My father was a US Merchant Marine before, during and after WWII. He got sunk once. But he got shot at, strafed, bombed, and torpedoed. Got some wounds too. They didn't give them veterans status until around 1986-87. But they were equal to the percentage of loses as the USMC in WWII.
I hear you. My father was in the British Merchant Marine. As a kid, I was disappointed that he hadn't done something more exciting & heroic during the war. Later, I read about the casualty rates in that service. 27% never came back. It was much safer to be a combat infantryman or even tank crew.
27 percent, huh? That's nothing compared to infantry losses. Depending on location, it was not unheard of to have 70 to 80 percent loss. There is no comparing the two. Saying that being in an infantry unit or tank crew member was "safer" than anything is ignorant and foolish to the extreme.
There is a reason they didn't give him veteran status. Being a civilian sailor is a lot different than a fighting man who is sworn to defend his country. Being a civilian sailor is a job. There is no comparing merchant marines with US Marines. The names are similar, but that is where it begins and ends. The levels of sacrifice are as different as night and day. The fact that someone has to explain this is frustrating. These two jobs exist worlds away from each other in terms of just about any way you could choose to discuss.
@@beavisroadhog9629 comparing individual unit casualty rates to overall service casualty rates is idiocy. If I specified a unit as being one ship, and that ship sank with all hands, that's a 100% fatality rate. Your statement is meaningless. Compare like with like. US Armor fatality rate was under 3%. 3 is less than 27, get it?
@@beavisroadhog9629 How old are you? You sound young. I grew up around people who were actually in WW2. They'd shake their heads at your ignorance. Of course, you could be very old & scatter-brained, in which case I apologise & advise you to take your meds.
My father was a Combat Veteran with the US Army Air Force in the South Pacific Campaign on Guam, Tinian, Saipan and Iwo Jima. Dad was a Flightline Engineer and Mechanic on the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt. Dad was in the 20th US Army Air Force, 7th Army Air Corp, 414th Fighter/Bomber Group, 413th F/B Squadron. We lost him in 2006 at 88yo. He hated the Japanese until the day he died. I still have the photo albums mom put together from photos dad took on Iwo after the US Marines and US Army Air Force finally took complete conyrol of Iwo Jima.
There was plenty of good reason. They were inhumane. China and Korea still hate them to this day, but they suffered under occupation for more years than the war.
I'm not surprised. On all those islands you mention there were hard case Japanese hold-outs right to the end of the war and sometimes beyond. It just wasn't safe for American military personnel to be out and about alone after dark. The hold-outs would expertly infiltrate the American encampments to steal food and kill an American or two if the opportunity offered itself.
@penultimateh766 Go eat some cheese. Mr. DeHart Sr. Had every right to feel the way he did. Unlike you, who likes living in the Land of the Free but probably wouldn't lift a finger to defend it. Keep your value judgements to yourself. 😮
@penultimateh766 just wasn't discussed. He returned from the South Pacific Campaign and had an opportunity to either join the Virginia State Police as a Trooper or becoming a Class A Transmission/Distribution Lineman for Appalachian Power Company. He chose the later and he and mom raised all 7 of us kids in a well-rounded Blue Collar Christian home. We had everything we needed and all worked our ways through collage. Mom & Dad were proud of their elementary school teacher, legal secretary, chemical safety engineer, medical sales rep, West Virginia State Trooper & USSS Special Agent, Paralegal and Insurance Special Investigator & 30yrs as a Firefighter/EMS Medical First Responder (myself, the youngest). I'm sure you'd hate those that sadistically m#rdered your pilot buddies in cold blood. Today's Japanese were raised by the prior generations. Sorry to burst your bubble... there IS NO utopia out there!! No jere on earth!!
@@wrestlingpurist9784 I have seen it broadcast on television with the notice that it is highly UN-characteristic of postwar Japanese. They had a sophisticated civilization before their country went the Wrong Way -- as did the Germans and Italians. I would have had no qualms about marrying a Japanese or a Japanese-American... most are nice people with a richer culture than I had (hick German-American... no, they do not read Goethe or listen to Beethoven, thank you. They read the National Enquirer and listen to country music). Had history gone the other way, with the Japanese maintaining their inchoate democracy and the Germans keeping the infant democracy of the Weimar Germany intact while the dangerous Second Klan took over in America, the joke would have been about "Wackiness in Washington", mocking the racism and ineptitude of American fascists with a mockery of American crudeness. .
THANK YOU for having the courage to show this piece of history that has been hidden from us for so many decades because they didn't want to hurt someone's feelings ! NEVER hide history !
This is not the first time though, that this particular film has been made available to the public again. Here on YT, there are already many uploads of _Tokio Jokio,_ the one with most views having been posted eight years ago. This is just another one.
I don't know of any similar Japanese movies, but one worth checking is Momotarou Sacred Sailors Movie. In it Japanese depict themselves as little monkeys with various animal friends, while British are wiggly armed humans. remastered version ua-cam.com/video/OCM3f6dVaFs/v-deo.html worse quality, but with English subtitles ua-cam.com/video/VdzrgJA_iWA/v-deo.html
I'm dead certain that there's old 1940's anime cartoons portraying the Americans as fat, lazy cowardly slobs somewhere in a Japanese library that Japanese people laughed at. We're all friends now. But at one point our governments wanted us to hate one another.
This came out at the same time as Bataan, Wake Island, They Were Expendable, etc., when Japan and all Japanese people were hated in the US.' By the way, my wife's entire family spent the war years in Japanese concentration camps in the Dutch East Indies. No love lost there.
Because Japanese culture and entertainment is so loved today, and because of continuing consternation and guilt over the atomic bombs and the fire bombing of Tokyo, people in the US give Japan a pass. Young people especially aren't taught about what Japan did in Asia during the war. It's glossed over in education, in textbooks....etc. I do agree with the sentiment that modern-day Japanese bear no responsibility for what happened back then, but there needs to be more of a focus on it when people learn about the war.
@@caomhan84 I agree. My cousin was an ACE ( 9 confirmed kills) pilot in the European Theater, and after VE day his group ( Checkertails ) transferred to the South Pacific. His luck finally ran out and he was shot down and after spending two days in the water, he was picked up by the Japanese and sent to Tokyo POW Camp. His treatment there, as a pilot, was inhuman and disgusting. Luckily, he was only there two months before being liberated, but, he was in Hosptial for months after he returned to the USA. He retired in 1967 as a Brigadier General. My Dad was 1 7 year old marine on Iwo Jima, and he never got over it, when we buried him in 1994, he still had Jap shrapnel in both legs.
Admiral Yamamoto actually was against Japan starting a war with America - He had spent years in the USA being educated. He didn't hate the Yanks. But his loyalty to the Emperor was overriding. After Pearl Harbor, he stated," I fear that we have merely awakened a Sleeping Giant". His plane was shot down on an inspection tour near Rabaul in 1943. Read the Wikipedia article on him- it's very, very interesting, and may give you a different perspective on him.
@autophyte I am a WWII history enthusiast. I read about those mentioned events long before the Wikipedia existed, and watched every movie about this issue at least twice (I watched again 1970's "Tora! Tora! Tora! yesterday) My shelves have scale models of Zeros, a G4M "Betty", B-29 "Enola Gay" and several others. Soon I'll bring a P-38 to the collection. My original comment refers to the - there is no other way to describe it- spectacular plan to assassinate him, and how it succeeded. Anyway many thanks for your reply! Now I hope for more people to join this discussion.
