Wild. This is the time when my late father first visited Japan. The country left him a positive impression and he talked so much about it.

The children in this documentary must be in their 60s now in 2024. Time is so wild.

@jjr1728

Ай бұрын

You can't prove that.

@Omikoshi78

Ай бұрын

@@jjr1728 it’s called math

@jjr1728

Ай бұрын

@@Omikoshi78 that's fake news. Those numbers are paid actors

@Londonechoes

Ай бұрын

@@Omikoshi78 🤣

@komizaloto

23 күн бұрын

58 but still Amazing

wow. In the 1960s and 1970s, Japan was growing rapidly, but it maintained a more traditional culture and style than in the 21st century. Many countries in the mid-20th century were probably in the same situation. I love seeing the transitional moments of times!

@Snufkin812

Ай бұрын

@@TreeMovies It's true. However, I believe that society has become freer and more enjoyable due to the development of media culture since the 80s. However, Japanese society still tends to be closed and conservative to this day.

@user-ry9dd9dp7w

Ай бұрын

Japan was also quite developed in the 1920s and 1930s. There is a big reason why we were able to wage a large-scale war with the United States.

@Snufkin812

Ай бұрын

@@user-ry9dd9dp7w yes. In the early 20th century, Japan was one of the most developed countries in Asia. Japan has been actively importing Western civilization since the 19th century. (Railways and clothing and many other technologies.) I don't want to get into a political debate here, but what do you think the Japanese gained from the war? The power to dominate the Asian continent? Rich resources stolen from neighboring countries? Ambition to build a huge empire? no. In every war there is so much destruction and death... Whatever it is, the tragedy of war always makes me sad.

@user-ry9dd9dp7w

Ай бұрын

​@@Snufkin812 There are many things we gained from the war. We tend to think that war only makes people sad, but that's not the case. Due to the war, Japan's science and technology improved dramatically. For example, the world's first high-speed railway, which opened in 1964, was developed using technology from Japanese bombers from World War II. The conveyor belt sushi machine was also invented by an engineer who was involved in tank manufacturing during World War II, applying technology from tank caterpillars. Mitsubishi and Subaru, which mass-produced fighter planes and bombers during World War II, are now famous as global automobile manufacturers.

@Snufkin812

Ай бұрын

@@user-ry9dd9dp7w well. I think Japan has a lot in common with Germany. Many German companies known for their superior technology have a sordid history of involvement in the war. Bayer, famous for aspirin, produced poison gas for use in war. Hitler participated in the design of the Volkswagen Beetle, and the Fanta was also developed by them. (Both countries committed so many evil deeds in the war that I don't like them from a historical perspective.) I agree that war advances civilization, but we need to remember the tragedies and sacrifices that occurred in the process. Many people only talk about the convenience, happiness, and pride that technological advancement has brought, and they often easily forget about the people who shed their blood for advancement. History must be truthful and not distorted or packaged only for pleasure. Of course, in a war situation, even when defeat is certain, the country propagates only the rationality of the war in order to control and pacify the people and the military, and it is very difficult for companies and citizens to refuse to cooperate. (The government will impose sanctions on non-cooperators.) If the government orders everyone to produce bombs and weapons to use in war, people will simply believe that following orders is good and patriotic, without knowing whether it is truly the right thing to do. The important thing is how future generations learn history and judge what is correct after the war ends. It is very scary that today's generation that has not experienced war supports war. :(

It is the Showa era. 23 years after Japan defeated in 1945, Emperor Hirohito he still reign until 1989.

@jjr1728

Ай бұрын

Pics or it didn't happen

@user-gs4or9wf7n

Ай бұрын

Emperor Hirohito aka War criminal

@nxi666___

Ай бұрын

@@user-gs4or9wf7n idk about Hirohito but the guys who nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki certainly are!

@user-gs4or9wf7n

Ай бұрын

@@nxi666___ Do you think The U.S did that for fun?? They had to do it to end WW2. Japan and Germany both were WW2 war criminal countries and The U.S had to condemned them to bring peace back to the world. STUDY HISTORY!

@MikeMartagrano

Ай бұрын

​@@nxi666___ both are the same. there are no good guys in war.

A fascinating glimpse into the past, thank you for uploading.

Love seeing videos from the Showa era!

It's interesting how thought provoking and insightful the commentary on some of these older documentaries is.

Very interesting. Thx.

Absolutely love your unique videos. I hope that you will continue posting these.

There would be something for all of us to learn from the Japanese culture of honor, duty, responsibility and hard work.

@Stijn5

Ай бұрын

Their work culture is toxic.

Great video

The houses in this video looks still similar to the houses my in-laws have in the Japanese countryside. Those home clips just look like a filtered version of my in-laws' houses. The whole documentary is surreal to watch in 2024 where a lot has been changed in Japan yet there is still some semblance to it from the past or 1968. Brilliant documentary nonetheless.

