 and 1947, the postwar period.

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We were still living in the countryside
and he commuted to work.

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It tells of how your mother
waves to greet him.

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My small child, alone
Greets me from afar

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Waving hands she calls me
I hasten my steps

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00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:32,920
I can't find any poems
about the atomic bomb.

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00:23:44,360 --> 00:23:47,479
I didn't know that my grandfather
had written such poems.

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00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:52,720
While after the atomic bombing

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00:23:52,879 --> 00:23:58,560
he commuted
between two completely different worlds,

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he only wrote poems about the intact one.

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00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:08,680
And my grandmother
never asked him any questions.

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00:24:13,479 --> 00:24:16,800
Today she rarely thinks about the bomb.

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00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:20,920
She is suffering from cancer

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and all her energy
goes into fighting her pain.

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I wonder where I put it.

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00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:45,520
I thought I'd put it here.

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00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:54,200
I always leave things somewhere!

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00:24:54,800 --> 00:25:00,720
Weird... It's not in here.
I wouldn't have put it in here, would I?

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No.

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- I will take your shoes.
- Thank you!

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Welcome!

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Good morning!

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Good morning!

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May I sit down while I talk?

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Yes!

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Thank you very much.

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I've become too old
to stand for a long time.

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How was the radioactivity removed
after the bombing?

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At the time of the atomic blast
in Hiroshima,

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we didn't know radioactivity existed.

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We called this bomb the "new type bomb".

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Everyone fell ill,

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but no one knew
that the illnesses were caused

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by radioactivity.

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Because we didn't know
that invisible radioactive particles

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were making people sick

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we just said "Hiroshima" was the cause...

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My grandfather didn't talk
about the atomic bomb.

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- He didn't?
- No.

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That's because it was forbidden
to talk about it.

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He must have been scared.

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Following the atomic blast,
the USA occupied Japan for seven years.

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Under US military occupation,

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the effect of atomic radiation
on the human body

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was declared a military secret.

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Atomic bomb victims were not
allowed to talk about their suffering.

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Nor were they allowed to write about it.

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Japanese doctors were allowed
to examine their patients,

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but not allowed
to keep medical records.

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Doctors were not allowed to confer
about cases or research the subject.

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They were not allowed
to write any medical papers.

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It was an order from the occupying army,

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and anyone violating it was arrested.

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Fear made everyone shut up.

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Four years after the bombing,

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in 1949,

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the American research institute ABCC

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started to round up radiation victims

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in order to study
the effects of radiation.

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However, before any medical interview,

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people were asked when, where and how
they had been exposed to the bomb.

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Most said they were
in a particular part of Hiroshima,

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in such-and-such street.

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00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:06,479
But some people said
they weren't in the city that day.

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00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:09,439
They arrived in the afternoon,

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00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:13,879
the next day,
or even days or a week later.

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00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:18,600
Meanwhile, they started to feel sick
and didn't know why.

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The Japanese doctors couldn't help them,

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00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:27,600
so they wanted American doctors
to examine them.

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00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:31,520
All these people
were sent home immediately.

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00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,840
That's why the data gathered by the USA

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is only relevant to victims
directly exposed within 2 km of ground zero.

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All the others
were excluded from that research.

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00:29:46,479 --> 00:29:48,080
So the Americans have

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absolutely no data
regarding internal radiation.

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00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:57,239
And to this day they insist
that internal radiation doesn't exist.

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00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:21,640
Everyone at the hospital had diarrhoea.

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00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:26,160
I also got sick. I was vomiting,

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00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:30,320
I couldn't eat anything
and became very weak.

318
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,280
I had a fever of over 104°F.

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00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,840
Family members then told me

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00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:41,160
that even people who came to Hiroshima
after the atomic blast

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00:30:41,479 --> 00:30:45,680
were dying one by one.

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00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:51,680
I was afraid I was going to die like them

323
00:30:51,959 --> 00:30:55,560
because of Hiroshima.

324
00:30:58,959 --> 00:31:00,560
But my doctor said

325
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:06,080
that anyone could have my illness.

326
00:31:06,479 --> 00:31:11,000
He saw no evidence
that it was caused by the atomic bomb.

327
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:13,879
He told me it was an "ordinary" disease

328
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:17,720
and suggested:
"Have a delicious meal".

329
00:31:17,879 --> 00:31:20,000
That was all.

330
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:24,320
When my feet felt cold,
I tried to warm them up.

