Meeting Japan’s World War II orphans born to US soldiers and Japanese mothers • FRANCE 24 English

In Japan, they are known as "children of mixed blood": those born after 1945 to an American GI and a Japanese woman and abandoned due to stigma. Eighty years after the end of World War II, we went to meet some of these orphans to understand more about their painful past.
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  • @purberri
    @purberri15 күн бұрын

    I was born to a Japanese mother in Tokyo 1958. I lived with her until age 5. I was adopted by American parents and came to the U.S. My mother never prepared me. The day I was turned over to my new parents I was brought to an office building and told to wait until she walked away down the hall. I never saw her again. My adoptive parents told me the same thing she put me up for adoption because of the prejudice I would face. I don’t exhibit many Asian features I look Caucasian. Never had any issues living in America. People are very surprised when I tell them I’m half Japanese.

  • @bobbyclemente21

    @bobbyclemente21

    14 күн бұрын

    Sad to hear, I'm sure you would like to know what became of your mom. My brother was born at Tachikawa Hospital (off base) in June 1959 and our parents married in May. That's a tight window that made me think later in life that my dad might've been thinking to leave her instead of marrying her...cause why would you wait that late. I never confronted him or rather asked him about it. He was a good father while my Jpnse mom was a great mother, couldn't ask for anyone better. Anyway, sadly, lot of people who were also in same situation as you all over Asia where US troops were stationed...but best wishes!

  • @mrsTraveller64

    @mrsTraveller64

    13 күн бұрын

    purberri: how do you feel about your story? Are you sad? Do you feel Japanese at all? Do you feel you want to learn Japanese or visite Japan?

  • @user-gk5rg4pq5x

    @user-gk5rg4pq5x

    12 күн бұрын

    @@ВивсівідстійYou aren’t very bright.

  • @graceg3250

    @graceg3250

    12 күн бұрын

    It could be that she thought she was doing the most loving thing she could. She probably loved you far more than you knew. So sad!

  • @sky-pv7ff

    @sky-pv7ff

    11 күн бұрын

    @@purberri I am sure you looked a little bit asian. The whites just gave you a pass as a white. There's lots of people passing as white and don't even look white.😆

  • @phammond8155
    @phammond815512 күн бұрын

    That "mama" was amazing, daughter of the Mitsubishi fortune. She sure put it to good use, bless her. What one person can do to change so many lives.

  • @user-jl2qr8ws1m

    @user-jl2qr8ws1m

    12 күн бұрын

    Thank you for taking an interest in this! My mother was also an illegitimate child. Although it was very hard for her, she was still lucky to have relatives who raised her with love.

  • @phammond8155

    @phammond8155

    11 күн бұрын

    @@user-jl2qr8ws1m This story has profoundly affected me.

  • @saltyroe3179
    @saltyroe317916 күн бұрын

    My wife is a child of GI who worked for MacArthur and a Japanese mother. She is very fortunate because my father in law married my mother in law and brought both my mother in law and my wife to USA where they stayed married and succeeded in life against bigotry and other obstacles. Many of the Japanese war brides who did make it to the USA were abandoned by their GI husbands. For those children who were abandoned, life was very difficult. My wife observed some of them in late 1960s sweeping streets.

  • @wylde39
    @wylde396 күн бұрын

    That tunnel run is so sad and such a shared experience for those kids. It reminds me of spirited away… how you can be in one world, and then suddenly your life is totally different and confusing.

  • @teesmith501

    @teesmith501

    2 күн бұрын

    Imagine what the Japanese war brides and their children experienced in America when they immigrated there right after the war. Imagine it wasn't all wine and roses

  • @tomallen5837

    @tomallen5837

    21 сағат бұрын

    Everything is about the bomb unfortunately. Of course, that's my opinion, and I think Spirited Away is no different. Furthermore, I'm currently plowing through Godzilla Minus One. It's the same thing. In fact this rendition with regards to the bomb is even more in your face.. This is an excellent video, by the way. I've learned a lot from this video... things I did not know... but I'm not surprised.

  • @victorjackson150
    @victorjackson1504 күн бұрын

    This was absolutely heartbreaking. I was a teacher of mixed-raced children in Okinawa. It was tough to see. As a half German and half English growing up between the two countries, we experienced a feeling of being abandoned by each county. Never German enough and never English enough. That’s the hard part.

  • @SongsAboutHappiness

    @SongsAboutHappiness

    Күн бұрын

    We're people able to tell at first glance?

  • @victorjackson150

    @victorjackson150

    Күн бұрын

    @@SongsAboutHappiness Absolutely.

