The Japanese INSANITY Of WW2 Fully Documented
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- The Full story of Japan's Wartime Exploits from 1937 to 1945.
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Chapters:
0:00 2nd Sino-Japanese War
7:47 Japanese Supremacy
8:18 History’s Most Evil & Amoral Army?
12:11 Japan's Brutal Basic Training
14:47 How They Lost Grip on their Asian Empire
26:16 Why some Koreans Became as Brutal as their Japanese Occupiers
31:55 The Sandakan Death March
42:32 Suicidal Japanese Inventions
51:26 How Effective Were Japanese Suicide Tactics Actually?
1:15:32 Why the Japanese ARMY Still Didn’t Want to Surrender After Being Nuked Twice
1:24:47 The Brutality of the Japanese Secret Police
1:34:38 More Atrocities
1:43:54 Unit 731
1:47:24 Not all Were Bad
Call of Duty World At War really did capture the insanity of the Imperial Japanese Forces when facing them in battle during single player campaign missions.
so basically means you are dumb 16 year old child.
sorry did not intend to post reply to you sir. My mistake.
@@reneprovosty7032 It's cool. No problem.
No kidding they scare me.
Curtis Le May -
"The Japanese were a curious race, somewhere between children and devils."
I read that Yamashita was constantly disobeyed when it came to treatment of the civilian population and he urged decent treatment to the point where he was punished several times by the army. He ended up being lumped up with all the war criminals and killed anyway but he probably should not have been.
This is true, he even went so far as calling natives of colonized territories as citizens of Japan
@@krishnarao3740Which is rare since his peer officers regard those they colonized as subhumans.
Japanese atrocities are the only ones where I fealt visibly ill just reading about, and its a case where I couldn't blame allied soldiers for lack of mercy. I mentioned in a post before about how during the Battle of Manilla a group of Japanese soldiers held up in a building eventually surrendered to American soldiers. The guy in charge went inside to inspect the building before suddenly storming out and gunning down the Japanese soldiers. Inside were multiple Filipino women bound to a wall who were raped and then killed in such a cruel manner that even describing it is pretty graphic.
Watch the movie "come and see" The whole axis must be seen for what they were, Japan, Germany, all of them!
My uncle Jack was in Manila and witnessed Japanese atrocities against civilians.
My grandfather flew a bomber and sea scouts. He's seen turtles the sizes of buses and hundred foot waves inside hurricanes. When I asked him about sharing stories I could see at a young age how hard it was for him to talk about. I remember him saying it horrific and vicious when I got older. As far as I know, he was the only survivor of his squadron.
As bad as the nazis but few people are taught the truth
The US was scheduled to give independence to the Philippines in 43 or 44. The Japanese invasion prevented this.
1946, I think. Japan couldn't have used any more troops as they couldn't even supply the troops the out on the islands they did have. Look at Guadalcanal and the Japanese inability to supply them even early in the war. By 1944, with the taking of the marinas islands, Japan could be bombed. The allied navy was cutting off everything including food. Game over
Philippines became a self-governing commonwealth in 1935 and independence was scheduled for 1946. This was achieved.
Another Japanese good guy was fighter pilot "saki". He was on patrol around the island of New Guinea when he spotted an allied transport plane. Upon closer inspection he realized it was transporting only women and children. He waived off his wingman and returned to base. At a joint reunion years after the war, he met the co-pilot, his wife and daughter who were all on that plane.
I think your mistaken
Or this is is a similar true story
There was an American fighter pilot, “Bad Angel” who shot down an American transport plane to stop it from landing on an Japanese held island
He even got the tally on his plane of an American flag
Edit: and his wife had been on the plane as well
Japan didn't expect the 1st Pursuit Squadron known as the Flying Tigers supporting the Republic of China.
They didn't expect a lot of things.
That's why they lost.
@@slypear They expected many fantastical things. They expected to conquer China in 8 to 12 weeks. They expected to defeat the USSR at the Mongol-Manchurian border. They expected the Dutch East Indies to divert the oil it was selling to the Allies to Japan _and_ accept payment in yen. They expected the US to drop out of the war after a decisive battle. They expected the Javanese to shift easily from producing long-grain rice to short-grain rice, which required much more labour and inputs and resulted in a 35% reduction in output. They expected the Japanese to keep eating fish even though the fishing fleet was denied fuel. They expected its undefended merchant fleet would bring home all the resources without being attacked by US submarines.
