Japanese Reacts to "History of Japan" 

If Europe would've been like that with the pope. I wonder how different everything would have turned out to be.

We still don't, to be honest, and he really doesn't do much anyway. It's pretty much the prime minister running the country. Just like the queen of England, the emperor is just a symbol.

@@xSG1969x same for us swedes, our king is just there doing his own thing whatever that is 😂 but we stan haha. we have our prime minister and the blocks that runs the show.

@@torahibiki though we were also kinda like that with our "Holy Roman Emperor of German Nation". He kinda existed and looked fabulous, but other than calling the army to defend against outsiders he had no real power in the later stages of the empire (though usually the person elected as emperor was a powerful lord in his own right)

@@boahkeinbockmehr correct me if am wrong. But wasn't the holy Roman emperor, at one point or another, a king of one of the regional kingdoms that sized power by succession, in some cases bloody-full on war successions, and became emperor after tge pope in Italy recognize him at such? Like Otto or sigismund?

I guess it's because in America he's just one of many ....but in Japan he's one of a few 🤔 I don't know if that made sense

@@mock15halo most of the Japanese peoples names I know are just people who work at Nintendo

@@mock15halo oh, hideki tojo must not be important.

I knew there was a specific person involved, but I couldn't remember his name until he said it.

He didn’t really do anything special except opening Japan.

Pretty much

nah, matthew perry

Doobi doobi dooba Doobi doobi dooba PERRRRRRYYY

Joe Perry, lead guitarist for Aerosmith.

@@davidbodemann5678 LIL BOMBER!!!

Lol

There is No War in Ba Sing Se

@@DavidCruickshank That Avatar reference tho.

This made me laugh way too hard

China and korea= slave

Interesting! Now I know thanks!

they also had spices too

tricksor who like to buy the spices

I always thought it was the Portuguese, but maybe I am confusing them with being the first to trade and not the only ones allowed after isolationism.

@@devincook1396 The Portuguese were indeed the first ones, but they were extremely proselytist (like the Spanish), so they were kicked out. The Dutch were not, and their influence was so great that there's a word for modern science (in that era), which was rangaku (蘭学). The ran comes from the Japanese word for the Netherlands, so it literally means "Dutch studies".

I see! thank you for the commemt! I learned a new thing!🙇

*just want some liquid ice for once*

Cybernaut. That’s why they wanted Crimea so bad

@@juraicgamer4408 True, even today the quest for warm water goes on. I mean, ports still matter both for trade and military so.

@@cartoonsd3289 boneless ice

Better yet, warm water ports that don't freeze over for half the year.

I wasn't going to look into this 'til I saw your comment. Thank you, Grugg

That is a good comment.

My HS history teacher said "Russia is always trying to get out" because they are a very large country that historically had no access to ports they could easily use year round. Nowadays they have the Kaliningrad exclave near Poland, but that's only one.

@@rfmerrill There's also Vladivostok. But, it's super far from Moscow. And Sevastapol, but that port is restricted by Turkey's control of the Bosporus.

you only have to visit hiroshima to understand what an incredible country/culture japan is, you would never know it happened if you were passing through town and there was no monuments there to make you aware of it

eddy L oh stop it. He wasn’t making a political commentary, he was watching a video. Just enjoy it or go away.

@@cbtowers4841 But it shows the Japanese self-image. They never wholeheartedly apologized for the crimes against Koreans and Chinese, they didn't even admit every crime that happened. Yes, you're allowed to mourne the losses in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but ignoring your own responsibility in this is very hypocritical.

@@TheYoshi463 do europeans and other races ever apologize for the people they fuck over ?

@@monogramadikt5971 No lmfao

^^

You, again.

That’s true.

