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  • @TheArmchairHistorian
    @TheArmchairHistorian  6 років тому +406

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    • @chantszfung5850
      @chantszfung5850 6 років тому +4

      The Armchair Historian The city is called Changsha(長沙) instead of Shangsha. The pronunciation of Chongqing is also incorrect.

    • @kalinsapotato
      @kalinsapotato 6 років тому +6

      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)

    • @jxl3539
      @jxl3539 6 років тому +6

      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.

    • @zorronegro229
      @zorronegro229 6 років тому +1

      The Armchair Historian, It is pronounced "NANJING" NOT "NANKING"

    • @kalinsapotato
      @kalinsapotato 6 років тому +4

      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.

  • @deangelocarter9180
    @deangelocarter9180 5 років тому +3315

    “Look at the war crimes the British, Germans, Russians, Italians, and Americans committed in WW2.”
    Japan: *nervous sweat*

    • @alexiarai955
      @alexiarai955 5 років тому +333

      Oh jesus I thought you were me

    • @sibirskiplavac-1
      @sibirskiplavac-1 5 років тому +47

      Lol same picturea

    • @Kellyn1212
      @Kellyn1212 4 роки тому +196

      They won't. Actually a lot of Japanese soldiers didn't think they do anything wrong during the war.

    • @captainkiwi77
      @captainkiwi77 4 роки тому +130

      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)

    • @yvonne3745
      @yvonne3745 4 роки тому +45

      @@captainkiwi77 no need to feel guilty actually....USA are the ones who started it with their racism?

  • @Madaoke
    @Madaoke 5 років тому +2143

    China: Japanese music starts playing
    Japan: Chinese music starts playing

  • @ieuanhunt552
    @ieuanhunt552 5 років тому +2909

    Guys if he went into details about every Japanese War crime this video would be about 3 hours long.

    • @maxwellli7057
      @maxwellli7057 5 років тому +342

      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

    • @thefourthreich2039
      @thefourthreich2039 5 років тому +40

      Nope, that is only if a chinese made up the video.

    • @maxwellli7057
      @maxwellli7057 5 років тому +259

      Aji Kurnia that literally happened in Unit 731. Look it up

    • @morisoba2550
      @morisoba2550 5 років тому +99

      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...

    • @maxwellli7057
      @maxwellli7057 5 років тому +158

      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.

  • @thebadshave503
    @thebadshave503 5 років тому +1308

    "How did Japan Invade China"
    I imagine they entered uninvited and didn't leave. Disagreement ensued.

    • @Duality-Mode
      @Duality-Mode 5 років тому +50

      Good analysis, young smart dude.

    • @somerandomguy4812
      @somerandomguy4812 5 років тому +31

      Japan then started arguing with several more people, tensions heated up, people sided with China and Japan lost the disagreement.

    • @VenomApollyon
      @VenomApollyon 5 років тому +33

      @@somerandomguy4812 then Japan gets hit two times by some guy he pissed off and had to walk away

    • @MaxwellAerialPhotography
      @MaxwellAerialPhotography 5 років тому +13

      “How ‘bout I do anyways?”

    • @sllipybedwarsgod3701
      @sllipybedwarsgod3701 5 років тому +15

      @@VenomApollyon And ends up being a tech genius and gets super rich

  • @sorcererberoll4641
    @sorcererberoll4641 5 років тому +642

    Attacking a city after a man went missing, taking no man left behind to the extreme there Japan

    • @wattsnottaken1
      @wattsnottaken1 5 років тому +52

      Scholar Pentus they jumped to conclusion faster than a pissed off girlfriend. SMH

    • @derek7762
      @derek7762 4 роки тому +63

      It was just a false justification to invade. They didn't care, just needed an excuse

    • @diel314
      @diel314 4 роки тому +5

      @@derek7762 r/woooosh

    • @yogadgsix
      @yogadgsix 4 роки тому +8

      Not care about that, china is superior now

    • @MNM2884nick
      @MNM2884nick 4 роки тому +5

      @@yogadgsix seeing how the majority of Chinese men are in poverty I doubt that.

  • @blockmasterscott
    @blockmasterscott 5 років тому +520

    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.

    • @StephenLuke
      @StephenLuke 3 роки тому +38

      I hate to those who kill infants.

    • @TheAlmightyClipse
      @TheAlmightyClipse 3 роки тому +5

      Pinoy Pride tho

    • @Dezznut09
      @Dezznut09 3 роки тому +26

      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.......

