The flag with the stripes was the flag of the japaneses military. It never was the flag of the whole country. Even before ww2 they used the modern flag (without the stripes) as well for the state. But since the stripe-flag is often associated with ww2, it is often shown as the official flag of Japan pre-ww2 in movies and documentaries, even tho it was (and still is today) the flag of the military. The is a version were the red dot is moved to the left, which was (and again still is) the flag of the navy.

@ATJ-sTAt

2 жыл бұрын

Even just the navy.

@ap-vi2gp

2 жыл бұрын

yeah it was an Japanese navy flag and self defence force of sea uses the now

@CrabSmokingACigarette

2 жыл бұрын

@@ATJ-sTAt Which makes sense as to why it's associated with Imperial Japan. Obviously, Japan is an island so emphasis for a strong navy is important. So many of their conquests would have definitely included naval infantry and setting up naval bases. People would have seen japanese troops carrying the naval ensign and so that was burned into the minds of the people.

13:00 There is this story about a buisness man, that survived the Hiroshima bomb, just to come home to Nagasaki and witness the secound bomb.

The story @4:19 became the basis of a popular video game called Ghost of Tsushima. I highly recommend it, the game heavily leans into historical accuracy!

The American gunships showing up on the shores of Japan and demanding they open themselves up for trade was a very rude awakening for Japan. They responded by trying to make their country as western as possible. Historically, this period is known as the Meiji restoration. The Last samurai is set in this time period, and the emporer in the movie was Emperor Meiji.

@vedicpride

2 жыл бұрын

Hence lead to bombing of pearl harbor

@kayzeaza

Жыл бұрын

@@Jykesonville sure but if the US never ‘forced’ the Japanese to open the country up they might of still be as backwards as China was in the 1930’s/1940’s.

Thank you for your interest in my country, Japan! 6:10 After the end of this civil war, many ordinary citizens in Japan, including farmers, also carried swords (and weapons modified from farming implements), mainly for self-defence. However, Japan decided to confiscate the swords as they were an obstacle to maintaining public order and building a new rule. However, by the late 17th century, Japan was approaching capitalism as in Europe, so powerful farmers, merchants and others began to stockpile weapons. Nevertheless, it was mainly samurai who carried them on a daily basis. GHQ (≒USA) similarly banned the possession of firearms other than for hunting and shooting competitions, and Japanese swords other than for artistic purposes; it is estimated that 3 million swords were confiscated. 12:50 In fact, the damage caused by the atomic bombs does not No.1 on the list in terms of deaths and extent of destruction. Since it was dropped on a regional city rather than a major city, the impact on Japan as a whole was minor, except for the political consequences. However, it does not change the fact that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were among one of the worst places in WW2. More damaging were the air raids. They targeted roughly all city in Japan(expect the north one, keeping it for the soviet), killing half a million people and leaving 9.7 million homeless. Anyways, even from a modern Japanese perspective, their efforts to rebuild are amazing and incredible.

Japan's technology: they are still pretty great. Almost all the equipment in the lab I worked at was from Japan. if you ever had a blood sample analysed you have a good chance the machine was made in Japan^^

That was humble of you when you said you didn't know anything about Japan except Samurais and then drop factual knowledge about the country's history during the video

USamerican art teacher here: My core understanding about world history is based on art history. What I can tell you about the Edo period and my understanding of Japanese history (admittedly cursory) comes from that and the history of graphic design (my other career degree). Edo would later become Tokyo. As the gateway to the outside world, it become an enormous hotbed of cultural exchange. So much modern European art (crca 1880-194) arises from Europe's exposure to Japanese art and printmaking. They saw new ways of pictorial representation (art) and printmaking (technology) that turned European art on its head. This is a big topic. The movie "The Samurai" is the story of Imperialistic Japan as it struggles to push its way into the world theater. The Samurai class fought back. The character Tom Cruise portrays was said to be based on an actual person, but was Japanese, but the overall story about the clash of the Samurais against the new regime is valid. Linking back to art/graphic design history, the Samurai class becomes the merchant class and makes important developments in signage. Memory tells me that at one time the stamp of "made in Japan" was a stamp of cheapness. I was born in 1953 on the US west coast where there was a strong anti-Japanese bias. This would have been the period of time wherein Japan was rebuilding its economy. Japan would later gain a reputation for quality through quality control and measurement accuracy. This is another big topic I am not as qualified to comment on but have a lot of thoughts on. BTW, I very much enjoy your videos and reactions, delivered in your excellent English with a Swedish accent. For me, that is part of your charm.

