The Good Bye letters were heartbreaking. So young...so brave.........so sad. My father was in the Air Force, he was stationed in Osaka...i spent the happiest times there. Such kind and humble people.
This video is why you are considered the #1 content creator. Thank you for creating this very moving video and let’s all hope for peace on this small blue dot in space.
I am fortunate to have visited both museums several times over the years due to my family connections in Kagoshima. My mother was 16 years old in 1945 and remembers waving to the hundreds of planes headed for the battle of Okinawa, destined to never to return. Such a close connection to history makes it a real pilgrimage each time I go to Kanoya and Chiran.
I used to see that green flying boat every day when I went to work at the Norfolk Naval Air Station in Virginia nearly half a century ago. I'm glad it's looking so well!
I checked its history. This plane was in Norfolk and was tested. And it flew there. And this flight in Norfolk was the last flight. Thank you for the information.
I very much appreciate the videos that you put out. They are filled with wonderful content. And they teach me so much about Japan that I did not know. However there is so much about Japan in your culture I don't understand. But I think we might both agree. It was a shame so many men Japan and United States had to die in that awful War of World War II. I wish kind of that you would put out videos that were over an hour long for they would teach so much more to me. Thank you for all that you do. And I wish you and your loved ones good health and long life
A very amazing look at a sad episode. My father was a USN Helldiver pilot. His first combat mission was against Kanoya airfield on March 18, 1945 from the cairrer USS Wasp. That concrete shelter shown with the bomb damage could have been his hit. Who knows? The very next day, March 19, 1945, his ship, the Wasp, was hit with a bomb from a dive bomber that only had to fly about 50 miles to make this successful attack. I wonder if this bomber was from Kanoya? Poetic justice? I will not speculate. I have the simple navigation map with his penciled notes he carried with him on his first combat mission. Also l have his flight logbook showing this date. The older l get the sadder l become when reviewing the history of all wars.
I was surprised to know your was a pilot who bombed Kanoya. You have the great father. And probably the plane which hit WASP was from Chiran air base or Kanoya air base. My grandfathere died in New Guinea in 1945. He was in the Imperial Army. Thank you for your great comment.
I really appreciate your turn on this part of history, especially the view in the West seems to be one sided. Lacking the feelings and humanity of the pilots. History is mostly history of war, and in the end the citizens suffer always for the aims of the leaders. The European imperialism can be seen as the root of many conflicts in the 20th century. Germany thought the missed something out compared to the Uk, Spain, Portugal, France and even the Netherlands and Belgium. Japan didn't wanted to be colonised which is more than understandable and the zeitgeist of the era was expand or be a target of expansion. Then there was the social Darwinism from England that used Darwin evolution theory as a false excuse for slavery and for having colonies. We still suffer from results of this era. Both in Europe and than what's happened to China and North Korea. Thanks for your videos.
Thanks for Sharing this amazing place!. I'm just back from Japan and I followed the steps on your video on Yamato Museum in Kure and took the boat around the bay to see the ships!. I asked you for advice as where to do it and you replied!. You're a star. I'm already preparing my next visit to Japan and this place will be on my list!. Please post some information on Iwo Jima that you might have. Thanks again from Galway Ireland 🇮🇪☘️😊
I remember you. I am glad that you enjoyed Kure. Actually it is impossible to land on Iwo jima now. It is the base of Japanese self defence force and they don't allow us to land. But there are Iwo Jima cruise several times a year. ( you can not land on Iwo jima by this tour. they just go close to the island. ) If you are interested this company organize the cruise. www.ogasawarakaiun.co.jp/english/
You don't understand what the empire is. That is the last thing they do. When the Japanese WW2 soldier was found in the Jungle of Phillipine after 30 years. He came back to Japan. There was an offer from the emperor Hirohito that he would meet him. But the soldier said no. He said , " If I meet him, the emperor have to bow to to me. I can not make him do that. "
Well done video. I'm planning a trip to Japan in the next 3-4 years. Kyushu is the end goal but with many other stops on the way from Tokyo. I will be driving so we have flexibility, but it is a lot of miles for certain. I believe somewhere near Fukuoka there is a museum where they recovered a Nakajima KI-27. The Tachiarai Peace Museum in Tachiarai, Fukuoka Prefecture it is called . What may be the only KI-27 left in the world to see. I'll be checking your other videos now as well Did you ever go to the Kaiten training base near Yamaguchi on the coast of southern Honshu? Or the Shinden museum on Shikoku
I have never been to Kaiten training base. And The museum in Shikoku is not about Shinden but Shidenkai. It is located in Ehime prefecture. But I have never been there. I watched the documentary program by NHK about the Shidenkai exhibited there. You can see the real size of model of Shinden in Tachiarai Peace Museum. That Shinden was made for the movie, Godzilla -1.0. It is the great movie, I recommend. Thank you for watching Deep Japan channel. I will release the episode of Gifu base of Japanese Air Self Deffence Force this weekend.