331
00:31:24,479 --> 00:31:27,280
I tried cupping, massage,

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00:31:27,479 --> 00:31:31,200
whatever I could think of.

333
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:35,439
But even 40 years later,

334
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,160
I could hardly breathe.

335
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:41,400
I just learned

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00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:43,720
to live like this.

337
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:53,040
One day, while weeding a field,

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00:31:53,239 --> 00:31:54,800
I started to sweat a lot.

339
00:31:55,600 --> 00:32:00,239
I was amazed how good it made me feel.

340
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:04,160
That's why I began to work in the field.

341
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:06,520
I gave up relying on medicine

342
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:11,680
and decided to become healthy
by sweating.

343
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:09,760
It's ill, too.

344
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:19,640
It doesn't function.

345
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:26,920
It's got stage fright.
It's not human but has stage fright.

346
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:44,239
Radiation destroys
the inner structure of the body.

347
00:33:44,959 --> 00:33:48,360
It will attack any organ it can -

348
00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:53,800
thyroid, uterus, lung, bowel, liver...

349
00:33:56,119 --> 00:34:00,920
Even though
it's not visible from outside,

350
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:03,680
the inside of the body decays.

351
00:34:13,439 --> 00:34:18,560
Were doctors scared
of developing symptoms themselves?

352
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:19,959
Yes, they were.

353
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:25,680
At first, we didn't understand what
patients meant by "extreme exhaustion".

354
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:29,720
Some doctors would even
diagnose them as neurotic.

355
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:32,879
Until they developed
similar symptoms themselves.

356
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:36,200
Yet it wasn't understood
as a medical issue.

357
00:34:36,879 --> 00:34:39,879
And the Americans claimed
there was nothing wrong.

358
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:44,040
No one knew what to believe.

359
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:50,439
Some doctors collapsed and died.

360
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:54,280
Were you afraid?

361
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:57,040
Well,

362
00:34:59,119 --> 00:35:01,600
I thought what would be would be.

363
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:07,840
If I got ill, then that was my destiny.

364
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:10,400
I wasn't too nervous.

365
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:25,760
In the early 1950s

366
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,400
the American occupation ended

367
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:30,280
and most people just wanted

368
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:33,840
to forget and move on.

369
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,840
My grandparents had returned to the city.

370
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:47,479
Grandpa set up his own practice
and had a house built for it.

371
00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:59,800
My grandmother helped him
with his work and raised their children,

372
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:02,959
my mother and her two siblings.

373
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:09,920
The family could afford to make trips

374
00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:14,280
and my grandfather took pictures
with his new camera.

375
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:24,080
It's like a journey through time.

376
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:28,400
These poems remind me of those days.

377
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:36,320
Did Grandpa read these poems to you?

378
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:42,280
No way. He kept them hidden away.
He never read them to anyone.

379
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:52,280
My grandfather captured his city,
a city still scarred by the atomic bomb.

380
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,000
And he saw

381
00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:01,439
how memorial sites were built
to present Hiroshima as a city of peace.

382
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:07,680
But while he was photographing
this new Hiroshima,

383
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:09,320
Japan failed

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00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:12,000
to truly acknowledge its recent past.

385
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:15,320
And most atomic bomb victims

386
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:17,920
remained shrouded in silence.

387
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:22,280
Nothing good
ever came of talking about it.

388
00:37:22,479 --> 00:37:24,600
Nothing at all!

389
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:27,959
The greatest fear among mothers

390
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:35,680
was that their children
might never find jobs or a spouse.

391
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:38,320
That's the truth.

392
00:37:38,879 --> 00:37:42,840
Children of atomic bomb survivors
hardly found any jobs.

393
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:48,920
Everyone thought they'd eventually
get sick and wouldn't stay on the job.

394
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:53,879
And it was almost impossible
for them to get married.

395
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:57,360
It's still like that even today!

396
00:37:58,119 --> 00:38:00,479
Now it's affecting the third generation.

397
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:04,879
If you, for example, meet someone
from an important family

398
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:08,239
who you'd like to marry,

399
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:14,040
a family with a 400-year tradition
and an impressive family tree,

400
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:19,239
you might go steady
with a man from such a family.

401
00:38:19,479 --> 00:38:23,760
But if they discovered that
your grandfather was a radiation victim,

402
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:28,680
they might decide it's a bad idea
for you to join their bloodline.

