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8:40 So the thing about Hideyoshi. He was what was known as a "peasant samurai" he'd started out as the guy who brought Nobunaga his sandals. But because he was competent and just so happened to serve one of the only men in all of Japan who gave promotions out based on merit, not just blood. He quickly rose through the ranks until he was in the position to avenge Nobunaga and take over. So it makes sense he shut the door behind him with his laws.
Lol, I was going to mention that because I remember Extra Credits's series on the Sengoku Jidai and they talked about this part of Hideyoshi's life; he started as a sandal-bearer for Nobunaga but because of his talents he rose through the ranks in Nobunaga's army and eventually took the role of Shogun after eliminating the guy who eliminated Nobunaga
@@universefight2193I wasn't hired as a zoori holder, it's just one episode to get promoted.
Cambrian Chronicles would be a really interesting channel for you to look at, he goes deep into a lot of Welsh and English history
Cambrian chronicles could make me watch a 5 hour docu about a typo in a wikipedia page of ancient walish kingdoms, and I would enjoy every second of it hahahaha
Cambrian Chronicles is incredible!!!
I love how he covers people who may or may not have existed. It’s interesting to see how many people who were believed to be real people, end up more than likely just being a bunch of folk stories personified into a person in popular stories.
Oh yeah he is amazing
Yes he is so good!
VTH seeing you react to Japanese history is awesome! Even if your don't know much about asian history compared to your knowledge of western history, you're never to old to learn something new. Feudal Japan something I adore studying and made a paper about it. Always try new stuff VTH good job!
He needs to watch about Nobunaga, Nobunaga was such a lad
"The Last Samurai" is inspired not by the rebellion that let to the Meji Restoration, the Boshin War, but by the Satsuma Rebellion against the new government a few years later. Basically, the guys who overthrew the Tokugawa shogunat began to argue, and that escalated. But yes, in both wars both sides used guns. There were tradinionally armed soldiers involved, too, but for other reaons then honor: They didn't have enough modern weapons...
And the guy played by Tom Cruise is apparently inspired by two historical people: a french Guy that fought in the Satsuma Rebellion (the only difference is that he wasn't a "samurai") and an english guy from the 16th century that became a Samurai in Japan (with title of nobility and all).
I heard that movie mixed up the events and incoporates things from both the Boshin War and the Satsuma Rebellion.
@@xenotypos Based on Jules Brunet, he actually did fight in the Boshin War, specifically the establishment of the short lived "pro-shogunate" Ezo Republic in Hokkaido.
If you wanna learn more about Japanese history, The Shogunate has a really good, detailed series on Japan's warring states period and is currently making videos on the events that happen after.
i had hope he’d check out the shogunate but i gave that up a while ago
I also recommend Linfamy for history, but also culture and mythology
Thumbs up and a comment so VTH will look at The Shogunate. I binge watched that channel this time last year, amazing work. I would love VTH to reaction to it.
A small thing: In japan, they don't separate it so much as "north/south," they separate it as "east/west." Like Tokyo and Sendai are in "eastern" Japan, whereas Kyoto and Osaka are in "western" Japan. I don't know why they do it that way, but I got corrected many times when I lived there. Maybe because "northern" Japan makes people assume you're talking about Hokkaido.
Yeah, I guess because of the Kyoto/Edo distinction, and some other big cities. Northern Japan back in the day wasn't as important as far as I know.
From a Japanese POV(I'm Japanese BTW), northern Japan usually indicates the Sea of Japan-side, southern Japan indicates the Pacific side.
And south Japan is the austronesian islands
it kinda makes sense given the most "important" cities/locations in Japan's history kind form a horizontal line from Tokyo to the west. If im not mistaken northern p[refectures did not have the same influence
I majored in East Asian History and love your channel! Great to see that your intentionally broadening your history scope!