@@autophyte There's little to no debate about Yamamoto: he was extremely intelligent, charismatic , well spoken, studied in Harvard, knew the Americans well and had a true admiration for them. He devised his plan because he knew better than anybody that without a decisive victory in the beginning, Japan would be in serious trouble as the USA was ten times richer and with a industrial capacity orders of magnitude larger than his country and with nearly unlimited natural resources-something Japan has always struggled with. But when he heard that the prized aircraft carriers weren't at Pearl, he felt truly dismayed, among a crowd of officers cheering and celebrating the (apparent) success of the attack
@@mikefishhead My Dad who was a veteran of WWII , during the approx ,years - 80s or 90s , there was an attitude of apprehension about the Japanese. My Dad said the people that started that war , were now dead . He was a Hawk , but didn't wear it like a badge .
The depictions of Japanese were crude, but then again, if you watch toons from that era you will notice that Whites are also depicted crudely. Mussolini , for example.
it was war, you dont think the enemy portrayed us in a bad light as well? Japan told its people americans were canables and many women jupmped to their death with their babys when they heard american invasion was imminent
And remember folks, the US government has never admitted A-bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki as the war crimes. This news is released by Nippon News.💩💩💩💩
Back in the 70s I was on line for a popular Chinese restaurant when the kids (prbly teens) started talking in "ching ghow" accents because they thought it was funny...as far as I know there wasn't any war going on between us and the Japanese or the Chinese. (Vietnam, yes - but I don't recall any propaganda cartoons depicting the Viet Cong as subhuman.)
@@joestrike8537grow up all nations and people mock others during the same time period I saw Frenchmen imitating Americans it was not nice and read about the Japanese war crimes which were worst than even the evil Nazis or better defend the Japanese in Korea or China and enjoy the punched nose
@@rminkof by the time the film was released the general public knowledge about concentration camps was that they were equivalent to POW camps and not what became known by 1945 as equivalent to extermination camps.
This was produced to aid in the war effort when the Allies were at war with Japan. Perfectly justified, in my opinion. Thank you for sharing this with us in 2025.
a short mind game: "This was produced to aid in the war effort when the *Axies* were at war with *USA*. Perfectly justified, in my opinion. Thank you for sharing this with us in 2025." I hope you recognise your mistake yourself. 🤦🏻♂
Australians held a deep and abiding hatred toward the Japanese during the war. The murder of Australian Army nurses, the murder of civilians and gross maltreatment of POWs was common knowledge. Propaganda like this cartoon was misleading and counter productive as it presented the Japanese as comic harmless and incompetent.
The actual POWs, who built the bridge on the river Kwai, hated the film, because the prisoners were treated far worse, than how the movie showed them being treated.
@@ottobaron6392 British officers who were POW's really hated the film - if you saw the film you would know why - it was a bit too accurate for comfort.
It's still racism. Like, when these old cartoons satirized the nazis they didn't present germans as bizarre barely human creatures. They just mocked their screwed up ideologies
The hell they did. Go back and watch some of these p propaganda pieces. In the early days of the war (when Germany was very much on the table to win), they were caricatured with hooked noses, hideous rictus grins, bloated guts and dagger like hands. And that's when they didn't take the easy way out and anthro them into vultures, weasels, or skunks). That isn't to say racism DID NOT have a hand in these animations (they did). But the sheer level of vitriol is NOT representative of racist ideology in America. It demonstrates two factors acting as "force mul tut ipliers" on all other sentiments. 1.) The Japanese were our enemy. 2.) The Japanese declared war through a surprise attack. Once someone is sanctioned by the nation as an enemy (be it a nation, an organization, or a people), the public allows itself to hold unfair biases against that group without counterpoint. Because "the enemy" doesn't deserve that kind of fairness. But moreover the U.S. in particular has developed a particular distaste for cowardly or hypocritical action. The MOMENT Pearl Harbor happened, every person from Japan became a back-stabbing snake in the grass; one to be distrusted, ridiculed, cast out, and dealt with at gunpoint. And the sad truth is that reality will NEVER change. 9/11 happened and this nation responded by distrusting muslims and obliterating the Middle East. And they WILL do it again if somebody else is dumb enough to dagger them in the back. Remembering and watching cartoons like Jokio Tokio reminds us that this reality exists...and, just perhaps, offers us the cr chance to learn from it if we don't pretend it doesn't exist.
One problem with racial and other stereotypes is that they frequently have a lot of truth in them. (Although our 'typical British City gent' isn't quite so true nowadays.)
@@TheRenaissance_human It was was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that engaged in lethal human experimentation and biological weapons. They killed over 300,000 people!
@@TheRenaissance_human Unit 731 The Japanese Biological Warfare unit. POW's were the subjects A very simple search turned it up...I suppose the Internet wasn't developed for you Renaissance types
Together ?? Ummm ... Over a 100,000 Japanese Americans were rounded up and locked up in concentration camps by the U S. military . Zoot suit war of 1943 , Aleutian islands civilians displaced from their ancestral homes by the U S. army , Black Americans were in segregated military units . Together ?? Well not exactly .
My father lost his two brothers in WW2, and he enlisted at the end of the war. He was not ever buying or renting a Toyota, nor, did he want me to drive a foreign car to his house in 2010. I literally, had to cancel a car rental, since they wanted to substitute a Toyota for a Ford.
In July 1938, the German consul in Cleveland gave Ford, on his 75th birthday, the award of the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, the highest medal Nazi Germany could bestow on a foreigner. James D. Mooney, vice president of overseas operations for General Motors, received a similar medal, the Merit Cross of the German Eagle, First Class. Don't know about Chrysler...
@@TheRealAndreasBartel Pre-World Wars, German businessmen were ingrained in lots of US business. You need only look to our Federal Reserve Bank, that was founded by several Prominent bankers and businessmen, including Warburg and Pinkus, etc. As a consequence, WW2, was used as an excuse to take it from them.
Every single group of people that has gone to war with another group of people has demonized them, even in civil wars when people are fighting amongst themselves. It's normal human behavior. And I promise you the Japanese did the same thing to everyone they were fighting including the US.
@@Altair885 Finally somebody said it! Most American idiots have never heard of (US) Commodore Matthew Perry & his totally illegal, multi national 'Black Ships' naval blockade of Edo & the following totally unprovoked destruction by Perry's cannons on the defenceless city, that wiped out over half of Japan's ruling class, not to mention thousands of civilians. All because Japan wouldn't roll over to Western imperialism & plunder. To the Japanese revenge is an obligation viewed the same as a debt, at least with Pear Harbour they struck a military target instead of a civilian one. America drew first blood, Pearl Harbour was inevitable when you humiliate & degrade a race like the Japanese.
@@Altair885 Most Americans haven't got a clue. They've never heard of that pompous, bombastic prick, Commodore Matthew Perry & how he humiliated the Japanese into submitting to US & East India Company imperialism, when all Japan wanted was to be left alone. Most of them have never heard of The Gulf of Tonkin 'incident', either, which was a false flag to precipitate the war in Vietnam. How many American's know about Kissinger & Nixon's illegal carpet bombing of neutral Cambodia, or the destruction of Laos? Very few, because they don't give a shit about the havoc their endless foreign wars have wrought on countless countries across the globe, all in the name of capitalist expansionism- oops, sorry, 'Democracy'. Pearl Harbour would never have happened if the US hadn't struck the first blow.
