that's quite impressive.

Fascinating new viewpoint of the tsunami. Needs subtitles, I'm really curious as to what point in the video he bails out of his car.

>> ^nanrod:

Fascinating new viewpoint of the tsunami. Needs subtitles, I'm really curious as to what point in the video he bails out of his car.


You can see in the vid where he bails out at approximately 9:02~9:03 in the vid (he says "Yoshi!" which means "Okay!) in Japanese. It's literally seconds before the car sinks. He swam to a nearby building and was able to pull himself up out of the water.

During the interview he explains that at first he sat tight because the car was getting smashed by all the debris and he was afraid of getting crushed if he bailed out of the car. He did open the window though just in case he had to get out in a hurry. After a while, it seemed like he was just going to float gently there, so he decided to sit and wait it out. But then he got caught in the fast-moving current and water started filling up the heavily damaged car from all sides, so he made the (clearly correct) decision to jump out.

EXTREMELY ROUGH TRANSLATION PART 1

0:00~0:30
[FEMALE ANNOUNCER] This is footage from when the giant tsunami rushed through Sendai City. A camera mounted on the dashboard of a car recorded many vehicles being lifted up and swept away by the rushing waves. This video contains disturbing images. However, News Zero has decided to broadcast it in order to educate people about the dangers of tsunamis.

0:30~0:45
[MALE REPORTER] Good afternoon!

[YU MUROGA] Nice to meet you.

[NARRATOR] This is self-employed Yu Muroga, who lives in Sendai City. Three months ago, on that infamous day, he was engulfed by the tsunami.

0:45~1:30

[NARRATOR] This is the car he was driving on that day. Inside this car, which was swept away by the tsunami, was a digital dashboard camera.

[MALE REPORTR] If you look closely, you can still see the mud.

[NARRATOR] The camera contained images of the tsunami sweeping through the city. The camera had been immersed in sea water and was broken. However, we requested a specialist take a look at it. He succeeded in retrieving the data from it—all 7 hours. What images would this data contain?

EXTREMELY ROUGH TRANSLATION PART 2

1:30~2:00

[NARRATOR] The images begin approximately 6 hours before the earthquake struck. It seemed like an ordinary morning. Mr. Muroga went about his business like he would on any other day. He had mounted a dashboard camera in order to deter criminals from breaking into his car and kept it recording at all times.

2:00~2:35

[NARRATOR]As he drove towards his next business appointment at 2:46 PM, the earthquake struck. It was a powerful quake, measuring 7 [the maximum on the Japanese scale]. You can see how a pedestrian was forced to crouch down due to the violent shaking.

2:35~2:53

[NARRATOR] At the time of the quake, Mr. Muroga was in the Izumi-ku part of Sendai City. After the quake, he resumed work and approached the coastal town of Shigamachi City. And then he headed towards his next business appointment in Miyagino-ku. But on his way there he was swallowed by the tsunami.

[To be continued when I have more time...]

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What a nightmare. *promote

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I would not make it alive in this situation due to my disabilities.

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EXTREMELY ROUGH TRANSLATION PART 3

2:53~4:46

[NARRATOR] Just before 4PM, approximately 1 hour after the earthquake struck, Mr. Muroga’s car stops due to heavy traffic. Suddenly from the left-hand side several cars float into view, swept along by the tsunami….

Next the tsunami swept up from behind his car. Only 10 seconds after the tsunami reached his car, Mr. Muroga’s car began being pushed forward…

And then at 25 seconds the car is completely afloat and beyond his control, swept up by the current. At this point Mr. Muroga was still inside the vehicle. His car approaches a black wagon. You can see the figure of a male person inside the black wagon…

Immediately after this collision, Mr. Muroga considered fleeing his vehicle and opened the window…

While on the one side, in the center of the screen, you can see the debris floating slowly to the right, in the background—with incredible speed—a truck is swept along to the left. You can see that the driver of the black wagon that Mr. Muroga collided with earlier has climbed onto the roof of his car.