    • @leonmeung863
      @leonmeung863 3 роки тому +30

      They killed a lot in China

    • @lankani79
      @lankani79 3 роки тому +51

      i cannot imagine how a man can look at a baby and brutally murder it

  • @supremereader7614
    @supremereader7614 6 років тому +1625

    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.

    • @homersimpson6585
      @homersimpson6585 6 років тому +95

      Supreme Reader and then he executed them😂😂

    • @ericwang8590
      @ericwang8590 6 років тому +41

      einsamaberfrei KMT is not fully capitalist m8, there were landlords and serfs which is feudalism. Despite that, KMT still did a good job.

    • @DanimoroZ
      @DanimoroZ 6 років тому +89

      @@supremereader7614 China is better off now than ever before in history

    • @botchamaniajeezus
      @botchamaniajeezus 6 років тому +82

      @@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

    • @jagdpanther2224
      @jagdpanther2224 6 років тому +51

      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

  • @baitreview
    @baitreview 2 роки тому +720

    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

    • @danedane8573
      @danedane8573 2 роки тому

      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
      @minlixu6101 2 роки тому +136

      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.

    • @baitreview
      @baitreview 2 роки тому

      @@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

    • @fandy4898
      @fandy4898 2 роки тому

      @@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

    • @luangxin2082
      @luangxin2082 2 роки тому +7

      Japan papa colonized China son😆

  • @umontortle
    @umontortle 6 років тому +454

    so they kept saying "Woops, who did that?!" then conquer more land

    • @bingobongo1615
      @bingobongo1615 6 років тому +22

      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

    • @Captain_FAIL
      @Captain_FAIL 4 роки тому +2

      @@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.

    • @usul573
      @usul573 4 роки тому +1

      We have to defend our interests from "bandits".

    • @mikayari185
      @mikayari185 4 роки тому

      @@bingobongo1615 what group had the democratic sympathizers though?

  • @HistoryHouseProductions
    @HistoryHouseProductions 6 років тому +49

    You’ve really been pumping these videos out! I admire your dedication!

  • @TheSilentWalkerz
    @TheSilentWalkerz 4 роки тому +1323

    “Nanking never happened” - Japanese government

    • @budoumurasaki5856
      @budoumurasaki5856 4 роки тому +73

      “Tsushu never happened” -
      Chinese government

    • @andrew.lanc3r
      @andrew.lanc3r 4 роки тому +455

      @@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!

    • @whimsy7503
      @whimsy7503 4 роки тому +168

      Only the japanese would defend japan. Completely closing their eyes to see the truth.

    • @mingzhouzhu4668
      @mingzhouzhu4668 4 роки тому +162

      @@budoumurasaki5856 how do nukes feel my guy?

    • @センコウテン-m4f
      @センコウテン-m4f 4 роки тому +35

      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.

  • @cjwong
    @cjwong 5 років тому +288

    It would be a nightmare being a Chinese civilian or infantryman during World War II. Chinese Army was a mess.

    • @einwd
      @einwd 4 роки тому +2

      ye

    • @einwd
      @einwd 4 роки тому +2

      Caп¡s Aпuв¡s peace is better

    • @kaodraeon6060
      @kaodraeon6060 4 роки тому +1

      @@einwd yeah war shouldn't happen

    • @phredphlintstone6455
      @phredphlintstone6455 3 роки тому

      Which Chinese army?

    • @cjwong
      @cjwong 3 роки тому +10

      @@phredphlintstone6455 In this case, the KMT or Chinese Nationalist Army

  • @ericwang8590
    @ericwang8590 6 років тому +561

    My grandfather fought this war as a bomber pilot for the Nationalist. He participated in the bombing of Tokyo along with the Americans

    • @chasefeng5560
      @chasefeng5560 6 років тому +145

      I am a Chinese.I just want to say thank your grandpa for helping the Chinese!God bless you and your grandpa!

    • @detrockcity3
      @detrockcity3 5 років тому +4

      ♥️

    • @Luna-ry8lv
      @Luna-ry8lv 5 років тому +48

      @@chasefeng5560 I don't think any person who bombs a city deserves to be praised..

    • @kaishen8493
      @kaishen8493 5 років тому +18

      God bless u and the Chinese compatriots

    • @chasefeng5560
      @chasefeng5560 5 років тому +120

      @@Luna-ry8lv Japanese destroyed my grandma's house and my grandma had become a refugee!!!

  • @matthewmckenna248
    @matthewmckenna248 6 років тому +1564

    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

    • @HenryMidfields
      @HenryMidfields 6 років тому +78

      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.

    • @matthewmckenna248
      @matthewmckenna248 6 років тому +34

      Aaron Bergey 5 million people alone died in South East Asia (3 million of them where Vietnamese).