403
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:31,239
This is still often the case in Japan.

404
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:34,520
Japan is still that kind of country.

405
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:56,400
By bright moonlight

406
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:59,119
On the tatami mat an ant

407
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:03,400
The young lady squashes it
Her heart makes me feel sad

408
00:39:05,959 --> 00:39:10,080
He wrote this poem
after watching what I was doing.

409
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:18,840
But if an ant walks over the mat,
you kill it, don't you?

410
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:21,200
Otherwise it might sting you!

411
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:24,320
He was very sensitive.

412
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:52,160
March 11, 2011.

413
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:57,920
While exploring the past,
I am jolted back into the present.

414
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:10,119
A massive earthquake
shakes the north-east of Japan,

415
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:14,959
and a tsunami claims the lives
of over 18,000 people.

416
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:19,560
And then, the unimaginable happens.

417
00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:46,080
KEEP OUT

418
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:04,640
No more Fukushima!

419
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:08,160
No more Hiroshima!

420
00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:11,239
No more Nagasaki!

421
00:41:11,439 --> 00:41:13,119
No nuclear power plants!

422
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:16,280
Life is valuable!

423
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:18,000
No nuclear power plants!

424
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:19,959
Don't restart the power plants!

425
00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:22,680
No nuclear power plants!

426
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:25,400
Children are valuable!

427
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:43,200
Today crowds gathered
in Tokyo's Yoyogi park,

428
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:47,040
summoned by citizen groups,
labour unions or via Twitter.

429
00:41:47,720 --> 00:41:52,560
According to the organizers,
about 170,000 people showed up.

430
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:55,920
The Police Department
set the number at 75,000.

431
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:58,560
It was the largest
anti-nuclear demonstration

432
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:00,640
ever to have taken place in Japan.

433
00:42:00,879 --> 00:42:05,280
In his speech, Kenzaburo Oe said
it is an insult to the Japanese people

434
00:42:05,479 --> 00:42:08,040
that the government
wants to restart nuclear power plants

435
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:09,879
despite the ongoing crisis.

436
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:14,800
He said the government's plans
had to be scrapped.

437
00:42:18,959 --> 00:42:24,160
Although radioactivity
is a well-known health risk,

438
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:28,160
Japan doesn't want to stop using it.

439
00:42:29,439 --> 00:42:33,920
Radioactivity was used for murder!

440
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:37,080
And then it was claimed
that the war was over.

441
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:42,080
But by continuing to use radioactivity,

442
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:46,280
we haven't left the path of death.

443
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:52,040
I try to protect the tiniest bit of life,

444
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:54,760
thus protecting Japan in my own way.

445
00:42:56,119 --> 00:43:00,920
But those people want to protect Japan
with great power.

446
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:05,360
Those people guard plutonium

447
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:13,080
as if it were
their most precious treasure.

448
00:43:13,959 --> 00:43:15,720
They can't let go of it.

449
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:22,600
Because it makes our country powerful.

450
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:36,320
This plant

451
00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:40,800
is called "Dokudami".

452
00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:47,920
It's an ancient Japanese herbal medicine
which boosts the immune system.

453
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:54,600
Hiroshima survivors
made tea from Dokudami

454
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:57,560
and many who drank it became better.

455
00:43:59,119 --> 00:44:05,439
I'll dry the leaves,
chop them, pack them into bags

456
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:10,160
and send them to Fukushima.

457
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:24,640
Symptoms are already visible:

458
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:27,280
diarrhoea, nose bleeding,

459
00:44:27,959 --> 00:44:29,959
inflammation of the gums.

460
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:38,200
After the nuclear disaster in Fukushima,
so-called experts claimed

461
00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:41,560
inner radiation was no great danger,

462
00:44:41,720 --> 00:44:45,119
so everybody should relax
and not be scared.

463
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:50,720
When I hear that, I get extremely angry.

464
00:44:51,479 --> 00:44:54,920
They use big words
while knowing nothing.

465
00:44:59,439 --> 00:45:02,239
When radioactive particles
poison the water,

466
00:45:02,879 --> 00:45:05,160
contaminate the fields

467
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:11,439
and enter the human body with food,
they radiate the body from the inside.

468
00:45:11,720 --> 00:45:13,800
This is called inner radiation.

469
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:25,439
In Hiroshima a soldier said to me:

470
00:45:25,720 --> 00:45:29,280
"Doctor, I wasn't in the city
on the day of the blast."

