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The Imperial government managed to consolidate power pretty quickly after the country was forcibly reopened, and looking at what had happened to China and their other neighbors they were highly motivated to not suffer the same fate at the hands of foreign interference and conquest.
Then from expansionist imperial rule to pacifist constitutional democracy all in about 100 years. They went from medieval warfare with no navy to defeating the industrialized Russian navy outright in like 60 years. People talk about Germans being efficient but they got nothing on the Japanese
Their long isolation and whiplash into modernity continues to be fascinating, in my opinion. Especially when you compare it to how first contacts between less advanced natives and explorers have so often gone (and gone badly for the natives).
The author of this, Itoh Hirobumi, was Japan’s first prime minister and longest serving prime minister. He modeled Japan’s government on that of Prussia. Edit: he served in the capacity as a prime minister in the Meiji government before the title “prime minister” existed. Hence why he’s the longest serving, above Abe Shinzo.
@@riowhi7 The peerage system and bicameral legislature (house of commons and House of Lords) was based on the UK. But the constitution and absolute monarchy was based on Prussia.
Aren't you supposed to use katakana when writing a name of a foreigner in Japanese? My suggestion is that the Englishman's name was spelled as "ガー ル" in katakana which could be both "girl" or "Gull" converted back to English.
@@mastersafari5349 "Aren't you supposed to use katakana when writing a name of a foreigner in Japanese?" You are. Heres my name グンタース・ミエリシュ. "My suggestion is that the Englishman's name was spelled as "ガー ル" in katakana which could be both "girl" or "Gull" converted back to English." Its quite likely that the japanese did not know his name properly as their writing is not one in which you confuse anything.
that satisfying moment when you've studied enough japanese to recognize that character and know it's on'yomi pronunciation. i know it's a kinda basic one, but it feels rewarding to be able to fully understand the funniness of this 😂
Same here. In the description, I saw "Marqis Ito." Then, after about five minutes of listening further, I was like, "This sounds an awful lot like Ito Hirobumi."
Hirobumi Ito was a former samurai, but as a politician he was far more moderate and prudent than his fellow Samurai. Unlike Saigo, who wanted to restore the samurai way of life, and the militarist Aritomo Yamagata, Ito hoped to solve problems through international cooperation and diplomacy, Especially opposed to war with Russia. He wanted Korea to remain a buffer state with Russia rather than annex by force, but he was assassinated by a nationalistic Korean, his death ironically aided Japan's annexation of Korea.
@@LuigiCotocea It said here he changed his mind and advocated for annexation but despite this, he was forced to resign and shortly there after killed which only accelerated Koreas annexation process
@@DieNibelungenliad It's death before dishonor. It's better to die by your own hand than suffer whatever torture/death/humiliation the enemy will do to you; it also denies the enemy their trophy. It's similar to burning your own fields so the enemy can't use them.
This was only possible because of the Christian compassion of English who valued the life of people. Unlike Japan where life was not valued and self-suicide was seen as the right thing to do.
@@John3.36Europeans and Americans also respected total commitment which the Japanese took to the next level. Christians understood sacrificing for others. The Japanese culture of total commitment was similar...but not God based... But yet just as intense and selfless. Selflessness is a Christian trait...
This one is absolutely crazy. Its beautifull that these accounts still exist, wow. What a wild trip for these gentleman and what impact that they may had in turning the final tide.
Japan transitioned to modern times in a blink of an eye. The emperor, after the decision was made to open the country up, said to his nation (paraphrasing here) on the lines of: "Go to all the world and learn everything there is to know about everything, bring it back an apply it here"
I mean, this guy was a member of the samurai ruling class pre-restoration and later became part of the ruling aristocracy post-restoration as the country's first Prime Minister. I would be hard pressed to call him an ordinary person, but I agree that these videos are very fascinating.
Have you read or listened to the diary entry if the first samurai group to go to America? It was when america first forced them to open up. They were blown away by ice cubes for drinks, in the summer. Also that we had enough wealth to buy enough fabric, to walk on, carpet lol But that we are wasteful, iron and steel just laying around rusting
@@410cultivarJapan doesn’t or at least didn’t have much iron or steel in those days. But America being so big has more than enough to tear it out of the ground and leave it to rust.