    • @LAHFaust
      @LAHFaust 6 років тому +61

      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.

    • @LAHFaust
      @LAHFaust 6 років тому +56

      Marty Man Put down the pipe, son, you're talking nonsense.

    • @fuzzydunlop7928
      @fuzzydunlop7928 6 років тому +39

      "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.

  • @kimjongun505
    @kimjongun505 6 років тому +1287

    *japaneeze warcime denying intesnifies*

    • @Shenzhou.
      @Shenzhou. 6 років тому +89

      North Korea launched a warhead directly across Japanese airspace to remind them what its like to be the target of nuclear weapons.

    • @haruka6672
      @haruka6672 6 років тому +30

      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!

    • @Shenzhou.
      @Shenzhou. 6 років тому +45

      +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.

    • @EzioIlMentore
      @EzioIlMentore 6 років тому +70

      Nanking no happenru

    • @kimjongun505
      @kimjongun505 6 років тому +26

      EzioIlMentore ohh wuu i seeu u ur r a manu of curture

  • @gabrielsusas3722
    @gabrielsusas3722 3 роки тому +318

    Japan: invents anime so that everyone can forget about their past.
    People who loves history: I see you.
    Japan: sweats nervously.

    • @steviejohnson378
      @steviejohnson378 3 роки тому +10

      Anime existed before WW2.

    • @rose7531
      @rose7531 3 роки тому +5

      @@steviejohnson378 your point being?

    • @steviejohnson378
      @steviejohnson378 3 роки тому +14

      @@rose7531 Point is Japan didn't invent anime so people can "forget" about history.

    • @lStranger
      @lStranger 3 роки тому +11

      Gabriel Susas
      People who like history but think anime is cringy: Japan's got problems

    • @gabrielsusas3722
      @gabrielsusas3722 3 роки тому +6

      @@steviejohnson378 yeah but they expanded it. They expanded their anime empire.

  • @donaldt3330
    @donaldt3330 6 років тому +753

    You forgot to mention unit 731 of Japan.

    • @Shenzhou.
      @Shenzhou. 6 років тому +202

      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.

    • @flawlessbinary7449
      @flawlessbinary7449 6 років тому +41

      Not relevant to the video's topic.

    • @donaldt3330
      @donaldt3330 6 років тому +90

      Tha's what happened during the invasion

    • @ggarzagarcia
      @ggarzagarcia 6 років тому +68

      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.

    • @JohnJohn-pe5kr
      @JohnJohn-pe5kr 6 років тому +17

      神州 Shenzhou they also experimented on American Dutch and British prisoners.

  • @cesiumbob7278
    @cesiumbob7278 6 років тому +715

    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.

    • @thelastdefenderofcamelot5623
      @thelastdefenderofcamelot5623 6 років тому +37

      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.

    • @lupsastta90
      @lupsastta90 6 років тому +74

      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

    • @Wvk5zc
      @Wvk5zc 6 років тому +35

      it's propaganda dude

    • @vinhbao9738
      @vinhbao9738 6 років тому +48

      Even their technology was from Europe.

    • @AimForMyHead81
      @AimForMyHead81 6 років тому +40

      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.

  • @jonsong4592
    @jonsong4592 5 років тому +114

    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.

    • @capncake8837
      @capncake8837 3 роки тому +36

      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.

    • @Young_Baller7
      @Young_Baller7 2 роки тому +3

      @Beau Biden dude what are you talking about?

    • @danedane8573
      @danedane8573 2 роки тому

      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.

    • @Young_Baller7
      @Young_Baller7 2 роки тому

      @@danedane8573 huh? Simplify what you are trying to say

    • @danedane8573
      @danedane8573 2 роки тому

      @@Young_Baller7 read the iwg report

  • @tonyzhu3127
    @tonyzhu3127 4 роки тому +112

    “Why are my eyes always brimming with tears?
    Because I love this land so deeply.”
    By Ai Qing in 1938.

    • @欧克-f4e
      @欧克-f4e 3 роки тому +7

      为何我的眼中常含泪水,因为我爱这土地爱得深沉

    • @yulongli6747
      @yulongli6747 11 днів тому

      中华民族一路走来真的不容易

  • @RustBMBEarth
    @RustBMBEarth 6 років тому +29

    Looking more and more professional as time goes by.
    Keep up the good work man, loving your videos :)

  • @gaiusjiau
    @gaiusjiau 6 років тому +80

    Title was translated by Google translation

  • @zackprince5081
    @zackprince5081 6 років тому +325

    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)..

