Why this is more brilliant that it first seems. This scene and the entire show really, reframes the cold war to a position where virtually everyone who watches it would be a 3rd party who at least have no vested interest in either side if not completely hopes they both fail. For most western and eastern powers, it's hard to frame the cold war in a way that provides a truly removed frame of reference. For us Americans, this is like standing on the outside looking in at one of the darkest times in recent history with a completely new point of view.
@@Hadesthief The U.S and Britain were a big part of why WW2 ended up killing +50 million people so clearly the issue isn't how many people die since they were willing to sacrifice 50 million people for wallstreet and city of london.
I find the Japanese annexing the western portion of the United States way more fascinating than a Nazi America. Something really surreal about a nuclear bomb test being conducted in the Utah desert by Imperial Japan.
Too bad Amazon was too pussy to push the envelope. The idea of "the bad guys" winning and taking over is an interesting premise. They should have stuck with that
Currently, Japan can easily build nuclear weapons. It has the technology, materials, and funds to do so. However, most of the Japanese people are opposed to the idea of possessing nuclear weapons. They know how disastrous nuclear weapons would be. Japan actually debated the possession of nuclear weapons in the 1960s. It was considered safe under the Constitution. But we had to give it up because we did not have a testing site at that time.
@@user-td2jw9ze2c I don't know what your point is, Japan has nuclear power plants. Therefore, it imports uranium from abroad. Furthermore, Japan has had fast breeder reactors in the past. The whereabouts of 60 kg of plutonium-239, a very high concentration produced from there, is unknown. A hydrogen bomb does not require much plutonium. A hydrogen bomb only needs an atomic bomb for detonation.
@@rv2167 he redeemed himself by killing himself. Im talking about the BCR, who has had a presence in the show since 1960, but only is now for some reason relevent in season 4, season 4 was written very poorly, just randomly introducing characters and ideas forcefully and then abruptly ending them, it's terrible writing. The only real actual thing I liked about season 4 was the ending of Juliana and John's Saga,"The actual ending was dumb" and Kato being in the Yakuza, other than that. 4/10 Seeason 1 8/10 Season 2+3 9/10
Corban Finch - I actually preferred S4’s to S3. In S3 nothing significant really happened other then a less then thrilling trade war. S4 at least had some good ideas that they probably could have worked into something better if they’d have had more seasons.
For the ending of season 4 when that portal opened, it would have been brilliant to have seen that German scientist step forwards and ask if the person understood him (in German) only to hear ‘da’ and the sound of a pistol shot being the ending scene (no crane and rebels overrunning the portal room and no peaceful people stepping through which didn’t really make sense), setting the scene for an East vs West in the modern era.
Man in The High Castle was perfect till the ending (where John Smith takes USA). They just had to add 1 filler final episode where nazis fall, because you can't have a show where nazis won at the end.
@@UnclDeD It had all the intrigue and possibilities, seeing where that could've gone. Instead we had that abysmal follow up season. Woke writers ruin everything they touch.
Idk I mean it made sense and was following the books the whole point of the series is to follow John smith and his descent into being a full blown nazi what started as a man protecting his family turned him into the new hitler
TM: "Respectfully admiral, the Nazis are crazier then we are and will blow up the planet." A: "You underestimate the fighting spirit of the Imperial Japanese armed forces!"
@@Pantsinabucket Before the late 70s it was almost always above 5%. American spending in 1990 was 6%~ while Soviet spending was around 10%, most of the time American spending was just 5%~ lower. also considering that the Soviet Union was for almost all of it's existance more or less against the entire world, it shouldn't seem illogical to have such high spending. America also had/has loads of hidden spending anyways with arms deals to sand countries and large subsidies for military industries on top.
I would have translated the Japanese as: 諸君、これで世界は再び力の均衡保つことができる。 "Gentlemen, with this, the world can once again maintain the balance of power." Japanese is a language of ambiguity and nuance. The translation they used implies that Japan has risen up to the level of world powers, restoring balance and possibly inviting revenge. However, the phrase may more closely mean that Japan will be able to act as an effective counterweight to keep the world stable in the future.
Any location in north America would be a bad choice. This literally makes no sense. The Japanese control the entire pacific rim. They could literally pick out any number of island chains far from spies to test their bombs.
glad to hear from the comments that the series ended as weird and anticlimactically as the book. (to be fair to Phillip K Dick, he did want to write a sequel but never got around to it)
He said he was too traumatized by his research into Heydrich and the holocaust and didn't want to scar himself by learning more about it. I have to think he knew nothing about Unit 731 or what absolute savages the Japanese were to Pows or occupied territories. Otherwise I don't understand his fawning adoration of them.
This should have been a game changer in the rest of the series. The Japanese Empire got nukes. That would level the playing field between them and the reich. Also, this is also something I found to be stupid. In comparison between the reich and the pacific states… honestly, the Japanese handled occupation a million times better. I mean, the show just started a rebellion out of nowhere in the pacific states, but… why? They had some basic human rights in the beginning of the show, the economy honestly was doing pretty good as shown in the show, and the Japanese government was actually reaching out to the native population for support. Technically, they were doing everything right as far as occupations go. (Just for reference, I’m not a weeb, if the empire ever did get this far, it would be an absolute horror show that would make the Nazis look like hippies, but I’m just working within the context of this world). In contrast, the reich was literally trying to wipe American culture from existence. Like, keep in mind, this is in what, 1960 something? WWII only ended fucking 15 years before this! Yeah, you can occupy a country for that long, but you wouldn’t be able to fucking melt the liberty bell and not cause a massive insurrection. I mean, in this weird weird version of the Japanese Empire, they were literally trying to preserve American culture. As antiquities and nick-knacks, but preservation nonetheless. Also, why tf would the Japanese Empire oppress black people? If anything they’d be reaching out to black Americans to gain allies against the Germans. Hell, they literally did exactly that in our world, trying to get black Americans to rise up against the US government. Like, I don’t understand, if the Japanese Empire was meant to be portrayed as the lesser of two evils, why did they suddenly go all-out Nazi? Like, they even had the Yakuza operating in the fucking demilitarized zone. Why wouldn’t they be using that to arm insurrectionists in the American Reich? Like, one thing that seriously bothered me in this series was just the fact that the Nazis kept overpowering the Japanese by right of “Nazis have dieselpunk technology” or some shit.
You bring up a lot of interesting points but I don't think you fully grasp the technology gap that was present even before this time period. During the second world war in our world the japanse were always short on resources and knowhow. Them gaining the ability to make nukes at this point wasn't a game changer, because they didn't have a fully stocked arsenal as where the Nazis did. It would take years for them to build up a stockpile even close to the Nazis and do you think the Nazis would stand idly by waiting ? no they'd further build their stockpile. That and the likely hood that since they only had maybe a handful of functioning nuclear weapons the Nazis at this point in time were still very likely to win given the minimal damage they'd directly take. The only targets directly available for japan to nuke would of been the united states, which wouldn't really affect the European arm at all. The Furher would still be alive and the decision makers would also. Germans occupation of the US wasn't erasure there was still a lot of American culture intertwined into their schools and homes. The way the portrayed the Japanse given direct examples from the war was lenient at best. When it came to war crimes and crimes against humanity Japan was in some ways very similar to the Nazis in some cases worse. The only reason they ever helped African American people in the states or went to them to ask for them to cause disruption was because they knew of the racial tensions. They'd fully exploit them once they'd taken the states just as Europeans had done prior. Not to mention African American's weren't fools they would know they're being played, its happened to them too many times before. I doubt they'd want to side with them and if they did it would be out of desperation. Again I think the Japanse empire in the show is weirdly white washed in the sense their brutality is severely understated given historical contexts. The Yakuza would of had trouble given the fact that they're japanse so them being in the zone was already suspicious enough. Both operated in the zone unofficially. But in real life and in the series it does make sense that the Nazis would keep over powering the Japanse if they had the resources. Both sides were more or less pretty bad with resource management but with the Nazis in control of large swaths of territory they'd have much less trouble. Given the japanse weren't even running any jet planes we saw in the show they were very far behind when it came to tech. Japan always had a litany of issues when it came to biting off more than they could chew. Hence why they decided to abandon the states it just became to costly to hold it which is truthfully something that could've happened. Their real life brutal suppression of people caused a lot of unrest. The japanse military doctrine was very outdated and needed some serious change in order to go toe to toe with the Nazis. Their honour centric mentality would cost them dearly in a war with people that saw honour as more or less overrated. But thats just my opinion.
