Japan Does Not Want You to See This Photo 

I remember a girl in my middle school proudly proclaiming that her grandfather was one of the pilots to drop one of the bombs on Japan, and I just remember being so horrified that she would be proud of that. And seeing a photo of a shadow burned into the concrete was just so heartbreaking :(

Some of the pictures here are actually discussed in our history lessons in Philippines. I find it dubious on how censored the American and Japanese history lessons were compared to us. The worst part is some people deny it happened when it did. Imagine having another country know more about your country more than you do.

“Japan does not want you to see this photo” *Shows it to us* (Joke, I love these kind of videos)

Hey Aki! just a reminder surrounding the case of Issei Sagawa, the picture of the victim that you put, which is all over the internet is not Reneé Hartvelt, she's called Lindsay Hawker (who's also a victim of another japanese murderer) but just to clarify because even if the cases are similar, the circumstances around them are very different.

All our history, especially the ugliest parts of it, need to be seen and remembered. We need to know and understand the horrors and atrocities that were committed by those that came before, in the hopes that such things may never happen again

To me, the worst part is that they deny it all happened. If they did something terrible, at least have the guts to admit it. Say “yes, we did it and we recognize our terrible actions in the past and the consequences of it, we’ll do better in the future” that is true humility. Denying the truth only makes it way worse, almost seeming like escapism.

I know that this advice is not asked for, but I noticed a while ago your piercing was developing a little bit of a piercing bump and now you’re covering it with a Band-Aid and it typically isn’t recommended for it to be covered because piercing bumps normally are there because of irritation, so putting a Band-Aid on and off of it is going to just continue to irritate it it’s best to just leave them alone and clean them regularly until they go away. (Sorry if this was unwanted advice I just have a lot of experience with piercings and piercing bumps)

For the 2nd image,a quick footnote: Rescue operations were delayed due to difficult terrain and poor visibility when the JDSF heli arrived. One of the survivors after her recovery in the hospital said she recalled bright lights and sound of helicopters flying above whilst hesring scraming and moaning from other survivors,the sounds gradually faded into the night.

I learned a lot of Japanese history from my Japanese class. I am thankful I was able to learn about the history that should be shared to everyone.

9:50 It isn't the shadow that's burnt into the ground it's the area around it that was bleached by the heat and light.

Thank you for covering the Nanking massacre and raising awareness about it - and yes, most far-right Japanese people would deny that it happened day in and day out. For the record, you can call it either Nanking or Nanjing - back in the day it was called Nanking but in Mandarin it's called Nanjing, and Mandarin is the main language in China. Also, Japanese schools are notorious for not teaching the war crimes the Imperial Japanese Army (which far right fascists want to bring back) did to the rest of east and southeast Asia.

Southern Californian who graduated HS in the very early 2000s here. The Japanese internment camps from WW2 were definitely discussed in my High School history class. A whole day was focused on this - We watched a documentary on it and read letters written by families who endured that struggle. I'm sorry to hear you did not experience the same in your schooling, though this possibly could be because we lived on the west coast which tends to have wider diversity then a lot of America.

The photo of the brothers at the crematorium has haunted me for years, I will never forget that image of that brave little boy. I did see the documentary of the search for the location of that spot, and the child., heartbreaking. Perhaps it is better we don't know, as you say, the image is all you need, it speaks volumes.

I remembered when I was in high school, we did go over about what the States did to Japanese citizens during WWII. It wasn't gone over as much like the holocaust, but I do remember learning about it. I felt sorry for the innocent people who where sent to these camps.

On a lighter, but still related note: Did you know that heated floors existed in ancient Rome? The setup was known as a hypocaust - you'd have a tiled floor with a hollow space underneath connected to a fireplace.

As a Canadian who is now in his mid 40s I never learned of Japanese internment (we did it too) nor any of the horrible things we did to indigenous people in Canada.. Residential schools, 60s scoop and other things. Never taught to us in school and didn't even know about it until like my late 20s. Absolutely shameful.

