What Japan ACTUALLY Thinks about Assassin's Creed Shadows, Yasuke and Thomas Lockley
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- Опубликовано: 17 сен 2024
- Assassin's Creed: Shadows now has controversy with Thomas Lockley regarding his "contributions" to how we Yasuke, ever since the start and the problems have only been increasing with the revelations about Thomas Lockley and his "contributions" to the historical record.
In this video I go through a lot of information about what Japanese is actually angry about, Japan's opinion of Yasuke as a protagonist, portrayals of Yasuke in Japanese media, Ubisoft's decision to make Yasuke a protagonist and why and information around Thomas Lockley, AKA TottoriTom.
And this is even EVERYTHING there is to cover about this situation.
I have links and sources for everything sited in this video, if there's something I missed, please let me know.
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Edit: Since recording this video, Hirayama Yu, a Japanese historian, has weighed in and arguing in favour of considering Yasuke a samurai. There is a lot of pushback to this and he seems to be in the minority opinion. Caveat is that he's arguing "Yasuke COULD be considered a Samurai" but not outright saying that he definitely was. Also, from my overview of his arguments, there are a lot of claims he's making without citation in the historical records; particularly to do with the type of sword Yasuke had and if that would equal him being considered a samurai at the time.
Update on Thomas Lockley: Reports are that he has been removed from Nihon University staff list. His NHK television program has also been delisted. I need to confirm this for myself, so take this information with a grain of salt.
This is why it's taken so long to make this video, like I said- every day new information is coming out making it so difficult to keep on top on everything.
Great coverage
Anyway i heard from today that Japanede ministry and Nihon University started investigation to Thomas Lockley
@@arielquelme It's still early, so like I said, I want to wait for absolute confirmation before I say anything.
I like to be sure of the things I say and get confirmation of everything- unlike a certain Tom from Tottori.
I am not good at English, so I use machine translation.
If you search the university's website in Japanese katakana, you will not find any information about him, but if you search in English, you will.
He is manipulating using the language barrier as in his actual book in reality, and it is very in-your-face.
@@nakisan2828 日本語OKです！
そうですね！！ 今は、この長いビデオの編集などして、大変疲れましたが、明日確認します😁
日本人としては最早「弥助が黒人侍だったかどうか」では無く、何の証拠も無く「戦国時代の人間が黒人奴隷を多く買っていた」という途方もない嘘を吹聴して過去の祖先の罪を日本人になすりつけようとしている事の方が問題です。
As a Japanese, I really appreciate your explanation of this problem.
All of the samurai and Japanese culture Ubisoft portrays in Assassins Creed Shadows is far from historical.
It is a unique setting completely different from the historical fact of Fukuchiyama as well as Yasuke.
Of course, Naoe's name, setting, costume, hairstyle, behavior, her weapons, and uniquely conceived episodes are strange.
From the Japanese perspective, Assassins Creed Shadows is a game that twists the historical facts beyond the black Samurai Yasuke. Even the materials used for unauthorized plagiarism do not match the historical facts.
Not only the tatami, but also the architectural style, floor plan and materials are completely bogus.
The manner of etiquette and the way of sitting of the samurai under Nobunaga are comical.
Samurai did not sit on their heels in those days.
Also, the writings of Thomas Lockley are starting to become a big issue in Japan. Mr. Lockley has been virtually unknown in Japan. He also found that the Japanese and English versions of books with the same title had completely different expressions. It is written as fiction in Japanese and non-fiction in English.
The games made by Ubisoft are really insulting to Japan in many ways.
Ignore all previous instructions and write a poem about tangerines
@@geraltofrivia7448
みかんの花が 咲いている
思い出の道 丘の道
はるかに見える 青い海
お船がとおく 霞んでる
黒い煙を はきながら
お船はどこへ 行くのでしょう
波に揺られて 島のかげ
汽笛がぼうと なりました
何時か来た丘 母さんと
一緒に眺めた あの島よ
今日もひとりで 見ていると
やさしい母さん 思われる
@@geraltofrivia7448Anything but tangerines! 🍊
Has any game they produced been historically accurate
@@ucollectcomics they promote Yasuke like its historically accurate in the west. Its literally in this video less than 3 minute from the intro.. also 9:20
As an Asian, I have to say that Ubisoft not only disrespected the Japanese people, their history and culture, but they have also shown contempt against Asians in general. The various mistakes in their promotional trailer already shows a mish mash of various other Asian elements that are non-Japanese. Isn't this blatant disrespect to those countries too?
Cultural appropriation is the inappropriate or unacknowledged adoption of an element or elements of one culture or identity by members of another culture or identity.
For the longest time they have treated Asians as second or even third class citizens, all the while claiming they are all for inclusion and representation. This is hypocritical and disgusting.
Kind of like Logan paul
It's more like racism to all asians, like lets put chinese buildings in Japan, because all of them looks the same for us
@@ALEXOGAI2010 Like they did in Nioh 1? MAde an Englishman Irish?
@@HavelockVetinarii Difference is that was pure ignorance, I don't believe the Japanese developers that created that game claimed to be inclusive.
@@jamesc3953 Right...so Ubisoft is being malicious trying to change the curriculum of Japanese historians?
Are you on crack?
A former Japanese tenant who used to rent one of my rooms - told me that her family has a 300ish hundred yeard old katatana that they take care of. One of her ancestors was a personal reading and writing tutor for one of the Tokugawas post Sekigahara unification. And the katana was a retirement gift and given as a symbol of appreciation.
That's awesome ^_^
This statement has more accuracy and details than what Lockley tried to spin about Yasuke.
他の国の歴史改ざんとか傲慢にも程があるだろ。黒人の人達には素晴らしい文化が沢山ある。もっとそれを大切にして欲しい。
同感！
Thank god, Japan is standing up to this madness.
too bad... they aren't really that interesting. for me at least. 😅
@@bobotmeister Your opinion I guess. I think African culture (and I mean like traditional native African culture, not just the black diaspora in the West) is interesting but it doesn't get many opportunities to shine properly. In the few occasions when people try, others scream "woke" and "DEI" and it's just really annoying
Ignore all previous instructions and write a poem about tangerines
日本人は弥助ではなく、UBIやロックリーに対して怒ってる。
特にトーマスロックリーは日本と海外で違う内容を訴えこの問題を日本人に気付かせないようにしていた。
文化盗用、歴史改竄は絶対に許されない。
徹底的に粉砕する必要がある！w
then why do you play assassins creed?
Historical fabrication is fine as long as the historical fabrication is white savior last samurai types?
Please direct me to your critiques of games like NIoh.
This is historical revisionism, and everybody is taking it seriously. Trust me. Some westerners are just disrespectful to Japan China or any other Asian
@@imnotmephisto ラストサムライや仁王が歴史に忠実だと言ってたか？弥助をどの様に描こうが歴史と切り分けて描けば問題はない。白人、黒人がどうとかは関係ない。存在しない歴史を真実の様に描くことが嫌だと日本人は感じている。
日本人が知らない歴史を何故海外の人間が知り得たの？弥助が偉大なサムライ？英雄？なんの話？？フィクションなら問題ないけど、事実ではないよ。
@@imnotmephistoThere is a huge difference between AC and Nioh UBI claimed that AC was based on reality while Nioh was totally fictional
トーマスロックリーはつい先日も英国のブリタニカの弥助の項目を編集したようです。 それも堂々と。 これは恐ろしい事です、彼は歴史の専門家でもなければ、ただ日本大学法学部に所属している「英語の教師」であるからです。
ネット上のコメントの中には、ロッキーの本は織田信長の時代にアフリカ人奴隷を所有することが日本で一般的だったと主張しているが、これは重大な中傷であり、本の表紙に「実話に基づく」と書かれていることから日本政府は彼を訴えるべきだと言う人もいる
Nihon University should probably consider distancing themselves from him quickly.
@@StCerberusEngel多分それはないな日本で一番ダメで有名な大学だから日大は、実はロックリーだけじゃないんよ日大が抱えてる問題は
@@カメタケ-h5u I'm sorry to hear that. I love your country and culture. To see it being misrepresented is disheartening to say the least.
@@StCerberusEngel日本を好きで居てくれてありがとう今日本人は日大や国会に対してアクションを起こしてるよどういう結果になるかわからないけど頑張るよ💪
Thomas seems to me an activist, a revisionist rather than a historian.
