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The Execution Of General Yamashita

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One of the most senior Japanese Generals of World War 2 was taken to the gallows for his execution at the hands of American officers. General Yamashita was known as 'The Tiger of Malaya' for his skilled actions during the war, and his command led to the biggest British military capitulation in History in Singapore. But he was responsible for soldiers who committed terrible war crimes and slaughter during the Second World War, and for this he was executed under the 'command principle.'
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@parmenideskim9739 Месяц назад

General Yamashita is an outsider in japanese army . During World War II, the Japanese army was divided into several factions. General Yamashida belonged to a faction that had already fallen and become a minority. The majority, led by Tojo Hideki, pushed General Yamashida to a trivial position even though he had achieved a great victory in Malaysia, and handed over the Battle of the Philippines to him at the end of the war.

@bwilliams463 Месяц назад

I have a hard time believing that atrocities on the scale of hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths could occur without the top-level commander being aware of it.

@davebolland3185 Месяц назад

Read The Japanese Imperial Conspiracy….will give insight and answers to your question. Simply you are right in your thoughts.

@AlejjSi Месяц назад

Yet, somehow, mAc Arthur managed to convince anybody in trials that hirohito had nothing to do with the war and so saved his life. How was that for justice?

@beowulf1312 Месяц назад

Yamashita ordered his men to retreat to the interior of Luzon. The Navy and a rogue army commander refused and defended Manila in a highly destructive campaign. Yamashita only arrived in the Philippines a few weeks before the US invasion.

@Picasso_Picante92 Месяц назад

@@AlejjSi That was a matter of expediency. They thought they could use the emperor to assist in a smooth post war transition. They were right but many within Japan felt Hirohito should have paid the price. Tough call.

@bwilliams463 Месяц назад

@@AlejjSi THAT was politics. Without an Emperor, Japan may very likely have fallen into chaos, and the Allies needed a dependable Easter buffer against the spread of Communism.

@bradfordwhite3650 Месяц назад

I was a friend and executor for the daughter of one of Yamashita's defense team, Lt. Col. J/.(James) Gordon Feldhaus, mentioned in Yamashita's gallows speech.. Lt. Col. Feldhaus' daughter, Mary Feldhaus-Weber, related that Gen. Yamashita had little to give in recognition to his defense team, and Lt. Col. Feldhaus received Yamashita's uniform epaulets as a token of gratitude. Upon her father's death in the early 1990's, Mary received the epaulets and related papers from the trial. Lt. Col. Feldhaus had a lot to say privately about the trial, which included admission of hearsay evidence and a U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Not tn negate atrocities, but to defend the standards of jurisprudence. As it happened, Yamashita's son was sheltered at the time from what were considered the dishonorable facts of his father's death. Mary sought contact with his son through the Japanese consulate, in order to return the epaulets to him. Letters were exchanged with translations expressing healing and appreciation. I know it did both of them good.

@cinemaveritae 11 дней назад

My father's immediate family and household suffered 15 dead, 5 severely wounded (bayonetted), 1 slightly wounded and 5 unscathed (including my father) during the Battle of Manila, Feb. 13, 1945. 1 casualty, the family driver while climbing the fence, was cut in half by strafing fire from U.S. warplanes. This happened at the Malate District of Manila in the neighborhood across the American-run De La Salle College where, the day before, rampaging Japanese troops massacred 41 people including 14 American La Salle brothers. These were troops tasked to defend sections of Manila (where an extensive network of booby traps was laid out) while General Yamashita fled to the Cordillera Mountains in North Luzon (this is well detailed in the book "Rampage" by James M. Scott). He surrendered to elements of the US 6th Army on Sep. 2, 1945 in Kiangan, Province of Ifugao. The formal surrender took place the following day at the American High Commissioner's Residence at Camp John Hay, Baguio City.

@glicerioumali941 8 дней назад

Yamashita originally capture by pilipino guerilla of Cordillera!!😮😮😅😅

@robertgibson7141 Месяц назад

MacArthur saw to it that the two Japanese Generals who defeated him were hanged - Yamashita and Homma.

@rainerweishaupl1103 Месяц назад

well there you go. Don't mess with Gen. MacArthur

@YoshihisaFujita1 Месяц назад

I really appreciate your insight.

@johariahmad-1483 Месяц назад

Just 2...!...should be hundreds...

@eddiedapitan8582 28 дней назад

What really the purpose of war, to show to the world their power or robbing the defeated country 🤔

@eddiedapitan8582 28 дней назад

What really the purpose of war, to show to the world their power or robbing the defeated country 🤔

@shannonsullivan1968 Месяц назад

Ignorance, claimed or real, is no excuse. To the Japanese, to surrender or to be captured is unacceptable and anyone doing so deserves whatever comes their way. The General believed this and therefore he did not believe he had a need, right or a duty to stop his men. After all, up until the Japanese surrender in September 1945 prisoners of the Japanese were considered less than human-indeed they were simply fodder and were treated as such.