@@andrewallison7524 yeah, and since then they became pretty bitter enemies. It’s basically this worlds version of the Cold War. Just like the US and USSR were former allies, but became enemies after the war. The same happened to Japan and Germany in this world.
@@jamescollins9569 I agree with a lot of what you said, but still, they could have done a lot more in showing reasons why the Japanese were able to even maintain their empire. Like, another thing I noticed. Why is it that Japanese military technology just… didn’t progress? Like, at all? They had access to all of the natural resources of China, India, and even Australia. Like I’m sorry, but in this world they should have been wanting for nothing in terms of resources. Also, even in our real world Japanese technology really was pretty advanced. They were pioneering in biological warfare, and were even perusing technology that could have lead to a nuclear weapon (this is a fact that’s weirdly overlooked by historians, but it’s actually true). Like, if Japan achieved its military goals in WWII, it would have been an incredibly powerful superpower. This is also why they failed so hard, because their aspirations were just too ridiculously high and unachievable, but this is a world in which somehow they actually achieved those goals. All of the coal and oil from Australia, all of the rare earth metals from China, all of the rubber from the indies. Are you seriously going to tell me the Japanese Empire would be lacking in resources? I’m sorry, but the more I think about this it makes less and less sense. It’s like this worlds Japanese Empire didn’t even bother to exploit anything it actually conquered. I mean they even got fucking Alaska. ALASKA. How is the reich able to make them struggle for oil? Like I keep going back to this and it just seems dumber and dumber. I agree that Japanese war crimes were white washed in the show, but that’s yet another reason why the Japanese probably should have stood a better chance. For all intensive purposes (within this insanely dumb world) the Japanese were actually the better alternative to the Nazis. Easily. They actually treated people as well as a world conquering empire could do, and allowed them very basic freedoms. The American people were even allowed to hold fucking protests in the show. In the reich they would have been slaughtered without a second thought. Also once again, this is merely 20 years after WWII. 20 FUCKING YEARS. You can’t tell me that everybody within the American reich were completely brainwashed in just 20 years. Especially in places like Appalachia and New England, places infamous for crime, conspiracies, and gangs (particularly in the 1950’s and 60’s). I’m sorry, but if I keep going I’m going to start ranting about how the Nazis are portrayed in the show. It’s like they are on easy mode or something, I can’t fucking explain it. It’s behind dumb.
@@jamescollins9569 fuck it I’m doing it anyways. Wtf is going on with the Nazis?! First of all, it’s like they experience zero resistance anywhere. While the Japanese are still fighting in China (and presumably other parts of the world) the Germans are just… winning in France and Russia? Like, no resistance, they just control everything? I mean fuck, they somehow got ALL OF AFRICA. HOW?!?!?!?!?!? The whole fucking shebang! They seemingly aren’t fucking facing any resistance in Africa as they enslave the entire goddamn continent! Even during the days of the British and French conquering Africa, they faced Damn near yearly uprisings, some of which even succeeded in pushing them back or draining their resources. Yet somehow now, in an age of submachine guns, IFV’s, and AK-47’s (we see them in the show), there are no successful African rebellions. Or rebellions anywhere in the reich! Like, we see some very rudimentary resistance in America, but it’s barely noticeable. As if they barely exist at all. The entire reich should have been a constant war zone. Which would have been completely in character for the Nazis, since that’s exactly the kind of culture they wanted to cultivate.
Actually if you look at Japan's technology during ww2 it was extremely primitive compared to the reich, the nazi's had a semi functional reactor during ww2 the allies shut it down and shipped most of it to the states for analysis. Some of the uranium used in the trinity bomb came from a captured crate by the allies
@@smtx2117 you make a good point. I think not having a bomb 5 years after the war is believable. But 20? The Japanese would have no doubt poured tons of resources into trying to catch up to the Germans.
@@smtx2117 Not true. Nazi technology is overhyped and in terms of what mattered to them, the Japanese had just as good tech as anyone else. It certainly wasn’t extremely primitive as you imagine
It's interesting that they chose 1964, the first Chinese nuclear test happened the same year. With the massive amounts of resources available to Japan in this universe though, you'd think they'd make a nuke earlier than isolated Communist China in our timeline.
They had to gather resources and in the show they had virtually zero idea where to even begin with the atomic bomb until they got the information from a German defector
@@Chiefs_fan1595 Kinda bullshit given they were already separating U-235 during the war, only lacking raw uranium ore which would not be a problem given their new globe-spanning empire.
Even the Japanese, with their half a world spanning empire, recognize how perfect Utah is for nuclear testing. The trick is to pick somewhere whose landscape would actually be improved after said nuking.
Mutually Assured Destruction only works if both sides don't want to die. In a world where one side cares little about the human cost to achieve its own ends whereas the other side welcomes death with open arms nuclear war is inevitable
@@comically_large_cowboy_hat3385 It was terrifying in that you know the others could've made that shit. Arguably it'd be cool if it wasn't gonna end up in another's hands in the future, which today we already know it does.
I’m disappointed in so much with the show. They had the budget to do an incredible alternate history drama and they let it slip through their fingers. First season or two were really good and then it fell off with bad character decisions and desperate writing.
I suppose they went by the Chinese timeline rather than the soviet Union. Id argue the main reason the nazis didn't just outright attack the Japanese before this point is the fact it would have been more trouble than it was worth. the pacific states would have stubbornly hung on, and the Japanese had a constant (though stressed) military presence all over asia. there just wasnt enough reason to attack. Couple this with the fact the older leaders like hitler respected japan (though, apparently Italy doesn't exist anymore) and didn't want there to be ANOTHER war that he may not see to the end of.
@@Blackmage4001 in the mithc timeline, japan is comparatively also a backwater. Not as much as china in our 50s, but given the presence of supersonic jets, lunar colonies, and (according to season 3) technologically advanced vtol gunships in the reich, japan seems far behind. japan is severly lacking in military tevh given their navy looking fairly simmilar to ww2. Their soldiers are especially outdated looking, with most still carrying bolt action rifles. Their cities are usually especially run down, more so than most on the east coast.... Granted there are tons of inconsistencies and oddities in the show, like washington DC being what it was, or the suburbs in japan which appear to be reused sets from the parts set in our timeline. My point isnt that japan and china are 1:1... but that the nazis would approach the japanese empires acquisition of nuclear weapons the same way america did when china got them... and not like when russia got them. Because at this point the reich doesnt fear japan, they see them as a threat to stability more than anything else.
They managed to build something like Yamato in ww2 WI limited resources which took nearly 400 planes and also submarines to take it down ,it's the equivalent of a bear vs a horde of beer, I am pretty sure they could've developed a nuke around this time + they're one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world even with their restrictions, imagine what they can do without restrictions
Such wasted world building to have ended the series without allowing Japan and Germany to let their Cold War grow hot, I was more invested in the geopolitics of the universe than some of the individual characters, only the characters with high stature and political influence were interesting to me.
I actually wrote a fan fiction on the book, in which basically The Indians become a part of the Japanese military alliance and are deployed to the contact line
Even with the heavy watee from Norway its unlikely the germans wouldve been able to make a bomb. Investigations after the war determined that their program was disorganized and fragmented rather than unified. Basically incapable of making one with nearly the name efficiency as the Manhattan project if at all.
@@sid2112 The reason was not because of woke. They launched the Smiths and Kido forward too much in the third season and neglected Mrs. Crain, who was supposed to be the main character. And thus made her a "why-am-I-here" at the end.