  • @ijustamthem

    @ijustamthem

    Сағат бұрын

    ​@@SongsAboutHappiness yes easily! -grew up in Japan

  • @foxbody1152
    @foxbody11523 күн бұрын

    Man imagine getting dropped off at the abandonment tunnel

  • @kimpiero2525

    @kimpiero2525

    Күн бұрын

    I cried after hearing that especially after seeing the photo at 4:18 . They were so little.

  • @chickentender72
    @chickentender726 күн бұрын

    Tony seems like such a good dude. I wanna give him a hug

  • @msjapan112
    @msjapan11216 күн бұрын

    Yes, many of them, during Korean War, Vietnam War too.

  • @user-gk5rg4pq5x

    @user-gk5rg4pq5x

    12 күн бұрын

    Every war since the beginning of time.

  • @user-er3ri6sc3j

    @user-er3ri6sc3j

    10 күн бұрын

    Yes east Asia and westerners such as American occupation.

  • @vndragonslayer1

    @vndragonslayer1

    10 күн бұрын

    @@user-er3ri6sc3j compared to the japanese imperialist who just rape the local women wherever they went right?

  • @sarahogawa5408
    @sarahogawa540814 күн бұрын

    What a wonderful school at the end! The students look happy and confident.

  • @M-Is-For-Margaret

    @M-Is-For-Margaret

    13 күн бұрын

    Yes 👍 One of my neighbors is a Ghanaian man. He was married to a Japanese woman. When his daughter was young and going to a Japanese elementary school, she was bullied. He went to the school and spoke to her teacher. (I wondered why his wife didn't go. She wasn't working, so she could've easily gone instead of him.) If he had a great job, he would've sent her to an international school. But the tuition was too much, so his daughter had to go to a public school. His daughter might've thrived at that school in Okinawa. I wonder how much the tuition is at that mixed race students only school.🤔

  • @kentuckylady2990
    @kentuckylady299013 күн бұрын

    British, Canadians and Australians left children behind.

  • @silviaquesada2499

    @silviaquesada2499

    9 күн бұрын

    every time soldiers are in the country of the enemy they leave children behind. This happened in most wars over millenia on all continents.

  • @SVanTha

    @SVanTha

    4 күн бұрын

    @@silviaquesada2499 it don't have to be enemy lands...

  • @TheKingOfBeans

    @TheKingOfBeans

    4 күн бұрын

    So did Germans… it was part of their policy

  • @tomthepeaceful

    @tomthepeaceful

    4 күн бұрын

    African American GI’s left children in England, the Netherlands and Germany after ww2

  • @CapoElChivo

    @CapoElChivo

    4 күн бұрын

    The Elizabeth Saunders home mentioned for example was almost exclusively half American kids. The American military kid population was pretty unique in size from WWII to modern day in Japan, Vietnam, and the Philippines. Americans put up numbers like Spain did during the conquest of the Americas. Unlike the nations you mentioned, the American children were born almost exclusively out of wedlock, because most of these kids were and are born to soldiers. There werent British, Canadian, or Australian military bases in Japan, and countries with British or Australian bases just dont see the same amount of interracial orphans as with American soldiers.

  • @bobbyclemente21
    @bobbyclemente2114 күн бұрын

    What's messed up about this, for those who would've liked to have lived in the U.S. who weren't adopted, is the Amerasian Homecoming Act excluded kids who were born in Japan and the Philippines. WHY?! Doesn't make any sense.

  • @f430ferrari5

    @f430ferrari5

    8 күн бұрын

    It was more than those two countries. Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand also excluded and Korea.

  • @BlackGirlUnsolved

    @BlackGirlUnsolved

    6 күн бұрын

    Well it’s been done to blks in other countries.

  • @daniella8400

    @daniella8400

    Күн бұрын

    @@f430ferrari5all Asian country! Want a coincidence 🙄

  • @cgreene1000
    @cgreene100012 күн бұрын

    Those children are absolutely beautiful. Every single one of them.

  • @oliverkat

    @oliverkat

    4 күн бұрын

    police offier this one right here🤮

  • @nzrock1

    @nzrock1

    2 күн бұрын

    @@oliverkat Get your own mind out of that gutter lmfao, OP didn't make it look weird, you did Oliverkat.

  • @oliverkat

    @oliverkat

    2 күн бұрын

    @@nzrock1 🤡

  • @Lp-ze1tg
    @Lp-ze1tg11 күн бұрын

    For those who got married at that time with mix-cultures were brave. Considered what happened between two countries just few years ago. For those who was abandoned, it was a tragic because children are innocent by their birth race.

  • @meloncrusher3316

    @meloncrusher3316

    3 күн бұрын

    Most arent married, most are considered rape by westerners standard

  • @charzemc
    @charzemc14 күн бұрын

    American GI's left abandoned women & children all over the world. There are probably cases, wherever a US military base is.

