Understanding the Japanese mindset
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BAKU - Communal experiences and environmental elements, such rivers, mountains and resources determine the behaviour of nations and shape their mindsets. These conditions are especially true in the case of Japan’s distinct identity. In this report, we will go over the focal points of Japanese history and explain how the country’s modern geopolitical narrative took shape.
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When you speak to a Japanese person and they nod, remember that they are not agreeing with you. They are merely indicating that they understand you! I've seen this miscommunication so many times.
Based on my interactions with Japanese people sometimes they nod simply to indicate they heard you making a series of sounds...
Lol, there are People who don’t understand this?
合図地
Firebrand someone took their polites seriously
It's the same as in my country, though I never thought about it like that until you just pointed it out 😂
This video is not about Japanese mindset. It is just an outline of Japan's history
exactly , I could have found out about this on the Wikipedia !
that is the foundation of the japanese mindset
Talks nothing about the Japanese mindset. This is more a brief history of Japan and its economy. Very good knowledge. I appreciate it very much. Just completely misnamed the video.
Jarutat Snidwongse lol ikr!?! he talked more about the political and geographical aspect of Japan instead of the actual Japanese ppl...
The history is the mindset
I guess this gives the context necessary for understanding the Japanese mindset, without which it would be impossible to sufficiently explain why the Japanese think the way they do. It's pretty difficult to synthesise the many individual and sometimes surprisingly disparate ideas of a nation of over 126 million people into something as nebulous and ill-defined as a 'cultural mindset' .
I think this video lays the foundations for an understanding of Japan a lot better than something which simply discusses what Japanese people think about x or y issue without giving the social, political and historical circumstances that laid the material conditions for people to have those ideas or opinions in the first place. Basically it would make a good 2-parter imo.
Powerphail so what you're saying is that a country's landscape is capable of influencing the minds of the Japanese ppl into them being who they are today? or maybe the fact america dropped two atomic bombs down on hiroshima and nagasaki actually made the Japanese humble and deluded for once...
@@Evil_Beauty Absolutely, 100%. I think physical geography affects all manner of circumstances, from the micro to the macro. It affects the economic circumstances that a people live under, i.e. whether they'll be able to be self-sufficient or have to rely on forging trade relationships with neighbours, and also how easily cultural or economic exchange can happen, within or outside of the borders of a country. The kind of language that a country produces (and the language and kind of language we speak is essentially our lens for perceiving and describing the world around us) is also massively affected by our geographical surroundings.
For example, there's some interesting parallels between how the English and Japanese languages developed -- for one, both come from relatively small islands on the very edges of great continental civilisation, both seeing themselves as fundamentally different and separate from those civilisations whilst also being massively affected by their powerful and influential cultural neighbours (In the case of England this is the Romans and the Normans and in the case of Japan, China). Both countries borrowed their writing systems from these neighbours but made them their own, and both have developed a system of introducing foreign vocabulary into the language. This imported vocabulary is usually of a more technical and compound nature than the vocabulary developed natively; I'm thinking here of words like telescope which has a decidedly latin roots, even though we could equally call such a device a 'far-seer' and it have the same pragmatic meaning.
Japan has a similar system of using the onyoumi (Chinese reading) for imported, compound words of a technical nature, and using the kunyoumi (native Japanese reading) for simpler, more basic concepts.
Both were partially able to remain, to some extent, free from becoming totally dominated imperial subjects simply for the reason that they're both surrounded by water, and it stands to reason that it's a hell of a lot more effort and less worthwhile for an imperial power to spend precious military and governmental resources conquering islands when you can best expand your tactical influences by concentrating your efforts on land-locked subjects.
All this happened entirely because of physical, geographical circumstances.
If you're interested there's an excellent book called Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall which I think explains my argument beautifully and succinctly, much better than I can manage on a RUclips comment at any rate. Deffo check it out if you're genuinely interested in this kind of stuff.
I'm not sure I agree with your last statement about the atomic bombs, but I know where you're coming from -- it undoubtedly affected the scope and direction of modern Japanese political ambition in regards to becoming a world power, but I think that the preceding thousands of years of cultural and historical circumstances have had, and will continue to have, a much greater lasting affect on the overall cultural mindset than losing the war, however scarring that may have been to the 20th century Japanese psyche. I think the resurgence of the far right in Japan shows that there's a not insignificant contingent that have the same imperialist, exceptionalist mindset that Japan has always had. This is demonstrated by the re-militarisation brigade and the (surprisingly popular) groups that seek to whitewash Japan's black history during the war (rape of Nanking, denial of the existence of comfort women, etc).
"Japan took a risk, and lost." Understatement of the century.
it was before ginshinimpact
Lost to a NUKE. What a brave country USA!
