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Hi guys, huge fan of your content.But I have to mention that it was Tsar Nicholas II who was the ruler of Russia at the time not Nicholas I as you show in the video. Nicholas I was Tsar during the Crimean War
Could Marcus Furius Camillus be considered as a "last Roman". I know it might doesn't make much sense, but people consider men like Aetius as one for prolonging the empire, and without Camillus' counter attack, Rome might have succumbed to the Gauls way back in 4th century.
@@TheRedex123 yea that's the best example yet lol. I heard there was a Victorian mod coming out for that so it'll be interesting to see how they tackle the resortation
@@memecliparchives2254 yet completely flat lined at this point ... still recovering from that asset bubble they created and now further crippled by their nearly impossible to pay off debt which they took on in order to bail out those very same entities who inflated the assets to begin with. This is at the expense of the common tax payer. Brilliant plan really ... sacrifice the future of your country's average worker so the current elites can stay exorbitantly and unfairly wealthy behind the scenes. And you wonder why the average salary man is being milked dry? He's the guy holding the empty bag after all the elites got fabulously wealthy on it but didn't want to lose out so they had the government bail them out lol. 🤣 I kinda feel sad for the Japanese ... but ... this is going to happen all the same to Europe and America soon too since they love making the same mistakes ...🙃 just keep pumping in that QE (quantitative easing) money, keep interest rates artificially low to 'stimulate' the economy ... nothing can go wrong ... nuhuh ... all the inflated assets definitely won't come back to bite you in the ass ... 😁
It's more complicated than what is portrayed here. The brief overview pretty much gives you sense that Japan easily defeated Russia but they didn't. In nearly all cases, the Japanese used overly aggressive tactics and strategies to bull rush Russia. In Manchuria, they often just charged wildly into entrenched Russian positions only winning due to numbers and a lack of supplies on the Russian part. And then Russia did the most stupid thing imaginable by sending their Baltic fleet across the world to fight Japan. It wasn't really a military defeat but a political one. Russia already had several armies on the way to take back Manchuria but political pressure forced the government to just give up. This entire war propelled Japan with a sense of superiority of "Hey, we can do this!" when they really only fought a small garrison. Picture that one episode of Spongebob where Sandy is fighting the giant worm. She thinks she has it beat, only to realize that what she was fighting was just the tongue of the worm. Same concept. It made Japan too overconfident and too aggressive. Which is what spelled their doom in more unplanned, foolhardy moves in China and the Indies.
You forgot to mention the Iwakura Mission. Where Japanese academics, politicians and scientists made a tour through the west and carefully examined every aspect of society in Western Powers to figure out how to implement those in their own country in their own way.
I remember learning that, it was an incredible move. By combining methods of multiple states and cultures they made systems with as many advantages and as few disadvantages as possible
Please understand that industrialization started well with the first contacts with Western powers, and Ming dynasty self-isolation policy helped greatly to establish in Japan manufacturing sectors well few centuries before Chinese understand it. Then all gains known they just closed inside, but when understand that they again backwards just opened again. Whereas Qing and Korea still been strictly closed countries.
I recommend the first few chapter of Kaigun (David C. Evans) to get an impression of how the navy transformed from literally nothing to one of the greatest navy powers in the world within 50 years.
@@theawesomeman9821 Peter Griffins advised me against BBC lol. Said they have news from places that probably doesn't exist. Cant argue with a family guy you know 😁
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I highly recommend Drachinifel's series about the journey of the Russian 2nd Pacific Squadron. The entire story is like a Monty Python sketch, and the series is hilarious to watch.
I can imagine him standing at your grave like "let me tell you what a great man he was - but first check out the sponsor of todays funeral: RAID SHADOW LEGENDS!"
The Meiji Restoration is a true feat of Japanese achievement. To be able to adapt and modernize so quickly without losing the traditional social fabric that has tied the country together for centuries is pretty extraordinary.
Well they kind of did, even some of the early supporters of modernisation, staged armed rebellions when they felt the government was abandoning what it meant to be Japanese in the name of progress.
I have been a student of the Pacific War since I was 12 yrs old. Both of my grandfather's were US Army WW2 European Theater, 28th ID and 101st AB respectively. My father and his siblings were Army and Marine Corps, Vietnam. But it was my early exposure to Pacific Naval battles, paritcularly Cmdr. Earnest Evans story, that put a drive in me at a very young age to join the Navy, which I did at 18, serving as a radioman during the Gulf War years. This series is nothing short of fascinating as it ties it all together, Preamble to hostilities, entire theater strategic overview of land, sea and air assets. Well done, very well done. The Guadalcanal episode is especially detailed. Thank you for all your teams do. You've gained an immediate fan here.
It's amazing to think that although the Samurai class has been expelled or phased out by this time, the Samurai spirit is still strong in Japan's ambition in its empire building.
