Saw a " meme ". It was God and someone else talking. He says, " Then I'm gonna make this small country ( England ) and it's gonna control over 25% of the world ". His friend says, " What ! ". As a Canadian it just made me laugh.
Napolean complex. I guess, when you're a small island, you want to be a larger nation that plays a bigger role globally? And then there's China. I don't know what the hell China wants. They have all the land in the world.
I was like “how did she not know about the Axis powers and how Japan colonized all of SE Asia in WW2?!” And then she explained how Japanese education on WW2 is very short. Ah. Gotcha.
The Japanese history lessons regarding WW2 go along these lines: Japan was minding its own business when all of a sudden the U.S. attacked them for trying to get oil. The U.S. firebombed Tokyo into the 17th century, then dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Then the war ended, with thousands dying to radiation poisoning and radiation pollution over the next 20 years, while the U.S. treated Japan like a conquered nation until the 70's-80's. While a lot of the latter bit of that is true, it ignores the fact that Japan invaded Korea, China, the Philippines and other SE and E Asian landmasses in order to fund their war using conquered countries' peoples as slaves to work in manufacturing weapons of war and petroleum. It also kind of ignores the Manchukuo Railway Incident which was effectively the beginning of WW2, as it gave Germany the go-ahead to invade Poland at the time. After years of this, when oil started to become scarce, Japan began targeting further West, encroaching on U.S. land (e.g. Hawaii), thus leading to the proactive bombing of Pearl Harbor. This in turn caused the U.S. to declare war on Japan for their actions, and the U.S. and its Navy practically stomped Japan back into its own territory, losing all of Japan's gains in the process. The firebombing of Tokyo and the end of the war in Germany was basically ending the war in the Pacific, but the U.S. _really_ wanted to try out their atomic weaponry. So they made up excuses to use them, like the fact that a land war with Japan would cause more lives to be lost overall than just dropping the bombs (i.e. lies). Japan was already preparing to surrender to the U.S., as it looked like the Soviet Union was turning its attention towards Japan during these later days of WW2. The Tokyo Firebombings killed millions more people than the atomic bombings, but all we remember of the end of WW2 is Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In this sense, both the U.S. and Japan are at fault for downplaying their own atrocities during the Pacific Front of WW2. Not to mention the Japanese Concentration camps in the U.S.. and Unit 721 of the Japanese Science and Research Department. Both of which would easily classify as War Crimes nowadays, but no one brings them up outside of college history education due to the fact that teaching these things to children would seriously screw them up. However, Japan is much worse in teaching these things than the U.S., which at least has college history courses about them. Japan doesn't have any, and the vast majority of Japanese citizens don't even know that Pearl Harbor was even an event that happened in the first place, let alone that they're the ones responsible. Germany has done a great job in teaching their fault in the war, but Japan has not. There are things you should and shouldn't teach kids regarding WW2, but Japan outright fails at teaching any facts regarding their responsibilities when it comes to their worst moments in history.
@@ojisankusai I’m a Japanese student and all of us are learning about the Manchurian Incident and the Pearl. However, the damage caused by the atomic bomb was so great that it is the main topic.
@@ojisankusainot that I fundamentally disagree with you, because overall this is a good summary, but in presenting America was looking for an excuse to use the nuclear option you sort of glossed over the part where Japan was not going to surrender unconditionally in the Potsdam Declaration. They very much wanted to surrender to America instead of Russia of their options, but there was a race against time with the Russia army encroaching and negotiations having logistical and communication issues. I’m not saying America did not have its own faults in the decision. Certain generals wanted to use it on what was left of Tokyo and Kyoto until they had some sense talked into them to focus on strictly military targets. (For nukes anyway, I realize with some experimental weapons like the fire bats in Tokyo that you can’t control them effectively) At the very least I think it is agreeable that the way the U.S. handled the surrender, occupation, and reconstruction of Japan is one of the few success stories of a nation growing through means away from war. In not having to invest in growing their military at the time they were able to put all their money in growth and infrastructure. This last part is something I wish every country could go through. The standard of living, even with tedious work culture and relying on imports, is one of the highest in the world.
"We don't wanna teach kids what we did wrong." You're so correct. The problem with that is you HAVE to teach them what was wrong and why it's wrong. It's too bad a lot of people don't understand that. 'Those who forsake history are doomed to repeat it.'
@@SatansHodge History repeats itself exactly because people aren't taught about what was wrong and why it was wrong though? You learn about what other countries did that was bad, but you don't really learn about what the country you live in did that was bad. Sure there are exceptions, and those places are a bit better for it, but you can't ignore the fact that is shown in this video, Japanese history lessons don't teach you about what bad things Japan did, just like how American history lessons don't teach(or at the very least downplay or gloss over) much about the mass murder of the native population either. History repeats itself because we forsake our history.
@@FumeiYuusha I have to intervene in that one. Here, in Germany, we are taught about what we did in the World War, what crimes we did and how very wrong it is. We are very serious about this topic and it is a crime to deny that it ever happened. Even kids that make fun of it are strictly reprimanded and lectured about the gruesome deaths. So, to say that we "are a bit better" is a little understated. Please respect the big efforts we are making on educating people about our wrongdoings and on preventing that it ever happens again.
@@RoteKirschbluete No, I would call that a bit better. And it's a good thing, I am happy for Germany being a bit better than other countries. For me to consider a big improvement in history education, you don't just have to teach about your own country's wrongdoings, but other countries wrongdoings as well. Do German students learn about how Russia was formed? The rise and fall of the Soviet Union? About the atrocities in south and north america? About the Japanese wars, Korea, the many many Chinese wars, the endless rebellions/civil wars that happened there? About Shaka Zulu? The African Slave Trade and how it ended? About the Congo Free State, and how many natives died there? Sure you could say there's not enough time for a student to learn all of that, and maybe you're right. Maybe I want too much, maybe I'm just too idealistic. And sorry if I come off as an asshole, but Germany only gets a 'bit better' from me.
@@FumeiYuusha No, the problem is we all wanna learn but our schools are so damn OLDSCHOOLED!! It's so frustrating! We from the younger generations want to know all of these things but because our education system still has to get updated A LOT we can only research in the internet! You wanna know what we learn in history in highschool? Fucking Rome vs Germani (I mean, why?), French Revolution, colonization in Africa and both WWs. And the worst part is that it is not even an obligation (you can choose not to choose history as a subject). So the only think of these thinks you really learn since the beginning is WW2. I'm thankful that English has always been an obligation thus we learn in full length of what happened in America (though mostly centered on slavery but at least better than our history lessons). And you aiming for the wrong person. You shouldn't blame Germany as a whole for not upgrading as much as we want to. You should blame that god damn government that seems to see no obligation to change the school system and thus our education, even though we give them the MONEY TO!! Trust me when I say that most of our younger generations KNOW that things have to change. But it is a little difficult to do so when older people push in and say "You can't fully understand what you are saying. It is more complicated than you think. You don't know what kind of things have happened." "Yeah, I wonder why, teacher!"
why are u pissed off at the idea of "copying". It is not copying, it is trading. A whole world is built on it. No single country came this far on its own without trading with other parts of the world. that's what made the whole world prosper.
It's so interesting that every Japanese person seems to know Perry, but almost no Americans do and conversely, every American knows Japan was part of the Axis powers in World War II, but most Japanese people don't. It's interesting what is taught in each country.
Took a US Japan history class for university. Did a paper on Commodore Perry. Was extremely interesting as a Japanese American to learn about this. I had NEVER heard of this dude before and it's crazy how important of a character he was during the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate.
@@josephgold208 I think it might be due to what Japan did to Korea and China during WW2 and I don't think their government has yet to even say "sorry about that" to the whole problem.
I don't understand how anybody who learns basic history about the lead up to world war II wouldn't remember Perry. We learned about the initiation of American and Japanese relations. I think it's more likely that people just don't remember that name in the same way that they forget half the geometry they learned in high school by the time they're 30.
i watched another reaction from a Japanese woman who said, in Japan, they kind of don't talk about modern history like the world wars and i didnt really take it seriously but seeing this person's reaction adds justification to that. it's very shocking
So when I lived there, people often asked me my opinion on the atomic bombs but never really talked about the war itself- which made talking about the bombs difficult.
It’s not a big factor and also another thing is that Japan has been a target for centuries by the Koreans and Chinese and even at one point had to trade with the Spanish to get goods from China because china bad all trade to japan. And even though Japan was able to get the resources they need they were also a victim again in the Spanish trading when the Spanish started smuggling Japanese people as slaves more specifically woman.
Even though the Japanese were enslaving their own people as well. But i think its much more common in the farther east Asia to have their own people as slaves than taking other ethnic groups because it would probably create discourse. Since from my knowledge in Ancient China most maids in the palaces were all Han Chinese or Manchu depending on the dynasty.
@@moumuooo.o2283 Japan has been a target by Korean..? I think Japan tried to invade Korean and succeded multiple times, and for what I've seen they did a lot of atrocities.
Btw Erika, in fact some people really say that japanese schools avoid talking about World War II and all the stuff because you know, it's a very dark subject regarding Japan. Giving the fact that even the Axis existance was new to you...and to explain why Japan "changed sides", it's a very complicated point which envolves japanese nationalism and overall concepts of how japanese people behaved (and some still behave in fact) about self-conduct (an order is more important than anything else, even being a wrong order).
no, its not just that, many school systems have literal revisionnist view that glorifies the days of the empire, and they are very well present in the form of lashing out when criticized. the japanese are both the victim and the cause of this issue
@@syrupyourmaple8261 Here in Italy we are very much aware of the horrors of fascism and the Axis. Despite that, some people are still fan of Mussolini, to this day. Some politicians, too. Schools are not enough
@@fostena But it's better to have some awareness basis, so then people can make their own judgements no matter what they are, than to just leave something aside and get a reaction that to the rest of the world or mostly, sounds like it comes from someone ignorant cuz... "World War II !" But ya, it's not that simple as exclaiming about WW2 in the end.
She didn't knew about the AXIS coalition (Rome-Berlin(Nazis!!!)-Tokyo) in WW2? Well I've heard before that they don't really talk much about WW2 in schools.... But come on, what about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the reason behind it? aren't they curious about it?
Like she says at 19:55, "If we did something bad, you don't want to teach kids what we did wrong." And Japan really did a lot wrong in the World Wars era. It's hard to deal with the ugly parts of your national history. Kinda like how people in the US don't like to talk in much detail about slavery or what settlers did to Native Americans or dropping the atom bombs on Japan. And if they do, it's usually in defensive oversimplifications, trying to protect their own national feelings. Nobody particularly likes hearing about the evils committed by people just like themselves in past eras.
@@BradyPostma You are very wrong about the US. In most states we are taught extensively about slavery and its horrors, atrocities of all kinds during western expansion, the horrendous cost of the nuclear blasts, and that's all before highschool. Literally every single conversation about race in this country has to include, "given the historical oppression of x, y, and z people by the white majority...." as a backdrop. That being said there are still many Americans who assert that, on the whole, the country has been a force for good. The narrative that is most commonly espoused in our highest institutions of learning, communication channels, social media, etc. is one that is hyper-critical of this country, so I think you don't really understand the degree to which the US is critical of itself.
@@andrewrank9512 We're taught more about it than Japanese about their national sins, but less than Germans are taught about theirs. I still meet a lot of adult Americans who don't know about the Tulsa Race Riots, Tuskegee, Wounded Knee, or the Lost Cause historians. It also varies quite a lot by state, and from school to school. But comment was an attempt to show solidarity with Japan, not to discuss American education in depth.
