How American Occupation Changed Japanese Culture 

Wow

My daughter had a trip to Japan scheduled but had to cancel due to COVID. As a consolation, I sent her a three-month Bokksu subscription. She loved it!

Your bell button pressing metaphors always have me laughing, very clever.

Impressive endeavor attempting to illustrate the Cold War. Since most Cold War era events are complex and heavily debated I recommend including your research sources. This will allow your viewers to dive deeper into the historiography.

Just as this video started, my first Bokksu came in!

@@whathell6t What is up with the fascination grown ass men have with these cringe cartoons?

@@ericbooth3393 Are you being serious or joking with that question?

@@whathell6t I’m dead serious I don’t get how a 30 year old man could have Pokemon or Yugioh posters in his bedroom lmao

@@ericbooth3393 Because it's fun. It's simple as that. In fact, most those men and women are sharing their joy of Pokemon, Yu-gi-oh, Bakugan, or other starters to their children. Or do you want an empirical market answer. The answer I gave you was a heuristic paradigm answer. If you're triggered over adults watching animation, then I going to assume you're triggered over the Simpsons, South Park, Rick & Morty, Venture Bros, Gorillaz, etc.

@@whathell6t I’m not triggered about it but I think the love of anime just speaks to the overall immaturity of millennial’s and Gen Z. Spending your spare time watching a cheesy Japanese cartoon with terrible voice acting, exaggerated appearances, cringe animation and basing your entire personality on the cartoons you watch as a grown adult just baffles me. Weaboo’s are a plague upon society lmao. Yes I also believe grown ass adults should not be watching Rick and Morty, or any other cartoon either. Why? Because I believe adults should be working towards creating a better world instead of living in a fantasy land. You specifically are on this history channel so I respect that but plenty of Weebs couldn’t tell you anything about history but they’ll tell you all about the storyline of pokemon. It’s cringe. But that’s just my opinion.

But ファミチキ is amazing! I love that stuff. Plus so cheap.

Can’t agree more. The only decent hot dogs here in Japan are Costco hot dogs, not gonna lie.

Mos Burger Japan has no hotdogs?

Years ago, I went to baseball games in Tokyo. The “hot dogs” were fishy!

Probably a good thing.

Hand up or hand out. Something seem we (US) has gotten mixed up

You are 70 years old Sir

Wow. Can we please see these photos??!

@@misterbig9025 I'll be 70 later this month (September). Thanks for noticing.

@@Mondo762 You're welcome Sir

Just one manga can outsell both Marvel and DC and comic book stores keep restocking mangas because the shelves keep getting empty.

Me from different timeline: what anime/manga the Disney also not exist

All fiction should be in manga/graphic novel format imo.

I still don't get the excitement of it but then again I don't read that much

*Coughs in Evangelion*

Praise the Omnissah!

@POWAH! POWER! Heisei Godzilla: “Machine God? I think I will test his might.”

69 like

Heed the machine spirits' guidance

praise be the OMNISSIAH and his machine gifts!!!!

For old movies, you can search on The Criterion Channel

@@percamihai-marco7157 Not available outside of the United States, sadly. Mobi, a curated list of art cinema is the closest we can get here.

Great movies from Japan during that period showing the complexity of human conditions.Very deeply penetrating and absorbing.Some of them have subtitled. Roshman 1950 is one of them.

@@trizvanov you can try with a free vpn

@@percamihai-marco7157 I have. Latency is a killer.

There was a video on RU-vid a while back about the Japanese emulating the So Cal "Cholo" culture! Absolutely amazing.

@@Duke_of_Prunes send video!!! i gotta see vagos-japanese crossover

There is there definitely is

"Japanese weebs for American Culture" Does JJBA count? 😅

@@captainvalourous6668 maybe

Very true. Actually the relative ease to democratize the former Axis nations blinded the US and gave it the misconception that it is easy to instill democracy to undemocratic societies. What the Cold War era US missed was, all these Axis nations once had more or less functioning democracy, and the populace did miss it, especially after experiencing the terrible fascist regimes.

