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中國抗日戰爭 would be the Second Sino-Japanese War by memory, but what was written was something like "Middle (abbreviation for China)" and "Japanese language" (as it would be written in Japanese)
There is a translation error in your intro title, the translation you had for Japanese actually means "Japanese Language", the “語” characters means language. A better translation would be “中” for Sino and "日“ for Japan.
You skipped one of the most important parts. That Chaing Hai-Shek refused a communist proposal to unite against the Japanese until his own generals kidnapped him and forced him to enter an alliance.
@@licheong China would be worse off with the KMT winning. We already have irl India, and even that was hundreds of years ahead administratively speaking. China would still be a Feudalist state under a military government
einsamaberfrei NONSENSES! C.K.S. was a warlord, a thief who robbed China, a fascist leader won't save China and his army were his private servants that the took to Taiwan! Harry Truman once said: The Songs,the Chiangs and the Hongs were all thieves! Those were leading families in China of politics and the "Chiangs" referred to Chiang Kai Shek! He stole US aid to China in WW2 to buy New York properties
My Filipina grandmother was born in 1930. She told me that as a teenager she saw Japanese soldiers bayonet babies. To this day, I remember her crying as she told me that story.
True Japanese are lying to south east asian they say asian for asian more like south east asian for Japan because natural resources.japanese imperialism are more worse than western.......
i dont think he would be allowed to talk about that stuff... imagine talking about people literally exploding in vacuum chambers for longer than 10 minutes
When you remember Second Sino-Japan war & WW2 you also need to remember what Mao Zedong and Communist party did to Chinese people. During the movement of Great Leap 40 million Chinese had died of famine. In Cultural Revolution they carried out political cleansing and eventually killed 25 million Chinese people. They also oppressed Tibetan and Uyghur people. The list of their atrocities goes on and on...
Mori Soba I’m not denying that didn’t happen. Every single country has a dark past. America’s whole manifest destiny move, Germany in both world wars, British racism against non-whites, etc.
It's funny how Japan was viewed as one of the major victims of WW2, while their genocide and war crimes were on par with Germany both in terms of scale and atrocities
The so world-widely well-known and famous USA Government's final and official report about IJA( Imperial Japan's Army) in the WW2 named " THE IWG REPORT " that was publicly issued in USA in 2007 wasting so huge amount of USA Tax money(30 million US Dollars) and 8 years and 7 million historic documents due to strong requests from the Communist Hans, Hans from Communist China and the Korean(South & North) living in USA concluded finally and officially in the world USA Government could not find so called war crimes of IJA in the WW2 as Han descendant members of " the Global Alliance for Preserving the History of World War II in Asia "(GAPH, that is mainly organized by Han descendants in USA from Communist China) propagandize not only in North America but also in the world. USA government could not agree with propagandas of "GAPH" in spite of many historic propagandas and fictions by Communist Hans, Hans from Communist China and and the Korean(South & North) descendants not only in USA/Canada but also in Australia/Germany/France/Communist China 2 Koreas ( South & North),Japan and other nations in the world with no real ,concrete and justifiable historic evidences and proofs.
@@minlixu6101 This is not a joke. Despite killing anywhere between 4-13 million Chinese civilians, due to the atomic bombs most people see them as victims, even though they caused at most 150 thousand deaths. Actually, a lot of people in the West don't know China was involved at all. That's Japanese propaganda at it's finest
@@minlixu6101 yes many westerners are brainwashed because japanese warcrimes have been whitewashed too much, so all they care about in world war 2 is how america dropped the atomic bomb on japan, not even caring or knowing about the atrocities of japan
rinuxx Japan was not one entity. The army and government had different factions. Some wanted peace and friendship with China, others wanted to fight the soviets, some where sincere in driving out the western imperialists put of Asia but some where just after personal gains and honor from wars. This is why their strategy looks so disjointed / comical
@@bingobongo1615 Ah,yes,the kodoha faction,they, however,were purged to both secure the power of military and Hirohito and to scare any remaining opposition,so by the invasion of China,there were no real threat to military dictatorship of Hirohito.
@@budoumurasaki5856 Dude. Tsushu is an terrible massacre. Close to 300 people were slaughtered. You have my deepest sympathy. But it simply pales in comparison when to the 50,000-300,000 civilians raped, bayoneted, machine-gunned in Nanjing!
I find it strange that the Japanese thought themselves superior to China, when Chinese culture had a huge influence on Japan. Chinese culture is the root in which Japanese is based, so I would think the Japanese would have a fondness for China. I guess Japan raced ahead in technological advancement at that time and saw China as backwards and deserving of being attacked by Japan who was a superior power.
Manchuko had its own Emperor. the Japanese described the capital Mukden was far more advanced than Tokyo. Japanese built hotels and houses with the flush toilets as oppose to squat ones. trains there ran faster than any train in Japan. many Chinese and Koreans moved there. it was an international super city. to give you an idea. the Shinkansen services Kodama, Hikari and Nozomi were named after the services that ran from Busan to Mukden.
Super Akagi native Mukdenin here.Mukden was never the capital of Manchukuo.You are confusing Japanese puppet state Manchukuo which was a Empire with the old Manchuria which was a Kingdom Hinkin(Cacul) was the capital of Manchukuo
Genetically, there's barely any difference between the Japanese and Chinese. The progenitors of the Japanese were Chinese travelers who mixed the natives of the Japanese Islands (Jomon and Ainu) thus creating the Japanese race.
Imagine if two german officers had a competition in Paris to see who could kill the most Parisian civilians with a sabre, the international outrage would be tremendous.
The so world-widely well-known and famous USA Government's final and official report about IJA( Imperial Japan's Army) in the WW2 named " THE IWG REPORT " that was publicly issued in USA in 2007 wasting so huge amount of USA Tax money(30 million US Dollars) and 8 years and 7 million historic documents due to strong requests from the Communist Hans, Hans from Communist China and the Korean(South & North) living in USA concluded finally and officially in the world USA Government could not find so called war crimes of IJA in the WW2 as Han descendant members of " the Global Alliance for Preserving the History of World War II in Asia "(GAPH, that is mainly organized by Han descendants in USA from Communist China) propagandize not only in North America but also in the world. USA government could not agree with propagandas of "GAPH" in spite of many historic propagandas and fictions by Communist Hans, Hans from Communist China and and the Korean(South & North) descendants not only in USA/Canada but also in Australia/Germany/France/Communist China 2 Koreas ( South & North),Japan and other nations in the world with no real ,concrete and justifiable historic evidences and proofs.
When I was reading about the invasion of China and South East Asia. In Antony Beevors The Second World War, now.. I've researched many crimes against humanity during WW2. And none more shocked me to the core. Than what the Japanese army did in the region on civilians and POWs
Even sadder is that they weren't always like this. They were one of the Legations onto China with the Europeans just a couple of decades earlier and they were actually no worse than the European who co-currently occupied China during the Boxers Rebellion. Also the case with WWI, and many of Japan's WWII enemies were allies earlier too. Not to mention that 1920s Japan was still a (albeit limited form of) democracy before the politics had gone down way way south after - when the military started to hijack the government.
HenryMidfields Smedley Butler specifically noted how brutal the Japanese were during the Boxer Rebellion, leaving piles of heads on the roadside during the March to Beijing. The Europeans took what they wanted and practiced retaliatory attacks, but the Japanese were killing for the sake of killing.
"Those bombs saved more lives than they took." I used to believe the same thing, but through more research - specifically into the strategic situation for Japan following the Soviet entry into the conflict - I've come to reconsider the necessity (the actual necessity, not the perceived necessity) of the nuclear bombs. I no longer believe they were warranted. Do not mistake me, I see nothing about the bombs that singles them out as particularly heinous in the grand scheme of the depravity of the second world war. Indeed, they are fitting exclamation points on the horrible sentence, but compared even to the breadth of the strategic bombing campaigns undertaken in the last phase of the war they are not particularly heinous. Rather, the sin of the atomic bombs is due to how unnecessary they really were in ending the conflict and forcing the Japanese to capitulate. This comment is long enough so if anyone cares I'll elaborate.
During Unit 731, Japanese scientists conducted inhuman experiments on Chinese prisoners, including men, women and children. Prisoners were infected with various diseases and then subjected to live vivisection, often without anesthesia. Scientists performed invasive surgeries, organs were removed, limbs amputated and then reattached to opposite sides of the body, all while the subject is alive. Some prisoners even had their stomachs removed and their esophagus reattached to the intestines, presumably to measure how long humans can survive without the stomach. The women had it worst during Unit 731. Prisoners were injected with sexually transmitted diseases and then forced at gunpoint to spread the infection to other prisoners. Women were raped and impregnated (sometimes by Japanese themselves) and then vivisected at various stages of their pregnancy to study the effects of diseases on their organs or on the fetus. Some Japanese scientists even raped female prisoners and then had experiments conducted on unborn children they fathered with female prisoners there. Imagine if you are woman prisoner in Unit 731. Or you are a man injected with STD and then forced at gunpoint to have sex to spread it to other prisoners? Why not simply inject everyone with STD, instead of forcing prisoners to spread STD by sex? Or imagine having your limbs amputated and reattached to opposite sides of your body, all without anastasia.
神州 Shenzhou the most diabolical things happened to the Chinese by this troop sent from hell. Literally. Those troops were not humans, but devils. May God rain everlasting justice upon these devils and everlasting healing to the poor souls who suffered.
神州 Shenzhou And because of it! Japan already set up many underground launching sites! Kind of backfired! They just gave Abe more reason to be armed with nukes!
+Haruka ino Japan has the unfortunate distinction of being the only country in the world to have nuclear bombs dropped on its soil. Because of this, many Japanese people are against nuclear weapons and are throughly against Japan becoming a nuclear armed state.
Germany: We’re sorry for what we did during the war and will try and change our government to make sure it never happens again Japan and Turkey: We didn’t do anything and if we did it wasn’t that bad
@@zacksnyder2561 Dont know about Japan but I doubt Turkey was in shape to do a genocide at that part of history. Wasting resources on killing off civilians while you have a superpower and a great power at your doorstep isnt exactly a good strategy. Probably just asymmetric and unorganized violence against Armenians by soldiers
the Kanji (below Japanese) that being used at the beginning "Sino-Japanese War" is actually meant Japanese as in language (日本語) rather than Japanese as people (日本人)..
+The Armchair Historian Should be 中日战争, although no point of me point it out now. You should ask around us subscribers on these things maybe on patreon or youtube community on something, I'm sure we would be glad to help out.
Firen Wolf dude you should really not be that offended by something that has already been mentioned in the comment that you comment under and that was accepted as a mistake by the producer, this is a person who obviously does not speak japanese, and writing is even harder, he probably just used google translate. But the history in the video was very well portrait.
We appreciate the US who helped China a lot at the end of WWII. China and Japan shouldn't be enemies again, and for god's sake those victims in Nanking shouldn't be forgotten by either Chinese or Japanese
Jack Y Yeah I hope the two countries improve relations more too. In China, many still have a deep hatred towards the Japanese because their grandparents and great-grandparents were mutilated, raped and murdered, and obviously that isn't something to ever forget, but they are on a path to rebuilding relations, and they are more open to the fact that it was a heavily militarized and crazy-ideological state at the time and that the Japanese today are different. In Japan, many deny the Nanking Massacre/Rape and don't teach about it at all. And the Yasokuni Shrine is a sore point for Sino-Japanese relations due to a heap loads of reasons, and many apologies are deemed insincere by not just China, but most East and Southeast Asian nations because... Well... they just really weren't sincere. But tourism by Chinese tourists and the globalist world we have today is making relations better, even if it's a little. In all honesty, I don't think Japan should become an apologetic state like Germany who even imprisons Holocaust deniers, but I hope they don't stay the ignorant way they are, not even teaching about the atrocities of their nation in the past. Arghh sorry for rambling. I just hope their relations improve XD 🇨🇳🇯🇵
Zeus Almighty there are a bunch of pictures and clips took and filmed by Germans and American journalists, which prove they do exist, go watch them plz. There are interviews of survivors too, you can find them on UA-cam if you want
I love how in the US we r learning about German war atrocities, but the school didn’t even mention what atrocities Japan did. All the said was that Japan invaded Manchuria. No mentioning of Rape, pillaging, destruction, or comfort women
I'm Chinese. I learned WW2 history from China's perspective from my grandparents, they were alive at the time. They went into hiding and constantly on high alert fearing they'll get captured by Japanese troops, they witnessed Japanese soldiers killing civilians, either by stabbing them or shoot them. On a daily basis, they would hear Japanese planes dropping bombs in their villages
i am cantonese my granny who now lives in SF told me when she was a little girl,Japanese keep bombing the city,the whole city was burned to the ground,tons of civilian corpses stuck with the housing remains couldn't be separated,she with her family rowing small boat on the river branches to the west direction so got away from raping and loot.
@Provocateur China really isn't overpopulated given its population density ranking #79 in the world just above the Isle of Man. How it seems so populous nowadays is due to its enormous megacities, which I believe you've never been to any of them, town booooi.
+Dark of the knight you mean British forces were on foreign ground and Japanese (Taiwanese lol I see what you're doing there) forces were far more experienced and practiced in fucking China up?
