I went to Japan a few years ago and it is hard to notice the demographic crunch until you leave the city, if you go to any suburban or rural town they are entirely filled with old people, with few children to be seen.
I think that's noticeable in quite a few developed nations tbh. I've lived all across the UK and I've noticed the same thing - the rural areas are just hordes of boomers, but the cities are much, much younger. Cities are where the jobs are, so I guess that's where the working age population gravitates towards.
@@RandomZex Yeah, not even close. Here im germany there are still alot of young people in the rural areas, just because the living cinditions arent worse than in the City, some things are even better in the rural area, espacially for young familys. Things like a Place in a Kindergarten are way easier to get then in the City. In Japan the difference rural/urban is much more noticable.
Baseball had been introduced to Japan during the Meiji period. The Japanese spread it with their empire and it was already the most popular sport by World War II.
Hey my Favorite Jewish History teacher ! When video about Asian Jewish? Sorry i meant South East Asian Jewish where most people often ignore till this day ! I heard In Sulawesi there alot natives self convert to Judaism Alot there, you should check them out what's happening there
@João Ribeiro yeah that's Chinese Jewish history, what I said is **"the Jewish in Southeast Asia in Sulawesi aka Indonesia"** I'd like want to see does any other countries such as Malaysia, Thais, Filipinos,Vietnamese and etc does have Jewish people and history trace there?
I guess that is its most major contribution. Concerning practical inventions, they are lacking in those that have had an effect on the world, especially when compared to old India and China, though their practical contribution has been more modern with robotics and what not being used to prop up and ageing and dying nation.
I would point out that unlike America, China, Europe, India, and (now most definitely) Russia, Japan is not faced with nearly as many potential major divisions, separatist movements, wars, and/or revolutions and enjoys a relatively much higher level of political unity and stability than these other nations. Obviously because of globalism and alliances, if one of these countries crashes, so will Japan and the rest of the world to a degree. I’m just saying Japan’s far less likely than Western and authoritarian nations to completely tear itself apart in the event of a major social upheaval.
"Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there's an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese culture fascinates me: the food, the dress, the manners and the traditions. It's the travel experience that has moved me the most" --Roman Coppola
4:10 as someone whose read hirohito's biography, i think the assessment that HE personally liked or supported the expansionism is false, he was compalcent with it to a degree, but numerous times he tried to limit or outright stop it, but failed, A faction of the Imperial japanese army even wanted to repalce him with his more militarist brother, Prince Chichibu. Kominka was also started during ww2 (mass japanization) prior to that it was more autonmous, specifically in taiwan/formosa
@@TheWazzoGames he didn’t write it, the biography is also very (bias I might add) in addressing your very point, they speak on how his involvement was erased, and the biography is framed as showing why he wasn’t as innocent
much agreed, what h0ser says seems to be basically what the generalized western perception of hirohito knows and interprets out of him and his era. Compared to you I most likely don't know as much, but based on what I've seen of him so far, the guy seemed to want peace even when everyone around him wanted to go on a more militarist approach.... he deliberately kept out of politics too, letting the more military-hellbent ministers do as they pleased, and then he was crucial to the decision of ending the pacific war of ww2.
@@canyou7670 the Allies feared a Japanese revolt if they harmed any of the imperial family due to their religious importance. Even the Prince who ordered the R8P3 of Nanking, Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, was let off of the hook because of that.
As a Japanese citizen, I would like to mention a few things. It is no secret that Japan is experiencing an aging and declining population. On the other hand, this is a common issue in most developed countries. These countries are accepting large numbers of immigrants, and at this point, the challenges are not as apparent as they are in Japan. However, it will create a different kind of challenge. Many Japanese expect the challenges to be more difficult to solve those challenge than the mainstream opinion in the West. Many also argue that population decline itself should not be viewed so negatively, given Japan's limited land and resources. This is because the industry of the future will be the age of automation, and the world will be a place where cultural values are more important than the number of human beings. Strategies for the next era are moving in various aspects. For example, the number of consumer electronics products bearing the logos of Japanese companies has decreased compared to the past, because Japanese companies have shifted to the production of core parts. For example, 95% of the core parts of wifi are made in Japan, and the key materials for high-end semiconductors and semiconductor manufacturing equipment are made in Japan, creating a system in which the global supply chain stops when Japanese industry stops. In addition, although China is perceived as the rising power in Asia, Japan still exceeds China in the amount of infrastructure development assistance to Southeast Asian countries. Japan has been investing abroad the huge amount of assets it built during 70-90s, and is reinvesting the money it earns from the return profits back into Asia. This is not just charity, but a return on investment, and a great game to bring many Asian countries into the democratic camp.
Western, Central and Northern Europe offsets it to some extent using immigration but Japan doesn't get the same amount of immigrants plus Japanese society is a little bit closed and hostile to outsiders .
There are a lot of inaccuracies in this video. Japan loved baseball since long before WWII, believe it or not. It was introduced there around 1900 (I forget exactly when) and stuck. It's super easy and natural to assume baseball became popular during the American occupation, but that's why you always need to do research.
@@NAT-turners-Revenge The fact that Hirohito wasn't really the one behind all of the Japanese actions that drove them into the deadly war that was WW2. And also assuming that Japan surrendered ONLY because of the atomic bombs. History is easy to simplify, but only if you know how to do that.
@@Cheeseburgerlove The Soviet invasion of Manchuria can be considered as the main reason Japan surrendered. They were losing ground on all fronts and would prefer being occupied by the US rather than the commies
Japan could easily increase its population with less work hours and bigger houses with minimal cost to its economy. Cutting the work day by 2 hours and building houses that aren't the size of test tubes will make Japan based again. The cost to the economy can be mostly covered by automaton. Unfortunately Japanese politicians blame their problems on cultural changes, despite them being a symptom of decline. Also on oil, electric cars are the future, so oil will be reserved for more critical components.
if it was so easy to do, Japan would have achieved it for long, one of the reason of Japan's economical decline is that more and more high tech products made in Japan are replaced by made in China, it reduce many income for Japan,
@@Emilechen It is true that the foreign front is way harder however Japan can turn the tide with economic protections and support from the us and Europe. Japanese businesses have room to expand in the newer eastern European countries and if putin loses power and the Russian economy collapses/declines Japan can fill some gaps. Eastern Europe also has many left over weapons, so Japan could organize some defense deals for modernized missiles systems and ship parts.
@@mrpay4444AYypIgEDLbwfZm4kjaQk Many eastern european countries are in nato (romania, bulgaria, greece, albania) As a romanian, i don't think our country would be interested in buying newer weapons as we feel very protected because we're in nato
3:14 France: Hey cut that out. Japan: Ok, I guess we’ll just go home. WAIT A MINUTE! What are you doing? Germany: Taking advantage of a weaken China. Japan: But I was the one who weakened them. Germany: We know. Japan: And you guys didn’t let me have anything. Germany: We know. Japan: That seems unfair. Germany: We don’t think so. Ok Cya Japan: Screw this! *Goes to war with Russia.*
this is a very misleading video, they went after russia because it was russia that literally annexed the most land out of all the european powers (remember almost all of vladisvtok and the eastern most parts of russia were originally china) also they threatened japan's colony korea directly, same reason why england allied with japan, they were scared the russians were gonna threaten india.
I also think Japan followed the Germany way. Once they sent someone to Germany to learn from a philosopher. (Neither of their names I can recall.) Then they decided to declare some wars to gradually rule Asia.
German or Prussian at this time military advisor were seen as the best given their recent victory against France and having the largest professional army on the continent. Berlin had also replaced Paris as a capital of cultures and science.
3:10: I think you mean the Ryukyu Islands here. Japan took Taiwan in 1895. 8:49: Baseball entered Japan in the 1870s and was already nationally popular by the 1910s.
I love how you said "US put the democracy back up" as, up until the Tojo and his rag-tag gang of infuriatingly incompetent officers took over there was an imperial code called, 「憲政の常道」which means the emperor chooses whoever that was picked by the people through election, as the prime minister of Japan, whether the emperor himself likes the guy or not. He COULD choose whoever he likes but, chose not to as that would degrade the country into a Chinese empire-like absolute monarchy which, made apparent that they were a failure of a system through the war in 1894 and the consecutive events. Yes, the Japanese empire, practicing democracy, what a shocker.
"The elections had limited suffrage, with only male citizens 25 years of age and over, who had paid 15 Japanese Yen or more in national taxes, and who had been resident in their prefecture for at least a year, qualified to vote."
@@sinoroman In that regard yes Pre-war Japanese democracy wasn't up to standard but in 1925 the 25 yen threshold had been abolished so any men of over 25 yo could vote from then on. Women? No no, I said MEN of over 25 years old. But y'know, democracy nonetheless.