If the Koreas ever unified theyd be hella strong economically and militarily
@@blackjack90631 but when it comes to demographics, oh boy, they've a long way to go :/
@@blackjack90631 who would they unify under? Not a sarcastic comment just curious
eyyy fellow EAH major wahoo
@@archiesussex7754 It would NEVER happen. But I have a personal conspiracy :p wishful thinking that if North Korea had won the Korean War, then Kim Il-Sung would have eventually been assassinated/dethroned before the turn of the century. North Koreans have tried coups in the past (see 6th Division Coup) but failed, for various reasons. I don't think cutting the manpower to overthrow tyrants in half helped, and its easier to maintain control over a smaller landmass//less places for rebels to hide. South Korea on the other hand has been fairly successful at removing their despotic leaders (KCIA assassination of President Park...as well as a plethora of impeachments) It would never happen, but my pipe dream theory, is that if the Koreas were able to unify under the North (under whatever pretenses) their power to eventually overthrow the corrupt gov would increase and we'd see a fall of the NK Kim regime.
10:53
China was extremely close to starting a Industrial Revolution in the 12th-13th century under the Song dynasty.
While there isn’t a concrete singular reason as to why they never did, it creates a nice ‘what if’ scenario as you described.
The hardcore history podcast has a few episodes (several hours each) going into lots of the historic context of the Japanese in the 1800s (and earlier) helping to explain the causes of Japan in WW2
Was about to mention this. Those episodes are really good
Thanks for reacting to this video. I'm Japanese and what I think this video should've talked about is the "May 15 incident" (五・一五事件) that happened in 1932.
It was a coup where the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the Prime ministers office and killed Inukai Tsuyoshi, the Prime minister of Japan at the time.
This led to the military gaining more power and eventually led to the rise of Japanese militarism.
A little tid-bit of history for you, Chris. Remember the Admiral Yi series by Extra History which you reacted to two years ago? That invasion of Korea happened during the reign of Toyotomi Hideyoshi (the guy who wanted to conquer Korea and China), who took control of the government after Oda Nobunaga died. Extra History did another series involving him, that is the Sengoku Jidai or the Warring States period. If you liked the Admiral Yi series, you will definitely love that one! Hope you cover it soon!
honestly not surprised he skipped the Russo Japanese War that quickly. The Sengoku Jidai (Warring States Period) also got relatively little coverage. Kinda expected as he covers the entire history of Japan in 9 minutes though. Anyways great reaction. If you want to learn more about japanese history you should take a look at the Sengoku Jidai series by Extra History. A fascinating era that rivals the chinese civil wars in pure chaos
You should absolutely check out Extra History's series on the Sengoku Jidai, The Warring States period of Japan's history.
I would suggest The Shogunate instead when it comes to the Sengoku Era, lot more detailed and better explained than Extra History.
I absolutely love this channel for the knowledge and context you give to history. But a video like this presents something else that I hope you do more: it is so much fun to watch you *learn.* You have so much respect and fascination when it comes to history, I love it, and watching you add to your knowledge is a real treat, even if it's from a silly video like this.
If you're interested in Japanese and Asian history, you could always try doing a react on Extra History's Sengoku Jidai series.
Extra History in general is good at a lot of Asian history.
One of my favorite series from them.
Robert Rath, the lead writer for extra history post 2018 or so is a Hawaiian who lives in Hong Kong, so I figure that's why the Asian stuff is so juicy. rob also writes some of the best black library 40k novels imo
Agreed
Another good Asian series of theirs is their Sun Yat-sen series, which I recently finished. My favorite one
It's pretty cool you got the Satsuma rebellion more right than most retellings of it: Both sides had (for 19th century standards)modern firearms. You could also mention that Imperial Japan went from nicely treating POWs in World War I to being Asian Nazis in the Second Sino-Japanese War. Also that Douglas Macarthur got nicknamed Gaijin Shogun.
Awesome, you actually did this. History of the entire world was the video that brought me to your channel a couple years ago, have loved your content ever since. As much as it disgusts my Michigan heart to say, I wish you a lovely 2024, my friend.
It makes me happy that this is your first video of the year as I'm going to Japan for the first time in 2024!
I know you've reacted/are reacting to a number of their series, and I also know I am far from the first person to recommend it to you, but Extra History did a really good series on the Sengoku Jidai period of Japan. It's one of the earliest history series they did but is still fantastic and does a good job of dispelling a few myths about things like samurai and Japanese warfare
Unironically really loving you drawing comparisons to the history to other regions, really shines a light on how there are common threads between civilizations and politics.
It was really cool to see your perspective on these things as to what you know and also what you learn throughout the video, would love to see more videos on Japan!
