Some people keeps pressing how nice Japanese people are. Those are only the civilians, they don't know about the past and the government. Japan is a great place now a days, but the fact that they try to hide what they've done and doesn't discuss about it even in their history classes is infuriating.
I mean, even the imperial soldiers who did those atrocities were "civilians" before the war. When you have a culture that's geared towards "honor" and views "dishonorable" people as less than animals, you're just bound to get a barbarian civilisation. Nowadays, the depravity of the Japanese can be seen through their h**tai and p**n fantasies.
Many years ago I met a Filipino working as a security guard in Los Angeles, CA. He told me he fought the Japanese with homemade bows and arrows in the jungles of the Philippines. The one statement I would disagree with you on is calling the Filipinos who wanted independence from the USA..."Insurgents".
We Filipinos don't talk about WWII because it is tramautising for us. My grandfathers were child soldiers for the US-Filipino army and my grandmothers were hiding in wicker baskets in the jungles to avoid getting raped and murdered.
My father fought in New Guinea in WW2 in 1942 against the Japanese on the Kokoda Track. In 1943 he trained a group of American soldiers in Guerilla warfare for the invasion of the Philippines to go in prior and destroy enemy infrastructure. One of them was a sargeant of Philippino descent who signed an American one dollar note which I proudly still have today. I hope he survived and I hope they kicked some arses!! I know many people suffered in WW2.
No, the US Army refused to take anyone below the age of 16 because it would be a violation of the Geneva Convention. At age 16 with the written approval of a parent, you could join and be issued a US military ID number. My father was 15 years old, weighed 90 lbs, stood five foot four inches and had a British Lee Enfield Rifle and 3 rounds of Japanese ammunition. You can force fire Japanese ammunition through the larger caliber British rifle. The Americans tried to shame him and other irregulars to move South to partake in the liberation of Manila by telling them that the Happon were draining Filipino children of blood for blood transfusions for wounded Happpon soldiers. My father and his comrades politely declined. So many American soldiers died liberating the Philippines that it was impractical to ship all the dead bodies back to the US and to this day there is a US military cemetery somewhere near Manila with thousands and thousands of graves of dead US soldiers. My father watched the Americans charge up a hill and the Japanese defenders would roll grenades down on them. Then the Americans would get blown up and flee down the hill in terror. Then the Americans would re-group and charge back up the hill. This happened over and over again until the Japanese ran out of grenades. He was so impressed by this that when my sister moved to Radford, Virginia where there is almost no level ground and bought a house on a hill side, he told her that she could roll grenades down from her house to the street below. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
You "Filipinos" ARe INDO-Japanese MIX. Just like Thailand to Nepal are INDO-Chinese MIX. Remember? French INDO-China. How come You "SE Asians' Never say your True ethnicity? Your Japanese, Chinese MIXed with Hindus. Japan used to be Nippon..Northern Island of the Philippines or Northern Island Pinoy..Nippon. YOu are NBot "philipines" but SaIPPOn. Nippon/Saipan.
It's sad that Manila and the Philippines never recovered from the devastation of WW2. Once coined as "The Paris of Asia" Manila's beauty was a sight to behold. Sadly, it was destroyed during the war and is the second most devastated city after Warsaw.
Most of the world never recovered. World war2 and the failures of communism are why the US is the predominant superpower. It's not competence, it's the fact that everyone else was held back by misfortune and bad ideology.
@@silverhawkscape2677 it receives a lot of aid from other European countries in its borders lol the Philippines receives bird shit from the US like Liberia does, I don't see why you think it's a competition, it's all context.
The Battle of Manila has been called the Stalingrad of The Pacific. The Japanese were committing atrocites regardless of the outcome. I have read that the Filipinos have a good understanding of what they faced - even though annihilation was a possiblilty. God rest their souls. I've never met a Filipino I didn't like.
I heard this story from my Dad, he told me his mother (My Grandmother) lived during the Japanese Occupation. I never really talked to her about it since she died when I was young and I never knew about ww2 at a young age but he told me that during WW2, the Japanese Occupation her family lived somewhere in Manila and during the occupation her house was visited by the Japanese and after the Japanese left they took my Grandmother’s parents with them and never returned. Obviously, they were executed after being accused of being Guerrilla Fighters and after that the Sisters of my Grandmother were pretty much left alone in the house and took care of each other
@@GaryAa56 why would Japanese soldiers fear Filipino gorilla fighters? Obviously as the name suggest they probably fought against gorillas but I’m not sure why Filipinos would be picking fights against primates
I was recently there and didn’t really get that sense. More so just overcrowded and polluted but a lot of the city has yet to develop and I think this may in partly explain that. Also there are almost no good pedestrian walkways there, you are either walking under ground, on bridges or on the highway next to cars. It’s a mess still
@@chrisr5649 I'm an American expat and I have lived here in Bataan for 14 years. I go down to Corregidor on occasion and let me tell you something, if there is ANY place in this entire archipelago that is cursed/haunted/saturated with an unnatural aura.... it is... The Rock! Some of the artillery magazines dug through those mountains go deep within and are not really part of any 'authorized' tour. Walking around at night and in wooded areas does not bother me but those tunnels and various batteries, ESPECIALLY batteries Geary and Way seriously bother me to the point I cannot go back to them.
Intramuros today looks like a skeleton with people crawling all over it. Manila, as a whole, has some serious spiritual and supernatural issues plaguing it.
Did the museum tour recently, all free, great air-conditioning and well kept. But there are stretches of Manila sidewalks that just smell like an open toilet.
I like modern-day Japan and I know that young Japanese have nothing to do with WW2, but I believe it is their responsibility to know what their ancestors did.
It's actually impressive how little they know about history. Even the more cultivated ones know nothing WW2 related. It made some very awkward situations in the past, and they didn't like hearing any of that.
My grandmother was 14 years old during WWII living in Iloilo. Went the Japanese arrived, they fled their large manors and went to the mountains. My grandmother's aunt and her 2 daughters refused to leave their home and hid beneath the cellars of their home where according to my grandma is where they hid their wealth (some of it were gold). My grandma's brother who lived with them managed to fled but his aunt and cousins sadly were captured and later beheaded by the Japanese who also proceeded to seize their wealth.
I get it, but Sheeesh! The MOST TRAGIC part is that it’s NOT the rapists who suffer the most in any war……It’s ALWAYS the civilians who are just trying to make a livi& survive..!! 😑
@@11buttnaked A civilian population who had likewise been brainwashed to fight to the last man in the emperor's name. Actual manned invasion of Japan would have been a meat grinder for both sides, and given how deeply ingrained Japanese nationalism and fanaticism was at the time, the only way such a campaign _could_ have ended would have been with the _utter extinction_ of the Japanese people. None of the allies could bear the losses or weight such a campaign would necessitate, so they opted for the lesser evil available: a new technology that they hoped (and later proved) would be sufficiently devastating as to break Japanese forces out of their psychopathic mania and jingoism. Fat Man and Little Boy may have destroyed two civilian centers, but they were dropped in the desperate hope that these tragic losses would save far more lives. Given how quickly that ended the war (and the continued existence of Japan as a nation and people), I think it's safe to say the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not die in vain.
@Chunelle Maria Victoria Espanol that shouldn't be the case and I hope that one day soon, it won't be. I have a very special place in my heart for the country and its amazing people
@@VinnyLam that's a fact. Japanese people are known for having a 2 faced personality. Never trust those race again, ever. Or else, as the saying goes, history repeats itself.