Oh btw congrats on 20k subscribers I’ve also heard about the land-bridge between American and asia

Thank you for checking out Japanese history! Please teach a bit of our history or culture of Japan in your school🥺 because we love to make more friends internationally! Even though we have a 200-years history of self-initiated isolation 🙄. Great video! It could be interesting to know what you teach or not teach in your school during the future video! Thanks!

Literally just watched the history of the world reaction and looked to see if he reacted to this one, lucky me he just uploaded it

If you want to do more about the specific era of Japan with all the warring states, I'd love to see you react to the Sengoku Jidai series from Extra History. They've got a lot of really good history series, but Sengoku Jidai, The Seminal Tragedy (about the events leading up to WW1), and Admiral Yi are probably my three favorites.

4:33 Fun fact; that event became famous across Japan and became known as the first kamikaze attack. Kamikaze means "Devine wind or a holy gust." On the first day of the Mongol invasion, a random storm swept the entire fleet against the rocks.

Extra History has a series on the Sengoku Jidai and unification of Japan. They also have one on Yi Sun-shin, who is known as one of the greatest admirals who ever lived, and for leading Korea to victory against the first Japanese invasion. Overly Sarcastic Productions has a video on the Meiji Restoration, but I haven't watched it so I can't personally vouch for it. I don't know any good videos on the Mongol invasions, but they're an interesting subject to research.

I like his reactions! Even on topics, he doesn't know anything about he can still make connections to topics he knows.

Yes. Edo is the old name for Tokyo, and Edo period was basically the Shogunate era.

7:49 fun fact, Choshū and Satsuma we’re actually enemies with each other until the guy who I’m named after, Ryōma Sakamoto, united them together.

I think the "tornado" mentions are made for comedic effect as they were typhoons

I'm currently listening to the audio book of "Shogun" by James Clavell which is a fictionalized version of the events taking place at 6:15. Back when I was a kid, my mom used to watch the mini series based on the novel starring Toshiro Mifune (Seven Samurai, Yojimbo) as the stand-in character for Tokugawa Ieyasu. It's a great period piece.

@KiaraKitsune

2 жыл бұрын

I remember having the whole DVD Box of 'Shogun' , it was a great series

Dude. You know a lot more than you're letting on👍🏽

As South Korean, the flag with stripes kind of functions like a Nazi flag since it symbolizes the Imperial Japan. As far as I know, the Imperial Japan has done a lot of massacre, torture, experiment and rape on Koreans and Chinese like the Germans massacred and experimented on Jews. Therefore, the flags with stripes symbolizes something similar to a Nazi flag.

@bewearstar9462

Жыл бұрын

true

@user-cdf9fk2rqa

10 ай бұрын

its the flag of the japanese navy... has nothing to do with the government

Correcting my previous comment: The rising sun flag predates ww2 (many many years ) , it was used by their imperial military and still is used these days by the self defense forces and navy in japan, the only thing im not so sure is that they did some minor modifications to it in the 50's

@tigeriussvarne177

2 жыл бұрын

The Rising Sun flag is the military flag of Japan. ;)

@Contreras1991

2 жыл бұрын

@@tigeriussvarne177 thanks for the correction

@tinodafuq4219

2 жыл бұрын

I think Rising Sun flag is symbol of Imperialism.

@Contreras1991

2 жыл бұрын

@@tinodafuq4219 it was used originally in the edo period and it was adopted in the meji period as the war flag of the country i think (from what i read)

@4:35 tornado, storm, typhoon,,, well they called it 神風 kamikaze-divine wind. Must have been like a hell. Everyone knows that Mongolian army was the best at their mounted archers, not beach landing or place thats covered with mountains. They also say that it was all Koreans soldiers that Mongol had sent us but idk. Anyways they were kept off shore waiting on boats for opportunity to land, and that’s when the wind hit them

If you'd like to learn more about Japan check out Cool History Bros. They focus mostly on East Asian cultures. They have a 10ish part video series called the Three Unifiers of Japan.