As someone who studies japan and its current problems, I'm really happy to see some optimism at least :D You man, gave me at least some hope for the future, something to believe in
As someone who lives in Japan, I suggest enjoying it while you can. With an oppressive society and a culture that does not lend itself well to innovation or change, the future for Japan is whatever the opposite of "bright" is. The sad thing is, the people realize this but are too afraid to rock the boat to do anything about it.
i still remember a japanese youtuber openly admitting that the survival strategy and also hope of societal change of most young japanese is just waiting old people with their old customs to die from old age.
@@thatundeadlegacy2985 I love japan, it's history, culture and especially language. All that said I would never want to move there. I sometimes wonder why I continue to learn japanese knowing full well that I'd never want to live and work in the country.
Now I’m a little worried for China. Can you do a video on possible trend of the Chinese economy in the next few decades? Will it gradually shrink? Or will it stagnate? Or grow slowly? Or maintain its current pace?
Now is growing slower and slower but after the explosion of their economic bubble it will start a profund period of stagnation. If they mess up, shrinking is a very real posibility due to their demographics
@@TheHolySpiritISgreat the thing to be surprised for and the thing that I find very fascinating is the fact that Japan's economy is viewed as barely growing. In my opinion the fact that despite the current rapid population decline they are not only able to avoid shrinking, but slightly growing is impressive. In other words while the collective wealth is not decreasing, the population is, meaning individual Japanese are getting richer.
You give such a tough mission of prediction requiring knowleadge of all aspects to this guy just desiring attention and not an expert of any single country he made videos about.....
japan is far from being a western nation, however it is constantly under pressure by the west, just because a country is developed doesn't make it a "western" country by any means, most what i prefer to refer as the west would be the 5 eyes countries.
@@NeostormXLMAX It’s the same argument that anime weeb use against tokusatsu and it’s tokusatsu weebs. That tokusatsu medium isn’t absolutely Japanese since it’s too Western despite the fact that tokusatsu was the major contributing factor in developing anime as the way it exist in the present.
7:15 not only were the bombs the factor. The Soviets invading Manchuria, Korea, and southern Sakhalin starting on August 9 all at once was also a major factor
“In years past, a person died, and eventually all those with memories of him or her also died, bringing about the complete erasure of that person's existence. Just as the human body returned to dust, mingling with atoms of the natural world, a person's existence would return to nothingness. How very clean. Now, as if in belated punishment for the invention of writing, any message once posted on the Internet was immortal. Words as numerous as the dust of the earth would linger forever in their millions and trillions and quadrillions and beyond.” ― Minae Mizumura,
I’m half Japanese and dude you’ve nailed the Japanese history. My grand father was in IJN naval academy when the A bomb fell. Since it’s naval academy and they’ve thought English and other no BS stuff to win the war, his drill instructor came to barrack at night to give a daily debriefing saying “we assume this new bomb is some sort of incendiary cluster bomb, however “IF” this is an atomic bomb this means Japan is 50years behind in science against USA” He said that was the first time he ever thought Japan might lose. Also my Japanese Grandmother got strafed by US plane and got radiated from Nuke dropped at Nagasaki. Crazy story is that my grandfather on US side was NAVY pilot and he went to so many raids. He was even busier after the war flying over POW camp caz US was afraid that Japanese will execute POWs. Well, that’s the story I have. War sucks, but hope is not a plan and China really hates us so we gotta be prepared.
Just remember, be sober, be vigilant. I can only hint you guys, Its A BANKERS WAR (a rich man's war). And in war, war does not determine who is right - Only whose left.
I see several mistakes (e.g. Japan attacking Pearl Harbor because of US embargo instead of the Philippines' resources, as you mentioned around the 6:36 mark - Japan was importing around 80% of oil from USA, for example). Granted, you can ignore most of them in the grand scheme of things, and regardless of such issues this video's excellent af. It's always glad to see a UA-camr I subscribed to when their channel only had 10k-ish subscribers turn out this big.
I mean ppl just can not take this channel. All vids very shallow in research, if he even did research is in question for me. Just click bait contents channel.
@@yongdol73 It's clearly not meant to be in depth lmao. The research is clearly there it's just a concise overview, it's not really clickbait you're just a needy douche.
I like how half of everyone's historical knowledge now comes from Bill Wurtz or Sam O'nella videos Edit: I feel like I should mention this isn't a jab against the video, it's a callout to anyone who has ever mentioned the Emu War
Japan's lost decade became two decades then became three decades. But even with a stagnated economy on paper, if you look into the lives of Japanese folk, yes the economy hasn't been as good as it was in the 80s but Japanese people are still doing very well and living decent lives with relatively decent standards of livings. The standard of living in Japan is still far better than the US and some Western nations and people aren't as afraid or paranoid as Americans who are constantly exposed to fearmongering by the media.
Japan may no longer be the superstar of the 90s but to many people in Asia, they really love the post-war Japan for its culture, nature, lifestyle and consumerism. In Hong Kong they call travel to Japan as "visiting the old clan villages" as a joke, in truth most people in HK have no ties to any clan village, except Japan as a spiritual one.
More like he had it coming. Promoting cults and letting them gain power leading to ordinary people's lives people being destroyed. His killer was one of the victims due to his and his grandfather's actions
The demographic collapse will undoubtedly put the entire world in an unparalleled crisis. Completely agree with you that automation is basically the only way to mitigate this, Japan will certainly be an early adopter of these new technologies (which, hopefully, will be developed, or else we'll be back to the middle ages, but with nukes :/ )
@@arnabdas7019 Yup, that's why "mitigate" and not "solve". Unfortunately there are many problems that are not going to go away unless our current trends change, and many current trends that we have no idea how to change
@nisenobody8273 Well, automation is the best form of suc mitigation since it will beutilized in most menial jobs in factories for the most part while capital could be reallocated for other sectors of industries perhaps even concerning social based jobs which has until now considered underpaid. I've read this from Jeremy Rifkin's Third Industrial Revolution. Anyone can correct me on this notion or interpersonal.
I remember seeing a poster in a classroom that had projections for the future sizes of economies in the 2000s; it had Japan as the largest economy followed by the US and some European countries lol
Russia really is a joke. The only two things making it relevant are nukes and Siberia's natural resources which are basicly almost as missmanaged as Venezuela's oil and DR Congo's rare earth materials
Most of Europe is this way. It's just trendy to point out Japan's problems on UA-cam for clicks, even if these problems are not exclusive to Japan at all...
Off topic but cant wait for the Somalia Video, can you mention its relationship with Somaliland and if they could/should ever reunite. Somalia has has varies natural resources but currently relies on fruit and animal export, which isn't great. It needs the capital to access the resources, maybe investing in solar energy and exporting it to neighbouring countries(as there is a lot of land and gets a lot of sun). Also doing more with its coast, its one its advantages but isn`t used as much as it should be. Needing a navy to stop countries fishing in their waters. exporting more fish can be great. Also being in a strategically great spot it can be a great port between the Europe via the Suez onto Asia. There is so much wasted potential due to an unfortunate history, bad leadership and tribalism.
Fun facts: The Japanese green pheasant is the national bird of Japan, and the Japanese macaque (snow monkey) is the national animal of Japan. I like the animals and I think that the pheasant was well chosen.
weird note: Japan used to fly to learn about railway system in Thailand, now we only took obsolete diesel locomotive from Japan since we are still using 50+ years locomotive aka never change since when Japan still learn from us
The Soviet Union never posed a threat to the Japanese mainland. Japan knew they weren't going to keep colonial possessions, as outlined in Japan's peace proposal to Truman in May 1945 - Which Truman declined to every US general's surprise. No US general agreed with Truman's atomic bombs either since the war was already over at this point.
@@user-pn3im5sm7k Um no? Japan wanted a conditional surrender. Of course the US said no. You don't get to enjoy a conditional surrender after genociding tens of millions of Chinese people. The US was very clear months before the bombs, nothing less than unconditional surrender would be accepted
@@AsymmetricalCrimes Yes, the only condition being they keep the emperor state. Hint: they did anyway. There is no evidence to suggest that Japan, in the middle of fighting a three front war, expended billions of dollars worth of resources and men to needless mass-scale genocide. Yes they did commit war crimes, just like us, but I'd take what the Chinese communist party claims with a grain of salt. Both the USSR & CCP have a long and proven track record of HEAVILY inflating numbers and deflating losses for propaganda purposes. Both during and after the war.
"The first to crash will be the first to recover" is a pretty big assumption. The first to crash will have no opportunity to benefit from anyone else's experience. I'm mindful of the expression "The second mouse gets the cheese".
