Know Your Enemy: Japan | WW2 Propaganda Documentary | 1945
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This film is a 1945 American propaganda documentary directed by Frank Capra and produced by the U.S. War Department. The original intention of the film was to prepare U.S. soldiers for war before deployment in the Pacific, though ultimately it never realized this purpose due to the war's abrupt end soon after the film's completion. The hour-long film sought to educate American soldiers about their adversary's history and society, particularly the course up to the Pacific War, and the totalitarian nature of the Japanese state. It depicted the Japanese as a homogeneous people willing to fight to the end for the Emperor in their quest for world domination. Today, the film is used to show the portrayal of the Japanese people during World War 2.
Despite the fact that planning for the documentary began in 1942, immediately after Pearl Harbor, the film was not completed and released until August 9th 1945, near the end of the war, and the day Nagasaki was bombed. The production was troubled from the very beginning by the inability of the U.S. government to determine what exactly the foreign policy towards Japan should be. The film was revised multiple times for reasons such as seeming too sympathetic by depicting the Japanese as being completely controlled by the Emperor thus fighting the war against their will. Once the film was released, it was only shown for a few weeks, and was discontinued at the end of August 1945 after Japan surrendered. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a turning point for American foreign policy in the Pacific, and when policy switched from war to negotiation, a movie persuading the American people to continue fighting became undesirable. General MacArthur decided to withhold the film from the troops and he recommended that it not be released to the public.
Know Your Enemy: Japan is considered to be a masterpiece of documentary filmmaking. The film itself was a compilation of footage obtained from authentic newsreels, captured or confiscated Japanese films, scenes from fictional Japanese movies for historical background, and re-enactments supervised by the war department. It was narrated by Walter Huston and Dana Andrews.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND / CONTEXT
The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia-Pacific War, was the theater of World War 2 that was fought in the Pacific and East Asia. The Second Sino-Japanese War between the Empire of Japan and the Republic of China had been in progress since 7 July 1937, with hostilities dating back as far as 19 September 1931 with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. However, it is more widely accepted that the Pacific War itself began on 7/8 December 1941, when Japan invaded Thailand and attacked the British possessions of Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong as well as the United States military bases in Hawaii, Wake Island, Guam and the Philippines.
The attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, that severely damaged the American Pacific fleet, came as a profound shock to the American people and led directly to the American entry into World War 2. The following day, December 8, the United States declared war on the Empire of Japan. The lack of any formal warning, particularly while negotiations were still apparently ongoing, led President Franklin D. Roosevelt to proclaim December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy". Because the attack happened without a declaration of war and without explicit warning, the attack on Pearl Harbor was judged by the Tokyo Trials to be a war crime after the end of World War 2.
The war on the Pacific against the Empire of Japan culminated in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States Army Air Forces, accompanied by the Soviet invasion of Manchuria on 8 August 1945, resulting in the Japanese announcement of intent to surrender on 15 August 1945. The formal and official surrender of Japan took place aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945.
Know Your Enemy: Japan | WW2 Propaganda Documentary | 1945
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@@eastockerable
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The expansion of slavery colonial rule in South America, Africa and Southeast Asia by Anglo-Saxon was the greatest threat to Japan.
That is the biggest motivation for Japan to wage war.
このほとんどが戦争に巻き込まれ死んだんやなく腹すかせて死んだってのが可哀想な話や、1番餓死が辛い死に方やろな… 残念な事に2021年の今でも“腹が減っては戦はできぬ”って言葉は存在せんみたいや、何の意味もなく無駄に奪われた人達に死んでも死に切れん結果やな…
@@BakeTanuki 奴隷になるよりマシ
NOTE: This film is an American PROPAGANDA documentary created during World War 2. Consider it as a historical document that reflects the WW2 era. Read the video description and don't write silly / hateful comments. Thank you.
It would be a treat and an exercise in difficulty to compile Japan propaganda of the West and the Chinese etc.
"don't write silly / hateful comments". Lol, your new around here aren't you?
For propaganda, it's actually pretty accurate.
George Dang
As both race as Japanese and American, I agreed.
atleast this film does more accurate and tells fair documents than right wing fanatics who believes Imperial Japan was the liberator of Asia.
they said "Imperial Japan fought against european invaders, especially British Empire "
well, I tell the truth, "But that Imperial Japan just could be another British Empire for the other Asians doesnt it?"
lolwat?
Have you seen the part about the West being glorious and progressive while Japan hated Western freedom and peace and insisted on being this evil isolated island? Never mind the colonialism and the fact that the West's innovations were primarily driven by the continuous international warfare Westerners conducted amongst each other and in attempts to oppress and exploit other nations. Japan closed itself off because it saw what the West did to the rest of the world. The movie also CORRECTLY implies that Japan learned its national unification and superiority complex and interest in world domination and warfare from the West and also took the West's weapons... yet makes it sound as if Japan doing is somehow evil while the West has done it for generations. Nothing that Japan ever did comes close to the evils of the British Empire and maybe is even behind Nazi Germany or Colonial Belgium... yet the British are somehow portrayed as good guys while the Japanese are evil fanatics. Also the bit about the "thought police". :D
"we will never truly understand the Japanese"
that quote aged like wine
weeb
@@pinoybladee5432 もう、先輩！そんなひどいこと言わないでよÓ╭╮Ò
speak for yourself. do some research, it's not that hard
@@ImGonnaShout2000 同意する
hentai is a hella of a drug
British tommy: "You Americans are getting paid 50$? a month? I'm only getting paid 15$!"