That’s true

:)

Fun little fact that has become more populat resently. Part of why the Dutch retained good relations with Japan involved the English Samurai "William Adams" who worked for the Dutch before the Shogun decided he wanted him to stay. I'm fairly certain this was some time before the country was closed, but that part at least was facilitated in-part by his influence. Here's a letter he wrote around the time; ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5nw6jiX2p7k.html

British Rick I know of him. He became one of the first western samurai together with his first mate. There weren’t that many men from the west allowed the honor to follow in their footsteps

lolol I only know that the dutch traded with Japan from samurai champloo

Typical dutch - israel of the western europe. "we are here to make the money"

Name Surname We’re not known as being greedy for nothing ;)

Version 2? Is bill kurgz making another Japan history video?

@@Neko-san I was referring to history of the entire world i guess

Good thing I have adblock

Same

@@thetrollmaster4485 wut

@@thetrollmaster4485 how

Its perryy..... Perry the platypus😂🤣😉

I'm pretty sure the whole event happened around the time of the US civil war but I might be wrong

I remember him being one question on a quiz in high school u.s. history

I mean to be fair, he's just some guy who followed the gunboat diplomacy of the government to USA citizens... To the Japanese, he's the guy who basically started their second civil war.

In my 7th grade History class our teacher basically just said "So japan was closed, until some dude named Perry came in with a bunch of guns and said 'hey open up the country or we will invade you and have another island'"

And Dragonball!

And Hentai!

​@@id30i18 GIRUGAMESH

Worth.

It was all about making hentai

Not true.

@@lun_r very true

@@lun_r SEASDDRTGD

I was taught that is was the announcement that America had joined the world stage as an equal for the first time. Teddy Roosevelt made sure to stop future Spanish-American War type conflicts and placed the sphere of influence over the Western Hemisphere on solid footing. The street down from me is Perry St. I bet every large city around you has a Perry St. Considering the miraculously quick industrialization of Japan and their conflict with Russia...this stop of the Great White Fleet was of vital importance to preserve American fueling stations in the Pacific. Basic highschool history, even for a mediocre student like me. I'm convinced all the kids that game after me divided their lives smoking pot and playing video games.

@@lun_r i’ve never heard of this dude till this video thank you for telling abt it tho. my hs ain’t tell me shit abt this

The first piece of long-form fiction, probably.

Watching any kind of post-19th-century-history as a German: *also awkward* You always know it's coming up _somewhere_

@@kathrinbeckmann6530 At least most of the hard feelings from WW2 have kind of passed now, especially since new generations have taken over.

To be fair, we didn't just drop the bombs on Japan b/c we were "curious if they worked". We were at war and Japan was geared up to defend the home islands to the last man. As welll as civlians killing themselves in the event of being conquered. Just look up Okinawa. Numbers-wise, it was either the 400,000 in Hiroshima/Nagasaki or the 1,000,000+ projected casualties of an invasion, many of them our own troops.

@@nekoqueen5524 I'd say all hard feelings have passed, at least on the US side (which is the one I can speak to). It was 90 years ago and we've been friends again for most of that.

@@AlleluiaElizabeth That's what I was saying as well

omg I literally laughed out loud😂😂😂 Great job😂😂😂👍👍👍

Nah fam, that sounds like extra credit material to me.

notbob555 no amount of credits can prove how awesome that was

Like an absolute boss lol

yup it’s part of 「楽しい」”fun” and also 「音楽」”music” kanji is weird

I immediately see the kanji as music 💕 you right

Been looking for this comment every reaction vid!!! *thank you*

Who’s perry? 😭

@@carlivasquez6840 Commodore Mathew Perry, he played 'Chandler' on Friends, right?

@@than217 but they were talking about the travellor

@@carlivasquez6840 It was a joke. lol

I think Bill Wurtz goes over that briefly in the "history of the world" video.

I also didn't know that story about the typhoons. It's actually fascinating and it makes sense that we attributed them to the gods. If it had happened only once, fine, but twice is just insane.

I heard a statistic once that the second Mongol invasion of Japan was the world's largest naval invasion in history.

Easily defeated by the Japanese is a HUGE stretch. The Mongols decimated the Japanese, and they barely defeated the invaders. The typhoons were literally the divine wind, because they 100% saved japan.