I read recently that the government is going to pay per kid for families to move back out of cities. I think they’ve recognized that families need more space to have more kids which isn’t wrong.
the "demographic crisis" is a meme and way overstated, japan has the highest birth rate in asia and its higher than some european countries, its in no way unique go to any major japanese city outside of tokyo and youll be shocked how many mothers you see, especially in southern cities like hiroshima or in kyushu the demographic collapse is mostly a rural phenomenon
It is an extremely real problem but not a uniquely japanese, but because it was the first country to experience it people are attached to connecting Japan with bad demographics. Some others are even worse though like South Korea with a fertility rate of 0.8, far worse than Japan has ever been. Honestly I wonder about the future of human civilization given the correlation between developed status and extremely low birth rates...
Also the Japanese live an incredibly long time as the longest lived people on Earth. On the plus side they'll have the demographic collapse before anywhere else so if they handle it well they might get the edge once again 😅
Japan's elderly are also very healthy. Everyone talks about America and China but japan might yet surprise everyone and take number 1 spot at least in Asia!
Literally the only value that country have is its location with little to no exports to sell to anyone else, the government needs money and getting superpowers to put military bases there is easy money for the Djibouti government. The trade ports and military bases generate large amounts of money for the government so they are incentivized to get as many bases as possible.
@@dannyzero692 The thing is Djibouti can become Singapore of Africa and they can attract many companies who want to invest in Africa. They can be a trade hub for landlocked Ethiopia. They can be a leader in shipbuilding industry. Possibilities for Djibouti are endless imho. Yet they are really invested in this military base business :D
@@kesorangutan6170 I supposed being surrounded by countries that don’t really like it, Djibouti might have some deterrence if foreign superpower’s military bases are stationed there.
@@512TheWolf512 bruh idk what country it is or anyting about that guy but just because a president of a country don't wanna help ukraine does not mean he deserves to be assasinated
The real reason why the Japanese Empire surrendered wasn't because of the nukes, the soviets had invaded Manchuria and the emperor assumed that if the soviets conquered Japan their culture would be destroyed. They decide to surrender to the Americans as at least their ways of life would remain.
Japan at the time had deeply rooted cultural traditions and a well-defined hierarchal structure. They're also really big on heritage. I don't think it's a stretch to say that the 200,000 or so killed by the nukes is close to nothing compared to what the Soviets would have done.
it should be noted that the us was cutting off supply lines years before japan attacked pearl harbor and was basically begging to enter a war with japan war was seen as imminent and innevitable so they figured bombing the fleet in pearl harbor would buy them time while the us recouped its losses obv it was still an insane strategic blunder
Well about the birth rate.. From what I hear from my co-workers and friends... 1. boy friends / girlfriends / children are too much hassle. Keep the money and stress low. 2. Don't want to be like their parents that come home from work EVERY DAY just to eat, sleep, and pay bills. 3. The cost of living and then the additional costs raising children are too stressful and a burden, especially when child-care will cost nearly all the earned income of one of the parents (mother) when they need the double income to survive in the larger cities. 4. the gig economy barely affords rents and sometimes drinks outside, how could I think about getting married. 5. the work and social stress is so high that some friends have had several miscarriages or cannot conceive. One move to western country and was pregnant within months after family and work stress were lifted. Japan is "trying" to help with work place equality for women, it is not working... the women are still under paid and discriminated against (get the men coffee for this meeting) Japan is slowly offering visas for foreign workers (not migrants, they still need to go home after the visa is finished), it is not starting well... many smaller to mid sized companies are over-working and under-paying them for very laborious work. There is a growing concern due to the number of abuse cases. etc., etc., etc. Japan is at the cusp of a cultural revolution that is more than needed. Unfortunately, the older generation that controls the corporations and government need to go the way of the dinosaurs first. This part is happening rather anyone wants it or not. At least the children that are in grade school now will have a clean slate to work from, just not parents with deep family that had pockets like their grand parents had to fall back on. I personally root for Japan, being that it is a place that my kids call home, but I pray for the old generation to step aside and let the youth in. Have you ever gotten a demotion due to an elder employee joining the company? It happens, and they keep the old guard.
I read of a story where a westener used normal western tactics in a japanese company (hiring by skill and not age) and he got chased out of the country, despite saving the company,
@Jack Jones also, I think the cost of going full automation would be high, plus the gigantic amount of resources needed to pour into such project that may or may not become obsolete in the more near future.
Japan is a really impressive nation. Sure they did some pretty horrible things in the Second World War but their ancient history and their modern period is so interesting. The country has wonderful people, beautiful cultures and geography, and amazing food. Modern Japan is the third biggest economy in the world behind China and the USA, is a member of the G7, G20, and has given so many of American youngsters things we take for granted such as video games, food, and anime. Sure it has its issues like overworking but it can be fixed overtime. I know Japan is kinda on a right wing populist high right now with their current party but they should really embrace a new deal type thing and embrace what the United States creates for Japan after WW2.
@@QWERTY-gp8fd ahhh yes, Japan is still an imperialistic fascist miliaterstic regime committing war crimes and invasions. 🙄 You clearly know nothing about Japan. The country today is a free Democratic nation that is peaceful with a wonderful culture and people.
I’m a junior high school student in Japan. I have a question. Do you like Japan? I’m worry about the future of Japan because If Japan is hated by foreign people,Japan will be weak. I’m sorry I can’t wrote well English.
A lot of people actually really like Japan, so I don't think you need to worry too much. Be it simply because of Anime, or because of the culture, language and history, many people are interested in Japan. I think that in this case, things will be alright. By the way, even though you made a couple of mistakes, it's not difficult to understand or anything. with a little more practice I think you will have no problems typing in English. 英語上手！
Your country has done incredible work to export their culture to whole world. Japanese culture is beloved and admired by many people outside of Japan, people would love to see Japan stay powerful and become even greater. You have a lot of supporters The only people that despise Japan are the neighbors the previous Japanese military once ransacked and harmed.
One inaccuracy in the video was the Japanese cabinet was still not willing to surrender after both atomic bombings. They were banking on the fact the USSR had stayed out of the war that they could meditate a conditional surrender for them. When the USSR finally declared war against the empire they finally surrendered. The atomic bombings did help the Japanese government to save the IJA save face to prevent another possible military coup because if they hadn't the IJA or IJN would have been pissed like the prior attempts in the pre ww2 years
@@mudra5114 I mean they never had a good relationship since the birth of the USSR. Being in conflict the entire time except the last 5 years of WW2. Lol Again the only reason why Japan wanted negotiated peace was because they didn't want to loose the emperor.
@@mudra5114 yeah my point exactly 😂 It's also not like it should have came as a surprise, it didn't for Naotake Sato who was telling the war council that that the USSR was going to invade for months but they ignored him tellin him to get them to meditate a peace deal between the US and the Empire. It's actually kinda silly how out of touch of reality they were 🤣
Thanks for the concise yet well explained video. Having said that, a few points. PLEASE, don't make mockeries of the picture of Emperor Showa. These are pretty impolite even insulting to many Japanese people. Also, while the emperor himself admitted the responsibility for those war escalations, he never dictated, promoted nor liked pro war policies. Believe or not, making the peninsula as a part of Japan Empire (not a colony, which no other colonialism nations did) never produced and returned financial or resource profits back to the main land, and the government actually tried hard to regulate massive immigration flow from the peninsula. And yes, Imperial Japan decided to seek for oil in the south, but ultimately it was triggered by the severe US oil embargo. Just as a note, those oil and natural resources in the south had been totally exploited by US and European colonists for centuries by then. Virtually there were no "uncolonized" country by white masters down there other than Burma, civil-war China (excl. HKG, Macau, etc) and Japan at the time. Imperial Japan was the first and only county who officially submitted Racial Equality Proposals in the League Of Nations. Unfortunately, the official proclamation were repeatedly turned down by some big countries including British Empire and USA. Regardless that, Japan never systematically, politically or socially discriminated nor suppressed Jewish people even after making ally with Germany back then. Rather, there were a number of cases otherwise to help them escape from Nazis during that war era. I'm not a historian so there may be some inaccuracies but the above are generally true.