@majorrgeek Месяц назад

@shannonsullivan1968 - not quite true as many Japanese soldiers surrendered during the war - Mokusatsu or fight to the end was used in order to obtain better surrender terms from the Allies and to keep their Emperor Hirohito and it worked in fact all thousands of IJA home defenders surrendered Sep 2 1945 as a result of Byrne's Note

@jmaca112 23 дня назад

He was all praises and sorry to the American officials who captured and tried him but not the thousands of innocent civilian victims especially to the Filipinos and Asians all over the region he invaded..

@majorrgeek 23 дня назад

@@jmaca112 - fact check - the Asians? the Chinese communists executed many thousands/millions more Chinese than IJA in fact the slaughter diminished in numbers while China was under IJA rule

@harrysihan554 23 дня назад

If ignorance is no excuse why wasn't any American officer or commander hanged for the war crimes committed in Vietnam? Or elsewhere? My Lai comes to mind. As for considering prisoners less than human, you might take a look at John Dower's War Without Mercy. Besides, your general statement isn't true. The commander of the Changi POW camp was acquitted from wrongdoing as he did apply a strict but humane policy towards his prisoners.

@majorrgeek 22 дня назад

@@harrysihan554 - simple, the victors write the history, war criminals are made heroes and passed down to their grandchildren

@jackkunkel Месяц назад

I don't know about his other actions, but Yamashita did not order the slaughter in Manila. It was a naval commander who ordered the defense in the city and the slaughter of civilians. Yamashita and his army were up in the mountains. He had one unit in Manila, and he ordered it to join him in the mountains. But the unit commander elected to join in the slaughter. It was the actions of this renegade unit commander that were the excuse for Yamashita's execution.

@marvinm8343 Месяц назад

Coincidentally, two of Douglas MacArthur's opponents got the noose; Homma and Yamashita. I think Yamashita got the noose for spoiling MacArthur's planned victory parade in Manila. MacArthur really planned to have a victory parade in the streets of Manila for his future political plans. Unfortunately, Yamashita's stern defense of the Philippines meant elements of the Imperial Japanese Army were still holding out in the northern mountains of Luzon when Japan surrendered. It was disgraced Rear Admiral Sanji Iwabuchi of the IJN who was responsible for the Rape of Manila. Homma, on the other hand, was responsible for defeating MacArthur in 1941-42. MacArthur botched the defense of the Philippines, most of his entire air force on the ground despite ample warning of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

@envitech02 Месяц назад

The Tiger of Malaya. He came so close to losing the invasion of Malaya and Singapore, being so outnumbered by the British. But luck and morale was on his side and soon Gen. Percival surrendered. And thus began three years eight months of rape, murder and torture, Sook Ching massacre etc. When I was a kid in the 70s, mom would order me to sleep early otherwise the "Yap pun Chai" (Japanese soldiers) would come and harm me.

@LtRee96se Месяц назад

That had to be terrifying.

@222Krzycho Месяц назад

Nonsense. Gen.Yamashita after taking Singapore was relocated by Tojo to Manchuria. Yamashita said truth. He didn't know about crimes. Special during Philippines defence campaign. It were Kaigun soldiers , who fought for Manilla despite Yamashita order to leave. Kaigun was not under his command. Execution was act of revenge for humiliation in Singapore and wonderful defence of Luzon. It was political not crime execution.

@Tommyjohn5143 Месяц назад

Total BS

@franciskeogh5027 27 дней назад

Percival tough guy against the Irish who had no military experience and still got beat not so tough against the Japanese

@fighterpilot1017 23 дня назад

BS! Sg, Malaya, and the Brits never stood a chance during the invasion. They were defeated within a week.

@AJ-lu3wx Месяц назад

There were MANY top warlords that escaped the noose due to political reasons. The Emperor included.

@hassanbenabdelali6287 Месяц назад

You forget the American war criminals

@josef-peterroemer5309 28 дней назад

Well the same with American officers and the president in illegal wars such as Iraq, Lybia, where tens of thoudands of civilians were killed including presidents of those countries. So USA is just as guilty.

@HellStr82 27 дней назад

@@hassanbenabdelali6287 or the british ones. Dressden anyone?