? Dude what do you mean you still see Asians that aren’t polite in nice? They still aren’t you see Asian women like Japanese women getting assaulted in miss weight on trains even foreign women like European women Caucasian women like you’re starting to see a lot of influx of Russian women in Japan like a lot of these Caucasian women that you seeing speaking English in Japan 90% of them are actually really from Russia someone don’t even have accents only some white women are from the states in other regions but I don’t know you’re starting to see some reason a lot of influx of Russian people in general freaking going to a bunch of Asian countries it is a big influx like Cambodia and Vietnam especially Vietnam AnyWho you see a lot of Caucasian women being followed by excited Asian Japanese man there’s a lot of reports on the Internet of a lot of women being assaulted and followed in their homes they just keep it from the media even is a big influx of underage Asian girls that are homeless and living on the streets and they are introduced to prostitution in them being on the streets a lot of older men pimp them out even the age of consent in some Japanese regions raise from 13 to 19 or I believe 13 to 18 if I’m not mistaken it’s kind of similar to Germany my bed they’re both similar I guess they’re still somewhat allies to consume in Germany use like 14
Do a video on the Ramree crocodile attacks. Good example of the WW2 Japanese forces reaping their built-up karma in the most horrifying way imaginable.
I love learning about the Imperial Japanese getting their karma. This horrific but wonderful attack in Ramree Island. Americans taking Japanese body parts, especially skulls as souvenirs. The atom bombing. The firebombing. The Soviets annihilating the Japs in Manchuria. Filipinos trading Japanese skulls with the Americans. The Chinese getting their revenge on the Japanese.
I get motivated to know the horrible and gruesome ways the Japanese soldiers died in the WW2, especially since the bastards basically got away with their atrocities in today's world. Please list down some more specific events.
@@strahnbrad3979 Reminder that some people (on RUclips especially) see "Hiroo Onoda" as an honourable and determined soldier for being insane enough to hold out on Lubang island until 1974 and allegedly killing around 30 civilians during this time because he refused to stand down.
@@maramba32 They only ever talk about Hiroshima and Nagasaki and how Japan was a victim of WW2 They don't teach or outright deny atrocities like Nanking, Baatan death march or Unit 731. If you showed a Japanese person a map of the Japanese empire at its height in 1942, they'll be shocked.
The British captured Manila in 1762 and held it along with parts of Cavite and Luzon before handing it back to Spain two years later when the war ended. I am in Manila right now and whenever I bring this topic up no one knows about it. It is tempting to imagine how different the Philippines would have been had the British decided to keep possession and take all of the country rather than allow the Spanish to take re possession.
But doubt if they will ever turn protestant. The Spanish missionaries did great work spreading Catholicism. They lost Manila, but the rest of the country faithfully stuck to their Spanish overlords.
Some of the soldiers of the british who were indians(sepoys) stayed in manila when the british left and many of them lived in cainta,outside of manila.they still have descendants there,when i was kid the older people would call indians,sepoy.originating from that part of history.
The Japanese military & leadership at that time was on par with the Soviets & Stalin. Honestly looking at individual incidences from the Nazi's, Imperial Japanese, Soviets, Fascist Italians, etc. no one can convince me monsters don't exist. Take Stalin's 1933 cannibal island for example, it technically didn't take place during WW2 but it gets an honorary mention since the start of WW2 is subjective because it was a multitude of factors that led to it. Also, I'm surprised no one mentions the war crimes of the Italians during WW2.
@@hamzaferoz6162 A country led astray will always owe more than they can pay, time is the most persistent debt collector known to man. The remnants of the Romans can attest to this.
Similar situation that took place in British overseas territories such as Singapore, Mayala,Hong Kong and Burma they all fell to Japanese as did the Dutch east indies (Indonesia) and French indochina they also fell to the Japanese.
i remember one of our prolific writer who lived through it wrote a journal about it. she also did an appearance in one documentary about how they heard the screams of girls in manila hotel.
Thanks for posting these, I don't feel so bad knowing my ex from 10 years ago still gets turned on watching me take a dump on the toilet or have boring people follow me around work.. I hope the 😎 guys follow more, I feel cooler just knowing they're around. Thanks! 👍
I always heard about babies being tossed in the air and bayonetted during this time. It's too horrible to believe, but it's sadly true. Not sure if our country will ever truly recover.
I'm a Gulf War veteran I have traveled to many countries, and I have friends from all over the world. And places like in Singapore I seen the monument telling about the Japanese atrocities, also I had ex-girlfriend in Indonesia and she told me about the atrocities, her dad was a Japanese and Dutch speaking Indonesian diplomat, and these people never forgot the atrocities of the Japanese, it's known even in the Thailand there's three prices the first is for the Thai people 2nd for European and American and the third and most expensive for the Japanese. Most Asians have not forgot the atrocities committed by the Japanese in the war.
As a filipino World war 2 gave me mixed series of emotions and it really infuriates me! Alot of filipino culture and architecture were destroyed and so much history was lost! Major Philippine cities could have looked like Lisbon or Melbourne in asia has it not the infrastructures been obliterated in the last war! After 1945 the country gained independence (from which filipinos have been wanting to in the first place) which the USA has shifted its focus on japan after they have dropped the bombs, so as to compensate them, which in turn have left the philippines in a much more difficult state to recover faster (because much of the establishments and institutions were destroyed)
It makes me sad when I see Philippines calling themselves the name the Spanish war lords named it (after their king) instead of calling it Maharlika (the REAL name of the islands). It makes me even MORE sad when I see the power that the Catholic superstition still holds on the Philippines and how its used to suppress amd corrupt its people and keep them down. The real religion of the Philippines was Buddhism which is far less supressive (see Thailand as example).
@@TorbenRudgaard 300 years of spanish colonization runs deep in the philippines. Hence why catholicism is pretty big here!. Mainland south east asia however like cambodia,vietnam and thailand are buddhists. Whilst maritime south east asia like philippines, malaysia and indonesia has significant islamic population. The original religion of the philippines however is animism (think nature worship or tribal shamans) and then next came the hindus and the buddhists such as the indians the chinese and other south east asians that migrated and did trade. Their religion, unfortunately declined and got lost in time as it was overshadowed by more aggressive islamic missionaries that came few centuries after. And then came the 15th century when the spanish colonizers introduced christianity and then the rest is history
@@TorbenRudgaard Please, for your sake, learn more and don't believe everything you see on the internet. Ignorance is so rampant among Filipino even with our own history.
my grandfather fought the war and participated in death march. He is a medic so he is somewhat precious to both sides. He use the opportunity to spy and pass messages to prisoners. He fake sickness to get out of the death camp then joined the guerilla units. Meanwhile, my grandma was left that time. (husband -my grandpa joined ranks) Thy have a sizable farm where she and her sisters go for hiding since good looks are very unfortunate that time.
4:24 correction Filipinos wants independence from spain and the moment they get it and already established a new government ruled by Filipino, americans came. 9:05 based on the settings of the video, in which is in Philippines, there's no winter and spring there, just summer and rainy. Aside from little corrections, great content though.
Calling Filipinos who wanted independence from the USA "insurgents" is quite a stretch. Those in the US territory wanting independence from Britain were "insurgents" as well then.
Sad how Godwin's law is a thing (and almost always happens in my experience), whereas the Japanese absolutely horrible war crimes are much less talked about.
I have wondered, why Nazi Germany was tried for war crimes, yet Japan, which committed as bad or worse crimes, and have yet to be told of or done about anything about..???
Guessing the atom bombings caused the outrage of Japan’s war crimes to be dealt with quietly, that and it was not really in the “Western” countries’ interests to seek justice for China.
It wasn't less talked about It was only less known in the west while most of Asian countries who had been subjected to imperial Japan knew about their atrocities
They came acrossed a big old box ,bound up with chains and locked with locks saying ," kindly do not touch , its war ." But someone did ,someone battered in the lid and spilled its insides out across the floor . A sort of bouncy bumpy ball made up of death and grief and pain and all the horrors that go with WAR . It harms the children mainly .........rip John Denver
I don't hate and I don't want to hate the Japanese. But history has to be told and remembered and studied and learned. That way, we don't have to repeat History. So my History / Social Studies teacher say.
