Potgieter huis, very true, and all because three leaders decided they wanted to expand their countries territory, but ended up tearing the world apart and causing the USA to release the nuclear ☢️ genie 🧞♀️ out of the bottle, and look where that has got us, it’s as though WWII never really ended, just evolved into everyone pointing missiles at each other and playing a massive game to see who will blink first!!!!, then we wouldn’t need to worry about anything ever again, the human race would be extinct.
Wow, this is Tokyo before WWII but they already have a lot of modern architecture in contrast to other bombarded cities like Berlin before the war. This proves how innovative the Japanese are compared to other countries around the world.
@@bobechs7234Interesting tho. Berlin was 80% hammered during the final years of WW2 but most of their modern and ugly/blocky architecture came post 1945, and only a handful of buildings like that one in Alexanderplatz were modernist. Most of Berlin was either Wilhelmine or Neoclassical, similar to Vienna today (Vienna was also bombed but only lost 20% of their buildings). I still don’t understand how Japanese and quite frankly all East Asians seems to be more productive and optimistic compared to their European counterparts.
@@DMH-bt2zoEuropeans prefer quality, over quantity. What optimism? East Asian countries have a higher percentage of population, that suffers from depression, and alcoholism.
Fascinating to see pre-war Tokyo. Much of the city would be destroyed by the American bombing campaign, and Japanese cultural life would never be quite the same after the war....
So true. For the Japanese, that war is still very much an issue of much contention. The military ambitions of Japan were driven by some very racist attitudes among their aristocracy, and to a lesser extent among the general population. But those attitudes were a reaction to racism from the West. For the period of roughly 1905 to 1930, the Japanese belief in Racial Superiority derived from Amaterasu, the Sun God/Goddess who created the Yamato People who made up the Japanese Aristocracy, had been in decline. But Western attitudes and fear of growing a Japanese power created a resurgence of these attitudes among the general population. And seeing how the West treated China, the Japanese were determined to not suffer the same fate. They just followed a path that pretty much was a global phenomenon at the time, but which became pathological in the Axis Powers and Fascists.
@mike stratocaster The American bombing campaign was made possible, even necessary, by the Japanese aggression. The USA was not going to allow Japan to do to it's citizens what it did to the people of Nanking.
1937年当時、これだけ歴史、文化、産業化のバランスがとれていて民度の高い国は日本だけだったでは。8年後に大戦争でこれらを失い、輝きのない国なったのは残念だ。 In 1937, Japan was the only country with such a good balance of history, culture, and industrialization, and such a high level of civilization. It is a pity that eight years later, Japan lost all these things in the Great War and became a country without brilliance.
About "A man uses a type of printing press to print Japanese (03:42) I feel some things could be added. (Since I wanted to ask about what happened after anyway). Firstly it is not a man, but a woman, and it is not a printing press but a Japanese typewriter. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_typewriter The shot then moves on to pan over a whole room of copiers, all typing text from books onto new papers, and that's what I wanted to ask about. What are they doing that for? Are they just writing their own school books, or are they copying text for use as stencils, or even for printing as new books? (Mimeography or photoypesetting seem to have been the main uses for the Japanese typewriter, according to the Japanese wikipedia page ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%92%8C%E6%96%87%E3%82%BF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%97%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC - just change language from the link I gave earlier, it's probably easier.)
It was quite modern. In the urban areas, at the very least. Japan at the time had the ability to manufacture just about anything that could be made in the USA. Where it differed was in Industrial Capacity. It just could not make as much as did the USA. Where it could build Naval Warships that were every bit the equal to the US or England, they could not build as many, even with 100% of the Industrial Capacity of the country turned toward doing so.
Very interesting to see Japan in 1937, or at least what the government at the time wanted to show at the time. Its all very impressive and civilized but it is shocking to realize that this same year Japan commenced massacres of Chinese. In the next few years the rulers of Japan sent their country down the path that would produce disgraceful war-crimes and end with millions of Japanese civilians and foreigners dying. The Bushido code (that fostered some of the worst atrocities of WW2), extreme xenophobia, racial superiority and the mindset that allowed kamikaze etc were likely entrenched in the minds of many of the 'normal' looking people in this video. Today Japan (and its people) is such an impressive country overall, it's amazing to think this video was only 85 years ago.
Massacres? that's the CCP(and US) propaganda, you know like the Alamo?. Even more so like the GI's massacres in the Vietnam War, where US ambushed by the Guerrilla North Vietnam army, Chinese volunteer (CCP) and Russian Red army.
The music is not that terribly bad for this film reel since many film soundtracks at that time were far more orchestrated and it really stands out the scene better than the modern music that lacked some additional formula of a perfect music.
