In the span of 85 years Japan was able to modernize and industrialized to a point that rivaled Western countries. They had a standing army that was respected by Western armies which at this point was un heard of. That is impressive for a country that has little to no natural resources and for a mountainous island. Japan at the start of the 1800 compared to what is was at the end of 1800 has got to be the biggest country transformation ever lol
@@panicpills1777 they have the highest debt to GDP ratio of any country, the oldest population, and an extremely low birth rate. The Japan of the 21st century is in no way comparable to the Japan of the 19th-20th.
I'd say the ussr in 1918 to the ussr in the 1940s/1950s or 1960s has got to be the biggest one. it transformed from an agricultural backwater autocracy to a modernised, industrialised nation, being one of the two superpowers on the planet, housing one of the greatest nuclear arsenal, launching the first man into space, being able to defend against and defeat fascist germany, and having the largest army.
My grandmother told me that in her island before ww2, there was a well known small noodle place where one could get very tasty food in big portions for a small price, it was owned by a Japanese guy who was also the cook, when the war reached the Philippines, that guy broke cover and was actually a high ranking officer
18:12= Japan had spies in the Philippines for years. This actually happened to my granduncle who had a Japanese gardener in his plantation house. This gardener insisted to have Wednesdays off. Unusual request because hardly anyone wants a Wednesday off (except for physicians as Wednesdays are their golf days). When war broke out he turned out to be a captain in the Imperial Japanese Army. He summoned my granduncle to his HQ through a messenger, but my granduncle answered back by telling the messenger, "He left my employment without the courtesy of letting me know. If he wants to see me, he comes to me, not me go to him." Well that gardener turned captain paid a visit to my granduncle and my granduncle actually scolded him! My uncle claimed that since he didn't resign properly legally he was considered AWOL. The gardener apologized profusely and told his men that my granduncle's property was under his protection. I don't think my granduncle had spunk, I think he was more irritated that he lost a gardener.
@@firemangan5024 in general, in Negros Island, Philippines, where sugarcane is grown in the haciendas, the Japanese forces treated the residents quite well compared to the residents in Manila where there was a massacre of civilians. However around June 1945 when the Americans invaded the islands my mother told me that when they returned to their old ancestral house, sacks of gasoline was hanging around the house ready to burn the house. The Japanese didn't have time to burn the house as they fled to the hills. Our house was lucky, other houses were burned down.
What did Japan want in WW2? That was the same reason as with the Germans. Megalomania coupled with racism! The result of this megalomania coupled with racism was then also similar! millions of dead. But the Nazi nation committed more genocides and was responsible for more deaths. The Germans for 50 million and the Japanese for 20 million.
I've read somewhere that the Japanese government were making attempts to buy the Philippines from Spain right before the American war, so that might be an interesting aspect to understand Japanese presence in the Pacific a bit better.
The Katipunan (the group fighting for a free Philippines at the time) bought some 100 mausers from Japanese pan-asianists to help fight the Spanish and later the Americans but the mausers never came because the ship transporting the rifles sank
@@reluctantcrusader8455 I wonder if that the work of the German. Considering German want ro secure Philippines too sending it fleet over during the Spanish American war. Unfortunately the USA thought the same thing and send it fleet first.
I love how the debate in Japan is never whether or not to invade people but who and when they're going to invade. It's like not having a war isn't an option from 1880 to 1945
They could’ve avoided war if they weren’t so overconfident and impatient after defeating Russia. They got delusional and started invading way to many countries with rape and murder and not enough political cunning. It created enemies and valid reasons for them to be attacked.
They had no option though. Every advisor explained it to them too, they cannot take on the western powers themselves and as they tried time and time again, could not be considered equal by them. Therefor they always got the short end of the stick in economic deals, were dependent on import global trade they couldn't influence properly. They themselves had no natural resources so how else we they supposed to get them. When you look into these things deeper you start to understand that war is the logical way in their scenario. It's either war to push self sufficiency or wait long enough to become a western colony. Luckily we no longer live in those days.
What did Japan want in WW2? That was the same reason as with the Germans. Megalomania coupled with racism! The result of this megalomania coupled with racism was then also similar! millions of dead. But the Nazi nation committed more genocides and was responsible for more deaths. The Germans for 50 million and the Japanese for 20 million.
Japan wanted just one thing: an Asian Empire with itself the leader. Japan is quite similar to Germany by the fact it has little resources at home. It was fearful that any blockade by its Western or Chinese foes would hurt Japan, so Japan decided to take first strike. Japan didn't invade Korea or Manchuria by nonsense - these territories were abundant in resources. When Japan conquered most of China and Southeast Asia, it was with exact reason. If it had succeeded with India, Japan would have unlimited access to resources it was so hungry to have.
@@megamonsta2 coal, yes. but metalls Germany imported from Sweden, and USSR, later France. Local German steel was in low quality. Operation Wesserbung was done to preserve that imports.
Japan wouldn't have invaded the USSR in WW2, in fact Germany requested another front be opened up by Japan in the east but the Japanese turned it down. The 2 Axis Powers didn't trust each other at all and were simply allies by circumstance. Germany even trained Chinese troops in the 2nd Sino-Japanese war in direct opposition to Japan. In short, none of the Axis allies were going to stick their necks out for the other
What did Japan want in WW2? That was the same reason as with the Germans. Megalomania coupled with racism! The result of this megalomania coupled with racism was then also similar! millions of dead. But the Nazi nation committed more genocides and was responsible for more deaths. The Germans for 50 million and the Japanese for 20 million.
@@oliversherman2414 You have no idea! The Nazi nation committed not only this one genocide, but various genocides against Slavic nations and also against the Gypsies. The Nazi nation murdered the Slavic nations according to a special plan, the Master Plan for the East in German "Generalplan Ost". According to this plan, a large part of the population of the Slavic nations should be exterminated and a minority should be forced into forced labour. The areas that would then be "free" should be populated by Germans. The Slavs who were not murdered there should then serve the Germans. According to this plan as the first Slavic nation the Poles were murdered by the Nazi nation. With the conquest of Poland, ideas about the settlement of Poland by Germans according to Naziology should be realized according to the German Master Plan for the East. After the invasion of Poland, SS Oberfuhrer Konrad Meyer was responsible for the so-called "German reconstruction in the East", as the General Plan East was also called. Poles were systematically murdered according to this plan, such as in the "Aktion Zamość" english Operation Zamość. In the Operation Zamość tens of thousands of Polish inhabitants of the Zamość region were ethnically cleansed by the occupiers, to make space for German settlers in order to ensure Germanisation of this area. Most former polish inhabitants were deported to forced labor in Germany or in death camps such as Auschwitz, Majdanek and Bełżec. A total of 51,000 Poles! The Polish population resisted massively and many Poles fled and became partisans. The Polish partisans of this area fought in several skirmishes against the Germans and also attacked and killed the Germans who were settled in these Polish areas. The massacres of the Polish population and prisoners of war actually started in the first days of the war and were then continued during the occupation. There were extremely many massacres, which make it clear that the Polish nation was being systematically annihilated. The Wola massacre was also carried out according to this plan. Because the Wola massacre was the systematic killing of between 70,000 and 90,000 Polish civilians in the Wola suburb of Poland's capital city, Warsaw, by German Wehrmacht and special murder units! In terms of the number of victims, the Wola massacre was the largest war crime on European soil in World War II. During and after the Warsaw uprising there were various massacres in which the Wehrmacht was also involved. 500,000 Poles were deported from Warsaw after the Warsaw uprising on top of 180,000 civilian casualties. After the uprising, Warsaw was almost completely destroyed, taking part in this destruction as well Units of the German Wehrmacht. In all, about 6 million Polish citizens were murdered by the Nazi nation. Altogether the Nazi nation was responsible for the deaths of 30 million Slavs. The remaining 20 million dead were members of other European nations.