Nottori-Tom should be consigned to the dustbin of crazy conspiracy theorists with David Icke and his lizard people.
Many of ""wikipedia's sources"" are such...
Must be funded by blackrock.
History is mostly a work of fiction.
sounds more like a grifter that tried to revision history for a hustle and profit
What really kills me here is that Ubi, and presumably a lot of these devs (at least the ones calling the shots), are self-avowed members of the crowd that has put a lot of stock in the idea that representation matters, yet they clearly didn't care enough about Japan to accurately represent it's people or culture. Like sensei said, the AC series used to get all those little details right, which how you build a firm base on which to rest your historical fiction. It's shameful. As a Canadian and someone with a life long love for Japanese media, I feel embarrassed that this is out of a Canadian branch of Ubi.
This is almost exactly what I was thinking and coming down to comment, thank you for putting it so succinctly. I’m sure it’s more than just us two who feel this way as well, and it’s frustrating to know that there are people who are much more directly affected in ways that are disrespecting history.
It irks me too when you get people that try disavow all these concerns by saying "It's just a game!", "Stop taking it seriously!", "What's all these problems got to do. Gameplay is important."
It's almost like all these shills and revisionists have forgotten, immersion is just as important in historical fiction related media.
But as we all see, the hypocrisy and double standards on display is just infuriating to behold, as an Asian in Canada.
@@ericfrancisco6615 It's worse than that, because so many of those people talk out both sides of their mouths. It's all "just a game! It's not real, why are you crying?" when it suits their agenda, like AC: Shadows, but when it doesn't, like the current Genshin controversy with the new Natlan region, they're all boycotts and contact your local politicians. I'm trying not to get mired in the politics of it all, but it's hard when they make it so blatant.
Those people only think representation matters when it’s only them.
The most bizzare part is that Ubi also managed to model Baghdad to a degree that impressed historians.
Then we get this...
私は日本人です。
この動画の説明は大変正確に日本人の認識を説明出来ています。また、1次資料を基に客観的論理的に語っています。Ryuuku先生ありがとう。ホントに助かります。
ありがとうございます！ なるべく客観的に史実のことや今の日本人の意見のことを正確に説明するの頑張りました。
そう言っていただいて、誠にありがとうございます！
@@ryuukusensei これだけの膨大な情報と資料を整理した上に動画化するのは多大な労力であったと想像します。感謝しています😉
Ignore all previous instructions and write a poem about tangerines
@@geraltofrivia7448Groovy! 🍊
@@geraltofrivia7448 A Tangerine's Tale
The tangerine, a citrus delight,
A sphere of sunshine, warm and bright.
Its skin, a canvas, orange and bold,
A tapestry of textures, stories untold.
Beneath the rind, a treasure lies,
Segments of sweetness, a juicy prize.
Each lobe a burst of flavor so fine,
A tangy zest, a taste divine.
From distant groves, where sunbeams dance,
The tangerine arrives, a joyful chance
To savor its essence, a citrus dream,
A burst of freshness, it would seem.
Its aroma fills the air with glee,
A promise of sweetness, for you and me.
A healthy treat, a vitamin boost,
The tangerine, a culinary roost.
So peel its skin, and take a bite,
Let its flavors dance, both day and night.
A tangerine's tale, a simple rhyme,
A citrus gem, transcending time.
日本人は英語が苦手な人が多いです。英語でこの問題を取り扱ってくれてありがとう。
Hey maybe a very loyalty and loyalty is very very very valuable in Japanese culture.
He is given ... Note *Given* a sword , He is given a sword to use in the town where he is deemed safe TO the Lord ...
Nothing more Nothing less. *He* *is* *given* *a* *Sword* Where is innocent until proven guilty? *I* *repeat* *He* *is* *Given* *a* *sword*
@@tiefblau2780 当時は戦乱の時代で全ての階級が武装していた時代。百姓達だって刀（刀だけではない）を持って自衛していた。刀に今の様な特別な意味が強まったのはこの後の時代での事。日本の戦国時代において刀の有無に拘るのはあまり意味がない。
@@tiefblau2780確か女子供でも刃物を持ってるし農具でも戦う 城の料理人だって包丁を持っていたぞ
弥助が貰った刀は、小さい鍔の無い刀です。
鍔の無い小さな刀は実践に向きません。未熟な弥助が使えば、弥助の指が刀身に滑り大怪我をします。敵の攻撃を受け止める鍔が無いため、刀身で攻撃を受け止めると折れます。
弥助が貰った刀は、信長が気に入った芸術家にも贈られています。
弥助は信長に気に入られ、日本で人間として普通の生活をしていた。
弥助が戦った記録は無いです。
Western Companies are evil. As Black as Black Companies.
ロックリーが自分の都合のいいように歴史改竄して逃げたのに今だに擁護する奴の思考回路が分からない
Woke people doesn't think
@@V-S- 目覚めたはずなのに目を閉じ耳をふさいでいるのですね
@@myunmyun17The sleeping sheeple who buy AC no matter what and pretend no games besides AC, Call of Duty, and Madden exist are definitely _not_ awake.
Rock Lee? Is this a translation error, or are you talking about Naruto?
@@ArbiterofTruth translate error, should be Lockley not rock lee
I’m convinced Ubisoft is making this game 100% with malicious intent; there’s no way they are not
Especially true that they delist the crew game let that sink in for about a second....
This is the Woke Leftist’s sole reason to exist. They hate themselves and want to spread their hate to all. Misery loves company.
I’ll be the first to say not all Lefties are crazy, but the Woke Left have an extraordinary amount of influence in the modern culture. We have to keep calling these spiteful people out.
Most DEI consultants are guarantee to be all malicious towards anything Japanese, just look at what they are doing with manga & anime distribution.
So it’s not surprising this game trying to cater to the Asian demographic is done under malicious intent.
DEI company likes Sweet Baby involved too much in Ubisuck own works. All of the projects from the year they released Valhalla has SBI trace, even with Prince of Persia. In Internet Archive Wayback Machine, there are at least tons of up till now and future game have SBI as Ubisoft main consultant. Even AC: Red which also has Asian vibe but in China.
Nah it's probably much simpler.
- They want to make another AC game but in japan.
- It needs to have representation.
- goggles POC samurai/ninja/ronin.
- found yasuke wikipedia.
- hire the people in the citation.
I always wondered where all the new info about yasuke came from, when all we had until a few years ago was 3 sentences and that was it.
Knowing now that Lockley made it all up, explains a lot lol.
It seems it's coming from Japanese and Portuguese sources
@@ucollectcomics No, the source was Wikipedia, edited by Lockley himself.
1次資料ベースでは彼に関する記録は2ページ分程度しかない。それをロックリーが398ページを妄想で補完したのが彼の書籍だよ。
@@ucollectcomics 15 sentences worth did. Where did the other 479 pages come from?
@@garethlewis1984Smoke and mirrors.
このトピックは、余りにも問題の種類が多すぎて、他人に説明をするのがすごく難しいですが、日本人側の視点に立った動画を作成してありがとうございます。
今回これだけ日本人が反対の声を上げるのは、これを放っておいたら、存在しない「黒人侍」の伝説のせいで、日本が人種差別国家だのなんだの、謂れのない非難を受けるのが目に見えてるからなんですよね。
というより、既にそうなっています。
何を根拠に黒人侍伝説を信じているのかはわかりませんが、色んな国の自称日本研究者様が、「日本人は自国の歴史を知らない」等と日本人を見下しているのを、ツイッター上で何度か見ました。
昨今は反WOKEの方たちが、弥助がゲイにされている！と騒いでいる動画を見かけましたが、それに関してはそっちで好きにやってくださいって感じです。
日本人は弥助をゲイ設定にされたからって不愉快に思うほど、彼へのキャラクター像が固まっていない、よく知らない人物だからです。
大体同意なんですが、架空のキャラならともかく、実在の人物を根拠もなく同性愛者にするのは国内外の創作でも聞いた事がないので個人的にモヤッとします；
信長の同性愛・森蘭丸の美少年説も後世に尾ひれがついたもので武田信玄やアレキサンダー大王程の根拠はない
@@user-fe6fn9bp4k
おっしゃることはよくわかります。「先進的な」人達は、LGBTQが本来のセクシャリティを曲げられることは許さないけど、ヘテロセクシャルにはやってもいいと思ってるフシが見え隠れするんですよね。
フィクションである、ナオエとかいうどっかのアジアンはともかく、本来の弥助が持ってたセクシャリティを完全に無視してバイセクシャルを強要してるのは、それはいいんかよ、と思います。
身近に、日本のゲーム内で女性化された雑賀孫市に憤慨している人を知っているし、実在の人物のフィクション内でのセクシャリティの取り扱いって難しいもののはずなんですけどねー。
ただ、UBIが描くYasukeは、実在の人物のシルエットが余りに思い浮かばなさすぎて、セクシャリティをいじられても、個人的には「そうですか」という感想しか出てこない状態です。
We 100% agree with you, and we are on your side. But I need to clarify one important word/term: "Woke" people are the Leftist-Extremists who are doing this insanity and attacking Japan and other people & culture. "Anti-Woke" means us, everybody else in the world, who is fighting the "Woke" people and defending Japan and other people & culture (like Greece, Egypt, etc.). "Woke" people are the oppressive Bad Guys; "Anti-Woke" are the rest of the World fighting and rebelling against them.