  • @codename495

    @codename495

    13 күн бұрын

    Wherever any military base is.

  • @breezymango4113

    @breezymango4113

    12 күн бұрын

    Why are you only saying American? There are Many countries and peoples who have done it, sometimes much worse as well. It certainly isn't only an American "thing".

  • @csking6377

    @csking6377

    11 күн бұрын

    @@breezymango4113 Because the US has more than 800 military bases all over the world and involved in almost all the significant conflicts in the last few decades. Hence, by sheer numbers, american bastards numbered the most and hence the most visible.

  • @TravelBabble93

    @TravelBabble93

    11 күн бұрын

    @@breezymango4113because the video is about American GIs that’s why they’re mentioning Americans

  • @user-jg5ut9xj1e

    @user-jg5ut9xj1e

    10 күн бұрын

    @@breezymango4113 That's right. It's a Caucasian thing.

  • @CUMBICA1970
    @CUMBICA19703 күн бұрын

    I'm Japanese-Brazilian and Miki Sawada's story is pretty well-known among the Japanese community. Especially because she left Japan in the early 1960s with a number of her orphans to naively found an self-sustaining utopia in the Amazon jungle. With disastrous results I must add. Still one remarkable woman who did good with her fortune.

  • @newyorkcity76
    @newyorkcity7614 күн бұрын

    It’s happen in every conflict

  • @larrye2679
    @larrye267912 күн бұрын

    My father was in the army and stationed in Japan during the occupation (1946 to about 1950). He was in his late teens and was a little on the wild side. Ive always wondered if he fathered any children while there. Is there somewhere where i could look into this?

  • @user-gk5rg4pq5x

    @user-gk5rg4pq5x

    12 күн бұрын

    Do your DNA on ancestry. They may be looking for you.

  • @user-jl2qr8ws1m

    @user-jl2qr8ws1m

    12 күн бұрын

    I think many people want to know their roots through DNA testing. However, it is not very common in Japan, and since thery are grew up in Japan, I don't know if there is anyone who can understand English after the analysis. I would like to look into it too for my mother.

  • @mrvgstyle2442

    @mrvgstyle2442

    7 күн бұрын

    @@user-jl2qr8ws1m , The world is more globalized now. There is the possibility some of them are no longer in Japan so DNA testing is an option. Try Ancestry for the test. You may find cousins elsewhere in the world.

  • @truehappiness4U

    @truehappiness4U

    4 күн бұрын

    Many soldiers were famous for assaulting women as well. Of course these men won’t ever tell you if they assaulted women overseas. Curious if you can find relatives in Asia, and they can tell you their story about your father

  • @user-dl5lw4ht3k

    @user-dl5lw4ht3k

    3 күн бұрын

    if you can't go in person, contact a tourist consierge person, send photos, pay the employee well, you are hiring a private investigator.

  • @ivannevarez8478
    @ivannevarez847810 күн бұрын

    Roberto Duran the Famous boxer was the child of a former U.S. Marine stationed in Panama.

  • @BcksgotIQs

    @BcksgotIQs

    2 күн бұрын

    Yeah but he has a tribe unlike these bastards

  • @NativeTexMexican

    @NativeTexMexican

    55 минут бұрын

    I did not know that, Thanks for the info.

  • @nighle160
    @nighle16015 күн бұрын

    Great report!

  • @refosco1993
    @refosco19939 күн бұрын

    Beautiful people

  • @WesNishi
    @WesNishi10 күн бұрын

    A famous actor in Japan Kusakari Masao was also half Japanese and half American. His Japanese mother kept him but faced prejudice and was otracized. He only found his American family last year by NHK.

  • @215neko

    @215neko

    3 күн бұрын

    Lots of people, including me, cried when watching that documentary last summer. It was emotional to see him meeting his family in the US for the first time.

  • @miguelangelrodriguez8999
    @miguelangelrodriguez89995 күн бұрын

    Great report. Thank you

  • @supernatural492
    @supernatural4922 күн бұрын

    1. BOMBASTIC SIDE EYE 2. On a more serious note, Mama Sanders had a big heart. Goodness bless every heart she touched. May her blessing reverberate for many generations.

  • @rachelcookie321
    @rachelcookie3214 күн бұрын

    My great grandfather and great grandmother also met during the war but in Italy. My great grandfather was a British soldier stationed there and then he met a young Italian woman. My great auntie was born in Italy during the war then when all the soldiers were returning home, my great grandmother illegally immigrated with them. My Nana was born in England and grew up very English. My great grandmother never taught her daughters Italian despite the fact she could barely speak English, I think it was because she didn’t want people to perceive her daughters as foreigners. Unlike the Japanese children, my Nana and great auntie didn’t face problems due to race as both countries were European and my great grandfather never abandoned them so I think they were quite lucky. From my understanding, many Italians didn’t support the Italian government during the war, so I think the prejudice wouldn’t have been so bad hopefully. It’s crazy to think about how manny similar stories there probably are from across the globe. So many children abandoned by their military fathers. I live in New Zealand now and during the war there was American soldiers stationed here and many of them had relationships with kiwi women then abandoned them also. I hope all those children were able to find loving homes and grow up happy.

