Military History HQ your right it was in the Philippines he and his squad were isolated and thought the war was still going on, eventually he was the last one still fighting before surrendering to the Filipino government and getting a pardon from the Filipino governor
confirmed! it is in philippines. once he surrendered after his general said that the war is over, he was welcomed in japan with many honors and accolades.
That’s so crazy. Less than 30 years before, Nixon was shooting craps on Bougainville in the Pacific while Hirohito sat in his palace still ruling. Nixon was a captain in the army, Hirohito was the emperor of the Japanese Empire. Then 30 years later, they met, Hirohito in the same position, Nixon now president of the US. Just crazy to think about.
So during his reign there have been 11 US presidents! Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter AND Ronald Reagan! And he died only weeks before George H.W. Bush was sworn in.
Well, during WWII, FDR and his Administration wanted to make damn sure that post-war settlements would, as much as possible, create a situation where the US would not have to see the same mistakes made after WWI, requiring the US to become involved in yet another major European or world war. No single person can control everything, and we got a Cold War that we were lucky did not ever become WWIII, and a key part of the Truman Doctrine of containment of Communism was having Japan and West Germany as liberal democracies, and strong allies of the US. President Wilson wanted a similar outcome after WWI, but did not have the leverage that FDR had -- because the US played a far less important role in WWI, and the other Allies (UK and France) wanted to punish Germany after WWI. FDR would not allow that mistake to be repeated after WWII. The US essentially rebuilt the societies of Germany and Japan in a carefully planned post war occupation.
Damn , imagine when he learnt that the god he was determined to defend at all costs which made him survive for 3 decades in the jungle with minimal food and water, was now in friendly terms with what he would see as his mortal enemy.
@@georgemakrov6174 Imagine what he would have thought upon watching this. If he didn't know better, he would have thought that the war is going badly and the emperor has been captured by the Americans. Then, he would embark on a one-man campaign to rescue the emperor.
"I come to you General MacArthur to offer myself as the one to bear sole responsibility. I wish that the punishment would fall on me. Not on.... Japan." - Emperor Hirohito to MacArthur 1945 "This has nothing to do with punishments. I need your help. Let's see what we can do to get Japan back on its feet." - MacArthur to Emperor Hirohito 1945 This was insanely powerful because the MacArthur knew the cruel punishment of the Treaty of Versailles is what led to World War 2 and he wanted to prevent the Japanese from becoming so resentful that another war would've broken out.
MacArthur wasn't perfect by any means, but that was one very crucial thing he got right. He very well could've controlled Japan with a vengeful iron fist after the surrender, but chose to reconstruct and rehabilitate the nation rather than seek retribution. I'd go as far as saying Japan is the superpower it is today in-part because of MacArthur's post-war policies.
@@坂田金時-q7f I don't think it was America that did that. The Imperial House of Japan has more daughters, than sons. The only known son is Hisahito. They're gonna have to give the daughters the right to the throne. Edit: I don't know if the Imperial House of Japan had stillborns (affected by the bombings) so I didn't say it in here. If it was, then I rescind this comment.
@@king_fisherXX In Japan, there were many imperial families, and if the emperor did not have a son, he was supposed to support the emperor from there. However, after the war, the United States abolished it as a policy to destroy the emperor in the future.
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The Emperor spoke in Japanese. His remarks were translated by an interpreter as follows: Distinguished guests: I thank you very much, Mr. President, for your cordial words of welcome. I am deeply moved by your presence here with Mrs. Nixon. You have come over a long way to meet us personally on the occasion of our stopover here on our way to seven European countries. When you are so pressed with matters of state, I highly appreciate it as a manifestation of your very special good will and interest for the Japanese people and ourselves. Together with the Japanese people, I constantly raise to heart that all the Presidents of the United States, and her Government and people, have given us unstinted assistance, materially and morally, after the end of the war, in the restoration and building up of our country. I take this opportunity to express my most sincere gratitude for it. I have no doubt whatever that the friendly relations between our two countries, cultivated during the past quarter of a century, will be increasingly strengthened by close contact and cooperation between our Governments and peoples. I thank you again, Mr. President, for your kindness and extend my best wishes for the prosperity of the United States of America. Thank you.
Even though the Emperor was only passing through Anchorage, the President made the effort to come and arranged for such a magnificent military band to be performed. It's unthinkable now. I think it had a special meaning.
That's unbelievable. I'm just trying to imagine any family line going back 2500+ years. That means this family was on Japan's throne back when Alexander the Great was conquering Persia!
MacArthur believed that all war criminals begged for their lives, so he thought that the Emperor would also beg for his life. But the Emperor said to him, "All responsibility is on me. I don't want my life, so I want you to save the people. " Hearing these words, MacArthur was very surprised and came to respect the Emperor.
Respect is one thing, but one still needs to actually pay for what one had done. Btw I think MacArthur kept the emperor just to rule the occupied Japan easier.
Fun fact : cause of the fact the imperial palace was isolated from the rest of japan the emperors of Japan developed there own dialect of Japanese. This got to a point only translators from the imperial palace could understand the emperor and not even the Japanese.
Mwaniki Mwaniki you should just back down when you are talking to someone who literally know more about the subject than you and obviously him being Japanese is important and it’s weird to assume he doesn’t speak Japanese when he is Japanese
Mwaniki Mwaniki you are a linguist who is bad at English? I know linguists focus on spoken language but still, the spelling mistakes you made is strange. To me you seem like a person who believes he is much smarter than he actually is. It is quite common for people who think they are much smarter than they are to accuse others of being dumber than themselves like you did in your comment. You probably know more about the Japanese language than me and I’m not saying I know a lot about it, I simply said the Japanese guy probably knows more about the Japanese language than yourself.
Still crazy to think that some dude in Japan was fighting a war that was already over for 26 years while his head of state was visiting the United States lol.
He was in the Philippines called Lt. Onoda he was a captain of his squad until they all died and only surrendered at the 70's when Japan welcomed him back and considered him a war hero
Fun fact:Hirohito wasn't just the first Japanese monarch to step on foreign soil. He was also the first Japanese Crown Prince to step on foreign soil. He visited the UK and many other countries on a ship. He lived long enough to see intercontinental jets traveling at the speed of sound.
@DMK666 The emperor of Japan, Hirohito was extremely reluctant to go to war. He was proactive with the Japanese armed forces and the Japanese government at the time was essentially run by the military. Even though the emperor had the final choice in the matter of war, the emperor had no clue about the attack on pearl harbour.
His visit to the UK was really controversial, it’s interesting to read about. Huge crowds showed up but they didn’t cheer or boo, they just basically stared at him 💀 For context: he was actually gifted the honorary rank of a field marshal in 1930, which was the highest possible rank in the British Army. So he was seen as an enormous traitor.
I will never forget September 26, 1971. It was a day in which the events depicted in this video played out on my father's television set. My father was so angry that DC allowed Hirohito to step foot on American soil that he actually stood up and kicked his TV set across the living room floor. Cursed until his face was blood red and tears rolled down his cheeks. He left the house and didn't return for hours. I was 13 years old at the time and didn't fully understand what was happening. It was years later when my father opened up to me about some of the events he participated in during WWII in the pacific theater. They were very difficult stories for me to listen to even though I was much older. Another date in my life I will also remember was January 7, 1989. The day Hirohito died. My father stopped drinking in 1948 when my oldest brother was born and I never witnessed him drinking a drop of alcohol my entire life. But the day Hirohito died he bought a six pack of beer and drank them all that night. He sat in the back yard drinking that beer and crying uncontrollably at times. WWII was a very hard and difficult war for many that actually fought it and haunted tens of thousands for many decades that followed. It is my sincere hope that all Americans remember what our greatest generation did for us all. I sure do.
I bet Nixon's visit to China made Korean War vets EQUALLY or MORE FURIOUS. Think about it, Mao Zedong unlike Hirohito was the political leader who had worked to kill thousands of their comrades and enabled HORRIFIC massacres of our soldiers who were captured by either his troops or North Koreans. Now Nixon was visiting Beijing and smiling while shaking the hand of one of the biggest murderers in history (worse than Hitler or Stalin). As the great-nephew of a Korean War US army soldier KIA, those pictures make my blood boil. Those surviving vets had to be screaming "This man killed our friends and our allies, is a bigger killer than Hitler and now you want to be F***ING FRIENDS WITH HIM?! Did we fight and die for F***ING NOTHING?!" Why people call Nixon a hero until Watergate will NEVER cease to confound me. That day in 1972 he stained America's image forever.
As I scrolled down avoiding to read comments humanizing that little devil hirohito I stand with your great father who more than likely witnessed terrible atrocities in the pacific theater, I was born in '59 and didn't research the war until my mid 20's and couldn't believe the history of how barbaric the Japanese were out of paranoia, I hold those same feelings towards Germany too.