@marklee331 21 день назад

@@HellStr82Bomber Harris

@richardshort3914 Месяц назад

Yamashita was an outstanding general. Although helped in no small part by the incompetence of British Lt Gen Arthur Percival, his conquest of Malaya / Singapore was stunning. One of the major reasons he was sent to 'a backwater' after his success in Singapore was taking the purely propaganda rhetoric of the _Pan-Pacific Co-Prosperity Sphere_ seriously and trying to incorporate Malays and Indonesians (i.e., the native inhabitants of the Dutch East Indies) as near-equals to Japanese citizens into something modelled on the British Empire (i.e., they would become the equivalent of British Subjects within the Japanese Empire). That was Hideki Tojo's fantasy, which apparently he believed. The 100,000, or so, mainly civilian deaths in Manila were due to MacArthur's insistence to liberate the Philippines when they were in the process of being by-passed and from "rogue" officers (in particular the land element of the Imperial Japanese Navy) to hold the city regardless of their, or anyone else's, deaths. He was a competent officers and should not have been executed for circumstances _mostly_ beyond his control.

@user-no5zl4xb4l 27 дней назад

The only top level commander of World War II in Asia is Japanese king ‘Hirohito’ who was as god regarded in Japan. Hirohito was responsible for horrible war crimes in Asia! 😮😮😮

@roelmd8907 10 дней назад

And yet MacArthur asked the Emperor to help him rebuild Japan, instead of punishing him. Even though Hirohito himself stated that he was ready to endure punishment so that his people would not suffer any longer. But MacArthur's vision went further; he didn't want leaving Japan in chaos caused by the lost of their emperor and was vulnerable to being crushed by the Soviets, who would plant communist influence there, which would make America's own position difficult in the future. That's why. There's always political reason beyond any judgment on top level like that.

@khookeekeng 19 дней назад

Yamashita was executed for humiliating the British 😢

@kumareshbasu-ls6ss Месяц назад

Was Harry Truman punished for killing millions of innocent Japanese civilians in Japan? Does any of the commentators have answer. None of the allied forces was ever punished for their horrific war crimes .

@user-qb7yy7em9u Месяц назад

When I watched this movie, I am conscious about one thing. According to Japanese side historical information, General Yamashita tried to declare that Manilla was Open City. But, Naval Ground Force denied his suggestion.

@harrysihan554 22 дня назад

There was an oppositional relation between army and navy. Even within the army there were oppositional sides. For example, the Imperial Guards refused to participate in the assault on Singapore although they were supposed to be under the command of Yamashita.

@alpetterson9452 Месяц назад

Hardly anything about the Brits or US on this channel. A heavily biased 'past'.

@Paintkillerify 24 дня назад

Ikr. History is written by victors and we all were force to hear their side of story

@Iloveyounot 11 дней назад

I am a veteran, and I guarantee that soldiers always follow commands. Nothing happens unless it is directed from the top. During war, if you disobey a command, you can be executed. Japanese were very strict and followed their orders.

@user-rh8ug3qi9t Месяц назад

もともとの音源音声が無いが、間違いなく貴重な映像。アナウンスが英語のために、私にはそのアナウンスが理解不能で、その無知が哀しく情けない。正しい和訳を載せて欲しいと思う。昨今の日本国内の動向を思うと、過去の現実事実を忘れたか無かったかのような振る舞いが多く、戦犯複数人の哀しみすら踏みにじられているかに思える。小国日本が日本として、生きてきた努力が、あの明治以降からの長い長い戦禍の恐ろしさが原爆とこの戦犯複数人によって、終焉となったとは、誰も否定は不能だと思う。もはやかつての現役のリーダやその場に居た人たちは、数多くは鬼籍に入って居られて、真実やその真実を覆い隠そうとした理由や、さまざまな過去を識る人は少なくなってしまった。立場が異なると、写真の意味すら全く別物に解釈されることすら否定は不能だ。丁寧な過去の資料の読み直しも重要だし、マサカに焚書坑儒が発生してはならないのも真実だ。日本国の象徴天皇が、耐え難きを耐え、と、アラヒトガミ宣言したその後も、痛ましい戦争戦禍は世界の各地で止むことを知らない。もはやこれ以上、第三次などと冠の付くような戦争を世界中のどこであろうと発生してはならないことを、地道に考える必要しか、世界が地球上に存在出来る理由は、無くなっていると、忘れてはならない。地球は、もう、ニンゲンの数えることが出来る年齢をハルカに遠く数え、地球として存在出来る歳月はソレでもニンゲンの年齢よりはハルカに永いとは言え地球の回復機能も衰えている。地球上の生きている生物のＤＮＡは、遡れば、どこのだれも、タイシタコトの無いと言われる、ニンゲンのてのひらに乗せても見えるか見えないかのような、頼りなくおぼつかなかった、原始的な物体であったことくらいは、幸いにも勉学をしたものであったなら、少しくらいは記憶にあるかもしれない。海の向こうの、言葉も違う、宗教も違う、肌の色も瞳の色も髪の毛の色も、違う事の多い、ソレでも少なくともニンゲンだとは判別可能な生き物としては、それほどに、変わることも無いのに、なぜか、違いばかりが目立っている。同じように家族も居る、居ないようで、その存在には、父と母が存在したことは真実だ。海外の言語に疎いため、アナウンスの言っている内容が、ほとんど理解不能なのが、情けない。それでも、貴重な映像を大切に保管なさっていて、このように動画像をどなたにでもご覧になれるようになさって下さったことを、感謝申し上げます。