  • @aaat4873
    @aaat48738 күн бұрын

    9:25 Wow! Granny definitely had a type! She gave up one kid for adoption (or more), married an American man, and never tried to find out about the child she abandoned. I guess she never told her new family that she had another child! Quite impressive!

  • @israel6319

    @israel6319

    31 минут бұрын

    These things happen because they became traumatic experiences for the mothers (some times). This happened to my Great grandma, and my family found out when my great aunt was looking for her.

  • @medusagorgon8432
    @medusagorgon8432Күн бұрын

    People are so strange and toxic in their ignorance. Those who mistreated these children would be horrified to find themselves in a similar situation.

  • @suginami0
    @suginami08 күн бұрын

    I used to work with Paul Iiyama in the 90s when he worked for a large Japanese food distributor.

  • @suginami0

    @suginami0

    2 күн бұрын

    @@TTKDMS yes. JFC. I worked for a food company that sold to JFC. I met with Paul regularly.

  • @geoffreyherrick298
    @geoffreyherrick2982 күн бұрын

    The same thing happened during the Korean and Vietnam War. Heartbreaking. 😢

  • @wassiexoxo4462
    @wassiexoxo446215 сағат бұрын

    Josephine Baker adopted kids from Elizabeth Saunders Home and she also donated a lot. What a wonderful lady and I love her.

  • @GrumpyYank26
    @GrumpyYank2615 күн бұрын

    wonderful video. Thank you so much.

  • @joannebottcher9779
    @joannebottcher9779Күн бұрын

    God bless the Elizabeth Saunders home. We need to love people with no discrimination based on origin, language or skin colour.

  • @dancostello6465
    @dancostello646517 күн бұрын

    Good story about a loving Mama.

  • @arthurford829
    @arthurford82914 күн бұрын

    Is there one of these videos on the mixed children of French soldiers and Vietnamese women?

  • @see-rious-ley

    @see-rious-ley

    13 күн бұрын

    Good point!

  • @s.p.8803

    @s.p.8803

    13 күн бұрын

    Yes, they did one 4 months ago. How come you didn't see it then?

  • @Dangic23
    @Dangic2314 күн бұрын

    GIs are still abandoning mothers and kids today. I live near Yokota and this happens often.

  • @see-rious-ley

    @see-rious-ley

    13 күн бұрын

    Then why do the women still get with them if this is seen all around already?!??? There are condoms and birth control methods NOW too!!!

  • @ellebrook3413

    @ellebrook3413

    Күн бұрын

    The children are always the victims whether it's being abandoned by a GI, or being abducted by the Japanese spouse and denied access to their kids because the country's laws regarding joint custody change far too glacially.

  • @see-rious-ley

    @see-rious-ley

    4 сағат бұрын

    @@Dangic23 if it happens so often then that’s on the women who allow for this to happen. There are such things as birth control methods out there, right? Or am I close?

  • @turkishmusashi7425
    @turkishmusashi74259 күн бұрын

    Racisme is unfortunaly everywhere in the world also in Japan. The world is not a perfect place. We are all humans with red blood

  • @kapawtaw

    @kapawtaw

    7 күн бұрын

    Racism is the worst in china, Japan and Korea.

  • @n.g.l.

    @n.g.l.

    5 күн бұрын

    Xenophobia is the issue. Some ostracize white people too because they're all about being Japanese. Some places won't allow you in unless you're Japanese. Even if you're Japanese and you dye your hair pink some will look at you sideways. Race is an American social construct, everywhere else is class, tribe, ethnicity. In my paternal country it's tribe and sad to say the ruling party has the nice gadgets, the most money and enriches their people even though we're from the same country.

  • @slevinlindsay3624

    @slevinlindsay3624

    2 күн бұрын

    I'm sure there was strong dislike and hostility towards yank-looking people in Japan at that time after Japan got obliterated by them, especially the cities that had the atomic bombs dropped on them. The native people needed to understand that those mixed Japanese children were also a victim and product of the yank hegemony and occupation.

  • @Anthony-dy5cq

    @Anthony-dy5cq

    Күн бұрын

    Yea? No. It's most certainly a response mechanism from the subjects of racism. Oh! And there's that little tidbit of Americans having blown up their country, twice.

  • @n.g.l.

    @n.g.l.