🎉共有していただきありがとうございます。

ありがとう！

TRNGL san I want you to know that I greatly appreciate your videos

This video is fascinating. What a beautiful culture and beautiful people.

I think we are more at ease with Japan. This video seems so alien to me.

in my childhood some intellectual of my country said that there's a lot of thing to learn from the Japanese even though we was governed by Japan in the past,I guess it emphasis their diligent and sense of order and so on

苦難と挑戦の 20世紀を経験して21世紀の今もまだ日本がユニークな存在である事を嬉しく思い、次も日本人に生まれたい、と思います。

I remember these days. I used to be a salaryman for Panasonic. It was truly a great time. My wife Kakiyo just recently gave birth to our daughter Shizune.

@user-ig2kn8em3p

2 ай бұрын

Wait what? How old are you and how old is your wife lol

@lordofbathurst

2 ай бұрын

@@user-ig2kn8em3p I’m 76 years young. My wife will be 70 turning this August.

@treystephens6166

2 ай бұрын

I love Pioneer ‼️💿

@wilburwood8261

2 ай бұрын

@@user-ig2kn8em3p I think the birth happened during those times, not now lol

@redmustangredmustang

2 ай бұрын

You worked during a time when things were awesome. You worked hard and the results were positive. You had a job like that for essentially life and probably thought the good times would never end. Then 1990 hit and the real estate bubble bursts and everything stagnated economically now. Your daughter would have been part of the lost generation of the early 90's.

昭和時代は楽しい 時や大変な時も ありだけど懐かしい時代です私はまだ子供だったですね

At that time there are not many foreign visitors wants to visit Japan as USA starting became popular at that period as emerging superpower... Nowadays today May 12, 2024 as Japan expect to reach 36 millions foreign visitors during this 2024... Therefore Japanese people nowadays are concern that many of foreign visitors did malicious acted such as not pay to ride Shinkansen, public Metro, bus, shoplifting at shop, department stores where the security is less vigilant unlike in India, Philippine every single corner of business has some security officer to keep on eye of shoplifting... Japan society is absolutely very different at this film to the current situation in year 2024 and onwards as the losing 1 million annually of its population... Therefore to rate this documentary film 10/10 or 5 stars. Thanks for sharing

@kubotite9168

3 күн бұрын

@@doddytandiari5273 for someone who lives in indonesia..you sure have intersting views..lol :)

Heck yeahhhh ❤これらのビデオは素晴らしい thank you for sharing again🎉🙏🧎🏽

In contemporary society, the use of social media and the internet has become ubiquitous, leading to a decline in face-to-face interactions where individuals express their emotions directly. However, I recall an era when people engaged with one another more personally and physically. Whether this previous mode of interaction was better is something that only time will reveal.

@CleedRemus

Ай бұрын

I was a little distressed when I visited Japan last month to see how many restaurants have you order from a screen instead of talking to an employee. This led to a misunderstanding where I couldn't eat the food. (I have a food allergy.) Is it really so hard to talk to someone? My observation is that Japan is clearly becoming more introverted as time goes on, even compared to 20 years ago. I mean really, what did people do on the subway before smartphones?

the audio willn haunt me forever XD

@Garbeaux.

Ай бұрын

Especially when the old man was singing.😳

30:00 ~ 横尾忠則 氏っぽく見えなくもない...？ いつも素晴らしいビデオに感謝です❤

@edih_gogo

Ай бұрын

林家三平じゃない？

Cool thanks for upload

24:51 Be My Baby -The Ronettes

Where I can download it? I want to watch it on my old tube TV

日本人はとても自然豊かな土地に住みながら、庭に多くの木を植え、毎日盆栽に水を与え、木造の家の玄関や床の間には生け花を飾り、掛け軸には山や滝の絵を描いたものを飾ります。 今日でも、日本の田舎に行けば植木鉢が沢山並んだ庭のある家を見つけることができるでしょう。 お金持ちの家でも、貧しい家でも、その傾向に変わりはありません。 江戸時代に日本を訪れた西洋人は、日本人のことを「自然中毒」と表現しました。

@mfujimoto2549

Ай бұрын

日本人は木を切りまくってたから禿げ山だらけだったけどね

@magicalcoin

Ай бұрын

​@@mfujimoto2549さん デマやウソは良くありません。 日本では材木を伐採した後には必ず植林が行われます。また、豊富な降水のおかげで日本の森林には高い回復力があります。 江戸末期以降の日本の風景写真で、はげ山を見つけることは大変難しいでしょう。

