Sources: The Japanese Colonial Empire, Myers & Peattie Nan’yo: The Rise & Fall of the Japanese in Micronesia, Peattie Conflicted Childhoods in the South Seas, Arnold
This was an era where field commanders as low as captains were kings of their own little realms and when units as small as Platoons often had to maintain resource autonomy. Imperial Japan was just plain loco
I watched a video a while back on the remnants of the Japanese language in these places. It's really interesting to me that a fossilized form of Japanese from the 1920's-1940's existed for so long and still had some speakers alive at the time the video was made. Wish I could find it and share it with you, maybe someone else knows it.
It's reminds me of a story from UN's peacekeeping mission in Somalia. Allegedly, an italian contingent was approach by a local, aged man, who spouk to them in understandable italian and ask (among other things) "how is duche".
It feels like there has been a content shift recently, I am loving this new direction. The recent topics have been real bangers. I cant believe how big the channel has gotten, I was one of your first thousand!
I'm somewhat sceptical of the validity of the map at 4:40. My general understanding of WWI and Papua New Guinea region from school was that Australia seized most if not all of the highlighted territory during 1914 largely through the employment of reservists and the RAN. Checking wikipedia seems to confirm this with the German colony of New guinea being divided between Australia and Japan in an early land grab: the remainder of the mainland (the southern half being occupied back in 1883 by an independent action by Queensland that wasn't condoned by the UK), New Ireland, the Admiralty Islands, the Western Islands, Bougainville, and the German Solomons and with Japan gaining the Caroline Islands, Marshall Islands, Mariana Islands and Palau. It seems as if all of Japan's acquisitions during the war would be north of the area pictured.
Maybe a reference to the region of east asia as a whole being referred to as the Orient by the Western Powers, and so the Japanese used the same terms for international recognition? From around the Meiji Restoration onwards you see a lot of things like that
@@Rynewulf not all states are territorially defined, and sometimes people fight to prevent some other fool from taking things. Ultimately, men fight over the three Ps: Pay, power, and pussy
Again, define imperial. Some people use it synonymously with tyranny, but it comes from the Latin for Command and in medieval times referred to Federal governments.@@riowhi7
@riowhi7 but when liars are involved, namely Karl Marx, Imperialist means anything you don't like. In fact, Marx used it as a veiled terroristic threat as he was Prussia and the Imperialists were Germans loyal to the Holy Roman Emperor who happened to Prussia's enemy. Ergo, when Marx call everyone richer than himself an Imperialist he called them traitors and enemies of the state. You don't need fancy words to describe states you don't like. There's abusive, tyrannical, toxic, and so forth
@@samsonsoturian6013 the Holy Roman Empire was dissolved several years before Marx was even born; plus, he was a "Prussian" only by an accident of history since he was from Trier, the exact other side of Germany from Königsberg. First study, then speak out.
I am both from Hawaiʻi and am of partial Japanese descent, I’m not sure what you mean by this. We have no connection to any Japanese national identity, only cultural and religious traditions continued by family and community. In fact, it’s much more likely that Japanese nationalists would view our ancestors as vagrants who abandoned Japanese society by emigrating. It is also worth noting that these erroneous fears of the Japanese diaspora serving as a fifth column for an invasion was the exact justification for Executive Order 9066.
