How America Rebuilt Japan After The Nuke | Japan's Return Pt. 1
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- Опубліковано 15 тра 2024
- From devastation to prosperity, this multi-part series delves into Japan's remarkable economic journey from the ashes of World War II to the challenges of the lost decade. It's a story of the nation's extraordinary transformation, driven by politics, history, and a relentless pursuit of economic revival.
Timecodes
0:00 Torches of Freedom
1:14 The American Emperor
3:14 Writing The Constitution
5:50 Does Your Vote Matter?
9:37 The Kishi Era
10:50 The Failure of the Asia Development Fund
13:50 Kishi's Press Run
15:43 Political Tensions Rise
18:30 Climax
20:35 The Start of A New Era
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Dropping like Enola Gay and Little Boy in 1946!
how did you manage to not mention William Edwards Demming in any of your videos about rebuilding Japan's economy and it's industrial methods?
A nitpick, but the deciscion for Japan to not have a military post-WW2 is not universally agreed to have come from the US. Both Japanese PM Kijūrō Shidehara and Douglas MacArthur stated that Shidehara was the person to suggest it. Obviously there is no way to prove this one way or another, but there is a major difference between the narrative "America forced Japan to disarm" compared to "Japan willingly chose to disarm"
PM Kishi has a huge legacy, including that of his now famous and late Grandson, PM Shinzo Abe.
15:30 US and Japan post ww2 worked together for standing up a country that the US wanted. And the Japanese protested that the US military stationed there grew to enormous size which was the real US intentions. sadly this playbook hasn't changed a bit even today.
I had no idea Japan faced an attempted dictator after WW2! Thank you for the very cool history lesson!
Harry Truman's Marshall Plan? Truman only signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. It's literally named The MARSHALL Plan. George Marshall suggested and campaigned for it since late 1946. The man was prolifically efficient and effective. I'd wager WWII would have been years longer if not for him.
As a Cascadian, 11:40 is my favorite part.
lol, I went looking for comments on “Washington” LOL, is the channel using AI to develop these videos?
Thanks for creating Part 2. Enjoyed it and came back to watch Part 1 again.
This. This is gonna be a hit!
Absobloodlutely amazing video!
Keep up the excellent work and may God bless you always !
I really wonder what the average Japanese person thought of America at that time? We destroyed their country in a pretty brutal way, but then we got rid of their government that forced them into war and was very brutal to the average person
Good question. I do know that the Japanese education paints a whole different narrative to the ww2 era. I'm interested in the same.
Also, my personal theory is that when one strong person stands up to a bully, and beat the hell out of him, the bully is not only shown for what he is, but the strong also helps him up, then he becomes a US territory for good bad and the ugly.
They shouldn't have attacked in the first place!
Until you read about the absolute brutality and sadism that the imperial Japan imposed on the whole region prior. The average Japanese probably had their eyes opened after the war since the government had lied to them the entire time. They came to like McArthur and realized America wasn't quite what they had been taught.
I suggest you do more research into Japan's Constitution. America wanted Japan to have a military they wanted Japan to be the vanguard against the Communist insurrection in Asia. Now while MacArthur had a large say over the Constitution and it was written by some Americans Japanese people participated in the drafting of the Constitution and most notably in the provision of no longer having a standing army. MacArthur tried to argue against this again because he wanted the fearless Japanese army as a vanguard, but in the end the current Japanese government at the time felt that after what their military had done they did not want to be responsible for that again.
In short America didn't want Japan to be peaceful America wanted to use Japan and its ruthless army but the Japanese people were done with war especially after seeing what their army had done.
I love this channel so much. Deserves more views!
in time
Patton and MacArthur are two of my favorite dudes in history. 🔥
The two, although victorious, were shot down in the end... by USA. Ironic, isn't it?
I like MacArthur for his diplomatic and military prowess but the dude almost started WW3 during the Korean War so I wouldn't call him my favorite...
The reason why Japan was able to climb out of it so easily is the fact that Japan was a United nation state that wasn't divided amongst tribal or clan lines who don't like each other and don't trust each other. The people of Japan had created a culture where they had seen themselves as part of a greater hole of the Japanese people just like in all modern functioning nation states.