@@reginaldmassey3272 -- Barbaric really doesn't begin to describe it. I literally have a picture of my dad and a couple of his friends and dad is holding a human skull and all three of them are smiling like it's a trophy. Maybe that will give you some idea of what frame of mind our fathers were in while fighting that war. I could go on and on and on with some of the horrific story's my dad told me about and he didn't tell me about them all. Some of them were so bad that he simply couldn't bring himself to talk about them to me even in the late 1970's.
These subtitles are fucked up. It transtaled United States of America to *F I S H* . Anyways welcome ot brazil the place where nothing happens feijoada
Huehuehue luckly I am Portuguese muahmuahmuahahaha Godammit, the subtittles are really weird they dont make any sence Example " the ram in my mine scored" translated from one subtittle
@@Berkham1995 or American Samoa, Northern Marianas. But as far as Pacific States if you include the North American states which border the Pacific are HI, AL, OR, CA, WA. The others are a territory.
The wisest thing that any general ever did was General MacArthur REFUSING to remove the Emperor at the end of WWII. The Japanese society needed continuity and the Emperor provided that.
@@ReySchultz121 its not, the japaneese emperor has no real power for many centuries now. thats kind of the reason why the same dynasty lasted for over 2 millenia. the emperor of japan for most of history had very little power and was just a figurehead, so when a new group took power they kept the old emperor to legitimize their rule. if i remember correctly i read he was even opposed to the initial attack on usa.
5:45 Can't blame him, his previous speech was 26 years earlier, when he had to speak about how the war situation had not necessarily developed to Japans's advantage
So? Then that would be rather embarrassing to all involved parties, this was just a transit from Tokyo to London and Hirohito was already not so young and exhausted with his first ever jet lag.
A lot of people are commenting on how different the Emperor’s speech sounds compared to ‘standard’ Japanese. If you want to roughly appreciate how different it is, I’d compare it to Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address-comprehensible but old-fashioned. Basically any Japanese native speaker can understand what he says in this speech.
An old japanese fellow told me once, the imperial palace was so isolated from the rest of Japan that the dialect spoken there couldn't keep up with the one being spoken outside, you know, any language will change after sometime, if you understand the Darwinist evolution theory, this is pretty close to it. its almost as if the royal dialect "evolved" itself apart from the "Average" Japanese dialects spoken outside the palace, thus rendering it different, old man also said that any native Japanese speaker could still understand what the emperor was saying, but it was just a little bit different, I don't know if this is true, but sounds plausible to me.
Gabriel Soares | I think it’s a matter of degree. Did the imperial family use some kind of esoteric speech? Yes. Was it nearly unintelligible to ‘normal’ Japanese people? Probably not. I think Japanese people (especially older generations) have a tendency to exaggerate the difficultly of the Japanese language when talking to outsiders as a point of national pride.
I see what you're getting at, but I honestly doubt that, the royalty and divinity of the Japanese emperor would probably prevent him from leaving Japan ever. Edit: It is still possible though
@@jerrell1169 Yes, but those guys were imperial Japanese. They believed that their emperor is divine (like God-level divine), and they despised the western world, and they despised Americans and the USA most of all. Idk if they would be okay with their divine emperor stepping on "unholy, American-loser soil".
The way he speaks still sounds like the radio broadcast of 1945. I don’t speak Japanese and can’t really understand what he’s saying. But it sounds different to how normal Japanese people speaks.
No (sane) japanese speaks like in anime, but I do agree that he sounds different from "normal" Japanese. His accent is way more slow and deliberate then normal Japanese
Japanese rescued 765 Polish orphans in 1920 and 1922. I am European but know this story.The orphans were in Siberia, and their families died of cold and illness. If the Japanese did not rescue the orphans, the Polish orphans were dead. The Japanese continued to rescue the Polish orphans, losing their fingers due to frostbite and being threatened by Russians.The Japanese donated a lot of money to save Polish orphans.The Japanese sent orphans to Japan for treatment. The Japanese fed orphans a warm meal every day.All 765 Polish orphans have recovered. The Japanese empress at that time loved Polish orphans deeply.I am European but know this story.
From what I have read, Emperor Hirohito was against the war from all accounts. He was an artist and a poet. Not a warmonger. It was the very inordinately powerful leaders of the Armed Forces and others who created the situation which they later paid for most terribly and came to regret. Whatever one may say, General MacArthur was astute and realised how important a figure head the Emperor was, to the Japanese people. They Rallied around him and the reconstruction began. And today as everyone can see, the Japanese and Americans are good friends.
@@やる気熱々I am a big fan of Japan. I love the country and its people and its sense of rhythm and punctuality. I also respect deeply its sense of honour and its engineering as well as its Art.
@@reizayin Yes, when you consider the nationalist seizing of parliamentary powers by the military that even saw the prime minister resign in the 1930s.
@@terminallyonline5296 useless?, it was the main reason why Japan isn't frozen in time or another colony of a european power. Or worse, have the same fate as qing china.
@@misterliligant5772 The Meiji restoration which is what actually caused the reopening of Japan caused the creation of the Japanese parliament, which then suffered a nationalist coup.
@@shandernotpulp How is he innocent if he accepted the attack on Pearl Harbor? Hirohito was emperor for 15 years when Tojo asked his permission to launch the attack. Tojo was PM for only a few weeks. Hirohito could have and should have turned him down. He didn't. And he also became the rallying cry for the whole nation. He's in no way innocent.
@-, Hirohito was not a villain, during the early 30s Hirohito lost complete control over the military when his insanely nationalist generals took power in Japan and went on a rampage through Asia under the beliefs that they were fighting a holy race war against the western world, Hirohito was not a villain looking for excuses for japan’s colonial expansion, he was a figure head that had a weak hold on his generals, that set the world ablaze
Nixon may not be remembered favorably by a lot of measures of his presidency but one thing you can say for sure is he help the relations with some of our enemies at the time that lasted to this day
@Green98 Not really. The Luftwaffe still would have been defeated (mainly by the UK btw) and there would be no means to deliver the nukes. In 1945 nukes were worthless without air superiority.
Once bitter enemies became close allies. I have to admit great respect for the quiet grace and dignity of Hirohito. Nixon showed well his mastery of diplomacy and a firm leadership.
Not really a lot of diplomacy here. Hirohito was Head of State, not Head of Government. The US President holds both roles, but the real diplomacy would be with the Japanese Prime Minister. Hirohito's role is roughly analogous to the English Monarch.
Little known historical fact is that the US and Japan, after the latter ended its isolation, were becoming closer and closer as friends until the end of WWI when the both of them started diverging. Pearl Harbor was basically Japan spitting on the US for all the animosity after which the US decided to fight back. Think of it like this: two guys have a fight. One guy wins and drives the other to the ground. The winner smiles and helps the loser up onto his feet. He then says something to the effect of "Hey remember when we used to be friends? Why don't we be that again?" And then the loser smiles back and says "Yeah that sounds cool.". And so they hug and become friends again. That's pretty much how the US and Japan became such close friends after the war.
Everyone believes Hirohito was the real villain behind Imperial Japan. Instead he was a weak and easily swayed monarch who fell to the control of his military leaders in their war against the world.
TBH, he was more of a figure head than any real political leader (kind of like Britain's Queen or Belgium's King today). Tojo was essentially a military dictator, and held virtually all real power. Some have said that Hirohito was nearly a captive in his own nation.
Hirohito always was a symbol and could only advise others not to wage wars, etc. Emperors did not have authority to do that. It is sad that still not many people know about this.
I Can Tell Hirohito Is A Disappointed Being With His Greatest Enemy, But I Can Just Feel Franklin D, Roosevelt Being Thankful That Hirohito Is Is Not Trying To Invade Anymore. Rest In Peace Legends. Hirohito 1901 - 1989. Franklin D, Roosevelt 1882 - 1945. The Legends Are Probably Treating Each other Better In Heaven After WW1 And WW2.
That must’ve been awkward as Hell for Hirohito. He tried to kill these people roughly 30 years ago and uhh... oh boy you know the WW2 veterans just loooved seeing this guy show up
It definitely was weird for him Imagine being him... the symbol of a country that had done so many bad things during the war, and now he was there, meeting the leader of "his" former enemy in front of many people that probably suffered due to his country... respect...
I guess Hirohito wasnt that excited coming too, after the americans dropped 2 nukes on their most important industry citys, both unusable for the next thousands of years
Or the Germans 40 million who were homeless after the expulsions of the war. And they are still no sovereign state. Are they the only ones to show the excuse?