@@BradyPostma Well you compared how Japan discusses the nasty parts of its history to the way that the US discusses the nasty parts of its history. The two are not comparable. America's biggest historical failures are a part of our national discussion to a degree that pushes the border of practicality. You can't take a humanities class in the US that doesn't make national self-criticism an explicit part of the syllabus. Germany takes it to a whole other level where national shame hangs over them which presents its own set of problems.
The deadpan she's giving when he's laughing at the bombs being dropped, "It's not funny." is about the same feeling I had when she kinda pushed back on the idea that Japan could have allied with the Nazi's. I get that there is this nationalistic thing where the more shameful things a country does kind of gets supressed, but typically (I think) it's the more isolated stuff that you get away with hiding. World War 2 was so big, and so recent, that it defy's belief that you wouldn't be educated in its basics. I mean, Germany went hardcore into teaching about it in the belief that to know what happened would prevent it from ever happening again.
You're really talking about Germany's way of teaching about WW2? Let me educate you , in german schools they teach , that Polish people attacked german radiostation and that Polish government at that time wanted to conquer Germany. Each German that learned about WW2 from school thinks that Poles got what they deserved during WW2. Great example my friend , really a great example of dealing with your own history right? Got something to be ashamed of? Just shift the blame
@@lhuras. saw this In history books from Sachsen-Anhalt (I think that's the name of the Land that's Magdeburg in) at around 2005 when my polish friends daughter went to school there.
@@purpleguy5274 i can't believe that. D: I left school at 2004 and we had not that kind of bs in our books. The kids of my sister who are still at school have that neighter... but I'm not from Sachsen-Anhalt... but they should have the same books in all states. If it's true that this was written in those books than this is more, than disgusting and I'm really shocked about it.
At 12:55 the reason why Britain and Japan were "afraid" of Russia is because the constant expansion of Russia into their territory during that time. Britain didn't like that Russia are enroaching closer to India through Central Asia, and Japan didnt like the presence of Russia in Manchuria and Pacific in general. Basically the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Good reaction video btw, i like the fact that you pause the video during your comment so it doesnt feel rushed out. Keep up the good work 👍
9:13 Bill explains that those areas were controlled by those clans, not necessarily that the area was called that. Because of his style, you really have to pay attention or it's easy to miss things.
Japan wanted resources and expansion just like every other empire. I do not think this is uniquely western given that there have been empires such as the mongols and the persians etc etc. I guess foreigners consider it western because the british empire is the largest to have ever eisted and as western science far outgrew that of other nations, they could conquer other nations with relative ease and technological superiority. What I do think is Japan was now unified, it will never expand if its still fighting itself. Once under one rule and at peace, it can look outwards. Japan does not have many resources, its mostly mountains to be honest, China has all the resources it could ever want so its a logical place to conquer for example, especially since china was poor and disorganized in comparison to Japan at the time.
It's true. British empire was largest to exist, but before that, we were a small island that kept getting invaded. It wasn't until after all the infighting (especially England and Scotland) that an empire was able to form
the japanese empire is seen as copying european empires because that is literally, explicitly what they were doing. The meiji restoration and subsequent empire building was an attempt by the japanese to imitate the patterns for success that europeans had used in the region.
@@LODintheshadows thing is even before the conquest of the btrish isles england was tryign to take over France as well inthe famous hundred years war. Of course, fi they had won they'd be known as the Kingdom of France and England, with French being the primary title (As was the entire point of the Hundred Years War), much like how Japan would have been known as just another foreign ruled Chinese empire if that shogun who tried to conquer it had actually succeeded.
It's kinda the opposite of germany, here we learn about world war II, how it happened and what we have to do to make sure it doesn't happen again IN GREAT DETAIL. Though maybe it's just because for us it's much harder to just deny being part of those horrible things than for Japan...
I do think both do a bad job (arguably Japan do it worst though), Japan being ignorant towards history and German (Europe) being being too shameful of themselves to the point banning many things that doesn't makes sense (like people afraid using swastika, remember the east use that symbol since aeons ago) Too little and too much is bad
The Russian Empire was extremely large. Large enough to be a significant player, despite falling behind in technology and industrialization. As for the islands, territory for the sake of territory. Forward bases, more resources, etc.
Its basicaly the course of natural ressourses. Russian elites became confortable with their vast land and this ttansform thr tzardom into a reactionary feudal lords paradise and blocked the development. Here in latin america we had the same problem, but with colonal elites who are confortable with the explotation of natural ressources and dont like modernization.
I am Japanese. Why do people in the comments say Japanese don't teach about WWII ? Japan's war crimes in WWII are being taught... In my textbook, The section entitled "The Reality of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" provides detailed information on the Nanjing Massacre, the Pattern Death March, Unit 731, the Burma-Thailand Railway, and more. There is a lot of exaggerated and incorrect information on the internet. This is not limited to war crimes, but it is not good to take information on the internet at face value.
That's odd, here in my country, kids are taught every bit of the darkest parts of our History so they WON'T repeat those mistakes ever again. They're also told they're not to bear responsability for their ancestors' foolishness, and encouraged to try and go forwards for a better future. Of course I can't speak for my whole country but that's at least the idea I, along with many others around me, was raised into. So I find it a little disturbing Japanese people are not taught about their own History properly, as if they don't trust their kids to handle the truth and leave them ignorant while the rest of the world knows. What good does it make?
The older generations withheld the information to make themselves look good. Their culture is also heavily based on "respect your elders", so they figured that telling them their own wrong doings would make the youth disrespectful to their elders and they'd become delinquents. What's important is that they are learning now thanks to the internet.
What education system do in Japan about history is also kinda the same in the Philippines which is really fucking annoying when you learn about it yourself from the internet.. Our history classes here was only all about what the culture was when Spaniards controlled the islands and about Dr Jose Rizal which is considered the hero in the country.. No any kinds of wars were mentioned like helping jews during the WW2, helping South Korea during the Korean War, the Spanish--Filipino war, the Filipino-American war, etc.
@@elliotyourarobot i'm guessing germany based on what i've heard about the german education system n how much they're really trying to make sure the past doesn't repeat itself. As an american, I envy that about the german education system. They teach students everything n don't hold back cuz of some excuse they make like "for the sake of the children", "for respect", "it's in the past, no need to relive" etc. It's stupid that so many countries, especially the huge ones with such an insane amount of ppl, decide to ignore and actively bury important parts of history. I was NEVER taught about the US camps that "detained" japanese americans and even ppl that just "looked japanese". They were entirely too similar to the camps germany used n we rn't taught any of it. We rn't told that the US acted as a safe haven for nazi's after the war n rarely put any of them on trial, instead choosing to use the knowledge they obtained from their horrifying experiments in our most important scientific advancements. We rn't informed about very much of the 7 years war even tho that's what truly led to the revolutionary war. N instead we spend most of our history/social studies classes, learning about the revolutionary war. We learn nonstop about the american revolution and world war 2. But we were never taught much of the parts before we joined WW2. The only part of that we r taught is that the allied powers were losing. We're very minimally taught about the cold war n rn't taught any of the connections between the cold war n all of the active wars of that time (aka the korean war and the vietnam war). I didn't even learn that we participated in or that there even was a korean war until after graduating. N in the northern half of the US, we skim over the lost battles of the Civil war, like those battles didn't matter. It's only thanks to oversimplified that ik the name of the confederate president. N yet we spend that other half of our social studies/history education "learning" about the civil war n ww2. N it was always the second one. They spent at most half a yr on ww1. As if it was just the pre-quel to ww2 n didn't need to be talked about much. It was so skimmed over, it was hard to remember that Franz Ferdinand was the trigger for ww1 n NOT ww2. I hate the US education system cuz we have to learn everything from the internet. N tend to only know what to google from yt vids n tiktoks. It's insane n sick n will cause history to keep repeating itself.
@@clwilliams9276 true but even and educated population can cause history to repeat as well, just look at what German and European official's are saying about Russians nowadays, calling them orcs and saying how different they are and how they don't have the same values and how they don't value life so they view death differently. To be honest they are being more honest then they have ever been.
Apparently, Germany's the only country to full disclose its past behaviour. Even the former allied nations brush some of their own war crimes under the carpet.
Wow thats the reason why so much japan generation never know about the slavery in south east asia, south korea, nanking china.. Man. So break my heart.
You are saying a lot of silly stuffs because the Japanese conquest was with the idea of making the colonized territories independent from the European countries and there is no data that says that they were slaves of the Japanese, you really do not know anything about this topic and if it makes you feel better, there was four times the nankin massacre.
@@shineore5086 tell me a bullshit when you meet in my my grandmother's graves and I will take you on a tour of Indonesian, filliphin massacre museums. romusha museum. Initially we accepted Japan because they promised to free. but they do the opposite. the corpses of the fighters. the corpse of a prostitute I will prove it to you. when the Japanese army felt they would lose. they turned around to help but it was only 300 people. it is just to reverse the reputation so that there is no international law.
People lived on the whole island, but only some parts started farming rice that early. The places that weren't marked with pink had people, they just didn't farm, meaning they lived only as hunters and gatherers, like "cave people" basically.
It is hard for many people not to respond in a hostile way upon seeing that many Japanese people do not know of their bad history in the second world war because of bad it was and because we learn so much about it here. The older generations in Japan intentionally withheld this information from their own youth to look good. It is not your fault for not being taught, but it is the fault of your elders for not teaching you. It is important to know that bad parts of your own nation's history so the same mistakes can be avoided in the future. What's important is that many Japanese people are starting to learn now thanks to the internet.
Martin Scorsese made a film staring Adam Driver about the Portuguese Jesuits who were trying to make Japan Christian called silence. As you can guess it didn’t go that well for the Portuguese.
At 2:31 the video doesn't mean there aren't Japanese outwith this pink area. It just means rice farming isn't outwith this area. Humans still lived across Japan. Rice farming is in the Pink area and humans still lived in other areas that didn't rice farm.
The pink area is the area where rice farm and rice kingdoms were, people lived in the other parts of Japan but they didn’t use rice farms and rice kingdoms
17:27 change of regime can change the opinion of a nation to another nation that's why the relationship soured and Japan started liking germany which the UK did not like
Fr what I've learnt, Japan predominantly teaches "old history", but many schools actively avoid teaching "modern" history, due to the negative connotations during their conquests and ww2, especially relating to Korea.
11:25 - Yes, his name *IS* Perry! Matthew Perry! Which is also the name of the actor that played Chandler Bing on Friends! And now the US and Japan are friends.
The older generations decided not to teach it to their youth to look good. They can't know what they aren't taught. Blame the ones who intentionally withheld information, not the ones they withheld it from. What's important is that they are learning now thanks to the internet.
Growing influence of ultranationalist groups changing textbooks to have less and less about Japan's role in the Second World War and severely punishing teachers who step out of line.
I love how every Japanese person seems to know who Matthew Perry is but as an American I had no Idea as to who this guy was until I saw this video for the first time hahaha
At 17:37, we get to the heart of it: "How much do Japanese learn in school about history?" And from everything in this video and what I have seen more broadly, the answer is somewhere between "not much" and "jack sh*t."
"It's not funny." Says the person extremely ignorant about what Japan did during WWII. Yeah I bet that shit wasn't funny, what about all the genocide, raping, chemical experiments?