@@oliversherman2414 By the way, your comment has been deleted. Because the censors don't want you to write that this nation murdered, even if you only claim that it was only this one nation that was murdered. The censors don't want you to write they murdered 6 million and name the nation. Nor can one write that this nation has murdered 50 million. Which corresponds to historical reality. This is Germans whitewash censorship. That you believe that there was only one genocide is also wanted by the Western propaganda, which whitewashes the Germans. So the question is, why is only one genocide of the Nazi nation known worldwide and not all genocides? So why are the genocides against the many Slavic nations and the gypsies actually unknown. The reason is that the western giant propaganda machine has 2 main strategies to whitewash the Germans. The first strategy is that the crimes of the Nazi nation are systematically relativized and reduced. The second strategy is necessary because the reduction and relativization of guilt are insufficient to completely whitewash the Germans. Because only one genocide is still a terrible crime and it is not possible to completely relativize and deny the crimes. Therefore, the much more effective method of whitewashing the Germans is also used. Namely the elimination of the German nation regarding the to guilt and blaming only the Nazis. Whereby the impression is given, contrary to historical truth, that there were relatively few Nazis in Germany who were guilty. Although the historical reality was, that at least since 1935 vast majority of German followers and supporters of the German Nazi government thus they were Nazis. that was actually a complete Nazi nation! This Nazi nation was guilty of crimes, both civilians and soldiers. Even the children of the Hitler Youth murdered people. Therefore, the second strategy is necessary and the second strategy is to put all the blame on the Nazis. So the Germans are actually made by the western propaganda to victims of the bad Nazis! In the meantime, perpetrators are being made into victims by the western propaganda machine. That is why meanwhile the Western propaganda is claiming that the Germans were liberated and not defeated. This lie is also spread by Western pro-German propaganda to whitewash the Germans. I have read and heard this lie more often that the Germans were allegedly liberated. There are also videos on RUclips spreading this lie about the alleged German liberation. As e.g. the title of this RUclips video shows. "Liberation of Munich April 30 1945" ruclips.net/video/RtCvjD56Kkc/видео.html the title is not the occupation of the German city Munich by the Americans, which would correspond to historical facts. No, a lie is being spread about liberation! An unbelievable lie in which from the victory over this evil Nazi nation with the subsequent multi-annual occupation is made a LIBERATION. By the way, in the extremely successful Hollywood movie "Captain America: The First Avenger", Stanley Tucci claims the western propaganda lie that the Nazis first occupied Germany. Yes, in this movie he really claims that Germany was the first country occupied by the Nazis. As if the Nazis were some kind of foreign invaders and not in reality the overwhelming majority of Germans. The movie has been seen by tens of millions worldwide and most of the viewer probably believed this propaganda lie, because it was probably not the first time that they had heard it. By the way, I've also been corrected by people on the internet when I reported about crimes and then wrote about Germans. Then I was corrected that it wasn't the Germans, but the Nazis. Alos because of the censorship at RUclips it's very difficult to write about crimes and the Germans anyway. Because if one mentions this nation in connection with crimes, the comment will be automatically deleted. This is also part of the propaganda, because RUclips is also a gigantic propaganda machine like Hollywood. By the way, writing about Nazi crimes is no problem at all. Because as already mentioned, according to the propaganda, only the Nazis committed the crimes! So writing about Nazis and crimes is not a problem. If one wants to write about the crimes of this nation and not about Nazis, one has to outwit the censorship. So because of censorship here, I use the term "Nazi nation" mostly and not Germans. It goes without saying that I mean the entire nation. I always write in between that one should not forget who the Nazi nation was. Everybody can check the censorship. Replace the term Nazis with the name of the corresponding nation in the following sentence! "The Nazis murdered millions of children." If one writes this sentence historically correct with the name of the corresponding nation instead of Nazis, the comment will be deleted when one leaves the channel. Even though it is a historical fact that the nation was responsible for the crimes, it is forbidden to write that. I could go on like this for hours and describe 1000 examples in which the Germans were separated from the Nazi guilt by Western historians / media / politicians / Hollywood etc. By the way, one also use Japan and Japanese and not the Taisei Yokusankai! Taisei Yokusanka party was the fascist party in Japan, just by the way. Nobody says the Taisei Yokusankai in relation to crimes, but of course it is spoken about the Japanese. In contrast to the Germans and instead the Nazis. So the Nazis were just a political party. The war was waged against the entire nation and not just against the political party. So It is appropriate to use the term Germans and not Nazis! But because of this propaganda that wants to whitewash this nation the term Nazis is used consistently instead of using the correct term Germans. GERMANS! In fact, Western pro-German propaganda is very consistent in using the term Nazis. The Nazis are the bad guys and the real Germans are their victims. The use of the term Nazis instead of Germans also in Hollywood movies actually serves to whitewash the Germans. The fact that the term Nazis is used instead of Germans has a reason that most people are not even aware of. This is why this German whitewashing propaganda is so very successful that most people worldwide now use the term Nazis and not the term Germans in connection with the 2nd World War. It is necessary to clarify why the term Nazi is even used for to understand all this. So it is necessary o clarify who a Nazi even was for to understand all this. Who is referred to as Nazis by western propaganda at all in this context. All Germans? Definitely not! No, the western propaganda differentiates very precisely between the evil Nazis and the other "good" Germans. The western pro-German propaganda spreads the lying myth of the few Nazis who were guilty and responsible, because it is generally concealed that the overwhelming majority of Germans since 1935 at the latest were follower and supporters of the German Nazi government, thus they were Nazis. So the overwhelming majority of Germans were since 1935 at the latest Nazis. It is concealed the fact that the vast majority were Nazis, giving the impression that it was the other way around, that contrary to historical truth there was only a relatively small minority of Nazis. So the synonym Nazi would actually be justified for this nation. BUT...the intention to use Nazis instead of German has a very specific intention. Just for to whitewashing of the Germans. Because from this lying western propaganda the myth is even produced that the vast majority of Germans were actually victims of the evil Nazis themselves and that the Nazis were just a small minority. For this reason alone they differentiate between Germans and Nazis! The propagandists even claim that the Germans were liberated in 1945. This is actually the end goal of that whitewashing campaign. Separating the nation from the evil Nazis and making the nation victims of the Nazis. This can also be seen from the fact that certain Germans are referred to as non-Nazis, such as Nazi general Erwin Rommel who was a willing tool of the German Nazi government and fought doggedly for the victory of this Nazi government. This way the Western propaganda distinguishes very conscious between the bad Nazis and the other good Germans like Rommel. It is then stated that Rommel was not a member of the Nazi party and thus he was not a Nazi. Because that's the common lie that's being spread, that only the Nazi party members were Nazis. A very useful lie. But in reality the correct definition of Nazi is supporters and follower of the German Nazi government and that was the vast majority of Germans at least since 1935 thus they were all Nazis. That was also Rommel, who made a great effort to ensure that the German Nazi government wins this war. He also benefited from his hard work for the Nazi regime and was promoted to Field Marshal. But despite this, Western propaganda and Hollywood portray him as a non-Nazi. So these historical facts are not being propagated by Western propaganda, but the lie of the relatively few guilty Nazis! My comment continues below!
The funny thing is, they claimed they were liberating Asia from the European powers, but when they took over, they were just as bad or worse then the people they replaced.
My nation has suffered Spanish, US, and Japanese colonialization so I can speak with certainty that no nation has yet to escape it and no one will truly imperialism is one hell of a drug...
@@leogazebo5290 Ya, that seems to be the case. The good news is, we seem to have learned from it for the most part, so hopefully we never go back to it.
its funny that Germany and Japan would, if victorious, end up in another cold war scenario of ideological divergence, considering Germany wanted to united the white/aryan world and Japan seemingly wanted to united the colored/non white world, or at least the turanic/asiatic part, or wtv. very interesting as an alt-history aspect. I think the likelihood of becoming a hot war wouldve been almost 100%, considering the lack of nukes and the continental aspect
It seems almost inevitable. Ethiopia, Arabia, Afghanistan etc. There's almost an unlimited number of countries that would have started an axis civil war1
Yeah it’s better to ask about early Chinese immigration to that area. A video about the oversea Chinese diaspora and their interactions with the people there in that area would be interesting.
Hakko ichiu doesn't come from Buddhism, it comes from a quote by the first Japanese emperor Jimmu who said he would bring the "eight directions" under his rule. The Japanese in the 20th century misrepresented hakko ichiu as "universal brotherhood" and used it as the motto for the Greater East Asia Coprosperity Sphere
Just a quick note, Tripartite Pact was sign in 1940. In 1936 there was signing of the Anti-Comintern Pact, which was some kind of prelude to the Tripartite Pact, beside that, a very interesting video
What did Japan want in WW2? That was the same reason as with the Germans. Megalomania coupled with racism! The result of this megalomania coupled with racism was then also similar! millions of dead. But the Nazi nation committed more genocides and was responsible for more deaths. The Germans for 50 million and the Japanese for 20 million.
Jabzy is mistaken in that Japan never planned the colonisation of Australia - see the document called "An Investigation of Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus". - Adûnâi
@@LucidFL well really, there was no centralised Japanese strategy. I just kept it to WW2 but, like with Italy and Germany, I should have included bigger plans. The problem became, when looking at some sources, like "...yamato race as nucleus", it almost became too grand. Sort of like "Japan wanted to take over all over Asia and Oceania, the end."
@@JabzyJoe I cannot really see an independent Australia last long if Japan had won the war… in 1940 Japan had 10x the population of Australia in a country just 1/20th the size… Australia also had all the arable land, iron ore, aluminium, coal and uranium that Japan could want… plus, strategically, it might be used as a base in the western pacific to threaten their conquests in SE Asia
The Reich would gain Ukraine and the Baltic but leave West Russia as a puppet state. They might open a swift war against the Italian since they never liked the Italian much. Vichy government would become the legitimate government of France, but the non African French colonies would form their own government. The Benelux area would become a united puppet state, so is Norway since it did happened. Africa would be mainly Italian until Italy surrender to Germany. Then they would become Germany’s colony. The Americas would remain largely intact with various governments stay independent as the Axis and Prosperity sphere sinply can’t invade. Like what the video showed, Japan would get all of those lands for puppets and friendly governments.
