What Did Japan Do During WW1?

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  • @TheArmchairHistorian
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    • @YayaToure1247
      @YayaToure1247 Місяць тому +1

      Will there ever be a video on Sierra leone?

    • @RevolutionaryGoose
      @RevolutionaryGoose Місяць тому +1

      Battle of Budapest please

    • @particle7246
      @particle7246 Місяць тому +1

      Hypothetical idea? 🤔
      What if China decides to invade or cut off the islands of Japan when they try invading Taiwan...😲

    • @YUDEINISTONCELBERMUDEZ-cc8bo
      @YUDEINISTONCELBERMUDEZ-cc8bo Місяць тому +1

      Pacific war remastered
      American perspective❤🙏

    • @taheraalam7692
      @taheraalam7692 Місяць тому +2

      @@TheArmchairHistorian *Hello, I hope you see this! I know you are very busy, but can you make a video about the '71 war in Bangladesh? I would really appreciate it and many other people from surrounding nations* _(e. g. India)_ *might also be happy to see the video! Thanks!*

  • @Minboelf
    @Minboelf Місяць тому +1305

    Funny how Japan learn valuable anti submarine warfare in ww1 yet decide not to implement it during ww2 which cause their shipping route to be easy targets by US subs

    • @kaltaron1284
      @kaltaron1284 Місяць тому +184

      I mean they didn't need to until the USA started to use working torpedoes.

    • @xWarLegendx
      @xWarLegendx Місяць тому +64

      Ya they got a good quality subs from Germany and learned anti-sub warfare in ww1, don’t know why they ditched it in inter war and ww2, maybe the IJNs hands were full with naval aviation and fleet in being development as the naval conference of 20s and 30s rendered Japan a 2nd tier naval power in terms of parity of all category of warships in tonnage and displacement and numbers, so they went for quality over quantity, aggressive tactics, skilled and well trained crews, bold and strong doctrine and deadly night attack doctrines and torpedo weapons and aviation

    • @rotmistrzjanm8776
      @rotmistrzjanm8776 Місяць тому +65

      Acctually the anwser is pretty simple - industrial capacity. Japan already couldn't maintain simultanious productiopn of even light fleet and convoys to import materials for said fleet. They simply had no means to do it.

    • @kaltaron1284
      @kaltaron1284 Місяць тому +25

      @@rotmistrzjanm8776 Not to mention that they were still in the process of building railways and (modern) roads and bridges.

    • @Gencrossbones
      @Gencrossbones Місяць тому +3

      Lack of resources for their war effort contributed for their poor ASW

  • @NarbsTheGreat
    @NarbsTheGreat Місяць тому +323

    Wild how Japan's Navy would be close to Hawaii once as an ally and another as an enemy in such a short time.

    • @Yk1000-
      @Yk1000- Місяць тому +23

      I was surprised myself when they used to guard Hawaii while the Americans were busy.But little did they know by attacking it they would suffer the most horrific consequences the world had ever seen,the power of the ☀️.

    • @merafirewing6591
      @merafirewing6591 Місяць тому +1

      ​@@Yk1000- Japan didn't get the memo, don't touch America's boats.

    • @DaiIto-mo5fp
      @DaiIto-mo5fp Місяць тому

      We actually had a friendly fire. The White House was a hotbed of communist espionage. Roosevelt sided with China, laying the foundation for the current world chaos. I think Americans now understand how much China lies, steals our intellectual property, and is a criminal empire trying to take over the world.

    • @Ziesenisse
      @Ziesenisse Місяць тому +2

      Nuclear fission isnt the power of the 💫​@Yk1000-

    • @WellBattle6
      @WellBattle6 19 днів тому

      @@Yk1000- Power of the sun is fusion though, not fission.

  • @R.MadridMessi-Cr7Barca
    @R.MadridMessi-Cr7Barca Місяць тому +805

    It’s wild to think that *One Piece* has been running longer than the entire interwar period between WW1 & WW2. Imagine if Eiichiro Oda had started writing it in 1918.. by 1939, Luffy and the crew would still be stuck in Loguetown, and historians would be debating whether the Great Depression delayed the reveal of the One Piece itself..

    • @NONO-oy1cu
      @NONO-oy1cu Місяць тому +31

      That is crazy

    • @TEDAC771
      @TEDAC771 Місяць тому +38

      The manga has been going on since 97 if im not wrong so tec interwar period and ww2

    • @Ritual-w8r
      @Ritual-w8r Місяць тому +33

      Bruh, this comment is unexpected as hell😅

    • @zhcultivator
      @zhcultivator Місяць тому +4

      lol this is some HXH-level stuff.

    • @sushibento8968
      @sushibento8968 Місяць тому +1

      The writing is 🔥

  • @Khaos768
    @Khaos768 Місяць тому +361

    Kato Takaaki is my favorite Simpsons character!