@epzilon9419 7 дней назад

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@Dhodin2 День назад

He was an outsider of his own nations military, yet a brilliant general who served with a sense of loyalty, but also he was what can be considered a fair and just leader. No one wins in war... especially you're on the side that loses the war. Yamashita was a soldier.... not a renegade. As documented, history has shown this. War is hell! It's dad, but Yamashita was a scapegoat!

@Clipgatherer Месяц назад

Yamashita’s scaffold speech was probably the longest ever. Did he really memorize it all or did he read from a paper?

@CrisostomoIbarra3835 Месяц назад

Perhaps the biggest US mistake in WW2 is killing Yamashita. He could have denied the existence of Yamashita treasure personally. This myth is the one used by Ferdinand Marcos to explain to gullible Filipinos how he was able to accumulate his ill-gotten wealth. Even up to this day, ordinary people cling to this myth, with deadly consequences. Yamashita was no fanatic, and his gold is the Filipinos version of El Dorado.

@user-dh2kz2pz2r Месяц назад

歴史は勝者の都合により作られる。

@user-hg9mq5qz6m Месяц назад

敗戦国以上に戦勝国に「戦争犯罪者」が存在するのに勝者が敗者を裁く理不尽よ。

@090909gregor Месяц назад

Było żółtku nie zaczynać🖕💣💥💀

@user-yh4ee4is2r 28 дней назад

Napakatama Naman ng ginawa nila na parusahan ng kamatayan ang taong ito,marami siyang inusinting tao ang ipinapatay sa walang dahilan,kaya dapat lang sa kanya Ang mabitay siya..

@juanesteban7365 26 дней назад

Magtanong lang bakit ang mga kalahi mo na sundalo idinamay ang mga sanggol itinaas sa ere at sinalo ng bionet na nakakabit sa dulo ng riple ng inyong mga sundalo, ano ang kinalaman ng mga sanggol sa digmaan, walang pangalawang kahayupan ang ginawa ng Imperial Soldiers of Japan sa mga mananayan ng Pilipinas, ang kwento ng Nanay ko sa akin ng dumating ang mga sundalo ninyo sa aming Probinsia ng Marinduque lahat ng madaanan na gumagalaw hayop, tao binabaril......*)

@juanesteban7365 26 дней назад

Sa walang pangalawang paglapastangan ng inyong mga sundalo sa inyong kapwa nananawagan ka pa na wag husgahan ang inyong hukbo, mga kriminal ng Digmaan ang inyong hukbo di yan gawain ng matinong tao........*)

@ernestclements7398 Месяц назад

What if anything can at this late date can be ascertained, happened to the men and /or officers involved in the slaughter of the Australian Nurses, after their hospital was captured in Singapore, did they ever face trial?

@crippleguy415 Месяц назад

Now we're all driving TOYOTAS . 😩😔

@billywatts4689 Месяц назад

I've got a Suzuki actually

@EricMustardman Месяц назад

Nope, no Jap cars for me.

@georgepatterson3428 Месяц назад

I’ve got a Nissan. Toyotas are rubbish.

@kwd3109 Месяц назад

Not me. My Chevy truck is still running strong after 16 years.

@nevillehill5210 Месяц назад

A lot of ww2 soldiers who fought the japs would never by a Japanese car …typically a Ford or Holden. But then the quality of Japanese cars just became too good to ignore

@pirobot668beta Месяц назад

The first duty of any Commander: Know what your Soldiers are doing, what they need. Anyone who claims "I didn't know" while being a top General is a petty liar.

@sabb007 Месяц назад

Yamashita's case was referred to the US Supreme Court. The Court ratified the outcome by 5 to 2. The 2 who dissented said that the trial was not, in any way, an example of US justice. Hearsay and propaganda were admissible as evidence. They also pointed out that, at the time of the atrocities, the US forces were doing their utmost to disrupt Yamashit's command and control systems (and succeeding). How then can you blame someone for not being able to command and control his army. At the end of the presentation of evidence, the 24 correspondents who heard and saw all of the evidence took a poll amongst themselves and found all 24 in favour of Yamashita. For further details see William Manchester's book American Caesar.

@patkearney9320 Месяц назад

Different cultures don’t think along the same lines.