@@cpt.honklerof3rdkekistania400 Yeah till this day japan is still obsessed with American culture. They often dress up as cowboys and read American comics, they are kinda like the reverse weeabo right now🤣🤣
The difference between America or Europe in 1824 and America or Europe now are stark, but to think of what Japan was like in 1824 versus what it is like only 200 years later is just astounding.
@@ijansk North America is the continent. America is shorthand for the USA. Everybody in the world knows what country is meant when someone says "America."
After talking to myself about it for an hour, including sheddint tiers when I said that a latvietis from 1824 would not care that with our cars he can cross the country in 6 hours hed rather walk for a week with everyone on the road saying hello, you underestiamate how much Europe has changed. It wasnt depressing in the olden days, you think northern europians are cold now it wasnt at all like this 200 years ago.
Absolutely incredible video. It's fascinating to me that the Japanese perceived the US in the exact same manner pre-WW2 as they do today. Really great work man, awesome piece of history.
1860s yup my grandpappy was in the Civil War lol he lost and ended up poor with his house burned down an having to rely on the generosity of family and friends, but the fact we are still alive means our story continues on today.
Beautiful! I love hearing the writings of the Japanese in these videos the most. They’re so eloquent and humble in how they write. Thank you Voices of the Past! This was worth the wait.
One thing I didn’t understand was the part where they had $8.300 dollars and it “was very little, but enough to cover the expenses which the journey necessitated” $8300 which would be about $280.000 today. Sounds like that would cover a lot.
He might have meant "yen" (or whatever they used then) and simply called them "dollars". This happens a lot in writing where an author will use terms for currency interchangeably, even today.
He said that they got that money, but the amount they carried in their pockets wasn't a big one. As in, they weren't flashy with the money and used only what was necessary
@@RogerTheil"Yen" was not the currency then. He was describing how he excanged Ryō, which were those large gold pieces used as currency and a store of wealth, into that amount of dollars, as he said.
There's something enchanting about Japan before the Meiji Restoration, a bit like Medieval Europe or even anytime in Europe before the First World War wrecked much of her
The amount of unfettered bravery and undying loyalty in this man's story is unbelievably impressive. In our modern society, people will throw their own children to the wolves if they're threatened with the slightest inconvenience, let alone any hint of "loyalty," "honor," or (Christian) "Social Justice." The fact that 5 men risked their lives to leave, so that they might find a way to ease the tension within Japan AND again when coming back home dressed as "the outsider" for the same cause is ASTONISHING. Today, people are able only to find causes to KILL for, but few worthy of DYING for. Maybe it's our expectation of constant comfort and entertainment. Or maybe it's the culture of selfish instant gratification, exacerbated by the internet that diminishes people's ability to value things beyond themselves. Maybe it's a lot of factors to varying degrees. But what I do know is that this 'honorability' mindset has long-since become the "exception" rather than "rule."
I often think about what it must have been like for the Samurai and Daimyo to have witnessed the phenomenal change that happened from 1860 to 1900! I ❤️ 🗾!
What a fantastic people and group of up and coming leaders. They navigated this ancient civilization to a great power in the world and in a manner of great nobility. Well done in finding this letter from the past.
Wow, it's simply amazing. It's like time traveling. A video on Sassanid dynasty Persia and Tang dynasty China interacting would be absolutely insane. Love your videos man. I've been binge watching all of them. ❤
What's truly fascinating is that when Samurai threaten to end their lives, they absolutely mean it. Even their own writings reveal they were moments away from commiting sepuku. Such a fascinating culture, i don't know if it can be found anywhere else in time.
The real dark side to America's role in modernizing Japan isn't told enough. Once Japan started adapting to western styles, America and the rest of the west started patting them on the back and calling them the "civilized" Asian country, and they all thought by building them up they'd help "civilize" the rest of Asia. Teddy Roosevelt even said he thought having the Japanese take over Korea and China was "the best thing" for those countries. The truth is, we Americans helped enable everything the Japanese did in WWII.
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Hahaha at first when the narrator mentioned the Tokugawa regency I was like you mean Toronaga? Then I was like wait… I’m getting reality and the show mixed up 😂
Not really. Personal sacrifice and heroism still very much exist among the ruling class today. Whether leftist ideologues like Cuba's Fidel Castro, Venezuela's president Nicholas Maduro, etc, or "Liberal reformists" like Soviet premier Gorbachev, China's Deng Xiaoping, or "religious fundamentalists" like Egypt's former president Mursi, ISIS caliph Al-Baghdadi, Tibet's Dalai Lama, etc, basically those with strong conviction and idealism, those are the type who are willing to sacrifice their lives for their "country" (well, more like to their ideology and idealism). Anyone who are running for the highest office in the land is opening themselves to relentless attack by their opponents and by the public. So they already make quite a personal sacrifice even before they get elected.