Their entire population was brainwashed and their emperor is their only God, while the entire Asia was colonised by west, Japan is the only Asian country that itself became an coloniser, meiji era changed japan.
A study conducted in the late 2010s by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development classified a family of four in California with an annual income of $100,000 as a low-income household. On the other hand, in Japan, households with an annual income of $70,000 are in the top 10%. In the comments, someone said that Japan's incomes before World War II were poor compared to America and Europe, and still are. According to Korean news reports, Koreans now earn higher incomes than Japanese people. This is my personal opinion, Seoul is a developed metropolis, but I feel that Japanese cities still have a lot of old buildings.
貴重な映像ありがとうございます🙇
Just what I wanted to see, for my research. 1937 was a defining year in Japan's history and relations with the world.
I love the music.
Strange thinking how much these people's world and the world as a whole would change in the eight years following the filming of this footage
Potgieter huis, very true, and all because three leaders decided they wanted to expand their countries territory, but ended up tearing the world apart and causing the USA to release the nuclear ☢️ genie 🧞♀️ out of the bottle, and look where that has got us, it’s as though WWII never really ended, just evolved into everyone pointing missiles at each other and playing a massive game to see who will blink first!!!!, then we wouldn’t need to worry about anything ever again, the human race would be extinct.
Wow, this is Tokyo before WWII but they already have a lot of modern architecture in contrast to other bombarded cities like Berlin before the war. This proves how innovative the Japanese are compared to other countries around the world.
Japan was conducting a massive urban reclamation program in China at that time. They were in the middle of the demolition phase.
@@bobechs7234Interesting tho. Berlin was 80% hammered during the final years of WW2 but most of their modern and ugly/blocky architecture came post 1945, and only a handful of buildings like that one in Alexanderplatz were modernist. Most of Berlin was either Wilhelmine or Neoclassical, similar to Vienna today (Vienna was also bombed but only lost 20% of their buildings). I still don’t understand how Japanese and quite frankly all East Asians seems to be more productive and optimistic compared to their European counterparts.
This has nothing to do with innovation. The cities of Japan developed at a time, when modernism had gained popularity around the world.
@@DMH-bt2zoEuropeans prefer quality, over quantity. What optimism? East Asian countries have a higher percentage of population, that suffers from depression, and alcoholism.
As far as I know, the building at 03:18 is yasuda auditorium of tokyo university.
Not my cup of tea this newsreel, but thanks for sharing and preserving another bite of history. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴
Tiene la fita que passa los officiales saindo del palácio Imperial japanese após una conference Imperial????
これは欧米から観光客を誘致する為に制作された記録映画です。まぁ数年後に観光客誘致どころじゃなくなるんですけどね。更に数十年後はアニメのキャラクターがデカデカと町中に点在し、そういうのを目当てに欧米からたくさん観光客が来るというわけのわからない国になってしまってます。100年後はどうなってるのでしょうか。その間に戦争が起こらないことを願います。この記録映画も数年後に焼野原になるとは思えない平和な雰囲気ですね。1937年だから日中戦争は既に始まってますが。
Fascinating to see pre-war Tokyo. Much of the city would be destroyed by the American bombing campaign, and Japanese cultural life would never be quite the same after the war....
So true.
For the Japanese, that war is still very much an issue of much contention.
The military ambitions of Japan were driven by some very racist attitudes among their aristocracy, and to a lesser extent among the general population. But those attitudes were a reaction to racism from the West. For the period of roughly 1905 to 1930, the Japanese belief in Racial Superiority derived from Amaterasu, the Sun God/Goddess who created the Yamato People who made up the Japanese Aristocracy, had been in decline. But Western attitudes and fear of growing a Japanese power created a resurgence of these attitudes among the general population. And seeing how the West treated China, the Japanese were determined to not suffer the same fate.
They just followed a path that pretty much was a global phenomenon at the time, but which became pathological in the Axis Powers and Fascists.
@Matthew Bailey
You're without a clue.
@mike stratocaster
The American bombing campaign was made possible, even necessary, by the Japanese aggression. The USA was not going to allow Japan to do to it's citizens what it did to the people of Nanking.
@@MatthewBaileyBeAfraid
You seem only know narrow view of history and some of them are propaganda.
面白いな。和文タイプなんて既に滅びた事務用品も実は役所の戸籍担当では戸籍が電子化される20年ほど前まではダマシダマシ使ってたから凄く懐かしい。
1937年当時、これだけ歴史、文化、産業化のバランスがとれていて民度の高い国は日本だけだったでは。8年後に大戦争でこれらを失い、輝きのない国なったのは残念だ。
In 1937, Japan was the only country with such a good balance of history, culture, and industrialization, and such a high level of civilization.