I loved the first few seasons of this show. I recommended it to everyone. But the ending was very unsatisfying. I really think it had greater potential that was never fully realized. But it was a great idea for a show.
I don’t see how these alternate history scenarios are plausible if you understand the actual ambitions of Germany. It seems like it is more of a comic book reality.
Yes I too only consume content that is 100% accurate to historical events that never happened.... nah seriously, there are two kinds of "Nazis win" alt-hist - the kind like this one, where writers do their best it make it kind of realistic... and Hitler in a powersuit. Both have their entertainment value. As you know, Germany could never have won the war. So every single Nazi Future story is based on an impossible premise anyway.
Your right, it becomes a whole new scenario. Which can still be enjoyed to read and watch. However theirs potential history. Then there's removing and adding entire new factors or ambitions like you said, I personally cannot get into this particular show for that reason
@Collector Chronicles The US has to constantly justify its alliance with the Soviets and castration of Germany by grossly exaggerating the physical threat the latter posed. Nothing is too extreme; ryk #3 in Antarctica, ruling the eastern seaboard of North America, even hiding on the moon.
People STILL cannot grasp the FACTS- Germany picked the wrong enemy in CCCP They were overwhelmingly outgunned and outnumbered with CCCP ALONE against them, NEVERMIND the Allied Powers. WW2 was NEVER in doubt after DUMMKOPF Adolf attacked his Commie Rival Joe.
In hoi4 I attacked the USA as Japan and is responsible for their capitulation. However, the Nazis get most of my pacific acquisitions and most parts of the USA simply because they got a higher war score due to getting more of their men killed.
Hmm, the way to count the numbers is a bit off. At least as I know the Imperial Japanese navy and also JSDF does not use "zero"=0, "ichi"=1, " ni"=2. Rather they used "maru"=0, "hito"=1, "huta"=2...etc.
All the people who cite the Germans wonder weapons and their supposed superiority have less grasp on the practicalities of war than the Germans did..Take the V2 for instance...For all its advanced design it could only deliver something like 2000lb warhead...Very destructive, but consider the deHavilland Mosquito carried twice that with a range in excess of 1000 miles. The money and resource the Nazi's pumped into the development of V1 and V2 would have been better spent on their U-boats. In another example, the spent huge amounts developing the Mouse super heavy tank which had it been produced would have been totally impractical because of its size and weight...Another example were the massive Gustav railway guns..While the smaller railway guns that used standard railways were reasonably practical the Gustav had to be transported in pieces and then have two custom railway tracks built for it to fire..It did nothing a heavy bomber could not do far easier, for less cost and in a more practical manner..Talking of heavy bombers, that's something the Germans failed to field unlike the Allies. As destructive as the German bombing of London was, it was not a patch on the Allied thousand bomber raids were..Post 1943 the Germans were losing the war, but were trying to develop too many weapon systems that just weren't practical in the short time they had left... M
I'm pretty sure a heavy bomber can't hit an underground ammunition bunker that's below meters of water, ground, and concrete... at least not with WWII tech outside of the atomic bombs.
Honestly this is quite like an actual thing to happen if the axis did win which would start an axis version of a cold war and the possible initial theatre would be the US mainland where tension is surely high
@@uncfcosmonavy8822 They control almost half the Earth in this story. And otl during WWII Imperial Japan was estimated to of been 2-3 years away from being able to field test their own nuclear weapon.
They may have lacked the pre-war nuclear physicist that the Germans, British, and Americans had either due to other scientific priorities or the lack of available uranium ore in Japan's pre-war territories restraining research. Essentially Japan had to build a program from scratch. Perhaps the Nazis were much better at securing their nuclear secrets than the US was, so unlike the Soviets in our world, they didn't have access to pretty much all the details, so they could shave a decade or more off development time.
That is no way Japanese take such long time to accomplish nuclear weapon almost 20 year after they won WW II. Considering Japan have several best nuclear scientists in 1930s.
The basic fallacy about this series is that it's based on a false premise: that the Nazis and Japanese desired and had the means to conquer the world. The Nazis did not think in Geo-political terms but Eurocentrically. Hitler thought in World War One terms, seeing the conquest of France and Russia as his ultimate war aims. The Nazis had no workable plan for even invading England and put no real energy into it. Nor did they have a navy capable of crossing the Atlantic against an America with three times their industrial plant. Hitler feared America. Similarly the Japanese limited their war aims to co-opting southeast Asia and China into their Greater Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere. They had no wish to go after America and could not support a cross-Pacific invasion of America with their minuscule industrial plant, barely 10% of America's. World conquest by the Nazis and Japan was simply not possible given the political-economy of their nations. But it's a nice and entertaining fantasy, which is what Hollywood is all about.
I never understood why the trade minister was so involved in military matters. Or why his office was not in Tokyo. Couldnt they have just made him the Governor of the pacific states or something ?
@@schneitzbutcher because they want the Nazis to know that they have nukes? That's the only thing stopping WW3 from happening? At least, that's how I understood the Lore, I have only watched season 1 and 2.
@@schneitzbutcher I mean, according to the lore it's been noted that China was in the middle of a rebellion which Japan was losing in so that's likely a major part of it. most pbly wouldn't want to send their top scientists and officials to observe a test in the middle of a warzone.
This made completely no sense, why test the nuke so close to the borders of the American Reich ? When they can easily test it in the Mongolian or Gobi desert
I've met Rufus swell aka Oppenheimer! Whata gentlemen! Dude is so quiet I barely recognized him at the grocery store. By far my favorite show ever made. ❤️
the research is a very tedious process, so is producing uranium-238 (I believe) as you need complex nuclear reactors and centrifiges. But research costs much much more than production as nuclear bomb is basically two pieces of plutonium in a metal shell separated by detonator. The problem is too calculate everything.
@@lewiswood1693 yeah but that doesn’t mean that Japan is bankrupt. An analogy would be modern day Japan vs The US. The US has a lot more land and resources for sure, but that doesn’t mean that the relatively tiny nation of Japan is poor at all.
@@abunchofiguanaswithinterne2186 Yes, but Japan by itself is a country with very limited resources. If Japan were to be cut off from all trade right now, we would probably see Japan turn into a North Korea/Venezuela/Cuba.
He's saying if they had to have an arms race with Germany then they would go bankrupt. If they were forced to rapidly expand their navy, and army and keep pace with technological developments they would ruin their economy. Like what happened IRL before the naval treaties. USA UK and japan were in a naval arms race, which was stopped by the naval treaties. the USA and UK could have kept going building bigger ships and more of them, however Japan was nearly tapped on what they could build.
@@michealkasey2292 No what I'm saying is Imperial Japan in this scenario should not be bankrupt despite having less land than Germany because they still have the whole other half of the world
Yup, this Japan otl revolutionized computers and consumer electronics at that point in time. To think they wouldn't have nuclear weapons by the 60's is ridiculous.
Imperial Japan was developing an underwater aircraft and made the Yamato ship with limited resources, I believe Japan and Germany could've even built the shield heli carrier from the Avengers in like the 80s or 90s, they were extremely advanced for that time, but wasted their talents for evil.
@@Blackmage4001 What did they revolutionize according to you? May I ask you if they invented said computers or the technology neccessary to even develop nuclear weapons? In a fantasy land, I suppose anything can happen though.
Building nukes is not the hard part. They actually got a few physics students in the late 40s to come up with a workable design and compared it to their classified models. They wanted to see how difficult would it really be to design one. The design was 'workable' and provided a good basis for a test. Getting the fissionable material is the true hard part. The biggest myth of the nuke world is the actual assembly part. No that one is doable.
and build a plane capable of overcoming anti-aircraft fire. Operation Tidal Wave demonstrated that the anti-aircraft system, if functioning, could do enormous damage. fortunately the Germans were all in Russia and the Japanese had not developed adequate weapons. however, without planes capable of flying at high altitude, the Americans would not have been able to drop the atomic bomb.