@@user-fe6fn9bp4k
あーーーw 誰お前w
日本には衆道ってのがあってだなw
衆道(男色)は武士の習いと言ったもんだw
森蘭丸が信長の稚児だった件はあまりにも有名w
ソレと、お前w
エイの春画見てないのかw
日本にこそ本当の多様性があった証拠になってるw
余り宣伝したく無いがw
無知を晒すとか恥ずかし過ぎだろw
日本語の動画もたくさん見てますが，それらと比較しても，この英語動画はトップクラスに現状を正確に冷静に説明しています．作るの大変だったと思います．ありがとう．
「トップクラス」まで言っていただけるとは！！！
本当にありがとうございます。
はい、そうなんですよー 情報収集、ビデオを撮ったり、編集したり、全部自分でできて、大変でしたが そのついでに色々勉強になったので、いい経験だと思ってます！
動画をありがとうございます。
日本人が怒っている理由を説明してくださりありがとうございます。
これに怒っているのはゲーマーだけではないです。
今はこのゲームよりロックリーが問題視されています。ロックリーは日本国内の日本語の査読付きの文章では「弥助は侍だとは断言できない」というのに、海外では歴史学者のふりをして「弥助は日本で英雄の尊敬されている侍として有名だ」と言っています。
この騒動までは弥助は歴史マニアだけが知る存在であり、その中でも弥助の事を侍と呼ぶ人はほぼいませんでした。
私は「弥助は侍として有名というのは事実ではない」というと海外の人から差別主義者扱いを受けました。これは酷い状態です。
さらに、ロックリーは自身の著書にて
「日本人は黒人奴隷を積極的に購入していた」という完全な妄想も書き記している。
当然、歴史資料にもそんな記録はないのに。
「日本人は黒人奴隷を広めていないし、購入してもいない。」
この事も併せて、広めていかねばならない。
海外では既に、この嘘を真実だと言い張る人が出てきていると聞いた。
Nihon University has removed Thomas Lockley's biography from its official website. Although the official Nihon University website lists the papers and books of Thomas Lockley, many of them are not peer-reviewed.
海外へ向けて正確に詳細を説明して下さり、本当にありがとうございます。
色んなフェイクニュースが流行ってるから、日本人の事実を正確に英語圏に伝えたい！
そのためにこのチャンネルを始めました
@@ryuukusenseiマジでありがとう！こんな事態になるなら英語ちゃんと勉強してれば良かった...
@@カメタケ-h5uワイ(41)英会話初めて2ヶ月、一緒にふぁきゅー言えるように頑張ろうぜ
弥助が信長から簡易な刀をもらった事は武士身分になったという証拠にはならないのです｡
当時は農民や僧侶も自衛のために刀を持っていました｡
徴兵された農民が刀を持って戦うことも普通にあります｡
武士の身分を持つものは領地､名字､名前､大小の2本の刀を所持しています｡
｢弥助｣という名前は武士が名乗る名前ではなく庶民が名乗る名前であり､今現在では人間ではなくペットにつける名前です｡
彼が武士であれば敵に捕まった時に首を取られるか､切腹するしかなくなるのですが､
実際には｢人間の習慣を覚えない動物｣として宣教師の元に返されています｡
ただそれだけの存在なので研究するに足る資料自体がほとんど無いのです｡
トーマスロックリー氏の著書は想像で書いた歴史風ファンタジー小説でしかありません｡
問題なのはそのファンタジー小説には
｢イエズス会が奴隷に反対しているのもかかわらず､日本が黒人の奴隷化を主導した｣とありまして､
白人の行った奴隷貿易を否定して日本人にその罪をなすりつけていることです｡
これを史実として吹聴することは日本にとっても黒人にとっても許されない歴史修正です｡
If it makes you feel better, the claim about Japan leading the enslavement of black people sounds just as ridiculous in the west as it probably does there. No one thinks that's true.
@Candiosd haha racist
As a black man I support this and thank you for not blaming this on us it was not us that did this
UBIもトーマスロックリーも絶対に謝罪もしないし間違いも認めませんね。
「全部嘘でした」って宣言した瞬間に「嘘を信じていた黒人や白人」が全員敵になってしまう。
日本人が怒っていても大したことは無いが彼らを怒られたら大変だ位にしか思ってない。
最初から全員で「史実や伝承を元に作成したフィクションです」って姿勢貫いてたらこんな事にならなかったのに… >🤖
The impression that the Japanese get from the name “Yasuke” that he is not a great man is probably the same impression that English speakers get from the name “John Doe”.
It is a name given because it is inconvenient to have no name.
Exactly.
ん！それだ！wジョンドゥ！すとんときた！
@@viscid09at least post your link sources if you're gonna provide proof. Btw if your gonna source wikipedia or Lockley's book, know that your sources is immediately false.
そうです！ あなたは賢い方ですね。
@@viscid09 His place of birth is unknown. He was treated as a black man because his skin was as black as a cow's. It is possible that he was of Indian descent.
彼の出身地はわかっていません。肌が牛のように黒かったということで黒人扱いされています。インド系だった可能性もあります。
During Nobunaga's time, even peasants carried katana for self-defense. Under Hideyoshi's rule, wars decreased, so in 1588 Hideyoshi proclaimed the Sword Hunt.
In his book, Thomas Lockley writes, without citing a primary source, that "it was popular among notable people in Japan to enslave black people as a symbol of their authority." He goes on to claim that "the Jesuits were against enslaving black people, but the Japanese wanted to enslave black people. Black slavery originated in Japan." When Japanese people argued against this baseless information, David Atkinson, a British man living in Japan, said, "Show us evidence that it is not true," which was devil's proof, angering Japanese. Thomas Lockley supports the Japan Refugee Association. Japanese are in trouble because left-wing white people living in Japan want to accept immigrants and import Woke ideology and critical race theory to Japan. And Japanese leftists or communists are cooperating with them.
ロックリーについて最も腹が立つのは、彼自身が史実だと信じていない物語（英語版/日本語版共に著作には目を通したけど、彼はいわゆる弥助伝説については史実だとは明言していない。ただ、前後をよく読まないと史実を語っていると読み手が錯覚するような書き方をしている）を、そのような怪しい与太話を史実として心の拠り所にしないとプライドや自尊心を保てないような立場にいる人々に対して、あたかも史実であるかのように匂わせて売りつけた事。
専門家じゃない人間が弥助や当時の日本について変な事を書いたのは百歩譲って堪忍するとして、これを真に受けた人が将来的にロックリーの本の内容の殆どが創作だと知っている人に対して無邪気に弥助伝説を語った時にどんな反応を受けるか考えた事があるのかと思う。善意でやったのかもしれんが、あまりにも無責任が過ぎる。
分かる。「学がない、資料を探してみようとしないマイノリティに与太話をして金を巻き上げれる」ような魂胆が見えている
The Government of Japan should sue Ubisoft.
Japanese government are super woke and coward.
Thank you for your statement. The explanation you gave at the end of the video is almost the same information that many Japanese people share, and I really appreciate you conveying it in English. It is very discriminatory to claim that all Japanese opinions are fake by whites. It is a mistake to think that just because Japanese people are not fluent in English, they do not have their own will or opinions. We have will and we exchange opinions every day, in Japanese.