United States nearly stood with Germany in ww2. Most americans were German immigrants and were supportive of germany. Plus Patton said at the end of the war that we fought the wrong enemy.
My grandfather at 16 started working as a spy in Shanghai, his father killed himself thinking that my grandad was killed by the Japanese. I wish I've met him so that he could have told me his stories.
Trying to add a little bit of explanation here: 中（Naka）-> Middle, Inside 日本語 (Nihongo) -> Japanese Language Maybe, the kanji on the intro was supposed to be: 中国（ちゅうごく(Chuugoku)）-> China 日本（Nihon/Nippon) -> Japan fyi, by literal meaning, 国(Kunyomi: kuni, Onyomi: こく(koku))=Country, State, somekind of it 中(Kunyomi: Naka, Onyomi )=Middle, Inside Well, indeed China is a country located in the middle of the world, so yeah, Chuugoku, country in the middle of the world 日(Kunyomi: hi, bi, -ka, Onyomi: ni, nichi, jitsu)=Sun, day, Japan 本(Kunyomi: moto, Onyomi: hon)=book, origin, true, real well it 日本(Nihon) literally mean "the Origin of Sun", "Place where Sunrise/Originated", so finally it's "Sunrise Land" #CMIIW
@@uiuiui2383 in Chinese, 中国 (zhōng gúo）can be abbreviated to 中 (zhōng), for example, in 中苏 (zhōng sū - Sino-soviet), therefore, using 中 in the title would be suitable in Chinese. However, that still won't make the title make sense, as the "sino-japanese war" in Chinese is 中国抗日战争 (China's anti-Japanese war). It would even make more sense in Japanese, which is 日中戦争 (にっちゅうせんそう, I know both languages by the way) but that would be the other way round as it would be translated as Japanese-sino war 😂😂 Edit: actually, 中国（ちゅうごく）can also be shortened to 中 (ちゅう) such as in 日中戦争
A good video, appreciate the effort put in. However, there was a small inconsistency. The Battle of Shanghai actually started because of another one of Japan's little "incidents" much like the Mukden and Marco Polo Bridge incident. Reportedly, a Japanese officer did a run-and-gun in a military vehicle on a Chinese Guard post in the city. The resulting shootout lead to 1 dead Chinese guard and 1 dead Japanese officer. Using this is a reason, Japan demanded the Chinese withdraw all military forces and military police from the city and dismantle all defensive fortifications and networks, while also sending heavy military reinforcements themselves to the city. The Chinese refused and instead order in several elite divisions of their best troops. War broke out soon after.
Uhh yes Germany was bad. They were looking to systematically kill Russians and Jews throughout the soviet union, there came a point were Stalin and the Russian people realized they were in a fight for their very survival. Not to say the japanese weren't bad but neither side was nessesarily "worse" than the other.
This video came out at a perfect time! Right when I started writing about Japan in my project about World War 2 for my history class! Thanks, Griff! Keep up the great work!
They tried to make it less aggressive, like calling the "Rape of Nanjing" the "Nanjing Incident" and not mentioned how much they had killed during that war. However, they still mentioned that they had invaded most if not all of the Far East Asian countries, they just don't want to accept that they had killed several millions of allies during the war.
Great episode, it would have been a nice addition to expand on the battle of shanghai like you did with nanking. The Chinese held it for 3 months losing elite German trained units before giving it up to the Japanese. This further brought down Chiang’s armies’ effectiveness later on in the war. Battle of Changde is also worth mentioning because it had accounts of capturing a lot of Japanese pows as well as extensive use of chemical attacks.
Thanks for making this video man, truly appreciate people taking time and look over these. Personally I feel its one of those areas in WW2 that's both monstrous in scale, and ultimately monstrous in what was not talked about. So a little bit of light shed in this area is again very much appreciated. Also: so glad to see this pop up on my subbed notices. Some quick and minor notes~ In the video during the break down of the various factions the communists are marked in the Yan'an region of Shaanxi, this is a bit anachronistic as the Communists were only able to flee there after the Long March when they withdrew from southern China due to heavy Nationalist offensives. By the time the Nationalists purged the communists the warlords have already either surrendered to the Nationalists or pledged their allegiances under the new Nationalist government. I believe the City of Shangsha should be spelled as "Changsha." Also, a final bit of factoid: A good amount of Japanese POWs were kept by both the Nationalists and CCP after the war, and a lot of them were impressed into Nationalist and CCP regiments when the 2nd civil war broke out. Since the Japanese slaughtered a good about of the native Chinese Pows during WW2 most of these regiments- including remnant of the Kwantung Army were deployed in areas of heavy attritional fighting. They also served as some of the best doctors and technicians in the CCP and Nationalist army. A great number of them would die in the heavy grind. After the war they were repatriated back to Japan but they were not welcomed and were seen as traitors. A random but I think meaningful detail is that if you go to a lot of communist steles and memorials there are a lot of Japanese names carved on the steles. When I was little it raised my eyebrow- and was explained that they were technically also categorized as veterans. Quite a number of them came back to visit mainland during the 70s and 80s (ironically as "comrades")
Nationalist Chinese forces took the surrender of 1.2 million Japanese military personnel following the war. Over the next few months, most Japanese prisoners in China, along with Japanese civilian settlers, were returned to Japan. The nationalists retained over 50,000 POWs, most of whom had technical skills, until the second half of 1946, however. Tens of thousands of Japanese prisoners captured by the Chinese communists were serving in their military forces in August 1946 and more than 60,000 were believed to still be held in Communist-controlled areas as late as April 1949. Hundreds of Japanese POWs were killed while fighting for the People's Liberation Army during the Chinese Civil War. Following the war, the victorious Chinese Communist government began repatriating Japanese prisoners home, though some were put on trial for war crimes and had to serve prison sentences of varying length before being allowed to return. The last Japanese prisoner returned from China in 1964. Lynch, Michael: The Chinese Civil War 1945-49 Straus, Ulrich (2003). The Anguish of Surrender: Japanese POWs of World War II. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Well this is new to me. Much appreciated for you to bring this up as one of the forgotten chapter of WWII history. There also a forgotten history about huge numbers of Koreans enlisted to Japanese military and fought alongside their Japanese masters all across Asia. I believe majority of them was forced to participate by the Japanese as the Japanese have limited manpower. But this chapter of history are pretty forgotten where the Korean themselves also try to hide and erase this issue from their history. It became similiar to what the Japanese has done to their education system where history curriculum barely mentioned any Japanese atrocities during the war, same to South Korean where they barely mentioned their past involvement with the Japanese invaders in South Korean schools. History is history despite ugly or not, shouldn't be hide or erased.
Actually Battle of Taierzhuang(台兒莊會戰) in 1938 is the first battle China managed to repel IJA attack successfully. It's great morale boost for Chinese force.
Cool vid. My grandfather told me many interesting stories about this war and the civil war which followed. Apparently, the Chinese side played propaganda over loudspeakers imploring the Japanese soldiers to surrender and join the Chinese. Surprisingly, according to him, some Japanese soldiers actually switched sides because they were disillusioned about what Japan was doing in China and against its Asian brothers. Strange stories that don't g in history books but are straight from the frontlines
Not that strange, a lot of them did stay and fought later in the Chinese civil war. PLA's Fourth Field Army under Lin Biao had about 30000 Japanese nationals working as doctors, nurses, technicians, and, for some who happened to be born in China, even soldiers.
Again the pacific war proves to be complex. Indeed Japanese fought in Chinese units and Chinese and Koreans fought in/with the imperial Japanese army and lots of Koreans and Chinese profited from the war
yeah my grampa also fought the japanese when phillippines was a colony of america during the commonwealth era..... with his murican friends they fought as guerilla. the japanese would throw babies in air and bayonette them mid air or samurai them... they destroyed old churches and would execute civillians in front of the church for not bowing down when they pass by a town... they burned towns and villages who they suspect of hiding filipino and american soldiers... not to mention the death marches.................... general mcarthur wanted to retake the islands first but the american forces went to europe first to support the allies instead of liberating their colony we had to endure 2 years of japanese rule.... its worst than the spanish era id tell you that as the 334 years of spanish rule wasnt as cruel as the 2 years of japanese rule... so all those years the coaliton of american and filipinos had to fight as guirilla in the mountains and forest... my grampa would rarely talk about that time but when he did he never told us to hate the japanese... when i ask him what happend to his friends he just cries.... so i never ask about it again... my grampas dead rip grampa... your with your friends now...
Forgotten Ally: China's World War II 1937-1945 by Ranna Mitter is a pretty good place to start for anyone interested in learning more about the conflict.
Grandparents all lived through this time. Maternal grandparents were communists, but never saw combat. My mother's father was kept out of the war because he had a rare skill. He could read and write. He served as a teacher throughout the war.
1:48 It wasn’t the Kuomintang who overthrew the Qing Dynasty, it was a bunch of rebel soldiers in Hunan Province who sparked the Xinhai revolution. The Kuomintang was established in 1912, after the Xinhai Revolution and was headed by SongJiaoren, which was fundamentally different from the Chungkuo Kuomintang, which was established in 1919 and served as the successor to the 1912 Kuomintang. The “White Sun Blue sky” emblem wasn’t the country’s official emblem before 1926, when China was unified under KMT rule. The video also made it seem as if the KMT directly caused China to be split into different factions. It was Yuan Shikai who caused China to be split into different factions after failing to revive the monarchy. The KMT served as the largest opposition to Yuan before they got disbanded by Yuan.
My grandma survived the japanese occupation. She was born in 1937, she told me how many babies were suffocated to death by their mothers to avoid being found by Japanese soldiers
Modern China is basically a wounded lion pounced on by hyenas. Still, it is a far better score than Rome, which just lacked the virility and resilience to survive in times of great crises.
Agreed. China has 5000 years of history and is among the world's oldest 'continuous' civilization still alive today, whereas other great civilizations like Mesopotamia, Rome and Egypt have long since succumbed to history. Now the wounded lion has finished licking its wounds and began chasing the hyenas back.
Powers rise and fall Rome, France, Ottomans, the Greeks, Persians, British and yes even America as well will one day fall from superpower status or most powerful on earth. But the same will be for China as well. All powers reach there peak have there golden age then fall into a lesser power. China due to its long history has had several times of it.
Great video! But i have to point out that i'm pretty sure that you wrote "japanese" wrong in the begining. The last character there is the character for languguge, so what you wrote there was Japanese as in the languge.
I know this video is 3 years old but you should do a more in-depth follow up video detailing life in Japanese-occupied China. A bit like your life in German-occupied Poland. I'd love that. 💙
"They raped Nanking so hard that it is easier to just deny it." - Bill Wurtz History shall not be forgotten. Admitting the crimes and present vulnerability is (going to be) the nation's true virtue.
The Japanese also conducted inhumane experiments on Chinese men, women and children. Prisoners in Unit 731 were infected with various diseases and subjected to live vivisection, often without anesthesia. Japanese scientists performed invasive surgeries, organs were removed, limbs amputated, and then reattached to opposite sides of the body, all while the subject is still alive and conscious. Prisoners even had their stomachs removed and their gullet reattached to the intestines, presumably to see how long humans can survive without the stomach. The women had it worst during Unit 731. There were experiments with sexually transmitted diseases, by first injecting prisoners and forcing them at gunpoint to spread the infection to other prisoners. Women were raped and impregnated (sometimes by Japanese themselves) and then vivisected at various stages of their pregnancy to study the effects of diseases on their organs or on the fetus they were carrying. Some Japanese scientists even raped female prisoners themselves and then had experiments conducted on unborn children they fathered with female prisoners. I mean, can you imagine if you are woman prisoner in Unit 731? Or that you are a man injected with STD and forced to have sex at gunpoint to spread it to other prisoners? Why not simply inject everyone with STD, instead of forcing prisoners to spread STD by sex? Can you imagine if you had your stomach removed just to see how long you can survive without it?
Today (Nov 22, 2018), we lost another "comfort woman" survivor. All Japanese government doing is just keep denying their crimes until all survivors passed away and nobody remembers them.
That's a shame, but war is a crime itself. Nothing will change even if they are willing to admit it. The very least they get to live till old age rather than murdered after forced labour. Though i could say the same with Uyghur but nobody cares.
In your title the wrong charecters are used, I think. I am pretty sure that 日本語 refers to language 。日本人, however refers to the people. For Sino, the charecters 中国 may bre more appropriate over just Zhong, though im not certain.
Hahahaha... I love this kid. Its like watching your nephew in High School putting on a good History presentation which he is taking very seriously. He’s so adorable.
The soviets were just the nail in the coffin,the japanese already lost almost all its industry and its navy in 1945.It was going to fall whether the soviets invaded or not.They lost almost all oil resources that they obtained in the dutch indies when the phillipines was a clear victory for the US in 1945.They lost all naval,air,and resource supremacy and the empire was losing territories to that of a domino effect.
We have to admit their effort. It’s only fair. What bothers me is that I heard China celebrates winning the war each year and don’t give us credit. I hope that’s not true.
It was both. If you look at Hirohito's jewel voice broadcast transcript (basically a surrender speech from the Japanese Emperor), he made reference to both the USSR entry into the war and the two atomic bombs as the reasons why he ordered the government to accept unconditional surrender.