When I was a kid I used to watch an anime called Rurouni Kenshin (Samurai X in Latin America) which was set during the initial years of the Meiji Restoration. I mostly watched it for the badass fist and sword fights, but revisiting as an adult I found fascinating how it accurately describes the struggle of people caught between eras. Those who refuse change and will violently fight to oppose it, those who just want to blend in the new reality and those who embrace change either because it will give them power or bring peace and stability. And many characters are based on actual historical characters, they even have a complete arc based on the Shimabara rebellion of the Japanese christians against the Shogunate. Few works of fiction delve into history like that! And it was probably one of the factors that made me interested in history in general and therefore love this channel later :)
What is always overlooked about Japan becoming a modern nation in a short period of time due to the Meiji Restoration is the spread of Japan's urbanization and education in the Edo period. Even before Matthew Perry arrived, Edo, which is now Tokyo, was the largest city in the world and had the world's highest literacy rate due to the spread of private cram schools called terakoya. The legible public carried out various cultural activities, and the mass consumer society flourished. Each domain controlled by a feudal lord tried to promote local specialties and competed with each other, and handicraft industry developed at the highest level. Under such circumstances, modern political systems and the machinery industry were imported from the West, and Japan succeeded in modernization at once.
Great video, The Pacific Series is gonna be epic. I can't help but see how impressive the graphics have evolved from four years ago when I first started watching this channel. Keep Up The Good Work Mate
Though China and Thailand escaped complete colonialism by conceding territories, no territories of Japan proper was ever colonized by outside powers, which is pretty impressive.
Funny enough the Qing was able to bully Japan to banning swords in their police force in the 1870s. The Japanese sure did pay them back big-time decades later.
In the end, Japan stood victorious against Russia, but it wasnt that easy as described in the video. Japanese governemnt was practically bankrupt at the end of war, which forced them to satisfy at just ousting russians from Manchuria, not occupying it for their own. They only succeded to do so 26 years later.
@@prastagus3 That’s why I dug a grave for Imperial Japan…Though I am still head of state after the war, so I lose nothing 😂(But the Japanese people don’t see me as a God anymore…IT’S ANIME TIME🥳🥳🥳)
America when Japan invades China: "I sleep." America when Japan bombs Pearl Harbor: "WOE, WOE, THE GREAT (Cities), (Hiroshima and Nagasaki), FOR YOUR TIME OF JUDGEMENT HAS COME!!!" *Drops the nukes* Japan, after the first Nuke: "Wait, was that the f-cking SUN?!"
@@diongallagher6605 Imperial Japan after getting nuked for the 2nd time: Ight, looks like I’m disintegrating into ashes… Constitutional Monarchy of Japan…daughter…take care of our country…- C.M. of Japan: I will father…(might aswell kick some commies and make anime while I’m at it)
The journey of the 2nd Pacific Squadron is honestly one of the most comedic episodes of military history. Its such a cavalcade of errors and incompetence. From shooting wildly in every direction due to the imaginary threat of Japanese torpedo boats in the Baltic Sea, to nearly starting a war with the British Empire by shooting at (and missing) an English fishing fleet, to successfully hitting one of their own ships during a gun salute because the ship doing the salute used live ammunition, to repeatedly crashing into one another on the journey around Europe, to cutting the telegraph wire at Tangiers while going out of port, to filling the ships with so much coal that the ships developed a thick coating of coal dust, to my personal favorite anecdote: capturing deadly predators on Madagascar as exotic pets... only for the ships to become floating zoos filled with angry crocodiles, mischievous lemurs and venomous snakes. Apparently Rozhetsvensky had a crate of 50 binoculars on his ship. The reason was that anytime something went wrong, he would throw a set of binoculars into the sea in frustration. One wonders how many of the 50 still remained after the battle.
Probably one of my favorite movies of all time thats really underrated is Warriors of The Rainbow. Which this video briefly mentions at 8:00. I recommend anyone who likes these videos to check it out.
Hm, are you sure? Showing Alaska as US territory during Perry’s “visit” to Japan in 1853-55? If I remember correctly Alaska was Russian “Amerika” until 1867!
Thank you kings and generals for covering this topic. I've been interested in studying about the meiji restoration but no entertaining documentary series has made me look into it. Until now. 👍
Imagine if the strange Ezo Republic had survived... a republic born from feudal lords Granted, realistically, it's not likely, as even if it survived the Boshin War, it would have been one of the first lands to be annexed or conquered by an imperialistic Japan, much like the Kingdom of the Ryukyus. And like the Ryukyus, the victorious Allied Powers (mainly the US) probably would not have tried too hard to separate them from Japan after the Pacific War (World War II)
Good video. The rise of Japan is an awesome story. Japan (along with the United States to some degree) where the first real nations to rise up as powers to challenge the block of European powers.