@@onesixfour1905 Brave and smart. Why invade a cowardly country like Japan that invaded weaker countries like China, Burma, Mayalsia, Java, the Philippines, Boreno, Thailand, Vietnam, Korea, Guam, Wake, and oh yes, sucker punch Pearl Harbor, when you can safety with no loss to your troops nuke them instead? Nothing cowardly about that. Why give your deadly enemy who murdered, raped, tortured, and enslaved his way across the Pacific a fair chance to kill your troops? Answer: Because that would be stupid, and war is not fair. If Japan had not started a war, they never would have got nuked, would they? Just why are you defending Japan as if it was "Brave" to start a war and kill and enslave so many people who never did anything to them? Was that "fair"?
well, payback
@@onesixfour1905 Nanjing wasn't exactly brave.
your channel is pure gold, thanks for everything Shirvan !! Saludos desde Tijuana
same sentiment. very well done!
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he is improving, before his videos judgement were more childish.
flower jk please share with us someone better in this line of work
Franchesco Catamarán I agree with you
This channel is pure gold.
I learn so much about the geo-polotics of the world. Very inciting on what chess pieces are moved by nations. 4-D chest. 👍🏼
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The migration from the continent started from around 1000 BCE to 300 BCE by the "Yayoi People", not the "Yamato People". The Era is better known as the "Yayoi Period", following the "Jomon Period". This is when rice farming and the iron age commenced in Japan. (note, Japan went from using stone tools to iron tools as there was no bronze age)
The "Yamato people" generally means the "Japanese Race" which is basically a mixture of Jomon people and Yayoi people. It is also referred to the people who founded the Yamato Kingdom in the 3rd Century in the Nara Basin, during the late Yayoi Period or also known as the Kofun Period
fuckin nerd
Amazingly Japan was (one of perhaps) the latest country to switch from hunter gatherer to feudalism in comparison to the currently developed countries.
One little nitpick. It's a little unusual seeing Chinese soldiers (ones with the stahlhelm) and Chiang Kai-Shek or videos of Chinese people being mixed in without being referred to in context. I guess to the untrained eye it's "same difference" but it's a little misleading. Still liked the video.
meursault223 Oh that wasn't just me then XD
What point was that?
meursault223 but isn't that every non animated RUclips history video? There simply isn't enough footage of the past to cover all the talking lol
meursault223 You beat me to it anyway.
Three years later, people still comment on the stock footage.
Great eyes
I love such a quiet and intellectual announcement. Thank you for creating.
And then Japan was like: "Can u maybe, chill?"
And Russia said: "How about maybe you chill?"
Did I say downgrade? I meant upgrade.
Rubashow the history of Japan - by bill wurtz
ahhh, I miss that history lesson. *wipes tears*
"also poor ppl who could not afford a samurai did not hire a samurai..."
@@Evil_Beauty Totally agree, best history teacher ever.
bukkara tsuppa hahaha, I would literally pay the guy to just keep asmring me history lessons with his voice.
"Hire a samurai"
QE stands for Quantitative Easing, not Quantum Easing. One is about using measured means to reduce impact on an economy, the other is about giving string theory a spa day.
Your videos are usually very good and well researched but there were some glaring errors left in this video.
The most noticable being "Japan is called nippon locally". People call it 日本 nihon. While nippon is used it's not used to refer to Japan as a nation in the way you did.
QE= Quantitative Easing not quantum easing. I thought it was just a small pronunciation error but you actually said it multiple times in the video.
Businesses being state planned in Japan after the Meiji restoration and after the second world war is also not entirely true. Firstly, during the Meiji restoration the majority of the economy was controlled by "財閥 Zaibatsu" These were basically ancient established powerful families that controlled the economy as a mixture of aristocracy and oligarchy.
After the second world war "Zaibatsu" was officially ended but in fact many large Japanese companies existing today could still be linked back to the original Zaibatsu families. The economy of Japan from the end of World war 2 to now have been ruled by a oligarchy known as "系列 Keiretsu". From the outside it may look like it's a state planned economy but in fact it has been organized business interest formed into cartels with links to government that decided how the economy worked in effect.
I watch almost all your videos and know that you pump out quality. But for people that may see this as their first video they might think that your channel is of lesser quality and that'd be a shame. Please give your videos a little bit of extra attention in the future to iron out small things like this.
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Nippon is used by old school Japanazis, probably because it sounds more bouncy and energetic than Nihon.
Nippon and Nihon ( Nippon is the oldest pronounciation, Nihon appeared with Iragana ) are both modern ways of calling Yamato. 日本 can be pronounced Nippon, Nihon, Nichihon, Koreans say Nibon, as you probably know Chinese characters can be pronounced in different ways. It is the Kanji that matters. In 1934 it was officially declared by the Japanese gov that the country should be called Nippon but it didn't stick. The only difference between Nippon and Nihon is that Nippon would make the sentence sounds more assertive. "Japan is called nippon locally" is an accurate statement, by law. Or please enlighten me I m here to learn. =)
Yummy Cheeseburgers Nihon, on the other hand, has the advantage of gritty hasperated determination. The immovable mountain v unstoppable force.
I love Japan ❤️🇯🇵
I am Japanese and studying at American University. This video's explanation is great. One point I disagree with is that this video implies that national budget deficits lead to default like Greece. Japan's budget is denominated in local currency, Yen. Greece's budget is denominated in Euro.
Wow 英語上手だな！フォークも上手かな？
Keep up the great work! I've been greatly enjoying these videos.