@@deadby15 "blinded murrica and gave it a misconception that is easy to install democracy to undemocratic societies" You don't have idea how mad I am reading this! Astounding display of historical ignorance! Murrica was the worst enemy of democratic societies since before the second world war! Is still right now sabotaging countries and promoting violent regime changes siding with fascists and helping genocide!

​@@deathdoor what genocides has the U.S helped in?

@@Earth-ct6um Even the earth is a flat earther it seems, we are all doomed!

@@deathdoor I'm not a flat earther why you assume that?

Demon Slayer and My Hero Academia outsells DC and Marvel I heard. That's because Japan knows how to do a story.

@@Joshua_N-A nah it's because manga is cheap, far cheaper than US comics. Also they are more easier to understand bc it usually has a start and finish. Now us comics don't have the habit of completely finishing a story. US comics are always recycling the same story.

@@mitonaarea5856 Yep, cape stories follow the complete clusterfuck process of having different artists and writers every few months/years which means HUGE changes to style and story. As an old comic fan, It's such a pain in the ass to keep up with it.

@@Joshua_N-A Really? Some say that older anime was better and that a lot of anime today is too recycled.

im american and cant be proud to drive my parent's always buying honda cars to Uniclo jacket i got in disney...

Did the yakuza got their seed capital selling leftover stock of Philipon brand meth to postwar workers? Then did they blew it all later during the property bubbles of the 90's that they are being left so far behind they could go extinct in our generation?

Yeah as a guy who watch anime so many rock song in Op and Ed ain't complaining one of my favorites recently is form "those snow white note" op 👍👏

There's a saying that we wrote their constitution but they didn't really understand it, but as a music person I definitely agree that music they get. And I'm very impressed with what they've done with it.

It stands for "Service Games" then abbriviated into Sega

Be grateful that US stole 35 years of growth and development from you, starting with the plaza accord. 35 years of stagnation in the worlds most hard working nation. the nation that had unwavering determination to be the best, that had unshakable faith in its civilisation and state. Japanese used to have the worlds most nationalistic country the love you people used to have for your nation and army was greater than any country even deemed possible, today lets be honest you dont even have an army ponder about how shameful it is that such a great society and civilisation has no effective army to defend its glory and stimulate pride in it self. Your constitution was written by America, In 2016 Joe biden said that "we wrote their constitution how can they aquire nukes" The japanese constitution is the world largest Unedited legal document For 80 years your successive governments never had the spine to edit a single word of the constitution which dictates the lives of 140 million people. I think you know what happened to Shinzo Abe who tried to bring change. You think you have democracy think again you are denied the fundamental right to determine your future. Today Japanese have noway to protest this they simply stop having children, And the goverment does nothing to encourage people to have children.

By their fruits, ye shall know them. The US is not perfect by any means. But occupation by the US is already to proven far superior to an occupation of the USSR. The only difference is that Japans culture was influenced by the USA but has remained strongly Japanese in origin. There’s no need for unjustified hate.

Speaking as a scholar of Japanese-American history and having lived in Japan for most of 1953-1964 (I remember the Olympics!), you are very welcome. Most of your critics have very little knowledge of history and are so full of their own ideology they are not listening to you.

Lol

@@Krishna-pt3yu huh? You must have missed the day your history class talked about 3 million plus people the Japanese killed during WW2, the reason they were occupied.

I learned a lot. Wasn't expecting that we would have had a positive impact.

The Japanese economy went through decades of stagnation due to aggressive US policies such as the plaza accord to kill their currency, export economy, and tech leadership.

@@papabear90 Obvious Russian government propaganda worker is obvious.

@@papabear90 you are right, since Japan is under US military occupation, inposiboe tot resist, to be fair, no country in the World has the ability to resist to US hegemony, Japan fails, USSR fails, European Ubiin fails, finally except China,

@@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music did this guy really just call me Russian? What an ignorant silly person.

patience will be rewarded

@@TheColdWarTV Thanks for the response.