Hirohito was impressed with the west after his first visit to England. In early Japanese culture ,the Emperor was a god and no one was allowed to look directly at him or touch him. I think he felt trapped in a way by this treatment. The Japanese military was the real power in Japan in those days (WW2) After Japan's surrender ,the allied commanders came to the conclusion that it would be best to allow Hirohito to remain in power but gone was the divine mystique. The allied commanders also wanted Japan divied up amongst themselves( occupied) but US president Truman said no way to the USSR ,and France getting control of any part of Japan. The UK occupied briefly a small section of Japan. The US didn't occupy the country permanently either
@@debatinghealer you might want to check your definitions Military occupation means that you are the military power in the region you’re claiming. Otherwise, you are basically describing embassies. You are overestimating the significance of having foreign bases which you have to pay taxes & build yourself, and are limited in area, aka a military base. Military occupation is like Britain and France after WW1 within the Ottoman Empire, or Germany from 1945-1949
I’m Japanese and ofc can understand every single Japanese words. However I can’t even understand and listen up his Japanese speaking since he speeches with classic Japanese words. Need subtitles hahaha
@Dragooll mostly because people were ashamed of their ethnicity due to...well....you know. My ancestors are from England, but I also have English, german, Scottish, Irish, and Italian heritage.
"With the world so set on tearing itself apart, it don’t seem like such a bad thing to me to wanna put a little bit of it back together." - Desmond Doss (America's Greatest Hero and first conscious objector to receive the Medal of Honor)
@Nathaniel Grauel this emperor of japan was responsible for many deaths (including a lot of americans) you cant expect an american president to pardon him (sincerly) for all his sins. The emperor of japan's life was spared by the americans so in his own interest he sould not move against the americans and should try to look like a partener/friend pf the americans.
@Nathaniel Grauel i was talking about the video not the actual situation (wich is logic since we are in the comment section of this video) and even now the japanese and americans are allies only because of the chinease and corean threat. The japanese empire is now host for several american military bases wich represents a probleme for japan because recently the japanese people were protesting because of rapes made by american soldiers. Of course the japanese governement would like to recover it's military sovereignty that they have partially lost since world war 2. You reproach me to look at the actual japan as the old japanese empire but when you look closely you can see that the americans are doing the exact same thing by limiting their army capabilities and by staying in their lands (with the military bases).
1549_TH Odd that you would say that as Japan is responsible for deaths of milions of Koreans and Chinese people. If they want to shit talk this bastard they have every right to do so.
Syarlen Tunas Ok…… I see……… So why did u mentioned that in here anyway? But damn, he was like a living Modern History book!! Well, of course, until he died.
@@taoki7385 why should Americans care about Emperor Showa, we were at war with Japan when he was at the helm of Japan, you guys should be really grateful that we didn’t carry out execution
I am Japanese and have limited understanding of English, so I attempted to comprehend President Nixon's speech on UA-cam using the automatic English to Japanese translation feature. However, for some reason, UA-cam's automatic translation inexplicably recognizes English as Portuguese. Despite President Nixon speaking in English, the pronunciation is transcribed as Portuguese text. This Portuguese text is then translated into English, and further translated into Japanese, resulting in a confusing situation where President Nixon's English speech cannot be accurately understood. I hope for a proper translation from English to Japanese to address this issue.
@@mostlymagical3220 Thank you so much for translating the American President's speech video as I requested. I truly appreciate your effort. Your excellent Japanese translation helped me understand the President's message clearly!!
@Shusuke Agari I never said it was a joke! He's just pretending! Like Me. I used this because i love europe. He can either love Hirohito OR he's just memeing. But just don't take it seriously i beg you.
I was a teenager in Anchorage when this event happened. I saw Nixon as his motorcade drove down 4th Avenue, greeted by well-wishers and a few protesters. An amazing memory of an historic event. 🐧
I could certainly see why some would be upset (because of how how brutal the Imperial Japanese forces had been). Back in the 1850s, Queen Victoria caused some shock and consternation in Britain for similar reasons. In an effort to improve Anglo-French relations, she invited Emperor Napoleon III (the original Napoleon's nephew) to visit London and Windsor. I have to imagine the Waterloo and Napoleonic War veterans were THRILLED to see him /s. But as they say, the bold are the ones who make peace.
@@thunderbird1921 Wonderful analogy! Nixon got things done by being the last person you'd expect to want to do them. He served in WWII to defeat Japan. So, if he said it was time to shake hands with the man who was emperor at the time, you couldn't accuse him of ignoring history. Nixon was very anti-communist, so when he announced his trip to China, people thought, "Well, if a commie hater like Nixon says this is a smart move, he probably has his facts straight." You can say a lot of negative things about Nixon, many of them true, but when made smart moves in diplomacy he was acutely shrewd. I mean, there's a proverb about him in a Star Trek movie! 😯
Henni Quint It is very difficult to express Japanese honorific expressions in English.I would like you to study Japanese and understand this sentence.This person's Japanese expressions are very beautiful and I am impressed by them.
Imagine Mussolini and Hitler step off the plane after Hirohito and everyone's like "wait a minute"
*Directed by Robert B. Weide*
,,Hallo mein Schnitzels“
The Israelis would have snatched his ass so quick.
That is fucking hilarious!
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The enemy when you unlock him as a playable character:
Lol underrated comment
Lmfao yes
AAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAH LMAO
Underrated af
@amar gwari Anime is stronger than fascism
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Wasn’t there still a Japanese solider on an island who still thought WW2 was still raging until 1976?
Military History HQ yea lol it’s pretty funny
i think it happened in the philippines my country
Military History HQ your right it was in the Philippines he and his squad were isolated and thought the war was still going on, eventually he was the last one still fighting before surrendering to the Filipino government and getting a pardon from the Filipino governor
In Guam.
confirmed! it is in philippines. once he surrendered after his general said that the war is over, he was welcomed in japan with many honors and accolades.
That’s so crazy. Less than 30 years before, Nixon was shooting craps on Bougainville in the Pacific while Hirohito sat in his palace still ruling. Nixon was a captain in the army, Hirohito was the emperor of the Japanese Empire. Then 30 years later, they met, Hirohito in the same position, Nixon now president of the US. Just crazy to think about.
Not the same position
nixon was in the navy tho
@@1heKing so was JFK, Jimmy Carter, George Bush Snr
And Hirohito also lived long enough to see Nixon become a criminal that had to be pardoned.
So during his reign there have been 11 US presidents!
Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter AND Ronald Reagan!
And he died only weeks before George H.W. Bush was sworn in.
Lmao they made that dude from HOI4 into a real thing
Ikr dude best anime cosplayer
0/10 not enough chins
@@nicel1296 what?
Yeah I don't know what he means either
@@nicel1296 😂😂😂😂😂😂 on the point!!
Amazing how bitter enemies can become the greatest of allies.
+Bahtera Kurniawan Jaya Japan has existed for over 2 000 years, and for how long has ISIS existed? heck it's not even a country
Well, during WWII, FDR and his Administration wanted to make damn sure that post-war settlements would, as much as possible, create a situation where the US would not have to see the same mistakes made after WWI, requiring the US to become involved in yet another major European or world war.
No single person can control everything, and we got a Cold War that we were lucky did not ever become WWIII, and a key part of the Truman Doctrine of containment of Communism was having Japan and West Germany as liberal democracies, and strong allies of the US. President Wilson wanted a similar outcome after WWI, but did not have the leverage that FDR had -- because the US played a far less important role in WWI, and the other Allies (UK and France) wanted to punish Germany after WWI. FDR would not allow that mistake to be repeated after WWII. The US essentially rebuilt the societies of Germany and Japan in a carefully planned post war occupation.
Audgusto Flores >hirohito says: BANZAIIIII and explodes himself while je started tlking
this is one of the powers of the atom.
Well it has been 72 years
Imagine Hirohito steps for the first time on US soil while in the Phillipines Hiroo Onoda was still waiting for the orders which would be in 1974
Damn , imagine when he learnt that the god he was determined to defend at all costs which made him survive for 3 decades in the jungle with minimal food and water, was now in friendly terms with what he would see as his mortal enemy.
@@georgemakrov6174 Imagine what he would have thought upon watching this. If he didn't know better, he would have thought that the war is going badly and the emperor has been captured by the Americans. Then, he would embark on a one-man campaign to rescue the emperor.
Hahahah yea
@@Memelander !? Oh, thats, unforseen.
@@Memelander he probably did see it after his orders to come home and rehabilitation.
"I come to you General MacArthur to offer myself as the one to bear sole responsibility. I wish that the punishment would fall on me. Not on.... Japan."
- Emperor Hirohito to MacArthur 1945
"This has nothing to do with punishments. I need your help. Let's see what we can do to get Japan back on its feet."
- MacArthur to Emperor Hirohito 1945
This was insanely powerful because the MacArthur knew the cruel punishment of the Treaty of Versailles is what led to World War 2 and he wanted to prevent the Japanese from becoming so resentful that another war would've broken out.
