Japan: Our Far East Partner - The Big Picture
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Japan: Our Far East Partner
Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. U.S. Army Audiovisual Center. (ca. 1974 - 05/15/1984)
ARC Identifier 2569524 / Local Identifier 111-TV-254. Japan is the key to the fate of the Far East. Once again for the second time in the march of modern history those words have urgent reality. But now there is a difference in their meaning. THE BIG PICTURE cameras focus on the United States Army which has come to know Japan well in recent years -- in war, in occupation, and finally, in partnership. In the record of that relationship there can be found the changing symbol of Japan's place in the Far East. Once it was a symbol of destruction. Today we look upon it with hope as a symbol of stability.
"The communists here aren't strong, but they are noisy."
Some things never change lol
I've been studying WWII quite a bit recently, and I find the post-war US-Japan relationship to be one of the most interesting subjects of that era. Sometimes I find myself thinking about how the world today would be vastly different if Japan turned out differently.
Tell us about what you've studied and learned so far, in Nihonjin language please. 🥰🥰
A lot less tech
@@mackyntyreGojira tai Mosura
A world without anime and robots 😢
As in if the Russians had taken Japan? Probly similar to the Eastern Soviet block. Tokyo divided like Berlin. Possibly a Korea and Vietnam scenerio with a Communist North Japan and a US backed South Japan.
Do we still get Nintendo and Toyotas? Maybe? With more war, more potential innovators die or immigrate. The Japanese tech we know today is either delayed or doesn't exist.
Possibly a mass immigration of Japanese to the US - Canadian west coast. IF the communist backed North Japan wins.
We rebuilt them . not like Russia did with Germany . glad they became our friends. I have been there , they are good people . lets hope we stay that way
Me too.
We rebuilt them? Japanese reconstruction is mostly owes to Japanese themselves.
@@boriborimango "We rebuilt them? Japanese reconstruction is mostly owes to Japanese themselves." Yes. we rebuilt them. We COULD have crushed the population like bugs, but wrote a Constitution for them that completely restructured the way they were used to life (woman got to vote? How strange!), and got them back on their feet. They of course had to do the work to get it there, but Japan's society owes just about everything it has today to the US's strong guidance. You're a fool if you believe otherwise.
@lou skunt ok mr asshole
@Jaeson Monteiro They failed Philippines totally
The US-Japanese war is one of the most inhuman post-industrial war you could ever learn about. yet the occupation was so full of humanity… It really represents a miracle in a recent, global history so full of uncontrolled violence & deluded hatred.
It’s just such a shame that the world could benefit from learning these essential, yet obscure moments in human history. I’m not really confident that many Americans know of the good deeds their country did with Japan, nor take it for granted.
It was a war from hell.
The "Good deeds", which of your USA-America did with Japan ?????? This is You about peaceful japanese cities ( with peaceful citizens) "Hirosima" and "Nagasaki" ( in 1945) and about mass Rapes ( from side of american military Sadists on japanese islands) of japanese women's population ( from 1945 year and until our days) ??? - for "Hug Me 4ever"
The Korean war benefitted Japan greatly. It kickstarted the Japanese industry again, gave ordinary Japanese jobs due to demand, and cash infusion for their battered economy.
But the rest they done on their own. The war was only a couple years.
I am now convinced that we are friends. Let's fight together next time.
God bless Macarthur, the big boss, " Gaijin Shogun"!! God bless Hirohito, truly a great man!
A truly Reformed Man
I remember watching The Big Picture on TV when I was a small boy in the 1950's + 1960's. It was my first opportunity to see real soldiers not in the movies.
My dad was one of those real soldiers, and I spent much of my childhood in the 50s and early 60s in Japan. It was a wonderful experience.