471
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:33,360
He said he was in Osaka that day.

472
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:39,040
Two days later he returned
to Hiroshima and walked the streets.

473
00:45:39,479 --> 00:45:43,000
After a few days he was exhausted
and could hardly move.

474
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:48,400
Four days later
I inquired as to his condition.

475
00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:50,920
I asked if he'd already gone home.

476
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:53,119
I was told he had died.

477
00:45:54,119 --> 00:45:58,800
I just couldn't understand it.
He was in Osaka, far from ground zero.

478
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:02,479
Why had he died of the same symptoms
as all the others?

479
00:46:03,119 --> 00:46:05,879
As a doctor,
I couldn't understand this at all.

480
00:46:06,119 --> 00:46:10,760
One by one, the people died
as a consequence of inner radiation.

481
00:46:34,439 --> 00:46:39,080
DOKUDAMI TEA
JUNOD-ASSOCIATION, CHIZUKO UCHIDA

482
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:13,160
- Hello, Mrs. Uchida.
- Hello.

483
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:18,439
- Here, I brought Dokudami tea.
- Oh, really?

484
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:19,959
Thank you very much.

485
00:47:20,239 --> 00:47:23,040
I think I only left one bag at home.

486
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:24,959
There are twenty.

487
00:47:25,879 --> 00:47:27,320
Okay.
Thank you very much.

488
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:29,080
Goodbye.

489
00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:42,600
Not only Dokudami but all
kinds of fermented foods are good.

490
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:47,800
It's important
to pass on this information.

491
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:50,560
That's why we donate such things

492
00:47:50,720 --> 00:47:53,840
to refugees in temporary housing,
for example.

493
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:06,760
We were looking for a way
to help the radiation victims.

494
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:12,040
Then our association decided
to invite evacuees from Fukushima.

495
00:48:13,879 --> 00:48:18,200
I was asked if some people
could stay in my house.

496
00:48:19,239 --> 00:48:21,320
Of course I agreed.

497
00:48:25,160 --> 00:48:26,320
Good morning!

498
00:48:36,439 --> 00:48:38,320
Let's start eating.

499
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:40,640
Enjoy your meal.

500
00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:44,760
From now on,

501
00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:47,400
people in Fukushima

502
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:50,720
have to protect themselves.

503
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:53,439
Because no one will help you

504
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:55,720
except yourself.

505
00:49:09,720 --> 00:49:11,119
That's 4 mm.

506
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:17,920
You need to keep your strength up!

507
00:49:21,959 --> 00:49:28,640
I left Fukushima with my son
to protect our lives.

508
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:34,640
But many people who stay in Fukushima
want to believe it's safe.

509
00:49:34,959 --> 00:49:37,640
They don't want to hear about the danger.

510
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:43,200
I've heard people say
that if children develop thyroid cancer,

511
00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:47,560
one shouldn't worry too much
as thyroid cancer can often be cured.

512
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:52,119
They say everybody has health insurance,

513
00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:56,879
so children can be treated in hospital.

514
00:49:57,800 --> 00:50:01,280
I felt that insanity was spreading.

515
00:50:03,040 --> 00:50:08,760
Now schools in Fukushima prefecture
have started to hand out brochures

516
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:12,400
claiming that radiation levels are safe.

517
00:50:13,119 --> 00:50:18,640
People are being reassured,
rather than warned, about the dangers.

518
00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:23,320
Therefore...
I used to have a lot of friends.

519
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:29,360
But I've lost touch with most of them.

520
00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:32,040
Our feelings are too different.

521
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:36,879
Most of my friends
decided to stay in Fukushima.

522
00:50:37,439 --> 00:50:39,959
Their attitude is different to mine.

523
00:50:44,720 --> 00:50:48,560
What do you think, Mr. Kai,
how will Japan be in five years?

524
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:50,320
Japan...

525
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:57,280
Well,
everyone will be a radiation victim.

526
00:50:59,439 --> 00:51:01,040
There is no doubt about that.

527
00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:02,920
And actually that's a good thing.

528
00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:05,680
- The whole country?
- Yes.

529
00:51:06,479 --> 00:51:08,800
It's good
provided that we question ourselves

530
00:51:08,959 --> 00:51:11,360
and don't tell any lies.

531
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:15,760
We have to show the world

532
00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:18,720
what it means to live
as radiation victims.