As a silicon researcher from germany, here a little insight about technology quality from japan. Japan rulez! Its often said that germany has the leading technology in silicon research (in a twisted way it kinda has, kinda not...german research is messed up) and that the US are second best thanks to silicon valley.... but in truth 90% of all technology based on electronics comes from japan first (and only after approving gets adapted to US and europe). AI research - Japan; newest solar cells - Japan; microchips - Japan, newest biosensors - if you look deep into it - Japan; holograms - Japan (copied by the US). About other technology I´m not an expert that is too deep into it, but as far as I´ve heard ... japan is always on the forefront but shares there technology (or it gets stolen). By the way, super channel! Keep going with what you do.

@Lightkie

2 жыл бұрын

There are lots of electronic devices with Japan being at the top, like cameras. They are still leading in game consoles with Nintendo and Sony but then again, they use processors from Nvidia and AMD (both USofA), so I'm not sure what you are referring to with microchips. I know Kioxia (formerly Toshiba) is big in flash, as they invented it. There is also Fujitsu, who design custom processors for their top supercomputer (yes, singular, money does not seem to be a concern) but other than that?

@KaynMoony

2 жыл бұрын

@@Lightkie I should clearify, I´m a chemist focusing on silicon and what I meant with microchips are microchips processing and materials. To keep it short, the latest microchip technology (used in processors, semiconductors in general, sensors and more) is based on strained silicon, germanium and silicon carbide. All of the effects these materials have were first found in japanese research and then used by other researchers and industry later on. Nvidia for example has about 80% of all there research papers (based on not software stuff) from japanese institutes. AMD is similar but more focused on design. Both are located in the US but they get most of there research about smaller, more efficient and more durable microchips from japan. Afterwards they develop it into affordable mass-production for there uses. Most of these "first" devices are then tested in the japanese institutes (of cause not always). I´ve met some of the AMD and Nvidea guys in the research field (during converences) and oversimplified it here a little bit. But the general idea is still: japan is the fore front of technology and often gets the newest stuff first to play with it. Oh as last part, I have no clues about game console developement, so can´t comment on that.

@Lightkie

2 жыл бұрын

@@KaynMoony Thanks for the lengthy reply, I guessed as much that you just forgot to write "research". ;-P There are other areas that factor into leading edge processors, most of all lithography, which would be led by the Netherlands. None of the big players in manufacturing (Intel, Samsung, and TSMC) can get around ASML, as it's still the only supplier of EUV machines. Of course with AMD and Nvidia not having any fabs of their own, it also means the processors are produced abroad in Taiwan and Korea (and packaged in Malaysia). Lots of countries involved to make the best of the best, so in the end, only the country of the company that designed it matters, which is still the USofA. I'm sure what Michael meant was far removed from what we are talking about here anyway: devices rather than components, which is why I brought up consoles. P.S.: As a fellow German, you won't mind me pointing out that you consistently mix up there/their, right?

i love these dokus

the alaskan land bridge is a common theory still researched today the issue is knowing where it was we know for sure factualy that humans didnt originate in america no humans wereoriginaly their they did cross at some point but we need more details to know where the connection was or even what the connection was like

You should check out the ghost of Tsushima game. It’s all about the one samurai that worked to defend against the Mongolian invasion of Japan.

Many things during the Edo period were practically set in stone and the punishment for dressing like a class higher than one self's or doing anything outside that class were intense, so to prevent doing things wrong, to prevent doing things the wrong way, they made a very ritualized way to do a lot of things, from dressing to cooking, to having a tea ceremony. The things and rituals that were developed in Japan during this period still influence Japanese culture to this day, so you will find many things traced back to the Edo period. The movie The Las Samurai was indeed based in the period of the Meiji restoration. Not based on actual events, but definitively grounded in the era where Japan had to end the local shogunates to unify under emperor Meiji to face the outside world as a single nation.