U shouldnt because every ethnicity has been cruel at some point in history. Its part of being human. Learn from it, be better than our ancestors. Honor them this way.
As a filipina, there's no need to hate the Japanese but do despise the ones who were involved in the war crimes as I don't think it's fair to hate people of an ethnic group all because someone from that group did some terrible things. But I do agree that history needs to be taught so that we don't make the same mistakes.
Crazy part about this is japan did not say sorry about the nanking event and trying to protect their reputation There's a statue in the phillipines that symbolizes the idk rape in women and japan wanr it to be gone just how u think about them not regreting their decisions and protecting their reputation
@@schizo4932 Bro, if you go to Japan’s war memorials and museums they give so much praise and honour to their generals who spearheaded these horrific crimes against humanity. They are wickedly unapologetic. Imagine if you went to the WWII museum in Berlin and saw badges and plaques commemorating the likes of Himmler and Goebbel. It would be atrocious, and yet the Japanese do pretty much that.
When I was in the 7th grade in the Philippines, I drew a map like that (1:19) similarly Philip Nolan, a sad protagonist in the book; A Man Without a Country , drew the map of the states on his deathbed. My teacher glared at me and asked; Where are the Visayan Islands?
My grandparents used to tell stories about how they lived during WWII when I was a boy. My grandfather survived by being friendly to both sides while being fully aware of the danger if the Japanese discovered he also receives food from the Americans so he hid them very well. My grandmother told us they kill chickens and wipe the blood behind them so the Japanese think they are in their period and also avoid rape. Another story I heard personally from my wife's grandmother is that they beat Filipinos who misbehave, if not then you have nothing to fear. And as mentioned in this video, the tossing of babies and... well, most of those kinds of actions were done by the Koreans (most probably who joined the Japanese army, on their own or by force). Many looked after the Filipinos well, and some stories says that they were sad when the Japanese have to flee the town because the one in charge is so kind. Yes, there are many horrific stories, but there are still unheard-of positive stories about their occupation.
In that case, my great grandparents who were in the mountains fighting the Japanese who destroyed their home and killed their relatives would have probably beheaded your whole family as traitors.
@@manaraiders1954 NO , MY HIGHSCHOOL HOMEROOM TEACHER ONCE HAD A STUDENT WHOSE GRANDMA , CARRYING HER BABY DAUGHTER ON ONE ARM WHILE GOING HOME FROM THE MARKET IN MANILA,WAS LUGGING A SACK OF RICE WHEN A IMPERIAL JAP SOLDIER GRABBED IT, THE POOR WOMAN DIDN'T LET GO, SO THE BASTARD GRABBED THE BABY, THREW HER IN THE AIR , AND THEN CAUGHT HER WITH HIS BAYONET...
Such a well-made video. The summary on our culture and history is on-point. As much as we have great relationship with Japan today. I am not naive enough to forget our history in favor of a better diplomatic relations. A statue commemorating comfort women exploited and raped by the Japanese was once refused by the former preaident because it might "hurt" Filipino-Japanese relationship. And as a heritage advocate, the loss of Manila and other cities' beauty is a devastating loss of our collective heritage as Filipinos. I can't help but feel sad when I see pre-war Manila on videos and photos as well as journals from foreigners describing what Manila was like. It truly is the Pearl of the Oriental Seas. I hope it's not too late to rekindle it's former beauty. This will definitely uplift people's spirits.
almost every country had/have/and still doing this gruisome things no one can deny that , so in the end its not about a single country but humanity and their way of thinking.
I'm Filipino Japanese who is still living in the Philippines. I'm torn apart by these information, I knew the world war 2 was brutal and the Filipinos usually just forgive and forget the Japanese. I'm also thankful to the Japanese to be honest without them I wouldn't exist my father is a product of Japanese occupation in the Philippines. I've studied in Manila and basically being there everyday I wouldn't have thought that the Manila was extremely vibrant and clean and full of culture now it's dirty, loud and poverty driven. Japanese people here in the Philippines are treated like brothers despite what they did to us in the past. I'm so in touch with my Japanese side that sometimes I forget what they did to the country I grew up in. Mabuhay ang Pilipinas 万歳日本
Japan was at another level back in those days. The level of evilness blows the Nazi out of the water. Its insane how they dont teach any of this to this day and only teach how they were bombed
One of my grandmothers told the story of how when news hit their province about the coming Japanese, she and her other young relatives and women went in hiding far away beyond the fields they owned until someone came to get them. My other grandmother wasn't alive yet but she was told of how similar things happened in the highlands where Japanese ancestry could be seen in their descendants today.
Manila , is closer to 15 Million people now in 2023, and outside commuters make it about 20 million during the weekdays. The posters description says 2 million that way off.
The Philippine People are Very devout Catholics..they stood in the Pouring Rain to catch a Glimpse of the Pope. They tithe heavily and work very hard..I know lots of Phillipine health workers in Jersey City, NJ...lovely people.
There was no such thing as Japanese Marines. The Japanese military did not have a Marine Corps. What they did have were Imperial Japanese Navy Special Naval Landing Force SNLF units. Navy Officers and Sailors equipped and trained in amphibious landings and light infantry tactics. AKA "Rikusentai"
During the Battle of Leyte Gulf at the Battle of the Suragao Straight. The Japanese Battleship Fuso was sunk in the Straight. Official records claim their were no survivors and all were assumed lost in the sinking. The reality was that between 300 and 800 survivors actually made it to the nearby shores. Not one of them made it off of those islands. So hated were the Japanese that they were all killed by Filipino insurgents eager to take revenge on the Japanese they had suffered under for the previous years. This Fate awaited any Japanese who survived and made it to shore.
As good intended as this video was, some facts aren't exactly right or were grossly glossed over. I'll do a brief rundown in the most stupid way possible. The Philippines, as a colony wasn't that important for the spanish. Other than trade with the east. It had little to no value compared to the much more resource rich Americas. It was so unimportant that many believe that Spain toss over its "job" to the colonial government in Mexico. A colony more below to another colony, you might say. (Correction* By Mexico I meant to say new Spain. And by "job" I mean sending in new colonial governors and clergy. Maybe some rich nobles too. As Mexico was much closer by boat than Spain was. (Couple of months of travel compared to almost a year) New Spain never held another colony. They were more of an in-between between colonial master and slave. Like a slave to another slave. Also there are some old stories of Mexican-spanish folks looking down on the Spanish from the Pinos because of "being from a poorer region of the empire," so there are some weird unspoken bad blood that a few Pinos still has. It's not too well known, but it does crop up from time to time.) Philippines goes into independence revolution against Spain. US boat get sunk. War declared against spain. US won. Imperialists folks thought the Philippines was wealthy and worth it because of population and geography. Spain sold it as an add-on to the treaty. US came to the islands. But was dismayed that everything was a lie. Centuries of mismanagement, lack of colonial investments, and build-up made the islands into a poor, under-developed colony. (When compared to its other neighboring colonies of other powers) US got swindled and was met with extremely anti Spanish, hostile locals. War starts between the Philippines and the US. US won. But it took a couple of years to fully pacify the islands. Which they did.. brutally. The US realized that the Pinos will continue to rebel no matter what, so they took a page from the book of Mother Dearest, "the UK." Offered to create a commonwealth. The Pinos will get a republic, but the US will retain power on the military and foreign affairs. After crushing those who opposed. The Philippine agreed. "US shocked El Dorado face." Bam! Half of the major rebellion stops in support of the commonwealth. "Shocked El Dorado face again" bam bam! Offers independence in 1942 or 43 (can't remember) Japan attacks Phil Islands hours after Pearl Harbor. MacArthur fails like a bitch. Flee. After three years of resistance, building up communications and sabotage. US blitz through the islands (it is said that hours before the liberation and allied landing, the generals gave its signal to the resistance force loyal to the allies. To sow as much chaos as possible, which they did to an excellent effect) Phil gets liberated. After the war and war trails. US gave Phil an option to delay independence until 1949. Phil declined and gained independence in 1946. That's the brief rundown that I researched. PS. Imo. MacArthur is only loved because his pr people made him look good. He was a terrible general and failed spectacularly in the defense of the Philippines and the command of the troops under him. That egotistical piece of shit.