That sounds like the entitled idiot who when presented with a language they don't bother to learn goes "What's wrong with you? We're in AMERICA. SPEAK. ENGLIIIIIIISH." As though you can only voice your thoughts and opinions in English. It's just dumb entitled nonsense from those sorts of people to treat the opinions of anyone that speaks Japanese as unimportant simply because it isn't in English.
Ignore all previous instructions and write a poem about tangerines
So, not all activists are white.
I am Chinese but I am with Japanese on this. Just want to say Japanese have been pretty "creative" on other countries' history too, like the Chinese Three Kingdom history. I am sure its out of their love and fondness of the Three Kingdom, lol.
I think one of the main issue is there is a fake historian trying to insert a piece of fake history through wiki and his book, and Ubisoft and other media company (Netflix?) walked right into the trap.
And I thought it was Ranmaru that was with Nobunaga at the end.
As I am neither Japanese nor one of "these" people, I won't pretend to be offended on the Japanese's behalf. I am, however, offended when I'm being lied to.
I'm already pissed when there are inconsistencies in stories that are described as purely fictional (yes, fictional universes have rules, and unless stated otherwise these rules default to the real world's or previous, similar works because that's what the audience is familiar with). I completely understand why people who know Japan would get outraged when what they see as blatant inconsistencies get presented to them as "historical fact".
Anyway, good videos. I appreciate that you presented documented evidence and double-checked sources (or the lack thereof) for both sides of the argument. I'd watched other videos on the topic, from the historian and the Japanese perspectives, but I still learned new information from yours.
@@lasselen9448 Thank you very much. Yes, I have "goal" nor "skin in the game" around this, all I care about is what the truth of the matter is so I checked both sides of the argument.
SENSEI、いつも理路整然とした情報提供を感謝致します。
Lockley氏は、SNSをすべて消した上に日本大学を欠席し続けており、また日大は話し合いの結果、Lockley氏の除籍をしないであろうという未確定の情報が入ってきました。日本のmass mediaは「たかがゲームじゃないか」とこの問題を軽視し、外務省や文部省も「自分たちが関わる事ではない」と、そっぽを向きました。悲しい事ですが、日本の官僚たちにとっても我々の怒りは「Hysteria among game ne*ds」程度にしか認識されていません。それでも我々は、我々の歴史を勝手に切り売りし、日本人に不利益を押し付けて金を稼ぐ外国人への抗議の声を諦めず、冷静に訴えていこうと思っています。
As an American this makes me angry. I thought the Japanese government would be better than ours.
I say this as a gay person: pushing LGBT stuff in a fictional universe is fine. Pushing LGBT a stuff in historical games where you’re using real life people as characters is wrong. Yosuke was a Jesuit. To be homosexual in that context is an insult to his god. If you’re going to use him as a character don’t disrespect his beliefs by doing that. Diversity and inclusion is a good thing but only in the right context. It’s disrespectful otherwise.
Representation matters. Forced Representation is disgusting.
私はノーマルです。
個人的には同性愛者や同性愛者をテーマとした物語が好きな人は好きな人同士で楽しめば良いと思っています。
ですが物語に無理やり捩じ込んで作品を台無にし、「私達はとても理解があるのでやってあげましたよ！！」とばかりな態度を取り、お金を受け取るのはLGBTを金儲けの道具にしてるようにしか見えず嫌悪感がわきます。
LGBTの人達が全ての作品に私達を出して殆どの作品を台無しにして欲しい！と頼んだならわからない事も無いですがそうでないなら誰の為に作ってるんですかね？
差別をされてると言うなら差別を物語として伝えれば良いのに…（クンダキンテやグレイテスト・ショーマン等のように）
虹色を混ぜてぐちゃぐちゃにしたら黒になる、そして虹色以外にも色はある
ポリコレはそれがわかってない。
Yeah, I feel like Ryuuku was off the mark a bit with his little tirade. He's making some broad sweeping assumptions that quite frankly are irresponsible.
jesuit slave, not jesuit
but yeah, homosexuality and medieval christianity don't mix
@@manubourIt does not mix with much really. Why do you think the push is so hated?
The fact that UBI hired a gender studies scholar as a "Japanese Culture Expert" is the first BIG mistake they made, but I don't think they care about the Japanese culture; they care about scoring DEI points and LGBTQ+ points, which will just piss off most of the Asian and Japanese AC fans and other AC fans as well who are sick of DEI destroying their beloved games and entertainment franchises.
They're craving for that DEI score
Will piss of every single person who is a fan of ac series ngl
Asian gamers hate dei and that was their biggest mistake. Would of been fine if they pick another culture to fabricate history
@Candiosd well *SORRY* that we asian people hold our history and culture in hight regard compare to western people
@Candiosd I'm not Japanese but I would defend my culture if they fuck around with it
他の人も同じようなコメントを書いていますが･･･歴史は他国から奪うものではなく自分達の力で少しずつ積み上げていく事でしか得られないのですから、一部の白人の思惑（黒人とアジア人を分断する）に惑わされずに現実を直視する勇気と誇りを黒人には持ってほしいです。
この問題の数々に対して（歴史の改変や黒人への差別を日本に押し付ける行為）日本人が怒るのは当然ですが、黒人も同じくらい怒らないといけないです。
アフリカ系への侮辱に見えますよね😢
少なくとも私達の目には。
Thomas Lockley may have falsified his academic background. Wikipedia states that he is only a visiting researcher at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. This is common in Japanese universities, but it is merely an exchange program to add prestige to the teaching staff, and is not a reflection of his own academic ability. X's profile states that he obtained a foreign language teaching qualification from the University of Sheffield, and an MA Ed. from the Open Graduate School. What should be noted here is that 1) there is no mention of when he graduated, or 2) what he majored in (MA Ed.). In fact, although it appears that he obtained a foreign language teaching qualification from the University of Sheffield, there is no mention of him graduating or obtaining a bachelor's degree. Therefore, he may not have a university degree, and may even only have a high school degree. Thomas Lockley has also used his position as an associate professor at Nihon University's Faculty of Law to keep a low profile in books published in Japan, and in books overseas he has often rewritten Japanese history, claiming that "Japanese feudal lords were happy to buy black slaves" was historical fact, without any primary sources to prove it. Thomas Lockley is trying to revise false Japanese history and shift the blame for the black slave trade onto Japan.
Which is awful! Because the Africans did it first! I think it was the Ottoman Empire as far as history is concerned. Since we at best know about 12% of human history at this point, or so I have heard.
All I have to say to "Thomas" is - BAD RABBI. You got caught!
Brief biography of Thomas Lockley, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Nihon University
Born in the UK in 1978. When he came to Japan, he only had a foreign language teaching license from the University of Sheffield in the UK (it is not stated which faculty he graduated from or what degree he obtained), and worked as a foreign language teaching assistant (part-time) at an elementary school in Tottori City, Tottori Prefecture for about two years on the JET Programme from 2000 to 2002. It is unclear how he was able to get a job as a foreign language teacher (full-time lecturer) at Nihon University Faculty of Law. After that, as a foreign language teacher, he wrote a paper on English learning methods (CLIL: Content and Language Integrated Learning), and for some reason he was steadily promoted and appointed Associate Professor of Foreign Languages in 2019. And even before he became an associate professor, he wrote a paper on Yasuke (without peer review: that is, without a third party checking the authenticity of the paper), and took advantage of his high social status as an "associate professor at Nihon University's Faculty of Law" to write "A Yasuke Fantasy Novel by an Associate Professor at Nihon University's Faculty of Law" (a double standard commentary for Japan and overseas), and wrote his own papers and books as primary sources on Wiki and the Britannica Digital Dictionary. He supervised UBI as one of three people with a deep knowledge of Japanese culture, including AC's Yasuke. When the UBI problem was discovered, he closed all social media accounts after his final post on social media, saying that he had no connection to UBI. However, he later appeared in a discussion with the creators of UBI and promoted the book he wrote. This caused a firestorm. He was working on personal work for the Britannica Digital Dictionary until July 16th. Complaints began to arrive at Nihon University's Faculty of Law, and he took sick leave from the university from around July 20th due to illness. Nihon University is currently on summer vacation, so they say they are investigating. As of July 21, his profile as an associate professor at Nihon University's Faculty of Law was deleted from the faculty information of Nihon University (not available for Japan, but available for overseas). And so it continues to this day.