    • @TheArmchairHistorian
      @TheArmchairHistorian  6 років тому +37

      My mistake, thank you for the correction!
      Griff

    • @nix-be9rj
      @nix-be9rj 6 років тому +18

      +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.

    • @phillip7731
      @phillip7731 6 років тому +11

      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.

    • @phillip7731
      @phillip7731 6 років тому

      Firen Wolf okey fine I give you that one, but I still believe it was a good video

    • @rodigoduterte9192
      @rodigoduterte9192 6 років тому

      Zack Prince so cool, how did you write non Latin letter like that?

  • @Ubuno658
    @Ubuno658 4 роки тому +412

    “The rape of Nanking never happened ,even if it did ,we are just helping our friend China by population control”-Japan

    • @raptordoniv6779
      @raptordoniv6779 4 роки тому +75

      UN- Understandable have a nice day.

    • @zacksnyder2561
      @zacksnyder2561 4 роки тому +90

      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

    • @rizkiramadhan9266
      @rizkiramadhan9266 4 роки тому +25

      Basically why everyone hates Japan

    • @nayeemhaider8367
      @nayeemhaider8367 4 роки тому +2

      @@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

    • @snifferfiffer2773
      @snifferfiffer2773 4 роки тому

      Lmao

  • @JackY-pu5nh
    @JackY-pu5nh 6 років тому +464

    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

    • @blip808
      @blip808 6 років тому +48

      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 🇨🇳🇯🇵

    • @JackY-pu5nh
      @JackY-pu5nh 6 років тому +17

      Jeffrey Li China and Japan are neighbors, neighbors should always be friends

    • @steven1898
      @steven1898 6 років тому +12

      What are you on about? According to Japan there were no victims in Nanking.

    • @JackY-pu5nh
      @JackY-pu5nh 6 років тому +27

      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

    • @RealHipHoManiac
      @RealHipHoManiac 6 років тому +16

      They will stop being enemies when the CCP stop using Japan as a propaganda tool to stir nationalist fervour.

  • @AvalancheZ250
    @AvalancheZ250 6 років тому +32

    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.

  • @黒田くろお-x6h
    @黒田くろお-x6h 6 років тому +237

    日本語 means Japanese language.
    sino-japanese war→中日 or日中戦争

    • @fruitcake3748
      @fruitcake3748 5 років тому +9

      Yeah the "subtitles" were so weird... lol :')

    • @lucasliu5365
      @lucasliu5365 5 років тому +9

      黒田くろお commonly, this war in Chinese is called 抗日战争

    • @usersays8599
      @usersays8599 5 років тому +11

      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

    • @shrteng6856
      @shrteng6856 5 років тому +1

      I was like, whaaaat

    • @MatsubaAgeha
      @MatsubaAgeha 5 років тому +4

      Never blindly trust a machine translation. LOL

  • @xiowoo9999
    @xiowoo9999 4 роки тому +24

    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.

  • @alexliu5806
    @alexliu5806 6 років тому +57

    In your intro sequence, the characters 日本語 under "Japanese" actually refer to the Japanese language rather than Japan itself.

    • @yaoretian5104
      @yaoretian5104 3 роки тому +4

      I was going to say this, I was just looking through the comments to see if someone said it already 😅😅

    • @uiuiui2383
      @uiuiui2383 3 роки тому +2

      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

    • @yaoretian5104
      @yaoretian5104 3 роки тому +3

      @@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

  • @hetori9918
    @hetori9918 6 років тому +186

    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.

    • @d.x.1152
      @d.x.1152 6 років тому +6

      Provocateur If USSR didn´t overpopulate there wouldn´t be tons of bodies.

    • @tomnook9270
      @tomnook9270 6 років тому +11

      @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.

    • @timepickle8443
      @timepickle8443 6 років тому +1

      @Provocateur Aah another buttfart troll with nothing worthy to report from their life.

    • @detrockcity3
      @detrockcity3 5 років тому

      +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?

    • @tommytexter4054
      @tommytexter4054 5 років тому

      Provocateur are u thanos??

  • @danielamariei67
    @danielamariei67 6 років тому +6

    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!

  • @rou8390
    @rou8390 5 років тому +151

    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

    • @darrenbutler9819
      @darrenbutler9819 4 роки тому +33

      Unit 731 as well

    • @blarstone9322
      @blarstone9322 4 роки тому +32

      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

    • @VerbalVantage
      @VerbalVantage 4 роки тому +11

      Actually, I'm American and we learned about what Japan did. I think its just different across the country.

    • @jacobocorujo6693
      @jacobocorujo6693 3 роки тому +3

      @Dreymon Green I didn't, it just probably has to do with where you went to school

    • @r3mzhs579
      @r3mzhs579 3 роки тому

      It's not all about womans you feminist dump, people died and you talking about rape?