Bro your lucky I’m not in same place as you ..I dislike your comment very much and you should thank god I can’t get hold of you ( I train in bjj ) shut your mouth
I imagined what would’ve happened if Emilio Aguinaldo fully supported General Luna and his vision for PH independence against the US in the late 1890’s to 1900’s. Would the PH survived the upcoming onslaught of the Japanese 4 decades after?
More likely that the Philippines would be conquered by the Japanese or a puppet state and be conquered by the US. So more time being occupied by the US then the former.
The Philippines would have never have came out of the 1890s-1910s independent, unless it received massive help from a major power. If the Americans declined to take all of the Philippines (they probably would have wanted some Islands for a naval base), than the Spanish most likely would have sold them to Germany. After all the Spanish did sell the modern day countries of Palau, Micronesia, and the Marshall Islands, plus the now US territory of the Northern Mariana Islands (Guam was taken by the US in 1898 and so was never controlled by Germany). There was also the possibility of Japan taking control over the Philippines, or even the United Kingdom. The purges in the Philippines’s revolutionary government and the creation of a church that disputed with the Catholic Church didn’t help either and may have helped set the country up for a civil war had it become independent. Just some of my thoughts, I’m not an expert.
That was a difficult video to get through. It makes it very difficult to forgive Japan even though the principle players are long gone and Japan hasn't used babies as toys in many years. Hiroshima makes more sense now but still, why is it always the innocent and defenseless that suffer the most? Nothing is more evil than humans during wartime. RIP all those who lost their lives in Manila. You are not forgotten. 😢💔🕊️
Right after the occupation and liberation of the Philippines from Japan, the US promised the Philippines to rebuild the country but that assistance is in the form of debt which the US lended resources to the Philippines and eventually the Philippines would pay that off "assistance". Also up to present, there's still a communist revolution going on in the Philippines in the form of armed struggle in the jungles and legal struggle in the congress/senate.
I've read a book about a lady telling her story who winess this. She saw her dad and family being killed and she got raped by the japanese as well simultaneously. It was traumatizing to read
The benevolent assimilation was not mentioned and the battle of balangiga -_- and the amount of which Philippines was bought by US for 20 million dollars and the battle of manila was initially panned as a mock battle where blood will not be shed I know that the battle of Balangiga was in samar but I think it was a significant part of American occupation of the Philippines Yeah i know this is a vid for the atrocities of Japan during the war but still .
They wouldn't dare mention it. The Philippines is going to be used as a US base once again, and will become a convenient battleground if China tries to follow Putin's example.
Bombing of Manila was NOT a "choiceless choice". US was part of the reason why Manila was flattened to the ground - they needed to defeat the Japanese, but they also wanted to get it over quick so that they can move forward towards Japan (and be in line with other forces in other regions who are also advancing). They didn't want to spend their time besieging the Japanese troops who are holding their positions within the city. If the US truly wanted to save civilians and the City - they could've besieged the place, starve the enemies, and perform skirmishes to continue rescuing civilians - but nope - they didn't feel it's worth their time and their soldier's lives, so they peformed non-stop artillery instead.
Some people keeps pressing how nice Japanese people are. Those are only the civilians, they don't know about the past and the government.
Japan is a great place now a days, but the fact that they try to hide what they've done and doesn't discuss about it even in their history classes is infuriating.
I mean, even the imperial soldiers who did those atrocities were "civilians" before the war. When you have a culture that's geared towards "honor" and views "dishonorable" people as less than animals, you're just bound to get a barbarian civilisation. Nowadays, the depravity of the Japanese can be seen through their h**tai and p**n fantasies.
Thanks for saying that after all every civilian wants peace no matter what the country is
I am Chinese and I appreciate Japanese culture, but I hope they can recognize the existence of history.
@@qianranchen5933Emperor Hirohito and his Servants were bloodthirsty War Lords.
Many years ago I met a Filipino working as a security guard in Los Angeles, CA. He told me he fought the Japanese with homemade bows and arrows in the jungles of the Philippines. The one statement I would disagree with you on is calling the Filipinos who wanted independence from the USA..."Insurgents".
What would you prefer them called because the term insurgent fits that situation.
@@chuckfinley6747 freedom fighters
@@patatas08 that’s a term I always found funny because fire fighters fight fire and crime fighters fight crime ergo freedom fights fight freedom
@@chuckfinley6747 you know they mean fighters for freedom
@@chuckfinley6747 nigga it's not that hard to understand.
We Filipinos don't talk about WWII because it is tramautising for us. My grandfathers were child soldiers for the US-Filipino army and my grandmothers were hiding in wicker baskets in the jungles to avoid getting raped and murdered.
Wow, smh
My father fought in New Guinea in WW2 in 1942 against the Japanese on the Kokoda Track. In 1943 he trained a group of American soldiers in Guerilla warfare for the invasion of the Philippines to go in prior and destroy enemy infrastructure. One of them was a sargeant of Philippino descent who signed an American one dollar note which I proudly still have today.
I hope he survived and I hope they kicked some arses!! I know many people suffered in WW2.
No, the US Army refused to take anyone below the age of 16 because it would be a violation of the Geneva Convention. At age 16 with the written approval of a parent, you could join and be issued a US military ID number. My father was 15 years old, weighed 90 lbs, stood five foot four inches and had a British Lee Enfield Rifle and 3 rounds of Japanese ammunition. You can force fire Japanese ammunition through the larger caliber British rifle. The Americans tried to shame him and other irregulars to move South to partake in the liberation of Manila by telling them that the Happon were draining Filipino children of blood for blood transfusions for wounded Happpon soldiers. My father and his comrades politely declined. So many American soldiers died liberating the Philippines that it was impractical to ship all the dead bodies back to the US and to this day there is a US military cemetery somewhere near Manila with thousands and thousands of graves of dead US soldiers. My father watched the Americans charge up a hill and the Japanese defenders would roll grenades down on them. Then the Americans would get blown up and flee down the hill in terror. Then the Americans would re-group and charge back up the hill. This happened over and over again until the Japanese ran out of grenades. He was so impressed by this that when my sister moved to Radford, Virginia where there is almost no level ground and bought a house on a hill side, he told her that she could roll grenades down from her house to the street below. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Sad...
You "Filipinos" ARe INDO-Japanese MIX. Just like Thailand to Nepal are INDO-Chinese MIX. Remember? French INDO-China. How come You "SE Asians' Never say your True ethnicity? Your Japanese, Chinese MIXed with Hindus.
Japan used to be Nippon..Northern Island of the Philippines or Northern Island Pinoy..Nippon. YOu are NBot "philipines" but SaIPPOn.
Nippon/Saipan.
It's sad that Manila and the Philippines never recovered from the devastation of WW2. Once coined as "The Paris of Asia" Manila's beauty was a sight to behold. Sadly, it was destroyed during the war and is the second most devastated city after Warsaw.
And we never followed how Warsaw rebuilt itself.
Most of the world never recovered. World war2 and the failures of communism are why the US is the predominant superpower. It's not competence, it's the fact that everyone else was held back by misfortune and bad ideology.
@@silverhawkscape2677 Warsaw is still decrepit for European standard especially in contrast to Berlin
@@desgner_droz8716 Still Better than the Philippines.
And For European Standards, they amazed the world with there reconstruction efforts.
@@silverhawkscape2677 it receives a lot of aid from other European countries in its borders lol the Philippines receives bird shit from the US like Liberia does, I don't see why you think it's a competition, it's all context.