Mi piace moltissimo riguarda re i film di guerra in particolare l'attacco a sorpresa dei giapponesi a Pearl Harbour:Tora Tora Tora.Anche guardare i libri.😮😮😮😮😮😮Si con molta fatica,perché gli americani hanno preso una grandissima batosta.😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
Kagoshima Bay is also where the imperial Navy trained for the Pearl Harbor Attack,As Kagoshima Bay is very similar shaped and has similar terrain. I was in Kagoshima in 1989,Were any of the aircraft on display? Had I been aware of the stone lanterns for the kamikaze I would have visited there and offer my own prayers for them
@@lastsamuraikyoto I did visit but over 30 years ago,I had very little time. Hopefully I can see Kagoshima again with more time to see kanoya and other places I could not in 1988 Excellent presentation!
The folly and waste of war.. and yet, even all these years later, we have learnt nothing.. There are still a few egotistical, corrupt, self absorbed and full of self importance ‘people’ who start wars…and feed the war machine with fresh, young, innocent lives.. All while sitting back in safety surrounded by luxury and sycophants 😒 RIP all those who gave their lives for our freedoms, on both sides
Thank you. That’s why I made this episode. I believe we can cut the chain of hatred by learning this. Education of Empire of Japan was wrong. But there are still many countries whose education teach the hatred. We have to stop this.
What do the people of Japan think of the idea of crashing a perfectly good airplane into a ship? It would be hard to convince me to hope into a plane intentionally and be on a one way flight. Its one tjing if the plane is damaged beyond a reasonable ability to fly it back. Strategicly speaking striking the U.S. fleet in Pearl was a good idea on paper. But in reality picking a fight with the US probably was not the smartesr thing to do. I know Admiral Yamamoto knew deep inside the attack on Pearl was not the best choice. I wonder if he had forced the issue to have the attacked canceled if it would have changed anything.
Yamamoto said they could fight for a year or two but no more. He knew he couldn’t win America in the long war. Thank you for watching Deep Japan channel.
@lastsamuraikyoto yes I have read/watch that too. He went to school here in the states from what I understand and he knew once we got our industry going ot was over for them.
What people don't take into account is that the "last toast to the Emperor" that the Kamikaze pilots made was not with rice wine but with amphetamines. They were made to bridle them with 50 cc of Philopon, a drug of Japanese design from the First World War. The one that the pilots used before this suicide was liquid, in small bottles of 50 cc. while the infantry before their Banzai attacks were given two "combat pills" - the way in which these troops were supplied with this amphetamine. Germany bought the manufacturing rights before the Second World War, it was made by the chemical company I.G. Farben, in Germany the name given was Pervitin, but the soldiers called it Pervitina, it was supplied to the SS troops and then to the population of the bombed cities, in the case of the pills the soldier took them voluntarily, but later it was included in synthetic chocolate under the name of Panzerchokolat. In World War II all participants used drugs, amphetamines, heroin, hashish derivatives, some extremely "toxic" like the cigarettes given to the soldiers of the USSR, in the case of the USA, amphetamines were used by P 51 Mustang fighter pilots, who made 6 hour escort missions for the B 17s, it was to keep them from falling asleep and they simply "fell" the pilots were so upset that they could only make one mission every 7 days... In history, not everything is what it seems or is said. I used Google Translator to write this.
I don’t think you have the right to hurt the dignity of those young men. And can you dive onto the enemy ship if you take the amphetamine? You can say anything about me, but please don’t hurt the souls of the soldiers who had to die young.