9:08 This is incorrect. Japanese didn't participate on the side of rebels. As the peasant rebellion arose against the corrupt government, the Korean government, unable to put down its own rebellion, asked Qing for help. Prior to this incident, treaty of Tentsin had been concluded between Qing and Japan, which stated that both nations should inform each other of their army dispatch to Korea. Qing informed Japan of their army dispatch to Korea according to the terms agreed upon, which led to the Japanese intervention on the pretext of protecting Japanese citizens in Korea. The Donghak rebels dissolved themselves with the growing concern that Korea would be a battlefield between Qing and Japan. With the dissolution of the rebels, the Korean government demanded the both nations to withdraw their army but the Japanese refused on the pretext of modernisation of Korea. Meanwhile the Japanese seized the palace and attacked the Qing army, breaking out the Qing-Japanese war. The peasants again united in order to repel the foreigners, which led to the second rebellion. The Donghak rebels were crushed at the battle of Ugeumchi by Korean-Japanese alliance.
@@destiny_6204 I wasn't intending to accuse the Japanese though. I don't hate certain countries based on what they did in the past. Just wanted to rectify the mistake.
@@destiny_6204 if you had two braincells youd know they had view weak people with alot of dishonor hence why they treated those who surrendered very poorly cause they viewed it as dishonorable rather than dying
Imagine this, Japan had only been modernizing for 100 years yet it was victorious over Britain in naval battles by ww2, and Britain and many western powers had been modernizing for the last few hundred years at the time. The Japanese airplanes, A6M Zero was also superior before the entrance of USA.
I wonder how Japanese people felt back then when their country changed so fast. Their old habit, way of live, and culture, suddenly faced modernization.
Hey, dunno if you made already a video about that, but I find you work very deep and understandable, and I would love a kings and generals video (or serie) about the romanization process in different provinces (maybe a general look, or if u want a deep look about some interesting provinces). Love your work!
Tokugawa Iyeasu was the first Shogun of Japan after the Sengoku Jidai, and the first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate. He died in 1616, over two hundred years before Matthew Perry opened Japan. The shogun pressured to do so was Tokugawa Iemochi.
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In addition to the world's highest literacy and urbanization rates, Japan's rapid modernization is believed to have been achieved because of its redundant social systems compared to other Asian countries. The redundancy is the domain system and the existence of the emperor. Because of the domain system, there was a stronger decentralization system than other Asian countries, and there were many capable samurai under each local lord. Even after the collapse of the Tokugawa Shogunate, which was the central government, they were able to lead the modernization of the Meiji period using the emperor, who had no real power but only authority.
Samurai period Japan reminds me alot to the current Somalia🇸🇴. A similar trajectory of success could be achieved if the clan system in Somalia is destroyed. However its easier said than done as its far more complex than Japan 🇯🇵 Samurai period structure. One thing stands true, less reliance on foreign aid or interference yields better results.
Japan was the only country that successfully industrialized themselves and fought back against Western countries. If it was not for Japan, all the countries in East Asia or Asia would be still colonized by the Western countries.
If you want some lols just look up the voyage of the Russian fleet that sailed to the east. They fired on two fishing boats (and missed) thinking they were Japanese and even fired on their own ships later. When they did finally engage the Japanese fleet they were sunk without even scoring a hit on the enemy vessels.
the baltic fleet dont came from mediteran sea but from St Petersburg and passed the english cannel und dthere was a incident with this fleet in the near auf GB.
Heihachiro Togo in 1863 was a crew of Kagoshima Coastal Battery, being bombarded by the British. His weapon was a smoothbore muzzle-loading black powder cannon shooting round shots. 41 years later in 1904, he command a fleet of Pre-Dreadnought battleships. His flagship was the Mikasa, a British-made 15,000 ton Pre-Dreadnought armed with 12-inch rifled guns capable of firing 390kg HE shells over 10km. Japan or any other country, the technological development of the 19th century was astonishing.
I only had some idea of how Japan became a World Power. I knew about it defeating Russia but nothing before hand. So it's nice to know more. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.
This is beautiful. I know Meiji Restoration from movie "Rurouni Kenshin" the first season. I really hope someday this channel make video about Dutch colonization in Indonesia especially when Dutch had a war, and burn alive people in Banda island.
Something worth mentioning in this video is that the reason the Russian took so long to get across to the far east (excluding the obvious distance) is because the British were blockading them in the North Sea for months, not to mention them having the chokehold in practically every single waterway from mainland Europe to the rest of the world. Also the Treaty of Portsmouth, (Maine not the UK) was chosen because the Japanese was pretty confident that the US was gonna back them, especially since Teddy Roosevelt was a huge fan of Japanese culture (which is surprisingly true for the early 20th century history). He had repeatedly mentioned how the Japanese culture is on par if not better than the Western European ones, and he reportedly did not like the Russians), and they felt cheated by Teddy that they had to leave with no reparations paid by the losers, and that they didn't even get the entire Sakhalin island. Turns out it was because Teddy, as always, was eyeing to expand the American Empire and wanted to balance the powers in the pacific. Cool guy I guess, but definitely not a reliable ally. Couldn't help but wonder how WWII would've turned out if the Japanese got what they wanted from this war.