Don't think "they don't teach this in class in Japan" about her not knowing about the alliance between Japan and Germany. Usually, in Japanese history, everyone always learns this in class. Of course, there are individual differences in the accumulation of knowledge, and of course she may know something that I should have learned in class but have forgotten. Don't look at the forest for the trees.
Back then, when this video first came out, the annotation feature was a thing. When it got to WWII and the conquering of China, Bill Wurtz didn't forget to include "and a lot of raping" when he talked about it. It's kind of sad that people forget that during WWII, the Chinese took a heavy toll when it came to Nanking.
It’s interesting how Japan and Germany teach ww2 history so completely differently. I think it’s because the nazi party was defeated outright and disassembled, while japans imperial government continues to this day. So Germany goes “don’t do what those guys did, our country really messed up.” But Japan goes “what?? we didn’t mess up, Japan is awesome. We’ve always been awesome!”
i love how scaired he gets whenever she badmouths the yakuza. can't live your life afraid of the gangs, and if its bad enough where you really have to be that afraid, might consider moving or joining lol
Japan and Germany were quite different in their post ww2 attitude. I'm from Europe so its Europe's parts of the war that we learned about, we know that Africa and India and Japan and Australia etc were all involved, but they're not really talked about. The main focus, being from the UK, is Nazi Germany, Britain and France. For the rest of Europe, including Germany, we teach about Nazis and all that they did and stood for too. From what I'm aware, over in Asia, Japan's actions are talked about too, except unlike Germany, Japan doesn't teach their own citizens about it. For Germany, to prevent anyone like Hitler coming into power again, any kind of promotion of Nazi materials or symbolism is illegal. They teach about what happened so their citizens can recognise and know the signs of a fascist takeover, and prevent it from happening again. In Japan I believe ww2 is an era they feel shame for. Like in Germany it was a time of great advancement and atrocities. Japan also had camps, and experimented on and killed people from other countries like China. I can understand being ashamed of and not wanting to talk about your ancestors negative actions, like I said earlier, I'm english and my ancestors would've lived here during the empire, we were involved in the slave trade, our missionaries erased cultures across the world in making people act more like us in exchange for aid, we committed acts of genocide in invading and replacing native peoples. But i think its something that needs to be talked about. You can't have good international and intercultural relations unless you understand how places around the world now may still be experiencing the negative impacts caused in part by the greed of our own countries. It's something we all have to own up to in order to work together to compensate and prevent these things from happening again, I think. (I'm fully aware we haven't compensated for what we've done before anyone replies about that, but we should return what we've taken.)
the average japanese person's ignorance of japan's history as conquerors and influence on the world stage is sad. it's as if japan's history education is doing this on purpose. it's sad that most people have this "but japan is a small island" mentality.
@@BradyPostma "we're just a small island nation" paint ourselves as the underdog mentality. half of it is a culture where you have to put yourselves down as a sign of humility, and half of it is just ignorance of japan's reach. if society is ignorant, it won't feel any guilt. which is ironic because japan is ALREADY a "culture of great shame." why is it that when it comes to matters of history they're seemingly, shameless. :/
Germany's education takes the opposite route: they emphasize the WW2 actions of Germany, the extreme shame of it all, and the Never Again mentality so hard that most Germans come away believing that there's never any excuse for nationality or patriotism, that it is always philosophically flawed to take pride in a collective of any kind.
The early history of Japan is kind of confusing, but the Jomon people are actually not that close to Mongolians. They're close to the Ainu people. Yayoi are closest to Koreans but also related to Mongolians. Apparently our ancestors are about 90% Yayoi and 10% Jomon so Japanese are all mostly Yayoi. And the researcher Takeuchi and others did a genetic study recently that showed Japanese are by far closest to Koreans first, and Chinese a distant second. Koreans and Japanese are both closer to Mongolians than Chinese.
The reason they could understand each other from your question at 5:49 is explained at 5:18 . Japan at the time used Chinese as it's language so they spoke the same language. Even today a lot of Kanji is Chinese Characters. I speak some Mandarin and can understand a lot of the Japanese signs in videos about Japan.
Honestly I don't even blame the Japanese for this level of ignorance about their recent history. It was the Americans that covered it up for them, and even kept the same politicians in power after the war.
there's a really good historical drama movie called silence (2016) about some christian priests in japan in the 17th century. the cinematography is amazing.
As a Japanese, I can't stand it, so I would like to add something about school education in Japan Sino-Japanese War, Russo-Japanese War, World War I, World War II, and then defeat. The history from postwar reconstruction to the present day is taught to all Japanese who go to school normally by junior high school. Japan was an Axis country along with Germany and Italy. The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor You will learn it in junior high school.
2:25 he was talking about rice farming, which means he wasn't talking about the population but the rice farms. so yeah places he highlighted were farm kingdoms not lands populated by people. other land were also populated by people just not rice farmland.
When she mentioned Yakuza @ 6:39 i'm thinking to myself that some of them might actually be descendants of former Samurai who possibly fell on hard times after the Meiji Restoration 🤔😮 Edit: Her shock at the fact that Japan had sided with the Nazis genuinely caught me off guard.. from what I gather, Japan, Italy & Germany wanted some of that old school conquest like what Europe was doing back in the 1800's. Due to the agreement signed by the league of nations, which likely spurred on by the social changes that came with the abolition of slavery, as well as the fact that there was hardly any more land to conquer, the League of Nations had settled on the agreed borders & promised not to expand anymore. Italy was not having it, as they were busy expanding into Ethiopia, & Japan's Emperors had just gotten back their power along with some modern muscle so they really wanted to flex.. like really really. Germany wanted to conquer the whole world so they all teamed up despite the alliance seeming unlikely🙏
She was too confident about being able to identify Japanese, Chinese and Korean faces but contradicts herself saying she has more of a Mongol face. It's in your own history that essentially these 3 nations intermingled. If you go by faces alone, keeping everything the same such as make up and all wearing the same clothes, you would have a difficult time picking out people. It's easy to identify once someone starts talking or perhaps due to their fashion sense and mannerisms but until that happens, no you cannot be completely certain what nationality someone is.
Damn they really not gonna talk about Nanjing Massacre and they also not gonna talk about Unit 731 and they're definitely not talking about the Fugu Plan 😭
As a Japanese, I would like to say that most Japanese people know that Japan was an Axis power and learn it well in compulsory education. It's just that the woman in the video is an ignorant person who is not interested in history. Please do not make the mistake of thinking that most Japanese do not know about history.
Well, my experience with the Nijonjin are that they typically don’t know much about Nihon history during WW2. They do know alot of Nihon history otherwise, but not WW2 history.
i been watching this and im shocked japanese people dont know about the hideous inhumane crimes of war they commiteed overe the year and it's interesting to see how they own up to those claims most of them resent them and cant belive it like serously ? you didnt know japan was fucking brutal ? and i also find how inflicteed they are about thee bombings even tho it's not there lifee time they have nothing to do with war or anything yet there is still something that lingers theres humans are weird ... proceds to subscribe 👍
Most shocking was that she didn't know Nazi Germany and Japan entered an alliance. Makes you wonder how the prelude to WW2 is explained in Japan. What are they told as to why the USA nuked them?
always laugh when Mussolini is mentioned in wwii reaction because he seems to be over looked all the time. "so hitler and japan were friends?" "yeah, see here. nazi's and Mussolini." "who is Mussolini?"
To be honest Mussolini and Italy were not so important during the WWII, Italy joined the war only because Mussolini thought that Hitler would certainly win in a short time (Wermacht was by far the best army in the world). He said "I only need a few thousand dead so that I can sit at the peace conference as a man who has fought". Before that he stayed out, making up a lot of excuse and asking Hitler for a lot of resources to join the war that Hitler could never give him. Mussoini didn't want the war, he was angry as hell with Hitler when he invaded the Poland. Before the invasion everybody tried to avoid the war, including Mussolini. When Hitler invaded Poland, Mussolini was trying to organize another meeting such as the one that led to the Munich Agreement. The Italian army was too weak for a war, the Italian economy too shitty etc. And if Hitler hadn't decided to invade the Soviet Union, marking his doom, Mussolini would probably have been right. When Italy understood that Hitler would lose, they arrested Mussolini, signed the armistice and fought - with some divisions - alongside the Allies. In Italy we say "It matter like the 2 of batons with cups as briscola" (briscola is a card game and the "2 of batons with cups as briscola" is one of the 3 cards with the lowest value, it basically means it counts for nothing), so was Italy during the WWII. Mussolini was slighty more than a Hitler puppet during the WWII. The Italian contribution is almost negligible in the international contest. I think Mussolini was the worst leader of all time, Fascism is the lighter, but much more stupid and incompetent version of Nazism. Fascism was a bad government from every point of view. Violent, authoritarian, totalitarian, racist, dictatorial and populist, like Nazism (albeit softer), but Nazism transformed a nation in crisis into a great and powerful nation, fascism transformed a nation in crisis into a nation even more in crisis. In few words, Mussolini was only an incompetent prick with a great social media manager.
So Germany teaches what they did wrong in WW2 while Japan ignores WW2. Now teach her about Japan’s infamous Unit 731 and what Japanese troops did in China.
"How does he know this"? The Hojoki and written anthropological records. One of the most fascinating pieces to me was one guy who wrote a strongly worded complaint to the government about not better protecting his rice when he asked them to and now they are getting no rice because there isn't any. During the wars also Japans attacks on China were apparently so horrific that a Nazi man named John Rabe reported to his superiors about what was going on and they arrested him because the Nazis had no issue with their gruesome tactics. If you're interested in more about WWII history Google the Battle of Attu. Learning history can be fun
You may find it interesting reading medical journals about Leukemia patients. A Korean leukemia patient can only accept donors from 2 other countries....Mongolia and Japan.
It wasn't a tornado. It was a big storm both times. Probably a typhoon. Americans tend to get confused about 'Perry' since we have two famous ones who were both in the Navy and were both commodores. Oliver Hazard Perry is famous for fighting on the Great Lakes against the British in the War of 1812. And his younger brother Matthew C. Perry who opened Japan to the West.
I went to a Japanese school so I’m allowed to say this. More than 90% of what the video has introduced is taught in history class! It’s just that students only memorize stuff for the exams and forget all about it when it’s over. I can’t believe that this Japanese woman never knew about what the Japanese did during WW1 and WW2, it’s written in the history book! I remember my Japanese history teacher talking about it. Also, many schools in Japan force their students to go and visit Hiroshima and Okinawa to learn about the Pacific War. It is not true that Japanese people don’t know much about modern history. We also know the reason why Korea and China hates us ( colonization). I know I shouldn’t say this and maybe ppl would hate on me but I believe that a majority of youtubers (not only Japanese) aren’t well academically educated or forgot what they learn in school, so it is not surprise that they don’t know/forget half of what the video said. There is a video of a Japanese teacher watching this video. It is interesting and I recommend it. Sorry if I offended anyone.