@harrysihan554 22 дня назад

@@patkearney9320 what had Major General Samuel W. Koster to say about My Lai?

@patkearney9320 22 дня назад

@@harrysihan554 Probably a load of crap it’s not what you say it’s what you do. In Ireland we can know a man by his actions for they don’t lie or are misunderstood.☘️

@LtRee96se Месяц назад

Hi, new subscriber here. Could you possibly let us know what resources you use to get some of the information? I love history and love to get books on the subject. Thank you. If it is too much trouble, I understand.

@andymckane7271 Месяц назад

My advice is to buy the "Army Green Books"--seventy some odd volumes of them--dealing with "The United States Army in World War II." These volumes are superb, in my opinion. Another recommendation would be to have you read the thirty-nine volumes of the "Pearl Harbor Attack: Hearings Before the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack." These are now available online and thus will not cost you a cent unless, of course, you print them out. They are excellent! I recommend the 39-parts rather than the single volume "Report of the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack." I read all 39-parts years ago while living in San Diego. After I'd finished reading those first thirty-nine volumes I then found and read the JCC's "Report," both the majority and minority reports (580-pages in total length). A good place to find out of print WWII history and other history books is ABE.com. Good luck! Enjoy your reading. Andy McKane, aka "Pearl Harbor McKane," 10 July 2024, Maunaloa, Molokai, Hawaii.

@afvet5075 Месяц назад

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@LtRee96se 27 дней назад

@@afvet5075 Thanks

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@angloaust1575 Месяц назад

Was westmoreland aware of the atrocities at my lai!

@Alvan81 Месяц назад

You're tens of thousands of victims short, of having a reasonable analogy.

@pimpompoom93726 Месяц назад

The soldiers at My Lai were arrested and court martialled. The Japanese didn't do any such thing with their wayward troops.

@kwd3109 Месяц назад

Were the perpetrators of the murders and atrocities committed by communist China and mao ever brought to justice?

@Donna___92r2 Месяц назад

Ah, the irony of a perpetual grin.

@Rahul_Singh100 22 дня назад

I find it always interesting that theres no imagery available of the said humongous scale of Japanese genocides in South East Asia. Also, what were the British, Australian armies doing in South East Asia? Picnic? How many millions were massacred to spread the anglo imperialism in those countries in the first place? Wheres the "moral" accountability for that? Oh but that was expendable to bring those people civility. Is it?

@alexbowman7582 Месяц назад

My late friend here in Glasgow named Guru told me his father in Malaysia was rich then the Japanese invaded and bought cows off him with Japanese war money and after the war they would use that money to light fires.

@Tommyjohn5143 Месяц назад

Total BS

@geraldkong2696 25 дней назад

I think, Guru was trying to tell you that after the War, the Japanese currency notes were worthless in value. Indeed, they were, we called them 'banana notes' due to the banana tree featured on the notes, and are still found among collectors' collections today. Burning notes to make a fire- quite possible if you realised by then, the Japanese occupiers issued currency notes weren't any longer to be accepted as legal tender after the War

@nickname3471 Месяц назад

Imagine what th earths population would be without ALL th wars over th many thousands of centuries past..?

@samsungtap4183 Месяц назад

Here in Vietnam 500+civilians were massacred at Mai Li. Old men women and Children. Who was responsible ? General Westmorlan, other generals, company commanders, individual soldiers ? No one apparently. Maybe one soldier went to jail for 6mths

@ottawafrankie Месяц назад

American (white imperialist) double standard.

@billkraemer4710 Месяц назад

Yet the Hue massacre is championed by the communists. Give me a break.

@254967conwell Месяц назад

I was in Vietnam when Mai Li happened. But I was with the 1st Infantry Div. Estimated deaths was close to 378. Lt William Calley was charged with killing 22 civilians and was sentenced to life in prison but Nixon commuted his sentence to 10 years house arrest after he served 3 years in prison.

@jacksons1010 Месяц назад

@@ottawafrankie Have you never noticed that Americans are *not* all white?

@pimpompoom93726 Месяц назад

Yamashita was correct in his statement that those defeated in war are held to a higher standard that the victors, but without question he was aware of much of what was going on by his troops and did not do enough to stop it. Had he produced strong evidence that he did what he could to stop the atrocities, doubtful he would not have been executed. He didn't produce it.

@zebulundocallas 28 дней назад

BS. There is no way he is not involved in all the raping of women when he had left descendants here in the mountains of Cordillera Philippines. Those descendants then retained the name Yamashita in order to gain advantages and benefits that the japanese government offered. However, all other comfort women are still ignored by the Japanese government saying it was not an order that came from their emperor at that time.