MacArthur wasn't perfect by any means, but that was one very crucial thing he got right. He very well could've controlled Japan with a vengeful iron fist after the surrender, but chose to reconstruct and rehabilitate the nation rather than seek retribution. I'd go as far as saying Japan is the superpower it is today in-part because of MacArthur's post-war policies.
But America reduced the Imperial family so that there would be no Emperor in the future.
@@坂田金時-q7f I don't think it was America that did that. The Imperial House of Japan has more daughters, than sons. The only known son is Hisahito. They're gonna have to give the daughters the right to the throne.
Edit: I don't know if the Imperial House of Japan had stillborns (affected by the bombings) so I didn't say it in here. If it was, then I rescind this comment.
@@坂田金時-q7f emperors arent well known for peace but its better than the treaty of Versailles
@@king_fisherXX
In Japan, there were many imperial families, and if the emperor did not have a son, he was supposed to support the emperor from there.
However, after the war, the United States abolished it as a policy to destroy the emperor in the future.
"Airplane food has not developed necessarily to our advantage..."
JPaul C omg 😂 😂 hahaha
The Google/UA-cam network, who own all the other networks, don’t want the world to know the truth especially historical truth as they’ve pulled down from youtube countless times since its 2017 release the most forbidden documentary ever published! But the full ten-part series is still available at archive-dot-org: "Europa The Last Battle". See what they don't want the world to see.... learn what they don't want the world to know.... while you still can!
@@Ronnie-Jones Get the fuck out of here!
@@Ronnie-Jones you want to know why it is taken down? Because it causes idiots like you to believe it and start riots
Lmao Jewel voice brodcast
I like how Hirohito pulls out a cartoon sized paper before doing his speech
Nixon: Hello Hirohito
Hirohito: *Pulls out comically large paper*
@@cowboymooman8776 ffs 😂
And he look so nervous when opening it
Bcuz of the alphabet
@@cheezmodder1981 yeah, I noticed when a not translated manga their letters are from top to bottom, so that explains why he has a large paper.
"I was hoping to step foot in America, but not like this."
I come back to my greatest mail tray defeat “ as a tourist!”
@@thebigerictbe5267 I feel like your reply is a reference to something
@@lagreewithyourcomment it’s from Uncle Iroh from Avatar the last airbender
I feel like Tojo and his fuck faces were the ones supposed to say that.
You know what a step foot in america is a step foot
The Emperor spoke in Japanese. His remarks were translated by an interpreter as follows:
Distinguished guests:
I thank you very much, Mr. President, for your cordial words of welcome. I am deeply moved by your presence here with Mrs. Nixon. You have come over a long way to meet us personally on the occasion of our stopover here on our way to seven European countries.
When you are so pressed with matters of state, I highly appreciate it as a manifestation of your very special good will and interest for the Japanese people and ourselves. Together with the Japanese people, I constantly raise to heart that all the Presidents of the United States, and her Government and people, have given us unstinted assistance, materially and morally, after the end of the war, in the restoration and building up of our country. I take this opportunity to express my most sincere gratitude for it.
I have no doubt whatever that the friendly relations between our two countries, cultivated during the past quarter of a century, will be increasingly strengthened by close contact and cooperation between our Governments and peoples.
I thank you again, Mr. President, for your kindness and extend my best wishes for the prosperity of the United States of America.
Thank you.
Thank you
Even though the Emperor was only passing through Anchorage, the President made the effort to come and arranged for such a magnificent military band to be performed.
It's unthinkable now. I think it had a special meaning.
russia: immediately kills hitler and takes half of germany
USA: immidediately acknowledge japan as an ally
Thank you kindly.
Just so people know, the House of Yamato is the oldest surviving royal lineage in the world. Founded in 660 BC. So this is massive.
I did not know that, thank you.
That's unbelievable. I'm just trying to imagine any family line going back 2500+ years. That means this family was on Japan's throne back when Alexander the Great was conquering Persia!
@@thunderbird1921 amazing really
@@thunderbird1921 house of Solomon lol
日本の戦争犯罪はどうですか？ 南京や他のアジア諸国？
Hirohito: "Oh hi Nixon. Sorry about that WW2 thing and all."
Nixon: "yeah... and sorry about those nukes..."
September 26, 1971 USA and Japan finally have peace
Victims of WWII “...........”
Matsuoka Keita sorry but all was the victim
Hitler: So guys, can I get out of Argentina now? I really wanna get me some sauerkraut again!
@Joseph Stalin shit I would
do the same thing
"Defeat is not the end of Japan. In the future we will be a great nation."
__ Emperor Hirohito.
Wasn’t wrong
I feel that if Hirohito saw what Japan was like today he would honestly be kinda Disappointed and Disgusted
@@Bobonmyprimejr He would still be glad about other things though.
@@justafnaffan2.016 Yamaha makes very average instruments.
@@thejword4279 keyword standard but pretty much yeah
MacArthur believed that all war criminals begged for their lives, so he thought that the Emperor would also beg for his life. But the Emperor said to him, "All responsibility is on me. I don't want my life, so I want you to save the people. "
Hearing these words, MacArthur was very surprised and came to respect the Emperor.
so, now we can live here🇯🇵, and we will respect and support our royal family eternally 🌸
Respect is one thing, but one still needs to actually pay for what one had done. Btw I think MacArthur kept the emperor just to rule the occupied Japan easier.
Can you provide a source? Considering his actual actions made in china, it's hard to believe he would actually be remorseful to his citizens.
Emperor did nothing wrong, he only wanted to unite Asia peacefully. Too late now Asia is eternally divided@tianwang
@@scoob4333 the IJA attacked out of their own desire, without approval from the government (1931)
Fun fact : cause of the fact the imperial palace was isolated from the rest of japan the emperors of Japan developed there own dialect of Japanese. This got to a point only translators from the imperial palace could understand the emperor and not even the Japanese.
Fact check: true but Hirohito could speak the standard dialect when necessary. Like when he announced the surrender
@@thenightowl900 The surrender was also in this strange dialect.
Mwaniki Mwaniki bro the guy is Japanese
Mwaniki Mwaniki you should just back down when you are talking to someone who literally know more about the subject than you and obviously him being Japanese is important and it’s weird to assume he doesn’t speak Japanese when he is Japanese
Mwaniki Mwaniki you are a linguist who is bad at English? I know linguists focus on spoken language but still, the spelling mistakes you made is strange. To me you seem like a person who believes he is much smarter than he actually is. It is quite common for people who think they are much smarter than they are to accuse others of being dumber than themselves like you did in your comment. You probably know more about the Japanese language than me and I’m not saying I know a lot about it, I simply said the Japanese guy probably knows more about the Japanese language than yourself.
Still crazy to think that some dude in Japan was fighting a war that was already over for 26 years while his head of state was visiting the United States lol.
Even more funny there were 2 other soldiers in different parts of Asia still continuing to fight
He was in the Philippines called Lt. Onoda he was a captain of his squad until they all died and only surrendered at the 70's when Japan welcomed him back and considered him a war hero
@@moon_wei we know
Orders are orders...
@@quackityalt7213 Some dont.
Fun fact:Hirohito wasn't just the first Japanese monarch to step on foreign soil. He was also the first Japanese Crown Prince to step on foreign soil. He visited the UK and many other countries on a ship. He lived long enough to see intercontinental jets traveling at the speed of sound.
@DMK666 Well aren't we Mr The glass is half empty.
When did Hirohito die?
@DMK666 The emperor of Japan, Hirohito was extremely reluctant to go to war. He was proactive with the Japanese armed forces and the Japanese government at the time was essentially run by the military. Even though the emperor had the final choice in the matter of war, the emperor had no clue about the attack on pearl harbour.
His visit to the UK was really controversial, it’s interesting to read about. Huge crowds showed up but they didn’t cheer or boo, they just basically stared at him 💀
For context: he was actually gifted the honorary rank of a field marshal in 1930, which was the highest possible rank in the British Army. So he was seen as an enormous traitor.
@DMK666 that was Tojo, Hirohito was just a puppet
I will never forget September 26, 1971. It was a day in which the events depicted in this video played out on my father's television set. My father was so angry that DC allowed Hirohito to step foot on American soil that he actually stood up and kicked his TV set across the living room floor. Cursed until his face was blood red and tears rolled down his cheeks. He left the house and didn't return for hours. I was 13 years old at the time and didn't fully understand what was happening. It was years later when my father opened up to me about some of the events he participated in during WWII in the pacific theater. They were very difficult stories for me to listen to even though I was much older.
Another date in my life I will also remember was January 7, 1989. The day Hirohito died. My father stopped drinking in 1948 when my oldest brother was born and I never witnessed him drinking a drop of alcohol my entire life. But the day Hirohito died he bought a six pack of beer and drank them all that night. He sat in the back yard drinking that beer and crying uncontrollably at times. WWII was a very hard and difficult war for many that actually fought it and haunted tens of thousands for many decades that followed. It is my sincere hope that all Americans remember what our greatest generation did for us all. I sure do.