0:12 I really love the detail of those 2 soldier closing the windows and lock them... but doing so just 11 seconds before the explosion is kind of weird... Lets say they wanted to be sure no officers would be incomodated by the heat until the very last second lol
Can't you upload all the series? It seems to be it' THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE based on the novel by P. Dick. The same ... Blade Runner... H. Ford and S. Young. Forgive for the short. YT. Greetings from Poland.
The art concept & the cinematography of this show is pretty good. The script isn't, there's a lack of consistency in the storytelling and the universe setting. There's brief moment where everything makes sense but more often than not the later story totally broke the setting before. Best guess is that they threw too many ideas into this show and kept having different writers continuing the story. Good start, meh ending...
if the show was about a cold war between Japan and Germany, it would have been better and more interesting, i stopped after episode 2, they make too much concern about a film.
I understand that I am only a movie. I understand that conversation alone will not bring peace, even with our neighbors. And I understand that the balance of the world is maintained by military power. But what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was too tragic. Who on earth would want to see your neighbor burned or even melted by the heat of an atomic bomb? One day, human will reach the end of their life span and die. However, everyone would want dignity to exist there. The Japanese people do not want to see weapons that kill without regard to all that.
Why this is more brilliant that it first seems. This scene and the entire show really, reframes the cold war to a position where virtually everyone who watches it would be a 3rd party who at least have no vested interest in either side if not completely hopes they both fail. For most western and eastern powers, it's hard to frame the cold war in a way that provides a truly removed frame of reference. For us Americans, this is like standing on the outside looking in at one of the darkest times in recent history with a completely new point of view.
a super better new point of view, without any doubt, cos this real world is just shit with yankeeland at the head, or i must to say jewland?.....
@@lucasgrey9794 ah yes, what a great tragedy that tens of millions didn't die in nuclear annihilation.
@@Hadesthief The U.S and Britain were a big part of why WW2 ended up killing +50 million people so clearly the issue isn't how many people die since they were willing to sacrifice 50 million people for wallstreet and city of london.
@@lucasgrey9794 I'd love to hear the ridiculous logic behind that
@@Hadesthief It's called "intrigue" my friend. And it never makes into the history books for some reason.
"Could you imagine dropping one of those on a medium sized city?"
"Like Hiroshima or something? General, you have an overactive imagination."
Somewhere in another universe :
@@Miko-le3wp specifically ours
General in my universe it wasn't only Hiroshima
@@elitemation except in our universe it wasn't only Hiroshima
@@Jurk844 It's because you didn't get the joke.
I find the Japanese annexing the western portion of the United States way more fascinating than a Nazi America. Something really surreal about a nuclear bomb test being conducted in the Utah desert by Imperial Japan.
U r mentally sick. There was in fact no reason to have anything against the Germans, for the simple reason that HALF of all "Americans" WERE German.
And one more thing: EVERYTHING the Jaoanese had they had FROM the Germans.
@@marcelbork92 ? what
Its really scary to think about, lol. One massive "what if."
@@bruvreallymate4365 basically the Germans trained the Japanese long before ww2
Empire of the Rising sun obtained the power of the Sun
In the is one!
In Ours they got to see their "rising sun" up real close and personal twice.... what you get for attacking 3 boats
The power of the sun on the palm of my hands
well, not quite - they didn't obtain thermonuclear fusion, they made a fission bomb
no the power of the sun is too strong for you, u achieved power of dying moon for island man
@@pauloravena1298 Homunculus?
The First 2 seasons of this show were pure gold
Too bad Amazon was too pussy to push the envelope. The idea of "the bad guys" winning and taking over is an interesting premise. They should have stuck with that
What show is this?
@@justindunlap1235 man in the high castle
@@stephaneg4065 thanks
Do you know if this timeline’s Emperor Hirohito ever appears like Old Age Hitler does?
Aww man, Joshua Graham is gonna be so pissed when he hears about this.
He’s going to be a very burned man after that blast
I have been baptized twice, once in water and once in fire....
The Burned Man Lives
Funny and nostalgia 😁 you made my day.
Thank goodness the Japanese didn't get it or we all be speaking Japanese right now and calling each other sensei
Are they crazy? This never ends well. Don't they realize that they'll awaken Godzilla?
Gamera can beat Godzilla.
Godzilla ain't sleeping in no desert fam
@@Ordoabchao-x9k you don’t know that. There are plenty of lizards in those regions of the States
@@tucker1012 and they would moving forward, crossing neutral zone border and ruin Nazi American cities
American Godzilla
*puts bomb test as far away as possible from the Home Islands*
Así no dañan las islas principales
Currently, Japan can easily build nuclear weapons. It has the technology, materials, and funds to do so.
However, most of the Japanese people are opposed to the idea of possessing nuclear weapons. They know how disastrous nuclear weapons would be. Japan actually debated the possession of nuclear weapons in the 1960s. It was considered safe under the Constitution. But we had to give it up because we did not have a testing site at that time.
And Japan doesn't want to make America daddy unhappy😂
@@evernam993m8
I guess so
Is their plutonium a natural resource or what?
@@user-td2jw9ze2c I don't know what your point is,
Japan has nuclear power plants. Therefore, it imports uranium from abroad. Furthermore, Japan has had fast breeder reactors in the past. The whereabouts of 60 kg of plutonium-239, a very high concentration produced from there, is unknown. A hydrogen bomb does not require much plutonium. A hydrogen bomb only needs an atomic bomb for detonation.
@@user-tr9yq6yn5e I heard they have enough plutonium to build 5000 + nukes, is all the plutonium they have a natural resource or outside?
Imagine if season 4 never happened.
This show gives me hope that in another universe happened which that is the case
@@rv2167 he redeemed himself by killing himself.
Im talking about the BCR, who has had a presence in the show since 1960, but only is now for some reason relevent in season 4, season 4 was written very poorly, just randomly introducing characters and ideas forcefully and then abruptly ending them, it's terrible writing. The only real actual thing I liked about season 4 was the ending of Juliana and John's Saga,"The actual ending was dumb" and Kato being in the Yakuza, other than that. 4/10
Seeason 1 8/10
Season 2+3 9/10
Corban Finch - I actually preferred S4’s to S3. In S3 nothing significant really happened other then a less then thrilling trade war. S4 at least had some good ideas that they probably could have worked into something better if they’d have had more seasons.
@@rv2167 Pure cope.
For the ending of season 4 when that portal opened, it would have been brilliant to have seen that German scientist step forwards and ask if the person understood him (in German) only to hear ‘da’ and the sound of a pistol shot being the ending scene (no crane and rebels overrunning the portal room and no peaceful people stepping through which didn’t really make sense), setting the scene for an East vs West in the modern era.
@@rv2167 and you liking it doesn't mean it was good writing, what's your point?
God, I wish this series would have stayed good. Trade Minister and John Smith were absolutely stellar in my opinion.
Man in The High Castle was perfect till the ending (where John Smith takes USA). They just had to add 1 filler final episode where nazis fall, because you can't have a show where nazis won at the end.
@@UnclDeD It had all the intrigue and possibilities, seeing where that could've gone. Instead we had that abysmal follow up season. Woke writers ruin everything they touch.
What a show , yes indeed I’m glad we all agree that last season f it up.
I feel like the last season was 70% spectacular, 30% trash
@@gunner2225 nah it was all f up
@@gunner2225 It's the other way around. 30% "not bad" 70% trash
Idk I mean it made sense and was following the books the whole point of the series is to follow John smith and his descent into being a full blown nazi what started as a man protecting his family turned him into the new hitler
Well it's just like the book then lmao.
提督の台詞がスッと入って来てとても心地良い。
The last season was complete shit but the first ones were awesomeness.
@@user-pn3im5sm7k wtf does judeo marxist mean
@@fintancoyle9696 Nazi nonsense
@@fintancoyle9696 means jewish
The whole series was shit and an insult to the men and women who fought and died to make sure this kind of a future never happened
Fuck the BCR!!!!!