@@lastsamuraikyoto I am not trying to hurt anyone's soul, I just want people and the Japanese to know the truth, their State, filled its young idealists with amphetamines and made them throw themselves against ships... I think you should read carefully what I wrote, I did not speak of drug addicts, but of the Japanese State, filling them with amphetamines, that is why I gave examples of other countries that did the same... There is nothing glorious in throwing yourself against an enemy machine gun, or against a ship, when your senses are crammed with amphetamines and behind there is a State that did not hesitate to sacrifice young idealists for the sake of a war that was already lost... all so that certain "castes" would not lose their privileges... For all the above is why I do not offend souls, of young idealists who sacrificed their lives for a military and ruling caste that did not deserve it... I think you should read carefully what I wrote before and even better what I have written now.
@@redtobertshateshandles The sun cannot be covered with the hand... Just as truths cannot be covered by idealisms that can lead to new generations of human beings making the same mistakes as the older generations... What is glorious is life, not death, there is nothing glorious about crashing into a ship after having consumed "Philopon" amphetamines, a poison created by the Japanese so that other Japanese would die because of the military castes that governed their country...
Don't feel too bad, Japan. European people were very racist and had empires that killed people to maintain power. China was a slave state of European powers. France had Vietnam and were murdering Vietnamese until they were kicked out.. America treated black people badly. I'm glad to see all people learning. Japan should acknowledge and move on.
Actually the Japanese were right to be mad at America for trying to tell them what to do; told them to get out of China, enacted very discriminatory immigration laws against them and we actually jailed our entire Japanese population at the beginning of the war! Im not saying the attack on peril harbor was justified, just understandable treating a proud people like shit and acting surprised when they lashed out at us. Their culture is understated and admirable, its driven by Honor and they produce wonderful cars, computers and other devices we buy all the time, there is nothing mysterious about them when you see them as the proud and very hard working people that they are! They almost won at Midway, but we caught them by surprise right before they were going to get to us, and the rest of the war was more or less us closing in on them. This man did a superb job of putting together a very good rendition of how the Kamikaze pilots must have felt, and his touring of the bases and aircraft do his country proud. I hope to one day visit Japan and see the culture first hand!!!
Thank you for your great comment and understanding. There is a war museum next to Yasukuni shrine. They will show you the position and the situation that we had to fight. Buddha bless you.
The Chinese told them to get out China too. Why did they refuse to listen? You think about that? And it wasn't the Chinese alone. The Koreans also. You ever think about that? Do you think the Japanese were treating the Chinese and Koreans like sh*+? The truth was, no one in the US was giving Japan much hassle about Taiwan, Korea, and Manchuria. Yes, there were some diplomatic protests about Manchuria, but it was taken as a _fait accompli_ . It was the invasion of China proper in '37 that put Japan on a collision course. The US gave Tokyo four years to correct themselves. Instead Japan decided to invade northern Indochina in 1940, which lead to the trade sanction on aviation gasoline. The US was still selling it other petroleum products, and Japan refined crude into aviation gasoline, so it was an empty sanction. Of course, the US wasn't the only oil exporter at the time. Venezuela was the world's largest exporter by far. Yet Japan never tried to buy oil from them. Then Japan tried to strong arm the Dutch in the East Indies, demanding it triple sales to Japan and accept yen as payment. Japan should have followed the course they set in WWI. It was an economic bonanza for Japan, transforming it from a debtor nation to a creditor. And due to the disruption in trade caused by WWI, Japan made several technological advances, for example in chemicals Japan should have heeded the wise caution of Admiral Kato Tomosaburo, navy minister and later prime minister, who realised peace with Britain and the US was preferable to economically ruination. Japan could not match their productive capacity. Instead the hotheads took over. _'jailed our entire Japanese population at the beginning of the war!'_ Incorrect. Those in Hawaii were not 'jailed'. They lived as they normally did. Those east of the west coast were not jailed. Only those on the west coast were. Yes, many were US citizens. Mostly, they were children of Japanese citizens. The US gov't could have sent the Japanese citizens to internment camps, like the Japanese did to US citizens, and separated them from their American children. I guess they would have gone to orphanages or foster homes. Would that have been preferable? BTW, the IJA did not 'almost win Midway'. Appears you get your understanding of history from Hollywood films. Read _Shattered Sword_ by Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully.
Neither this Chiran museum nor the Yushukan museum at the Yasukuni jinja in Tokyo offer the slightest indication of the wholesale death, misery and suffering the Japanese forces introduced wherever they travelled on a voyage of national enrichment. The romanticising of this horror at Chiran helps to further distort the understanding most young Japanese have of the reality of what happened during the war.