What an absolutely fascinating life he lived. The amount of wisdom he had to know what their weaknesses were and to love his home so much that he did what he believed was right to keep it going and not totally destroyed. Him and Ulysses grant could have had fascinating conversations.
After Sengoku Japan ended. Samurai were no longer Samurai. They werent warriors anymore. They were entitled little aristocrats. Some of them played at being duelists for a time. But what it was to be a true samurai died with the age of conflict. The men who were around for the "Final days" of the samurai were roleplaying larpers not warriors.
14:00 This will never not infuriate me. They insisted in fighting a civil war just to... immediately adopt all the losers policies that they complained so much and fought against.
Wow. This might be the most informative video and also a great story. What heroes. They just went straight back and convinced everyone. Maybe they all did not need convincing
I love Gurl's very human reaction to "Please let us on your ship or we'll kill ourselves RIGHT NOW." Jokes aside, it's fascinating listening to an "expel the barbarians", monarchist/conservative write so reasonably about western countries.
Japan still has clans just they aren’t as powerful as they once were. The clans have some say in local governments but not much. After the Meiji restoration the clans pretty much went into trade or anything to gain wealth. Some companies were started by clans like Toyota and Honda. Modern day clan titles are purely ceremonial mostly to figure out the line of succession and who runs what in the family. The person has to earn the title through hard work too. Also marriages tend to be arranged already in these clans although these can be held off if the person has found someone that is a good match. I have a friend who is part of a major Japanese Clan and yeah your future is pretty much laid out for you and yeah you get married usually right out of college working hard in a office and rising through the ranks and by your 5th year you are a section manager or floor manager and by year 7 you’re working at HQ as a major contributor. It’s a very rough life as you constantly work to get higher with the clan head as the CEO or president.
There have been Prime Ministers, some rather recent tied to Samurai bloodlines, one was the only assasinated in the last few years, Dude was still pretty hardcore against SK and China and was full of controversial matters. They truly believe in maintaining their history.
I moved to Tokyo for work and I live near to the Marquis Maeda's former home and current heritage museum. Would love to hear you ready anything from 1885-1940 from his point of view.
Difficult to watch without personal bias, sadly. My uncle was a pilot POW of the Japanese in WWII. And, although just surviving was a miracle, he was a broken man. But personal bias in an enemy we must battle daily. Thus I could not help but deeply admire this brilliant and dedicated man, caught to such a degree between two eras and two cultures that he nearly ended his own life...twice.
I've participated in performances and other events recounting the story of POWs forced to build The Thai-Burma Railway and have visited several areas on many occasions, watched many interviews and documentaries, and read books about what was endured. I've had descendants of POWs approach me after performances to say how moved they were. May I ask, if you know, where your uncle was held? Did he work on the railway, or was he held in another location?
Dont know what this has anything to do with ww2. This was more than 70 years BEFORE the events of ww2. About the same time span from the end of ww2 to present day.
@@kn2549 WWII represents an endpoint to the post-feudal progress of Japan that would no doubt have appalled Marquis Ito whose account is translated and narrated here. The events he recounts contributed to WWII. Not intentionally by any means. That's the poignant part.
15:38 pretty sure I watched another video and they pointed out the people in this picture are actors and can be seen in different samurai clothing and poses.
Very interesting. Very interesting period in Japanese history-this added a lot to my knowledge of this fascinating time. The period photos added a lot. Doomo arigatoo gozaimasu!
Kinda reminds me of this comment from "Ebb and Flow" Shogun 2 Total WAr: FoTS soundtrack "When listening to this piece, I always imagine a tranquil Japanese town in peacetime. Black ships start rolling in the background, and the landscape begins to change frame by frame: telegraph wires appear, new buildings rise and old dissapear, railway is being constructed and shops are filled with foreign goods. By the time black ships roll by, there stands the same town, just as peaceful and tranquil, but modern and westernised".
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now Japan is a colony of the USA 🎉
Wasn’t this shit a scam?