@@attiepollard7847 Of course the USA isn't 'supposed' to do anything. But the selection of America as a 3rd party for the treaty was specifically due to the relations between Japan & the US, and imagine trusting someone only for them to slap you in the face. Obviously you can still do that, legally there's nothing wrong with that, but there's genuine discussion on whether the outcome of that war was what sparked Japanese intense expansionist policies for the next 3-4 decades to come
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Hi guys, huge fan of your content.But I have to mention that it was Tsar Nicholas II who was the ruler of Russia at the time not Nicholas I as you show in the video. Nicholas I was Tsar during the Crimean War
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Can you please make videos about the cossacks you could literally make at 10 videos about them
Could Marcus Furius Camillus be considered as a "last Roman".
I know it might doesn't make much sense, but people consider men like Aetius as one for prolonging the empire, and without Camillus' counter attack, Rome might have succumbed to the Gauls way back in 4th century.
Japan empire malaya people history world video
This is the first 'How to play Japan in Victoria 3' strategy guide.
Lol soon we will see a "What if the Empire of Japan never lost WW2 or what if the military never took power"
@@Patriotofminecraft aka hoi4
Would be very cool, if Kings and Generals would do an overview about "the world in 1836".
@@TheRedex123 yea that's the best example yet lol. I heard there was a Victorian mod coming out for that so it'll be interesting to see how they tackle the resortation
@@Patriotofminecraft cant wait. is it on the workshop?
It is truly impressive how fast they changed in a generation.
And how their progress still remains.
@@memecliparchives2254 yet completely flat lined at this point ... still recovering from that asset bubble they created and now further crippled by their nearly impossible to pay off debt which they took on in order to bail out those very same entities who inflated the assets to begin with. This is at the expense of the common tax payer. Brilliant plan really ... sacrifice the future of your country's average worker so the current elites can stay exorbitantly and unfairly wealthy behind the scenes. And you wonder why the average salary man is being milked dry? He's the guy holding the empty bag after all the elites got fabulously wealthy on it but didn't want to lose out so they had the government bail them out lol. 🤣
I kinda feel sad for the Japanese ... but ... this is going to happen all the same to Europe and America soon too since they love making the same mistakes ...🙃 just keep pumping in that QE (quantitative easing) money, keep interest rates artificially low to 'stimulate' the economy ... nothing can go wrong ... nuhuh ... all the inflated assets definitely won't come back to bite you in the ass ... 😁
It's more complicated than what is portrayed here. The brief overview pretty much gives you sense that Japan easily defeated Russia but they didn't. In nearly all cases, the Japanese used overly aggressive tactics and strategies to bull rush Russia. In Manchuria, they often just charged wildly into entrenched Russian positions only winning due to numbers and a lack of supplies on the Russian part. And then Russia did the most stupid thing imaginable by sending their Baltic fleet across the world to fight Japan. It wasn't really a military defeat but a political one. Russia already had several armies on the way to take back Manchuria but political pressure forced the government to just give up.
This entire war propelled Japan with a sense of superiority of "Hey, we can do this!" when they really only fought a small garrison. Picture that one episode of Spongebob where Sandy is fighting the giant worm. She thinks she has it beat, only to realize that what she was fighting was just the tongue of the worm. Same concept. It made Japan too overconfident and too aggressive. Which is what spelled their doom in more unplanned, foolhardy moves in China and the Indies.
@@BrutusAlbion And blame capitalism 😎
@@nicholasgutierrez9940 a win is a win.
You forgot to mention the Iwakura Mission. Where Japanese academics, politicians and scientists made a tour through the west and carefully examined every aspect of society in Western Powers to figure out how to implement those in their own country in their own way.
I remember learning that, it was an incredible move. By combining methods of multiple states and cultures they made systems with as many advantages and as few disadvantages as possible
Yes, it is. We sent people to Europe even though they were discriminated worse than today.
Yup , they learned their navy skills from British
The Japanese are truly remarkable people. The smartest of Asia.
Thats what china does now
Literally world War 3 breaks out:
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Magellan TV with lots of documentaries.
Buy Raycons.
I'm already in love with this series
I'm a paid member, we get 4 different ones
Give Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast a listen. He's done a series on it and it's amazing
@@markgriffiths6988 yes Supernova in the East which is a 6 part Series is INCREDIBLE!