If you want to learn more about especially Chinese history, I would suggest Xiran Jay Zhao. She is a Chinese author living in Canada and has some awesome videos like a 2 part series on the only female Chinese emperor (the one Extra History just started the series on), how bi the Han dynasty emperors were (surprisingly much), the life of the first emperor and videos covering Chinese inspiration etc in different shows and movies.
But the first 3 topics/4 videos are probably the best ones for this channel
Japanese History is highly interesting, especially the Sengoku Jidai (Warring States Period). There are a ton of great documentaries about this time period from Channels like Extra History, The Shogunate and Kings and Generals. I’d honestly recommend any one of them.
4:03 what's more interesting, Japan put China in center of the world in that time. In the letter to Tang court, where Nihon were firstly used by Japanese, emperor of Japan named himself "emperor of the kingdom of the sunrise" (aka emperor of the sunrise land) and Chinese emperor as a "emperor of the central kingdom" (aka emperor of the middle land) (there is potential for Lord of the rings joke, that i will miss)
Japan in the late 70s and mid 80s gave birth eastern cyberpunk and had a boat load of fantastic anime such as;
Akira & Ghost in the Shell
(And a one fantastic space western Cowboy Bebop)
Just to name a few, and American cyberpunk like; Hardwired,
Cyberpunk 2013,
Cyberpunk 2077,
Blade Runner,
Neuromancer,
Kings and Generals made a video of the Shimabara Rebellion where Japan brutally suppress Japanese Catholics encouraging them more towards isolation from foreign influence.
I highly recommend checking out Knowing Better's "Playing the Victim" to learn more about the nuances that Bill Wurtz doesn't address in his video, especially in regard to WW2 and post WW2 Japan. I'm not sure if you'd be able to make a react video out of it just due to Knowing Better's style, but it's still an informative watch in regards to modern Japan.
Knowing Better had some pretty uninformed takes, haven't watched the video you've mentioned though so maybe that one's an exception. Perhaps he took his channel name to heart. I hope so, considering the seriousness of the subject matter.
@@kphaxx It's definitely one of his better videos.
Excellent as always! I would highly recommend a return to our good friends at Extra History and their series on the Japanese Warring States Period if you want to learn more about Japan.
Happy New Year Chris! Tons of awesome content as always, and here's to all the more to come!
The only thing I have a problem with in the Video is that Tokugawa Ieyasu is portrayed as a rich, high-born aristocrat that just decided to take power on a whim or sth. Ieyasu wasn’t born rich or as a noble, he had to work and fight his way up there. Also he started as a servant of the Imagawa clan, slowly rising to power, first under Oda Nobunaga and then under Toyotomi Hideyoshi. He was a warrior and total badass who bid his time, waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike and seize power. He wasn’t some weird 1500’s Japanese Trump version or anything like that.
Two thoughts/inconsistencies in this video from my study of Japanese history. Not all people actually came to Japan by the ice bridge, the people that did come are the Ainu/native population. Later in history, another group of people would come to Japan after the ice bridge had melted and they are known as the Yamato people (the main Japanese ethnicity we know of today). Secondly, the first recorded ruler of Yamato/Wa was not an emperor, it was actually an empress named Himiko. The reason for the inconsistency of rulers is that an emperor is mentioned in the Kojiki (first Japanese recorded history), but in earlier Chinese documents, the first recorded leader is an empress (the Chinese were recording history before the Japanese)
If you're interested in Japanese history, the new series Shogun (I think on Apple TV+) will debut this year. It tells a semi-fictional story of Japan's most pivotal battle: the battle of Sekigahara. Between the Toyotomi led forces against Tokugawa forces. A certain betrayal mid-battle led to the Tokugawa shogunate and the closing of Japan for 300 yrs.
Im worried that the show wont depict Sekigahara though, because its not in the book or miniseries, just mentioned as a side note.
Things that could have been mentioned: First is the role of the Satsuma Daimyo had in the fall of the Shogunate. Additional items included the killing of shipwrecked sailors who were not Japanese which was a major beef the Western powers had with Japan prior to the opening, the use of rice as currency and tax assessment, and the instability of the Japanese government between 1920 and WWII.