Brilliant, constantly impressed by this content!
please keep it up!
I live in Japan and actually I came to understand alot more about why things are the way they are thanks to this video. Thanks for the high quality content.
I read a book written by a Japanese civil engineer about how geographic factors determined the Japanese culture and development (including the reason why Kyoto was a good location for the Emperor, why Mongols failed to conquer Japan, how Tokyo was built from the wetland, etc). It was a good read
@Marcus Charles it was written in japanese
@Marcus Charles "日本史の謎は地形で解ける"
There is no English translation
Kyoto is in the nearest basin plain from where yayoi people expanded from. when japanese had not expanded to hokkaido yet, Kyoto would have been central. they transferred to Tokyo for the same reasons, the Kanto plain is bigger and also central when Hokkaido and possibly Sakhalin and Kurils are taken into account. the Seto Inland Sea being a big fat river would also make sense in that Osaka and Kyoto are where they end up in. factoring the coastlines, Tokyo Bay becomes part of the big fat river system as well. the trade estuaries being at the Kanmon straits in between Kyushu and Honshu is where Chōshū domain was based at, then the southern end of Kyushu si where Satsuma was based at, so Satchō alliance makes perfect sense that they would grow rich and powerful enough to restore imperial rule and overthrow the shogunate by gunning them down
imagine this is my second time of watching this video... your work is pure gold shrivan
*Actually...the so called "Silk Road" started and ended in Japan...by the way of trading vessels...The "Wa-kuo Invisible Bridge" connected the Land of Wa(Japan) to the Land of Pharaohs(Egypt)...the representative and prove of that is the thousands years old symbol of the city of Yamagata...a flower from Egypt/Ethiopia(Safflower)...In Japan, dyers have mastered the technique of producing a bright red to orange-red dye (known as carthamin) from the dried florets of safflower (Carthamus tinctorius). A bath solution of cold water is first prepared, to which is added the collected extract made from a type of plum causes the colorant to precipitate onto a piece of silk.Plants are 30 to 150 cm (12 to 59 in) tall with globular flower heads having yellow, orange, or red flowers.Safflower is one of humanity's oldest crops. Chemical analysis of ancient Egyptian textiles dated to the Twelfth Dynasty identified dyes made from safflower, and garlands made from safflowers were found in the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun.The history of the "Silk Road" pre-dates the Han Dynasty in practice.*
Japan is rebuilding it's navy in a secretive way
Anime navy!
However 60% of the population are strongly against a military and about 23% wish to disband it.
@@boxbird5723 not even 1 percent wants to disband it, More than 63percent wants more stronger military while other half are ok with current size in military
その国の考え方って、その国のドラマや映画を見るとすごくわかる気がする。
I didn't understand shit by watching octopus corn
Please do understanding the sigma grindset next Caspian please bro
I second this
*China´s debt is around 350%...but the Japanese only owe to themselves...contrary to all other countries that debts are on the hands of foreigners...so representing great concerns...like in the case of Greece lately...*
Congratulations to Shirvan and all Azerbaidjan on Qarabağ FK qualification to UEFA Champions League!
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The deliberate isolation, better known as "Sakoku" wasn't due to decentralized status quo or internal rivalries.
The isolation started after "All Power" was consolidated by the Tokugawa shogunate, and after power was centralized in Edo (Tokyo). The main purpose was to shut out foreign influences (prevent Japan from being colonized) and to control trade (control of Japan's resources). Generally, the isolationism is said to have commenced in 1639 with the banning of Portuguese ships entering Japan to 1854 ( The Kanagawa Treaty or the Japan and US Treaty of Peace and Amity) when the US forced Japan to open its market.
The video made it sound as if Japan isolated itself many times but it was done just once, starting with banning foreign missionaries, banning Christianity, then restricting trade in the early 17th century.
During that period, apart from a few rebellions (mainly by farmers), the Tokugawa Shogunate ruled in peace for nearly 250 years under a self-sustainable economy and in a feudal bureaucratic system. This "reclusive" period had a long-lasting effect on the Japanese mindset.
yes.l agree with you.
Japan could have developed its own particular culture due to sakoku which is the isolation policy .
4:00 "Open. The country. Stop. Making it be closed." - United States
i seriously need a Caspian Report T-shirt....this shit is just awesome!!!! keep up the astounding work!!
i love this channel.
I was always thinking that japan and greece have more or less the same geography: too many mountains and sea.So I was curious about what they did correct and what greece did wrong. Apparently it was more useful to the global maritime power..
@CaspianReport Any chance you could do a video about the ongoing situation in Myanmar (Burma)?
Another excellent report. One of my favorite channels!!
Wasn't the Chinese golden age influencing Japan , to such a extent that their architecture and clothing was all Chinese / swords and many more
Altaay let just say japan is a former land colonized by chinese people for centuries that get offended when being identified with chinese
Talk Straight mind me asking , are you Chinese ?