4:46~5:03

[NARRATOR] And then the car begins to slowly change direction. As it does, the swift current flowing between the buildings comes into view. Inside the car, Mr. Muroga listens to news reports of the tsunami hitting other areas.

5:03~5:34

[RADIO ANNOUNCER] It has just turned 4PM. The wave is swallowing the houses and plastic hothouses in its path.
[NARRATOR] Meanwhile, in the car, Mr. Muroga contemplates when he will try to escape from his vehicle.

5:34~6:48

[NARRATOR] And then, approximately 4 minutes after having been caught in the tsunami, Mr. Muroga’s car is pulled into the swift-flowing current. The car bounces up and down. In front of him, other cars are being swept away. The car begins to spin, with Mr. Muroga still inside, and is swept away by the tsunami… Finally, about 4.5 minutes after the arrival of the tsunami, the car strikes a building, is dragged underwater, and the image cuts out.

EXTREMELY ROUGH TRANSLATION PART 4 (FINAL)

6:68~7:33

[NARRATOR] An instant before the car sinks, Mr. Muroga fled from the vehicle, barely escaping with his life. We took this opportunity to have him watch the images and give us his thoughts.

[MR. MUROGA] Ah, right at this point. I saw the cars being swept along and thought “It’s a tsunami!”

[NARRATOR] From the left-side of the screen, cars flow past and Mr. Muroga realizes the danger.

[MR. MUROGA] The camera doesn’t capture it, but I could see in the rearview mirror that an even faster tsunami had already arrived behind me.

7:33~8:16

[NARRATOR] These are pictures Mr. Muroga took with his own camera. This picture looking out the back of the car allows us to understand the ferocity with which the tsunami behind him arrived.

[MR. MUROGA] At this time, the cars were crashing into each other with great force and my car began to be battered out of shape.

[NARRATOR] Surrounded by waves, Mr. Muroga decided it was too dangerous to try to leave his vehicle.

[MR. MUROGA] I thought about things like, “Maybe I’ll be able to escape when the water recedes.”

[NARRATOR] However, instead of receding, the water began to churn with even greater intensity.

8:16~8:55

{MR. MUROGA} At this point, the car began to be swept away. I was carried away by the current.

[NARRATOR] The tsunami flowed from the ocean between the buildings, capturing Mr. Muroga’s car like a pincer. Within only 30 seconds his car was completely afloat and slowly drifted along. But after that his car entered the faster part of the current and was dragged along by the tsunami.

8:55~9:20

[NARRATOR] This is the point at which Mr. Muroga, being swept along by the tsunami, escaped from his vehicle.

[MR. MUROGA’S VOICE ON VIDEO] Okay, now!

[MR. MUROGA] I think I jumped from the vehicle at this point. Because water suddenly began pouring inside.

[NARRATOR] Just moments before the car sinks, Mr. Muroga makes his escape through the window he had opened earlier.

9:20~9:55

[NARRATOR] Mr. Muroga’s car was swept approximately 150 meters into the wall of a warehouse before sinking. Mr. Muroga, while being swept along by the current, managed to swim to a nearby building and pull himself from the water. He visits the scene of the accident for the first time since the incident. As he approaches the area where the current was strongest, he notices something.

[MR. MUROGA] Ah, look over there, by the divider. Right there, the curb has been practically erased. Clearly the tsunami did that, no?

9:55~11:16

[NARRATOR] Even now, three months later, the evidence of the tsunami remains. What can we learn from these images? We requested Dr. Imura, a tsunami specialist to analyze them. The first thing he noticed was how quickly the water level rose.

[DR. IMURA] At this point it’s already over 50 centimeters deep and the cars are starting to float. Once that happens, the car is beyond control. The tanker truck has larger [in diameter] tires and isn’t floating yet. And then after the height reaches 1 meter, even trucks begin to float away.

[NARRATOR] Dr. Imura points out that once the water level rises above the height of the tires, the vehicle will begin to float and in a very short time be beyond driver control.