@user-ys1eh6fp5y

Ай бұрын

@@mfujimoto2549 それは日本じゃないですね。別の国です。

@movailn9174

29 күн бұрын

>日本人はとても自然豊かな土地に住みながら、庭に多くの木を植え、毎日盆栽に水を与え、木造の家の玄関や床の間には生け花を飾り、掛け軸には山や滝の絵を描いたものを飾ります。 俺の周りにはそんな日本人1人もいないけどな。 まあ世代にもよるのかな。

ライシャワーはさすが。 解説からすると日本人のことをよくわかってるように聞こえる。 それと同時に欧米人（アメリカ人？）との違いに言及して彼らについて認識を新たにした部分もある。

45:17 世界に誇るONEが今も海運を支えてる。

omg the spiders!!! i love that band lol

tradition yet progress- thats real nice.

Incredible time for Japan ❤

24:49は伊藤ゆかりさん、30:00には林家三平さん、36::45には棟方志功さんが出ていますね！ライシャワー氏もまだお元気な時ですね。素晴らしい動画をありがとうございます。

@wrong

2 ай бұрын

林家三平さんでしたね。正確な情報有難うございます。スッキリ（恥ずかしくも横尾忠則氏に見える？とかコメ書いてしまった人←＠＠

@keijim5487

2 ай бұрын

最初の女性歌手は中尾ミエさんですね。とても興味深い動画を楽しませて頂きました。私は当時4歳でした😊

@lareel6574

2 ай бұрын

中尾ミエさんです

@goodforyou3000

2 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, Mr Edwin Oldfather Reischauer past away in 1990.

@adamflix

Ай бұрын

24:49 江利 チエミ さんです

When this made in 1968, America and Japan were really not extremely different from each other. But both countries were at a crossroads. And today they have ended up at very different destinations indeed. It's astoundingly good documentary especially given the time period. Reading the history of America in the 1960s, voices of understanding and moderation are not the ones which are recorded, nor are they the ones which prevailed. There were probably very, very few Americans in the whole world at that time who had such a good understanding of Japan.

Wonderful. Japan in the You Only Live Twice era.

For more please read Ezra Vogel's Japan's New Middle Class: the Salary Man and his Family in a Tokyo Suburb. it is a good one.

Wow I like this clip❤ beautifully provides deep knowledge of Japan culture that I had never seen before 😊

I wonder why whenever music is played it sounds distorted.

26:07 "He might even wanna talk to her" :D

The West loves Japan, and Japan loves the West. What can we say? It is what it is.

Boy the old low frequency 200 hertz audio track used to record the music on this documentary sure has taken a beating, its warbling all over the place. The way they recorded the music back then on a separate track (and with such low frequency equipment) just couldn't handle the high and low tones. Add to that 50 years of being in a film tin and you get this weird otherworldy warbling theremin sound to the music track portion of it

ライシャワー夫妻が出ている　ライシャワー氏はこのころ輸血した血液が元で肝炎に苦しんでいた時期

Id like to visit Japan someday

Want to live that era of my country India and One of my favorites Japan ❤ And other foreign countries ❤

i been to japan in 2011, its a very clean futuristic country, better than usa, but very small, . i was shocked how clean it was.

Stunning

Great doc, respect & gratitude 🙏

As harsh as the words are They are true at the time. Alot has changed And nothing has changed

Im korean and i respect japanese civilization 🎉 I Really love japan ❤

@yorocorome

Ай бұрын

일본 문명이라는 단어가 맞나

"In the 21st Century we will all be Japanese" Prescient, in some ways.

@suiken3149

Ай бұрын

Yeah. Lots of people are weaboo nowadays. lol

@Blackmamba851

Ай бұрын

The have won the culture victory. I and many others of my generation and future generations have grew up surrounded by artefacts of Japanese culture.

how does modern transfer from film,annihilate ,especially,the music? uncanny

映ってる子供が10歳だとして今74歳て。怖いねなんか

Really impressive

do you think CBS could ever produce something so objectively thought provoking and educational today?

The population of Japan in 1968 was 100 millions. Today, 2024, it's 126 million. In 1968 the population of American was 200 million. Today, 2024, it's (VERY arguably given that tens of millions of undocumented people have come into the country) 327 million.

@goodluckogbenna8267

Ай бұрын

The population of America has been 327million since over 20 years now

👏👏👏👏🔝

In 1968 Japan was its Double Income Plan's heydays. The country had a demographic bonus and many achivements in the last ten years: Tokyo Tower, Sony coming to America, shinkansen and 1964 Olympics. Some theorics call The Golden Sixties, with GDP average growth around 10%...