@carlosmorales1879 7 дней назад

The destruction was due to McArthur's ego. He was beaten in Bataan and escape to Australia. He swore to come back for revenge. I SHALL RETURN he said He insisted in comimg back to the Philippines . Inspite of all other generals are against it. They were for the Bypassing of the Philippines. He went back to US and convinced Truman to let him RETURN. Thus, the DOOM'S DAY of Manila. Manila was the most devastated city in WW11 . Second to Warsaw in the world. Hundreds of thousands of Filipinos were killed in Manila by Japanese for being pro Amricans and the Americans by indescriminate bombings. McArthur's was not to defend the Pihilippines, rather it was ego. Revenge for being beaten by Yamashita. Indonesia, Malaysia and Indochina were not damaged at the end of WWII. So sorry for Manila.

@majorrgeek Месяц назад

not one US leader was ever brought before the tribunals to answer for the horrendous Hiroshima and Nagasaki war crimes

@majorrgeek Месяц назад

@@downunderrob - targeting and killing 250,000 civilians, women children even babies in prams is a war crime as per Hague definition ww2

@majorrgeek Месяц назад

@@njlauren - under the governing authority that determines war crimes i.e. Hague Law Hiroshima and Nagasaki are war crimes - clearly your BTW comment is nonsense because Hitler's generals too began killing civilians to accelerate their victories and to save Nazi soldiers, you condone Hitler too?

@masaset Месяц назад

It was clearly a war crime and the worst act of racism in the history of the planet.

@kathyabbass5420 11 дней назад

White previlege

@majorrgeek 11 дней назад

@@kathyabbass5420 I think you mean white privilege, and you are right

@joeblow2183 2 дня назад

I can’t believe they let the guy who raised his sword and beheaded the Austrian guy off. He eventually walked free. God knows how many he beheaded.

@faihsal1030 8 дней назад

During his time in prison he often served good food and always question by the guard where he hid the looted gold. He always answered i will never reveal i will bring into my grave.

@randynesbit4497 Месяц назад

Sad story

@mikadomm Месяц назад

Taisho....BANZAIII....!!!! 🇯🇵🇯🇵⛩️⛩️

@oceanhome2023 Месяц назад

Mac’s pro Oriental world view and his closeness to the Philippine people influenced many of his decisions in running Post war Japan ! From what I have gleaned from reading his Biography “American Caesar” he was Pan Oriental , he preferred Filipino women , he was a great ruler of Post War Japan . He only allowed US Occupation troops who had not recently been in any combat the greener the better . He provided the Constitution that the Japanese accepted and followed it came right out of his secretarial pool . His judgment of War Crimes were tempered by his view that the Japanese had not aquired yet the civilizing western values needed and he cut them some slack .

@DavidGerhard-nh8gw Месяц назад

😮

@peterrobbins2862 Месяц назад

He let them off scot free for political reasons he was an absolute glory seeking disgrace of a man who thought of no one but himself

@Richard_L_Y Месяц назад

What others 'weren't captured'? They, the US, pretty much knew who they all were; and could have dealt with them all; but didn't? In spite of their orchestrations and involvement in the most horrific effectively tortures to death possible; even if not for that exact reason; including the live vivisection without painkillers of US airmen?

@JuanHernandez-bd1un 10 дней назад

Most generals officers and soldiers thought they will not be punished based on the captain of the ship doctrine.

@cq9882 Месяц назад

I trained as a nurse in a military hospital. At that time I still had the honour of caring for WW1, WW11, Korea and Vietnam Veterans. Many POW’s from both German and Japanese POW Camps I nursed. Some wanted to talk others did not. They all agreed that the Japanese POW camps and the arbitrary level of cruelty and torture was much far worse than the German POW. Killed more Russians by the Germans. Factor in war with China the Japanese as the perpetrator is off the scale. I believe reparations are still, yes believe it are still outstanding from the Germans from WW11, from my best sources that Japan have paid out their reparations, however the total re-build of Japan was paid for by the 🇺🇸 United States 2.2 billion, in today’s money 18 billion, adjusted for inflation in Japan’s reconstruction effort. Numbers to think about. 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇬🇧🇩🇪🇯🇵🇨🇳🙏

@kevingptan1 26 дней назад

Lest we forget. There is no room for war in modern century. There is no room for warmongers.

@8003R Месяц назад

One sided law of justice

@user-xb4le4og8e Месяц назад

YamaSHITA his parents named him well

@pohmichael2978 18 дней назад

General Yamashita conquered and reigned Singapore, at that point in time, the future prime minister was in hiding , having a holiday abroad.

@COnz1966 12 дней назад

Not correct Read more than you watch

@Whitemamba06 28 дней назад

He is GOLD D. ROGER reference"🤣

@SimsonKristian Месяц назад

Kenangan badai jepang dimasa lalu.... hanya menyisakan kesedihan dan kepedihan hati yang sangat men- dalam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

@Dan8254 28 дней назад

In war unless you can prove that you did nobble things to protect the civilians and prisoners of war, then you either personally or collectively GUILTY for all war crimes committed by your peers or your subordinates within your unit. You have no right to claim ignorance let alone claim innocence.