This was an excellent presentation. This presentation is right about Russia had some type of plan to control Japan as they had planned to take over Hokkaido as well as to advance down the Honshu island, but then the Supreme Commander of the Pacific, Gen. Douglas MacArthur did not tolerate such take over by Russian and that put stop to Russian advancement. My father landed in Wakayama area, in September of 1945, believed to be with 6th Army, then assigned to 398 Infantry to be MP in Osaka area. He loved Japan so much because of the people being honest and dedicated to perform their duties to the best of their ability, as well as excellent food Japan offers. He loved so much he lived his rest of his life in Japan. Now these days Japan is so important to the security of the entire Asia as China is flexing her military muscle against Taiwan as well as within South China Sea as China might be planing to invade Taiwan in the near future and one of the Japan's top government official Mr. Aso Taro recently indicated that if Taiwan falls to China, Japan will act with force, not just defensively otherwise, he said, Japan will be the next target.
So the relationship between Japan and the U.S. has never been important these days in order to keep China, North Korean and Russia in check.
We the USA, we might say Japan, our great ally and asset...! Japan, they might say , the USA our great friend and ally!... We need each other!!
I would like to complain about some things about America, but in the end, Japan improved under MacArthur's rule.
Japan, one of the great mega tribes of the humanity.
I'm no expert in the matter, but I thing the promotion of small businesses at the beginning of the occupation probably did a lot of good at jump starting the Japanese economy. Unfortunately, the occupational government allowed the communists to spread for a time to help remove some of the imperialism and authority of the government. I'm all for the promotion of small business and allowing the workers to own their own capital, but the communist used it as leverage to grow in Japan. This eventually force the occupational government to later begin promoting big businesses heavily which may have been good at first, but now in modern Japan, Big businesses have a great deal of power and many peoples lives revolve around those businesses. So much so that it is not uncommon for Japanese workers to work themselves to death from the social expectations and pressure.
There is nothing wrong with diligence and dedication, But I think there is a line were the individual should be able to I need a break. And as far as I am aware, That is socially frowned upon in Japan. I think if the occupational government had promoted small business more in the later years and ensured that larger companies and corporations could not gain to much economic and political control, the quality of life for the average Japanese citizen would probably be noticeably higher.
Not to say that I think Japan is a bad place, quite the opposite. But I think the corporations there have too much control and power over social pressure in Japan.
Again, I am no expert by any means, that's just my opinion.
Love USA JAPAN!
Wonder if they started the KFC Christmas tradition at this time.
no, it started in the 80s
In 2020, we are no longer in the mood for that boring tradition.
Propaganda, politically motivated goodwill or whatever, the fact remains that revival of Japan owes much to the U.S. assistance. Imagine what the outcome would've been if it was Russia that occupied Japan.
Yep. The dropping of the second A-bomb on Nagasaki did not stop the Japanese military from wanting to fight on. What did it was the Russian invasion of Manchuria a couple of hours earlier. The thought of the Russians invading Japan from the north was more than the Emperor could bear. Even Japan knew to not trust the Russians!
If Russia has occupied Japan, it’d be a shit hole today
Japan be like : Yey, No Soviets!
Irattsa imasu?? Welcome is Irasshaimase or Okaerinasai, oh well it's okay. LOL
My Yuko!!! Love!
The world owes you so much, long live the USA..
Propaganda or not, there was some truth underneath it. Unlike in Soviet propaganda materials where you had to smile always in camera, otherwise - big trouble.
Fake. U didnt need to smile
@@TheAnikeenko You need to read some works like that of Solzhenitsyn. Refusal to clap or smile in the presence of head ranking military or political officials could be charged as conspiracy.
The amount of people that were sent off to prison merely for ending a clap too early, not smiling, or sharing second thoughts in military correspondence is staggering.
People were shot in the back of the head for far less between 1926 and 1957. A truly horrific era in slavic history.
God Bless America!
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The UN is not what it used to be, that's for sure, Lucky America is. ❤️great documentary
The UN is a powerless joke pretending it has any sort of power at all.
It's just as useless as the League of Nations was.