I did not mean to romanticizing Kamikaze but if it sounded so, I am sorry. I just wanted you to know the suffer of those young Kamikaze. Thank you for your comment.
Unfortunatly the japanese military in ww2 didnt follow the code of the samuri, or bushido, bayoneting babies, torturing prisoners of war, doing bizzare medical experiments on civilian prisoners, etc etc etc Zero honor
@lastsamuraikyoto all people back then did bad things. Westerners were very racist towards all Asians. Don't be ashamed, all our ancestors did bad things.
😢 it's truly sad when you see the perspective of Both sides I had 2 of my uncles were on the Arizona where BOTH Officers When Pearl harbor was attacked. Needless to say they never found Nothing left of them.😢😢😮😮 It's too bad the assholes that start these Wars aren't the Ones that have to fight them. Instead of young kids their lives Turn into a meat grinder. The etiology.OF Wars is Nothing more than Wast OF resources in human life. LT USMC You did a great job on the videos kid shows the other sides perspective and what they went Through IN 😢 There final MOMENTS 😔😔 knowing it's over 😔😔😔
Excellent Video! I've always wished to attend this place to learn the history and see these rare Japanese warplanes. Thank you for uploading this!
Thank you for watching Deep Japan channel. Please visit Kagoshima one day.
The Good Bye letters were heartbreaking. So young...so brave.........so sad. My father was in the Air Force, he was stationed in Osaka...i spent the happiest times there. Such kind and humble people.
Thank you for your comment. Please visit Japan someday.
Very interesting and poignant video. And your yukata matched the plane perfectly. Arigato.🙏🏻👘
Thank you for watching Deep Japan channel. That is zero fighter yukata.
Didn't knew my Sunday coffee could taste salty.
So sad.
This video is why you are considered the #1 content creator. Thank you for creating this very moving video and let’s all hope for peace on this small blue dot in space.
The honor is more than I deserve. Thank you for your great comment and Buddha bless you. Peace!
I am fortunate to have visited both museums several times over the years due to my family connections in Kagoshima. My mother was 16 years old in 1945 and remembers waving to the hundreds of planes headed for the battle of Okinawa, destined to never to return. Such a close connection to history makes it a real pilgrimage each time I go to Kanoya and Chiran.
She must have been hard to wave them. You have the wonderful mother.
That H8K flying boat was truly massive. I glad there is one still on display.
Japanese self defense forces still uses the its new model. You can see it in Kanoya.
岐阜県「かかみがはら」航空博物館で二式大艇の実機展示してますよ。最近、天皇皇后両陛下が来られて話題になりました。
@@comete5d361 陛下の写真は見ました。11月17日の岐阜基地航空祭に行きたいです。
Thank you for your hard work, these exhibits and monuments are beautiful
Thank you for watching Deep Japan channel.
Thank you for posting this. Very moving.
Thank you for watching Deep Japan channel. I just wanted you to know that they were not crazy terrorists.
@@lastsamuraikyoto You're welcome. I have been a life long student of the Pacific War. I hope you will do more videos on military subjects.
I have the episodes of battleship Yamato, zero fighter, Sasebo port, Maizuru port so far. Please check.
@@lastsamuraikyoto Thanks again, I will check them out.
I used to see that green flying boat every day when I went to work at the Norfolk Naval Air Station in Virginia nearly half a century ago. I'm glad it's looking so well!
I checked its history. This plane was in Norfolk and was tested. And it flew there. And this flight in Norfolk was the last flight. Thank you for the information.
So interesting.. thank you for posting this.
My pleasure.
Thanks for the great video as always! Such a sad story! My wife and I will bring our kids there when they're old enough to understand
Thank you for watching Deep Japan. I’m glad you understand the suffering of Kamikaze. Buddha bless you.
Wow, amzing under-taking; great video.. Heart-felt thanks.. For sharing this and reading the last notes.
Thank you for wonderful comment. Buddha bless you.
I very much appreciate the videos that you put out. They are filled with wonderful content. And they teach me so much about Japan that I did not know. However there is so much about Japan in your culture I don't understand. But I think we might both agree. It was a shame so many men Japan and United States had to die in that awful War of World War II. I wish kind of that you would put out videos that were over an hour long for they would teach so much more to me. Thank you for all that you do. And I wish you and your loved ones good health and long life
Thank you for watching Deep Japan channel and your kind comment. Buddha bless you.
