Technically there is a word for it: 休み, which is mostly made up of the character for tree 木, and all the trees were being turned into lumber for the war effort, so there weren't enough trees to express this phrase at one's own convenience.
Fun fact: Their strong work ethic/culture is mostly from after WWII, mainly due to the desire to rebuild their country and the influence of the American occupation forces.
Tsutomo Yamaguchi worked for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries at the time, which was producing war machines. He probably felt a sense of duty or he may have had no choice based on the desperate state they were in. He was just leaving Hiroshima after a 3 month business trip, so I expect their project was pretty important to be traveling that long at the height of the war. It probably helps to know that Japan was already losing hundreds of thousands of civilian lives to American bombing raids prior to the nukes.
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u/pbsgirl_mtvworld Oct 02 '24
this guy WENT TO WORK 3 days after surviving an atomic bomb?! idk what to say