Emperor Hirohito of Japan Steps Foot On Foreign Soil (First Time!)
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- Опубліковано 18 сер 2015
- September 26, 1971: Emperor Hirohito becomes the first reigning monarch of Japan to step on foreign soil. President Nixon welcomed the Emperor at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, Alaska where he was given a formal welcome with full military honors.
From the archives of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.
#hirohito #history #ww2 #japan
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
😂
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!
L.lol
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.
"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.
@@user-nc8un4ck3u 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.
@@user-nc8un4ck3u 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.
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!!
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.
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
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.
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.
"Airplane food has not developed necessarily to our advantage..."
JPaul C omg 😂 😂 hahaha
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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.
Thank you
All people:🙂
Hirohito:😔
Me 😊
@@MichaelKing-tp6leme 🤫🧏🏻♂️
@@MichaelKing-tp6le 🗿
@@AresSV2 me still 😊
@@MichaelKing-tp6le 🤨
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
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.
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.
America: "You'll pay for Pearl Harbor"
Hirohito: "I hate Russian Communists"
America: "Let's have dinner"
Nice joke
not before two mushrooms
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
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？
Finally, honest apology video on UA-cam.
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
"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
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
@@basedandbiasedkakampink we know
Orders are orders...
@@quackityalt7213 Some dont.
Thank you for posting this.
陛下の御言葉を聞くことが出来てとても嬉しいです。
どの様な思いで御挨拶なさったのだろう。
話される時に大統領の方に向き直って話される配下の配慮が垣間見られて素敵だと思った。
お手本となるお方。
警護の側面があると思うが陛下と大統領、皇后陛下とファーストレディが同乗された事に配慮が感じられる。
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.
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
@@user-cz7fl4th3l lol
@@user-cz7fl4th3l 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
I'm so grateful to video technology for showing us moments like this.
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。
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
In an alternate universe, the title would be so chilling to read.
Wow... What a moment in history!
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
"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.
@@Bobonmyprimejr Let's see, Japan is a tech giant and one of the definitive economic superpowers, is home to powerful monopolies particularly in the entertainment industry, with game and media corporations such as Nintendo and Sony along with a form of animated media that dominates the industry and targets topics normally found in stuff like full picture movies, tackles hard topics, and a refined art style over time since the start in the 80s which while happens to largely appeal to many across the globe, isn't exactly afraid to not bend towards that same audience and not taking crap about the stupidest shit you find the people at Twitter do, instead using it to project the best of Japanese culture on to these impressionable people and spread wide the land of samurai, kimonos, sushi, and hot springs.
Nevermind Yamaha, which on top of selling motorcycles, has basically usurped the title for *the* best musical instruments you could typically find on the market.
Great connections with the globe and a supposedly low crime rate with a rich military history preserved, but not with a lens that would filter their atrocities and misdoings, for which the most part, inherited a reputation of sincerity from.
Yeah I don't think he would be disappointed. If anything the worst he has is a large bunch of weebs from the rest of the world drooling over what you could consider a key commercial export.
@@justafnaffan2.016 Yamaha makes very average instruments.
Phase 1: Nuke enemy twice
Phase 2: ???
Phase 3: Profit
world's longest-surviving dynasty's first time on US soil...the moment they shook hands, former enemies turned to friends. Would've been a different story if we didn't spare the emperor. Hirohito looked pretty good for his age. And I like his old-fashioned Japanese
They gave this man a hell of an entrance
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.
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
love the way he swung into that handshake
Truly amazing
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
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
He kept busts of Charles Robert Darwin 、US President
Abraham Lincoln in his study during WW2.
He was biologist himself like many Emperors.
Also his Japanese poems are magnificent.
I was seven years old and watched the Presidential motorcade pass through downtown Anchorage. My recollection is that the President was standing up in an open car. I wish I could remember if it was the Lincoln X-100, in use until 1977, in which President Kennedy was riding in Dallas. If so, the roof added added after that event was removable and had been removed.
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”*
@@_blank-_ the army was totally out of hirohitos controll so dont blame him for the retardation of the army
@-, 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
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
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
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.
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*
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
色々な意味で涙が出ました。
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
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".
Thanks nixon
70 and still hopping and bopping, gotta love Hirohito.
