he also did the history of the world and both videos are great to get a general idea of history but with how short and fast paced they are it's difficult to go into too much detail. the humor helps to have the important parts stay in your mind. it's a lot to take in for 10min thank you for the video :)
You expressed some relief that the creator of the video took a more neutral stance. This is how most Americans feel. We harbor (unintentional joke) no ill will toward Japan for WWII. It's not like how a lot of Koreans and Chinese loathe the Japanese. A lot of Americans actually idolize Japan. Same for Germany. We don't hold a grudge against them either. We may joke about things that happened in WWII, but it's not from a place of disdain. We joke about 9/11, too. The only countries we dislike are the ones actively trying to attack us in the modern day. Even then, many Americans still idolize those countries for who knows what reason...
"It's not like how a lot of koreans and chinese loathe the japanese" Throw in half of SEA while you're at it, now what's more believable. Those countries being petty bitch or japan committing unspeakable evil of biblical proportion and a lot of them escaping international court of war crimes AND still doesn't acknowledge till this day.
If the Japanese had done to the US what they did to China and Korea we'd loathe the Japanese too, and consider them spawns of the devil. But they never conquered us, and we beat them, so we can be friends.
@@johnsmith-ir1ne theres also too many americans that generalize entire countries full of people, many people with many different opinions and stances might I add, into being just "enemies".
The moment you talk about American idolizing Japan, you are not taking a neutral stance. Just an example, in WW2 Japan commited way more atrocities than any other countries in the world(even Nazi Germany), yet in modern times the US likes Japan and dislikes China/Russia. How is that taking a neutral stance? You are against countries which have different beliefs to you, like everybody else.
I remember someone saying that this would be the perfect video to show during the first and last lectures of Japanese history course. On first viewing you grasp absolutely nothing and just laugh at the fast paced jokes, on the last viewing you can then enjoy actually understanding things since the video is basically just a fast forwarded summary of the course contents. =D
This is incorrect. As far as I'm aware, Japanese uses katakana "Amerika" or 合衆国 (Gasshukoku). Chinese for USA is 美国 (Meiguo) which means beautiful country. Are you confusing the Korean word for USA (미국 Miguk) and the Chinese for rice (米 mi)?
@@CR33D404the Chinese name for the US is 美国 Meiguo, which means beautiful country. I think they're confusing Korean 미국 (Miguk, USA) with the Chinese word for rice (米 mi).
I would say Hokkaido is like Alaska Okinawa is like Hawaii Considering - they are not connected to main island - has own history, and different people - climate (tropical, or northern area has tons of snow in winter and gets cold)
@@GoodHunter9 Wuht. I dunno how you equate the 2nd most populated state with 3rd least populated state. Litterally could not pick two more different states.
Btw something to point out. The firebomb raids by the United States took more lives (for obvious reasons) than the two nukes did. In western media and education we aren't ever really taught how devastating those firebomb raids were. I do believe Graveyard of Fireflies has displayed this atrocity but essentially the US rained fire and napalm down on cities in Tokyo, but not just randomly, strategically like bombing a circle around the city so the heat comes to the center to ensure 100% destruction, no where to go, all infrastructure and human life gone. The nukes were horrible, but the firebomb raids on cities, with all those civilians, objectively took more human life than the nukes did. Considering how much nuclear bombs have advanced it's worth always remembering nukes are unacceptable but it really overshadows how aggressive and regardless for human life the US was during it's campaigns in Imperialist Japan.
i mean the nukes were overkill but im pretty sure the US didnt start the war, i here a lot about the nuke (obviously) but not much about how japan because of greed started a very stupid war which turned out well... very bad lol, the point im trying to make is war should not have been started between these 2 country's in the first place idk what the japanese leader's were thinking when the attacked pearl harbor, people are hung up on the size of the bomb and how destructive it was but not about the unnecessary war, the most you can say is that the nuke was morally bad/controversial because after all they were at war (where people/country's try to kill each other), war started between the 2 country's by japan. people talking about the retaliation aka (the nuke) but not how the war should not have started in the first place. tho i do sympathize with those poor japanese citizens who went through all that they did due to the leader's of their country and US not making it any better by just straight up overkill
The US was no more aggressive and regarless of human life than Japan had been in China and Korea and other places. Look up "karma". Countries that do not invade and brutalize other countries do not suffer retaliatory bombings - though they might suffer unprovoked attacks. Japan F*** around and found out.
Over ten million Asians were killed by Japan's war effort, through destruction of infrastructure, plunder, and massacre. Someone had to stop this psychopathic killer force. That's what the Allied Powers, today the UN, did.
So, it seemed like you rolled your eyes a bit and sighed when he was talking about the 2 big 💣. It almost seemed like you wanted to say something, but didn't. I'm interested in hearing what you have to say about that.
Watching your video I realized that I don't think I've watched the original History of Japan as I've only seen videos of Japanese creators reacting to it, so they were always interrupting to add their own info or perspective on things (some more serious, with reference to the history they learned, some more on the comedic side)....it is indeed very fast paced and mostly made with puns and visual gags, so I get how it can be overwhelming. Thank you for making your own take - as some of the comments mentioned, I think ppl (me obviously included) would appreciate your own story on the place you were born and the northern parts. For example, when he said the upper north was finally conquered, this made me go into another rabbit hole on yt to see what is there about the Ainu people, it seemed quite a tragic history and a minority of a native part of the population that was mostly integrated. It was a while ago, so I might misremember, but anyway - this would be an idea if you want to make content on that :-) Keep up the good work!
