The Americans Underestimated Us But We Are Japanese (Ep. 1)
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- Опубликовано: 16 мар 2024
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This is a series of World War 2 Memoirs Of Japanese Fighter Pilots. We'll tell you stories about people who were really important in history, sharing their own experiences from the war. You'll hear about the smart strategies and sacrifices of those who led the first attack on Pearl Harbor, led air groups from carriers, and flew as dive-bomber pilots. Our special series gives a different view of the Battle of Midway, showing how the Japanese saw it.
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History has shown that Admiral Yamamoto knew they were going to lose once they failed to sink the four Carriers at Pearl Harbor.
The final outcome of the war between Japan and the United States and its allies was not decided by the survival of the American carriers in the Pacific. The U.S. Navy could have lost every one of its ships in the Pacific in December 1941 and the United States would still have destroyed Japan. After all, there was no country on earth that was placed in such a strategically favorable position to conduct modern warfare. America's unmatched industrial might, abundance of natural resources, large population, and two gigantic oceans on each side to protect it, made it invincible.
I have imagined that a face-to-face pre-War meeting between FDR and the Emperor may have resolved the China "Incident. and other issues.
@@Zerox_PrimeI think 'imagined' is the key word in that comment. There was just too much at stake for Japan and the US. The mere fact that both parties could have resolved the issue with a profitable outcome for both in no way challenges the dominance of the argument by the collection of human egos involved.
Every major capital ship the US produced during WWII had it's keel laid down before Pearl Harbor. We have every reason to assume that Yamamoto well knew this, which is why he knew he could only be successful for a year or so before Japan got overwhelmed by US production.
@@Marcfj Oh really the USA hasn't won a war since WWII. Politics dictate whether we win of loose a conflict. Look no further than our withdrawal from Afghanistan. You my friend are part of the problem that get people killed. One last thought. Ask yourself why the aircraft carriers were absent from Pearl Harbor. You think it was a coincidence than think again.
They had a very powerful fleet at this stage of the war.
Fuchida's memoirs.
I have a hard time believing it is exclusively hos memoirs. Too many direct quotes that he was obviously not present for.
We are.
Anyone know the author of this, or which book it is from?
If they told you that it would make the copyright issues easier to recognize.
I'm pretty sure it's Mitsuo Fuchida - the man who let the planes at Pearl Harbour - his illness turned out to be appendicitis and he had an operation just before the fleet arrived at Midway. I read his book some years ago.
@@Dav1Gv I don't think so. I haven't listened to this yet but the channel is recording AI readings of books by multiple Japanese authors. Definitely including Fuchida (also uncredited), maybe as the first recording, but they finished his (main) book a while back. They've done or are doing, e.g., Saburo Sakai's memoir.
Fuchida was at Midway anyway, of course (just in no condition to fly), and suffered broken ankles there when his ship was sunk. Apparently not the most reliable recounter of events. (See "The Shattered Sword".)
Underestimated them? No...I think they got it just about right.
Who underestimated who, it's the other way around Japan!
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America underestimated the Japanese military at the beginning. But for some reason the Japanese failed to recognize the industrial strength of America (even though Yamamoto warned them of it).
But Yamamoto demanded the Pearl Harbor attack (and the attempted Midway invasion) so his grasp of the implications of what he knew is very much in question.
The Japanese (including Yamamoto) were drawing on the analogy of their defeat of Imperial Russia in 1905 without recognizing the limits of that analogy.
@@gandydancer9710 Yamamoto's plans for Operation MI were poor (to be polite) and anyone who thought that the Russian Second Pacific Squadron was as serious naval force was nuts - read The Fleet That Had to Die or watch Drachinfel's youtube videos on it - the Russian incompetence would be hilarious if so many men hadn't died.
@@Dav1Gv But the war was lost by the Russians ON LAND in Korea, and the lessons the Japanese took from that was that the US could be discouraged from pursuing victory irrespective of its theoretical capability to defeat Japan.
@@gandydancer9710 Maybe, but again. if the Japanese compared 1940s US with it's vast industrial base with 1905 Tsarist Russia which was only just industrialising, ruled by an incompetent and subject to revoiultions (as in 1905) they were idiots. My job involved assessing property values and you made b****y sure you were comparing like for like otherwise you could be done for negligence. And by the end of the Russo - Japanese war Japan was nearly broke so it could be argued both sides needed to end the war.
@@Dav1Gv I didn't make an argument that the Japanese were right.
We were not looking to go to war with them, that's what is funny. Only if they attacked. So there were are.
Wrong, we knew they would attack.
@@MrChiangchingThat doesn't make his statement wrong.
@@Navigator001 OK, let's say it another way, we provoked them and knew they would attack.
@johnhelm: Who is this "we"? On the contrary, if they didn't obey US demands FDR very much wanted a war with them. But he expected an attack only on the Philippines, etc., and not on Pearl Harbor.
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We Americans underestimated the Japanese before Pearl Harbor. They reciprocated this error at Midway.
We know Japan invaded the South Pacific for oil and other resources. I wonder what would have happened if Japan invaded Russia from the east while Germany invaded from the west.
Japan could have access to Russian oil.
Maybe it was because of man power.
Operation Barbarossa started with 150 German divisions. I think the total divisions in the Japanese army never exceeded 150 divisions.
Siberia wasn’t much developed for energy then and the Soviets had crushed the Japanese at Nomohan in Manchuria in 1939. So, the attractiveness of invading Siberia in 1941 wasn’t there. Daunting distances and logistics too.
The available Asian oil was in Dutch Indies/Borneo region and the Japanese did target it, seized and exploited it.
@@paulgee8253great explanation.
They got their azz kicked. Russia twice beat back the Japanese.
>The Americans Underestimated Us...
It was the other war around!
But it waznt and the US did
Worse the US govt disrespected them again and again forcing the Nips hand
It is puzzling that Imperial Japan began a War which it could not win militarily. Pearl Harbor may have been a tactical victory for Japan, but it was a fatal, strategic defeat.
@@Zerox_Primegood point. I think the Japanese wanted to sue for peace as soon as possible after Pearl Harbor after they killed the carriers (if they had caught them there). The Japanese were just gutting their population after Midway of their best men.
@@Zerox_Prime We knew they were coming and allowed it to happen. This allowed our politicians to declare war and end the recession, that was heading rapidly to a depression. We are presently in the same scenario under the current administration.
Is this AI again?
I am starting to realize if you do not see real researchers, historians, footnotes, and sources, AND this video never mentions its sources, you cannot trust this video. I kept thinking where did they gather this information? If they don't reveal to you what they asked AI to generate, what sources AI drew its conclusions from it is a historical fiction than a true documentary.
Truthfuly they need to reveal this information besides letting you know frequently that this is an AI product.
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42:00 It was Yamamoto that was insisting that Japan attack Pearl Harbor. That was a mistake, the US public didn't want war, Japan may have been able to attack the "Southern Region" as the video says, and still not invoke the US military. Once they attacked the US at Pearl Harbor, then the US public was all in on the war. Yamamoto should have known better.
The power of the Japonese military structure das in charge of everything in Japan.
Once the decision was reached, Yamamoto had to step in line.
He only did so after realizing that his superiors would not take no for an answer, knowing full well what lay in store. After all he was stationed in D.C and knew what the Americans industrial complex was capable of.
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