Japanese soldier: "15$? I'm only getting paid 2$!"
Russian conscript: "You guys are getting paid??"
Stalin: "What do I pay you for?"
Red Army Soldier: "But you don't pay us, Comrade Stalin."
Stalin: "What do I allow you to live for?"
but japan soldier can rape girl everyday
just watch documentary about comfort women
@@user-fi2fk2ei7o wow, you must be fun at parties....
@@user-fi2fk2ei7o lmao woah
Much Rosyadi Aji Saputra 058 le edgey boy
“There are some 45 cities with a population of over 100,00
*Only three of which are beyond the reach of 16 inch naval guns* “
Trolling
"The French, SUPPOSED to have the best army in the world..."
BURN
@lvan Big Nob You were born out of a broken condom for saying that.
@lvan Big Nob Whoever liked your comment knows absolutely nothing about history.. .
@@kermfella ww1 ? I didn't forget british us and russian army had won the ww1
@@nosferatuoddz7974 It's not even worthy to talk to them, they're trolls or just extremely dumb
Bora karaca Who won the Battle of Verdun? Who prevented the BEF from being utterly demolished at Dunkirk? Who made it so that the Allies could easily topple Nazi-occupied France?
According to the documentary: Soldiers bowed to the Emperor but, if they died in battle, the Emperor would then bow before their ashes... Interesting.
Yes it's they were talking about...
it's bullshit. but they did bury their war dead so the politicians could go to yasakuni to honor them once a year. america doesn't notice, but each year they do it the china and korea ask them to apologize.
@@jerkchickenblog Thanks! for explaining the reason behind it. Culturally speaking, I understand that historically every subject was expected to bow before the Emperor (except for the sensei) out of reverence. Watching this video, I found it interesting to know that this was perhaps the only instance where the Emperor was expected to bow back at a subject, again, out of reverence. I found it interesting that it could go both ways.
"Which brings us to the national religion of Japan, Shintoism."
*shows a bunch of guys making mochi*
Now I'm super curious to see what was being shown in Japan about China and the US
Prob Louisiana’s hilbillys
Maybe it could warn us
Not sure about China, but from what I've read, the Japanese depicted the Americans as corrupt imperialists who wanted to exploit the war for their own selfish ends.
@@nathant1171 Yeah that makes alot of sense.
take this with a pinch of salt. this is what I have been tought in school(in China). The Japanese sees themself as the superior Asian, thus is their go and destiny to take over Asian, China use to be the tacher but not anymore. since China had been ruled over by Foreign powers (Yuan dynasty 1271-1368 by Mongolians and Qing dynasty 1636-1912 by Manchu) it is their turen now.
4:24
reminds me of the quote "No combat-ready unit has ever passed inspection, and no inspection-ready unit is prepared for combat"
1940s: everything is made in Japan
2021: everything is made in china
Right? I was struck by the similarities of that too!
And the false island being militarized?
"The Japanese are just like everyone else, only more so" ~ Dan Carlin
One the best quotes about the Japanese Imperial Army. -supernova in the far east
@@teehee186 I do enjoy Dan Carlin. He makes history very exciting. I think it is just the honest excitement in his own voice that does it.
Supernova series was amazing
"We shall never completely understand the Japanese mind."
75 years later, still checks out.
Japan is extremely homogeneous..probably the most so in the world. Immigration is frowned upon if not prohibited..as I understand it still is. I enjoyed my time there as a military visitor and although round eyes are not made to feel unwelcome overtly…you must understand that there are many places where you are unwelcome or prohibited..very but with a polite facial expression. The places where you went were where you wanted to go.
"You cannot subvert an enemy which does not want to be subverted. If you know the history of Japan, for example. Before the 20th century, Japan was a closed society. The moment a foreign boat comes to the shores of Japan, the Imperial Japanese Army politely tells them to get lost. And if an American salesman comes to the shores of Japan about, let's say, 60 or 70 years from now, back (in the 1910s), and says, "Oh, I have a very beautiful vacuum cleaner for you, you know, with good financing." they say "Please leave us! We don't need your vacuum cleaner." If they don't leave, they SHOOT them. To preserve their culture, ideology, traditions, values...intact! You are not able to subvert Japan."
- Yuri Bezmenov, former KGB agent and defector to the United States.
if you're a dunce, sure
@@eithw5100 I am simply quoting what Bezmenov said. But his premise remains valid. Japan cannot be subverted, because it refuses to be.
The quote after is important: "Nor do they understand ours. Otherwise, there wouldn't have been a pearl harbor."
That is the ultimate, you fucked around and found out quote.
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Good thing we're too smart to fall for propaganda these day- Oh wait
Raitis LOL you guys got trumped
99Lezard99 yes but we avoided getting Hillaried so it's really zero sum.
why no other candidate then ?
You recognize the propaganda from public schools?
Nowadays people are too stupid to think the moment someone labels something "Propaganda" then it must be 100% false.