Yeah the UN rather step aside in condemned a country then rather do anything to help
18:03 when you open a pack of gum in class
America is a nation that although is never perfect,is noble in it's people's wishes to make things better for all.of course the left would dissmis this as false propaganda,show me another nation that has done better.
Indeed.
American legacy in Iraq and Vietnam is the definite proof.
@@travisdonaldstanley6420
Oh well
Iraq is fu**ed up unfortunately.
Full of sectarian violence.
When a country has many divisions in religion or tribalism then a rule with iron fist is the only way to keep it together.
That's why Saddam was the best option regardless of how tyrannical he was.
Democracy isn't always the best option.
I think this can be applied for countries like China or Russia, if Russian regime gets toppled the country will get into downward spiral, with various factions fighting for rule, many regions demanding separation and so on.
Imo if cultural wars in the US intensifies then even the advanced population of the US can't keep the country together in case somehow a foreign invasion toppled their government and ruling elites.
good for Japan they were assisted by the US, unlike the Philippines although liberated by the US (because it was under the US when the Spaniards were kicked out) were left to fend for themselves by giving them their independence in 1947.
Phil become global power after world war 2 but it got downfall because of the people it self full of corrupt politician Phil rank 2 in asia military power during 1950 and high GDP
That makes me kinda mad af
@@Bam07676 that they were given independence? Damned if you do... Damned if you don't moment imo
Because the U.S. saw a lot of potential in Japan, unlike the Philippines
Weren’t the people of the Philippines pissed off at the Americans that they wanted independence? I’ve always heard that the Philippines would always fight for their independence, so what’s the problem here? Philippines got what it wanted, but the US really said that they couldn’t be free unless they have troubles that “only the US could fix” so that the US would always have “control” over them. Is that the whole point? That’s what I’ve been “understanding” from this whole US-Philippines relationship.
I like America just before this 21st century. American now is quite like a deranged one, so many unnecessary fights like gender equality, lgbtq, gender definition, free loan, free healthcare etc. It's becoming more and more in need of help from countries like Japan, Singapore, south Korea to teach them how good administration should work.
how is gender equality an unnecessary fight LOL. also, all of those issues are becoming more and more prevalent in the countries you just mentioned, proving how ignorant you actually are about their situation
A lot of us. Americans are scared for what is happening to our country 😢
@@NovaV000 hope this tide turns around, bringing about a stable administration and policies.
Thank you! My Dad was a CPO WW2. Ron PTL USA
Back when US is trustee of humanity. But now
Yes looks like another civil war
It’s so weird watching a humble version pf japan in present days we associate japan with development and progress. How times changed huh
Lincoln said it best..."With Malice Toward None"
Narrator: 'Hello fellow Americans. Forget about what we said in our films of the 1940s. You can stop hating the Japanese now.'
It's hard to believe out troops at Okinawa and Iwo Jima were giving their own lives to kill these people. Now a few years later they're learning their customs and sitting down and eating and laughing and having a good time together. This is really good to see after all of that horror; they got us at Pearl Harbor and we got them at Hiroshima. All is fair in the world of war.
Same thing happened in Germany, for the same reason: Stopping the Communist powers. This must have been incredibly awkward for some of our servicemen though (imagine seeing your buddies or family hurt by them, to now having to work with them). The Aussies even had Japanese locals load bombs onto their warplanes in the Korean War, a newsreel from the channel British Pathe shows it.
All Is Fair in 💕 Love And War 💥
I remember breaking bread with one of our high value targets in Iraq. He had his job and I had mine.
The power of indoctrination and propaganda. It’s easy to look at the Axis powers and say, we’ll, that’s just how they are. But we’re all inherently very similar when you strip away the labels and governments. It’s a good lesson for the future
Definitely the U.S. military's occupation of post-WW II Japan turned out a lot better than many Japanese folks thought and feared it might.