@Fallen Shadows -- For whites what?
I bet Nixon's visit to China made Korean War vets EQUALLY or MORE FURIOUS. Think about it, Mao Zedong unlike Hirohito was the political leader who had worked to kill thousands of their comrades and enabled HORRIFIC massacres of our soldiers who were captured by either his troops or North Koreans. Now Nixon was visiting Beijing and smiling while shaking the hand of one of the biggest murderers in history (worse than Hitler or Stalin). As the great-nephew of a Korean War US army soldier KIA, those pictures make my blood boil. Those surviving vets had to be screaming "This man killed our friends and our allies, is a bigger killer than Hitler and now you want to be F***ING FRIENDS WITH HIM?! Did we fight and die for F***ING NOTHING?!" Why people call Nixon a hero until Watergate will NEVER cease to confound me. That day in 1972 he stained America's image forever.
@@thunderbird1921 -- I agree.
As I scrolled down avoiding to read comments humanizing that little devil hirohito I stand with your great father who more than likely witnessed terrible atrocities in the pacific theater, I was born in '59 and didn't research the war until my mid 20's and couldn't believe the history of how barbaric the Japanese were out of paranoia, I hold those same feelings towards Germany too.
@@reginaldmassey3272 -- Barbaric really doesn't begin to describe it. I literally have a picture of my dad and a couple of his friends and dad is holding a human skull and all three of them are smiling like it's a trophy. Maybe that will give you some idea of what frame of mind our fathers were in while fighting that war. I could go on and on and on with some of the horrific story's my dad told me about and he didn't tell me about them all. Some of them were so bad that he simply couldn't bring himself to talk about them to me even in the late 1970's.
Hirohito, he looked good for 70.
Ryan Friedman And when he died he looked exactly the same.
no
All Asians age extremely well
@@glue6143 u
Well amazing what a little radiation can do.
Damn those chins never fade
THICC AF
Ikr
Someone doesn't get the joke.
#isp
ARTILLERY ONLY
@@weloc Artillery Masterrace
Fun fact;hirohito is speaking classical japanese,which is why his Japanese sounds weird compared to normal Japanese.
i didn't know that even though i'm japanese
@@おんこちしん-o9c lol
@@おんこちしん-o9c Can you speak Japanese?
Yes when he declared on radio how Japan lost the war its sounded odd actually
@Josip Well no duh for the same reason a russian will think old english doesn't sound too different from normal english
America: "You'll pay for Pearl Harbor"
Hirohito: "I hate Russian Communists"
America: "Let's have dinner"
Nice joke
not before two mushrooms
Lt. Onoda in the Philippines
I will never surrender and will fight to the death for my Emperor. Banzai!!!!!!!!!
Meanwhile Hirohito:
oof, not sure if this is funny or sad
oof
After that he wrote baka Mitai
*MEANHILE*
@@guilhermecadima4201 dame dane
Nixon just stands there listening to Hirohito like: "Oh cool. I understand him."
does Nixon have an ear piece on ? Someone could be translating for him, like they do in the UN.
Tom Servo it’s 1971......
@@tufluxed3293 they used it 30 years before this for trial on ww2 crime.
Thanks to IBM technology
that's just the social convention.
Subtitles: *PORTUGUESE*
These subtitles are fucked up. It transtaled United States of America to *F I S H* . Anyways welcome ot brazil the place where nothing happens feijoada
Non
Huehuehue luckly I am Portuguese muahmuahmuahahaha
Godammit, the subtittles are really weird they dont make any sence
Example " the ram in my mine scored" translated from one subtittle
Ronaldo wants to know your location
Eae kk
Finally, honest apology video on UA-cam.
He was probably thinking about the Pacific States of America
That MITHC Hype
@@Darwinawardrecipient october is near
Well it exists. We have the marshall islands and hawaii. Don't forget Guam
@@Berkham1995 or American Samoa, Northern Marianas. But as far as Pacific States if you include the North American states which border the Pacific are HI, AL, OR, CA, WA. The others are a territory.
Matheus Ferrão det kunne ost være
Fun fact: Nixon served in the Navy in the Pacific during WWII.
He probably wanted Hirohito dead during the war lol
Bruh
@@harsimratsingh8569 What? Its true.
A soldier and an emperor on same stage, but sharing different personalities, made me to said "bruh"...
Kamikaze pilots : interesting keep going
The wisest thing that any general ever did was General MacArthur REFUSING to remove the Emperor at the end of WWII. The Japanese society needed continuity and the Emperor provided that.
I think they learned from the Allies removing Wilhelm II after WW1
Kaiser Wilhelm abdicated before the armistice. He was forced out by german high command, not the treaty of Versailles.
@@camronyearout1158 but nothing said they couldn't impose another Kaiser, it was only Wilhelm who was unpopular.
I disagree, it was unwise. The imperial family is nothing but a burden for us, my taxes are paying for the luxuries of his grandchildren.
@Lord Azreal Lais would've*
Amazing time in history, just 3 decades prior, he was the ruling emperor of an empire that was taking over Asia at tremendous speed.
Yep and lets not forget that he makes even Hitler look like a nice person…
@@HuobaojiqiThat was Tojo.
It's debatable how much of it he actually took part in or knew about.
@@ReySchultz121 its not, the japaneese emperor has no real power for many centuries now. thats kind of the reason why the same dynasty lasted for over 2 millenia. the emperor of japan for most of history had very little power and was just a figurehead, so when a new group took power they kept the old emperor to legitimize their rule.
if i remember correctly i read he was even opposed to the initial attack on usa.
天皇は戦争犯罪者として裁かれてはいません。なぜならほぼ軍事に関して権力がなかったからです。
@@Huobaojiqi لاتنسى انكم انتم الامريكان اشر من كل شئ انتم الإهراب بحد ذاته
So is it true that Hirohito was the last surviving leader of the failed axis faction?
Meta Knight Franco was a fascist leader but he never joined the Axis
Hungary’s leader (Miklos Horthny) survived. Also the king Siam at the end war lived until 2016
King mihai of romania died in 2017
Soty yes but Romania was ruled by Horia Sima and Ion Antonescu.
Yup
5:45 Can't blame him, his previous speech was 26 years earlier, when he had to speak about how the war situation had not necessarily developed to Japans's advantage
I thought he's getting a gun lol
@@harbymastopia9635 Everyone Gangsta untill the Emperor of Japan just pulls an Uzi out of his jacket and takes down half of NATO
@@disillusionedrightest7313 holy fuck this deserves a medal
@@disillusionedrightest7313 That'd be an amazing anime XD 🤣
@@disillusionedrightest7313 "This is for 1945"
Must have been an uncomfortable dinner. "Yeah, those A-bombs did suck. Pass the Ranch?"
A means...Ass?
Lol
Well i guess there was nothing charbroil on the menu for the emperor
This has to be the greatest reception anyone has ever received, anywhere, at any time in history.
What’s wrong with you 😅
@@jackwolf1397I mean it's very respectful
So? Then that would be rather embarrassing to all involved parties, this was just a transit from Tokyo to London and Hirohito was already not so young and exhausted with his first ever jet lag.
Love this video...never knew The Emperor set foot in the US.
+Alem Bess He tried in the 40's but the tour agent got the plans messed up and the whole trip went up in smoke...
+Marshall Smith™ LOL
Shibuya Rin
The Nazis were far left
In 1975 Hirohito visited disneyland and saw mikey mouse (his favourite cartoon character)
Cumulo Nimbus I think he doth protest too much 🤔
As John f Kennedy would say “forgive your enemies but remember their names”
Ok
That's a good one.
Hmmm yes
And yet he can't remember the guy who shot him
sounds like someone’s breaking i n
A lot of people are commenting on how different the Emperor’s speech sounds compared to ‘standard’ Japanese. If you want to roughly appreciate how different it is, I’d compare it to Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address-comprehensible but old-fashioned. Basically any Japanese native speaker can understand what he says in this speech.
Even the most old fashioned American still sounds swashbuckling in a way. That’s the charm of it I think
God Emperor Donny T
Weird flex, but ok
God Emperor Donny T
You edited your comment. Hehe
An old japanese fellow told me once, the imperial palace was so isolated from the rest of Japan that the dialect spoken there couldn't keep up with the one being spoken outside, you know, any language will change after sometime, if you understand the Darwinist evolution theory, this is pretty close to it. its almost as if the royal dialect "evolved" itself apart from the "Average" Japanese dialects spoken outside the palace, thus rendering it different, old man also said that any native Japanese speaker could still understand what the emperor was saying, but it was just a little bit different, I don't know if this is true, but sounds plausible to me.