Great video and superb translation arigato from 🏴🇬🇧
Thank you for watching Deep Japan channel.
A very amazing look at a sad episode. My father was a USN Helldiver pilot. His first combat mission was against Kanoya airfield on March 18, 1945 from the cairrer USS Wasp. That concrete shelter shown with the bomb damage could have been his hit. Who knows? The very next day, March 19, 1945, his ship, the Wasp, was hit with a bomb from a dive bomber that only had to fly about 50 miles to make this successful attack. I wonder if this bomber was from Kanoya? Poetic justice? I will not speculate. I have the simple navigation map with his penciled notes he carried with him on his first combat mission. Also l have his flight logbook showing this date. The older l get the sadder l become when reviewing the history of all wars.
I was surprised to know your was a pilot who bombed Kanoya. You have the great father. And probably the plane which hit WASP was from Chiran air base or Kanoya air base.
My grandfathere died in New Guinea in 1945. He was in the Imperial Army. Thank you for your great comment.
I've been here it's really interesting there's a samurai village close by with beautiful gardens.
Oh I did not know that.
Amazing video's as always thank you very much 🏯
Thank you for supporting Deep Japan.
I really appreciate your turn on this part of history, especially the view in the West seems to be one sided. Lacking the feelings and humanity of the pilots.
History is mostly history of war, and in the end the citizens suffer always for the aims of the leaders. The European imperialism can be seen as the root of many conflicts in the 20th century. Germany thought the missed something out compared to the Uk, Spain, Portugal, France and even the Netherlands and Belgium. Japan didn't wanted to be colonised which is more than understandable and the zeitgeist of the era was expand or be a target of expansion.
Then there was the social Darwinism from England that used Darwin evolution theory as a false excuse for slavery and for having colonies.
We still suffer from results of this era. Both in Europe and than what's happened to China and North Korea. Thanks for your videos.
Very interesting, thank u, best regards from Germany
Thomas
German pilots also did suicide attack, I read. Thank you for watching Deep Japan channel.
@@lastsamuraikyoto yes, in the end of the war, against enemy plains. Best wishes❤️
Thomas
ArigatO great swordsman 🙏
Another valuable history lesson.
Thank you for supporting Deep Japan channel.
Very interesting. There is also a small kamikaze museum close to Kagoshima airport.
I did not know that. I'll check. Thank you.
Amazing !!!
My Respect and Admiration 🙏
Thank you for watching Deep Japan channel. If you have time, please check other episodes.
Thank you for sharing this video.
I’m glad you like it.
@@lastsamuraikyoto I will be watching more of your videos.
Very well presented. You can feel the weight of history in such places, especially due to the care shown in their memorialization.
👍
Thank you for watching. There are many people supporting those places. And there are many movies and TV dramas about Kamikaze.
Excellent video!
Thank you for watching Deep Japan channel.
Thank you. 🙏
Thank you for watching
Very informative and interesting. Such brave young men, such a terrible waste.
Too sad and terrible to understand them. Thank you for your comment.
Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for watching Deep Japan channel.
@@lastsamuraikyotoyou’re welcome!! 🤝🤝
お疲れ様です👌
@@美香橋本-o4k ありがとう
Thanks for Sharing this amazing place!. I'm just back from Japan and I followed the steps on your video on Yamato Museum in Kure and took the boat around the bay to see the ships!. I asked you for advice as where to do it and you replied!. You're a star. I'm already preparing my next visit to Japan and this place will be on my list!. Please post some information on Iwo Jima that you might have. Thanks again from Galway Ireland 🇮🇪☘️😊
I remember you. I am glad that you enjoyed Kure.
Actually it is impossible to land on Iwo jima now. It is the base of Japanese self defence force and they don't allow us to land. But there are Iwo Jima cruise several times a year. ( you can not land on Iwo jima by this tour. they just go close to the island. ) If you are interested this company organize the cruise.
www.ogasawarakaiun.co.jp/english/
The Zero was a truly magnificent looking fighter plane..
Thank you. Did you notice that I wore Zero fighter kimono?
A sad sad story💌💌💌
Too sad.