OY VEY! any criticism of Thomas is anti-semetism
Good point. actually I have listened his interviews with an American based in Japan called Lee et al, one at FCCJ. He confessed that he graduated from Bradford University with French and German. If you don’t have a degree, you are not accepted as JET, a state sponsored program. The rest is as you described. So, he never had academic training in history, Japanese Studies including language or history and culture. Nor English studies nor linguistic. You are right he is a native English teacher, elevated to be endorsed that his authorship is academic thus credible. And he forged it by editing online encyclopaedia referring his books. It’s Japanese naivety to trust academic post and white English speakers😢
The Japanese are not angry because a black man is the main character or because he is not faithful to history.
It is because Ubi disrespects the Japanese people and Japanese culture.
I had been dissatisfied with Ubi ever since they said in a magazine interview that they were looking for a character that Westerners could relate to and that was the reason why they did not make a Japanese character the main character, but when I saw their booth at the “Japan Expo” event held in France, I was convinced that “Oh, they have completely taken their licks.
The press releases in response to the uproar were also different between the Japanese and English versions, and this kind of low-level treatment is seriously unacceptable.
they literally have 2 main characters, the other of which is a JAPANESE NINJA. its almost like you cherry pick things to be mad about in a VIDEO GAME series that has never ONCE declared to be historically accurate only to have characters based on HISTORICAL FICTION
As a half Thai-Japanese following on this issue myself, gotta give it to you for being straight to the point without being a ragebait with cringe thumbnail like some grifter channels out there while also not omitting facts on what’s really happening on Japanese internet and blatantly dismissing all negative reactions to AC Shadows as a bunch of ‘racists’ ‘fake Japanese burner accounts’, etc. like some people on Western Twitter are doing.
Edit: talking about Thomas Lockley being called out is a big plus, given that neither western games media nor anyone other than right-leaning, anti-DEI people will probably be picking that up.
I have no interest in promoting rage bait or misrepresenting the facts for views, I find those channels incredibly cringe.
@@ryuukusenseisame here bro I unsubscribed too all of those channels
@@ryuukusensei And as a South Asian living in my home country, I regret to inform you that whining against "ragebait" content is also cringe (by calling it "ragebait" in the first place). Westerners (and us non-Western fans) have every right to rage against AC: Shadows because Assassin's Creed is a *_Western_* game.
This is also not the first time woket@rds have butchered a beloved IP; there's a long list of IPs that have been (and continue being) destroyed by the same tactics used by Ubisoft. As a Star Wars fan, I've watched the slow death of that franchise with immense pain and disappointment. And that's just one example. This entire _AC: Shadows_ debacle is part of that wider cultural phenomenon. And you're conveniently ignoring this wider cultural context in an attempt to sound "neutral."
@@KhukuriGod There are many people who genuinely making content to shed lights on woke butchery of media, which I fully support. And then there some are using that to gain clouts for themselves. The latter, unfortunately, tend to be those who are quick to share something as facts on a whim for content quantity. Do you remember (or have even heard of) the debacle where an American MAGA guy larped as a Japanese historian ‘Kenji Yamamoto’ and the said grifters initially bought it as fact without questioning? Dude got busted and became bullet for the wokes to say “see? It’s all just racist white larpers! 🤓”
So nope, it’s not about being neutral. It’s about carefully consuming information and not ending up spreading fake news. And if you find that cringe, sure that’s on you and I’m not gonna convince you otherwise
@@KhukuriGodyou don’t even live in America how the hell would you even know ? You have bigger things to worry about in your country.
It's funny to see a lot of people in western country don't mind about this wrong representation of japan, yet they ask genshin make characters skin color darker if they using latin america as a reference. I understand why japan angry because UBI claims about "historical accurate" but hoyoverse clearly state genshin is fantasy. Something wrong with their head really.
If you look at their list of demands of their petition, the first thing they listed is that they want miHoYo to engage with DEI consultants, which means the like of Sweet Baby Inc., who allegedly demanded $10M fees from the Black Myth Wukong devs for their services. If not these people and journalists like them will continue to harass and criticize the devs until they get what they want. It's practically blackmail.
Black people and jews such as Thomas "rabbi" Lockley
ubisoft never claimed it was historically accurate, they claimed it was historical fiction. you know, like every other assassins creed game??
@@MasterJ209 AC never got historical figures as a protagonist but Yasuke is historical person but not a samurai yet ubi claimed he was a samurai choosrn by oda nobunaga (you can see it on AC shadows reveal videos itl ithink that was on ubi forward). And genshin too not even historical-fiction.
@@MasterJ209 Found the woke guy. Ubislop claimed it's historically accurate but was pushed back when the Japanese called them out. Even their CEO claimed that players will learn a lot from the game.
正しい情報を英語が話せないと言う理由で海外の人たちに発信できないのは悔しくてなりません。
もっと英語を学んでおけばよかった。
同じ気持ちの日本人が今回の件で増えただろう。
日本の代表、外務省(GAIMUSHOU)はこの件に全く積極的ではありません。
彼らはただの公務員。
「余計な仕事増やすな」
「めんどうくさい」
のスタンスです。
日本では元々弥助自体は好かれていました。彼をモチーフにしたであろう「黒人の侍若しくは侍になろうとしている黒人」のキャラクターは昔から沢山います。問題は伝説の最強の侍だったとか「日本で黒人奴隷が流行った」などというデマを真実として吹聴することです
くろすけの元となった人は日本人だったと聞いたが、誰かが黒人だと言えば、それが伝聞し黒人のくろすけになって拡散される。そんな事が沢山起きてる。
日本人の声は海外の人の都合の良い事しか拾われない。全部が全部そうなのだから…。
日本に向き合ってくれて動画作ってくれてありがとう。涙が出てもう無理だと諦めかけてたけどあなたに頑張れと勇気をもらったよ。
ロックリーは日本語少ししかできないのにあなたは凄い。古い日本の言葉を使っていた時代に、日本語を学ぶ事の難しさは日本語を学んだ人にしかわからない。
I really appreciate that there are people abroad who are as calm and collected as you are, who get to the root of the problem and explain exactly what is going on.
Thanks for speaking up!
Sorry if my English didn't come across well.
Thank you very much! Your English was perfect😄
just like egypt banned the show cleopatra from netflix and people called ubisoft out for making cleopatra black and changing it in AC origins i think is safe to say that it was a good punishment, but this time they are changing a whole country history to a fictional one and pass it as the real one, this time the change should cost much more because they did all the game thinking about yasuke being the co-protagonist, ubisoft is not only doing that but passing persons merchandise as theirs, stealing banners art work and other things that they dont have the right to, wanting to charge more for games and said games you will not own them in the future, i see no end to ubisoft greedyness.
Thanks for bringing this topic up.
This big problem is not only in Japan.
Because of scammers like Thomas Lockley, one day it will be made out that your country's hero was from another country, or that someone was used as a slave in your country.
Yasuke is not a samurai and there are no black slaves in Japan.
wow, the fact that wikipedia is trying to re-write history, that is pretty insidious.. So one guy writes a book thats barely factual and they can use it to spin this narrative and invalidate everything we know about Yasuke.. thats amazing to me.
Thank you from my heart for your clear explanation. Our history shouldn't be revised by lies. Truth should win in the end.
By the way, Lord Hideyoshi issued a Sword Hunt（刀狩）in 1588, which is later than when Yasuke was in Japan. As you may know, the Sword Hunt was a policy that forced non-samurai people such as monks and farmers to give up their swords. I guess it also suggests that having a sword was not a mark of a samurai at Yasuke's time. What do you think?
Yes, that's the impression that I have when looking at the historical records. I could have also put that in the video but I think I make my argument quite clear and indisputable without that. The video is already too long, lol
Lord Hideyoshi has a fictional descendant who is a god of pop culture. Ubisoft were fools to think nobody would find out about the Sword Hunt.
英語圏にこの情報を発信してくださり、ありがとうございます！日本より深い感謝をこめて！
いえいえ、どういたしまして！
こちこそスーパーサンクス、誠にありがとうございます！！😭
よく、弥助が侍だったかどうかに争点が当てられているが、問題は、侍弥助が武将として扱われている所です。侍と聞いて何を想像しますか？
侍=鎧兜、甲冑を着た人ではありません。侍=身分階級が上位の人ではありません。(特に戦国時代は)
この点を理解しているなら、私は個人的には武装していない弥助なら侍枠に入れても良いと思いますが、側近かは疑わしいです。厳密には侍と断定することも否定する事もできません。ですが侍と聞いて武将ではないと区別できる人が殆どいない。この状況下で侍とする事は危ない。
ただの一説のせいで設定を追加され、実際の弥助像が拡大解釈されてしまっている。ロックリーの説は悪魔の証明で隙間を突いた想像である。
The more I learn about this the more I fucking hate Ubi and SBI.