@@pete8276 many young Japanese are ending their lives because of how difficult Japanese jobs are
Japan speed running from medieval to an industrial age is one of the most endlessly fascinating occurrences in history
Heck yeah History Dose
The Imperial government managed to consolidate power pretty quickly after the country was forcibly reopened, and looking at what had happened to China and their other neighbors they were highly motivated to not suffer the same fate at the hands of foreign interference and conquest.
Then from expansionist imperial rule to pacifist constitutional democracy all in about 100 years. They went from medieval warfare with no navy to defeating the industrialized Russian navy outright in like 60 years. People talk about Germans being efficient but they got nothing on the Japanese
Adapt or be colonised, that's what they saw and luckily they chose the latter.@@atomic_wait
Their long isolation and whiplash into modernity continues to be fascinating, in my opinion.
Especially when you compare it to how first contacts between less advanced natives and explorers have so often gone (and gone badly for the natives).
The author of this, Itoh Hirobumi, was Japan’s first prime minister and longest serving prime minister. He modeled Japan’s government on that of Prussia.
Edit: he served in the capacity as a prime minister in the Meiji government before the title “prime minister” existed. Hence why he’s the longest serving, above Abe Shinzo.
Ito Hirobumi was both a samurai and a leading member of the genro. Unfortunately, he was assassinated by gunshots. 🤔
yeah he got assassinated by korean independence activists
@@riowhi7 The peerage system and bicameral legislature (house of commons and House of Lords) was based on the UK. But the constitution and absolute monarchy was based on Prussia.
@@ferretyluv Was Prussia during that time really an absolute monarchy?
@@nomorechess Britain was a constitutional monarchy at the time. Prussia wasn’t.
The Englishman named "Girl" was probably actually named Joe. The character for girl (女) is pronounced じょ (or Jo). Got a good laugh from that one.
Džo would make much more sense than girl.
Aren't you supposed to use katakana when writing a name of a foreigner in Japanese?
My suggestion is that the Englishman's name was spelled as "ガー ル" in katakana which could be both "girl" or "Gull" converted back to English.
@@mastersafari5349 "Aren't you supposed to use katakana when writing a name of a foreigner in Japanese?" You are. Heres my name グンタース・ミエリシュ.
"My suggestion is that the Englishman's name was spelled as "ガー ル" in katakana which could be both "girl" or "Gull" converted back to English." Its quite likely that the japanese did not know his name properly as their writing is not one in which you confuse anything.
that satisfying moment when you've studied enough japanese to recognize that character and know it's on'yomi pronunciation. i know it's a kinda basic one, but it feels rewarding to be able to fully understand the funniness of this 😂
Joe Joe want to have an adventure
I then realized the one recounting this is none other than Japan's first Prime Minister
Same here. In the description, I saw "Marqis Ito." Then, after about five minutes of listening further, I was like, "This sounds an awful lot like Ito Hirobumi."
you're
@@somedesertdude1308 "You're" what?
@@somedesertdude1308nobody even said “your”
@@SlimbTheSlime seethe
Hirobumi Ito was a former samurai, but as a politician he was far more moderate and prudent than his fellow Samurai. Unlike Saigo, who wanted to restore the samurai way of life, and the militarist Aritomo Yamagata, Ito hoped to solve problems through international cooperation and diplomacy, Especially opposed to war with Russia. He wanted Korea to remain a buffer state with Russia rather than annex by force, but he was assassinated by a nationalistic Korean, his death ironically aided Japan's annexation of Korea.
rather than annex by force... how so?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itō_Hirobumi
Sadly he got assasinated on 26 october 1909... :(
@@LuigiCotocea It said here he changed his mind and advocated for annexation but despite this, he was forced to resign and shortly there after killed which only accelerated Koreas annexation process
Through international cooperation and diplomacy?
But it's written he's the one who oversee the Sino-Japanese war?
What the heck did the assassin hope to achieve?
12:22 "Someone's planning on assassinating us? Better kill ourselves!"
That seems to be the one-size-fits-all solution to most problems Samurai had.
"Ah! But who is stupider? The man trying to kill himself, or the man trying to kill the man trying to kill himself!"
I mean, if it ain't broke...
You can’t assassinate someone who’s already dead.
It has something to do with their culture I guess. Perhaps the afterlife or reincarnation
@@DieNibelungenliad It's death before dishonor. It's better to die by your own hand than suffer whatever torture/death/humiliation the enemy will do to you; it also denies the enemy their trophy. It's similar to burning your own fields so the enemy can't use them.