  • @ImperialSublimeEmpire
    @ImperialSublimeEmpire Місяць тому +448

    Would love to see the same video again but on Portugal in WW1

    • @type1exterminator471
      @type1exterminator471 Місяць тому +4

      @@jasonj8246yes Portugal had a role in ww1

    • @ExProductions95
      @ExProductions95 Місяць тому +3

      Portugal and Spain

    • @wolfthegreat87
      @wolfthegreat87 Місяць тому +6

      me too, I feel like discussion of Portugal in WWI is so often limited to "they were supplied by the British. . . oh yeah, and Aníbal Milhais", I'd love some more in-depth conversation on them

    • @EdinProfa
      @EdinProfa Місяць тому +4

      Short video that'd be.

    • @suncanny1418
      @suncanny1418 Місяць тому +8

      I would like if he made a video about the Czechoslovak Legion, or maybe the Russian civil war.

  • @BHuang92
    @BHuang92 Місяць тому +146

    Although allies in WWII, Japan and Germany once engaged in a devastating battle. A nearly forgotten conflict that emboldened the victor, and struck down the world-reaching designs of their enemy
    - History Dose, The Siege of Tsingtao

    • @Mfthug-g6g
      @Mfthug-g6g Місяць тому +1

      They're allies in paper
      But did not help each other
      Germany didn't help Japan in Pacific war
      Japan didn't help Germany in Barbarossa

  • @Shaveyle
    @Shaveyle Місяць тому +44

    I’ve always wanted a video on Japan’s involvement in WW1. And even though they might have not done much, their role was still important.

  • @thefinesthobbo4524
    @thefinesthobbo4524 Місяць тому +231

    I have an Arisaka rifle that went through WW1 and WW2. It is weird to have a piece of bloody history

    • @brockgundich
      @brockgundich Місяць тому +7

      That's amazing! Have you shot it? Or just keep it?

    • @thefinesthobbo4524
      @thefinesthobbo4524 Місяць тому +22

      @@brockgundich I have shot it, but only a couple of times because it is one of the harder milsurp ammos to get. Plenty accurate but Im not a fan of the safety design. Also, the bolt and receiver of mine have a fair bit of scratches from the years of sandy battlefields

    • @dakotamyrick
      @dakotamyrick Місяць тому +9

      If you live in the USA, there’s a 50/50 chance there’s an Arisaka in your attic.

    • @thefinesthobbo4524
      @thefinesthobbo4524 Місяць тому +1

      @@dakotamyrick An estimated 1.2 million Arisakas were brought back to America or made it here through Chinese imports. However, this does not equal the number still in circulation or operational state today.

    • @thefinesthobbo4524
      @thefinesthobbo4524 Місяць тому +1

      @ContentEnjoyer-gm3ky I dont sadly have one. My oldest 1911 is from 1923 and was made in an Argentinian Colt factory.

  • @dimamatat5548
    @dimamatat5548 Місяць тому +98

    Japan was the only country that DID have soldiers "home by Christmas". It took what it wanted before the winter of 1914. Ironically, it was (and still is) not Christian.

    • @desertigloo2383
      @desertigloo2383 Місяць тому +12

      Christmas didn't mean anything for them though

    • @dimamatat5548
      @dimamatat5548 Місяць тому +5

      @desertigloo2383 I know.

    • @xWarLegendx
      @xWarLegendx Місяць тому +3

      @@desertigloo2383Caz they aren’t Christians

    • @sonogamirinne7172
      @sonogamirinne7172 Місяць тому +2

      ​​@@desertigloo2383 yeah but right now is :v

    • @desertigloo2383
      @desertigloo2383 Місяць тому

      @sonogamirinne7172 :v

  • @_vla
    @_vla Місяць тому +125

    The Simpsons had a major impact in the Japanese World War One history

    • @lorenfranz3173
      @lorenfranz3173 Місяць тому +12

      Actually, that looks like a meme from Futurama

  • @robertwilkins3167
    @robertwilkins3167 Місяць тому +69

    One of the reasons for Japan's militarism and expansionism is that it didn't want to wind up like China, i.e. at the mercy of the Western powers.

    • @Ricky911_
      @Ricky911_ 20 днів тому

      It's nice to know that someone actually knows this. The idea that Imperial Japan was "evil" when compared to Western powers is a perfect example of history being written by the victors. The Opium Wars massively worried Japan and were one of the reasons for rapid industralisation and militarisation. Not only that but Japan was constantly imposed unfair treaties. After winning the I Sino-Japanese War in 1895, Russia, Germany and France convinced Japan through the Treaty of Shimonoseki to give up the Liaodong peninsula only for Russia to take it over in 1897 while Germany took Qingdao in 1898. For decades, the US had wanted China to be a free state with which to guarantee international trade. Japan saw it as being cheated because Western powers already had lots of control over Asia (with the UK having control of the whole Indian subcontinent), so Western powers suddenly asking for self-determination specifically when it affected Japanese interests felt like a slap in the face. Rules for thee but not for me basically. Not to mention that the US actively enforced the segregation of Japanese immigrants in California, which angered Japan, leading them to restrict emigration to the US in 1907. After the Great Depression in 1929, the II Sino-Japanese war was bound to happen, with the government constantly restricting the military's expansion like they had done in Vladivostok, as mentioned in the video. Nationalism grew pretty much everywhere in the 1930s but that doesn't make the country Fascist like Italy and Germany, as there was not really an ideology pushing Japan but a desire to have more influence. The Pacific front was actually Japan wanting to look more like Britain in many ways. Everything from its parliament to its military was based on British design. The alliance with Germany was only done for protection and the idea that both had world dominance and racial hierarchy as a goal in mind is a myth that's been spread to students to simplify the conflict as a good vs evil mentality. Imperial Japan was neither good nor evil. It was just another empire such as the British Empire, the French Empire or the United States.
      I know, long paragraph. I just feel like it's important to share the truth, as many countries (including Japan btw) only teach a biased version of their history