    Күн бұрын

    @@Anthony-dy5cq idk why Americans forget that 😭. Generational trauma from the event

  • @Paul-H-Wolfram6608
    @Paul-H-Wolfram66087 күн бұрын

    Same as during the Vietnam war, many Vietnamese women were pregnant by American soldiers.

  • @maxstein2011
    @maxstein2011Күн бұрын

    The aftermath of war… 😞

  • @aeromtb2468
    @aeromtb246814 күн бұрын

    what about the french soldiers kids in north africa and SE asia.

  • @s.p.8803

    @s.p.8803

    13 күн бұрын

    They coveved that already. How come you didn't see them?

  • @ellebrook3413

    @ellebrook3413

    Күн бұрын

    maybe a French language media outlet could produce something, or if you feel strongly about it yourself, you could set up a social media link to highlight it?

  • @DavidDavidunderthebridgeChampi
    @DavidDavidunderthebridgeChampi8 күн бұрын

    The same thing happened in Australia, England and more with mixed race children. Today, they can use Familial Genetic Search.

  • @Funica11
    @Funica116 күн бұрын

    Only registered in the US consulate in Japan. There were antimiscegenation laws in the US, they could not get marriage licenses, and they were practically just sex slaves.

  • @alexcarter8807
    @alexcarter88079 күн бұрын

    To say Japanese society is insular is a vast understatement. Look up KZreadr "Ask Shogo" he's got some heartrending episodes about how badly he was treated in Japan as a 100% Japanese who merely spent *some* years of his childhood in the US.

  • @Der.Geschichtenerzahler

    @Der.Geschichtenerzahler

    23 сағат бұрын

    I watched that video too. Unfortunately bulling is very common in Japan, and the authorities don't seem to care much about it.

  • @alwayschillingx
    @alwayschillingx15 күн бұрын

    And UK soldiers are doing this in Kenya

  • @natak.2287

    @natak.2287

    9 күн бұрын

    .. Meeting local women?

  • @BlackGirlUnsolved

    @BlackGirlUnsolved

    6 күн бұрын

    Exactly. Those poor woman and children are kicked out of their village.

  • @natak.2287

    @natak.2287

    4 күн бұрын

    @@BlackGirlUnsolved nope

  • @davanmani556

    @davanmani556

    3 күн бұрын

    @@natak.2287quit lyinh

  • @paulforder591
    @paulforder59110 күн бұрын

    Nice to see a happy school of Amerasian children in Okinawa. 75% of US armed forces are stationed there, so mixed relationships between soldiers & local women, then as now, are not uncommon. 😺

  • @rubbersoul3723
    @rubbersoul3723Күн бұрын

    American watching from the State of Rhode Island in the U.S.-wow great/interesting story guys-never knew of it before-always great content guys-Peace.

  • @alfZbarkada
    @alfZbarkada9 сағат бұрын

    Please make a movie about this please 🙏

  • @deejay4837
    @deejay48374 күн бұрын

    It must've been hard growing up for them as children.

  • @g6686not
    @g6686not5 күн бұрын

    All the allied troops left babies behind during WW2. Americans, British, French, and Soviets.

  • @altang884884

    @altang884884

    2 күн бұрын

    Shame upon all their houses

  • @ciara7172

    @ciara7172

    Күн бұрын

    What the Soviets did in Germany is very dark

  • @danielvilla573
    @danielvilla573Күн бұрын

    I'm not crying!!! I'm doing face exercises godamn it!

  • @buhingkalbaryo
    @buhingkalbaryoКүн бұрын

    😢😭

  • @stevenrichards1539
    @stevenrichards15398 күн бұрын

    When stationed in Korea our unit sponsored an orphanage; and of the 400 kids living there not a single one was fathered by a GI, yet embedded Korean soldiers refused to aid in any tasks for the orphanage: their reason these are mixed kids.

  • @seycheles27

    @seycheles27

    7 күн бұрын

    Koreans are more racist then Japanese

  • @ErikPT

    @ErikPT

    5 күн бұрын

    Blood puritism exist. It’s sadly an Asian belief

  • @KZmusichub
    @KZmusichub5 күн бұрын

    Same happened with German soldiers and French women bearing their children..public humiliation was quite common for those women

  • @davanmani556

    @davanmani556

    3 күн бұрын

    Italians, Greek, eastern bloc and Jews.

  • @BcksgotIQs

    @BcksgotIQs

    2 күн бұрын

    Not the same thing There all white/ European stock These mixed race bastards are not

  • @ray24051
    @ray240519 күн бұрын

    Crazy that these children born from US GI's from World War II are in their '80s now.

  • @bobbyclemente21
    @bobbyclemente2114 күн бұрын

    Konketsuji isn't used in Japan anymore, except in private conversations, and really shouldn't be used in a documentary like this except to point out it's a bad label for us mixlings, in this case, haafu (ハーフ).