With regards to the ill-fated Japan Airlines flight, the most infuriating part was that the Japanese govt refused any foreign help with regards to the rescue efforts. Iirc, there was a US base stationed nearby at that time that were ready and able to start rescue efforts, but they were refused to help out, stating that Japan has enough resources to do the rescue, which of course turned out to be false.

Read the manga “Barefoot Gen.” By then, I was able to read Japanese, and I found it heartbreaking. I felt sorry for Gen, his mother, his baby sister, and a boy they adopted whom was a doppelgänger of his baby brother. Only in Japan John Daub visited Hiroshima recently…

The photo of the family with the No___ Wanted graffiti, as an American we didn't learn about it at all in school. My grandmother told me about what happened to families in her community. Including stories of the families' property straight up being stolen from them, which in a farming community is their whole lively hood. American schools do a lot to try and cover up shameful events.

The third one is sadly a Darwin Award. He would have suffocated due to the lack of oxygen in the wheel wells. 😢

Surprisingly, in my very very small rural town...we actually got taught most of the historical things happening in WW2 by my junior high history teacher. Didn't stop some kids from only focusing on Pearl Harbor and calling me Jap and wanting my Grandma to die. She was 10 when WW2 ended. Most neighboring small town schools were not taught this. They get taught up to WW2 and that America was awesome. The end.

I remember my 3rd grade teacher taught us what happened to Japanese citizens, mainly through the book "Baseball Saved Us". Really good heart breaking book

I love that you give the backstory of the pictures I've seen people show bad pictures and they don't say anything about it there's no context so I love it

While I did learn a lot from American history, most of the history I learned from other parts of the world, or parts of history that were censored in American history class, I found out more in college (uncensored), and of course the internet as well. I saw Barefoot Gen, hard film to watch but important as well. Most of the photos you covered, I have never seen them before, especially the boy standing with the baby in the back, that was a powerful photo. Thank you for sharing Aki. It's a shame so much of history I learned in class are censored or only focused common history topics in America, but I rarely learned history from other parts of the world. Most of the history I learned now are due to internet or documentaries/videos.

The worst part about the boy sneaking in to the wheel compartment is if you forget literally everything else about it, say he could breathe, he didnt freeze etc... the wheel retracting would have crushed him to death anyways. there's not space for a person, even a teenager, in that compartment. Just a wheel and its leg.

My wife and I have had the pleasure of visiting Hiroshima city twice and it is a beautiful place. We took the tour bus around the city and also visited Miyajima Island. Visiting the A-Bomb dome and then walking through the Peace Park was a bit mind blowing, knowing that we were walking about as close to the detonation centre as you can get (the hypocenter plaque is just around the corner from the dome). What struck me was the walls of the dome building and that they have the same cracking as you see on wood when it chars. The same thing happened with concrete...

For input on the photo of the Japanese American family as well as the Nanking photo, in my high school we learned extensively about both that section of American history and Japanese war crimes in WW2, so you may have gotten unlucky with your school. I have friends online who also learned about these two topics, but some others who didn't learn about either or one or the other. It probably differs from school to school. Very interesting and sad video.

I don't remember being taught about the Japanese "relocation" camps in school until I was college. Even then it was watered down because I learned so much more about it outside of school since then. (This was also in the early 00s... I know there are things kids are learning now that we never learned. Not sure if this is one of them or not.)

