This video tells me what my mother who would have been 13 at the time saw in Tokyo where she was going to school during the duration of the war. She never talked about WWII only telling me most of her family died during the war either fighting in the military or dying in bombing raids in Japan.
Ironically, the atomic bomb probably saved her life. The allies forecast 5 million Japanese Civilian casualties during an invasion, the Japanese themselves forecast 10 million.
Good stuff, keep them coming! I have been to Japan many times on business, but only in the last 2-3 decades. My father was in Japan during the Korean war, he had lots of stories to tell me about then.
Though Japanese people knew that Imperial Japan had accepted the unconditional surrender, their life had not changed at all. I cannot find any hostilities among Japanese people who were shot by US cameraman.
I served in the US Army during the Pablo crisis in Korea and Vietnam conflict (1968-72). While in Japan, Hiroshima and Nagasaki had a curfew and was off limits to off duty military personnel at night. In 1969 I saw a few Japanese World War veterans in haggard uniforms, suffering from PTSD.
What were those vets doing? Do you think they were going insane due to atrocities they committed? That’s really cool that you got to Live in Japan with the army
20 years later, Japan organised the Olympic games, built massive scales of expressways, highways, bullet train 🚅 railroads, advanced international standards airports, seaports, modernized the whole country and it's cities and becomes the second largest economic nation in the world. 70s /80s was the golden era of Japan
Actually a third of Japan was occupied by the Australians and the commonwealth countries in their force. The Australians also ran the war crime trials.
Interesting to see the various expressions on their faces. Some seemed happy, others seemed sad, others seemed too intimidated to look at the camera for very long, if at all. But I would imagine most of them were just glad the damned war was over.
Great video, Thank You. Yes, showing the human everyday side of the common people of Japan, dealing with the largest national reality check ever. Way beyond their wildest imagination just four years earlier.
At least you dont subject us to those annoying numbers that Periscope films has going by at the bottom of the screen at 100mph.They probably add them to the movie to make them seem more authentic.
You don't see too many grim faces. Looks like they are happy the death and destruction is at an end. That fellow doing the art was quite talented. Wonder how he made out in the post war years.
maybe advance party for planning of logistics, quarters and camp areas, who is the civilian government n charge of certain areas, etc....before the landing of large occupation forces.
Some advance Allied personnel were already there before the occupation troops arrived. U.S. troops first entered Tokyo, Japan on August 30, 1945 when General Douglas MacArthur landed at Atsugi airdrome, near Tokyo. The film crew itself was part of that advance contingent. The Jeep probably belonged to them.
Note how few women there are on the streets- in this early film-they had been told that the American soldiers would do terrible things to them-many were still hiding in the countryside
And indeed, tens of thousands of rapes were reported committed by US forces in the 45-46 period. US forces acted on fewer than 400 of those complaints, but did eventually impose crufews on US military which saw the rape numbers drop.
@@d.pierce.6820 John Dower, in his book "Embracing Defeat" uses Japanese sources to estimate 50 to 300 per day in the 1945-1946 period, so dude is correct. The occupation army was composed of low quality troops, with bad discipline. The combat troops were discharged quickly, and the shitbags remained. There's a reason the US Army was utterly unprepared to fight the North Koreans in 1950, because the Occupation Army in Japan was garbage. Source- Dower, "Embracing Defeat, pg 130, note 16, pg 579.
В воспоминаниях Владислава Микоши и Бориса Соколова описано это время. Советские операторы-документалисты попали в Токио как раз в тот момент, когда старая власть уже не распоряжалась, а новая власть ещё не появилась. И, в результате, снимать на камеру можно было всё! Но это был не август, это было 3 сентября - только после подписания Акта о капитуляции Японии иностранную прессу пустили в столицу
Tokyo Japan looked like Shanghai after the Sino-Japanese War in 1937. You would have easily mistaken they were Chinese. Finally, the Japanese got a taste of their own doing.
This is something I have never seen. Thanks for it.
Outstanding archive video.
I’m impressed with the orderly queues for there newspapers ,even among the devastation around them .
This video tells me what my mother who would have been 13 at the time saw in Tokyo where she was going to school during the duration of the war. She never talked about WWII only telling me most of her family died during the war either fighting in the military or dying in bombing raids in Japan.
Ironically, the atomic bomb probably saved her life. The allies forecast 5 million Japanese Civilian casualties during an invasion, the Japanese themselves forecast 10 million.