Also they lacked to mention the friendship between Poland and Japan, as they were allies before the WW2 as they had a common enemy being the USSR. The war begun as Germany invaded Poland, which Japan was not really happy with as Poland was still an ally. Later, the Polish government in exile was forced by the Allies to declare war on Japan to get supported by the Allies. As a friend being on the other side of the fence, Japan just replied "no" to that war declaration.
There's a show named Shogun that is getting popular here in the US that explores that. It is a very good show. I wonder what an actual Japanese person would think of it?
@@TTKDMS An M16 is a tool, and a flag is a different kind of tool. Some flags have stains on them, some do not. Whether or not those stains offend you depend entirely on your view of the world. The Rising Sun flag, whether you like it or not, has a history behind it that would offend a great amount of people in the world -- and I'm not talking about people that live in the US. It's the same reason the Swastika has fallen out of use in the Western world -- or why you wouldn't fly a confederate flag in the US. Since Japan did indeed lose that existential war, they do not have the right to fly it anymore. Those are the rules of war -- they are brutal and unfair. The winners get to choose what happens to the losers. Now, thankfully, the US chose to change the government of Japan instead of destroying it. So do I care if the Japanese Navy flies that flag, as an individual in a country thousands of miles away? Absolutely not. They have not invaded any countries or expanded their empire lately, so I say live and let live.
@@TTKDMS You're not even mentioning what the Japanese soldiers did during WWII. They're dogma was to treat all other races as less than living things. Surely you know what happened. Also, calling yourself a "dumb Gaijin" is up to you. I guess I'm just a smart Gaijin.
@@TTKDMS Brother, 80 years ago is not that long ago, and those atrocities were ATROCITIES. Pretty disingenuous to compare a service weapon to a flag, which is an actual symbol. The symbolism and connotation attached to it is the point. You can scream all you want about how the Swastika is a Buddhist symbol but that doesn't remove the Nazi connotations; at least Germany has been pretty proactive in reconciling their tragedies, while Japan continues to gloss over, downplay, or outright deny its crimes. I say all this as a half-Japanese person myself.
The Rising Sun flag is used by the Japanese Navy because it’s a war flag, (military flag). The US has a war flag too but there’s no difference in the war flag and the National flag, (at least none that you’d see).
good video another video suggestion - can you share with us how is ww2 taught in japan and how much it changed since the end of war? maybe your family/friends have different experiences? i would be super interested in that bonus points if you share opinions aboout the nukes, since so many american lefties dont like US now, its hot topic again so maybe mentioning it in title/thumbnail could boost the video thank you!
@@peterc4082thank you for your opinion too. Will think about it. Although I would like to share my opinion or what I learned in the JP schools, I don’t want to be offensive to anyone you know 🧐
@@ayathejapanese_jp I don't mind either way but I think some people may be offended by perceived bias to one side or other side. So one should be careful not to step on any toes, as you say yourself. :)
@@ayathejapanese_jp Sometimes being offensive can generate views. But that is very risky. I suppose being entirely neutral and distanced from a topic can be useful. But also there are many topics about Japan one can make videos about. Like ELECTRONICS! Eg Toto products. And maybe topics like whale and dolphin hunts which are also controversial but maybe less so than WW2.
China was also allowed to trade with china. Portugal was ban along with any of its allies. It was only the Dutch east India company that could trade with Japan. The rising Sun flag is also still used as the offical self defence force / self defence flag. Although it’s was changed a bit it still keeps the general design of the original.
Sorry to be so nit-picky, but I'd like to point out several small errors: Japan did not steal China's writing system. They adopted it with China's blessing. Kukai brought Shingon Buddhism to Japan, not Zen. The Mongol forces were destroyed by typhoons, not tornados. Those are rare in Japan and rather measly when they do happen. The castle shown to represent Edo is Himeji Castle which is gorgeous, but way out west of Kyoto. And Japan decisively defeated Russia. They didn't just get tired and stop fighting. But otherwise, yes! Great job.
Japan was and is the only country in the World that had defeated the Soviet Union empire, Qing dynasty, British empire, French empire, Dutch empire, Portuguese empire, Germany empire, and United States empire all by itself.
I know, but Okinawa (Ryukyu) and Hokkaido (Ainu) has whole different stories each. There are some videos available on YT. But I can also create one as Hokkaido born and raised ❄️☃️
As an american the fact that i knew half of japans history is kind of shocking, not sure if the world knows any of american history, but as an American, i have way too much knowledge about other countries religious culture and ethnic groups, i surprise immigrants all the time.
Too be fair this was thr most basic of highlights and a ton of fasinating details. Two weird things that answer modern problems is they flip flop on gender role and physical gender at least twice before coming to current state. In fact women were kinda superior til some arbitary happening after a war caused men to finally get there own houses and girls move in with them instead of husbands moving into wifes family. Oh land grants for winning side!