They surrendered to the the Allies instead of the USSR because if they surrendered to the USSR they would have changed their country far more like making it communist and if they surrendered to the allies they knew the monarchists and the emperor would have been treated much more similarly to how they lived whilst under the rule of the emperor
I'm loving that my provincial capital, Changsha, or, as this video calls it, Shangsha (not sure why, but I'll run with it) was mentioned! And especially that it was a turning point in the war, the first of many times we actually managed to beat the invading force back! Several times! I was born just next door in Zhuzhou! I always wondered what possessed the Japanese to go around invading her neighbours and declaring war left right and centre without any provocation. Actually, I still don't get it, but it looks like greed for living space, 'glory', land, and resources had something to do with it. I still think they made a stupid decision to go around attacking people just because they felt they could get away with it, being big and tough enough to bully people who were less prepared for war. I'm not sure the responsible people at that time who made the decisions considered that what they did would make them portrayed as the villains of the history books for generations to come and drag the innocent new generations into the awful heritage as being the children of that age's warmongers of Asia. But then again, looking at today's China and the questionable priorities they have, maybe shortsightedness and selfishness is far more common and far more built into human nature across different ethnic groups and nations than we might like to admit. Who knows, maybe we'd all be criminals if we thought we could get something for nothing and get away with it. Not a happy or pretty thought. But I do hope that the conclusion of the Asian segment of WWII is a sermon in stone for anyone who thinks that unprovoked violence can be without consequences. The sowed the guns and bombs and reaped the atomic bomb. Not worth it. Don't even think about it. Just kill the thought, perish it, strangle it if necessary. Just don't let your hands shed the first blood, or even the second, or even the last. Just, let God take care of it all, if necessary. Keep your hands clean of bloodshed. Two wrongs don't make a right, and the grudges and vengeance that are in the hearts of my compatriots and fellow countrymen are not going to bring the murdered back from the dead nor the honour back to the humiliated. It might be better to forgive and forget, lest we have innocent Japanese blood on our hands, because the Japanese of this generation are most certainly more innocent than the Chinese of this generation. God forbid we act out the murder and violence and desecration of those who committed violence against us! Because they didn't get away with it, and in my opinion, those who repent have suffered enough. Those who don't, well, sufficient for them is the censure they get from the general public, as far as I'm concerned.
Japan has a long history of invading China and Korea. Even in 1592, Japanese forces led by Toyotomi Hideyoshi invaded Korea with the intent of conquest, and after hearing of the invasion, the Ming emperor dispatched Chinese troops to Korea (Joseon Dynasty) to aid the Koreans in repelling the invaders. Then we have the 1st Sino-Japanese war in 1894, when Japan invaded Korea again and Qing dynasty China, capturing Korea and Taiwan, and ruling over Korea for 25 years and Taiwan for 50 years. Next we have 2nd Sino-Japanese war here, in 1931, where Japan invaded China and South East Asian countries like Philippines, Singapore, etc. So who can rightly say that Japan won't invade China, Korea, or other countries in the future, given that for the past 300-400 years, Japan made numerous incursions into other countries for the express purpose of conquest, given this historical trend? Chinese never set foot on Japanese at all (Mongolians tried but failed) because Japan is low in resources, whereas China is rich in resources, which is why Japan made numerous advances into China throughout history.
Well, I looked carefully at what you said, and I can only spot 3 identified instances, of which two are related: the first and second Sino-Japanese wars, and so in total, I can only count 2 independent acts of conquest. I mean, that is nothing. Maybe in East Asia, where most countries tend to keep to themselves, 3 is heaps, but in Europe, even what is now considered closely allied nations probably invaded each other far more than 3 times. And today's Japan has far less reason to invade than ever before. Their reputation has already taken a massive blow, and the self-loathing of the youth is taking a toll. I think the two Atomic bombs scared the bejeebus out of them as well, so I really doubt they'll try anything anytime soon, except with US sanctions. But I think the Japanese do get a bit confused because sometimes they regard the Yuan dynasty invasions (because there were two) and the Qing dynasty invasion (I think there was one, but I might be wrong, so don't quote me on that one) were "Chinese" invasions of Japan. And it's quite tricky, because, on the one hand, it isn't, because the Chinese state was invaded and the state apparatus was basically hijacked by another Tungusic ethnic group who love their wars and invasions, so the intention to invade was not at all Chinese, but one Tunguistic ethnicity vs another Tungusic ethnicity. However, on the other hand, the minority regimes did recruit many Chinese to their campaigns, so technically speaking, we were there in Japan, even if it was against our will, we were technically there, conscripted as technical officers, operating the gunpowder weaponry, not only in Japan, but even also on some of the Mongolian campaigns against the Middle East and Europe and Russia. So it is a very tricky area, this. And today's Chinese borders, and the whole justification for the inclusion of Tibet within Chinese borders hinges on claiming the Yuan and Qing dynasties as "Chinese" dynasties. Which puts us in a bit of a dilemma. I mean, you can't disown the Yuan and Qing when it comes to the invasions of Japan, and then conveniently appropriate them when it comes to claiming Tibet and outer Mongolia (according to the KMT. The CCP has already relinquished those claims). So yeah, the Yuan and Qing dynasties are very tricky to work with in a consistent manner. They are somewhat like the Hyksos dynasty of Egypt, except, the Chinese version of that.
Believe it or not, I am from the U.S. I am quite familiar with Changsha because it is the capital of Hunan province which is the province Mao Zedong is from. I have read about Changsha quite a bit in books about modern Chinese history which is a very fascinating subject for me. I am reading both biographies of both American and Chinese leaders.
Fantastic to meet you, sir! Now, if you won't mind, what has been your overriding opinions about the most prominent Chinese leaders, in comparison to their American counterparts? Starting from Mao Zedong: Monster? Saviour? Man? Political genius? The idol of modern China? The only thing standing between China's autonomy and becoming a proxy state? An incompetent man who's poor understanding of science and nature led to the starvation of many of his people? A merciless political animal who killed off many of his rivals? Or the man who reunited China into a single vision and purpose? Or are there other options? I'm sure you can think of some other things. I don't think we can really box in people like him, or ourselves, or anyone else, and capture the whole. So much of these labels are just stereotypes, propaganda, superficial, with inbuilt biases and prejudice, and certainly, none of the above are objective by any means, and just depends on the lens/angle you look at it from. Then, you have Deng Xiaoping: the Great Reformer? The saviour of China from Maoist oppression? The one who betrayed the revolution? The one who made life better for China? The victim of 1979? Or the murderer of 1989? The one in charge of modernising China? Or the one holding China back from modernisation? Jiang Zemin: a Yes-man? A man still too powerful for his own good, and the country's good? A good stop fill? Or someone China would have been better off without, as Xi might have us believe? Someone who sabotaged Hu Jintao at every turn? Or someone who kept the country together after Deng Xiaoping's death? Then Hu Jintao: a frustrated reformer? Would he have been better off if Jiang hadn't been pulling the strings behind his back and sabotaging his every move? Or is it better he wasn't allowed a free reign? Then, finally, Xi Jinping: the Greatest Chinese Leader who ever lived? Or just someone who is taking the credit for decades of hard work/groundwork of those who went before him? The "most powerful man on earth", as some say? Or just a man in a very compromised position trying to do his best to survive? And then, of course, you have the visiting US presidents: R. Nixon. Was he really that bad? Or did Watergate just ruin his career? Did he get corrupted by his visit to China? Did he betray his voters who expected him to be a hardliner against communism and everything communist by opening talks to China? Or was it necessary to galvanise the collapse of the Soviet Union? And was his "Star Wars Program" a stroke of genius, or a hint of madness? And then across the pond, to British Politics, which you might not be so familiar with: Margaret Thatcher- Iron Lady? Dotty? Strong? The most powerful leader of her day? Or just a "little Britain" mentality? Was her defense of the Malvinas/Falkland Islands justified, or just an act of brute force/aggression? And did her impending talks with Deng Xiaoping over the future of Hong Kong play a role in her decision to sink that Argentine battle ship? And finally, 2018: the Xi Jinping/ Donald Trump dynamic- is conflict inevitable? Or is it just a matter of grave misunderstanding? And where does Vladimir Putin fit into this? What is the fate of North Korea in this squabble for power and influence between two global heavyweights? And the fate of South Korea? And the fate of Japan? And the fate of Taiwan? And where exactly would Israel stand in all of this? Or would they stand aloof, unconcerned about events so far from the holy lands?
Zhou Wu I would say Zhou Enlai was the great statesman of China, he too me would be very similar to John Quincy Adams our 6th president. Enlai was a very educated man and an outstanding diplomat and he was very well traveled. He was the man who greeted Nixon on the tarmac. In 1972. Mao Zedong was a more a complicated figure, as Dr. Henry Kissinger said he was a unique man for his time and was the revolutionary. I will leave it up to the Chinese people to determine his legacy. Deng Xiaoping to me is the true father of modern China. He was a man who evolved and became a wise man. He had a very difficult situation on his hands with the Tiananmen Square uprising and he certainly over reacted, but from his perspective and the massive instability that he personally witnessed in his own lifetime like the Chinese Civil War and his exile during the Cultural Revolution made him a man who most certainly valued stability above all else. But again I leave the Tiananmen Square history for the Chinese people to decide. I would say the Deng Xiaopeng has a bit of Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson in his personality. He was the one laid the ground for the modern Chinese state by introducing a system of checks and balances that created term limits that worked for his country. Deng was like Abraham Lincoln because he was a wise man who wanted a great future for his country after a period of serious turmoil. In fact both China and the U.S. had tremendous prosperity after their Civil Wars and other internal strife. Lastly, Deng was like Andrew Jackson because he made mistakes but was also a revolutionary and one fought in great battles. There is no question Deng Xiaopeng was one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century and probably in the top 5. He was selected as Time Man of the Year, so our media had the highest respect for him. I try to have a fair view of both American history and Chinese history. There is no question China and the United States are the two great nations on the Earth. Our two countries are very integrated in ways that no one could ever imagine. When I graduated college, I walked across the stage to receive my diploma along with many, many Chinese students whose parents were there cheering them on just like my parents. Who would have thought that the 40 years ago that the grandchildren of the same Chinese people who were living in an isolated China of the 1960s would be graduating from the same college as grandchildren of American’s living in 1960s America?
I read in a book that the soldier that was missing after the Marco Polo bridge incident was sent over to try and stop the hostilities, but got lost on his way back after having to releave himself.
China in general. Look how strong they are when they're united. This could apply to humans in general, if we'd start looking at each other as such. Countries should be helping other countries succeed.
Ok besides error of use of kanji Nihongo vs. Nihon and pronunciation which makes a Mandarin Chinese or Japanese linguist cringe, the article is generally accurate. So chill on negative vibes.
张依新 In fact.Chinese people just want the apology from Japanese government.I’m a student in Guangzhou,China.I can not only represent myself,but also my classmates even the young generation.we all have the same point of view:what happened in war2 should be remembered,but it’s not a reason for us to hate Japanese people,lots of them are really good guys,except a few people who want wars happen again.If we forget this history,it’s a kind of betray to those died in wars
During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Chang Kai-Shek, distrustful of Mao Zedong, had stationed a large force on the border with the C.C.P., which was one of the reasons China was pushed back so much in the beginning of the war.
CCP was the one that backstabbed KMT during the war. CCP had 30,000 soldiers at the beginning of the war, and by the end of 1945, the number increased to 700,000. If Chiang had devoted some more consistency in devastating the CCP. China today will have been a different place.
徘徊於過去和未來 how is that backstabbing? They knew that after the invasion of Japan ended they would fight against each other. *They were in a bloody civil war*
During the war with Japan, CCP did nothing while KMT had 3000000 lives sacrificed in the front line. In some of the war, CCP attacked KMT when they were fighting the japanese in the front line.
Great video on the progress and history of the 2nd Sino-Japanese War. However: 1. The exclusion of Tibet and Mongolia in your early 20th century China is a terrible mistake and a awful sign of disrespect to historical facts. 2. It is Changsha, not Shangsha...
My mistake on English expression. I mean to say, in that map, Tibet should be a legitimate part of China (even though Dalai Lama and his monks are the de-facto rulers of that land). In the case of Mongolia, up until 1921, it also belongs to China and should not be excluded from the map of Republic of China at that time.
Sam Shih true but fpr the context of what he was saying making Mongolia part of the comitern is a given tibet is more of a historical and socio-ecpnomocal claim they claimed neutrality thusly they arent needed to make heed of since they played no major role in the war in question.