@@seanh1ckey I do not intend to argue with your take since it doesn’t seem to have come from hatred or one-way discrimination. You have your angle and I respect that and even agree partially. However, a point. Japan never militarily invaded Korea. Though it may have had some geopolitical and imperialistic significances, it was the internationally legitimate unification with the Korean king’s application, their congressmen/civilians majority appeal in documents and several dozen countries’ official approvals including of USA. From Japan’s standpoint, Taiwan was a gained new territory in result of war, virtually for colonisation and economical development (now, we’re very close friend nations, fyi), but not Korea. The peninsula became Japan itself (gradually yet rapidly) and even there once was a national plan of transferring Japan’s capital officially to Korea. Japan’s “war crime” over Korea is totally a misconception, and prejudiced which I cannot bear. It’s as if being asked “You were accused of an aggravated violence by a man in the bar that day, so all the other troubles, incidents and claims before/later in that area must’ve been made by you in someways, or, you shamefully deny everything like that day was all peaceful?”. Please try processing information on a history event from the participants in both sides, not always from the big crying voices.
@@seanh1ckey I like looking up sky at night. Though I’m a mere worker, I have always liked astronomy and its advancements, from the ancient myths to the up to dates by scientists with JWST every day. Before, beliefs, religious teachings and a great authority’s theory were sometimes big hindrances of new reasoning or findings. Nowadays, new and/or unknown scientists and analysts can claim any new theories for getting neutral fair verification trials. Maybe real, or wrong, a misunderstanding or even a malicious fake for money but we’ll see in time. I’ve thought it’s high time that any past event in history shall experience something similar if arguments arise, nowadays. It seems, you must have a good heart with a high education and intelligence. Yet, from this mere working class man, what you’re saying is mostly the ways of interpretation of a movie which was made for its title “Imperial Japan:| Bad, cruel and uncivilised”. The storyline was made as expected and roadshows finished. There can be some insightful psychological/cultural takes on the disgusting movie and bad guys, but they are all damned all the way anyway because it’s a bad horror movie after all. I personally do not want to think a past is not necessarily closed for competitive arguments or to different understanding, but now I am fine, that to some persons, though they’re smart, the old Japan was finished and sealed as bad with only some space for pitiful interpretations. Good day.
@@seanh1ckey Sir, you can calm down. Like I thought I already mentioned, I do not deny something or a line of event from the top to bottom. Also, I do not try to force you to change your standpoint by any kind of power. I'm not convinced, but, I give up here as I've got scared. So, I know now that there's no space or right to anyone for making any counter arguments or even an open discussion before you with 'The Truth' once you call it. And such The Truth seemingly consists of the ones with justice and/or the total honest victims who were sadly victimised by some pure evil and hopelessly dull sheeps under it. Now, just hope there may be some bystander people here with no bias or a specific opinion, yet, would find this rather long poor log somewhat meaningful to have a little courageous wider view sometimes. Even though he/she could be cursed by the self proclaimed 'Justice League' smart asses as if they are stupid 'bar fighters'.
I feel like you should've alongside the nukes put like, IDK, the command and conquer Soviet theme to signify they were also being attacked by the Soviets. Both of those things had them very concerned.
Except that the Soviets held no naval amphibious capabilities to transport even a hundred soldiers to mainland Japan. And as implied in Japan's suing for peace in May of 1945, they only cared about the emperor state being maintained (which happened anyway). They were okay with losing Manchuria, Korea, and China at this point in time.
I went to Japan a few years ago and it is hard to notice the demographic crunch until you leave the city, if you go to any suburban or rural town they are entirely filled with old people, with few children to be seen.
I think that's noticeable in quite a few developed nations tbh. I've lived all across the UK and I've noticed the same thing - the rural areas are just hordes of boomers, but the cities are much, much younger.
Cities are where the jobs are, so I guess that's where the working age population gravitates towards.
@@jamessinclair2898 although that is right,it is not that much of an extent compared to Japan
@@RandomZex Yeah, not even close. Here im germany there are still alot of young people in the rural areas, just because the living cinditions arent worse than in the City, some things are even better in the rural area, espacially for young familys. Things like a Place in a Kindergarten are way easier to get then in the City. In Japan the difference rural/urban is much more noticable.
@@TheHolladiewaldfeee true, I don't think Europe is to the extent japan is
@MattyBRaps400 sounds about right
i absolutely love the use of national animals of each country as the representation
i dont like it it just feels like it has less emotion and effort then countryballs
Ukraine's national animal isn't a bear (which is a little insensitive given the current climate), it's the Common Nightingale.
@@luanasari5161 The countryballs just looked really cute to me
@@lucinae8512 I think that isn’t a bear but some type of badger or stoat like animal
@@NoName-lf4os Still not their national animal.
Baseball had been introduced to Japan during the Meiji period. The Japanese spread it with their empire and it was already the most popular sport by World War II.
Hey my Favorite Jewish History teacher !
When video about Asian Jewish?
Sorry i meant South East Asian Jewish where most people often ignore till this day !
I heard In Sulawesi there alot natives self convert to Judaism Alot there, you should check them out what's happening there
Like for example they played a role in spreading it to their colonies of Korea and Taiwan
@João Ribeiro yeah that's Chinese Jewish history, what I said is **"the Jewish in Southeast Asia in Sulawesi aka Indonesia"**
I'd like want to see does any other countries such as Malaysia, Thais, Filipinos,Vietnamese and etc does have Jewish people and history trace there?
@João Ribeiro there only 1 actually
His name is "History Hustle"
And yes he is Dutch historian and did Indonesian history for a long time
I already saw that in "samurai shamploo"
I'm reading a book that talks about Japanese history called Pure Invention. It primarily talks about their pop culture's influence on the world stage
I guess that is its most major contribution. Concerning practical inventions, they are lacking in those that have had an effect on the world, especially when compared to old India and China, though their practical contribution has been more modern with robotics and what not being used to prop up and ageing and dying nation.
When
@@mjhhhh504 Same time periods discussed in that book as this video
@@doge.a.cat2002 when did I ask lmao diggah hahahaha
Matreso Mental age of a 10 year old confirmed
I would point out that unlike America, China, Europe, India, and (now most definitely) Russia, Japan is not faced with nearly as many potential major divisions, separatist movements, wars, and/or revolutions and enjoys a relatively much higher level of political unity and stability than these other nations. Obviously because of globalism and alliances, if one of these countries crashes, so will Japan and the rest of the world to a degree. I’m just saying Japan’s far less likely than Western and authoritarian nations to completely tear itself apart in the event of a major social upheaval.
Europe is not a nation but an alliance of nations. Of course it would be divided.
why u didnt mention africa tho
because of US presence in Japan. without America having some involvement, it would be a different story
国民の性質の問題かな
@@ii4826 there are protests all the time in okinawa..
"Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there's an inn
called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese culture
fascinates me: the food, the dress, the manners and the traditions. It's
the travel experience that has moved me the most"
--Roman Coppola
Yeah the Japanese have probably the second most developed culture imperialsm only behind the US
you are everywhere
And on history of skanderbeg
Japan is the France of Asia.
One please?
4:10 as someone whose read hirohito's biography, i think the assessment that HE personally liked or supported the expansionism is false, he was compalcent with it to a degree, but numerous times he tried to limit or outright stop it, but failed, A faction of the Imperial japanese army even wanted to repalce him with his more militarist brother, Prince Chichibu. Kominka was also started during ww2 (mass japanization) prior to that it was more autonmous, specifically in taiwan/formosa
A part of me wonders how authentic his biography is as there was an attempt following World War II to wash his image clean.
@@TheWazzoGames he didn’t write it, the biography is also very (bias I might add) in addressing your very point, they speak on how his involvement was erased, and the biography is framed as showing why he wasn’t as innocent
A Nazi guard can still be arrested today but I guess the God Emperor have its pros
much agreed, what h0ser says seems to be basically what the generalized western perception of hirohito knows and interprets out of him and his era. Compared to you I most likely don't know as much, but based on what I've seen of him so far, the guy seemed to want peace even when everyone around him wanted to go on a more militarist approach.... he deliberately kept out of politics too, letting the more military-hellbent ministers do as they pleased, and then he was crucial to the decision of ending the pacific war of ww2.
@@canyou7670 the Allies feared a Japanese revolt if they harmed any of the imperial family due to their religious importance. Even the Prince who ordered the R8P3 of Nanking, Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, was let off of the hook because of that.
As a Japanese citizen, I would like to mention a few things.
It is no secret that Japan is experiencing an aging and declining population. On the other hand, this is a common issue in most developed countries.
These countries are accepting large numbers of immigrants, and at this point, the challenges are not as apparent as they are in Japan. However, it will create a different kind of challenge. Many Japanese expect the challenges to be more difficult to solve those challenge than the mainstream opinion in the West.
Many also argue that population decline itself should not be viewed so negatively, given Japan's limited land and resources. This is because the industry of the future will be the age of automation, and the world will be a place where cultural values are more important than the number of human beings.
Strategies for the next era are moving in various aspects.