Gabriel Soares | I think it’s a matter of degree. Did the imperial family use some kind of esoteric speech? Yes. Was it nearly unintelligible to ‘normal’ Japanese people? Probably not.
I think Japanese people (especially older generations) have a tendency to exaggerate the difficultly of the Japanese language when talking to outsiders as a point of national pride.
Thank you for posting this.
He looks so sad like “this could have been mine”
Edit : this was a joke everyone don’t get triggered
DogeWard MC atleast this generation is infected with anime titties
@@salutic.7544 sad
That's just his default face
Nah it never could have been his. That wasn't even Japans plan during the pacific war, wasn't even the best case scenario lol
I would be too
I’d imagine hirohito would be thinking that he would be on american soil 20 years earlier
I see what you're getting at, but I honestly doubt that, the royalty and divinity of the Japanese emperor would probably prevent him from leaving Japan ever.
Edit: It is still possible though
@@officerpolarbear8670 He toured France, Belgium, the Netherlands, England, and Italy in 1921 while crown prince.
@@daniel_sc1024 I see. Well then it could be possible.
@@officerpolarbear8670 You know they’re not like, trapped in Japan right? The royal family goes overseas relatives often.
@@jerrell1169 Yes, but those guys were imperial Japanese. They believed that their emperor is divine (like God-level divine), and they despised the western world, and they despised Americans and the USA most of all. Idk if they would be okay with their divine emperor stepping on "unholy, American-loser soil".
All people:🙂
Hirohito:😔
Me 😊
@@MichaelKing-tp6leme 🤫🧏🏻♂️
@@MichaelKing-tp6le 🗿
@@AresMH me still 😊
@@MichaelKing-tp6le 🤨
The way he speaks still sounds like the radio broadcast of 1945. I don’t speak Japanese and can’t really understand what he’s saying. But it sounds different to how normal Japanese people speaks.
Vasili Leung Normal as in anime or you've been to japan before?
Beskt as in anime.
No (sane) japanese speaks like in anime, but I do agree that he sounds different from "normal" Japanese.
His accent is way more slow and deliberate then normal Japanese
He's speaking very clear and sharp.
That is because he is speaking in classical Japanese. As if the Queen of England spoke in Shaksperean English.
5:45 hmm............. oh shit i have to speak now, where is ..... ah my paper here is it
hahahahahahhahahaha
😂😂😂
@@REEEPROGRAM wut?
You ok hirohito?
The interpreter was probably telling him a joke lol
Japanese rescued 765 Polish orphans in 1920 and 1922. I am European but know this story.The orphans were in Siberia, and their families died of cold and illness. If the Japanese did not rescue the orphans, the Polish orphans were dead. The Japanese continued to rescue the Polish orphans, losing their fingers due to frostbite and being threatened by Russians.The Japanese donated a lot of money to save Polish orphans.The Japanese sent orphans to Japan for treatment. The Japanese fed orphans a warm meal every day.All 765 Polish orphans have recovered. The Japanese empress at that time loved Polish orphans deeply.I am European but know this story.
I will visit US soil...
One day
Yourself or your goddamn nuke?
Shut up about your nukes,you think its funny joke but NO.Strong no!Watch a video about Hiroshima and Nagasaki,then you will see "joke"
@@spook777basic6 I will watch it after I get nuked
Lol 😆 I will greet you first with my sks.
After you get that hairline checked
From what I have read, Emperor Hirohito was against the war from all accounts. He was an artist and a poet. Not a warmonger. It was the very inordinately powerful leaders of the Armed Forces and others who created the situation which they later paid for most terribly and came to regret. Whatever one may say, General MacArthur was astute and realised how important a figure head the Emperor was, to the Japanese people. They Rallied around him and the reconstruction began. And today as everyone can see, the Japanese and Americans are good friends.
That's right. The Emperor was against war. It was the powerful Japanese military that started the war. your knowledge is amazing
He was a professional marine biologist.
@@やる気熱々I am a big fan of Japan. I love the country and its people and its sense of rhythm and punctuality. I also respect deeply its sense of honour and its engineering as well as its Art.
And to think: nearly 30 years earlier, that same exact emperor was fighting a hot war against the same exact country whose soil he just walked on.
@Giorno so you're saying... the meiji restoration was useless?
@@reizayin Yes, when you consider the nationalist seizing of parliamentary powers by the military that even saw the prime minister resign in the 1930s.
@@terminallyonline5296 useless?, it was the main reason why Japan isn't frozen in time or another colony of a european power. Or worse, have the same fate as qing china.
@@misterliligant5772 The Meiji restoration which is what actually caused the reopening of Japan caused the creation of the Japanese parliament, which then suffered a nationalist coup.
He's not Tojo
"After all these year i would return to the scene of my greatest millitary defeat, as a tourist"
General Iroh's quote 😁
@@daffarezka7465 yes i did it because of the meme
Ahhh yes, uncle Iroh.
🫖
Ghost of Hitler and Mussolini watching like "WTF bro?"
That would be Tojo, not Hirohito he's innocent.
@@shandernotpulp How is he innocent if he accepted the attack on Pearl Harbor? Hirohito was emperor for 15 years when Tojo asked his permission to launch the attack. Tojo was PM for only a few weeks. Hirohito could have and should have turned him down. He didn't. And he also became the rallying cry for the whole nation. He's in no way innocent.
Halo announcer: *”BETRAYAL”*
@-, Hirohito was not a villain, during the early 30s Hirohito lost complete control over the military when his insanely nationalist generals took power in Japan and went on a rampage through Asia under the beliefs that they were fighting a holy race war against the western world, Hirohito was not a villain looking for excuses for japan’s colonial expansion, he was a figure head that had a weak hold on his generals, that set the world ablaze
“Yo benito can you believe Hirohito is in the United States Of America right now.” “no adolf I can’t.”
Nixon may not be remembered favorably by a lot of measures of his presidency but one thing you can say for sure is he help the relations with some of our enemies at the time that lasted to this day
5:54 I thought Hirohito pull the gun out.. :o
I was thinking about it, but I thought is was a mistake like pearl harbor
Hirohito: I will do, what my generals can't do!
*Pull out the gun and shoot in the Nixson*
Hirohito: Now I am done!
He will go down in history *LIKE A BOSS* and Hitler and Mussolini will be jealous.
Hirohito: Omae wo mou shindeiru
XD
If the Germans had won he would be in Berlin at this time, lmao
Pranav Palliyil Japan would’ve probably been stabbed in the back by Germany, same for Italy
@@slmb_b japan would have stabbed Germany, Germany surrendered 1 and a half year before japan, and japan was fighting alone for the last 2 years.
@@boycottnok1466 Germany surrender on 9 May 1945 and Japan on 15 August 1945
@@boycottnok1466 nah hitler thought Japanese were honorable aryans so no
@Green98 Not really. The Luftwaffe still would have been defeated (mainly by the UK btw) and there would be no means to deliver the nukes. In 1945 nukes were worthless without air superiority.
Once bitter enemies became close allies. I have to admit great respect for the quiet grace and dignity of Hirohito. Nixon showed well his mastery of diplomacy and a firm leadership.
Not really a lot of diplomacy here. Hirohito was Head of State, not Head of Government. The US President holds both roles, but the real diplomacy would be with the Japanese Prime Minister. Hirohito's role is roughly analogous to the English Monarch.
John Cronin Doesn’t matter it was a symbolic showing that Japan and USA were now great allies.
Thank them for your Amtrak Acela technology, Toyota Corollas and Hentai
more like beaten to submission
Little known historical fact is that the US and Japan, after the latter ended its isolation, were becoming closer and closer as friends until the end of WWI when the both of them started diverging. Pearl Harbor was basically Japan spitting on the US for all the animosity after which the US decided to fight back.
Think of it like this: two guys have a fight. One guy wins and drives the other to the ground. The winner smiles and helps the loser up onto his feet. He then says something to the effect of "Hey remember when we used to be friends? Why don't we be that again?" And then the loser smiles back and says "Yeah that sounds cool.". And so they hug and become friends again. That's pretty much how the US and Japan became such close friends after the war.
They gave this man a hell of an entrance
Emperor in his mind: (walk like nothing happened, walk like nothing happened)
5:45
Me during a presentation
LMAO
Akhihito Chakma 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lol
Falcon Scout plus starting to speak in a language nobody could understand 👌
Its like oh crap here it goes, here it goes
Everyone believes Hirohito was the real villain behind Imperial Japan. Instead he was a weak and easily swayed monarch who fell to the control of his military leaders in their war against the world.
TBH, he was more of a figure head than any real political leader (kind of like Britain's Queen or Belgium's King today). Tojo was essentially a military dictator, and held virtually all real power. Some have said that Hirohito was nearly a captive in his own nation.