Excited for your 2024 proclamation to react to more things you are less familiar with! My favourite reaction you’ve done is the genghis khan EH series and I like learning along with you, always being impressed by how you compare/contrast it to areas you know more about.
10:19 from watching a Japanese history teacher react to this, I can say it wasn't only the Dutch, their was 4 ports open to foriqners, each got 1 port and only they could trade from that 1 port. China, Korea and the Nederlands where 3, I can't recall who was the 4th. The Dutch could only trade in Dejima while the Chinese could only trade in Nagasaki (only a part of the city) , and small trade of some outer daimyo with Korea and the Ryukyu Islands to the South West of the home islands.
Pretty sure the 4th one was the English for a short time, all other foreigners where put to death without a trail. I couldn't really find out more, and at 00:02 I'm to tired to search for more.
Whenever someone teaches that the country was "closed" to everyone but the Dutch. It's a lame ethnocentric belief. Basically not acknowledging China and Korea as "someone". It was closed to most European and Western powers but not to everyone but the Dutch.
The unique thing about the different writing systems Kanji, Hiragana, and later Katakana. The Japanese felt Kanji wasn't enough to express their language so the system for Hiragana was created. However Kanji being more complex system was used only by men while Hiragana, the easier of the two systems, was only used by women. This led to Japan having more female authors than male authors. The third writing style Katakana was added in the 9th century as away to translate western words and is still used to write western words to this day with a few exceptions such as the words for Baseball (Yakyuu) and English (eigo).
6:20 This is where the term "Kamikaze" comes from.
It means "godly wind" and the fact that a seemingly miraculous storm saved Japan *twice* caused a massive rise in the power of religious institutions in the country. Many temples and shrines that are still used today were build during that time.
Happy new year brother, I’m sure the content will be as good as ever and grow even more.
A classic. This is a good starter kit for Japanese history. I look forward to your learning journey about Japan.
Also- greetings from Tokyo 🎉
Happy New Year Chris. Glad to see more East Asian history content. If I might make a recommendation in that same vein, remember your reaction to Admiral Yi? You should get to Extra Credits episodes on the Sengoku Jidai period that preceded the Imjin War.
Love bill wurtz. Great video as always VTH. Would love to seem some more Irish history reactions like maybe the war of independence. Keep up the good work
I'd love to see more east asian content! Linfamy does great videos about early- medieval Japanese history, I highly recommend him
Great video Chris. It would be awesome if you did a reaction to Extra History's Sengoku Jidai series and Taisho Democracy Series. It's very fascinating which I feel you'd enjoy to learn about.
Great reaction Chris! My only gripe was when you talked about the Last Samuria because the rebellion that happened in the movie was after the Boshin War. That war was between the Shogun and emperor and led to the reestablishment of imperial authority. Many samurai joined the emperor’s cause, but to modernize the emperor took away some of the samurai’s special privileges. The samurai didn’t like that and felt they were going to be destroyed so many rebelled.
Also I’d love it if u reacted to the Shogunate! He has a great series on the Sengoku period!
Been waiting for you to delve a bit into Japanese history as its my absolute favorite subject to study. You should also consider some videos from The Shogunate's channel as he goes much deeper into specific topics and events covered in Bill Wurtz's video
My favorite band, Rush, wrote a song called "Manhattan Project" about, well, the Manhattan Project. It's good stuff, wonder if you'd ever give a reaction on a song. They also wrote a song called Bastille Day.
"The big bang took and shook the world, shot down the rising sun. The end was begun, it would hit everyone when the chain reaction was done. The big shots try to hold it back, and fools try to wish it away. A hopeful depend on a world without end, whatever the hopeless may say."
Which is as much about wishing Japan wasn't bombed, as it is about how the development of the nuclear bomb caused adversaries to go cold I think. Thus, in its own way, the development of the bomb became a "hopeful depend" in that we depend on adversaries having equal enough strength to hope no one will use it. Kind of a positive spin on the old "Mutually Assured Destruction" bit.
FINALLY! I have been learning japanese for 1 year because of my love of its history, and I'm so glad that your reacting to Japanese history. Its always overshadowed by what happened in ww2, but that should not shroud the thousands of years of the samurai and natives of japan
Netflix has a decent documentary on the Sengoku period, kings and generals covered the Mongol invasions, but few have done EXTENSIVE Japanese history videos. Which is srrange since they have the longest reigning dynastic family known.