    • @ThatBionicleDude
      @ThatBionicleDude 17 днів тому

      Source?

    • @DaniG.German883
      @DaniG.German883 8 днів тому

      @@ThatBionicleDude common sense

  • @noelmcgrath1801
    @noelmcgrath1801 Місяць тому +46

    I live very close to a former Japanese WW1 POW camp in Tokushima Prefecture. It housed German POWs, most surrendered in China. If you visit Japan check out Bando Prison Camp, it"s a nice little museum now.

    • @ひなたのかぜ_2007
      @ひなたのかぜ_2007 Місяць тому +1

      Im japanese , plaese visit hokkaido islands is my My father's hometown in Hokkaido also has some interesting places. I hope you like it.

  • @TaxationWithoutRepresentation
    @TaxationWithoutRepresentation Місяць тому +17

    Looking forward to this video. Thank you for kindly for the content.

  • @hoennsceptile6437
    @hoennsceptile6437 Місяць тому +8

    it was great to see an episode on Japan, thank you!

  • @ThingsToKnow5
    @ThingsToKnow5 Місяць тому

    This is one of the best historical videos on UA-cam. You put a lot of effort into editing the video. We are all very grateful to you.😊

  • @nagollnosegrobbb2165
    @nagollnosegrobbb2165 Місяць тому +37

    I think boiling down the reasoning for the entente invasion of russia to that there were some supply depots and some czech troops is looking at it from a shallow POV.

    • @nagollnosegrobbb2165
      @nagollnosegrobbb2165 Місяць тому +3

      Other wise great video as always

    • @everburn
      @everburn Місяць тому +3

      Yeah it's pretty obvious why they were there😂

    • @LJPugh187
      @LJPugh187 Місяць тому +2

      Certainly the supply depots because who cares... But 50,000 Czech troops who were trying to return to their newly founded republic(the entente was made of republics and Woodrow Wilson's influence at the end of the war can't be understated)? Not shallow in the least and not surprising at all considering the ambition of Wilson in creating a new world that respected sovereignty. The reds were on the war path to bring Marxism to the world via war/invasion, no shot they abandon a fledging republic's army to the tender mercy of Russia.

    • @KissatenYoba
      @KissatenYoba Місяць тому

      @@LJPugh187 Soviets were giving Czechs free road to Czechoslovakia. There are documents guaranteeing this from Soviet side. The thing though, Czech officers were HIDING those documents and offers from their soldiers, refused to negotiate with Soviet authorities (who were even providing Czechs food and housing in the beginning), because Czech officers wanted their soldiers to fight communists in Russia. Majority of Czech soldiers got swayed by communist agitators and fled Russia anyway later, without communists preventing them, except for their officers, in half the cases Czech soldiers themselves shot those f*cks
      Also, Woodrow Wilson plagiarized Lenin's "peace without reparations and contributions", but twisted it to be as "acceptable to centrists" as possible:
      "I am seeking only to face realities and to face them without soft concealments. Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently but only as upon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit. The right state of mind, the right feeling between nations, is as necessary for a lasting peace as is the just settlement of vexed questions of territory or of racial and national allegiance."
      and then, when peace talks with Germans came, "caught a flu" with "brain damage" and reneged on his public words to demand from Germans heavy reparations (according to Western historians). It's fairly obvious, looking at how popular communism was back then, and how Western diplomacy operates, that Wilson was pacifying the population with sweet words of "war to end all wars" and "peace without victory", while being an imperialist sc*m

  • @KanJonathan
    @KanJonathan Місяць тому +28

    Tsingtau is Temperate climate, it was extremely unlikely to find coconut trees there in 1914.

    • @dinodog3912
      @dinodog3912 Місяць тому

      Palm trees can grow anywhere

    • @ImRezaF
      @ImRezaF Місяць тому +5

      You do realize there's a species of palm tree called European palm tree ?
      Palm trees lives near place with huge amount of water to drink from, climate have nothing to do with the distribution of palm trees.

    • @shrekchrist2857
      @shrekchrist2857 Місяць тому

      What if a gang of swallows carried them there? It’s possible…

    • @dingaling487
      @dingaling487 Місяць тому +5

      I was born in Shandong. I have never seen a palm tree, much less a whole coconut for sale in the entire province.

    • @shrekchrist2857
      @shrekchrist2857 Місяць тому

      @@dingaling487 what if some swallows carried them all away?