TM: "Respectfully admiral, the Nazis are crazier then we are and will blow up the planet."
A: "You underestimate the fighting spirit of the Imperial Japanese armed forces!"
Lmao what? Thats such a lie. Search up John Rabe and learn your history...
What? The average imperial japanese soldier were at least 10 times crazier than the craziest/cruelest nazis in real life
@@ultimaxed8239 EXACTLY
@@crusader8063 Respectfully they are both batshit insane.
They both did war crimes and they both lost.
What anyone expect when their ancestors are samurai and ninjas.... and yet the Germans have knights as ancestors.
the soviets probably said the same thing when they completed their bomb
well not really they were able to keep up with America for years the 80s were the time things went south
@@Akeno0002
No he was talking about the time when they made their own atomic bomb, but I don't disagree with you
@@Akeno0002 Soviet military spending was consistently >20% of GDP, while America’s rarely broke 5%.
@@Pantsinabucket
Before the late 70s it was almost always above 5%. American spending in 1990 was 6%~ while Soviet spending was around 10%, most of the time American spending was just 5%~ lower. also considering that the Soviet Union was for almost all of it's existance more or less against the entire world, it shouldn't seem illogical to have such high spending. America also had/has loads of hidden spending anyways with arms deals to sand countries and large subsidies for military industries on top.
And they did go bankrupt.
I would have translated the Japanese as:
諸君、これで世界は再び力の均衡保つことができる。
"Gentlemen, with this, the world can once again maintain the balance of power."
Japanese is a language of ambiguity and nuance. The translation they used implies that Japan has risen up to the level of world powers, restoring balance and possibly inviting revenge. However, the phrase may more closely mean that Japan will be able to act as an effective counterweight to keep the world stable in the future.
thank you !!
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@@jupiterio8105"🤓"🤓
Weeb
@@SpartanChief2277 I'm Japanese-American, second generation. No weebage here
Such a poor choice in location...New Mexico or Nevada were well within their sphere of influence
What location was this?
Monument valley
Fuck Utah in particular probably
Any location in north America would be a bad choice. This literally makes no sense. The Japanese control the entire pacific rim. They could literally pick out any number of island chains far from spies to test their bombs.
Why is it a poor choice? Significantly sturdy natural structures to test a weapon on seems perfectly reasonable to me.
glad to hear from the comments that the series ended as weird and anticlimactically as the book. (to be fair to Phillip K Dick, he did want to write a sequel but never got around to it)
He said he was too traumatized by his research into Heydrich and the holocaust and didn't want to scar himself by learning more about it.
I have to think he knew nothing about Unit 731 or what absolute savages the Japanese were to Pows or occupied territories. Otherwise I don't understand his fawning adoration of them.
@@Puritan1985 He didn't indeed
Dick probably felt guilty because of the atomic bombs being dropped and pissed at the Cold War happening around him.
Time traveller : *move the chair*
The time line:
This should have been a game changer in the rest of the series. The Japanese Empire got nukes. That would level the playing field between them and the reich.
Also, this is also something I found to be stupid. In comparison between the reich and the pacific states… honestly, the Japanese handled occupation a million times better. I mean, the show just started a rebellion out of nowhere in the pacific states, but… why?
They had some basic human rights in the beginning of the show, the economy honestly was doing pretty good as shown in the show, and the Japanese government was actually reaching out to the native population for support. Technically, they were doing everything right as far as occupations go.
(Just for reference, I’m not a weeb, if the empire ever did get this far, it would be an absolute horror show that would make the Nazis look like hippies, but I’m just working within the context of this world).
In contrast, the reich was literally trying to wipe American culture from existence. Like, keep in mind, this is in what, 1960 something? WWII only ended fucking 15 years before this!
Yeah, you can occupy a country for that long, but you wouldn’t be able to fucking melt the liberty bell and not cause a massive insurrection.
I mean, in this weird weird version of the Japanese Empire, they were literally trying to preserve American culture. As antiquities and nick-knacks, but preservation nonetheless.
Also, why tf would the Japanese Empire oppress black people? If anything they’d be reaching out to black Americans to gain allies against the Germans. Hell, they literally did exactly that in our world, trying to get black Americans to rise up against the US government.
Like, I don’t understand, if the Japanese Empire was meant to be portrayed as the lesser of two evils, why did they suddenly go all-out Nazi?
Like, they even had the Yakuza operating in the fucking demilitarized zone. Why wouldn’t they be using that to arm insurrectionists in the American Reich?
Like, one thing that seriously bothered me in this series was just the fact that the Nazis kept overpowering the Japanese by right of “Nazis have dieselpunk technology” or some shit.
You bring up a lot of interesting points but I don't think you fully grasp the technology gap that was present even before this time period. During the second world war in our world the japanse were always short on resources and knowhow.
Them gaining the ability to make nukes at this point wasn't a game changer, because they didn't have a fully stocked arsenal as where the Nazis did. It would take years for them to build up a stockpile even close to the Nazis and do you think the Nazis would stand idly by waiting ? no they'd further build their stockpile.
That and the likely hood that since they only had maybe a handful of functioning nuclear weapons the Nazis at this point in time were still very likely to win given the minimal damage they'd directly take. The only targets directly available for japan to nuke would of been the united states, which wouldn't really affect the European arm at all. The Furher would still be alive and the decision makers would also.
Germans occupation of the US wasn't erasure there was still a lot of American culture intertwined into their schools and homes. The way the portrayed the Japanse given direct examples from the war was lenient at best. When it came to war crimes and crimes against humanity Japan was in some ways very similar to the Nazis in some cases worse.
The only reason they ever helped African American people in the states or went to them to ask for them to cause disruption was because they knew of the racial tensions. They'd fully exploit them once they'd taken the states just as Europeans had done prior. Not to mention African American's weren't fools they would know they're being played, its happened to them too many times before. I doubt they'd want to side with them and if they did it would be out of desperation.
Again I think the Japanse empire in the show is weirdly white washed in the sense their brutality is severely understated given historical contexts.
The Yakuza would of had trouble given the fact that they're japanse so them being in the zone was already suspicious enough. Both operated in the zone unofficially.
But in real life and in the series it does make sense that the Nazis would keep over powering the Japanse if they had the resources. Both sides were more or less pretty bad with resource management but with the Nazis in control of large swaths of territory they'd have much less trouble. Given the japanse weren't even running any jet planes we saw in the show they were very far behind when it came to tech. Japan always had a litany of issues when it came to biting off more than they could chew. Hence why they decided to abandon the states it just became to costly to hold it which is truthfully something that could've happened. Their real life brutal suppression of people caused a lot of unrest.
The japanse military doctrine was very outdated and needed some serious change in order to go toe to toe with the Nazis. Their honour centric mentality would cost them dearly in a war with people that saw honour as more or less overrated.
But thats just my opinion.
Um but Japan was allies with the Germans in WW2.. and this is a 1964.. near on 20 years after the war
@@andrewallison7524 yeah, and since then they became pretty bitter enemies.
It’s basically this worlds version of the Cold War. Just like the US and USSR were former allies, but became enemies after the war. The same happened to Japan and Germany in this world.
@@jamescollins9569 I agree with a lot of what you said, but still, they could have done a lot more in showing reasons why the Japanese were able to even maintain their empire.
Like, another thing I noticed. Why is it that Japanese military technology just… didn’t progress? Like, at all? They had access to all of the natural resources of China, India, and even Australia.
Like I’m sorry, but in this world they should have been wanting for nothing in terms of resources.
Also, even in our real world Japanese technology really was pretty advanced. They were pioneering in biological warfare, and were even perusing technology that could have lead to a nuclear weapon (this is a fact that’s weirdly overlooked by historians, but it’s actually true).
Like, if Japan achieved its military goals in WWII, it would have been an incredibly powerful superpower.
This is also why they failed so hard, because their aspirations were just too ridiculously high and unachievable, but this is a world in which somehow they actually achieved those goals.