Another reason Japan might be called 'Sunrise land' is because some people believe the Emperor is descended from Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess of Shinto and daughter of Izanagi, their Patron Creator God who made the islands of Japan in their mythology.
“Open the country. Stop having it be closed” 😂
Surprised you haven’t reacted to this already, Happy new year!
Happy new year to you and everyone who's reading this too 🎉 i wish ya all the best this year from Hungary 🎉 big fan of the channel , been watching since the early days and im really glad how much you grown your channel and i hope you'll keep up the top historic content 💪🤙 keep up the good work and take care 😁
As an anglophile, you should look into doggerland. The land that was once settled between the UK and mainland Europe
Um, quite the timing on this one. Given that a tsunami just literally hit Japan.
Yes. Thankfully it seems to be a minor one. The videos showing how long the earthquake shaking went on for was a bit alarming.
Chris I've been hoping for you to do this one for so longg THANK YOU for the New Years gift!!! Happy New Years to you and your wonderful family 🫶🏽
I took Japanese History 1 and 2 in university. He's basically going through all of that very quickly.
7:45 They do. Anime/manga influence is growing around the globe. Anime are even shown in cinemas, something that was pretty much nonexistent outside Japan.
Yeah, definitely surprised about the lack of Russo-Japanese War info. Even with America getting involved as a mediator with Theodore Roosevelt winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906.
Extra History’s Sengoku Jidai series is a great one to check out since you already enjoy their channel
I think that you might actually really enjoy learning about the Sengoku Jidai Era. It's touched on briefly here, but there's a lot going on with it. I'd recommend the Extra History series on the Seng9ku Jidai as a starting point.
I love your reaction videos so much, it's more like getting extra content for the original video!
I recommend Understanding Japanese Society by Joy Hendry if you're interested in Japanese culture/history. I'm preparing for a 10-week internship in Inyuama Aichi, Japan and this book is our assigned reading. It definitely inspires me to fall down the rabbit hole.
Speaking of Japan I know Extra Credit had a pretty good series of
videos on that civil war period (I can't spell it right). But you should really look into it, it would be a pretty good series to wach.
I honestly like your reaction videos more than the original content lol even epic history tv vids! I feel like you add so much great context to the videos!
My 2nd time recommending History Dose, and their video about Mongols vs Samurai, among others.
I’m pretty sure Japan technically has two capital Kyoto and Tokyo. One is political capital and another is economic capital.
Kyoto is where the emperor is and Tokyo is where the ruling govt is (shogun back then )
Infact Tokyo is basically Kyoto backwards and it used to be known as edo.
I think Kyoto means capital city and Tokyo means east capital.
Basically Tokyo has always been the place of power after the Tokugawa shogun.
Wow when it zooms in and you can see the topography, most of Japan is mountains.
Extra credits sengoku jidai and end of the samurai are pretty good on explaining japan before it isolated it self and it’s rapid modernization
Dan Carlin’s supernova of the east is amazing. So much info on that.
Happy New Year Chris!!! Have a wonderful year! God bless! Thanks for all the great videos these last few years!
Id recommend 3 different series if you’re interested in Feudal Japanese History. Note that im specifically pointing out these channels as they cover the Sengoku Jidai (Age Of The Country At War) the best, there are off course many other channels/shows about other eras. However, the Sengoku Period is by far the most interesting era of Samurai History. It has all sorts of twists, betrayals, plot twists, etc. that I think you would really enjoy.
1.) If you want a clear Summary of the Period, I would recommend Extra History’s series on it. It is short but impressively good at giving you the general story. However, it just focuses on the story of the 3 Great Unifiers of Japan. Focusing on those 3 misses a lot of other great figures and parts of the period.