@@Zretgul_timerunner The defacto independent Tibet was very much a part of the Chinese civil war. They had several failed invasion into Amdo Tibet which was controlled by muslim Warlord Ma Bufang. The Chinese KMT tried to play gerry mandering by creating a new province called Sihkang out of eastern U-tsang and part of Kham Tibet. The independence of Tibet was only recognised by the then newly independent Mongolia, which itself merit an entire video to itself, as China made many invasions into Mongolia to get back control and had some success as well. And let's not forget the biggest elephant in the room, the arunachal pradesh of modern India was under Tibet's administration during all of this, only to be finally annexed by the British Empire during WW2, and placed under Noth East Frontier Agency of the British Raj.
they aren't and all the stereotypes of the West and the Europeans or the White Race as aggressive colonizers and acting like the rest of the world is peaceful is just socialist propaganda designed to target Capitalism as the source for evil. Reality is this is the nature of Mankind (or Fallen Man from Christian Perspective). To war with and conquer and subjugate each other. It has been going on in East and West since the beginning of Civilization and it's stupid to ignore the nature of Man. In USA now so many Socialist Propagandist that demonize USA and Europe for Colonizing ignore the history of man. They are ignorant if they believe the native tribes weren't fighting Wars constantly among-st themselves before the "White Man" ever arrived just like Africa, the Middle East, Asia and of course Europe.
@@thomasdemay9805 That's why i said Major Conflicts. Not just wars. And especially not Civil wars. If u count every small war and every battle then yea obviously that's not the case. Just check how many Empires and alliances were clashed INSIDE of europe and fought each other for years every time. And that starts counting since the time of ancient romans and ancient greeks. While in latin america or africa or even middle east for example, even though they are masters in civil wars there weren't MANY major conflicts and most of the major conflicts there was western involvement anyway.
@@akhsdenlew1861 because european much more than connected to each other. Many of the big Asian countries were separated into different empires and were busy with themselves.
Can you please also mention the Chinese Expedition force in Burma and India, where Chinese army helped the British fight of Japanese both in early and late in the war.
All I can say as a Chinese is, if the Japanese ppl nowadays are not to bear the crimes committed under the hands of their ancestors, we shall then not forgive and forget in the name of our ancestors
If you are interested in this type of history, I recommend reading The Poppy War series by R.F. Kuang, which is a historical fantasy triology based on the Second- Sino Japanese War. I could talk for hours about how genius these books were I swear.
A nice video. Respectfully, however, your pre-war analysis of Japan is over simplistic and flawed. 1) Japan was not isolated immediately prior to the Meiji Restoration. American admiral Matthew Perry (I know, right? I didn't make that up) forced the Tokugawa Shogunate to open up trading ports with naval firepower. Once America barged, other Western powers took a similar cue, and forced what are known as "unequal treaties" on Japan that destroyed its economy with largely unfettered international trade. A similar situation happened in China after the Opium Wars. Pro-resistance sentiment due to these unequal treaties led to the Meiji Restoration. 2) "The Japanese viewed their culture as the most sophisticated and civilized." While true toward the early 20th Century, this statement is without context. Japan largely respected China as a superior culture prior to the Opium wars. When it became clear that the Chinese - the dominant culture of East Asia for centuries, could not lead Asia in resisting the West, a nationalist sentiment took root in Japan that it must be that leader in East Asia. As that instinct took root, Japanese thinkers promulgated anti-Western sentiments while condoning Western-style cultural and military technologies in order to expand akin to western empires and form an East Asian locus of power that could resist the West. Based on how Western powers were treating China - carving it up into spheres on influence - and indeed how Japan itself was treated by the West, the Japanese had an understandably wary eye toward the Western powers. 3) The emperor did not take power for himself. He was a minor figure in the Mejij Restoration, and merely a convenient banner through which pro-resistance militarists could come together under. Nominally, the Shogun (the existing government) was subservient to the Emperor. By convincing the Emperor to support their cause, the pro-resistance movement legitimized their claims as the rightful, reformist government of Japan. (Of course, when they took power, they immediately realized that the Western powers were so technologically advanced that they couldn't possible win without massive western-style modernization.) The Meiji government enacted a constitution, and became a CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY, styled on German and British theories of heads of state. The Emperor was a figurehead that could directly intervene in politics, but rarely did and had somewhat limited power to do so. What the Constitution did do was exclude civilian control over the military, which gave the military carte blanch to do whatever it liked. Further, resignations by Army and Navy ministers could cause a civilian cabinet to fall apart under Japanese law. These mistakes sent the Japanese democratic government careening toward militaristic autocracy.
During Opium War, the British wanted to continue drinking Chinese tea, but had nothing of value to offer to the Chinese for it, so they waged two bloody wars with China and forced Chinese to buy opium from them at gunpoint, which we didn't want because it made us sick and was poisoning our people. Port cities like Shanghai were forced open to act as drug distribution hubs to pump the addiction throughout rest of China, and Hong Kong was made into British colony. It was merely the beginning of the Century of Humiliation for China, where Western powers (and Japan) began carving up parts of China's territory (like a pie, as depicted in a French cartoon) and then dividing it up among themselves, while Chinese emperor is hapless to do anything against them.
A nice video overall, but there are a few problems... Apart form the already mentioned problem in the title: 1. The Chinese banknotes that you showed at the beginning is issued by Manchukuo, which, as mentioned in the video, is a puppet state under the Empire of Japan. It even says at the bottom of the bank note "大日本帝国内阁印刷局制造" -- printed by the cabinet of the empire of japan. Although it is technically correct to say that this is a chinese banknote, it is quite awkward given the context. 2. It's the battle of Changsha, 长沙会战, not Shangsha....
Ancient China was one feudal empire with numerous tributary states like Korea, Japan, Vietnam etc. In the era of two great wars, China was in a disarray with many warlords holding a part of territory. If this happens before modern time, one warlord or one country within Chinese cultural sphere will reunite China under one banner. Japan wanted to take that role before and in ww2, firstly some Chinese people even welcomed Japanese invaders as they considered the old government corrupt and a new ruler would be better. But when organized systematic oppression and genocides are committed against Chinese civilians, they believed the atrocities are not just against enemy force but also ethnic Chinese as a whole. This leads to a slow rise of Chinese nationalism, ironically making it impossible for Japanese to completely occupy and pacify Chinese territory.
Japanese forces have no one but themselves to blame if they commit atrocities like Rape of Nanjing, Unit 731, comfort women issue, and other atrocities. Nobody force them to commit those atrocities, and had they treated the captured territories better, they may have gotten a better reception instead.
It's a pity that battles in South East Asia, along the Burma road, were left out. Those conflicts were also fought between the KMT and the Japanese forces. The Chinese sent troops into Burma at the request of the British to help them defend against the Japanese, and secure the only route for the Allies to supply China at the time. Those battles were very intense and the jungle contributed to a lot of deaths as well.
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Half of the comments on this video are saying I used the wrong Japanese character. Yes I did, I understand. I can't fix it, the video has already been published, apologies.
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The Armchair Historian The city is called Changsha(長沙) instead of Shangsha. The pronunciation of Chongqing is also incorrect.
中國抗日戰爭 would be the Second Sino-Japanese War by memory, but what was written was something like "Middle (abbreviation for China)" and "Japanese language" (as it would be written in Japanese)
There is a translation error in your intro title, the translation you had for Japanese actually means "Japanese Language", the “語” characters means language. A better translation would be “中” for Sino and "日“ for Japan.
The Armchair Historian, It is pronounced "NANJING" NOT "NANKING"
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That one he could really go about saying either way in English, although Nanjing's going to sound more authentic to Mandarin Chinese.
“Look at the war crimes the British, Germans, Russians, Italians, and Americans committed in WW2.”
Japan: *nervous sweat*
Oh jesus I thought you were me
Lol same picturea
They won't. Actually a lot of Japanese soldiers didn't think they do anything wrong during the war.
Kellyn1212 yeah but look at the nation now, they can barely be brought to talk about it the guilt is so strong (which I say as a Japanese person)
@@captainkiwi77 no need to feel guilty actually....USA are the ones who started it with their racism?
China: Japanese music starts playing
Japan: Chinese music starts playing
These are confusing times
IKR
LMAO
Haha fantastic
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Greece:Italia Music Starts Playing
"How did Japan Invade China"
I imagine they entered uninvited and didn't leave. Disagreement ensued.
Good analysis, young smart dude.
Japan then started arguing with several more people, tensions heated up, people sided with China and Japan lost the disagreement.
@@somerandomguy4812 then Japan gets hit two times by some guy he pissed off and had to walk away
“How ‘bout I do anyways?”
@@VenomApollyon And ends up being a tech genius and gets super rich
Attacking a city after a man went missing, taking no man left behind to the extreme there Japan
Scholar Pentus they jumped to conclusion faster than a pissed off girlfriend. SMH
It was just a false justification to invade. They didn't care, just needed an excuse
@@derek7762 r/woooosh
Not care about that, china is superior now
@@yogadgsix seeing how the majority of Chinese men are in poverty I doubt that.
You skipped one of the most important parts. That Chaing Hai-Shek refused a communist proposal to unite against the Japanese until his own generals kidnapped him and forced him to enter an alliance.
Supreme Reader and then he executed them😂😂
einsamaberfrei KMT is not fully capitalist m8, there were landlords and serfs which is feudalism. Despite that, KMT still did a good job.
@@supremereader7614 China is better off now than ever before in history
@@licheong China would be worse off with the KMT winning. We already have irl India, and even that was hundreds of years ahead administratively speaking. China would still be a Feudalist state under a military government
einsamaberfrei NONSENSES! C.K.S. was a warlord, a thief who robbed China, a fascist leader won't save China and his army were his private servants that the took to Taiwan! Harry Truman once said: The Songs,the Chiangs and the Hongs were all thieves! Those were leading families in China of politics and the "Chiangs" referred to Chiang Kai Shek! He stole US aid to China in WW2 to buy New York properties
My Filipina grandmother was born in 1930. She told me that as a teenager she saw Japanese soldiers bayonet babies. To this day, I remember her crying as she told me that story.
I hate to those who kill infants.
Pinoy Pride tho
True Japanese are lying to south east asian they say asian for asian more like south east asian for Japan because natural resources.japanese imperialism are more worse than western.......
They killed a lot in China
i cannot imagine how a man can look at a baby and brutally murder it
Guys if he went into details about every Japanese War crime this video would be about 3 hours long.
i dont think he would be allowed to talk about that stuff...
imagine talking about people literally exploding in vacuum chambers for longer than 10 minutes
Nope, that is only if a chinese made up the video.
Aji Kurnia that literally happened in Unit 731. Look it up
When you remember Second Sino-Japan war & WW2 you also need to remember what Mao Zedong and Communist party did to Chinese people. During the movement of Great Leap 40 million Chinese had died of famine. In Cultural Revolution they carried out political cleansing and eventually killed 25 million Chinese people. They also oppressed Tibetan and Uyghur people. The list of their atrocities goes on and on...
Mori Soba I’m not denying that didn’t happen. Every single country has a dark past. America’s whole manifest destiny move, Germany in both world wars, British racism against non-whites, etc.
It's funny how Japan was viewed as one of the major victims of WW2, while their genocide and war crimes were on par with Germany both in terms of scale and atrocities
The so world-widely well-known and famous USA Government's final and official report about IJA( Imperial Japan's Army) in the WW2 named " THE IWG REPORT " that was publicly issued in USA in 2007 wasting so huge amount of USA Tax money(30 million US Dollars) and 8 years and 7 million historic documents due to strong requests from the Communist Hans, Hans from Communist China and the Korean(South & North) living in USA concluded finally and officially in the world USA Government could not find so called war crimes of IJA in the WW2 as Han descendant members of " the Global Alliance for Preserving the History of World War II in Asia "(GAPH, that is mainly organized by Han descendants in USA from Communist China) propagandize not only in North America but also in the world. USA government could not agree with propagandas of "GAPH" in spite of many historic propagandas and fictions by Communist Hans, Hans from Communist China and and the Korean(South & North) descendants not only in USA/Canada but also in Australia/Germany/France/Communist China 2 Koreas ( South & North),Japan and other nations in the world with no real ,concrete and justifiable historic evidences and proofs.
Wait what ? Japan was viewed as one of the major victims of WW 2 !!?? I am Chinese, and this is truly a shocking view to me.
@@minlixu6101 This is not a joke. Despite killing anywhere between 4-13 million Chinese civilians, due to the atomic bombs most people see them as victims, even though they caused at most 150 thousand deaths. Actually, a lot of people in the West don't know China was involved at all. That's Japanese propaganda at it's finest
@@minlixu6101 yes many westerners are brainwashed because japanese warcrimes have been whitewashed too much, so all they care about in world war 2 is how america dropped the atomic bomb on japan, not even caring or knowing about the atrocities of japan
Japan papa colonized China son😆
so they kept saying "Woops, who did that?!" then conquer more land
rinuxx Japan was not one entity. The army and government had different factions. Some wanted peace and friendship with China, others wanted to fight the soviets, some where sincere in driving out the western imperialists put of Asia but some where just after personal gains and honor from wars. This is why their strategy looks so disjointed / comical
@@bingobongo1615 Ah,yes,the kodoha faction,they, however,were purged to both secure the power of military and Hirohito and to scare any remaining opposition,so by the invasion of China,there were no real threat to military dictatorship of Hirohito.
We have to defend our interests from "bandits".
@@bingobongo1615 what group had the democratic sympathizers though?
“Nanking never happened” - Japanese government
“Tsushu never happened” -
Chinese government
@@budoumurasaki5856 Dude. Tsushu is an terrible massacre. Close to 300 people were slaughtered. You have my deepest sympathy. But it simply pales in comparison when to the 50,000-300,000 civilians raped, bayoneted, machine-gunned in Nanjing!
