Hey Guys! Thanks for watching, click here to get started with your collection of vintage currency! fbit.co/7sI4 Their UA-cam as well: ua-cam.com/channels/XA8PbUuGKR1Emp-M5A9PVw.html 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. Our Patreon: www.patreon.com/armchairhistory Corrections should be posted underneath this comment! Griff
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.
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.
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.......
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
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
@@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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 💙
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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...
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.
Ye, when China was the the top dog of the world they learnt from them, but when they realised the westerners beat them up they learn from the westerners and then suddenly decided to bomb pearl harbour.
Japan copied basically everything from China in imperial times. Check out the Japanese missions to China. Japanese culture is essential Chinese cultures from different dynasties, especially the Han, Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties. In modern times, Japan was forced to open its door by the US. During Meiji Restoration, they rapidly modernized and copied from the west. Yet during WWII, Japan both attacked China and the US, from both it has copied its culture and technologies over the years. Japan is far from being a “peaceful” country as portrayed by the US liberal media. China is like a mother to Japan, willing to teach it all the things and even let it call all the Chinese inventions it learns as “Japanese this” and “Japanese that”, but this traitor can really turn its back on you. China, one of the longest surviving civilizations and one of the Four Cradles of Civilizations, never invaded Japan or Korea. Japan on the other hand, invaded Korea before, but the Koreans were able to fight them off with the help of the Chinese. Then in modern history, Japan truly showed its true savage color. All the glorious culture they copied from China externally cannot cover up the savagery of their original culture, especially their rape and torture culture. Japan is like a rebellious and violent son. China and the US are like two parents. Once they train up this son, he turns around and attacks both.
By and large a pretty good video. Just a few points: 1. The first Sino-Japanese War (1895) resulted in the Treaty of Shimonoseki, in which Qing China ceded Taiwan to Japan. Korea WASN'T conquered here. Though fell into Japanese sphere of influence, It maintained nominal independence until 1910 when it was finally annexed. 2. Chiang realized that the Communists were the greater of two evils, so he wanted to wipe them out first, but was kidnapped by his own general in the Xian Incident (1936) and forced to form a nominal alliance with the Communists. 3. In all of my researches, Chiang's army bore the load of Japanese attacks. The Communists, on the other hand, claimed to have some success through guerrilla warfare, but in reality didn't do much. They were sly and went behind Chiang's back, biding their time while Chiang and the Japanese took care of each other.
Interesting, while certainly number 2 is true (Though, the Communists being the greater of evils is subject to opinion, Chiang certainly saw them as more of a threat) I wouldn't exactly say that the Communists were sly. They just plain understood public opinion better than the KMT, as Chiang used poorly equipped soldiers in huge numbers thus necessarily loosing huge amounts of men and women against the Japanese attacks. The CCP on the other hand used more guerrilla operations to slow and harass Japanese forces, thus keeping the people of China more in their favour.
I disagree on your 2nd point. At the time, the CCP was tiny and depleted following the Long March. It wasn't even close to as powerful as it would become after WWII. Chiang shat the bed by focusing on wiping them out rather than fortifying so as to repel a Japanese incursion, which ultimately cost him dearly when the Communists regrouped.
The communist forces were smaller in number than that of the KMT, so they made use of guerrilla tactics suitable for fighting against a more numerous opponent. Mao Zedong had read Sun Zi's _The Art of War_ 孙子兵法 and made extensive use of its strategies when facing off with a larger, well-organized opponent.
The amount of fighting done by the PLA throughout the war was no more than 3%. The PLA defended no major cities but successfully harassed the Japanese in Manchuria and had 1.2 million troops by the end of the war. The KMT had 3.8 million. After the war, poor looking CCP soldiers were trained to tell the public they fought the Japanese for 8 years. The public often didn't believe them especially once they saw well armed Nationalists troops in comparison. No, the public did not support the CCP more at the end of the war. The public supported the Nationalists more just afterwards but then things went South afterwards when the US would not let the KMT win the Civil War in the name of democracy and the economy got worse as well as corruption. Public support dropped a great deal, but people still fled from CCP takeover. The PLA got about 1 million KMT troops through betrayal when warlords lost their seat of power, and then gained another 1 million when they surrendered. 2 million PLA troops were KMT troops by the end of the war.
I know the video is old already but at the start you made a mistake using Japanese, the right is "中国 - 日本戦争" 中 this kanji (naka) as you wrote means "inside" 日本語 (Nihongo) this means Japanese language 日本(Nihon/Japan) 語(Go/language). In Japanese when we meant about the country "Japan" just refer as Nihon, and also for Japanese (people) 日本人 (nihonjin). But also awesome video at all!(^^)/
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....
I live in the north of Jiangsu and now study in nanking.At that time my grandpa's family escaped to the inner land before japanese took over nanking.My grandpa was born in a rich farmer family and lost nearly everything in the war but at least the whole family survived.My grandpa was only 3 years old when the war totally broke out in 1937 so don't remember the details of war.I feel pity about that but maybe it's my granpa's luck to not remember the hell as a child.