  • @lorenfranz3173
    @lorenfranz3173 Місяць тому +39

    2:39 nice Futurama reference

  • @sjoak4084
    @sjoak4084 Місяць тому +23

    The Allies after WW1: We all consider ourselves rightful rulers of the world and superpowers.
    Japan: ...and I took that personally.

    • @merafirewing6591
      @merafirewing6591 Місяць тому +6

      Also Japan: And I'm going to make everyone miserable while I'm at it.

    • @khairulhelmihashim2510
      @khairulhelmihashim2510 Місяць тому

      Japan single handedly defeated 2 big empires, China and Russia a decade before WW1. That 2 quick and spectacular victories affected Japanese domestic politics and world view for decades leading to WW2.

  • @MrFetalposition
    @MrFetalposition 28 днів тому

    Thanks! Quite a bit of this I didn't know!

  • @21a26l1w
    @21a26l1w Місяць тому +1

    Thanks for the video.
    I've been asking this question for a while.

  • @jaybadayatherockmerchant9832
    @jaybadayatherockmerchant9832 Місяць тому +1

    A good next video Idea could be the battle of Marawi

  • @guymann1857
    @guymann1857 Місяць тому +94

    Also the British denied it because it meant they would have to see their colonial subjects as equals

    • @jonataspereira1691
      @jonataspereira1691 Місяць тому +27

      The United Kingdom actually supported the racial equality proposal. It was the Empire's Dominions (Australia, New Zealand and Canada) that opposed.

    • @jonataspereira1691
      @jonataspereira1691 Місяць тому

      They had more to gain by supporting equality to maintain imperial unity than to alienate their own colonies by refusing, in the end, it was the U.S. who killed it entirely.

    • @guymann1857
      @guymann1857 Місяць тому +18

      @jonataspereira1691 British Empire: British Foreign Secretary Balfour announced that he sympathized with the Japanese, but could not accept the principle of racial equality. The dominions of the British Empire, including Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, also opposed the proposal. That's from the AI Google response. Technically we're both right

    • @jonataspereira1691
      @jonataspereira1691 Місяць тому +6

      @@guymann1857 Yeah, the Empire was steering towards equality, because It was better to keep imperial unity rather than alienate their 400 million colonial population. But the dominions feared losing influence in the Empire If the proposal passed.

    • @guymann1857
      @guymann1857 Місяць тому

      @@jonataspereira1691 i gave you the literal Google search man that's not what it said XD

  • @theGDmenace13
    @theGDmenace13 Місяць тому +13

    You forgot to talk about the time they helped occupy Constantinople for some reason

    • @Joshua-fq9tm
      @Joshua-fq9tm Місяць тому +3

      Japanese army in the city of Constantine what is this timeline

  • @HIstoryBuz-wd9vu
    @HIstoryBuz-wd9vu Місяць тому +4

    Great video!!!!

  • @terrorterror6196
    @terrorterror6196 Місяць тому

    Your animation always looks amazing man.Very apperciated man.Also that's quite decent for oversimplified version.🙂

  • @F1tzy
    @F1tzy Місяць тому +8

    Do a video on Ireland please 😊
    Edit: Nice vid tho I just had to get my comment out asap

  • @Gessolini
    @Gessolini Місяць тому +83

    大正天皇(Emperor Taisyo)
    ️嘉仁天皇(Emperor Yoshihito)
    大正時代→昭和時代のように時系列で進む物語においては大正時代の期間中は下記の表記が海外の人には理解しやすく、それ以降の時代、又は現代視点(時系列ではない場合)での解説では上記の表記が正しいです…
    簡略:天皇陛下(Emperor)では海外の人には伝わりにくいが大正時代の映画や物語で大正天皇(Emperor Taisyo)の表記だと既に崩御している扱いなので嘉仁天皇(Emperor Yoshihito)が海外の人には分かりやすいと思った次第です…

    • @adissentingopinion848
      @adissentingopinion848 Місяць тому +6

      Question: Is the era name a form of respect or of formality? I know that studying the Sengoku Jidai would get very confusing if historians didn't decide on a single name when I look at it. Octavian of the Roman Empire changed his name to Julius Caesar officially, but Octavian is convenient for historians. I wonder whether there's an east/west disagreement between historians about this.

    • @dlux04
      @dlux04 Місяць тому

      So the reason why there are changes are because of who and what was in power.
      Before the Meiji Revolution (Restoration), the Japanese had a series of Bakufu, which were stationed around specific parts of Japan (Kamakura + Muromach and Edo Bakufu for example)
      (There were other names for these Bakufu based on what clan was in control)
      Eventually after the Bakufus got replaced, the way eras are named changed to Emperors titles because of the shift of power from the Bakufu to the Emperor (Although the Meiji Oligarchy was in control post 1870s right up into the Taisho Era)

