Japanese Americans Documentary

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  • Japanese Americans

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  • @johnyoshida6236
    @johnyoshida6236 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Respect to the 442nd regiment of WWII. One of the most decorated military regiments in US history.

  • @naesydarb9
    @naesydarb9 8 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    I am half Japanese and half white it's a trip how that not many people know anything about the Japanese American and thanks for posting the video.

    • @Kawayoporu
      @Kawayoporu 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wow, so what is your ancestry of your white half, is it Polish so are you half Polish descent mixed with Japanese?

    • @naesydarb9
      @naesydarb9 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ***** I'm part Irish German French and Welsh don't know how much of each lol

    • @Kawayoporu
      @Kawayoporu 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Sean B Oh, okay, so to you let you know why I asked you that was that I'm trying to find a mixed Polish and Japanese that happened to speak 3 languages fluently in Japanese, Polish and English for translating from Japanese to Polish or English to sing my own favourite classic anime songs as the Polish or English fandubs and new anime too on the openings and endings of them, but I found one Japanese mix Polish having a Japanese parent and Polish parent, don't know which is the mom or dad is Japanese and Polish, but he only knows the numbers in Polish and Japanese saying he is bad at learning languages, his parents are divorced, an only child no siblings I ask if he has any that are trilingual and he didn't and so he hasn't get a chance to be completely trilingual.
      I also try to find a Japanese speak Polish born in Poland or a Polish speak Japanese born in Japan both trilingual with Polish, Japanese and English, either Japanese or Polish or both I want or 3 together with a mix Polish/Japanese give me more time to help me translate, but still no luck finding them, I've been trying for a while.

    • @josecla08
      @josecla08 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Me too my half Japanese and German

    • @josecla08
      @josecla08 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      U said Welsh that's my great great great great grandmother Maiden name before it turn to.mittwer

  • @HurairaHerbals
    @HurairaHerbals 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This video brought me to tears. I'm not japanese, but a second generation middle easterner and I can relate to most of everything. You can assimilate completely into american culture but there is always a tug of the past calling you back that you just cant ignore.

    • @Kawayoporu
      @Kawayoporu 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      +JungleCatStudio Hello, do you always believe there are over 1.6 million people that live in America are of Japanese descent, making United States the host to the largest Japanese community outside of Japan in the world?
      But not the chinese and koreans though, their largest diaspora is in thailand and china, but brazil has many chinese, cus the chinese came to brazil first before to America.

    • @lonebeagle
      @lonebeagle 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Kawayoporu I'm a Sansei born and raised in California. I am 0% "Japanese". I'm 100% American, and if you can't handle that fact, just keep your mouth shut.

    • @Kawayoporu
      @Kawayoporu 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      +@@lonebeagle Hey, isn't that rude to tell me the words shut and then up, you could have just said quiet is okay, I am not too happy a Sansei would talk reply me like that, because I like Nikkei just like Japanese, could you tell me what is that mean your 0% Japanese, so are you fully ethnic Japanese?

    • @howellwong11
      @howellwong11 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Kawayoporu In the past, Brazil had the most Japanese living outside of Japan.

    • @Kawayoporu
      @Kawayoporu ปีที่แล้ว

      +@@howellwong11 What brazil American?
      I don't know what is that mean most largest outside of Japan, that means USA that first have the Japanese arrived in 1880 was the first western country to get more Japanese in the world outside Japan before peru in 1899 and then brazil have them arrived in 1909 being a small few like in peru and france or italy too like in china and the philipines were thousands for example, that was meaning most countries have the largest Japanese population outside Japan is USA, Canada, france or argentina right?

  • @wielandkirchner8859
    @wielandkirchner8859 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    good entertaining and exciting music in the opening credits 🎵😎

  • @kevp9601
    @kevp9601 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I MUST ADMIT: TH-cam VIEWERS, Japanese Americans (Nikkei Amerikajin) are Americans who are fully or partially of Japanese descent, especially those who identify with that ancestry, along with their cultural characteristics. Japanese Americans had historically been among the three largest Asian American communities, but since the 2000 United States Census, they have declined in number to constitute the sixth largest Asian American group at roughly 1,304,286, including those of mixed-race or mixed-ethnicity. TRUST ME, THOSE JAPANESE AMERICANS ARE SO SUPER DUPER COOL TO THE MAX! ;-)

    • @Mitchery
      @Mitchery 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Wolfy American descendant = Native descent.

  • @wielandkirchner8859
    @wielandkirchner8859 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Lässige Musik im Vorspann 😎🎵

  • @TANTHEMANFILMS
    @TANTHEMANFILMS 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    proud to be part Japanese!