I had a few teachers in school growing up in Massachusetts cover the Japanese internment camps with us. In English class in, maybe, 5th or 6th grade, we read a book about Japanese kids using their mutual love of baseball in the camps to focus on the good in their lives. In high-school, my history teacher read with us an excerpt of a memoir written by a woman who was a little girl in the camps and spoke to us about separating people from their government and/or ethnicity and why it's important to do that. That teacher also made a point to teach us about modern racism and prejudice, why prejudices happen, how beliefs are passed down through different generations, and how some people learn that their prejudices are wrong. She, also, taught us about mass hysteria during the cold war and things like that. She was an AMAZING teacher, on par with Mr. Feeney from Boy Meets World but a young woman instead of an old man. After September 11th, 2001, teachers, especially history teachers, in my school would find ways to teach us about the realities of war and prejudice while fitting it into the required curriculum. We were only a 3 hour drive from NYC and had students who lost their father in the attacks; he was the pilot who flew into the north tower - I don't remember his name, it's a long name. He was from Dracut, Massachusetts, and worked for Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts if anyone is interested in learning about him. I was in 5th grade when it happened. We all know kids process things like that rather poorly, and the teachers definitely picked up on some of us crossing lines beyond "age appropriate," for lack of a better term, racism that almost all kids outgrow and starting down a path of genuine hate and lack of empathy. I think that is probably what triggered the teachers to get serious with covering these tougher things wherever they could. They knew we didn't understand what was happening and that some of us were going home to prejudice families who were getting louder about those prejudices because of the fear of everything. They knew the extreme patriotism without opposition wasn't a good thing for us to see so much of at such a young age. I really respect my teachers for stepping up. There is a reason our teachers get over $60k/year, no doubt about it. It is unfortunate that we only briefly touched on the German hate that German-Americans got and never touched on the hate Italian-Americans got, as there are a LOT of people here who hate white people for simply being white, thinking it makes up for all of the injustices that SOME white people committed. We did touch, a little bit, on Irish-American hate, but hardly at all. French-Canadian hate is something I had to learn about on my own time, and I'm glad I did because it is DEVISTATING to watch your own culture die from the inside. It's devastating regardless; I'm Irish-American, Cajun and Quebec-American, German-American, and Scottish-American with step relatived and adopted relatives from all over, but not understanding why your family looks at you with disgust when you ask them to teach you your grandparents native language is extremely hurtful. It hurts me more than my Irish-American father having to lie to my sister and I that his surname was the French version of Lambert because my Quebec-American grandmother and great-grandmother hated the Irish. My great-grandmother was born in 1904, I'd be surprised if she didn't hate my Irish roots.

My history teacher never filtered anything and made us watch so many videos she was rly good we watched a whole thing on Japanese families in those camps and how they lived

In Canada there were also internment camps for Japanese Canadians (not taught in school when I attended) They have only recently started teaching about Canada`s abysmal record in our history with the Indigenous, Metis and Inuit people.

Out of these you've mentioned, I only recognize the Nanjing one and the cannibal one. The cannibal one was out of curiosity for me while the Nanjing one was in Chinese school (in NYC). I was also only told by my aunt one time to never go for a Japanese partner and I wasn't sure why until this. I don't think knowing all of this influences my opinion on the matter (cus I don't date based on that, seems like discrimination to me), but this was worth knowing. Thank you for sharing these!

I found you on disturbing/dark/sad/depressing vocaloid songs and you did a good breakdown on it You came back with this and i miss this alot

I'm so upset about the Nanjing massacre and the fact I didn’t know about it at all. Thank you so much for covering it and raising awareness.

In my socials class, the relocation camp picture was shown. Our teacher taught us all about it, and I go to a Canadian school. But then again he is Japanese and his family did experience this.

PLEASE make a part 2, I love hearing the stories of these photos.

Thanks Aki, this was very educational, emotional and thought provoking.

Hi! Im from America and outside of the cannibal, we learned all of these (and especially the internment camps. I think we spent at least a week every year until later high school on it). The US is a really big place and our schooling is not as unified as people think it is.

In high school, we were required to take a world history class. In that class, we learned much about Japanese history even though we were in the US. It's fascinating that some schools, in the US, don't go over this type of thing. It's extremely heartbreaking and good to know knowledge, I'm really glad my school went over this type of stuff.

A great graphic novel to read for the internment camps (photo#8) in the United States is "They Called Us Enemy by George Takei". It showed his experience and explained the situation very well. Even the art style is like a combination of American comics and manga. It has as many sad moments as it does happy. It's a beautiful memoir.

I found out about the Japanese US camps growing up via the American Girl books of Molly (in the Looking Back section at the end of it which was basically a mini history lesson revolving around whatever the story itself was) and her Welcome To Molly’s World book which is something I recommend along with the other Welcome To books. So much of my knowledge of US history and stuff that were made or what not from back then are due to those. I spent so many hours reading these books. Should reread them.