  • @Dragons_Armory
    @Dragons_Armory 6 років тому +127

    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")

    • @richardchen103
      @richardchen103 6 років тому +2

      big fan of your work mate.

    • @Dragons_Armory
      @Dragons_Armory 6 років тому +5

      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.

    • @dwchen1
      @dwchen1 6 років тому +2

      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.

  • @daw993
    @daw993 6 років тому +494

    Many young Japanese don't even know they stand with Germany and Italy in WW2.

    • @Supernaltooth
      @Supernaltooth 6 років тому +165

      I have seen an interview in Japan, most of the young generation have very limited knowledge about Japan in WW2

    • @henbuh632
      @henbuh632 6 років тому +225

      Supernaltooth because Japan refuses to teach it

    • @ADZ01982
      @ADZ01982 6 років тому +60

      Loosely attached. No real military co-operation between the Japan and the other axis.

    • @TheCovedog
      @TheCovedog 6 років тому +39

      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.

    • @yahongtan
      @yahongtan 6 років тому +12

      No, they do. They just don't realise the significance of it.

  • @Kabutoes
    @Kabutoes 6 років тому +15

    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.

  • @armedpenguin3825
    @armedpenguin3825 5 років тому +5

    Another informative as well as entertaining video. Thanks for the link to Banknote World.

  • @freeagent8225
    @freeagent8225 4 роки тому +8

    The war museum in Harbin is fascinating and well worth a visit, go in winter, so different.

  • @MrGod47
    @MrGod47 6 років тому +10

    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.

  • @mike.mentzers_top_guy
    @mike.mentzers_top_guy 4 роки тому +28

    Japan broke every single war crime that you can think of.

  • @SCP-vd4yq
    @SCP-vd4yq 6 років тому +495

    And they say Germany was bad.

    • @lmanoobly99
      @lmanoobly99 6 років тому +26

      it doesn't affect western society so why would it be on their media?

    • @haruka6672
      @haruka6672 6 років тому +29

      Scott7891 Only loosing side commit war crimes

    • @ghostf6321
      @ghostf6321 6 років тому +57

      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.

    • @treyloizzo9233
      @treyloizzo9233 6 років тому +17

      Germany was bad

    • @SCP-vd4yq
      @SCP-vd4yq 6 років тому +9

      Ghost F woah woah woah it’s the nazis not the Germans.

  • @tricepsish
    @tricepsish 6 років тому +61

    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

    • @a.morphous66
      @a.morphous66 6 років тому +1

      Craine Big Brother What didn’t Japan do?

    • @LibeliumDragonfly
      @LibeliumDragonfly 6 років тому +13

      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.

    • @LibeliumDragonfly
      @LibeliumDragonfly 6 років тому

      I did

    • @bingobongo1615
      @bingobongo1615 6 років тому +5

      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

  • @warbossbloodskar3704
    @warbossbloodskar3704 5 років тому +20

    2:17 lol I remember hearing this song in How To Make Ramen

  • @therandomactivist1124
    @therandomactivist1124 8 місяців тому +1

    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

  • @timtam5784
    @timtam5784 6 років тому +116

    But Japanese government still deny what they had done and try to change the history. This part of history is forgotten in Japan

    • @bingobongo1615
      @bingobongo1615 6 років тому +5

      Tim Tam Do they? Did you just assume that or did you research ir?

    • @darKILLusionnn
      @darKILLusionnn 5 років тому +26

      @@bingobongo1615 if you watched interviews on this then you would know the sad truth. They hardly teach this in schools.

    • @Amorphous_Papaya
      @Amorphous_Papaya 5 років тому +17

      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.

    • @jorahmormont8892
      @jorahmormont8892 5 років тому +1

      they dont even study that much history or geography, they are pretty much ignorant about those issues. (know it by 1rst hand)

    • @Zack4628-c2s
      @Zack4628-c2s 5 років тому

      @@pastedvirus So why are you guys worshipping the war criminals in yasukuni?

  • @thehistoricalgamer
    @thehistoricalgamer 6 років тому +4

    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.

  • @MrShiki1134
    @MrShiki1134 6 років тому +28

    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...

  • @generationclash5004
    @generationclash5004 3 роки тому +13

    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. 💙

  • @paulcateiii
    @paulcateiii 6 років тому +20

    love your channel, Griff

  • @RamdomView
    @RamdomView 6 років тому +8

    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.

  • @YanxuWang
    @YanxuWang 6 років тому +23

    awesome video! Historically accurate & without political bias. Untill this day many Japanese still deny the Nanjing massacre ever happening!

