The Akune brothers: Siblings on opposite sides of war - Wendell Oshiro
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- Опубліковано 20 лип 2015
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There are many stories that can be told about World War II, from the tragic to the inspiring. But perhaps one of the most heart-rending experiences was that of the Akune family, divided by the war against each other, and against their own identities. Wendell Oshiro tells the surprising story of this family split apart by war.
Lesson by Wendell Oshiro, animation by Brandon Denmark.
Someone tell Hollywood to get on this shit!
Zoink foo But sure they will change the story to show that the US side is better than the Japanese side.
LeGunslinger That is the most accurate description of what Hollywood is gonna do.
Ezra Grant
They tend to do that too, An alien director that what hollywood needs
(ⵙ_*)
LeGunslinger
Japanese imperial forces were objectively worse.
I'll refer you to the violent rape of nanking and the mass sex-enslavement of Korean women.
Azitock Ignoring all the war crimes of the USA to conclude that the Japanese forces were worse is not "objective" at all.
"for harry, though, his greatest regret was not having the courage to thank his japanese grand uncle who had taught him so much."
honestly i shed a couple tears at this part
If you cried that's cringe and pathetic
HelloTheTerrarian It made me pretty sad too.
lol
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Reminded me of Zuko and uncle Hiro
That flag transition at 3:00 gave me the chills.
OKAY
ditto
lol yes the 50 stars is not 50 states, it's really 50 countries the US has conquered
Thalamus good eye
Literally Night and Day...but everyone agrees a sunset is beautiful.
That must have been father of the year.
True that
Speech 100
Charisma: 20
He must had said something along the lines of "You both served for your respective countries like real men, and I couldn't be prouder. A war between two countries divided us, now that we're together let's not let it divide us any more."
That, or he simply threw his shoe at them and it put them in line? I don't know.
Do japanese households do the shoe thing too? I thought it was just arabs
1:00 that day (Japan's sun) to night (US stars) transition is just perfect.
3:00
I think this would be a good movie for some reson
Yeah if they add some stuff in (like all historical movies do) then I think it could be a great film.
Mac'n CheeseTV I was thinking that too.
There is a movie similar to this but it's about 2 brothers in the Korean war fighting against each other /: don't rememeber the name but it's sad
Mac'n CheeseTV There's a great movie from the 50's about a (mostly) Japanese US unit fighting in Europe and earning many honors. The name escapes me and I don't have the chance to google.
There is a movie. It's called Tae Guk Gi The Brotherhood of War
When they saw each other, there must have been a lot of problems.
You could say, Akune Matata.
fizz113 amazing
fizz113 Ha!
It means no worries for the rest of your days!
FUCK. Thats good.
As a Japanese American
Inspiring story! I was expecting some tragic ending where the brothers had to kill each other in battle, but I'm not saying that's an ending I wanted.
I was also happy to learn that the brothers all survived and were able to reconcile.
+The stig's internety cousin He was probably too young, as the 4th brother was approximately 15.
***** The video stated that he was part of the "home guard," civilians too old, disabled or young to join the military who organized evacuations to bomb shelters, scanned the skies for enemy aircraft, and served as a last ditch defense force. All of the combatant nations in the war had such an organization. Germany, of course, as the most extreme, issued guns to members of the Hitler Youth; the United Kingdom organized volunteer squads of teenage and college age girls to maintain military motor vehicles so the men could go to the front to fight (all of the King's daughters who were old enough joined in to set an example; being a princess did not give you a moral excuse not to help out!). There were other volunteer jobs in the US, notably collecting recyclables for the war effort.
This is an inspiring story, especially since it turned out that none of the five were lost in action, and they reconciled after the war.
+The stig's internety cousin
He served in the 1399th Engineer Construction Battalion on the homefront.
+Nick T. how did you know?
Someone needs to make a movie about this
But please for once don't glorify the americans.
Sadly they will cast white actors not Asian-Americans
@@aaronton2703 That would honestly be hilarious. It's one thing to cast Goku with a Caucasian since he's technically an alien, but it's another thing entirely to cast a Caucasian as an Asian, which is a real-world race.
I think they did for a Japanese channel.
