Japan: "What if Asia, but _mine?"_ Genghis Khan: *_single tear_* Make me proud

@sable7687

4 жыл бұрын

Son

@TheOneGuy1111

4 жыл бұрын

I would have thought Khan would be pretty pissed at Japan, what with the whole typhoon thing.

@rishabhdave5773

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheOneGuy1111 Wrong Khan; Kublai was the one who tried to invade twice.

@jimothyworldbuilding3664

4 жыл бұрын

@@rishabhdave5773 Still woulda been pissed at them beating his grandson, and at his grandson for losing because of a bit of wind.

@jimothyworldbuilding3664

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheOneGuy1111 Genghis's Ghost: Kublai how the hell did you lose to a bunch of islanders? Kublai: Well there was this typhoon... Genghis: So? Just send in 2 fleets. Kublai: There were 2 typhoons. Genghis: ... Kublai: Yeah. Genghis: How did your surviving forces lose? Kublai: What? Genghis: You should've won despite being outnumbered and out-geared. My forces were outnumbered all the time but I won anyway. Kublai: They're pretty badass tho. Genghis: Nonsense. I can't believe you lost to a bunch of islanders. Japan: *beats Russia, seizes control of vast empire* Kublai: See? Genghis: ... okay yeah I see your point. Hey you reckon they're descended from us so we can take some kinda credit? Kublai: Unlikely. They're separated from what we conquered by water... if anything it's our descendants getting whooped right now. Genghis: *GOD! DAMMIT! THEY RUIN EVERYTHING! I HATE THEM I HATE THEM I HATE THEM SO GODDAMN MUCH GODDAMMIT!* USA: *nukes Japan* Genghis: *looks up from crying* aw sweet.

Can I just point out that this is the most Modern thing Blue has covered.

@samuelwithers2221

4 жыл бұрын

I know, and it scares me

@KayclauShipper

4 жыл бұрын

What about Hong Kong?

@Healermain15

4 жыл бұрын

In a video describing the rapid transition from the late medieval period to early modernism. So I assume he's going to do a full pivot towards the modern era now and leave all that classical nonsense behind.

@haberak3310

4 жыл бұрын

@@Healermain15 Haha yeah, and the there's a major plague right now lol. Yeah right.

@davidegaruti2582

4 жыл бұрын

@@Healermain15 X to doubt

West: Spreads imperialism to Japan. Japan: Becomes imperialistic. West: Surprised Pikachu face

@arcangleGabriel

3 жыл бұрын

Eh they were imperialistic before their industrial boom. The invasion of Korea just failed hard enough that it put outward expansion and colonization back a tad xD

@jan-owennugent1932

3 жыл бұрын

Those damn turtle boats

@arcangleGabriel

3 жыл бұрын

@@jan-owennugent1932 turtle boat OP please nurf ^^

@Angelblue1302

3 жыл бұрын

Add admiral Yi to the mix and it gets even more OP.

@arcangleGabriel

3 жыл бұрын

@@Angelblue1302 stacking OP bonuses on OP units in a nutshell xD

"Imperialism is a hell of a drug" As an EU4 player, I can agree to this statement

@someonesilence3731

4 жыл бұрын

O yes

@user-mp9fv5bf5d

4 жыл бұрын

M&T for the win!!!!!

@birdnibba2382

4 жыл бұрын

Prussian empire 👌😔

@stupidperson9250

4 жыл бұрын

"Goodbye spies I no longer want to play with u"

@vedantthapar3666

3 жыл бұрын

Imperialism + 150 absolutism + Admin Efficiency be like:

Japan going imperialistic is a classic story of becoming the very thing you swore to destroy. It's a tragedy I have seen play out far too often.

@-haclong2366

4 жыл бұрын

No, they didn't want to be the victim of it, but they didn't want to destroy it. Also the oversimplifications in this video paints Japan as the bad guy in many lights when it can be better seen as a somewhat neutral force. Japan annexed Korea because of growing Russian influences and the Korean King/Emperor actively welcoming Russia, while Japan saw Russia as a threat (Japan only defeated the Russians because their main fleet was located on the other side of Eurasia and wasn't even at Madagascar when Japan only narrowly defeated the Russians), the Japanese annexation of Taiwan was somewhat meant to be a model of how China could look under Japanese rule, by annexing one Chinese province and developing it like Japan.

@westleyperegoodoff-marte2157

4 жыл бұрын

You are strong and wise, and I am very proud of you.

@noytelinu3409

4 жыл бұрын

Well they lost their high ground due to not having enough air support as their best pilots were dead stuck in an American battleship hull

@lloydbautista2055

4 жыл бұрын

Japan never wanted to destroy imperialism, they just wanted to be the dominant imperial force in the region while using "liberation" as a half-hearted excuse to justify conquest and what usually turned out to be even harsher oppressive rule. Japan very much saw themselves as culturally and racially superior to the other people's of East Asia, over whom they considered themselves to be the rightful overlords. Thats why Hitler's concept of humans having certain "master races" resonated so strongly with them, and was encourage by the fact that Adolf Hitler himself considered the Japanese to be the master race of Asia. This can be interpreted as a sort of Japanese spin on the concept of "white man's burden".

@kavky

4 жыл бұрын

@@-haclong2366 Even if the Russian Navy weren't so incompetent, they could hardly to much to save their land forces. Russian conscripts in the Far East were used to maybe waving their rifles at some natives once in a while. But maintaining cohesion against a bayonet charge from people that enjoyed stabbing with rifles more than shooting them? Hooo boy

The West: "stop colonizing" Japan: "but that's what you guys did" The West "uhhh"

@artofthepossible7329

4 жыл бұрын

Japan: "Look at Africa. If you guys can take over a continent for resources so can I"

@BradyPostma

4 жыл бұрын

One problem with a problematic history is that others follow your example. Another is when your own nation (or some faction of it) doesn't find it to be problematic.

@samminden1058

4 жыл бұрын

Japan: "There's only one way we can avoid colonization and Western Powers taking over us....BY BECOMING COLONIZERS AND COPYING THE WEST!"

@bowmanc.7439

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah... is it time for China to colonise the world yet?

@ShermTank7272

4 жыл бұрын

"Do as I say, not as I do"

Their recovery from ww2 was also impressive. 80s' cyberpunk used a lot of Japanese aesthetics in western locales because *the fear that Japan would become an economic hegemon* was better founded than many ever liked to admit.

@blackpowderkun

Жыл бұрын

Western powers thrown money at them so they won't go commie.

@followengland_ballsonig2938

Жыл бұрын

y’know what it is? i’ll tell ya what it is: it’s anti german discrimination. ikea is a symbol of german pride. it’s our company and they wanna take it

@markushaahr9194

Жыл бұрын

Too bad they don’t have enough people.

@mariusmatei2946

10 ай бұрын

​@@markushaahr9194~124 million people are way too many people for a country the size of Japan, where only ~1/4 of the/that territory is (actually) suitable for habitation!