@@aldyn1647 The reason these typhoons easily destroyed the Mongol fleet is because the Mongols were impatient and used non-seaworthy vessels to cross the ocean. Naval warfare is not their strong point.

It seems dumb when people say the war began because some noble got shot in the head. The truth is that WW1 conflicts came escalating through history and intensified a lot during the formation of national state territories as the countries we know of today. Differences between England and France lead to the american independence and the french revolution just as an example. The assassination of a prince was the official reason to start a conflict that was already waiting to happen

@@RadeticDaniel But at the same time simplifying something even as big as ww1 as "inevitable" is tricky business. Reality is that the war started because of the assassination. If Princip hadnt pulled that trigger, we might be living in a different world. If a nuclear exchanged had occurred during the cold war, would we today be saying it was inevitable given the state of the world in the 60s and 70s? I think history unfolds in more chaotic ways than we are comfortable with.

@@thesecondwolf1 good point on the cold war... reminds me of the saying "hindsight is 20/20". . Maybe a better way is to put the assassination as a catalyst. It made sure to accelerate a reaction, despite what might've happened without it.

@@RadeticDaniel Yea, it was probably one of many possible events that could have triggered an already very likely conflict.

@@thesecondwolf1 well most of history channel in yt said even without assasination the war will broke out eventually

yooo, my boy Shogo

Me inviting my catholic family members to my potluck but only if they stop trying to convert me

🇯🇵 "Alright, leave! All of you!" 🇷🇺🇵🇹🇪🇦🇩🇪🇬🇧🇫🇷🇦🇹 🇳🇱 🇯🇵: "Except for you, you stay" 🇳🇱: "😃"

didnt Portugal try spreading Catholicism to them

@@VivaCristoRei9 Are you trying to say that the Dutch are from Portugal?

I wonder it was the Dutch Kingdom or the first mega corporation VOC based on Dutch?

There was only Portugal..

@@agathoklesmartinios8414 Back to killing people just for their religions again? I thought we knew how that usually turns out

@@heyimsteven5311 Well, what else do you do with a group of people agitating against everything traditional in their country, start vandalising shrines and temples, destablising society to impose Christianity on everyone (AKA the usual modus operandi for Christian conversion of a country) all that stuff? It wasn't the shogunate who started that in Japan, it was the Kirishitan who brought it upon themselves. Christianity has been a force of evil and destruction wherever it goes and continues to be that to this day in India, Africa, South America, and other places, where missionaries are still clamouring to get indigenous peoples into their claws, tear their traditions, language, culture, etc. asunder and impose their own religion upon them. Christianity is violence. Christianity is colonisation. And if you don't fight back and destroy it, it that poison will overtake and infect you.

@@agathoklesmartinios8414 I'm not saying ignore radicalist I'm simply saying removing a whole group of people just for their beliefs is ignorant as fuck and if you can't see that then you're basically doing the same to those radical Christians as they're trying to do to others. "Convert them to our side or eliminate them"

@@agathoklesmartinios8414 For one, anyone can do anything in the name of someone else. The only thing that is Christian is the Bible, if you are not informing your ideas of Christianity on the Bible then I have a bridge to sell you in the name of Christianity. For purchasing it you will be rewarded the rank of saint according to me. Christianity has done a great deal of good and it always annoys me when people lay all the evil and none of the good. The evil of men has existed throughout the centuries, it is uniform throughout history. Men of power have always acted the same way. I'm sorry you have been deceived into believing Christianity is the source of corrupt power. The Cyrillic alphabet, which brought literacy to Slavic nations, the foundations of Physics, and the foundation of medicine in the Abbasid Caliphate were developed by ardent Christians. Not only was Newton the most gung-ho Christian physicist of all time, you would be hard pressed to find a scientific unit of notation that does not bear a Christian's name. Christian Syriac was an important language of medicine in the Abbasid Caliphate, and Christians from the school of Nisbis, the academy of Gondishapur, and the European Galen were instrumental in the early disciplines of medicine.

Americans should be ashamed

@@elt2773 Why?