@user-ex6ib9ep8k 28 дней назад

In war there is no gentelmenship to the enemy, even Erwin Rommel is considered to be a war criminal if he was to outlived the war.

@dedihernawan92 28 дней назад

For what we died and how after died. Where the soul will go

@PiscineChat72 Месяц назад

Le même sort devrait être réservé à netanyahou ....

@keithharmon7124 21 день назад

Pardon this comment coming from the Dunning Kruger Society where you don't have to have a IQ to be a member.

@cybersean3000 Месяц назад

First rule of leadership, Princess: everything is your fault! - A Bug's Life

@nickashton3584 Месяц назад

read yamashitas gold

@brunomoon6101 20 дней назад

History wrote by the winner

@adhidhammahutahasan6 11 дней назад

Called a war criminal because his country lost the war, but if his country won the war he called a hero..

@kathyabbass5420 11 дней назад

They said. "I know nothing"

@robertgrey6101 Месяц назад

Can you do a show on the execution of the Japanese soldier (General ?) who executed allied soldiers on a beach near Changi prison. In return he was executed at the same spot snd possibly tied to the same post he executed allied soldiers on. Ed: smiling face taken away it was a print .

@aizatjunaidi69 Месяц назад

And dont forget what he do to lt adnan saidi at bukit chandu

@Steven-q2Steven_m0 Месяц назад

Oh dear, a system error has caused the transaction to wander off to an invalid email address.

@huang0619 Месяц назад

*💔💔就麥克阿瑟不爽*一定要山下奉文死*以解自己私怨💔💔*

@kathyabbass5420 11 дней назад

He wasn't the worst and my granddad always said he wasn't the worst

@LeahandBlair 28 дней назад

Did he say where the gold is? 🤔

@119jle 4 дня назад

She stole billions in gold.

@hanschristiandelacruz6433 15 дней назад

I wonder why the Japanese up to this day, glorifies Hirohito for his wrong doings still? 😔

@MinhNguyen-cn8kx 22 часа назад

Fantastico yamashita... Respect from vietnam... Allahu akhbar.

@sabroohz 29 дней назад

戦犯は勝者の都合で作られる。そこに真偽はなく　あるのは有罪のみ。

@kongchunchieh544 18 дней назад

Seems like Yamashita becomes a muppet of the Japanese military.

@svenerikjohansson8130 Месяц назад

His last words were really highly unusual given the situation. Personally I´m in principle against all executions, but even if I had been supportive of the death penalty I would have been against it in this case. I think it was not the right choice to kill him. However I do believe the general was spiritually wrong. He talked about "the gods" and that he had nothing to be ashamed of, and I think we all have things to be ashamed of infront of the only God in our existence and that our own merits are not enough for salvation but that grace in blood of Christ is neeed for all salvatio in the universe. I don´t know if Yamashita was within reach of that. He asked for prayers, but I don´t know if he ment the Shintoist gods. I hope that salvation in blood of Christ reahed also him, that it extends further than some christians blelieve, but the general seemed to have a shintoist worldview until his last day on the Earth.

@janlindtner305 Месяц назад

👍👍👍

@kathyabbass5420 11 дней назад

Hirohito was the commander in Chief

@mankazuha 24 дня назад

he only bring to Manila for searching a hidden gold of yamashita

@Clairedog12 Месяц назад

If there is na question about this guy's execution there should be questions about the German's executions.Harlan Stone (1872-1946), chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court at the time, described the proceedings as a “sanctimonious fraud” and a “high-grade lynching party.”

@ljubivojepaunovic4062 Месяц назад

Amerikanci banditi warum Japani Soldaten kiled.Ljubivoje

@mbachgm9172 Месяц назад

this site tends to show same photos many times for different events and occasions also does a lot of "fabrication" and propaganda spouted and touted by the dude with the Brittish accent

@2msvalkyrie529 27 дней назад

Why not ask Malaysians for THEIR opinion...?? Or do you think you know better than them..?

@robertstancer4469 Месяц назад

A view from the UK. Regarding his defence, you are seeing exactly the same rhetoric being used by Paula Vennells and the directors of the Post Office. "I didn't know what was going on beneath me". Well boys and girls, i have news for them. If they didn't know they were not doing their job right. Some of these so called "Chiefs" or chief execs seem to think it is an honorary role, a diplomatic promotion for being a nice person. We all know the culture of the Japanese in those days - surrender was seen as being a coward and who commits 'Hari - Kiri' when a British Royal dies - and for him to say that in his defence is laughable.