I would like to watch a future episode of how Japan transform the industry and navy sector in just 50 years
Same
Please understand that industrialization started well with the first contacts with Western powers, and Ming dynasty self-isolation policy helped greatly to establish in Japan manufacturing sectors well few centuries before Chinese understand it. Then all gains known they just closed inside, but when understand that they again backwards just opened again. Whereas Qing and Korea still been strictly closed countries.
I recommend the first few chapter of Kaigun (David C. Evans) to get an impression of how the navy transformed from literally nothing to one of the greatest navy powers in the world within 50 years.
I heard it was aliens giving everyone a leg up?
Investing Rice Koku into really expensive industry buildings.
Cottage Industry and the like.
Excellent work! Glad to see that Asia and thr Pacific region is going to get some love from K&G
The narrator makes the episodes lit. If this guy was the news anchor of whatever news channel I'd never miss
try the BBC
@@theawesomeman9821 Peter Griffins advised me against BBC lol. Said they have news from places that probably doesn't exist.
Cant argue with a family guy you know 😁
mannnn i been watching officiallydevin since 2014, nariko treasure, sinews of war and field of mars are some of my favorite narrative lets plays of all times. Dude realy came a loooooooong way and now pay income tax lol,i recomend his channel is made out of love, cheers.
I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say the Meiji Restoration is one of the most impressive feats in human history
Japan modernizing so quickly, and building such a powerful modern military as well, is truly impressive.
I highly recommend Drachinifel's series about the journey of the Russian 2nd Pacific Squadron. The entire story is like a Monty Python sketch, and the series is hilarious to watch.
Are those Japanese torpedo boats in the middle of the Atlantic???
You know I was just going to mention that, but yeah it truly is a remarkable thing how that all played out really.
@@Archangelglenn I was somehow expecting the Kamchatka to make an appeareance...
Thanks for the recommendation... I never saw his channel before.
@@augustosolari7721 Nope. It's a fishing boat. Ah, let's shell it anyway!
I'd be willing to go out the way of the warrior if it ensured this would be the voice that does the eulogy at my funeral!
I don't think there is any glory left to be had in this world bro
Thy wish thy command.
He does abridged content on video games, and it makes the gameplay and storyline absolutely riveting at times.
I can imagine him standing at your grave like
"let me tell you what a great man he was - but first check out the sponsor of todays funeral: RAID SHADOW LEGENDS!"
It's the future that awaits us - you deserve the best, warrior. Greetings from a Berber from North Africa.
This is awesome. I am literally teaching Meiji restoration to my class at the moment. Will be a great resource. Thank you.
The Meiji Restoration is a true feat of Japanese achievement. To be able to adapt and modernize so quickly without losing the traditional social fabric that has tied the country together for centuries is pretty extraordinary.
Yeah despite modernising they still maintained the Discipline of the Samurai
Well they kind of did, even some of the early supporters of modernisation, staged armed rebellions when they felt the government was abandoning what it meant to be Japanese in the name of progress.
WTF the Samurai rebelled because they lost their privileges.
Thailand also reformed and survived. Also an interesting story
@@JP-tr3kpalso never got effectively colonized
Japan: "It's simple: We just got rid of the Samurai".
@پیاده نظام خان I used to fight for honor, now I fight for money. I defend Japan in legal battles nd civil disputes.
@@jaif7327 👌
@@jaif7327
Supposedly the yakuza have samurai origins.
@@kekeke8988
No!
YAKUZA=Korean in Japan
Just to let you know, I am now a paying member on TH-cam as a thank you for the great effort you guys put in.
Keep up the awesome work!
Can't wait for the burma campaign, loving it so far.
I have been a student of the Pacific War since I was 12 yrs old. Both of my grandfather's were US Army WW2 European Theater, 28th ID and 101st AB respectively. My father and his siblings were Army and Marine Corps, Vietnam. But it was my early exposure to Pacific Naval battles, paritcularly Cmdr. Earnest Evans story, that put a drive in me at a very young age to join the Navy, which I did at 18, serving as a radioman during the Gulf War years.
This series is nothing short of fascinating as it ties it all together, Preamble to hostilities, entire theater strategic overview of land, sea and air assets. Well done, very well done. The Guadalcanal episode is especially detailed. Thank you for all your teams do. You've gained an immediate fan here.
A really well structured and explained video. Thanks for the hard work!
It's amazing to think that although the Samurai class has been expelled or phased out by this time, the Samurai spirit is still strong in Japan's ambition in its empire building.
When I was a kid I used to watch an anime called Rurouni Kenshin (Samurai X in Latin America) which was set during the initial years of the Meiji Restoration.
I mostly watched it for the badass fist and sword fights, but revisiting as an adult I found fascinating how it accurately describes the struggle of people caught between eras. Those who refuse change and will violently fight to oppose it, those who just want to blend in the new reality and those who embrace change either because it will give them power or bring peace and stability. And many characters are based on actual historical characters, they even have a complete arc based on the Shimabara rebellion of the Japanese christians against the Shogunate.