The Japanese had great belief in magical thinking and this formed many unfounded expectations.
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Or the First Cavalry Division…. First Team!!
WW2 began in 1937 with the Japanese Invasion of China, the European Theatre opened up in 1939 with the NSDAP-Soviet invasion of Poland.
*german-Soviet invasion
Don't forget the Soviets.
And ended in 1974, when the very last imperial Japanese soldier surrendered.
@@Silver77cyn Lol. One guy deluding himself into believing that the war was still ongoing doesn't mean the war ended at that date. In reality, the last battle was fought between the Croatians and the Yugoslav partisans.
It could even be argued it started in 1935 when Mussolini invaded what is now Ethiopia.
The Aussies are the greatest unsung heroes of WW2. They were the first to defeat the Japanese army. At Port Moresby. That dissolved the myth of Japanese invincibility.
You could also say that 1914-1945 was the second 30 years war.
Just imagine you go back in time and see ww1 soldiers and you ask em. “Is this ww1 or ww2”. Then they give you that one look.
Wrong
@@drunkinwolfyboy6380 They'd laugh at you for suggesting that a second world war could happen so recently.
With a very long lunch break.
in my humble opinion completely different, so Japan was a totalitarian state ruled by a cabal of military leaders bent on expanding, expanding geographic territory around an almost cult worship of an almost impudent leader that was only the figurative head of a country. Germany 30 years' war is about conflict between religions used as an excuse to consolidate small nation states a larger grouping of two nation states. They were competing to consolidate power first.
So not entirely sure if this is accurate but if I remember right it was common that Japanese-American soldiers serving in the Pacific (mainly in intelligence roles) needed a security detail when out in the field not to protect them from the enemy, but to make sure American soldiers didn't try anything. Also on Okinawa many of these same Japanese-American soldiers were credited with convincing many civilians to not commit suicide.
I’m always so demoralized thinking about how the US treated our own citizens in that war. Totally inexcusable and also- the whole POINT is that we were fighting for democracy and telling the world freedom and democracy are the superior way of life, so shouldn’t we have trusted Japanese Americans who grew up in that system to feel the same way??? I get that there were Japanese Americans who did choose to fight for Japan, and German Americans who fought for Germany, but in the case of the Japanese I think you could make a reasonable argument that they did this BECAUSE of the way we treated their families; not in spite of it
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"Totally inexcusable" not necessarily, and their treatment as interns was very good compared to how civilians interned by the Japanese were mistreated
Not like a Japanese American destroyed a zero, and prevented its capture intact on pearl harbor or anything, oh wait.
@@hodaka1000especially since some Japanese on the islands controlled by America helped kill thousands of Americans by burning one of the first intact a6m “zero” fighters
Considering they ended up helping the war in intelligence while contributing to the war effort. Very much.
It's only inexcusable because of the High standard of Freedom Americans believe in. @@hodaka1000
After watching, now i realize why the Japanese government and historian denied all of these "war crime"
Seriously, I'm still blown away with the brutality the Chinese people suffered at the hands of the Imperial Japanese.
My stepmother and her kids are from China, and they talk a great deal about the horrors of WWII in China.
A major difference between Nazi atrocities and those of the Japanese, is that most of the Nazi crimes were committed semi-secretly, in the concentration camps, or by the "Einsatzgruppenn," after the regular troops had advanced beyond the conquered area. But the Japanese atrocities were perpetrated by regular Japanese army.
What's the difference??
@@ricko2301 It was considered acceptable by the Japanese, generally, but the Nazis knew they were being very naughty, and tried to hide it from most Germans.
The presumption that the deciding factor to surrender was the Soviet declaration of war was a factor; however, it’s overblown. The effectiveness of the submarine destruction of shipping into Japan brought the Japanese population to more than the brink of starvation. As much as anything, the potential or threat of civil chaos and breakdown of the government was a much more compelling reason the the emperor to orchestrate the surrender
Great to see a feature length compilation of this information! It’s very important to acknowledge the Japanese brutality, suicidal insanity, and war crimes that they committed throughout the war. I hope to be a history teacher some day, and I will make sure that this will not be glossed over in my class. Thank you for putting this all together
My advice; (1) Buy each student a dictionary - you know, that paper thing with words in it. I'm serious. I am a retired teacher. (2) Get the school to subscribe to a state newspaper. Get it so the students can get into the archives. The newspapers will show the events, the finances, the political leaders and the propaganda used. Be prepared for indifference, lack of empathy, lack of understanding, and now, remember teaching history requires you to teach what's going to be covered in yearly tests also. Remember you are the target for every under-educated, PC parent. My best wishes to you.