    • @HuaxiaCCball
      @HuaxiaCCball 2 роки тому +1

      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)

    • @user-xr5of7qf9y
      @user-xr5of7qf9y 2 роки тому

      It never happenned

    • @使用停止アカウント
      @使用停止アカウント 10 місяців тому

      多くの日本人は虐殺を否定してはいない。

  • @juanelorriaga2840
    @juanelorriaga2840 5 років тому +6

    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

  • @theory8sf
    @theory8sf 6 років тому +14

    After watching the awesome video, I felt like playing Civilization 6!

  • @Xx-kc1yd
    @Xx-kc1yd 6 років тому +20

    one suggestion:
    the translation of the title: Sino-Japanese war is literally"central-japanese language "

  • @chedsalvia6270
    @chedsalvia6270 5 років тому +23

    "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.

  • @kuziokundera
    @kuziokundera 4 роки тому +5

    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.

    • @gt4969
      @gt4969 3 роки тому +1

      But he is right after all :)

  • @Po5eidonsHub
    @Po5eidonsHub 6 років тому +6

    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.

  • @falkkiwiben
    @falkkiwiben 6 років тому +6

    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.

  • @the2dudes1
    @the2dudes1 5 років тому +18

    4:40 He didn't agree that willing lmao

  • @raufmemmedov2232
    @raufmemmedov2232 4 роки тому +1

    You are whistling when I listen on the headphones ( still great video, thank you! Good Job!

  • @andrewsummerour3692
    @andrewsummerour3692 6 років тому +80

    I have massive respect for the people of Nanking

    • @EvaBongoria
      @EvaBongoria 5 років тому +14

      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.

    • @chestertonthejrugssalesmen8170
      @chestertonthejrugssalesmen8170 5 років тому

      And i have no respect for your tank

    • @underhorse5367
      @underhorse5367 5 років тому

      People literally yelling Long live China while gunned down by Japanese in Nanking

  • @y-htse4445
    @y-htse4445 6 років тому +54

    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.

    • @gre8000
      @gre8000 3 роки тому

      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.

    • @y-htse4445
      @y-htse4445 3 роки тому

      @@gre8000 forced labor is a complete lie

    • @moksengchai2857
      @moksengchai2857 3 роки тому

      @@y-htse4445 Be analytical n truthful before accusing people.

    • @y-htse4445
      @y-htse4445 3 роки тому

      @@moksengchai2857 which part is not true?

    • @thatdude8945
      @thatdude8945 2 роки тому

      @@y-htse4445 wdym forced labor is a lie?

  • @liyan430
    @liyan430 6 років тому +25

    "The Chinese currency" shown in the video is actually from Manchukuo :(

  • @jamesmullikin3045
    @jamesmullikin3045 4 роки тому

    Thx for posting

  • @awannagannaful
    @awannagannaful 5 років тому +12

    Short answer: with boats. Lots of them

  • @baldboyfriend8589
    @baldboyfriend8589 5 років тому +9

    2:20 Lol that music is from How to Basic how to make ramen. I knew that music was familiar

  • @user-vo1sb3bo1s
    @user-vo1sb3bo1s 5 років тому +34

    7:37 It's Changsha (长沙)

    • @Ubuno658
      @Ubuno658 4 роки тому +2

      Jason wow ,I was thinking about what it was

  • @aquanautorange885
    @aquanautorange885 5 років тому +1

    Audio not synced drove me nuts in the beginning! Great video though.

  • @bigmac.3561
    @bigmac.3561 6 років тому +51

    Chinese civil war Russian civil war Spanish civil???? Love u btw

    • @AMWOLF20
      @AMWOLF20 6 років тому

      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.

  • @scarybird977
    @scarybird977 5 років тому +33

    The text at the beginning says “Chinese-Japanese language”

    • @Mrpastry909
      @Mrpastry909 5 років тому

      And Kuomintang is pronounced Guo meen dahng.

    • @rdc515
      @rdc515 4 роки тому

      And Changsha is called Shangsha

  • @karuskaltugov1992
    @karuskaltugov1992 4 роки тому +7

    when the Soviet Union invaded Manchuria, Tri Tankisti started playing in my mind

  • @youtubeuser6403
    @youtubeuser6403 3 роки тому +2

    Arrived for the history, kept coming back for the music

  • @gsmiro
    @gsmiro 6 років тому +14

    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.

    • @GoogleGebruiker
      @GoogleGebruiker 5 років тому +1

      Or the USAF Tigers P-40's which were stationed in China and helped to fend off the IJA/IJN.