@@vasilerogojan4520 this aged amazingly

@@asgarihanif You love to see it.

Hi comrade

Yeah true

Anime

Tentacles

@@samsam-xk3er Tokusatsu Medium

yes! My mom was raised on the US base there

Free Ryukyu!

Agreed, their post war occupation situation was very different from the rest of Japan, being the only territory of the home islands that was directly occupied by the US.

@@anandakang Okinawa is not among Japan's home islands as the people living there are not ethnically Japanese.

@@ghowdp balkanized entire china. Freedom for all!

"Kami" that is Japanese for a 'deity/god'

lol

I chuckled when I heard that, but knew he meant kami/god.

Entire world dies of shock as rather conservative Japanese man admits he is not a Bolshevik.

But he was one.

OMG, OMG, OMG, this IS THE Dr. Thomas Sowell?!!? 😊 I love your work/writing.

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@Khartikeyen Satheraman if I had the ability and authority to give you one I would

Lmao still would be fucked up if a country was nuked twice. They could nuke mountain or so

@@njez7563 Ya'll love Japan, one, for their genuinely dope entertainment/culture and whatnot...but it's only up to the point they ever stopped being doormats for you. Or the country became sovereign and grew too strong. And more women found their guys attractive... Tell me I'm lyin, I ain't

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Post War Economic Holocaust and Post War Culture Murder seems more accurate.

@@andredeketeleastutecomplex Turning terms on their head isn't a clever way to say whatever the hell you think you are saying.

@@andredeketeleastutecomplex Actually! Kamen Rider (from Ichigo to Shin and Zo) in the Showa Era deals with that fact constantly, especially since the several protagonists were a experimental test subjects.

I dont get why is called “economic miracle”, when it was no miracle when you have the US pouring money into your economy so you can act as a barrier against Russia and China in the Pacific.

@پیاده نظام خان Also Japanese planning, and economic shadiness XD

These reply sound clueless.just simple statement...or something else

Absolutely! He and Prime Minister Yoshida, who worked with Gen. MacArthur to rewrite the Japanese constitution and end the feudal system in Japan, deserve huge credit for bringing their country into the modern world as a major player.

"Never change Japan" is maybe one of the most naive things I've ever heard in my entire life. There's positives and negatives to every culture without exception. And you picked the one with negatives too strong to ignore to ask to "never change"... Take a visit there. Spend some time comparing cultural norms, compare the world views between citizens. Maybe then you'll be mentally equipped to talk about something like this. Disappointing

@@Kyo0 What you've said is true, but I think the OP meant using the phrase in a positive sense. It's obvious that every culture has some problems, and for Japan, there are many important ones that they need to fix, but there also also many aspects which the country nails in succeeding.

@@tanmaynegi3169 It wasn't until 2014 they finally issued a ban on both the production and selling of adult content containing children in them, during that people who make anime for a living of certain genres fought to keep anything none-videography or non-photography under freedom of expression laws which is why those anime genres aren't illegal in the country. They've fixed that said issue however there's many cultural flaws that needs to be fixed such as views around mental illnesses, autistic children is a very sensitive topic in Japan for example.

@@shotakonkin2047 I agree, and I was well aware of how they didn't ban what you've mentioned until relatively recently, but even the punishment of possession of that stuff is comparatively lax, seeing how some I've seen some mangakas who were convicted for that crime, but came out either with some fine, and/or a small jail sentence(iirc), so obviously some more fixing is needed(same can go for the judicial system). To add, views on mental health and it's related issues saldy basically kinda sucks everywhere in Asia as far as I'm aware, so that's something everyone has to work towards to correct. [Edit:- added "and/" and changd "possetof" to "possesion of"]

@@tanmaynegi3169 The problem is the OP’s comment is similar to a lot of Japan obsession you see on the internet. As if it’s some perfect utopia. I’m sure Japan is great. I’ve met a few of them living in America and they are wonderful. But Japan just like any other nation has serious flaws. One commenter mentioned numerous things. Another would be the extremely high suicide rate. Where simply losing your job or failing to make a promotion can lead one to commit suicide. There is an entire forest known for this phenomenon. And Japan is such a rigidity reserved culture that discussions around suicide and suicide prevention aren’t discussed nearly enough. A lot of these flaws get pushed to the side because most people when they speak of Japan are just gushing about how great it is.

