Sad to say she was abused by the Japanese. Those houses were not good.

Your translation is very good. Your hopes are mine as well.

America and Japan are cousins that got into a fight. Now we are brothers that get along beautifully, the US loves Japan. Much love from America!

@@Coreyrob26 you are truly brainwashed

@@user-io6pj8bz8hgo away bot

@@user-io6pj8bz8hsounds like the CCP not Japan.

Calm down scrub, nothing you said is based in fact, just... All I'm saying is, you had to choose to lie, in public on the internet, let that sink in.

Battleship Maine, Golf of Tonkin, WMDs ????

@@Jasonronsteinberger 日本を追い詰め、先制攻撃を仕向けたのは、米国であり、アジア、アフリカを侵略し数100年に渡り収奪していたのは西洋人である。

​@@Jasonronsteinbergeryou can wipe your A$$ with bamboo. You don't know anything but what your told, well you've just been told to wipe your A$$ with bamboo

@@jackriley5974yeah. Now Syria.

They had a profoundly sick society. A fanatical culture which turned its focus onto militarism, that was always going to end badly.

Thank you. This work was incredibly interesting to me. I also worked with Japanese memories for the first time.

​@@MilitaryClubHISTORYthank you for all the work you do

The Americans prohibited the Japanese and the Germans from talking about their prospective of war, no publishing, and no movies. Nothing. It's the bitter of defeat.

They were so hungry they probably ate them.

I once asked my dad and his friends, who served in the Pacific, if they were sorry so many Japanese soldiers died. They all thought it was a shame that so many were left alive.

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I did fifty years ago in my youth. I got to talk to many of The Imperial Japanese Armies Victims ! Few had a good word to say. Like the surviving medical staff in Singapore Hospital. One patient witnessed fellow patients Doctors and Nurses Shot and Bayoneted even though wounded or bedridden. Japanese Criminals were in the forfront of many of their armies. The narrator was a wounded English member of The Argylls who survived at the whim of the six foot Japanese Imperial Guardsman who grinned fiendishly as he dispatched hospital inmates. Enemy Women and children often had little chance of survival. What amuses me greatly today is the (so called Brutality of The British Empire) The ,'No Marks,'would do well to talk to The Natives of lands invaded by the Japanese. Genocide was common,thousands of natives were butchered, Only at the wars end was the Japanese Soldier put on the backfoot ! Even to this day in many of these land the Japanese are hated. Many have never atoned. Other colonists were 'Positively Benighn by comparison,many were welcomed back.

Do you have the full audiobook any chance?

Storm of Steel , ww1 .

Well, he didn't quite say that and overall sounded pretty reasonable for a japanese.

That’s the problem with war. Like Ron Paul asked. How do you know that with the U.S. invading the Middle East that we won’t create more terrorists? In their view they’re not terrorists only to the west. As Americans use drones and kill innocent civilians thousands of times eventually some survivors will be mad and defend their home. I had family that had to serve in the Middle East and they told me it was dumb. They worked heavy machinery and said people there hated Americans and we shouldn’t be there. It’s like it seems the U.S. was bound to lose from the start. The U.S. won basically South Korea and Japan so far cause they’re still soldiers there. When I lived in the Philippines I was shocked to learn that U.S. based closed down in the 1980s. That didn’t make sense. Haha now the U.S. is mad that China took the spratly islands in the South China Sea claimed by the Philippines and others. But the U.S. leaving the Philippines makes sense why the Philippines politically seemed close to China or being friendly. But Afghanistan and iraq didn’t seem likely that they’d be Democratic forever. Iran turned to a democracy and when the U.S. didn’t like it the cia overthrew them and put in a puppet until the country rose up. Then ya got Reagan selling crack to black people to buy arms to send to iran to release hostages and then at the same time take to court black poor people that bought crack. It’s like so hypocritical to sell drugs and then to punish the ones that bought your product. They should have listened tk Milton Friedman and just legalize drugs to reduce violence overall:

Although if you listen to gerald celente he makes you think. The U.S. hasn’t won a war since ww2. Technically many wars were in weren’t called wars but they are. But if you think about it Vietnam, South Korea, the Middle East, etc seemed like a loss. The cia helped assassinate president Allende in Chile cause the U.S. didn’t like their Democratic election outcomes. But that ended up with a military dictatorship so it seemed like the U.S. lost there too except for some rich Americans.

Thank you for your service in that tragic operation. 😢

The Japanese Army was huge, at least 15% bigger than Germany's and they were a literate people so I'm certain many of them kept diaries. Of course the vast majority of them were fighting in China/Asia not in the Pacific. Relatively few were on the islands of the Central and South Pacific. Western Allied troops would have had no idea what they were looking at if they found one and probably would have cared less.