Dillard M. DeMoss because they dropped THE bomb. Although Japan’s war crime is bigger than Germany and probably one of the most sadistic military in WW2, dropping a bomb on innocent japanese civilians is a huge no no. Still tho, in war, everyone is wrong, that’s why its stupid.

@@Mikasks I do not care if it's citizens or soldiers, a life is a life, and I don't regret the bombing that much. I still have guilt, but there is very little. No one should be killed, and there shouldn't be war in the first place, but civilians were also KILLED during the bombing of pearl harbor AND it's estimated by a history professor that at least 6 Million people were killed by the Japanese. I might be biased and not fully agree with the bombing, but the US did what was better for stopping the conflict first. People were tortured, killed, and forced to ridicule their own country, so you partly wrong. I'm not ashamed, but I am sympathetic. No one should die that horribly.

Azari Brooks I’m sorry but bombing innocent civilians is not the best choice whether its to end conflict or to win one. I’m not sure you quite understand the aftermath of a nuclear bomb. You should research it. You might think the US is doing the bomb for the world peace or something but it really isn’t. The bomb was dropped to show the world how powerful the US is and it worked. And also you said innocent civilians are bombed at pearl harbour? But that’s just a normal bomb isn’t it? It happens all the time, even the US is bombing people right now. Also since when did the US care about Hawaiian citizens? They don’t even have the same right as the mainland US citizen. Im not saying the Japanese were excused for their warcrimes but the bombs didn’t necessarily hit the people behind the war rather it hit innocent people that were also suffering because of Japanese military. So the nuclear bomb only affected people that suffer from the war, the japanese military stopped its attack because they lost a lot of lives that could be forced to do suicide attacks,etc. If you really cared about lives then I’m gonna have to break your delusions but bombing people that were suffering from their government is wrong, what did they do wrong? Why not bomb the people behind the war? Of course, killing the people behind the war is very hard so the US chose to do the shortcut which is to dwindle their human resources. All I’m saying is that there’s a better way to end the war, if the US goal is for world peace. For the record I am from the country that has suffered from the Japanese colonialization, there’s a saying in my country that “350 years of Dutch colonialization is better than 3.5 years of Japan” so I’m definitely not excusing the Japanese for what they did. Also fyi, dutch colonialization was not british style, it was literal slavery and exploitation, nothing for indigenous people, while British still educated their colonies, the dutch did nothing, but my people still said they were better than the Japanese. You can see how I can never excuse the Japanese military for what they did right? But logically speaking and without bias, Japan was hugely wrong but what the US did was also wrong and not the best decision. I’m nitpicking things but you said all lives matter and you’re sympathet but you agree with killing off INNOCENT civillians and wrecking their land to the point that they can’t use it at all for years? So you’re admitting that Japanese lives dont matter even though they didn’t do anything and were used by their own govt to do suicide attacks, massive tax, robbed from their belongings and land. The Japanese miltary were prosperous but the people were not. In a way, they were colonized by their own country but you still agree that they get bombed? That’s the same thing as agreeing to bomb the colonized countries to “end the war” lmao.

Me, an American: _[sweating intensifies]_

Lets all ignore the fact that Japan of the time were allies with the -freaking Nazis.-

@@ozkan576 but no reason to nuke them. Acc. to the vid ofcourse. I don't really know

@@kobi-wanaenobi7080 I mean, war is war. I'm not saying it's okay to wipe out entire cities, I'm saying people ignore everything the Japanese did in for example China during WW2.

The pain in his eyes just hurts

Perry was mentioned in our textbook in middle school but we never went over it. There's a lot of stuff that had been in our textbook that kinda just never got discussed (there was also a shit ton that was left out of the textbook SO NO ONE WINS)

I only knew of Perry because of the anime Hetalia

@@AbsorbicAcid lol same

It's because to us, he was just some gunboat captain on a routine "diplomatic" mission. To them, he opened their eyes to new possibilities (and new threats)

Go watch the musical "Pacific Overtures" to give you a hint of the history (but, forewarned, it IS a musical)

The world would benefit by learning about the teachings of Jesus.