For example, the number of consumer electronics products bearing the logos of Japanese companies has decreased compared to the past, because Japanese companies have shifted to the production of core parts. For example, 95% of the core parts of wifi are made in Japan, and the key materials for high-end semiconductors and semiconductor manufacturing equipment are made in Japan, creating a system in which the global supply chain stops when Japanese industry stops.
In addition, although China is perceived as the rising power in Asia, Japan still exceeds China in the amount of infrastructure development assistance to Southeast Asian countries.
Japan has been investing abroad the huge amount of assets it built during 70-90s, and is reinvesting the money it earns from the return profits back into Asia.
This is not just charity, but a return on investment, and a great game to bring many Asian countries into the democratic camp.
I just concerned you guys dont get too depressed and disappear on us!! Like come on!
すっご
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I think you would be right about that if the government slashed welfare benefits for the elderly
Western, Central and Northern Europe offsets it to some extent using immigration but Japan doesn't get the same amount of immigrants plus Japanese society is a little bit closed and hostile to outsiders .
There are a lot of inaccuracies in this video. Japan loved baseball since long before WWII, believe it or not. It was introduced there around 1900 (I forget exactly when) and stuck.
It's super easy and natural to assume baseball became popular during the American occupation, but that's why you always need to do research.
So, far you've mentioned *ONE* and the rest are?
@@NAT-turners-Revenge The fact that Hirohito wasn't really the one behind all of the Japanese actions that drove them into the deadly war that was WW2.
And also assuming that Japan surrendered ONLY because of the atomic bombs.
History is easy to simplify, but only if you know how to do that.
@@kowa8846 so what are the other reasons japan surrendered ?
@@Cheeseburgerlove The Soviet invasion of Manchuria can be considered as the main reason Japan surrendered. They were losing ground on all fronts and would prefer being occupied by the US rather than the commies
@@kowa8846 k
Japan could easily increase its population with less work hours and bigger houses with minimal cost to its economy. Cutting the work day by 2 hours and building houses that aren't the size of test tubes will make Japan based again. The cost to the economy can be mostly covered by automaton.
Unfortunately Japanese politicians blame their problems on cultural changes, despite them being a symptom of decline. Also on oil, electric cars are the future, so oil will be reserved for more critical components.
How about better metro and more better design infrastructure?
if it was so easy to do, Japan would have achieved it for long,
one of the reason of Japan's economical decline is that more and more high tech products made in Japan are replaced by made in China,
it reduce many income for Japan,
@@Emilechen It is true that the foreign front is way harder however Japan can turn the tide with economic protections and support from the us and Europe.
Japanese businesses have room to expand in the newer eastern European countries and if putin loses power and the Russian economy collapses/declines Japan can fill some gaps.
Eastern Europe also has many left over weapons, so Japan could organize some defense deals for modernized missiles systems and ship parts.
@@mrpay4444AYypIgEDLbwfZm4kjaQk Many eastern european countries are in nato (romania, bulgaria, greece, albania)
As a romanian, i don't think our country would be interested in buying newer weapons as we feel very protected because we're in nato
Well it the birth rate would still be low because 1st world countries have low birth rates but it wouldn't be as bad
3:14
France: Hey cut that out.
Japan: Ok, I guess we’ll just go home. WAIT A MINUTE! What are you doing?
Germany: Taking advantage of a weaken China.
Japan: But I was the one who weakened them.
Germany: We know.
Japan: And you guys didn’t let me have anything.
Germany: We know.
Japan: That seems unfair.
Germany: We don’t think so. Ok Cya
Japan: Screw this! *Goes to war with Russia.*
Was this an oversimplified video? I think WW2 or the Russian revolution?
@@kd4n347 yes it is. WW2
@@lucianoosorio5942 Am I the only one who heard over simplifieds voice while reading this
@@RMSAquitaniafan55 nope
this is a very misleading video,
they went after russia because it was russia that literally annexed the most land out of all the european powers (remember almost all of vladisvtok and the eastern most parts of russia were originally china)
also they threatened japan's colony korea directly,
same reason why england allied with japan, they were scared the russians were gonna threaten india.
I also think Japan followed the Germany way. Once they sent someone to Germany to learn from a philosopher. (Neither of their names I can recall.) Then they decided to declare some wars to gradually rule Asia.
German or Prussian at this time military advisor were seen as the best given their recent victory against France and having the largest professional army on the continent. Berlin had also replaced Paris as a capital of cultures and science.
Nietzsche and Hegel?
@@DarkshadowXD63 the Franco-Prussian War can be thanked for that. French military advisors went from being sought after to being a joke.
they followed too late, if they did what britain did in the 1800s instead of 1900s all of asia would be speaking japanese
@@newstartyt3700 Definitely Nietzche.
I appreciate that you've made the change of using animals with the flag pattern on them rather then the WILDLY overused 'countryballs'
Cuntryballz
no countryballs is better it has more emotion and effort put into it
As a countryball fan, I agree with u, there has to be more diversity on countries’ depictions
I like the animals more, fits better with his videos
@@luanasari5161 you're saying it takes more effort to draw a ball than to draw a wild animal? do you perhaps have a lack of braincells currently?
3:10: I think you mean the Ryukyu Islands here. Japan took Taiwan in 1895.
8:49: Baseball entered Japan in the 1870s and was already nationally popular by the 1910s.
Yes, but Japan DID invade Taiwan in the 1870s under the mudan incident but only as a punitive measure, baseball was way more popular after occupation
Japan invaded Ryukyu during the 1600s or 1700s I think
@@dcc2278 1600s
sad for the ryukyu people. their language and culture are different from yamato people
@@sinoroman yet they doesn't problem with this, even there still have some Ryukyu cultures and like with Yamato people
I love how you said "US put the democracy back up" as, up until the Tojo and his rag-tag gang of infuriatingly incompetent officers took over there was an imperial code called,
「憲政の常道」which means the emperor chooses whoever that was picked by the people through election, as the prime minister of Japan, whether the emperor himself likes the guy or not.
He COULD choose whoever he likes but, chose not to as that would degrade the country into a Chinese empire-like absolute monarchy which, made apparent that they were a failure of a system through the war in 1894 and the consecutive events.
Yes, the Japanese empire, practicing democracy, what a shocker.
The Japanese empire also ended slavery in Korea when they got there.
@waaew 3wqwa it was.
"The elections had limited suffrage, with only male citizens 25 years of age and over, who had paid 15 Japanese Yen or more in national taxes, and who had been resident in their prefecture for at least a year, qualified to vote."
republic and democracy are not the same thing. before 1900, the US was just a republic. after universal suffrage, America became an indirect democracy
@@sinoroman
In that regard yes Pre-war Japanese democracy wasn't up to standard but in 1925 the 25 yen threshold had been abolished so any men of over 25 yo could vote from then on.
Women? No no, I said MEN of over 25 years old.
But y'know, democracy nonetheless.
Love these videos!! I really like how it is very educational with a few comedic bits that make it much more interesting
The need for raw materials has always haunted japan since Meiji times.
As someone who studies japan and its current problems, I'm really happy to see some optimism at least :D
You man, gave me at least some hope for the future, something to believe in
As someone who lives in Japan, I suggest enjoying it while you can. With an oppressive society and a culture that does not lend itself well to innovation or change, the future for Japan is whatever the opposite of "bright" is. The sad thing is, the people realize this but are too afraid to rock the boat to do anything about it.
thanks for not being a compelte fanboy, it would be depressing to work there,.
i still remember a japanese youtuber openly admitting that the survival strategy and also hope of societal change of most young japanese is just waiting old people with their old customs to die from old age.
@@thatundeadlegacy2985 I love japan, it's history, culture and especially language. All that said I would never want to move there. I sometimes wonder why I continue to learn japanese knowing full well that I'd never want to live and work in the country.
I mean the last time Japan rocked the boat you guys kinda got a little too ambitious and literally had the sun dropped on you
@@morrisshrem6378 nah fusion thermonuclears were invented later. Japan bombs were just fission bombs
Now I’m a little worried for China. Can you do a video on possible trend of the Chinese economy in the next few decades? Will it gradually shrink? Or will it stagnate? Or grow slowly? Or maintain its current pace?
Now is growing slower and slower but after the explosion of their economic bubble it will start a profund period of stagnation. If they mess up, shrinking is a very real posibility due to their demographics
@@ffls2706 so 1990 Japan? Also this probably means Japan will go back to pre 1990 status but not with elusive 12% gdp growth
You don't underestimate the Might of Communism! Tenshō Taiyō...
@@TheHolySpiritISgreat the thing to be surprised for and the thing that I find very fascinating is the fact that Japan's economy is viewed as barely growing. In my opinion the fact that despite the current rapid population decline they are not only able to avoid shrinking, but slightly growing is impressive. In other words while the collective wealth is not decreasing, the population is, meaning individual Japanese are getting richer.