Tbh I wish there was a clear plan. But seems like there'd just be another cold War given all of their claims. Like Italy and Germany would fall out over Arabia (as an example), Italy and Japan would fall out over Ethiopia, Germany and Japan over siberia. It would be a mess.
@@JabzyJoe I mean realistically Japan would never win as long as they declare war on the US. I'd suggest cutting them out and focusing on the US, Germany and Russia.
What did Japan want in WW2? That was the same reason as with the Germans. Megalomania coupled with racism! The result of this megalomania coupled with racism was then also similar! millions of dead. But the Nazi nation committed more genocides and was responsible for more deaths. The Germans for 50 million and the Japanese for 20 million.
Fun fact Japan help the Philippine revolutionary against Spain, also after U S purchase Philippines from Spain. Japan help the new Philippine republic against America. However American are able to intercept the guns that the Japanese wanted to sent to the Filipinos.
It is just funny how my tiny country (Nepal) very rarely gets mentioned, even if it does, it is always relegated to footnotes (like this video)... But still, many RUclipsrs always put Nepal on their maps as an independent country. I hope someone makes an unbiased and honest video about my country's history in English.
Mountain countries are different. People died protesting the MCC because roads mean that it's now possible for another country to take over Nepal, even if the current population of Nepal doesn't even understand the concept of their nation
@@Zen-sx5io It's not a concept it's already there. It's like you're the star of a movie about A Guy Who's Crazy Only Because He Thinks He's In A Movie When He's Actually Not. It just doesn't seem like this idea will result in a movie with good acting. Get it?
Honestly Japan could have accomplished it, many Chinese were willing to join until Japanese soldiers abused and murdered them in disgusting ways. Had they treated everyone better they definitely would have been able to reach a Co prosperity.
Lots of Chinese did join and no Japanese soldiers didn’t commit as many atrocities as claimed some went crazy from starvation while some were Korean volunteers who wanted to prove their loyalty to japan
One note on the map, it might be an unpopular historical truth but Ukraine was part of Russia for this entire period- the map shows Ukraine as not part of Russia but oddly does include central Asian countries as part of Russia.
Poland did declare war on Japan, its just that Japan sayed that the polish government in exile was illegitimate and refuse to accept the decleration of war.
I lost my great uncle who loved this song. we have lousy history because he used to come to my room every night when I was 9 and put his hands on me. but we bonded over this song on our car rides to red lobster. he used to passionately talk about sade, its sad such tragedy can befall a beautiful human, to my best friend and my great uncle. RIP Lance Weston Jr, you were an inspiration to many kids.
Fun fact Japanese emigration to Brazil is how Brazilian Jiu Jitsu was developed after a Judoka offered to teach a Brazilian guys kids Judo if he set up soem stuff for Japanese immigrants in Brazil
It really says a lot about people "being products of their time" when a Zen Bhuddist sees empire as a means to spread "peace and happiness to all humanity"
Regardless of their original plans, Japanese strategy in 1942 was to isolate Australia to prevent it being used as a base for the Allied counterattack. Australia was second only to the UK as a base for American operations in WWII with around one million US servicemen passing through including virtually all of MacArthur's forces to return to the Philippines. Australia also fed and clothed US servicemen throughout the Pacific under reverse Lend Lease.
Hypothetically if Japan did take over all these countries the treatment and rule of the people would be no different to the Colonial overlords they were just traded one Colonial master for another..
I'd agree with that. You can't group all colonial empires under the same umbrella. Like, I'd much rather be in British Singapore than French indochina, or for that matter, japanese Indonesia
@@jessnalulila5552 It really matters if one colony got a different treatment than the other?? Their common denominator is still there Imperialism( which is the root of colonialism) is the problem
The "plan" to bomb the PanamaCanal required construction of three specialized aircraft carrying submarines, two I 400 & I 401 were completed in 1945...
Also Japan had plans in south america they requested help to argentina for their invasion to the malvinas/falkland islands so they could have a strategic position in the south atlantic ocean and in exchange they would give back the islands to argentina once the war ended but this never happened because argentina wanted to stay neutral and refused the proposal.
Good video altogether,but I want to clarify one thing.Subhash Chandra Bose was not a puppet ruler intended for India.Subhash Chandra Bose was a personal friend of both the German and Japanese leadership(including Hitler and Hirohito).He,like many other Indians wanted the Brits to leave and apparently the axis and British were enemies.Subhash Chandra Bose created INA(Indian national army) to fight and partnered with the axis powers for support.
As a person from a race of colour, I find the Japanese dream of great flavour to myself to be honest. As billions of other people of color would. But I truly appreciate where we,"The people of the World" are now....we are not perfect by any means but slowly getting there.
According to the Wikipedia article about Hideki Tojo (citing a 2005 book by Weinberg), Tojo approved a list of non-negotiable demands to be presented to the allies in 1942, that would have demanded Hawaii, Alaska, Washington State, Western Canada, all countries between Mexico and Ecuador, the entire Caribbean, plus Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, India and, of course, the territories they had conquered by then. If true, that's considerably more than what the video reports.
Hey bro, I’m making an essay proposal on Qing dynasty for uni. I’m focusing on opium war, and how/why the Qings political and military system was unable to oppose the European powers at all. Was just wondering if you have your source list you did for your Qing Doco series you made.
Hey, I'm afraid I don't post sources out of sheer laziness. Generally every few sentences is double checked in a couple of articles or books (on Google). But is there anything specific I can help you find?
@@JabzyJoe just trying to find sources on the military state of the Qing around the 1820s and 30s and opium war. Totally get the laziness haha, if you can find anything though that would be mad.
because Qing is dominated by ethics minorities the Manchus, if Qing Empire built a greay modern army, most soldiers will be Han Chineses, as long as the Han Chineses control the modern army, they will not obey to the Manchus anymore, such is the case after the Taiping rebellion, military power has fallen into Han Chinese warlords,
Thoughts of linking up with the Germans was a logistical impossibility. It's one rail line across all of Siberia. Nothing from China or Mongolia west not even a road.
Honestly they should’ve gone for Hokushin-Ron. At the time Russia was just in a complete state of anarchy, and they would have easily taken out the Far East republic and whatever part of white Russia still had control of Siberia. Manchuria and menjang were a start, but also the end.
any fans of universal century Gundam should be able to see how Zeon and the Zeonic ideology is mostly based on Japanese nationalism and the Japanese empire with a hint of the 2nd and 3rd German Reichs thrown in. "Space for the Spacenoids" and "Asia for Asians" are similarly cynically preached ideologies.
It is just funny (maybe not the right word) how all countries that wanted an empire are viewed by "civilized world" as bad, except the ones that actually got the empire and did atrocious things for a few centuries at least. Somehow, that is just a footnote in history and there is a disconnect with the modern countries (Portugal, Spain, UK, France, Belgium, Netherlands...) but when you talk about Germany, Japan and the like, there is no that disconnect from their past aspirations. I just hate that. You can't hear enough about a famine in USSR, or Hitler's extermination of Jews... but the UK engineered famines in India or the extermination of millions in the Kongo by Belgium, those are like "sure, those were bad, oh well". They never get the same level of response or connection to their modern day counterparts. Even though countries like USSR and Nazi Germany do not exist and have changed governments, borders, systems since... while others have a nice and stable continuation of government that likes to claim historical continuity, while acting blind towards "smelly" parts of that history. The levels of hypocrisy and double standards are baffling.
Well, you know what they say. History is written by the victors and the victors at the end of a war get to decide what was and wasn’t a war crime. Plus I also think a lot of it comes down to the fact that those Empires where so big, happened much earlier and lasted so long that it instilled a sense of superiority from the former Empires towards everyone else. Plus, there end didn’t come from being lost in a major war with another power so that probably has an impact too
@@communistdoge413 Exactly what I am talking about - the hypocrisy that lives to this day. UK, France etc. who had colonial empires that enslaved half of the world, still claim moral superiority over those who came after and tried to have the same but failed. An ordinary Brit is not looking at what his country did and what others did with the same scrutiny. Which would be fine - if he didn't claim moral superiority with it as well. Like, sure, you are free to say that your empire had the right to exists because it could. But don't act like it was a good thing and that German one was bad for trying to do the same. That is my problem. Not that either of them existed, but that the people who claim moral high ground today are not willing to apply the same principles to themselves. If a Brit came and said "We had an empire, yes, made us insanely powerful, rich and influential, and we could not allow others to it because then we would not have it." I'd say fine, that's naturalistic world view, I can respect that. But when they stick morality along with it, I am having a huge problem.
The Bengal Famine not "engineered." It was brought on by a cyclone destroying huge amounts of crop, along with the Japanese invasion of Bengal which cut off grain supply routes. That ridiculous narrative needs to end.