Yes the Japanese don't dispute the influence that the Tang dynasty and this is reflected in the kanji writing system, clothing, architecture etc. But the traditional culture and architecture of Tang no longer exists in China, it is a foreign concept in China. This culture mainly exists today in Japan.
neohubris Bullshit
Lu Zheng not bullshit. the culture you currently see in other parts of east asia such as in korea, vietnam and china itself have the architecture of the ming-qing dynasties with the curved roofs. if you pay attention to japan's architecture its mostly straight roofs. most of the culture that was once shared by japan, korea,vietnam and china was mostly from the tang-song period. however, alot of this has been heavily damaged and forever lost in china and korea ever since the mongol invasion (yuan dynasty).
A mention of Japan's exclusion from the League of Nations would have been worthwhile. It pushed the country towards the Axis right from the beginning. There was little natural purpose for Japan to ally with Germany or Italy, it was almost entirely down to its rejection from the UK/US led postwar order.
Edit: it also directly contributed to the further escalation of militarism which pushed the civilian government into deeper subservience.
Do a video about the Mindset of Korean too pls Shirvan!
Muhammad Azim He already did Japan so no need.
south korea or best korea?
The only Korea
Yes
It's very difficult to talk about North Korea. Too many brainwashed Westerners.
Great Channel :)
Do the "American Mindset." I want to see how my culture influences how I think and how my country thinks.
American mindset it like a shit in a toliet he should do one on New-York and Midwest and British mindset instead.
@@flimcomedy7667 lol
I feel like that would be a real pain in the ass to do in a 15 minute video. However Shirvan has done a few book reviews about this subject. Those being Sea Power, Accidental Superpower, and arguably Destined for War.
American mindset - bigger the size of a gun can make a problem small
Can you make a video about the geopolics of the Baltic States?
Uh... No.
The best way to understand Japanese people (and it’s in no way shape or form mentioned in this video) is to remember that it’s a culture based solely around the notions of respect, teamwork and loyalty. Without even one of those principles present, your relationship with a Japanese person or group *will* fall apart.
Yes, but cooperayion in a different sense compared to what outsiders might expect: m.ruclips.net/video/m79RUC1OAbU/видео.html
I have watched many episodes from the Caspian report. The breadth of his
topics is stunning and seems to come with a real understanding of the local issues
can you make a video about the Arab Mindset in General, and how its past influenced its current mindset
thats not a country. im guessing he wont promote racial stereotypes.
@@dairyskeptic7428 the greatest civilisations where Egypt Sumerian Babylonian Mesopotamians india and Chinese dynasty name me one western empire that came close to their influential on the world outside of ancient Greek ?? Bring it. Rome is overrated they made no technological contribution to the world most of their stuff came from the Greeks who in turn learn from the ancient Egyptians who in turn learn lots from the Sumerians
@@dairyskeptic7428 there's lot good countries in the middle east
@Alex Keyich one good country from where ?
@Alex Keyich i am good here in Egypt but if there's one place i would love to go live would be the UAE if i was super rich how about u ?
Interesting explanation. Lots to absorb. One small trivial fact, the people of Japan did not call themselves the "land of the rising sun". If you are Japanese looking East, the sun rises from a wide vast empty sea. As such, the name Nippon (or Japan) translated as Sun Origin was coined by China. People in Northern China would look to the East and see the sun rise from some distant land, Japan - land of the rising sun.
It did.
I am Korean. Past history aside, I want Japan to be well and prosperous.
A nation that forgets history has no future
Your channel is probably the most unbiased, well reserched and facts based video on RUclips.Continue your work👌💎
Caspian Report on the World of Ice and Fire
Your research is very good. Well done!
12:20 - Quantitative easing not quantum easing ...
He meant quantum teasing
Could you do "Understanding the somali mindset"?
It has nothing to do with mindset, it was japanese history in a nutshell.
To understand the mindset, we have to know the history of Japan and its people. Which is probably why he showed history majorly.
I'm watching this in Japan,... bit if you don't start with the Yayoi and Jomon period which resulted in the 'Yamato' you might as well not make the video. Also, the authority in Kyoto wasn't challenged by the Shogun. the Shogun was the authority but the court in Kyoto was considered above the realm of the Shogun, almost a heavenly realm (as the emperor was heaven sent) and the court concerned themselves with leisure and developing culture. This is how they developed the world's first novel, 'The Tale of Genji', theatre such as Kabuki and Noh, and why Japan has such specific cultural richness. The Shogun always had to acknowledge the supremeness of the Emperor (the shogun had his own palace/castle in Kyoto), that was never at odds with the emperor. The idea of a 'ruling' emperor came after the introduction of western ideas during the Meiji Restoration (specifically a particular system based on Russian nobility - the same reason why Japan can't have a female empress).
Really nice video as always! However, I feel that it was important to note that Taiwan was formally ceded to Japan by the Qing.
Following the Sino-Japanese War of 1895.
Great video! But, I found a mistake with the stock-footage.
At 4:59, you feature a footage-clip of Chiang Kai-Shek, President of China, and his entourage while narrating the rise of modern Japan.
the video does not explain any "mindset". It is just a brief history and even provide wrong information based on his subjective "mindset".