@softdrink-0

10 ай бұрын

@@mariusmatei2946them losing over 40 million people at the end of the century will certainly bring about an economic downturn

This whole period of history sounds like a weird d&d and civilization Hybrid game session : GM : so USA has reached the other side of the continent what do you do ? USA: MORE MANIFEST DESTINY! MORE MANIFEST DESTINY! GM: roll for it USA:*20* U! S! A! U! S! A! GM: *sigh* Japan roll for initiative Japan: *wakes up* uh what ? I already unified my objective has been done . GM: roll or get out of the game Japan: *sighs* ok * proceeds to lose* Many losing rounds later Japan : what did you say was that industrialization thing ? GM: oh you want to industrialize ? Japan: yes GM: roll Japan:*rolls 20* GM: you successfully restore the empire , centralize the governament and you get a modern army ... Japan: this is fun why did i skip on this ? A few rounds later Every western player: dude stop it's only funny when we do it ... Japan : NO Russia : ok , if you don't stop i'll stop you GM: roll initiative Russia:*1* Japan:*20* Russia:Blyat Every western player: :o Japan: yeah i agree it's really funny to win ...

@Ramsey276one

4 жыл бұрын

MASTERFUL

@Eyerisssss

4 жыл бұрын

Davide Garuti how are you so good at typing?

@thejsg3720

4 жыл бұрын

will u stop giving me campaign ideas, im only one man dammit

@deadby15

4 жыл бұрын

Now, China is re-enacting the part. But this time they cleverly waited until they are actually stronger than most of the old boys in the elites club.

@isaacsorrels4077

3 жыл бұрын

@@deadby15 With China's rapidly aging population, they might've waited so long that they went from weaker to stronger and back to weaker again.

England, America, France, Russia: "Hey Japan anything you want?" Japan: "Hey can we have like... racial equality now that we're all empires?" Manchuria, Korea, Taiwan, Okinawa, Hokkaido: "Excuse us." Japan: "You don't count."

@stephenwright8824

4 жыл бұрын

Wilson, at Versailles, was just plain pissed that the Japanese were even there. He hid it well, though, the racist prick!

@NobleS1236

4 жыл бұрын

@@stephenwright8824 Yeah. Wilson is easily the worst president.

@dropdead234

4 жыл бұрын

It's only racist, if *some one else* does it.

@chrisrd4

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah Wilson wasn't really involved in the Treaty of Versailles, he left because of how England and France wanted to carve up German colonies and our Congress never actually ratified the Treaty because of it

@timvanrijn8239

4 жыл бұрын

Wilson is the father of racism. Modern racism

8:51 Wow I never knew imperial japan based their system on the fire-nation. That's really interesting.

@TheShinyFeraligatr

4 жыл бұрын

Not true, they actually based them on the Principality of Zeon.

@cocoabeanz6171

4 жыл бұрын

i thought they based it on the Water Tribe?

@whathell6t

4 жыл бұрын

Mattman324 I’m guessing President Trump’s Space Force is our universe version of Titans, the military apparatus that loves to use nerve gas to enforce their rule.

@coreytaylor447

4 жыл бұрын

@@whathell6t Im guessing you replied to the wrong comment

@whathell6t

4 жыл бұрын

@@coreytaylor447 And I wasn't talking to you.

“But that all changed when the fire nation attacked.” It’s very interesting that firelord Ozai bears a remarkable similarity to emperor Meiji and the parallels of both figures’ influence on their respective countries did. Even Meiji’s likeness can be seen with Ozai!!

"I have dreamed of a unified Japan. Of a country, strong, and independent, and modern. And now, we have railroads , and cannon, Western clothing. But we cannot forget who we are, or where we come from..." -Meiji Emperor, The Last Samurai

@Fishbiene

2 жыл бұрын

This movie is fantastic if you just ignore Tom Cruise

@sriharshith5640

2 жыл бұрын

@@Fishbiene Which movie?

@Fishbiene

2 жыл бұрын

@@sriharshith5640 The Last Samuri, the movie this quote is from

@xenotypos

2 жыл бұрын

@@Fishbiene Why ? The character Tom Cruise played was inspired by two real-life historical figures. The title is rather badly chosen though, even if it seems the last samurai doesn't refer to his character particularly.

@followengland_ballsonig2938

Жыл бұрын

y’know what it is? i’ll tell ya what it is: it’s anti german discrimination. ikea is a symbol of german pride. it’s our company and they wanna take it

A positive site note to add to this story: When the United States opened international applications for exhibit space at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 Japan was first in line and ended up being the third biggest spender at the fair behind France and Germany. Journalists and commentators at the time universally praised the Japanese exhibits throughout the fair for being not just fascinatingly exotic but well formed and organized, while more prominent European visitors like France were often criticized for being a mish-mashed hodge podge of everything they could get to fit with no care given to their presentation. The Japanese workers were also praised as being hardworking, polite, and good natured, in contrast to British exhibitors who were regarded as snooty and stuck up, or the Germans who were maybe a bit too proud of their weapons displays. Of particular note were the Japanese structures in the International Section, the Ho-O-Den Buildings. Set on a wooded island, this replica of the Byodo-in Temple became one of the most popular sites at the entire fair, noted for its peace and tranquility, a welcome respite from the overwhelming awesomeness of the rest of the fair. It was especially popular as a romantic spot, in the evenings being lit by small glass "fairy lamps", looking across the lagoon at the bright lights of the Court of Honor (the main exhibit halls). When the fair finally ended in October 1893, the Ho-O-Den Buildings were among only three structures designed to remain permanently in place, being presented as a gift from the Japanese to the city of Chicago. Tragically, during World War II anti-Japanese arsonists burned that gift to the ground. Today, the site where they once stood is commemorated as Osaka Garden, as Osaka is considered the sister city of Chicago. Just stop to think about that for a second. Just 30 years before Japan was still effectively a feudalistic state; 20 years before they were just starting to get a taste for these new "steam train" things. And yet just a quarter of a century after opening to the world and deciding "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em", here's Japan rolling up front of the line to get center stage into the World Powers big boy's club, and showing them how it's done! "Oh, you crammed your mini-palaces so full of high brow art and guns that guests can barely move and won't let half of them in because their calling card isn't impressive enough? That's charming. Now, who wants to step over to our wooded island to visit our tea house and be served by cute geisha girls? Yeah, that's what I thought."

@carso1500

4 жыл бұрын

The history of Japan with the united states is surely a fun one thats for sure, from basically being forced to open up their borders by forcé to being on friendly terms to go on to be enemies on the biggest war in the history of forever to basically be best bros

@ichbindumm437

4 жыл бұрын

>or the Germans who were maybe a bit too proud of their weapons displays. Hey, we just take pride in what were good at

@dynamicworlds1

4 жыл бұрын

@Aspiring Marauder I mean, a lot of that is hardly unique to Japan. French maid and secretary uniforms didn't get sexualized out of nowhere, for example.

@aldricvalentine6817

4 жыл бұрын

@Aspiring Marauder You say like warcrimes are exclusive to Japan only.

@rogerogue7226

4 жыл бұрын

@Aspiring Marauder ........You do realize this is a video explicitely about the Mejei Restoration and what good it did, right? He's keeping to the subject at hand. Not to mention that it's not like literally every other empire ever doesn't have a closet of skeletons of their own. While Nanking is probably the worst single event in history, certainly the worst i've heard of, it, and the rest of WW2 is not really a subject relevant to this discussion.

>Meiji Restoration leads to Japan comeback from Medieval era straight to Industrial Imperialism era Japan: I AM A GENIUS >Meiji Restoration also directly leads to Pacific Scene of 1942-1945 Japan: OH NO

@sakataginko9092

4 жыл бұрын

Wolfnagi Is it bad that I read that “Oh no” with a Knuckles voice?