  • @landonbaytown
    @landonbaytown 5 років тому +5

    I love watching these!
    Has anyone mentioned how many of these soldiers look like Boomhauer from king of the hill? lol

  • @joealex546
    @joealex546 6 років тому +32

    My grandpa had nine brothers,and six of them was killed by japanese.

    • @joshcooldudeyeah
      @joshcooldudeyeah 5 років тому +1

      My condolences. I lost relatives to the IJA soldiers during that time as well. :/

    • @anishabisht4213
      @anishabisht4213 5 років тому

      Lol thank god for one child rule in china now

    • @NitroFusionLite
      @NitroFusionLite 4 роки тому

      @@anishabisht4213 so if war comes they can all be killed? that is not good lmaoo

    • @Live_Laugh_Love_Jecka
      @Live_Laugh_Love_Jecka 4 роки тому

      ☹️ sorry bout that

  • @tsesunnykailong7855
    @tsesunnykailong7855 3 роки тому +2

    you should have mentioned Xian incident in 1936 - this was truly the turning point

  • @hingchichik7222
    @hingchichik7222 6 років тому +254

    inhumane crimes👎

    • @itsuki6883
      @itsuki6883 6 років тому +6

      rina from onerland so is dropping nukes but wtv

    • @MrPieman00
      @MrPieman00 6 років тому +69

      Id rather die from an atomic bomb than be a woman in the middle of Nanking

    • @blugaledoh2669
      @blugaledoh2669 6 років тому

      MrPieman00 The suffering is prolonged isn't it.

    • @a.morphous66
      @a.morphous66 6 років тому +12

      Craine Big Brother Where are you from?
      If you’re Japanese, then I’m sorry, but that’s just not true. Remember Nanking.

    • @Shenzhou.
      @Shenzhou. 6 років тому +23

      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?

  • @fuzzydunlop7928
    @fuzzydunlop7928 6 років тому +155

    In a most dishonerobru dishpray.

    • @Shenzhou.
      @Shenzhou. 6 років тому +1

      Innermost dishonorabu dishspray

    • @coolkill31
      @coolkill31 6 років тому

      我许多次见过你在评论,都没有来得及打一句招呼~

    • @Greyzepher
      @Greyzepher 6 років тому +16

      No its shaaaamfuuur

    • @fuzzydunlop7928
      @fuzzydunlop7928 6 років тому +5

      Oh, my aporojeez, sir.

    • @runlarryrun77
      @runlarryrun77 6 років тому +4

      I RIKE VELLY MUCH!

  • @alexwilkin
    @alexwilkin 5 років тому +13

    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.

    • @gordonlai9248
      @gordonlai9248 5 років тому

      We call it the "中日戰爭" over here in Hong Kong and China.

    • @iyang2341
      @iyang2341 4 роки тому

      Traditional instead of simplified is better, especially from that time period, you used simplified for the guo

  • @daylight39
    @daylight39 10 місяців тому

    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.

  • @abrilalvarado5823
    @abrilalvarado5823 3 роки тому +4

    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.

  • @heavenbright2342
    @heavenbright2342 6 років тому +58

    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.

    • @Shenzhou.
      @Shenzhou. 6 років тому +19

      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.

    • @pypy1986820
      @pypy1986820 6 років тому +1

      I think it is the oldest continuous one

    • @RomanHistoryFan476AD
      @RomanHistoryFan476AD 6 років тому +13

      china has been conquered by foreign invaders before and took over by different dynasty's. so not really continuous.

    • @AimForMyHead81
      @AimForMyHead81 6 років тому +7

      @@Shenzhou. The China of old is not the China of now. If you think that, you are delusional.

    • @RomanHistoryFan476AD
      @RomanHistoryFan476AD 6 років тому +2

      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.

  • @tsaodown
    @tsaodown 3 роки тому +8

    I'd recommend avoiding the generic "chopsticks" font referring to Japan & China in the thumbnail, it's horribly outdated and I think a number of folks of Asian diaspora would find it mildly offensive.
    The content in the video is great, but if I had paid more attention to the thumbnail while selecting videos, I might've avoided this one just because of that.

  • @mdf7697
    @mdf7697 5 років тому

    Liked and subscribed. Great video!

  • @dickychan8610
    @dickychan8610 3 роки тому +11

    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

    • @usul573
      @usul573 3 роки тому +1

      I suppose true healing requires fully facing and contemplating the past to move forward. The Germans appear to have that with their museums.

    • @ferry1954
      @ferry1954 2 роки тому

      Nice name

    • @ItsAstie
      @ItsAstie 2 роки тому

      ancestors and you are not the same people, stop with this caveman non-sense.