"If you don't let us on the ship, we'll disembowel ourselves where we stand"
"Erm, ok. I guess you can go then"
the Dupont approach
Used to be so easy to get a visa. 😅
''So, how's your determination to get on this ship?''
*Puts knife on own belly*
''Hum, ok sirs right this way!''
This was only possible because of the Christian compassion of English who valued the life of people. Unlike Japan where life was not valued and self-suicide was seen as the right thing to do.
@@John3.36Europeans and Americans also respected total commitment which the Japanese took to the next level. Christians understood sacrificing for others. The Japanese culture of total commitment was similar...but not God based...
But yet just as intense and selfless. Selflessness is a Christian trait...
This one is absolutely crazy. Its beautifull that these accounts still exist, wow. What a wild trip for these gentleman and what impact that they may had in turning the final tide.
The narration was by the first PM of Japan
Japan transitioned to modern times in a blink of an eye. The emperor, after the decision was made to open the country up, said to his nation (paraphrasing here) on the lines of: "Go to all the world and learn everything there is to know about everything, bring it back an apply it here"
Then they fooked with America and got sent back a 100years 😅😅😅😅
@@Dncsuxadic No they didn't Japanese economy thrived post-war
@@Dncsuxadicbro forgot about the post-war economic miracle
@@haha-lj5sq Because America built them back. Read your history 😂🤣😅
@@Dncsuxadic so you’re admitting they didn’t get sent back? Okay
These videos are a unique delight for someone fascinated by the history of more ordinary people and how they experienced it, like myself.
I mean, this guy was a member of the samurai ruling class pre-restoration and later became part of the ruling aristocracy post-restoration as the country's first Prime Minister. I would be hard pressed to call him an ordinary person, but I agree that these videos are very fascinating.
Hearing him talk about america was so wholesome and flattering
Have you read or listened to the diary entry if the first samurai group to go to America? It was when america first forced them to open up.
They were blown away by ice cubes for drinks, in the summer.
Also that we had enough wealth to buy enough fabric, to walk on, carpet lol
But that we are wasteful, iron and steel just laying around rusting
@@410cultivarJapan doesn’t or at least didn’t have much iron or steel in those days. But America being so big has more than enough to tear it out of the ground and leave it to rust.
Hardly hear that today...
@@410cultivar i have listened to that one, pretty comical at times. Dude lit his sleeve on fire with a cigarette cherry.
@@cpt.honklerof3rdkekistania400 Yeah till this day japan is still obsessed with American culture. They often dress up as cowboys and read American comics, they are kinda like the reverse weeabo right now🤣🤣
The narrating is articulate. Thank you for giving us all such a gift
Thank you for giving thanks
@@derekstaroba Thank you for thanking my thanks
The difference between America or Europe in 1824 and America or Europe now are stark, but to think of what Japan was like in 1824 versus what it is like only 200 years later is just astounding.
The US. America is a continent.
@@ijansk North America is the continent. America is shorthand for the USA. Everybody in the world knows what country is meant when someone says "America."
@@ijansk Ameica is the reduced form of United States of America. Just like Latvija is the reduced form of Latvijas Republika.
After talking to myself about it for an hour, including sheddint tiers when I said that a latvietis from 1824 would not care that with our cars he can cross the country in 6 hours hed rather walk for a week with everyone on the road saying hello, you underestiamate how much Europe has changed. It wasnt depressing in the olden days, you think northern europians are cold now it wasnt at all like this 200 years ago.
@@ijanskI’m sorry, is Europe a country then?
The rapid transition from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution in Japan is one of the most enthralling events in human history.
Did you just basically reword one of the top comments? lol
@@guroluxwas about to comment that lol
bro got caught red handed in the replies 💀
@@princejaxisblack8789hahahahahaha
@@princejaxisblack8789i get them though. The need to rewrite it shows how impressed they are. It's a human thing.
An upload from Voices of the Past is like a correspondence from a long lost friend.
Thanks!
A magnificent narration. The aesthetics of the animation are commendable.
Brilliant storytelling and enjoyed the illustration's and photograph's of Japan. Thanks for sharing 🙏
“If you don’t let me go on your ship I’m gonna kms”
funny to imagine the man was not expecting to hear that and was like damn bro ok
No better health therapy back then 😅
Absolutely incredible video. It's fascinating to me that the Japanese perceived the US in the exact same manner pre-WW2 as they do today.