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
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
昭和帝の玉音は本当に素晴らしい。玉音を下賜される聴衆もきちんと起立して拝聴してる。
すげぇ。。。Amazing...
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"
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
I don’t know exactly what to say, but I find this absolutely beautiful as the band did a phenomenal job when doing the rendition of the Japanese anthem
Add on: my only question that I have, why is the emperors face such an emotionless one?
He’s an old man. Or could be that asian cultures dont like expressing very much emotion in public. They may think it would make them appear foolish and not serious.
Look at Xi Jinpin today. I know he's Chinese, not Japanese, but in public his facial expression is always inscrutable. I personally think the style of Western leaders have gone too far the other way - always big 'smiles for the camera' - smiles that often look halfway between insincere and downright foolish.
@@Emme-ro7hw I appreciate the history lesson, you learn something new every day.
That's not the Japanese national anthem, unless it has changed since then.
Our country does not have a culture where high-ranking people laugh in public.…
これは知らんかったなぁ
感動！！
He is the only Emperor in any history I know, who offered his life in exchange asking General MacArthur food to feed the nation. He was there to take all of the responsibilities that he wasn’t even responsible for.
lol, None of this would have happened if not for him
@@user-ie5eb9bt4v weeeeeelll you are kinda wrong here but I don't want to take the part of the history nerd so
Ok bro
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@@shadowkillz9606 poor guy hoho
@@nielleh.1063 Yes indeed, he is a poor guy, do not insult @A
*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 ??*
Rare to see the President personally receiving the visiting foreign leader from the tarmac.
Many leaders on both sides were instrumental in rebuilding US-japan relationship. But none more than Shinzo Abe.
昭和天皇の、この時のお気持ちを慮ると、いたたまれない。日本人としての誇りは忘れたくない。
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.
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 🤔
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.
"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.
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
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
Pranav Palliyil // honestly if hitler had utilised the german minds and made the bomb before the Americans, things would have been a lot different. Geniuses think outside the box. Hitler was e1b1b1 Afroasiatic thus middle eastern in mentality therefore destined to be over confident in his abilities which proved disastrous
@@boycottnok1466 nah hitler thought Japanese were honorable aryans so no
Hard to imagine just 26 years prior they were at each other's throat.
Imagine the PTSD in the Spring of 1865, and years following, when soldiers, sailors, and civilians had to come to terms, following the conflict for Southern Independence!
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.
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
戦前の日本語を堪能できた。この声調で玉音放送が流れたのね
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
He speaks historical and traditional Japanese. It's a little different from the ordinary Japanese we speak today. However, many Japanese who have listened junior high school class properly can understand what he is saying.
Alvinophile?
変なイントネーションだよね
@@user-xl1vv8de7h
古典的な日本語だからね
My boyfriend is currently studying japanese (we live in Germany). I also have to admit, japanese is such a beautiful and ancient language. Is there a specific name for this elder japanese?
Best regards from Berlin :)
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In his childhood, he was called Michinomiya, and to this day he is known as Emperor Hirohito.
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.
Ultimate enemies to lovers arc
This relationship is bombastic, no?
Something good that came out of the ashes of WWII. A firm and committed alliance and friendship between former enemies. May the four years that saw our two countries at war be relegated to history.
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.
🫖
Keep your friends close and you're enemies closer.
(Guns firing)
Hirohito: “Oh god not again!!!”
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
he used old japanese, so I can't understand his words thought I'm japanese.
but I strongly think old one is more beautiful than today's suck one.
@@Kiror0_ true
hirohito is like japanese shakespeare
kinda reminds me of shinobu oshino dialauge
Why dont'u abolish monarchy? Are u sheeps
@@ahmetfg japan is not monarchy.
"Yeah, we're kinda best friends now" - Emperor Hirohito, probably
It’s great to know that I live in the same city where Hirohito was
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
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
The knot stays forever only thing is don't see behind look forward and you will witness new sunrise ❤
It was good they kept the emperor. Often in history, the emperor was a figurehead. The real power lay with a military chief called a ‘shogun’, who did everything in the emperors name.
MacArthur read the history and thought “This could work out okay for me”.
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?
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.
Can't believe R2-D2 was here for this!