@@Mr.TrUnrBrigs-oo4yz I was just making the point the the American education system is pretty good when it comes to geography, some Americans have no idea Malaysia or Maldives or Madagascar are even countries let alone there religious backgrounds or what the people are even called or what they speak, the fact that I know this is surprising, I guess I'm just intelligent. (People always say americans are either stupid, or ignorant, I argue we are an insular country)
Great video! I was able to keep up and get an idea of it all even though he was moving a tab bit fast. Helpful view from a native this Is definitely a thing I don't see you guys do often still, so it's definitely appreciated. As for some of the subjects in the video while many countries are covered in blood dispute the bad it is still apart of the countrie's history. We should learn about the bad as much as the good. It is not to idolize, but to learn. No history should be forgotten good, bad, and sad. This goes for Pearl Harbor and hiroshima/Nagasaki on the topic of WW2. Don't want to go to into on those, but just to say that it's ok and what not. We can heal. I want to heal. As for the Rising Sun flag while yes it was used in a time of colonization and the atrocities committed around Asian and the Oceania that does not mean it has to been used or be ONLY seen in such a manner. For me I acknowledge the bad past of the flag, but I do not idolize that part of the flag's history. That is why in the US in particular you have people who appreciate the flag. I still enjoy the flag and you should too is what I am saying. The only time I have an issue is when people want to stupidly idolize that goes for anything not just flags. As for Japan post WW2 which is my favorite time period right after the Sengoku Jidai period while yes Japan did become outrageously rich, modernize, and engineer/re-engineer some of the best technology know to man even to date was it worth the loss and suffering pre-WW2? That is not for me to decide, but just something to think about. Or do you believe the sacrifice was necessary? Devastation vs. Growth? Necessity vs. Choice? All in all I just want to get along. I hope we can all heal and learn from our past war-time history. Peaceful conflict resolution is what we need to do now and going forward. I am also in full support of Gensuikyo 原水爆禁止日本協議会.
The great classical civilizations of Southeast Asia are Angkor in Cambodia and Champa in Vietnam. Much of our knowledge of early Southeast Asia is derived from Chinese and Indian sources. The builders of Angkor were the Khmers. The Khmer men were described by the Chinese as “small and Black.” In modern times, as early as 1923, Harvard University anthropologist Roland Burrage Dixon noted that the ancient Khmers were physically “marked by distinctly short stature, dark skin, curly or even frizzly hair, broad noses and thick Negroid lips.” Chinese dynastic records from as early as 192 C.E. reference a kingdom of Lin-yi, which meant the “land of Black men.” The kingdom of Lin-yi was known as Champa in Sanskrit documents.
You have to be from Hokkaido if you said your town wasn't shown, I made this comment before I watched the whole video and I was correct. I'm Scottish and Hokkaido reminds me a lot like Scotland in the UK
Very nice reaction video. You have courage to face the bad period of history directly, not easy but you did it. Not like some other reaction videos I've watched. As a Chinese, I really appreciate that. Atom bomb is hard to take for sure, yet Japan invaded to Asian countries and what they had done there is hard to take as well (such as comfort women, unit 731,the Nanking Massacre). Not to start a war is the key point. Sun raising flag is just the military flag of Japan. 自衛隊 still using it nowadays. Technically no big deal using it. But Asian countries have no good impressions of 旭日旗 as you may know why. Hopefully, Japanese military is for defending themselves as the literal meaning of 自衛隊. After all what im saying, hope you don't get me wrong. I like Japanese ancient historical hero, I like Japanese anime, I like Japanese language, I like to talk to Japanese people. I study 日本語 myself, I like 漢字 in modern Japanese still have ancient Chinese meaning. People is just people, not politics. Some people just want make friends of other people and be happy. I wish I could travel to Japan one day，北海道 maybe wwww.
Japan has a fascinating history. It has a proud development in Asia. I am an american asian with roots in Chinese and find the Japanese being successful in our modern world because they are hard working, devoting to what they do, adapting to modern standards and willing to integrate to whatever standards helpful for their survival and lifestyle. A chinese should know that the Japanese don't like China things after the Mongol conquers. The Japanese were in fact disappointed in the overall Chinese for their weakness and willingness to bow down to the Mongols and this mentality lasts even today. For Chinese the Japanese have preserved and were frozen in mentality back in 600 AD China, which isn't bad for the mannerisms, language and grammars, arts, etc except for the militaristic mentalities, and many things that were bad associated in the Sui/Tang periods. Sui/Tang well past China and the aggressive mentalities from those ancient days better be dropped and it seem so after world war 2. That's why people all over asia are respecting the Japanese once again. I hope it lasts.
I love your reaction to this, especially some parts like the world war II segment. It's nice to see when people can take a joke about their country and laugh rather than feel offended. And you had some wise words at the end. This was a fun video, I subscribed! 🙂
For something about the "Sun Rising flag with 16 bands" I am surprised to know that this flag is not used anymore. I also have the uneasy feeling that certain country with "golden stars" (stars a plural) will be treated the same way in a not-far future. Thanks for pointing this out. There are still many people not able to forgive Japanese government and military did in those period. Also there's no right for the current people now to have this feeling because they haven't been dealt with the Japanese military and in fact these people were collaborators with the unwelcomed Japanese military in that particular period. And unfortunately these people don't see the Janpaese government is a reflection of themselves and they risk putting a whole country in danger just like the Japanese did over those unfortunate days. Can we ever learn?
Her hometown must be more northern like hokaido or something Edit: Hell yeah I'm a fuckin genius, big fucking brain I got such a strong brain holy shit I was right?! Deductive reasoning go brrrrr super smart, thank you.
Aya Japan, hello , your English language is very powerful 👍. The video, that was presented, was very interesting to watch. Do your best, your channel will grow🌷.
Okay, my heart kind of broke watching your expression during the WW2 segment. I fist became interested in Japan at the age of 5, watching classic Tokusatsu. I asked my father where all this cool media I was watching came from. He then began to tell me about Japan, WW2, and then showed my impressionable young eyes photos of the aftermath of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I suffered nightmares for almost a month.
12:26 Yes we use. You just dont know. It has become difficult to use it in international forums because China and especially South Korea are picking a quarrel. They just lie.