*They are as unthinking and retarded as people who believe everything they are told.*
They didn't mention that Commodore Perry threatened them to open for trade lol. "Message of friendship"
I like the part where they said the japanese were under selling the market and thats the same reason they sent commodore perry in the first place.
@@christianguzman4688 Commodore Perry was sent to OPEN the Japanese market to both import and export trade. The Japanese weren't underselling anyone . . . they weren't selling, period.
@@capmidnite im mean the us plan during that time was to flood the market whit there cheap goods using there superior manufacturing technics under selling the asian economy not japan under selling. i dint word that correctly. that one of the reasons why they conquered the phillipines they wanted to open up the asian market for there business.
35:29 "Around 10,000 people are arrested each year for thinking bad, dangerous thoughts"
Josef Stalin: "You've gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers!"
Obviously cancel culture wokeists started earlier than we thought
@@xr6lad Started even earlier than the Republicunts cancelling Kaepernick, Keurig, Lil Nas, or anything offensive to their delicate religion.
Shhhh, we can't mention that until 1946. Get with the propaganda times.
@@sethabdul7824 People don't go to sports to hear political opinions... Also Republicans haven't cancelled anyone, we just boycott things. There is a difference.
CCP: "pathetic"
11:42 I love how they put the sound of banging on drums there even though they're making mochi.
Nice one ☺️
i found that interesting too
Is that what they were doing? Everything in this is so bizarre.
Know Your Enemy: Anime
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That came after the bombs were dropped, because of the radiation.
benski tv How could such a religious disciplined organised accomplished and determined people become so twisted to commit atrocity after atrocity in WW2?
David Lamotta lol
When I lived in Japan in the 1990s I once spoke with an old man who said that as a boy he had been smacked upside the head because when he nodded in acquiescence to an angry teacher, a picture of Hirohito was on the wall behind the boy, meaning that he had inadvertently stuck out his buttocks at the emperor.
Holy shit that was funny
And then he spun around to bow to Hirohito and got smacked again for sticking his buttocks out at the teacher.
Do that in present North Korea and you would thank to only be smacked upside the head.
The quality and production value behind this documentary is impressive. I don't think Hollywood today could even come close to make anything this interesting.
Hollywood has become boring in its repetitiveness.
I mean there are plenty of parallels between this and North Korea documentaries from just a few years ago.
It would be really interesting to watch some "Know Your Enemy" propaganda films from countries the U.S. & its allies have been at war with.
There is a North Korean film called Propaganda which is basically that, which outlines their grievances with the West and was made using news and TV footage. I think it’s still on TH-cam
absolutely
Agreed
@@remainprofane7732 I think I saw what you're talking about, and I learned it was a "mockumentary" made by New Zealanders.
What I've been looking for is some really weird footage I saw on TV decades ago. It was North Korean, in black and white, I think circa 1970, with a sort of "man in black" character as the American spy. There was also color footage accompanied by Korean patriotic music of Korean soldier women firing artillery. I've look for this on TH-cam, but so far, it hasn't turned up.
Ever heard of Germany's Axis Sally or Japan's Tokyo Rose in WW2? There are even those who say today's Q-ANON thing is an internet version pushed by enemies to divide the West. If so, it's working. America's left and right have never been so divided as now.
Propaganda aside, this is a great and fascinating documentary film in its own right. Incredibly well-made. The juxtaposition of images, musical accompaniment: everything is on point.
Propaganda aside what?
@@godfather7975 "Propaganda aside what?"
It's a WW2 era propaganda movie about America's enemy japan but aside from said propaganda, it's actually mostly accurate for the most part
nope! it glosses over history to an incredible degree and purports to explain what every person in japan feels. it also claims that Japanese in America are largely spies which is totally untrue@@OliveOilFan
I wonder whether Orwell encountered this discussion of the Tokubetsu Kōtō Keisatsu (Special Higher Police), aka Shisō Keisatsu (Thought Police), before he wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Yeah,since 1984 was published at 1949 ,this film used the phrase"thought police" impressed me a lot.
No, Orwell was directly inspired by the Soviet Union
Its really interesting to see how they can be incredibly accurate in some things, but so clearly biased and flat out wrong in other areas. Really goes to show how easy it is to create a believable, seemingly 100% accurate narritave by just putting an incredible slant on a small number of facts.
A lie is so much more potent when mixed with truth.
After watching The History Of Japan on Bill Wurtz's channel. I can confirm that.
@@roro-mm7cc -- when you refer to "the film for the Nazis", you're referring to "Here is Germany", right?
to endure a war you have to create hatred, that’s basic strategy even with a lie.
@@roro-mm7cc Another justification of America's war crime.
For being an obvious piece of wartime propaganda, it actually wasn't all that inaccurate. Sure there was a lot of hyperbole and some places especially in the history where they got it wrong (and on purpose), but it rightly painted Japan as a formidable, determined, and advanced enemy. They were most certainly that.
It's since it was for the soldiers and not civilians. Showing the soldiers the propaganda civilians got would be sending them in unprepared for what they were about to face.
Well said.
@@jamesgalloway3074 You're dumber.