@@nvno1943 don't even start lol

@@nvno1943 I agree

@@nvno1943 true af, but I think that the best way is not by imposing. The more organic, the better. If we literally adapt Christ's teachings to our lives, believe me, christians would be so mentaly powerful, nice as hell, super empathic, focused, etc.

Hey! A Christian here :) I totally agree. The westernized American Christianity and the major obsession with the rapture and end times has kind of hindered the organic teachings. Though Jesus' second coming will be happening, many Christians have been focusing more on that than the Savior who is coming and His teachings. The thing about being mentally powerful though, that may be a bit difficult for some. For instance, I have mental health issues; but, Jesus is helping me through it and my issues aren't as bad as before. Jesus says, "Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow has enough troubles of it's own" (Matthew 6:34). He also says that the first and greatest commandment is to love God and that the second is like it, to love people (love your neighbor as yourself). I find it depressing when I see fellow Christians "cancelling" each other and not actually paying attention to the Bible when it's literally right there. Sorry that this is kinda long haha. Hope you have a nice day:)

Aight amma head out

@@masternobody1896 big gun with huge ship (Democratic gun)

THAT WAS MY FAV PART HAHAHA

@@RayneShunner oi

@@actualgarbage8549 oi

I think PlayStation and Nintendo is more popular then animes.

Found the anime PFP. That was quick.

I’d rather anime take over the world rather than crap content kpop

@@RavencoreLZR absolute legend.

As a person that living in westernized 3rd world country i think tasting a bit of Japanese culture isn't so terrible.

It's so nice to hear that! thank you!

The way the government had so many changes and the land changes and the way Japan originally used a Chinese alphabet and was kind of based from China is weird to think about but so cool at the same time! After this stupid Corona is over I would love to go see Tokyo

A lot of Americans hate Japanese because of WW2 and all that but I dont see why, just like Osama we shouldn’t hate everyone because of one person or group’s actions, Japan was Imperial Japan then and it’s different now.

Also the dutch because they included Japan in the spice trade which Japan could not originally access because 1. The Dutch controlled the oceans in the center of the spice trade and 2. They were too far away. Also yes that American guy is famous (ish) here. His name is Commodore Matthew Perry

SHUNchan what if you did some videos comparing Japanese and American youth culture

Military man shows up: A sailor? Puts on Admiral cap: Admiral Perry!?

American here over the age of 20... Who the f is Perry the Platypus?

@@EnteIexia ok boomer

@@EnteIexia He's a furry little flatfoot Who'll never flinch from afraid He's got more than just mad skill He's got a beaver tail and a bill And the women swoon whenever they hear him say... He's Perry Perry the Platypus

Matthew Perry. The actor from FRIENDS who played Chandler... but also NOT him, another Matthew Perry who actually existed.

At some point they actually spreading religion, like in north Sumatra when they send a German guy to turn Batak people into Protestantism so they can be more "civilized" and controlled, not even contact with Arab traders or Aceh and Malay sultanate conquest/subjugation able to make Batak people convert to Islam but a single German dude send by them able to did it.

​@@apalahartisebuahnama7684 South Africa, Suriname, Netherlands Antilles and especially Indonesia are black pages in Dutch history. But looking at the whole history, the Dutch weren't that bad compared with England, Spain or Portugal.

@@PieterPatrick Portugal wasn't that bad either. Most probably Spaniards, the French and the Britons were the most cruel

We just wanted spices, which is funny, because most dutch cooking is bland as fuck.

@@apalahartisebuahnama7684 it seems they were spreading religion through its colonies, but they knew well who they were colonizing and who they were doing business with.

A lot of educated Japanese learned science and philosophy and mathematics from you guys. Meanwhile the Portuguese were more interested in spreading Catholicism so I guess Dutch trade was more profitable for japan than with the portugese

Wow what you said is exactly what I learned in school growing up in Japan.and it’s kinda rare for two different countries to learn the history from exactly the same historical perspectives.