Its False what you say about the flag not being used in Japan anymore. That "Old" Japan Flag is still used by the Japanese Marine but in a slightly different red... It's like saying that the Nazi symbol in Gray instead of black is acceptable to use (it's not ok ,which is why it's not allowed in any color in Germany, period.). I really don't understand how Japanese people still use that flag under which they tortured millions of people, did the most Horrific Bio Chemical test on Chinese population, forced up to 410,000 Girls/women to become “Comfort women” (se* slaves) of with most died of abuse and Diseases. And Japan NEVER paid any reparations for the women that survived, A South Korean court needed to force Japan to pay at last 16 survivors last year, but Japan still tries to do everything tot to pay the other still surviving woman, they systematically abused...
Not only China, but literally every other ethnic group they came across, they did the same horrible things to them as well. Philippines history shows very vividly what happened when the Japanese occupied there.
@@miiko7859 I know that's why i have written "Bio Chemical test on Chinese population" because nearly all Bio weapon tests were done on Chinese cities. Things like spreading Diseases by releasing viruses with planes above Cities to create epidemic outbreaks. While the other things i did not specify as they were universal across all the occupied regions.
@@kino-en What do you mean by that Germany has "extreme censorship and oppression"? The only things that are censored in Germany is deformations based on lies, nazi symbols worn Nazi sympathizers and Slures depending the context. But even Nazi symbols are displayed when it is about learning, informing, or it's in an artistic but not glorifying context like a war movie or game about germany. Unlike the USA or most countries, Germany has NO censorship about history or informing. We learn everything in detail, from colonization to everything that happened under Nazi rule and all major events after WW2. You can say and do anything when it's in an informing or artistic context as long as it's not the most racist or xenophobic shit ever. Which I think, and any sane person, that that's a good thing. And it's nowhere near "extreme censorship and oppression".
@@kino-en (1/3) What do you mean by that Germany has "extreme censorship and oppression"? The only things that are censored in Germany is deformations based on lies, nazi symbols worn Naz* sympathizers and Slures depending the context.
The original Japanese people were Afrakans!! History of the Black Asians Before waves of Han migrations around 1000 B.C., the original inhabitants of China were black skinned people who dominated the region until a few thousand years ago. They were followed by the ethnic groups, who are part of the Austronesian people who have come from the Malay Archipelago 6,000 years ago. Pejoratively called Moor Negritos, or Little Black People, by the Spanish invaders who observed them in Southeast Asia, these black folk were still living in China during the Qing dynasty (1644 to 1911). At about 35,000 B.C. a group of black Chinese, who became known as the Jomon entered Japan, they became the first humans to inhabit the Japanese Islands. Later, another group; now known as the Ainu, followed. Genetically they’re more similar to dark-skinned groups found in Southeast Asia than the Chinese, Japanese or Koreans. Today, their genes can still be found in 40% of modern Japanese, as well as Mongolians and Tibetans, (Past and Present) Kings and Queens. Reference: AtlanticBlackStar
0:15 I left, because the video you reacted to is obious bullshit " Japan is AN island." '(???) Non more question asked about his missing qualifications....
@@fun_g lol so pedantic. Japan is composed of many islands. There do you feel validated ? Talking about missing qualifications because of insignificant details in the nomenclature... I bet you're real fun
he also did the history of the world and both videos are great to get a general idea of history but with how short and fast paced they are it's difficult to go into too much detail. the humor helps to have the important parts stay in your mind.
it's a lot to take in for 10min
thank you for the video :)
You expressed some relief that the creator of the video took a more neutral stance. This is how most Americans feel. We harbor (unintentional joke) no ill will toward Japan for WWII. It's not like how a lot of Koreans and Chinese loathe the Japanese. A lot of Americans actually idolize Japan. Same for Germany. We don't hold a grudge against them either. We may joke about things that happened in WWII, but it's not from a place of disdain. We joke about 9/11, too. The only countries we dislike are the ones actively trying to attack us in the modern day. Even then, many Americans still idolize those countries for who knows what reason...
Indeed, places like China Russia Palestine who too many Americans love and defend despite them being enemies
"It's not like how a lot of koreans and chinese loathe the japanese" Throw in half of SEA while you're at it, now what's more believable. Those countries being petty bitch or japan committing unspeakable evil of biblical proportion and a lot of them escaping international court of war crimes AND still doesn't acknowledge till this day.
If the Japanese had done to the US what they did to China and Korea we'd loathe the Japanese too, and consider them spawns of the devil. But they never conquered us, and we beat them, so we can be friends.
@@johnsmith-ir1ne theres also too many americans that generalize entire countries full of people, many people with many different opinions and stances might I add, into being just "enemies".
The moment you talk about American idolizing Japan, you are not taking a neutral stance. Just an example, in WW2 Japan commited way more atrocities than any other countries in the world(even Nazi Germany), yet in modern times the US likes Japan and dislikes China/Russia. How is that taking a neutral stance? You are against countries which have different beliefs to you, like everybody else.
I remember someone saying that this would be the perfect video to show during the first and last lectures of Japanese history course. On first viewing you grasp absolutely nothing and just laugh at the fast paced jokes, on the last viewing you can then enjoy actually understanding things since the video is basically just a fast forwarded summary of the course contents. =D
Rice kingdoms. Ironically, that's the literal translation of the Japanese word for the US. 米国。
That's why american loves sushi.
US x Japan anime ecchi romcom when? WHEN?!
I believe that's the Chinese name of the US, Japanese these days use アメリカ (amerika) in katakana instead
This is incorrect. As far as I'm aware, Japanese uses katakana "Amerika" or 合衆国 (Gasshukoku).