533
00:51:20,879 --> 00:51:23,160
Most importantly,

534
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:26,720
how we behave

535
00:51:27,080 --> 00:51:30,640
when deformed children are born.

536
00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:33,879
Will we love them and look after them?

537
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:39,840
Or will we just complain
because they are the result of radiation

538
00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:43,400
and treat them like a nuisance?

539
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:52,320
The question is not what will be,
but what we will do.

540
00:52:26,959 --> 00:52:32,959
It is vital that western Japan
supports eastern Japan.

541
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:35,160
We must help the victims.

542
00:52:35,560 --> 00:52:37,520
This is where we stand.

543
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:42,840
And now I give the floor to Mai Nakata.

544
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:48,680
Please listen to her story.

545
00:52:51,520 --> 00:52:55,879
When it became clear
that reactor number 3 couldn't be saved,

546
00:52:56,119 --> 00:53:00,680
I decided on March 14th to take my son
and stay with a friend in Tokyo.

547
00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:03,840
When I told my mother of my plan,

548
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:11,160
she started to scream
and said I was crazy.

549
00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:16,920
My father was still asleep,
so she woke him.

550
00:53:17,239 --> 00:53:21,920
She told him I was acting confused
and asked him to calm me down.

551
00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:25,840
We had a huge argument
and my father even slapped me.

552
00:53:26,879 --> 00:53:28,800
He said I was insane

553
00:53:29,280 --> 00:53:31,439
and trying to abandon my parents.

554
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:36,439
They simply believe what they see on TV
and read in the papers.

555
00:53:58,119 --> 00:53:59,160
Take care!

556
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:00,600
Thanks!

557
00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:18,439
I don't want my son to stay in Japan.

558
00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:24,680
And I, too, want to leave this country
if an opportunity presents itself.

559
00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:07,920
Your grandfather suddenly
had an acute liver inflammation.

560
00:55:08,080 --> 00:55:11,160
Although he'd never had
liver problems before.

561
00:55:12,680 --> 00:55:16,920
Maybe it was caused by inner radiation.

562
00:55:17,160 --> 00:55:20,959
I would never have considered
that before.

563
00:55:21,560 --> 00:55:26,920
But now there's so much information
that implicates it.

564
00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:31,200
His liver was extremely inflamed.

565
00:55:31,520 --> 00:55:37,800
His face went dark brown.

566
00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:44,600
He looked so bad that the head nurses
gathered to see him.

567
00:55:45,920 --> 00:55:51,479
After a while he started to improve.

568
00:55:54,640 --> 00:55:58,560
But then he suffered several strokes.

569
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:00,760
One after another.

570
00:56:01,200 --> 00:56:03,920
Maybe due to radiation.

571
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:08,879
He was too young to become ill.

572
00:56:09,040 --> 00:56:11,080
He was in his late 50s,

573
00:56:11,400 --> 00:56:13,680
in the prime of life.

574
00:56:19,640 --> 00:56:22,840
By the time I was born,
my grandfather was already ill.

575
00:56:24,479 --> 00:56:29,320
To me, he was simply my grandfather.
A loving old man who spoiled me.

576
00:56:32,160 --> 00:56:33,959
Like everyone else in the family,

577
00:56:34,119 --> 00:56:37,800
I never thought about
what had caused the illness.

578
00:56:41,160 --> 00:56:45,040
After almost 30 years,
we didn't see the connection to the bomb.

579
00:56:52,879 --> 00:56:56,879
However, radiation sickness
can develop decades later.

580
00:56:58,560 --> 00:57:01,600
Since Fukushima
this has been discussed in Japan,

581
00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:06,040
which is why my grandmother sees
my grandfather's illness in a new light.

582
00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:19,000
September...

583
00:57:19,160 --> 00:57:24,119
No appointments in August.
Anyway, it's too hot then.

584
00:57:24,800 --> 00:57:28,720
You said you'd only take appointments
till December.

585
00:57:32,479 --> 00:57:37,560
Well, I don't think I can stop this year.

586
00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:41,720
I'll have to continue
at least until next March.

587
00:57:44,479 --> 00:57:46,800
Since Fukushima,

588
00:57:47,200 --> 00:57:50,879
you often come across the word
"radioactivity".

589
00:57:51,600 --> 00:57:56,119
You hear and read it a lot.

590
00:57:57,119 --> 00:58:02,160
Fukushima's impact will last
well beyond three or five years.