Ilike these videos ! here in the US, its never really taught the events leading to war between the US + japan. without any reasons or references, it seems mad for them to go against us, a greater power. But the events in Asia + the US politics helped to make it happen. thank you
Japan is an island by the sea filled with volcanoes and is ♪♫ beautiful ♫♪
in the year negative of billion, japan might not have been here
This is a mostly impartial video. But towards the end, it said Washington is slowly withdrawing from Asia. This is far from the truth as the US military bases in Asia has not decreased. With China getting stronger, Washington is having a hard time maintaining its China circulation policy in the South China Sea without vastly expanding its military in the area. Japan is thus increasing its military budget out Washington's consent.
Your claims about the public debts is not accurate.
Japan basically does not owe anything to foreign entities.
In fact, Japan is the sole largest creditor of foreign assets and currencies for 25 consecutive years now!
Just think. If Yen is so unsafe, then why in the world does the value of Yen shoot up to the roof every time the World encounters a financial or a military crisis?
1997, 2001, 2008, and even right now at this moment when North Korea is propping up fear in the very region. Every time something happens to the World, the Japanese Yen shoots up to the roof. Guess why. It's because IT IS THE SAFEST CURRENCY IN THE WORLD TOGETHER WITH THE SWISS FRANC!! The global banks and investors know best!!
The truth behind the "public debt propaganda" is that the Ministry of Finance Japan is propping up the "fear porn" of debts and bankruptcy (which is theoretically impossible) simply in order to raise taxes. The MoF is constantly running the propaganda through media that "Japan has a huge debt to pay off" when in fact, obviously, it is "the Japanese Government" that has to pay off "to the people of Japan" (if it ever will). No foreign entities involved here.
The public bonds are sold in Japanese Yen, hence there is no risk of exchange rate either.
Japanese people lends money to its Government in Japanese Yen. Therefore, there is a zero chance that it could go bankrupt.
Yes, it is a huge problem, but the fact of the matter is, no government in the history has ever paid up its debts to the people, and the issue of governmental debt becomes a problem only when the bonds are published in foreign currencies and are owned by foreign entities.
Japan does not have problems like Greece or Iceland or Italy or Spain because all bonds are printed in Japanese Yen and is almost completely consumed domestically.
In theory, the government can print a "1062 trillion yen note" and pay off its debts today. Obviously, that will have a problem of its own, and that is why they're not doing it, but the bottom line is, Japanese government does not have to pay off to anyone else but to its own people.
learn economics. debt needs to be paid...
5 trillion usd.
@00Billy Just give me one example of a nation that paid up it's debts in the past.
Also, Japan does not owe any debt to foreign nations in foreign currencies.
Rather it owns trillions of dollars worth of foreign debts. You guys are the ones to pay up.
You learn economics first
CIA
"more expensive credit"...?
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Not a problem
In modern life, the most beautiful culture in the world
Are you sure? So many clips are Chinese with the traditional attire, sure you got the it right ?
Please do " Understanding the Indian mindset"
This video was made just based on “victor’s history”.
You couldn’t explain why Japan fought with China and Russia. You explained it just “expansionism”.
But why Japan had to “expansion”?.
Japan just feared Korea was ruled by China or Russia, leading to the dramatically decreasing of security of Japan.
So it was obvious that it was preemptive self-defense war for Japan.
Finally, Korea didn’t modernize herself, Japan annexed it because One of major group in Korea asked Japan to do it.
The case of Manchuria was the same. Japan just wanted to keep South Manchurian railway peacefully obtained from Russia after Russo-Japanese war.
But here came America and America demanded Japan to share the concessions of the railway. America eagerly wanted Concessions of China at that time.
But Japan refused because Japan paid huge amount of human life in that wat. But America had a grudge against Japan and started to watch Japan to defeat it.
The foundation of Manchuria nation was a chance in a million for America to blame and defeat Japan.
So America and China
corporated secretly.
America’s interest was to rub Chinese concession from Japan.
Japan’s history was not “isolation and expansion” but “self-emerging and destroy by America”.
9:00 this is wrong. The United States pressured Japan into becoming a strong military ally, like Germany. The "no more military, no more war" addition to the Japanese constitution was put forward by the Japanese themselves in spite of America.
Off topic but, buy hybrid and electric cars, the sooner we get rid off our dependence on oil, the sonner the world will be at peace
The Terrible Puddle beavers built dams ?
The Terrible Puddle... transition to green power....?
CIA They might peg the dollar to something else in a post- fossil fuel world, perhaps lithium which is the key ingredient in lithium-ion batteries. Lithium is used in electric car batteries, phone batteries etc, and most lithium is found in Bolivia.
We simply don't have enough lithium available to give everyone who needs to drive an electric or hybrid vehicle. Maybe the next generation of power cells in a few decades will be more energy dense, but for right now, we can't escape fossil fuels entirely.
Also, petroleum isn't just used as a fuel. It's fertilizers, paints, industrial solvents, etc.
The Terrible Puddle
I think electricity can come from 'wave' energy, wind energy, kinetic energy, chemical energy of which most are renewable unlike fossil fuel. We can convert the energy into electrical energy. But probably in 30 to 50 year.