Chinese for USA is 美国 (Meiguo) which means beautiful country.
Are you confusing the Korean word for USA (미국 Miguk) and the Chinese for rice (米 mi)?
@@CR33D404the Chinese name for the US is 美国 Meiguo, which means beautiful country.
I think they're confusing Korean 미국 (Miguk, USA) with the Chinese word for rice (米 mi).
Since I heard "Hokkaido is Japan's Texas" I always wanted to visit.
It's more like Japan's Alaska.
@@orcajorca7215 Japan's Oregon 😬
I would say
Hokkaido is like Alaska
Okinawa is like Hawaii
Considering
- they are not connected to main island
- has own history, and different people
- climate (tropical, or northern area has tons of snow in winter and gets cold)
@@orcajorca7215 Alaska is just cold Texas, so original comment still checks out lol.
@@GoodHunter9 Wuht. I dunno how you equate the 2nd most populated state with 3rd least populated state. Litterally could not pick two more different states.
This is the first video I've scene of yours and I just have to say thank-you for reacting and I greatly enjoyed it! 😃
Btw something to point out. The firebomb raids by the United States took more lives (for obvious reasons) than the two nukes did. In western media and education we aren't ever really taught how devastating those firebomb raids were. I do believe Graveyard of Fireflies has displayed this atrocity but essentially the US rained fire and napalm down on cities in Tokyo, but not just randomly, strategically like bombing a circle around the city so the heat comes to the center to ensure 100% destruction, no where to go, all infrastructure and human life gone. The nukes were horrible, but the firebomb raids on cities, with all those civilians, objectively took more human life than the nukes did. Considering how much nuclear bombs have advanced it's worth always remembering nukes are unacceptable but it really overshadows how aggressive and regardless for human life the US was during it's campaigns in Imperialist Japan.
i mean the nukes were overkill but im pretty sure the US didnt start the war, i here a lot about the nuke (obviously) but not much about how japan because of greed started a very stupid war which turned out well... very bad lol, the point im trying to make is war should not have been started between these 2 country's in the first place idk what the japanese leader's were thinking when the attacked pearl harbor, people are hung up on the size of the bomb and how destructive it was but not about the unnecessary war, the most you can say is that the nuke was morally bad/controversial because after all they were at war (where people/country's try to kill each other), war started between the 2 country's by japan. people talking about the retaliation aka (the nuke) but not how the war should not have started in the first place. tho i do sympathize with those poor japanese citizens who went through all that they did due to the leader's of their country and US not making it any better by just straight up overkill
The US was no more aggressive and regarless of human life than Japan had been in China and Korea and other places. Look up "karma". Countries that do not invade and brutalize other countries do not suffer retaliatory bombings - though they might suffer unprovoked attacks. Japan F*** around and found out.
Over ten million Asians were killed by Japan's war effort, through destruction of infrastructure, plunder, and massacre. Someone had to stop this psychopathic killer force. That's what the Allied Powers, today the UN, did.
3:17 "are you guys keeping up" - lol, no.
I had to watch it several times, and I'm sure that still I haven't caught everything.
So, it seemed like you rolled your eyes a bit and sighed when he was talking about the 2 big 💣. It almost seemed like you wanted to say something, but didn't. I'm interested in hearing what you have to say about that.
Flashbacks
Watching your video I realized that I don't think I've watched the original History of Japan as I've only seen videos of Japanese creators reacting to it, so they were always interrupting to add their own info or perspective on things (some more serious, with reference to the history they learned, some more on the comedic side)....it is indeed very fast paced and mostly made with puns and visual gags, so I get how it can be overwhelming. Thank you for making your own take - as some of the comments mentioned, I think ppl (me obviously included) would appreciate your own story on the place you were born and the northern parts. For example, when he said the upper north was finally conquered, this made me go into another rabbit hole on yt to see what is there about the Ainu people, it seemed quite a tragic history and a minority of a native part of the population that was mostly integrated. It was a while ago, so I might misremember, but anyway - this would be an idea if you want to make content on that :-)
Keep up the good work!
Thank you for your comment! As I’m from Hokkaido, maybe I can do videos about Hokkaido and Ainu :)
@@ayathejapanese_jp Yes please :) and thank you for responding :)
Also they lacked to mention the friendship between Poland and Japan, as they were allies before the WW2 as they had a common enemy being the USSR.
The war begun as Germany invaded Poland, which Japan was not really happy with as Poland was still an ally.
Later, the Polish government in exile was forced by the Allies to declare war on Japan to get supported by the Allies. As a friend being on the other side of the fence, Japan just replied "no" to that war declaration.
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I see my country! 🇹🇼 love 🇯🇵
興味深い動画をありがとうございました。鎖国に関して補足させて下さい。ポルトガル船の来航を禁止したことにより鎖国は完成しましたが、オランダ船と中国船のみが貿易が可能でした。ちなみに朝鮮と琉球王国も交渉がありました。
There's a show named Shogun that is getting popular here in the US that explores that. It is a very good show. I wonder what an actual Japanese person would think of it?
The "old flag" was actually just the flag of the imperial navy, not the actual flag of Japan
I'm not sure if thats true, it is true now because the navy still uses it
I agree with not using the rising sun flag but I found out they still use it for the japanese navy which is kind of questionable by the government
@@TTKDMS An M16 is a tool, and a flag is a different kind of tool. Some flags have stains on them, some do not. Whether or not those stains offend you depend entirely on your view of the world. The Rising Sun flag, whether you like it or not, has a history behind it that would offend a great amount of people in the world -- and I'm not talking about people that live in the US. It's the same reason the Swastika has fallen out of use in the Western world -- or why you wouldn't fly a confederate flag in the US. Since Japan did indeed lose that existential war, they do not have the right to fly it anymore. Those are the rules of war -- they are brutal and unfair. The winners get to choose what happens to the losers.