But as much as U.S. aid initially kick-started Japan's economic recovery, the _real_ driving force that resulted in Japan eventually ascending to the world's second most powerful economy by the mid 1980's was the Bank of Japan's decades-long planned credit allocation scheme called "window guidance".
The following documentary, based upon a book of the same name by economist Richard Werner who was a visiting Fellow at the Bank of Japan during the 'bubble years', explains the fascinating story of how this worked--at least until the usual suspects (the IMF, the World Bank, vulture hedge funds and shockingly, the BoJ itself) kneecapped Japan's economy and those of the other regional 'Asian Tiger' economies in the 1990's:
1:32:39
Nov 4, 2014
Independent POV
Princes of the Yen: Central Bank Truth Documentary - TH-cam
"There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know." - Harry Truman
Sorry I didn't mean that as a serious comment.
I'm just kind of hooked on watching these videos. History interests me :)
LOL yes the same goes from North Korea when their dear leader died. Everyone was 'crying' on camera.
Hi Nuclear Vault and thank you for sharing this fantastic collection of reports. I am wondering if it is possible to find them collected in dvd's. Can you help me with that? I would like to share them with my students. Thank You!
Japan has a lot of Buddhist history ...which possibly is why I find them very gentle/kind/polite 😊
7:50 - Lol... "land reform", sounds pretty communist... >;-)
Yea because of the communist they made the word sound a little dark and sinister but this reform involved no killing thankfully.
Exactly 💯
It was reform, ownership was individual ,not collective or state owned as communist system.
Actually, US forces are very favorable to the communism ideology at early stage, but later it turned to very anti-communism due to the tension of Korea and China.
@@boriborimango "but later it turned to very anti-communism due to the tension of Korea and China." Not to mention watching the massive famines across the world created by idiotic "communist agriculture experts."
very informative video
Its fun to think about that... we in eastern europe do absolutly nothing to provoke war , we was oppresed by nazies and then trown to Stalin big mounths. Germany and Japan was responsible for all atrocities and then saved by USA to be prosperius and live like we never be able after 40 years of new ocupation. Fair enough our goverment send all germans away from our country after war and they live way better lifes in germany :-D
I assume this aired in 1952? That's when American troops stopped occupying Japan.
Part. Okinawa was only in 72
@@JessicaRodrigues-dp8teIsn't Okinawa over 300km from Japan's home islands
God bless Uncle Sam😁
I think what the narrator says for “welcome home” is a little… off to put it lightly, but I can’t blame him. This video wasn’t for people who intended to go there. Lol
At wars end in New Guinea The Native NG Compatriots were asked who were their greatest combatants in the NG Jungles
The Australians or The Americans , They replied Australians Army. We’re upon you without the enemy knowing
The Japanese were terrified of the Australians. However The USA were the greatest Army with all their Heavy Machinery
Aircraft & Bombs in a very short time ‘ No more Jungle’ Which caused the Japanese to withdraw from NG never to return.
Bro imagine someone having one of the cars still to this days
Beacause of Korean War, it makes Japan Rich😤
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"Okaerinasai" is welcome back in Japanese.
28:13 Yes the recruiter
I salute to America 🇵🇭
CORRECTION
Iratsusseimatsu ✕
We say I-RA-(tsu)-ssha-i-ma-se
Reading Japanese in Romaji is hard as is, so I forgive someone with no knowledge of Japanese for not getting it right either :)
Build or used Japan and it's people for your own benefits?.....big question asked by one of American analyst
I'm guessing it was several years later. I wasn't looking for clues while watching, but it sounds like Korea was done or winding down, they refer to the occupation only in the past tense, and an earlier episode of the big picture is titled "Christmas in Korea - 1953" (10 episodes earlier, to be exact (TV 244).
Odd how no air dates are listed, here or anywhere else.
Looks like we should follow our own advice in restoring Democracy to the US.