@@thunderbird1921 also ishiwara who did many war crimes. Only Yamamoto was against the war and yet died honorably
@@denissaliaj9459 also usa spare many general who commit war crime
@Dahaka The Guardian of timeline your comment proves your ignorant of facts and the USA even decided that the emperor of japan IS not a war criminal.
Hirohito always was a symbol and could only advise others not to wage wars, etc. Emperors did not have authority to do that. It is sad that still not many people know about this.
I Can Tell Hirohito Is A Disappointed Being With His Greatest Enemy, But I Can Just Feel Franklin D, Roosevelt Being Thankful That Hirohito Is Is Not Trying To Invade Anymore. Rest In Peace Legends. Hirohito 1901 - 1989. Franklin D, Roosevelt 1882 - 1945. The Legends Are Probably Treating Each other Better In Heaven After WW1 And WW2.
64年間ものご公務、ありがとうございました。全国を巡られ、果ては海外にまで渡航され、日本国民は再度立ち上がる事ができました。
どうか令和の時代も見守り頂きたく…。
うぅ…・゜・(つД｀)・゜・そうだね陛下のおかげで今の自分達と日本があるんだねこれが本当の神
摂政時代も入れると70年近く公務してることになりますね...凄いな..
Tu hermana en bolas 👍👍
日本の戦争犯罪はどうですか？ 南京や他のアジア諸国？
@@djzrobzombie2813
日本が戦争を行うに至った経緯は明治維新後の歴史書を紐解けば、おのずと答えは出てくるだろう。
東京大空襲や2発の原爆投下により数十万人とも数百万人とも言われる民間人を死地へ追いやり、各都市を焼け野原にしたアメリカの行為は戦争犯罪と言えないのか?
戦後の毛沢東は何人人を殺してきたのかね?
貴重な映像をアップして頂きありがとう御座います。
天皇やはり最強凄いな
@@中島美記子-g2n そんな陛下の元に生まれて来た私達も幸運ですね!
LIRA get the fuck out of here Takara Takas
玉音放送
UA-camってたまにこう言う歴史的価値のある映像残ってるよな。有難い
アメリカと日本の永遠の繁栄を祝って。
乾杯。
That must’ve been awkward as Hell for Hirohito. He tried to kill these people roughly 30 years ago and uhh... oh boy you know the WW2 veterans just loooved seeing this guy show up
Grey Hawk Hirohito did not start the war. It was the generals, Hirohito was their puppet
Blame Tojo and konoe
It definitely was weird for him
Imagine being him... the symbol of a country that had done so many bad things during the war, and now he was there, meeting the leader of "his" former enemy in front of many people that probably suffered due to his country...
respect...
I guess Hirohito wasnt that excited coming too, after the americans dropped 2 nukes on their most important industry citys, both unusable for the next thousands of years
Or the Germans 40 million who were homeless after the expulsions of the war. And they are still no sovereign state. Are they the only ones to show the excuse?
Hirohito was impressed with the west after his first visit to England. In early Japanese culture ,the Emperor was a god and no one was allowed to look directly at him or touch him. I think he felt trapped in a way by this treatment.
The Japanese military was the real power in Japan in those days (WW2)
After Japan's surrender ,the allied commanders came to the conclusion that it would be best to allow Hirohito to remain in power but gone was the divine mystique.
The allied commanders also wanted Japan divied up amongst themselves( occupied) but US president Truman said no way to the USSR ,and France getting control of any part of Japan. The UK occupied briefly a small section of Japan. The US didn't occupy the country permanently either
USA: “The USSR & France can’t occupy but Britain is definitely allowed to 🤝”
UK: “My bank account says otherwise 👋”
Thats how Shintoism works. Unlike abrahamic religions where theres only one God, anyone, anything or anyplace can become a divine being in Shintoism.
@@XXXTENTAClON227 why would France occupy ?? Mfs were hitler bitch lol
@@debatinghealer you might want to check your definitions
Military occupation means that you are the military power in the region you’re claiming. Otherwise, you are basically describing embassies. You are overestimating the significance of having foreign bases which you have to pay taxes & build yourself, and are limited in area, aka a military base. Military occupation is like Britain and France after WW1 within the Ottoman Empire, or Germany from 1945-1949
@@kn2549 That's the definition of Hinduism too.
I’m Japanese and ofc can understand every single Japanese words. However I can’t even understand and listen up his Japanese speaking since he speeches with classic Japanese words.
Need subtitles hahaha
Before ww2 german was the 2nd most spoken language in the us and in the 1800s was almost the official language.
@Dragooll mostly because people were ashamed of their ethnicity due to...well....you know.
My ancestors are from England, but I also have English, german, Scottish, Irish, and Italian heritage.
@Dragooll noice! I'm only like 10% lol
@Dragooll what country you from? In South America?
@Dragooll what he says is true, I am argentinian and my grandmother is german and my grandfather is italian
I'm so grateful to video technology for showing us moments like this.
6:05 Me preparing to have a presentation in front of the whole class
6:05 Me (Nixon) waiting as my teacher yells everyone to quiet so I could do my presentation
Class after your presentation: 3:28
This is too true xD
@@heyitzdaus LMAO
記念すべき映像です。
ありがとうございます。
*Hirohito takes out paper*
hirohito: speaks japanese
Epic *bruh* moment
And Nixon sounds like understand his
@@idsfxtm5759 Nixon be like: "hmmm, ah yes...anime"
He was probably told by a translator ahead of time what he said
Nixon : *Where is the damn subtitle ??*
"With the world so set on tearing itself apart, it don’t seem like such a bad thing to me to wanna put a little bit of it back together."
- Desmond Doss (America's Greatest Hero and first conscious objector to receive the Medal of Honor)
The real desmond doss never said that but the actor (andrew garfield) playing him in the movie said it.
🇺🇸 🤝 🇯🇵
Love from United States to Japan.
🇯🇵🤝🇺🇸
Love from Japan to United States of America.
I hope "Toward an Alliance of Hope".
forever!!!!!!
World on peace
握手🤝
優しい世界
5:41 when your PING is over 200
草
He just remember the old days
@Adolf Hitler I thought you are dead
200 ping is really good for me lol
LoL
Between countrys and politicians there is no friends only interests
@Nathaniel Grauel this emperor of japan was responsible for many deaths (including a lot of americans) you cant expect an american president to pardon him (sincerly) for all his sins. The emperor of japan's life was spared by the americans so in his own interest he sould not move against the americans and should try to look like a partener/friend pf the americans.
@Nathaniel Grauel i was talking about the video not the actual situation (wich is logic since we are in the comment section of this video) and even now the japanese and americans are allies only because of the chinease and corean threat. The japanese empire is now host for several american military bases wich represents a probleme for japan because recently the japanese people were protesting because of rapes made by american soldiers. Of course the japanese governement would like to recover it's military sovereignty that they have partially lost since world war 2. You reproach me to look at the actual japan as the old japanese empire but when you look closely you can see that the americans are doing the exact same thing by limiting their army capabilities and by staying in their lands (with the military bases).
Think Rambo said it the best in Rambo 4 2008 movie "Peace, thats an accident". Although peace is better than war thats for sure
It’s crazy to see how much changed between Japan-US in such a short period of time. Nowadays Japan and America are incredibly tight.
そして日本から大量の借金をしているアメリカ
@@ああ-e6h8n china
何度拝見しても涙腺が崩壊します。
“和を以て貴しとなす”という日本国民の精神を感じ入り、施しには感謝するという日本国民の謙虚な心を代弁していただき、日本人として誇りに思う映像でございました。
ありがとうございます。
cool story bro
Wasn't very humble in Nanjing
Emperor Hirohito should have come to Korea and other affected countries to kneel down and apology like the German chancellor.
@@정민욱-f3y i agree with u.
@@정민욱-f3y hi Kimchi
Amazing, he sounds just like he did during the surrender broadcast
Looks like the Catholic missa
Korean, not Chinese.
Deus Vult fuck off
Mango Boy // Kurt Japanese.
1549_TH Odd that you would say that as Japan is responsible for deaths of milions of Koreans and Chinese people.
If they want to shit talk this bastard they have every right to do so.
*TENNO HEIKA BANZAI!*
Hideki Tōjō *procedes to stab Nixon withkatana*
Hideki Tōjō fuck off
@@kimjongun505 you suck off
Marstuber fuck off
Anonymous Panacea what’s wrong with slavs? Why do you dislike them?
何度拝見しても感動します。日本の誇りです。涙が出ます。ありがとうございました。
天皇の責任で日本が潰された。
Proud of what? Y'all Japanese really skip history classes.