Now, thankfully, the US chose to change the government of Japan instead of destroying it. So do I care if the Japanese Navy flies that flag, as an individual in a country thousands of miles away? Absolutely not. They have not invaded any countries or expanded their empire lately, so I say live and let live.
@@TTKDMS You're not even mentioning what the Japanese soldiers did during WWII. They're dogma was to treat all other races as less than living things. Surely you know what happened. Also, calling yourself a "dumb Gaijin" is up to you. I guess I'm just a smart Gaijin.
You should hate Taisei-yokusan-kai,not the rising sun.
@@TTKDMS Brother, 80 years ago is not that long ago, and those atrocities were ATROCITIES.
Pretty disingenuous to compare a service weapon to a flag, which is an actual symbol. The symbolism and connotation attached to it is the point. You can scream all you want about how the Swastika is a Buddhist symbol but that doesn't remove the Nazi connotations; at least Germany has been pretty proactive in reconciling their tragedies, while Japan continues to gloss over, downplay, or outright deny its crimes.
I say all this as a half-Japanese person myself.
The Rising Sun flag is used by the Japanese Navy because it’s a war flag, (military flag). The US has a war flag too but there’s no difference in the war flag and the National flag, (at least none that you’d see).
good video
another video suggestion - can you share with us how is ww2 taught in japan and how much it changed since the end of war? maybe your family/friends have different experiences? i would be super interested in that
bonus points if you share opinions aboout the nukes, since so many american lefties dont like US now, its hot topic again so maybe mentioning it in title/thumbnail could boost the video
thank you!
That seems to be a rather contentious and controversial topic.
Thank you for your comment always. I will think about how I’m gonna do that sensitive topic (make sure in the way I don’t hurt anyone)
@@peterc4082thank you for your opinion too. Will think about it. Although I would like to share my opinion or what I learned in the JP schools, I don’t want to be offensive to anyone you know 🧐
@@ayathejapanese_jp I don't mind either way but I think some people may be offended by perceived bias to one side or other side. So one should be careful not to step on any toes, as you say yourself. :)
@@ayathejapanese_jp Sometimes being offensive can generate views. But that is very risky.
I suppose being entirely neutral and distanced from a topic can be useful. But also there are many topics about Japan one can make videos about. Like ELECTRONICS! Eg Toto products.
And maybe topics like whale and dolphin hunts which are also controversial but maybe less so than WW2.
China was also allowed to trade with china.
Portugal was ban along with any of its allies.
It was only the Dutch east India company that could trade with Japan.
The rising Sun flag is also still used as the offical self defence force / self defence flag. Although it’s was changed a bit it still keeps the general design of the original.
Sorry to be so nit-picky, but I'd like to point out several small errors: Japan did not steal China's writing system. They adopted it with China's blessing. Kukai brought Shingon Buddhism to Japan, not Zen. The Mongol forces were destroyed by typhoons, not tornados. Those are rare in Japan and rather measly when they do happen. The castle shown to represent Edo is Himeji Castle which is gorgeous, but way out west of Kyoto. And Japan decisively defeated Russia. They didn't just get tired and stop fighting. But otherwise, yes! Great job.
モンゴル軍は最初の上陸直後から日本軍に敗北して船に逃げ戻っています。船に戻ってからも夜襲で襲撃されたり、馬や牛の死骸や糞を船に投げ込まれて疫病戦も仕掛けられ、消耗させられていました
Kamikaze 🌊
@@ああ-p1l6t Thanks! I didn't know those fascinating details. Very clever strategy!
Typhoons are water tornados
Japan was and is the only country in the World that had defeated the Soviet Union empire, Qing dynasty, British empire, French empire, Dutch empire, Portuguese empire, Germany empire, and United States empire all by itself.
I wish people did videos on the Ainu. No one talks about them.
I know, but Okinawa (Ryukyu) and Hokkaido (Ainu) has whole different stories each. There are some videos available on YT. But I can also create one as Hokkaido born and raised ❄️☃️
As an american the fact that i knew half of japans history is kind of shocking, not sure if the world knows any of american history, but as an American, i have way too much knowledge about other countries religious culture and ethnic groups, i surprise immigrants all the time.
Too be fair this was thr most basic of highlights and a ton of fasinating details.
Two weird things that answer modern problems is they flip flop on gender role and physical gender at least twice before coming to current state. In fact women were kinda superior til some arbitary happening after a war caused men to finally get there own houses and girls move in with them instead of husbands moving into wifes family. Oh land grants for winning side!
@@Mr.TrUnrBrigs-oo4yz I was just making the point the the American education system is pretty good when it comes to geography, some Americans have no idea Malaysia or Maldives or Madagascar are even countries let alone there religious backgrounds or what the people are even called or what they speak, the fact that I know this is surprising, I guess I'm just intelligent. (People always say americans are either stupid, or ignorant, I argue we are an insular country)
Great video! I was able to keep up and get an idea of it all even though he was moving a tab bit fast. Helpful view from a native this Is definitely a thing I don't see you guys do often still, so it's definitely appreciated. As for some of the subjects in the video while many countries are covered in blood dispute the bad it is still apart of the countrie's history. We should learn about the bad as much as the good. It is not to idolize, but to learn. No history should be forgotten good, bad, and sad. This goes for Pearl Harbor and hiroshima/Nagasaki on the topic of WW2. Don't want to go to into on those, but just to say that it's ok and what not. We can heal. I want to heal.
