That was a horrible war without any doubt. However, I believe your ancestors would be proud to see how Japan recovered becoming an important world influencer, and a valued/cherished US ally, amongst many other things. Before our two countries were at odds, today we face odds together.
@@REOGURUyeah. The circumstances that led to the war could have happened in essentially any country. And, there is no doubt about the resourcefulness, bravery, and warrior spirit of the Japanese. The recovery of Japan is another testament to the country’s abilities. It’s sad that militarism took such strong hold. Let’s never forget the lessons by the sacrifices of both our peoples from those times. 🇯🇵 🇺🇸 💪🏼
Your ancestors did achieve a lot but remember there Government and military did a great evil, and they knew they could win a longterm war with US but went ahead with it anyways.
I agree, Kongo is beautiful. Interestingly, Kongo is built in UK at Vickers while all major modernization were done in Japan. Nagato and Yamato class are beautiful.
Marvelous footage. Thank you. Anyone young person who dreams of being a dashing naval officer should watch this. Defending one's country is a wonderful thing, but wars must be avoided if at all possible.
Interesting to see what happened to them after the war ended. Probably scrapped? Pretty cool and impressive how Japan could build such massive battleships.
@@1989TiananmenSquare Scraped, for steel (whole lot $$$$ of them!) And clearing navigational hazard. I bet those get to scrap them steel beauty strike riches afterwards. At that time, they were the richest asian country, and their tech were on par in a most part with other western country, and the brits were directly/indirectly taught them.
Whatever the case may be, the destruction is scary. Usually you see these kind of destruction only under the sea , where you can see hardly anything. So thank you for the video . It is sobering.
this really hits home how the americans just love to come in destroy everything and then state they they where a complete force of pure good, while also as is the case here destroying all of the historical ships from japan. how was the IJN nagato any different from the USS texas? the usa won and so, they where the superior beings able to play god.
@@higamerXD true. Americans do “love to come in an destroy everything”. That should’ve be factored into Japan’s plan for the Pearl Harbor raid. How is the Nagato different than the Texas? The Texas was on the winning side. As far as cutting up and salvaging the ships, at this point they were just ecological disasters. The fuel, oil, leaded paint and other chemicals on the hulks were deadly to sea life.
@@higamerXD , have you opened a History Book that discusses WWII in any detail at all? Seriously... Imperial Japan was hell bent on expansion and control of Asia, it had already been raping China, Burma, etc.. It then foolishly decided to attack the United States. The United States responded in kind, and Imperial Japan lost the War that they started. We were not playing God, and we were not just out destroying anything for the sake of destroying it. Unconditional Surrender meant that Japan was going to have to disarm themselves, as a result of their War of Aggression against their neighbors, and the United States.
It's too bad the British didn't save any of their battleships. I'm glad Belfast made it. A great many ships, planes, etc that would be key pieces in a museum today were scrapped to make up costs postwar, and to try and move on..
@@PhantomP63 the UK had some financial difficulties post war, what with us having to fund it and pay some rather eager Americans back for the loan, insisted upon immediately after the war ended and wasn't finished paying it back until relatively recently... So keeping ships they couldn't afford to maintain wasn't in the admiralties remit sadly.
@@nazrulizam9264 WWII was a war that spanned the planet and killed around 70 million people in just 5 or 6 years. I don't think the priority in 1945 was allowing enemy battleships and carriers to keep fighting and dragging out the bloodshed, just so some could maybe survive as museum ships. Those fighting just wanted to end it as fast as possible and go home to the lives and families. It's sad to see such mighty ships laid bare as scrap, but ofc preserving enemy warships for future tourists wasn't going to be an allied priority lol
@@nazrulizam9264, had they not pulled that cowardly sneak attack at Pearl Harbor then went on to act like barbaric savages, they would have gotten a negotiated peace settlement but after the way they conducted themselves they are lucky they got off as easily as they did.