You give such a tough mission of prediction requiring knowleadge of all aspects to this guy just desiring attention and not an expert of any single country he made videos about.....
As someone who went to Japan, the place is truely fascinating, though a ‘western’ nation, it’s still amazing to see an entirely different culture.
japan is far from being a western nation, however it is constantly under pressure by the west,
just because a country is developed doesn't make it a "western" country by any means, most what i prefer to refer as the west would be the 5 eyes countries.
@@NeostormXLMAX Its western. f off with you "under pressure"
Obviously The west lives rent free in your head.
@@NeostormXLMAX
It’s the same argument that anime weeb use against tokusatsu and it’s tokusatsu weebs. That tokusatsu medium isn’t absolutely Japanese since it’s too Western despite the fact that tokusatsu was the major contributing factor in developing anime as the way it exist in the present.
@@NeostormXLMAX It's only considered western because is an ally/under the protection of the United States
It's not Western but it got Westernized so fast (Meiji period onwards)
7:15 not only were the bombs the factor. The Soviets invading Manchuria, Korea, and southern Sakhalin starting on August 9 all at once was also a major factor
There's a strong argument that the bombs had no effect, as they were no worse than the Firebombing campaigns by the USAAF
true
“In years past, a person died, and eventually all those with memories of him or her also died, bringing about the complete erasure of that person's existence. Just as the human body returned to dust, mingling with atoms of the natural world, a person's existence would return to nothingness.
How very clean.
Now, as if in belated punishment for the invention of writing, any message once posted on the Internet was immortal. Words as numerous as the dust of the earth would linger forever in their millions and trillions and quadrillions and beyond.”
― Minae Mizumura,
That is, until The carrington event happens.
@@MrTigracho The world's gonna have a lot worse things to worry about than lost twitter posts if the power grid permanently fails
I’m half Japanese and dude you’ve nailed the Japanese history.
My grand father was in IJN naval academy when the A bomb fell. Since it’s naval academy and they’ve thought English and other no BS stuff to win the war, his drill instructor came to barrack at night to give a daily debriefing saying
“we assume this new bomb is some sort of incendiary cluster bomb, however “IF” this is an atomic bomb this means Japan is 50years behind in science against USA”
He said that was the first time he ever thought Japan might lose.
Also my Japanese Grandmother got strafed by US plane and got radiated from Nuke dropped at Nagasaki.
Crazy story is that my grandfather on US side was NAVY pilot and he went to so many raids. He was even busier after the war flying over POW camp caz US was afraid that Japanese will execute POWs.
Well, that’s the story I have.
War sucks, but hope is not a plan and China really hates us so we gotta be prepared.
Ah, also my Japanese side used to own a coal mine and fortune but it was all gone after the war due to saving limitation.
Just remember, be sober, be vigilant. I can only hint you guys, Its A BANKERS WAR (a rich man's war). And in war, war does not determine who is right - Only whose left.
The baseball thing you got wrong. BAseball was wildly popular before WW2.. Even Jim Thorpe played baseball there at one point in his career.
I see several mistakes (e.g. Japan attacking Pearl Harbor because of US embargo instead of the Philippines' resources, as you mentioned around the 6:36 mark - Japan was importing around 80% of oil from USA, for example). Granted, you can ignore most of them in the grand scheme of things, and regardless of such issues this video's excellent af. It's always glad to see a UA-camr I subscribed to when their channel only had 10k-ish subscribers turn out this big.
I mean ppl just can not take this channel. All vids very shallow in research, if he even did research is in question for me. Just click bait contents channel.
He doesn’t even mention the treaty of Versailles where the West refused to sign in the racial equality clause which Japan wanted.
Boi, your revisionist history is unamusing.
@@earlysda What's revisionist about it?
@@yongdol73 It's clearly not meant to be in depth lmao. The research is clearly there it's just a concise overview, it's not really clickbait you're just a needy douche.
I like how half of everyone's historical knowledge now comes from Bill Wurtz or Sam O'nella videos
Edit: I feel like I should mention this isn't a jab against the video, it's a callout to anyone who has ever mentioned the Emu War
Extinction egg
Well until Sam took a break
Extra history, oversimplified, alternatehistoryhub, reaction channels like mr terry and vth etc...
It's kind'a sad in a way
Man, I miss sam...
This is probably your greatest video to date
Japan's lost decade became two decades then became three decades. But even with a stagnated economy on paper, if you look into the lives of Japanese folk, yes the economy hasn't been as good as it was in the 80s but Japanese people are still doing very well and living decent lives with relatively decent standards of livings. The standard of living in Japan is still far better than the US and some Western nations and people aren't as afraid or paranoid as Americans who are constantly exposed to fearmongering by the media.
Marcus, your comment about Japanese standard of living is almost amusing.
Where did you learn such nonsense?
Having lived in Japan and USthe standard of living in Japan is much lower than the US. I don't understand your arguments.
@@terry3872 Terry speaks truth!
@risingscorchingsun2270 better GDP doesn't equal to better walfare
@risingscorchingsun2270 yah
There a 4 types of countries:
a. Developed countries
b. Underdeveloped countries
c. Japan
d. Argentina
- Simon Kuznets
Japan is a Developed Country and Argentina is a Corrupt Country
😂
Japan may no longer be the superstar of the 90s but to many people in Asia, they really love the post-war Japan for its culture, nature, lifestyle and consumerism. In Hong Kong they call travel to Japan as "visiting the old clan villages" as a joke, in truth most people in HK have no ties to any clan village, except Japan as a spiritual one.
RIP Shinzo Abe
More like he had it coming. Promoting cults and letting them gain power leading to ordinary people's lives people being destroyed. His killer was one of the victims due to his and his grandfather's actions
The demographic collapse will undoubtedly put the entire world in an unparalleled crisis. Completely agree with you that automation is basically the only way to mitigate this, Japan will certainly be an early adopter of these new technologies (which, hopefully, will be developed, or else we'll be back to the middle ages, but with nukes :/ )
automation does not solve the demand side of the problem.
@@arnabdas7019 Yup, that's why "mitigate" and not "solve". Unfortunately there are many problems that are not going to go away unless our current trends change, and many current trends that we have no idea how to change
@nisenobody8273 Well, automation is the best form of suc mitigation since it will beutilized in most menial jobs in factories for the most part while capital could be reallocated for other sectors of industries perhaps even concerning social based jobs which has until now considered underpaid.
I've read this from Jeremy Rifkin's Third Industrial Revolution. Anyone can correct me on this notion or interpersonal.
I remember seeing a poster in a classroom that had projections for the future sizes of economies in the 2000s; it had Japan as the largest economy followed by the US and some European countries lol
Dude these videos are amazing
Japan will rise again?
Thank you!
it cheers me up
Another quality video man this is great
Surprising is that Japan is quite popular among a great deal of ppl and is talked about thereby...
The fact that he gave a reference to his predecessor, Bill
12:19
H0ser: Mentions Japan about death surpassing and shrinking economy.
Russia: Am I a joke to you?
Russia really is a joke. The only two things making it relevant are nukes and Siberia's natural resources which are basicly almost as missmanaged as Venezuela's oil and DR Congo's rare earth materials
Most of Europe is this way. It's just trendy to point out Japan's problems on UA-cam for clicks, even if these problems are not exclusive to Japan at all...
The title reminded me of an old Brain4Breakfast video
Rest in Peace man 🙏
b4b was great, RIP to an amazing youtuber
same
sad that more youtubers are dying of cancer now
@@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500 technoblade :(
Off topic but cant wait for the Somalia Video, can you mention its relationship with Somaliland and if they could/should ever reunite. Somalia has has varies natural resources but currently relies on fruit and animal export, which isn't great.
It needs the capital to access the resources, maybe investing in solar energy and exporting it to neighbouring countries(as there is a lot of land and gets a lot of sun). Also doing more with its coast, its one its advantages but isn`t used as much as it should be. Needing a navy to stop countries fishing in their waters. exporting more fish can be great. Also being in a strategically great spot it can be a great port between the Europe via the Suez onto Asia.
There is so much wasted potential due to an unfortunate history, bad leadership and tribalism.
Fun facts: The Japanese green pheasant is the national bird of Japan, and the Japanese macaque (snow monkey) is the national animal of Japan. I like the animals and I think that the pheasant was well chosen.
weird note: Japan used to fly to learn about railway system in Thailand, now we only took obsolete diesel locomotive from Japan since we are still using 50+ years locomotive aka never change since when Japan still learn from us
maybe it was left for the event
@@A119x it's not maybe when the scene was worse than India
I knew all of this, but the way you presented it made me watch it anyway :)
just when i revisit your videos, you upload a new one... thank you good sir!