Wasn't too bad.. I feared it was gonna be something like one of the U.S sibling shooting a Japanese soldier and then identifying his brother or something..
That would be the hollywood version
Steven Spielberg's version
It wasn't too uncommon in civil wars
agreed.
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Japanese immigrants in Brazil also had tough lives during and after the war. Because they were living in a foreign country, enemy of Japan, when news spread that war was over and Japan had lost it, Japanese immigrants denied it believing it was false propaganda, and fellow immigrants who acknoledged Japan's surrender were tagged as traitors and murdered. This went on for at least two years, so in 1947 there were still Japanese Brazilians who believed the war was still going on, or that Japan had won. This episode in Brazilian History is called Soiled Hearts, as Japanese loyalists accused the "traitors", and there's a film about it (in Japanese with Japanese actors).
+Eric William Rosa Gracias.
Eric William Rosa you know a lot about war
Eita.
in brazil the government took radios from germans and italians
not just transmitters but receivers too
There's also the story of hiro onoda, he was sent with a couple of guys during ww2 to the Philippines and gather information, they hid in a jungle for years until each one died and hiro was the only one waiting for an order from Japan for 29 years until a Japanese hiker went to look for him and found him, and hiro was disappointed that they lost the war
Proud to call these two men my great uncles. Great telling of their amazing journey.
Melissa Taguchi Really??:) 😭😭😭what a story. Are they still alive?
Melissa Taguchi thats so cool tell the story
Melissa Taguchi prove it
You bring dishonor to the Air Force!!!
Anders Lodin lady's not replying probably it's a fake !
Thank you for this story. As a yonsei Japanese American grown up in peace-- married a Japanese girl and living in Tokyo, hard to imagine this tragedy. Our freedoms do not come for free.
Hell, this sounds like a movie! I can't believe this is true!
All people are relatives. The fact that people continue to fight wars instead of working out their differences beings me immense pain.
Why can't they see there are no need for countries and the need for power? All humans are creations of God. No one is any different because of skin colour, race or religion
Vinneish Varmend I agree there shouldn't be judgement based solely upon race but without power the human race would not evolve. Bringing up religion, in my opinion, was not a necessary thing to do in your reply.
+Wolfgang Kenshin Acrimony between relatives can be far more intense than between combatants of opposing sides. With family, the hatred becomes very personal.
+VitalTrilogy What's wrong with me including religion? But ok then, I'll change it here, make it more general. All humans are equal, regardless of race, religion and gender. Peace is what is needed to evolve, not power.
I just noticed a typo. Brings, not beings...
Same thing happened here in Estonia, we called it Vennatappu Sõda, what means Borther killing War. Families divided by force between Russian and German troops. even tho people also fought for Estonians liberty
+Disko H I'd pick Vennatappu Sõda over Mr. Pibb any day.
+Sander Eerik Sandrak That's what happened to my family.
This was the story of the Baltic states ;)
+Jasmin Awany #karjalatakasin ;P
We had something very similar here in Latvia.
Made me cry watching this. Just the compassion and merit that went into this family as they served both sides!
My japanese grandmother was held in a internment camp even though she was the second generation in her family to be American born. She wasn't very old when her family was taken to the camp. They had their house, money, and everything else that they couldn't carry taken away from them. Almost at the same time my French grandfather, who was also young at the time, was taken into a japanese internment camp in the Philippines. His family also had almost everything taken away. Both of them were in internment camps at opposite ends of the war at the same time. Crazy right? They would later meet in the military, he was in the coast guard and she was in the navy. But the horrible things that they had to go through in those camps just boggles my mind. I can't even imagine what it was like to get out of the camps and have nothing to start from. I am glad that more people are learning about the injustices against American citizens, both in America and in the Philippines.
i could just watch ted all day and not get bored
Oh my goodness... I have no words 0.0
7searchful Goes to show how much of a scourge war is.
This one made me cry, can't imagine being in their place and feel torned like that
"War will make corpses of us all" ~ Faramir LOTR TTO (M)
This is why I followed this channel. To find stories like this that I wasn’t previously aware of.