My mom was a doctor, so I spent a lot of time reading and watching medical shows & books, and so I knew *exactly* what I was looking at in the Issei Sagawa pictures. 🥴

Thank you Aki for todays video it was really interesting, I can't wait for what interesting videos you will do next 😊❤

I love u, aki. Thank you for these informative things that i would neverve known about. Hoping to see ur next case, detective Aki.

About Japanese Interment camps in America, I wasn't taught that in history class either. I learned about it in English class when we read the memoir "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston. It's a memoir written by a woman who was a little girl when her family got sent to an internment camp. It was so odd to me that my history class never once mentioned any of this. If my english teacher hadn't decided she wanted to teach this book, I doubt I'd know about that even to this day.

It's almost 1am here for me as I watch this before bed lol. It's wild that these things have happened in history, thank you for giving some info or just making these things known to those that want to be informed of history no matter how dark and sad. I've only heard some of these briefly in school.

Aki, hearing you say you didn’t learn about the camps in the US also made me rethink if I even did learn that too in school. I asked a couple of my old peers and they said we did not learn any of that, that this is a part of history that schools don’t teach.

Aki, I feel like you would be such a great teacher 😊 you present information in a clear and easy way for people to understand. Great video!

I remember back in my English class in high school, we had went into a big discussion about this happening. We were reading the book "Farewell to Manzanar" and for one of our assignments our teacher had asked us to write letters to our loved ones as if we were one of the people sent to the Internment Camp. That lesson has stuck with me ever since and showed me just what kind of pain Japanese and Japanese-Americans had to go through at that time.

Keep up the great work and videos Aki

I gotta say Aki my respect for you has just grown even more, I already watch your videos and like them but even talking about Japan and China takes some stones. Respect ✊🏼

i love your channel and i finally got my cousin to watch one of your vids and now shes hooked on your channel

The Pilots of the JAL flight are heroes. They did their best to keep that plane flying. To give you an idea, when the vertical stabilizer (That controls the movement) snapped off, it also cut the hydraulics to basically every other control surface. The fact that they didn't immediately drive directly into the ground is a credit to those pilots. The flight itself is fairly controversial because the Japanese government refused outside help (Including help from a nearby US Military base with numerous Helicopters) and it took them nearly a day to get to the crash site. Many people died *on the ground* because of the delays.

Also pretty sure the standing boy of Nagasaki is the premise for one of Isao Takahata's films. I'm not going to name it in case you haven't seen it, but it's really obvious once you watch it. He definitely did the hardest to watch ghibli films

Thank you for all of this Aki, i learned a lot from this!

Completely unrelated to the video but I have been watching your channel since middle school (for the vocaloid playlists) and I love your content. You are also beautiful and your make up and hair are always on point. Your voice is also very calming and also keeps up the energy at the same time- I don't know if that makes sense. Anyway love your channel.

Going to the Hiroshima museum changed me forever. There are many things I'll never forget. When I left and looked at the river, all I could think of was it being full of dead bodies. Highly disturbing

I live in the midwest US. I went went to high school in the 90s. We did learn about Japanese internment. We spent at least a couple days on it in every US history class.

aki, your videos are popping off. that last frew have been gold. i kinda like that every now and then we'll get a pizza review on top of horror shit.

awesome stuff!! its always nice to see your uploads in my notifs 😄

In middle school (public school) I was taught about the interment camps. They didn’t hold back on any details it sounded heartbreaking.

from USA in suburb of chicago and i did learn about this and saw a video animation of what the aftermath looked like when USA bombed hiroshima. We also read sadako in elementary school and i cried so hard as a child reading this story. so yeah my schools did go in depth of some of the things we did but learned as an adult what they did and what comfort woman were. History is very messy and sad.

love your vibe and videos, akidearest!

It’s so heartbreaking how so many of these videos had awful tragedies accompanied with them, but thank you for showing and speaking about them because it’s so important to never forget about what happened in them

Hi Aki. I'm from the UK and in history class we only learnt about the war between Britain and Germany. I have recently seen a few documentaries on Hiroshima and it was beyond words 😢

Oddly enough, I did learn about the terrible treatment of Japanese people in America in highschool, but I learned about it through my English class instead of my History classes because we read a memoir of a girl who's family was relocated to one of the interment camps. The topic was slightly touched upon by my world history teacher, but there wasn't official text book material. What he told us was out of personal knowledge and research he had done and felt it was important for us to know, especially because of what happened locally.