    • @Gessolini
      @Gessolini Місяць тому +10

      @adissentingopinion848
      明治(Meiji)時代から天皇陛下が即位した際に新たな元号が用いられるようになりました(一代につき1つだけ)。
      元号が天皇陛下に用いられる
      〇〇(←元号)天皇となるのは
      諡(posthumous name)であり功績や行いを称える意味があります。伝統という側面も強いですが…。
      明治時代以前は不幸なこと(災害や飢饉)などがあった際に元号が変わっているので沢山の元号があります。(徳川幕府の時代は特に)
      また元号と時代は明治以降は一致していますがそれ以前は異なることが多いです。
      西暦645年から元号が用いられていますが皇室の権威が弱い時に幕府(武士による政治体制)が台頭した影響でそれらの幕府の名が時代になったり、戦乱の時代を戦国時代と呼んだりします。
      上記全てを要訳すると:
      〇〇(←元号)天皇は諡=敬意や伝統を含む
      元号≠時代ではない
      まだ翻訳が不十分かつ英語が苦手なので知りたい情報が伝わっていたら幸いです。
      端的かつ文法通り(スラングや特定の略称を含まない)ならもう少し翻訳しやすいかもです…(´•̥ω•̥`)

    • @naikudara
      @naikudara Місяць тому +11

      現代の動画が大正天皇に言及してるんだから大正天皇で問題ないでしょ。この動画が今上天皇を令和天皇って呼んでるなら間違いだけど。

    • @Gessolini
      @Gessolini Місяць тому +3

      昭和天皇も解説される時生きていた時代(即位〰崩御)までは裕仁天皇もしくは裕仁で語られ即位前は裕仁親王と呼ばれている。
      まだ与えられていない称号(かつての元号)がついてるのは本格的な解説としては正しくない気がします…
      軍人で言うなら当時と階級が違う、都市名でいうならかつてのままもしくは当時の名ではないみたいな…
      例:ソ連時代の解説でレニングラードをサンクトペテルブルクと呼んでいるような感じ
      自分も間違ってる可能性あるので皇室関係の資料や歴史家等の文献があればURL欲しいです…

  • @lukedax5300
    @lukedax5300 Місяць тому +8

    As a Czech I am proud you mentiond Czechoslovak legion :)

    • @rafanadir6958
      @rafanadir6958 Місяць тому

      Why, you didn't exist back then?!?!

    • @lukedax5300
      @lukedax5300 Місяць тому +1

      @@rafanadir6958 That´s really silly question :) You dont have nothing from your country what are you proud of from your history ? :) I am think you have :)

    • @rafanadir6958
      @rafanadir6958 Місяць тому

      @@lukedax5300 I was just trolling, I know very your achievements

    • @greenockscatman
      @greenockscatman 28 днів тому +1

      The journey of the Czechoslovak legion is one of the craziest things to happen. They literally went around the world to get back into the fight.

  • @jeffe9842
    @jeffe9842 Місяць тому +4

    The only thing I knew about Japan being an ally in WW1 was that it ferried ANZAC troops to the Mediterranean. Other than this, I knew almost nothing else. Thanks for enlightening me.

  • @Jevtkxkn
    @Jevtkxkn Місяць тому +5

    I love this channel

  • @nigelswindles1129
    @nigelswindles1129 Місяць тому +1

    Very informative about a time in history l knew little about , thanks , WW2 was even more complex than I thought

  • @the_american_doughboy
    @the_american_doughboy Місяць тому +3

    @TheArmchairHistorian, would you consider doing a video about US and allied forces deployed to Siberia in 1918 and 1919?

  • @kellychuang8373
    @kellychuang8373 Місяць тому

    Really interesting and may have to look into that really a tough time now and things really go in fast. Can't always guarantee you can keep up in this dangerous times.

  • @dansmith4077
    @dansmith4077 Місяць тому +3

    For the algorithm great video

  • @maxraynard8433
    @maxraynard8433 Місяць тому +4

    Japanese intervention into Russia caused a spike in rice prices, which lead to huge riots and revolutionary feeling across Japan in 1917. The prime minister was forced to resign. It all started in a small fishing village near my wife's hometown of Toyama.

  • @thorpeaaron1110
    @thorpeaaron1110 Місяць тому +7

    Great video on shining a light on Japan during the conflict and lesser known Asian Theater of WW1 in general.

  • @anetthenriettaudvari8411
    @anetthenriettaudvari8411 Місяць тому +3

    Nice vid i thought this would never come

  • @cameronnewton7053
    @cameronnewton7053 Місяць тому

    I love the details of the french guy chilling on his island, and differentiating the Australian naval officer from the British one by giving him bottle corks dangling from his cap.