I know that right after WWII, Japan was banned from exporting stuff except Noritake chinaware because our allies the Brits wanted it for their tea so as a compromise, we (the US) said "Ok, but you can't put your name on it." so what we got was china labeled "Made In Occupied Japan". I have one of those sets :)

It was actually the ninja that eventually United Japan after saving the shogun's life as his own samurai had been killed

13:50 After WWII both Germany and Japan were forbidden for investing and researching into weapons, and so all their engineering might went to consumer goods instead. And that left them US veterans to rumble about how the best cars and electronics were from there, at least for the duration of the Cold War.

New to the channel, Hello from USA.

Yes, Edo era is the time period where the Tokugawa shogunate was in control, from 1603 to 1868

If you want to learn about Japanese history, there is a youtuber called Linfamy who has a lot of really good videos about it.

React on geography now japan, if u want to learn more about it

i love this

Could be wrong, but pretty sure the genetics fields kinda agree that Native Americans are closely related to Siberians... Mongolian de jure claims in Nevada?

Japan makes some very high quality guitars and instruments

To learn more about World War I which you mentioned in one of your videos that you know nothing about, you should check "Week by Week with Indy Neidell" he was doing it in real time 100 years later, it's as detailed as you want it (around 10-15min per each video summing events that happen during that week). WWI (1914 playlist) - kzread.info/head/PLB2vhKMBjSxO1lsrC98VOyOzfW0Gn8Tga WWI (all playlists) - kzread.infoplaylists Currently, he's doing WWII in a similar though more detailed style - kzread.infovideos

Wasn't the original purpose of creating Belgium and the Netherlands with the treaty of Westphalia to have a buffer zone between France and Germany, to reduce the chance of war?

4:34 Tornadoes occur on every continent except Antarctica

"Sunrise land" in Japanese is "Nihon" which later got translated to "Japan" in English

It's not actually really true that Japan had closed its borders. Apart from Dejima (a manmade island before Nagasaki) and Yokohama whose harbours were open, Japan technically only closed itself off from the western countries iirc. They didn't stop trading with Korea and China and they traded with western countries as well, not just the Dutch but also Portugal and Spain for example. The one thing they didn't like about the western countries was their missionary goals. They prohibited Christianity and killed any Christians in Nagasaki especially they could find. It was pretty much a religious genocide. But you can't really say that the borders of Japan were closed - they just had strict rules about who they traded with and where foreigners were allowed to go. It's also not the only time they made these rules stricter, they did sth similar a few hundred years before when they made trades with China a lot harder and "closed off" their country in a similar way.

Anyone has an idea what show he was referring to around 5:55?

I dont know much about Otter stuff made in Japan but If you want a motocycle that is top tier quality you turn to japanese Bikes😅

The traditionell japanese house is not only made out of wood. It's made out of paper, too...

Sekigahara took Tokugawa to power as Shogun and he united Japan. That peaceful period is called the Edo period. That ended 1868 with the Meji-restoration when the last Shogun (s Tokugawa was overthrown and the rights of the samurais were removed. (At Sekigahara 50000 samurai fought and died in one day)

Watch the netflix series of that time when edo etc. it's good actually...i guess. At least without Bill Wurtz i wouldn't have any idea...bit complicated

Why did you leave Coldplay? You guys were so successful!

Stuff made in China is only bad when quality control is lacking. If you pay well, the end product is good, otherwise its a lottery. Difference here is that Japan always has stellar QC in their stuff, it's pretty much a point of pride and permeates their corporate culture.

they swim on the boats probably

I've be to both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Very interesting.

Made in Japan is definetly a guarantee of quality. This wasn't always so though, at some point they were considered cheap copy products. I don't think the quality has ever actually been that bad. Correct me if I'm wrong about this oversimplified Japanese industry development (at least on cars and electronics) : 1. Take European and American products and make own versions of them. 2. Create efficient ways for quality mass production of said products. 3. Start own research, soon surpass everyone in technological progress. 4. Mass produce more advanced high quality products.

America:I bomb japan two times now I planned them some taxes Japan:this is enough Faaaiiiirrrr!!!!!!