I would absolutely love to see this; I have listened to many podcasts related to French Revolution and later Napoleon; and they had quite a lot of ideas both within Europe and outside; a long video about all the adventures, including failed support for the Irish sister Republic, Egypt, and how they kept reorganising countries from republics into kingdoms, and eventually annexing certain places like all of the Kingdom of Holland, Catalonia from Spain, the Papal States, etc as the new departments of France. That was the last time they tried to rule Europe as during the second French Empire, Napoleon III saw European conquest as pointless, and focused more on strengthening France’s position and modernisation (even though he managed to get some Italian lands that are till this day parts of France). However even though French colonial empire (not to be confused with two napoleonic empires) existed for a long time (unlike Japanese, Italian or German), it can still be good to examine different periods (it is usually broken down into first and second colonial empire); and different colonial policies of each regimes (from kingdom of france, through revolutionary france all the way to third republic’s “civilising mission” and how uniquely they made Algeria an integral part of metropolitan france, unlike the rest of the colonies or protectorates. Plus there are many colonial ventures that have failed or never materialised, such as when Mexicans overthrown the emperor endorsed by French
There is an important caveat to be discussed when talking about Pan-Asianism. It had different flavors and various countries argued on who should lead it - of course Japan was truly the only independent Asian nation at that time so naturally Japan had the most clout in the movement but other notable Pan-Asianists like Sun-Yat-Sen also adhered to the ideology and even considered Japan as the natural leader of the movement; that was until the annexation of Korea where Japanese ambitions came to light. Still, despite the shortcomings that the Japanese did on the Pan-Asianist movement, Japan's quick modernization and rise to power became a shining beacon for all Asians. Japan played an instrumental part in cultivating Asian nationalist movements - without Japan, many in Asia wouldve simply seen European colonization as inevitable and undefeatable.
I really enjoyed this video makes me get high and imagine lots of timeline how Japan could have turned out, my grandfather was japanese makes me really wonder if he ever knew about these things
Only a minute in but I'm wondering if we're going to talk about the British Empire and American proxies voting NOT to give citizenship to non whites in the empire. That is why the Japanese said they were expanding anyways.
As to Pres Wilson. He was a racist Pres as his family were Confederates and he was a Democrat that reinstated racism in the Fed Govt and was a Klan supporter. Republican opposition was largely in support of racial legal equality.
The agreed-upon future border between a victorious Reich and Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere wouldn't have been the Urals but the 70th Meridian which is 300 kilometres to the east of the Urals.
Masterworks sounds like a scam. Value value value!!!! In a world where art is regularly used to launder money along with huge promises of insane returns i can't help i but see it as a massive scam. I really don't think you should be advertising them...
The first time I saw masterworks ad, I checked it out, as I was thinking of diversifying my portfolio; however, while I have not found anything directly about a scam at that time, I have found many pages that gave it very low rating, so I never bothered to make an account or anything. I wonder also if channels like Plain Bagel, Graham Stephan or Economics Explained (which made a video on art market once) ever took sponsorship from masterworks or said anything about this platform at all. I have seen masterworks sponsorship on many educational, but not econ/investing channels, which seems odd. Wonder if they tried it themselves.
also pearl harbor was an inside job, just like the Kennedy assassination, the gulf war, the bay of pigs coop attempt, the Yugoslavian war, the Libyan revolution, the Gulf of Tonkin, the infamous 9/11 and finally the recent NORD stream sabotage.
The Invasion of Korea was pushed by one megalomaniac ruler only and no Daimyo really wanted to move to Korea/china and fight for decades, so after the ruler died, the successors quickly withdrew.
Hey dude, if you ever need my help for these videos I'll help! Love this channel! Been watching for a while, hope you get very popular. I'm willing to help research and edit if you need helping hand. Have a good one, great video btw- love how indepth you go in some of these history videos. Much love.
the map in the beginning is more so how I remember India being represented on maps decades ago.... now India looks shrunken, especially by comparison to china. is that some modern propaganda thing to shrink it down to make it look more insignificant or is something else the reason?
In the span of 85 years Japan was able to modernize and industrialized to a point that rivaled Western countries. They had a standing army that was respected by Western armies which at this point was un heard of. That is impressive for a country that has little to no natural resources and for a mountainous island. Japan at the start of the 1800 compared to what is was at the end of 1800 has got to be the biggest country transformation ever lol
Be careful. One step further u turn into a weeb
They’re doing the same thing now
@@panicpills1777 they have the highest debt to GDP ratio of any country, the oldest population, and an extremely low birth rate. The Japan of the 21st century is in no way comparable to the Japan of the 19th-20th.
@@AsIf-pz9kt also one of the highest suicide rates
I'd say the ussr in 1918 to the ussr in the 1940s/1950s or 1960s has got to be the biggest one. it transformed from an agricultural backwater autocracy to a modernised, industrialised nation, being one of the two superpowers on the planet, housing one of the greatest nuclear arsenal, launching the first man into space, being able to defend against and defeat fascist germany, and having the largest army.
My grandmother told me that in her island before ww2, there was a well known small noodle place where one could get very tasty food in big portions for a small price, it was owned by a Japanese guy who was also the cook, when the war reached the Philippines, that guy broke cover and was actually a high ranking officer
There were many stories about that which I heard.
What happen to the dude?
Does his noodles still sell?
@@Fakeslimshady Excellent question.
@@Fakeslimshady unfortunately not. All I can say is that till my grandmother's last day she maintained there was no better noodle than that
18:12= Japan had spies in the Philippines for years. This actually happened to my granduncle who had a Japanese gardener in his plantation house. This gardener insisted to have Wednesdays off. Unusual request because hardly anyone wants a Wednesday off (except for physicians as Wednesdays are their golf days). When war broke out he turned out to be a captain in the Imperial Japanese Army. He summoned my granduncle to his HQ through a messenger, but my granduncle answered back by telling the messenger, "He left my employment without the courtesy of letting me know. If he wants to see me, he comes to me, not me go to him." Well that gardener turned captain paid a visit to my granduncle and my granduncle actually scolded him! My uncle claimed that since he didn't resign properly legally he was considered AWOL. The gardener apologized profusely and told his men that my granduncle's property was under his protection. I don't think my granduncle had spunk, I think he was more irritated that he lost a gardener.
Your grand uncle is fortunate that the Japanese army captain had respect for authority where ever he goes 🤣
@@firemangan5024 in general, in Negros Island, Philippines, where sugarcane is grown in the haciendas, the Japanese forces treated the residents quite well compared to the residents in Manila where there was a massacre of civilians. However around June 1945 when the Americans invaded the islands my mother told me that when they returned to their old ancestral house, sacks of gasoline was hanging around the house ready to burn the house. The Japanese didn't have time to burn the house as they fled to the hills. Our house was lucky, other houses were burned down.
What did Japan want in WW2? That was the same reason as with the Germans. Megalomania coupled with racism! The result of this megalomania coupled with racism was then also similar! millions of dead. But the Nazi nation committed more genocides and was responsible for more deaths. The Germans for 50 million and the Japanese for 20 million.
@@philipvlnst huh that's cool, and yeah super lucky
That's a nice story. Good for your granduncle who stood his ground against everything!
I've read somewhere that the Japanese government were making attempts to buy the Philippines from Spain right before the American war, so that might be an interesting aspect to understand Japanese presence in the Pacific a bit better.
The Katipunan (the group fighting for a free Philippines at the time) bought some 100 mausers from Japanese pan-asianists to help fight the Spanish and later the Americans but the mausers never came because the ship transporting the rifles sank
@@reluctantcrusader8455 oh yeah I also heard about that! It's really cool to see how different groups interact with each other
They were also Japanese volunteers fighting for the Philippines Independence
@@sardinia-piedmontball3640 japanese advisors also trained the new Filipino army
@@reluctantcrusader8455 I wonder if that the work of the German. Considering German want ro secure Philippines too sending it fleet over during the Spanish American war. Unfortunately the USA thought the same thing and send it fleet first.
I love how the debate in Japan is never whether or not to invade people but who and when they're going to invade. It's like not having a war isn't an option from 1880 to 1945
They could’ve avoided war if they weren’t so overconfident and impatient after defeating Russia. They got delusional and started invading way to many countries with rape and murder and not enough political cunning. It created enemies and valid reasons for them to be attacked.
9:00 where did it take place
They had no option though. Every advisor explained it to them too, they cannot take on the western powers themselves and as they tried time and time again, could not be considered equal by them. Therefor they always got the short end of the stick in economic deals, were dependent on import global trade they couldn't influence properly. They themselves had no natural resources so how else we they supposed to get them.
When you look into these things deeper you start to understand that war is the logical way in their scenario. It's either war to push self sufficiency or wait long enough to become a western colony.
Luckily we no longer live in those days.
they are not invading they are freeing asia from the west
@@taserrr total nonsense, the reason they were cutoff from trade is because they were demonmaxxing in china
Incredible how every nation with empire aspirations has no population large enough to control the territories they want
What did Japan want in WW2? That was the same reason as with the Germans. Megalomania coupled with racism! The result of this megalomania coupled with racism was then also similar! millions of dead. But the Nazi nation committed more genocides and was responsible for more deaths. The Germans for 50 million and the Japanese for 20 million.