Isnt the netherlands pretty atheistic tho? I would understand

@@hopelove897 We are now. We used to be Christian. And before that we were pagan. We still have a lot of Christians in our country through, divided into Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox Protestant... we even have a Biblebelt full of fanatics.

@@ForestHag As a christian l agree that the imposition is not neccesary, because its so inorganic. The more organic the better. I know genuinely that the teachings of Christ can change the world for the better and minimize suffering at its lowest point, its just that its definitively not well preached. Greetings from Cusco, Peru, you really have a beautiful country

I wouldn't say it's in most American/World History classes because I took two (moved high schools and the new one wouldn't accept all of my courses from the first one) in two very different parts of the country and never learned about Japanese isolationism and America forcing it to reopen. I'm sure it's taught at some schools, but not most.

Dutch Knocks on Japans door* Dutch: Hello would you like to hear the great word fro- Japan: No thank you, we are fine. Dutch: Would you like to buy our cookies and spices ? Japan: Yea! Sell that over their though please. America Knocks on Japans door* Perry: Hey we got weapons and God to sell. I don't have much time, now i got some buddies coming over and they want shipments of your best tea. And we- Japan : No thank you, please leave Perry: Oh you think you have a choice ? You see those boats over there ?

@@frostywasp1743 lol

I think it was more on the lines of "Hey! We have Jesus too, just saying... If you want it, that is. No? Okay.". While spain and portugal was more like "SEE THIS!? THIS IS JESUS. EMBRACE IT! EMBRACE IT NOW OR WE'LL END YOU."

@@frostywasp1743 Don´t forget mayonaise, I´m happy the Dutch shared that. Now okonomiyaki excists because of it

Its was the Portugueses that first reached Japan. It was also the Portuguese who introduced the gunpower and Nagasaki was a city founded by them. The Dutch people came later

That sounds great! Thank you for your suggestion!☺

@dfdsf sdadad @best_country_police

@@SHUNchanjp This is something I'd be interested in.

Not gonna lie, I'm an American and I had a similar expression when the nukes came up. I know it was the quickest way to end the war, but it was still horrible

the creator was going to make something about america but he was too biased in his knowledge. He knew too much about one thing not enough about others so he picked japan instead because it was a country he could do blind without his own thoughts on it.

yeah but US history is only 250 years that'd be like a 30 second vid for this guy

Same

I would have actually paid attention in school if they showed us stuff like this.

Sally Fowler yeah it’s short as shit, unless you were to get deep into Native American history

Dutch got weed, that's the truth 😂

I wish the Dutch were that "cool" to us in South Africa. Instead it went more like : that's a nice peice of land, here's some useless ish and get the hell out. We run this ish now. Then they took over and got karma'd by the Brits but they weren't really that kind to the natives either. Tough times.

G E K O L O N I S E E R D

Japan to Christianity: "You believe in Jesus? I believe it's time to separate your head from your body."

Actually, not much of a big change inJapan since the 80s, though. No big wars or anything. maybe the 2011 earthquake is the only major event after the 80s.

I think he was taking a jab at anime or something.

My guess is that it stopped there because he reached the point of history that people watching this video can actually recollect themselves. Or at least are much more aware of.

Apparently this video took him 14 weeks to make, so it could be that he just reached his personal creative limit >>

Its a matter of pacing. Explaining everything thats happened since then would be far slower paced and insignificant compared to everything before it.

I like how he literally translated each kanji 😂

Ah, I see.

I was honestly a bit concerned thanks for helping.

The first modern Japanese naval vessel, an ironclad, was actually made from a Confederate Navy boat that ended up being sold off post-war It had a sister ship as well, also turned into an ironclad; though I don’t recall who bought it, some European nation I think, *maybe* a Baltic nation

"Speak softly and carry a big stick" thats why we have a big navy

The US has a big navy because trade has always been a major part of our economy, and a navy is how you protect your merchant vessels and guarantee open shipping lanes. Also, a lack of a large navy bit us in the backside in the past. There were the Barbary pirates shortly after the US gained its independence, the British seizing ships and kidnapping American sailors in the lead up to the War of 1812, and the fact that during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 the Royal Navy could pretty much sail up and down our coast at will and attack us. By the end of WWII the US had a massive fleet, was easily the wealthiest nation in the world, and was trading with so many nations around the world that it just decided to step up and make sure pretty much all of the shipping lanes would remain open and safe. It's also a rather effective way to project power around the world.