Japan also owes Restitution to Change na fir it's atrocities and merciless war crimes fir it's invasion on China in 1937.
When I was small, there was little devastation left in the cities, but wounded ex-soldiers were still a frequent sight. Our town still had its air raid shelters intact.
So, shame that my son in group home..! Even born in USA..! I been with bad Igroup..!
I love girls in Japan
Do you think this could have been the first chance for a lot of Japanese citizens to see an African American?
O que duas bombas atômicas não fazem a uma nação, saiu de um país feudal atrasado e fechado para uma das nações mais rica e moderna do mundo.
Japan was our friend and ally long before WW2 and once again after WW2. We have fought more wars against Britain than Japan. Friendship is a more natural state of affairs than being enemies. BTW Japan was a better friend to the US before WW2 than we were to them.
after Japan surrender American help japanese😊
Todays youth no longer interested about the past...
And now Anime in USA is influenced from JAPAN
America to Hirohito: I need your help, we rebuild Japan
Soviet Union to Hirohito: Execute this shit with firing squad
And then Japanese would kill a lot of Russians lol
Yeah, some of the older Japanese standing in the video sure look happy to see foreign troops on their soil....if nothing else, they are likely happy the US is there over another country...
The price they paid for bombing Pear Harbor.
70 odd years ago: "Some day the Japanese will be strong enough to defend their own country."
*70 years later:* Japan _still_ occupied by American soldiers and _still_ can't defend itself mostly due to a terribly low enlistment rate. Seems that we may have over succeeded in both winning the Pacific War as well as our efforts to turn Japan in to a peaceful country shortly thereafter.
It may be in part to the occupation. But it’s more likely due to their demographic collapse they don’t have enough young ppl to support the army they need.
@@CoolGuy100lovesgames
After The War Was Severe Restrictions on Military.
Article 9 of their constitution forbids rearmament, so every step towards that is met with resistance. The postwar Japanese blamed the defeated militaristic government for their condition. In addition, after the war, Japan was in no condition to finance a military, so devoted their resources to recovering their economy, with American blessing. The US assumed the defense of Japan from the get-go, and it has worked well for Japanese interests. This is a complex relationship.
@@CoolGuy100lovesgames That and many MANY japanese citizens are not very supportive of their army. In a poll asking how many citizens are willing to fight for their country Japan scored the lowest in the 64 countries that were polled, at only 11% willing to fight.
Contrast this with the US (44%). And honestly since the US is basically giving a ton of protection already why bother investing in an army of your own? The US gets a ton of bases close to China in the event something happens, and Japan gets a huge boost to their military with very little of their own manpower being given. It's a win-win
They have a massive navy, and a pretty large defense budget. They are not as defenseless as people assume.
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Exactly... like, er, the Soviets?
No, you can't. After occupation (getting off easy considering the atrocities the Imperial Japanese Forces committed on just about every other nation in the Pacific), Japan reverted to domestic rule and sovereignty. Just because Hong Kong is now an open-air park for formerly free people instead of a democracy doesn't mean you have to project your own insecurities on everyone else.
america should be palpatined.
Palpatine???
@@demef758 turn autocratic.
@@jarrodyuki7081 Yes, and communist removed.
Thrown down a deep hole?
stop being jealous, face the reality. maybe u r fan of conspiracy theories?
Mostly facts.
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stop being jealous, face the reality. maybe u r fan of conspiracy theories?
It’s no longer Japan; in 2020 it’s China.
Japan is still very anti-Communist and a close ally of the USA but okay bud.
Propaganda and lies
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“And how are these soldiers received by the people whose land they occupy? Not as overlords. Not as antagonists. Not as men who are distrusted and feared and presented, but as friends...”
Hahahaha, just you wait. Soon enough you’ll be treated like shit.
Are the people of Japan treated like shit today? You're ignorant and stupid
America never did anything to any other country without expecting more in return.
Yeah this footage doesn't seem choreographed at all.