As for the Rising Sun flag while yes it was used in a time of colonization and the atrocities committed around Asian and the Oceania that does not mean it has to been used or be ONLY seen in such a manner. For me I acknowledge the bad past of the flag, but I do not idolize that part of the flag's history. That is why in the US in particular you have people who appreciate the flag. I still enjoy the flag and you should too is what I am saying. The only time I have an issue is when people want to stupidly idolize that goes for anything not just flags.
As for Japan post WW2 which is my favorite time period right after the Sengoku Jidai period while yes Japan did become outrageously rich, modernize, and engineer/re-engineer some of the best technology know to man even to date was it worth the loss and suffering pre-WW2? That is not for me to decide, but just something to think about. Or do you believe the sacrifice was necessary? Devastation vs. Growth? Necessity vs. Choice?
All in all I just want to get along. I hope we can all heal and learn from our past war-time history. Peaceful conflict resolution is what we need to do now and going forward. I am also in full support of Gensuikyo 原水爆禁止日本協議会.
There's a nice restaurant by me with that flag in US. I love the old tradition. Very nice family. We all respect it🙏
I have loved Japanese culture for 58 years. Keep on being Japanese please. Loved my visit in 1981.
How is it typhoons ? Dont typhoons happen in the pacific northwest ?
The great classical civilizations of Southeast Asia are Angkor in Cambodia and Champa in Vietnam. Much of our knowledge of early Southeast Asia is derived from Chinese and Indian sources.
The builders of Angkor were the Khmers. The Khmer men were described by the Chinese as “small and Black.” In modern times, as early as 1923, Harvard University anthropologist Roland Burrage Dixon noted that the ancient Khmers were physically “marked by distinctly short stature, dark skin, curly or even frizzly hair, broad noses and thick Negroid lips.”
Chinese dynastic records from as early as 192 C.E. reference a kingdom of Lin-yi, which meant the “land of Black men.” The kingdom of Lin-yi was known as Champa in Sanskrit documents.
You have to be from Hokkaido if you said your town wasn't shown, I made this comment before I watched the whole video and I was correct. I'm Scottish and Hokkaido reminds me a lot like Scotland in the UK
Very nice reaction video. You have courage to face the bad period of history directly, not easy but you did it. Not like some other reaction videos I've watched. As a Chinese, I really appreciate that.
Atom bomb is hard to take for sure, yet Japan invaded to Asian countries and what they had done there is hard to take as well (such as comfort women, unit 731,the Nanking Massacre). Not to start a war is the key point.
Sun raising flag is just the military flag of Japan. 自衛隊 still using it nowadays. Technically no big deal using it. But Asian countries have no good impressions of 旭日旗 as you may know why. Hopefully, Japanese military is for defending themselves as the literal meaning of 自衛隊.
After all what im saying, hope you don't get me wrong.
I like Japanese ancient historical hero, I like Japanese anime, I like Japanese language, I like to talk to Japanese people. I study 日本語 myself, I like 漢字 in modern Japanese still have ancient Chinese meaning.
People is just people, not politics. Some people just want make friends of other people and be happy. I wish I could travel to Japan one day，北海道 maybe wwww.
I would love to go to Sapporo one day!
Since I love Hokkaido I am going to guess you are from there
Yes I am ❄️☃️
Japan has a fascinating history. It has a proud development in Asia. I am an american asian with roots in Chinese and find the Japanese being successful in our modern world because they are hard working, devoting to what they do, adapting to modern standards and willing to integrate to whatever standards helpful for their survival and lifestyle. A chinese should know that the Japanese don't like China things after the Mongol conquers. The Japanese were in fact disappointed in the overall Chinese for their weakness and willingness to bow down to the Mongols and this mentality lasts even today. For Chinese the Japanese have preserved and were frozen in mentality back in 600 AD China, which isn't bad for the mannerisms, language and grammars, arts, etc except for the militaristic mentalities, and many things that were bad associated in the Sui/Tang periods. Sui/Tang well past China and the aggressive mentalities from those ancient days better be dropped and it seem so after world war 2. That's why people all over asia are respecting the Japanese once again. I hope it lasts.
dont roll eyes about the bombs when he said nothing about korea or nanjing!
also the old flag of Japan is still in use in japanese military which is super offensive
Japanese native, so you are Ainu.
I don’t have Ainu blood unfortunately :((
I love your reaction to this, especially some parts like the world war II segment. It's nice to see when people can take a joke about their country and laugh rather than feel offended. And you had some wise words at the end. This was a fun video, I subscribed! 🙂
For something about the "Sun Rising flag with 16 bands" I am surprised to know that this flag is not used anymore. I also have the uneasy feeling that certain country with "golden stars" (stars a plural) will be treated the same way in a not-far future. Thanks for pointing this out. There are still many people not able to forgive Japanese government and military did in those period. Also there's no right for the current people now to have this feeling because they haven't been dealt with the Japanese military and in fact these people were collaborators with the unwelcomed Japanese military in that particular period. And unfortunately these people don't see the Janpaese government is a reflection of themselves and they risk putting a whole country in danger just like the Japanese did over those unfortunate days. Can we ever learn?
Her hometown must be more northern like hokaido or something
Edit: Hell yeah I'm a fuckin genius, big fucking brain I got such a strong brain holy shit I was right?! Deductive reasoning go brrrrr super smart, thank you.