  • @crissy2420

    @crissy2420

    14 күн бұрын

    Mixlings isn't much better in English. Still derogatory

  • @bobbyclemente21

    @bobbyclemente21

    14 күн бұрын

    @@crissy2420 LOL. Comes from German, MISCHLING, which a German haafu called herself. It's MUCH better than konketsuji.

  • @stephengibbs4372
    @stephengibbs43725 күн бұрын

    They are not orphans have both parents dead, these are abandoned children whose mothers were spurned by there families and society.

  • @kjmax1068
    @kjmax106815 күн бұрын

    I would love to find my Japanese cousin. We know his name but not sure how to find him. Our uncle was with J Force from NZ.

  • @aish125

    @aish125

    14 күн бұрын

    Random Japanese here. There are many Japanese people who were born to American father but cannot find the father. If your cousin is in Okinawa, a comment on web article (by an Okinawa woman who is searching American father) advised her where to contact.

  • @eyeswideopen7777

    @eyeswideopen7777

    13 күн бұрын

    Do a DNA test that might link you to a relative.. 23andme

  • @WesNishi

    @WesNishi

    10 күн бұрын

    ​@@eyeswideopen7777DNA kits are not popular in Japan so likely wont get any targets

  • @curtisgeorge1969
    @curtisgeorge19694 күн бұрын

    Fast forward to what's happening today. When a Japanese spouse abducts their child from the foreign spouse. I'm an American and I recently had this happen to me with my daughter. I did not abandon my child and love her very much. Her mother had taken my daughter and cut communications after empting our bank account in Japan. I was forced to leave Japan. I have not seen my daughter for 2 months. She is 9 months old now.

  • @joshi3518

    @joshi3518

    3 күн бұрын

    Sorry that can be a serious complication I think if you keep reaching out and get help to do it like some siblings or friends you can push through.

  • @Fuzzle1985
    @Fuzzle19854 күн бұрын

    JFC that Japanese guy is 60 and looks two decades younger than the American two. 🤣

  • @cloudsnow0702
    @cloudsnow0702Күн бұрын

    2024 Philippines love japan.

  • @tjizzle8155
    @tjizzle81557 күн бұрын

    Dude I'm the middle kinda looks like Stan Lee or hefner

  • @SL16867
    @SL1686717 күн бұрын

    Soldiers and abandoning children overseas. Name a more iconic duo!

  • @sky-pv7ff

    @sky-pv7ff

    14 күн бұрын

    Well the females are to be blamed too. As they can't keep their legs closed.

  • @joshi3518
    @joshi35183 күн бұрын

    A lot of us are born because of the 2nd world war both my grandfathers fought my maternal one was in Egypt firstly against the Italian army that was probably rough the Italians fighting in these parts were hardened from the war in Ethiopia my grandfather later was station in Back then British Palastine Jerusalem where he met my Greek Grandmother who was born in Jerusalem, my other grandfather fought as a R.A.F. Sgt pilot his task and the 1st Sgt Adam Mcraig was to fly over France and go to Germany to bomb I believe munitions factories over in Mannerheim, I think he achieved what was asked but on the way back through France the plane had sustained damage and the main pilot Mccraig wanted to do an emergency landing over France my Grandfather said we should just fly back to England we could make it but nah was not my grandfather's call most the men wanted to emergency crash land so landed in St Omer and all 6 survived the crash and I don't know if they were immediately caught by German forces but they got send to a war camp first in France but from him and the other mens escape attempts which was at least twice before they got pushed from France war came and got put in a war camp in Poland as I understand it.

  • @drkimoni5011
    @drkimoni50114 күн бұрын

    one earth

  • @davidcaudill7779
    @davidcaudill77793 күн бұрын

    I tell you what that woman called Mom I cannot pronounce the rest of it sounds like a woman of Great character

  • @nabeelaasherthv8854
    @nabeelaasherthv8854Күн бұрын

    Mixed race children are so beautiful and special, they should be proud and reap the benefits of belonging to two diverse cultures.

  • @josephfloresmartizano1770
    @josephfloresmartizano17706 күн бұрын

    God bless from the Philippines 🥰💟🙏

  • @killer3000ad
    @killer3000ad2 күн бұрын

    It is ludicrous that half Japanese still face such discrimination today. There are quite a few hapas representing Japan in judo like Aaron Wolf and Sanshiro Murao. You also have Christa Deguchi who is half Canadian who represents Canada but could have easily played for Japan if things had gone differently.

  • @scottjohnson6173
    @scottjohnson617311 күн бұрын

    That’s so tragic in a way that American men servicemen Mary over there and then when the water is all or some of them go but the majority of them stay it’s not right, but who am I to say?