@@karlheinzvonkroemann2217 Yes, I hadn’t thought of that,,….that the average marine or GI would not understand or read any Japanese nor would they care, because at that time they had also learned to hate. I should have emphasized that it’s the first time…I’ve…heard the reading of a Japanese diary and the thoughts of the average Japanese soldier. I have seen many interviews of Japanese veterans including one (rare) interview with a Kamikaze pilot that survived due the (bad luck?) of engine failure. Some of their stories of how they were shamed for surviving are heartbreaking and so incomprehensibly unfair, (to my mind set) at least. I was surprised and for some reason, admittedly relieved to hear him express fear. It makes me appreciate more, just how much courage it must have required to be in a Banzai charge or a Kamikaze pilot. If you consider it an honor to die in a suicide charge is one thing, to do so with the fear of death is very different and it gives a better understanding and appreciation of the Japanese soldiers.

Everybody gets indoctrinated to some extent in war. The youger they get you the easier it is. My father fought the Japanese in teh Central Pacific in the 4th Marine Division. Roi-Nmaur, Saipan, Tinian and Iwo Jima. He joined at 17 years old and out of the Marine Corps at 21. He hated them for a long time but mellowed after a while. They were good soldiers, well led and well motivated. They aren't stupid people at all. That war was avoidable though. They weren't doing anything different in Asia than the British, French and Belgians had done 50 years earlier in their colonian period. Japan had a treaty with Germany aimed at detering FDR's interventions and meddling in the European war and telling Japan what to do. It was called the Tripartite Pact. After 2 years doing his best to provoke Germany into declaring war on us the ONI came up with a plan to provoke Japan and get into the European by the back door. FDR's demands on Japan were designed to get them to attack us. Demanding an immediate withdrawl from China and the Oil embargo were the lasts straws for them. That's what I've learned studying that war for 50 years. "Day of Deceit" and "The Rising Sun" are both excellent Books.

@@karlheinzvonkroemann2217 I did know how big the Japanese army was. It was a military government under Tojo and basically a military society. If you look at events on a global scale, I feel WW II started with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria back in …what was it? 1939? or around than, not 1939 when Hitler invaded Poland. The start of the Second World War is based on a western perspective. To be completely honest, it should even be called WW II it should be called WW I Part 2 or the sequel!

@@johnhenderson131 yep, WWI part 2...

A memoir is written AFTER the fact while a diary is written while it's happeneing.

Probably because they burned their diaries to get rid of evidence in war crime prosecution

Learn this: Propaganda, but NOT History, has led us to believe that the Empire of Japan began its territorial expansion in the 1930’s, invading China, creating the puppet State of Manchukuo and “Provoking” the war with the Western Powers. But, the Propaganda does NOT say that for centuries, all Asia was invaded by Western Powers. England occupied India, Burma (Myanmar); Singapore, Burma, Malaysia and China (Hong Kong, Nanking, Shanghai, etc). France dominated all Indochina. The Netherlands intervened by the Force of its Arms, to all of Indonesia. And Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and of course, also the United States were in South East Asia cuz, for example this country, the US, occupied the Philippines since 1898. (Spanish-American War). Thus the panorama in the 30's, the Empire of Japan, when defeating to the Tsarist Russian Empire, it also decided to "Grow" by invading its neighbors. In those years, all European nations had colonies in Africa, India, the Middle East, Asia and America. (England came to occupy almost ¼ part of the planet). For its part, the US, in 113 years of existence as a nation in those years, had "Grown" 711 the size of its territory from its original 13 colonies. Now is the picture clear? Japan for its part, had fought on the side of the winners in World War I (1914-1918), and they, the Japanese, not awarded any "Gain". The western victors of WWI divided the world. Japan was excluded. Thus, Japan's motives for attacking and expanding as the Europeans and the US did seem clearer, right? Then they, the Japanese, attacked China in 30’s, which was occupied by 6 Western Powers for almost a century. None of the Western Powers occupying China at this time, OPPOSED or fought Japan for Invading China. NONE! Then, 11 years later after having occupied the territory of China and coexisted without any problem with the Western Powers within China, they, the Japanese, attacked Hawaii, which in turn, this Island had been occupied and annexed by the US in 1898. (In 1900-01, Hawaii became US territory and Hawaii ceased to be an independent nation after more than 630 years of sovereignty. By the time Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the United States had just completed the 40th anniversary of the military occupation and annexation of Hawaii). They, the Japanese, attacked Singapore, which was then a Colony of England. They, the Japanese, attacked the Philippines, which were occupied by the US and whose Gov’r, Douglas MacArthur reined as Emperor. Yup… Truly like an Absolute Autocrat. Therefore, the Japanese did NOT attack (In the 40’s), Singapore, Burma, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Borneo, Timor, the Philippines, etc. In reality, the Japanese attacked England, France, Belgium, Holland, the US, etc. That is, the Japanese attacked the Western Powers invading all of Asia. That is the verifiable truth. The Empire of Japan didn’t invade. Japan fought against the Invaders.

This is a very fair observation! I hadn't thought about it before.

Yep. Live and learn.