Few works of fiction delve into history like that! And it was probably one of the factors that made me interested in history in general and therefore love this channel later :)
Me 2 I love that anime and live action adaptation :)
Great anime! I leaned about the Meiji restoration through there
HOT DAMN, these visuals are stunning!
What is always overlooked about Japan becoming a modern nation in a short period of time due to the Meiji Restoration is the spread of Japan's urbanization and education in the Edo period. Even before Matthew Perry arrived, Edo, which is now Tokyo, was the largest city in the world and had the world's highest literacy rate due to the spread of private cram schools called terakoya. The legible public carried out various cultural activities, and the mass consumer society flourished. Each domain controlled by a feudal lord tried to promote local specialties and competed with each other, and handicraft industry developed at the highest level. Under such circumstances, modern political systems and the machinery industry were imported from the West, and Japan succeeded in modernization at once.
Great video, The Pacific Series is gonna be epic. I can't help but see how impressive the graphics have evolved from four years ago when I first started watching this channel. Keep Up The Good Work Mate
Awesome episode and such a complex subject to tackle =)!
The quality of the videos since the start of the channel is breathtaking.
Though China and Thailand escaped complete colonialism by conceding territories, no territories of Japan proper was ever colonized by outside powers, which is pretty impressive.
Whole of japan is colonized by the USA.
"Cut a portion of rice from my diet, then we’ll able to own budgets for vessels & to beat Qing navy" -Meiji
Those Qing battleships are made in german, while those imperial japanese made in britain
Funny enough the Qing was able to bully Japan to banning swords in their police force in the 1870s. The Japanese sure did pay them back big-time decades later.
In the end, Japan stood victorious against Russia, but it wasnt that easy as described in the video. Japanese governemnt was practically bankrupt at the end of war, which forced them to satisfy at just ousting russians from Manchuria, not occupying it for their own. They only succeded to do so 26 years later.
And Russia didnt pay any war reparations to them.
@@summersong5876 and still occupies the kurile islands till this date too..
I prefer Japan empire than stupid anime
@@hahaaha7400 same
@@hahaaha7400 what Japanese empire have to do with anime tho?
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@@MusMasi what?
My eyes were literally glued to the screen the entire time. This was such an interesting video!
That sounds painful and dangerous. Can you still see?
@@Spacemongerr Nope. In fact I had to hire a person just to comment on youtube for me.
One of the best channels I watch on TH-cam, the video quality and detailing is exceptional. I just can’t get bored
14:45 this also indirectly lead to the independence declaration of Finland later in 1917, no wonder we are good buddies with Japanese
Great video! Such high quality documentaries are very rare! Keep it up!👍
It’s time we return the favor of the “Unequal Treaties” to the Americans! Destination:
PEARL HARBOR!
@@gordonbryce
Too neutral to even mobilize 😂(Now I’ll dig a grave for my empire🙂☹️😭)
@@Toumahitoedits 王様万歳
@@prastagus3
That’s why I dug a grave for Imperial Japan…Though I am still head of state after the war, so I lose nothing 😂(But the Japanese people don’t see me as a God anymore…IT’S ANIME TIME🥳🥳🥳)
America when Japan invades China: "I sleep."
America when Japan bombs Pearl Harbor: "WOE, WOE, THE GREAT (Cities), (Hiroshima and Nagasaki), FOR YOUR TIME OF JUDGEMENT HAS COME!!!" *Drops the nukes*
Japan, after the first Nuke: "Wait, was that the f-cking SUN?!"
@@diongallagher6605
Imperial Japan after getting nuked for the 2nd time:
Ight, looks like I’m disintegrating into ashes… Constitutional Monarchy of Japan…daughter…take care of our country…-
C.M. of Japan:
I will father…(might aswell kick some commies and make anime while I’m at it)
Great video, loving this prequel series. Can’t wait for next week!
That intro still gets me, it’s so ominous. It’s got that call of duty world at war feel
The journey of the 2nd Pacific Squadron is honestly one of the most comedic episodes of military history. Its such a cavalcade of errors and incompetence. From shooting wildly in every direction due to the imaginary threat of Japanese torpedo boats in the Baltic Sea, to nearly starting a war with the British Empire by shooting at (and missing) an English fishing fleet, to successfully hitting one of their own ships during a gun salute because the ship doing the salute used live ammunition, to repeatedly crashing into one another on the journey around Europe, to cutting the telegraph wire at Tangiers while going out of port, to filling the ships with so much coal that the ships developed a thick coating of coal dust, to my personal favorite anecdote: capturing deadly predators on Madagascar as exotic pets... only for the ships to become floating zoos filled with angry crocodiles, mischievous lemurs and venomous snakes.
Apparently Rozhetsvensky had a crate of 50 binoculars on his ship. The reason was that anytime something went wrong, he would throw a set of binoculars into the sea in frustration.