I love this channel! I watched these since 2019-2018

Hello Aki, Thank you for this very thoughtful and compassionate work.

(11:20) That image is actually present in our History books here in France, and the teacher didn't even give a warning really when talking about it, but i understand why Japan, or the USA would censor that picture.

I love the compassion you show. It's in your voice, and it's obvious you are just as horrified as us. You should be a writer or journalist. You've got "it". Rock on, baby girl!❤ And may the Japan people forgive us for the evil we spread to them. It makes me so sick.

Favourite type of content from Aki!

HEllo I enjoy your courage for uploading and reviewing the cursed photos your self :3 stay awesome cant wait to see what you got for us this october!!! NEW SUBSCRIBER HERE!

Just went down a deep dive researching the Nanjing massacre. I never heard about that in school. It definitely stands out as one of the most horrific atrocities to ever take place in our world's history. I do feel like every country's portrayal of 'history' in their native schools is incredibly biased with how they present information. Internment camps were barely touched on, possibly mentioned in a sentence or two. I didn't learn much about them until I moved to Seattle, where that photo was taken, and also befriending a man who spent some of his childhood in one with his parents.

In the US, I had a history teacher in 10th grade. She taught really well, but was old and had no filters. That said she went into great detail of the Nanking Massacre and other similiar events in history (one of which included Russia pushing back against Germany at the time, IIRC) That said in my highschool we also touched a bit about the relocation of Japanese Americans, but it wasn't till college I learned about that in more detail. In fact it wasn't till college that I learned about America's dark story in Vietnam war (some cases similar to Nanking). I guess in the US, there is a small chance to be taught the darkside of history.

Really Like this episode; thanks Aki 🙏🏼🙋‍♀️

such a cute animation intro! luv it

A lot of these photos I've seen. I also seen one where a Japanese soldier was slicing a baby in half. Over here in Fresno California we learn about the relocation camps for the Japanese because Fresno Fairgrounds was a relocation camps. They also have a plaque and photos of the camps over there.

The mention of the Japanese family photo in Seattle Washington reminded me of when my World History Teacher discussed about it since I live in Washington, it was very sad and heartbreaking know that even if Japanese families born or raised in US, they still didn't take the risk, so they put them in Camp Harmony for little while.

Just found you (or your algorithm found me) and subscribed because I always loved my layovers in Japan. By the way, when the teen fell out of the wheel well, it would’ve been shortly after take off and probably not that cold but had he managed to hold on he would’ve died from cold or lack of O2.

This is a cool channel I accidentally found. Keep it up!

The most relatable quote: "You know that really disturbing image you saw years ago? You should go look it up!" With my OCD I constantly obsess over certain memories (especially at night while I'm trying to sleep) including scary videos or images I've seen and it won't go away until I look it up LMAO

For those who are interested about Japan's history, there's also a film called Men Behind The Sun. It was a real life story and so disturbing because it really happened. I don't wanna spoil but you can watch the movie.

I always love when you do the horror stuff tbhh

The last picture is heartbreaking indeed, you guys might not know but a person that has been infected by radiation; on best case scenario they will be sterilized and their insides will be melted... very very quickly

My English teacher had us learn about the Japanese Internment Camps in my 11th grade. We read the manga written by George Takei and looked into a few other sources. I was very glad my teacher had went out of her way to teach us that, seeing the image of after the interment camps probably broke my heart the most because of the prior knowledge. I always sucked and never could focus on history, in America the teachers who teach it gloss over everything and make it really boring making it difficult to actually learn about these things. My English teacher in 10th grade had taught us about the Auschwitz and we read a book by Elie Wiesl. I feel my English teachers are really picking up the slack for the history teachers. To think if the school system focused more on teaching us direct moments we would learn more, but instead they try to squish as much info in our tiny brain making none of it have any effect, and it's absolutely heart breaking! These things are important, and if not shared history can easily be repeated.

