This is a compilation of our two videos on the Second Sino-Japanese war. Music: Impact Intermezzo Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons...
Part I (1937-1941) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mTkRBg2Dwz0.html Part II (1941-1945) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-n4WldSD92Hc.html
My great grandfather fled to Taiwan with Chiang Kai shek for decades. When he returned to the mainland last year, he saw how his hometown had changed so much. At the age of 97, he knelt down like a child in front of his mother's graveyard and cried uncontrollably.
& how far away Japanese military live till this day. My neighbor is a Japanese solider & we live in Ensenada, Baja California. He's been here since world war 2.
It wasn't too hard. After WW1, as terms of the Peace Conference in Paris 1919, former German colonies, island groups in the Pacific were mandated to Japan. They just simply turned them into military bases.
@@n.c9653because he is a lying moron, the wars started way before WW2 and they strategically tried taking over China when it was at its weakest during the collapse of Qing Dynasty and the unfair treaties sent by Russia and allied nations
My grandfather, aged 16, alongside two of his brothers, 15 and 19, were conscripted in 1938 and fought through the war against Japan. His younger brother died from Japanese artillery during the battle of Wuhan; he said he couldn't find his body as the shell had just shattered him into pieces. By the end of the war, his older brother was already a company commander. They then participated in the following civil war, during which their units got separated during the campaign of Huaihai. The battalion of his older brother managed to break out of the Communists encirclement during their final retreat and eventually went to Taiwan with the ROC government. But my grandfather was captured and was then enlisted into the PLA straight away due to his age and experiences. Grandfather later was sent to Korea as a part of the PVA during the Korean War in 1950. And that's where he lost his entire company of men and three of his fingers from frostbite. His older brother settled in Taiwan and pursued a career in the police force, in which he eventually became the deputy chief of the police of Taoyuan. He and his brother were eventually reunited in 1987 after 38 years of separation as improved diplomatic relations between China and Taiwan opened a route for a large number of people who sought to visit their separated close relatives in mainland China after decades of separation. Sadly, their Mother passed away just a year before their reunification, that she wouldn't live to see her eldest son ever again since he left home in 1938. Grandfather passed away in 2009. RIP 爷爷, his entire life was basically a chapter in Chinese history, a page that was filled with pain and despair, but yet with strength and resilience. Hope he is in a better place, now, reunited with all his brothers, beside his mum, in a world where there is no war and hunger.
The war in mainland China has almost no exposure at all in the West, and I really wish that would change. It was one of the biggest and most significant fronts of the entire war.
@Akarsh2008 Without China's containment in the Asia-Pacific region, the Japanese military would quickly occupy the entire Asia-Pacific region and begin to exploit their land resources, manufacturing a large number of weapons to engage in battles with the United States in the Pacific. A significant reason for Japan's failure is attributed to the scarcity of local resources, which are insufficient to meet its extensive military manufacturing needs.
@Akarsh2008 Without China, the Soviet Union would face two sides of encirclement from Germany and Japan，The date of liberation in Europe will change, and even history will change
I think Japan would have won if not for China. The main reason Japan lost the war was that it started a war with US, and the reason for the war with US was the oil shortage caused by US's oil export restrictions. Without the Sino-Japanese war, Japan would have been able to control Southeast Asia earlier than in historical fact, and if that had happened, the oil shortage would have been resolved and there would be no reason for Japan to go to war with US. And this would affect the war between Germany and the USSR.
Many thanks for your interesting video. My grandad went to the war. He had to add one of saddest experience into his memories , because he had an order by his group chief that he had to go to HIROSHIMA to help all citizens. Until he passed away he never talked about HIROSIMA. I keep praying this world peace.
Unfortunately for the Japanese, thanks to the American nuclear bomb, Korea, whose materials and manpower had been exploited by the Japanese Empire, was liberated. My grandfather always said during his lifetime that the Empire of Japan took Koreans' chopsticks, bicycles, and even ceramics to make fighter planes It was probably a similar situation in China and Southeast Asia.
@@livingstar1741It was a matter of time Japan would surrender. Americans didn't have to drop atomic bombs. That wasn't for ending the war, but mainly for showing off the power of the new weapon to the USSR for the post-war power game.
@@livingstar1741do you ever heard the Massacre of Nanjing? At least 200k of chinese people were killed, raped, by Japanese.However, many Japanese are unwilling to acknowledge this history.
This is literaly 1 minute video... You have links to the full videos, and even then soviets crushing japanse in manchuria at this point only speed up the result.