@@jamesgalloway3074 found the 10 year old
@@jamesgalloway3074
*puts on sunglasses
U gae
Great documentary.
Where can I get the link to Know Your Enemy: America?
You won’t cuz when they wanted to keep slaughtering and destroying we got involved and nuked em and they stopped there bullshit. I wanna see on on Iraq
That training montage for turning young Japanese boys into soldiers to the sound of the "hammering iron" was some grim and powerful stuff. Damn.
The music is hard core !!
You know what's amazing about this video? That in spite of being at war, the filmmakers were still able to show Japan's great culture, not just all the negative views
Racism provoked WW2 against Japan behind the Deep State.
Wasn't their insatiable appetite for the conquest and destruction of all their immediate, less prepared neighbours then?
It's not showing "great culture", it's showing a decontextualized, alien culture in an unflattering light and making little attempt to understand its history, religions, or ideologies on its own terms.
@@KohyuNishimura Versailles 1919? Woodrow Wilson?
@@KohyuNishimura Japanese racism agaisnt other asian nations right??
5:00 He lives on RICE
Bullshit.
@Techies cenzorship it is great
@Techies cenzorship True, have you seen those cars
During WW2 this is absolute fact.
One can live on rice, especially brown rice it has many vitamins especially if you do not rinse it. Rice is a wonderful grain and can be used for almost anything.
This War Department production was directed by Frank Capra and narrated by Walter Huston and Dana Andrews. Although completed in 1945, the film only received its first public screening over PBS in 1977.
7:25 Noone can look down or stand above the Emperor. *Men standing above him on a carriage 2 seconds later*
Have too many "gods" to remember ?
Solution is simple : Call comrade Stalin.
😂😆 haha
"Whatever happens in the imperium, it is he, the GOD-EMPEROR who causes it. From him all thing emanate. On him all thing subsist."
HERESY!
Where is your Corpse-Emperor now?
Except that IJA don't have powered armor and big guns and IJN doesn't have a one-kilometer long heavily armored battleships.
典型的な結構サブリミナル効果を多用しているのが分かる。（電鍵打つ兵士→小学校の勉強風景） そして鋳造機の叩く音をメトロノームのように使うことで、一定のリズムを作りくどく感じさせないようにと、とにかく良くできている。
75 years ago, Americans know what it took to reconstruct a conquered country. And we knew that if we did it right, we'd turn a dangerous, very foreign enemy into the closest of allies and profitable business partner. It's too bad we forgot the lessons we learned about how to rebuild a conquered country into a peaceful, successful modern state.
spot on sir!!!
The Japanese are united. The afghans are not. The Germans are united. Vietnam is not. (Today it is) but before it wasn't in the way Japan or Germany was)
@@goaway8610 the problem is they are United. At least in one factor. The US is to blame. Which for a good part of the wars we’ve started in the name of freedom? Fair enough
@@goaway8610 Afghanistan and Vietnam were historically never as prosperous as Japan and Germany almost always unstable
Geography too matters
Fighting against the Japanese must've been a nightmare. Can't begin to think how it would feel to be face to face with someone who would literally kill themselves if they could take us with them
Watching all the animes gives me an idea
They surrendered pretty easy tho
@@Joseph-vu7mg who surrendered easy? Were you dropped on the head??? It took two nukes to make these people surrender.
@@Joseph-vu7mg we were the last ones to surrender and we held out the longest. It took the deadliest weapon in history to get us to even consider surrender
@@Joseph-vu7mg You mean Italy lol
The "funny" thing is that they haven't changed much since the war. It's all in the capitulation speech by the emperor though. In a nutshell, it says "we have to come up with a different way to further our empire". Unfortunately, most of the present knowledge about Japan is created by newbies and journalists, not specialists of Japan. That's why we are way too often flooded with shallow, meaningless information, instead of serious things. As surprising as it may seem, this propaganda video is actually way more informational than the stuff we usually get to see about Japan. And I'm speaking here as a specialist of Japan (teacher of Japanese, writer, albeit not in English, former resident of Japan). Those who want to get a more real picture of Japan I recommend reading books by Peter N.Dale, Basil Chamberlain, Shusaku Endo ("Silence") or Hideo Levy.
I'm supposed to be Teaching English over there pretty soon and absolutely fascinated about the history. And this video seems to be bob-on with a lot of what I learned, albeit with an obviously pessimistic perspective. Will definitely check out those books.
@@327legoman how did it go?
@@alejozornetta7930 Love it, been here 8 months. Best time of my life so far.
This is closer to a documentary than a propaganda film, and today's documentaries are closer to propaganda.
you obviously didn't watch much. the first part was history but 1/3rd the way in it changes to straight propaganda the rest of the way through
Smith is right, this was good documentary material all the way thru. The 1940s US citizen required historical context to fight a total war, and this provided it. There was fact all the way through. Someone going to now say there was no Bataan Death March and say that is propaganda? You are living in a fantasy world if you think that is propaganda, and how they were treated as subhumans is propaganda. Please take your revisionist history and goose step away.