Only the japanese would defend japan. Completely closing their eyes to see the truth.
@@budoumurasaki5856 how do nukes feel my guy?
PoliticallyIncorrect Videos my grandma’s father was killed at that time.Now I’m studying in Japan.It’ hurt me because they deny the history.
It would be a nightmare being a Chinese civilian or infantryman during World War II. Chinese Army was a mess.
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@@einwd yeah war shouldn't happen
Which Chinese army?
@@phredphlintstone6455 In this case, the KMT or Chinese Nationalist Army
Japan: invents anime so that everyone can forget about their past.
People who loves history: I see you.
Japan: sweats nervously.
Anime existed before WW2.
@@steviejohnson378 your point being?
@@rose7531 Point is Japan didn't invent anime so people can "forget" about history.
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People who like history but think anime is cringy: Japan's got problems
@@steviejohnson378 yeah but they expanded it. They expanded their anime empire.
You’ve really been pumping these videos out! I admire your dedication!
My grandfather fought this war as a bomber pilot for the Nationalist. He participated in the bombing of Tokyo along with the Americans
I am a Chinese.I just want to say thank your grandpa for helping the Chinese!God bless you and your grandpa!
♥️
@@chasefeng5560 I don't think any person who bombs a city deserves to be praised..
God bless u and the Chinese compatriots
@@Luna-ry8lv Japanese destroyed my grandma's house and my grandma had become a refugee!!!
I find it strange that the Japanese thought themselves superior to China, when Chinese culture had a huge influence on Japan. Chinese culture is the root in which Japanese is based, so I would think the Japanese would have a fondness for China. I guess Japan raced ahead in technological advancement at that time and saw China as backwards and deserving of being attacked by Japan who was a superior power.
Manchuko had its own Emperor. the Japanese described the capital Mukden was far more advanced than Tokyo. Japanese built hotels and houses with the flush toilets as oppose to squat ones. trains there ran faster than any train in Japan. many Chinese and Koreans moved there. it was an international super city. to give you an idea. the Shinkansen services Kodama, Hikari and Nozomi were named after the services that ran from Busan to Mukden.
Super Akagi native Mukdenin here.Mukden was never the capital of Manchukuo.You are confusing Japanese puppet state Manchukuo which was a Empire with the old Manchuria which was a Kingdom
Hinkin(Cacul) was the capital of Manchukuo
it's propaganda dude
Even their technology was from Europe.
Genetically, there's barely any difference between the Japanese and Chinese. The progenitors of the Japanese were Chinese travelers who mixed the natives of the Japanese Islands (Jomon and Ainu) thus creating the Japanese race.
Imagine if two german officers had a competition in Paris to see who could kill the most Parisian civilians with a sabre, the international outrage would be tremendous.
Nanking was so excessively horrific that many people around the world didn’t even believe the stories that came out. But sadly, they were true.
@Beau Biden dude what are you talking about?
The so world-widely well-known and famous USA Government's final and official report about IJA( Imperial Japan's Army) in the WW2 named " THE IWG REPORT " that was publicly issued in USA in 2007 wasting so huge amount of USA Tax money(30 million US Dollars) and 8 years and 7 million historic documents due to strong requests from the Communist Hans, Hans from Communist China and the Korean(South & North) living in USA concluded finally and officially in the world USA Government could not find so called war crimes of IJA in the WW2 as Han descendant members of " the Global Alliance for Preserving the History of World War II in Asia "(GAPH, that is mainly organized by Han descendants in USA from Communist China) propagandize not only in North America but also in the world. USA government could not agree with propagandas of "GAPH" in spite of many historic propagandas and fictions by Communist Hans, Hans from Communist China and and the Korean(South & North) descendants not only in USA/Canada but also in Australia/Germany/France/Communist China 2 Koreas ( South & North),Japan and other nations in the world with no real ,concrete and justifiable historic evidences and proofs.
@@danedane8573 huh? Simplify what you are trying to say
@@Young_Baller7 read the iwg report
When I was reading about the invasion of China and South East Asia. In Antony Beevors The Second World War, now.. I've researched many crimes against humanity during WW2. And none more shocked me to the core. Than what the Japanese army did in the region on civilians and POWs
Even sadder is that they weren't always like this. They were one of the Legations onto China with the Europeans just a couple of decades earlier and they were actually no worse than the European who co-currently occupied China during the Boxers Rebellion. Also the case with WWI, and many of Japan's WWII enemies were allies earlier too. Not to mention that 1920s Japan was still a (albeit limited form of) democracy before the politics had gone down way way south after - when the military started to hijack the government.
Aaron Bergey 5 million people alone died in South East Asia (3 million of them where Vietnamese).
HenryMidfields Smedley Butler specifically noted how brutal the Japanese were during the Boxer Rebellion, leaving piles of heads on the roadside during the March to Beijing. The Europeans took what they wanted and practiced retaliatory attacks, but the Japanese were killing for the sake of killing.
Marty Man Put down the pipe, son, you're talking nonsense.
"Those bombs saved more lives than they took." I used to believe the same thing, but through more research - specifically into the strategic situation for Japan following the Soviet entry into the conflict - I've come to reconsider the necessity (the actual necessity, not the perceived necessity) of the nuclear bombs. I no longer believe they were warranted. Do not mistake me, I see nothing about the bombs that singles them out as particularly heinous in the grand scheme of the depravity of the second world war. Indeed, they are fitting exclamation points on the horrible sentence, but compared even to the breadth of the strategic bombing campaigns undertaken in the last phase of the war they are not particularly heinous. Rather, the sin of the atomic bombs is due to how unnecessary they really were in ending the conflict and forcing the Japanese to capitulate. This comment is long enough so if anyone cares I'll elaborate.
You forgot to mention unit 731 of Japan.
During Unit 731, Japanese scientists conducted inhuman experiments on Chinese prisoners, including men, women and children. Prisoners were infected with various diseases and then subjected to live vivisection, often without anesthesia. Scientists performed invasive surgeries, organs were removed, limbs amputated and then reattached to opposite sides of the body, all while the subject is alive. Some prisoners even had their stomachs removed and their esophagus reattached to the intestines, presumably to measure how long humans can survive without the stomach.
The women had it worst during Unit 731. Prisoners were injected with sexually transmitted diseases and then forced at gunpoint to spread the infection to other prisoners. Women were raped and impregnated (sometimes by Japanese themselves) and then vivisected at various stages of their pregnancy to study the effects of diseases on their organs or on the fetus. Some Japanese scientists even raped female prisoners and then had experiments conducted on unborn children they fathered with female prisoners there.
Imagine if you are woman prisoner in Unit 731. Or you are a man injected with STD and then forced at gunpoint to have sex to spread it to other prisoners? Why not simply inject everyone with STD, instead of forcing prisoners to spread STD by sex? Or imagine having your limbs amputated and reattached to opposite sides of your body, all without anastasia.
Not relevant to the video's topic.
Tha's what happened during the invasion
神州 Shenzhou the most diabolical things happened to the Chinese by this troop sent from hell. Literally. Those troops were not humans, but devils. May God rain everlasting justice upon these devils and everlasting healing to the poor souls who suffered.
神州 Shenzhou they also experimented on American Dutch and British prisoners.
*japaneeze warcime denying intesnifies*
North Korea launched a warhead directly across Japanese airspace to remind them what its like to be the target of nuclear weapons.
神州 Shenzhou And because of it! Japan already set up many underground launching sites! Kind of backfired! They just gave Abe more reason to be armed with nukes!
+Haruka ino Japan has the unfortunate distinction of being the only country in the world to have nuclear bombs dropped on its soil. Because of this, many Japanese people are against nuclear weapons and are throughly against Japan becoming a nuclear armed state.
Nanking no happenru
EzioIlMentore ohh wuu i seeu u ur r a manu of curture
“The rape of Nanking never happened ,even if it did ,we are just helping our friend China by population control”-Japan
UN- Understandable have a nice day.
Germany: We’re sorry for what we did during the war and will try and change our government to make sure it never happens again
Japan and Turkey: We didn’t do anything and if we did it wasn’t that bad
Basically why everyone hates Japan
@@zacksnyder2561 Dont know about Japan but I doubt Turkey was in shape to do a genocide at that part of history. Wasting resources on killing off civilians while you have a superpower and a great power at your doorstep isnt exactly a good strategy. Probably just asymmetric and unorganized violence against Armenians by soldiers
Lmao
the Kanji (below Japanese) that being used at the beginning "Sino-Japanese War" is actually meant Japanese as in language (日本語) rather than Japanese as people (日本人)..
My mistake, thank you for the correction!
Griff
+The Armchair Historian Should be 中日战争, although no point of me point it out now. You should ask around us subscribers on these things maybe on patreon or youtube community on something, I'm sure we would be glad to help out.
Firen Wolf dude you should really not be that offended by something that has already been mentioned in the comment that you comment under and that was accepted as a mistake by the producer, this is a person who obviously does not speak japanese, and writing is even harder, he probably just used google translate. But the history in the video was very well portrait.
Firen Wolf okey fine I give you that one, but I still believe it was a good video
Zack Prince so cool, how did you write non Latin letter like that?
We appreciate the US who helped China a lot at the end of WWII. China and Japan shouldn't be enemies again, and for god's sake those victims in Nanking shouldn't be forgotten by either Chinese or Japanese
Jack Y Yeah I hope the two countries improve relations more too.
In China, many still have a deep hatred towards the Japanese because their grandparents and great-grandparents were mutilated, raped and murdered, and obviously that isn't something to ever forget, but they are on a path to rebuilding relations, and they are more open to the fact that it was a heavily militarized and crazy-ideological state at the time and that the Japanese today are different.
In Japan, many deny the Nanking Massacre/Rape and don't teach about it at all. And the Yasokuni Shrine is a sore point for Sino-Japanese relations due to a heap loads of reasons, and many apologies are deemed insincere by not just China, but most East and Southeast Asian nations because... Well... they just really weren't sincere. But tourism by Chinese tourists and the globalist world we have today is making relations better, even if it's a little.
In all honesty, I don't think Japan should become an apologetic state like Germany who even imprisons Holocaust deniers, but I hope they don't stay the ignorant way they are, not even teaching about the atrocities of their nation in the past.
Arghh sorry for rambling. I just hope their relations improve XD 🇨🇳🇯🇵
Jeffrey Li China and Japan are neighbors, neighbors should always be friends
What are you on about? According to Japan there were no victims in Nanking.
Zeus Almighty there are a bunch of pictures and clips took and filmed by Germans and American journalists, which prove they do exist, go watch them plz. There are interviews of survivors too, you can find them on UA-cam if you want
They will stop being enemies when the CCP stop using Japan as a propaganda tool to stir nationalist fervour.
I love how in the US we r learning about German war atrocities, but the school didn’t even mention what atrocities Japan did. All the said was that Japan invaded Manchuria. No mentioning of Rape, pillaging, destruction, or comfort women
Unit 731 as well
I'm Chinese. I learned WW2 history from China's perspective from my grandparents, they were alive at the time. They went into hiding and constantly on high alert fearing they'll get captured by Japanese troops, they witnessed Japanese soldiers killing civilians, either by stabbing them or shoot them. On a daily basis, they would hear Japanese planes dropping bombs in their villages
Actually, I'm American and we learned about what Japan did. I think its just different across the country.
@Dreymon Green I didn't, it just probably has to do with where you went to school
It's not all about womans you feminist dump, people died and you talking about rape?
“Why are my eyes always brimming with tears?
Because I love this land so deeply.”
By Ai Qing in 1938.
为何我的眼中常含泪水，因为我爱这土地爱得深沉
中华民族一路走来真的不容易
Title was translated by Google translation
Wrong translation
i am cantonese my granny who now lives in SF told me when she was a little girl,Japanese keep bombing the city,the whole city was burned to the ground,tons of civilian corpses stuck with the housing remains couldn't be separated,she with her family rowing small boat on the river branches to the west direction so got away from raping and loot.
Provocateur If USSR didn´t overpopulate there wouldn´t be tons of bodies.
@Provocateur China really isn't overpopulated given its population density ranking #79 in the world just above the Isle of Man. How it seems so populous nowadays is due to its enormous megacities, which I believe you've never been to any of them, town booooi.
@Provocateur Aah another buttfart troll with nothing worthy to report from their life.
+Dark of the knight you mean British forces were on foreign ground and Japanese (Taiwanese lol I see what you're doing there) forces were far more experienced and practiced in fucking China up?
Provocateur are u thanos??
Many young Japanese don't even know they stand with Germany and Italy in WW2.
I have seen an interview in Japan, most of the young generation have very limited knowledge about Japan in WW2
Supernaltooth because Japan refuses to teach it
Loosely attached. No real military co-operation between the Japan and the other axis.
United States nearly stood with Germany in ww2. Most americans were German immigrants and were supportive of germany. Plus Patton said at the end of the war that we fought the wrong enemy.
No, they do. They just don't realise the significance of it.
My grandfather at 16 started working as a spy in Shanghai, his father killed himself thinking that my grandad was killed by the Japanese. I wish I've met him so that he could have told me his stories.
Looking more and more professional as time goes by.