@grayscribe1342

4 жыл бұрын

And you know who said 'Oh, no' next? A good chunk of the world. The movie 'Die Hard' said it best: John McClane: "You throw quite a party. I didn't realize they celebrated Christmas in Japan." Joseph Takagi: "Hey, we're flexible. Pearl Harbor didn't work out so we got you with tape decks."

@hedgehog3180

4 жыл бұрын

At least now they have cool trains so y'know it worked out somewhat in the end.

@Demonsrun

3 жыл бұрын

@Leaf In a Joseph Joestar kinda voice

@vaughnjohnson8767

3 жыл бұрын

Japan: Sometimes my genius, is beyond my own understanding. Many..Years..Later. Japan: Oh. It was all for Nintendo. I get it now.

Fgo: Meiji Restoration event OSP: Meiji restoration video Hmmm... I wonder what does this mean

@Ramsey276one

4 жыл бұрын

SAINT QUARTZ

@simonschnedl

4 жыл бұрын

Coincidence? I THINK NOT!!

@sorcierenoire8651

4 жыл бұрын

GIVE ME BACK MY APPLES! GOD DAMMIT DAYBIT WHERED YOU SPEND ALL OUR APPLES AT?

@ashleyloreto8790

4 жыл бұрын

Liga Tron Jr. I did not expect to see a Daybit related comment in an OSP video

@changsiah2

3 жыл бұрын

we have a few Meiji Restoration events and also Matthew C. Perry in fgo

7:27 -The US is holding Japan's hand, UK is beckoning, and Germany sits beside her, while the rest look on with interest; symbol of their roles in getting Japan to modernize -The liberal but imperialist maritime power UK has an Athenian helmet, while the expansionist land power republic USA has a Roman laurel and what looks like a Phrygian Cap as well. -The meaning is communicated from an imperialist viewpoint, progress is good, imperialism spreads progress, European nations are in their own privileged class because of their ability to progress, and the highest goal of any non-European nation should be to become like one.

@dynamicworlds1

4 жыл бұрын

Well done

@jacobmcneer609

4 жыл бұрын

Don't forget Ming China glaring at them from afar, symbolizing their refusal to modernize.

@hedgehog3180

4 жыл бұрын

That time period had a thing for personifications of countries as women.

@deadby15

4 жыл бұрын

@@hedgehog3180 Hetalia anyone?

Last time I was this early I was rolling up to a medieval city in an M1 Abrams Tank.

@rezandrarizkyirianto-1933

4 жыл бұрын

Ah, I remembered nuking medieval America as Korea in Civ 5

@valdamirlebanon4508

4 жыл бұрын

@@rezandrarizkyirianto-1933 imagine how it must feel to see nuclear fire and x-coms Rain down upon your Bronze Age civilization. God I love Civ 5.

@ryujinkurogami1683

4 жыл бұрын

@@valdamirlebanon4508 Ah, yes. Nuclear fire. - Gandhi caressing a bunch of big red buttons

@glennparale781

4 жыл бұрын

Are you also playing a rock guitar while on said tank?

8:40 - "Koreans weren't thrilled" - When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Koreans living in America celebrated in the streets over the prospect of US power being used to restore their country from the yoke of Japanese rule. White America saw this as a showing of solidarity with their Japanese rulers, and used it as an excuse to treat Korean-Americans as a faction of Japanese-Americans for the internments and stuff. So... that wasn't great for Korean-Americans.

@MartinG1993

4 жыл бұрын

Korean-American: Celebrating the middle finger we're gonna give to their Japanese overlords US: YOU DARE SUPPORT OUR ENEMIES!?

@ashleyx.5619

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, this whole "Japan takes over too much land and caused way too much war" still ripples to this day. My parents and grandparents still hate Japan and the Japanese for things that happened almost 100 years ago. I'm honestly not surprised the Koreans would be happy to see Japan maybe get destroyed by America only a few decades after the conquering

@Alusnovalotus

4 жыл бұрын

BradyPostma wow. Two wrong empires validating their wrongness. They should teach that at schools

@kevinsullivan3448

4 жыл бұрын

Well it wasn't like most Americans at the time could tell one Asian from another and of those who could few of those cared.

@-haclong2366

4 жыл бұрын

It's funny because Koreans saw Japanese colonialism as oppressive, while Taiwanese people see it as "the good ol' days", it's odd how the perspectives differ so radically.

And the story of japan modernizing is even more interesting when you consider how and what it is now. Like, from feudal isolationist country, to industrialized colonial power, to modern technological and cultural powerhouse, every step of the ladder is insanely interesting to see play out.

@Alec0124

Жыл бұрын

Love Japan

I was *just* watching some older videos about the Jedi's/Darth Vaders origins and Georges inspiration from Japanese filmmakers. Also loved the idea that Vader was some old "Samurai" in a time period where he and his beliefs were irreverent by mostly everyone else's standards. Great timing!

“Open up the country. Stop having it be closed.” - for sure commodore Matthew Perry

@lloydbautista2055

4 жыл бұрын

*cringe*

@Vejitatheouji

4 жыл бұрын

"There's really nothing they could do."

@Undomaranel

4 жыл бұрын

_Brief Intermission_

@christelheadington1136

4 жыл бұрын

"Be our friend OR ELSE."

@wildfire9280

4 жыл бұрын

@@lloydbautista2055 no u

"Knock Knock, its the United States. With huge boats, with guns. (Gunboats)"

@biliminsrlar5752

4 жыл бұрын

"Open the country,stop having it be closed!"

@whafflete6721

4 жыл бұрын

*"Open the country.Stop having it be closed"*

@carlosroo5460

4 жыл бұрын

Just to be clear, they started it.

@stephenwright8824

4 жыл бұрын

"And steam-powered everything, even toilets."

@PrismCasillica

4 жыл бұрын

Not just any gunboats, but Black Sails! 🔫

This video is a good, accurate, overview of the broad strokes of Meiji. Here are some additional ideas/facts for interested people: -The Dutch traders in Nagasaki were occasionally summoned to the Shogun to advise on what was going on in the outside world as well as to provide medical advice. As Western colonialism in Asia progressed, the Dutch pushed at the Tokugawa to make a deal of some kind with a Western power (preferably the Dutch). -Beyond Colonialism, The Tokugawa's closed country policy created other problems such as when retrieving sailors shipwrecked in Japan, or when trying to return Japanese sailors shipwrecked OUTSIDE of Japan. -The Perry and later Harris treaties heated up long simmering tensions between the Tozama (Outsider) Daimyo and the Roju, a council of Elders from the Fudai (Insider) Daimyo. Anti-Tokugawa forces already had allies within the Imperial Household that prompted the Emperor to make a statement against signing a treaty with a foreign power, which inflamed the anger of the burgeoning National Studies movement. The signing of the Harris treaty is what led to the Assassination of Ii Naosuke, head of the Roju. -Contrary to some popular historical Narratives which portray it as a peaceable transfer of power, the Meiji Restoration was quite violent. Kyoto nearly burned to the ground and even Naval battles occurred. This was also one of the earliest uses of civilian armed force, the Satsuma Irregulars. -Internationally, some newspapers reported on the Meiji Restoration as a step backwards for Japan, believing that a victory by Imperial fanatics against the slowly modernizing Tokugawa would result in the country closing. -Early efforts to create National Schooling, Religion, and Conscription were resisted by locals, often violently. In one incident, a pair of priests from the short lived Bureau of Divinity were driven out of a village. The villagers had heard their talk of a Divine Emperor that descended from The Sun and assumed that they were Christians. School enrollment in Japan was high, but attendance was low as parents felt that they needed their children to work the fields and did not trust these new schools. Often times, Japanese school textbooks were just shoddily translated Wilson Readers from the US which included references to biblical stories. As a result there were regularly riots wherein schools were burned down. There were also riots against conscription, as able bodied young men were essential to the farming families.