Civil War also saw the first known use of a submarine sinking a ship. Yes there were submarines in the Civil War, very few and very dangerous to be in. Learned about it while in the Navy that a Confederate submarine sank a Union ship.

@@lrnec13 dammm

what a mad lad

"Madea goes to Kanagawa"

When it hasn't been your day, your week, your month, or even your year...

@@ohifonlyx33 That's Matthew Perry.

Lmao nice

Yeah I have no clue who Perry is lol

I'm also American, and I can confirm that I've never heard of Perry

@@JetFalcon710 Am I the only one who learned about Perry?

@@BlackBloodCombatClub Probably

Bonzi Buddy I did too. But it’s not hard to imagine that most people forgot about him. He didn’t figure heavily into US history.

@Haku infinite More like infamous.

Yea, Many Americans think American interaction with Japan started in WWII, but the interaction started well before that.

Unless it's some brief mention in a DID YOU KNOW section

What do you mean? Perry is my favorite platypus

At best Perry is an answer you have to remember on a multiple choice test

Well same, but I don't need to work yet.

Well same, but I don't need to work yet.

Sheeeeeeesh

You are not alone bro, I'm Brazilian too 😂

How was work?

It's surprisingly rare that we get to truly see what people from other countries think of history, especially ones involving America. Please, keep this going!

@Recon WB True, Japan's nationialism would have a severe impact.

Especially considering that it was a recurring theme mentioned earlier.

The alternative was mainland invasion, and that would have cost a *significant* amount of more lives. Besides, we did ask for their formal surrender several times before either bomb was dropped.

@@CyborgRowlet That's because the emperor still hold some "power" and people still respects him. It wouldn't make sense that the U.S. kept the emperor "just because". It would damage the reputation of U.S. in the eyes of Japanese people and cause extremists and loyalists to revolt which would assure conflict, and that is the last thing you want when the Soviets are right at your doorstep with troops on the front-line. So, realistically removing the emperor was not really an option. Unless, you're pretty extreme. Which I'm glad they didn't go that route to cause needless conflict.

@Yazoo Rayon Yes, but the future of my country looks like it will copy the past. (Coming from a Shinto)

Elizabeth?

@@BushidoBrownSama *holds up sign*

Interesting, i didn't know about that

also, Scandinavians INTRODUCES SALMON SUSHI. Also, Scandinavians are super popular in Japan

@@exudeku really? As a Scandinavian I never heard of this. And I've always wanted to go to Japan!

Can you give me any dates? Because as far as I know Portugal came first and then the dutch

@@Quzga I don't think it's true... Maybe it's wishful thinking from some otaku

if i remember correctly he was enlisted in the german military during WW1 though

@@jkitchen2003 He moved to Germany but he is from Austria.

@Ethan Pintar No? He hated Austria and wanted to be a German. He was given german citizenship in Braunschweig. Otherwise he could not run the German Reich, obviously.

Austrian is nationality only, but German can be nationality and ethnicity and language.

*Laughs in Barvarian

What about him reacting to Japan brutally invading its neighbours beforehand? Oh wait, there was no such reaction.

@@ranivacar Ah yes, he moved his mouth a little bit when seeing that part for half a second, while you could clearly see a discomfort in his face for minutes when talking about the nukes. And it’s not only him that did the same, as other japanese that reacted on this video really didn’t care about that subject until the parts with the nukes.