2.) This one might be a bit controversial. But, Netflix’s Age of Samurai is also a good way of getting your footing in the period. The show is also a summary, but more detailed than Extra History’s. However, the show has many inaccuracies, not just in the actual history but also in the representation of the Samurai and Japanese culture. It sometimes feels they are appeasing to the romanticisation of Japanese Culture. It also tends to focus on things that aren’t important when they could show more important stuff to history. For example, instead of covering one of the main character’s march into the capital, it focuses on a small rebellion in an insignificant town, because in popular culture people believe that town is a town of Ninja warriors 🤦♂️. Even though a Ninja (or Shinobi is a more period accurate term) is a job, mot a warrior class. It also follows the story of the 3 Great unifiers. But anyways. Its a good way for beginners to understand the story. But just understand that there are inaccuracies and i would recommend doing some of your own research after watching it.
3.) The most detailed of these, the best for getting the whole story and arguably the best on RUclips, is a series by a channel called ‘The Shogunate’. His entire channel is dedicated to Japanese culture and history. It is 65 episodes which are on average around 7-15 minutes long. So yeah a bit long, but it is definitely the most detailed and gives you a good grasp of the history, circumstances and background. It doesnt just cover the 3 Great Unifiers, but also covers all relevant figures of the period. Such as Uesugi Kenshin, Takeda Shingen, Mori Motonari, The Shimazu brothers, etc. In fact, the 4th Battle of Kawanakajima between Ueusgi Keshin and Takeda Shingen is one of the most interesting and epic moments in Japanese history, id recommend watching a video by BazBattles on it just to see what i mean. But in summary, the Uesugi with inferior numbers ambushed the Takeda (who were undefeated). Kenshin, in the midst of the brutal fighting, saw an opening, with his bodyguard he charged Shingen’s bodyguard directly. The two rivals physically began combat with each other. They were eventually separated, and the battle was basically draw. This among many others is skipped over in the previous two, but the shogunate’s series covers everything. Even if you dont cover it on your channel (which I completely understand) its worth watching in your free time.
On the subject of Japanese surrender Potential History has a video where it argues the same as you, VTH, that both events are responsible, and it's pretty interesting in the detail. And just in general, Potential History makes cool videos, it would be nice to see more reaction his stuff.
Well, some of the ones I would recommend:
Extra History - End of the Samurai
Addendum to this is the Shinsengumi - Let's Ask Shogo has a couple videos, but he is not a history channel
Cool History Bros - Three Unifiers of Sengoku Japan
Extra History - Sengoku Jidai (Japan)
Extra History - The Three Kingdoms (China)
Extra History - Sun Yat Sen (China)
"How about ~☀Sunrise Land ☀~ ?" is forever embedded in my mind and plays every time I see see or hear 日本. 😅
This is seriously one of the coolest channels on the internet, and you're a fellow Buckeye!!!
The Manhattan Project started out of concern regarding Germany, but Japan seemed to have been made the target of the bombs all the way back in 1943.
General Leslie Groves, the director of the Manhattan Project, is on record having stated "The target is and was always expected to be Japan" and a discussion of target selection from 1943 includes "The point of use of the first bomb was discussed and the general view appeared to be that its best point of use would be on a Japanese fleet [...] The Japanese were selected as they would not be so apt to secure knowledge from it as would the Germans."
At end of WW2, U.S.A had bombed Industrial and Civilian targets, either by intention or by accident, and those bombings were done with "firebombs" that then spread around as most Japanese infrastructure was made with Wood! Fires that spread from this caused heavy toll on civilians on both mentally and physically.
We often talk about Nukes that were dropped but Japanese were already suffering before nukes were dropped. Nukes however likely had stronger reason to end war as soon as possible as they seemed something out of their league. Firebombs seemed more grounded, something they could had fight against, at least at moment, more bombings might have gained same causation if war had continued without nukes, but would had caused more deaths on both sides, mostly Japanese civilians.
Written by: Casual History enjoyer.
Extra History did an interesting series on the Sengoku Jidai (Warring States) period of Japan. I can't speak to the accuracy as a very casul history fan, but it could be a fun starting point
Happy new year Chris hope you continue making your videos that would be awesome.❤❤❤
A very Happy New Year to you and yours. Thanks for the great content and I look forward to a whole new year of more. 😊
You or Bill could have said that some Japanese in the small isolated Islands either didn't hear or didn't believe the surrender so when treaty and new governments and locals came back, they sometimes had patriotic Japanese bands in the jungles, shooting robbing raiding and running them for decades. One band fought to its late man, who only surrendered in 1974 when they managed to figure out who he was, and a superior he knew agreed to come and try to accept his surrender.