They weren't the only ones. My grandmother's family went through the Same thing. Her two older brothers heard the call of the father land. Despite they were half apache and they're fathers explicit objections. They went to Germany to answer the call. The third bother joined the usa navy and became a medic. He survived pearl. Went on to join the first raids against the Japanese. He was awarded The medal of honor. His two older brothers did not survive The war. Later The third brother helped with writing the updated gi bill, helping ceaser Chavez and Hector Gonzales with The Hispanic rights movement. Also helping setting up a rights forum so medal of honor recipients of color have The option of being buried in arlington. The youngest was too young to join ww2. But he served in Korea.
Brilliant quality material from TEDed, as usual.
Little thing that caught my attention: The transition at 2:58 from the US flag to the old Japanese flag was very artistic.
I see what you did there 3:00
Rashad lol, i was impressed too * __ *
Yep
Rashad I knew it was gonna come :D
Rashad Impressive artwork. Love the transition from US flag to Imperial Japanese.
I see what you did there at 1:00
You want to know a sadder story?
Enter the five Sullivan Brothers.
Place: Ironbottom Sound, Off the coast of Guadalcanal.
Ship: USS Juneau, as all brothers wanted to serve on the same ship.
During the fight for the island of Guadalcanal, sea battles rated off the coast at night. In one such instance, the USS Juneau was in a full scale naval battle. The USS Juneau was a Light Cruiser, armed with only destroyer sized cannons. While under fire from the Japanese, a miscommunication issue happened and the Juneau was a victim of friendly fire. Soon after, the Juneau was sunk, along with ever single Sullivan brother. When the military came to the family's house to state their sorrows, the rather asked, "Which one?"
The Officer replied, "I'm sorry, all five."
+GamerGuy Oh lord... Even though I can have a sick sense of humor sometimes, even I won't/can't take away from how fucked up that is.
Just like saving private ryan but with a brother that survived.
+Dopski Lorica Fun fact, the loss of the Sullivan Brothers was what compelled the military to instate the Sole Survivor policy, which is also shown in Saving Private Ryan.
GamerGuy there is a movie about them. Think it's called the USS Sullivan...
GamerGuy There’s actually a ship called the USS Sullivans in the Buffalo and Erie County Naval and Military Park. It’s a museum ship, and I’ve been on it multiple times
The whole family survived the war. I would find that as a miracle.
takes sibling rivalry to a new level
Talk about sibling rivalry!
The level of detail put into this video truly makes the story that much better. The M1 Garand and M1936 webbing at 2:44 adds so much historical accuracy.
This has to be one of the best stories I've ever heard. What a wonderful piece of American history. It's as captivating as an account that the ancient historians would have recorded.
I have many Japanese acquaintances, and, through them, I've learned more and more about Japanese culture. It's a land that I would love to experience, body and soul.
One of few JPN-America stories with a positive ending. I'm crying tears of joy too!!! X...(
1:00 3:00 The transition is amazing af
the man speaking in this video and many others,most of them are my favourite,has for some reason a great voice for this work
Dude this would make such a good movie I think
悲しい話ですね。
日本人としてこの話を知ることができて良かったです
Hey, at least they all survived and they managed to meet together as family after the war. That's a win XD
1:00 that sunset animation is genius
You got so many things about this story except the one thing to get from it that i think truly matters: a story about the story of human conflict, viewed through the eyes of literal brothers.
"United by blood, divided by war."
*Feudal Japan 2 Electric Boogaloo*
this should be a movie
Has anyone else been watching these videos because this mans voice is just soothing??
I can only imagine how many stories are similar to this one, not just in WW2 but more so during the American civil war.
Amazing video! I didn't know about the Akune brothers until now. Definitely awe inspiring. Thank you, TED-ED!
why no one make movie from this story yet? I thought it will be really interesting
this would be a beautiful movie
who got chills a bunch of times while watching this
Beautiful story it made me shed a couple tears 😢
fun fact: saburo and shiro was the third and fourth son respectively.
saburo in japanese is 三郎 which literally translates to "third son"
shiro in japanese is 四郎 which literally translates to "fourth son"
This story is so sad. It harbors interesting curcumstances, however. I always thought of European wars with a brother on either side. It is interesting to see it from this point of view.
