Old Japanese man is immortal and atom bomb proof survives both Hiroshima and Nagasaki

[devilhunterred]

Why would he be an outcast to Japanese society? He should be a hero if anything.

"I survived two atom bombs from the American foreign devils! I am invincible! Japanese superiority!"

I wonder if he hates the US.

Japanese society has always treated the blast victims as outcasts because of how vastly different they are to the normal population. The victims and their offsprings are prone to mutations, and the society view them as non-humans.The survivors are also living moumuments and reminders to a period of history that most Japanese are now very ashamed of.

Most of these blast survivos have no chance of remerging with the society and they live in rural village on government pension all their lives

 

[El_Machinae]

If any WW2 Japanese pilot survived Kamikaze duty it would be the most shameful moment of his life, and he will never brag about it. (He had failed in his mission!) Most likely he'll be making up a whole new backstory assigning himself to a munitions factory throughout the war in order to hide up that fact.

Not if you survived the crash into the ship and then killed everyone onboard with your katana!

 

[RedRalph]

Japanese society has always treated the blast victims as outcasts because of how vastly different they are to the normal population. The victims and their offsprings are prone to mutations, and the society view them as non-humans.The survivors are also living moumuments and reminders to a period of history that most Japanese are now very ashamed of.

Most of these blast survivos have no chance of remerging with the society and they live in rural village on government pension all their lives

any sources on this?

 

[devilhunterred]

any sources on this?

I will see if I can find an online source. It was a book I have read some time ago in public library. If you are interested you can also google for Japanese society towards a-bombs survivors, or better yet, go to a library.

 

[devilhunterred]

I found a vague source, but nevertheless it should gives you a rough idea.

"Although the Japanese government gives allowances and assistance to Hibakusha, many of them struggled historically with discrimination. Radiation sickness was not really understood at the time that the bombs dropped, and people were afraid that it was hereditary or contagious. Many Hibakusha found themselves ostracized from society, and some kept their Hibakusha status secret so that they would not be discriminated against."

http://www.wisegeek.com/who-are-the-hibakusha.htm

 

[Formaldehyde]

if you enter "Japanese outcasts hiroshima" into google, this thread is the 3rd hit...

I seem to remember reading the same thing and/or seeing it on TV. It possibly came from John Hersey's excellent book on the subject:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima_(book)

This attitude appears to have changed somewhat over time. Now there are annual ceremonies to mark the occasion, but that wasn't the case for many years. There was a general sense of shame and embarrassment surrounding the bombings for a very long time after the end of WWII. After all, the polite Japanese people couldn't exactly blame their current occupiers for committing atrocious war crimes for no reason other than to intimidate the Soviet Union into thinking they might be next.

 

[Love]

First hit for me

 

[Nordstream]

Cool I'm famous now.

 

[Dann]

Not if you survived the crash into the ship and then killed everyone onboard with your katana!

First hit for me

Cool I'm famous now.

Yay us!

 

[RedRalph]

Thats pretty appalling... wasnt aware of that at all

 

[say1988]

Not if you survived the crash into the ship and then killed everyone onboard with your katana!

Then why did he not swim to the nearest other enemy ship and repeat his performance, over and over again until he was killed or the entire US navy captured? If some guys can keep raiding farms into the 70s, he would have been able to do that.

 

[El_Machinae]

Her power level was over 9000!

See, I was trying to NOT make that joke. Of course, I couldn't avoid the temptation of throwing an allusion to a katana out.

To build off of Winner's point about the danger of nukes, people have a hard time with risk assesment. I think the major cause of death for WWII German citizens is still old age. In other words, a young german in WWII was more likely to die of old age than anything else. This is why I tend to emphasise aging as a risk factor in everyone's lives.

 

[chrissifniotis]

Wow.
I really shouldn't make light of this, but how fortunate, and unfortunate to have been hit and lived past two nukes. Just imagine the odds! Being hit by a nuke is extremely low, to the point of a near impossibility. Whatever fraction the event produces, that number is squared when having to take the second into account, making the chance seem sub-atomic. So then having to survive both attacks, one would be far more likely to pick a correct number between one and a googleplex....

Spoiler :

five times consecitively.

 

[Mowque]

^--I question that math.

 

[El_Machinae]

Assuming that there have been 100 billion humans, and that (roughly) 100,000 of them have been hit by nukes, the odds of being hit by a nuke (to date) is one in one-million.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Those of you who play the lottery should take note...

Actually, the number of people hit by nukes is much higher. The US military deliberately did it to combat troops on a regular basis in the 50s before it dawned on them that doing so wasn't exactly a great idea. I suspect the Soviets did similar 'tests'.

 

[El_Machinae]

Well, even if I'm wrong on any orders of magnitude, the numbers are easy to recalculate. Still a 1 : 100,000 chance of being nuked seems a bit sucky too.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Nah. I don't think it's not that many. It is probably another 100K or so including the downwind victims in Utah and elsewhere.

 

[eastsidebagel]

Nah. I don't think it's not that many. It is probably another 100K or so including the downwind victims in Utah and elsewhere.

Really? Or are you just making stuff up? Provide me a proof for this, for I certainly never heard of some victims inside the US from testing nukes.

 

[Japanrocks12]

] The US military deliberately did it to combat troops on a regular basis in the 50s before it dawned on them that doing so wasn't exactly a great idea. I suspect the Soviets did similar 'tests'.

I want a source for this.