Good stuff, keep them coming! I have been to Japan many times on business, but only in the last 2-3 decades. My father was in Japan during the Korean war, he had lots of stories to tell me about then.
Though Japanese people knew that Imperial Japan had accepted the unconditional surrender, their life had not changed at all. I cannot find any hostilities among Japanese people who were shot by US cameraman.
I served in the US Army during the Pablo crisis in Korea and Vietnam conflict (1968-72).
While in Japan, Hiroshima and Nagasaki had a curfew and was off limits to off duty military personnel at night.
In 1969 I saw a few Japanese World War veterans in haggard uniforms, suffering from PTSD.
What were those vets doing? Do you think they were going insane due to atrocities they committed? That’s really cool that you got to Live in Japan with the army
20 years later, Japan organised the Olympic games, built massive scales of expressways, highways, bullet train 🚅 railroads, advanced international standards airports, seaports, modernized the whole country and it's cities and becomes the second largest economic nation in the world. 70s /80s was the golden era of Japan
Actually a third of Japan was occupied by the Australians and the commonwealth countries in their force. The Australians also ran the war crime trials.
Interesting to see the various expressions on their faces. Some seemed happy, others seemed sad, others seemed too intimidated to look at the camera for very long, if at all. But I would imagine most of them were just glad the damned war was over.
Great video, Thank You. Yes, showing the human everyday side of the common people of Japan, dealing with the largest national reality check ever. Way beyond their wildest imagination just four years earlier.
Meanwhile Godzilla lurks in Tokyo Bay...
MRL ............Raymond Burr lies in wait in the U.S.
At least you dont subject us to those annoying numbers that Periscope films has going by at the bottom of the screen at 100mph.They probably add them to the movie to make them seem more authentic.
They add them, because they make money selling the originals without the running numbers on their website.
Too cool!
You don't see too many grim faces. Looks like they are happy the death and destruction is at an end. That fellow doing the art was quite talented. Wonder how he made out in the post war years.
For being a fanatical people, They don't seem very concerned.
i saw a jeep passing by in the background....so occupied by the time of filming.
maybe advance party for planning of logistics, quarters and camp areas, who is the civilian government n charge of certain areas, etc....before the landing of large occupation forces.
Advance party, likely, not in force.
Some advance Allied personnel were already there before the occupation troops arrived. U.S. troops first entered Tokyo, Japan on August 30, 1945 when General Douglas MacArthur landed at Atsugi airdrome, near Tokyo. The film crew itself was part of that advance contingent. The Jeep probably belonged to them.
Note how few women there are on the streets- in this early film-they had been told that the American soldiers would do terrible things to them-many were still hiding in the countryside
And indeed, tens of thousands of rapes were reported committed by US forces in the 45-46 period. US forces acted on fewer than 400 of those complaints, but did eventually impose crufews on US military which saw the rape numbers drop.
@@iatsd tens of thousands? what is your source?
@@d.pierce.6820 John Dower, in his book "Embracing Defeat" uses Japanese sources to estimate 50 to 300 per day in the 1945-1946 period, so dude is correct. The occupation army was composed of low quality troops, with bad discipline. The combat troops were discharged quickly, and the shitbags remained. There's a reason the US Army was utterly unprepared to fight the North Koreans in 1950, because the Occupation Army in Japan was garbage.
Source- Dower, "Embracing Defeat, pg 130, note 16, pg 579.
@@picklerick8785 an excellent book-I was just looking at it to see what was said in there about rapes. I missed that estimate,though.
What were they told then about the Australians, who occupied a third of Japan?
画質が綺麗にされているせいで連合軍進駐前の光景に思えない笑
東京にも若い人が結構いたんだな。みんな兵隊に行くか、地方に疎開していたかと思った
В воспоминаниях Владислава Микоши и Бориса Соколова описано это время. Советские операторы-документалисты попали в Токио как раз в тот момент, когда старая власть уже не распоряжалась, а новая власть ещё не появилась. И, в результате, снимать на камеру можно было всё! Но это был не август, это было 3 сентября - только после подписания Акта о капитуляции Японии иностранную прессу пустили в столицу
Surprised at how many women were wearing trousers.
Tokyo Japan looked like Shanghai after the Sino-Japanese War in 1937. You would have easily mistaken they were Chinese. Finally, the Japanese got a taste of their own doing.