591
00:58:02,840 --> 00:58:04,720
Even people who are perfectly healthy now

592
00:58:05,119 --> 00:58:07,800
may develop symptoms later on.

593
00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:10,119
That's what's worrying.

594
00:58:11,080 --> 00:58:15,560
Everyone thinks it's safe
to go with the crowd

595
00:58:15,720 --> 00:58:21,959
and to believe
whatever the government says.

596
00:58:22,239 --> 00:58:25,959
But in fact,
this is the worst way to live your life.

597
00:58:26,560 --> 00:58:28,160
You lose your own will.

598
00:58:28,959 --> 00:58:32,640
Men are particularly guilty.

599
00:58:34,080 --> 00:58:37,040
They might say:
"Nuclear plants need to be abolished!"

600
00:58:37,320 --> 00:58:41,920
But in fact they don't do anything.
They leave it to their wives.

601
00:58:43,200 --> 00:58:45,439
I'm sorry to say this,

602
00:58:45,800 --> 00:58:47,640
but Japanese men,

603
00:58:48,119 --> 00:58:50,080
myself included,

604
00:58:50,280 --> 00:58:52,080
are the world's worst.

605
00:58:55,479 --> 00:58:59,879
Japanese men are the worst practitioners
of democracy in the world.

606
00:59:00,760 --> 00:59:03,920
They understand the theory,
but in practice they fail.

607
00:59:04,439 --> 00:59:08,239
They treat their wives as servants

608
00:59:09,920 --> 00:59:14,000
and at home they act like kings.
Many men are like that.

609
00:59:14,400 --> 00:59:17,560
They're all talk, no action.
Myself included.

610
00:59:17,840 --> 00:59:22,760
I also let my wife take care of me
when I'm at home.

611
00:59:23,520 --> 00:59:25,959
Men are raised to act this way.

612
00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:28,040
I'm sorry to say.

613
00:59:28,959 --> 00:59:33,959
Recently I became more self-critical,
so I started to prepare the breakfast.

614
00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:42,800
I am well aware that after Fukushima

615
00:59:43,119 --> 00:59:47,600
women are carrying a very heavy load.

616
00:59:48,400 --> 00:59:50,479
And additionally they try hard,

617
00:59:50,800 --> 00:59:55,920
to care for their husbands,
their children and their own parents.

618
00:59:56,439 --> 01:00:00,439
Japanese women
are raised to always act lovingly.

619
01:00:01,479 --> 01:00:03,239
This may be great for us men

620
01:00:03,520 --> 01:00:07,439
but it isn't for humanity.

621
01:00:28,959 --> 01:00:31,920
Women and men should join forces

622
01:00:32,239 --> 01:00:34,400
and take equal responsibility.

623
01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:38,439
For the sake of our descendants,

624
01:00:39,400 --> 01:00:44,320
we must put out the fire we lit
while we are still alive.

625
01:01:05,560 --> 01:01:07,040
Good afternoon!

626
01:01:18,680 --> 01:01:21,760
Mrs. Doi, you are being filmed today.

627
01:01:22,119 --> 01:01:23,760
- Are you nervous?
- Not really.

628
01:01:23,920 --> 01:01:26,000
How long have you been shooting?

629
01:01:26,160 --> 01:01:29,000
- I'm a model all the time.
- Really?

630
01:01:30,080 --> 01:01:32,400
So, it's routine for you?

631
01:01:33,439 --> 01:01:36,040
- I was wondering if you were okay.
- What do you mean?

632
01:01:36,200 --> 01:01:37,760
The state of your health.

633
01:01:37,920 --> 01:01:44,760
I'm fine,
but cancer cells are spreading again.

634
01:01:47,720 --> 01:01:51,479
Now that your hair
has grown back so nicely...

635
01:02:13,720 --> 01:02:15,600
Mrs. Doi, please hold on to this.

636
01:02:31,439 --> 01:02:35,160
Just a moment. I'll arrange your socks.

637
01:03:01,119 --> 01:03:03,280
I'm very close to my grandmother.

638
01:03:03,760 --> 01:03:07,040
Yet sometimes I feel that
I don't really know her.

639
01:03:08,200 --> 01:03:11,959
She has always kept
her dreams and desires to herself.

640
01:03:13,920 --> 01:03:15,760
On my visits to Hiroshima

641
01:03:16,040 --> 01:03:19,640
I saw how selflessly
she cared for my grandfather.