  • @AussieKool
    @AussieKool16 күн бұрын

    Ancestry is the best to test by, The most members too. 🙂

  • @bobbyclemente21

    @bobbyclemente21

    14 күн бұрын

    True, but Japanese don't do DNA tests much so finding that side is very difficult.

  • @AlanM22
    @AlanM222 күн бұрын

    Wow he doesn’t look 61 to be fair

  • @bryantarriaga1315
    @bryantarriaga1315Күн бұрын

    Now do orphans from Japanese soilders in ww2 there’s has to be a lot more

  • @wanderlust0120
    @wanderlust01204 күн бұрын

    Instead of saying 'many' why doing you give atleast ball park figures?

  • @orangeninja912
    @orangeninja91215 күн бұрын

    Bareback is a sweet taboo. The military should teach their boys to wear a jimmy. Saves everyone a lot of trouble

  • @sky-pv7ff

    @sky-pv7ff

    14 күн бұрын

    Well the japanese females should keep their legs closed.

  • @bobbyclemente21

    @bobbyclemente21

    14 күн бұрын

    Sounds great in theory, but as you know there are tons of single mothers EVERYWHERE, not just in places where soldiers are stationed.

  • @see-rious-ley

    @see-rious-ley

    13 күн бұрын

    Disgusting soldiers is what this all means. And those local women - unless they were forced into prostitution - had no reason to be allowing for any bareback activities themselves!!! These women knew what they were doing.

  • @zacharykennedy3848

    @zacharykennedy3848

    11 күн бұрын

    We learn it at basic. Most just don’t care 😂

  • @ErikPT

    @ErikPT

    5 күн бұрын

    @@zacharykennedy3848especially if you’re Catholic we don’t use protection

  • @vondahe
    @vondahe2 күн бұрын

    It pains me so much to be reminded of the ignorance and narrow-mindedness of some people. There are indeed different cultures, different countries, languages, religions, mindsets and personalities but there is only ONE HUMAN RACE and we’re all part of it, regardless of pigmentation! Treat others the same way you want to be treated.

  • @angelmatos9143
    @angelmatos91432 күн бұрын

    When will we realize, "One Race, the Human race'. 😇

  • @scotthearts9634

    @scotthearts9634

    2 күн бұрын

    Oh boy, it's gonna take some time to get there a realllllllllly long time to get there. I do truly want that 😢

  • @soliskings7785
    @soliskings77852 күн бұрын

    I need to go to Japan 😂

  • @elchicano187
    @elchicano1873 күн бұрын

    We are all mixed , nobody is pure

  • @200555280
    @20055528012 күн бұрын

    Its irresponsible to bring children to society that will not accept them. If it was rape then the mother is a victim but to mingle with foreigner for fun and new experience then have a child as a result then abandon him, this is cruelty.

  • @aaat4873
    @aaat48738 күн бұрын

    Obviously, some Japanese women did not learn anything from past mistakes. Soldiers may not be the most trustworthy people to start a relationship, particularly when stationed abroad.

  • @davanmani556

    @davanmani556

    3 күн бұрын

    They had a choice?

  • @mnblkjh6757
    @mnblkjh675716 күн бұрын

    The country is still like that about “foreigners”👎☹️

  • @Drownedinblood

    @Drownedinblood

    15 күн бұрын

    You don't treat Asian people too well in America either, stfu.

  • @jimwhite1756

    @jimwhite1756

    14 күн бұрын

    You are right. Japanese women still pursuit their gainjin prince and destroy the lives of their children.

  • @bobbyclemente21

    @bobbyclemente21

    14 күн бұрын

    No, it's not. Said by someone who never lived there.

  • @carollynt

    @carollynt

    14 күн бұрын

    I have and yes, foreigners cannot completely assimilate into Japanese society. The longer you live in Japan, the more you understand the deep-rooted prejudice and superiority complex of the country.

  • @see-rious-ley

    @see-rious-ley

    13 күн бұрын

    It’s THEIR country. You don’t like it, then don’t stay there.

  • @josephmarzullo
    @josephmarzullo6 күн бұрын

    This is the privilege of the victors. I always wanted to be like genghis khan

  • @UuU1001.
    @UuU1001.3 күн бұрын

    Mixed look either Latino or Central Asian

  • @voidninja9134
    @voidninja9134Күн бұрын

    Does every American soldiers do bad deeds outside their country it's becom norm for them to do...