Nah you're good. I just remember finding images of Manchurian women skewered with bayonets and thinking, _and the Japanese get triggered over a statue in Korea._ Unlike Germany, Japan never really "lost" the war and owned that defeat for what it was. The Cold War really gave a lot of shitty people a convenient "out"
The video could have been better if you stopped the video while you or Erica were talking, sometimes that was just too much to keep up with 🤣 or ur voices would get muffled by the video you guys were reacting. Still, nice video you guys! I'm halfway through and I'm really enjoying to see how Erica reacts to it! 😁
In the Finnish school, many times we went through the Axis powers, i.e. the largest members Germany, Japan and Italy. One problem for Finland was the Soviet Union (Russia), against which Finland wanted help from Germany, but did not want to become a full member of the Axis Powers. Finnish-language Wikipedia uses the term de facto for Finland's membership in the Axis powers. Finland wanted to maintain good relations with England and the United States. On several occasions, Russia demanded England to declare war on Finland. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sent a personal, private and secret letter to Marshal Mannerheim (Commander-in-Chief of the Finnish Army) in which she regretted that England would soon have to declare war on Finland. The letter is kept in England's Imperial War Museum.
it's always mentioned as "it's europe" but could have just said, "it's portugal(1543) and then after, the dutch(1600)" christianity in japan is bc of the portuguese, Scorsese's "Silence" talks about it
Being from the UK i can understand the "not knowing" thing. It's very much a case of "history is written by the victor" so as outsiders we might say "How do you not know that?" But the focus of history in a place is different based on whether you live within it or outside of it. I grew up in the UK and we do a extremely poor job teaching history. We learn about the Roman invasion of Britain, then jump almost a 1000 years ahead to 1066 when the Norman invasion happened, then we jump again, several hundred years to the Tudors (Henry VIII etc), then jump to Queen Victoria then jump to WW1 then WW2 and MAYBE cover a tiny portion of the Cold War. To anyone who had gone to war with us or got colonised by us i'm sure thats shocking. We teach nothing about our darker moments, such as what we did to the Irish, teach nothing about how we behaved with India and as you might expect of a nation that at it's height had an Empire 1/4 of the Earth, there simply isn't enough time to teach about every nation we were "involved" with. Some of it is most definitely shame too and some is simply that pur list of sins is long. But somewhat paradoxically, whilst we aren't taught in our school curriculum what we did that was bad we ARE taught to be ashamed and feel bad about colonialism, a bit too excessively at times. The reality is we've done some bad but we've done a lot of good. I was a soldier and in the UK we have the Commonwealth -basically, some countries we had colonised decided it wasn't all bad, some forgave us and decided we should continue having close ties. For some, that means the King is still head of state or an important figure. For others it just means we have close ties and we trade and help each other, sometimes the British Army is deployed, either to train or defend them. As such, we have many people from different nations within our Army. When i served my unit had an Northern Irish guy, 3 guys from Nepal (my honorary brothers), a guy from India, a guy from Australia, a Jamaican and a guy from Ghana as well as obviously, British people. The guy from Ghana once talked to me about how he was grateful that Ghana was a former British colony. Perplexed i asked "Why? I thought you'd hate us?" He said " Because you brought your political stability snd technologies to us" He then went on to detail the surrounding nations within Africa and how many former French colonies often devolved into race wars, ethnic cleansing and other things. Not knowing anything on the subject, i couldn't say if he was accurate ( for all i know Ghanaian history books might be skewed) but that was what he said. It's a complicated thing, history. I've been despised and hated in various parts of the world for historical reasons i both knew and didn't know. But in the same token, i've been places i thought i'd be hated and have been treated preferentially or nicely because of my nationality. Some for example will think the British Empire was evil for it's slavery. And slavery is evil. But, it was normal at the time and most nations engaged in it. What many, even within my own nation aren't aware of is that the British Empire eventually abolished slavery in the 1800s throughout the Empire (remember that's 1/4 of the world) It didn't just stop buying them. They bought every existing slaves freedom and granted reparations to them all to set up their new free lives, at a colossal cost to the UK. It was such a large sum it was something we as a nation only finished paying for back in the 2010s (yes it took that long) But we didn't stop there either, the Royal Navy spent 150 years dismantling slave networks and hubs outside of the Empire , with thousands of our sailors dying in the process as they fought slavers and pirates. Whilst there is an argument that "Modern slavery" exists, the reason it's no longer widespread is because of our actions. And again, i've been to parts of the world where people either hated me because of my nations past with slavery, but i've been equally "thanked" for ending it too (a bizarre premise you can no doubt agree) History is incredibly difficult. There are nations that see the day the British Empire showed up as the biggest most awful event in their history and from my perspective, i won't have even heard of their nation. How you are seen inside and without when it comes to history is complicated and messy. I'm sure Americans laugh at them "beating" the big evil Empire for their independence, most not realising the French (traditionally our enemies throughout history) helped them out because we were engaged in the Napoleonic war and for us, dealing with French was a bigger priority, and more important than a "bunch of random colonies" that relatively didn't matter at that time (if only we knew how big the US would become! Lol) Of course we are friends now but the point is how we see events is different, the US see's a valiant struggle against a titan and we just saw them as a "problem to deal with another day" I mean, heck, most folks don't know the reason the White House is "The White House" is because the British attacked it and successfully set fire to it. It survived but was "white washed" to hide the fire damage, giving it it's iconic look. And more famously, but less well known is the Statue of Liberty was a gift from the French to celebrate it's freedom (can you tell they really despised the British yet? Lol) History is a thing i find fascinating but i don't hold any grudges (i mean it's not like i hate Italy for invading us 2000 years ago lol) Unfortunately the same can't be said everywhere. Best advice is to take these things at face value. Her not knowing the Axis powers thing clearly shocked or angered some in the comments, but i just saw it as fascinating. I'm continually learning new things in regard to history.Along with the Black ships incidents between the Japanese and US i've been learning of the UKs interactions and incidents with Japan. In recent years i very much see Japan and the UK as being very similar in some ways- both island nations, both had visions of having a Empire, both have spotty histories with China and so on. Overall i'd recommend people try and be more understanding of our differences but acknowledge what makes us the same. Most importantly, let us not dredge up grudges of the past and just get along as much as we can now.
There is a reason why the scars of what Japan did still resonates with many Asian countries, the most Ev il thing to happen en mass in recent history. Glad they are mostly really nice now but back then they were almost medievil in mindset.
1940 Germany:Hey Bud I need Help Japanese:Nope 1941 Germany:Man Wtf Help Me,Invade The Soviet!! Japan:Nope 1942-1945 Germany:Well played,Thanks For nothing Mate Japanese:...... 2020 Germany:Remember me? Japanese:Who are you?
In the US we learn US history when we're younger a lot, and then when we're in high school we finish up US history and switch to world history. Like my senior year I had both world history and mythology. Though mythology wasn't exactly history it did teach what other cultures thought were real for the most part.
So Japanese are more closely relative to the Mongols than other ethnic groups like Koreans, Hans & Cantonese? 🤔 That's actually pretty interesting. I'd assume Koreans & Japanese to be more closely relative given their geographic locations.
There's a prevailing theory that the origins of Japanese genetic makeup isn't all through a land bridge but through polynesian travelers. So when she says "some Japanese look more Mongolian/Chinese and the rest have a more ancient look" that group is most likely what she's referring to by "ancient"
To clarify the confusion about WWII and the islands that used to belong to Germany, Germy at that time really didn't care about those islands. In fact, is was actually better for them to not control the islands because they didn't have to spread out their military half-way across the world to get access to not a lot of resources. England didn't care about the islands either for the same reasons. The islands didn't matter to pretty much anyone other than the people living there. Therefore, the islands didn't matter. Japan said they were friends with the Nazis and the Nazis were taking over Europe. Therefore, Japan bad. There ya go.
"Japan is such a small island why would it want to invade places"
Britain: uhhhhh *quietly sips tea*
The Portuguese Empire: (literally a single beach)
The Dutch Empire: (a swamp)
"You think he's compensating for something?"
Lol was thinking that ^
Saw a " meme ". It was God and someone else talking. He says, " Then I'm gonna make this small country ( England ) and it's gonna control over 25% of the world ". His friend says, " What ! ". As a Canadian it just made me laugh.
@@scottmorris5730 It controlled like half of the world because it controlled all of the important sea routes at some point in time.
Napolean complex. I guess, when you're a small island, you want to be a larger nation that plays a bigger role globally? And then there's China. I don't know what the hell China wants. They have all the land in the world.
I was like “how did she not know about the Axis powers and how Japan colonized all of SE Asia in WW2?!” And then she explained how Japanese education on WW2 is very short. Ah. Gotcha.
The Japanese history lessons regarding WW2 go along these lines: Japan was minding its own business when all of a sudden the U.S. attacked them for trying to get oil. The U.S. firebombed Tokyo into the 17th century, then dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Then the war ended, with thousands dying to radiation poisoning and radiation pollution over the next 20 years, while the U.S. treated Japan like a conquered nation until the 70's-80's.
While a lot of the latter bit of that is true, it ignores the fact that Japan invaded Korea, China, the Philippines and other SE and E Asian landmasses in order to fund their war using conquered countries' peoples as slaves to work in manufacturing weapons of war and petroleum. It also kind of ignores the Manchukuo Railway Incident which was effectively the beginning of WW2, as it gave Germany the go-ahead to invade Poland at the time. After years of this, when oil started to become scarce, Japan began targeting further West, encroaching on U.S. land (e.g. Hawaii), thus leading to the proactive bombing of Pearl Harbor. This in turn caused the U.S. to declare war on Japan for their actions, and the U.S. and its Navy practically stomped Japan back into its own territory, losing all of Japan's gains in the process.
The firebombing of Tokyo and the end of the war in Germany was basically ending the war in the Pacific, but the U.S. _really_ wanted to try out their atomic weaponry. So they made up excuses to use them, like the fact that a land war with Japan would cause more lives to be lost overall than just dropping the bombs (i.e. lies). Japan was already preparing to surrender to the U.S., as it looked like the Soviet Union was turning its attention towards Japan during these later days of WW2. The Tokyo Firebombings killed millions more people than the atomic bombings, but all we remember of the end of WW2 is Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
In this sense, both the U.S. and Japan are at fault for downplaying their own atrocities during the Pacific Front of WW2. Not to mention the Japanese Concentration camps in the U.S.. and Unit 721 of the Japanese Science and Research Department. Both of which would easily classify as War Crimes nowadays, but no one brings them up outside of college history education due to the fact that teaching these things to children would seriously screw them up.
However, Japan is much worse in teaching these things than the U.S., which at least has college history courses about them. Japan doesn't have any, and the vast majority of Japanese citizens don't even know that Pearl Harbor was even an event that happened in the first place, let alone that they're the ones responsible.
Germany has done a great job in teaching their fault in the war, but Japan has not. There are things you should and shouldn't teach kids regarding WW2, but Japan outright fails at teaching any facts regarding their responsibilities when it comes to their worst moments in history.
Unlike Germany, The Japanese government is hiding their worst warcrimes ever like a coward 🤦♂️
Yeah me too at first
@@ojisankusai I’m a Japanese student and all of us are learning about the Manchurian Incident and the Pearl. However, the damage caused by the atomic bomb was so great that it is the main topic.
@@ojisankusainot that I fundamentally disagree with you, because overall this is a good summary, but in presenting America was looking for an excuse to use the nuclear option you sort of glossed over the part where Japan was not going to surrender unconditionally in the Potsdam Declaration. They very much wanted to surrender to America instead of Russia of their options, but there was a race against time with the Russia army encroaching and negotiations having logistical and communication issues.
I’m not saying America did not have its own faults in the decision. Certain generals wanted to use it on what was left of Tokyo and Kyoto until they had some sense talked into them to focus on strictly military targets. (For nukes anyway, I realize with some experimental weapons like the fire bats in Tokyo that you can’t control them effectively)
At the very least I think it is agreeable that the way the U.S. handled the surrender, occupation, and reconstruction of Japan is one of the few success stories of a nation growing through means away from war. In not having to invest in growing their military at the time they were able to put all their money in growth and infrastructure. This last part is something I wish every country could go through. The standard of living, even with tedious work culture and relying on imports, is one of the highest in the world.