Awesome to see you back with another reportage!
Shirvan, the "b" in debt is silent. Pronounce it like "det".
Haha, and iron as "ayern" and not "ayron".
This is amazing. High quality informational asmr.
Wow! For a non-native English speaker, your narration is impressive and eloquent to say the least. You must be a phd.
Truly an educational video. Thanks!
I was expecting an explanation on Japanese work ethics, standards etc not an overview of their history. In the end I still didn't understand their mindset after watching this video.
Thank you for your information about Japanese nation society.
I didn't think Americas lap dog had a mind.
Fearless Leader lol
Fearless Leader You've been stirring shit something fierce lately. Simmer down there lad. Less of the missile lobbin and shite talking everyone, you'll get the head boxed off ya from someone I'm telling you now.
you don't think
odds are Fearless Leader is a 20something Canadian living in his mother's basement, cleaning toilets at the nearby Tim Hortons, befuddled that no one would employ him with his BA in poli-sci. The only thing that's starving is his need for attention
Lionel Nathan de Rothschild You realize this is a new generation of Japanese that had no role in WW2, pathetic moron.
I love your videos and content.
Please keep on doing this in the future!
Idea: The geopolitics of Germany/France
MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT THE GEOPOLITICS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION 🇪🇺
EU MEMBER STATES:
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"the coming power vacuum" !!!!!!!!!!! Wow, knockout ending. Great work.
Dude your footage contains a lot of Chinese, but this clip is about Japan man, please use Japanese in a clip about Japan, I’m pretty sure there are plenty. By the way, I’m Chinese.
You're right but very hard to get it as it will violate copyright
Thanks for this very informative video.
Love Japan❤️
Love Japanese people❤️😊
No doubt you love the Nazis too.
Comments i bet if you love america you love terrorists too
Quite true. The US is the only country in the world which can attack other countries (or stir civil wars in them) with immunity. Russia, Israel, Saudi Arabia also attack other countries, but they get international condemnations. The US doesn't.
Comments the us is modern day Nazi Germany
There are some wrong footages in the video showing Chiang Kai Shek & Chinese School students.
The economics aspect of this, especially in the latter part, is false.
That's not the only thing that's false. This guy is a story teller, not academic. His videos are tabloid fiction stories.
What's the issue? Seems alright to me
Seems like when he got to the economy part he spent jus a little time on it without elabor8
Cheers Shirvan! Once again a great video.
It’s very obvious they guy who made this video clip has very limited understanding of Japanese history, culture, and the mindset of Japanese
Greece didn't have a sovereign currency, Japan does.
I love how Japan is self aware of their identity. They want Japan to be Japanese. You won't see them taking in muslim migrants because the internationalists want them to.
Islam is not a race and Japan has very few muslims. You know the government keeps records of these things. You can just google it for yourself.
WTFknoxville - that's best yes there is law in Japan muslims immgration not allowed they look 12 century shit !!
Your Channel is a hidden gem 💎
*Shameful display*
This is a western interpretation of Japan's history, not necessarily reveals the Japanese mindset due to the fact that the Japanese mindset is inaccessible to any western individual. Why?
"In terms of what psychology is seeking to understand, the East is 2000 years ahead of western psychology." -Carl Jung
In other words, the perception of the collective unconscious of western civilization is not mature enough to be able to understand Eastern spirituality including Japan's flexible psychophysiological instinctual patterns of behaviour, which is nothing alike in contrast to westerner's stiff psychophysiological instinctual patterns of behaviour.
I hope you are joking…
@@deadby15 I'm conforming to Jung's ideas. So if you're accusing me of joking, you're simultaneously implying Jung is joking about his ideas.
Japanese are one of the oldest genetically.
Haplogroup D.
Then another hg , younger one is haplogroup O.
They are not Chinese.
Zhi Zhi Only a small percentage of modern Japanese carries the Haplogroup D, the majority carries the Haplogroup O, which is identical to Koreans and Chinese.
First of all. Haplogroups do not dictate race. Black Americans can carry Haplogroup R just b because their paternal ancestry directly lines to White Colonists with Black Slave Wives. That doesn't make them white. Autosomally, the closest external relative of the Japanese are the Koreans as they cluster virtually into each other.
Not all Chinese are O. This video didn't mention that Japan used to be constantly raided by Northern Asia pirates.
D is from DE Hg called YAP came out of East of Africa, O is from KN Hg which is originated from central asia. Combination of both Hg and Q Hg made what is known as East Asian. All oriental people have combination of these Hg.
Nicely done. I throughly enjoy all your videos. Keep up the good work.
I've only watched halfway into the video, but please let me make my first impression of the video.
I am a Japanese and I was amazed that you've grasped the Japanese history so correctly (at least up to the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate), of course with one or two mistakes, but that can't be helped, you were not born a Japanese after all.
However, your recognition about the history of Japan since 1968 seems to be totally wrong.
If you do a little more study, which I can not force you to do since the subject of Japan is just one of your many interests, you will find out that the claim that Japan since Meiji was a military dictatorship is totally wrong.