@DeadCatX2

Жыл бұрын

Fascinating, that means Rurouni Kenshin was quite historically accurate in its portrayal of the Meiji Restoration. The burning of Kyoto and civilian armed forces were also figured into the plot. It definitely portrayed the early part of that time as particularly bloody.

This time period reminds me of the fast technological jump between "Avatar: The Last Airbender" and "The Legend of Korra."

@alexv3357

Жыл бұрын

Seventy years pass between those two shows, and the Fire Nation already had armoured vehicles and airships in ATLA. Seventy years is the difference between 1860 and 1930. That's a pretty realistic timeframe for the jump they portrayed. The biggest jump I think was more in aesthetic than in rapid technological advance: Korra spent far more time in the technological heart of the Avatar world, where Aang and the Gaang spent 90% of their adventure in the Earth Kingdom which was at the time already a backwater. If one went from 1860 Qing China to 1930 USA they'd see a similarly jarring jump in tech and aesthetic.

I’m learning about this in my Asia history 201 class and my professor is the great great grand daughter of Perry.

@alessiobellotti3912

4 жыл бұрын

"please students, open your textbook" "no" *cocks gun* "Open your textbook OR ELSE"

@carlosroo5460

4 жыл бұрын

The platypus?

@sonole3

4 жыл бұрын

@@alessiobellotti3912 "Open your textbooks. Stop having them be closed."

@analphabetapolothoIogy

4 жыл бұрын

@@carlosroo5460 yeah

@d73w80

4 жыл бұрын

"and that's why Perry was completely in the right, an amazing person, and the second coming of christ. This is completely unbiased and 100% true"

Blue: Sabaton fans: IT'S THE NATURE OF TIME THAT THE OLD WAYS MUST GIVE IN

@popelite9926

4 жыл бұрын

IT'S THE NATURE OF TIME THAT THE MEW WAY COMES IN SIN

@Turab_Afghan

4 жыл бұрын

AS THE NEW MEETS THE OLD IT ALWAYS ENDS THE ANCIENT WAYS!!!!!

@ptlemon1101

4 жыл бұрын

@@Turab_Afghan AND AS HISTORY TOLD THE OLD WAYS GO OUT IN A BLAZE!

@rogerogue7226

4 жыл бұрын

ENCIRCLED BY A VULTURE. THE END OF ANCIENT CULTURE.

@gierhardtsloan8502

4 жыл бұрын

IMPERIAL FORCE DEFIED, FACING 500 HUNDRED SAMURAI! SURROUNDED AND OUTNUMBERED; 60:1 THE SWORD FACE THE GUN!!! BUSHIDO DIGNIFIED, ITS THE LAST STAND OF THE SAMURAI.

“In Asia, as in Europe, imperialism is a hell of a drug.” Probably one of the best lines I’ve heard in a while, and a very succinct way of putting a very controversial subject.

Fun fact: Because playing cards were still looked down upon by polite society even after Meiji lifted the ban on _karuta_ , Nintendo only really had one place to sell their cards; the Yakuza. Gunpei Yokoi once recalled that early in his career there, when his job was maintaining the hanafuda machines, he often encountered complaints from angry Yakuza who had lost money due to defective cards.

Huh... just in time for FateGO's Meiji Restoration event. Thanks OSP! Great job as always!

@DickieCheezits

4 жыл бұрын

Holy shit, beat me by a minute. Take me upvote.

@karthebest5155

4 жыл бұрын

nobbunobbu

@justicefall6300

4 жыл бұрын

LukeMCFC 141 Same

@anadaere6861

4 жыл бұрын

@@karthebest5155 remember when japan was ravaged by mini warlord looking creatures and they where stopped by a person from who knows where that seemed like a gambling addict? Japan trully had a rich history

I’ve studied Japanese history. Can confirm, the model train was very much real.

@yonatanbeer3475

4 жыл бұрын

What's the story there?

@1krani

4 жыл бұрын

@@yonatanbeer3475 The story is they told the Japanese that the golf cart-sized model train was merely a toy, one that ALL AMERICAN CHILDREN had. Still waiting on mine.

@nixtheclause9984

4 жыл бұрын

Ikrani Define _golf-cart sized._ Do you mean, like several connected golf carts, or like, the mass of one golf cart?

@ahmedamine24

4 жыл бұрын

@@1krani A lie, to be sure, but a stimulating one.

@campkira

4 жыл бұрын

waring country.. nothing... with each state fighting for power....

Japan's modernization almost reminds me of the Soviet Union. Going from basically feudalism to one of the most powerful countries on earth extremely rapidly, but also doing so in kind of a flawed way that leaves a lot of people dead.

@shronkler1994

Жыл бұрын

yea. but this time, japan gets incredibly confident and _war_ is what kills everyone

@mrtrollnator123

Жыл бұрын

Yeah but the difference is russia is still imperialist to this day

@markushaahr9194

Жыл бұрын

I don’t know, the Soviet Union literally killed millions of its own people just because. Not only through murder, but Starvation and mismanagement.

@skem9622

Жыл бұрын

remember! hundreds of thousands of people died in the industrialisation of the european countries aswell, hundreds of thousands just from poverty caused by job shortages

@Kolokommouna

5 ай бұрын

​@@skem9622plus all the death and suffering caused by the intense resource extraction from their colonies, which fueled their industrialization

*Japan, Meiji Restoration, Day 1:* "I'm going to free my people, and my national way is to never give up!" *Japan, Meiji Restoration, Day 26,645:* "WAH HA HA HA HA! SUBARASHIIIIIIIIII! If they wish to challenge my power, so be it! Soon, THE WORLD WILL KNOW PAIN!"

@oyasoominasai6306

4 жыл бұрын

Subarashi 👏👏👏

@user-hi1ku8vu5o

4 жыл бұрын

2

@sorcierenoire8651

4 жыл бұрын

*SUGOI!*

Could you guys ever do a history summarized of the Taiping Rebellion? Or the Qing conquest of China? Or Medieval Ireland? Maybe a video on the collapse of the Mongol empire and some spin of videos on the successor states? Er... maybe a video on one of the thousand states in the HRE? Or... Papua New Guinean history? Love your videos!

@sannekimenai639

4 жыл бұрын

I believe they already covered Ireland

@old-worldghost3451

4 жыл бұрын

They probably do their request videos off Patreon donations. Either way dude, those sound cool as fuck.

@mylesjude233

4 жыл бұрын

I would love a video on the Taiping Rebellion: especially with its leaders believing himself to the brother of Jesus is crazy.

@jonsmith5626

4 жыл бұрын

@@mylesjude233 My thoughts exactly. I like how the channel isn't too Eurocentric in what they cover so I think that the Taiping Rebellion would be a cool dive into late Qing dynasty China. Tack on the second Opium war and you get a crazy load of stuff to talk about. It also helps explain why the CCP is so hellbent against drugs and religion.