  • @josecla08
    @josecla08 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    My great grandmother and great grandfather where here my grandfather was half German and Japanese and my grandmother was Japanese mary oyama mittwer and fredrick mittwer

  • @gatheringleaves
    @gatheringleaves 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've only known one Japanese American in my life, a girl named Amy Morimoto in my second grade class in Farmingdale, NY. She was my age, so most likely born in 1990, thus making her a Yonsei, or 4th generation Japanese American.

    • @Kawayoporu
      @Kawayoporu 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Infinite Sky Oh my gosh, you had one Japanese friend, I wish there are many, but I do not understand why didn't many Japanese move to New York as in California has, have you ever had that thought to ask to?

  • @coolrock9281
    @coolrock9281 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Gary Okihiro!!!

  • @howellwong11
    @howellwong11 ปีที่แล้ว

    My grandfather is Japanese, but I never knew him. He returned to Japan around 1910. He was from a samurai family in Southern Japan. My great grandfather probably fought the Imperial Forces back when the government was trying to eliminate the samurai class.

  • @kevp9601
    @kevp9601 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    ...Even Sashi Kobayashi, Sylvester Kobayashi, Tia Kobayashi and George Kobayashi from Disney's Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero the Animated Television Series are Japanese Americans. Again Trust Me, Those Animated Characters are so Super Duper Cool To The Max. And I Love Them So Much. ;-)

  • @nowiecoche
    @nowiecoche 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Americans have certain unalienable rights and one of them is to pursue happiness. If not assimilating into this country's culture makes Americans happy, why not let them? Those unalienable rights that the Decl. of Independence penned has established Americans as strong, independent people, where we can be whatever we wish to become. Yet what unites us Americans is that we can do what we want as long as everyone also gets the same rights.

  • @yy4287
    @yy4287 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why are the staff who prepared this documentary mostly Turkish? Elinize sağlık:)

  • @Kawayoporu
    @Kawayoporu 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is there anybody here watching who is half Japanese half Polish, because there were a couple here was half Japanese, but half german, I like to meet someone that is half Japanese as well, but half Polish?!

    • @howellwong11
      @howellwong11 ปีที่แล้ว

      How many Pollacks would it take to make one Japanese/Polish?

  • @Kawayoporu
    @Kawayoporu 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    The chinese came in USA in 1820 after to brazil in 1812 chinese went there just like Africans, but the unique special ethnic group we love Japanese culture and the people the Japanese came to USA in 1880 and koreans 1900s, vietnamese in the 70s, but today there are more Japanese then koreans, taiwanese, vietnamese or hong kongers, the Japanese today in USA there are over 1.6 million people that live in America are of Japanese descent, making United States the host to the largest Japanese community outside of Japan, I'm not American, but honored USA that host the largest Japanese population outside Japan in the world!

  • @ashdobbs7492
    @ashdobbs7492 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    my grandparents had Japanese neighbors in the 40's who were taken away for safekeeping. the Japanese family asked my grandpa to watch their house and their possessions. after a couple of weeks it was clear that they weren't coming back so my family inherited their stuff. we still proudly own these items. there is a chest full of Japanese cutlery and dining set, beautiful tapestries, a pearl inlaid mirror comb and make up set and lots of art. my brother and I threw away photo albums and other insignificant stuff but am wondering how much all this stuff might be worth maybe more because of its historical value.

    • @howellwong11
      @howellwong11 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sad, The Japanese Americans took a big hit economically, but rebounded back after the war. They didn't play the victim card. You don't see Japanese on welfare or breaking the law.

  • @user-dj2uo1yk9r
    @user-dj2uo1yk9r 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I am Korean. I want to immigrate USA.

    • @Kawayoporu
      @Kawayoporu 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Immigrate to brazil instead, you love brazil.

  • @bonsummers2657
    @bonsummers2657 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why aren't there any videos with 'European Americans' in the title?

    • @Ironmike-tg5nb
      @Ironmike-tg5nb 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Europa Man
      Any one of any race that declares their loyalty to the United States is an American.
      Country before race, ever heard of it dipshit?

    • @josecla08
      @josecla08 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      They didnt treat my great grandfather any better he was half German and Japanese great grandmother was full blooded Japanese.. my great stood in the camp.with her mary oyama mittwer and fredrick mittwer ...everyone that's diff race makes up the USA sorryy but ur wrong

    • @bonsummers2657
      @bonsummers2657 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Lifegoeson But, white Europeans are the historically stereotypical Americans, just as 'Japanese' are the historically stereotypical Japanese.

    • @bonsummers2657
      @bonsummers2657 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Lifegoeson yes, I'm aware of that. That was for the purpose of unity.

    • @bonsummers2657
      @bonsummers2657 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Lifegoeson Why aren't there any videos with the title European American?

