Japanese Self-Defense Forces - The Big Picture

National Archives and Records Administration
ARC Identifier 2569589 / Local Identifier 111-TV-319
Big Picture: Japanese Self-Defense Forces
This week's program will tell the story of how the Japanese people have learned, and are learning, the basic principles of a more "Democratic" way of life.

[@yankeehussar3614]

Man there's such a charm and optimism in these old news broadcasts that you just don't get anymore

[@user-gi1uq2st8b]

うちの親父も、警察予備隊の二期です、海軍から復員して入隊してます、同期殆どが旧陸海軍人で、ついこの前までをアメリカ軍と戦争していたのが殆どで、だったそうです
後半の仙台の部隊に居ました、仮に映って居ても分からないだろうなぁ

[@lincolnhaldorsen5649]

I miss the days of the Taisei Yokusankai and Dai Nippon Teikoku

[@NgJackal1990]

It’s good that America got japan than the soviet.

[@user-japan-mk.0114]

うん、俺もそう思う。👌

[@omuchan1192]

Fortunately, the JSDF has so far only been involved in disaster relief and peace operations without guns.
This makes them an organization that deserves the respect of the public.

[@MrEjidorie]

This film describes the dawn of Japanese Self-Defense Forces which is now one of top 10 strongest military forces in the world. As a staunch ally of the United States, Japanese Self-Defense Forces are playing an important role in Asia to deter China`s aggressive expansionism and North Korea`s military adventurism. The U.S.-Japanese alliance will increase its importance as situations in Asia are becoming highly volatile.

[@archlich4489]

I'd hate to see Japan re-arm. They're a 'canary in a coal mine.'

[@rsuriyop]

@@archlich4489 Re-arming Japan means nothing at all if they can't even maintain a certain recruitment level. Over the years following the war, joining the armed forces in post-WWII Japan has been highly unpopular, so getting people to enlist is always a great challenge. Japan could buy all the weapons that the U.S. is willing to sell to them (and have been doing so). But what good would that do in the end if there aren't even enough men to use them? This is partly why the US still has a few bases stationed over there for their own defense. Trust me, seeing how things are going over there, you have nothing at all to worry about. The Japanese today are pacifists who are scared of war and obviously for good reason.

[@KawasakiKiteh]

@@archlich4489 We've been re-armed since 1953.

[@FloofyMinari]

Japan just doubled it's defense budget.
I am happy to see the U.S/Japan alliance flourish.

[@user-japan-mk.0114]

​​@@KawasakiKiteh1950年～

[@user-gi1uq2st8b]

見れば見るほど、親爺の若い頃の写真と同じだ😁あの図上演習している幹部は、ついこの前までアメリカ軍と戦っていた旧陸海軍の将校だっただろうな、旭川の特科の中にも、ついこの前までアメリカ軍と戦っていたのが居ただろうな、親父もあの頃多賀城駐屯地に居たからなぁ、

[@Mike_The_1950s_Historian]

Cool vid and very 1950's, of course. I like how judo and jujitsu are mentioned right off the bat. If this film had been made just a few years later, karate would have been mentioned due to the popularity of that martial art in the 1960's. Of course, it was US servicemen stationed there right after WW2 in the late '40's who brought karate over here to the US from Japan and Okinawa. Cool post.

[@RonJohn63]

+robertos : Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, France, Germany, Holland, Benelux, Italy, (kinda) England.
All hail the Marshall Plan! (Yes, I know that Asian was not part of the Marshall Plan.)

[@jimkon5767]

Love this stuff.
I only wish I knew the year made?

[@lmao_apple]

24:39
後ろの人、盛大にコケてて草

[@OrbitalAstronaut]

Makes me happy to see the Quad Alliance up and running. We will need Japan's help maintaining peace in the asia pacific.

[@user-gi1uq2st8b]

この中の隊員たちも、親父と同じく九十歳位だろうなぁ、

[@bayupriyawaskita2222]

9:26 Gojira!

[@user-gi1uq2st8b]

親爺が、言っていたのには、米軍のサージャンが、射撃の成績良いから「入隊までに銃を撃ったことが有るのは、手を上げろ‼️」と通訳介して聞いたら、殆どが挙手‼️したそうです😅それで納得したそうです😅

[@thomas5585]

wwww

[@Mike_The_1950s_Historian]

LOL! To somewhat quote the movie, Judo comes "naturaly" to the Japanese while they "profited from American instructors" (cut to GUN training!)

[@isorokudono]

Samurai used guns almost exclusively sing the 15th century.

[@Mike_The_1950s_Historian]

@@isorokudono yep. Oda Nobunaga used them on the battlefield.

[@user-gu7ux7qr1z]

why sound of chinese gong. edit

[@greed0599]

Because people from the 1950s were incredibly racist

[@boundlessmatter4361]

6:10 should have been cod zombies ww2

[@user-gi1uq2st8b]

因みに警察予備隊の時に、米軍の監視下での射撃訓練、殆どが良い点数出すから、米軍の下士官が、今までに銃を扱った者は手を上げろ❗と通訳を通じて言ったら、殆どの警察予備隊員が　挙手❗したそうです、十年も経たない前には、中国、南太平洋方面、東南アジアでの実践経験有るのが多かったから、米軍の下士官も納得行ったそうです😅ただし親父は、昭和ニ十年に
海軍特別年少兵で電測学校に入校してますから😅射撃の経験は?有ったか?
定かではありません、仙台の部隊でのはなしでした😅

[@deadby15]

Saitama〜
　Saitama〜

[@douglaspotterpress]

@RavenBlaze
Perhaps the ONLY nation America ever successfully rebuilt.

[@QuyenLe-ou7wf]

robertos South Korea and Germany and Japan

[@archlich4489]

@@QuyenLe-ou7wf Thank you, sir.

[@rsuriyop]

It's strange, they cared enough about Japan, Korea, & Germany to help build them up to where they are today. But on the other hand, they are unwilling to put in the same amount of effort in doing the same for war torn Iraq and Afghanistan. It's almost as if we want to keep the whole Middle East unstable while continuing to make up fake justifications for having endless wars down there all in the name of oil - _TERRIBLE!_

[@vuducanh2k5]

@@rsuriyop USA during WW2 is far different than today USA, and the new military leadership can't keep up with what their grandparents have achieved.
Unfortunately, military leaders which care about rebuilding other defeated nations like MacArthur, Eisenhower, and Patton are all dead even before Reagan take power.

[@originalkovo11]

@@rsuriyop It's not for lack of trying, the people of Afghanistan are simply too diverse and tribal to effectively unify and modernize. Outside the more densely populated areas there are people not even the old government or the Taliban can convince to participate in society at large.