I actually did learn about the Japanese camps in History class, they were called "internment" camps, probably to water it down, interesting that some other Americans weren't taught that but not surprising to me that not all schools have taught it. We also learned about Hiroshima and saw "shadow" photos.

1:52 that’s just me when the floor is cold, and the floor heating isn’t on yet

I wasn't expecting to be very disturbed by these photos, but the moment it hit photo #6 I had to pause the video and walk away for a bit. The photos to do with WWII in this video disturbed me. It's horrific to see innocent civilians suffer bigotry, torture, and deaths due to the war. Thanks for making this, and aldo spreading some awareness of certain events that happened in history.

I graduated High School in 2006, in central California, my classes gave a lot of focus on the Japanese internment camps when we went over world war II both in High School and Middle school, I don't remember if we went over WWII in elementary school or not. It always kind of surprises me when people talk about how censored their US history classes were, between the treatment of Native Americans, slavery, the racism leading to the Civil Rights movent, and more at all grade levels a good chunk of my history classes were dedicated to whatever horrible thing America was doing at the time.

lol funny thing with her eyebrow piercing is that back in the day when it was popular everyones was getting infected so it’s funny to see that’s still the same case

Actor George Takei and his family were imprisoned in an American Concentration camp in 1942. He was 5 years old at the time. You can find interviews with him about that experience

I enjoy your content lots!!

Yeah, the Japanese internment/concentration camps are a thing that may be touched upon depending on what state you're in. For example, I remember it being taught in California when I was in high school. I've heard, however, in places like the South, they like to keep stuff like that out of history class to make us look better. As a Japanese American, it's annoying how some parts of the US just love to sweep our mistakes under the rug.

I minored in photography, and some of the pictures I saw in my History of Photography and Photo Journalism classes will haunt me forever. Most were related to war. As for history in school, I probably wasn't taught most of this in regular school, but I forget because I took so many history classes in college and they all blend together. College history was quite thorough. I actually had a Japanese exchange student friend in high school that I remember teaching me about some of the darker parts of Japanese history, so she must have been taught at least some of it.

I love that intro. I’m staying up to late watching this right now haha

You should do more image videos like this!

I think for America schooling on wars and such, it’s dependent of what school and even teachers your at. (Also states). We learned about the internment of Japanese-Americans and how bad it got. (This is also likely since I am from California, so it is more historic to the area vs living on the east coast) It wasn’t the most focused on just like everything. Their isn’t a lot of time to focus on things when their is so much. This goes for everything in history, it’s also why you learn a lot of history in other classes like English. (Though I do think they should have more history priorities than English with requirements. Ah 4 years of English and just 2 history…) (included is how local/contry involved history is generally given more time, so most wholly foreign situations aren’t expressly taught unless relevant for context or during the world history corse witch covers way more so less focus on specifics/relitively “smaller” situations) Anyways, on the photo of the physicist, don’t jump to him being cruel/psychotic/sadistic. Even if it is somthing that would cause so much death, it still was an achievement and remember that the atomic bomb dropping was and still is a highly DEBATED topic on whether it was the “right” move in the end. (I don’t say this because America teaches that, in fact the schools teach it solely for the horror it was and often leaves out the context and debates for it. All external/ teacher mentioning it outside of curriculum.)

I watched a Coffeehouse Crime video on that cannibal guy, but I didn’t get to see the picture of the plates. That’s… disturbing… Some of these pictures I’ve seen before, either in passing or when I was educating myself on WWII. Honestly, our school left a LOT out of that part of the tale from every side. I graduated high school in 1991 and I can tell you, they taught us nothing. The only reason I knew about the shadows was because I saw it in an anime and I was curious as to wtf I was looking at and the only reason I know about internment camps is because of George Takei. How sad that we try to hide the truth from our children! I made sure mine knew what I learned.

Hay Aki, I'm a huge fan, can you maybe do a spooky edition of this video one day?

i feel like either you lucked out in schools or i went to schools that told us all about quite a few things you said you didn't get to hear about. perhaps not in depth, but it was indeed mentioned enough for me to recall even now. hell, i wrote for my final in 8th grade about nanking of all things.