Thank you for your service and for the advice! I’m curious though, why specifically do you recommend providing a dictionary to students? I think I understand the general idea, but I’d like to know what particularly you have in mind? Thanks again
Thank you for your excellent presentation.
Private Kikujiro: *Running up to a friend at a crouch, dodging rifle and machine-gun fire* What happened?! I just went to drop a deuce and now we are shooting at each other?!
Private Okamora: *Keeps looking down the sights of his rifle, so he doesn't turn around* Of course! Private Kikujiro was captured by those bastards and so now we fight for his honor and for his safe return!
Private Kikujiro: ...Y-Yeah... For... that stuff. *shoots a couple of times and then runs away*
A family member suffered heavily at Imperial Japan though we have no idea what exactly. All we know is that he was shot down in Japanese occupied asia, he was captured and tortured. The reason we dont know any specifics is that whatever happened to him, he never spoke again and ignored all interaction. The doctors at the time (though this was back in the late 40s, early 50s so we can't really be sure) believed it was a reaction to the interrogation and torture as a way of not talking or reacting in any way so they left him alone. Sadly he was committed to an asylum.
The last reported Kamakaze attack was in occupied Manchuria, possibly after the Surrender without the word Surrender, where some pilot didn't get the Memo and crashed his plane into a T-34 ass a column of them were still moving along through the area
Excellent perspective seldom discussed today. My grandfather fought in the US Army for 5 campaigns in the South Pacific. He could attest to much you discuss. He assisted with the liberation of the camp in the movie “The Great Raid” and his company was the driving force to liberate the camp at the University of Santo Tomas.
I used to feel a little bad about the "war crimes" executions in Japan, which were based essentially on "you started a war and lost" but then I heard about the random execution of 3 of the Doolittle Raiders and now I don't even give the other injustice a single thought
What about the rape of nanking ot Unit 731?
The random execution of 100,000 plus civilians in March 1945 by the fire bombing of Toyoko was a war crime by any standard
Sandakan Death March almost wiped out 6k men
The "you started a war" part is actually enough justification by itself in my (perhaps not so) humble opinion
“Considering everything the Japanese did during WW2 such as the Nanking Atrocity, Unit 731, their response to the Doolittle Raid, the use of chemical and biological wmds, and the planned Operations Cherry Blossoms at Night and Ketsu-Go, etc I think it is safe to say that the Atomic Bombs were justified, my only regrets are that Nagasaki was Bombed, and Kokura was planned to be instead of Kyoto and that it was mostly innocent civilians who paid the price for the evils of the Imperial Bloodline and the state and military that heded its command.”
This is a comment section not a echo chamber, stop censoring.
At war's end my father was close to death and hiding in the jungle in Japanese occupied central North Borneo after surviving the Sandakan POW camp the first Death March and escaping from the extermination camp at Ranau
Without the nuclear bombs dropped on Japan that ended the war my father may not have survived and my family children and granddaughter would not exist, either would millions of others including most of the Japanese population as it exists today
I enjoy "The Big Boom Celebration Days"
Wasn't Tsuji an Imperial General Staff officer. In the To land book, "The Rising Sun", he was described as roaming around, instigating atrocities. He supposedly said, "To show them mercy (POWs) is to prolong the war". He was, IMHO, a "backstabbing son of a b*tch",, who bad-mouthed General Kawaguchi, over his defeat on Guadalcanal. He was a "Pharisee", more nationalistic than thou, and let you know it IMO.
Who's censoring?
The US has committed worse atrocities since 1776 until today, as well as Britain, France and the colonial powers.
It's disgusting how the use of atomic weapons against civilians is justified.
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General Iwane Matsui, a long time officer going back to the Russo-Japanese war, when the army was thoroughly westernized, despaired over the state of the army in 1937.
"The Nanjing Incident was a terrible disgrace ... Immediately after the memorial services, I assembled the higher officers and wept tears of anger before them, as Commander-in-Chief ... I told them that after all our efforts to enhance the Imperial prestige, everything had been lost in one moment through the brutalities of the soldiers. And can you imagine it, even after that, these officers laughed at me ... I am really, therefore, quite happy that I, at least, should have ended this way, in the sense that it may serve to urge self-reflection on many more members of the military of that time."
