Here's a spoil sport. This is the WWII Japanese song when Japan was "Dreaming of China" (title) and invaded the country. To those who don't know the brutal history, yah!, a beautiful song. To those who do, 10-11 million civilian Chinese died (more than the holocaust) due to that invasion. Sorry to spoil your fun. But it would be more respectful to the dead if you pick another song to love.
Ethics in music is a subject rarely discussed these days. Most people don't listen to this kind of music any more or even know about the propaganda film it is from. Thank you for reminding listeners of the context of this controversial tune, but its content is not political. I agree that the atrocities committed by the Japanese against the Chinese were evil beyond belief, but I appreciate that something beautiful (this song) came out of that horrible time period. It became popular among American GIs based in Japan and Korea after World War II. They deserved a little happiness. "Lili Marleen" was very popular in Germany during WWII, another country that committed horrific genocide, but the song also became popular among Allied soldiers. I don't think good music should be shunned. Wagner was antisemitic and Michael Jackson was an accused pedophile, but their music is still among the best of their genres. The lyrics of "Shina No Yoru" are romantic, nostalgic, and sweet. I'm more concerned about the immorality of the lyrics of many of today's pop songs. Unfortunately, nothing can be done about that, because of freedom of speech. The freedom that American GIs fought and died for has morphed into the freedom to corrupt young minds.
Still I don’t understand why during WW2 japanase became so ambisious to invade brutally all those asian countries with million victims. Who actually decided the horrorrific killing?
The main Japanese war criminals were Tōjō Hideki, prime minister of Japan from 1941-44, Kōki Hirota, General Kenji Doihara, General Seishirō Itagaki, General Heitarō Kimura, Lieutenant General Akira Mutō, and General Hideki Tōjō. The Japanese military's brutality during World War II was complex and had many causes, including: nationalism, imperialism, racism, xenophobia, dehumanization, personal motivations, group-oriented mechanisms and Japanese Pan-Asianism. The Japanese believed they were destined to rule the world, and that dominating Asia was a holy war. They wanted to join the imperialist club of Western powers. Although the bushido code promoted many positive values and virtues, it also inspired a lot of brutality going way back. In the time of the samurai, the Japanese didn’t treat themselves much better than they treated other Asian people. Some warlords would slaughter people who had surrendered. However, they couldn't kill all the peasants because they needed them to work the land. The Imperial Japanese Army believed that surrender was dishonorable. For this reason, POWs were not respected. Unlike many other major powers, Japan didn't ratify the 1929 Geneva Convention, which covered the treatment of prisoners of war. There was no European Christian concept of sparing women and children. Japan has its share of humane, peace-loving religions, but imperialist indoctrination was severe in those days. Along with everything else, the extreme frustration and stress of war, often combined with drugs, caused the loss of normal human inhibitions. No doubt some were natural born sadists who committed atrocities for fun. I read that the only warriors the Japanese feared were the Gurkhas, because they also would do things in battle that wouldn't occur to even the most seasoned combat veterans.
Japanese solders made many sacrifices to help countries in South East Asia for their independence from colonialism by America, British and Duch. We shall not forget about this fact of history.
My mother would play this sone on a 78 record in the 40s - always a favorite. It became a hit with Kyu Sacamoto (spelling) in the 60s
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The way it ought to be: old and lovely!
Beautiful video! Thanks for sharing such beautiful song!
ku ingat ketika aku masih kecil,lgu ini mengantarkan aku belajar damn rajin srkolah ...
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***OK***
The oldest song by Li Xiang Lan, it ' s very long time about more 70 years up.
Unique!
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Beautiful Hongkong - composing with nice music- should keep the own freedom without communist leadership same Taiwan.
This is a Japanese song. They are hoping the Chinese forget that little Nanking Massacre thing.
Here's a spoil sport. This is the WWII Japanese song when Japan was "Dreaming of China" (title) and invaded the country. To those who don't know the brutal history, yah!, a beautiful song. To those who do, 10-11 million civilian Chinese died (more than the holocaust) due to that invasion. Sorry to spoil your fun. But it would be more respectful to the dead if you pick another song to love.
Ethics in music is a subject rarely discussed these days. Most people don't listen to this kind of music any more or even know about the propaganda film it is from. Thank you for reminding listeners of the context of this controversial tune, but its content is not political. I agree that the atrocities committed by the Japanese against the Chinese were evil beyond belief, but I appreciate that something beautiful (this song) came out of that horrible time period. It became popular among American GIs based in Japan and Korea after World War II. They deserved a little happiness. "Lili Marleen" was very popular in Germany during WWII, another country that committed horrific genocide, but the song also became popular among Allied soldiers. I don't think good music should be shunned. Wagner was antisemitic and Michael Jackson was an accused pedophile, but their music is still among the best of their genres. The lyrics of "Shina No Yoru" are romantic, nostalgic, and sweet. I'm more concerned about the immorality of the lyrics of many of today's pop songs. Unfortunately, nothing can be done about that, because of freedom of speech. The freedom that American GIs fought and died for has morphed into the freedom to corrupt young minds.
The only story I knew about this song was that a Japanese soldier had fallen in love with a Chinese girl. Surprised at the story behind it.
Still I don’t understand why during WW2 japanase became so ambisious to invade brutally all those asian countries with million victims. Who actually decided the horrorrific killing?
The main Japanese war criminals were Tōjō Hideki, prime minister of Japan from 1941-44, Kōki Hirota, General Kenji Doihara, General Seishirō Itagaki, General Heitarō Kimura, Lieutenant General Akira Mutō, and General Hideki Tōjō.
The Japanese military's brutality during World War II was complex and had many causes, including: nationalism, imperialism, racism, xenophobia, dehumanization, personal motivations, group-oriented mechanisms and Japanese Pan-Asianism.
The Japanese believed they were destined to rule the world, and that dominating Asia was a holy war. They wanted to join the imperialist club of Western powers.
Although the bushido code promoted many positive values and virtues, it also inspired a lot of brutality going way back. In the time of the samurai, the Japanese didn’t treat themselves much better than they treated other Asian people. Some warlords would slaughter people who had surrendered. However, they couldn't kill all the peasants because they needed them to work the land. The Imperial Japanese Army believed that surrender was dishonorable. For this reason, POWs were not respected. Unlike many other major powers, Japan didn't ratify the 1929 Geneva Convention, which covered the treatment of prisoners of war.
There was no European Christian concept of sparing women and children. Japan has its share of humane, peace-loving religions, but imperialist indoctrination was severe in those days. Along with everything else, the extreme frustration and stress of war, often combined with drugs, caused the loss of normal human inhibitions. No doubt some were natural born sadists who committed atrocities for fun.
I read that the only warriors the Japanese feared were the Gurkhas, because they also would do things in battle that wouldn't occur to even the most seasoned combat veterans.
Its easy to forget that less 100 years prior to WW2, Japan was essentially still in the middle ages, barbarity and all.
Japanese solders made many sacrifices to help countries in South East Asia for their independence from colonialism by America, British and Duch. We shall not forget about this fact of history.
@@gildatabarez8265 Thank you for your detailed comments.