@jakespacepiratee3740

4 жыл бұрын

The Taiping Rebellion is what happens when a reverse-Weeb tries to Westernize his Asian Country to a beyond-extreme extent. Seriously, Hong Xiuquan was probably the most extremist, genocidal foreigner Christian the world had ever seen! He made 'normal' God-fearing European Christians terrified of him! Even Karl Marx looked at them and wrote "How cool, a worker-class uprising!" *a few years later* "Fuck those guys, they create more suffering than class-oppression!" (true story)

"O p e n t h e C o u n t r y y o u w e e b s" America said calmly.

@rezandrarizkyirianto-1933

4 жыл бұрын

"JAPAN DIDYOUOPENDECOUNTRYFORDEMURICANS?!!"

@GalileoAV

4 жыл бұрын

"HAVE IT NOT BE CLOSED. WE HAVE BOATS...WITH GUNS. GUNBOATS!"

@jakespacepiratee3740

4 жыл бұрын

Japan is still very nationalist and xenophobic, even today. The Chinese government is similar, but at least most of their citizens, even the mainlanders, know the value of the rest of the worlds people.

@ethanhatcher5533

4 жыл бұрын

@@rezandrarizkyirianto-1933 asked the Shogun calmly

@shosty575

4 жыл бұрын

@@rezandrarizkyirianto-1933 lol I love this Dumbledore meme 😂😂

The art from this time is really wild. The Japanese art and culture was a hit with Europe and sparked off Anglo-Japanese style of art. The Japanese pavilion at the Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair was one of the most popular pavilions. The Peacock Room at the Freer Gallery of Art is just one example of Europe incorporating an Japanese/Asian art style.

@followengland_ballsonig2938

Жыл бұрын

y’know what it is? i’ll tell ya what it is: it’s anti german discrimination. ikea is a symbol of german pride. it’s our company and they wanna take it

What is always overlooked about Japan becoming a modern nation in a short period of time due to the Meiji Restoration is the spread of Japan's urbanization and education in the Edo period. Even before Matthew Perry arrived, Edo, which is now Tokyo, was the largest city in the world and had the world's highest literacy rate due to the spread of private cram schools called terakoya. The legible public carried out various cultural activities, and the mass consumer society flourished. Each domain controlled by a feudal lord tried to promote local specialties and competed with each other, and handicraft industry developed at the highest level. Under such circumstances, modern political systems and the machinery industry were imported from the West, and Japan succeeded in modernization at once.

IMPERIAL FORCE DEFIED, IT'S LAST STAND OF THE SAMURAI!

@whafflete6721

4 жыл бұрын

SURROUNDED AND OUTNUMBERED

@Archris17

4 жыл бұрын

@@whafflete6721 60 TO 1 THE SWORD FACE THE GUN! (even though the samurai only resorted to traditional weapons after they literally ran out of the ammo for their modern toys, but hey, it makes for great imagery)

@ozzmen4494

4 жыл бұрын

BUSHIDO DIGNIFIED, IT‘S THE LAST STAND OF THE SAMURAI

@walterlopez5054

4 жыл бұрын

i was wondering where the Sabaton fans are.

@rowanmurphy4986

4 жыл бұрын

@@revbladez5773 SIXTY TO ONE, FACING THE GUN

[Obligatory Bill Wurtz comment]

@LeviathanTamer31

4 жыл бұрын

Funnily enough, not a lot of Bill Wurtz stuff. Fate: Grand Order seems to have taken over.

@rezandrarizkyirianto-1933

4 жыл бұрын

Japan has a kingdom, it's the Sunrise Kingdom!

@anadaere6861

4 жыл бұрын

@@LeviathanTamer31 Meiji Event in FGO Meiji Vid in OSP Coincidence!? I think so

@jakespacepiratee3740

4 жыл бұрын

What is it with a bunch of Weebs trying to shive their ass into every comment section ever? We have Justin Y, Some guy with a Mustage, Some guy without a Mustache, THIS GUY ^ , OwO, and a few other people I can't remember the name of. I just hope they know that Furries are inherently inferior to Weebs and deserve extrimination.

@Lightspeeds

4 жыл бұрын

[Obligatory Oversimplified Comment]

THE EVENT STARTED TODAY THIS SINCRONICITY HOLY SHIT

@lovingfool2060

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao I was just thinking the same thing

@macroy5149

4 жыл бұрын

Same man

@Ramsey276one

4 жыл бұрын

Please explain

@gexe3181

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ramsey276one Fate Grand Order (a Gacha RPG Mobile game) started an event of the Meiji Restoration. That's all.

@Ramsey276one

4 жыл бұрын

@@gexe3181 OH XD

If you want to learn more about the early-mid Meiji Restoration time period, I highly recommend the anime Rurouni Kenshin. It's about a sword fighter who fought for the Imperialist Army during the war, and how he lives to protect others to repent for his bloodshed during battle. It is one of, if not my #1 anime of all time, and I'm sure that you will very much enjoy it.

@charlessegale6493

3 жыл бұрын

Still holds up really well today...even if the mangaka/writer hasn't.

@matthewmuir8884

Жыл бұрын

Another good one is the anime Golden Kamuy, which takes place shortly after the Russo-Japanese War.

Well this explains a lot of the worldbuilding in The Legend of Korra.

@benjaminbierley2074

4 жыл бұрын

Does explain the tech jump, with the nations no longer under siege by the fire nation, and certain scientists in hiding now able to flex without fear of the fire nation taking and abusing their inventions of course parts of the world advanced rapidly. Granted we also see the absence of an aggressive fire nation exposing other flaws among the nations...namely the social disparity between benders and non-benders that people were forced to take for granted under the fire nation (cause you know the alternative was getting burned), and that while the earth nation had remained relatively economically stable it turtling up for all those years had left it stuck in a medieval state culturally (that was just waiting for someone to come along and pop their monarch).

@helenwalter6830

4 жыл бұрын

Except without a highly technologically advanced nation or group of nations(militarily advanced doesn't count because they are hugely different fields:i.e. Germany in WWII) forcing people to modernize countries don't modernize that quickly. There's a big difference between adopting preexisting technology in 50 years and creating from scratch in 50 years. - I'm pretty sure it was just because the creators like the 20s and steampunk and wanted to make an avatar series set in that world. Also- peace doesn't create new technology on its own. A large consumer base (population boom) an easy to manipulate working-class (immigrant factory workers) greedy investors (capitalism), and educated inventors do that(plus more things that are complicated and boring). Peace won't solve everything and I at least didn't find Avatars jump to modernity very realistic, but I don't care much about that. It's a series with magic element control for pete's sake. Another highly important factor to consider is that *Ahem* "Necessity is the mother of invention" People won't make things unless it is more efficient instead of what they already have. Why invent steam power trains or electric subway cars when you can just use earthbending? If you replace those things, there will be worker strikes for those who have bending and those who don't. And of course there is the wonderful problem of bending discrimination. If you can bend earth (A power someone is born with) you are more suited to a job mining than someone who can't bend earth. That is logical but also excludes a large part of the workforce. It is like race or gender-based prejudice but it also isn't because benders are actually more skilled at certain tasks based on factors they can't control. I don't love the way this is dealt with in LOK but they tried and that's really awesome. It's hard to imagine a solution for a problem like that besides- "giving everyone bending"- which is not realistic. People want to live their life and get pissed when something outside of their control stops them from doing that. They always will. How did get here? I'm talking about bending prejudice on a video about Japanese modernization! I need to go to bed. :/