@@victornunes6047 yep
They really do
@@victornunes6047アメリカくんは過去から全く学んでないけどな歴史受けてる？笑
@@victornunes6047
天皇陛下がこの国に存在していることこそが日本の誇り
Mr Hirohito lived long enough to witness
Ww1
Ww2
The Korean War
The Berlin Wall being built
The Cuban missile crisis
The failed us invasion of Vietnam
Creation of anime*
Syarlen Tunas
Ok…… I see………
So why did u mentioned that in here anyway?
But damn, he was like a living Modern History book!!
Well, of course, until he died.
Yes, humans do indeed live for about a century.
t.high school history student
Ms. Elizabeth: So what?
Plot twist: his speech is about his 2nd attack in pearl harbour
Underated
Ye underrated lol
Lmao. Good job.
Ah shit ww2 2 is here
Seems like the Plot twist in Anime
"one small step for japan, one giant leap for japankind"
偉大過ぎる昭和天皇。。。戦時中はどれほど苦しまれたでしょうか。戦後も退位しない選択をされ、国を見守り続けて下さり感謝の念しかありません。
陛下は緊張なされていますね…
玉音放送と全く同じ声・話し方なので驚きました。
本当に(|||´Д｀)、誠実さが滲み出ているね。嘘、偽りの無いお言葉。
Ochinchin ga daisuki nandayou
@@jameshartford8786 shut up
@@jameshartford8786 bv,b.,h
@@charlotteagunas7740 what does that random words mean
アメリカに最大限の敬意を表しつつ、日本のプライドと意地を見せてくれた昭和天皇の姿にただ感謝します。
ニクソン大統領ですら、近寄りがたい雰囲気を醸し出す昭和天皇の姿は、涙するしかないです。
安らかにお眠り下さい。
Don’t lie, no one cried
@@thecapatalistpropagator_9470
外人(特にアメリカ人)には分からないだろうね。
昭和天皇がどれだけ日本を思っていたか？を。
@@taoki7385 type in English my boy, US saved Japan from the red scare
@@thecapatalistpropagator_9470 正義ずらすんな
日本人の大半はアメリカを憎んでるよ
表に出してないだけでね
@@taoki7385 why should Americans care about Emperor Showa, we were at war with Japan when he was at the helm of Japan, you guys should be really grateful that we didn’t carry out execution
昭和天皇のアメリカへの感謝をアメリカ国民へ述べた時の映像ですね。映像からは陛下の御緊張が伝わってきます。玉音放送の時と同じ抑揚で、昭和天皇らしいなと思います。この演説でアメリカ国民の日本に対する敵意感情が変化したと日本には伝わっています。昭和陛下はアメリカ国民へ感謝を述べられています。貴重な映像をありがとうございます。
ニクソン大統領が自らアメリカ本国からアラスカに出向いて、
天皇陛下をこの様な国を揚げての歓迎式典を開いてくれて今でも感激しました。ありがとうございました。
English?
naohkanda, 核攻撃に感謝
原爆を落とされて感謝とは
I am Japanese and have limited understanding of English, so I attempted to comprehend President Nixon's speech on UA-cam using the automatic English to Japanese translation feature. However, for some reason, UA-cam's automatic translation inexplicably recognizes English as Portuguese. Despite President Nixon speaking in English, the pronunciation is transcribed as Portuguese text. This Portuguese text is then translated into English, and further translated into Japanese, resulting in a confusing situation where President Nixon's English speech cannot be accurately understood. I hope for a proper translation from English to Japanese to address this issue.
これはニクソン氏の言葉である：
両陛下、ご列席の皆様：
合衆国国民を代表し、両陛下を我が国にお迎えできることを大変光栄に思います。
つい数時間前、東京をご出発された際には、日本国民から盛大なお見送りを賜りました。今夜、アメリカ国民は、両陛下へのその賛辞に加わることを誇りに思います。
ちょうど50年前、陛下は日本の皇太子として初めて外国を訪問されました。今宵陛下は、長い歴史の中で初めて外国の地を踏まれる日本の君主となられます。
陛下のご旅行は、世界情勢における日本の地位の高まりを象徴するものです。私たちは、東京とワシントンD.C.の距離とほぼ同じアラスカ州アンカレッジでお会いしています。この事実は、私たちが過去四半世紀にわたり、両国の間に政治的、経済的、文化的な結びつきの構造を築いてきたことを思い起こさせます。そして、日本の天皇陛下と米国の大統領との歴史上初めての会談であるこの歴史的な会談が、太平洋と世界のすべての人々の平和と繁栄のために友好のうちに協力し合うという、私たち偉大な両国民の決意を、この先ずっと示すものでありますように。
両陛下におかれましては、アメリカの地をお訪ねになることを大変誇りに思い、またお喜び申し上げます。
@@mostlymagical3220 Thank you so much for translating the American President's speech video as I requested. I truly appreciate your effort. Your excellent Japanese translation helped me understand the President's message clearly!!
I DIDNT REMEMBER THIS.
Lol jajs
TENO HEIKA , BANZAI!!
BTW IM A SHOGUNATE
@Gary Hunt yes im a bad man i have lots of crime. more than hitler..
@Shusuke Agari
Don't take it so serious my dude.
@Shusuke Agari
I never said it was a joke! He's just pretending! Like Me. I used this because i love europe. He can either love Hirohito OR he's just memeing. But just don't take it seriously i beg you.
話の抑揚の付け方がやっぱ貴族然としてて上品ですね
I was a teenager in Anchorage when this event happened. I saw Nixon as his motorcade drove down 4th Avenue, greeted by well-wishers and a few protesters. An amazing memory of an historic event. 🐧
I could certainly see why some would be upset (because of how how brutal the Imperial Japanese forces had been). Back in the 1850s, Queen Victoria caused some shock and consternation in Britain for similar reasons. In an effort to improve Anglo-French relations, she invited Emperor Napoleon III (the original Napoleon's nephew) to visit London and Windsor. I have to imagine the Waterloo and Napoleonic War veterans were THRILLED to see him /s. But as they say, the bold are the ones who make peace.
@@thunderbird1921 Wonderful analogy!
Nixon got things done by being the last person you'd expect to want to do them. He served in WWII to defeat Japan. So, if he said it was time to shake hands with the man who was emperor at the time, you couldn't accuse him of ignoring history. Nixon was very anti-communist, so when he announced his trip to China, people thought, "Well, if a commie hater like Nixon says this is a smart move, he probably has his facts straight." You can say a lot of negative things about Nixon, many of them true, but when made smart moves in diplomacy he was acutely shrewd. I mean, there's a proverb about him in a Star Trek movie! 😯
How did earth quake 9.0 felt like 1967??
この映像を拝見しつつ、戦前の暴走する軍部との極めて難しい関係性や２２６事件の際の果敢ななされようとその後における軍部との軋轢など、終戦時の未曾有のご決断をされた事や米軍占領時の難しいお立場など、激烈な荒波を越えてこられた陛下の御事などが頭をよぎります。 穏やかな訪米時のこの映像を観ると歴史の厳粛なところを見る思いに駆られます。
玉音放送と全く同じ、まさに玉音で米大統領に対し述べられているのは、なんとも言いがたい感銘を受ける。昭和天皇の玉音は清らかで格調高く自然に背筋が伸びる。
what
@@dalekofdoom you can copy from this text and put into Google Translate
拡張高くそして可愛らしい！
Omaiwa mo shindeiru
Henni Quint It is very difficult to express Japanese honorific expressions in English.I would like you to study Japanese and understand this sentence.This person's Japanese expressions are very beautiful and I am impressed by them.
The thing that is really grabbing my attention is the high pitched noise in the background
Like the "frying sausages" in Hirohito's surrender speech in 1945
haha thought that was my tinnitus for a second :/
Fuck! Now I can’t unhear it.
@@Brokenface Dude.
@@femmemachete what?
この時のアメリカ国民は大歓迎していたらしい。とても嬉しく思うなー
おぐたく
天皇陛下を馬鹿にするとか非国民の極みみたいなもん
ほんとそれ
justly just 最近、天皇制って言葉使う人ちょいちょい見るけど悲しいことだね。
天皇陛下は制度じゃないよ。
近年、主に共産主義者が「天皇制」という造語を作って天皇制反対！とか言ってるけど
そんな言葉を使っちゃいけないよ。
Hard to believe that this happened just 7 years ago. Hope the Emperor and President Nixon work toward peace and unity for the better of both nations!
Albert, what are you talking about? This video happened over 50 years ago....
@@earlysda yea I know just foolin around
ありがとうございます。ありがとうございます。
この人は本当に素晴らしいお方なんだ
どこそこのどんな奴になんと言われようが、そう断言出来る。
陛下ありがとうございます。涙が溢れてきました。今の私たちをどうかお見守り下さい。すめらぎいやさか
Gak ngerti bahasanya🤔
@ヤマトタケル that's not english.
日本の戦争犯罪はどうですか？ 南京や他のアジア諸国？
In an alternate universe, the title would be so chilling to read.