"We don't wanna teach kids what we did wrong." You're so correct.
The problem with that is you HAVE to teach them what was wrong and why it's wrong. It's too bad a lot of people don't understand that.
'Those who forsake history are doomed to repeat it.'
yea no you are wrong look around you G history is in repeat over and over again
@@SatansHodge History repeats itself exactly because people aren't taught about what was wrong and why it was wrong though? You learn about what other countries did that was bad, but you don't really learn about what the country you live in did that was bad. Sure there are exceptions, and those places are a bit better for it, but you can't ignore the fact that is shown in this video, Japanese history lessons don't teach you about what bad things Japan did, just like how American history lessons don't teach(or at the very least downplay or gloss over) much about the mass murder of the native population either.
History repeats itself because we forsake our history.
@@FumeiYuusha I have to intervene in that one. Here, in Germany, we are taught about what we did in the World War, what crimes we did and how very wrong it is. We are very serious about this topic and it is a crime to deny that it ever happened. Even kids that make fun of it are strictly reprimanded and lectured about the gruesome deaths. So, to say that we "are a bit better" is a little understated. Please respect the big efforts we are making on educating people about our wrongdoings and on preventing that it ever happens again.
@@RoteKirschbluete No, I would call that a bit better. And it's a good thing, I am happy for Germany being a bit better than other countries. For me to consider a big improvement in history education, you don't just have to teach about your own country's wrongdoings, but other countries wrongdoings as well. Do German students learn about how Russia was formed? The rise and fall of the Soviet Union? About the atrocities in south and north america? About the Japanese wars, Korea, the many many Chinese wars, the endless rebellions/civil wars that happened there? About Shaka Zulu? The African Slave Trade and how it ended? About the Congo Free State, and how many natives died there?
Sure you could say there's not enough time for a student to learn all of that, and maybe you're right. Maybe I want too much, maybe I'm just too idealistic.
And sorry if I come off as an asshole, but Germany only gets a 'bit better' from me.
@@FumeiYuusha No, the problem is we all wanna learn but our schools are so damn OLDSCHOOLED!!
It's so frustrating! We from the younger generations want to know all of these things but because our education system still has to get updated A LOT we can only research in the internet!
You wanna know what we learn in history in highschool? Fucking Rome vs Germani (I mean, why?), French Revolution, colonization in Africa and both WWs. And the worst part is that it is not even an obligation (you can choose not to choose history as a subject). So the only think of these thinks you really learn since the beginning is WW2.
I'm thankful that English has always been an obligation thus we learn in full length of what happened in America (though mostly centered on slavery but at least better than our history lessons).
And you aiming for the wrong person. You shouldn't blame Germany as a whole for not upgrading as much as we want to. You should blame that god damn government that seems to see no obligation to change the school system and thus our education, even though we give them the MONEY TO!!
Trust me when I say that most of our younger generations KNOW that things have to change. But it is a little difficult to do so when older people push in and say "You can't fully understand what you are saying. It is more complicated than you think. You don't know what kind of things have happened."
"Yeah, I wonder why, teacher!"
why are u pissed off at the idea of "copying". It is not copying, it is trading. A whole world is built on it. No single country came this far on its own without trading with other parts of the world. that's what made the whole world prosper.
Yup. And if you customize what you "copied", you can say that's yours.
It's a mild form of xenophobia / nationalist supremacy if we are being honest. Most cultures have this to some extent, some more than others.
It's so interesting that every Japanese person seems to know Perry, but almost no Americans do and conversely, every American knows Japan was part of the Axis powers in World War II, but most Japanese people don't. It's interesting what is taught in each country.
@@NecessaryTruths the fuckin USA
Took a US Japan history class for university. Did a paper on Commodore Perry. Was extremely interesting as a Japanese American to learn about this.
I had NEVER heard of this dude before and it's crazy how important of a character he was during the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate.
@@josephgold208 I think it might be due to what Japan did to Korea and China during WW2 and I don't think their government has yet to even say "sorry about that" to the whole problem.
I don't understand how anybody who learns basic history about the lead up to world war II wouldn't remember Perry. We learned about the initiation of American and Japanese relations. I think it's more likely that people just don't remember that name in the same way that they forget half the geometry they learned in high school by the time they're 30.
In the AP course I was in back in high school, Perry is at most just another multiple choice answer on a test.
It's crazy that almost every Japanese person that reacts to this video doesn't know much about what happened in the world wars. It's crazy
Not just crazy dangerous.
i watched another reaction from a Japanese woman who said, in Japan, they kind of don't talk about modern history like the world wars and i didnt really take it seriously but seeing this person's reaction adds justification to that. it's very shocking
@@audibleadventures9004 I agree it is dangerous because that means there's nothing learnt from all the experience
@@viperb4148 it also means that many died for nothing, since nothing is ever learned from the past if you ignore history....shocking indeed.
So when I lived there, people often asked me my opinion on the atomic bombs but never really talked about the war itself- which made talking about the bombs difficult.
It's actually really interesting how they never talked about how bad Japan was towards East and South East Asia during their Imperialism and WW1&2.
It’s not a big factor and also another thing is that Japan has been a target for centuries by the Koreans and Chinese and even at one point had to trade with the Spanish to get goods from China because china bad all trade to japan. And even though Japan was able to get the resources they need they were also a victim again in the Spanish trading when the Spanish started smuggling Japanese people as slaves more specifically woman.
Even though the Japanese were enslaving their own people as well. But i think its much more common in the farther east Asia to have their own people as slaves than taking other ethnic groups because it would probably create discourse. Since from my knowledge in Ancient China most maids in the palaces were all Han Chinese or Manchu depending on the dynasty.
@@moumuooo.o2283 Japan has been a target by Korean..?
I think Japan tried to invade Korean and succeded multiple times, and for what I've seen they did a lot of atrocities.
@@moumuooo.o2283 wtf did the Philippines have anything to do with that? The amount of war crimes Japan committed in the Philippines…
@@moumuooo.o2283 it is a big factor in the modern world.
Kind of complicated that she didn't know the Japan was a member of the Axis. I recommend the World War 2 week-by-ween video series.
bro really said here comes the sun
@@XxKillerJayxXdo do doodoo
Complicated? Her govt kept their entire nation in the dark. Say it how it is.
" I didn,t know we invaded Korea. " Bet the Koreans know.
日本人も「歴史」として知っています。毎度こういう話題で出てくる日本人は社会の授業で寝ている人ばかりです
すまんが、ちゃんと教えてるんやで
この動画のやつが授業聞いてなかっただけや
The woman was smiling and Laughing when Japan invade other countries in ww2, but got offended when US dropped the nuke on Japan
Yup, typical lol.
they actively killed and raped civilians too, Nanking massacre was at least 300k civillians killed in a week
😂
"It's only funny when it happens to someone else"
-Japan probably
Btw Erika, in fact some people really say that japanese schools avoid talking about World War II and all the stuff because you know, it's a very dark subject regarding Japan. Giving the fact that even the Axis existance was new to you...and to explain why Japan "changed sides", it's a very complicated point which envolves japanese nationalism and overall concepts of how japanese people behaved (and some still behave in fact) about self-conduct (an order is more important than anything else, even being a wrong order).
In the Philippines
WW2 is a very, very , very talked about topic
no, its not just that, many school systems have literal revisionnist view that glorifies the days of the empire, and they are very well present in the form of lashing out when criticized.
the japanese are both the victim and the cause of this issue
@@syrupyourmaple8261 Here in Italy we are very much aware of the horrors of fascism and the Axis. Despite that, some people are still fan of Mussolini, to this day. Some politicians, too. Schools are not enough
@@fostena But it's better to have some awareness basis, so then people can make their own judgements no matter what they are, than to just leave something aside and get a reaction that to the rest of the world or mostly, sounds like it comes from someone ignorant cuz...
"World War II !"
But ya, it's not that simple as exclaiming about WW2 in the end.
@@filypa101 Of course, knowledge is never a bad thing.
Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it
When she said "it's not funny" i think her Imperial spirit starts to show up
She didn't knew about the AXIS coalition (Rome-Berlin(Nazis!!!)-Tokyo) in WW2? Well I've heard before that they don't really talk much about WW2 in schools.... But come on, what about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the reason behind it? aren't they curious about it?
Like she says at 19:55, "If we did something bad, you don't want to teach kids what we did wrong."
And Japan really did a lot wrong in the World Wars era. It's hard to deal with the ugly parts of your national history. Kinda like how people in the US don't like to talk in much detail about slavery or what settlers did to Native Americans or dropping the atom bombs on Japan. And if they do, it's usually in defensive oversimplifications, trying to protect their own national feelings.
Nobody particularly likes hearing about the evils committed by people just like themselves in past eras.
@@BradyPostma You are very wrong about the US. In most states we are taught extensively about slavery and its horrors, atrocities of all kinds during western expansion, the horrendous cost of the nuclear blasts, and that's all before highschool. Literally every single conversation about race in this country has to include, "given the historical oppression of x, y, and z people by the white majority...." as a backdrop. That being said there are still many Americans who assert that, on the whole, the country has been a force for good. The narrative that is most commonly espoused in our highest institutions of learning, communication channels, social media, etc. is one that is hyper-critical of this country, so I think you don't really understand the degree to which the US is critical of itself.
@@andrewrank9512 It is taught extensively now, but much less so in parents' generation and almost not at all in my grandparents' generation.
@@andrewrank9512 We're taught more about it than Japanese about their national sins, but less than Germans are taught about theirs. I still meet a lot of adult Americans who don't know about the Tulsa Race Riots, Tuskegee, Wounded Knee, or the Lost Cause historians.
It also varies quite a lot by state, and from school to school.
But comment was an attempt to show solidarity with Japan, not to discuss American education in depth.
@@BradyPostma Well you compared how Japan discusses the nasty parts of its history to the way that the US discusses the nasty parts of its history. The two are not comparable. America's biggest historical failures are a part of our national discussion to a degree that pushes the border of practicality. You can't take a humanities class in the US that doesn't make national self-criticism an explicit part of the syllabus. Germany takes it to a whole other level where national shame hangs over them which presents its own set of problems.
The deadpan she's giving when he's laughing at the bombs being dropped, "It's not funny." is about the same feeling I had when she kinda pushed back on the idea that Japan could have allied with the Nazi's.
I get that there is this nationalistic thing where the more shameful things a country does kind of gets supressed, but typically (I think) it's the more isolated stuff that you get away with hiding. World War 2 was so big, and so recent, that it defy's belief that you wouldn't be educated in its basics. I mean, Germany went hardcore into teaching about it in the belief that to know what happened would prevent it from ever happening again.
it kinda IS funny... karma is a B
You're really talking about Germany's way of teaching about WW2? Let me educate you , in german schools they teach , that Polish people attacked german radiostation and that Polish government at that time wanted to conquer Germany.
Each German that learned about WW2 from school thinks that Poles got what they deserved during WW2.
Great example my friend , really a great example of dealing with your own history right?
Got something to be ashamed of? Just shift the blame
@@purpleguy5274what the heck? Den Mist hab ich definitiv nicht gelernt. Wo hast du das her?
@@lhuras. saw this In history books from Sachsen-Anhalt (I think that's the name of the Land that's Magdeburg in) at around 2005 when my polish friends daughter went to school there.