And I hope you're not acting like the nukes did all the damage, everybody obsesses over those but the fact is 10 times as many people were killed in Japan by conventional bombing and fire bombing and way more damage to infrastructure and industry was done by that in the atomic bombs. The whole reason the Allies drop that was because they literally wouldn't give up even after all that. It cheapens the deaths of the 75 million people that died during the war when you just focus on the deaths of those two things which wasn't any less destructive or ethical than anything else that
Nice
11:39 That is Washington State, and not of Washington DC
8:05 idk man. Feels like you shouldn't have bombed Pearl Harbor, then.
13:44 LOL bruh knows us so well
US had choked Japan's fuel supplies. They had no choice but to go at war and occupy Hawaii to gain control of maritime routes
I never realized just how far the US went to remake Japan in its own image. Idk, something about it is kinda eerie. Reminds me of the Qu from All Tomorrows.
Did anyone else notice the subtitles of the footage @02:00 - how prophetic, the people of fukushima leaving the countryside...
WHY DOES THE THUMBNAIL HAVE A TU-95
Damn. Kishi gigachad
God Emperor McArthur protects!
The US Military used Japan’s Military to control South Korea after WW2; but North Korea proved more difficult to control.
And now North Korea is the Most advance starving and poorest Nation.
Tf's going on with ussr in 8:00
The White Army based in the Far East began an uprising in the 1950s, sparking a Russian civil war which led to the collapse of the USSR 40 years later. I thought this was common knowledge.
@@Sam-ui1ll I meant the european part on the map,
- Ukraine, Belarus and the baltic states are separated from the rest of the country
@@pros_mega Oh yeah I didn't notice that lol. My comment earlier was a joke btw.
@@Sam-ui1ll yeah, got it
At least this fella keeps his promises, part two was so epic and brilliant that it isn't made to this day despite closing comments alluding to a two weeks from now,, if ur not alive, shouldn't have promised it without it being done, but most likely, lazzzzzzy, almost kiddo
7:40 fuckin america
i'm so impressed by how influential america has been in influencing wars all over the world.
Oh man, I've been watching to much truth for one day. It's actually making me physically ill.
13:20 Is that picture of "cold war nuetralism" just the cover art for the 1998 documentary "The Cold War"? The one with Kennith Brannaugh? Is that not Copyrighted?
The condescending tone taken, perhaps unintentional perhaps intentional towards the Japanese for not wanting to engage in further military exploits after the devastating war they had just suffered through is a bit much.
I am going to go on a limb and guess you intended it another way or your voice acted up, but that sounded pretty bad.
Yep, really insensitive. Especially considering how racist the Americans were towards Asians right till 70s.
Im surprised people are not talking about how disgusting the united states is.
Why is there a week delay in second part . I get it that movies leave people on cliffhanger but this is youtube and the time duration between parts should be one day.
After a week I would have forgot minute details and lose the interest buildup from this one.
I hope you get it
IQ + Economic System + Culture = Results
Thought experiment:
What would happen if the people of Haiti and Japan magically transferred their peoples - with an adjustment to the same population amounts?
Meaning -
Haiti is filled with same amount of people, but now they're all Japanese...same for Japan, but not they're all Haitian.
This is unironically a low iq comment😂
Not to mention the best geography on the planet, the fact that the war was strictly abroad, the fact that the country was already prosperous prior to the war which allowed it to hire, attract and influence productive people and resources from across the world etc etc.
There are too many factors at hand, your simplification falls flat. In my church I was told it was because of the pilgrims' prayer or whatever, revolting!
Your argument fails flat with a mouse click.@@okene
Japan imports over 90% of its energy.
So, how can it be that Japan is relatively rich, despite paying so much in real hard currency for its energy?
How was the wealth created, despite poor energy resources? Despite virtually no natural resources?
Answer:
IQ + Economic System + Culture = Results
What would happen if the people of Haiti and Japan magically transferred their peoples - with an adjustment to the same population amounts?
Meaning -
Haiti is filled with same amount of people, but now they're all Japanese...same for Japan, but not they're all Haitian.
Ukraine says otherwise
Ukraine's Economic system is inferior due to its inferior culture, corruption. @@aeganratheesh
As is its neighbor, Moldova.
One of the poorest places on Earth, and poorest in Europe, due to corruption.