@@Hussaria In the formal discipline of history, as it is practiced by scholars and historians, you could say that there has been revisionism in history for as long as people have been studying it. New historians are constantly challenging the beliefs of old historians, this is how it has always been. Through this method, we are able to study history not only as a list of events but also who documented those events and what flaws they may have had in their world view. This is called historiography and it serves to benefit us all in understanding the past. If we choose to only look at History from a US or Western perspective then we are choosing to rob ourselves of context. This source is flawed, but so is almost every source from WW2 coming from both the US and Japanese perspectives. Remember that no historian, new or old, is perfect and without bias, this is why we must always practice revisionism to some extent, as it can both reinforce the teaching of past historians or give life to a new understanding of the past. :)
i find it interesting how japanese culture has changed since. how now japanese people are largely athiest, seeing how their god died after the war, renouncing his divinity.
yes great documentary, but pretty simplified
dang
The beginning and the section on Shintoism were the most evocative. The combination of score and scenes really made them.
Nice mosely pfp
@@nicholasricardo8443 thanks brother
This is the most politically correct thing from the 1940s that I've ever seen
They do say "Jap" about 10 times
But many Japanese people aren't very offended by that one as it's just a shortened versio
I mean even if it wasn't correct(which is not) its still more honest then today's foreign politics U.S. spreads throughout world
@@dogchaser520
What ！？...(-_-)
what does 'politically correct' mean to you?
@@jerkchickenblog I'm not him but I think he want to say documentary aim to show the only fact(at least from them at that time), not the review or criticism from their stance. *I don't watch whole video
"The Sword is our Steel Bible"
Did you that the military sword used by Japanese military officers(which resembles to traditional sword) was made of scrapped steel, which Japan was importing from US. (Especially the spring part from vehicle. it was a good material for making military sword at that time)
"we will never truly understand the Japanese"
After watching the first season of Sailor Moon, I 100% agree with this statement.
My great grandmother was the nicest lady ever. One day she looked at me dead serious and said "don't trust those sneaky *can't say* they will always lie." I was shocked and honestly started laughing. She worked in a ammunition facorty in Massachusetts or Connecticut at the time of WW2 and surely saw ant-japanese propaganda
Anime name ?
Khan Sarbani Get a life you weeb.
What anime is life , is the manga better?
Khan Sarbani o boy...
Douglass MacArthur He's playing you, fool.
Lightning style chidori stream!!!
would be interesting to see a know your enemy video from the enemy's perspective on the American soldier
They're called Japanese propaganda films, or Nazi, or Communist. They are far more hard line propaganda than this, which has a "hey, were saying their culture sucks not their race" disclaimer. Hitler saw no need for such a thing for some reason.
The Japanese had posters of American giant soldiers eating Japanese people. They depicted americans as giant cannibals.
Explains why Japanese civilians jumped to their death to avoid the us military.
@@bread1958 "far more hard line propaganda than this" I don't know about that man lol
@@bread1958 19:40 : "The Japanese of today: not of one pure blood, but of a well-mixed plasma cocktail." American racism is less perverse than Nazi or Japanese racism (not a hard bar to clear) but lets not pretend it's not in there. Not withstanding the many misrepresentations of Japanese culture
@@presswerks5476 what's there to not know? This film doesn't even do justice to the real brutality of the imperial Japan.
early 1900s japan, 'idolizes the emperor'
japan in the 2000s ' idolizes pokemon and hellokitty'
2D waifus.
こう言う動画を見るたびに、亡国という言葉を思い浮かべる。
もちろん当時より人々の幸福は高い今があるのは、彼らの犠牲とその反省からなのだけれど。
もちろん当時より人々の幸福は高い今があるのは？？？？？？
@@user-hz6dj2vb5h さん
なんか変な日本語になってました。
今があるのは先人の努力のおかげ…と言うような事を言おうとしました…
"They even undersold us with our own American flags"
LOLLLL
They worked hard for their guns, they sweated for them, HOW UNDERHANDED. xD
A lot of that bit of the film would be very relevant today if you substituted "China" for "Japan"!
We have part 2 of that China! They produce fake or original products (for cheap price) and sends many Chinese to many countries for work. I think they are trying to ready for war
@@gemmajess007 The socio- economic aspect is invaluable learning experience in life. News papers r a great source of such things! But,.those happen tm.y no k(9] hutto
@@GCarty80 also North Korea with that emperor aspect, also China and N.Korea are both very homogeneous isolanist countries, run by authoritarian govt which control and censors all its Institution, media, internet with little regards for humanrights, copyrights and u can see alot of similarities between Japan of that era and today's China. Can't wait for world war season 3.
The basis of good propaganda is to mix a little bit of truth into a big heap of steaming self-serving lies. This documentary is a perfect example.
And it still so true with today's ideologies
in what way is this documentary telling lies?
Hitler wrote in mein kampf something along the lines of “Good propaganda is one which cannot be disproven using facts.”
@@gigachadgaming1551 well propaganda isnt necessarily false to begin with. propaganda is not synonymous with a lie
Ya this sounds real familiar, doesn't it?
@50:27 "So is the boy hammered and beaten into the shape of the fanatic samurai."
*Does some stretches and cool moves*
NOW:Know Your Friend: Japan
Why do the British and Japanese have alot in common?
Both island nations, both started off divided and invaded by foreigners, both have monarchs that are also the head of the reilgon, both have codes of honour, both famous for their navies, both want to rule the world and most importantly both have a hunger for tea and Chinese goods.