Outstanding documentary!!! I've followed the Second World War in books and movies since I was a boy. Now at 78, I found this report listing events I have never heard of before. Moreover, the tales of humanity among some Japanese officers have never been mentioned anywhere. Also, there is little attention paid on the Japanese forces compared the German forces in Europe. Lastly, I read some time ago that the Soviets paid a major part in Japan's surrender and indeed, this documentary confirms this.
In the future, a documentary of this quality will be produced on the Vietnam War, where I served for two years, and many of us who were there are curious about our foe, the communist North without all the propaganda and rhetoric from both sides.
2:29 Barbra Rossa was pretty bloody.
A LOT of ground covered. One of the most controversial discussed was the reason for the Japanese surrender. Like many analyses, this video tries to identify the 'reason'. It would do better to review the extensive histories around the surrender, and in particular the opposing peace/war groups in the Japanese cabinets and how events were influencing them. Ultimately, it was the Prime Minister's break with tradition in asking Hirohito to weigh in on the sides at a divided cabinet meeting, which he did - for surrender, at which point - for the first time, Hirohito took upon himself the mantle of ruling, not just reigning. What was the basis for that? In his speech, he describes the military and socioeconomic hardships facing Japan only vaguely, and Russia not at all. He did spend time in his national address on the American's new and 'cruel' bomb, along - as this video describes - with the horrific destruction of Japanese life and his allusion to the virtual end of civilization. Perhaps there WAS one thing that influenced the Emperor more - but we can only judge by what we know he knew and his comments to his cabinet and his address. In terms of Russia, he knew at least indirectly that this forlorn hope was now irretrievably gone, although Molotov had already made it very, very clear that Russia would not work as an intermediary well before that. Most likely, the accumulated devastation on Japan as a society and civilization weighed most heavily - including the catastrophic effects of the atomic bombs and firebombing of many cities. Personally, I suspect he also recognized those cities, as yet unravaged, that he could SAVE from that end, those which had not yet experienced the most awful destruction.
8:20 Contemporary Japanese society is all well and good except for the rampant denial of genocide and atrocities and self-victimization
Basically the opposite extreme of Germany, which is bad too
@@dusk6159I disagree, Germany is a great country because of its achievements and also because it has accepted its past and has atoned for it.
@@InquisitorXarius Had they not went too far with it, they would be great yes
@@dusk6159 Germany is a great country because it accepts its history and has worked to atone for its crimes. I cannot day the same for most countries governments, states, and societies.
@@dusk6159 Any nations Government and State who do not acknowledge, accept, and atone for its past atrocities has failed the people and society it is supposed to serve unless that society itself is copable such as in Japan’s case, if such is true then such a nation is either invalid or needs some serious correction.
there is a book by a young japanese officer about the 1905 war with russian.it's "human bullets"and it tells of the human wave attacks with total disregard for any sort of military planning except charge.
Re most of Japan's army being tied up in China, it's not as if the Imperial Japanese Navy could keep the rump of the Imperial Japanese Army supplied or reinforced elsewhere. The IJN wasn't chained to Chinese inland waterways, so how would Japan have managed its logistics in the Pacific any better? To what extent does Japan's army matter since the allies won the naval war in the Pacific? Putting this another way, had Japan landed 100K Army troops in Guadalcanal, how many of them would have died from starvation or disease?
It would have been good to give notice that this video is a compilation
Historians really need to learn the difference between casualties and KIA. You can’t say there were millions of casualties in China between 1937-1939 then say “in comparison there were 135k killed in the battle of France in 1940” lol. 135k is KIA. There were about 2.2 million casualties in the battle of France.
I agree to a degree. But in Asia those casualties are most certainly dead. Japan didn’t like leaving behind witnesses.
@@mikloridden8276 you can disagree all you want but you’re still wrong lmao. Military definition of casualties is all killed, wounded, taken prisoner, and missing. Killed does not = casualty and never has
Exactly, happy to see this comment, was about to put it, bit this way better. Thanks.
When producers manipulate impressions in this way, using arbitrary numerical tricks, it becomes propaganda rather than historical commentary.
@@corbintodd9339 2.200.000 deaths when? Not in France, not in 1940.