    • @chronoman442
      @chronoman442 2 місяці тому

      ​@@ItsAstieyou sound like a westerner.

  • @fregatta9243
    @fregatta9243 5 років тому +97

    Japan surrendered cuz the atomic bom....
    USSR: am i a fkin joke to u?

    • @somesketchydude7813
      @somesketchydude7813 5 років тому +11

      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.

    • @jamesdelatorre6424
      @jamesdelatorre6424 5 років тому +4

      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.

    • @CT--gs1wj
      @CT--gs1wj 5 років тому +12

      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.

    • @DefThrone
      @DefThrone 5 років тому +14

      The Russians were to the war in the Pacific to what the US was to the Western front.

    • @thekingofnipples9806
      @thekingofnipples9806 5 років тому +9

      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

  • @TheTruePopeFrancis
    @TheTruePopeFrancis 6 років тому +8

    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.

    • @stevenchen5460
      @stevenchen5460 6 років тому

      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.

    • @TheTruePopeFrancis
      @TheTruePopeFrancis 6 років тому +1

      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*

    • @stevenchen5460
      @stevenchen5460 6 років тому +1

      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.

    • @hanhu5648
      @hanhu5648 6 років тому

      zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9A%96%E5%8D%97%E4%BA%8B%E5%8F%98

  • @gustavog.hasegawa5360
    @gustavog.hasegawa5360 5 років тому +1

    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!(^^)/

  • @imswanronson3558
    @imswanronson3558 5 років тому +3

    Perfect, I was about to do a Japan run in Hoi4.

  • @stignatius1625
    @stignatius1625 4 роки тому +29

    It’s funny how Japan still doesn’t admit fault and claims ignorance

    • @JesusChrist-wh2gd
      @JesusChrist-wh2gd 4 роки тому +10

      Just like the United States

    • @siren4301
      @siren4301 4 роки тому

      Same thing I was thinking.

    • @GTAandApplechannel
      @GTAandApplechannel 4 роки тому

      @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

    • @GTAandApplechannel
      @GTAandApplechannel 4 роки тому

      @Meme Comrades if they’re legit * but they don’t so don’t pay them

  • @RLF1949
    @RLF1949 4 роки тому +3

    Three things you should not do in WW2:
    1. Fight a long term war with China
    2. Fight Russia on land
    3. Fight America on sea
    *Japan: DO IT ANYWAY

  • @commonsenseamerica1685
    @commonsenseamerica1685 4 роки тому

    Love the channel.

  • @fansyoyu7211
    @fansyoyu7211 6 років тому +62

    0:16 awkward translation spotted!
    Middle and Japanese language wut??

    • @yuchongliu7788
      @yuchongliu7788 5 років тому +1

      Fan Syo Yu It’s a mistranslation, in chinese it’s written as 中日

  • @xizhengma3002
    @xizhengma3002 6 років тому +9

    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....

    • @lupsastta90
      @lupsastta90 6 років тому

      Xizheng Ma Yeah sometimes westerners confuse Manchurian with Mandarin it’s kinda annoying.They have Littleton do with each other

  • @easonvan451
    @easonvan451 5 років тому +9

    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.

  • @AdamQueen
    @AdamQueen 2 роки тому +1

    BTW the initial sino-japanese war has incorrect Japanese translation, "日本語" means the Japanese language.
    Secondly the currency is not really a ROC (republic of China) note, but a Manchukuo note ("満州中央銀行" means the center bank of Manchu). The smaller note is indeed a Japanese note.

  • @张依新-n3b
    @张依新-n3b 6 років тому +205

    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

    • @trumpdonald4955
      @trumpdonald4955 5 років тому +15

      不会忘记,以前的耻辱终有一天会洗刷

    • @theorange1729
      @theorange1729 5 років тому +67

      Hodgepodge The Chinese will not forget this part of history, but we will also not live in hatred

    • @comradeofthebalance3147
      @comradeofthebalance3147 5 років тому +1

      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

    • @klbk8960
      @klbk8960 5 років тому +50

      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

    • @maximum667722
      @maximum667722 5 років тому +1

      @@VictorSpeed9 那么你代表什么呢?

  • @elroc1
    @elroc1 5 років тому +5

    Absolutely fascinating. I can’t help but feel foolish for being so ignorant of the world’s past. I am hungry to learn more.

  • @paiwanhan
    @paiwanhan 5 років тому +8

    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.

  • @shinz9092
    @shinz9092 3 роки тому

    great video as always, it'd be cooler if the direct translation errors could be fixed, such as war between China and Japanese language.