@@Altair885 It happened because the US government wanted to go to war, they pulled back their most valuable ships and sent there their least valuable ships. Classic Uncle Sam move. And they made sure the other side had no other choice but attack like they did with the Mexicans.
@@celiovicenteribeirofilho9740 If you referring to atrocities committed by Soviet and North Vietnamese soldiers on civilian population, then yes. Or are we not talking about that?
@@MrEjidorie Different culture, different era. It's funny because not only is Japan seen as a great ally today, we want them to BUILD MORE AIRCRAFT CARRIERS!
I remember on "McHale's Navy," Yoshio Yoda, in character as Fuji, posed as a Japanese bomber pilot caught by the U.S. Navy. He was made up to look like that caricature in front of Captain Binghampton.
One problem with this video, since it is dated 1943. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, died when the plane he was in, was shot down on April 18th, 1943. And yes thank you for showing this.
I can't find evidence of it being banned, but this cartoon became dated pretty quickly. So not too many people really wanted to see it, except for history buffs, and Looney Tunes fans. It's in the public domain since 1971. I think Cartoon Network showed it on one of their Toon Heads shows.
Fun Fact: I am not sure if that was an intention or just an interesting coincidence, but "tokio jokio" in Lithuanian means something like "there is no person (or nothing) like that one", which makes me laugh, as it does not have any sense.
Hilarious!!! I'm Japanese American and I think you SHOULD keep these alive. Those glasses and teeth!!! That accent😂!!! Sadly though then when Pearl Harbor was bombed and the US went to war in the Pacific they found out what a formidable enemy Japanese soldiers were. But never erase or delete history!
I`m a Japanese citizen. When I was a Japanese kinderegartener in 1960`s, I loved to watch Dick Tracy show. I learned that how our people were viewed by Americans when I watched Joe-Jitsu though he was my hero.
I will never understand the reason for showing the Japanese this way. They were the toughest foe USA has ever fought, far tougher than the Germans I think. I think its always better to prepare people for what they are actually up against. Well, in Japan it was the same thing, they totally underestimated the American will to fight. So both sides walked into a fight without understanding their adversary. Don't forget these were cartoons, I'm sure adults understood that the Japanese soldier was no joke.
True. Japan had seasoned, experienced soldiers from their time in China. So U.S. forces, woefully unprepared at the start of WWII, had a lot of catching up to do against seasoned veterans. Germany also had battle-hardened veterans at the start of WWII, due to their participation in the Spanish Civil War of 1936.
@@randallulrich Since early 1930`s, Imperial Japan had a lot of engagements in China, and Imperial Army committed war crimes against Chinese civilians. And Japanese themselves suffered a lot because of their military advances against other Asian countries. However, Japan has never engaged in wars at all for the past 80 years, and Japan is one of the most peace-loving nations in the world. So soldiers of Japanese Self Defense Forces are completely unprepared for battles while many Russians, Americans and North Koreans are seasoned veterans.
Yeah, I was thinking it was gonna be some all quiet on the Western front shit where these dogs would be all proud and patriotic at first and then slowly divulge into crippling stress and depression. But no, just a questionable cartoon from 1943…
That caught me off-guard too. I watched this film before - there’s an upload here on YT with millions of views - so when I saw the thumbnail of this one, I did a double take and thought ‘was there some cut part of the film that had cartoon dogs in it, that I never got to see?’ Then I check out the video and realize it’s just another upload of this film on this platform, and that the thumbnail was an AI image. _Sigh._ Why do people resort to this practice?
You know, I love Japan. It's a great country, and we here in America count them as one of our strongest allies. I pray that never ever changes. But this cartoon is a product of a different time. It should never be hidden away or destroyed. It is what it was: the perception and attitude of one country toward one with which it had hostilities. It is HISTORY, not ray-cizzm.
Then you haven't seen Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will." That Nazi film is among the greatest pieces of propaganda ever made, if not the greatest (sadly). That film made Germans want to get up and goose-step right off into battle. John Paul II was right when he said, "Evil is glamorous." The Nazis and Samurai understood the glamor and exploited it.
It's propaganda, and it is hilarious. Propaganda at that time was a vital weapon against the enemy. Interestingly enough, the Why We Fight series had an episode about how great the Soviet Union was, as they were our ally at the time. History is so important.
This cartoon reflects the prevailing attitudes at the time. It was a way to get people in the patriotic mood needed to fight and win a war we didn't start.
Shrines to war criminals exist in many countries or nations. War criminals or heroes, it all depends on who you ask. I believe all war should be considered a crime, but that's just my uneducated opinion.
@@awolatlargethat’s a lie in fact hundreds of their war criminals including the emperor got away with it the head is f Nissan was one so was one founders of Sony
@@awolatlarge The difference is that Japan waged a war of aggression, utilizing rape, torture and murder to further its aims. We waged a defensive war, and did a damned fine job of it. I celebrate Aug. 8 every year, and I wasn't even born at the time.
Yes ago, I had a co-worker who was at Iwo Jima. He's passed away . He was a paratrooper. He told me that he joined the military because of comic books that he read as a kid. "They depicted "yellow" men taking over America ", (his words) He said that he literally was brainwashed by the comics. He said he couldn't bear the thought, so away he went. I left out the cuss words in his quote. He had a problem with having a very foul mouth when talking about his experiences. I'm glad I had the opportunity to spend time with him. He was a special kind of guy. I hope you enjoyed my short story.
These stereo types are why we underestimated them as an adversary. The cartoon now serves as an awareness of how we dehumanize for propaganda purposes. War sucks at so many levels .
Popeye, Dr. Seuss, Superman, many examples of disparaging the enemy. The disdain for the Japanese had been going on for years prior to this cartoon. I’m glad we are on the same side today. 🕊️
Its par for the course to present the enemy as stupid and incompetent. However it can be a serious mistake, as we learned to our cost in the Falklands.
Related to the first clip: In real life, the Japanese (and other countries) had similar giant horns that were used for incoming aircraft detection before Radar was invented. These horns would receive the sounds of distant aircraft engines and amplify them.
I've always loved how other people always told me what i know i wouldnt or would like before i even knew if I'd like it or not without ever seeing it or hearing it.
Many years after serving in Europe and Okinawa my TSGT father bought a used Mitsubishi pick up truck. I could not believe he did this after all he experienced.
Met a Japanese boy in 3rd grade1968 California. His parents met in Pima Arizona concentration camps when kids during world war II. One from cali, the other from Az. Who may have never met otherwise. Still married 2025. Wooops almost forgot its 2025 Ha a week into new year. This first day writing the 2025.
Watching it now, knowing a fair amount about the war,I find it just kind of dumb. Having been born a couple of decades after the war, I do not have a real good feel about how much regular Americans were in tune to the details of the conflict, what was reported and what was kept hidden. As such, I don’t know what I would have thought about the cartoon when it first came out. Still regardless of how much the facts of the war were distorted by the press, the length of the war could never be hidden nor could the servicemen killed in action be hidden. I think had I watched this in 1943, I probably would have thought that if the Japanese were as stupid as portrayed that we must be just about equally stupid for not being able to win the war a lot more quickly.
when american soldier fight to death instead surrendering they call it "Heroic", when japanese soldier fight to death instead surrendering they call it "Fanatic"
To be fair there is this proverb I heard from China that says, "The best revenge is to outlive your enemies." And to be honest with the way things are going in the west... the east is rising above and beyond while we grow more into economic struggle and cultural decline. Even China itself boasts of it's superiority and how it will outlast the west as we grow decadent and decay. Some even call it karma for the imperialism of past done by the west upon the world. Which to be fair, Africans, Asians, Arabs, Persians, and Indians have a point. They were all under western occupation once upon a time, so grudges are understandable.