Keep up the good work man, loving your videos :)
日本語 means Japanese language.
sino-japanese war→中日 or日中戦争
Yeah the "subtitles" were so weird... lol :')
黒田くろお commonly, this war in Chinese is called 抗日战争
黒田くろお LOL yeah I was like why does it say "Chinese - Japanese Language" funny how both Japanese and Chinese ppl agree together on this
I was like, whaaaat
Never blindly trust a machine translation. LOL
In your intro sequence, the characters 日本語 under "Japanese" actually refer to the Japanese language rather than Japan itself.
I was going to say this, I was just looking through the comments to see if someone said it already 😅😅
Trying to add a little bit of explanation here:
中（Naka）-> Middle, Inside
日本語 (Nihongo) -> Japanese Language
Maybe, the kanji on the intro was supposed to be:
中国（ちゅうごく(Chuugoku)）-> China
日本（Nihon/Nippon) -> Japan
fyi, by literal meaning,
国(Kunyomi: kuni, Onyomi: こく(koku))=Country, State, somekind of it
中(Kunyomi: Naka, Onyomi )=Middle, Inside Well,
indeed China is a country located in the middle of the world, so yeah, Chuugoku, country in the middle of the world
日(Kunyomi: hi, bi, -ka, Onyomi: ni, nichi, jitsu)=Sun, day, Japan
本(Kunyomi: moto, Onyomi: hon)=book, origin, true, real
well it 日本(Nihon) literally mean "the Origin of Sun", "Place where Sunrise/Originated",
so finally it's "Sunrise Land"
#CMIIW
@@uiuiui2383 in Chinese, 中国 (zhōng gúo）can be abbreviated to 中 (zhōng), for example, in 中苏 (zhōng sū - Sino-soviet), therefore, using 中 in the title would be suitable in Chinese. However, that still won't make the title make sense, as the "sino-japanese war" in Chinese is 中国抗日战争 (China's anti-Japanese war). It would even make more sense in Japanese, which is 日中戦争 (にっちゅうせんそう, I know both languages by the way) but that would be the other way round as it would be translated as Japanese-sino war 😂😂
Edit: actually, 中国（ちゅうごく）can also be shortened to 中 (ちゅう) such as in 日中戦争
Another informative as well as entertaining video. Thanks for the link to Banknote World.
A good video, appreciate the effort put in. However, there was a small inconsistency.
The Battle of Shanghai actually started because of another one of Japan's little "incidents" much like the Mukden and Marco Polo Bridge incident. Reportedly, a Japanese officer did a run-and-gun in a military vehicle on a Chinese Guard post in the city. The resulting shootout lead to 1 dead Chinese guard and 1 dead Japanese officer. Using this is a reason, Japan demanded the Chinese withdraw all military forces and military police from the city and dismantle all defensive fortifications and networks, while also sending heavy military reinforcements themselves to the city. The Chinese refused and instead order in several elite divisions of their best troops. War broke out soon after.
And they say Germany was bad.
it doesn't affect western society so why would it be on their media?
Scott7891 Only loosing side commit war crimes
Uhh yes Germany was bad. They were looking to systematically kill Russians and Jews throughout the soviet union, there came a point were Stalin and the Russian people realized they were in a fight for their very survival. Not to say the japanese weren't bad but neither side was nessesarily "worse" than the other.
Germany was bad
Ghost F woah woah woah it’s the nazis not the Germans.
This video came out at a perfect time! Right when I started writing about Japan in my project about World War 2 for my history class! Thanks, Griff! Keep up the great work!
Japan broke every single war crime that you can think of.
But Japanese government still deny what they had done and try to change the history. This part of history is forgotten in Japan
Tim Tam Do they? Did you just assume that or did you research ir?
@@bingobongo1615 if you watched interviews on this then you would know the sad truth. They hardly teach this in schools.
They tried to make it less aggressive, like calling the "Rape of Nanjing" the "Nanjing Incident" and not mentioned how much they had killed during that war. However, they still mentioned that they had invaded most if not all of the Far East Asian countries, they just don't want to accept that they had killed several millions of allies during the war.
they dont even study that much history or geography, they are pretty much ignorant about those issues. (know it by 1rst hand)
@@pastedvirus So why are you guys worshipping the war criminals in yasukuni?
Great episode, it would have been a nice addition to expand on the battle of shanghai like you did with nanking. The Chinese held it for 3 months losing elite German trained units before giving it up to the Japanese. This further brought down Chiang’s armies’ effectiveness later on in the war. Battle of Changde is also worth mentioning because it had accounts of capturing a lot of Japanese pows as well as extensive use of chemical attacks.
Thanks for making this video man, truly appreciate people taking time and look over these. Personally I feel its one of those areas in WW2 that's both monstrous in scale, and ultimately monstrous in what was not talked about. So a little bit of light shed in this area is again very much appreciated. Also: so glad to see this pop up on my subbed notices.
Some quick and minor notes~
In the video during the break down of the various factions the communists are marked in the Yan'an region of Shaanxi, this is a bit anachronistic as the Communists were only able to flee there after the Long March when they withdrew from southern China due to heavy Nationalist offensives. By the time the Nationalists purged the communists the warlords have already either surrendered to the Nationalists or pledged their allegiances under the new Nationalist government.
I believe the City of Shangsha should be spelled as "Changsha."
Also, a final bit of factoid: A good amount of Japanese POWs were kept by both the Nationalists and CCP after the war, and a lot of them were impressed into Nationalist and CCP regiments when the 2nd civil war broke out. Since the Japanese slaughtered a good about of the native Chinese Pows during WW2 most of these regiments- including remnant of the Kwantung Army were deployed in areas of heavy attritional fighting. They also served as some of the best doctors and technicians in the CCP and Nationalist army. A great number of them would die in the heavy grind. After the war they were repatriated back to Japan but they were not welcomed and were seen as traitors. A random but I think meaningful detail is that if you go to a lot of communist steles and memorials there are a lot of Japanese names carved on the steles. When I was little it raised my eyebrow- and was explained that they were technically also categorized as veterans. Quite a number of them came back to visit mainland during the 70s and 80s (ironically as "comrades")
big fan of your work mate.
Nationalist Chinese forces took the surrender of 1.2 million Japanese military personnel following the war. Over the next few months, most Japanese prisoners in China, along with Japanese civilian settlers, were returned to Japan.
The nationalists retained over 50,000 POWs, most of whom had technical skills, until the second half of 1946, however. Tens of thousands of Japanese prisoners captured by the Chinese communists were serving in their military forces in August 1946 and more than 60,000 were believed to still be held in Communist-controlled areas as late as April 1949. Hundreds of Japanese POWs were killed while fighting for the People's Liberation Army during the Chinese Civil War. Following the war, the victorious Chinese Communist government began repatriating Japanese prisoners home, though some were put on trial for war crimes and had to serve prison sentences of varying length before being allowed to return. The last Japanese prisoner returned from China in 1964.
Lynch, Michael: The Chinese Civil War 1945-49
Straus, Ulrich (2003). The Anguish of Surrender: Japanese POWs of World War II.
Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Well this is new to me.
Much appreciated for you to bring this up as one of the forgotten chapter of WWII history.
There also a forgotten history about huge numbers of Koreans enlisted to Japanese military and fought alongside their Japanese masters all across Asia.
I believe majority of them was forced to participate by the Japanese as the Japanese have limited manpower. But this chapter of history are pretty forgotten where the Korean themselves also try to hide and erase this issue from their history. It became similiar to what the Japanese has done to their education system where history curriculum barely mentioned any Japanese atrocities during the war, same to South Korean where they barely mentioned their past involvement with the Japanese invaders in South Korean schools.
History is history despite ugly or not, shouldn't be hide or erased.
The war museum in Harbin is fascinating and well worth a visit, go in winter, so different.
Actually Battle of Taierzhuang(台兒莊會戰) in 1938 is the first battle China managed to repel IJA attack successfully. It's great morale boost for Chinese force.
Cool vid. My grandfather told me many interesting stories about this war and the civil war which followed. Apparently, the Chinese side played propaganda over loudspeakers imploring the Japanese soldiers to surrender and join the Chinese. Surprisingly, according to him, some Japanese soldiers actually switched sides because they were disillusioned about what Japan was doing in China and against its Asian brothers. Strange stories that don't g in history books but are straight from the frontlines
Craine Big Brother What didn’t Japan do?
Not that strange, a lot of them did stay and fought later in the Chinese civil war. PLA's Fourth Field Army under Lin Biao had about 30000 Japanese nationals working as doctors, nurses, technicians, and, for some who happened to be born in China, even soldiers.
I did
Again the pacific war proves to be complex. Indeed Japanese fought in Chinese units and Chinese and Koreans fought in/with the imperial Japanese army and lots of Koreans and Chinese profited from the war
yeah my grampa also fought the japanese when phillippines was a colony of america during the commonwealth era..... with his murican friends they fought as guerilla. the japanese would throw babies in air and bayonette them mid air or samurai them... they destroyed old churches and would execute civillians in front of the church for not bowing down when they pass by a town... they burned towns and villages who they suspect of hiding filipino and american soldiers... not to mention the death marches.................... general mcarthur wanted to retake the islands first but the american forces went to europe first to support the allies instead of liberating their colony we had to endure 2 years of japanese rule.... its worst than the spanish era id tell you that as the 334 years of spanish rule wasnt as cruel as the 2 years of japanese rule... so all those years the coaliton of american and filipinos had to fight as guirilla in the mountains and forest... my grampa would rarely talk about that time but when he did he never told us to hate the japanese... when i ask him what happend to his friends he just cries.... so i never ask about it again... my grampas dead rip grampa... your with your friends now...
Never think any battle will be an “easy victory” every time I read that in books it turns out that the battle/campaign is everything but easy
Forgotten Ally: China's World War II 1937-1945 by Ranna Mitter is a pretty good place to start for anyone interested in learning more about the conflict.
Grandparents all lived through this time.
Maternal grandparents were communists, but never saw combat. My mother's father was kept out of the war because he had a rare skill. He could read and write. He served as a teacher throughout the war.
1:48 It wasn’t the Kuomintang who overthrew the Qing Dynasty, it was a bunch of rebel soldiers in Hunan Province who sparked the Xinhai revolution. The Kuomintang was established in 1912, after the Xinhai Revolution and was headed by SongJiaoren, which was fundamentally different from the Chungkuo Kuomintang, which was established in 1919 and served as the successor to the 1912 Kuomintang. The “White Sun Blue sky” emblem wasn’t the country’s official emblem before 1926, when China was unified under KMT rule. The video also made it seem as if the KMT directly caused China to be split into different factions. It was Yuan Shikai who caused China to be split into different factions after failing to revive the monarchy. The KMT served as the largest opposition to Yuan before they got disbanded by Yuan.
2:17 lol I remember hearing this song in How To Make Ramen
love your channel, Griff
Thanks Paul!
Griff
@@TheArmchairHistorian Alot of wrongs and flaws in this program!
one suggestion：
the translation of the title: Sino-Japanese war is literally"central-japanese language "
awesome video! Historically accurate & without political bias. Untill this day many Japanese still deny the Nanjing massacre ever happening!
To be exact, it is the Japanese people affected by the Japanese right-wing elements...
(考古，順便感謝那位美國收藏博主)
It never happenned
多くの日本人は虐殺を否定してはいない。
My grandma survived the japanese occupation. She was born in 1937, she told me how many babies were suffocated to death by their mothers to avoid being found by Japanese soldiers
Modern China is basically a wounded lion pounced on by hyenas. Still, it is a far better score than Rome, which just lacked the virility and resilience to survive in times of great crises.
Agreed. China has 5000 years of history and is among the world's oldest 'continuous' civilization still alive today, whereas other great civilizations like Mesopotamia, Rome and Egypt have long since succumbed to history. Now the wounded lion has finished licking its wounds and began chasing the hyenas back.
I think it is the oldest continuous one
china has been conquered by foreign invaders before and took over by different dynasty's. so not really continuous.
@@Shenzhou. The China of old is not the China of now. If you think that, you are delusional.
Powers rise and fall Rome, France, Ottomans, the Greeks, Persians, British and yes even America as well will one day fall from superpower status or most powerful on earth. But the same will be for China as well. All powers reach there peak have there golden age then fall into a lesser power. China due to its long history has had several times of it.
Great video! But i have to point out that i'm pretty sure that you wrote "japanese" wrong in the begining. The last character there is the character for languguge, so what you wrote there was Japanese as in the languge.
I know this video is 3 years old but you should do a more in-depth follow up video detailing life in Japanese-occupied China. A bit like your life in German-occupied Poland.
I'd love that. 💙
Thx for posting
After watching the awesome video, I felt like playing Civilization 6!
"They raped Nanking so hard that it is easier to just deny it." - Bill Wurtz
History shall not be forgotten. Admitting the crimes and present vulnerability is (going to be) the nation's true virtue.
inhumane crimes👎
rina from onerland so is dropping nukes but wtv
Id rather die from an atomic bomb than be a woman in the middle of Nanking
MrPieman00 The suffering is prolonged isn't it.
Craine Big Brother Where are you from?
If you’re Japanese, then I’m sorry, but that’s just not true. Remember Nanking.