Small error at the start of the video. When you show the title of the war you show the Chinese characters of each country, however especially for Japan you used 日本語、語means language, so you've inadvertently written Japanese (language) instead of 中国China, and just 日本and for Japan. Been binge watching your videos lately, really enjoying them.
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.
Japan, 300’000’00 Chinese waiting for you apologize, 1400000000 still waiting or you deeply heart apologize! ! ! Do not think we will forget about that!
You do know that the characters used to "subtitle" Sino-Japanese war translate into "Middle" and "Japanese language" right? Middle Japanese Language War.
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.
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.
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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"
ZorroNegro 22
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
Italia :Greece Music Starts Playing
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
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.
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
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
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😆
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.
“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.
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?
It would be a nightmare being a Chinese civilian or infantryman during World War II. Chinese Army was a mess.
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@@imverydeadd yeah war shouldn't happen
Which Chinese army?
@@phredphlintstone6455 In this case, the KMT or Chinese Nationalist Army
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
@@bigkidd2147 read the iwg report
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!!!
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.
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.
Gabriel Susas
People who like history but think anime is cringy: Japan's got problems
@@steviejohnson378 yeah but they expanded it. They expanded their anime empire.
“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
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.
You’ve really been pumping these videos out! I admire your dedication!
“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
Another informative as well as entertaining video. Thanks for the link to Banknote World.
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.
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?
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?
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 :)
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!
Thx for posting
2:17 lol I remember hearing this song in How To Make Ramen
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.
Good content, just subbed! Love animated history using maps and stuff. Great !
You are whistling when I listen on the headphones ( still great video, thank you! Good Job!
The war museum in Harbin is fascinating and well worth a visit, go in winter, so different.
*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
Title was translated by Google translation
Wrong translation
Audio not synced drove me nuts in the beginning! Great video though.
Love the channel.
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.
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??
Liked and subscribed. Great video!
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
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.
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
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 :)
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
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.
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.
I love watching these!
Has anyone mentioned how many of these soldiers look like Boomhauer from king of the hill? lol
Japan broke every single war crime that you can think of.
love your channel, Griff
Thanks Paul!
Griff
@@TheArmchairHistorian Alot of wrongs and flaws in this program!
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.
"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.
Arrived for the history, kept coming back for the music
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.
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
Could you tell us about that medieval sword by your desk. Would be interesting too. Nice videos.
great video as always, it'd be cooler if the direct translation errors could be fixed, such as war between China and Japanese language.
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.
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.
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. 💙
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.
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?
After watching the awesome video, I felt like playing Civilization 6!
4:40 He didn't agree that willing lmao
Wow! I subscribed your videos immediately
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
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.
Short answer: with boats. Lots of them
when the Soviet Union invaded Manchuria, Tri Tankisti started playing in my mind
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.
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...
Just a heads up, the characters for ‘Japanese’ in the opening ‘Sino-Japanese War’ translates to Japanese Language
Ballin on ya with the pick and roll. Young flex, he in sicko modee.....DUN DUN DUNDUN.
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。
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
good video
Japan is like a fierce dog,always bows to the strongesr and learn from the strongest,but whenever it gets the chance,it'll bite you hard from the back
Lol, but nice predict. And I'm curious about your nationality.
@@tigeriontigerion9112 I think that guy is right. you can see it from history.
@@tigeriontigerion9112 interesting.
Ye, when China was the the top dog of the world they learnt from them, but when they realised the westerners beat them up they learn from the westerners and then suddenly decided to bomb pearl harbour.
Japan copied basically everything from China in imperial times. Check out the Japanese missions to China. Japanese culture is essential Chinese cultures from different dynasties, especially the Han, Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties. In modern times, Japan was forced to open its door by the US. During Meiji Restoration, they rapidly modernized and copied from the west. Yet during WWII, Japan both attacked China and the US, from both it has copied its culture and technologies over the years. Japan is far from being a “peaceful” country as portrayed by the US liberal media. China is like a mother to Japan, willing to teach it all the things and even let it call all the Chinese inventions it learns as “Japanese this” and “Japanese that”, but this traitor can really turn its back on you. China, one of the longest surviving civilizations and one of the Four Cradles of Civilizations, never invaded Japan or Korea. Japan on the other hand, invaded Korea before, but the Koreans were able to fight them off with the help of the Chinese. Then in modern history, Japan truly showed its true savage color. All the glorious culture they copied from China externally cannot cover up the savagery of their original culture, especially their rape and torture culture. Japan is like a rebellious and violent son. China and the US are like two parents. Once they train up this son, he turns around and attacks both.
By and large a pretty good video. Just a few points:
1. The first Sino-Japanese War (1895) resulted in the Treaty of Shimonoseki, in which Qing China ceded Taiwan to Japan. Korea WASN'T conquered here. Though fell into Japanese sphere of influence, It maintained nominal independence until 1910 when it was finally annexed.