  • @taheraalam7692
    @taheraalam7692 Місяць тому +2

    *Hello, I hope you see this! I know you are very busy, but can you make a video about the'71 war in Bangladesh? I would really appreciate it and many other people from surrounding nations (e. g. India) might also be happy to see the video! Thanks!*

  • @bottle3124
    @bottle3124 Місяць тому

    Most underrated UA-camr of literally all time

  • @ianblake815
    @ianblake815 Місяць тому +2

    Armchair historian keeps doing it 🇯🇵

  • @ryanalessi2921
    @ryanalessi2921 Місяць тому

    Man I love that you cover more WW1 stuff. Deserves more attention than WW2 which is over represented in media

  • @SwissGamer42
    @SwissGamer42 Місяць тому +33

    Fun fact : Japan in WW2 was known for brutal treatment for POW. American, Australian, British, French, Dutch POW were put through hell. However during WW1, Japan did had POW camps but they were not brutal at all. Germans POW were treated humanly. They were given proper foods. They brought music, beer culture to Japan. Beethoven Ode to Joy become popularized in Japan due to those German POWs. They were allowed to practice their culture. They even played football with local Japanese population. Some even married Japanese women and stayed in Japan.

    • @RRR_1225
      @RRR_1225 Місяць тому +3

      それが続けばよかったのに😢

    • @reood-p3o
      @reood-p3o 23 дні тому

      @@RRR_1225食糧とかがなくて捕虜に十分に配給できなかったし軍の規律がほとんどなくなってて捕虜に暴力をふるうのは当たり前だったらしいよ

  • @TheAverageNooob
    @TheAverageNooob Місяць тому +17

    Ha, Southern senators opposed racial reforms because the loss was still fresh in their mind lol

  • @TOZMEM
    @TOZMEM Місяць тому +2

    Can you release more videos about the pacific theater and compile them on one video just like the other video about the allied invasion of France up to the end of the war

  • @やる気熱々
    @やる気熱々 Місяць тому +2

    The rise of Japanese militarism was mainly due to the fact that the countries around Japan were coming under European influence. And because Russia was trying to colonize Korea, Japan fought against Russia (1904-1905).

  • @turmunkhganbaatar2515
    @turmunkhganbaatar2515 Місяць тому +9

    Why did you guys show Mongolia and Tuva as Chinese but not Tibet?
    Mongolia declared indepence in 1911 and in the 1913 peace treaty was an protectorate but defacto independent.
    Tuva had a local noble with Russian launch a coup and became a Russian protectorate.

    • @Huajierenmeiluziye
      @Huajierenmeiluziye Місяць тому

      During the period of the Beijing government of the Republic of China, he briefly overthrew the Mongolian rebel government

    • @turmunkhganbaatar2515
      @turmunkhganbaatar2515 Місяць тому

      ​@Huajierenmeiluziye yeah but that's in 1919. They were still talking about WW1 itself during that point in the video.

  • @IronDragon-2143
    @IronDragon-2143 Місяць тому +2

    Can you do a detailed video on Operation Valkyrie? I'd love to see what you come up.

    • @ghost7344
      @ghost7344 Місяць тому

      We did one, but it is AHTV exclusive. Although we are working on another video related to that subject. More info in 2025.

  • @Gamenetreviews
    @Gamenetreviews Місяць тому

    This video was excellent

  • @irishempire9811
    @irishempire9811 Місяць тому +1

    This is a cool setup for the japanese arc in ww2, cant wait to see what happens next in the series

  • @ChaosTicket
    @ChaosTicket Місяць тому +1

    From what I heard the lack of international recognition for participating in World War 2 led to Imperial Japan becoming a highly aggressive power that became monsters with invading Manchuko and trying to take over Asia and the Pacific region.

  • @tomwang7694
    @tomwang7694 Місяць тому +3

    Yuan Shikai actually accepted these twenty-one demands except for a few of them. Because the Japanese told him that as long as they accepted these demands, they had no objection to Yuan Shikai becoming emperor. Thus "A grain of mouse droppings, spoils a pot of porridge." A phrase used to describe Yuan Shikai who calls himself the emperor of the Republic of China (1915/12/31). No one wants to grovel and serve that monster called "Emperor" anymore. Yuan Shikai's Chinese Empire only lasted for eighty-three days. He died of melancholy when the whole country was openly and secretly ridiculing him and everyone was rebelling against his relatives.

  • @lucianoosorio5942
    @lucianoosorio5942 Місяць тому +143

    JRR Tolkien: I cut my teeth in the trenches of the Somme, you larped your Santa Claus butt through Vietnam!
    Oversimplified: Japan was busy building itself an empire. So it was more than happy to take away German islands and colonies in East Asia. In WW1, they took Germany’s colonies and islands in East Asia.

    • @MrAverageGuy69
      @MrAverageGuy69 Місяць тому +8

      Why did I read this in 2016 Oversimplified voice😭😭?

    • @spenceramey406
      @spenceramey406 Місяць тому +4

      JRR Tolkien vs GRR Martin ERB is one of my top 5 favorites from ERB. My favorite is the Lego one with Thor vs Zeus.

  • @vicenteaburto1717
    @vicenteaburto1717 Місяць тому

    Feliz año nuevo caballero. 🥳

  • @Pgb622
    @Pgb622 Місяць тому +11

    5:03 to skip the ad

  • @JoshuaEsangbedo
    @JoshuaEsangbedo Місяць тому +12

    I am commenting to feed the algorithm

  • @wellingtonastudillo6448
    @wellingtonastudillo6448 Місяць тому

    Please make More WW2 What ifs

  • @DMBisAwesome
    @DMBisAwesome Місяць тому +41

    @16:16 - There emerged an opportunity to move towards racial equality and avoid future conflict , but then the South.
    many such cases.