This is just the whole plot of Attack on Titan, but has an happy ending.
The same in Vietnam War.
True dat
A lot of wars, the American Civil War had a lot of split families that's how you got the I famous Hatfield & Mccoy feud.
Not the same. Vietnam war is not actual vietnam war. It about cambodian native war against vietnam and mislead by usa. And the local government in cambodia declare non party but in the secret support vietnam and kept supply to them to kill their own cambodian people who live in vietnam for decade. As result cambodia lose the war and lose the people. Vietnam regain power and land who borrow the land from cambodia a century agos withing cambodia native almost large population than vietnam live in that area. So as we see cambodia sign a secret deal for victory for vietnam in exchange for borrow land. That why tragedy mr leader in vietnam can't give that to cambodia but instead kill himself to delete all secret his sign.
@@kimkim-mh7bv - Not true. It was the Khmer Rouge, a communist group that held Phnom Penn at the time. They were not a fully-fledged government and only supported North Vietnam for mainly goods and military support to assist in their own efforts.
@@jeffo9401 noop where khmer Rouge came from before sihanouk out of his office? Khmer Rouge was create by mr king khmer and got support by his fellow pol pot. In vietname war there is no khmer Rouge.
Amazing story!
And now I'm crying.
When it was said that he couldn't thank his grand-uncle... I felt that ...
that's a great american to japanese flag transition!
0:53 Japanese people live so long they have "Great Uncle"
Very sad but inspirational....!! Wars really devide eachother from their love once...
And shout out to Ted-Ed for reminding me of my many backgrounds and to proud of where my family came from.
There were similar stories in Europe too.
dasdasdus And yet no one brings up German or Italian Internment.
Presidente What internment?
bob potato Well as far I know Volga germans were sent into the siberian mainland, since they were a risk factor.
bob potato Well I was thinking about American interment. +dasdasdus But that also was an injustice doe to innocent people.
Presidente In the US people from or descendants of Germany or Italy weren't interned.The Japanese were the exception, because racism, not the rule.
why isn't this a movie?!?!?!?!?!
This feels like a documentary but over 9000 times better.
This would make an oscar winning movie
Reminds me of Kenji by Fort Minor ..
Interesting story.
What an incredible story… thank you for sharing
Same thing happened at Estonia aswell. Brothers and relatives had to kill each other because both Soviet and german occupation controlled the country at one point and recruited people here.
That can be the European story. While this video can be the Pacific story.
I wonder why the U.S. didn't also intern German and Italian citizens?
+Richard Lew Because someone had to go and fight, and WASPs only wasn't gonna be enough, ha ha ha... Also, a racist element is to be expected...
+Richard Lew Because the Japanese were a special case. After Pearl Harbor, one of the Japanese pilots crash landed on another Hawaiian island. A Japanese American family took him in, unaware that an attack even happened. Then a bunch of crap happened where the pilot was arrested after trying to steal an American plane to get back to Japan, and the family was arrested for helping him. Americans, who are still frothing over the attack on Pearl Harbor, jumped to the conclusion that no Japanese can be trusted and had Japanese-Americans moved to prison camps.
+Richard Lew i'm currently taking an east asian american experience class and we just talked about the camps. some italians and germans were interned but not as many as the japanese americans as they were harder to tell who was italian and german (names and clear ethnic physical appearances)
+Lightscribe225 maybe but its also the intense loyalty to Japan and the emperor. Its just a cultural thing, many Japanese Americans didn't feel this way, but some did.
They weren't as big of a threat to America as the Japanese were and weren't treated as such, plus there were literally tens of millions of people with ancestry going back to Germany or Italy.
this brings sibling rivalry to a new level
Goodness... this really made me cry
Slender Man Sr. if that made you cry, then you're sheltered. much more horrible things happen in real life.
The Legend 566 I know some horrible events do anger/saddened me, but so far this story is by far on of the stories that is an inspiration and one of the emotional ones...
I feel the Akuna brother. It must’ve been very hard to live as a citizen of the United State who’s background were the native country that’s at war with the US.