All of the coal and oil from Australia, all of the rare earth metals from China, all of the rubber from the indies. Are you seriously going to tell me the Japanese Empire would be lacking in resources?
I’m sorry, but the more I think about this it makes less and less sense.
It’s like this worlds Japanese Empire didn’t even bother to exploit anything it actually conquered. I mean they even got fucking Alaska. ALASKA. How is the reich able to make them struggle for oil?
Like I keep going back to this and it just seems dumber and dumber.
I agree that Japanese war crimes were white washed in the show, but that’s yet another reason why the Japanese probably should have stood a better chance.
For all intensive purposes (within this insanely dumb world) the Japanese were actually the better alternative to the Nazis. Easily. They actually treated people as well as a world conquering empire could do, and allowed them very basic freedoms. The American people were even allowed to hold fucking protests in the show. In the reich they would have been slaughtered without a second thought.
Also once again, this is merely 20 years after WWII. 20 FUCKING YEARS. You can’t tell me that everybody within the American reich were completely brainwashed in just 20 years. Especially in places like Appalachia and New England, places infamous for crime, conspiracies, and gangs (particularly in the 1950’s and 60’s).
I’m sorry, but if I keep going I’m going to start ranting about how the Nazis are portrayed in the show. It’s like they are on easy mode or something, I can’t fucking explain it. It’s behind dumb.
@@jamescollins9569 fuck it I’m doing it anyways. Wtf is going on with the Nazis?!
First of all, it’s like they experience zero resistance anywhere. While the Japanese are still fighting in China (and presumably other parts of the world) the Germans are just… winning in France and Russia? Like, no resistance, they just control everything?
I mean fuck, they somehow got ALL OF AFRICA. HOW?!?!?!?!?!?
The whole fucking shebang! They seemingly aren’t fucking facing any resistance in Africa as they enslave the entire goddamn continent!
Even during the days of the British and French conquering Africa, they faced Damn near yearly uprisings, some of which even succeeded in pushing them back or draining their resources.
Yet somehow now, in an age of submachine guns, IFV’s, and AK-47’s (we see them in the show), there are no successful African rebellions. Or rebellions anywhere in the reich! Like, we see some very rudimentary resistance in America, but it’s barely noticeable. As if they barely exist at all.
The entire reich should have been a constant war zone. Which would have been completely in character for the Nazis, since that’s exactly the kind of culture they wanted to cultivate.
It's really hard to believe that the Japanese still would have been without a bomb 20 years after the war.
Actually if you look at Japan's technology during ww2 it was extremely primitive compared to the reich, the nazi's had a semi functional reactor during ww2 the allies shut it down and shipped most of it to the states for analysis. Some of the uranium used in the trinity bomb came from a captured crate by the allies
@@smtx2117 you make a good point. I think not having a bomb 5 years after the war is believable. But 20? The Japanese would have no doubt poured tons of resources into trying to catch up to the Germans.
@@smtx2117 "semi funcional" is a good way of saying an assortment of uranium cubes that was able to do fuckall.
@@smtx2117 Not true. Nazi technology is overhyped and in terms of what mattered to them, the Japanese had just as good tech as anyone else. It certainly wasn’t extremely primitive as you imagine
@@smtx2117 Before 1943 they had extremely modern naval and air technology, but after that they just couldn’t keep up with the United States
It's interesting that they chose 1964, the first Chinese nuclear test happened the same year. With the massive amounts of resources available to Japan in this universe though, you'd think they'd make a nuke earlier than isolated Communist China in our timeline.
Communist China was probably helped, though, whereas nobody would help Imperial Japan
Yep... and Germans had 20 years to produce nukes...
They had to gather resources and in the show they had virtually zero idea where to even begin with the atomic bomb until they got the information from a German defector
@@Chiefs_fan1595 Kinda bullshit given they were already separating U-235 during the war, only lacking raw uranium ore which would not be a problem given their new globe-spanning empire.
Even the Japanese, with their half a world spanning empire, recognize how perfect Utah is for nuclear testing.
The trick is to pick somewhere whose landscape would actually be improved after said nuking.
"The man in the High Castle" 😍🔥
One of the best👌🏾 series I watched😍
This is a show that suffered the game of thrones fate
My dad along with his mentor Robert Oppenheimer could have been in an "Operation Paperclip" to a Japanese controlled Siberia.
Mutually Assured Destruction only works if both sides don't want to die. In a world where one side cares little about the human cost to achieve its own ends whereas the other side welcomes death with open arms nuclear war is inevitable
It must have been so cool to witness a nuclear bomb test.
Long term thyroid cancer from radiation poisoning aside...
@@darania1
I would wear the cool sunglasses to protect me from that shit.
according to a lot of people who’ve seen it it’s one of the most horrifying things you can experience….but each to their own i guess
@@comically_large_cowboy_hat3385 It was terrifying in that you know the others could've made that shit. Arguably it'd be cool if it wasn't gonna end up in another's hands in the future, which today we already know it does.
Not if it in your backyard
Kido and Tagomi are my most favorite characters in the series. I'm disappointed that they killed off Tagomi in the later seasons
I’m disappointed in so much with the show. They had the budget to do an incredible alternate history drama and they let it slip through their fingers. First season or two were really good and then it fell off with bad character decisions and desperate writing.
The fact Japan didn't already have nuclear weapons by this point is outright impossible and it was a stupid plot point.
I suppose they went by the Chinese timeline rather than the soviet Union. Id argue the main reason the nazis didn't just outright attack the Japanese before this point is the fact it would have been more trouble than it was worth. the pacific states would have stubbornly hung on, and the Japanese had a constant (though stressed) military presence all over asia. there just wasnt enough reason to attack. Couple this with the fact the older leaders like hitler respected japan (though, apparently Italy doesn't exist anymore) and didn't want there to be ANOTHER war that he may not see to the end of.
@@Robb1977 China was a backwater in the 50s and 60s, while Japan is a developed superpower in this timeline so it doesn't make sense.
@@Blackmage4001 in the mithc timeline, japan is comparatively also a backwater. Not as much as china in our 50s, but given the presence of supersonic jets, lunar colonies, and (according to season 3) technologically advanced vtol gunships in the reich, japan seems far behind. japan is severly lacking in military tevh given their navy looking fairly simmilar to ww2. Their soldiers are especially outdated looking, with most still carrying bolt action rifles. Their cities are usually especially run down, more so than most on the east coast....
Granted there are tons of inconsistencies and oddities in the show, like washington DC being what it was, or the suburbs in japan which appear to be reused sets from the parts set in our timeline.
My point isnt that japan and china are 1:1... but that the nazis would approach the japanese empires acquisition of nuclear weapons the same way america did when china got them... and not like when russia got them. Because at this point the reich doesnt fear japan, they see them as a threat to stability more than anything else.
They managed to build something like Yamato in ww2 WI limited resources which took nearly 400 planes and also submarines to take it down ,it's the equivalent of a bear vs a horde of beer, I am pretty sure they could've developed a nuke around this time + they're one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world even with their restrictions, imagine what they can do without restrictions
@@grandcanyon-fu9zt They only became technologically advanced in the 70's.
Imagine being the trade minister. Im gonna be hallucinating of a better world if I was under that much pressure
Such wasted world building to have ended the series without allowing Japan and Germany to let their Cold War grow hot, I was more invested in the geopolitics of the universe than some of the individual characters, only the characters with high stature and political influence were interesting to me.
I want a spin off series called Tales from the High Castle
Well, there is "For All Mankind" from Ron D. Moore, an alt reality show where the Soviet Union is first to the Moon.
I actually wrote a fan fiction on the book, in which basically The Indians become a part of the Japanese military alliance and are deployed to the contact line
I would be very interested to read that
God bless Norway for keeping nukes out of Germany’s grasp
Blessed pfp
Germany wanted power, if they went down the rabbit hole of nuclear energy they would be free
Even with the heavy watee from Norway its unlikely the germans wouldve been able to make a bomb. Investigations after the war determined that their program was disorganized and fragmented rather than unified. Basically incapable of making one with nearly the name efficiency as the Manhattan project if at all.