The Battle of Manila has been called the Stalingrad of The Pacific. The Japanese were committing atrocites regardless of the outcome. I have read that the Filipinos have a good understanding of what they faced - even though annihilation was a possiblilty. God rest their souls. I've never met a Filipino I didn't like.
i dont like 90% of the fillipinos i come across. most are uneducated or un willing to be educated and just some bottom feeders man
I heard this story from my Dad, he told me his mother (My Grandmother) lived during the Japanese Occupation. I never really talked to her about it since she died when I was young and I never knew about ww2 at a young age but he told me that during WW2, the Japanese Occupation her family lived somewhere in Manila and during the occupation her house was visited by the Japanese and after the Japanese left they took my Grandmother’s parents with them and never returned. Obviously, they were executed after being accused of being Guerrilla Fighters and after that the Sisters of my Grandmother were pretty much left alone in the house and took care of each other
I'm 54yrs old Filipino American and to watch this video breaks my heart to see my people go through such hardships
My Father told me The Philippine Gorilla fighter were feared by The Japanese soldiers by how they fought.
@@GaryAa56 why would Japanese soldiers fear Filipino gorilla fighters? Obviously as the name suggest they probably fought against gorillas but I’m not sure why Filipinos would be picking fights against primates
Pray for them and be grateful to god that you have safe life
@@nisha-ve3dj I will I just wish I knew a proper prayer.
I lived in the Philippines for many years and the many times I visited Manila I have to admit it feels haunted.
I was recently there and didn’t really get that sense. More so just overcrowded and polluted but a lot of the city has yet to develop and I think this may in partly explain that. Also there are almost no good pedestrian walkways there, you are either walking under ground, on bridges or on the highway next to cars. It’s a mess still
@@chrisr5649 I'm an American expat and I have lived here in Bataan for 14 years. I go down to Corregidor on occasion and let me tell you something, if there is ANY place in this entire archipelago that is cursed/haunted/saturated with an unnatural aura.... it is... The Rock! Some of the artillery magazines dug through those mountains go deep within and are not really part of any 'authorized' tour. Walking around at night and in wooded areas does not bother me but those tunnels and various batteries, ESPECIALLY batteries Geary and Way seriously bother me to the point I cannot go back to them.
Intramuros today looks like a skeleton with people crawling all over it. Manila, as a whole, has some serious spiritual and supernatural issues plaguing it.
Did the museum tour recently, all free, great air-conditioning and well kept. But there are stretches of Manila sidewalks that just smell like an open toilet.
Sorry for your bad experience in our country😪
Sadly most Japanese people don't know and don't want to know about what happened in Asia before and during WWII.
I like modern-day Japan and I know that young Japanese have nothing to do with WW2, but I believe it is their responsibility to know what their ancestors did.
It's actually impressive how little they know about history. Even the more cultivated ones know nothing WW2 related. It made some very awkward situations in the past, and they didn't like hearing any of that.
@@TitusAzzurro They only care about Japanese military victories and Japanese comments saying "thank you for defending Japan"
Manila was the second most destroyed city of World War 2 after with Warsaw...
My grandmother was 14 years old during WWII living in Iloilo. Went the Japanese arrived, they fled their large manors and went to the mountains. My grandmother's aunt and her 2 daughters refused to leave their home and hid beneath the cellars of their home where according to my grandma is where they hid their wealth (some of it were gold). My grandma's brother who lived with them managed to fled but his aunt and cousins sadly were captured and later beheaded by the Japanese who also proceeded to seize their wealth.
And the Japanese whine about being nuked. Many will said they were asking for it.
I get it, but Sheeesh! The MOST TRAGIC part is that it’s NOT the rapists who suffer the most in any war……It’s ALWAYS the civilians who are just trying to make a livi& survive..!! 😑
@@11buttnaked
A civilian population who had likewise been brainwashed to fight to the last man in the emperor's name. Actual manned invasion of Japan would have been a meat grinder for both sides, and given how deeply ingrained Japanese nationalism and fanaticism was at the time, the only way such a campaign _could_ have ended would have been with the _utter extinction_ of the Japanese people. None of the allies could bear the losses or weight such a campaign would necessitate, so they opted for the lesser evil available: a new technology that they hoped (and later proved) would be sufficiently devastating as to break Japanese forces out of their psychopathic mania and jingoism. Fat Man and Little Boy may have destroyed two civilian centers, but they were dropped in the desperate hope that these tragic losses would save far more lives. Given how quickly that ended the war (and the continued existence of Japan as a nation and people), I think it's safe to say the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not die in vain.
While yeah Japan did some bad things children and od people got vaporized because they ust lived in Japan. WW2 was a mess on all sides.
@@Xbalanque84 😶
@@Xbalanque84 As much as I wish to agree... It's still a high price to pay...
I love the Philippines, I hate how it's people have been exploited for so many years.
still happening, a modern-day slave by mostly Chinese, Korean, and Japanese.
We are honestly so used to it🤦
@Chunelle Maria Victoria Espanol that shouldn't be the case and I hope that one day soon, it won't be. I have a very special place in my heart for the country and its amazing people
I hate the fact the we been exploited too. Its not ok for me just because some are used to it doesn't mean we dont do anything to change it.
@@eustoneuwan712 agree i know what u mean especially to whats happening to our country
People think that Japanese people have always been nice friendly and polite 😂
They were known as the nasty people.
Not the case with Captain Isao Yamazoe. A good leader and friendly officer to the locals of Leyte.
@@VinnyLam that's a fact. Japanese people are known for having a 2 faced personality. Never trust those race again, ever. Or else, as the saying goes, history repeats itself.
Their society is honestly getting fucked every passing year. Lower birth rates, lower marriage rates, molestation, and cheating spouses to name a few.
? Dude what do you mean you still see Asians that aren’t polite in nice? They still aren’t you see Asian women like Japanese women getting assaulted in miss weight on trains even foreign women like European women Caucasian women like you’re starting to see a lot of influx of Russian women in Japan like a lot of these Caucasian women that you seeing speaking English in Japan 90% of them are actually really from Russia someone don’t even have accents only some white women are from the states in other regions but I don’t know you’re starting to see some reason a lot of influx of Russian people in general freaking going to a bunch of Asian countries it is a big influx like Cambodia and Vietnam especially Vietnam AnyWho you see a lot of Caucasian women being followed by excited Asian Japanese man there’s a lot of reports on the Internet of a lot of women being assaulted and followed in their homes they just keep it from the media even is a big influx of underage Asian girls that are homeless and living on the streets and they are introduced to prostitution in them being on the streets a lot of older men pimp them out even the age of consent in some Japanese regions raise from 13 to 19 or I believe 13 to 18 if I’m not mistaken it’s kind of similar to Germany my bed they’re both similar I guess they’re still somewhat allies to consume in Germany use like 14
Do a video on the Ramree crocodile attacks. Good example of the WW2 Japanese forces reaping their built-up karma in the most horrifying way imaginable.
I love learning about the Imperial Japanese getting their karma. This horrific but wonderful attack in Ramree Island. Americans taking Japanese body parts, especially skulls as souvenirs. The atom bombing. The firebombing. The Soviets annihilating the Japs in Manchuria. Filipinos trading Japanese skulls with the Americans. The Chinese getting their revenge on the Japanese.
I get motivated to know the horrible and gruesome ways the Japanese soldiers died in the WW2, especially since the bastards basically got away with their atrocities in today's world. Please list down some more specific events.
@@strahnbrad3979 Reminder that some people (on RUclips especially) see "Hiroo Onoda" as an honourable and determined soldier for being insane enough to hold out on Lubang island until 1974 and allegedly killing around 30 civilians during this time because he refused to stand down.
I'm a young Japanese. And all I can say is I am so sorry this happened.
And still your parents and grandparents deny history. Infuriating.
@@TheDevilEdohow would you know?