@hedgehog3180

4 жыл бұрын

@@helenwalter6830 > Except without a highly technologically advanced nation or group of nations(militarily advanced doesn't count because they are hugely different fields:i.e. Germany in WWII) That is patently wrong. I'm guessing you're one of those people who believe that German military technology was significantly more advanced than Allied technology however that is a myth. You can't just separate military technology from industrial technology as military technology is dependent on industrial capacity. This is why Germany lagged behind all of the Allies in military technology except for a few insignificant firsts and prototypes. Germany for example hadn't adopted the assembly line and their factories were essentially just big halls where craftsmen were gathered and would then in groups work on a single vehicle from start to completion. This significantly slowed down German production and is what forced them to try to make heavier tanks because they'd never be able to compete on numbers or mobility, however the primitive industrial technology again presented problems here as this way of producing vehicles also lead to a lack of standardization which made the vehicles significantly less reliable. Throughout the whole war the heavier German tanks would constantly be plagued with engine or transmission problems because unlike the US and USSR they weren't producing these parts to the needed standards. This also lead to a lack of spare parts as there were about 20 different models of each tank and they were all just slightly different making it sometimes impossible to find a spare part for any given tank. And the fact that they were already falling behind on tank production meant that they would rather make as many tanks as they could rather than make spare parts for them. Contrast this with the Allies who had the industrial technology, both the Soviets and the western Allies had adopted assembly line production and that meant that their production was streamlined and fast. In fact the same architect that designed the Detroit tank plant also designed tank factories in the Soviet Union. This allowed them to both produce many and reliable tanks while incorporating features that weren't even in the wildest dreams of German engineers like vertically stabilized guns (something that would not become commonplace until the 70s) and wet ammunition stowage. Allied tankers could also use their tanks more effectively because of this because they always knew that if something broke they could repair it since spare parts were not in short supply. The much more advanced American automotive industry especially became key here as they developed some of the most reliable tank engines and transmissions ever made and American tanks could easily go thousands of km without needing major repairs. And if an American tank did break down it was also easy to fix it since you could literally take the armor cover for the transmission right off and on some American tanks the engine would even slide out the back on rails for easy repair. The Americans could do this because their tooling was so much better that they could put rivets on the front of their tanks, something the Germans couldn't do because they would have feared said rivets popping off if a round hit nearby. The Germans instead had to weld the transmission cover shut and that meant that in order to perform maintenance on the transmission or replace it you basically had to take the entire tank apart. This wasn't made easier by the fact that German tanks were extremely heavy, weighing around 60 tons, for comparison the modern Abrams weighs that much and it's considered a very heavy tank. You also see this difference in other parts of the war, the Germans kept using bolt action rifles meanwhile the US were using semi automatic rifles, when the USSR made a heavy tank, the IS-2, it weighed less than it's German counterparts yet still had more armor and a larger gun, Allied fighter planes outperformed German ones because they were using higher octane fuel, the allies made extensive use of radar and installed it on many of their fighter planes meanwhile the German radar system was easily defeated by the British early in the war, the US would invent the proximity fuse for AA shells massively increasing their effectiveness but Germans kept using timed fuses, etc. The list really goes on where in most areas the allies had some sort of technological edge and only in some very small areas can it said that the Germans were ahead like being the first to deploy a jet fighter but even then the allies already had made their own jet fighter it just hadn't entered service yet. And all of these edges in weapons technology were only made possible by industrial technology, and where the Germans did have some edges in weapons they often gained it through industry like for example their use of heavy steel presses. Now to get back to how this relates to Avatar maybe. The Fire Nation did not just have military technology they clearly had the industry to back it up, given that they're making steel hulled ships I think it's safe to place them at a 1870s tech level in ATLA. They clearly have reliable naval steam engines which is actually a lot more difficult than it might seem, you can't use seawater in your steam engines because that will foul the heating tubes and eventually block them which could cause a steam explosion, so in order to use steam engines on ships you need to have invented a condenser. Then there is the steel hull, building a steel ship is actually a lot more difficult than just making a metal tub because regular steel will start to contract in the cold sea water and become extremely brittle, making it a poor choice for ships. The Fire Nation would obviously need to have good armor for their ships since anyone they come across could be a bender that could unleash an attack similar in power to a 19th century cannon, and in fact they need steel that is able to cope with rapid temperature changes since they're fighting water benders that can rapidly cool the water around the ship. That means they have the ability to make face hardened steel which is actually a fairly complicated process that requires significant heavy industry and an ability to control the cooling of the steel in certain areas and make it cool differently in some areas rather than others. This means that they have a very good understanding of metallurgy. And in fact we see this, in season three The Painted Lady we see a Fire Nation steel mill and it is absolutely huge, something that would give Krupp or Armstrong a run for their money, and it clearly uses advanced processes to control the properties of the steel they create. What settles the 1870s date the most though is probably the steam tanks though, steam lorries only really became a wide spread thing in that period and the steam tank is clearly similar, probably even better since it can clearly withstand a lot of damage. So basically the world of Avatar absolutely has the prerequisite technologies for a widespread industrial revolution and really things went kinda slow when you think about it, if it's 70 years after the 1870s then they'd be closer to 1950s not 1920s. That does make sense though since it would take some time for the Fire Nation technology to filter out into the rest of the world. And it also seems like the Republic is the driving force behind innovation in Korra's time, probably because of their focus on consumer technology whereas the Fire Nation first and foremost considered this technology strategic. It would of course take some time for the Republic to build a consumer base up to the point where it can drive innovation and maybe for about 30 years after the end of the war not much happened and the industrial technology of the Fire Nation was only used in heavy industry applications. It's also clear from the comics that the avatar world similar to ours had two industrial revolution, first they started out with just heavily organized bender work but the second revolution was when they started replacing the benders with machines. In our world the two industrial revolutions are similar (this also applies to what I said about Germany earlier) with the first one being just organizing the work of skilled craftsmen and gathering them all under one roof and the second one being organizing labor into assembly line production where machines performed automated functions and took over much more of the production process in general.

@helenwalter6830

4 жыл бұрын

I have regrets

Red knows about Anime Girl King Arthur, and Blue released this video on the same day as the Meiji Restoration rerun............ curious

@natsumie.williams3931

3 жыл бұрын

Angelica Dale wait she knows? Where did you learn that? I'm really curious

@dreameater8548

3 жыл бұрын

@@natsumie.williams3931 In King Arthur myths video, she mentions Girl Arthur as an example of urban culture taking King Arthur and rewriting his tales

It's nice to see some more content in this. It's nothing short of incredible that Japan managed to evolve, so fast, from a policy of almost pure isolation in the earlier half of the 19th century, to being a dominant power in the East by the turn of the 20th. I think this kind of evolution is mirrored in the post 1945 Japan. From a militaristic to economic focus, Japan has become one of the worlds largest economies. Speaks volumes to the adaptability and ingenuity of the people.

For those who want more than 11 minutes on this topic, by the way, Hardcore History did a 4-hour podcast episode about the Meiji era that's probably my favorite single podcast episode ever. (Supernova in the East I; should be able to just put that in the YT search bar.)

Blue covering modern history? Must be Christmas, lmfaooo

@artful_alicat

4 жыл бұрын

Snoopdog Why are you watching if you dislike how he does his videos? Moreover; why reply to me instead of leaving a comment directly to him?