One got the steorotype of bad teeths.
One got the steorotype of making weird fetish arts and like infamous for its porn.
One pushed for freedom, one does not and many wanted to bring "the glorious days" back.
One's native population is threatened to be replaced with arabs while one is dying due to low birth rate.
The most solid one hour documentary I have ever watched on youtube!
How I remember the arguments at the dinner table about Roosevelt and if he knew about the Japanese attack on Pearl.
Thank you so very much for posting these fascinating films (and the detailed information about them)! From films like these, we learn of a History not taught in our Schools, but we need to know. We need also to learn to recognize Propaganda when we see & hear it.
About 5 minutes in now, and would swear I'm watching a klingon warrior documentary.
Escape from Zhangjiakou-Hiroshi Nemoto, a former Japanese commander who saved Taiwan's predicament
On August 15, 1945 (Showa 20), even if Japan's defeat was decided, Nemoto decided not to disarm against the order from his home country. The battle with the large Soviet troops that had crossed the border continued for three days from August 19. The only fundamental purpose was to stop the Soviet invasion and safely raise 40,000 residents while gaining time.
From the National Revolutionary Army, which once had a war, a messenger goes to the root
Nemoto, who safely escaped the Japanese from Zhangjiakou and returned to Japan, had more duties waiting for him. He was to demobilize Japanese troops deployed in northeastern China. Nemoto made a promise to return 350,000 soldiers through direct negotiations with the Kuomintang side. During the Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese army had fought with the Kuomintang army led by Chiang Kai-shek, but on the other hand, both armies also had pipes that could communicate with each other. Chiang Kai-shek has experience studying abroad in Japan. He was also an officer of the National Revolutionary Army enrolled in the Japanese Army Academy.
There is a reason why the Kuomintang responded to the return of Japanese soldiers. There was the Communist Party's army led by Mao Zedong, and the Soviet army behind it. Certainly there was a political desire to return the Japanese troops from mainland China as soon as possible and focus on the fight against the Communist Party.
It was August 1946 (Showa 21) that Nemoto boarded his last return ship after seeing the demobilization of all the soldiers. Hiroshi Nemoto's life as a soldier seemed to end here.
However, in an unexpected way, the soldier, Hiroshi Nemoto, revives. One day, more than two years after returning to Japan, a stranger came into contact with the roots. The man is a messenger of the Kuomintang. He said he begged Nemoto to travel to Taiwan to support the Kuomintang army led by Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang Kai-shek and its surroundings knew the fundamental character and his ability to plan and command operations.
Regarding the situation in East Asia around this time, the Korean Peninsula was divided into two parts, the eve of the Korean War. In addition, due to Japan's defeat, Taiwan's sovereignty changed from Japan to the Republic of China (= Kuomintang government). On the other hand, in mainland China, the civil war between Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang and Mao Zedong's Communist Party continued. Eventually, the situation turned to the Communist Party, and the cornered Kuomintang fled to Taiwan.
Nemoto decided to go to Taiwan.
Taiwan rule of Kinmen Island is a fundamental achievement
In June 1949, after being visited by a messenger, Nemoto took a small boat from the port of Nobeoka, Miyazaki Prefecture, to Taiwan and reunited with Chiang Kai-shek, without telling the truth to his family, and became an inferior National Revolutionary Army. Promised to support. He was none other than to give back to the National Revolutionary Army, who helped the Japanese who fled Zhangjiakou return home.
At the request of Chiang Kai-shek, Nemoto went to Fujian Province, China, on the opposite bank of Taiwan, as a military adviser to the National Revolutionary Army. The civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was about to end with the victory of Mao Zedong's Communist Party forces. It was obvious that if Fujian Province was robbed by the Communist Party's army trying to invade Taiwan, even Taiwan would fall into the hands of the Communist Party.
It was Kinmonjima that Nemoto noticed. Kinmen Island is 180 kilometers from the mainland of Taiwan, but only 2 kilometers from mainland China. I have been to Kinmen Island several times for interviews. The city on the mainland China side is right in front of you. The buildings on the other side seem to be picked up.
The strategy that the roots set up is (1) to allow the enemy's troops to land on Kinmonjima = lure (2) after sunset, burn down all the ships used by the enemy's troops for landing. With this, the enemy has no ships to supply or use when retreating. ③ Then, the enemy's troops that landed are surrounded and ambushed. The operation is successful. Mao Zedong had no choice but to abandon the capture of Taiwan and the unification including Taiwan.
After more than 70 years, Kinmen Island is still the border between China and Taiwan. In that sense, what led to today's "composition of China and Taiwan" may be traced back to the escape of Japanese from Zhangjiakou.
I lied that I couldn't do anything when I returned to Japan with a fishing rod on my shoulder.
In October 1949, Mao Zedong declared the establishment of the People's Republic of China. Chiang Kai-shek, on the other hand, is based in Taiwan. The division of China and Taiwan was decided. Nemoto will return to Japan in June 1952 (Showa 27), the year after the signing of the San Francisco Peace Treaty, when Japan's sovereignty was restored.
Quoted from a newspaper article reporting the return of Nemoto.