@patmanapsal4762 Месяц назад

The war criminals were the ones who started the war.😮

@DT-wp4hk Месяц назад

🔯

@yoseipilot 26 дней назад

So you telling me, the Americans were hypocrites, when they cut oil supplies to Japan.

@lovebaja Месяц назад

It’s THIRD not FIRD. It’s FATHER not FAVER.

@ptmahameru.mbledug632 День назад

Netanyahu , it's truly criminal

@kiyotakatokyo 5 дней назад

復讐以外の何物でもない！！！

@robertarisonang2987 23 дня назад

What happen with hirohito the king?

@PaulinAsia_ Месяц назад

The war criminals executed were on the losing side. There were soldiers on the allies side who committed horrendous war crimes, but were never tried, let alone executed, because they were on the winning side. Hypocrites.

@larry648 Месяц назад

Many U.S. military personnel were court marshaled and served time for war crimes. The difference is, Japan and Germany committed war crimes as a matter of national policy. We did not.

@cosmicyeti6804 Месяц назад

The spoils of war! I guess Japan should not have attacked Pearl Harbor. But, we can be proud of how close an ally Japan and the US have become.

@mountainjay Месяц назад

The losing side was the side of evil and did far more evil acts that were sanctioned by their own armies. You equating the Allied and Axis powers as morally equivalent suggests you yourself are an evil person who uses false moral equivalency in an attempt to justify your own evil views.

@tonybarnes3858 Месяц назад

@@larry648 Thanks for this--makes you wonder what PaulinAsia_ is really mad about...war affects all humans similarly, but not all humans are similar in their desire to wage war.

@kathyabbass5420 11 дней назад

What about the 2 German generals who were hanged ?

@showhey19 Месяц назад

ニュルンベルク裁判では、政治家や将軍が泣き喚いて死刑執行を拒否するような事があったが、東京裁判ではあまりにも皆が粛々と首を吊っていくので、MPのほうが気持ち悪くなって休憩を申し出る事があった。

@daengngirate1945 24 дня назад

What about raymond westerling, a butcher for thousands of people in south sulawesi, from the netherlands???

@GaryArmstrongmacgh Месяц назад

I get tired of seeing elder Japanese complain online about being bombed with the A-bomb. Even younger Japanese are often completely, and I believe wilfully, ignorant of what went on in WW2. (Oh...wasn't that some kind of territorial dispute?) The fact is the Japanese had been involved in a long running brutal war of aggression goin back even longer than the beginning of WW2! The fact that the United States had had enough off this and refused to sell them oil and scrap metal was why they bombed Pearl Harbor and attacked other Western Allies in the Pacific. They depended on these resources to wage war against China and Russia. When they were denied, they turned against us and thus the PTO opened up! And millions of deaths occurred. And they occurred brutally! Millions upon millions of their fellow Asians were brutally slaughtered, raped, enslaved, and otherwised mistreated. Not to mention the Western POWs and civilian prisoners.

@maggiemuthu9818 День назад

Oh I'm sure he knew very well what his soldiers were doing. The japanese were so cruel to us malaysians, killin ppl mercilessly

@mannypaulin6604 21 день назад

War.

@JuanHernandez-bd1un 23 дня назад

Karma is real. You were happy and powerful but after years you were like a lamb being lead to a slaughter house.

@raywhite4781 Месяц назад

Good video. The only thing to improve it is if you spoke English.

@sada97 4 дня назад

原爆投下の罪を問う権力を忘れることはありませんが、勝者が敗者を裁くというのは裁判と言えるのでしょうか。

@desertdrag0n 13 дней назад

Mc Arthur was behind of execution

@wiltonmewbourn8314 Месяц назад

Where did this narrator learn english ?

@JohnLaMonte Месяц назад

Of course he knew, duh,…

@kamaruzamanbt3825 19 дней назад

History was written only by d winner. Hypocrites just don't want to listen.

@josephjunjuncaneda4865 5 дней назад

As Christ for the Ignorance of Humanity,...Gen. Yamashita payed for the sins of all the Unqualified Samurai. Biblical Indicator: German Cross = Joseph. Round Blood Stain = Benjamin...Full Blood Brothers.

@dellcruz2818 14 дней назад

japanese soldiers are dusciplined.and follow the orders to the letter of their superior much more a General. Yamashita cannot excuse himself

@Onlythetruth88 28 дней назад

This is rarely mentioned compared to what the nazi’s did.

@Rahul_Singh100 22 дня назад

This is hardly proveable as well. Local leaders of South East Asia were supporters of Japanese. Thats the part, western journalists and govts deliberately selectively left out since decades. However the countries in those regions also pander to the western narrative to be in good eyes of the victors.