[DR. IMURA] Almost as soon as the tsunami appears before your eyes, your vehicle will begin to float. At that point you should monitor the situation and if the current doesn’t seem too strong and if there isn’t a lot of dangerous debris nearby, you should break your window and leave the vehicle as quickly as possible. Once outside, you should head for the highest area you can find, such as a fence or telephone pole—whatever is available. Grab onto whatever it is and climb as high as you can.

11:16~12:15

[NARRATOR] Also, Dr. Imura points out the difficulty vehicles pose on your ability to hear.

[DR. IMURA] It’s important to remember that the sound of the car will drown out outside sounds and make them harder to hear. The various sounds of a car may make it difficult to hear the approaching tsunami.

[NARRATOR] It is certainly true on the video that you cannot hear the roar of the tsunami approaching over the sounds the car. Mr. Muroga also had this to say about the sound.

[MR. MUROGA] In the video, I think you can see that there are many people lined up on the roof of that building. I’m pretty sure these people were screaming at us to run and get out of there. But none of us in our vehicles noticed them. We couldn’t hear them.

12:15~13:44

[NARRATOR] About trying to escape a tsunami in your vehicle, tsunami specialist Dr. Imura had this to say.

[DR. IMURA] Basically, people who can’t walk well should use a car to try to escape. Those who can walk or run should, in principle, not use their vehicles.

[NARRATOR] Cars being swept along… the might of the tsunami. Mr. Muroga told us that through these images he hopes to educate others about the awful power of the tsunami.

[NEWSCASTER, GRAY SUIT] It seems like Mr. Muroga maintained his calm in a difficult situation. In that part of the city, there are lots of buildings and you can’t see very far, making it difficult to notice the approaching tsunami. Furthermore, as we saw in the video, with the windows rolled up you can’t hear the tsunami approaching either.

[NEWSCASTER, FEMALE] It was very quiet on the video, wasn’t it?

[NEWSCASTER, GRAY SUIT] It had been an hour since the earthquake struck and Mr. Muroga was more than 1km inland, so he didn’t think there was any danger from a tsunami.

[NEWSCASTER, FEMALE] According to our tsunami specialist, it was the first time he had ever seen footage like this taken from within the tsunami.

[NEWSCASTER, GRAY SUIT] It’s very valuable footage. It would be great if many people—everyday people and tsunami specialists—could watch this footage and from it find the means of how to protect themselves and others.

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Thanks for the good work on the translation @SDGundamX - this is an amazing video.

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SDGundamX - Would you mind if I took your translation and made it into sub-titles for the video? Would that violate anything?
Could it be re-posted here?

S

>> ^srbh41413:

SDGundamX - Would you mind if I took your translation and made it into sub-titles for the video? Would that violate anything?
Could it be re-posted here?
S


Well, if you were thinking of trying to Sift it yourself, you'd have the issue of self-linking (you can't submit videos to the Sift that you yourself have uploaded or helped make). Also, I think many people might consider it a dupe (duplicate) of this one and it would probably wind up becoming a backup embed code.

If you're willing to put the work in, I can swap out this embed code with the subtitled version and give you credit in the description. But if you were looking to get a Sift out of it I think you're probably out of luck.

SDGundamX -
I don't even know what "Sifting it myself" is, so no, I'm not after that. Just looking to make your excellent information more available to everyone. What format would be best to send you?
Thanks,
S

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New embed of almost the whole episode. For translation, see my comments above--the new embed now starts at the 0:45 second mark of the translation.

nice translation!

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It's cool. Japanese television networks have been getting really assholish about this stuff recently. A lot of the clips from my daughter's favorite children's show in Japan are getting taken down left and right, so I've been saving as many of them as I can to disk.

For those who are still interested in seeing some of the footage (but not the whole show), see the backup that @deathcow provided. Direct YouTube link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp2DP1cLXKM

Was still up as of today.