What About Italian invasion of Ethiopia....1935'....I challenge that in correlation with the Spanish Civil War in 36' and Franco's Nationalist win in the Spanish Civil War in 39' as the fighting that was the TRUE start to the World War....but ill I like your version too, and you are totally right
Your part on Sihang Warehouse is entirely incorrect. There was no IJA involved there, the IJA 3rd Division was already outside of Shanghai at the time. The actual participants were from the Shanghai SNLF and nowhere near 20k in power. The actual casualties amounted to only one KIA. If you ever need help consulting Japanese sources feel free to reach out to me, because this isn't cutting it.
Even knowing nothing about it, I’m familiar enough with these types of claims to immediately recognize what sounded like pure propaganda. I had to come to the comments to see if anyone had made a correction.
20,000 combat troops wouldn’t be singing a single warehouse. And 432 men wouldn’t ever be able to hold any position against those odds unless the 20,000 were ridiculously technologically inferior, which the IJA was not. Not against China, anyway-they were sometimes confounded by British Matilda tanks.
No sources on the video either. This is just entertainment unfortunately.
The one KIA is from a Japanese source. How can we trust that??? You claim the video is biased yet use a biased source yourself.
@@dr.woozie7500 because the Japanese source for the claim of one KIA has specific details regarding who it was and proved to be accurate for other parts of the Battle of Shanghai. Chinese have asserted 200 KIA but have not been able to say who any of those 200 were. Dead soldiers don't just appear out of thin air, they have names, ranks, units they were attached to etc.
So.... WW2 started because a Japanese guy went to drop a deuce.... huh.... I'll be curious to see what the spark is for round 3 if I live that long.
Look around, WW3 started 2 years ago. It’s just by proxy this time…….
Holy crap this is good
I recommend the book Rampage, about Yamashita in the Philippines, by James Scott. I'm not sure the situation was as simple as portrayed here.
The tussle over Penishima was an ugly business.
Ww2 actually began in the west on the 13th of March, 1938 with the annexation of Austria. World leaders already knew about Adolf hitler and the Nazi party but they thought they could control him. That decision eventually stirred up so much concern amongst the world powers concerning Adolf Hitler and his motives for ultimate world domination. It's also the explanation for the 7 years of Daniel and the first battle against the British forces signals the beginning of the 42 months of Daniel. Hope this helps someone out there! God bless!
Very well-done - and a goddamn-well bloody well-told[!] - war doc, I might add! ... Certainly can't say I didn't learn yet another 'thing or two' here of Japanese involvement in WWII, _by cripes almighty!_ ... [?!?] ... Well I'm pretty-well crying here now, but still maintaining my [waning] salute, while standing at attention, pounding my chest repeatedly, thank you (in between blubbered war-cry 'Hurrahs!' timed to a few good foot-stomping 'Royal Salutes', mind you) ...
And bloody-well 'sure-rights' - you'd goddamn-well better _believe_ it, _'mister!'_
Evil is evil that is why we need to remember it for how it really was and so we DON’T repeat it.
Honour is how you treat your prisoners.
What about a mention of the Indian Army's 7th Division
-which fought alongside the Brits, &
Aussies in larger #s ?
The Japanese also literally almost ate President George Bush Sr and ate his crew mates. He only survived because his parachute dropped him out at sea. Look up the chichijima incident. This happened quite frequently, even when the Japanese had plenty of food already.
Hey Geetsly’s I recently made a video on Christopher Lee (aka Count Dooku) in WW2. I’d really appreciate it if you could check it out, but if you don’t have time that’s totally cool. Keep up the great work bro 👍
Now I drive a Toyota Camry built in Japan
Can you believe that some of their neighboring countries still hold a grudge?
8:42 LOL! That the Japanese were as bad as the Germans is illustrated by a picture of oriental troops dressed in what appears to be German uniforms. But the troops shown are undoubtedly Chinese, not Japanese.
Definitely more sadistic in their killings than the Nazis. That's scary
The invasion of Japan would have included British and Commonwealth forces. My father was being transported from north west Europe to the East and got as far as Cyprus on VJ day.
My two uncles (U.S. Marines) fought all the way across the Pacific. My father was in the USN. All three of them would have fought in the invasion of Japan if the war hadn't ended.
After watching this, I completely understand the night of the black snow and Hiroshima, Nagasaki.
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Medieval war wasn’t even this bad.
@@Ekdrink Explain the Mongol conquests
@@kenken8765 I thought we were talking bout like European pitch battles here not like taking over almost 2 continents 💀
@@Ekdrink ah....I thought you were talking about the same time period. Weren't the Hussite wars pretty savage too? Not to mention how the French knights who tried to surrender were massacred in Agincourt.