2. Chiang realized that the Communists were the greater of two evils, so he wanted to wipe them out first, but was kidnapped by his own general in the Xian Incident (1936) and forced to form a nominal alliance with the Communists.
3. In all of my researches, Chiang's army bore the load of Japanese attacks. The Communists, on the other hand, claimed to have some success through guerrilla warfare, but in reality didn't do much. They were sly and went behind Chiang's back, biding their time while Chiang and the Japanese took care of each other.
Interesting, while certainly number 2 is true (Though, the Communists being the greater of evils is subject to opinion, Chiang certainly saw them as more of a threat) I wouldn't exactly say that the Communists were sly. They just plain understood public opinion better than the KMT, as Chiang used poorly equipped soldiers in huge numbers thus necessarily loosing huge amounts of men and women against the Japanese attacks. The CCP on the other hand used more guerrilla operations to slow and harass Japanese forces, thus keeping the people of China more in their favour.
I disagree on your 2nd point. At the time, the CCP was tiny and depleted following the Long March. It wasn't even close to as powerful as it would become after WWII. Chiang shat the bed by focusing on wiping them out rather than fortifying so as to repel a Japanese incursion, which ultimately cost him dearly when the Communists regrouped.
The communist forces were smaller in number than that of the KMT, so they made use of guerrilla tactics suitable for fighting against a more numerous opponent. Mao Zedong had read Sun Zi's _The Art of War_ 孙子兵法 and made extensive use of its strategies when facing off with a larger, well-organized opponent.
is that what's written in the taiwanese history books?
The amount of fighting done by the PLA throughout the war was no more than 3%. The PLA defended no major cities but successfully harassed the Japanese in Manchuria and had 1.2 million troops by the end of the war. The KMT had 3.8 million. After the war, poor looking CCP soldiers were trained to tell the public they fought the Japanese for 8 years. The public often didn't believe them especially once they saw well armed Nationalists troops in comparison.
No, the public did not support the CCP more at the end of the war. The public supported the Nationalists more just afterwards but then things went South afterwards when the US would not let the KMT win the Civil War in the name of democracy and the economy got worse as well as corruption. Public support dropped a great deal, but people still fled from CCP takeover. The PLA got about 1 million KMT troops through betrayal when warlords lost their seat of power, and then gained another 1 million when they surrendered. 2 million PLA troops were KMT troops by the end of the war.
I know the video is old already but at the start you made a mistake using Japanese, the right is "中国 - 日本戦争"
中 this kanji (naka) as you wrote means "inside"
日本語 (Nihongo) this means Japanese language 日本(Nihon/Japan) 語(Go/language).
In Japanese when we meant about the country "Japan" just refer as Nihon, and also for Japanese (people) 日本人 (nihonjin).
But also awesome video at all!(^^)/
you should have mentioned Xian incident in 1936 - this was truly the turning point
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
I live in the north of Jiangsu and now study in nanking.At that time my grandpa's family escaped to the inner land before japanese took over nanking.My grandpa was born in a rich farmer family and lost nearly everything in the war but at least the whole family survived.My grandpa was only 3 years old when the war totally broke out in 1937 so don't remember the details of war.I feel pity about that but maybe it's my granpa's luck to not remember the hell as a child.
Thanks
Small error at the start of the video. When you show the title of the war you show the Chinese characters of each country, however especially for Japan you used 日本語、語means language, so you've inadvertently written Japanese (language) instead of 中国China, and just 日本and for Japan. Been binge watching your videos lately, really enjoying them.
Forgot about soviet-Japanese actions in April-May 1939 around Manchuria
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.
The translation on the Sino Japanese War slide is bazaar.
"In WW2" Only begins over 7 minutes into the video.
"The Chinese currency" shown in the video is actually from Manchukuo :(
Japan, 300’000’00 Chinese waiting for you apologize, 1400000000 still waiting or you deeply heart apologize! ! ! Do not think we will forget about that!
Wow so interesting didn't know anything about that
One request to u...that kindly provide subtitles...coz sometimes not able to understand pronunciation.. 😊
You do know that the characters used to "subtitle" Sino-Japanese war translate into "Middle" and "Japanese language" right?
Middle Japanese Language War.
"Nankin"
The sole reason Japan deserved 2 nukes
Kael 93 , glad about Nanking
Haruka Inoue If I was the American pilot, I would drop bombs in the fucking emperor's house instead of Hiroshima.
Peace may only come at a time of laying down your weapons, It is more honorable to be more willing to lay down your weapon than pick it up.
The Japanese emperors were not a puppet from 1864 until 1945.
True.
I don't know if you take requests but it would be nice to hear about the Mongolian invasion on Japan.
Very good vid informative but the Background music is too loud/intrusive
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
Japan is not wrong!
Who doesn't want to kill the Chinese?
If Japan succeeds in defeating China, we won’t have COVID-19 today.
@@y-htse4445 Be analytical n truthful before accusing people.
@@moksengchai2857 which part is not true?
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.
Lol Total war Shogun 2 music in the background