    • @natemorrow2911
      @natemorrow2911 Місяць тому

      Me who is from Tennessee: we do a little trolling

    • @ひなたのかぜ_2007
      @ひなたのかぜ_2007 Місяць тому

      ​@@natemorrow2911I once watched an American movie, it was so strange that Donald Trump played a role of a stranger in New York, but he was actually the richest person in the country.

    • @NoTimeForTalent
      @NoTimeForTalent Місяць тому

      I love the South, and I love being from the south. But with more and more examples like this, it's getting hard to defend it

    • @NoTimeForTalent
      @NoTimeForTalent Місяць тому

      @saulnavarro4730 I think they just like Rome. I mean, who doesn't.

  • @howardchung7050
    @howardchung7050 Місяць тому +4

    To keep it short basically during ww2 the government had no control over the army because most of them act on their own orders. I heard from the start that the emperor Hirohito never wanted the attention to expand into China or fight the Americans but the Army or government basically force their way into it.

    • @madensmith7014
      @madensmith7014 Місяць тому +4

      It was the civilian government that had little control over national affairs afaik, but Hirohito certainly was in favour of whatever the military was doing. It's some whitewashing that he didn't want any part of it, you can see him on parades and making speeches in front of troops throughout the war. He has no part in making plans or ordering it unlike Hitler, but all of it had his approval.
      A lot of people were against the war with America, and the economic situation alongside the stalemate in China only made it common sense that opening a second front on a bigger stronger enemy as a bad idea. But the militarists somehow convinced him that it was necessary, he gave approval for such a big operation, and he clearly was along with the ride until the invasion of the home islands was imminent, only then was he pro-surrender.

    • @xWarLegendx
      @xWarLegendx Місяць тому

      @@madensmith7014 Wht was the economic situation like in Japan in Great Depression and 1936

  • @Lwazi-j5i
    @Lwazi-j5i Місяць тому +3

    Would love to see a video on the latin american wars of independence

  • @54032Zepol
    @54032Zepol Місяць тому +41

    Welp, seeing how they single handedly beat the Russian empire who has the second largest military behind the British empire, they thought they would sit this one out and let the Europeans deal with Europeans.

    • @vedanthmallem4016
      @vedanthmallem4016 Місяць тому

      No

    • @American_guy-7
      @American_guy-7 Місяць тому +5

      The Japanese lost the russo-japanese war in the long term. The Japanese suffered heavy casualties due to their aggressiveness and reliance on quick victories to ensure domestic support and the fact the Russian army most if the time were still able to reorganize and stabilize the front. Such as the battle of liaoyang (1904) and mukden (1905). they also suffered heavy financial strains after the war since most territories they gained were not important or rich in resources.
      Also, the Japanese joined the entente and fought German colonies in the Pacific.

    • @lightningboltt5437
      @lightningboltt5437 Місяць тому +20

      @@American_guy-7 the war also ruined russia, it sowed discontent and anger towards the tsar and destroyed the russian fleet

    • @paulconrad6220
      @paulconrad6220 Місяць тому +3

      The British had the largest military? Navy, maybe

    • @54032Zepol
      @54032Zepol Місяць тому +8

      @paulconrad6220 and Russia still lost to the tiny island nation of Japan

  • @POTATO-WW2
    @POTATO-WW2 Місяць тому +6

    Can you please talk about the Syrian war

  • @teddyn240
    @teddyn240 Місяць тому +1

    Would you ever do the battle of Tsingtao?

  • @54032Zepol
    @54032Zepol Місяць тому +4

    Japan: *exploits china*
    Western powers: "HEY! Your not allowed to exploit China like that! Only we're allowed to!

  • @maciej5640
    @maciej5640 Місяць тому +1

    5:33
    For a second there I thought I was watching a different channel.

  • @Ciech_mate
    @Ciech_mate Місяць тому +2

    Why does kato takakki look like he is from Futurama

  • @Maxxel-fy2dg
    @Maxxel-fy2dg Місяць тому +8

    Nice new video

  • @martintodounloquillo
    @martintodounloquillo Місяць тому +3

    Chile mentioned!!!! 🇨🇱🇨🇱

  • @tremendousbaguette9680
    @tremendousbaguette9680 Місяць тому

    0:49 : Coming from Perfidious Albion, that's the pot calling the kettle black.

  • @rafanadir6958
    @rafanadir6958 Місяць тому

    I just watched a video about the history of Romania and now i hear the story of the ship of Transylvania.

  • @chicknugget3493
    @chicknugget3493 Місяць тому

    I think you should do a video on the Dieppe raid/ British commandos

  • @ajp5556
    @ajp5556 Місяць тому +3

    One question I’ve always had was what did they do to WW1 pows were they treated as bad as American/Chinese prisoners in ww2?