Ofc, you are a weeb.

@@mitonaarea5856 i see no problem with that xd

@@gojo76 the definition of a weeb is someone who is obsessed with Japan and values more Japan's culture than it's own culture. I wouldn't say that that's a good thing, but if you think that's good, well good for you.

@@mitonaarea5856 Hm , still no problem to me

A flame war averted thank god

The history got outdated?

@@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music with the ones that I found, they were made in the past and this video had given a clear and a more informal understanding of Japan after WW2

Context.

@@karenk2409 Cannabis is heavily associated with Shintoism since ancient times and it was used in a wide range by the people. Its main usage was for clothing, rope making, using the seeds for seasoning, and making religious artifacts. Extracting oil from cannabis was more of a new thing that was started after Japan’s modernization in 1865. Among some peasants and farmers, smoking for medical or recreational purpose came after all of the plant’s needs was fully used. Nonetheless, it was an extremely vital source for Japanese people due to its country lacking in natural resources. The Americans somehow saw this as tied to Japanese “nationalism” due to its connection with Shintoism, and labeled 大麻(cannabis) as an illegal drug. Japanese people were shocked by this since many people relied on cannabis for their living and smoking them was considered to be something secondary. As for firearms….since Japan’s introduction to western rifles in the 16th century, it was fairly common among civilians to own firearms for hunting and keeping wild animals away from farms. Firearms for self protection(用心鉄砲) was also allowed to some degree. Even during the Edo period, there were some provinces that had civilians owning firearms more than the ruling samurai class did. It was mostly kept this way after Japan’s modernization with a minor restriction. The restriction was a categorization of military issued rifles and civilian rifles. Rifles that were no longer in service by the military and hunting rifles that were allowed by civilians. Murata rifles(Japan’s first made bolt action rifles) were sometimes converted into shotguns and were widely popular among Matagi hunters and Ainus. Whats interesting is that during this time, the average mailman were required to carry a handgun during their work for protection. This all changed due to the “demilitarization” process during the American occupation. Civilian firearms and swords were to be confiscated even though they werent really for military usage.

They were probavly scared of japanese people owning guns

Hmmmm... so they became productive after cannabis was illegalized? Whatchu tryna say?

Was he/it wearing bellbottoms?

Mothra will be dispatched for assistance

There were a lot of western influences in Japan, including Christianity. It's ironic that the US bombed Nagasaki, which traditionally was the most welcoming of western ideas and goods than any other part of the country, and not only that, but the bomb dropped right by a Christian church.

@@alukuhito I mean. It’s a war. You drop bombs on whatever you need to to accomplish your objective. I doubt the bomb dropping near the church was intentional.

Absolutely! When I was there as a kid in the 1960s, my mother would sponsor Japanese schoolboys onto the base to play baseball with my brothers in the park next to our Washington Heights house. They spoke fluent "baseball"!

When I was a kid living in Japan in the early 60s, my mother used to call in a bunch of Japanese schoolboys to play baseball with my brothers on base. I have home videos of this! They all spoke Baseball.

It was really well done; I learned a lot.

That would be interesting since there are so many Americans of German descent.