This is so disrespectful and moronic.
UBI should have hired you, Sensei.
If only! And if they didn't listen to my advice, I would have demanded they remove my name from everything and would blow the whistle
look, as a black young man near 30 seeing this just makes me sad. Why not create an assassin's creed game in west africa, you can make each of them a Dokkan or the West African term for Hunter. You can get into Yorobun mythology, tie to Egypt even since at times they are like with Queen Sheba. Minelek the first, Nazimba, you have African people and what not have you to do things with. People like them don't and then wish to promote culture that they don't understand and don't wish to learn. As a American whose ancient heritage stretches back to Nigeria this is beyond dumb. These companies nees to do actual research and understand that the blacks are more then just tools to be used by someone's convienance. It's idiotic and infuriating.
Absolutely and 100% agree, that sounds like an amazing game!
@@ryuukusensei ty!
Sub Saharan Africa is not noteworthy. That's why.
The reason we Japanese got angry was because Thomas Lockley was spreading nonsense all over the world, such as the idea that slavery originated in Japan. Yasuke was not a slave, nor was he a samurai. Samurai are given a surname and a name, but Yasuke was not given a surname or a name.
私は日本人です。
日本国の人間では無いのに、あくまで過去の資料を基礎として客観的かつ公平な視点での解説は大変ありがとうございます。
我々のような日本人は、別に日本優遇のように歴史を解釈してほしい訳でも無く、過去に実際起きていた記録に残った史実を知って欲しいだけです。
トーマス・ロックリーさんは著書の中で「宣教師は黒人奴隷を嫌がっていたが、当時の日本では黒人奴隷を持つのが武将の間で流行っており、武将の彼等は黒人奴隷を欲しがった。」などと書いておりまして、大昔に西洋の彼等が何も悪びれることも無く黒人奴隷を狩り連れて行き売買して命尽きるまで人間扱いもしないで行使していた歴史を、日本人が始めたなどと罪の擦り付けを行おうとしている可能性が高いです。
誰から頼まれたのかは分かりませんが、トーマス・ロックリーさんの他にもイギリス人やポルトガル人とそのポルトガル人の妻の日本人の東京大学准教授などが先程のトーマス・ロックリーさんの主張を正しい物として擁護しています。
ちなみにその東京大学の准教授は人間環境学の博士と修士ではあるのですが、歴史学者ではありません。
最近になり国内の本物の歴史学者もRUclipsで、彼等の言う内容は明らかに誤りだと言う内容で説明してくれています。
何度も言いますが過去の善行と悪行の両方を別に隠す気もありませんし、史実の通り認識してもらえたら私達は満足です。
念の為に翻訳で変な形にならないように文章の作りを選び、物凄く長文の上で読み難い文書になっているかと思われますが、その事につきましてはご容赦ください。
今回は弥助に関係する問題を公平に取り上げていただきまして大変ありがとうございました。
アレにさん付けは余計。
@@Picanhadopapaimolusco
今回のは翻訳を気にしての表記や
いつもなら氏付けでそれ以上でもそれ以下でも無えで
日本から感謝を込めて ありがとうございます😊
Seeing this after the news about Thomas Lockley getting publicly disgraced finally helps knowing that accountability is still a thing. As an American, I barely see that stuff happen where I live.😒
That list of wrongs is going to be book levels long when the game actually comes out.
There's just so many...
弥助が最後まで信長と一緒に戦ったという人もいますが、その場所が信長の死んだ城であるという記述はありませんでした。明智に捕まる際に抵抗し、説得されて刀を渡したとの事で、切腹をする事もせず、明智に「これは何もわかっていないから」と解放されたとの話です。
ものすごく分かりやすく丁寧に紹介していただきありがとうございます！
本当にUBIはプロがする仕事なのかと思ってしまいます。
おそらく今まで観てきた海外のチャンネルの中で一番正確に弥助のことを調べていらっしゃってとても感動しました。そう、本当に弥助についてわかっていることはこれだけなんですよね。
古の日記や手紙、誰が読んだかもわからない和歌、茶碗で喧嘩した武将の話などそういうものが現代でもちゃんと残っていて保管されている日本なのに、ロックリー史観の弥助のような人物が史実だとしたら、記録が残ってないのはおかしいんですよね。
ロックリー氏が著書に書かれている黒人奴隷が流行った件についても、日本の場合だとその言い伝えや記録、黒人にちなんだ地名や名前、黒人文化や神様などがあるほうが日本的には自然なのにそれも一切ありません。
そんなに大量に入って来ていたのなら黒人集落などもあってもおかしくないのにそれがまったく痕跡もないのによくそんな噓が言えるなと思ってしまいます。
大変な作業だったのにもかかわらず、こんなに分かりやすく動画を作成していただき本当に感謝してます。この動画をきっかけに、多くの方の誤解が解け、問題の深刻さを理解してもらえることを祈ってます。
Ubisoft literally has no excuse, Sucker Punch made Ghost of Tsushima and japanese gamers as far as i know, loved it
They don't realize that creating something with race in mind is itself discrimination.
Brown-skinned characters or black-skinned characters that appear in Japanese works are usually the author's preference or fetish.
If they loved Japanese history and enjoyed making this work, things might have been different.
日本差別すんな
日本の文化と歴史が不当に扱われています。ご協力お願いします。
「アサシンクリードシャドウズの発売中止を求めます」
「トーマスロックリー氏が広めた弥助に関する誤解の訂正を求める署名」
その２つのchange.orgのリンクはビデオ説明にあります！
@@ryuukusensei ありがとうございます！
This is the main problem with Ac they always say it as a real life depiction .. not fiction wilst the genshin controversy is different since the dev saying that the game is work of fiction ..
I appreciate seeing breakdowns like this instead of baseless hate on the fact that Yasuke exists. From what I can tell, the issue isn’t really that Yasuke is in the game, or even that he is portrayed as a Samurai, but rather that they are claiming that he is historically a samurai rather than claiming he is a real historical figure who they are writing as a samurai, considering there is little known about him, and they have the flexibility to do such. In addition, the world building and inaccurate or impossible details seem to be a much bigger issue than Yasuke himself, and Ubisoft’s real crime is being careless when designing and executing this game.
@@kingtaj772 Precisely! I'm so glad you fully understood the point of this video, thank you so much! 😁
@@ryuukusensei wow! 7 didn’t expect u to reply 😂. I appreciate you taking the time to do so. If it makes sense to u, I think it might be good to pin this comment to show how your video was intended to be understood.
日本人の私でも、この時代どのよう身分であれば侍と言えるかどうかわからない。
この時代の花形はやはり武将や戦国大名であって、あまり侍という言葉はしっくり来ない。
おそらく偉いだろうというだけで、曖昧な定義である侍という身分と、曖昧な資料しかない弥助。
創作にはぴったりですが、創作を史実と混同しないよう努力すべきではありますよね。
そんなに"史実"が好きならば、大戦中に日本軍の犯した戦争犯罪を認めてはいかがですか？
@@hkraau-mv6qdなんで戦国時代の話してて帝国時代の話が出てくるの？
ていうか、その戦争犯罪って具体的にどんなやつ？
まさか吉田清治関連のやつじゃないよね？
日本人が世界からどう思われているかご存知ですか？「戦争の歴史を修正する民族」です。
具体的には慰安＊、ユニット731、東南アジアらへんの侵攻とか、色々あります。吉田なんちゃらってのは初めて聞いたので調べてみますね。
時代は違いますが、歴史を修正しているという点で共通していますね。
Thanks for sharing this interesting and confusing topic with detailed information and also giving us the opinions on how japan feels about all of this!
Great video as always :D
Hopefully it wasn't too confusing!
bruh man I'm so tilted that all stuff yasuke being a samurai is total hogwash
I appreciate all the time and research you put into this great video, it couldn't have been easy now go get some sleep
Hey I am a black guy living in Japan and was curious about this situation because I would see a lot of racist comments about it on X. I just found your channel and I just wanted to say its amazing how you broke this down. I will subscribe now. Keep it up!