  • @grantmanning1639
    @grantmanning1639 9 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I don't think we should be so closed minded as to not consider intern camps again.

    • @grantmanning1639
      @grantmanning1639 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm pretty sure we're past that, it would get on the Internet and people would be all over it.

  • @Ironmike-tg5nb
    @Ironmike-tg5nb 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I prefer to be called American
    Country goes before blood👍

    • @kuroazrem5376
      @kuroazrem5376 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think the exact opposite

    • @haafunimienaikedo
      @haafunimienaikedo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You can live in Japan for twenty years, and trust me, you will still want to be called American, because it is what you are. But, you are still Japanese too. I came to Japan with the intent to stay for a few years, that was over ten years ago. I am American, no amount of time living in my mother’s country will change that; in fact, coming here only further provided the evidence. However, I have also come to love Japan too along the way. I will never forget the joy my mother expressed to me in Japanese to be able to converse with me in her native tongue. Japan is a beautiful country too. No country is perfect. It would be a shame and a disservice to yourself to not embrace your Japanese roots. One should not be exclusive to the other. You should know your ancestral home. 戦争はもう終わったですよ。あなたに日本語を勉強して欲しいです。そうして、日本に来て下さいね。素敵な出会いがありますように。

  • @lonebeagle
    @lonebeagle 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'd like to remind people that most Japanese Americans assimilated into American society just like German American, English American, French American, Italian American, etc etc Americans did. As a
    Sansei (third generation Japanese American) I can tell you that I'm as American as any other American in this country. To suggest that Japanese Americans have to retain practices, language or customs of their ancestors homeland is purely racist.
    This belief is saying that Japanese Americans can never really be Americans--this is the idiocy of today's racial politics. Absolutely none of my Sansei friends that I grew up with go around playing Japanese music or attending traditional Buddhist temple services. And they don't speak Japanese (except for some at a rudimentary level) and they certainly cannot write Japanese.
    This is just nonsense to suggest that Japanese must retain their "Japanese roots". No, Japanese that emigrated to America ended up becoming Americans just like all the other people in this country who came from someplace else.

  • @user-dj2uo1yk9r
    @user-dj2uo1yk9r 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why does Japanese Americans resemble Korean?

    • @howellwong11
      @howellwong11 ปีที่แล้ว

      With rare exceptions, I could tell who were Korean, Japanese or Chinese. I grew up with all three.

  • @kevmichael2064
    @kevmichael2064 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    my late wife is japanese

    • @Kawayoporu
      @Kawayoporu 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      +kev michael Cool, how many half Japanese children you have?
      What is your ancestry, Polish?

    • @kevmichael2064
      @kevmichael2064 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Kawayoporu no We could not have kids...

    • @Kawayoporu
      @Kawayoporu 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      +kev michael How'd you not have kids?

    • @kevmichael2064
      @kevmichael2064 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Kawayoporu German, Italian

    • @kevmichael2064
      @kevmichael2064 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Kawayoporu Because we meet late in Life.. it would of been dangerous for her to give birth

  • @Kawayoporu
    @Kawayoporu 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    USA has the largest Japanese population of any country in the world outside of Japan.
    Due to many went to USA from Hawaii to mainland US and in the 1860s - 80s the largest today is 1.8 Million or 2 million after the largest populated failed in the philipines said it wasn't popular, but the ones that failed in 20th century are mexico, peru and brazil don't have a large scale of Japanese in these poor countries, each only have thousand in number, also lots of them speak English by learning as their second or first language to richer countries in USA and Canada too.

  • @alex731100
    @alex731100 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    this has nothing to do with Japan, these are Americans.

    • @Ironmike-tg5nb
      @Ironmike-tg5nb 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Europa Man
      They're Americans dipshit
      And a ton of them didn't die so could you deny them.
      Any one of any race that has US citizenship is an AMERICAN

  • @anthonybarroque2113
    @anthonybarroque2113 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I always wanted to date a Japanese women

  • @kiyoharal
    @kiyoharal 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    what a mess, they are not japanese they are not american the true japanese cuture becomes just a cliche of tea ceremony paper and wooden houses and fujiyama samurai geisha, that's so sad and tragic , neither these japanese american know their true ancestral culture , nor do they belong completely to america like a white person with european decent does . this is really really sad .

    • @Ironmike-tg5nb
      @Ironmike-tg5nb 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      kiyoharal
      I'm Japanese and my loyalty goes to America. I'm willing to fight for freedom and liberty instead of my own blood.

    • @bikarma892
      @bikarma892 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Did you happen to vote for Trump?

    • @Mitchery
      @Mitchery 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Ironmike-tg5nb Sadly these white supremacists don't understand that.

    • @megshimatsu8615
      @megshimatsu8615 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Don't agree with you at all.