3:39 it's ironic that Admiral Yamamoto always tried to find a negotiation with US, even being against Pearl Harbour Attack, but his government denied this by all cost. Maybe things would be different if Yamamoto would be listened, in that case, many lives would be saved and maybe Warner would represented him as a hero.
"Dictating the terms of peace in the White House" was a misquote of Yamamoto, it wasn't meant as a boast, it was meant as a warning to the Japanese warlords. It actually wnet like this: "If you go to war with the United States it won't end until you march across the country and dictate peace terms in the White House itself! And there'll be a rifle behind every blade of grass along the way!"
If we FORGET history it is bound to repat itself again. If this cartoon hurts your feelings then you need to go back and redo the history of Ww2 in the Pacific. Semper Fi from an old Marine
A valuable piece of history, as the Duke of Wellington is reputed to have once said Warts and all. Also entertaining. Thanks All the best from down under Lewis Sydney Australia 🇦🇺
Oh brother, I couldn't help but laugh at this but I shook my head over the severe underestimation of what the Japanese military was capable of. They were no pushovers, not in the least. In fact late in the war the US Army put out a training film that pulled no punches concerning the Japanese. In a nutshell the message was "They're not unbeatable but DON'T underestimate them!" Quite a different message from this cartoon.
This Boomer thanks you for the glimpse back in history. This was reality. They were a cruel and vicious enemy. Thankfully that is no longer the case, but it took a long time to get there.
My father was a US Merchant Marine before, during and after WWII.
He got sunk once.
But he got shot at, strafed, bombed, and torpedoed.
Got some wounds too.
They didn't give them veterans status until around 1986-87.
But they were equal to the percentage of loses as the USMC in WWII.
I hear you. My father was in the British Merchant Marine. As a kid, I was disappointed that he hadn't done something more exciting & heroic during the war. Later, I read about the casualty rates in that service. 27% never came back. It was much safer to be a combat infantryman or even tank crew.
27 percent, huh? That's nothing compared to infantry losses. Depending on location, it was not unheard of to have 70 to 80 percent loss. There is no comparing the two. Saying that being in an infantry unit or tank crew member was "safer" than anything is ignorant and foolish to the extreme.
There is a reason they didn't give him veteran status. Being a civilian sailor is a lot different than a fighting man who is sworn to defend his country. Being a civilian sailor is a job. There is no comparing merchant marines with US Marines. The names are similar, but that is where it begins and ends. The levels of sacrifice are as different as night and day. The fact that someone has to explain this is frustrating. These two jobs exist worlds away from each other in terms of just about any way you could choose to discuss.
@@beavisroadhog9629 comparing individual unit casualty rates to overall service casualty rates is idiocy.
If I specified a unit as being one ship, and that ship sank with all hands, that's a 100% fatality rate. Your statement is meaningless.
Compare like with like. US Armor fatality rate was under 3%. 3 is less than 27, get it?
@@beavisroadhog9629 How old are you? You sound young. I grew up around people who were actually in WW2. They'd shake their heads at your ignorance. Of course, you could be very old & scatter-brained, in which case I apologise & advise you to take your meds.
My father was a Combat Veteran with the US Army Air Force in the South Pacific Campaign on Guam, Tinian, Saipan and Iwo Jima. Dad was a Flightline Engineer and Mechanic on the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt. Dad was in the 20th US Army Air Force, 7th Army Air Corp, 414th Fighter/Bomber Group, 413th F/B Squadron.
We lost him in 2006 at 88yo. He hated the Japanese until the day he died.
I still have the photo albums mom put together from photos dad took on Iwo after the US Marines and US Army Air Force finally took complete conyrol of Iwo Jima.
Very sorry that he could not let go of his hate. That must have been a big burden in his life and yours.
There was plenty of good reason. They were inhumane. China and Korea still hate them to this day, but they suffered under occupation for more years than the war.
I'm not surprised. On all those islands you mention there were hard case Japanese hold-outs right to the end of the war and sometimes beyond. It just wasn't safe for American military personnel to be out and about alone after dark. The hold-outs would expertly infiltrate the American encampments to steal food and kill an American or two if the opportunity offered itself.
@penultimateh766 Go eat some cheese.
Mr. DeHart Sr. Had every right to feel the way he did. Unlike you, who likes living in the Land of the Free but probably wouldn't lift a finger to defend it. Keep your value judgements to yourself. 😮
@penultimateh766 just wasn't discussed. He returned from the South Pacific Campaign and had an opportunity to either join the Virginia State Police as a Trooper or becoming a Class A Transmission/Distribution Lineman for Appalachian Power Company. He chose the later and he and mom raised all 7 of us kids in a well-rounded Blue Collar Christian home. We had everything we needed and all worked our ways through collage. Mom & Dad were proud of their elementary school teacher, legal secretary, chemical safety engineer, medical sales rep, West Virginia State Trooper & USSS Special Agent, Paralegal and Insurance Special Investigator & 30yrs as a Firefighter/EMS Medical First Responder (myself, the youngest).
I'm sure you'd hate those that sadistically m#rdered your pilot buddies in cold blood. Today's Japanese were raised by the prior generations. Sorry to burst your bubble... there IS NO utopia out there!! No jere on earth!!
I mean it’s part of history, I remember watching this cartoon as a kid not knowing anything about history yet in school.
How true. I remember going to the movies during the war and seeing many cartoons like this one.
Watcha' talkin' bout? This film has been on the internet for quite some time now.
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@@wrestlingpurist9784 I have seen it broadcast on television with the notice that it is highly UN-characteristic of postwar Japanese. They had a sophisticated civilization before their country went the Wrong Way -- as did the Germans and Italians. I would have had no qualms about marrying a Japanese or a Japanese-American... most are nice people with a richer culture than I had (hick German-American... no, they do not read Goethe or listen to Beethoven, thank you. They read the National Enquirer and listen to country music).
Had history gone the other way, with the Japanese maintaining their inchoate democracy and the Germans keeping the infant democracy of the Weimar Germany intact while the dangerous Second Klan took over in America, the joke would have been about "Wackiness in Washington", mocking the racism and ineptitude of American fascists with a mockery of American crudeness. .
I once saw a very very old Superman cartoon which also showed the Japanese in this manner.
THANK YOU for having the courage to show this piece of history that has been hidden from us for so many decades because they didn't want to hurt someone's feelings ! NEVER hide history !
I think you will enjoy "Europa: The Last Battle"
they dont hide history in that one
This is not the first time though, that this particular film has been made available to the public again.
Here on YT, there are already many uploads of _Tokio Jokio,_ the one with most views having been posted eight years ago. This is just another one.
You confuse history with propaganda, as so many others even today do. But just in case you meant it ironically: you failed.
History and historiography are two different things.