Happy new year! Awesome start🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
9:12
This doesn't get mentioned much, but the part where he goes "...And also died" you hear this little 8-bit sound byte which is supposed to be him dying. That sound byte is actually taken from the 1988 NES game Nobunaga's Ambition, which is about the Warring States period in Japan in the 1500s
9:30 here is a fun fact on the topic: in Kingdom of Serbia/Kingdom of Yugoslavia during late 19th and early 20th century there were three groups of people called "Namesništvo" who would rule over the country until the underaged heir would be of legal age to be a king, which actually never took over the control over the country. But i suppose it is because of being close to todays age/time, which would be much more resentufl towards those people if they actually took over. If it was in Medieval ages, i think it would be a much different story.
Its still weird it happened thrice without any troubles.
10:30 internal division has plagued many nations especially earlier on, China is a great example. However, they were unified at separate points throughout there existence. The best example imo is Germany. Which had been warring tribes/states for most of its history
20:10 the reason for the implosion device is that the chain reaction for plutonium is more violent then with uranium. So a simpler “gun” type design, where you just smash one piece of the metal into another, and which works for uranium, would blow a plutonium bomb apart early and cause a fizzle.
Fun fact: Nobunaga's line (Oda clan) is still alive to this day and spread out throughout Japan. One of his descendents is a famous ice skater in Japan named Nobunari Oda.
20:15 This wasn't mentioned in the movie but they couldn't build a gun-type bomb (like the little boy) with plutonium due to concerns about the spontaneous fission of Pu240 so they _needed_ to make it a bigger implosion type device. (they had already planned to make an implosion bomb with plutonium before the issue of spontaneous fission came up though I'm pretty sure)
Also I know people love arguing about it but it's become evident that Japan was already close to surrender without the use of the bombs (the US even suspected this at the time before they used them, they mainly used them as a demonstration/display of power. There was no strategic value of the bombings, despite how much they tried to justify them.)
Happy New Year brother. Love your stuff. Looking forward to another great year of content. 👍
The Shogunate and shogun-fun at extra history! :D
A few notes I wanted to add:
- Samurai started out as hired guns for the feudal lords but by the time of the Meiji Restoration, they had become a hereditary political class that did ordinary civil service jobs, because the country had not been warring for 200 years.
- When Hideyoshi invaded Joseon Korea, Ming China sent a lot of reinforcements, and the Ming reinforcements plus Korean naval victories forced Japan to retreat, and the invaders were mostly people from Hideyoshi's camp, which made it easier for Tokugawa to take power since Hideyoshi's faction had burned a lot of resources in Korea.
- When post Meiji Japan "took" Korea from China, Korea was not a colony of China but a tributary. You could say it's kind of like modern China's relationship to North Korea.
- There's a big skip between WWI and the Great Depression. This is actually a pivotal moment because between fascist Japan and Meiji Japan was the short Taisho era which saw more of an opening and democratic reforms, pushing Japan more towards a UK style constitutional monarchy with citizen participation. This all changed during Emperor Showa's era which pivoted to a militarist ideology.
I swear I've seen this video a million times, and it never gets old.
Buyuuden Japanese history would be a great channel for you to check out! He goes in great detail about History of Japan using Japanese educational sources, nit to mention overall production and narration are great
When the US enters the picture, I was reminded of Star Trek and the Prime Directive.
Recommendation: History of the entire world...according to Bread
Napoleon’s marshals from Epic History TV please 🙏
I'm sure you know, but there was also a land bridge between the British Isles and the rest of Europe called Doggerland. Lots of cool archaeological finds there. It's cool to think about what could have happened or what kind of people used to live in a place that's completely underwater now
My 2024 goals are
- Work Out more
- Do more Meteorological studies and try to write a paper
- Do some Storm chases
- Read the first five books of the old testaments
-Go to church
I always called the opening up of Japan as "Commander Mathew Perry's Big Blunder".
Little boy exploded at 8:16:02 Hiroshima time, 43 seconds after it left the Enola Gay, 1,900 feet above the courtyard of Shima Hospital. The yield was equivalent to 12,500 tons of TNT. Inscribed on the bomb were various messages, one of them was "Greetings to the Emperor from the men of the Indianapolis"