Shut up jap your country deserved those nukes
@@maramba32 They only ever talk about Hiroshima and Nagasaki and how Japan was a victim of WW2 They don't teach or outright deny atrocities like Nanking, Baatan death march or Unit 731. If you showed a Japanese person a map of the Japanese empire at its height in 1942, they'll be shocked.
dont blame yourself , it's not like u were the one whole those ppl's
The British captured Manila in 1762 and held it along with parts of Cavite and Luzon before handing it back to Spain two years later when the war ended. I am in Manila right now and whenever I bring this topic up no one knows about it. It is tempting to imagine how different the Philippines would have been had the British decided to keep possession and take all of the country rather than allow the Spanish to take re possession.
But doubt if they will ever turn protestant. The Spanish missionaries did great work spreading Catholicism. They lost Manila, but the rest of the country faithfully stuck to their Spanish overlords.
Some of the soldiers of the british who were indians(sepoys) stayed in manila when the british left and many of them lived in cainta,outside of manila.they still have descendants there,when i was kid the older people would call indians,sepoy.originating from that part of history.
A huge "what if" in history. I wonder if the Philippines would have ended up like the US, Singapore, Hong Kong... or like the Indian subcontinent.
damn. in Europe, we were appalled by what the Nazis did. but compared to the japanese... nazis were mild by comparison. dear God.
Even the Nazis were horrified by Japan
They had an interesting biological warfare unit, but the Japs never used industrialized gas chambers.
The Japanese military & leadership at that time was on par with the Soviets & Stalin. Honestly looking at individual incidences from the Nazi's, Imperial Japanese, Soviets, Fascist Italians, etc. no one can convince me monsters don't exist. Take Stalin's 1933 cannibal island for example, it technically didn't take place during WW2 but it gets an honorary mention since the start of WW2 is subjective because it was a multitude of factors that led to it. Also, I'm surprised no one mentions the war crimes of the Italians during WW2.
@@derekcox543 True. The Early 1900s were a very savage time by the so called "Civilized" World
@@hamzaferoz6162 A country led astray will always owe more than they can pay, time is the most persistent debt collector known to man. The remnants of the Romans can attest to this.
Shocking to hear of another theatre of war that I didn't even know about. Man's inhumanity to man in full display.
28 dislikes are imperial Japanese
Similar situation that took place in British overseas territories such as Singapore, Mayala,Hong Kong and Burma they all fell to Japanese as did the Dutch east indies (Indonesia) and French indochina they also fell to the Japanese.
I just found this channel. Very good! This is my second in a row! I guess that makes means I’m binge watching.
I've read some extremely excruciating details of what happened there. It's enough to turn your stomach and make your heart ache.
i remember one of our prolific writer who lived through it wrote a journal about it. she also did an appearance in one documentary about how they heard the screams of girls in manila hotel.
Can't Imagine the horror those poor girls/women went through at the hands of those Godless filthy mindless animal Japanese.
They are still godless to this day!
The World: This video.
Japan: It never happened.
Thank you for making this
Seeing the people (especially the Nuns) in this video brought tears to my eyes. Thank you for sharing this part of history so we never forget.
Thanks for posting these, I don't feel so bad knowing my ex from 10 years ago still gets turned on watching me take a dump on the toilet or have boring people follow me around work.. I hope the 😎 guys follow more, I feel cooler just knowing they're around. Thanks! 👍
I always heard about babies being tossed in the air and bayonetted during this time.
It's too horrible to believe, but it's sadly true.
Not sure if our country will ever truly recover.
I'm a Gulf War veteran I have traveled to many countries, and I have friends from all over the world. And places like in Singapore I seen the monument telling about the Japanese atrocities, also I had ex-girlfriend in Indonesia and she told me about the atrocities, her dad was a Japanese and Dutch speaking Indonesian diplomat, and these people never forgot the atrocities of the Japanese, it's known even in the Thailand there's three prices the first is for the Thai people 2nd for European and American and the third and most expensive for the Japanese. Most Asians have not forgot the atrocities committed by the Japanese in the war.
As a filipino World war 2 gave me mixed series of emotions and it really infuriates me! Alot of filipino culture and architecture were destroyed and so much history was lost! Major Philippine cities could have looked like Lisbon or Melbourne in asia has it not the infrastructures been obliterated in the last war! After 1945 the country gained independence (from which filipinos have been wanting to in the first place) which the USA has shifted its focus on japan after they have dropped the bombs, so as to compensate them, which in turn have left the philippines in a much more difficult state to recover faster (because much of the establishments and institutions were destroyed)
It makes me sad when I see Philippines calling themselves the name the Spanish war lords named it (after their king) instead of calling it Maharlika (the REAL name of the islands). It makes me even MORE sad when I see the power that the Catholic superstition still holds on the Philippines and how its used to suppress amd corrupt its people and keep them down. The real religion of the Philippines was Buddhism which is far less supressive (see Thailand as example).
@@TorbenRudgaard 300 years of spanish colonization runs deep in the philippines. Hence why catholicism is pretty big here!. Mainland south east asia however like cambodia,vietnam and thailand are buddhists. Whilst maritime south east asia like philippines, malaysia and indonesia has significant islamic population. The original religion of the philippines however is animism (think nature worship or tribal shamans) and then next came the hindus and the buddhists such as the indians the chinese and other south east asians that migrated and did trade. Their religion, unfortunately declined and got lost in time as it was overshadowed by more aggressive islamic missionaries that came few centuries after. And then came the 15th century when the spanish colonizers introduced christianity and then the rest is history
@@TorbenRudgaard Please, for your sake, learn more and don't believe everything you see on the internet.
Ignorance is so rampant among Filipino even with our own history.
I just found your channel and watched 2 videos. Excellent work
my grandfather fought the war and participated in death march. He is a medic so he is somewhat precious to both sides. He use the opportunity to spy and pass messages to prisoners. He fake sickness to get out of the death camp then joined the guerilla units.
Meanwhile, my grandma was left that time. (husband -my grandpa joined ranks) Thy have a sizable farm where she and her sisters go for hiding since good looks are very unfortunate that time.
One of the most beautiful countries I’ve ever lived in.
4:24 correction Filipinos wants independence from spain and the moment they get it and already established a new government ruled by Filipino, americans came.
9:05 based on the settings of the video, in which is in Philippines, there's no winter and spring there, just summer and rainy.
Aside from little corrections, great content though.
Yeah but winter is still winter
@@officerdonut7066 There's no winter in equator.
Calling Filipinos who wanted independence from the USA "insurgents" is quite a stretch. Those in the US territory wanting independence from Britain were "insurgents" as well then.
@@AmazingPhilippines1 I think the matter of calling someone an insurgent is on the POV of those who calls them.
basically if you attack someone and they resist you, they are called insurgents ? To me that’s a political word that politicians like to throw around
Thanks for a great history lesson, at least for me. Cheers!
What I don't get is why didn't they execute the rest of the still living Japanese soldiers? They were probably just as guilty as their commanders.
They kill themselves before getting captured.
They got off laughing after US bargained for their freedom i know many japanese that comitted the manila massacre still alive today
This breaks my heart. The children.
Very nice short dokus
Sad how Godwin's law is a thing (and almost always happens in my experience), whereas the Japanese absolutely horrible war crimes are much less talked about.
I have wondered, why Nazi Germany was tried for war crimes, yet Japan, which committed as bad or worse crimes, and have yet to be told of or done about anything about..???
Guessing the atom bombings caused the outrage of Japan’s war crimes to be dealt with quietly, that and it was not really in the “Western” countries’ interests to seek justice for China.
It wasn't less talked about
It was only less known in the west while most of Asian countries who had been subjected to imperial Japan knew about their atrocities
@@mahabaron388 yes, I am an Asian and I am disappointed at Westerners who keep praising and defending Japan ONLY for what it is today.
@@strahnbrad3979isnt it bce USA wanted Japan as their ally?