I’m sure the Asian audiences laughed just as much at their own satires of British and American stereotype characters.
i would really like to see stereotyped british/american looney tunes, no filters!
now I gotta try and find those films
I don't know of any similar Japanese movies, but one worth checking is Momotarou Sacred Sailors Movie. In it Japanese depict themselves as little monkeys with various animal friends, while British are wiggly armed humans.
remastered version ua-cam.com/video/OCM3f6dVaFs/v-deo.html
worse quality, but with English subtitles ua-cam.com/video/VdzrgJA_iWA/v-deo.html
I'm dead certain that there's old 1940's anime cartoons portraying the Americans as fat, lazy cowardly slobs somewhere in a Japanese library that Japanese people laughed at. We're all friends now. But at one point our governments wanted us to hate one another.
I wonder if that was part of their culture.
This came out at the same time as Bataan, Wake Island, They Were Expendable, etc., when Japan and all Japanese people were hated in the US.'
By the way, my wife's entire family spent the war years in Japanese concentration camps in the Dutch East Indies. No love lost there.
When you’ve realised you haven’t booked with Trivago😂😂😂😂
Because Japanese culture and entertainment is so loved today, and because of continuing consternation and guilt over the atomic bombs and the fire bombing of Tokyo, people in the US give Japan a pass. Young people especially aren't taught about what Japan did in Asia during the war. It's glossed over in education, in textbooks....etc. I do agree with the sentiment that modern-day Japanese bear no responsibility for what happened back then, but there needs to be more of a focus on it when people learn about the war.
@@caomhan84 I agree. My cousin was an ACE ( 9 confirmed kills) pilot in the European Theater, and after VE day his group ( Checkertails ) transferred to the South Pacific. His luck finally ran out and he was shot down and after spending two days in the water, he was picked up by the Japanese and sent to Tokyo POW Camp. His treatment there, as a pilot, was inhuman and disgusting. Luckily, he was only there two months before being liberated, but, he was in Hosptial for months after he returned to the USA. He retired in 1967 as a Brigadier General. My Dad was 1 7 year old marine on Iwo Jima, and he never got over it, when we buried him in 1994, he still had Jap shrapnel in both legs.
@@caomhan84 B S even germany apologized and made amends....the monogenitic trash denial goes on
My ex's stepfather was Dutch Army. He was in a POW camp about 40 miles or so north of Hiroshima. He celebrated every Aug. 8th.
2:11 That’s not a Japanese Club Sandwich. That’s a North Korean Club Sandwich!
Also, wouldn't the wooden club be replaced with a crescent wrench? 🔧
Not "Crub"😮😂😂😂
North Korean club sandwithere's no bread.There's nothing to eat.There's just a club
We call it The Romanian club sandwich from the Ciaucescu era.
WWII Japan did have serious supply problems. The Japanese military had a direct responsibility in this.
The chair for admiral Yamamoto... Now compare that to the way he actually died.
Admiral Yamamoto actually was against Japan starting a war with America - He had spent years in the USA being educated. He didn't hate the Yanks. But his loyalty to the Emperor was overriding. After Pearl Harbor, he stated," I fear that we have merely awakened a Sleeping Giant". His plane was shot down on an inspection tour near Rabaul in 1943. Read the Wikipedia article on him- it's very, very interesting, and may give you a different perspective on him.
@autophyte I am a WWII history enthusiast. I read about those mentioned events long before the Wikipedia existed, and watched every movie about this issue at least twice (I watched again 1970's "Tora! Tora! Tora! yesterday) My shelves have scale models of Zeros, a G4M "Betty", B-29 "Enola Gay" and several others. Soon I'll bring a P-38 to the collection. My original comment refers to the - there is no other way to describe it- spectacular plan to assassinate him, and how it succeeded. Anyway many thanks for your reply! Now I hope for more people to join this discussion.
@@autophyte There's little to no debate about Yamamoto: he was extremely intelligent, charismatic , well spoken, studied in Harvard, knew the Americans well and had a true admiration for them. He devised his plan because he knew better than anybody that without a decisive victory in the beginning, Japan would be in serious trouble as the USA was ten times richer and with a industrial capacity orders of magnitude larger than his country and with nearly unlimited natural resources-something Japan has always struggled with. But when he heard that the prized aircraft carriers weren't at Pearl, he felt truly dismayed, among a crowd of officers cheering and celebrating the (apparent) success of the attack
You're absolutely right, there were *no* aircraft carriers at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Just a coincidence! 😜
@@octaviovaladaoferreirinhad2689 It's a shame that war often pits good men against other good men, united only in their loyalty to country.
I live in rhodeisland and we lost a lot of good men fighting in the pacific. We still celebrate VJ Day. 🇺🇲
Me too, RI usually celebrates VJ day on or about August 14.
@@mikefishhead My Dad who was a veteran of WWII , during the approx ,years - 80s or 90s , there was an attitude of apprehension about the Japanese. My Dad said the people that started that war , were now dead . He was a Hawk , but didn't wear it like a badge .
calling a WW2 film "banned" for not fitting modern circumstances and conventions feels a little demeaning if you ask me
Meanwhile George Soros gets a medal from Biden.
the people who follow Jesus rightfully pray for his return THEN we'll see justice done.
Boo freaking hoo
A historic film is the victim of a coalition of woke snowflakes.
Basically any animated films during WWII could be considered 'banned' by today's standard
Any films on China yet?
Don't start a war if you can't take a joke.
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The depictions of Japanese were crude, but then again, if you watch toons from that era you will notice that Whites are also depicted crudely. Mussolini , for example.
it was war, you dont think the enemy portrayed us in a bad light as well? Japan told its people americans were canables and many women jupmped to their death with their babys when they heard american invasion was imminent
@@wils-q7j Yeah they did, but that wasnt my point. I was addressing the wider subject of racism in cartoons.
Mussolini is not “white” he is Italian.
@@handbananaistherapist642racism in cartoons are based on 21st century eyes looking back
@@clarkwilson6340 -- From the round eye perspective...
You notice the stereotyped Japanese all look like Hideki Tojo? I guess he was the real face of Japan at the time.
So solly.
And remember folks, the Japanese government has never admitted the war crimes in WW2.
The rape of Korean women. The torture of POWs. The cannibalism of enemy soldiers.
Neither have we in the US. 99.9% of war crimes perpetrated by the US/Allies went unpunished, just as it went for the Japanese.
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And remember folks, the US government has never admitted A-bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki as the war crimes. This news is released by Nippon News.💩💩💩💩
@@TheBestDog History is always written by victors in their favor.
Has the allied forces admitted anything?
If anyone has a problem with this video ask the soldiers who gave they lives and those who risked their lives and let’s see what the say.
A war was going on , so get over it .!
100%. DEI culture wants us to believe today's world views were always the same.
Back in the 70s I was on line for a popular Chinese restaurant when the kids (prbly teens) started talking in "ching ghow" accents because they thought it was funny...as far as I know there wasn't any war going on between us and the Japanese or the Chinese. (Vietnam, yes - but I don't recall any propaganda cartoons depicting the Viet Cong as subhuman.)
Typical racist Americans view.
@@joestrike8537grow up all nations and people mock others during the same time period I saw Frenchmen imitating Americans it was not nice and read about the Japanese war crimes which were worst than even the evil Nazis or better defend the Japanese in Korea or China and enjoy the punched nose
Why get triggered by something that happened before your time? 🤔
Loved the joke about Hess being imprisoned by this point.
Not in anything as uncomfortable as a a concentration camp, unfortunately.
@@rminkof by the time the film was released the general public knowledge about concentration camps was that they were equivalent to POW camps and not what became known by 1945 as equivalent to extermination camps.