@MilitaryClubHISTORY the main reason Iwo Jima and Okinawa were fought as delaying actions is because the Garrison on Pelalu held out longer and caused more casualties than any Island so far. The Generals noted this and adapted tactics to fight the U.S. to a very slow advance. They knew they would lose but if they caused enough death the Americans might negotiate a peace.

Nor did the NCO's or the enlisted men, Even among the Japanese, the BCO's were the backbone and sinew.

Yeah, texttospeech AI is the peak of human emotions and inbiaseness.

Thanks! I'm glad you liked this video.

Finland was in the Pacific?

@@josephmajewski9241 No. Those Finnish ships never (could have) left the Baltic Sea. They had nothing to do with the war in the Pacific. Also Finland was in war with neither Japan nor the USA.

It doesn't equate to success on the battlefield though.

A totally different culture and religious backround.

Right, I'm not to sure that American parents would tell that to their children during WWII. The cultures were starkly different.@@karlheinzvonkroemann2217

A rivalry not relly animosity.

Not sure we listened to the same thing, he was constantly grasping at straws and confident that the Mighty IJN and IJA would soon show up and save them. Whenever reality started to intrude, he created fanciful explanations for the lack of Naval and Air support as well as ground reinforcements.

Sadly, the leadership of Japan was not so honest. There are historians (see Japan’s Imperial Conspiracy) that claim post war Japanese documents reveal that the aristocracy and royalty knew it was lost after Midway. They then decided that to surrender then would end the monarchy and feudal structure. The common citizens would demand change. The aristocracy believed that if a few million more of their own citizens died, the populace would blame the Allies and not the Japanese leadership. Supposedly, they estimated 3-10 million families needed to have lost a loved one for this to occur. This is somewhat supported by why they would not unconditionally surrender as the Allies had demanded and would enforce a change n government system. Crazy isn’t it?

@@bloodybones63 Poor, incomprehensible, written late at night ? All true. Thanks for drawing this to my attention. Hope the edits help. 🤪

@@jensnobel5843 I live in Minnesota. My heritage is Norwegian/Dansh. I was a medic in the 3ID. I was in combat and have the CMB. I never used my combat to get ahead. Never even talked about it. To me combat was extremely scaring. Fear and Terror. Horrible.

In Nam they were called, "REMF's".

The American military has always been bottom heavy. Going back WW2, only one in twelve American servicemen ever met the enemy in any kind of direct combat.

@@karlheinzvonkroemann2217 Yep! The numbers behind that are just insane! Even during a combat heavy time like WW2

@@karlheinzvonkroemann2217 That's true.

Propaganda was different and more influential back then.

Thanks! I'm glad the maps helped you. Yes, I also delved into them for a long time))

It was a completely different war. No less cruel.

Russia was

Did you know the 8th Air Force in Europe suffered more casualties during WWII then did the entire Marine Corps in all the Pacific fighting?

Thanks! Yes, everything is fine. I hope for your well-being!

Respect 💪

I haven't delved into this topic yet.

@@MilitaryClubHISTORY ok. At your own pace. This front and the Singapore campaign are not well known for most people.

Oui j allais poser 😊 la question concernant des mémoires Birmanie. Il est vrai que les recherches sont très prenantes. En tout cas je n' ai trouvé aucun document pour l Indochine sur la période de l occupation japonaise contrairement au fonds bibliothécaire extrêmement important concernant ce que nous appelons en France : la guerre d Indochine qui s est achevée par Dien Bien Phu et le retrait des troupes françaises qui furent ensuite remplacées par les américains guerre du Vietnam. Merci infiniment pour ce document rare.

Most casualties in BOTH world wars and even today are inflicted with artillery. You might want to reconsider your statement.

@@karlheinzvonkroemann2217 troops in open or attacking, true. These guys were dug in and shells hitting a meter away just rang their ears. The Marines paid a terrible toll when the Navy thought, repeatedly, “ no one could survive that”.

Did you ever hear of the efects of concussion? Concussion alone can kill you.@@CorePathway

@@karlheinzvonkroemann2217 did you watch this video?

Artillery caused shell shock amongst the troops on the ground

Their culture was very very different and they were very brutal (in general).

Brave warriors always command respect. It's always been that way.

They were especially brave killing women and children.

They are if you don't speak German (when taken from German diaries). There are mistakes in pronouncing words and place names. You must not be a german speaker.

@@karlheinzvonkroemann2217 I'm not sure I follow. The voices are excellent but you can hear a cadence, often when numbers are in a row or there is an unintended run on sentence.

@@tomperkins5657 Just some misprounciations is all. A place name, a program or an SS rank. It's not confined to any one specific field or something that's very common but they are there nevertheless.

They were animals. I have no sympathy for the bastards. What they did to POWs and civilians was unforgivable. Burn in Hell, bastards!👍👍👍

Do you know how many German Generals died in battle in WW2?

There is a very uncomfortable reason for this. Many people don’t know and attribute it to some sort of honor and shame on the Japanese part. It’s much worse than you could imagine