642
01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:22,800
For twenty years, until his death.

643
01:03:24,439 --> 01:03:26,320
Never did I hear her complain.

644
01:03:49,720 --> 01:03:54,080
Doctor, I'm very old
and won't live much longer anyway.

645
01:03:54,360 --> 01:03:56,520
I'd prefer not to do another therapy.

646
01:03:56,680 --> 01:04:00,239
Well, it's not too bad yet.

647
01:04:00,879 --> 01:04:05,119
We can still control it.

648
01:04:42,200 --> 01:04:43,920
In the peace memorial park,

649
01:04:44,239 --> 01:04:46,920
at the front, on the left

650
01:04:47,239 --> 01:04:50,320
some seats are reserved
for atomic bomb victims.

651
01:04:51,479 --> 01:04:53,000
We'll sit there.

652
01:04:53,840 --> 01:04:55,920
Please take your seat there.

653
01:05:12,360 --> 01:05:14,439
A Japanese legend holds

654
01:05:14,720 --> 01:05:17,119
that those who fold 1000 paper cranes

655
01:05:17,280 --> 01:05:19,360
are granted a wish by the Gods.

656
01:05:21,800 --> 01:05:24,000
When I was a child,
my mother told me the story

657
01:05:24,400 --> 01:05:26,520
of the young girl Sadako.

658
01:05:26,879 --> 01:05:30,040
Nine years after the atomic bomb
she suddenly developed leukaemia

659
01:05:30,959 --> 01:05:33,720
and struggled for her life
at the Red Cross Hospital.

660
01:05:34,959 --> 01:05:37,239
She folded more than 1000 paper cranes,

661
01:05:37,400 --> 01:05:39,080
but she died nonetheless.

662
01:05:40,720 --> 01:05:43,520
Today, paper cranes
symbolize the peace movement

663
01:05:43,840 --> 01:05:46,239
and opposition to nuclear energy.

664
01:05:46,720 --> 01:05:49,439
We want a world free of nuclear weapons,

665
01:05:49,600 --> 01:05:52,479
nuclear power plants
and radiation victims!

666
01:05:58,119 --> 01:06:01,000
Restarting power plants is dangerous!

667
01:06:46,360 --> 01:06:48,040
68 years ago

668
01:06:48,520 --> 01:06:50,479
one single bomb

669
01:06:51,000 --> 01:06:55,320
took the lives of 190,000 people.

670
01:06:55,920 --> 01:07:00,119
To those still suffering
from the after-effects,

671
01:07:00,560 --> 01:07:03,080
I send out my deepest
heartfelt compassion.

672
01:07:05,119 --> 01:07:08,800
I won't take part
in such a dishonest ceremony.

673
01:07:09,479 --> 01:07:12,200
They pretend to care for the victims.

674
01:07:12,360 --> 01:07:15,320
But in fact
they did nothing to help the people

675
01:07:15,479 --> 01:07:19,080
who came to Hiroshima
after the explosion and fell ill.

676
01:07:19,239 --> 01:07:24,040
They said they weren't affected
and didn't compensate them.

677
01:07:25,400 --> 01:07:31,160
They shamelessly practise
this kind of fake support

678
01:07:31,439 --> 01:07:34,520
and then they come here,
pretending to be concerned,

679
01:07:34,680 --> 01:07:38,680
saying that atom bomb
victims must be supported.

680
01:07:38,879 --> 01:07:40,720
I can't stand it.

681
01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:44,840
I called them liars
and never joined this ceremony.

682
01:07:45,360 --> 01:07:48,959
And now officials in Fukushima
are declaring

683
01:07:49,280 --> 01:07:53,520
that the danger has passed.

684
01:07:53,879 --> 01:07:58,119
It's the same as after Hiroshima
and Nagasaki.

685
01:09:04,360 --> 01:09:06,840
Recently on TV

686
01:09:07,000 --> 01:09:12,200
I saw all the tanks filled with water
leaking from the reactors.

687
01:09:12,760 --> 01:09:14,520
There were so many!

688
01:09:14,680 --> 01:09:18,439
All of Japan
will soon be covered by them.

689
01:09:19,040 --> 01:09:23,439
And now Abe
was re-elected as Prime Minister.

690
01:09:23,879 --> 01:09:28,959
A prime minister who travels abroad
promoting nuclear power.