I had to stop this video after the statement that the constitution was "handed down" to the Japanese people from the Americans. This is an overly simplistic and ultimately misleading representation that ignores the role that Japanese officials and people played in crafting the constitution. Also positing MacArthur as the "American emperor" is more for views, likes and subscriptions than for an accurate or compelling retelling of history.
It’s really not though. From things as big as not having a standing armed forces(which recently started to change under Abe before his assassination) to things as small as growing hemp and marijuana(which were not illegal before the war) was mandated by the United States. They had complete control on how Japan was going into the future. Even today with about 8 military bases throughout Japan you could still say the U.S. has significant pull on the Japanese homeland.
MacArthur failed to teach or popularise English
I really hope Japan sheds non military culture and really play thier roles as a world power
Excuse me. US has never built anything in Japan, but bases, and previously has destroyed the country at last with the atomic nukes over Hiroshima & Nagasaki. The japanese economy has had improved enormously after that defeat in WW2 just because the hard work by japanese people.
And US with the 1985 Plaza Accord destroyed that fulgor and put the economy in decline. The so called lost decade is well known, and the culprit has a name, US, given that Japan was obliged to agree as a protectorate.
So the video is false propaganda, trying to rewright the history.
This is filled with so much American bias, that it should run with the title, "Highly Recommended for American Patriots".
Lol the irony coming from an account literally named "anime"
@@serebii666 Judging people from names? Pretty shallow, aren't you?
American called the Japanese "imperialist" while occupying Philippines for 40 years. And even there, the Philippines had almost thrown out the Spanish, but the Americans forced the Spanish empire to surrender to US. The locals rejected the US rule which led to war of occupation killing 1 million of the 8 million total population.
Ambassador Hull warned the Japanese to leave China or face a war with US. All the while when the Dutch, British, French, Portuguese had colonies in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Sir Lanka, etc for MORE THAN 100-200 years! Is this what you call "irony"?
Coming to this video, the Americans had no moral rights to occupy some place in the Asian war of imperialism in the first place. Occupying Japan and raping its women still continued till the end of occupation. Later on, the Americans straight up censored any party which didn't conform to its will. Talk about "free will".
The war criminal politician itself doesn't matter. His policy of strategic autonomy was always justified and this was always the main issue in the local politics of those times. Instead this youtuber uses his history to justify the Japanese encapsulation and just paints him a second Tojo or something. Would US give up its arms if a hypothetical country nuclear bombs its soil and now promises that it will always defend them militarily?
Strategic autonomy(including a strong military) is the most important trait of an independent sovereign nation. Nothing wrong in claiming that, including for Japan.
As for the economics part, read about the Breton woods and how US rigged the IMF and world bank in the first place. Sending money for reconstruction was just a facing-saving policy after causing so much destruction. And obviously US companies made huge profits competing with a war-torn country. The Japanese post-war revival was achieved by the Japanese itself. The author has some guts spinning the story, when even till 70s-80s the Americans though of Japanese as some small monkeys or something.
@@anime0965 Lol so Imperialist Japan shouldn't be called Imperialist, because the Other world powers were also imperialist? Those other world powers that both then and today were also dealing and working through their own Imperialism and it's impacts? Get a grip dude. Your fave was Imperialist and did imperialism so horrifyingly that all of it's neighbors still hate its guts 3 generations later.
" The Japanese post-war revival was achieved by the Japanese itself." Well at least we know you're completely ignorant on Post-War Japanese History, hell even Pre-War history. How do you think those electronics industries were established in the first place? I suggest you do some basic research.
Yeah... unfortunately not surprising "anime"-profile will be an apologist and biased to silly Japanese nationalism.
youre right, also not mentioned are the plaza accords which took the legs off of a financial checkmate. you are an intelligent person i can tell
@@anime0965Japanese culture, hard work & ingenuity combined with the introduction of markets, a forced constitution by the occupying Americans is why Japan was and is a huge success. A major part of this is that the Japanese people overwhelmingly accepted these reforms. Almost never in history has this happened. Only in the anglophone sphere does the faction of the society with compassion have enough influence for this kind of thing. If you want to look at crushing & dehumanizing empires look at the Muslim empires of the past & imperial Japan. America had no right to occupy these people but let’s ask what’s the alternative. Leave in country & destruction, watch it never recover & probably be invaded by China or the Soviet Union?