@@purpleguy5274 i can't believe that. D:
I left school at 2004 and we had not that kind of bs in our books. The kids of my sister who are still at school have that neighter... but I'm not from Sachsen-Anhalt... but they should have the same books in all states. If it's true that this was written in those books than this is more, than disgusting and I'm really shocked about it.
Her: *drops a nuke "It's not funny"
Me: "Performing vivisections on Chinese children and spreading bubonic plague isn't funny either"
At 12:55 the reason why Britain and Japan were "afraid" of Russia is because the constant expansion of Russia into their territory during that time. Britain didn't like that Russia are enroaching closer to India through Central Asia, and Japan didnt like the presence of Russia in Manchuria and Pacific in general. Basically the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Good reaction video btw, i like the fact that you pause the video during your comment so it doesnt feel rushed out. Keep up the good work 👍
9:13 Bill explains that those areas were controlled by those clans, not necessarily that the area was called that. Because of his style, you really have to pay attention or it's easy to miss things.
Japan wanted resources and expansion just like every other empire. I do not think this is uniquely western given that there have been empires such as the mongols and the persians etc etc. I guess foreigners consider it western because the british empire is the largest to have ever eisted and as western science far outgrew that of other nations, they could conquer other nations with relative ease and technological superiority. What I do think is Japan was now unified, it will never expand if its still fighting itself. Once under one rule and at peace, it can look outwards. Japan does not have many resources, its mostly mountains to be honest, China has all the resources it could ever want so its a logical place to conquer for example, especially since china was poor and disorganized in comparison to Japan at the time.
It's true. British empire was largest to exist, but before that, we were a small island that kept getting invaded. It wasn't until after all the infighting (especially England and Scotland) that an empire was able to form
the japanese empire is seen as copying european empires because that is literally, explicitly what they were doing. The meiji restoration and subsequent empire building was an attempt by the japanese to imitate the patterns for success that europeans had used in the region.
@@LODintheshadows thing is even before the conquest of the btrish isles england was tryign to take over France as well inthe famous hundred years war.
Of course, fi they had won they'd be known as the Kingdom of France and England, with French being the primary title (As was the entire point of the Hundred Years War), much like how Japan would have been known as just another foreign ruled Chinese empire if that shogun who tried to conquer it had actually succeeded.
Japan actually learn colonization from west
@malakatan3235 yea, those samurai waging war in Korea must have just been tourists.
"was korea invaded? I think no.."
Korea: I hope God and Buddha listen to you miss...
Japan never invaded Korea.
@sara.cbc92 tf
@@sara.cbc92 yes it did, multiple times. and they raped and tortured a lot of people there
When she said she didn't know japanese even conquered Korea, I was so shocked I threw my phone.
Japan never invaded Korea.
@@sara.cbc92u acoustic?
It's kinda the opposite of germany, here we learn about world war II, how it happened and what we have to do to make sure it doesn't happen again IN GREAT DETAIL. Though maybe it's just because for us it's much harder to just deny being part of those horrible things than for Japan...
I do think both do a bad job (arguably Japan do it worst though), Japan being ignorant towards history and German (Europe) being being too shameful of themselves to the point banning many things that doesn't makes sense (like people afraid using swastika, remember the east use that symbol since aeons ago)
Too little and too much is bad
The Russian Empire was extremely large. Large enough to be a significant player, despite falling behind in technology and industrialization. As for the islands, territory for the sake of territory. Forward bases, more resources, etc.
Literally the only reason they were pushing back the germans just throwing wave after wave and the germans couldnt keep up lol
Its basicaly the course of natural ressourses. Russian elites became confortable with their vast land and this ttansform thr tzardom into a reactionary feudal lords paradise and blocked the development. Here in latin america we had the same problem, but with colonal elites who are confortable with the explotation of natural ressources and dont like modernization.
I am Japanese.
Why do people in the comments say Japanese don't teach about WWII ?
Japan's war crimes in WWII are being taught... In my textbook, The section entitled "The Reality of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" provides detailed information on the Nanjing Massacre, the Pattern Death March, Unit 731, the Burma-Thailand Railway, and more. There is a lot of exaggerated and incorrect information on the internet. This is not limited to war crimes, but it is not good to take information on the internet at face value.
That's odd, here in my country, kids are taught every bit of the darkest parts of our History so they WON'T repeat those mistakes ever again. They're also told they're not to bear responsability for their ancestors' foolishness, and encouraged to try and go forwards for a better future.
Of course I can't speak for my whole country but that's at least the idea I, along with many others around me, was raised into.
So I find it a little disturbing Japanese people are not taught about their own History properly, as if they don't trust their kids to handle the truth and leave them ignorant while the rest of the world knows. What good does it make?
The older generations withheld the information to make themselves look good. Their culture is also heavily based on "respect your elders", so they figured that telling them their own wrong doings would make the youth disrespectful to their elders and they'd become delinquents. What's important is that they are learning now thanks to the internet.
What education system do in Japan about history is also kinda the same in the Philippines which is really fucking annoying when you learn about it yourself from the internet.. Our history classes here was only all about what the culture was when Spaniards controlled the islands and about Dr Jose Rizal which is considered the hero in the country.. No any kinds of wars were mentioned like helping jews during the WW2, helping South Korea during the Korean War, the Spanish--Filipino war, the Filipino-American war, etc.
What country you from?
@@elliotyourarobot i'm guessing germany based on what i've heard about the german education system n how much they're really trying to make sure the past doesn't repeat itself. As an american, I envy that about the german education system. They teach students everything n don't hold back cuz of some excuse they make like "for the sake of the children", "for respect", "it's in the past, no need to relive" etc. It's stupid that so many countries, especially the huge ones with such an insane amount of ppl, decide to ignore and actively bury important parts of history. I was NEVER taught about the US camps that "detained" japanese americans and even ppl that just "looked japanese". They were entirely too similar to the camps germany used n we rn't taught any of it. We rn't told that the US acted as a safe haven for nazi's after the war n rarely put any of them on trial, instead choosing to use the knowledge they obtained from their horrifying experiments in our most important scientific advancements. We rn't informed about very much of the 7 years war even tho that's what truly led to the revolutionary war. N instead we spend most of our history/social studies classes, learning about the revolutionary war. We learn nonstop about the american revolution and world war 2. But we were never taught much of the parts before we joined WW2. The only part of that we r taught is that the allied powers were losing. We're very minimally taught about the cold war n rn't taught any of the connections between the cold war n all of the active wars of that time (aka the korean war and the vietnam war). I didn't even learn that we participated in or that there even was a korean war until after graduating. N in the northern half of the US, we skim over the lost battles of the Civil war, like those battles didn't matter. It's only thanks to oversimplified that ik the name of the confederate president. N yet we spend that other half of our social studies/history education "learning" about the civil war n ww2. N it was always the second one. They spent at most half a yr on ww1. As if it was just the pre-quel to ww2 n didn't need to be talked about much. It was so skimmed over, it was hard to remember that Franz Ferdinand was the trigger for ww1 n NOT ww2. I hate the US education system cuz we have to learn everything from the internet. N tend to only know what to google from yt vids n tiktoks. It's insane n sick n will cause history to keep repeating itself.
@@clwilliams9276 true but even and educated population can cause history to repeat as well, just look at what German and European official's are saying about Russians nowadays, calling them orcs and saying how different they are and how they don't have the same values and how they don't value life so they view death differently. To be honest they are being more honest then they have ever been.
Apparently, Germany's the only country to full disclose its past behaviour.
Even the former allied nations brush some of their own war crimes under the carpet.
The word ”Kamikaze” actually comes from those two tornados destroying the mongols (well they were typhoons but still).
"God Wind", and they meant it literally.
Before RUclips removed annotations, bill had added corrections on the video itself to correct to typhoon. RUclips really screwed up by removing them
Wow thats the reason why so much japan generation never know about the slavery in south east asia, south korea, nanking china..
Man. So break my heart.
You are saying a lot of silly stuffs because the Japanese conquest was with the idea of making the colonized territories independent from the European countries and there is no data that says that they were slaves of the Japanese, you really do not know anything about this topic and if it makes you feel better, there was four times the nankin massacre.
@@shineore5086 tell me a bullshit when you meet in my my grandmother's graves and I will take you on a tour of Indonesian, filliphin massacre museums.
romusha museum. Initially we accepted Japan because they promised to free. but they do the opposite.
the corpses of the fighters. the corpse of a prostitute I will prove it to you.
when the Japanese army felt they would lose. they turned around to help but it was only 300 people. it is just to reverse the reputation so that there is no international law.
@@shineore5086 Yeah, independent like Korea... Wait, they are handing me a note.
@@shineore5086 there is evidence stupid.
@@shineore5086 How the hell did you ever pass history class?
People lived on the whole island, but only some parts started farming rice that early. The places that weren't marked with pink had people, they just didn't farm, meaning they lived only as hunters and gatherers, like "cave people" basically.
His 'History of the Entire World, I Guess' is even better.
It is hard for many people not to respond in a hostile way upon seeing that many Japanese people do not know of their bad history in the second world war because of bad it was and because we learn so much about it here. The older generations in Japan intentionally withheld this information from their own youth to look good. It is not your fault for not being taught, but it is the fault of your elders for not teaching you. It is important to know that bad parts of your own nation's history so the same mistakes can be avoided in the future. What's important is that many Japanese people are starting to learn now thanks to the internet.
Martin Scorsese made a film staring Adam Driver about the Portuguese Jesuits who were trying to make Japan Christian called silence. As you can guess it didn’t go that well for the Portuguese.
yEAH! Martin Scorsese Inquisitor was the best Anime bad guy character!~ lol...
It was going well at first, until a shogun heard that it would lead to a Portuguese invasion.
The Japanese Christians who refused to give up even to the end were chads though
At 2:31 the video doesn't mean there aren't Japanese outwith this pink area. It just means rice farming isn't outwith this area. Humans still lived across Japan. Rice farming is in the Pink area and humans still lived in other areas that didn't rice farm.
The pink area is the area where rice farm and rice kingdoms were, people lived in the other parts of Japan but they didn’t use rice farms and rice kingdoms
17:27 change of regime can change the opinion of a nation to another nation that's why the relationship soured and Japan started liking germany which the UK did not like
Fr what I've learnt, Japan predominantly teaches "old history", but many schools actively avoid teaching "modern" history, due to the negative connotations during their conquests and ww2, especially relating to Korea.
The thing about history is that if you don't learn from the past, more likely than not, you're doomed to repeat it
Wow she really didn't know? This is a striking difference in approach from how Germany has dealt with their history.
11:25 - Yes, his name *IS* Perry! Matthew Perry! Which is also the name of the actor that played Chandler Bing on Friends!
And now the US and Japan are friends.
How come she dosesn't know the fact that Japan was the allies of Nazis.
What's going on with japanese history classes ??
Hmm,yea ikr
The older generations decided not to teach it to their youth to look good. They can't know what they aren't taught. Blame the ones who intentionally withheld information, not the ones they withheld it from. What's important is that they are learning now thanks to the internet.
Growing influence of ultranationalist groups changing textbooks to have less and less about Japan's role in the Second World War and severely punishing teachers who step out of line.
I love how every Japanese person seems to know who Matthew Perry is but as an American I had no Idea as to who this guy was until I saw this video for the first time hahaha
At 17:37, we get to the heart of it: "How much do Japanese learn in school about history?" And from everything in this video and what I have seen more broadly, the answer is somewhere between "not much" and "jack sh*t."