Yes, you were right! I’m from the big northernmost islands ❄️☃️
What clues gave out that she's from Hokaido? a fair skin complexion or her accents?
I would like to hear the story from a Japanese perspective.
Aya Japan, hello , your English language is very powerful 👍. The video, that was presented, was very interesting to watch. Do your best, your channel will grow🌷.
Buddhism isn't from Baekje.
Nice Video
Okay, my heart kind of broke watching your expression during the WW2 segment.
I fist became interested in Japan at the age of 5, watching classic Tokusatsu.
I asked my father where all this cool media I was watching came from.
He then began to tell me about Japan, WW2, and then showed my impressionable young
eyes photos of the aftermath of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
I suffered nightmares for almost a month.
instead think of Korea suffered under Japan
似非レキシが大分混ざってるな
you should react to famous Japanese video "Punch Punch Forever"
12:26 Yes we use. You just dont know.
It has become difficult to use it in international forums because China and especially South Korea are picking a quarrel.
They just lie.
Yes you are right. We still use it in some occasions. I was talking about for normal people’s normal life. But thank you for mentioning!
Quite frankly, how dare you.
Good job.
Its False what you say about the flag not being used in Japan anymore.
That "Old" Japan Flag is still used by the Japanese Marine but in a slightly different red... It's like saying that the Nazi symbol in Gray instead of black is acceptable to use (it's not ok ,which is why it's not allowed in any color in Germany, period.).
I really don't understand how Japanese people still use that flag under which they tortured millions of people, did the most Horrific Bio Chemical test on Chinese population, forced up to 410,000 Girls/women to become “Comfort women” (se* slaves) of with most died of abuse and Diseases. And Japan NEVER paid any reparations for the women that survived, A South Korean court needed to force Japan to pay at last 16 survivors last year, but Japan still tries to do everything tot to pay the other still surviving woman, they systematically abused...
Not only China, but literally every other ethnic group they came across, they did the same horrible things to them as well. Philippines history shows very vividly what happened when the Japanese occupied there.
@@miiko7859 I know that's why i have written "Bio Chemical test on Chinese population" because nearly all Bio weapon tests were done on Chinese cities. Things like spreading Diseases by releasing viruses with planes above Cities to create epidemic outbreaks.
While the other things i did not specify as they were universal across all the occupied regions.
Germany having extreme censorship and oppression is not a representation of something being "good" - or that others should follow their absurdity.
@@kino-en What do you mean by that Germany has "extreme censorship and oppression"?
The only things that are censored in Germany is deformations based on lies, nazi symbols worn Nazi sympathizers and Slures depending the context.
But even Nazi symbols are displayed when it is about learning, informing, or it's in an artistic but not glorifying context like a war movie or game about germany. Unlike the USA or most countries, Germany has NO censorship about history or informing. We learn everything in detail, from colonization to everything that happened under Nazi rule and all major events after WW2.
You can say and do anything when it's in an informing or artistic context as long as it's not the most racist or xenophobic shit ever.
Which I think, and any sane person, that that's a good thing. And it's nowhere near "extreme censorship and oppression".
@@kino-en (1/3) What do you mean by that Germany has "extreme censorship and oppression"?
The only things that are censored in Germany is deformations based on lies, nazi symbols worn Naz* sympathizers and Slures depending the context.
Alao do History of the world i guess
尾張国を殆ど無視した（桶狭間の戦い以外）台湾の植民地時代も無視？
Japan didn't stolen its from Germany though 😂😅
this "History of Japan" is not all correct.
some parts are wrong.
Hello
And the Japanese also exterminated the Ainu people
We did but Russians did too
@@ayathejapanese_jp I am not Russian.
Where are the black guys? They said they are the first ones in Japan and it's their culture hahahahahaha
I was hoping to hear something about the great black Samurai Yasuke, who liked to listen to hip-hop when he went into battle.
No one remotely credible had said anything about that.
It's an American weeb take on things. Thanks for reacting. Keep up the good work.
What makes this seem like it came from some anime dork and it's not abridged
Nanjing..
The original Japanese people were Afrakans!!
History of the Black Asians
Before waves of Han migrations around 1000 B.C., the original inhabitants of China were black skinned people who dominated the region until a few thousand years ago. They were followed by the ethnic groups, who are part of the Austronesian people who have come from the Malay Archipelago 6,000 years ago. Pejoratively called Moor Negritos, or Little Black People, by the Spanish invaders who observed them in Southeast Asia, these black folk were still living in China during the Qing dynasty (1644 to 1911).
At about 35,000 B.C. a group of black Chinese, who became known as the Jomon entered Japan, they became the first humans to inhabit the Japanese Islands. Later, another group; now known as the Ainu, followed. Genetically they’re more similar to dark-skinned groups found in Southeast Asia than the Chinese, Japanese or Koreans.
Today, their genes can still be found in 40% of modern Japanese, as well as Mongolians and Tibetans, (Past and Present) Kings and Queens.
Reference: AtlanticBlackStar
I'll take this as a joke
Is this satire? 💀😭
0:15 I left, because the video you reacted to is obious bullshit " Japan is AN island." '(???) Non more question asked about his missing qualifications....
Japan IS an island ? Dafuq are you on about....the vast majority of the video is correct and grounded in facts lol
google the word "island" and then also give a search to "island nations"(edit: he'll prolly del his comment soon after realizing lol)
@@fun_g lol so pedantic.
Japan is composed of many islands. There do you feel validated ?
Talking about missing qualifications because of insignificant details in the nomenclature... I bet you're real fun
What are you talking about? It is an island