  • @iashakezula
    @iashakezula7 күн бұрын

    My father is not American but Filipino , he was with USAF and he was an officer , he sure had a relationship with one during the Korean War while he was married to his first wife and possible the 2nd woman, he had a son. He didn’t marry her , so I assume he just left her. What an a** . I belong to the official second wife. I am the second to the youngest among the many sibling. We never met him but we would like to connect with him.I wish we knew them

  • @altang884884
    @altang8848842 күн бұрын

    Shame to the Fathers. SHAME! May your God judge you

  • @reymicroc
    @reymicroc7 күн бұрын

    They actually enriched the genetic pool

  • @onlyhereformusic2911

    @onlyhereformusic2911

    4 күн бұрын

    anything mixed with white is degrading bloodline.

  • @patricesheltonlassiter6040
    @patricesheltonlassiter604014 күн бұрын

    Black American GI's fathered children as well and married Japanese women. Accurate history matters!

  • @mikloridden8276

    @mikloridden8276

    14 күн бұрын

    Yes we know 😑 GIs did it yea

  • @see-rious-ley

    @see-rious-ley

    13 күн бұрын

    This clip isn’t about the children of the married!!! Get with the program and comment on something that makes sense.

  • @afroabroad

    @afroabroad

    9 күн бұрын

    I mean in the clip she says it was a half black / Japanese baby that made her start the orphanage.

  • @larryfoster8820
    @larryfoster8820Күн бұрын

    lol they do it in America so…

  • @mnblkjh6757
    @mnblkjh675716 күн бұрын

    🇺🇸👍🙂

  • @jmyers52995
    @jmyers529952 күн бұрын

    Dude has a european nose

  • @drewwagner4802
    @drewwagner480211 сағат бұрын

    I wish they would seek DNA tests, I bet there are many Americans who would love to know them, I know my father was a Korean Vet in the U.S. Army, and if I had a Brother or a Sister from his military days, I would want to know, they should do a DNA test and seek their American relatives!@

  • @galleon8129
    @galleon81293 күн бұрын

    That guy looks too young for his age

  • @MarshmaIlowGaming
    @MarshmaIlowGaming3 күн бұрын

    The start of yellow fever here in the states

  • @rhinochino
    @rhinochino17 күн бұрын

    So US soldiers had comfort women in Japan!

  • @cosplayshop

    @cosplayshop

    15 күн бұрын

    more like a willing hookup than forced prositution

  • @yo2trader539

    @yo2trader539

    15 күн бұрын

    It was to reduce the countless sex crimes by US soldiers. Same system in South Korea as well for US military.

  • @tl1533

    @tl1533

    15 күн бұрын

    @@yo2trader539 That happened in Vietnam in the era of China, France, or America colonized Vietnam. Korean soldiers also did the same thing there as well.

  • @Drownedinblood

    @Drownedinblood

    15 күн бұрын

    Still do now....Japan is an occupied country, never believe otherwise.

  • @critterjon4061

    @critterjon4061

    14 күн бұрын

    @@yo2trader539 no, these are just people falling in love and have kids too early

  • @theviking2877
    @theviking28772 күн бұрын

    Japan is still very racist. DNA test will.help.these orphans or their kids

  • @human_man000
    @human_man0003 күн бұрын

    Asian womens largest profession & american armies favourite activity in Asian countries.

  • @jamesalias595
    @jamesalias59515 күн бұрын

    A positive story instead of most news stories always blaming the military as being a bunch of rapist and thugs. It focused on the positive outcomes that these abandoned children grew into healthy adults with the love and care of others.

  • @Charlie2timez

    @Charlie2timez

    14 күн бұрын

    Well that’s where the a majority of the blame belongs, so yeah. Get over it 😂 you guilty of something? 🤔

  • @bobbyclemente21

    @bobbyclemente21

    14 күн бұрын

    With zerO help from U$G and/or military. And it was all thanks to the generosity and great heart of Miki Sawada.

  • @carollynt

    @carollynt

    14 күн бұрын

    I don’t find anything positive in this story.

  • @Robert-ur8mi

    @Robert-ur8mi

    6 күн бұрын

    @@Charlie2timez😂😂😂 he defending his fellow military men and probably dud the same thing . Smh

  • @willberry6434
    @willberry643417 сағат бұрын

    Shameful

  • @haruk2312
    @haruk231211 күн бұрын

    Men 🙄

  • @DaniG.German883

    @DaniG.German883

    9 күн бұрын

    Women ☕️

  • @sabrinamystified

    @sabrinamystified

    Күн бұрын

    ​@@DaniG.German883incel is here looks like.

  • @MichaelRyan-yk1pn
    @MichaelRyan-yk1pn3 күн бұрын

    Please don’t use the term Konketsuji. It is very insulting. I’m surprised this usually excellent broadcaster allowed it. A Japanese speaker should have edited it.

  • @cakecookieboy6090
    @cakecookieboy60902 күн бұрын

    This is what Christianity teaches. And they do this and far worse in all the places they went. This is just a small picture.

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