Blame His Majesty Emperor Hirohito 🩸
You don't understand what the empire is. That is the last thing they do. When the Japanese WW2 soldier was found in the Jungle of Phillipine after 30 years. He came back to Japan. There was an offer from the emperor Hirohito that he would meet him. But the soldier said no. He said , " If I meet him, the emperor have to bow to to me. I can not make him do that. "
@@lastsamuraikyoto yes, I think he’s the most loyal soldier in all of human history!!!
Salute
Well done video. I'm planning a trip to Japan in the next 3-4 years. Kyushu is the end goal but with many other stops on the way from Tokyo. I will be driving so we have flexibility, but it is a lot of miles for certain. I believe somewhere near Fukuoka there is a museum where they recovered a Nakajima KI-27. The Tachiarai Peace Museum in Tachiarai, Fukuoka Prefecture it is called . What may be the only KI-27 left in the world to see. I'll be checking your other videos now as well Did you ever go to the Kaiten training base near Yamaguchi on the coast of southern Honshu? Or the Shinden museum on Shikoku
I have never been to Kaiten training base. And The museum in Shikoku is not about Shinden but Shidenkai. It is located in Ehime prefecture. But I have never been there. I watched the documentary program by NHK about the Shidenkai exhibited there. You can see the real size of model of Shinden in Tachiarai Peace Museum. That Shinden was made for the movie, Godzilla -1.0. It is the great movie, I recommend. Thank you for watching Deep Japan channel. I will release the episode of Gifu base of Japanese Air Self Deffence Force this weekend.
Sehr ergreifend ist die Geschichte.
Thank you for watching Deep Japan channel.
So sad.. and such beautiful planes
Thank you for watching Deep Japan channel. It is so sad.
One of the first Kamakazi attacks occurred at Leyte Gulf in the Philippines. Okinawa came later.
That's right. Onishi Takijiro whom I talked about in this episode decided.
Mi piace moltissimo riguarda re i film di guerra in particolare l'attacco a sorpresa dei giapponesi a Pearl Harbour:Tora Tora Tora.Anche guardare i libri.😮😮😮😮😮😮Si con molta fatica,perché gli americani hanno preso una grandissima batosta.😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
I also like Tora Tora Tora. Thank you for watching Deep Japan channel.
Kagoshima Bay is also where the imperial Navy trained for the Pearl Harbor Attack,As Kagoshima Bay is very similar shaped and has similar terrain.
I was in Kagoshima in 1989,Were any of the aircraft on display?
Had I been aware of the stone lanterns for the kamikaze I would have visited there and offer my own prayers for them
If you go to Kanoya base, you can see some aircrafts. I hope you can visit Kagoshima someday,
@@lastsamuraikyoto I did visit but over 30 years ago,I had very little time.
Hopefully I can see Kagoshima again with more time to see kanoya
and other places I could not in 1988
Excellent presentation!
いつかこの場所に行きます。彼らに敬意を示すために จาก ไทยแลนด์
ありがとうございます。是非いつか訪れてください。
Such touching last letters. Are they available in a book to buy (English language)?
I put “ kamikaze book “ into Amazon, some Books in English were listed. Please try.
@@lastsamuraikyoto I did find a couple of interesting books but nothing on their last letters.
Chiran peace museum publishes “The mind of the Kamikaze.” They may send it to you.
www.chiran-tokkou.jp/books.html
The folly and waste of war.. and yet, even all these years later, we have learnt nothing.. There are still a few egotistical, corrupt, self absorbed and full of self importance ‘people’ who start wars…and feed the war machine with fresh, young, innocent lives.. All while sitting back in safety surrounded by luxury and sycophants 😒
RIP all those who gave their lives for our freedoms, on both sides
Thank you. That’s why I made this episode. I believe we can cut the chain of hatred by learning this. Education of Empire of Japan was wrong. But there are still many countries whose education teach the hatred. We have to stop this.
Just read the comments.
The ignorance.
Sad the flowers of a nation were sacrificed so needlessly.
It was the worst era. Too sad.
A STEASFAST BOW THEN SALUTE
Thank you.
Well they were not there for peaceful purposes.
No not at all. They tried to sink American ships to prevent thier landing on the main land.
What do the people of Japan think of the idea of crashing a perfectly good airplane into a ship?