@@madtechnocrat9234 Video. The US dropped bombs. Japan surrendered. The USSR is not visible at all. Reality. The US dropped bombs on August 6 and 9, Japan did not surrender. Japan surrendered on September 12, at the moment when all the main forces of Japan on the mainland were destroyed, including the largest ground grouping in Manchuria, 700 thousand people, which is more than all other fronts combined. Destroyed USSR. She surrendered on September 12, since by that time the USSR had captured all the adjacent northern islands and was already preparing a landing on Hokaido, already one of the islands of Japan's metropolis. Author's response to these comments. Video in 1 minute, the contribution of the USSR is insignificant and did not enter. Well, yes.
Japan capitulated not because of the use of nuclear weapons, but because of the entry of the Soviet Union into the war, nuclear weapons were used to demonstrate power by a specific example
A really good bullet point where you not only massively oversimplified a complex geopolitical situation but also demonstrate your sheer ignorance and bias on the matter. Congrats.
@@Yahtzee1Your rebuttal is littered with erroneous assumptions suggesting op to be giving an inaccurate summary without providing any correction or alternative set of events. Japan's generals are cited as having surrendered and supported the Emperor's choice due to the incursion and subsequent battles over Manchuria and northern China, which involved the defeat and capture of over 700,000 Japanese troops, more than all other stationed regions Japanese troops were contained in (combined if I'm not mistaken). The events started nearly weeks before the official declaration of surrender and was even earlier than when the word of surrender reached the mainland. Additionally, before the nukes were released and hundreds of thousands of civilians were murdered, Japan's military leaders and Emperor had agreed they should seek an end to the war through conditional surrender (due to the contested land China was able to hold and the stretched forced in south/southwestern China), following the nuking of Hiroshima the Emperor was still confident that Japan could reach a desirable outcome, this continued to be a factor following the second nuking of the densely populated city Nagasaki, but with the advancements made by the SU on the nights end of August 8th, it was made clear to the Emperor and his inner circle over the course of the days after that conditional surrender was unachievable and that any leverage Japan once had was lost with Soviet involvement and the consequent collapse/constriction of Japanese held territory that receded back to the mainland of Japan. One event murdered 400,000 civilians The other event involved the capture of more than 700,000 japanese soldiers. You seem to be the bias interlocutor from your lack of effort put into the eye asbestos that is your response, which is even more generalized, thought lacking and empty than the original commentor's, who at least went through the effort of mentioning events. I truly hope this is bait, otherwise your comment is entirely redundant and not only based in fallacies that the US played a significant role but holds no true purpose in existing.
It’s kinda crazy how little land japan lost by the end of the war, Germany had lost almost all of its territory but Japan still had the entirety of south east Asia
@Hardcore Minecraft Japanese troops were also torturing all the common Chinese and korean ppl and r wording the women pretty epic for a small nation to commit such horrible war crimes
It's called EGO, imagine losing/surrendering to a smaller country that has smaller resources than you. That being said, due to this so called "Ego" tons of people have died for the people that has power. Same thing with Japan, they didn't surrender at all knowing that they're losing anyways but surrendered when 2 of their big cities got nuked.
@@ccendo9302 More like for their *Dignity* and for Their *Hopes and Future* to be honest.....U.K If losing maybe Didnt had harsh But still gonna losing everything If lose the war But *The soviet and China* ho boy,If they losing Either they gonna be A *Slave Worker* for their Entire lives Or get *Massacred* until last of their race dissapeared From this world By Japanese and German
The soviets also siezed all of manchuria's factories built by the japanese along with the east austrian, east german, and czech industries which they stole and used to funnel their own industry.
Even after the Soviet invasion and second bombing, Japan was unwilling to surrender unconditionally. Their original terms had been: * The Emperor remains in power. * No foreign occupation of Japan, Korea or Formosa (Taiwan). * Self administration of disarmament. * Self administration of war crimes accusations. After Nagasaki, the Emperor ordered a surrender offered on only the first term. That was rejected and followed by a leaflets dropped from bombers, informing the Japanese people of the atomic bombings, the surrender negotiations and the demand for unconditional surrender. It also threatened more nuclear strikes if Japan did not surrender. At that point, members of the Big Six basically told the Emperor that if Japan did not surrender immediately, he was likely to be face either a popular rebellion (demanding surrender) or a military coup (to halt the negotiations). As to the casualties of the bomb, it is worth keeping in mind the situation on the mainland. The Japanese occupation of Asia was incredibly brutal, and in 1945 it ramped up to new levels. On average, 20,000 civilians were executed and another 80,000 died due to conditions imposed by the occupation every week. A two week delay in the end of the occupation (and ability to deliver relief) would have resulted in as many civilian deaths as the bombs (more if the bombs were taken off the table and Hiroshima released as a firebombing target). Plans for an invasion estimated the Japanese would resist for several months.