2:46 Maybe his fellow soldiers attempt to discriminate him by hiding his combat gear anywhere
How have we never heard of this
These people took sibling rivalry to a whole new level
Check out the Korean film by the name of Taegukgi if anyone is interested. It's similar in the sense that two brothers were on opposing sides during the Korean War
I seen that one. Its sad that his brother ended up dying and realizing his mistake. For what? Just for the kim family to stay in power.
"Two younger brothers, the third and fourth Akune brothers..."
So, what happened to the 5th?
Nason Li the fourth one was only 15.
This story is worthy of Hollywood.
I am very happy that they were all alive in the end of the war.
It's sad to see even a soldier could be discriminated in the US only 70 so years ago.
In greek language akune means listen
That transition at 3:09, was like really great!
Beautifuly narrated and researched, as always
animation is fantastic as well as the phrasing of the story :D but as a white american, this makes my soul ache. pretty hard to be proud of being an american with messed up bs like this in our history
We're all siblings on opposite sides of war -- religion, nationalism, and patriotism - those diseases of mankind - make us forget this.
Pascal Smit, you seriously think religion is a disease of mankind? Really? After the Renaissance, the theistic Greek philosophers, the incalculable contribution of both pagan and Christian religion to European culture, the influence of religions like Hinduism on India, the fact that two atheist regimes, the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, were at times just as bad as a medieval kingdom, and the fact that even in a world without religion EVERYONE will still be divided, you seriously think religion is mankind's cancer? Wow.
Just one of the many brotherhoods separated by war .
excellent video. wow, i really like that summary at the end. really tied everything together and makes you understand. Thank you Ted-Ed! :D
great story but another sad example of americas mistreatment of minority groups
Being a Japanese I'll say on my behalf that I have not done such terrible deed. and as Meme Mabon says, not all of us are bad, but I understand that you are upset and you have every right to be and I will not try to diminish the fact that what has happened was very terrible. But please do not be upset at all Japanese people.
Jonathan D all of the Japanese? Even the ones horned today
You do realise they were treated badly due to war right? It's different from racism towards minorities while being in peace!
+Jonathan D oh you ignorant fool, the Japanese that fought in the American army aided in the fight against the Nazis in Italy. The 442nd regiment was the most decorated in the entire war. What did your family contribute? Oh that's right, nothing.
+Garnetthekelpiehorse you and the other great people of Japan don't need to apologize. These are just ignorant fools that seriously need to get over shit that happened 70 years ago.
If these TED talks could be less US centric that'd be great.
Stop coming to US based channels, maybe? Or find UA-cam channels that are in your own country.
I only made that comment because many of these videos seem to assume an American audience. I checked the TED-Ed website and found this on their about page: "TED believes passionately that ideas have the power to change attitudes, lives, and ultimately, the world. This underlying philosophy is the driving force behind all of TED’s endeavors, including the TED Conferences, TEDx, TED Books, the TED Fellows Program, and the TED Open Translation Project. With this philosophy in mind, and with the intention of supporting teachers and sparking the curiosity of learners around the world, TED-Ed is the newest of TED’s initiatives." It may be a US based channel, but I think it's within my purview to criticise them on a bias which plays against their own stated aim. Also, why should I stick to videos from my own country, that pretty much defeats half the point of having internet.
spacedoubt15 I'm not American either, but I think they've told this story quite objectively.
story lowkey made me tear
holy heck we need a movie about this now
Atleast there got something for there injustice. Not like Guatemalan's how the US government gave syphilis to and al they got was a sorry yrs later.
Of course, all the America hating people in the comments immediately focus on the 48 seconds of the video about the internment camps instead of discussing the story...
Ima Gunna Di So just because someone identifies the bad things America does, that makes the person America hating? I haven't read all the comments, but from those I did read I see people saying "hey we did a lot of terrible things, but we can move forward".
I believe in America, it's because I believe in America that I'm not afraid to admit we have, we do and we will mess things up horribly.
Ikr they don't even mention the prisoner of war camps of Japan
Which are far worse.
bless these guys
harry needs recognition 100%
Its funny because american with japanese ancestry is distrusted,while american with german ancestry is treated normally.
less than 200 viewers club
This needs to have more views
They need to make a movie out of this
1:34 "Internment camps". Nice choice of words. Haha