Your mileage may vary, re: "history" class

@Chihusky 419 so the person who made the video can have money for monetize vids....their are ads so they make money

@Chihusky 419 In the early days of RU-vid creators didn't make any money. It was just a place to upload videos. Then they added AdSense monetization which means creators can get a cut of the ad profits. So the main way to make money on RU-vid is to have ads on your videos. There are other ways to generate revenue but that's what caused the shift you noticed.

8:52 that duck face

Everyone that knows even a little about Japan heard about the Demon King

yeah its definitely a gray area. Really sucks, even though Japan did bad stuff. Americans defiantly know that the atomic bomb was way too much overkill. America still helped Japan recover, but still doesn't fix the relationship. I think many Americans really like japan because of Japanese cutlture, but the relationship still to this day is kinda low key bad. But America government still helps japan against China and North Korea in an attempt to be chill.

@@ben69028 overkill is definetly not what it was. The other option was to invade the Japanese islands, where the conservative estimate of casulaties of American forces was 1,000,000. So lets do some math here. 2 bombs, or 1,000,000 Americans? Wasnt really a hard choice for us. Sucks for the Japanese, but thats war for ya bud.

@@iamasicksickman it's not about numbers but people who suffers, yes the atom bom way more fast and easy. But america can just do diplomatic approach. No casualties or anything. If you things this is silly think Japanese have little support and a little push will make them surrender.

Car Wash Life As an American it was complete overkill, one a-bomb was enough, two was overkill.

@@Ghost.ofaStag.1983 I can agree with that

here in NY we learned about Perry in middle school and twice in high school (once in US history and once in world history). its crazy how low the education standards are in some other parts of the country.

I saw him in one of my World History books years ago but never again

WoWplayer527 I wouldn’t say they are low for that specific reason. Matthew Perry isn’t well known in the U.S. because we tend to get involved in foreign affairs quite often. Matthew Perry was one of many foreign diplomats who didn’t have much affect on the U.S. itself, which is maybe why he isn’t brought up as much.

@@huntywuntybunty Perry introduced the US to the country that it would fight a world war against and drop two atomic bombs on. We would then go on to build a decades long economic and political relationship that affects the lives of every American and Japanese person, although many people are ignorant to that truth due to America's poor education system. He is one of the most important figures in the history of US foreign affairs, especially focusing on US involvement in Asia.

yeah what

A lot of major powers throughout history practically look for reasons to go to war in order to not look like the original aggressors. Great Britain and America have done this the most in the last 200-250 years of more current history, which is why English is spoken throughout many parts of the world, and a big reason why everyone hates America.

@Of All My Intention In the case of World War 1 specifically, there was a carefully constructed web of power and alliances, engineered in large part by Bismarck at the end of the 19th Century, that was designed to dissuade countries in Europe from going to war with one another. However, as you see here, it ultimately wound up dragging all of them into an unprecedentedly enormous war instead. Serbia's assassination of Austrian royalty left the Austrians no choice but reprisal, and Russia's protectorate status over the region left them no choice but to declare war, and France's alliance with Russia and Germany's alliance with Austria left them no choice but to declare war. The Schlieffen Plan, which Germany viewed as its only chance to win a two front war, required them to attack France through Belgium, thus violating Belgium's neutrality, guaranteed by a treaty with Great Britain, and forcing Britain into the war. The Ottomans had a secret alliance with Germany, and also historical animosity towards Russia. The Romanians were brought in by promises of support from the Allies that they never received. They fought bravely but were left completely isolated and surrounded by hostile powers. The Italian, Japanese, and American interventions into the war were all opportunistic. A big mess caused by a single bullet.

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from what i learned, it was typhoons, not tornadoes that wiped out the mongol fleets each time they went and tried to invade japan. typhoons are pretty common in east and southeast asia, and idk if it was intentional from the part of the creator but in america, they call typhoons "cyclones" which could be pretty easy to confuse with tornadoes.

He didnt say water tornadoes?

I'm american. I did not enjoy what I learned about my country.

Monoma Neito If it makes you feel any better, the governments of all the other countries have done horrific things too. Human beings with power pretty much always do, no matter where they come from.

lmao really? I didn't know