Interesting fact: since Korea was colonized by Japan during war days, America throwing atomic bombs there in Hiroshima in Nagasaki was declaring independence for Korea, since now Japan is vulnerable as shit and they don’t have time to worry about Korea anymore. That’s also something that make south korean people get misinterpreted very often when it comes to the korean independence, since they were free because of the atomic bombs so people often think they were happy with the atomic bombs themselves. But really, it’s not the case. It’s just like “omg Japan got attacked. Oh wait that means we’re free? HOORAY EVERYBODY” and the atomic bomb incident was just part of it. It’s very sad to see Korean people being judged and getting called names when they commemorate their country’s independence because some (dumb) people think they were happy with the death of thousands of people.

kyoto and tokyo are both historical capitols and anagrams of each other. edit: I just realized, wait they don't use english. I wonder if their Japanese names are anagrams. Can you have anagrams in Japanese?

@user-uk8nf8jv6u

2 жыл бұрын

"To" is one way of reading the Kanji character meaning capital city. And the Kanji "Kyo" have the same meaning (I just noticed that it is repeating lol). The "Kyo" of Tokyo is the same as the "Kyo" of Kyoto, but the "To" is from the Kanji character "Tou", meaning east. Not an Anagram but a Coincidence. When written in Japanese phonetic characters (Hiragana), Tokyo is Tou-kyou (pronounced TOH-Kyoo) and Kyou-to (pronounced KYO-o-to).

@Jim73

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-uk8nf8jv6u That's very interesting. But do you mean Kyoto is "KYO-o-to"? is there an extra "oh" in there, like Kyo-oh-to?

@user-uk8nf8jv6u

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jim73 just a simple short o. the difference between the first o is just the lower pich. (maybe im wrong, based from my experience)

React geography now about China

Chinese vs Japanese culture is very different. Quality of manufactured goods just isn't important in China and so they build buildings that crumble quickly, cars that are cheap and only last a year and so on. Japanese, conversely, takes quality very seriously. That said, I feel like quality has suffered worldwide in the past two decades as a general trend as companies decide they can make more money cutting corners than worrying about brand loyalty.

Please react to geography now sri lanka 🇱🇰

Also forget the Atomic Bombs, plenty of other Japanese cities were destroyed by fire bombs since their buildings were all made of wood. Tokyo suffered heavy damage from them

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Next country Turkey please!

Check out the interview with the only survival of both nuclear bombs in Japan. He escaped Hiroshima and planned to duck it out in Nagasaki....

Jag älskar Japan och Sverige :D Jag lär mig svenska och har en svensk pojkvän. Jag kommer från Tyskland och gillar dina videor så mycket. Hälsningar, Florian :))

The plan was originally to drop 2 boms on hiroshima, but the bomb had a better effect than aspected, so they had a bomb left. So they just dropped that extra bomb on nagasaki

Call it a hunch, but I'm getting more of a Sekigahara vibe than a Shinjuku vibe from you.

Noice

The Hiroshima bomb was dropped in the morning when almost all households were having breakfast cooked over open fire. Houses made out of wood and paper is not a great combination with Einstein's dark child.

Japanese products are still good, but they aren't as cutting edge as they used to be. The Japanese tech industry has kind of stagnated in the last couple decades, so they aren't the producers of all the "latest and greatests' anymore.

Just want to say dont be sorry you pause a ton i dont come here to watch the video i came here to see YOU react and talk about the videos. if i wanted to watch the video i would find the original one.

Funny they dropped it on an Asian nation not a euro country like Germany funny how that works

not exactly the last samuri emerges because as u saw japans new constitution and army they banned the samuri one school of samuri refused and stood against the militery in the battle of shiroyama september 1877 the satsuma rebellion the last school of the samuri with their swords stood against the new japanese army who had guns they faught till the last each dying one by one in a final act of defiance agianst japans new empire

Rather than discussing whether dropping the bombs was warranted, I will instead talk about the two places they targeted. Both Hiroshima and Nagasakiwere not targetted in a significantly before the two atomic bombs. Hiroshima was the location of a USA prisoner of war camp. Nagasaki was the center of Christianity in Japan. Those were the targets for 3 reasons: 1, we wanted a “live” target for sake of experimentation. 2, We wanted to scare the crap out of Russia. 3, After so many American men had died taking over those (mostly) tiny islands, no President could win re-election sending troops to invade the mainland if ANY other alternative option was present.