That's why they failed.
@@taylorfusher2997 Nonsense.
@@zealandia5668 and they were over ambitious.
How much land did the UK control? And for how long? What was the population of the British raj? There are systems that can work
Japan wanted just one thing: an Asian Empire with itself the leader. Japan is quite similar to Germany by the fact it has little resources at home. It was fearful that any blockade by its Western or Chinese foes would hurt Japan, so Japan decided to take first strike. Japan didn't invade Korea or Manchuria by nonsense - these territories were abundant in resources. When Japan conquered most of China and Southeast Asia, it was with exact reason. If it had succeeded with India, Japan would have unlimited access to resources it was so hungry to have.
Ye, whole Asia as Japan slaves.
Germans at least acknowledged Iberians ,Italians, scandinavs etc. As aryans
I thought germany had tons of coal and iron to turn into steel
@@megamonsta2 coal, yes. but metalls Germany imported from Sweden, and USSR, later France. Local German steel was in low quality. Operation Wesserbung was done to preserve that imports.
@@alexzero3736 actualy no
I've been loving these videos keep it up!
I just found your channel today and i just cant stop watching more of it, keep up the good work.
Japan wouldn't have invaded the USSR in WW2, in fact Germany requested another front be opened up by Japan in the east but the Japanese turned it down. The 2 Axis Powers didn't trust each other at all and were simply allies by circumstance. Germany even trained Chinese troops in the 2nd Sino-Japanese war in direct opposition to Japan. In short, none of the Axis allies were going to stick their necks out for the other
Germany declared war on USA after Japan pussy attacked America at Pearl Harbor. How is that not sticking their neck out.
What did Japan want in WW2? That was the same reason as with the Germans. Megalomania coupled with racism! The result of this megalomania coupled with racism was then also similar! millions of dead. But the Nazi nation committed more genocides and was responsible for more deaths. The Germans for 50 million and the Japanese for 20 million.
@@GreatPolishWingedHussars the Germans killed 6 million Jews in the Holocaust, not 50 million
@@oliversherman2414 You have no idea! The Nazi nation committed not only this one genocide, but various genocides against Slavic nations and also against the Gypsies. The Nazi nation murdered the Slavic nations according to a special plan, the Master Plan for the East in German "Generalplan Ost". According to this plan, a large part of the population of the Slavic nations should be exterminated and a minority should be forced into forced labour. The areas that would then be "free" should be populated by Germans. The Slavs who were not murdered there should then serve the Germans. According to this plan as the first Slavic nation the Poles were murdered by the Nazi nation. With the conquest of Poland, ideas about the settlement of Poland by Germans according to Naziology should be realized according to the German Master Plan for the East. After the invasion of Poland, SS Oberfuhrer Konrad Meyer was responsible for the so-called "German reconstruction in the East", as the General Plan East was also called. Poles were systematically murdered according to this plan, such as in the "Aktion Zamość" english Operation Zamość. In the Operation Zamość tens of thousands of Polish inhabitants of the Zamość region were ethnically cleansed by the occupiers, to make space for German settlers in order to ensure Germanisation of this area. Most former polish inhabitants were deported to forced labor in Germany or in death camps such as Auschwitz, Majdanek and Bełżec. A total of 51,000 Poles! The Polish population resisted massively and many Poles fled and became partisans. The Polish partisans of this area fought in several skirmishes against the Germans and also attacked and killed the Germans who were settled in these Polish areas.
The massacres of the Polish population and prisoners of war actually started in the first days of the war and were then continued during the occupation. There were extremely many massacres, which make it clear that the Polish nation was being systematically annihilated. The Wola massacre was also carried out according to this plan. Because the Wola massacre was the systematic killing of between 70,000 and 90,000 Polish civilians in the Wola suburb of Poland's capital city, Warsaw, by German Wehrmacht and special murder units! In terms of the number of victims, the Wola massacre was the largest war crime on European soil in World War II. During and after the Warsaw uprising there were various massacres in which the Wehrmacht was also involved. 500,000 Poles were deported from Warsaw after the Warsaw uprising on top of 180,000 civilian casualties. After the uprising, Warsaw was almost completely destroyed, taking part in this destruction as well Units of the German Wehrmacht. In all, about 6 million Polish citizens were murdered by the Nazi nation. Altogether the Nazi nation was responsible for the deaths of 30 million Slavs.
The remaining 20 million dead were members of other European nations.
@@oliversherman2414 By the way, your comment has been deleted. Because the censors don't want you to write that this nation murdered, even if you only claim that it was only this one nation that was murdered. The censors don't want you to write they murdered 6 million and name the nation. Nor can one write that this nation has murdered 50 million. Which corresponds to historical reality.
This is Germans whitewash censorship.
That you believe that there was only one genocide is also wanted by the Western propaganda, which whitewashes the Germans.
So the question is, why is only one genocide of the Nazi nation known worldwide and not all genocides? So why are the genocides against the many Slavic nations and the gypsies actually unknown. The reason is that the western giant propaganda machine has 2 main strategies to whitewash the Germans. The first strategy is that the crimes of the Nazi nation are systematically relativized and reduced. The second strategy is necessary because the reduction and relativization of guilt are insufficient to completely whitewash the Germans. Because only one genocide is still a terrible crime and it is not possible to completely relativize and deny the crimes. Therefore, the much more effective method of whitewashing the Germans is also used. Namely the elimination of the German nation regarding the to guilt and blaming only the Nazis. Whereby the impression is given, contrary to historical truth, that there were relatively few Nazis in Germany who were guilty. Although the historical reality was, that at least since 1935 vast majority of German followers and supporters of the German Nazi government thus they were Nazis. that was actually a complete Nazi nation! This Nazi nation was guilty of crimes, both civilians and soldiers. Even the children of the Hitler Youth murdered people. Therefore, the second strategy is necessary and the second strategy is to put all the blame on the Nazis. So the Germans are actually made by the western propaganda to victims of the bad Nazis! In the meantime, perpetrators are being made into victims by the western propaganda machine.
That is why meanwhile the Western propaganda is claiming that the Germans were liberated and not defeated. This lie is also spread by Western pro-German propaganda to whitewash the Germans. I have read and heard this lie more often that the Germans were allegedly liberated. There are also videos on RUclips spreading this lie about the alleged German liberation. As e.g. the title of this RUclips video shows. "Liberation of Munich April 30 1945" ruclips.net/video/RtCvjD56Kkc/видео.html the title is not the occupation of the German city Munich by the Americans, which would correspond to historical facts. No, a lie is being spread about liberation! An unbelievable lie in which from the victory over this evil Nazi nation with the subsequent multi-annual occupation is made a LIBERATION. By the way, in the extremely successful Hollywood movie "Captain America: The First Avenger", Stanley Tucci claims the western propaganda lie that the Nazis first occupied Germany. Yes, in this movie he really claims that Germany was the first country occupied by the Nazis. As if the Nazis were some kind of foreign invaders and not in reality the overwhelming majority of Germans. The movie has been seen by tens of millions worldwide and most of the viewer probably believed this propaganda lie, because it was probably not the first time that they had heard it. By the way, I've also been corrected by people on the internet when I reported about crimes and then wrote about Germans. Then I was corrected that it wasn't the Germans, but the Nazis. Alos because of the censorship at RUclips it's very difficult to write about crimes and the Germans anyway. Because if one mentions this nation in connection with crimes, the comment will be automatically deleted. This is also part of the propaganda, because RUclips is also a gigantic propaganda machine like Hollywood. By the way, writing about Nazi crimes is no problem at all. Because as already mentioned, according to the propaganda, only the Nazis committed the crimes! So writing about Nazis and crimes is not a problem. If one wants to write about the crimes of this nation and not about Nazis, one has to outwit the censorship. So because of censorship here, I use the term "Nazi nation" mostly and not Germans. It goes without saying that I mean the entire nation. I always write in between that one should not forget who the Nazi nation was. Everybody can check the censorship. Replace the term Nazis with the name of the corresponding nation in the following sentence! "The Nazis murdered millions of children." If one writes this sentence historically correct with the name of the corresponding nation instead of Nazis, the comment will be deleted when one leaves the channel. Even though it is a historical fact that the nation was responsible for the crimes, it is forbidden to write that. I could go on like this for hours and describe 1000 examples in which the Germans were separated from the Nazi guilt by Western historians / media / politicians / Hollywood etc. By the way, one also use Japan and Japanese and not the Taisei Yokusankai! Taisei Yokusanka party was the fascist party in Japan, just by the way. Nobody says the Taisei Yokusankai in relation to crimes, but of course it is spoken about the Japanese. In contrast to the Germans and instead the Nazis. So the Nazis were just a political party. The war was waged against the entire nation and not just against the political party. So It is appropriate to use the term Germans and not Nazis! But because of this propaganda that wants to whitewash this nation the term Nazis is used consistently instead of using the correct term Germans. GERMANS!