@@huntermurphy2148 well even if that is the case any help damaging their efforts is still appreciated
@@cowerdnerddespacito9518 Oh for sure, Its just a personal issue i have with giving the germans too much credit.
1:30 No i don't think so. Once you get Soichiro Honda and Kiichiro Toyoda to ramp up production, I think you'll find it quite economical
For some reason writers, often screw up the last season.
Season 4 was a woke checklist walkthrough.
@@sid2112 The reason was not because of woke. They launched the Smiths and Kido forward too much in the third season and neglected Mrs. Crain, who was supposed to be the main character. And thus made her a "why-am-I-here" at the end.
I loved the first few seasons of this show. I recommended it to everyone. But the ending was very unsatisfying. I really think it had greater potential that was never fully realized. But it was a great idea for a show.
I don’t see how these alternate history scenarios are plausible if you understand the actual ambitions of Germany. It seems like it is more of a comic book reality.
It's a Dick thing
Yes I too only consume content that is 100% accurate to historical events that never happened.... nah seriously, there are two kinds of "Nazis win" alt-hist - the kind like this one, where writers do their best it make it kind of realistic... and Hitler in a powersuit. Both have their entertainment value.
As you know, Germany could never have won the war. So every single Nazi Future story is based on an impossible premise anyway.
Your right, it becomes a whole new scenario. Which can still be enjoyed to read and watch. However theirs potential history. Then there's removing and adding entire new factors or ambitions like you said, I personally cannot get into this particular show for that reason
@Collector Chronicles The US has to constantly justify its alliance with the Soviets and castration of Germany by grossly exaggerating the physical threat the latter posed. Nothing is too extreme; ryk #3 in Antarctica, ruling the eastern seaboard of North America, even hiding on the moon.
People STILL cannot grasp the FACTS- Germany picked the wrong enemy in CCCP They were overwhelmingly outgunned and outnumbered with CCCP ALONE against them, NEVERMIND the Allied Powers. WW2 was NEVER in doubt after DUMMKOPF Adolf attacked his Commie Rival Joe.
Hoiでもアメリカとかに攻め込んだら補給が破綻するし>
Hoiのアメリカ海軍、強すぎ・・・。
In hoi4 I attacked the USA as Japan and is responsible for their capitulation. However, the Nazis get most of my pacific acquisitions and most parts of the USA simply because they got a higher war score due to getting more of their men killed.
@@znhyk 多くの海軍爆撃機を構築する
@@Arkon_Prime でも超重戦艦YAMATO、たまらない
@@Arkon_Prime 男が空母？ありえないんだろ
a series on an alternate universe, such as Kaiserreich,would be cool
Or The New Order mod, but that would be highly controversial.
Was a great series up until the last season!
Last season was great.
@@speculawyerit was garbage
Hmm, the way to count the numbers is a bit off. At least as I know the Imperial Japanese navy and also JSDF does not use "zero"=0, "ichi"=1, " ni"=2. Rather they used "maru"=0, "hito"=1, "huta"=2...etc.
All the people who cite the Germans wonder weapons and their supposed superiority have less grasp on the practicalities of war than the Germans did..Take the V2 for instance...For all its advanced design it could only deliver something like 2000lb warhead...Very destructive, but consider the deHavilland Mosquito carried twice that with a range in excess of 1000 miles. The money and resource the Nazi's pumped into the development of V1 and V2 would have been better spent on their U-boats. In another example, the spent huge amounts developing the Mouse super heavy tank which had it been produced would have been totally impractical because of its size and weight...Another example were the massive Gustav railway guns..While the smaller railway guns that used standard railways were reasonably practical the Gustav had to be transported in pieces and then have two custom railway tracks built for it to fire..It did nothing a heavy bomber could not do far easier, for less cost and in a more practical manner..Talking of heavy bombers, that's something the Germans failed to field unlike the Allies. As destructive as the German bombing of London was, it was not a patch on the Allied thousand bomber raids were..Post 1943 the Germans were losing the war, but were trying to develop too many weapon systems that just weren't practical in the short time they had left...
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Hey that program got USA to the moon.
I'm pretty sure a heavy bomber can't hit an underground ammunition bunker that's below meters of water, ground, and concrete... at least not with WWII tech outside of the atomic bombs.
@@Gustav_Kuriga Actually you'd be wrong. Search up bunker busters homie. Hell search up about the tall boy or the grand slam.
Ok but what if we put 8 of the Gustav guns on a ship
And then
we use that ship
to sink the enemy ships
@@TheT-90thatstaresintoyoursoul Itll just fucking sink.
Honestly this is quite like an actual thing to happen if the axis did win which would start an axis version of a cold war and the possible initial theatre would be the US mainland where tension is surely high
Japan would have had their atomic bonb way before 1960s and even before the Soviets did irl
I love this cinematic feeling of that footage.
I can’t understand how the Empire could not develop nukes in 15 years after the war.
Priorities elsewhere? Limited access to the required ores?
Remember japan was poor in resources
@@uncfcosmonavy8822 conquer half the world. Mostly makes up for that.
@@uncfcosmonavy8822 They control almost half the Earth in this story. And otl during WWII Imperial Japan was estimated to of been 2-3 years away from being able to field test their own nuclear weapon.
They may have lacked the pre-war nuclear physicist that the Germans, British, and Americans had either due to other scientific priorities or the lack of available uranium ore in Japan's pre-war territories restraining research. Essentially Japan had to build a program from scratch. Perhaps the Nazis were much better at securing their nuclear secrets than the US was, so unlike the Soviets in our world, they didn't have access to pretty much all the details, so they could shave a decade or more off development time.
When evil gets what it wants, it's greed drives it to self-destruction
American: “Well it’s fine I suppose. I still have my anime and manga.”
Imperial Japanese: “Your what?”
American: 😳
America is get slaved by the anime maker in this timeline
If you have not watched this series, your missing a great tv series.
Damn why are they wearing apple vision?
Each of these guys in the bunker are about to receive enough radiation to make Chernobyl look like a mild sun burn.
Army and navy together? I'd rather be outside... IJN and IJA don't mix
Perhaps in this reality they were more cooperative, and that was one reason they won.
@@Hunpecked good point
You missed IJAF
Yeah, The two had separate nuclear programs, and separate programs for separate bomber that might deliver them, in real life.
@@Hunpecked In season 4, the IJA takes over and blames the IJN for Tagomi's off-screen death. So I'm not sure they were more cooperative.
That is no way Japanese take such long time to accomplish nuclear weapon almost 20 year after they won WW II. Considering Japan have several best nuclear scientists in 1930s.
The basic fallacy about this series is that it's based on a false premise: that the Nazis and Japanese desired and had the means to conquer the world. The Nazis did not think in Geo-political terms but Eurocentrically. Hitler thought in World War One terms, seeing the conquest of France and Russia as his ultimate war aims. The Nazis had no workable plan for even invading England and put no real energy into it. Nor did they have a navy capable of crossing the Atlantic against an America with three times their industrial plant. Hitler feared America. Similarly the Japanese limited their war aims to co-opting southeast Asia and China into their Greater Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere. They had no wish to go after America and could not support a cross-Pacific invasion of America with their minuscule industrial plant, barely 10% of America's. World conquest by the Nazis and Japan was simply not possible given the political-economy of their nations. But it's a nice and entertaining fantasy, which is what Hollywood is all about.
Imagine if someone goes back to the 5th of August, 1945 and shows this to the Japanese and tells them that this is their future.
such a great show.
I never understood why the trade minister was so involved in military matters. Or why his office was not in Tokyo. Couldnt they have just made him the Governor of the pacific states or something ?
those are the exact same dust goggles I got issued in the canadian army
Lame ass US/Nato standard.
Could have been a great series.
they did it!