"It's not funny." Says the person extremely ignorant about what Japan did during WWII. Yeah I bet that shit wasn't funny, what about all the genocide, raping, chemical experiments?
Well… at least she’s somewhat self aware as to why Japan might wish to gloss over less glorious portions of history. One step at a time I supose
Don't think "they don't teach this in class in Japan" about her not knowing about the alliance between Japan and Germany.
Usually, in Japanese history, everyone always learns this in class.
Of course, there are individual differences in the accumulation of knowledge, and of course she may know something that I should have learned in class but have forgotten.
Don't look at the forest for the trees.
Back then, when this video first came out, the annotation feature was a thing. When it got to WWII and the conquering of China, Bill Wurtz didn't forget to include "and a lot of raping" when he talked about it. It's kind of sad that people forget that during WWII, the Chinese took a heavy toll when it came to Nanking.
日本人としても第二次世界大戦中に旧日本軍の行った残虐行為は見過ごせません。南京事件や慰安婦問題で日本の政治家がごまかして有耶無耶にしているのを見ていると本当に見苦しく、同じ日本人として恥ずかしいです。学校で子どもたちが理解出来るくらいの日本の過去の過ちを教えるべきだと思います。
南京の写真を見ていると、隣の子供の声がした。その瞬間、「日本人は平和に暮らしている今、それら南京の悪いことをどれだけ覚えるだろうか？彼らは失敗から本当に習いましたか？」と思っていた。
しかし、ぼくの国の罪を考えると、アメリカ人は色々な悪いことを忘れがちです。そうだけど、アメリカは人数も多くて、アメリカの悪い点について声を上げる人がいるし、少し直せるだろう。
残念ながら、日本ではそのような会話があまり少ないしまうと思います。
It blows my mind she didn't know Japan and Nazi Germany were allies.
The cadence of the nuclear bomb portion is funny. I laugh every time just because of how silly the presentation is
It’s interesting how Japan and Germany teach ww2 history so completely differently. I think it’s because the nazi party was defeated outright and disassembled, while japans imperial government continues to this day. So Germany goes “don’t do what those guys did, our country really messed up.” But Japan goes “what?? we didn’t mess up, Japan is awesome. We’ve always been awesome!”
Germans learned nothing from World War 2. What are you talking about? Japan has been far more peaceful and less imperialistic than Germany.
i love how scaired he gets whenever she badmouths the yakuza. can't live your life afraid of the gangs, and if its bad enough where you really have to be that afraid, might consider moving or joining lol
I was like... Wait, this guy seems to be Brazilian. And then yeah he's Brazilian for sure
Japan and Germany were quite different in their post ww2 attitude. I'm from Europe so its Europe's parts of the war that we learned about, we know that Africa and India and Japan and Australia etc were all involved, but they're not really talked about. The main focus, being from the UK, is Nazi Germany, Britain and France. For the rest of Europe, including Germany, we teach about Nazis and all that they did and stood for too.
From what I'm aware, over in Asia, Japan's actions are talked about too, except unlike Germany, Japan doesn't teach their own citizens about it.
For Germany, to prevent anyone like Hitler coming into power again, any kind of promotion of Nazi materials or symbolism is illegal. They teach about what happened so their citizens can recognise and know the signs of a fascist takeover, and prevent it from happening again.
In Japan I believe ww2 is an era they feel shame for. Like in Germany it was a time of great advancement and atrocities. Japan also had camps, and experimented on and killed people from other countries like China. I can understand being ashamed of and not wanting to talk about your ancestors negative actions, like I said earlier, I'm english and my ancestors would've lived here during the empire, we were involved in the slave trade, our missionaries erased cultures across the world in making people act more like us in exchange for aid, we committed acts of genocide in invading and replacing native peoples. But i think its something that needs to be talked about. You can't have good international and intercultural relations unless you understand how places around the world now may still be experiencing the negative impacts caused in part by the greed of our own countries. It's something we all have to own up to in order to work together to compensate and prevent these things from happening again, I think.
(I'm fully aware we haven't compensated for what we've done before anyone replies about that, but we should return what we've taken.)
Did you learn in school that British, French and German troops killed Afghans to protect America's puny pride?
Japan was connected to Korean peninsular, not with 'China island'
the average japanese person's ignorance of japan's history as conquerors and influence on the world stage is sad. it's as if japan's history education is doing this on purpose. it's sad that most people have this "but japan is a small island" mentality.
Britain is also a tiny island, and they ruled about a quarter of the world at one point.
@@BradyPostma "we're just a small island nation" paint ourselves as the underdog mentality. half of it is a culture where you have to put yourselves down as a sign of humility, and half of it is just ignorance of japan's reach. if society is ignorant, it won't feel any guilt. which is ironic because japan is ALREADY a "culture of great shame." why is it that when it comes to matters of history they're seemingly, shameless. :/
Germany's education takes the opposite route: they emphasize the WW2 actions of Germany, the extreme shame of it all, and the Never Again mentality so hard that most Germans come away believing that there's never any excuse for nationality or patriotism, that it is always philosophically flawed to take pride in a collective of any kind.
@@BradyPostma And both approaches are wrong, though its admittedly a difficult balance to reach.
@@lowtechredneck6704 What's the right approach, do you think?
The early history of Japan is kind of confusing, but the Jomon people are actually not that close to Mongolians. They're close to the Ainu people. Yayoi are closest to Koreans but also related to Mongolians. Apparently our ancestors are about 90% Yayoi and 10% Jomon so Japanese are all mostly Yayoi. And the researcher Takeuchi and others did a genetic study recently that showed Japanese are by far closest to Koreans first, and Chinese a distant second. Koreans and Japanese are both closer to Mongolians than Chinese.
The reason they could understand each other from your question at 5:49 is explained at 5:18 . Japan at the time used Chinese as it's language so they spoke the same language.
Even today a lot of Kanji is Chinese Characters. I speak some Mandarin and can understand a lot of the Japanese signs in videos about Japan.
The written languages were identical, pretty much all of east Asia used Classical Chinese. The analogy is Latin in the Middle Ages.
Honestly I don't even blame the Japanese for this level of ignorance about their recent history. It was the Americans that covered it up for them, and even kept the same politicians in power after the war.
there's a really good historical drama movie called silence (2016) about some christian priests in japan in the 17th century. the cinematography is amazing.
As a Japanese, I can't stand it, so I would like to add something about school education in Japan
Sino-Japanese War, Russo-Japanese War, World War I, World War II, and then defeat.
The history from postwar reconstruction to the present day is taught to all Japanese who go to school normally by junior high school.
Japan was an Axis country along with Germany and Italy.
The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor
You will learn it in junior high school.
I wonder how many Japanese people knew that Japan once invaded Korea. It's shocked me that she didn't know about it.
She needs to react to that one video about japanese people speaking an "ancient" japanese that sounded more like *cough cough* cantonese.
2:25 he was talking about rice farming, which means he wasn't talking about the population but the rice farms. so yeah places he highlighted were farm kingdoms not lands populated by people. other land were also populated by people just not rice farmland.
When she mentioned Yakuza @ 6:39 i'm thinking to myself that some of them might actually be descendants of former Samurai who possibly fell on hard times after the Meiji Restoration 🤔😮
Edit: Her shock at the fact that Japan had sided with the Nazis genuinely caught me off guard.. from what I gather, Japan, Italy & Germany wanted some of that old school conquest like what Europe was doing back in the 1800's. Due to the agreement signed by the league of nations, which likely spurred on by the social changes that came with the abolition of slavery, as well as the fact that there was hardly any more land to conquer, the League of Nations had settled on the agreed borders & promised not to expand anymore. Italy was not having it, as they were busy expanding into Ethiopia, & Japan's Emperors had just gotten back their power along with some modern muscle so they really wanted to flex.. like really really. Germany wanted to conquer the whole world so they all teamed up despite the alliance seeming unlikely🙏
You should do a reaction video to “the fallen of World War II” it’s a really interesting video
The odds of encountering a typhoon grows exponentially if you choose to invade during typhoon season. Which the Mongols did. Twice.
3:00 = Probably because Ainu people were in the Northern areas.
I'd like to know more about Ainu people.
Yes the Ainu people live in Hokkaido
After going to japanese museums im not surprised by how little they know about theiractions during wwii.
She was too confident about being able to identify Japanese, Chinese and Korean faces but contradicts herself saying she has more of a Mongol face. It's in your own history that essentially these 3 nations intermingled. If you go by faces alone, keeping everything the same such as make up and all wearing the same clothes, you would have a difficult time picking out people. It's easy to identify once someone starts talking or perhaps due to their fashion sense and mannerisms but until that happens, no you cannot be completely certain what nationality someone is.
Damn they really not gonna talk about Nanjing Massacre and they also not gonna talk about Unit 731 and they're definitely not talking about the Fugu Plan 😭
In the part with "clocks, guns and Jesus", he forgot one important thing: playing cards.
she : i know nazi!!
Germany : yep!
she : oh japan!!!
Japan : yep!!
she : what Mussolini???
Italy : :)
As a Japanese, I would like to say that most Japanese people know that Japan was an Axis power and learn it well in compulsory education. It's just that the woman in the video is an ignorant person who is not interested in history. Please do not make the mistake of thinking that most Japanese do not know about history.
Well, my experience with the Nijonjin are that they typically don’t know much about Nihon history during WW2. They do know alot of Nihon history otherwise, but not WW2 history.
The Japanese don't learn the history of colonial rule.
@@bookstoremaster1023
I learned about it in Japan.
so strange that is whole video is a news flash to her...my mind is blown.
how the hell did she not know that japan was a key ally of the Nazis lmao?
i been watching this and im shocked japanese people dont know about the hideous inhumane crimes of war they commiteed overe the year and it's interesting to see how they own up to those claims most of them resent them and cant belive it like serously ? you didnt know japan was fucking brutal ? and i also find how inflicteed they are about thee bombings even tho it's not there lifee time they have nothing to do with war or anything yet there is still something that lingers theres humans are weird ... proceds to subscribe 👍
Most shocking was that she didn't know Nazi Germany and Japan entered an alliance. Makes you wonder how the prelude to WW2 is explained in Japan. What are they told as to why the USA nuked them?
always laugh when Mussolini is mentioned in wwii reaction because he seems to be over looked all the time.
"so hitler and japan were friends?"
"yeah, see here. nazi's and Mussolini."
"who is Mussolini?"
To be honest Mussolini and Italy were not so important during the WWII, Italy joined the war only because Mussolini thought that Hitler would certainly win in a short time (Wermacht was by far the best army in the world). He said "I only need a few thousand dead so that I can sit at the peace conference as a man who has fought". Before that he stayed out, making up a lot of excuse and asking Hitler for a lot of resources to join the war that Hitler could never give him. Mussoini didn't want the war, he was angry as hell with Hitler when he invaded the Poland. Before the invasion everybody tried to avoid the war, including Mussolini. When Hitler invaded Poland, Mussolini was trying to organize another meeting such as the one that led to the Munich Agreement.
The Italian army was too weak for a war, the Italian economy too shitty etc.
And if Hitler hadn't decided to invade the Soviet Union, marking his doom, Mussolini would probably have been right.
When Italy understood that Hitler would lose, they arrested Mussolini, signed the armistice and fought - with some divisions - alongside the Allies.
In Italy we say "It matter like the 2 of batons with cups as briscola" (briscola is a card game and the "2 of batons with cups as briscola" is one of the 3 cards with the lowest value, it basically means it counts for nothing), so was Italy during the WWII. Mussolini was slighty more than a Hitler puppet during the WWII. The Italian contribution is almost negligible in the international contest.