Awesome video as usual
You completely omitted the Soviet occupation of the northern islands and pressure they presented in ending WWII. Most people do though
Ahhh yes when the soviets swooped in for like 5 months totally contributed alot
The Soviet Union never posed a threat to the Japanese mainland. Japan knew they weren't going to keep colonial possessions, as outlined in Japan's peace proposal to Truman in May 1945 - Which Truman declined to every US general's surprise. No US general agreed with Truman's atomic bombs either since the war was already over at this point.
@@user-pn3im5sm7k Um no? Japan wanted a conditional surrender. Of course the US said no. You don't get to enjoy a conditional surrender after genociding tens of millions of Chinese people. The US was very clear months before the bombs, nothing less than unconditional surrender would be accepted
@@AsymmetricalCrimes Yes, the only condition being they keep the emperor state. Hint: they did anyway.
There is no evidence to suggest that Japan, in the middle of fighting a three front war, expended billions of dollars worth of resources and men to needless mass-scale genocide. Yes they did commit war crimes, just like us, but I'd take what the Chinese communist party claims with a grain of salt. Both the USSR & CCP have a long and proven track record of HEAVILY inflating numbers and deflating losses for propaganda purposes. Both during and after the war.
"The first to crash will be the first to recover" is a pretty big assumption. The first to crash will have no opportunity to benefit from anyone else's experience. I'm mindful of the expression "The second mouse gets the cheese".
Could you make a video of countries that would collapse soon?
Good stuff! Mate you could hit tens of k's if the design was somewhat smoother
Please do Portugal!! Love yours videos ❤️
I read recently that the government is going to pay per kid for families to move back out of cities. I think they’ve recognized that families need more space to have more kids which isn’t wrong.
Great video! Love the hand drawn animation
The Rice and Fall and Rice and Fall and Rice of Japan
These videos are amazing
the "demographic crisis" is a meme and way overstated, japan has the highest birth rate in asia and its higher than some european countries, its in no way unique
go to any major japanese city outside of tokyo and youll be shocked how many mothers you see, especially in southern cities like hiroshima or in kyushu
the demographic collapse is mostly a rural phenomenon
It is an extremely real problem but not a uniquely japanese, but because it was the first country to experience it people are attached to connecting Japan with bad demographics. Some others are even worse though like South Korea with a fertility rate of 0.8, far worse than Japan has ever been. Honestly I wonder about the future of human civilization given the correlation between developed status and extremely low birth rates...
Also the Japanese live an incredibly long time as the longest lived people on Earth. On the plus side they'll have the demographic collapse before anywhere else so if they handle it well they might get the edge once again 😅
dayum,, its simple yet clear and correct conclusion
7:11 “I’ll make you bend the knee in round 2 like Nagasaki.” Thanos
damnn i haven't watched since u were at like 10k, its nice to see you with a checkmark! Keep it up man
Japan's elderly are also very healthy. Everyone talks about America and China but japan
might yet surprise everyone and take number 1 spot at least in Asia!
Starting RIGHT of the bat with the bill wurtz reference. Instant 5 stars.
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Plz make a spanish American war vid! Love yur vids, keep up the great work ❤
Great video!
You should make a video about Djibouti. Why it has so many military bases?
Literally the only value that country have is its location with little to no exports to sell to anyone else, the government needs money and getting superpowers to put military bases there is easy money for the Djibouti government. The trade ports and military bases generate large amounts of money for the government so they are incentivized to get as many bases as possible.
@@dannyzero692 The thing is Djibouti can become Singapore of Africa and they can attract many companies who want to invest in Africa. They can be a trade hub for landlocked Ethiopia. They can be a leader in shipbuilding industry. Possibilities for Djibouti are endless imho. Yet they are really invested in this military base business :D
@@kesorangutan6170 I supposed being surrounded by countries that don’t really like it, Djibouti might have some deterrence if foreign superpower’s military bases are stationed there.
@@dannyzero692 yeah that makes sense
Love the video title, keep up the good work my dude
日本人は悲観的でみんなこの国は終わりだと思っているとこが強み
I like your style of portraying countries as animals, creative
and Shinzo Abe just got shot. what the hell
And in local subreddit of my country, eb1l redditors there suggesting a same act towards our president. Dahelll
@@helmutkruger1192 is that Olaf sholtz? I agree with them. With how he avoids helping Ukraine in any way he can.
@@512TheWolf512 bruh idk what country it is or anyting about that guy but just because a president of a country don't wanna help ukraine does not mean he deserves to be assasinated
Can u do a similar vid about italy??
I'am suprised that the traders were below the farmers in their class-system.
It makes sence when they were isolantionists and I think it had to do something with traders not creating any value
It was simply because they were afraid of a peasant rebellion.
Amazing video
as someone who is japanese, i dont really appreciate the atomic bomb jokes. There are family and friends that because of that i dont have today.
自分は日系ので、そのためも殺的な米帝国が大嫌い、祖先は強制収容所で拘留させられたんだ、帝国は日本から永遠に離れらなきゃ。
負けたからしゃーない
I love your work they are informative and funny
8:50 Baseball was popular in Japan long before the post-WWII US occupation.
The real reason why the Japanese Empire surrendered wasn't because of the nukes, the soviets had invaded Manchuria and the emperor assumed that if the soviets conquered Japan their culture would be destroyed. They decide to surrender to the Americans as at least their ways of life would remain.
Japan at the time had deeply rooted cultural traditions and a well-defined hierarchal structure. They're also really big on heritage. I don't think it's a stretch to say that the 200,000 or so killed by the nukes is close to nothing compared to what the Soviets would have done.
@@water1374 exactly
@@pairy5420Ahhh yes taking the complete blame for something that was done together
The Soviets couldn't invade Japan. They had no naval capability to do so.
@@user-pn3im5sm7k The US destoryed the Japanese navy,
it should be noted that the us was cutting off supply lines years before japan attacked pearl harbor and was basically begging to enter a war with japan
war was seen as imminent and innevitable so they figured bombing the fleet in pearl harbor would buy them time while the us recouped its losses
obv it was still an insane strategic blunder
Interesting video
Well about the birth rate..
From what I hear from my co-workers and friends...
1. boy friends / girlfriends / children are too much hassle. Keep the money and stress low.
2. Don't want to be like their parents that come home from work EVERY DAY just to eat, sleep, and pay bills.
3. The cost of living and then the additional costs raising children are too stressful and a burden, especially when child-care will cost nearly all the earned income of one of the parents (mother) when they need the double income to survive in the larger cities.
4. the gig economy barely affords rents and sometimes drinks outside, how could I think about getting married.
5. the work and social stress is so high that some friends have had several miscarriages or cannot conceive. One move to western country and was pregnant within months after family and work stress were lifted.
Japan is "trying" to help with work place equality for women, it is not working... the women are still under paid and discriminated against (get the men coffee for this meeting)
Japan is slowly offering visas for foreign workers (not migrants, they still need to go home after the visa is finished), it is not starting well... many smaller to mid sized companies are over-working and under-paying them for very laborious work. There is a growing concern due to the number of abuse cases.
etc., etc., etc.
Japan is at the cusp of a cultural revolution that is more than needed.
Unfortunately, the older generation that controls the corporations and government need to go the way of the dinosaurs first.
This part is happening rather anyone wants it or not.
At least the children that are in grade school now will have a clean slate to work from, just not parents with deep family that had pockets like their grand parents had to fall back on.
I personally root for Japan, being that it is a place that my kids call home, but I pray for the old generation to step aside and let the youth in.
Have you ever gotten a demotion due to an elder employee joining the company? It happens, and they keep the old guard.
The issue with Japan's unrivaled work ethic is that it eventually kills itself without leaving a replacement
as usual for a white foreigner, talking about stuff without having a clue
@@lolithighs i dont think they mean an elder as in experienced, but rather they instate them solely because of age
I read of a story where a westener used normal western tactics in a japanese company (hiring by skill and not age) and he got chased out of the country, despite saving the company,
Love the bill wurths reference at the start
Japan rises and falls like the sun, that’s why they call it the sunrise kingdom
This is the 1000th comment, also, love this type of content
Their population may be falling but I think they'd make it up for total automation of their entire country - from factories to social services.
Also by outsourcing their production.