    • @DoctorWortspieler
      @DoctorWortspieler Місяць тому +6

      Surprisingly, the German POWs Japanese took in WWI were treated quite well. Mostly motivated by the desire to be officially recognized as a great power by the Europeans, Japan made sure to closely follow the rules of warfare when it came to treating prisoners. Heck, some of the prisoners had such a positive experience with their captors that after the war was over, some Germans decided to stay and start a new life in Japan rather than go back to Germany.

    • @ajp5556
      @ajp5556 Місяць тому

      @@DoctorWortspieler interesting would you be willing to name your sources so I can investigate further

  • @micahistory
    @micahistory Місяць тому +3

    last time I was this early, it was World War I

  • @Jayjay-qe6um
    @Jayjay-qe6um Місяць тому

    The negative impact of the Showa recession in 1926, and internal political instabilities helped contribute to the rise of Japanese militarism in the late 1920s to 1930s.

  • @natheriver8910
    @natheriver8910 Місяць тому

    Very interesting

  • @kokutai3331
    @kokutai3331 Місяць тому +1

    It’s still impressive how Japan modernized and expanded it’s empire in their less than a century

  • @aleksandarvil5718
    @aleksandarvil5718 Місяць тому

    13:55 Woodrow Wilson:
    *_I Have Won, But At What Cost ?!_*

  • @athenz3008
    @athenz3008 Місяць тому +10

    Finally, someone who's talking about Japan during ww1

  • @Prussian-h5f
    @Prussian-h5f Місяць тому +1

    Very good video, but can you make a video of the Rusian Civil war, it would help me a lot.

  • @gergofordospecs7475
    @gergofordospecs7475 Місяць тому +27

    2:47 why Katō Takaaki looks like he come from Simsons ?😅

  • @quintonmashler6585
    @quintonmashler6585 Місяць тому

    Good video, however the last German ships of the East Asia Squadron were sunk off of the Falkland Islands in the Atlantic. Not off of the coast of Chile

  • @Numba003
    @Numba003 26 днів тому

    I didn't know the Japanese had a presence in the Mediterranean during WW1. Thank you for teaching me yet more I didn't know.
    God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)

  • @hitoshisawa8479
    @hitoshisawa8479 Місяць тому +2

    Japan also helped at Peking and was promised aid and supplies for the help due too racism that never happened

  • @youryoutubeyoda
    @youryoutubeyoda Місяць тому +10

    "Nothin'. Just chillin' and killin'."

  • @JoboGamezzz
    @JoboGamezzz Місяць тому

    The east Asia squadron was sunk at the Falklands as they won the battle of coronel off chile

  • @Average_height_human
    @Average_height_human Місяць тому

    In your opinion as historians. Do you think D DAY is overrated? And what do you think it’s actual impact was in what would happen if it didn’t happen

  • @codyshi4743
    @codyshi4743 Місяць тому +6

    Do a video on the Chinese labour Corps that were sent by the Chinese government to contribute to the allied effort in World war 1, by digging and building trenches.

  • @Yadayadayada-su7wo
    @Yadayadayada-su7wo Місяць тому +6

    The fact that we get free videos on UA-cam by The Armchair Historian is truly a gift; keeping education and knowledge alive. 👍🙏🏽🤷

  • @anakamarvelous
    @anakamarvelous Місяць тому

    12:41 the Drake meme😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @TheBassgod14
    @TheBassgod14 Місяць тому

    This is a history guy channel so I knew a lot of this. But love the comments.. Like how did Japan just forget anti-submarine warfare? That's a great question. Plus. They had submarine air craft carriers in WW2 and ran large shipments of raw materials to Germany. Crazy...

  • @DartaBarbale
    @DartaBarbale Місяць тому +12

    Can you please do what Latvia did in ww2

    • @zaxseer
      @zaxseer Місяць тому

      🚩

    • @Tobi-ln9xr
      @Tobi-ln9xr Місяць тому +2

      The video would be over in 2 minutes.

  • @grandadmiralzaarin4962
    @grandadmiralzaarin4962 Місяць тому +1

    Furious voice, "WILSON!!!!!"

  • @Kori-shimotori344
    @Kori-shimotori344 Місяць тому +1

    Do a Salvadoran Civil war🇸🇻, it is my family's country, it has been overlooked not matter what, wars, trade and history. The Salvadoran Civil War was a conflict that started in 1979-1992, and was a conflict between the Government and FMLN guerrillas

  • @zanzillavids7759
    @zanzillavids7759 Місяць тому

    This vid appeared on my feed when I'm literally in japan

  • @rikosuko
    @rikosuko Місяць тому

    British guy screaming * let me in*!!! 😂😂

  • @MobPenguinstudios
    @MobPenguinstudios Місяць тому +4

    Do Montenegro during WW1.

  • @junkers721
    @junkers721 Місяць тому +2

    日本の小中学校では戦費の増税や戦時成金しかやらないので改めて勉強になりますね。

  • @875026
    @875026 Місяць тому

    Some countries have long prevented people from recognizing one fact:
    Japan was not always Axis powers; for a significant period, it was Allies.
    Otherwise, it would be hard to explain why creations from the Meiji and Taisho eras need to be banned.