@@Ekdrink Also the Mongols reached Europe and did their usual atrocities to Kievan Rus, Poland, and Hungary.
Pacific war started in 37 but the world war began in 39 thats the way my teach put it at least
The warehouse casualties sound a bit high, few extra 0s?
I would love to know how the Kempei Tai unit that was attached to the occupation of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska , I wonder of they liked there job......( assuming there was a Unit in Alaska, but probably not, gotta Google it )
Its a bit simplistic to think that Japanese troops in China could simply have been redeployed against the Allied Pacific advance - Japan did not have the logistics to support that even before the sub campaign started becoming effective.
According to the USSBS, by 1945 50% of all Japanese troops and equipment being transported by ship was being destroyed in transit, whether by submarines, aircraft, or mines
Technically ww2 started in 1914 for 4 years with a break until 1937 when Japan invaded China a few countries changed sides for part 2 of the the great war
This is a very good documentary, thank you. You obviously know and have researched a great deal. I especially liked the sympathy you feel for the victims and especially the Japanese. I teach at a university and in my experience the Japanese students are always impeccably kind and friendly.
No sources?
No cap this is kinda bussin lol frfr
Very nicely done.
I will leave others to nitpick in the commentary.
A world war is when multiple countries are at war with each other.
The Japanese sino war was just a war between two countries until 1939 when it became a world war. Because of Germanys actions.
Yes, except the Vietnamese, Koreans, and Chinese were all fighting the Japanese and in the case of the former two continued fighting as resistance movements. The leader of the North Vietnamese, Ho Chi Minh, got his start fighting the Japanese. They were some damn tough fughters
I could be wrong though.. someone tell me...
I have some personal issues with Japanese culture as ive encountered it. Especially in my older age cohort. Insular with struggles of trying not to project superiority. Xenophobic. Deeply sexist. And racist. Admittedly much of this stemmed from a fame-seeking md/phd who expected ppl to come in on weekends. He had not a single cell of empathy. I was suffering from tough depression. He came into.my office and blankly advised me to "just fix your depression." You dont forget advice like that. He yold me that my gf at the time was really stupid.
Id argue with italy in Ethiopia
1:40:30 The Soviets also let them get away, sentencing such monsters to only ten years in prison is not enough especially when you only did it as a propaganda oppurtunity. In truth the clemency given to Unit 731 is the gravest crime of the global elite regardless of ideology, they all went out of there way to let the worst of humanity get away.
blame “bushido”……zealots are always the most committed enemy to fight….although predictable in most sceanarios ….
Just when I thought MacArthur could not become more awful
We act like the Japanese were tough, but they lost 10-20x the amount of soldiers the US did in the Pacific theater.
Pearl Harbor was a very very very expensive lesson in how to get a representative government.
They were tough in the sense that they had experience, they were well-drilled, and they could endure incredible hardships. In that last one for instance, the Bataan Death March got as bad as it did partly because 30 miles a day was normal for the IJA but not normal for the American prisoners.
Well that is because they rather prefered to die through a banzai charge trying to take some enemies with them or did suicide than to surrender.
That's why they had such a high death rate. They were that brainwashed.
Imagine taking a poop and starting a world war.
As far as the exicutions of Japanese war criminals, military music is to music, what military justice is to justice.
The Kamikaze attacks were effective because immediatly before them Japanese conventional air attacks were completly ineffective. Kamikaze attacks caused significant damage whilst only costing inexperienced crews and obsolete planes. Also if it wasn't for the A bombs the Americans would have had a terrible time invading Japan.
When they convinced everyone that American invasion will destroy Japan, They will do everything to stop them. It's a good thing American Occupation was a lot more merciful than what the Japanese Anticipated.
Rmperor Hirohito's radio broadcast rescript referred to the A-Bombs explicitly, and made no mention of the Soviet invasion of Manchuria. While that invasion provided more motivatin to surrender, I believe the A-bombs gave the Emperor the perfect rationale to surrender..
The Sovidts could not mount s true invasion, they'd hsve needed transport from the US to do it.
Yup.
There’s a later speech he made to the military in which he never mentioned the bombs but referred to the Soviet entry which built up the Allied strength as the motivation for Japan capitulating.