The issue with population declines is they are the result of hypergamy, which is irreversible
@Jack Jones also, I think the cost of going full automation would be high, plus the gigantic amount of resources needed to pour into such project that may or may not become obsolete in the more near future.
this is the first video by hoser in a while where he speculates a good ending for a country
Japan is a really impressive nation. Sure they did some pretty horrible things in the Second World War but their ancient history and their modern period is so interesting. The country has wonderful people, beautiful cultures and geography, and amazing food. Modern Japan is the third biggest economy in the world behind China and the USA, is a member of the G7, G20, and has given so many of American youngsters things we take for granted such as video games, food, and anime. Sure it has its issues like overworking but it can be fixed overtime. I know Japan is kinda on a right wing populist high right now with their current party but they should really embrace a new deal type thing and embrace what the United States creates for Japan after WW2.
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Kishidanomics!
dont make mistake. this is still same japan from ww2. dont let their propaganda blind u.
@@QWERTY-gp8fd ahhh yes, Japan is still an imperialistic fascist miliaterstic regime committing war crimes and invasions. 🙄
You clearly know nothing about Japan. The country today is a free Democratic nation that is peaceful with a wonderful culture and people.
@@PremierCCGuyMMXVI
u mean kept in check by other world powers?
u just described usa.
The most proud moment of my life was expecting the Bill Wurtz reference at the start
I’m a junior high school student in Japan. I have a question.
Do you like Japan?
I’m worry about the future of Japan because If Japan is hated by foreign people,Japan will be weak. I’m sorry I can’t wrote well English.
We foreigners r even more fascinated by ur country than even our owns, u know
A lot of people actually really like Japan, so I don't think you need to worry too much. Be it simply because of Anime, or because of the culture, language and history, many people are interested in Japan. I think that in this case, things will be alright.
By the way, even though you made a couple of mistakes, it's not difficult to understand or anything. with a little more practice I think you will have no problems typing in English. 英語上手！
@@ssjcrafter8842
Thank you for your reply.
I want to learn English to talk with you.
Your country has done incredible work to export their culture to whole world. Japanese culture is beloved and admired by many people outside of Japan, people would love to see Japan stay powerful and become even greater. You have a lot of supporters
The only people that despise Japan are the neighbors the previous Japanese military once ransacked and harmed.
absolutely KILLER title
One inaccuracy in the video was the Japanese cabinet was still not willing to surrender after both atomic bombings. They were banking on the fact the USSR had stayed out of the war that they could meditate a conditional surrender for them. When the USSR finally declared war against the empire they finally surrendered. The atomic bombings did help the Japanese government to save the IJA save face to prevent another possible military coup because if they hadn't the IJA or IJN would have been pissed like the prior attempts in the pre ww2 years
That is because the Soviets backstabbed the Japanese by discontinuing the Soviet Japanese non Aggression pact.
@@mudra5114 I mean they never had a good relationship since the birth of the USSR. Being in conflict the entire time except the last 5 years of WW2. Lol
Again the only reason why Japan wanted negotiated peace was because they didn't want to loose the emperor.
@@d3thkn1ghtmcgee74 They did not have a good relationship since the Tzarist period. But the pact was discontinued, never the less.
@@mudra5114 yeah my point exactly 😂
It's also not like it should have came as a surprise, it didn't for Naotake Sato who was telling the war council that that the USSR was going to invade for months but they ignored him tellin him to get them to meditate a peace deal between the US and the Empire. It's actually kinda silly how out of touch of reality they were 🤣
This helped me fall asleep
Thanks for the concise yet well explained video. Having said that, a few points.
PLEASE, don't make mockeries of the picture of Emperor Showa. These are pretty impolite even insulting to many Japanese people.
Also, while the emperor himself admitted the responsibility for those war escalations, he never dictated, promoted nor liked pro war policies.
Believe or not, making the peninsula as a part of Japan Empire (not a colony, which no other colonialism nations did) never produced and returned financial or resource profits back to the main land, and the government actually tried hard to regulate massive immigration flow from the peninsula.
And yes, Imperial Japan decided to seek for oil in the south, but ultimately it was triggered by the severe US oil embargo. Just as a note, those oil and natural resources in the south had been totally exploited by US and European colonists for centuries by then. Virtually there were no "uncolonized" country by white masters down there other than Burma, civil-war China (excl. HKG, Macau, etc) and Japan at the time.
Imperial Japan was the first and only county who officially submitted Racial Equality Proposals in the League Of Nations. Unfortunately, the official proclamation were repeatedly turned down by some big countries including British Empire and USA. Regardless that, Japan never systematically, politically or socially discriminated nor suppressed Jewish people even after making ally with Germany back then. Rather, there were a number of cases otherwise to help them escape from Nazis during that war era.
I'm not a historian so there may be some inaccuracies but the above are generally true.
So sad to see a developed nation still have so many people believing in an imperialist worldview.
@@seanh1ckey I do not intend to argue with your take since it doesn’t seem to have come from hatred or one-way discrimination. You have your angle and I respect that and even agree partially.
However, a point. Japan never militarily invaded Korea. Though it may have had some geopolitical and imperialistic significances, it was the internationally legitimate unification with the Korean king’s application, their congressmen/civilians majority appeal in documents and several dozen countries’ official approvals including of USA.
From Japan’s standpoint, Taiwan was a gained new territory in result of war, virtually for colonisation and economical development (now, we’re very close friend nations, fyi), but not Korea. The peninsula became Japan itself (gradually yet rapidly) and even there once was a national plan of transferring Japan’s capital officially to Korea. Japan’s “war crime” over Korea is totally a misconception, and prejudiced which I cannot bear.
It’s as if being asked “You were accused of an aggravated violence by a man in the bar that day, so all the other troubles, incidents and claims before/later in that area must’ve been made by you in someways, or, you shamefully deny everything like that day was all peaceful?”. Please try processing information on a history event from the participants in both sides, not always from the big crying voices.
@@seanh1ckey I like looking up sky at night. Though I’m a mere worker, I have always liked astronomy and its advancements, from the ancient myths to the up to dates by scientists with JWST every day. Before, beliefs, religious teachings and a great authority’s theory were sometimes big hindrances of new reasoning or findings.
Nowadays, new and/or unknown scientists and analysts can claim any new theories for getting neutral fair verification trials. Maybe real, or wrong, a misunderstanding or even a malicious fake for money but we’ll see in time.
I’ve thought it’s high time that any past event in history shall experience something similar if arguments arise, nowadays.
It seems, you must have a good heart with a high education and intelligence. Yet, from this mere working class man, what you’re saying is mostly the ways of interpretation of a movie which was made for its title “Imperial Japan:| Bad, cruel and uncivilised”. The storyline was made as expected and roadshows finished. There can be some insightful psychological/cultural takes on the disgusting movie and bad guys, but they are all damned all the way anyway because it’s a bad horror movie after all.
I personally do not want to think a past is not necessarily closed for competitive arguments or to different understanding, but now I am fine, that to some persons, though they’re smart, the old Japan was finished and sealed as bad with only some space for pitiful interpretations. Good day.
@@seanh1ckey Sir, you can calm down. Like I thought I already mentioned, I do not deny something or a line of event from the top to bottom. Also, I do not try to force you to change your standpoint by any kind of power. I'm not convinced, but, I give up here as I've got scared.
So, I know now that there's no space or right to anyone for making any counter arguments or even an open discussion before you with 'The Truth' once you call it. And such The Truth seemingly consists of the ones with justice and/or the total honest victims who were sadly victimised by some pure evil and hopelessly dull sheeps under it.
Now, just hope there may be some bystander people here with no bias or a specific opinion, yet, would find this rather long poor log somewhat meaningful to have a little courageous wider view sometimes. Even though he/she could be cursed by the self proclaimed 'Justice League' smart asses as if they are stupid 'bar fighters'.
This is the calmest arguement i have ever found after clicking "newest first" holy hell
I love the different video game tracks that play in the backgrounds of these videos lol
I believe JAPAN will rise again...!!
Then fall after that :P
@@youwayo Sounds like China.
@@youwayo Sounds like the story of humanity
Very interesting video!
when u realise the bird looks like shen from kung fu panda 2
Omg I didn’t notice that lol
how does this guy only have 400k subs? The content is great.
I feel like you should've alongside the nukes put like, IDK, the command and conquer Soviet theme to signify they were also being attacked by the Soviets. Both of those things had them very concerned.
Ahh yes soviets were making them scared
Except that the Soviets held no naval amphibious capabilities to transport even a hundred soldiers to mainland Japan.
And as implied in Japan's suing for peace in May of 1945, they only cared about the emperor state being maintained (which happened anyway). They were okay with losing Manchuria, Korea, and China at this point in time.
nice video!!!
Yo I'm 2 min into the video and there's like 7 Bill Wurtz references already whao
do something on uzbekistan !! love your videos