クラブみたいなとこの赤い服のホステスが整形なしでこの高いレベルの美人ってことは現代に生まれてもズバ抜けた美人なんだろうな

The 34:54 is the 007 movie You Only Live Twice OSATO 大里 enterprise~^_^ ザ・メイン ホテルニューオータニ東京~

❤❤❤❤❤

21k views 3 days ago

"Bach is American"? Yeah. Right. He was probably more Japanese than American because he never left his country and led a conservative, secluded mode of life.

@CleedRemus

Ай бұрын

The comment was clearly made with a sense of irony.

Back then, people are so polite and hardworking. Now?

47:40 the kid only has 3 fingers.

47:10 is crazy 💀💀💀

@user-yi5bg8wf4t

2 ай бұрын

This reminded me of North Korean children😂

@Truthseeker_12638

2 ай бұрын

@@user-yi5bg8wf4t nah i mean how he was talking about japanese people was so back handed

@fckthemedia1649

Ай бұрын

​@@Truthseeker_12638ignorant pessimistic propaganda. So American.

@R0kushi

Ай бұрын

Bach is so american 💀

熱海ニューブジヤホテルですか?

若かりし中尾ミエとマチャアキ発見

First developed countries in Asia.

@sheldoncooper0

2 ай бұрын

Not only that, that's an understatement. But they were rivalling US post-war... They were WAY ahead of everyone except the USA. Not just an Asian power, but were a global power.

@teco6964

Ай бұрын

Japan was the world's oldest continuously civilized nation. It was born long before US was founded, and has accumulated over 2,700 years of culture. US is still in its infancy.

@ovloh

Ай бұрын

Also first war criminals in Asia.

@Dotcando

Ай бұрын

@ovloh now I gotta stop you there. Sure, they were horrible during ww2, but they were definitely NOT the first war criminal, not in the world, not in Asia, not even in East asia.

@suiken3149

Ай бұрын

Nah. Some countries were ahead of Japan back then. Keyword was back then

ビデオはありがとうございました。

The babies on this video are almost senior citizens this year 😄

🌸 🇯🇵 🇯🇵 🌸 🗻 🇯🇵 🇯🇵 🗻

Interesting documentary. I'm used to the British accent though this one is American. The British English is more refined and they do an excellent job at informing.

字が濃くて上手い子が多いな。

The documentary has something!

19世紀生まれの人たちが画面の中に普通にいるのか！

The man's voice sounds like AI's 😳

25:25 堺正章さんですね😀

So good 😂😂😂

Id imagine megalon or hedorah appearing casually in the city

During this time japan was also experiencing massive student uprisings

How the American accent calls?

47:15 Dude DID NOT said "...Bach is so American that he ought to belong to us alone" 💀💀💀 The audacity

What group of people he os talking about in this vid? How many word "Japanese" in this video? Thanx in advance.

@jimbotron70

Ай бұрын

7:43

This video was already on youtube called, "The Japanese - Japan in Late 1960s." Its just disappointing when I find something "new" and its a repost.

Very interesting to see how wrong his estimate was at the end. I wonder, what went wrong? Japan certainly had the capability until the real estate bubble burst in the 90s.

@oldtwinsna8347

Ай бұрын

Toxic and outdated work culture. Japanese work practices superficially seem meticulous and hard working, but in reality it's highly inefficient and unnecessary. Unfortunately, due to longevity, the same people in this video are likely still in the workforce controlling the current generation!

this is beyond japanese society man, this is how they think and see.

東大安田講堂紛争は1969年１月18日から19日にかけておきました。従って1968年に制作されたものではありません。

食卓シーンがサザエさん

Cuando todos los economistas y en la escuela decian que Japon seria la primera economia del mundo

but how do we know for certain that AI didn't create this?

5:30 That's why the US was totally defeated by Vietnam. They just thought Vietnam and Japan as one group. And it's just the same to an idea that UK and Turkey are in the same group.

Sounds a lot like Carey Grant narrating. Japan has a highly socialized structure. People are culturally group centered.

47:15 did he really said that Bach is American ?! When Bach died in 1750 the U.S. where still a british colony.

@gulino3029

Ай бұрын

cry

@TheInstitute91

5 күн бұрын

I believe the narrator was making a rather dry joke here as he follows it up with “more seriously” afterwards. We are often painfully aware of our tendency to sometimes be ignorant on geographical/historical matters so we sometimes try to poke fun of ourselves by leaning into it sarcastically in an effort to differentiate that we don’t actually feel that way but are aware that some do… but that’s me giving him the benefit of doubt, I could be way off and reading into it too much and he was serious in which case, oof.

Bach is so much our own!!!! American???

中尾ミエさんだ〜かわいい

Lol it's still not changed at all since this time. Some more modern things get invented but most things stay exactly the same.

1:23 - pretty sure that's not true.

@fangiscool1

Ай бұрын

All iaido techniques start and end with the sword sheathed, so not very far from true.