The first heavy cruiser was a Furutaka or Aoba class vessel, the first battleship was Ise or Hyuga (or both of them), they had their rear turrets removed and replaced by a flight deck. The ship with the stripe-painted main turrets was a Kongo class battlecruiser.
Ships being shown in order, the Carrier Katsuragi, CA Aoba, BB-Float Plane hybrid Hyuga one mid turret turned, BB-FP Ise B-turret elevated both had concrete aircraft deck, CV Amagi on her side, BB Haruna with long anchor chain pulled out and striped paint on A/B-Turrets, training Cruiser Iwate or Izumo on her side, some freighters.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_Kure_and_the_Inland_Sea_(July_1945)#Gallery
@Yuri Setsuna Your welcome, yeah the CA Atago was sunk by the Submarine USS Darter by 4 torpedoes on Oct. 23, 1944 in the Battle of Leyte Gulf as part of Admiral Kurita's "Center Force".
@@danLTa18:30～ The second turret of the Ise is looking up at the sky, which is the same posture it was in when the Ise fired its last shot during its last battle as a floating battery, damaged and without sufficient water pressure and hydraulic voltage. When the crew retired from the ship, they saw the Ise's turret pointing to the sky and cried that the Ise was still trying to fight. 伊勢の二番砲塔が空を仰いでいるのは、伊勢が浮き砲台として最後の戦闘をしていたときに、損傷して水圧も油圧電圧もままならないなか、最後の一発を撃ったときの姿勢がそのままのこっているものです。乗組員は退艦する際に、伊勢の空を指した砲塔をみて、伊勢はまだ戦おうとしていると涙したそうです。
The issue with the Japanese is that they became over confident with the east Asian colonies having little to no European fleets aside from the one in Singapore. As soon as they USA came around they had really met their match though I must admit the Japanese fought valiantly.
@@billclinton3862 I somewhat take issue with your former argument, the Naval high command did expect U.S and British fleet to come and fight back, and they did.
@@jawedz I did mention the fleet in Singapore which was unfortunately annihilated by Japanese forces but the Japanese were again over confident with the US as they thought that Pearl harbour would be crippled for way longer than it actually was and said to themselves that they could prepare and large attack on the US pacific and continental mainland but their pilots at the attack failed to destroy any oil fields or naval repair yards so the pacific fleet came pack much sooner than expected and was also using carriers which would cost them dearly especially at midway
Какой мощи строительства подобные корабли вообще делались? Говоря это будете так любезны рассказать о добычи руды, металургических заводах о железных и авто дорогах, прежде чем говорить о строительстве таких кораблей, есть много вопросов в этом ключе и создание этих кораблей не как не причастны японци как и к игипетским пирамида фараоны
@@zilfondel Thank you so much. I wonder how we can improve our relationship if many US politicians are the persons like you. But the reality is that many US power holders do not permit Japan to take its own way and try to make Japan follow the US instruction. This is quite serious and is not well revealed to the public For example, the US Ambassodor is said to have pressedJapanese prome miniter and many main Japanese politicians to make a LGBT law. He is also acting as a ruler of Japan. This is just sa small example, a tip of iceberg.
Hola desde chile no creas todo lo que se dice de los extranjeros, japon para la epoca económicamente era muy rico muy estable al igual que Alemania uds como japon pudieron crear estos barco tan modernos y poderosos siempre se vatian a duelo con otros de 4 a1 y era muy difícil de derrotar un crucero acorazado u otro de uno a uno estos los aliado lo sabian x eso lo atacaban en masa y piensa este acorazado ha llegado a nuestro dia, sera xq esta bien echo, el princ eugen de Alemania le dejaron caer la bomba atómica y sobrevivio xq que cres? Bien echo al final lo barrenaron xq no se hundió asi que no sientas que tan poderoso eran sus flotas eran muy poderosa los felicito x tan majestuosa construcción
@@luisbravo7256Japan was ruled by a military government backed by the Emperor. Their military was very strong and aggressive Japan didn’t have enough raw materials to sustain their expanding empire and military. Oil was desperately needed. This is the main reason Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.