@@nxdeflowers japan was going to lose eventually. The only difference was how much sooner or later it happens. The quickest was the american nukes. Slower would be a home islands invasion, slower is a soviet offensive, and slowest is japan dying from attrition bogged down in China. I dont see how the war couldve ever resulted in japanese victory to be honest.
@@ANPNMNfan Japanese:We shouldn't be nuked even if massacred millions of citizens ,raped women, did some cruel experiments on human during the WWII.Even if we attacked the US by no means. Germans were deeply apologetic for war, and Japanese were deeply shameful for defeat.(They even think it's Germany who made it defeat. ) Anyway, American soldiers CONQUED Japanese territories and Japanese girls, that the way they atone for the inhuman behavior of their ancestors.
@@Khan-up2uz General Otozō Yamada and his 700000 The Kwantung Army were just on excursions in Manchuria and Korea. They were engaged in hiking, collecting wild mushrooms and berries, organized massacres and other mass cultural events. And they were called the army for comedic effect.
Yes, they're pros at hiding stuff and information. Denial of their true history full of murderers and now worshipping criminals who killed and rap*d thousands of innocents even making a "shrine" for those scum. Outwardly japanese are exceedingly polite and gracious but that’s only superficial, the japanese would never let you into their circle or society. They consider themselves a "superior race" , in fact racism in japanese society is so ingrained, for them it's normal. They currently enjoy their peace and power only due to being a vassal state of america. American government has done a good job at painting them as good guys.
Soviets did not have nukes, nor did they have the capability to invade Japan. On the otherhand, Japan had been expecting USSR to declare war since at least April 1945.
@@taoliu3949Like the large army itself on Japan’s side didn’t play an important role? Seriously? Two nuclear warheads played more of a psychological role than real ones.
@@vaga-anima Effect of nukes were more than just psychological. Nukes meant the US could essentially wipe Japan off the face of the earth while suffering little casualties to themselves, which completely upends Japan's goal to bleed out the Allies and force an Armistice. The USSR invading Manchuria was not only expected, it would do little to change Japan's own strategic plans.
@@taoliu3949 The US destroyed Japanese cities before Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The fact that the United States was occupying Japan was already an obvious fact.At first, the Japanese didn’t even understand how a nuclear warhead differed from conventional bombing. Accession was not so obvious to the Japanese government before Japan tried to negotiate mediation between Japan and the Allies. And or destruction by the 700+ thousandth Kwantung Army it could have been predicted in less than a month. That's what
@@vaga-anima Nukes differed SIGNIFICANTLY for Japan. Their cities were wiped out in a blink of an eye. The US could just as well do the same thing for armies on the ground. This completely negates any plans Japan had to resist any US invasion. The Soviets did not destroy the Kwantung Army in less than a month. By the Soviets own estimates the IJA suffered about 80k killed.
It's funny to see some of the comment say that "if Japan won, Asia would be much better" Bruh you didn't even know what happen to us that time, it's like "if Nazi had won the battle, Europe would be much better".
Fuck America 🇺🇸 ㅗ . 미국은 침략 전쟁으로 만들어진 국가입니다. 그리고 일본과의 문제는 미국의 잘못 또한 존재합니다. 자신들의 이권을 위해, 자신들이 전쟁에 둘어가려는 명분을 만들기 위해 수출 공격을 했습니다. 미국의 강함은 존경합니다. 하지만, 일본은 아시아 국가들의 근대화 및 자유를 선물해주었습니다. 일본에게 매우 감사합니다. 그리고 미국은 부디 자신들의 잘못부터 지적하고 남의 잘못을 지적했으면 좋겠습니다. 미국의 말에 군사적 힘에 들어있지 않았다면 아무도 듣지 않았을 어린아이의 논리입니다. 미국은 어른이 되십시오.
Man I wanna see Eastory do a multi-part video on the fall of imperial Russia and the rise of Soviet Russia along with all the white vs reds battles across Russia and the Baltics. That's really put things in perspective for me.