Germany and Japan...both US vassals

Let's not over praise a country that has deep issues. The japan of today has people regularly overworking themselves to death, has made business the center of their lives. The have extreme rates of loneliness and they buy more adult diapers in the nation than baby ones. They aren't torturing people to death and worshiping their leader anymore, which is a major leap forward, but they now are a dystopia for the average corporate worker. They haven't made it, they became a dark future of extreme capitalism. Obviouly I don't think communism is the answer, we saw its far worse in outcome on this channel, but clearly they need better worker laws.

@@resentfuldragon we need economical/living systems that arent based on the entire individual or the entire group to move forward. Sadly there's not enough space or resources to make this a reality, but maybe corporate culture will fade away one day.

@@resentfuldragon They also have extremely little due process, an intermingling of organized crime with government and police, and a terrible legal system, which is the real reason you never see Japanese looters, they're afraid to be arrested.

Prime Minister Yoshida and General Douglas MacArthur made a miracle.

Please preserve those stories for your descendants!

@warrio6 But still no match against Kamen Rider Ohma Zi-O, the demon god of the Kamen Rider multiverse.

praise be the GOD EMPEROR AND THE MACHINE GOD

Tenno Heika Banzai = The Emperor Protects

Obviously God-Emperor of Mankind are the first Emperor of Japan

@@whathell6t HERESY THERE IS NO BEING CAN DEFEAT THE GOD-EMPEROR!!! Yes inquisitor this comment PREPARE TO BE PURGE IN HOLY FIRE HERETIC =][= The Emperor Protect =][=

@Sap Tokusatsu Medium

@@whathell6t what?

white+weeb is such a degenerate combo like 25% of the time

That's a fun factoid! I never connected curry with Japan!

Japan is still very Japanese not America.

This would be cool. To make the 1954 Gojira movie more relatable to Americans, they reshot some scenes with Raymond Burr, a Canadian from New Westminster, British Columbia. He later returned to the role of journalist Steve Martin in Godzilla 1985.

@lati long Sure, but in Japanese Shinto, there is no "supreme deity." It's an animist religion believing that spirits inhabit just about everything. Those spirits are the "kami," and "kami" often gets translated as "god" or "gods" when "spirit" would probably be a more appropriate translation. There are also kami for things like birth and agriculture. Shinto tradition says there are "eight million million" kami.

Thank you, good clarification.

Godzilla, anti hero, metaphor for Atomic Bomb , USA. ALL ART IS PROPAGANDA? 🤔😉🇺🇸🇯🇵

Si! Eviva mon General Augusto Pinochet! Also the Mercenaries that managed to stabilize the Congo.

The Congo needs like 5 episodes to even scratch the surface.

@@FortuneZer0 This is mixed with french XD A chilean pinochetista would say "¡Viva mi general Pinochet!" Chile during the cold war was a clusterfuck, probably the worst off we've ever been.

I wish in my country we could have a Pinochet.

@@fernandoreynaaguilar1438 Some would aay Perú needs an Otoya Yamaguchi.

It's not really to my taste; my wife is watching it. But it is super popular in lots of the world, and is a close approximation of the NHK dramas of the 1950s.

I don't think anybody occupied Italy though. Austria was occupied but no one seems to care what impact it had on them.

That would be interesting since there are so many Americans of Italian descent.

What came to my mind was the post war tourist trades turn Neapolitan pizza and tomato sauce into a national dish, not the Roma style with cream sauce. How did the transition happened and did they do it to get tourist money, the only real source of income in 50's Italy before industry goods got back in production?

Yes, back in 1872. Japan, in turn, introduced it to Brazil, by way of the sizable Japanese diaspora living there, hence why Brazilian players have been making their way to the majors within the past decade.

@@Gameflyer001 what a world lol

Talking Baseball ⚾️… what a world indeed

I think Taiwan learned it from Japan, too. There’s a film based on a true event about a Taiwanese baseball team beating richer, more famous Japanese teams in the pre-war era.

@@deadby15 makes sense, as Japan had occupied the island prior to WWII.

Technically I think we're renting it.

And air and naval bases near Yokohama and Tokyo

Because they want us to protect them from Russia which won't return the Japanese islands they took in WWII.