This was produced to aid in the war effort when the Allies were at war with Japan. Perfectly justified, in my opinion. Thank you for sharing this with us in 2025.
Yes, says this Gaijin. Best not to start a war or push folks into one.
Propagating war is never justified, regardless of the reason or on which side you're on.
Truth be told, the Japanese of the era were 30 times worse
Propaganda is a powerful tool when used correctly. @vladdracul5072
a short mind game:
"This was produced to aid in the war effort when the *Axies* were at war with *USA*. Perfectly justified, in my opinion. Thank you for sharing this with us in 2025."
I hope you recognise your mistake yourself. 🤦🏻♂
Australians held a deep and abiding hatred toward the Japanese during the war. The murder of Australian Army nurses, the murder of civilians and gross maltreatment of POWs was common knowledge. Propaganda like this cartoon was misleading and counter productive as it presented the Japanese as comic harmless and incompetent.
On the contrary. It portrays the enemy as worthy of scorn and ridicule. If you mock the enemy to his face, you’re showing he doesn’t frighten you.
Now is it true Australian cities have to many real estate own by Japanese? Is true, quite ironic!🤑🤑
The actual POWs, who built the bridge on the river Kwai, hated the film, because the prisoners were treated far worse, than how the movie showed them being treated.
@@ottobaron6392 British officers who were POW's really hated the film - if you saw the film you would know why - it was a bit too accurate for comfort.
It was completely inaccurate @@keithammleter3824
Back when it was ok to treat your enemy as your enemy.
It's still racism. Like, when these old cartoons satirized the nazis they didn't present germans as bizarre barely human creatures. They just mocked their screwed up ideologies
@@yurilouback6331 As an Aussie who's grandfather served in New Guinea, I continue to refer to the Japanese during WW2 as 'Japs'.
@@yurilouback6331 Aww, you wanna go to your safe space now? 🤣
The hell they did. Go back and watch some of these p propaganda pieces. In the early days of the war (when Germany was very much on the table to win), they were caricatured with hooked noses, hideous rictus grins, bloated guts and dagger like hands. And that's when they didn't take the easy way out and anthro them into vultures, weasels, or skunks).
That isn't to say racism DID NOT have a hand in these animations (they did). But the sheer level of vitriol is NOT representative of racist ideology in America. It demonstrates two factors acting as "force mul tut ipliers" on all other sentiments.
1.) The Japanese were our enemy.
2.) The Japanese declared war through a surprise attack.
Once someone is sanctioned by the nation as an enemy (be it a nation, an organization, or a people), the public allows itself to hold unfair biases against that group without counterpoint. Because "the enemy" doesn't deserve that kind of fairness.
But moreover the U.S. in particular has developed a particular distaste for cowardly or hypocritical action. The MOMENT Pearl Harbor happened, every person from Japan became a back-stabbing snake in the grass; one to be distrusted, ridiculed, cast out, and dealt with at gunpoint.
And the sad truth is that reality will NEVER change.
9/11 happened and this nation responded by distrusting muslims and obliterating the Middle East.
And they WILL do it again if somebody else is dumb enough to dagger them in the back.
Remembering and watching cartoons like Jokio Tokio reminds us that this reality exists...and, just perhaps, offers us the cr chance to learn from it if we don't pretend it doesn't exist.
@@EXRazeBurn Well said, mate!
"Happy gentleman, have you anything to say? "
"Uh,no. Nothing, except, LET ME OUT OF HERE!!!!!"
This was war and it was perfectly fine for the period.
One problem with racial and other stereotypes is that they frequently have a lot of truth in them. (Although our 'typical British City gent' isn't quite so true nowadays.)
If one finds this offensive, imagine if they saw real archival footage of Unit 731
What happened to Unit 731?
@@TheRenaissance_human It was was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that engaged in lethal human experimentation and biological weapons. They killed over 300,000 people!
Our nukes covered it for about 30 years and destroyed all evidence of the worst of it.
@@TheRenaissance_human
@@TheRenaissance_humanhorrific stuff on biology
@@TheRenaissance_human Unit 731 The Japanese Biological Warfare unit.
POW's were the subjects
A very simple search turned it up...I suppose the Internet wasn't developed for you Renaissance types
When America were together and not fighting each other, .
For Republican Americans, Democratic American might look like guys who are bucktoothed, bespectacled and short.
Yeah! How dare half the country not want to be racist pigs anymore?!!
That happened when democrats such as women illegals and African Americans became powerful and started tearing down the country.
Together ?? Ummm ... Over a 100,000 Japanese Americans were rounded up and locked up in concentration camps by the U S. military . Zoot suit war of 1943 , Aleutian islands civilians displaced from their ancestral homes by the U S. army , Black Americans were in segregated military units . Together ?? Well not exactly .
Americans have always fought each other.
My father lost his two brothers in WW2, and he enlisted at the end of the war. He was not ever buying or renting a Toyota, nor, did he want me to drive a foreign car to his house in 2010. I literally, had to cancel a car rental, since they wanted to substitute a Toyota for a Ford.
In July 1938, the German consul in Cleveland gave Ford, on his 75th birthday, the award of the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, the highest medal Nazi Germany could bestow on a foreigner.
James D. Mooney, vice president of overseas operations for General Motors, received a similar medal, the Merit Cross of the German Eagle, First Class.
Don't know about Chrysler...
@@TheRealAndreasBartel Pre-World Wars, German businessmen were ingrained in lots of US business. You need only look to our Federal Reserve Bank, that was founded by several Prominent bankers and businessmen, including Warburg and Pinkus, etc. As a consequence, WW2, was used as an excuse to take it from them.
There was a time in this country where we ABSOLUTLY HATED our enemies.
That's OK, people still hate you.
Every single group of people that has gone to war with another group of people has demonized them, even in civil wars when people are fighting amongst themselves. It's normal human behavior. And I promise you the Japanese did the same thing to everyone they were fighting including the US.
There was?
You sound like you currently " Absolutely hate " anybody that's different from you .
It's easier to fight and kill something that you've been taught isn't human
After pearl harbor and how they treated our prisoners, they can deal with a cartoon.
Ever wondered why Pearl Harbour happened in the first place? Probably not 🙄
Occupied Hawai?
@@Altair885 Finally somebody said it! Most American idiots have never heard of (US) Commodore Matthew Perry & his totally illegal, multi national 'Black Ships' naval blockade of Edo & the following totally unprovoked destruction by Perry's cannons on the defenceless city, that wiped out over half of Japan's ruling class, not to mention thousands of civilians. All because Japan wouldn't roll over to Western imperialism & plunder. To the Japanese revenge is an obligation viewed the same as a debt, at least with Pear Harbour they struck a military target instead of a civilian one. America drew first blood, Pearl Harbour was inevitable when you humiliate & degrade a race like the Japanese.
@@Altair885 Most Americans haven't got a clue. They've never heard of that pompous, bombastic prick, Commodore Matthew Perry & how he humiliated the Japanese into submitting to US & East India Company imperialism, when all Japan wanted was to be left alone. Most of them have never heard of The Gulf of Tonkin 'incident', either, which was a false flag to precipitate the war in Vietnam. How many American's know about Kissinger & Nixon's illegal carpet bombing of neutral Cambodia, or the destruction of Laos? Very few, because they don't give a shit about the havoc their endless foreign wars have wrought on countless countries across the globe, all in the name of capitalist expansionism- oops, sorry, 'Democracy'. Pearl Harbour would never have happened if the US hadn't struck the first blow.