@@fghjklasdasd761 Was going to say hahaha, Eastory needs them to make the videos. Just remember kids, no matter what, all of the history content on RU-vid came from academic history books, and if it didn't, it's shite.
people get suprised about the Nazi Blietzkrieg in France and how France was humilliated in 1940, what surprises me is how tf Japan conquered the entire Southeast Asia, destroyed a British fleet and had the Allies scared for a while without 25% of the arsenal and troops they had
Here it is even shorter: Japan tried to invade and dominate China but they only successfully invaded and didn't dominate so China held on until stronger powers joined the war and won like that the end.
@bonk they failed to raise army and industry out of China to help their cause. They do have partial success in raising Korean army though. It's an interesting part of history that IJN blamed the ruthless IJA for their failure to make use of the territory and population they gained control of.
@bonk Japan wouldn't have won, China would've take massive losses (like every Chinese war lol check wiki) but China would probably still chug along once Japan depleted all their resources and caught up somewhere along the way. Japan before the global economy and trade did not have a lot of natural resources, they were lacking in oil and steel. Besides resources the Japanese army and navy were actually extremely divided and would actively sabotage each other and themselves and rarely cooperated for anything. They still did remarkably well on their own but it is part of the reason why the land invasion in China couldn't be sustained as the Navy straight up couldn't give a shit to send supplies by ships lmfao which meant their logistics is severely screwed.
@bonk China is so massive, with so many people and literally everyone hated Japan whether or not they could fight the Japanese, they never would’ve made use of any industry or resources, and if they did, the concept of Kamikaze would’ve never been developed in the late stages of ww2
The Tokyo Bombing using conventional bombs and incendiary bombs claimed more lives than the Nagasaki's nuclear bombing. It wasn't just the two nukes that made Japan think twice.
@@malakatan3235 but they lost badly. Japan did well because it focused intensely on technology. Like Germany. The lost because they ran out of troups and fuel. The us and soviets had almost 10 times the population on top of the other allies and they also had far better resources
Part of Chinese army(estimated around 140,000 in troop number) managed hold-off Japan invasion at the Burma's northern region and rescued hundreds of thousands of British troops from the hands of Japanese invasion forces. Also, the Japanese road link along the eastern China was not successfully established (i.e. Japan had to mainly rely on the sea route throughout the war) but infected heavy losses to the Chinese army at the time .
My grandma lived in the Japanese occupied Hong Kong during ww2 when she was a kid. She always tells me how horrible the 3 years were. They had to be highly aware of the attacks and hide in safe places quickly.They also didn’t have enough food to eat. She said that even having a bowl of rice was lucky and she even ate the skin of trees . I can’t believe experiencing this , not even a kid . War is such a horrible thing
Thank you for this comment. Everybody likes to compare and fight over which country is “cooler” and which was better at war. It’s so nasty, but they don’t understand how truly horrific war is
Poor Philippines... I can still remember my grandma stories. How tough their lives before and after the war. 😭😭😭 She loss grandpa and some of the family properties
that didn't restart until after the japanese were defeated so it wasn't that much of a relevant factor, although there were sporadic attacks between the communists and nationalists during the period of the united front
@@harrytruman9567 correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that the Chinese Communist Party was fighting both Japan and the other party, and after Japan was defeated they were able to focus on the civil conflict.
@@TimmyGC This is generally correct, but the upper echelons of CPC leadership and the party discouraged fighting against the GMD as they prioritized fighting off the Japanese invaders over prosecuting the civil war. The CPC believed national liberation was more important than waging people's war to win socialism in the country, and so when the Japanese invaded, the civil war was temporarily put on hold up fight off the Japanese. In a series of lectures given in May 1938, Mao spoke a little bit about the position of the CPC regarding the civil war and the fight against the Japanese. "There are even some people who, the moment a slightly favorable turn occurs in the war situation, are prepared to intensify the 'friction' between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party... This almost invariably occurs whenever a comparatively big battle is won or the enemy's advance comes to a temporary halt. All of the above can be termed political and military short-sightedness." - Mao, May 1938
@@TimmyGC Mao even identified sympathetic elements amongst the Japanese people and military (anti-war Japanese people/military deserters and conscientious objectors) as being potential elements 'behind enemy lines' so to speak, that could serve as potential allies to help the effort of China fighting off the Japanese invaders.
While Soviet contributed greatly in European Theater, in Pacific theater, Soviet was indeed a joke. Their operation started after the first atomic bomb. They were fighting an army that was already in war for 14 years since 1931 and on the verge of surrender.
@@mottscottison6943 this operation is a very important part of 20 century history. Probably without this operation soviets didn't give Manchuria to Chinese reds and China wouldn't become communist.