In fact, Western pro-German propaganda is very consistent in using the term Nazis. The Nazis are the bad guys and the real Germans are their victims. The use of the term Nazis instead of Germans also in Hollywood movies actually serves to whitewash the Germans. The fact that the term Nazis is used instead of Germans has a reason that most people are not even aware of. This is why this German whitewashing propaganda is so very successful that most people worldwide now use the term Nazis and not the term Germans in connection with the 2nd World War. It is necessary to clarify why the term Nazi is even used for to understand all this. So it is necessary o clarify who a Nazi even was for to understand all this. Who is referred to as Nazis by western propaganda at all in this context. All Germans? Definitely not! No, the western propaganda differentiates very precisely between the evil Nazis and the other "good" Germans. The western pro-German propaganda spreads the lying myth of the few Nazis who were guilty and responsible, because it is generally concealed that the overwhelming majority of Germans since 1935 at the latest were follower and supporters of the German Nazi government, thus they were Nazis. So the overwhelming majority of Germans were since 1935 at the latest Nazis. It is concealed the fact that the vast majority were Nazis, giving the impression that it was the other way around, that contrary to historical truth there was only a relatively small minority of Nazis. So the synonym Nazi would actually be justified for this nation. BUT...the intention to use Nazis instead of German has a very specific intention. Just for to whitewashing of the Germans. Because from this lying western propaganda the myth is even produced that the vast majority of Germans were actually victims of the evil Nazis themselves and that the Nazis were just a small minority. For this reason alone they differentiate between Germans and Nazis! The propagandists even claim that the Germans were liberated in 1945. This is actually the end goal of that whitewashing campaign. Separating the nation from the evil Nazis and making the nation victims of the Nazis. This can also be seen from the fact that certain Germans are referred to as non-Nazis, such as Nazi general Erwin Rommel who was a willing tool of the German Nazi government and fought doggedly for the victory of this Nazi government. This way the Western propaganda distinguishes very conscious between the bad Nazis and the other good Germans like Rommel. It is then stated that Rommel was not a member of the Nazi party and thus he was not a Nazi. Because that's the common lie that's being spread, that only the Nazi party members were Nazis. A very useful lie. But in reality the correct definition of Nazi is supporters and follower of the German Nazi government and that was the vast majority of Germans at least since 1935 thus they were all Nazis. That was also Rommel, who made a great effort to ensure that the German Nazi government wins this war. He also benefited from his hard work for the Nazi regime and was promoted to Field Marshal. But despite this, Western propaganda and Hollywood portray him as a non-Nazi.
So these historical facts are not being propagated by Western propaganda, but the lie of the relatively few guilty Nazis!
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The funny thing is, they claimed they were liberating Asia from the European powers, but when they took over, they were just as bad or worse then the people they replaced.
My nation has suffered Spanish, US, and Japanese colonialization so I can speak with certainty that no nation has yet to escape it and no one will truly imperialism is one hell of a drug...
@@leogazebo5290 Ya, that seems to be the case. The good news is, we seem to have learned from it for the most part, so hopefully we never go back to it.
@@davidnemoseck9007 As they said education is always the cure to everything
@@leogazebo5290 lol, not always. Sometimes people like to go through the school of hard knocks.
@@davidnemoseck9007 That's probably not the case since not all school are in the US but hey lead is hard and can knock you for life
its funny that Germany and Japan would, if victorious, end up in another cold war scenario of ideological divergence, considering Germany wanted to united the white/aryan world and Japan seemingly wanted to united the colored/non white world, or at least the turanic/asiatic part, or wtv. very interesting as an alt-history aspect. I think the likelihood of becoming a hot war wouldve been almost 100%, considering the lack of nukes and the continental aspect
It seems almost inevitable.
Ethiopia, Arabia, Afghanistan etc. There's almost an unlimited number of countries that would have started an axis civil war1
not all aryans are white though. the original aryans are dark skinned. they're the Indians from India.
@@jansandman6983 Wrong
I mean, Hitler regarded Japanese and Han Chinese as the aryans of Asia i think, so who knows how it would've panned out.
@@jansandman6983 We are talking about nazi germany's definition of aryan here
I LOVE your long and detailed videos. I wonder if you plan to do one about the portuguese colonial expansion and the decisive battles during this time
I wonder about early Chinese dynasties efforts to colonize Southeast Asia
China barely controlled their own coastline.
Yeah it’s better to ask about early Chinese immigration to that area. A video about the oversea Chinese diaspora and their interactions with the people there in that area would be interesting.
@@BMLA00 oh, that is a much better idea
I CONSISTENTLY misread this comment and thought you were on that conspiracy theory about China discovering South AMERICA.
@@samwill7259 yo, I misread stuff all the time, and wow, there is really a conspiracy like that?!
Hakko ichiu doesn't come from Buddhism, it comes from a quote by the first Japanese emperor Jimmu who said he would bring the "eight directions" under his rule. The Japanese in the 20th century misrepresented hakko ichiu as "universal brotherhood" and used it as the motto for the Greater East Asia Coprosperity Sphere
Was largely developed in the 20th century by Tanaka Chigaku though
I thought Emperor Jimmu was a Legendary figure
Eight directions is used in Hinduism too..is there any connection?
Good to see a focus on Imperial Japan.
You should make a long series on the decline of the Muslim world from 1700
Your videos on Imperial Japan got me motivated to bulid my own Cold War alternate history saga.
Nice to see how It turns out.
somehow, Chainsaw Man becomes canon to this timeline
@@demilembias2527 But it isn't going to be called that (freak)
Just a quick note, Tripartite Pact was sign in 1940. In 1936 there was signing of the Anti-Comintern Pact, which was some kind of prelude to the Tripartite Pact, beside that, a very interesting video
What did Japan want in WW2? That was the same reason as with the Germans. Megalomania coupled with racism! The result of this megalomania coupled with racism was then also similar! millions of dead. But the Nazi nation committed more genocides and was responsible for more deaths. The Germans for 50 million and the Japanese for 20 million.
Jabzy is mistaken in that Japan never planned the colonisation of Australia - see the document called "An Investigation of Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus".
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In hindsight, I wish I included more from that book towards the end. Almost like their post war ambitions (around 1950)
The document had no bearing on Japanese strategy.
@@LucidFL well really, there was no centralised Japanese strategy. I just kept it to WW2 but, like with Italy and Germany, I should have included bigger plans. The problem became, when looking at some sources, like "...yamato race as nucleus", it almost became too grand. Sort of like "Japan wanted to take over all over Asia and Oceania, the end."
@@JabzyJoe I cannot really see an independent Australia last long if Japan had won the war… in 1940 Japan had 10x the population of Australia in a country just 1/20th the size… Australia also had all the arable land, iron ore, aluminium, coal and uranium that Japan could want… plus, strategically, it might be used as a base in the western pacific to threaten their conquests in SE Asia
@@JabzyJoe can you remake the mughal-maratha war or rajput rebellion against Mughals or mughal conquest of central Asia?
Could you please make a video explaining how the axis would divide the lands conquered after ww2 had been won?
The Reich would gain Ukraine and the Baltic but leave West Russia as a puppet state. They might open a swift war against the Italian since they never liked the Italian much. Vichy government would become the legitimate government of France, but the non African French colonies would form their own government. The Benelux area would become a united puppet state, so is Norway since it did happened. Africa would be mainly Italian until Italy surrender to Germany. Then they would become Germany’s colony. The Americas would remain largely intact with various governments stay independent as the Axis and Prosperity sphere sinply can’t invade.
Like what the video showed, Japan would get all of those lands for puppets and friendly governments.
@@lazysunside eh
I'm not sure about the Deutsche-italian war
Tbh I wish there was a clear plan. But seems like there'd just be another cold War given all of their claims. Like Italy and Germany would fall out over Arabia (as an example), Italy and Japan would fall out over Ethiopia, Germany and Japan over siberia. It would be a mess.
@@JabzyJoe I mean realistically Japan would never win as long as they declare war on the US.
I'd suggest cutting them out and focusing on the US, Germany and Russia.
What did Japan want in WW2? That was the same reason as with the Germans. Megalomania coupled with racism! The result of this megalomania coupled with racism was then also similar! millions of dead. But the Nazi nation committed more genocides and was responsible for more deaths. The Germans for 50 million and the Japanese for 20 million.
Fun fact Japan help the Philippine revolutionary against Spain, also after U S purchase Philippines from Spain. Japan help the new Philippine republic against America. However American are able to intercept the guns that the Japanese wanted to sent to the Filipinos.
Next up: German plans during WW2? 🤔 you have done Italy 🇮🇹 and Japan 🇯🇵 Great videos btw! I love them and always look forward to watching them! 👍
He did make a video on German aims too
@@outerspace7391 His video on German aims was only for the Kaiserreich, not WW2.