Your "What if" Japan hadn't been involved in China is still a no go for Japan. The bulk of the Japanese army would have been stuck on whatever islands they were defending after the US sunk the Japanese Navy. The US could just starve Japan into submission and having more people actually works against you if your supplies have been cut.
To this day many Koreans and Chinese are very resentful towards the Japanese for the things they did to them in the war. Do some research on unit 731 and you will understand understand why.
In my USA we know all too well how Brutal the Japanese were in WW2, more Brutal than all the other belligerent combined, towards American soldiers anyway
Don't forget over hundreds of years how China tried to invade Japan. That's where the Japanese attitude to China. No the Japanese were cruel very cruel, but the history between China and Japan. The whole history has to be taken into account.
There is a difference between ancient history and modern history
Different opinion. 2 countries fighting does not make it a World War. If it was so, when did Italy invade Ethiopia? Why is that not the start then? Even when fighting in Europe began and included North Africa, the conflicts were separate from each other. The attack by Japan on December 7th and the follow up of Germany declaring war on the United States connected all the fighting into a World War.
The Japanese invasion of Malaya that occurred 40 minutes before their attack at Pearl Harbour ?
The World War began in 1937 as the Axis supported Japan fully, the Comintern were seeking and seizing oppurtunity for malignant expansionism, whilst the Americans and the Entente supported the ROC.
However I would also say the world war only escalated into a World War in 1941 with the forced entry of the first fully sovereign participamt from the Americas into the war IE the USA.
@@hodaka1000oh please.
My Revolution forefathers invented the betrayal ambush Christmas cease fire slaughter British .
Invading Canada before declaration of war ‘war of extermination’
1812-15
They sacked our capital in return.
America invaded Latin America countries overthrowing democratically elected regimes 13x between 1903-39.
Not ONE genius here quote enemy historian.
This is exactly why I have no male colleagues left where I teach, refusal to see all sides.
Veterans rightly furious news refuses to say ‘men even boys’ D-Day coverage but ‘people, persons’ as if we women sacrificed as much.
Used to be we’d take our classes to memorials, listen to veterans. But no yall spout old propaganda as if learning nothing from their suffering and deaths.
Politicians and historians lie.
I’m five different ancestors, none spoke English, all enemies at one time or another, and a grandmother forced to teach history among with ESL.
I dint have one male colleague left here at ‘home’ and you boys dancing to CCP tune. 😢
UA-cam even removed all those tubes of ancient Veterans still of own mind in uniform and tears ‘this is not what we fought for.’
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This video is utter fiction: Chiang was not "in the fight" until after Japan had been defeated. Throughout the 1930's he was a collaborator with Japan and with the gangster right of the eastern cities of China.
I am Japanese, and I find it unfortunate that some of the photos in this video are used in a way that gives the impression that they were taken by the Japanese military. I also felt that the comparison of the total number of deaths, including civilians, in the Sino-Japanese War with the number of soldier deaths in battles in France and Germany was an attempt to manipulate public opinion. If this was done intentionally and not as a mistake of ignorance, then this is not a history lesson, but historical propaganda. Finally, it is also very malicious to use Hashimoto Toru's comments as if he approves of forced sexual slavery. He is saying that war and facilities that provide sexual services are inseparable, just as the US military also set up sex entertainment facilities during the Vietnam War.
You behaved like beasts in ww2, and you received fair treatment for your heinous crimes. Sadly, after 80 years it seems like many people in Japan are still unable to accept this and move on.
"The most costly campaign in Europe before Barbarossa" - and he competely forgets WWI happened.... What the heck man.... C'mon.
The most costly campaign, during ww2, in Europe before Barbarossa. I don't expect everyone to be nuanced in language but you could do better
He said campaign, not war.
Which is a perfectly fair and arguable point depending on how you define campaigns.
No... Koreans are closer to Chinese actually...
Nuts 🥜
I've lived in Tokyo for 30 years and I can say that it was a select few of those in power and the military dictatorship that led the insanity, not the majority of common people. Think of it as being North Korea today.
Sadly the Drove population to join the Frenzy. 😢
You were living in Tokyo from 1915 to 1945? Fascinating.
The Japanese people were euphoric about war. Until it turned against them.