@@ИванРодионов-у5ь well yes you can say that is an important event. Manchuria was important ground for CCP to grow their strength. But if Roosevelt was more confident in his atomic bomb progress in Yalta, he probably wouldn't have offered Stalin this trade. Everything in history is just a domino effect of something else.
Interesting notes: This video begins with Manchuria already taken over by Japan from Chinese warlords, Korea and Formosa had already been taken over by Japan in 1895. China sounds to us like one entity but the government of the Republic of China was in an ever changing coalition with or against various Chinese warlords, a Red Chinese rebellion (that later took over as PRC) and a puppet Chinese regime with the same name and flag that was helping Japan. Really interesting, but sad and gruesome to millions of humans in China and elsewhere...🕯️
I've learnt in our history that Myanmar was governed by Japan for sometime during WW2. That was really a difficult and struggling time back then. But you explained more details in a short way.
I remember hearing about one of my cousin's grandfather who fought in WW2 against the Japanese in northeast India from my father. During a cease-fire, a Japanese soldier stopped him and tried to talk to him. He killed that Japanese soldier and when he checked his bag there was only a small piece of ginger. He was probably hungry and begging for food.
Fun fact about that Chinese route mentioned near the end, the pilots went through the Himalayas which back then was basically a death sentence, in other words they were braver than Gaddafi when suggesting to split up Switzerland
Yeah, if you want to learn, watch these quick accurateish videos and just yeet the answers down towards your teacher and tell'em your wasting my time lol.
Meanwhile, Yan Xishan turned from the governor of Shanxi under China to governor of Shanxi under Japan, and once Japan capitulated he recruited a huge number of Japanese troops to the nationalist Chinese side and fought with this army against Communist with more determination than Chiang-Kai-Shek until he was forced to retreat to Taiwan. There he became the de-facto leader and layed foundation for the modern Taiwan as an independent country/rebelious province (Depending on how you see them), since Chiang-Kai-Shek didn't care about the remnants of National army and simply stole the money reserve for himself. Then Chiang-Kai-Shek arrived to Taiwan and Yan Xishan instantly lost his position, and was forgotten to history by most. A man who always made the best decision for the small province he controlled, willing even to cooperate with the Japanese in order to keep it prosperous and neutral, and who achieved many successes in his governship of both Shanxi and Taiwan, earning the name of model governor for that previous achievement. Nowadays recognised by People's Republic of China as a governor who made correct decisions in stopping a plague that was spreading in Shanxi and into other regions of China.
It wasn’t the nukes which stopped Japan. It was Russia invading, which stopped the war against Japan. Probably because the land it was invading was super important.
@@punch5076 and you not a black？If not, and you don’t care the rights and destiny of the black,then I have nothings to say.I just want empathize with you,so I was wrong about you.
History is not that simple. At that time, China was in the midst of a civil war, and there was also the Soviet invasion. Western countries had colonized Southeast Asia and imposed trade restrictions on Japan.
I don't like shorts, they belong on TikTok. Because this is RU-vid and I see something vertically filmed, I find this offensive and it clutters my feed.
I come from northeastern China, soviet union liberated my hometown. The Chinese will remember every ally during WWII. In some country, some media are forgetting or even slandering the contributions made by the Soviet Union. For the next generation, you can even see the U.S. take Berlin in 1945.
never forgot how Russians took all the industrial resources in inner manchuria. The outer manchuria was also annex by russians much earlier. You russians sure as hell love to invade
I hope you realize you should thank the United States for that mostly, along with the rest of the Allies, not WWII era Japan... WWII era Japan would have turned your parents and grandparents and all their friends into their slaves had they won, then killed them whenever they felt like it. It was only because the United States and the Allies won and didn't hardly execute anyone in Japan who was responsible for starting the war and helped them to rebuild their country instead that they became "your friend"!
Именно после разгрома Квантунской армии советскими войсками Япония капитулировала, тогда как ядерные бомбы нужны были только чтобы пригрозить Советскому союзу.
in sabah malaysia they tortured the australians soilders by making them walk from one point to another till they die in their journey. they didnt just invaded china they reached malaysia till singapore
The Chinese were fighting against the majority of Japanese troops and they made the job of western allies easier by having to face less Japanese troops
Japan claimed they would conquer China in three months but they didn’t expect Chinese can hold on for 8 yrs without surrendering. Chinese actually remember the war quiet well--in defeat, malice; in victory, revenge.
This is why PRC tried its best to make nukes by itself, because the nukes keep the country itself from war. Recently PRC has had its ICBM tested. Possessing this provides the 1.4 billion a peaceful environment to live.