@@inconceivablycanadian3559he has one now
It is just funny how my tiny country (Nepal) very rarely gets mentioned, even if it does, it is always relegated to footnotes (like this video)... But still, many RUclipsrs always put Nepal on their maps as an independent country. I hope someone makes an unbiased and honest video about my country's history in English.
This channel has covered the modern history of Nepal im pretty sure
Mountain countries are different. People died protesting the MCC because roads mean that it's now possible for another country to take over Nepal, even if the current population of Nepal doesn't even understand the concept of their nation
@@kamranrowshandel6395 What do you mean they don't understand the concept of their own nation?
@@Zen-sx5io It's not a concept it's already there. It's like you're the star of a movie about A Guy Who's Crazy Only Because He Thinks He's In A Movie When He's Actually Not. It just doesn't seem like this idea will result in a movie with good acting. Get it?
@@Zen-sx5io I mean even the founder of the nation didn't just get up one day and say "think I'll start a nation today how bout that?"
Atlast, he has been unleashed, I sense a great series ahead.
Honestly Japan could have accomplished it, many Chinese were willing to join until Japanese soldiers abused and murdered them in disgusting ways. Had they treated everyone better they definitely would have been able to reach a Co prosperity.
Lots of Chinese did join and no Japanese soldiers didn’t commit as many atrocities as claimed some went crazy from starvation while some were Korean volunteers who wanted to prove their loyalty to japan
@@NeostormXLMAX japan did cruelty, that is why everyone against them.
@@NeostormXLMAX Nationalism is a helluva drug. Too much of it drives you myopic, delusional, violent, or worse.
One note on the map, it might be an unpopular historical truth but Ukraine was part of Russia for this entire period- the map shows Ukraine as not part of Russia but oddly does include central Asian countries as part of Russia.
Didnt incl. the for Civil war period
Poland did declare war on Japan, its just that Japan sayed that the polish government in exile was illegitimate and refuse to accept the decleration of war.
the Japanese government said they wouldn't accept the declaration because the government in exile was only forced by the Brits to do so.
@@deadby15 So yes Poland declared war, and japan sayed no.
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39:44 They actually did! Brazil has the biggest Japanese population/colony outside of Japan in the world! 🇧🇷🇯🇵
I lost my great uncle who loved this song. we have lousy history because he used to come to my room every night when I was 9 and put his hands on me. but we bonded over this song on our car rides to red lobster. he used to passionately talk about sade, its sad such tragedy can befall a beautiful human, to my best friend and my great uncle. RIP Lance Weston Jr, you were an inspiration to many kids.
What.
What. 😳
Nani? 🤨
holy moly
@@mildsalsa6697 Holy Smokes
Can’t help but wonder what Asia would be like if Japan was successful in their conquest
Fun fact Japanese emigration to Brazil is how Brazilian Jiu Jitsu was developed after a Judoka offered to teach a Brazilian guys kids Judo if he set up soem stuff for Japanese immigrants in Brazil
It really says a lot about people "being products of their time" when a Zen Bhuddist sees empire as a means to spread "peace and happiness to all humanity"
Great vid as always Jab
Regardless of their original plans, Japanese strategy in 1942 was to isolate Australia to prevent it being used as a base for the Allied counterattack.
Australia was second only to the UK as a base for American operations in WWII with around one million US servicemen passing through including virtually all of MacArthur's forces to return to the Philippines. Australia also fed and clothed US servicemen throughout the Pacific under reverse Lend Lease.
Hypothetically if Japan did take over all these countries the treatment and rule of the people would be no different to the Colonial overlords they were just traded one Colonial master for another..
Probably worse in some cases. Not all colonial overlords were equally oppressive.
I'd agree with that. You can't group all colonial empires under the same umbrella. Like, I'd much rather be in British Singapore than French indochina, or for that matter, japanese Indonesia
@@baigandinel7956 that last phrase is kinda of a oxymoron..Colonialism IS opressive
@@sfugid but not in the same way. Botswana and India were part of the British Empire. These 2 countries had VERY different experiences under it
@@jessnalulila5552 It really matters if one colony got a different treatment than the other?? Their common denominator is still there
Imperialism( which is the root of colonialism) is the problem
Hands down this is the Best documentary on the topic of Japan's geopolitical and territorial ambitions in WWII.
The "plan" to bomb the PanamaCanal required construction of three specialized aircraft carrying submarines, two I 400 & I 401 were completed in 1945...
Plane and engineering channel called mustard made a video on it, it was a unique idea but in the end it was too late and wouldn’t have worked
Seems like to me they were doing their damndest to imitate Europeans and Americans.
They literally called for "Break away from Asia and enter Europe"
I love your channel keep up the great stuff!
My great grandfather fighted against japanese in battle of imphal
>navy planning a mountain invasion
Beautiful
Tbf in the Russo-Japanese War, it was the Army that defeated Russia's Pacific Fleet stuck in Port Arthur.
Jazby, keep making videos!
Also Japan had plans in south america they requested help to argentina for their invasion to the malvinas/falkland islands so they could have a strategic position in the south atlantic ocean and in exchange they would give back the islands to argentina once the war ended but this never happened because argentina wanted to stay neutral and refused the proposal.
Bet they regret it now after the falklands war
Love this video!!
Good video altogether,but I want to clarify one thing.Subhash Chandra Bose was not a puppet ruler intended for India.Subhash Chandra Bose was a personal friend of both the German and Japanese leadership(including Hitler and Hirohito).He,like many other Indians wanted the Brits to leave and apparently the axis and British were enemies.Subhash Chandra Bose created INA(Indian national army) to fight and partnered with the axis powers for support.
I was going to comment on the same.
Upvoted your comment.
Look at the map of India, he cuts of pakistan and Kashmir, he has not factually reporting on India, no one does though
@@gunner9936 once we rise,they will have no other option but show our borders as we want them to.
@@gunner9936 it's a medieval map. Look at the maps of china
As a person from a race of colour, I find the Japanese dream of great flavour to myself to be honest. As billions of other people of color would.
But I truly appreciate where we,"The people of the World" are now....we are not perfect by any means but slowly getting there.
Well-Done & quite enlightening
You've made my day and this video has my acclaim.
According to the Wikipedia article about Hideki Tojo (citing a 2005 book by Weinberg), Tojo approved a list of non-negotiable demands to be presented to the allies in 1942, that would have demanded Hawaii, Alaska, Washington State, Western Canada, all countries between Mexico and Ecuador, the entire Caribbean, plus Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, India and, of course, the territories they had conquered by then. If true, that's considerably more than what the video reports.
Hey bro, I’m making an essay proposal on Qing dynasty for uni. I’m focusing on opium war, and how/why the Qings political and military system was unable to oppose the European powers at all. Was just wondering if you have your source list you did for your Qing Doco series you made.
Hey, I'm afraid I don't post sources out of sheer laziness. Generally every few sentences is double checked in a couple of articles or books (on Google). But is there anything specific I can help you find?
@@JabzyJoe just trying to find sources on the military state of the Qing around the 1820s and 30s and opium war. Totally get the laziness haha, if you can find anything though that would be mad.
because Qing is dominated by ethics minorities the Manchus, if Qing Empire built a greay modern army, most soldiers will be Han Chineses,
as long as the Han Chineses control the modern army, they will not obey to the Manchus anymore,
such is the case after the Taiping rebellion, military power has fallen into Han Chinese warlords,
9:14 Small Mistake: Tuva belonged to China
Japan started ww2
The Japanese/Nazi partition plans remind me of the Treaty of Tordesillas.
I will admit that I am learning far more than I expected.
In 92 years Japan went from the feudal age to the nuclear age, amazing.
Beautiful video and expalantion, Japanese Empire is probably my favourite, cheers from Europe.
Thoughts of linking up with the Germans was a logistical impossibility. It's one rail line across all of Siberia. Nothing from China or Mongolia west not even a road.
Honestly they should’ve gone for Hokushin-Ron. At the time Russia was just in a complete state of anarchy, and they would have easily taken out the Far East republic and whatever part of white Russia still had control of Siberia. Manchuria and menjang were a start, but also the end.
any fans of universal century Gundam should be able to see how Zeon and the Zeonic ideology is mostly based on Japanese nationalism and the Japanese empire with a hint of the 2nd and 3rd German Reichs thrown in. "Space for the Spacenoids" and "Asia for Asians" are similarly cynically preached ideologies.
It is just funny (maybe not the right word) how all countries that wanted an empire are viewed by "civilized world" as bad, except the ones that actually got the empire and did atrocious things for a few centuries at least. Somehow, that is just a footnote in history and there is a disconnect with the modern countries (Portugal, Spain, UK, France, Belgium, Netherlands...) but when you talk about Germany, Japan and the like, there is no that disconnect from their past aspirations.
I just hate that. You can't hear enough about a famine in USSR, or Hitler's extermination of Jews... but the UK engineered famines in India or the extermination of millions in the Kongo by Belgium, those are like "sure, those were bad, oh well". They never get the same level of response or connection to their modern day counterparts.