Really great work man, awesome piece of history.
19:45 flawless photo retouching, replacing whatever was originally there with those totally accurate hand drawn leaves, no one noticed a thing!
Fascinating! Thanks for uploading!
Excellently made, thank you for your efforts.
1860s yup my grandpappy was in the Civil War lol he lost and ended up poor with his house burned down an having to rely on the generosity of family and friends, but the fact we are still alive means our story continues on today.
Accounts like this about the end of Tokugawa are fascinating!
Beautiful! I love hearing the writings of the Japanese in these videos the most. They’re so eloquent and humble in how they write.
Thank you Voices of the Past! This was worth the wait.
One thing I didn’t understand was the part where they had $8.300 dollars and it “was very little, but enough to cover the expenses which the journey necessitated”
$8300 which would be about $280.000 today. Sounds like that would cover a lot.
Right! I was like HUH???
He might have meant "yen" (or whatever they used then) and simply called them "dollars". This happens a lot in writing where an author will use terms for currency interchangeably, even today.
He said that they got that money, but the amount they carried in their pockets wasn't a big one. As in, they weren't flashy with the money and used only what was necessary
@@RogerTheil"Yen" was not the currency then. He was describing how he excanged Ryō, which were those large gold pieces used as currency and a store of wealth, into that amount of dollars, as he said.
I think he meant that they only kept small amounts in their pockets, and put the rest somewhere safer.
This was so beautiful that it gave me shivers.
what? sounds terrible.
This was very insightful; thank you kindly for it.
_Goes to get milk for tea_
>>>
_Discovers we ran out of milk_
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_Begins to unsheathe wakizashi_
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Japan was the type of country who feared the unknown but was greatly willing to learn it.
To go back in time. See things how they were when they were becoming. To speak to some of these people in history. Would be so incredible.
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Elaborate please I am interested in this
This man's thirst for knowledge is so wholesome and admirable
There's something enchanting about Japan before the Meiji Restoration, a bit like Medieval Europe or even anytime in Europe before the First World War wrecked much of her
If you’re a gamer, like a dragon Ishin takes place during this time. It’s a fun little game.
I just stumbled on this channel by accident. Man, this is fantastic!
Absolutely fascinating, the growing pains of living through such a short time must have been unbearable for some…
Great work 👏
Us _Blackadder_ fans appreciate hearing of a Custom House gentleman whose name is Mr. Girl, since we'll never tire of Capt Darling.
The amount of unfettered bravery and undying loyalty in this man's story is unbelievably impressive. In our modern society, people will throw their own children to the wolves if they're threatened with the slightest inconvenience, let alone any hint of "loyalty," "honor," or (Christian) "Social Justice."
The fact that 5 men risked their lives to leave, so that they might find a way to ease the tension within Japan AND again when coming back home dressed as "the outsider" for the same cause is ASTONISHING. Today, people are able only to find causes to KILL for, but few worthy of DYING for. Maybe it's our expectation of constant comfort and entertainment. Or maybe it's the culture of selfish instant gratification, exacerbated by the internet that diminishes people's ability to value things beyond themselves. Maybe it's a lot of factors to varying degrees.
But what I do know is that this 'honorability' mindset has long-since become the "exception" rather than "rule."
wow, gave me the chills. i LOVE Japan
What an awesome episode. Thank you
I often think about what it must have been like for the Samurai and Daimyo to have witnessed the phenomenal change that happened from 1860 to 1900! I ❤️ 🗾!
What a fantastic people and group of up and coming leaders. They navigated this ancient civilization to a great power in the world and in a manner of great nobility. Well done in finding this letter from the past.
And now the entire world has access to anime. Thanks to that man's efforts.
I love this channel
They threatened to commit suicide like an abusive ex boyfriend to get onto the ship lol.
Sounds oddly specific, but the points they made to the sailor were valid tbh.
This is probably the coolest video I've watched in a while.
While I know it’s earlier in history, it’s good timing that you posted this with the new show from Hulu shogun coming out.
Love your work.
Wow, it's simply amazing. It's like time traveling.
A video on Sassanid dynasty Persia and Tang dynasty China interacting would be absolutely insane. Love your videos man. I've been binge watching all of them. ❤
What's truly fascinating is that when Samurai threaten to end their lives, they absolutely mean it. Even their own writings reveal they were moments away from commiting sepuku. Such a fascinating culture, i don't know if it can be found anywhere else in time.
fantastic, thank you!