@@Altair885 It happened because the US government wanted to go to war, they pulled back their most valuable ships and sent there their least valuable ships. Classic Uncle Sam move. And they made sure the other side had no other choice but attack like they did with the Mexicans.
They should really restore these shorts for the public. They shouldn’t be banned.
If they can show porn in schools, they can show this
They drew Hitler so well, and I just find it funny how well all of this is animated, it honestly looks better than some stuff now.
We are worrying about "offensive" cartoon, but nobody remembers hundreds of thousands of Chinese raped and murdered by the Japanese soldiers.
Like in Vietnam?
Yes the Japanese were very brutal to the Vietnamese people, and to the French who lived there.@@celiovicenteribeirofilho9740
A lot of people remember
Millions. if I described here what ordinary Japanese soldiers did to women and girls I'd be banned in a second.
@@celiovicenteribeirofilho9740 If you referring to atrocities committed by Soviet and North Vietnamese soldiers on civilian population, then yes. Or are we not talking about that?
The buck toothed glasses wearing caricature was not an image of all Japanese; it was an image of one public figure, Tojo
I`m a Japanese citizen, but I`m not bucktoothed, wear no spectacles and tall.
Except almost every single Japanese character in this cartoon is portrayed as that caricature.
@@MrEjidorie Different culture, different era. It's funny because not only is Japan seen as a great ally today, we want them to BUILD MORE AIRCRAFT CARRIERS!
I remember on "McHale's Navy," Yoshio Yoda, in character as Fuji, posed as a Japanese bomber pilot caught by the U.S. Navy. He was made up to look like that caricature in front of Captain Binghampton.
Wrong .
Please let us not lose history understand it and hopefully not repeat it. So much of this is being lost. So our next generation's get to repeat it sad
The biggest mistake the allies made was to underestimate the Japanese at the beginning of ww2.
I don’t think this was the case with the U.S., but maybe the Brit’s
Never censor history.
3:30 This cartoon must have been made in early 1943, as Yamamoto was shot down and killed in April of that year by US forces in the Solomon Islands.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokio_Jokio
At least released after his death.
I remember when i was a little kid watching all these cartoons. To me it was nothing out of the ordinary
One problem with this video, since it is dated 1943. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, died when the plane he was in, was shot down on April 18th, 1943. And yes thank you for showing this.
Why was it banned Just silly and stupid
I can't find evidence of it being banned, but this cartoon became dated pretty quickly. So not too many people really wanted to see it, except for history buffs, and Looney Tunes fans. It's in the public domain since 1971. I think Cartoon Network showed it on one of their Toon Heads shows.
Not to mention that what Yamamoto meant by "Peace will be dictated from the White House" was that the White House would do the dictating.
Fun Fact: I am not sure if that was an intention or just an interesting coincidence, but "tokio jokio" in Lithuanian means something like "there is no person (or nothing) like that one", which makes me laugh, as it does not have any sense.
Or does it?
They attacked everybody, including us.
We were at war with them.
I'm laughing at this.
I'm not sorry.
Hilarious!!! I'm Japanese American and I think you SHOULD keep these alive. Those glasses and teeth!!! That accent😂!!! Sadly though then when Pearl Harbor was bombed and the US went to war in the Pacific they found out what a formidable enemy Japanese soldiers were. But never erase or delete history!
I`m a Japanese citizen. When I was a Japanese kinderegartener in 1960`s, I loved to watch Dick Tracy show. I learned that how our people were viewed by Americans when I watched Joe-Jitsu though he was my hero.
Formidable indeed: though the propaganda movie does have a point about poor logistics.
I will never understand the reason for showing the Japanese this way. They were the toughest foe USA has ever fought, far tougher than the Germans I think. I think its always better to prepare people for what they are actually up against. Well, in Japan it was the same thing, they totally underestimated the American will to fight. So both sides walked into a fight without understanding their adversary. Don't forget these were cartoons, I'm sure adults understood that the Japanese soldier was no joke.
True. Japan had seasoned, experienced soldiers from their time in China. So U.S. forces, woefully unprepared at the start of WWII, had a lot of catching up to do against seasoned veterans.
Germany also had battle-hardened veterans at the start of WWII, due to their participation in the Spanish Civil War of 1936.
@@randallulrich Since early 1930`s, Imperial Japan had a lot of engagements in China, and Imperial Army committed war crimes against Chinese civilians. And Japanese themselves suffered a lot because of their military advances against other Asian countries.
However, Japan has never engaged in wars at all for the past 80 years, and Japan is one of the most peace-loving nations in the world. So soldiers of Japanese Self Defense Forces are completely unprepared for battles while many Russians, Americans and North Koreans are seasoned veterans.
Really? an Ai generated thumbnail?
Not really. A lot of old movies and TV shows have been banned from airing, and re-release or heavily edited due to certain groups expressing issues.
Yeah, I thought the same thing...
Yeah, I was thinking it was gonna be some all quiet on the Western front shit where these dogs would be all proud and patriotic at first and then slowly divulge into crippling stress and depression. But no, just a questionable cartoon from 1943…
That caught me off-guard too.
I watched this film before - there’s an upload here on YT with millions of views - so when I saw the thumbnail of this one, I did a double take and thought ‘was there some cut part of the film that had cartoon dogs in it, that I never got to see?’
Then I check out the video and realize it’s just another upload of this film on this platform, and that the thumbnail was an AI image.
_Sigh._
Why do people resort to this practice?
My thoughts as well 😖
History is not for us to like or dislike. It’s to learn from.
But we rarely do
I'll bet the poor Marines who made it out of Guadalcanal didn't find this very funny.
It's history, that's the way it was back then. It's a cartoon.
You know, I love Japan. It's a great country, and we here in America count them as one of our strongest allies. I pray that never ever changes. But this cartoon is a product of a different time. It should never be hidden away or destroyed. It is what it was: the perception and attitude of one country toward one with which it had hostilities. It is HISTORY, not ray-cizzm.
Americans made better propaganda film than the Nazis.
_Triumph des Willens_ is uploaded to youtube. It's actually really fucking boring. Dunno why the republican voting block loves it so much.
Then you haven't seen Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will." That Nazi film is among the greatest pieces of propaganda ever made, if not the greatest (sadly). That film made Germans want to get up and goose-step right off into battle. John Paul II was right when he said, "Evil is glamorous." The Nazis and Samurai understood the glamor and exploited it.
Just out of curiosity, how exactly were you supposed to portray your enemy?
Folks tend to forget also that the Japanese were extremely racist themselves.
With our military arguing over pronouns, I'm sure the Chinese military is having a heyday portraying our military as a bunch of effeminate heshe's.
Exactly! In the napoleonic wars and WW1 the French and Germans respectively were depicted as slavering subhuman ape-like beasts in the press.
It's propaganda, and it is hilarious. Propaganda at that time was a vital weapon against the enemy. Interestingly enough, the Why We Fight series had an episode about how great the Soviet Union was, as they were our ally at the time. History is so important.
The caricature of Lord Haw-Haw was right on!
I always got a kick out of the notion that every Nippon Warrior had bad eyesight and crooked teath. 😅😅
This cartoon reflects the prevailing attitudes at the time. It was a way to get people in the patriotic mood needed to fight and win a war we didn't start.
Shrines to war criminals exist in Japan.