Damn, imagine German generals speaking Russian with each other during operation Barbarossa...
Imperial Japenese Apple vision pro test
If imperial japan won the war they also not just will make nuclear. But also a fuckin mobile suit. And it would be zaku, not a gundam like in yokohama
U.s.a droll
Japan cool😎🇯🇵
You know theres bikini atoll where us conduct there nuke test
Eh testing a nuke in a middle of a desert isn’t that weird anyways considering the first nuke IOTL was also detonated in a desert.
But weren't most of the bikini tests designed to test the effect of nukes on ships?
@@lucajohnen6719 but the context here they're closer to their enemy conducting the test. And also japan control china why not the gobi dessert
@@schneitzbutcher because they want the Nazis to know that they have nukes? That's the only thing stopping WW3 from happening?
At least, that's how I understood the Lore, I have only watched season 1 and 2.
@@schneitzbutcher I mean, according to the lore it's been noted that China was in the middle of a rebellion which Japan was losing in so that's likely a major part of it. most pbly wouldn't want to send their top scientists and officials to observe a test in the middle of a warzone.
Wave motion gun firing scene...
Not me just getting back home from a trip to monument valley 😅
This made completely no sense, why test the nuke so close to the borders of the American Reich ? When they can easily test it in the Mongolian or Gobi desert
It's amazing that the Japanese created a vision pro in 1964
And not one of them brought mashmallows or sticks.
Or cigarettes and a mirror
Or just popcorn smh
Lmao as a Arizonan who has driven all around monument valley this scene is so cool!
I ran horse tours around all those buttes. Really neat and surreal
"I'm from Arizona"
I've met Rufus swell aka Oppenheimer! Whata gentlemen! Dude is so quiet I barely recognized him at the grocery store. By far my favorite show ever made. ❤️
What media does Rufus Sewell portray Oppenheimer?
Seeing men putting on goggles while a voice counts down in Japanese will never not remind me of Space Battleship Yamato.
Imagine japan just reveals it's space navy to the nazis, and Japan's ally, the Garmilland
How expensive is it to build a Atom bomb anyway?
At least a couple thousand dollars
with 40's technology and limited understanding of nuclear physics, pretty damn expensive about 23 Billion $(adjusted)
the research is a very tedious process, so is producing uranium-238 (I believe) as you need complex nuclear reactors and centrifiges. But research costs much much more than production as nuclear bomb is basically two pieces of plutonium in a metal shell separated by detonator. The problem is too calculate everything.
at least 3 fiddy
Regardless of materials, it still takes multiple years and hundreds if not thousands of people working on it to make it a thing.
Thr question is, how are they gonna leave the bunker? As there is radiation outside now, as the bomb did a boom
how would they go bankrupt only two country in the world and a lot of resources
But the Nazi's owned more land and had control over much more rich areas.
@@lewiswood1693 yeah but that doesn’t mean that Japan is bankrupt. An analogy would be modern day Japan vs The US. The US has a lot more land and resources for sure, but that doesn’t mean that the relatively tiny nation of Japan is poor at all.
@@abunchofiguanaswithinterne2186 Yes, but Japan by itself is a country with very limited resources. If Japan were to be cut off from all trade right now, we would probably see Japan turn into a North Korea/Venezuela/Cuba.
He's saying if they had to have an arms race with Germany then they would go bankrupt. If they were forced to rapidly expand their navy, and army and keep pace with technological developments they would ruin their economy. Like what happened IRL before the naval treaties. USA UK and japan were in a naval arms race, which was stopped by the naval treaties. the USA and UK could have kept going building bigger ships and more of them, however Japan was nearly tapped on what they could build.
@@michealkasey2292 No what I'm saying is Imperial Japan in this scenario should not be bankrupt despite having less land than Germany because they still have the whole other half of the world
*"The Rising Sun burns those who reject the Bushido"*
- Japanese,1943
I feel like the Japanese would have had a nuclear bomb why before the 1960s in our timeline the Soviets tested their first successful bomb in 1949
Yup, this Japan otl revolutionized computers and consumer electronics at that point in time. To think they wouldn't have nuclear weapons by the 60's is ridiculous.
@@Blackmage4001 I know Japan would have at least had the bomb since the late 40s or early 50s
Imperial Japan was developing an underwater aircraft and made the Yamato ship with limited resources, I believe Japan and Germany could've even built the shield heli carrier from the Avengers in like the 80s or 90s, they were extremely advanced for that time, but wasted their talents for evil.
@@Blackmage4001 What did they revolutionize according to you? May I ask you if they invented said computers or the technology neccessary to even develop nuclear weapons? In a fantasy land, I suppose anything can happen though.
@@grandcanyon-fu9zt Japan has giant robot, u.s.a dosn't!
Building nukes is not the hard part. They actually got a few physics students in the late 40s to come up with a workable design and compared it to their classified models. They wanted to see how difficult would it really be to design one. The design was 'workable' and provided a good basis for a test. Getting the fissionable material is the true hard part. The biggest myth of the nuke world is the actual assembly part. No that one is doable.
and build a plane capable of overcoming anti-aircraft fire. Operation Tidal Wave demonstrated that the anti-aircraft system, if functioning, could do enormous damage. fortunately the Germans were all in Russia and the Japanese had not developed adequate weapons. however, without planes capable of flying at high altitude, the Americans would not have been able to drop the atomic bomb.
I kinda always wonder how Japanese treated Mexico since they occupied Baja California.
@@zanmaen5140 that would been a nightmare. Mexico under Japanese control would been much brutal.
This is honestly the best western series I've watched.
their program would have been based on what though, since they didn't have anything going in the 1940s?
最終シーズンがゴミクソ過ぎた神ドラマ
true
It was trash since the beginning.
Not even the book was good to begin with
これのドラマタイトルを教えて下さい……
@@tonton11217 The Man in the High Castle
1:05 Shang Tsung is skeptic.
0:12 I really love the detail of those 2 soldier closing the windows and lock them... but doing so just 11 seconds before the explosion is kind of weird...
Lets say they wanted to be sure no officers would be incomodated by the heat until the very last second lol
Those two soliders :Oh, I forget to lock the window...
BTW, Japan's arch enemy China tested it's 1st nuke in 1964.
こっちの世界線の方が良いとも限らんな〜
Which National person are you seeing this amazing video？
FromTokyo
Is Oppenheimer still alive in this timeline?
As a Jewish man, not likely
Us: you were too late to make a nuke
The series is a W but what a dumpster fire of an ending
That reminds me, I need to pick up a pair of safety goggles.
今の日本にもっと必要な物かも。
But you lost the war. That is the problem.
Can't you upload all the series? It seems to be it' THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE based on the novel by P. Dick. The same ... Blade Runner... H. Ford and S. Young. Forgive for the short. YT. Greetings from Poland.
長生きする日本
u japanese or did u use google translate
長生きするでホンマ(笑)
Your very 1st minute of playing TNO
The art concept & the cinematography of this show is pretty good. The script isn't, there's a lack of consistency in the storytelling and the universe setting. There's brief moment where everything makes sense but more often than not the later story totally broke the setting before. Best guess is that they threw too many ideas into this show and kept having different writers continuing the story. Good start, meh ending...
if the show was about a cold war between Japan and Germany, it would have been better and more interesting, i stopped after episode 2, they make too much concern about a film.
Excellent show.
日本が核兵器開発したとして、それを搭載可能な爆撃機やロケットはあるのだろうか？
よー知らんが、富嶽とか連山とか深山とかじゃない？
富嶽ぐらいこの世界では実現してるでしょ
I understand that I am only a movie.
I understand that conversation alone will not bring peace, even with our neighbors.
And I understand that the balance of the world is maintained by military power.
But what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was too tragic.
Who on earth would want to see your neighbor burned or even melted by the heat of an atomic bomb?
One day, human will reach the end of their life span and die.
However, everyone would want dignity to exist there.
The Japanese people do not want to see weapons that kill without regard to all that.