Hiroshi Nemoto (62), a former commander of the Japanese Army dispatched to North China, returned from Taipei at 10:10 am on the 25th with a CAT aircraft arriving at Haneda for the first time in three years. Mr. Nemoto, wearing a Panama hat on his shoulder and a white linen suit, had a meeting with a Chinese representative (= the current Taiwanese diplomat), and then he was surrounded by his wife and four sons who were greeted at his home in Tokyo. I went to, but told reporters: (Omitted) "On the evening of June 24, 1945, I boarded a small boat from Nobeoka Port under the guidance of a Chinese (Note: Kuomintang official). I went to Operation Amoy in Fujian Province, but I'm sorry for the hospitality because I couldn't do anything. Recently, I decided to return home because both politics and military have calmed down. " (June 25, 1952, Mainichi Shimbun evening edition)
"Tsurizao" has a deep episode. When stowawaying to Taiwan, Nemoto left his family saying "go fishing" when leaving his home in Tokyo. That's why he landed at Haneda Airport, pretending to be on his way home from fishing. The size of the scale as a fundamental human being that makes you feel humor is transmitted.
Nemoto said when he returned to Japan, "I'm sorry I couldn't do anything," but he probably said so in the civil war with the Communist Party to avoid friction caused by the Japanese participation in the Kuomintang. He dared not tell the truth.
These stories are detailed in two books that depict the life of the roots.
"Strategic General Hiroshi Nemoto's Conspiracy of a Military Commander" (written by Shigero Komatsu, Kojinsha)
"The miracle of Ryusho Kadota, Kadokawa Bunko, the army general who saved Taiwan dedicated to this life and righteousness" (Ryusho Kadota)
If Mao Zedong's army had taken control of Taiwan, there is no doubt that the security map of today's East Asia, including Japan, would have changed significantly. The Japanese were involved in the strategy to prevent it. In addition, the beginning was Zhangjiakou, China, where the Olympic Games are currently being held. The history is very deep. I feel like I'm going to make it.
THEN:MADE IN JAPAN💪
NOW:MADE IN CHINA🤕
@DongFeng东风 still better than counterfeit stuff.
@DongFeng东风 Lol you're deluded if you really think 'china' can get anywhere near synonymous to 'quality' than Japan is
Can't cap that Toyota hilux be killing it with how many insurgencies its been it
Seems like cccp is also building their war machine now
@Allen S now yes, my grandpa told me it used to be seen the way we see made in China crap now, cheap counterfeit crap that would break, but they've greatly improved since then and worked hard to increase their quality etc. Not what happened with China though. They just want to extract our money to build their war machine to take Taiwan then what's next
Lots of true facts but often with a subtle spin or emphasis on them. If you don't know a thing about Japan this would be very alarming and Japanese would seem like some alien species.
'Chain of ghosts' is one of my favourites.
Thank you for sharing.
Its interesting how japanese economic practices of conterfei and export depicted in the movie are still valid today, you just have to exchance japanese with chinese. I wonder if there will be a Know your enemy aimed at China in the near future
Very interesting! 👍🏼
There was a small Portuguese and Dutch community in Nagasaki prefecture to remain open. It was the only place that gaijin were allowed communication to the outside.
As WWII propaganda goes, i was surprised how they opened this by recognizing the heroism and virtue of Japanese-Americans. Was expecting wall to wall racism. Good Job!
No In the 40s Americans 🇺🇸 were only racist to black people.
that’s only after the Nisei of 442nd BCT in Europe distinguished themselves that American view of the Japanese-Americans changed. That’s the thing about US, newcomers need to prove themselves in order to be seen as equal among Americans.
I will never blame the Japanese people. The problem was the leadership. I was able to visit Japan while I was in the military, and I can tell you the Japanese people are wonderful, decent people. They are far more polite and respectful of others than we are here in America.
Education is everything.
All the people that could've challenged them were exploded or shot to death.
Excellent presentation.
37:06 - Sounds a lot like American schools today.
"... like a squeezed sponge, they give back the same water."
The Americans where the same way even then. Anyone who was non white had few rights in America at this time. Imagine the black men who has to watch this and believe the Japanese were responsible for them not being able to sit at the front of a bus or drink water from any water fountain in town.
@Allen S Allen, stop talkin' baby talk. 😌
@@itsjustnopinionok imagine the white, and black, brown, red, yellow WOMEN,who "got the Vote" after the black men! LoL 😉 Shovel it HIGHER...
I am 15 minutes in learning more than any more or anime have. Taught me about the Japanese .. great video so far
it's propaganda though, it's not real lol.
some of it is very innacurate though because of the age of the video, or because not enough sources used
Don´t expect anime to teach you about Japan lol, many of those anime are made for degenerate people. But I will admit that for a propaganda film this is very accurate
it's super hiralious for me that many non-Japanese people are arguing without a single Japanese person.
some even pretend to be Japanese by phrasing unnatural Japanese words, others are seriously debating while exchanging opinions.
honestly i really love to read these stuff, why can you guys keep talking about such a trivial old footage which has nothing to do with the current world nor with the current Japanese nor with you.
i really don't get why and i genuinely love these comments AS A Japanese PERSON.