The Japanese also conducted inhumane experiments on Chinese men, women and children. Prisoners in Unit 731 were infected with various diseases and subjected to live vivisection, often without anesthesia. Japanese scientists performed invasive surgeries, organs were removed, limbs amputated, and then reattached to opposite sides of the body, all while the subject is still alive and conscious. Prisoners even had their stomachs removed and their gullet reattached to the intestines, presumably to see how long humans can survive without the stomach.
The women had it worst during Unit 731. There were experiments with sexually transmitted diseases, by first injecting prisoners and forcing them at gunpoint to spread the infection to other prisoners. Women were raped and impregnated (sometimes by Japanese themselves) and then vivisected at various stages of their pregnancy to study the effects of diseases on their organs or on the fetus they were carrying. Some Japanese scientists even raped female prisoners themselves and then had experiments conducted on unborn children they fathered with female prisoners.
I mean, can you imagine if you are woman prisoner in Unit 731? Or that you are a man injected with STD and forced to have sex at gunpoint to spread it to other prisoners? Why not simply inject everyone with STD, instead of forcing prisoners to spread STD by sex? Can you imagine if you had your stomach removed just to see how long you can survive without it?
Short answer: with boats. Lots of them
Today (Nov 22, 2018), we lost another "comfort woman" survivor. All Japanese government doing is just keep denying their crimes until all survivors passed away and nobody remembers them.
That's a shame, but war is a crime itself. Nothing will change even if they are willing to admit it. The very least they get to live till old age rather than murdered after forced labour. Though i could say the same with Uyghur but nobody cares.
@@gre8000 forced labor is a complete lie
@@y-htse4445 Be analytical n truthful before accusing people.
@@moksengchai2857 which part is not true?
@@y-htse4445 wdym forced labor is a lie?
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我许多次见过你在评论，都没有来得及打一句招呼~
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The text at the beginning says “Chinese-Japanese language”
And Kuomintang is pronounced Guo meen dahng.
And Changsha is called Shangsha
You are whistling when I listen on the headphones ( still great video, thank you! Good Job!
In your title the wrong charecters are used, I think. I am pretty sure that 日本語 refers to language 。日本人, however refers to the people. For Sino, the charecters 中国 may bre more appropriate over just Zhong, though im not certain.
We call it the "中日戰爭" over here in Hong Kong and China.
Traditional instead of simplified is better, especially from that time period, you used simplified for the guo
It’s funny how Japan still doesn’t admit fault and claims ignorance
Just like the United States
Same thing I was thinking.
@Meme Comrades they don’t need they pay China, they have to pay Taiwan because they’re the one that’s actually fight them during that war
@Meme Comrades if they’re legit * but they don’t so don’t pay them
We are superior to everyone on the planet! But damn this Euro technology is hot af
Evilsamar
Not really superior when 2 atomic bombs make you piss your pants.
Also not really superior when hentai and anime invade 70 years later.
Ancient Quotes I think you should reread my comment
Lol
@@falconsawcon1978 still superior to China in everything
Japan dick 1cm bigger then the Chinese
Audio not synced drove me nuts in the beginning! Great video though.
Hahahaha... I love this kid. Its like watching your nephew in High School putting on a good History presentation which he is taking very seriously. He’s so adorable.
But he is right after all :)
Japan surrendered cuz the atomic bom....
USSR: am i a fkin joke to u?
The soviets were just the nail in the coffin,the japanese already lost almost all its industry and its navy in 1945.It was going to fall whether the soviets invaded or not.They lost almost all oil resources that they obtained in the dutch indies when the phillipines was a clear victory for the US in 1945.They lost all naval,air,and resource supremacy and the empire was losing territories to that of a domino effect.
We have to admit their effort. It’s only fair. What bothers me is that I heard China celebrates winning the war each year and don’t give us credit. I hope that’s not true.
It was both. If you look at Hirohito's jewel voice broadcast transcript (basically a surrender speech from the Japanese Emperor), he made reference to both the USSR entry into the war and the two atomic bombs as the reasons why he ordered the government to accept unconditional surrender.
The Russians were to the war in the Pacific to what the US was to the Western front.
They surrendered to the the Allies instead of the USSR because if they surrendered to the USSR they would have changed their country far more like making it communist and if they surrendered to the allies they knew the monarchists and the emperor would have been treated much more similarly to how they lived whilst under the rule of the emperor
I'm loving that my provincial capital, Changsha, or, as this video calls it, Shangsha (not sure why, but I'll run with it) was mentioned! And especially that it was a turning point in the war, the first of many times we actually managed to beat the invading force back! Several times! I was born just next door in Zhuzhou! I always wondered what possessed the Japanese to go around invading her neighbours and declaring war left right and centre without any provocation. Actually, I still don't get it, but it looks like greed for living space, 'glory', land, and resources had something to do with it. I still think they made a stupid decision to go around attacking people just because they felt they could get away with it, being big and tough enough to bully people who were less prepared for war. I'm not sure the responsible people at that time who made the decisions considered that what they did would make them portrayed as the villains of the history books for generations to come and drag the innocent new generations into the awful heritage as being the children of that age's warmongers of Asia. But then again, looking at today's China and the questionable priorities they have, maybe shortsightedness and selfishness is far more common and far more built into human nature across different ethnic groups and nations than we might like to admit. Who knows, maybe we'd all be criminals if we thought we could get something for nothing and get away with it. Not a happy or pretty thought. But I do hope that the conclusion of the Asian segment of WWII is a sermon in stone for anyone who thinks that unprovoked violence can be without consequences. The sowed the guns and bombs and reaped the atomic bomb. Not worth it. Don't even think about it. Just kill the thought, perish it, strangle it if necessary. Just don't let your hands shed the first blood, or even the second, or even the last. Just, let God take care of it all, if necessary. Keep your hands clean of bloodshed. Two wrongs don't make a right, and the grudges and vengeance that are in the hearts of my compatriots and fellow countrymen are not going to bring the murdered back from the dead nor the honour back to the humiliated. It might be better to forgive and forget, lest we have innocent Japanese blood on our hands, because the Japanese of this generation are most certainly more innocent than the Chinese of this generation. God forbid we act out the murder and violence and desecration of those who committed violence against us! Because they didn't get away with it, and in my opinion, those who repent have suffered enough. Those who don't, well, sufficient for them is the censure they get from the general public, as far as I'm concerned.
Japan has a long history of invading China and Korea. Even in 1592, Japanese forces led by Toyotomi Hideyoshi invaded Korea with the intent of conquest, and after hearing of the invasion, the Ming emperor dispatched Chinese troops to Korea (Joseon Dynasty) to aid the Koreans in repelling the invaders.
Then we have the 1st Sino-Japanese war in 1894, when Japan invaded Korea again and Qing dynasty China, capturing Korea and Taiwan, and ruling over Korea for 25 years and Taiwan for 50 years.
Next we have 2nd Sino-Japanese war here, in 1931, where Japan invaded China and South East Asian countries like Philippines, Singapore, etc.
So who can rightly say that Japan won't invade China, Korea, or other countries in the future, given that for the past 300-400 years, Japan made numerous incursions into other countries for the express purpose of conquest, given this historical trend? Chinese never set foot on Japanese at all (Mongolians tried but failed) because Japan is low in resources, whereas China is rich in resources, which is why Japan made numerous advances into China throughout history.
Well, I looked carefully at what you said, and I can only spot 3 identified instances, of which two are related: the first and second Sino-Japanese wars, and so in total, I can only count 2 independent acts of conquest. I mean, that is nothing. Maybe in East Asia, where most countries tend to keep to themselves, 3 is heaps, but in Europe, even what is now considered closely allied nations probably invaded each other far more than 3 times. And today's Japan has far less reason to invade than ever before. Their reputation has already taken a massive blow, and the self-loathing of the youth is taking a toll. I think the two Atomic bombs scared the bejeebus out of them as well, so I really doubt they'll try anything anytime soon, except with US sanctions. But I think the Japanese do get a bit confused because sometimes they regard the Yuan dynasty invasions (because there were two) and the Qing dynasty invasion (I think there was one, but I might be wrong, so don't quote me on that one) were "Chinese" invasions of Japan. And it's quite tricky, because, on the one hand, it isn't, because the Chinese state was invaded and the state apparatus was basically hijacked by another Tungusic ethnic group who love their wars and invasions, so the intention to invade was not at all Chinese, but one Tunguistic ethnicity vs another Tungusic ethnicity. However, on the other hand, the minority regimes did recruit many Chinese to their campaigns, so technically speaking, we were there in Japan, even if it was against our will, we were technically there, conscripted as technical officers, operating the gunpowder weaponry, not only in Japan, but even also on some of the Mongolian campaigns against the Middle East and Europe and Russia. So it is a very tricky area, this. And today's Chinese borders, and the whole justification for the inclusion of Tibet within Chinese borders hinges on claiming the Yuan and Qing dynasties as "Chinese" dynasties. Which puts us in a bit of a dilemma. I mean, you can't disown the Yuan and Qing when it comes to the invasions of Japan, and then conveniently appropriate them when it comes to claiming Tibet and outer Mongolia (according to the KMT. The CCP has already relinquished those claims). So yeah, the Yuan and Qing dynasties are very tricky to work with in a consistent manner. They are somewhat like the Hyksos dynasty of Egypt, except, the Chinese version of that.
Believe it or not, I am from the U.S. I am quite familiar with Changsha because it is the capital of Hunan province which is the province Mao Zedong is from. I have read about Changsha quite a bit in books about modern Chinese history which is a very fascinating subject for me. I am reading both biographies of both American and Chinese leaders.
Fantastic to meet you, sir! Now, if you won't mind, what has been your overriding opinions about the most prominent Chinese leaders, in comparison to their American counterparts? Starting from Mao Zedong: Monster? Saviour? Man? Political genius? The idol of modern China? The only thing standing between China's autonomy and becoming a proxy state? An incompetent man who's poor understanding of science and nature led to the starvation of many of his people? A merciless political animal who killed off many of his rivals? Or the man who reunited China into a single vision and purpose? Or are there other options? I'm sure you can think of some other things. I don't think we can really box in people like him, or ourselves, or anyone else, and capture the whole. So much of these labels are just stereotypes, propaganda, superficial, with inbuilt biases and prejudice, and certainly, none of the above are objective by any means, and just depends on the lens/angle you look at it from. Then, you have Deng Xiaoping: the Great Reformer? The saviour of China from Maoist oppression? The one who betrayed the revolution? The one who made life better for China? The victim of 1979? Or the murderer of 1989? The one in charge of modernising China? Or the one holding China back from modernisation? Jiang Zemin: a Yes-man? A man still too powerful for his own good, and the country's good? A good stop fill? Or someone China would have been better off without, as Xi might have us believe? Someone who sabotaged Hu Jintao at every turn? Or someone who kept the country together after Deng Xiaoping's death? Then Hu Jintao: a frustrated reformer? Would he have been better off if Jiang hadn't been pulling the strings behind his back and sabotaging his every move? Or is it better he wasn't allowed a free reign? Then, finally, Xi Jinping: the Greatest Chinese Leader who ever lived? Or just someone who is taking the credit for decades of hard work/groundwork of those who went before him? The "most powerful man on earth", as some say? Or just a man in a very compromised position trying to do his best to survive?
And then, of course, you have the visiting US presidents: R. Nixon. Was he really that bad? Or did Watergate just ruin his career? Did he get corrupted by his visit to China? Did he betray his voters who expected him to be a hardliner against communism and everything communist by opening talks to China? Or was it necessary to galvanise the collapse of the Soviet Union? And was his "Star Wars Program" a stroke of genius, or a hint of madness?
And then across the pond, to British Politics, which you might not be so familiar with: Margaret Thatcher- Iron Lady? Dotty? Strong? The most powerful leader of her day? Or just a "little Britain" mentality? Was her defense of the Malvinas/Falkland Islands justified, or just an act of brute force/aggression? And did her impending talks with Deng Xiaoping over the future of Hong Kong play a role in her decision to sink that Argentine battle ship?
And finally, 2018: the Xi Jinping/ Donald Trump dynamic- is conflict inevitable? Or is it just a matter of grave misunderstanding? And where does Vladimir Putin fit into this? What is the fate of North Korea in this squabble for power and influence between two global heavyweights? And the fate of South Korea? And the fate of Japan? And the fate of Taiwan? And where exactly would Israel stand in all of this? Or would they stand aloof, unconcerned about events so far from the holy lands?
Zhou Wu I would say Zhou Enlai was the great statesman of China, he too me would be very similar to John Quincy Adams our 6th president. Enlai was a very educated man and an outstanding diplomat and he was very well traveled. He was the man who greeted Nixon on the tarmac.
In 1972.
Mao Zedong was a more a complicated figure, as Dr. Henry Kissinger said he was a unique man for his time and was the revolutionary. I will leave it up to the Chinese people to determine his legacy.
Deng Xiaoping to me is the true father of modern China. He was a man who evolved and became a wise man. He had a very difficult situation on his hands with the Tiananmen Square uprising and he certainly over reacted, but from his perspective and the massive instability that he personally witnessed in his own lifetime like the Chinese Civil War and his exile during the Cultural Revolution made him a man who most certainly valued stability above all else. But again I leave the Tiananmen Square history for the Chinese people to decide.