It would be hard to convince me to hope into a plane intentionally and be on a one way flight. Its one tjing if the plane is damaged beyond a reasonable ability to fly it back.
Strategicly speaking striking the U.S. fleet in Pearl was a good idea on paper. But in reality picking a fight with the US probably was not the smartesr thing to do. I know Admiral Yamamoto knew deep inside the attack on Pearl was not the best choice. I wonder if he had forced the issue to have the attacked canceled if it would have changed anything.
Yamamoto said they could fight for a year or two but no more. He knew he couldn’t win America in the long war.
Thank you for watching Deep Japan channel.
@lastsamuraikyoto yes I have read/watch that too. He went to school here in the states from what I understand and he knew once we got our industry going ot was over for them.
Thanks for the great video! Here is a new video on the sea plane you showed - ua-cam.com/video/qySSsKNKojU/v-deo.htmlsi=WK1HNvfb6hTINhLA
Thank you. I watched. This is the very same plane I saw at Kanoya.
Futile exercise really.
Too sad.
What people don't take into account is that the "last toast to the Emperor" that the Kamikaze pilots made was not with rice wine but with amphetamines. They were made to bridle them with 50 cc of Philopon, a drug of Japanese design from the First World War. The one that the pilots used before this suicide was liquid, in small bottles of 50 cc. while the infantry before their Banzai attacks were given two "combat pills" - the way in which these troops were supplied with this amphetamine. Germany bought the manufacturing rights before the Second World War, it was made by the chemical company I.G. Farben, in Germany the name given was Pervitin, but the soldiers called it Pervitina, it was supplied to the SS troops and then to the population of the bombed cities, in the case of the pills the soldier took them voluntarily, but later it was included in synthetic chocolate under the name of Panzerchokolat. In World War II all participants used drugs, amphetamines, heroin, hashish derivatives, some extremely "toxic" like the cigarettes given to the soldiers of the USSR, in the case of the USA, amphetamines were used by P 51 Mustang fighter pilots, who made 6 hour escort missions for the B 17s, it was to keep them from falling asleep and they simply "fell" the pilots were so upset that they could only make one mission every 7 days... In history, not everything is what it seems or is said. I used Google Translator to write this.
I don’t think you have the right to hurt the dignity of those young men. And can you dive onto the enemy ship if you take the amphetamine? You can say anything about me, but please don’t hurt the souls of the soldiers who had to die young.
@@lastsamuraikyoto I am not trying to hurt anyone's soul, I just want people and the Japanese to know the truth, their State, filled its young idealists with amphetamines and made them throw themselves against ships... I think you should read carefully what I wrote, I did not speak of drug addicts, but of the Japanese State, filling them with amphetamines, that is why I gave examples of other countries that did the same... There is nothing glorious in throwing yourself against an enemy machine gun, or against a ship, when your senses are crammed with amphetamines and behind there is a State that did not hesitate to sacrifice young idealists for the sake of a war that was already lost... all so that certain "castes" would not lose their privileges... For all the above is why I do not offend souls, of young idealists who sacrificed their lives for a military and ruling caste that did not deserve it... I think you should read carefully what I wrote before and even better what I have written now.
@lastsamuraikyoto just delete his comment.
@@redtobertshateshandles The sun cannot be covered with the hand... Just as truths cannot be covered by idealisms that can lead to new generations of human beings making the same mistakes as the older generations... What is glorious is life, not death, there is nothing glorious about crashing into a ship after having consumed "Philopon" amphetamines, a poison created by the Japanese so that other Japanese would die because of the military castes that governed their country...
Don't feel too bad, Japan.
European people were very racist and had empires that killed people to maintain power.
China was a slave state of European powers.
France had Vietnam and were murdering Vietnamese until they were kicked out..
America treated black people badly.
I'm glad to see all people learning.
Japan should acknowledge and move on.
Thank you for your comment. We changed our constitution and we have moved on. Buddha bless you.
Actually the Japanese were right to be mad at America for trying to tell them what to do; told them to get out of China, enacted very discriminatory immigration laws against them and we actually jailed our entire Japanese population at the beginning of the war! Im not saying the attack on peril harbor was justified, just understandable treating a proud people like shit and acting surprised when they lashed out at us. Their culture is understated and admirable, its driven by Honor and they produce wonderful cars, computers and other devices we buy all the time, there is nothing mysterious about them when you see them as the proud and very hard working people that they are! They almost won at Midway, but we caught them by surprise right before they were going to get to us, and the rest of the war was more or less us closing in on them. This man did a superb job of putting together a very good rendition of how the Kamikaze pilots must have felt, and his touring of the bases and aircraft do his country proud. I hope to one day visit Japan and see the culture first hand!!!