I think Mussolini was the worst leader of all time, Fascism is the lighter, but much more stupid and incompetent version of Nazism. Fascism was a bad government from every point of view. Violent, authoritarian, totalitarian, racist, dictatorial and populist, like Nazism (albeit softer), but Nazism transformed a nation in crisis into a great and powerful nation, fascism transformed a nation in crisis into a nation even more in crisis. In few words, Mussolini was only an incompetent prick with a great social media manager.
he had some nerves laughing at the bomb thing tho
As someone said; in a couple of generations in Japan they'll learn on schoolbooks that they were allied with USA and won the WWII.
The Ainu were the original inhabitants of Japan but were pushed northwards until they only had Hokkaido left to live in.
So Germany teaches what they did wrong in WW2 while Japan ignores WW2. Now teach her about Japan’s infamous Unit 731 and what Japanese troops did in China.
"How does he know this"? The Hojoki and written anthropological records. One of the most fascinating pieces to me was one guy who wrote a strongly worded complaint to the government about not better protecting his rice when he asked them to and now they are getting no rice because there isn't any. During the wars also Japans attacks on China were apparently so horrific that a Nazi man named John Rabe reported to his superiors about what was going on and they arrested him because the Nazis had no issue with their gruesome tactics. If you're interested in more about WWII history Google the Battle of Attu. Learning history can be fun
You may find it interesting reading medical journals about Leukemia patients. A Korean leukemia patient can only accept donors from 2 other countries....Mongolia and Japan.
It wasn't a tornado. It was a big storm both times. Probably a typhoon.
Americans tend to get confused about 'Perry' since we have two famous ones who were both in the Navy and were both commodores. Oliver Hazard Perry is famous for fighting on the Great Lakes against the British in the War of 1812. And his younger brother Matthew C. Perry who opened Japan to the West.
There is also the Admiral Perry who explored the north and south poles, he gets mixed up with these two sometimes as well
I went to a Japanese school so I’m allowed to say this. More than 90% of what the video has introduced is taught in history class! It’s just that students only memorize stuff for the exams and forget all about it when it’s over. I can’t believe that this Japanese woman never knew about what the Japanese did during WW1 and WW2, it’s written in the history book! I remember my Japanese history teacher talking about it. Also, many schools in Japan force their students to go and visit Hiroshima and Okinawa to learn about the Pacific War. It is not true that Japanese people don’t know much about modern history. We also know the reason why Korea and China hates us ( colonization). I know I shouldn’t say this and maybe ppl would hate on me but I believe that a majority of youtubers (not only Japanese) aren’t well academically educated or forgot what they learn in school, so it is not surprise that they don’t know/forget half of what the video said. There is a video of a Japanese teacher watching this video. It is interesting and I recommend it. Sorry if I offended anyone.
Which video is that?
Nah you're good. I just remember finding images of Manchurian women skewered with bayonets and thinking, _and the Japanese get triggered over a statue in Korea._
Unlike Germany, Japan never really "lost" the war and owned that defeat for what it was.
The Cold War really gave a lot of shitty people a convenient "out"
The video could have been better if you stopped the video while you or Erica were talking, sometimes that was just too much to keep up with 🤣 or ur voices would get muffled by the video you guys were reacting. Still, nice video you guys! I'm halfway through and I'm really enjoying to see how Erica reacts to it! 😁
The odds of mongols being defeated by a tornado twice = 100%..... because monsoon season
In the Finnish school, many times we went through the Axis powers, i.e. the largest members Germany, Japan and Italy. One problem for Finland was the Soviet Union (Russia), against which Finland wanted help from Germany, but did not want to become a full member of the Axis Powers. Finnish-language Wikipedia uses the term de facto for Finland's membership in the Axis powers. Finland wanted to maintain good relations with England and the United States. On several occasions, Russia demanded England to declare war on Finland. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sent a personal, private and secret letter to Marshal Mannerheim (Commander-in-Chief of the Finnish Army) in which she regretted that England would soon have to declare war on Finland. The letter is kept in England's Imperial War Museum.
The tornadoes that killed the Mongols were called Kamikaze (“divine wind”).
i don't blame most of the modern Japanese for not knowing of some of the past, i just blame the higher ups in Japan's education system.
it's always mentioned as "it's europe" but could have just said, "it's portugal(1543) and then after, the dutch(1600)"
christianity in japan is bc of the portuguese, Scorsese's "Silence" talks about it
Being from the UK i can understand the "not knowing" thing.
It's very much a case of "history is written by the victor" so as outsiders we might say "How do you not know that?" But the focus of history in a place is different based on whether you live within it or outside of it.
I grew up in the UK and we do a extremely poor job teaching history.
We learn about the Roman invasion of Britain, then jump almost a 1000 years ahead to 1066 when the Norman invasion happened, then we jump again, several hundred years to the Tudors (Henry VIII etc), then jump to Queen Victoria then jump to WW1 then WW2 and MAYBE cover a tiny portion of the Cold War.
To anyone who had gone to war with us or got colonised by us i'm sure thats shocking.
We teach nothing about our darker moments, such as what we did to the Irish, teach nothing about how we behaved with India and as you might expect of a nation that at it's height had an Empire 1/4 of the Earth, there simply isn't enough time to teach about every nation we were "involved" with.
Some of it is most definitely shame too and some is simply that pur list of sins is long.
But somewhat paradoxically, whilst we aren't taught in our school curriculum what we did that was bad we ARE taught to be ashamed and feel bad about colonialism, a bit too excessively at times.
The reality is we've done some bad but we've done a lot of good.
I was a soldier and in the UK we have the Commonwealth -basically, some countries we had colonised decided it wasn't all bad, some forgave us and decided we should continue having close ties.
For some, that means the King is still head of state or an important figure.
For others it just means we have close ties and we trade and help each other, sometimes the British Army is deployed, either to train or defend them.
As such, we have many people from different nations within our Army.
When i served my unit had an Northern Irish guy, 3 guys from Nepal (my honorary brothers), a guy from India, a guy from Australia, a Jamaican and a guy from Ghana as well as obviously, British people.
The guy from Ghana once talked to me about how he was grateful that Ghana was a former British colony.
Perplexed i asked "Why? I thought you'd hate us?"
He said " Because you brought your political stability snd technologies to us"
He then went on to detail the surrounding nations within Africa and how many former French colonies often devolved into race wars, ethnic cleansing and other things.
Not knowing anything on the subject, i couldn't say if he was accurate ( for all i know Ghanaian history books might be skewed) but that was what he said.
It's a complicated thing, history.
I've been despised and hated in various parts of the world for historical reasons i both knew and didn't know.
But in the same token, i've been places i thought i'd be hated and have been treated preferentially or nicely because of my nationality.
Some for example will think the British Empire was evil for it's slavery.
And slavery is evil. But, it was normal at the time and most nations engaged in it.
What many, even within my own nation aren't aware of is that the British Empire eventually abolished slavery in the 1800s throughout the Empire (remember that's 1/4 of the world)
It didn't just stop buying them.
They bought every existing slaves freedom and granted reparations to them all to set up their new free lives, at a colossal cost to the UK.
It was such a large sum it was something we as a nation only finished paying for back in the 2010s (yes it took that long)
But we didn't stop there either, the Royal Navy spent 150 years dismantling slave networks and hubs outside of the Empire , with thousands of our sailors dying in the process as they fought slavers and pirates.
Whilst there is an argument that "Modern slavery" exists, the reason it's no longer widespread is because of our actions.
And again, i've been to parts of the world where people either hated me because of my nations past with slavery, but i've been equally "thanked" for ending it too (a bizarre premise you can no doubt agree)
History is incredibly difficult.
There are nations that see the day the British Empire showed up as the biggest most awful event in their history and from my perspective, i won't have even heard of their nation.
How you are seen inside and without when it comes to history is complicated and messy.
I'm sure Americans laugh at them "beating" the big evil Empire for their independence, most not realising the French (traditionally our enemies throughout history) helped them out because we were engaged in the Napoleonic war and for us, dealing with French was a bigger priority, and more important than a "bunch of random colonies" that relatively didn't matter at that time (if only we knew how big the US would become! Lol)
Of course we are friends now but the point is how we see events is different, the US see's a valiant struggle against a titan and we just saw them as a "problem to deal with another day"
I mean, heck, most folks don't know the reason the White House is "The White House" is because the British attacked it and successfully set fire to it.
It survived but was "white washed" to hide the fire damage, giving it it's iconic look.
And more famously, but less well known is the Statue of Liberty was a gift from the French to celebrate it's freedom (can you tell they really despised the British yet? Lol)
History is a thing i find fascinating but i don't hold any grudges (i mean it's not like i hate Italy for invading us 2000 years ago lol)
Unfortunately the same can't be said everywhere.
Best advice is to take these things at face value.
Her not knowing the Axis powers thing clearly shocked or angered some in the comments, but i just saw it as fascinating.
I'm continually learning new things in regard to history.Along with the Black ships incidents between the Japanese and US i've been learning of the UKs interactions and incidents with Japan.
In recent years i very much see Japan and the UK as being very similar in some ways- both island nations, both had visions of having a Empire, both have spotty histories with China and so on.
Overall i'd recommend people try and be more understanding of our differences but acknowledge what makes us the same.
Most importantly, let us not dredge up grudges of the past and just get along as much as we can now.
There is a reason why the scars of what Japan did still resonates with many Asian countries, the most Ev il thing to happen en mass in recent history. Glad they are mostly really nice now but back then they were almost medievil in mindset.
"Nazis is Germany, right?"
*bangs my head against the keyboard*
1940
Germany:Hey Bud I need Help
Japanese:Nope
1941
Germany:Man Wtf Help Me,Invade The Soviet!!
Japan:Nope
1942-1945
Germany:Well played,Thanks For nothing Mate
Japanese:......
2020
Germany:Remember me?
Japanese:Who are you?
Damn its surprising that she didn't knew that germany and japan were close pals
In the US we learn US history when we're younger a lot, and then when we're in high school we finish up US history and switch to world history. Like my senior year I had both world history and mythology. Though mythology wasn't exactly history it did teach what other cultures thought were real for the most part.
18:42 nahhh bro even me not laughing show a little respect bro....
There wasn't anything funny about what Japan did at Unit 731, either.
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I would love to se her reaction on discouvering the details of what japan did in the WW2 like in Nanjing.
So Japanese are more closely relative to the Mongols than other ethnic groups like Koreans, Hans & Cantonese? 🤔 That's actually pretty interesting. I'd assume Koreans & Japanese to be more closely relative given their geographic locations.
it depends it's more of northern japan it gets more mixed the more you get towards the cities
Why?
She meant to say mongoloid.
She doesn't know what she's talking about lol
There's a prevailing theory that the origins of Japanese genetic makeup isn't all through a land bridge but through polynesian travelers. So when she says "some Japanese look more Mongolian/Chinese and the rest have a more ancient look" that group is most likely what she's referring to by "ancient"
To clarify the confusion about WWII and the islands that used to belong to Germany, Germy at that time really didn't care about those islands. In fact, is was actually better for them to not control the islands because they didn't have to spread out their military half-way across the world to get access to not a lot of resources. England didn't care about the islands either for the same reasons. The islands didn't matter to pretty much anyone other than the people living there. Therefore, the islands didn't matter. Japan said they were friends with the Nazis and the Nazis were taking over Europe. Therefore, Japan bad. There ya go.