I would say the Deng Xiaopeng has a bit of Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson in his personality. He was the one laid the ground for the modern Chinese state by introducing a system of checks and balances that created term limits that worked for his country. Deng was like Abraham Lincoln because he was a wise man who wanted a great future for his country after a period of serious turmoil. In fact both China and the U.S. had tremendous prosperity after their Civil Wars and other internal strife. Lastly, Deng was like Andrew Jackson because he made mistakes but was also a revolutionary and one fought in great battles. There is no question Deng Xiaopeng was one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century and probably in the top 5. He was selected as Time Man of the Year, so our media had the highest respect for him.
I try to have a fair view of both American history and Chinese history. There is no question China and the United States are the two great nations on the Earth. Our two countries are very integrated in ways that no one could ever imagine. When I graduated college, I walked across the stage to receive my diploma along with many, many Chinese students whose parents were there cheering them on just like my parents. Who would have thought that the 40 years ago that the grandchildren of the same Chinese people who were living in an isolated China of the 1960s would be graduating from the same college as grandchildren of American’s living in 1960s America?
I read in a book that the soldier that was missing after the Marco Polo bridge incident was sent over to try and stop the hostilities, but got lost on his way back after having to releave himself.
I have massive respect for the people of Nanking
China in general. Look how strong they are when they're united.
This could apply to humans in general, if we'd start looking at each other as such. Countries should be helping other countries succeed.
And i have no respect for your tank
People literally yelling Long live China while gunned down by Japanese in Nanking
Chinese civil war Russian civil war Spanish civil???? Love u btw
Ok besides error of use of kanji Nihongo vs. Nihon and pronunciation which makes a Mandarin Chinese or Japanese linguist cringe, the article is generally accurate. So chill on negative vibes.
中国人不会忘记这段历史的，但我们不会永远活在仇恨之中
不会忘记，以前的耻辱终有一天会洗刷
Hodgepodge The Chinese will not forget this part of history, but we will also not live in hatred
张依新 却很多兄弟们忘记，我们这个年代是一样的。我们不应该一直听前代说什么
张依新 In fact.Chinese people just want the apology from Japanese government.I’m a student in Guangzhou,China.I can not only represent myself,but also my classmates even the young generation.we all have the same point of view:what happened in war2 should be remembered,but it’s not a reason for us to hate Japanese people,lots of them are really good guys,except a few people who want wars happen again.If we forget this history,it’s a kind of betray to those died in wars
@@VictorSpeed9 那么你代表什么呢？
Liked and subscribed. Great video!
4:40 He didn't agree that willing lmao
when the Soviet Union invaded Manchuria, Tri Tankisti started playing in my mind
"The Chinese currency" shown in the video is actually from Manchukuo :(
Arrived for the history, kept coming back for the music
During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Chang Kai-Shek, distrustful of Mao Zedong, had stationed a large force on the border with the C.C.P., which was one of the reasons China was pushed back so much in the beginning of the war.
CCP was the one that backstabbed KMT during the war. CCP had 30,000 soldiers at the beginning of the war, and by the end of 1945, the number increased to 700,000. If Chiang had devoted some more consistency in devastating the CCP. China today will have been a different place.
徘徊於過去和未來 how is that backstabbing? They knew that after the invasion of Japan ended they would fight against each other. *They were in a bloody civil war*
During the war with Japan, CCP did nothing while KMT had 3000000 lives sacrificed in the front line. In some of the war, CCP attacked KMT when they were fighting the japanese in the front line.
zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9A%96%E5%8D%97%E4%BA%8B%E5%8F%98
Great video on the progress and history of the 2nd Sino-Japanese War. However:
1. The exclusion of Tibet and Mongolia in your early 20th century China is a terrible mistake and a awful sign of disrespect to historical facts.
2. It is Changsha, not Shangsha...
Sam Shih mongolia maybe but tibet played no real role in the civil war or during the ww2 in that sense.
My mistake on English expression. I mean to say, in that map, Tibet should be a legitimate part of China (even though Dalai Lama and his monks are the de-facto rulers of that land). In the case of Mongolia, up until 1921, it also belongs to China and should not be excluded from the map of Republic of China at that time.
Sam Shih true but fpr the context of what he was saying making Mongolia part of the comitern is a given tibet is more of a historical and socio-ecpnomocal claim they claimed neutrality thusly they arent needed to make heed of since they played no major role in the war in question.
That said i get your points and see their validity but he wanted to make it short so certain thibgs needed to bw sacrificed
@@Zretgul_timerunner The defacto independent Tibet was very much a part of the Chinese civil war. They had several failed invasion into Amdo Tibet which was controlled by muslim Warlord Ma Bufang. The Chinese KMT tried to play gerry mandering by creating a new province called Sihkang out of eastern U-tsang and part of Kham Tibet. The independence of Tibet was only recognised by the then newly independent Mongolia, which itself merit an entire video to itself, as China made many invasions into Mongolia to get back control and had some success as well.
And let's not forget the biggest elephant in the room, the arunachal pradesh of modern India was under Tibet's administration during all of this, only to be finally annexed by the British Empire during WW2, and placed under Noth East Frontier Agency of the British Raj.
Eastern countries were at war with themselves just like the West. East and West don't seem so different.
they aren't and all the stereotypes of the West and the Europeans or the White Race as aggressive colonizers and acting like the rest of the world is peaceful is just socialist propaganda designed to target Capitalism as the source for evil. Reality is this is the nature of Mankind (or Fallen Man from Christian Perspective). To war with and conquer and subjugate each other. It has been going on in East and West since the beginning of Civilization and it's stupid to ignore the nature of Man. In USA now so many Socialist Propagandist that demonize USA and Europe for Colonizing ignore the history of man. They are ignorant if they believe the native tribes weren't fighting Wars constantly among-st themselves before the "White Man" ever arrived just like Africa, the Middle East, Asia and of course Europe.
Pretty sure Europe had more major conflicts than everyone else.
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@@akhsdenlew1861 seriously doubt that. much of rest of the world seems to be in civil war at all times.
@@thomasdemay9805 That's why i said Major Conflicts.
Not just wars.
And especially not Civil wars.
If u count every small war and every battle then yea obviously that's not the case.
Just check how many Empires and alliances were clashed INSIDE of europe and fought each other for years every time.
And that starts counting since the time of ancient romans and ancient greeks.
While in latin america or africa or even middle east for example, even though they are masters in civil wars there weren't MANY major conflicts and most of the major conflicts there was western involvement anyway.
@@akhsdenlew1861 because european much more than connected to each other. Many of the big Asian countries were separated into different empires and were busy with themselves.
Love the channel.
Can you please also mention the Chinese Expedition force in Burma and India, where Chinese army helped the British fight of Japanese both in early and late in the war.
Or the USAF Tigers P-40's which were stationed in China and helped to fend off the IJA/IJN.
2:20 Lol that music is from How to Basic how to make ramen. I knew that music was familiar
He didn't make it
@@snifferfiffer2773 ik lol ofc he didn't make it
All I can say as a Chinese is, if the Japanese ppl nowadays are not to bear the crimes committed under the hands of their ancestors, we shall then not forgive and forget in the name of our ancestors
I suppose true healing requires fully facing and contemplating the past to move forward. The Germans appear to have that with their museums.
Nice name
ancestors and you are not the same people, stop with this caveman non-sense.
@@ItsAstieyou sound like a westerner.
7:37 It's Changsha (长沙)
Jason wow ,I was thinking about what it was
If you are interested in this type of history, I recommend reading The Poppy War series by R.F. Kuang, which is a historical fantasy triology based on the Second- Sino Japanese War. I could talk for hours about how genius these books were I swear.
never forget, never forgive
stupid
@@jisooblink6114 fu*k off and go back to your moms womb
@@xingling1073 ok kung flu
@@jisooblink6114 the person who knows nothing about the true story and trying to judge others is as foolish as a filthy pig
@@jisooblink6114 enjoy your radiation on that small island
A nice video. Respectfully, however, your pre-war analysis of Japan is over simplistic and flawed.
1) Japan was not isolated immediately prior to the Meiji Restoration. American admiral Matthew Perry (I know, right? I didn't make that up) forced the Tokugawa Shogunate to open up trading ports with naval firepower. Once America barged, other Western powers took a similar cue, and forced what are known as "unequal treaties" on Japan that destroyed its economy with largely unfettered international trade. A similar situation happened in China after the Opium Wars. Pro-resistance sentiment due to these unequal treaties led to the Meiji Restoration.
2) "The Japanese viewed their culture as the most sophisticated and civilized." While true toward the early 20th Century, this statement is without context. Japan largely respected China as a superior culture prior to the Opium wars. When it became clear that the Chinese - the dominant culture of East Asia for centuries, could not lead Asia in resisting the West, a nationalist sentiment took root in Japan that it must be that leader in East Asia. As that instinct took root, Japanese thinkers promulgated anti-Western sentiments while condoning Western-style cultural and military technologies in order to expand akin to western empires and form an East Asian locus of power that could resist the West. Based on how Western powers were treating China - carving it up into spheres on influence - and indeed how Japan itself was treated by the West, the Japanese had an understandably wary eye toward the Western powers.
3) The emperor did not take power for himself. He was a minor figure in the Mejij Restoration, and merely a convenient banner through which pro-resistance militarists could come together under. Nominally, the Shogun (the existing government) was subservient to the Emperor. By convincing the Emperor to support their cause, the pro-resistance movement legitimized their claims as the rightful, reformist government of Japan. (Of course, when they took power, they immediately realized that the Western powers were so technologically advanced that they couldn't possible win without massive western-style modernization.) The Meiji government enacted a constitution, and became a CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY, styled on German and British theories of heads of state. The Emperor was a figurehead that could directly intervene in politics, but rarely did and had somewhat limited power to do so. What the Constitution did do was exclude civilian control over the military, which gave the military carte blanch to do whatever it liked. Further, resignations by Army and Navy ministers could cause a civilian cabinet to fall apart under Japanese law. These mistakes sent the Japanese democratic government careening toward militaristic autocracy.
During Opium War, the British wanted to continue drinking Chinese tea, but had nothing of value to offer to the Chinese for it, so they waged two bloody wars with China and forced Chinese to buy opium from them at gunpoint, which we didn't want because it made us sick and was poisoning our people. Port cities like Shanghai were forced open to act as drug distribution hubs to pump the addiction throughout rest of China, and Hong Kong was made into British colony.
It was merely the beginning of the Century of Humiliation for China, where Western powers (and Japan) began carving up parts of China's territory (like a pie, as depicted in a French cartoon) and then dividing it up among themselves, while Chinese emperor is hapless to do anything against them.
you should have mentioned Xian incident in 1936 - this was truly the turning point
My grandpa had nine brothers,and six of them was killed by japanese.
My condolences. I lost relatives to the IJA soldiers during that time as well. :/
Lol thank god for one child rule in china now
@@anishabisht4213 so if war comes they can all be killed? that is not good lmaoo
☹️ sorry bout that
A nice video overall, but there are a few problems... Apart form the already mentioned problem in the title:
1. The Chinese banknotes that you showed at the beginning is issued by Manchukuo, which, as mentioned in the video, is a puppet state under the Empire of Japan. It even says at the bottom of the bank note "大日本帝国内阁印刷局制造" -- printed by the cabinet of the empire of japan. Although it is technically correct to say that this is a chinese banknote, it is quite awkward given the context.
2. It's the battle of Changsha, 长沙会战, not Shangsha....
Xizheng Ma Yeah sometimes westerners confuse Manchurian with Mandarin it’s kinda annoying.They have Littleton do with each other
0:16 awkward translation spotted!
Middle and Japanese language wut??
Fan Syo Yu It’s a mistranslation, in chinese it’s written as 中日
Could you tell us about that medieval sword by your desk. Would be interesting too. Nice videos.
Ancient China was one feudal empire with numerous tributary states like Korea, Japan, Vietnam etc. In the era of two great wars, China was in a disarray with many warlords holding a part of territory. If this happens before modern time, one warlord or one country within Chinese cultural sphere will reunite China under one banner. Japan wanted to take that role before and in ww2, firstly some Chinese people even welcomed Japanese invaders as they considered the old government corrupt and a new ruler would be better. But when organized systematic oppression and genocides are committed against Chinese civilians, they believed the atrocities are not just against enemy force but also ethnic Chinese as a whole. This leads to a slow rise of Chinese nationalism, ironically making it impossible for Japanese to completely occupy and pacify Chinese territory.
Japanese forces have no one but themselves to blame if they commit atrocities like Rape of Nanjing, Unit 731, comfort women issue, and other atrocities. Nobody force them to commit those atrocities, and had they treated the captured territories better, they may have gotten a better reception instead.
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Oh, how convenient it is if you could just label anything a lie, so you can prevent using reasons....and being a reasonable person.
China did well defending
It's a pity that battles in South East Asia, along the Burma road, were left out. Those conflicts were also fought between the KMT and the Japanese forces. The Chinese sent troops into Burma at the request of the British to help them defend against the Japanese, and secure the only route for the Allies to supply China at the time. Those battles were very intense and the jungle contributed to a lot of deaths as well.