Thank you for your great comment and understanding. There is a war museum next to Yasukuni shrine. They will show you the position and the situation that we had to fight. Buddha bless you.
The Chinese told them to get out China too. Why did they refuse to listen? You think about that?
And it wasn't the Chinese alone. The Koreans also. You ever think about that?
Do you think the Japanese were treating the Chinese and Koreans like sh*+?
The truth was, no one in the US was giving Japan much hassle about Taiwan, Korea, and Manchuria. Yes, there were some diplomatic protests about Manchuria, but it was taken as a _fait accompli_ . It was the invasion of China proper in '37 that put Japan on a collision course. The US gave Tokyo four years to correct themselves. Instead Japan decided to invade northern Indochina in 1940, which lead to the trade sanction on aviation gasoline. The US was still selling it other petroleum products, and Japan refined crude into aviation gasoline, so it was an empty sanction. Of course, the US wasn't the only oil exporter at the time. Venezuela was the world's largest exporter by far. Yet Japan never tried to buy oil from them. Then Japan tried to strong arm the Dutch in the East Indies, demanding it triple sales to Japan and accept yen as payment.
Japan should have followed the course they set in WWI. It was an economic bonanza for Japan, transforming it from a debtor nation to a creditor. And due to the disruption in trade caused by WWI, Japan made several technological advances, for example in chemicals
Japan should have heeded the wise caution of Admiral Kato Tomosaburo, navy minister and later prime minister, who realised peace with Britain and the US was preferable to economically ruination. Japan could not match their productive capacity. Instead the hotheads took over.
_'jailed our entire Japanese population at the beginning of the war!'_ Incorrect. Those in Hawaii were not 'jailed'. They lived as they normally did. Those east of the west coast were not jailed. Only those on the west coast were. Yes, many were US citizens. Mostly, they were children of Japanese citizens. The US gov't could have sent the Japanese citizens to internment camps, like the Japanese did to US citizens, and separated them from their American children. I guess they would have gone to orphanages or foster homes. Would that have been preferable?
BTW, the IJA did not 'almost win Midway'. Appears you get your understanding of history from Hollywood films. Read _Shattered Sword_ by Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully.
Remember Pearl Harbor
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@lastsamuraikyoto just delete this comment also.
Neither this Chiran museum nor the Yushukan museum at the Yasukuni jinja in Tokyo offer the slightest indication of the wholesale death, misery and suffering the Japanese forces introduced wherever they travelled on a voyage of national enrichment. The romanticising of this horror at Chiran helps to further distort the understanding most young Japanese have of the reality of what happened during the war.
I did not mean to romanticizing Kamikaze but if it sounded so, I am sorry. I just wanted you to know the suffer of those young Kamikaze. Thank you for your comment.
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Unfortunatly the japanese military in ww2 didnt follow the code of the samuri, or bushido, bayoneting babies, torturing prisoners of war, doing bizzare medical experiments on civilian prisoners, etc etc etc
Zero honor
We are really ashamed.
@lastsamuraikyoto all people back then did bad things.
Westerners were very racist towards all Asians.
Don't be ashamed, all our ancestors did bad things.
Let me think, how many brave Americans died on Dec. 7th, 1941?
2402 Americans were killed by the Pearl Harbour attack. We have to remember this.
😢 it's truly sad when you see the perspective of Both sides I had 2 of my uncles were on the Arizona where BOTH Officers When Pearl harbor was attacked. Needless to say they never found Nothing left of them.😢😢😮😮
It's too bad the assholes that start these Wars aren't the Ones that have to fight them. Instead of young kids their lives Turn into a meat grinder. The etiology.OF Wars is Nothing more than Wast OF resources in human life.
LT USMC You did a great job on the videos kid shows the other sides perspective and what they went Through IN 😢 There final MOMENTS 😔😔 knowing it's over 😔😔😔
I’m sorry to hear about your uncles. If I visit Hawaii, I’ll visit Arizona in the sea.
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