That they went even harder against Germany
They came acrossed a big old box ,bound up with chains and locked with locks saying ," kindly do not touch , its war ." But someone did ,someone battered in the lid and spilled its insides out across the floor . A sort of bouncy bumpy ball made up of death and grief and pain and all the horrors that go with WAR . It harms the children mainly .........rip John Denver
I don't hate and I don't want to hate the Japanese. But history has to be told and remembered and studied and learned. That way, we don't have to repeat History.
So my History / Social Studies teacher say.
U shouldnt because every ethnicity has been cruel at some point in history. Its part of being human. Learn from it, be better than our ancestors. Honor them this way.
Learn from it? Ask that to China.
As a filipina, there's no need to hate the Japanese but do despise the ones who were involved in the war crimes as I don't think it's fair to hate people of an ethnic group all because someone from that group did some terrible things.
But I do agree that history needs to be taught so that we don't make the same mistakes.
Crazy part about this is japan did not say sorry about the nanking event and trying to protect their reputation
There's a statue in the phillipines that symbolizes the idk rape in women and japan wanr it to be gone just how u think about them not regreting their decisions and protecting their reputation
And ppl thinking they are polite and kind fhak off reputation fhak off the nukes that should be drob is 10 not 2
@@somethingdifferent6438 what do you mean like, 1 for each city that they attacked in Asia?
@@schizo4932 no, I believe there's a statue in Manila about "comfort women" and the japanese government didn't like it
@@jessicalulila5709 oh no! do they want people to forget about the past?
man they can't just deny what had happened and keep getting away with it.
@@schizo4932 Bro, if you go to Japan’s war memorials and museums they give so much praise and honour to their generals who spearheaded these horrific crimes against humanity. They are wickedly unapologetic. Imagine if you went to the WWII museum in Berlin and saw badges and plaques commemorating the likes of Himmler and Goebbel. It would be atrocious, and yet the Japanese do pretty much that.
I am in a mental torment
I usually don’t get affected by stories like this because u here about a new atrocity ,that was committed in the past ,every week but this one did it.
As horrible as this, we need to be reminded that it happened.
When I was in the 7th grade in the Philippines, I drew a map like that (1:19) similarly Philip Nolan, a sad protagonist in the book; A Man Without a Country , drew the map of the states on his deathbed. My teacher glared at me and asked; Where are the Visayan Islands?
My grandparents used to tell stories about how they lived during WWII when I was a boy. My grandfather survived by being friendly to both sides while being fully aware of the danger if the Japanese discovered he also receives food from the Americans so he hid them very well. My grandmother told us they kill chickens and wipe the blood behind them so the Japanese think they are in their period and also avoid rape. Another story I heard personally from my wife's grandmother is that they beat Filipinos who misbehave, if not then you have nothing to fear. And as mentioned in this video, the tossing of babies and... well, most of those kinds of actions were done by the Koreans (most probably who joined the Japanese army, on their own or by force). Many looked after the Filipinos well, and some stories says that they were sad when the Japanese have to flee the town because the one in charge is so kind. Yes, there are many horrific stories, but there are still unheard-of positive stories about their occupation.
In that case, my great grandparents who were in the mountains fighting the Japanese who destroyed their home and killed their relatives would have probably beheaded your whole family as traitors.
how wierd
TRUE, ONE JAPANESE SOLDIER, WHO ONCE WORKED AS A DRIVER FOR A FAMILY IN MANILA, WOULD BRING THEM A SACK OF RICE WEEKLY
Wasn't the tossing of babies one only done to nanking?
@@manaraiders1954 NO , MY HIGHSCHOOL HOMEROOM TEACHER ONCE HAD A STUDENT WHOSE GRANDMA , CARRYING HER BABY DAUGHTER ON ONE ARM WHILE GOING HOME FROM THE MARKET IN MANILA,WAS LUGGING A SACK OF RICE WHEN A IMPERIAL JAP SOLDIER GRABBED IT, THE POOR WOMAN DIDN'T LET GO, SO THE BASTARD GRABBED THE BABY, THREW HER IN THE AIR , AND THEN CAUGHT HER WITH HIS BAYONET...
Such a well-made video. The summary on our culture and history is on-point.
As much as we have great relationship with Japan today. I am not naive enough to forget our history in favor of a better diplomatic relations. A statue commemorating comfort women exploited and raped by the Japanese was once refused by the former preaident because it might "hurt" Filipino-Japanese relationship.
And as a heritage advocate, the loss of Manila and other cities' beauty is a devastating loss of our collective heritage as Filipinos. I can't help but feel sad when I see pre-war Manila on videos and photos as well as journals from foreigners describing what Manila was like. It truly is the Pearl of the Oriental Seas.
I hope it's not too late to rekindle it's former beauty. This will definitely uplift people's spirits.
almost every country had/have/and still doing this gruisome things no one can deny that , so in the end its not about a single country but humanity and their way of thinking.
utterly horrific
UNTIL NOW NO MATTER WHAT OTHERS SAY I WILL NEVER FORGET NOR FORGIVE THE JAPANESE FOR WHAT THEY HAVE DONE IN THE WAR IN SOUTH EAST ASIA....NEVER.
now i finally understand why they had to nuke hiroshima and nagasaki...
Two was never enough, and the heads of the imperial family should have been on plates
I found the video very interesting as my Father was in The Battle of Leyeta (?) in The Philippines.
Leyte Gulf War
With all the war crimes done by the Japanese I wonder if the samurais were even honorable based on the history told about them.
My grandpa fought for the war as a 15 year old and since he technically fought for the US he was made a citizen with out his knowledge
Wow, it just keeps getting worse
It's no wonder Japan's neighbors hold such animosity toward them.
I'm Filipino Japanese who is still living in the Philippines. I'm torn apart by these information, I knew the world war 2 was brutal and the Filipinos usually just forgive and forget the Japanese. I'm also thankful to the Japanese to be honest without them I wouldn't exist my father is a product of Japanese occupation in the Philippines. I've studied in Manila and basically being there everyday I wouldn't have thought that the Manila was extremely vibrant and clean and full of culture now it's dirty, loud and poverty driven. Japanese people here in the Philippines are treated like brothers despite what they did to us in the past. I'm so in touch with my Japanese side that sometimes I forget what they did to the country I grew up in. Mabuhay ang Pilipinas 万歳日本
thats so sad
lower whatever background sound effect/music will ya?
Japan was at another level back in those days. The level of evilness blows the Nazi out of the water. Its insane how they dont teach any of this to this day and only teach how they were bombed
One of my grandmothers told the story of how when news hit their province about the coming Japanese, she and her other young relatives and women went in hiding far away beyond the fields they owned until someone came to get them. My other grandmother wasn't alive yet but she was told of how similar things happened in the highlands where Japanese ancestry could be seen in their descendants today.
Manila , is closer to 15 Million people now in 2023, and outside commuters make it about 20 million during the weekdays. The posters description says 2 million that way off.
Exactly! - Greater Manila Area is estimated to have a population of more than 23 million today according to WorldStat.
The Philippine People are Very devout Catholics..they stood in the Pouring Rain to catch a Glimpse of the Pope. They tithe heavily and work very hard..I know lots of Phillipine health workers in Jersey City, NJ...lovely people.
❤❤❤❤ from PH.
In all wars the majority of casualties are civilians - for those countries in the war zone.
There was no such thing as Japanese Marines. The Japanese military did not have a Marine Corps. What they did have were Imperial Japanese Navy Special Naval Landing Force SNLF units. Navy Officers and Sailors equipped and trained in amphibious landings and light infantry tactics. AKA "Rikusentai"
Bayview was not site of MacArthur's penthouse. It was The Manila Hotel
For some reason, Japanese got away with most of these crimes.