Japan has a special place in my heart
The real dark side to America's role in modernizing Japan isn't told enough. Once Japan started adapting to western styles, America and the rest of the west started patting them on the back and calling them the "civilized" Asian country, and they all thought by building them up they'd help "civilize" the rest of Asia. Teddy Roosevelt even said he thought having the Japanese take over Korea and China was "the best thing" for those countries. The truth is, we Americans helped enable everything the Japanese did in WWII.
Then why did they bomb us?
Americans need to learn about the Revolutionaries who emerged in America and still spread evil throughout the world today.
This is now my favorite video on YT
A Glorious Narration 👍
*unthinkingly listens to ad read
Man, samurais say all sorts of things...
Great video! I loved the storytelling. The unfinished photo restoration kills me though. I want to redo it all. :)
I'm not going to lie, I was really hoping to see something like '2:00:00' in the lower left corner 😂
Thanks for the insight and thoughts of Ito Hirobumi. Great job mate
It’s perfectly natural to feel scared or confused when your society transforms from a medieval, pre-industrial backwater to an Empire taking on the world’s great powers. That’s why there’s Better Help.
LOL 😂
Thank you again for these videos.
Crazy that Better Help was around in 1863
What a beautiful story.
Skip to 3:50 to avoid the sponser
I knew this but it's so different to see it so well sun into a animated story
Thank you 👍
Please don’t support better help. They are not a good company
Why are they bad?
Agree. I signed up just to try it and their therapy session was barely 20min long and the therapist blamed me for the trauma caused by others. I was so shocked I demanded my money back. I’ve seen traditional therapists and felt more respected. Oh and the therapist can cut you off mid session for whatever reasons and blame it on tech glitch.
@SCBlahBLah irl therapist have done that to my friend as well, they threw him out when he complained
If UA-camrs are pushing it it is a scam
I looked at the comments right when the sponsor segment started and saw this.
The illustrations are beautiful. I'm impressed.
You ought to do some videos about contact and conflicts between Japan and Russia from the early 18th to mid 19th century. No channel covers this.
wow! such an engaging and thoughtful speech
I like how this is the latest video uploaded after I start watching the Shogun 😂
Hahaha at first when the narrator mentioned the Tokugawa regency I was like you mean Toronaga? Then I was like wait… I’m getting reality and the show mixed up 😂
This is beautiful.
I get so excited whenever I see you upload.
Political leaders willing to sacrifice their lives for their country...those daya are long, long gone.
That was never a thing.
@@MirzaAhmed89 Ever heard of Leo Ryan? Dude was a legend. I wish every politician was more like him
Zelenksy's "don't need a ride, need more bullets" comes to mind
Not really. Personal sacrifice and heroism still very much exist among the ruling class today.
Whether leftist ideologues like Cuba's Fidel Castro, Venezuela's president Nicholas Maduro, etc, or "Liberal reformists" like Soviet premier Gorbachev, China's Deng Xiaoping, or "religious fundamentalists" like Egypt's former president Mursi, ISIS caliph Al-Baghdadi, Tibet's Dalai Lama, etc, basically those with strong conviction and idealism, those are the type who are willing to sacrifice their lives for their "country" (well, more like to their ideology and idealism).
Anyone who are running for the highest office in the land is opening themselves to relentless attack by their opponents and by the public. So they already make quite a personal sacrifice even before they get elected.
@@Pickledsundae
All his Ukrainian men die while he's taking all the cash from military defense contractors...
Fascinating. Thanks.
Perfect. Just what i needed during a late night snack 😋awesome qnd interesting video aa usal !!
What an absolutely fascinating life he lived. The amount of wisdom he had to know what their weaknesses were and to love his home so much that he did what he believed was right to keep it going and not totally destroyed. Him and Ulysses grant could have had fascinating conversations.
PLEASE MORE ASIAN HISTORY CONTENT ❤️
please whatever you do never stop
After Sengoku Japan ended. Samurai were no longer Samurai. They werent warriors anymore. They were entitled little aristocrats. Some of them played at being duelists for a time. But what it was to be a true samurai died with the age of conflict. The men who were around for the "Final days" of the samurai were roleplaying larpers not warriors.
Beautiful art!
14:00 This will never not infuriate me. They insisted in fighting a civil war just to... immediately adopt all the losers policies that they complained so much and fought against.