When US close the base, the shops follow suit.

I hope you have preserved his stories!

The Japanese were leading tech giants before the war. American occupation and wartime destruction only delayed this emerging trend.

@@JT-qh2upWhile the US obviously can’t take all or even most of the credit for Japans success in tech and their economy it is absolutely blockheaded and ignorant to say American intervention didn’t have a complete net positive on the country.

The US didn't "give their culture to Japan," the Japanese people after the war finally saw the standard of living that could be attained through American cultural practices introduced during the occupation, and they wanted it! Japan then mobilized its business acumen, educational assets, and inherent work ethic and created its version of material success Japanese-style.

Good

@@k00lkidz4 racist

@@michalaugustniak433 Because you are still living in a cave?

@@alangervasis spambot

Well the Japanese society accepted the western values and culture otherwise the west wouldn't have been able to westernize them. Afghanistan on the other hand is an example of what happens when a civilization refuses to accept western values as after 20 years of Western occupation it is still in the same situation it was back in the day.

@@siyacer Why are you everywhere? I saw you on a britmonkey video about banning cars.

Japan is still very Japanese not America.

@@23Lgirl ik but they got some cultural influences from the American

90%+ Japanese culture comes from China. Modern Japan you could say America inspired them, for sure.

And then China got involved.

How accurate was it? Or are you too young to really know?

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Is it true Japanese women lowkey worship white guys? I heard the dating scene there is really good, I want to go too..

Your very smart women friends, in my opinion, are right. Japan's leadership became obsessed with a racial-superiority, militaristic fascist ideology that led them to colonize Korea and parts of Mongolia and China, to provide them with resources for their industries, then headed on south, sure of victory. The American fleet in the South Pacific was in the way. Against Yamamoto's better judgment, they took on the U.S. and managed to accomplish what the U.K. had been trying to do for years: get America into the war. At that point, the vast disparity in population and industrial capacity spelled the end of that Japanese adventure.

@@karenk2409 As an interesting side note, it wasn't a given that the US's declaration of war against Japan would also mean greater participation in Europe. There was a legitimate fear at the time that Japan would distract America away from war with Germany. Luckily, Hitler was an idiot and saved FDR the trouble by bafflingly declaring war on the US and fully unleashing the economic powerhouse on both fronts.

@@AllUpOns Actually, the real issue was the raw materials (petroleum, bauxite, nickel, etc etc) available only in Southeast Asia and heretofore controlled by European colonial powers. Japan had been heavily dependent on American petroleum for a long time. As Japan floundered in Mongolia (stymied by the USSR), it looked southward for those resources, with the goal being dominate the area itself. The war in Europe badly degraded the colonial powers' ability to protect their SE Asian assets. The American Navy based in the Philippines stood between Japan and its goal. As Japan's invasions progressed, Roosevelt by stages cut them off from American supplies. By Pearl Harbor, Japan had only 18 months' petroleum supplies left. When it made its big dramatic move, bombing the US Navy at Pearl and simultaneously driving south, it became a mortal threat to Europe and the US. And that was that

I hope you're being sarcastic. I'm so sick of people trying to explain Japan.

And they have, but with anime... which isn't a good thing anime has literally ruined our youth

@@Sticknub Where's your un-anecdoted proof on that?

@@Sticknub You ask me, it only amplified current cultural problems. If anything, a strong-minded individual wouldn't be influenced by japanese cartoons, but we don't have many of those nowadays.

Japan is still very Japanese not America.

Mega cringe

It's funny how white America is damage controlling the rise of Latin American influence in the future, yet are ignorant that Spanish's history in North America predates the United States by a few hundred years.

@@siyacer because if they do they will literally be accused of trying to corrupt America's culture you just going to sit there and pretend it doesn't happen? XD are you THAT ignorant?

It's allowed to though. It might get criticized but that's the extent of it.