It is a pity that eight years later, Japan lost all these things in the Great War and became a country without brilliance.
9:28 かわいい
when modernity meet traditional, so sad that most of men in this video probably died in world war 2
About "A man uses a type of printing press to print Japanese (03:42) I feel some things could be added. (Since I wanted to ask about what happened after anyway).
Firstly it is not a man, but a woman, and it is not a printing press but a Japanese typewriter. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_typewriter
The shot then moves on to pan over a whole room of copiers, all typing text from books onto new papers, and that's what I wanted to ask about. What are they doing that for?
Are they just writing their own school books, or are they copying text for use as stencils, or even for printing as new books? (Mimeography or photoypesetting seem to have been the main uses for the Japanese typewriter, according to the Japanese wikipedia page ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%92%8C%E6%96%87%E3%82%BF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%97%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC - just change language from the link I gave earlier, it's probably easier.)
Actually it looks modern
It was quite modern. In the urban areas, at the very least.
Japan at the time had the ability to manufacture just about anything that could be made in the USA.
Where it differed was in Industrial Capacity. It just could not make as much as did the USA.
Where it could build Naval Warships that were every bit the equal to the US or England, they could not build as many, even with 100% of the Industrial Capacity of the country turned toward doing so.
@@MatthewBaileyBeAfraid interesting. Could you suggest me further reading? You know a lot.
@Matthew Bailey
You know nothing. You're a fraud.
@@MatthewBaileyBeAfraid and thank god for that.
at the beginning of the ww2, japan had more aircraft carriers than the us.
16:39 これほんとなん？ どうやって降ろすん？
Shades of "man with a movie camera"
pre war google street.
If you left for your Tokyo vacation in 37', I sho' hopes you was back by Dec 1941!😂🤣☝😝
Meanwhile in China and Korea ☠️
그 당시 대일본 제국은 아시아 분만
아니라 전 서
Very interesting to see Japan in 1937, or at least what the government at the time wanted to show at the time. Its all very impressive and civilized but it is shocking to realize that this same year Japan commenced massacres of Chinese. In the next few years the rulers of Japan sent their country down the path that would produce disgraceful war-crimes and end with millions of Japanese civilians and foreigners dying. The Bushido code (that fostered some of the worst atrocities of WW2), extreme xenophobia, racial superiority and the mindset that allowed kamikaze etc were likely entrenched in the minds of many of the 'normal' looking people in this video. Today Japan (and its people) is such an impressive country overall, it's amazing to think this video was only 85 years ago.
Massacres? that's the CCP(and US) propaganda, you know like the Alamo?. Even more so like the GI's massacres in the Vietnam War, where US ambushed by the Guerrilla North Vietnam army, Chinese volunteer (CCP) and Russian Red army.
Good wiuw but music is terrible bad
The music is not that terribly bad for this film reel since many film soundtracks at that time were far more orchestrated and it really stands out the scene better than the modern music that lacked some additional formula of a perfect music.
In That time Nanjing at hell
Their entire population was brainwashed and their emperor is their only God, while the entire Asia was colonised by west, Japan is the only Asian country that itself became an coloniser, meiji era changed japan.
A study conducted in the late 2010s by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development classified a family of four in California with an annual income of $100,000 as a low-income household. On the other hand, in Japan, households with an annual income of $70,000 are in the top 10%. In the comments, someone said that Japan's incomes before World War II were poor compared to America and Europe, and still are. According to Korean news reports, Koreans now earn higher incomes than Japanese people. This is my personal opinion, Seoul is a developed metropolis, but I feel that Japanese cities still have a lot of old buildings.
一般的に1930年代は重苦しい時代と認識されてるが、経済的には1931年の満州侵略をきっかけに世界恐慌から列強の中ではいち早く立ち直り、都市部は好景気に突入していた。その一方で「他国を侵略すれば景気は良くなる」という侵略思想が国民全体に浸透していった。その結果が1937年から始まる日中戦争、そして、そこから発展したアジア太平洋侵略戦争だ。つまり侵略思想によって立ち直った経済だが、侵略思想によって自滅していったのが日本帝国であった。私のチャンネルの動画を見ればわかるが、旧陸軍の重鎮も「日本には侵略思想があった」と振り返っている。自民党が軍事費の大幅増額を決定する暴挙に出るなど、着々と戦前回帰しつつあるが、理性ある国民が自民党の暴走を止める必要がある。
お前の思想はとても軍国主義的だ
@@mani-ql9ln 日本語理解できないならいい加減な返信するなよ。コメ主は当時の日本の思想を説明してるだけで、何も軍国主義的な主張はしてねえよ。他国を侵略しまくってるお前らアメリカ人の方がよっぽど軍国主義的だわ。
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