Unfortunately, very true!
Shrines to war criminals exist in many countries or nations.
War criminals or heroes, it all depends on who you ask.
I believe all war should be considered a crime, but that's just my uneducated opinion.
@@awolatlargethat’s a lie in fact hundreds of their war criminals including the emperor got away with it the head is f Nissan was one so was one founders of Sony
Two Japanese cities had nuclear bombs dropped on them...what war criminals saw justice over these events??!!
@@awolatlarge The difference is that Japan waged a war of aggression, utilizing rape, torture and murder to further its aims. We waged a defensive war, and did a damned fine job of it. I celebrate Aug. 8 every year, and I wasn't even born at the time.
Looks pretty innocuous to me don’t lose your sense of humour folks.
just wow...to think such cartoon were made like this back then and its very neat to see how things were seen and done back then by people
It wasn’t banned. It was just taken off the air after the war
Yes ago, I had a co-worker who was at Iwo Jima. He's passed away . He was a paratrooper. He told me that he joined the military because of comic books that he read as a kid. "They depicted "yellow" men taking over America ", (his words) He said that he literally was brainwashed by the comics. He said he couldn't bear the thought, so away he went. I left out the cuss words in his quote. He had a problem with having a very foul mouth when talking about his experiences. I'm glad I had the opportunity to spend time with him. He was a special kind of guy.
I hope you enjoyed my short story.
My father, USN, 1938-1946, probably laughed his butt off at this cartoon!
These stereo types are why we underestimated them as an adversary. The cartoon now serves as an awareness of how we dehumanize for propaganda purposes. War sucks at so many levels .
Popeye, Dr. Seuss, Superman, many examples of disparaging the enemy. The disdain for the Japanese had been going on for years prior to this cartoon. I’m glad we are on the same side today. 🕊️
Its par for the course to present the enemy as stupid and incompetent. However it can be a serious mistake, as we learned to our cost in the Falklands.
Related to the first clip: In real life, the Japanese (and other countries) had similar giant horns that were used for incoming aircraft detection before Radar was invented. These horns would receive the sounds of distant aircraft engines and amplify them.
I've always loved how other people always told me what i know i wouldnt or would like before i even knew if I'd like it or not without ever seeing it or hearing it.
Many years after serving in Europe and Okinawa my TSGT father bought a used Mitsubishi pick up truck. I could not believe he did this after all he experienced.
Sometimes even the enemy can make good quality items. He would have been amongst the first to see made in Japan was not all rubbish.
Met a Japanese boy in 3rd grade1968 California. His parents met in Pima Arizona concentration camps when kids during
world war II. One from cali, the other from Az. Who may have never met otherwise. Still married 2025.
Wooops almost forgot its 2025
Ha a week into new year. This first day writing the 2025.
Now if only this was remade to poke fun of the North Koreans.
Especially the bit at 3:30 for Lil' Kim's sister...😂
A lot of people forget that cartoon companies were used as propaganda machines during wartime. Just the way it was
Watching it now, knowing a fair amount about the war,I find it just kind of dumb. Having been born a couple of decades after the war, I do not have a real good feel about how much regular Americans were in tune to the details of the conflict, what was reported and what was kept hidden. As such, I don’t know what I would have thought about the cartoon when it first came out. Still regardless of how much the facts of the war were distorted by the press, the length of the war could never be hidden nor could the servicemen killed in action be hidden. I think had I watched this in 1943, I probably would have thought that if the Japanese were as stupid as portrayed that we must be just about equally stupid for not being able to win the war a lot more quickly.
That's just amazing. If only we could have cartoons to depict nowadays😂
Interesting that Dr. Suess made cartoons similar to this, in WW2! My grandma, a master's degree teacher was terrified of the Japanese!
when american soldier fight to death instead surrendering they call it "Heroic",
when japanese soldier fight to death instead surrendering they call it "Fanatic"
*Thanks for preserving the aspect ratio.*
Air craft spotter is truth. Many of the German paint jobs on their aircraft were leopard spots. They actually looked pretty great.
Maines found out that these dismissive images of a buffoonish enemy was a mistake.
Who's old enough to remember this?
Banned? Where? Japan?
Don't worry, Japan got its revenge by releasing anime to the west.
And K-Pop.
To be fair there is this proverb I heard from China that says, "The best revenge is to outlive your enemies."
And to be honest with the way things are going in the west... the east is rising above and beyond while we grow more into economic struggle and cultural decline. Even China itself boasts of it's superiority and how it will outlast the west as we grow decadent and decay. Some even call it karma for the imperialism of past done by the west upon the world. Which to be fair, Africans, Asians, Arabs, Persians, and Indians have a point. They were all under western occupation once upon a time, so grudges are understandable.
Turn the brightness up. Podawful mentioned.
More of this please 🤣👍
Interesting to see things that were shown 7 years before I was born.
3:39 it's ironic that Admiral Yamamoto always tried to find a negotiation with US, even being against Pearl Harbour Attack, but his government denied this by all cost.
Maybe things would be different if Yamamoto would be listened, in that case, many lives would be saved and maybe Warner would represented him as a hero.
"Dictating the terms of peace in the White House" was a misquote of Yamamoto, it wasn't meant as a boast, it was meant as a warning to the Japanese warlords.
It actually wnet like this:
"If you go to war with the United States it won't end until you march across the country and dictate peace terms in the White House itself! And there'll be a rifle behind every blade of grass along the way!"
@@wayneantoniazzi2706 I didn't know that, thanks for the tip
@@AlexDuChat You're welcome!
If we FORGET history it is bound to repat itself again. If this cartoon hurts your feelings then you need to go back and redo the history of Ww2 in the Pacific. Semper Fi from an old Marine
Worth watching again
Thank you!
When I got this recommended to me. I thought it was a new Disney.
NOTE Isoroku Yamamoto (山本 五十六, Yamamoto Isoroku, April 4, 1884 - April 18, 1943 Admiral Yamamotos plane was shot down on April 18, 1943
A valuable piece of history, as the Duke of Wellington is reputed to have once said Warts and all.
Also entertaining.
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I don't believe this one was but most of the war films / cartoons we're made by Disney studios in Hollywood.
I wonder how many people actually knew where Japan was until 1941?
What a great piece if cartoon history..I distintly remember this cartoon (the 'listening post') prolly saw it 50 -60 years ago...
Odd that this shows a suicide torpedo sub before they were put into use
I remember watching this when I was a kid. Not even realizing how bad it really is.
I'm guessing this got banned because of every single character in this picture.
The Asian American put pressure on the networks not to show these films. Claims of being too racist and stereotyped Asians, not just Japanese.
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That's fair, but still, shouldn't they air these things anyway as a means of history?
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I never did know the difference between Japanese people and Chinese people. Cartoons like these were part of the reason.
You apply this to russia today, pretty much same thing happening.
Nothing changed. Just the enemy.
Oh brother, I couldn't help but laugh at this but I shook my head over the severe underestimation of what the Japanese military was capable of.
They were no pushovers, not in the least.
In fact late in the war the US Army put out a training film that pulled no punches concerning the Japanese. In a nutshell the message was "They're not unbeatable but DON'T underestimate them!" Quite a different message from this cartoon.
...a little piece of history. Never forget.
These would never fly today for sure!
This Boomer thanks you for the glimpse back in history. This was reality. They were a cruel and vicious enemy. Thankfully that is no longer the case, but it took a long time to get there.