Yes, the military had a huge influence on the country's policies, but Japan was a democracy even back then, and constrained by the constitution, the Emperor did not have much control over anything.
Although it may be "politically correct" to say that Japan is a a ruthless or brutal merciless military dictatorship country that invaded Taiwan and the Korean Peninsula, those claims are in total contradictory to all historical facts, documents, films, and all other forms of evidences.
Claiming that Japan invaded Korea and Taiwan or that it was is like claiming that a lone communist called Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated JFK with a single bullet. It's a pure propaganda.
If you just do your own researches instead of resorting to the common Western propaganda, you will come to those conclusions so easily.
By the way, please don't get me wrong, I always respect your works, I just want to get the facts straight. I just can't stand to see my country being insulted with false claims that are totally against the historical facts. Now, please let me watch the rest of the video.
So the Sino-Japanese war and annexion of Taiwan and the Japanese invasion of Republic of Formosa shortly after never happened?
Same with the Japanese annexion of Korea?
culture of cover up...
Regardless of how one might feel, the fact is, those events happened and if you can't take objective and verified facts then that's your problem. Like science just because you deny it doesn't mean it isn't true.
Also your nationalism and blind patriotism is only serving to prove Shirvan correct about how a country's mindset is often determined by geography, communal experiences and resources. Clearly the isolationist mindset is showing when you dismiss verified facts as "Western Propaganda".
viperzero8501
So what really happened, then? 🤔
It's regrettable that two nukes is not enough for Nippon apologists, Truman should dropped the third and fourth nukes on Tokyo and Kyoto so they knew their place in the world. For your education, the last Empress of Korea was brutally murdered by the your so-called peaceful Nippon.
Even as time goes by and the surface of a town changes, nothing changes in the underlying foundation of the unique Japanese culture.
The common root of the creation of originality in Japanese culture is the uniqueness of its geopolitical location and the influence of its natural environment.
Even if they import culture and knowledge from abroad, they are not dominated by it, and after a certain period of time, they select the content, integrate it with their own culture, improve it, and eventually create a new style because of the influence of their unique natural environment.
Japan's original country name "NIPPON”means "the land under the sun" , but another name is "YAMATO ,WA” , meaning “Peacefull Harmony among People and Nature”. So Japan's name means “the Land under the Sun” and” the Land of "Great Harmony of People and Nature,”
The history of Japan is very old, about 2,000 years since the Emperor's reign, but humans began to live in villages and communities in this island nation about 14,000 years ago, during “the JOMON pottery” culture. (That's 30,000 years ago, if you count the Neolithic period.)
Surrounded on all sides by the sea and geographically isolated from the Eurasian continent in the Pacific Ocean, this island nation has a warm and humid climate, and because it is a volcanic island, it is blessed with abundant underground clear water resources, diverse vegetation, and fishery resources.
For this reason, people have lived here for tens of thousands of years, enjoying the abundant nature and living in peace with nature.
Since ancient times, the people of this land have respected human harmony and have lived in peace by working together as a group.
However, while the natural environment of this island nation is rich to live, it is also harsh to live and has both light and dark sides.
They have shared and enjoyed the blessings of nature by pooling their wisdom and collectively overcoming numerous severe and harsh natural disasters, such as frequent volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunami, summer typhoons, and heavy snowfall in winter.
This is because this island nation has a harsh natural environment that cannot be overcome by a single person.
Individual power is too weak to face the onslaught of nature, which can destroy the wealth we have built overnight.
Therefore, They believed that many people should suppress their egos, avoiding confrontation, and work together to create a livable environment and maintain public cleanliness, and then work together to prevent disasters before they occur and to restore the environment immediately after they have occurred.
They believed that this is the most wise, efficient, and rational way to maintain peace and freedom in each other's lives, this would bring about better results rather than to create more chaos by insisting on each other's selfishness.
because of the environment in which disasters frequently occur that cannot be resolved by individual power alone.
And this thinkings have given rise to Japan's unique teachings, culture, and behavior.
For example, it is fundamentally connected to the Japanese mindset of behaving in a way that "Do not bother others in public places," "Helping each other if someone is in trouble even in public places,," and "Not doing bad things even if no one is watching."
And one of the teachings of the ancient Shinto religion, "Purify yourself (kiyome) by getting rid of Defilement (kegare)," has been taken over today as a basic manner to "Not pollute even in public places," to “Always keep the environment clean either in public places or in private one's own home.”, and to make everyone, regardless of status or gender and ages, feel comfortable equally.
This is also the wisdom of living in the drastically changing natural environment unique to the island countries.
And this wisdom has been formed into a unique Japanese culture over a long period of time.
The ancient name of Japan, "YAMATO" or "WA" (peaceful harmony between people and nature), represents the wishes and reality of the people who have been trying to survive in the rich and harsh natural environment unique to island countries, which is different from the dry and stable land of the Eurasian continent.
And it is in this ancient Japanese country name "WA,YAMATO" that the essence of Japanese culture, the origin and secret of its unique culture, which is very different from the cultures of other Asian countries on the continent, is hidden.
As an aside, why do you think horror movies like Godzilla, which suddenly appears and destroys urban areas, originated in Japan and not in other countries?