@@DakotaofRaptors nooooo no it is not that's an extremely closed minded way of seeing things but you'll never see another culture rise on America like America does in other countries because it ISNT allowed hell even if white Americans THINK another culture is becoming more dominant (when it isnt) it leads to all kinds of negative effects in a lot of ways people from other cultures are demonized for even coming to America when a ton of middle eastern people came to the states due to wars in their own countries (caused BY the states) it actually led to real violence for people just trying to live their lives and follow their own cultural beliefs again led to REAL VIOLENCE for the immigrants coming to the states just trying to live happy safe lives by their own cultural rules (nothing like breaking laws or anything but like wanting a temple or mosque to pray at for example) so don't sit there and say they are allowed to when they face real violence for things Americans can do freely like religion and yes temples and mosques do exist in America but there are a ton of white Americans who straight up believe they are created woman/America hating terrorists in them no one thinks that about mostly white churches even though it's far more true so no they are not allowed to freely express their own culture in America not like Americans are

@@dakotaloven1362 but it isn't government-mandated. People are allowed to do whatever they like so long as it is legal. Of course there are going to be people who oppose that, sometimes with violence, but it's not like the federal government issues an order explicitly authorizing the oppression of a certain religion or race.

Kudos to you, Bradley! I'm writing a dissertation on aspects of post-occupation Japan. It's a great focus for study.

Yep, and it's starting to show...

Japan was not a military dictatorship. In Japan, where there were tens of thousands of communists aiming for a defeat revolution, it was very likely that a civil war would occur, but the presence of the emperor prevented it. That is why in May 1945, the Government of Japan notified the United States that the only condition for surrender was the maintenance of the imperial family. I understand well that you Westerners didn't try to understand Japanese at all and still don't.

Shows the power of the American ideal!

@@115islandscompass6 japan WAS an military dictatorship, and the rest of your paragraph does nothing to prove your point.

@@115islandscompass6 Exactly. The West only considers cultural hegemony exercised by itself to be successes, as opposed to countries developing their own governance. A lot of Japanese still remember the insult of the 80s by the US when Japan was only doing what America had taught it to do, though even more effectively.

What we did to japan was a cultural genocide, a way of life was lost for mass imperialism and consumerism, disgusting. Its not your place to tell other nations how to run their country or their culture.

Better to forget in some aspects, if you could remember them, you empower those who wants to follow those memories in the footsteps. Human beings benefit better of 'not knowing' certain truths or details if it opens up a can of worms to be abused, or make it harder to access or less important so that no one can end up 'worshiping' such memories and trying to run a cult. For instance restricting the history to the seniors and adults and making it taboo to teach children things that may stir them into a rebellious path. Everything works as a double edged sword though, so there can be examples of this being abused by the old against the young.

@@dra6o0n OK? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4EcPWQ5jIpw.html

The Japanese after the war blamed their own military and government for their deception, oppression, terrible human losses, and humiliating defeat. I recommend the book Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse.

Well they were more or less the nazis of the east. And nazis and commies just don't get on.

But in different taste, when American bring their influence, the animation also change too

I really really doubt it's the largest.

@@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music You're right but it's still one of the largest

Yes I was going to remark that the end of this episode was sort of incomplete as it did not really summarise how much the Japanese participated in the cold war and the ongoing impact of us occupation of Japan via various military bases.

@@CA999 The impact being keeping CCP fools out?

I am writing a dissertation on this very subject. The Communist Party in Japan is miniscule, and always has been. They were troublemakers before the war, and afterwards. The imperial Japanese government threw them all in prison. MacArthur freed them in the name of democracy. You need to read a book.

Unlike modern American version, Japanese Godzilla is different. The latest Shin Godzilla criticize and satirize Japan's heavily bureaucratic government on the Fukushima crisis.

Facebook, Amazon and Disney are the modern zaibatsu.

I think they were re-labelled as Keiretsu after the war.

@Kevin Bourke What about Tokusatsu?

Japan is still very Japanese not America.