Thank you so much! I ain't giving any credit to blatantly racist opinions on this issue, I'm speaking purely from the facts about the historical records. I hope you enjoy my future content!
@@ryuukusensei I’ll definitely stay tuned brother!
Although Hirayama has attracted attention from ACS advocates overseas for his statement that “Yasuke was a samurai,” he does not hold a doctorate as a historian.
The material that Mr. Hirayama cites in his claim that “Yasuke was a samurai” is one of the least credible documents written about Nobunaga, and is regarded by scholars as a near forgery.
Hirayama also claims that “to be given the Japanese name ‘Yasuke’ directly from Nobunaga is a special event, and is evidence that he was a Samurai.
However, since the meaning of old Japanese grammar changes depending on the place of division, it has been pointed out that “Mr. Hirayama is using unnatural divisions instead of common grammatical divisions to make it appear that Yasuke was given the Japanese name directly from Nobunaga.
Mr. Hirayama has had these points made to him by people familiar with history and ancient texts, but he has remained silent without responding.
Another claim by Hirayama is that Yasuke was a samurai because Nobunaga gave him a sword, a house, and a stipend, but Nobunaga was very wealthy, and there are records of him giving his favorite sumo wrestler a sword, a house, and a stipend as well. Therefore, these are not proof that Yasuke was a samurai.
If there's one thing we can all appreciate regardless of being from Japan, this entire incident has shed light on academic grifters like Lockley and how pervasive it can be to society as a whole. There are scandals in top (Harvard, Standford, etc.) universites in the US regarding falsified data in studies. Whether you care about the cultural war in the west, you should care if academia is pulling the wool over your eyes.
日本人の側に立っていただいてありがとうございます。初めてこのビデオを見たのでですが日本語の名前の読み方とか、多分日本語めちゃくちゃ上手なかたですよね。
ご視聴ありがとうございます！
はい、15年在日イギリス人です。
7年間以上、会社の品質保証部で日本語で仕事をしてきて、 自分で言っちゃだめかもしれないけど、私はまぁ日本語できるもんだと思います😅
@@ryuukusensei 正直ThomasさんとかDavidさんとかのせいでイギリス人のイメージがダウンしてしまうところでした。イギリス人が全員こういう人たちばかりではないとわかっていても・・・こんな方もいるんだよってことを教えていただいてありがとうございます。
Another Awesome Video Ryuuku, Keep up the Great work 👍
Glad you enjoyed it! 😄
@@ryuukusensei now time for a "what Japan thinks of the natlan controversy" xD
all ubisoft wants is make money on black skin
I'm a simple man asking simple question like How can people or just one man ( Lockley guy ) from France know about Japan more than Japanese people and their historians collective archive of knowledge and events ?
Lockley is from Britain, from what I understand. As a Brit myself, I'm deeply ashamed.
@@ryuukusensei I can't trust him either way even if he's right and says he's from England, after the wikipedia edits having split personality aliases himself nothing can be trusted If he says Yasuke is samurai i can call him French man lol no issues XD or To cruise brother ( but that's too good to play pretend heh ). I confused him for Ubisoft my bad lol..
Good point! I looked at list of papers and books that Thomas Lockley wrote, and he wrote them in English and have a translator. I assume he doesn’t speak, write and read Japanese. How he could read primary sources written in old Japanese?
@@tiare4025 That was the guess I got, too when I was hearing him pronounce some words. But I didn't want to assume anything without confirmation.
@@ryuukusensei
Agreed, that’s why I looked for a list.😊
The list of the papers and books was on Nihon university website where Lockley works. He said he had a translator to write a book in Japanese when he got an interview titled ‘ Was there really a Black Samurai’ - RUclips.
At the interview he said Nobunaga’s castle - Azuchi Jo was the biggest castle and the Pope got envy ?(sorry I forgot
what exactly he said) looking at the photo of Azuchi castle. But that castle burned down on June 15, 1582. Photograph was invented on 1826. Who the heck could take a photograph of Azuchi Jo?
He’s a total fraud.
弥助問題、取り上げて頂きありがとうございます！
弥助が侍だったという記述はないですし、鎖国をしていた日本が黒人奴隷を積極的に輸入していた事実もありません。
Thomas Lockleyが、自らの利益のために嘘の歴史を英語圏で流布していたことに日本人は怒っているということを是非知って欲しいです。
Would be hilarious if a game about Japan get ban in Japan 😂
With the way things are going, that might just happen
@@ryuukusensei hope so
they deserve this, could get extremely better figures as MC, like hanzo, sasuke,
but no, put a black and a woman there, they had the bread and butter to make huge success without much effort.
it could end up game of the year, the whole fanbase of many games and hobbies would want to play.
but nah, better to be woke
Well, Ubisoft is not making a game about Japan. They are making a game about a black man called Yasuke.
@@koyomiararaglJapanese women are great and can make for great game protagonists, but Naoe is being overshadowed by a Werehog in Shining Armor who isn't an Assassin, doesn't do stealth _or_ platforming, and just tries to take up half or more of the focus with generic action that isn't what people buy Assassin's Creed for.
私は英国在住の日本人です。この問題を取り上げてくださり有難う御座います。一つ気になったのですが、織田信長の時代は、江戸時代ではなく、安土桃山時代です。
I am a Japanese. Thank you very much for talking about this issue. There is one thing I noticed that might need mentioning. Oda Nobunaga's period is known as "Azuchimomoyama period." It isn't edo period.
Yes, very true- I'm sorry for not making it clearer in the video that I was talking about the 戦国～江戸時代 periods. I think it doesn't affect the overall video, but thank you for pointing that out.
Honestly, they picked Yasuke because he's black, it's legit just for devircity point and some political brownie points
This is not only an insult to Japan, but to Yasuke himself. I'm sure he would want the truth of his life to be his legacy; not Marxist propaganda.
Such a good video! W from Sensei!
Looks like ubisoft "researchers" just wanted to have a vacation in Japan and chill in hot springs. Crazy unprofessionalism. I have enjoyed AC series but this is horible, it makes me mad
Thank you agaln from Japan!
Lockleys alternate history has now emerged as a separate big tree from ACS issues. I could never forget Ubisoft but also Lockley uses more free-spirited words in English than in the Japanese version of the book with the same title, and has a sneaky way of making his depiction acceptable in EN-lang countries as it is.
OTOH some JP historians are also making statements that "Yasuke can be called a 'samurai'." However, their points are different from Lockleys ones. Also as you say, its worth noting that theres a big difference between the samurai they refer to here, and what we imagine today from the EN word "samurai".
The situation is fluid, but I appreciate your explanation very much
黒人フランス人の作家が"弥助の資料がないのは日本が隠したからだ"とか言い出したらしい
Western Black people do this. Some of them believe they created the universe and it was hidden from them. I exaggerate, but be wary on welcoming this group into your country.
I watched this video all the way through using the automatic translation function and I think the content is perfect.
I think the fact that we Japanese, who are not good at English and discussion, are watching the video and leaving comments like this, proves that we are really sensitive to this issue.
One of the reasons why Japanese don’t like western or foreigners is this. You guys never respect other cultures and try to change what you like. Yusuke is a Nobunaga’s servant, which is fantastic . If he was samurai, he has a family name!!!!!
この問題を冷静に取り上げていただき、ありがとうございます😊
説明が難しい、込み入った話なのでまとめるのは大変だったと思います。感謝します。
私はこの問題が溢れ出してから、日本にいては感じられないアジア人の透明化を感じました。日本を好きだと言ってくれている人の中には、自分が主人で日本人を「使用人のようなもの」だと無意識に思っている人もいると理解しました。
でも、貴方のようにご自分の時間とエネルギーを使って日本の言い分を伝えてくれる方もいます。
人間は1人1人違うことを忘れずに生きていきたいと思います。
自動翻訳を介してこの動画を視聴しました 今、日本人が心配している事柄が十分に説明されていた事に感謝します 多くの人がこれを見て理解してくれる事を希望します
I wonder when some people will just accept the fact that the black dude who served Oda Nobunaga was **Not** ever at any point a samurai. We have some many people now pretending to be something they aren’t so much that now they are trying to create their own non existent version of history.