Godzilla is depicted in the form of a monster, but it is clearly the embodiment and metaphor for volcanic explosions, large earthquakes, tsunamis, and typhoons that suddenly destroy people's lives without warning.
Nature provides abundant blessings to human life, but one day it suddenly changes and becomes a destroyer, destroying and robbing people of their wealth. This latent fear of nature is expressed in the form of Godzilla.
Next, why do Japanese people traditionally educate their children from infancy to take a bath every day to purify themselves and clean their rooms without skipping a beat?
As you can imagine, Japan's abundance of nature for living is not only for human beings.
It is equally a breeding paradise for microorganisms, bacteria, viruses, and other harmful organisms. Unlike life on dry continental land, where dirt is left to dry and weather, on the humid and warm island of Japan, germs can certainly multiply like in an incubator if left unchecked, and a pandemic can occur at any time.
The reason why Japanese people are so nervous about eliminating filth is because it is a matter of life and death in ancient times, when there was no science, technology, or scientific knowledge, That is why they developed a custom to strictly observe this code of conduct.
This is not a strange but a very rational behavior and tradition as a human adaptation to the environment.
It's over simplistic and far too general to ascribe a "Japanese mindset" to the historical ebb and flow of events that over 90% of the population had no impetus to nor impulse towards. Being swept up in forces beyond your control does not indicate a "mindset".
It's this history that shapes the culture which in turn shapes the people of a nation. In a general sense it can be a helpful tool to understand the country and its people, although you shouldn't be using it as a catch-all explanation for everything.
Geopolitical events are beyond the sway and control of most people. Their outcomes have economic and cultural impacts no doubt. For example, the IT age has brought about Globalization and with it a cultural shift whereby most in the industrial world have become closer in thinking through a sharing of ideas and a proximity in the way of life. History is a dull echo that barely resonates in the din of the modern world. I grew up in Canada, but have spent the past 30 years (my entire adult life) in Japan. The Japanese "mindset" is no different than the Canadian "mindset". Oh sure, there are a few differences in custom, don't use soap in the bath, don't stick your chopsticks in your rice, take your shoes off before entering the home, but these things are done absentmindedly and without the least bit of concern or reverence. I coach ice hockey in Japan. The kids are no different from the ones I coached in Canada. I also have 5 kids who are in or have gone through the Japanese public school system. All the families I know here are the same as those I know in Canada, we get up, go to work, do the best to provide for our kids who spend too much time playing video games, while we spend too much time on our i-phones and our wives spend too much money at the mall...we argue about homework and curfew and whose turn it is to do the dishes. Our kids aren't shaped by zen or bushido, they're shaped by X-box ,RUclips and Hip Hop, just like they are in Canada. That said, within each of these individuals is a unique mindset, that has little to do with the environment which is but something to navigate rather than subsume. I think if the environment differed in the extreme, then this video may have some veracity, but there's not much difference in modern Japan compared to say, modern Canada with its very different history and geography.
There is little significant residue of the geopolitical events presented in this snapshot version of Japanese history that informs the mindset of the common Japanese man, woman or child, other than the modernisation of the physical world in which they now live.
This guy is a story teller, he is living in some fictional world of empires and this channel is his way of animating and expressing his fiction novels.
Well there is a single word for it, racism, but you summed it up pretty neatly
Gordon Graham - these "mindset" videos have mostly to do with how these countries form their current national policies... It does NOT mean that's what everyone in a country thinks.
Darth Vader is came from a Samurai costume.
CaspianReport you guys are really not interested in Japan aren't you...
Nantz Stein lol
Excellent video Captain
Just as the United States no longer tolerated a protectionist Japan with access to the American market after the Cold War, The United States should force Germany and the other European countries to open up their markets as well.
James T Kirk Totally agree on that. Germany is behaving in the worst possible manner.
What? Lmao. The EU is a free trade heaven. Before you say dumb shit like that again, know that you cannot negotiate free trade agreements with individual member states, only with the EU as a whole. You essentially want to start a fucking trade war between the US and the EU.
James T Kirk don't believe everything Trump is saying. Do you know how much tax google, amazon or apple are paying in the EU?
@ Don : A free trade heaven, sure but with German dominance. Germany uses/needs the EU to keep the Euro down and hence the costs of its exports low. If the EU disbanded and individual nations reverted back to their national currencies, the Deutsche mark would most certainly appreciate much higher than what the Euro value stands today. That is if it is not artificially devalued like the yuan. Would you disagree ?
Himanshu Gogoi that sounds about right. Common currency also facilitates trade. Imagine all nations with floating currencies. Some of the distressed ones would not be able to buy from the powerhouses due to cost.
Great video as always, pleasing to watch!
High grade content
This movie is somewhat strangely relaxing.
you're a wonderful teacher. i could listen to you forever.
This channel is so addicting.. I have never found this kind of history interesting until hearing it here.. very unbiased too.. I watched a whole episode about the mindset of Australia and never heard one funny accent of saw a kangaroo, very classy my guy. I appreciate the work ethic!!😎😎👍👍