One wonders how many of the 50 still remained after the battle.
Sounds like it could be a great movie
Probably one of my favorite movies of all time thats really underrated is Warriors of The Rainbow. Which this video briefly mentions at 8:00. I recommend anyone who likes these videos to check it out.
The maps and map graphics are on another level on this one. Excellent work!
Hm, are you sure? Showing Alaska as US territory during Perry’s “visit” to Japan in 1853-55? If I remember correctly Alaska was Russian “Amerika” until 1867!
@@tommay6590 good job! Here's a cookie
Hope you'll talk about the showa restoration group and the 26th incident.
Economic investigator Frank G Melbourne Australia is following this informative content cheers Frank
Thank you kings and generals for covering this topic. I've been interested in studying about the meiji restoration but no entertaining documentary series has made me look into it. Until now. 👍
Imagine if the strange Ezo Republic had survived... a republic born from feudal lords
Granted, realistically, it's not likely, as even if it survived the Boshin War, it would have been one of the first lands to be annexed or conquered by an imperialistic Japan, much like the Kingdom of the Ryukyus. And like the Ryukyus, the victorious Allied Powers (mainly the US) probably would not have tried too hard to separate them from Japan after the Pacific War (World War II)
Good video. The rise of Japan is an awesome story. Japan (along with the United States to some degree) where the first real nations to rise up as powers to challenge the block of European powers.
It is really fantastic how fast all of this happen. Japan really modernized within short period of time
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This is incorrect.
Japanese didn't participate on the side of rebels.
As the peasant rebellion arose against the corrupt government, the Korean government, unable to put down its own rebellion, asked Qing for help.
Prior to this incident, treaty of Tentsin had been concluded between Qing and Japan, which stated that both nations should inform each other of their army dispatch to Korea.
Qing informed Japan of their army dispatch to Korea according to the terms agreed upon, which led to the Japanese intervention on the pretext of protecting Japanese citizens in Korea.
The Donghak rebels dissolved themselves with the growing concern that Korea would be a battlefield between Qing and Japan.
With the dissolution of the rebels, the Korean government demanded the both nations to withdraw their army but the Japanese refused on the pretext of modernisation of Korea. Meanwhile the Japanese seized the palace and attacked the Qing army, breaking out the Qing-Japanese war. The peasants again united in order to repel the foreigners, which led to the second rebellion.
The Donghak rebels were crushed at the battle of Ugeumchi by Korean-Japanese alliance.
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I wasn't intending to accuse the Japanese though.
I don't hate certain countries based on what they did in the past.
Just wanted to rectify the mistake.
@@destiny_6204 Couldn’t agree more.
@@destiny_6204 if you had two braincells youd know they had view weak people with alot of dishonor hence why they treated those who surrendered very poorly cause they viewed it as dishonorable rather than dying
A great episode, can’t wait for more
The quality of these videos always amaze me
Finally! I've been wondering when will kings and generals upload a video about Meiji Restoration
Keep on going dude...u r best channel of history on YT alongwith Epic History
Its amazing how Japan was able to grow so fast thanks to one man and his reforms.
Great as always! cant wait for the next one
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Imagine this, Japan had only been modernizing for 100 years yet it was victorious over Britain in naval battles by ww2, and Britain and many western powers had been modernizing for the last few hundred years at the time. The Japanese airplanes, A6M Zero was also superior before the entrance of USA.
I wonder how Japanese people felt back then when their country changed so fast. Their old habit, way of live, and culture, suddenly faced modernization.
This channel made being a history teacher easy! Great stuff!
Hey, dunno if you made already a video about that, but I find you work very deep and understandable, and I would love a kings and generals video (or serie) about the romanization process in different provinces (maybe a general look, or if u want a deep look about some interesting provinces). Love your work!
Didn't really expect to find this video literal minutes after it was released, but I still loved it.
Tokugawa Iyeasu was the first Shogun of Japan after the Sengoku Jidai, and the first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate. He died in 1616, over two hundred years before Matthew Perry opened Japan. The shogun pressured to do so was Tokugawa Iemochi.
Words can't describe how excited I am about this series!
You know what? I usually skipped the in-video advertisement. But, since how good "Kings and Generals" present any of their contents, I have never, even 1 second miss their in-video advertisement.
The last episode would be Japan creating anime.
These are so well made and I love it!! Keep up the great work
love the attention to detail!
example being the shift from a triangular to a rectangular qing chinese flag
Its crazy all of this happened only 100 years ago...
This series is so great
One of my favorite K&G videos hands down!
Love japanese history especially samurai
of course, so large is the soft power of Anime and Video games
@@gordonbryce An overrated collection of a warrior class that never really tested its metal against any foreign power.
@@walsh9080 Most of the made in Japan are top notch.
It is natural to think so with a sword.