691
01:09:30,200 --> 01:09:33,000
I couldn't stand it!

692
01:09:33,160 --> 01:09:35,879
How could this man
possibly protect Japan?

693
01:09:36,040 --> 01:09:39,680
This is absolutely hopeless!

694
01:09:40,520 --> 01:09:46,560
I thought life was not worth living
and I got very depressed.

695
01:09:47,560 --> 01:09:52,680
But if I don't speak out, who will?

696
01:09:53,640 --> 01:09:57,600
I had to make an effort.

697
01:09:58,000 --> 01:10:00,800
I decided to continue to share

698
01:10:01,959 --> 01:10:08,160
the little knowledge I have
about the atomic bomb.

699
01:10:08,760 --> 01:10:17,160
Otherwise,
these people will mislead Japan.

700
01:10:17,720 --> 01:10:21,959
And I got motivated again.

701
01:10:30,239 --> 01:10:33,439
Dr. Hida,
what kind of doctor would you be

702
01:10:33,680 --> 01:10:37,080
if you hadn't experienced
the atomic bomb?

703
01:10:38,520 --> 01:10:40,119
Well...

704
01:10:40,439 --> 01:10:45,800
I guess more than half of me
would be kind of the same.

705
01:10:46,200 --> 01:10:48,239
I can't really compare.

706
01:10:51,320 --> 01:10:55,200
But even if one hasn't experienced
the atomic bomb,

707
01:10:56,640 --> 01:11:04,160
seeing so many people
struggling on the verge of existence

708
01:11:04,959 --> 01:11:09,800
gradually makes one see things
from their perspective.

709
01:11:25,640 --> 01:11:28,160
These are very sad poems.

710
01:11:30,920 --> 01:11:32,439
Summer has gone

711
01:11:32,840 --> 01:11:36,000
Rain keeps drizzling down

712
01:11:37,200 --> 01:11:41,200
In my loneliness
I hear my grandchild cry over the phone

713
01:11:42,959 --> 01:11:46,360
You were a baby at that time.

714
01:11:48,119 --> 01:11:52,640
Everything you did was just sweet.

715
01:11:53,400 --> 01:11:56,080
It seems you brought him comfort.

716
01:11:59,439 --> 01:12:03,360
That I am ill
I did not believe in my dream

717
01:12:04,160 --> 01:12:07,239
On a spring morning
I woke up early

718
01:12:08,160 --> 01:12:09,320
Sometimes

719
01:12:09,560 --> 01:12:12,239
I want to end my life
Like in a dream

720
01:12:13,280 --> 01:12:16,200
But I have my wife and I live

721
01:12:16,439 --> 01:12:20,479
He writes
that he carried on thanks to me.

722
01:12:21,879 --> 01:12:23,879
That's what he wrote about me.

723
01:12:28,640 --> 01:12:32,920
The last year before his death
he did nothing but lie in bed.

724
01:12:33,439 --> 01:12:35,720
We didn't have any conversations anymore.

725
01:12:37,400 --> 01:12:40,680
I just watched him sleep.

726
01:12:41,600 --> 01:12:43,959
I felt very lonely.

727
01:12:52,320 --> 01:12:56,000
And now I'm ill myself...

728
01:12:56,160 --> 01:12:58,400
Life is ironic, isn't it?

729
01:13:24,680 --> 01:13:28,560
"What I told Mai Nakata from Fukushima"

730
01:13:54,879 --> 01:13:56,320
Every other day

731
01:13:56,479 --> 01:13:59,720
I talk to journalists
or give a speech in public.

732
01:14:06,280 --> 01:14:09,600
I'm 95 now and very exhausted.

733
01:14:09,879 --> 01:14:12,000
But I can't allow myself to stop.

734
01:14:13,119 --> 01:14:17,560
I'll continue to talk
until I break down somewhere.

735
01:14:37,760 --> 01:14:41,000
Today I walked a lot.

736
01:14:43,400 --> 01:14:46,080
I haven't been this hungry
in a long time.

737
01:15:13,000 --> 01:15:14,800
Good night, Grandma.

738
01:15:15,360 --> 01:15:16,959
Good night!

739
01:15:31,720 --> 01:15:33,600
I cross the bridge

740
01:15:35,160 --> 01:15:37,640
And my heart fills with peace

741
01:15:39,640 --> 01:15:43,000
Standing awhile on a sand bank
where reeds grow