The thumbnail of this video is an image of a scene from "Letters from Iwo Jima," right?
The young actor in the center of the picture is Ryo Kase, born in 1974.
Without that explanation, I think the thumbnail might be misleading.
26:16: "Open the country. Stop having it be closed."
I understand that reference.
5'3? Good freaking lord, I thought I was the shortest one out there.
Wonder how Wainwright felt about paying for Mac's ticket out?
That intro... I never though less than 5 minutes could feel so long.
This was surprisingly accurate for propaganda.
"Everything came top-down from the Emperor in Japan" "Everything has come from the bottom up in the US" (HUGE "FREEDOM" LOGO APPEARS) I'm assuming you mean the parts about Japan, though. Like most propaganda, it starts with the truth and then amplifies it to an absurd degree, which is what makes it entertaining to watch
An era of Japan without weeaboos. Heavenly!
50:05 The music that starts right here, is the same music at the beginning of "Intergalactic" by The Beastie Boys. You know? With the little Godzilla skit right before the actual song starts.
13:20 the bruh sound effects origin
I guess there should be some foreigners who dislike Japan but it is fine for me. I am very proud of my brave ancestors. Thanks to their sacrifice, we could preserve our tradition and culture.
Your brave ancestors also killed and raped millions of innocent people in Asia. Don´t forget that!
少し悲しい言葉です🇯🇵
I had a Nisei family member who fought in WW2 its nice to see the Government bring that group up as its often left behind although its considered the most decorated unit in US military history by percentage.
this is beyond fascinating to watch for many reasons
It’s incredible to think that by manipulating and twisting a few things here and there, you can make it seem as though a group of people are an entirely different species. One that could never, and would never, be able to relate to your values as a human. This goes for both sides.
@@kringlemaster Yea, our grandparents and great grandparent's generation had more to deal with that we can ever understand. But that's a good thing, they sacrificed themselves so our generations could live on
my dad fought in the south pacific, the weird thing he noticed in naval night battles that ijn sailors wore their dress whites, such that when a star shell illuminated an enemy ship, it looked like it was covered in ants
Wow. This is so raw, very entertaining.
3:05 the mosquito in my room at 3 AM
I find it interesting on how commenters can go off on some minor point, such as the French army, and miss important points. The methods used on preparing to fill the 8 corners of the world are being used by other countries for the same ends.
LLSIF
Capital: School Idol Festival
National language: School Idol Tomodachi
R.I.P. Everybody in this video. :'(
LOL
Bitch I was in the video and I survived
Lol, though a few still breath.
Lol
Did Frank Capra direct this?
Yes
"In 1853, an American fleet of four ships sailed into Yokohama bearing a message offering friendship and trade." Sheesh, yeah, that's how it went alright.
The Plaza Accord 130 years before the Plaza Accord.
@@michaelnewton1332 It was a military blockade, with the threat of invasion and colonization if Japan refused to open up to foreign trade. Which was followed by several western powers importing opium at low cost with the intention of addicting the Japanese, in order to acquire their wealth by jacking up the cost of opium after they became addicted. It worked for a while. Eventually, Japan started executing people for it.
我々が忘れていた，古来の日本文化を思い出すきっかけになりました。ありがとう。
剣道や柔道など，スポーツの説明に一部誤りがありますが，全体は良くまとめられており，詳細に調査したことが伺えます。
アメリカ人の相手を詳しく分析しようとする姿勢を強く感じます。
42:48 本のタイトル「米国は日本に挑戦するか？」の直訳は，
"Will America challenge Japan?"ですね。
Know your enemy Know yourself and you will be safe in a thousand battles~Sun Tzu
Some minor Propaganda, but for the most part this is hauntingly accurate. I was not aware the west actually cared enough to put in this much effort.
Most of what I see is usually someone inventing an idea then trying to push it as fact. Much of the old beliefs still exist in Japan today but are slowly dying out.
You can thank the internet and social media for that.
Unfortunately the documentary is not complete, scenes have been cut...
the child soldier part was intense
The brutality of the Empire of Japan pales in comparison to the brutality of the Empire of America.
If you think long term that’s plausible because of the trail of tears and slavery. However if you consider how much destruction and death the Japanese caused in such a short amount of time it becomes abundantly clear that we should be thankful that the regime and their imperialist ideology was soundly defeated and erased off the face of the earth. Them and the Nazis.
I wish you became a pow by Japan
Comparsion is useless you are only saying that so that your country doesn't look bad
Waiting for him to reach 100k I'm so happy to him for many hours of great entertaining films showing things through the view points of the generations before us and teaching us about history even if biased
History will always be biased. Go to a place like Romania, Estonia, etc. and they will say the "good guys" lost WW2 because Soviet occupation was exponentially worse than German occupation for them.
It’s amazing how far people will go to convince people when it comes to war
1:29 what title of this song please.
I remember the movie "the emperor" on this. Macarthur laid a hand on the god emperor with a handshake and yeet all this tradition. He was also told of the do's and dont's before meeting the emperor and still does it. What a mad lad
サムネの軍人、映画「硫黄島からの手紙」の加瀬亮だよね。
当時の映像じゃない・・・
色はつけられるかもだけど
さすがにここまで画質が良くないのでは？