Fgo : *release gudaguda meiji restoration event* Overly sarcastic: *upload this* Me: HMMM INTERESTING

@gummybear8679

4 жыл бұрын

Very...got any Nobu i could use?

Just wanted to say that you do an excellent job of reducing a mind boggling amount of information into something easy to understand. I love every video you folks turn out! 10/10 will watch again!

Really interesting Video, the Meiji Restoration is arguably one of the most interesting periods of Japanese history and I'm happy you made a video on it. I'll be looking forward to what else you have planned for future videos.

OSP: Releases Meiji video Me: must be because of FGO Guda Guda Meiji Event

@dylandockery8379

4 жыл бұрын

Glad I'm not the only degenerate who thought the same

@Y00bi

4 жыл бұрын

The timing is a bit suspect.

@wedran9225

4 жыл бұрын

Well, no better video to watch while mercilessly slaughtering Nobus.

@nquko

3 жыл бұрын

umaru chan do u have any socials?

@shinjukusalter4597

2 жыл бұрын

washija

Now tell me how that isn’t just a Final Fantasy spell

@Healermain15

4 жыл бұрын

I'm still not sure they didn't use actual wizardry.

@phantasosxgames8488

4 жыл бұрын

@@Healermain15 they casted Hasteza in the whole nation

@Ramsey276one

4 жыл бұрын

@@phantasosxgames8488 Hasteja/Amplify

@Raximus3000

4 жыл бұрын

Well the people in charge did not take a "no" for an answer. You either follow the plan or...

And with this, I'm fully caught up on your history summarized videos. This is something I really should have done sooner, it was really interesting.

As always, an excellent video. I loved the Civilization reference (very familiar with that experience), and it only got better as it went along! 👍

Is it a coincidence that FGO LITERALLY released the Meiji Restoration Return Event today? and the Final Honnouji Event is on in the Japanese server right now also? I THINK NOT!

@justanotherpoweraddict7918

4 жыл бұрын

NOBBU? NOBBU!!!

@sarkastrophe

4 жыл бұрын

Blue confirmed FGO nerd. 👀

@alinagray4132

4 жыл бұрын

was about to comment

@lapsy1434

4 жыл бұрын

NOBBU NOBBU

I love how many comments there are linking the simultaneous release of this video and the GudaGuda Meiji event in FGO. Good luck with the gacha, all.

Neat to see another video like this from you guys! Looking forward to the next!

Love getting more in depth on the Meiji Restoration, I did my first History Fair project on it and won first place for it. It's a fascinating topic to cover.

"Tell me how he died." "I will tell you how he lived."

@sekaihatsu

4 жыл бұрын

There's The Last Samurai reference I was looking for!

Japan managed to learn a whole lot from the western nations in a very short time. This is super impressive and inspiring. Sadly they also learned how to imperialism...

@sakataginko9092

4 жыл бұрын

Bengtssonsan But hey, they also brought us anime, which is either a good thing or a bad thing depending on how you see it.

@Carewolf

4 жыл бұрын

@@sakataginko9092 That was after being beaten.

@jlokison

4 жыл бұрын

@@Carewolf Are they beaten, or did they just change tactics? If you can't win militarily you can still go for economic and social domination. They are still competing with the Europeans, Chinese and USA, they are just doing it with the Yen and ideas instead of swords and bullets.

@randomsandwichian

4 жыл бұрын

Japan: *laughed in Bushido* where did we go wrong

@Taiyama2

4 жыл бұрын

I hardly think they *learned* it from anyone. Just see their attempts to conquer Korea stretching back to mythic history. I hate this idea that the West is somehow uniquely imperialistic and others only do similar because they're copying the West. Talk about the bigotry of low expectations.

Your voice is SO GOOD! Like any other person telling me would get more bored, but something about you is so much more entertaining and eloquent!

Wow Blue! I'm so proud of you for doing a video over something after the 18th century!

Is it just a massive coincidence that Fate Grand Order just started their re-run of the Meiji Restoration event today, or what?

@stevenqu3

4 жыл бұрын

It's probably a coincidence.

@foolbio5471

4 жыл бұрын

NobbuNobbu intensifies

@kugekianimations

4 жыл бұрын

This timing scares me

@kanewolfe3243

4 жыл бұрын

Nobbu!

@emeros8631

4 жыл бұрын

My boi (sometime a girl) Nobunaga !

the way fgo just had a revival event for meiji restoration too, so when are yall revealing that this is a sponsored video

@gummybear8679

4 жыл бұрын

Should give us some quartz.

@ophiuchus_kin

4 жыл бұрын

Farming while listening

@goose5450

3 жыл бұрын

Washija

It's really cool to hear about this in more detail. That one History of Japan video went over it briefly

This is so wonderful that you are covering some more of Japanese history. I hope that you do more like this in the future, especially since your content is not as biased as some others.

I very much appreciate the fact that, finally, someone talks about Japan and is actually able to pronounce Japanese words and names (except maybe for Meiji, that was a bit too stressed)

@ryozen9413

4 жыл бұрын

I agree! Great pronunciation, but I think the first "i" in meiji is just used to lengthen the "me" for another beat, and isn't spoken.

This video actually help a lot cuz during the time school was a thing, I was studying Japan and more specifically the Meiji era. And let me tell you, this video simplified it wayy better than my textbook.

"There’s no single culprit" *Strongly tries not to look at America*

@MartinG1993

4 жыл бұрын

True we forced them open and broke the proverbial camels back with the embargo. But half of Europe had its hands in there long before we started.

@Taiyama2

4 жыл бұрын

@@Justic_ No need to blame yourselves. Every country with an excess of power will bully and conquer other nations. No one "learned" it from anyone.

@kavky

4 жыл бұрын

@@Taiyama2 You can find evidence of this as far back as ancient Mesopotamia.

@DuoSanguis

4 жыл бұрын

One might call it Human Nature, and we don't seem to be growing out of it anytime soon...

@Ucatty2

4 жыл бұрын

@@DuoSanguis Ahahahaha Bees, termites, wolves, and ants do the whole takeover other of our kinds land too. It is not just humans who suffer from these territorial disputes.

The Meji restoration was a complicated cluster**ck, there's just so much that went on that I'm truly grateful u pieced it together in this nice video. I even went to museums in Japan about it but it still was a lot to process.

Blue's “Let's do some history” has become my most favorite phrase during quarantine.

Arrival of the West to Japan: Japan: "What do you want, foreigner?" West: "We want you to open the country. You are gonna be trading grounds, and you will like it" Japan: "Such lack of respect!" *unfolds katana and readies bow and arrow* West: *Shoots from afar* "Such lack of firepower" Japan (beaten): "Ok I give in, but how did you do this?" West: "Just a few cups of industrialization with a little dose of racism, bias and extreme violence upon less advanced nations. It's called 'Imperialism'" Japan: "Interesting. Would you mind telling me more about this?" West: "Sure. What's the worst that could happen?" A few years later: Japan: *busy conquering China* West: "Could you please stop conquering China?" Japan: "Sure, fellas. I already have plenty of stu...wait a minute, what are you guys doing?" West: "Conquering a weakened China to expand our ludicrously large empires" Japan: "But I was the one who weakened it!" West: "Yes" Japan: "And you told me to stop!" West: "Yes" Japan: "So I deserve a part in this!" West: … Japan: … West: "No" Japan: *goes to war with Russia and wins* West: *"HOW?"* Credits to Oversimplied and Bill Wurtz

@ChiChiLand299

4 жыл бұрын

China it already weakened itself at that point, didn't need the Japanese to do it.China had already gone through decades of famines civil wars and a continued weakening of central authority into regional warlords at that point. That was Japan's excuse for invading them later on. and when we told them to stop conquering China that was long after the Western Powers have stopped doing that themselves. the Western Powers had stopped trying to colonize China ever since the emperor fill in 1911.