Means nothing. The citizenry believed it and followed it fervently
I've always contended there were at least 4 or more separate wars that historians conglomerate into World War II because of their temporal similarites. But Japan never stepped foot in Europe. The United States took no part in the Battle of France. Germany sent no troops to the Pacific, etc... The "Napoleanic Wars" are rightly categorized as a series of wars, but the conflicts of the 30s and 40s are mashed together... if we separated the wars as we should we could better recognize America's amazing accomplishment in simultaneously taking on two of the strongest militaristic nations in the world
German u-boats were operating out of Penang, Malaysia. German commerce raiders were operating in the Pacific as well, interacting with the Japanese military to exchange what had been captured for supplies.
They never faced those military powers at full strength though no matter how brutal it was.
At time index 8:40 those are Chinese Nationalist troops not Japanese. It is a common mistake that is made. They see the German Stalhelm helmets and since Japan and Germany were allies in WWII it is assumed that those are Japanese soldiers. Before WWII in the mid 1930s, it was the Nationalist Chinese that were being armed by the Germans before the Germans switched to the Japanese by the late 1930s.
Chinese anti-Japanese propagandists have never been too choosy about the photographs they use.. As testimony to alleged Japanese cruelty, they have been spreading untraceable, doctored photos of the July 29, 1937 Tongzhou Massacre and July 3, 1928 Jinan massacre. In both massacres, Japanese nationals peacefully living in China fell victims to Chinese barbarity.
Regarding how differently the pacific war would have gone if the bulk of Japanese forces were not tied down in China? Answer; not remarkably any different, since the bottleneck problem of logistics and supply the Japanese had, would only have been made worse with more troops involved. But they probably would have been able to push into India.
They truly were worse than the Germans in every way
1936 /1937
The worst part?
They still have the same government, just under a different name, and similar mindsets.
My Grandfather fought them at Guadacanal and Pelelue. He was Never Racist about them and as a Mariner Fan je really loved Ichiro. Lol
The picture at 17:10 was taken after 1950, because it shows the flag if the PRC 🇨🇳 beside that of the UK 🇬🇧. At 21:37 you say that the Japanese worked together with the French at their colony of French Indo China. You didn't explain, that it were the Vichy-French, a puppet regime of the Axis Powers, which was installed after the armistice of Compiégne in 1940 between the German Reich and France with Marshall Philipe Petain as head of state. The Free French, lead by General De Gaulle kept on fighting together with the Allies from the colonies in the Pacific, Central Africa and until February 1943 at the Chinese port town of Guangzhouwan, which was then conquered by the Empire of Japan and a few months later in July given to the Axis Powers' puppet state of Nanjing-China under Wang Jingwei. All other colonies voted for Vichy-France, receiving Petain's orders.
Historians are poor psychologists and usually have no understanding of the motivation stimulated by envy. They do not know what envy is. Furthermore, they possess neither any idea that the word 'emotion' originates in French, 'emouvoir', 'to move', nor of the relationship between cognition / recognition and consequential emotional reaction / responses. They have no concept of the affect of 'collective unconsciousness' upon entire populations. I suppose the envy which preoccupied Japanese unconsciousness might be described as 'insanity' but, ordinarily, it isn't. Envy is a primary motivator of many conflicts yet, because it is a most concealed psychological construct betrayed only by the emotion accompanying it, a sense of self-justified loathing and hatred, it goes unacknowledged and unrecognised in most historical commentary. To understand pre-WWII Japanese society, understand their envy and the role of envy in conflict (not jealousy which is a different thing - look it up). This will solve a lot of historical misconception.
This is a load of psychological gobbledygook. There is no substance to this
This is why I think that Imperial Shinto is evil.
They were the most immoral army of the war
If you have a person who the entire nation literally believe is a god,and he orders a total destruction of everything and everyone that the Imperial japenese army runs into then what do you expect?.
EXACTLY
This is great stuff but at times comes off like the author is a little bit of the little beta cousin living at grandma’s house but running a petting zoo in the back yard 17 years after she’s passed on. Grandpa never gave him any respect.
Read: “praise God for the greatest nation the world has ever known for taking care of business in the pacific with meaningful but objectively non-decisive assistance from the dying commonwealth
実に面白い。外国人の視点から見る自国の歴史というのは新鮮だ。
まあ、君たちには日本の歴史を学んで再び人類史において、一連の戦争におけるような蛮行を繰り返さないことを願うまでだ。
まあ期待はしていないけどねｗ
they won despite arthur not cause of him 😂
At least he was Winston “soft underbelly” Churchill.
Your Australian voice is very young, youtube earnings young, so what evidence are you basing your narrative on to earn your youtube income?