@@SC-jt3uf The swords were of decent quality, I'm referring to the men wielding them.
In addition to the world's highest literacy and urbanization rates, Japan's rapid modernization is believed to have been achieved because of its redundant social systems compared to other Asian countries. The redundancy is the domain system and the existence of the emperor. Because of the domain system, there was a stronger decentralization system than other Asian countries, and there were many capable samurai under each local lord. Even after the collapse of the Tokugawa Shogunate, which was the central government, they were able to lead the modernization of the Meiji period using the emperor, who had no real power but only authority.
Im on love with this channel . This serie looks promising 👑
Please upload the next video on Alexander's conquest ASAP .
Love from India ❤️
Great stuff yall
Been watching for a few years now and got some friends to watch
Samurai period Japan reminds me alot to the current Somalia🇸🇴. A similar trajectory of success could be achieved if the clan system in Somalia is destroyed. However its easier said than done as its far more complex than Japan 🇯🇵 Samurai period structure. One thing stands true, less reliance on foreign aid or interference yields better results.
They still use clan system until now?
This is going to be an amazing series!
Japan and German was the father of iron industry at that time to this time.
Great Video 🔥
This was a great snippet of the russo-Japanese war. Great great clip, wow
I Love this series! Great work as always 👏
Japan was the only country that successfully industrialized themselves and fought back against Western countries.
If it was not for Japan, all the countries in East Asia or Asia would be still colonized by the Western countries.
Turkey is another example as well
They also fucked up South East Asia at the same time I feel like they both did a good and bad thing to the region
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Thank you for your great work. Very professional. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
extremely useful to have a background to the pacific war...thank you
If you want some lols just look up the voyage of the Russian fleet that sailed to the east. They fired on two fishing boats (and missed) thinking they were Japanese and even fired on their own ships later. When they did finally engage the Japanese fleet they were sunk without even scoring a hit on the enemy vessels.
I can't wait for the next video I have being waiting for a week to see this video.Excellent video Kings And Generals.😀😀😇☺
the baltic fleet dont came from mediteran sea but from St Petersburg and passed the english cannel und dthere was a incident with this fleet in the near auf GB.
Heihachiro Togo in 1863 was a crew of Kagoshima Coastal Battery, being bombarded by the British. His weapon was a smoothbore muzzle-loading black powder cannon shooting round shots.
41 years later in 1904, he command a fleet of Pre-Dreadnought battleships. His flagship was the Mikasa, a British-made 15,000 ton Pre-Dreadnought armed with 12-inch rifled guns capable of firing 390kg HE shells over 10km.
Japan or any other country, the technological development of the 19th century was astonishing.
I only had some idea of how Japan became a World Power. I knew about it defeating Russia but nothing before hand. So it's nice to know more. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.
You have outdone yourselves time and again.
FANTASTIC video! I am so excited for this series!
Good video !😄👍🏻
I cannot recommend enough the podcast series "Supernova in the East" by Dan Carlin, you won't regret it
This is beautiful. I know Meiji Restoration from movie "Rurouni Kenshin" the first season. I really hope someday this channel make video about Dutch colonization in Indonesia especially when Dutch had a war, and burn alive people in Banda island.
Fantastic outro music and graphic visuality, nice work!
Loved the intro that was awesome
The quality of these videos is stellar well done team
4:57 "Open the country. Stop having it be closed." - commodore perry probably
"You're gonna trade with us and you're gonna like it" -America to Japan
Something worth mentioning in this video is that the reason the Russian took so long to get across to the far east (excluding the obvious distance) is because the British were blockading them in the North Sea for months, not to mention them having the chokehold in practically every single waterway from mainland Europe to the rest of the world.
Also the Treaty of Portsmouth, (Maine not the UK) was chosen because the Japanese was pretty confident that the US was gonna back them, especially since Teddy Roosevelt was a huge fan of Japanese culture (which is surprisingly true for the early 20th century history). He had repeatedly mentioned how the Japanese culture is on par if not better than the Western European ones, and he reportedly did not like the Russians), and they felt cheated by Teddy that they had to leave with no reparations paid by the losers, and that they didn't even get the entire Sakhalin island.
Turns out it was because Teddy, as always, was eyeing to expand the American Empire and wanted to balance the powers in the pacific. Cool guy I guess, but definitely not a reliable ally.
Couldn't help but wonder how WWII would've turned out if the Japanese got what they wanted from this war.
@@attiepollard7847 Of course the USA isn't 'supposed' to do anything. But the selection of America as a 3rd party for the treaty was specifically due to the relations between Japan & the US, and imagine trusting someone only for them to slap you in the face.
Obviously you can still do that, legally there's nothing wrong with that, but there's genuine discussion on whether the outcome of that war was what sparked Japanese intense expansionist policies for the next 3-4 decades to come
I love the new map style!