@orrusfellin5150

4 жыл бұрын

Terrible logistics.

@Durahan82

4 жыл бұрын

The Russian Empire had VERY incompetent Navy and Military Officers in those years

@eruantien9932

4 жыл бұрын

The best part of that is Britain staring at France whilst Japan's beating up Russia, "go on, help, I dare you".

@pseudonym9599

4 жыл бұрын

Russia: Kamchatka

Yessss finally i love this channel and this historical even thank you for making my headcannon come true

Excellent and great control over content/pacing/keeping it interesting. You have a new subscriber:)

"open the country. stop having it be closed." the immortal words of bill wurtz

@lloydbautista2055

4 жыл бұрын

*cringe*

Nintendo has been around THAT long?! That just made them even cooler!

@carso1500

4 жыл бұрын

137 years, nintendo is an old company

@Kamina.D.Fierce

4 жыл бұрын

@@carso1500 That's so badass!

@ComissarYarrick

4 жыл бұрын

@@Kamina.D.Fierce Japan have a lot of very old companies. There was building company that run from 578 to 2006. And there still is family hotel that was founded in I think 863 ?

@Kamina.D.Fierce

4 жыл бұрын

@@ComissarYarrick Now THAT is dedication to the job. Lol

I can’t believe you made a video on the Meiji Restoration and didn’t even mention the Shinsengumi! You have to give them time to shine!

This video really helped clarify a lot of information from my AP world class that I had trouble understanding, thank you :)

"The simple joy of rolling up to a medieval city in an "Abrams" tank" They don't give it that name, but I agree, it's extremely satisfying to do.

I'd love to see Blue react to Golden Kamuy. It manages to pack in lots of interesting Meiji era historical detail and references while also having an absolutely insane story and characters

@matthewmuir8884

Жыл бұрын

I'd like to see that as well. Golden Kamuy is a really good show.

these videos as a history student make me really into the idea of going into the public domain of history not just academic, i blame you for the pull towards more than just being a uni teacher

Thanks for the education Blue! Out of everything I learned today, the surprisingly obvious parallel between The Fire Nation and the Sunrise Kingdom sure caught me off guard!

I can never get enough of you guys. Actual historical insight and knowledge mixed with such lovely whit. And there’s always a healthy undercurrent of anti-racism underneath! The true mark of quality content in this day and age.

FGO: Meiji Restoration let's go! Blue: I think I got an idea! (sorry just funny coincidence)

@gummybear8679

4 жыл бұрын

OR IS IT???....You got any Nobu i could use?

I have a new favorite historical period. Thanks Blue!!

Watching this I thought of a bunch of different shows and stories that are set during this time. From The Last Samurai (Tom Cruise) to Golden Kamuey (anime) and so so so many more. Awesome vid.

Honestly I know blue loves the Mediterranean just as much as me, but I am curious for more cultural aspects just like in this video. History and culture are intertwined and I think focusing on not just expansions in terms of that highly addicting imperialism show how we go from point a to point b in this video. So two massive thumbs up!

This episode reminds me to finish watching Ruroni Kenshin. Since it takes place around the same time frame and it is the only time you'll see a samurai with a reverse blade.

@dynamicworlds1

4 жыл бұрын

Technically not a samuri

This came at the perfect time. The last assignment for my history degree is an exam essay on Japanese history in which I'm going to discuss Japan's modernization a lot. Thanks Blue!

I just had my history final if only I had this like a week ago :') Great video tho!!! I also enjoy how you covered this topic from many different angles!

Cool, now I finally understand the background of Rurouni Kenshin.

@Ramsey276one

4 жыл бұрын

OH RIGHT!!!

@whathell6t

4 жыл бұрын

dropkickcorpse That series was an odd entry in the Shonen Jump lineup. Despite having awesome battles, it shows the heartbreaking end of the Jidal Genki, the era of samurai and ninjas. The period that Japanese children romanticizes only to see the brutal and harsh conclusion. More odd, the Rurouni Kenshin has introduced a complex influence, the Industrial Revolution.

@charlessegale6493

3 жыл бұрын

I was looking for this comment. That series is what caused many of us to learn about the Meiji era to begin with.

The reconstruction of Japan has many elements. In Japan, the high literacy rate and education are also important.

Proud of you Blue for trying more recent history

this was a very cool video! We covered the Meiji Restoration in class (for about three seconds) and I wanted to learn more about it.

I'm awful glad to see Nintendo mentioned here because my FAVORITE THING to do is blow people's minds away with the fact that it is literally 130 years old. Also I have a set of Hanafuda cards, they're obscenely tiny, and Koi Koi is stupid fun to play. Now Blue, *explain this:* "The Meiji Era was the 44-year period of Japan's history from 1868 to 1912 when the country was under the rule of the great Emperor *Mutsuhito.* "

@deadby15

4 жыл бұрын

Toshiba is also 144 yo. The Toshiba founder used to build mechanical automata for rich Samurai. They've always loved Robots I guess.

@selenopheria

4 жыл бұрын

@@deadby15 I did not know that, how interesting!

It's also worth mentioning the motivation for Japan's imperialism. It wasn't just, we're a modern nation, now let's kick in the teeth of less modern ones. Japan is incredibly lacking in most natural resources & farmable land save coal and low quality iron. Japan essentially reached a glass ceiling of what their nation could be without imperialising some resources for expansion. So, they decided to shatter said ceiling.

As a person living in Japan and in the city of Yokohama. It is very fun watching you explain the restoration in a fun and interesting manure.

It is really fascinating to see this, especially after reading about this period for one of my paers this year. A fact I felt you avoided in this video however was a long standing feeling of superioity that was present in the Japanese upperclasses and culture throughout both the shogunate and the restoration. If anyone wants to read more about this I recommend picking up The Wealth and Poverty of Nations where it tells of this restoration and the Japan that came before it as well as the underlying reasons for their success.

My favorite story from the Meiji Era happened in the 11th year of the Meiji, following a former assassin of the Bakumatsu. After his work against the bakufu, he started wandering across Japan, helping anyone in need. He vowed to never kill again to atone for all the life he took as a Hitokiri or manslayer. He even went as far a carrying a reversed-edged sword to do it 👍

@adamdavis6512

4 жыл бұрын

Wil Agaton Ruroni, respect my friend 🦊👍

@dapukisgoingon

4 жыл бұрын

I love the part where he fought the mummy-looking guy.

@Dommy521

4 жыл бұрын

This seems like a premise for a good ass anime for kids to watch on toonami ;)

I can imagine that when Blue searched any historical figure in this video, what showed up are a bunch of their anime illustration.

I hope there will be more videos about world history and Vietnam. Thank you team, every video is good 👏🏻

this was a very good/accurate video on the JP empire! although, with how much you talked about how badly the samurai were screwed over, i thought you would mention how most of the hostility towards the west in the imperial army came from former samurai and their children. not necessary to mention but an interesting fact that fits in well