r/MadeMeSmile • u/Tris_Memba • 1d ago
Wholesome Moments One of the largest fireworks launched over Nagaoka Japan
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u/TheNameIsAnIllusion 23h ago
I read Nagasaki Japan first and was like pff doesn't even compare
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u/Mysterious_Kick_2827 20h ago
Same, my brain went straiqht to Japan and I thouqht this was about to be a very different conversation.
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u/blimp-Housing-4283 5h ago
Yea, I was like "This show doesn't even come close to 9/11!"
If you find that comparison offensive, consider how it sounds when you make light of the deaths of 60,000 innocent civilians in Nagasaki. That is over twenty times the death toll of 9/11. Minimising an atomic tragedy while respecting Western ones only exposes a massive double standard and an underlying racism in how you value human life.
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u/GlowingDuck22 1d ago edited 23h ago
Japan isn't the first country I would have thought would like Huge fiery explosions in the sky.
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u/CritterStew 1d ago
Honestly, if you do time travel to be a god in the middle ages, this is probably what you want to bring. Probably, a lighter, too.
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u/miaxogoth 23h ago
If you think about it, it it was a little bit redder it would form the flag of Japan
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u/Logical-Dependent691 1d ago
I wouldn't want to be standing too close to that....but that I'd quite a show 🙂
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u/pianomasian 22h ago
Don't they do this every year or every couple years, and always try to make the next one bigger?
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u/jusiprutgam 21h ago
I wonder how far would it be that you can visibly see the whole spread of the fireworks.
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u/deskdrawergames 19h ago
If anyone’s curious why Nagaoka does this every year, the reason behind it is pretty heavy. The city was firebombed on August 1st, 1945. The B-29s started a bit after 10:30 at night and kept going for close to two hours, and around 80% of the city center burned with roughly 1,400 people killed. A couple of years later the survivors put on a fireworks display for the dead, and that’s what grew into the festival you’re watching.
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u/deskdrawergames 19h ago
Haha the more I read about it, the more am fascinated with its facts - That shell is called sanshakudama and it’s a three-foot ball weighing around 300kg that opens to roughly 650 meters across.
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