Fascinating!
Wow. This might be the most informative video and also a great story. What heroes. They just went straight back and convinced everyone. Maybe they all did not need convincing
I love Gurl's very human reaction to "Please let us on your ship or we'll kill ourselves RIGHT NOW."
Jokes aside, it's fascinating listening to an "expel the barbarians", monarchist/conservative write so reasonably about western countries.
Always great content😎
Japan still has clans just they aren’t as powerful as they once were. The clans have some say in local governments but not much. After the Meiji restoration the clans pretty much went into trade or anything to gain wealth. Some companies were started by clans like Toyota and Honda. Modern day clan titles are purely ceremonial mostly to figure out the line of succession and who runs what in the family. The person has to earn the title through hard work too. Also marriages tend to be arranged already in these clans although these can be held off if the person has found someone that is a good match. I have a friend who is part of a major Japanese Clan and yeah your future is pretty much laid out for you and yeah you get married usually right out of college working hard in a office and rising through the ranks and by your 5th year you are a section manager or floor manager and by year 7 you’re working at HQ as a major contributor. It’s a very rough life as you constantly work to get higher with the clan head as the CEO or president.
There have been Prime Ministers, some rather recent tied to Samurai bloodlines, one was the only assasinated in the last few years, Dude was still pretty hardcore against SK and China and was full of controversial matters. They truly believe in maintaining their history.
full of lies
Show me the evidence.
what an incredible story. what an incredible life.
Damn they really just threatened to kill themselves if they couldn't go and it worked lol
hari kari is real amigo
They didn't yet know that's a big red flag. 😜
I moved to Tokyo for work and I live near to the Marquis Maeda's former home and current heritage museum. Would love to hear you ready anything from 1885-1940 from his point of view.
Difficult to watch without personal bias, sadly. My uncle was a pilot POW of the Japanese in WWII. And, although just surviving was a miracle, he was a broken man. But personal bias in an enemy we must battle daily. Thus I could not help but deeply admire this brilliant and dedicated man, caught to such a degree between two eras and two cultures that he nearly ended his own life...twice.
I've participated in performances and other events recounting the story of POWs forced to build The Thai-Burma Railway and have visited several areas on many occasions, watched many interviews and documentaries, and read books about what was endured. I've had descendants of POWs approach me after performances to say how moved they were. May I ask, if you know, where your uncle was held? Did he work on the railway, or was he held in another location?
Dont know what this has anything to do with ww2. This was more than 70 years BEFORE the events of ww2. About the same time span from the end of ww2 to present day.
@@kn2549 WWII represents an endpoint to the post-feudal progress of Japan that would no doubt have appalled Marquis Ito whose account is translated and narrated here. The events he recounts contributed to WWII. Not intentionally by any means. That's the poignant part.
Nobody cares about your uncle😂 he knew what he signed up for. Dont get mad
Nobody cares about your uncle😂 he knew what he signed up for. Dont get mad
15:38 pretty sure I watched another video and they pointed out the people in this picture are actors and can be seen in different samurai clothing and poses.
Very interesting. Very interesting period in Japanese history-this added a lot to my knowledge of this fascinating time. The period photos added a lot.
Doomo arigatoo gozaimasu!
Kinda reminds me of this comment from "Ebb and Flow" Shogun 2 Total WAr: FoTS soundtrack
"When listening to this piece, I always imagine a tranquil Japanese town in peacetime. Black ships start rolling in the background, and the landscape begins to change frame by frame: telegraph wires appear, new buildings rise and old dissapear, railway is being constructed and shops are filled with foreign goods. By the time black ships roll by, there stands the same town, just as peaceful and tranquil, but modern and westernised".
It's amazing that Tom Cruise said all this
Funny actually that the guy who said this was the short little non samurai dressed US army simp in that film. He went on to be the 1st prime minister.
I wish I could double subscribe to this channel. It's the best
Betterhelp are scammers. Find a better sponsor.
How?
@@TheBlackzman they sell a lot of user info
He didn't find them, they found him and asked him to promote them in exchange for money
That's how youtubers make money if you didn't know
Also they have been found to not have good therapists, one person said that one of their therapists were on the toilet and was very unprofessional. A lot of other people have said their therapist made their mental health worse.
If you want therapy go in person, if you need to save money, try a group session.
Not all of life's problems can be solved by an app.