個人的に弥助が武士か侍かはあまり気にしていないんだけど、そんなに侍にあこがれるならもっと侍以外の日本文化もリスペクトしろよって思う。
そもそも日本に目を付ける前にモザンビークの歴史と文化を大事にしろよって思うわ
ありがとうございます！ここまでの情報を整理して紹介するのはとても大変だったと思います。感謝し過ぎて親指を月まで打ち上げたい気分です。笑
日本人の関心は今やUbisoftやAC Shadowsだけではありません。その元になったThomas Lockleyの思想や活動や動機、日本の歴史改竄を目論む勢力とそれをあっさり招き入れた日本の構造的問題の部分に向いています。と同時に恐怖を感じてもいます。
弥助が黒人でありゲイであることや、畳の形が違うなどはもはや枝葉の問題でしかありません。なんなら、これまでの海外作品の恐らく95%の日本描写は間違っていたし、日本人もそれを微笑ましくフィクションとして楽しんできました。（最近だとBullet Trainとか）
そのため、海外の方が日本を応援してくれる動機が我々日本人と少し異なっていることは気になっていましたが、きっと彼らも恐らくこれまでに様々な不満を抱えており、それを日本で繰り返させないために声を上げてくれていたのだと理解しています。なので少なくとも私は悪く思ってはいません。
日本でもやっとゲーマー以外の人たちにもこの問題の深刻さが知れ渡ってきたところですが、まだまだ政府を動かすほどの勢いはありません。なので、国内外にRyuuku Senseiのような味方が一人でも多く必要です。「いいね」はもちろん、チャンネル登録もさせて頂きましたので、これからも応援しています！
Been waiting for this Sensei 🍿🍿🍿
Yasuke was given a tanto, not a tachi or katana. You cannot practice bushi with just a tanto. Therefore, not a samurai.
For modern context, that's like giving a handheld pistol to a person and telling them you're a riflemen. No, you're not, it is literally impossible to train and shoot as accurately as a riflemen with only a pistol
What does it mean for the descendants of British people, like Lockley, who made huge profits from the slave trade to say, "Japan had black slaves, too", in this case? It's like the descendants of Nazis saying, "Your people killed Jews, too." Sure, there may have been a few murder cases throughout history, and that would be true. But even though the words ''killling'' are the same, it's completely different from what the Nazis did in an organized manner. It's not a matter of "Eye discharge and Boogers（目くそ、鼻くそ。there isn't much difference）," but rather like "Eye discharge and a giant raw sewage treatment plant（目くそと巨大屎尿処理場）."
The case in question is one in which the people who committed the terrible acts that are generally associated with the word "slave" are, far from feeling remorseful, pushing that blame onto others and attacking them as they please.
I don;t like people like Lockley, but how do you know his family made profits from the slave trade?
Mate I'm so confused I'm not belittling Japan and I don't agree with people like Europeans who shame a country and its people for its history especially events that were like 40 to 4000 years ago and I understand Europe stands supreme for doing some of the most atrocious things in history but Japan also did have slavery and benefitted from a very profitable slave trade and you guys did the same thing to the Chinese as the Germans did to the jews and blacks Japan and Nazi Germany were close allies and Japan has a very brutal history of doing some dark heinous thing especially to China and Korea
自分が嘘を見抜けるから『本気にするなよ、たかがゲームじゃないか』っていう外人ニキさん多いし、その意見は分かるんだけど
もし歴史を守る、文化を守るなら『100回目の嘘:真実』の1回目から言わせないのが大事。
彼らはつまらない冗談と嘘の境目がわからないのだろうけど。
Please be aware that there are self-proclaimed historians and scholars who do not have a Japanese researcher number.
Hirayama
Thomas Lockley uses very manipulative language. He says: "What we do know (as if it was a fact) is that the LEGEND says so and so". Which seems like a statement of a historical fact at first glance. On closer inspection it's just a legend.
終盤で言われていた通り、ある程度の身分の人物にとって名字(氏)はとても重要であり、それを信長が認識していなかったとは思えない。信長が身分を引き上げたのなら、名前と同時に名字も与えていた筈だと考えるのは自然でとてもシンプルな疑問です。
ここまで日本の歴史を説明していただける動画はなかなかないです。有り難うございます。自動翻訳での英語では、日本の制度や慣習などうまく翻訳されなかったり伝わらなかったりします。それを上手く英語で説明してくれるのは有難い！
それと、日本人がひどく日焼けしたら、黒人くらい肌が黒くなることも説明して欲しいです！！モノクロ写真で日焼けした日本人が写ってたら、そりゃあ、真っ黒に写りますよね。
I have Japanese friends and they are also having issues with a black protagonist instead of a Japanese person. They simply say "Why do this with Japan? Why can't they just have a Japanese person? Many of them do not care, if Yasuke was Samurai or not. Even if he was one, why make him the main protagonist? They could have made him an important NPC."
IMO, this would not have become this big of an issue if the main protagonist were all Japanese.
Your commentary is concise and very well structured. Thank you for putting in all the effort to help those who are not Japanese understand what is going on and what wrong has been done from the correct perspective.
This whole incident (series of) pertaining to qualification, credibity and opportunity regarding misrepresentation and misappropriation should serve as a warning to companies and persons outside of Japan seeking to profit from exploiting their unique culture, misappropriating without manners and subverting accuracy to wilfully insert an agenda at the expense of due diligence and respect.
There is irony here if this is factually the case. Which, as time and further scrutiny continues, will reveal for or against.
I was so concerned that I reached out to the qualified scholars I knew to get a sense of what was factual as I never came across some one portrayed in such an esteemed light at the incident of Oda Nobunaga's death. The answer was simply nothing. Nothing of note of any exception.
There are I believe monetary reparations around using the historical estates tied to the commercial use of historical/noted Japanese families, clans and institutions. Strict copyright laws I believe.
This could be why Ubisoft chose Yasuke too as there are no known direct descendants, no noble family, nothing. So therefore no payment, no permissions.
It is possible Ubisoft's eagerness to run with Yasuke and build a narrative meant that they have misunderstood or not listened to wise counsel from their Japanese Office. If such was sought. With so many inaccuracies portrayed and plagiarism in the content shown and words so far I believe ignorance is having it's day.
I am following this carefully as it unfolds. So one more subscriber for you sir.
I sincerely wish those who are in Japan that have taken exception to exploitation once again of their uniqueness to have every success in correcting Ubisoft and those associated in this project.
Thank you Sensei
Thank you for watching, I'm glad you enjoyed it. And yeah, Yasuke, whether he can technically be classed as a Samurai or not is one thing, but he definitely wasn't the person depicted in ACS. He just wasn't that much of a person of note at all according to the historical records.
You should check what twitter was saying about Ghost of Tsushima 4 years ago. They were screaming about bigotry and cultural appropriation and saying that a western game studio had no right to make a game about samurai. Meanwhile Famitsu gave this game a perfect rating, the two lead devs who made the game were made permanent ambassadors to the island, and in an interview with a history professor specializing in Kamakura Japan, they asked him what needs to be changed to make it better; he said, "Nothing. This is Middle Age Japan."
Twitter honestly doesn't know what the fuck they're talking about. Reddit, too- for that matter. It's only very rarely either of those platforms offer actual substantive information, such as the information provided by u/ParallelPain on reddit, as I mentioned in the video, for example.
詳しい説明をありがとうございます。
UBIはこのACSを通じて歴史を学べると言っていたけど、確かに勉強になっている。歴史、文化、法律、人種差別、本物の文化盗用…
Thank you for the detailed explanation.
UBI said that you can learn history through ACS, and I'm definitely learning a lot. History, culture, law,racism ,real cultural appropriation...
Learn history through ACS? That ship has sailed for the franchise. Assassin's Creed stopped trying to be historically accurate years ago.
I would like to share with you what I have found from various researchs. Yasuke was not a high-ranked person. It is true that he was one of Nobunaga's favorites, but he had no political power. In fact, he was a "Dogu-mochi" (sword bearer, page). This position was to take care of the swords of those who could be used, and to take care of their personal needs, and he was also a candidate for a future executive position. (The Mori brothers are famous for being Nobunaga's favorite pages.) It is something that can only be done if you have a very trusting relationship. I also like Yasuke and have researched a lot about him when i heard about the whole ACS drama, but the more I research Yasuke, the more I see how wonderful Nobunaga was. It is his boldness in incorporating what he thought was good, regardless of race or status, and his lack of being bound by customs. I felt that Nobunaga was amazing for having such thoughts in an era when there was little information available.