Even though countries like USSR and Nazi Germany do not exist and have changed governments, borders, systems since... while others have a nice and stable continuation of government that likes to claim historical continuity, while acting blind towards "smelly" parts of that history.
The levels of hypocrisy and double standards are baffling.
Well, you know what they say. History is written by the victors and the victors at the end of a war get to decide what was and wasn’t a war crime. Plus I also think a lot of it comes down to the fact that those Empires where so big, happened much earlier and lasted so long that it instilled a sense of superiority from the former Empires towards everyone else. Plus, there end didn’t come from being lost in a major war with another power so that probably has an impact too
@@communistdoge413 Exactly what I am talking about - the hypocrisy that lives to this day. UK, France etc. who had colonial empires that enslaved half of the world, still claim moral superiority over those who came after and tried to have the same but failed.
An ordinary Brit is not looking at what his country did and what others did with the same scrutiny. Which would be fine - if he didn't claim moral superiority with it as well.
Like, sure, you are free to say that your empire had the right to exists because it could. But don't act like it was a good thing and that German one was bad for trying to do the same.
That is my problem. Not that either of them existed, but that the people who claim moral high ground today are not willing to apply the same principles to themselves.
If a Brit came and said "We had an empire, yes, made us insanely powerful, rich and influential, and we could not allow others to it because then we would not have it." I'd say fine, that's naturalistic world view, I can respect that. But when they stick morality along with it, I am having a huge problem.
It’s insane! As some one with Asperger’s I just can’t see past the hypocrisy standing in my face I guess regular people commit doublethink quite often
@@communistdoge413 I can’t wait for Anglos to get nuked in ww3
The Bengal Famine not "engineered."
It was brought on by a cyclone destroying huge amounts of crop, along with the Japanese invasion of Bengal which cut off grain supply routes.
That ridiculous narrative needs to end.
Fun fact during that Japanese civil war they used a Confederate ironland ship the ccs stonewall
next french dreams of empire please
Pls dont
I would absolutely love to see this; I have listened to many podcasts related to French Revolution and later Napoleon; and they had quite a lot of ideas both within Europe and outside; a long video about all the adventures, including failed support for the Irish sister Republic, Egypt, and how they kept reorganising countries from republics into kingdoms, and eventually annexing certain places like all of the Kingdom of Holland, Catalonia from Spain, the Papal States, etc as the new departments of France. That was the last time they tried to rule Europe as during the second French Empire, Napoleon III saw European conquest as pointless, and focused more on strengthening France’s position and modernisation (even though he managed to get some Italian lands that are till this day parts of France).
However even though French colonial empire (not to be confused with two napoleonic empires) existed for a long time (unlike Japanese, Italian or German), it can still be good to examine different periods (it is usually broken down into first and second colonial empire); and different colonial policies of each regimes (from kingdom of france, through revolutionary france all the way to third republic’s “civilising mission” and how uniquely they made Algeria an integral part of metropolitan france, unlike the rest of the colonies or protectorates. Plus there are many colonial ventures that have failed or never materialised, such as when Mexicans overthrown the emperor endorsed by French
4:45 begins
Thanks!
altho there is usually very long waiting list to sign up for art investments... thx to hundreds of youtubers we can skip this waiting time... ofc.
I doubt anyone in that era could build a powerful wooden ship in 40 years
They were built different
There is an important caveat to be discussed when talking about Pan-Asianism. It had different flavors and various countries argued on who should lead it - of course Japan was truly the only independent Asian nation at that time so naturally Japan had the most clout in the movement but other notable Pan-Asianists like Sun-Yat-Sen also adhered to the ideology and even considered Japan as the natural leader of the movement; that was until the annexation of Korea where Japanese ambitions came to light.
Still, despite the shortcomings that the Japanese did on the Pan-Asianist movement, Japan's quick modernization and rise to power became a shining beacon for all Asians. Japan played an instrumental part in cultivating Asian nationalist movements - without Japan, many in Asia wouldve simply seen European colonization as inevitable and undefeatable.
What was Japan's best chance to win?
the only winning move is not to play
Stay focused on china and suffer the oil embargo and hope for normal relations after the war has been won
Giant robots
Ignoring the US and going straight for the european colonies.
Don’t attack the US.
Who would have thought chandler from
Friends would be so influential
Do you have a list of sources? This must have required a lot of work.
Great video!
1:35 - 1:44
Imagine a Movie which shows that weird Situation in which Natives defeats Samurais
Great video.
I really enjoyed this video makes me get high and imagine lots of timeline how Japan could have turned out, my grandfather was japanese makes me really wonder if he ever knew about these things
many japanese know this dream before in 1930. but after they got atomic bomb. they just forget it. anmd never again go to Ultra nationalistic.
@@juanandreas97 the Japanese army and navy gated each other and both developed atomic weapons separately
@@NeostormXLMAX doesn't mater they got nukes and kawai culture is born :)
great stuff!
Only a minute in but I'm wondering if we're going to talk about the British Empire and American proxies voting NOT to give citizenship to non whites in the empire.
That is why the Japanese said they were expanding anyways.
Not gonna cover this because the channel is American lol. But funny enough he still is a lot more transparent than most Americans
@@NeostormXLMAX wtf are you talking about, he has a British accent
@@NeostormXLMAX He literally mentioned that though, what?
Thank you sir
As to Pres Wilson. He was a racist Pres as his family were Confederates and he was a Democrat that reinstated racism in the Fed Govt and was a Klan supporter. Republican opposition was largely in support of racial legal equality.
things change all the time.
Mar Zutra in the Talmud (Sanhedrin 94a), He states when asked by the Gemara that "The 10 lost tribes of Israel are in Africa"
The Japanese Burma Area Army did invade Northeastern India.
The "Imo Incident", also known as "Spider Man 3"
The Obadiah Alliance Sephardic Jewish Rabbinical Court has officially recognized the Igbo people as the ancient Israelites
Thought this was real looked too similar
Lots of info I didn't know.
Are You going to Make The Video for the German plans For WW2
That will be the next "dreams of empire video"
The agreed-upon future border between a victorious Reich and Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere wouldn't have been the Urals but the 70th Meridian which is 300 kilometres to the east of the Urals.
Very sad Subash Chandra Bose died in Plane Crash in 1945. He would have been great Indian leader
That is not true mate.
@@roll1swarnajeetaich9b42 exactly he did not die in a plane crash
@@Debottro no he died afterwards in the hospital from his injuries
Yep there are many Japanese living in the Philippines before WW2. It is true before Japanese is everywhere before.
Masterworks sounds like a scam. Value value value!!!!
In a world where art is regularly used to launder money along with huge promises of insane returns i can't help i but see it as a massive scam.
I really don't think you should be advertising them...
The first time I saw masterworks ad, I checked it out, as I was thinking of diversifying my portfolio; however, while I have not found anything directly about a scam at that time, I have found many pages that gave it very low rating, so I never bothered to make an account or anything. I wonder also if channels like Plain Bagel, Graham Stephan or Economics Explained (which made a video on art market once) ever took sponsorship from masterworks or said anything about this platform at all. I have seen masterworks sponsorship on many educational, but not econ/investing channels, which seems odd. Wonder if they tried it themselves.
This video is crucial for when HOI4 decide to update their Japanese focus tree
Me, here, thinking Japan was utterly unimportant before Pearl Harbor. Thanks for this.
American education
also pearl harbor was an inside job, just like the Kennedy assassination, the gulf war, the bay of pigs coop attempt, the Yugoslavian war, the Libyan revolution, the Gulf of Tonkin, the infamous 9/11 and finally the recent NORD stream sabotage.
So, in the beginning of the video, Japan did the historic equivalent rage quit, because their goals wasn't reached fast enough?
The Invasion of Korea was pushed by one megalomaniac ruler only and no Daimyo really wanted to move to Korea/china and fight for decades, so after the ruler died, the successors quickly withdrew.
Hey dude, if you ever need my help for these videos I'll help! Love this channel!
Been watching for a while, hope you get very popular. I'm willing to help research and edit if you need helping hand.
Have a good one, great video btw- love how indepth you go in some of these history videos.
Much love.
Just followed you on twitter- if you need my help you should see me on your followers list. If not keep up the good work 😁👍
And it was all but a dream
the map in the beginning is more so how I remember India being represented on maps decades ago.... now India looks shrunken, especially by comparison to china. is that some modern propaganda thing to shrink it down to make it look more insignificant or is something else the reason?
They use Mercator's map where countries near the equator bevome smaller & the countries near the pole becomes larger.
Look up the Niʻihau incident. The first chance to aid the Japanese military; read what happened. Some things ruin the party for everyone else.
Correction: Halide Edip was a woman
Japanese ronin samurais served Kings in Western Myanmar.
Japan just wanted security. The same kind that Britain, France, and Russia had. It is tough being an island.
Womp womp, don’t be so evil next time.
This is some of the wildest pronunciations of east Asian names I have ever heard
Respect to Japan
No respect for those clowns.
they are evil loser, no one should respecting them.