I knew about the rape of nanking since highschool but I've literally never heard of this
During the Battle of Leyte Gulf at the Battle of the Suragao Straight. The Japanese Battleship Fuso was sunk in the Straight. Official records claim their were no survivors and all were assumed lost in the sinking. The reality was that between 300 and 800 survivors actually made it to the nearby shores. Not one of them made it off of those islands. So hated were the Japanese that they were all killed by Filipino insurgents eager to take revenge on the Japanese they had suffered under for the previous years. This Fate awaited any Japanese who survived and made it to shore.
They don't teach this in Japanese schools 😂
This part of history I didn't even know, you would think they would have promoted it more especially in Hollywood film.
Japanese Legacy in the Philippines during WW2, Unspeakable Atrocities.
Theodor Roswell ❤️👍
There are a few errors in here one is General MacArthur was not the Governor of the Philippines . We were already a Commonwealth at the time.
Still downplayed and/or denied in Japan and schools.
I hope this isn’t too graphic
Edit: Graphic
Gets pretty horrific towards the end.... history we must rememeber.
Yeah very graphic
yeah, that was fucked up.
I'm pretty desensitized but the Japanese are masters at horror. So I might be scared. I'll come back after finishing the video.
@@ElectrostatiCrow I think he died
As good intended as this video was, some facts aren't exactly right or were grossly glossed over. I'll do a brief rundown in the most stupid way possible.
The Philippines, as a colony wasn't that important for the spanish. Other than trade with the east. It had little to no value compared to the much more resource rich Americas. It was so unimportant that many believe that Spain toss over its "job" to the colonial government in Mexico. A colony more below to another colony, you might say. (Correction* By Mexico I meant to say new Spain. And by "job" I mean sending in new colonial governors and clergy. Maybe some rich nobles too. As Mexico was much closer by boat than Spain was. (Couple of months of travel compared to almost a year) New Spain never held another colony. They were more of an in-between between colonial master and slave. Like a slave to another slave. Also there are some old stories of Mexican-spanish folks looking down on the Spanish from the Pinos because of "being from a poorer region of the empire," so there are some weird unspoken bad blood that a few Pinos still has. It's not too well known, but it does crop up from time to time.)
Philippines goes into independence revolution against Spain.
US boat get sunk. War declared against spain.
US won. Imperialists folks thought the Philippines was wealthy and worth it because of population and geography. Spain sold it as an add-on to the treaty.
US came to the islands. But was dismayed that everything was a lie.
Centuries of mismanagement, lack of colonial investments, and build-up made the islands into a poor, under-developed colony. (When compared to its other neighboring colonies of other powers)
US got swindled and was met with extremely anti Spanish, hostile locals.
War starts between the Philippines and the US.
US won. But it took a couple of years to fully pacify the islands. Which they did.. brutally.
The US realized that the Pinos will continue to rebel no matter what, so they took a page from the book of Mother Dearest, "the UK." Offered to create a commonwealth. The Pinos will get a republic, but the US will retain power on the military and foreign affairs.
After crushing those who opposed. The Philippine agreed.
"US shocked El Dorado face." Bam!
Half of the major rebellion stops in support of the commonwealth.
"Shocked El Dorado face again" bam bam!
Offers independence in 1942 or 43 (can't remember)
Japan attacks Phil Islands hours after Pearl Harbor. MacArthur fails like a bitch. Flee.
After three years of resistance, building up communications and sabotage. US blitz through the islands (it is said that hours before the liberation and allied landing, the generals gave its signal to the resistance force loyal to the allies. To sow as much chaos as possible, which they did to an excellent effect)
Phil gets liberated. After the war and war trails. US gave Phil an option to delay independence until 1949. Phil declined and gained independence in 1946.
That's the brief rundown that I researched.
PS. Imo. MacArthur is only loved because his pr people made him look good. He was a terrible general and failed spectacularly in the defense of the Philippines and the command of the troops under him. That egotistical piece of shit.
That is correct. at one point, the Viceroy was Mexico ruled Manila indirectly, not the monarchs in Spain
My neighbors in Alaska were Dean's at Manilla college and escaped Marcos. They were very nice people I often think of
History repeat itself but with a different participants
Could not watch upload as it is now age restricted, the verification is very suspicious. Looked it up and read about it.
Lovable people.
Actually Manila is a already a city before Spaniards come, they just expanded the city and become a mix of west and eastern cultures until 1945.
I’m sure Filipinos enjoyed excessive amounts of freedom and independence in concentrated amounts in certain delegated camps.
Wtf are u talking about?
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Bro your lucky I’m not in same place as you ..I dislike your comment very much and you should thank god I can’t get hold of you ( I train in bjj ) shut your mouth
I imagined what would’ve happened if Emilio Aguinaldo fully supported General Luna and his vision for PH independence against the US in the late 1890’s to 1900’s. Would the PH survived the upcoming onslaught of the Japanese 4 decades after?
More likely that the Philippines would be conquered by the Japanese or a puppet state and be conquered by the US. So more time being occupied by the US then the former.
The Philippines would have never have came out of the 1890s-1910s independent, unless it received massive help from a major power.
If the Americans declined to take all of the Philippines (they probably would have wanted some Islands for a naval base), than the Spanish most likely would have sold them to Germany. After all the Spanish did sell the modern day countries of Palau, Micronesia, and the Marshall Islands, plus the now US territory of the Northern Mariana Islands (Guam was taken by the US in 1898 and so was never controlled by Germany).
There was also the possibility of Japan taking control over the Philippines, or even the United Kingdom.
The purges in the Philippines’s revolutionary government and the creation of a church that disputed with the Catholic Church didn’t help either and may have helped set the country up for a civil war had it become independent.
Just some of my thoughts, I’m not an expert.
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That was a difficult video to get through. It makes it very difficult to forgive Japan even though the principle players are long gone and Japan hasn't used babies as toys in many years. Hiroshima makes more sense now but still, why is it always the innocent and defenseless that suffer the most? Nothing is more evil than humans during wartime. RIP all those who lost their lives in Manila. You are not forgotten. 😢💔🕊️
Right after the occupation and liberation of the Philippines from Japan, the US promised the Philippines to rebuild the country but that assistance is in the form of debt which the US lended resources to the Philippines and eventually the Philippines would pay that off "assistance".
Also up to present, there's still a communist revolution going on in the Philippines in the form of armed struggle in the jungles and legal struggle in the congress/senate.
8:52 =All Filipinos say and remember- "I shall Return"...
Everyone under 18: “Damn it😔”
for the algorithm.
I've read a book about a lady telling her story who winess this. She saw her dad and family being killed and she got raped by the japanese as well simultaneously. It was traumatizing to read
Why do you hv to hv 2 background songs for this vid? It’s very Annoying
The benevolent assimilation was not mentioned and the battle of balangiga -_- and the amount of which Philippines was bought by US for 20 million dollars and the battle of manila was initially panned as a mock battle where blood will not be shed
I know that the battle of Balangiga was in samar but I think it was a significant part of American occupation of the Philippines
Yeah i know this is a vid for the atrocities of Japan during the war but still .
I lived in Balangiga Eastern Samar.
They wouldn't dare mention it. The Philippines is going to be used as a US base once again, and will become a convenient battleground if China tries to follow Putin's example.
1 day in and 25k views.
Also, Filipino here 💪😎👌🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭
Worse is coming to this Godless world
Bombing of Manila was NOT a "choiceless choice". US was part of the reason why Manila was flattened to the ground - they needed to defeat the Japanese, but they also wanted to get it over quick so that they can move forward towards Japan (and be in line with other forces in other regions who are also advancing). They didn't want to spend their time besieging the Japanese troops who are holding their positions within the city. If the US truly wanted to save civilians and the City - they could've besieged the place, starve the enemies, and perform skirmishes to continue rescuing civilians - but nope - they didn't feel it's worth their time and their soldier's lives, so they peformed non-stop artillery instead.
Indonesia please 1998