More east west contact vids please.

east in west first contacts in 18th or 19th century but different person or country please

Absolutely, more on the way.

@@VoicesofthePast accounts of fathers of modern science or the immigrants coming from europe and their first reaction to america

@@VoicesofthePast : -3

i believe he went to Yokohama to see the foreigners and practice his portugeue that he was learning but they speaked english, he had an interest in foreign culture, i think that was the main force that set him in his journey

It's amazing even looking at the journey Yokohama itself has been through. What started as a hastily put together trading hub, grew into the second most populated city in Japan. We're lucky enough to be able to see a lot of that journey through photographs as well.

@@xerxer9251 He was learning Dutch, not Portugese.

@@Jon-mh9lk oh yes you are right, my mistake.

The butterfly effect.

@Brad Sanchez Does Ben Franklin stay long in your pocket?

At first I'd say keep him in the bank, but he'd be negative.

@Brad Sanchez dont you just love it when you can ram the queen down your back pocket

i'm sure it sounded better in japanese..

So he's a fulfilled man, I'm weirdly happy

Such a wonderful bit of appropriate coincidence, isn't it? Though, apparently, he's being replaced on the 10,000 yen note. If ture, that is sad indeed.

@Interpersonal Communicator What would be better? A fake statue? Fake art? Fake books? Weath is as real as any concept people hold dear.

@@MrBottlecapBill He's got no answer, he's an irrational anti-monetarist.

@Son Gohan The irony of your comment.

That’s how it’s call in Chinese and Korean as well (using the same characters in their own pronunciation), which is quite remarkable.

Thats fucking crazy. Just checked.

@@lam1991hahaha the reason why the Chinese and Korean used the same word is because at the time both were comparatively backwards and they kinda just took a lot of the Japanese vocabulary when they started their own modernization, eg telephone, politics, government etc

@@fishlo17 I learned recently that Chiang Kai-shek and many of the contemporary Chinese elite went to Japan for study.

Yes, as a student of Japanese familiar with the term kyousou (競争) I was really amused to find out this is how it originated!

Not just that, I find it also very interesting to hear or read how people look at such alien concepts to them and how they describe it to understand how to transcribe such a thing if I need it whilst writing a story

i totally agree. I already knew most of the story, but hearing it narrated in such a lovely way and accompanied by the great pictures it really became much more vivid.

He went on to found the first private university in Japan (which still stands to this day!), and published an autobiography in the early 1900s, so he was a rather well known guy 👍

And he stuck around the 10k yen bill 😂

It is indeed fortunate they survived The thorough American fire bombing campaigns of WWII Not to mention the nukes Much of Japan's historical records and accounts were sadly incinerated

whyuhatan lmaoooooo yall will really do anything to bring that up

@Interpersonal Communicator Sadly so

Shockingly unbias as well.

Could make an interesting anime

So sorry. Had not read your remarks before writing mine. I won’t hesitate to say though that great minds think alike.

:’(

Any idea of why this change? I don’t think that someone like Fukuzawa should be forgotten ...

@Interpersonal Communicator currency can be anything lol

Not sure about this...Japan has a habit of changing their currency’s design every 20 years or so

@@jinhunterslay1638 Yeah, Japanese government have been upgrading its banknote for almost every 20 years. Upgrading is necessary for counterfeit-prevention. (if the government are lazy about that, one north boy may copy...it's just a joke)

The impression I get is that he was ahead of our own time.

Yes

He ended up opening a newspaper, so in the end he was able to fulfill his dream of education on a grander scale.

@@MrRinoHunter I mean I think the real story, though it's a little glossed over in the video, is that he opened Keio University, which is to this day not only open but one of the most prestigious in his nation. I could think of no greater honor for a teacher of his caliber.

Leading the whole world in male suicide. It's not a totally golden change...

He wrote his biography in 1899 if I'm not mistaken, so he already knew his side had mostly won.

Considering how the U.S. and Australia rejected Japan’s “Racial Equality Proposal” in 1919, it seems like its the western countries that needed more people like Yukichi Fukuzawa. Japan’s rise of nationalism and militarism wouldnt even have happened if the americans and australians could of just swallowed their white pride.

@@kn2549 I think this is very true. On Fukuzawa's visits to Europe, but especially to America, he was treated with an incredible amount of appreciativeness and respect. While this gives me great pride to know that he felt welcomed and happy in my nation, I can't help but wonder what would have happened had he shown up some 50+ years later. The Americans (and I assume the Australians as you said), were so unabashed with their crudeness towards the Japanese people that I just can't accept that the Japanese were completely responsible for the incredible building of hostility in the early 20th century. That said however, the Japanese certainly could have used more Fukuzawas, and less of a military mindset (but then, so could everyone else).

@@kn2549 looking at the atrocities japan did afterwards in china, korea, the philippines and all the the sea of malaysia I don't know how serious they took that "racial equality" thing.

No wonder they became upset. They didn't just klilled the british guy with no reason.

A bit like those Americans who supported independence to escape their British tax burden...

@@Name-rl3tq They had violated the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Amity and Commerce of 1858 which ensured that British subjects in Japan were subject only to English Common Law in English courts and not to Customary Law of Japan in accordance with Japanese legal customs. Under English Common Law, Richardson did nothing wrong, and the principle of self-defense under English Common Law only extends to the defense of one's person and property, not to one's honor or reputation. Killing Richardson in violation of the treaty was an act of war, the British were absolutely entitled to demand whatever terms they saw fit if Japan desired to maintain peace.

@@costakeith9048 Unless that treaty was a bad faith arrangement imposed upon Japan by imperialist powers. I won't waste my breath defending honor killings, but let's not pretend that this was some great travesty imposed on the UK. It was a series of one-way concessions designed to negate Japanese sovereignty in order to enable exploitation. In other words, the treaty was invalid and the British had no justification for war whatsoever.

@@ThutilDid you just try to legalese defence an honour killing?

Me too.

"Buying"? It's public domain! Download it!

It's only around $6 used on amazon! Just picked up a copy myself.

David Nakamura what’s it called?

his autobiography excited me so much. (i am a former student of his college.)

@@yt45204 sad

@@yt45204 Fine, I'll wear a glove and mask.

@@Cipher71 Maybe just bow.

​@@yt45204 Perhaps if you only go back in time to when he is a year before his death, in feeble geriatric age.... Please...the Wuhan Cold literally has a death rate FAR lower than most normal influenza seasons. Don't believe everything you see on TV, but do your own research, or if you have no idea what you're talking about, you have no right to open your mouth, totalitarian. We used to call that part of Critical Thinking, and avoiding logical fallacies (especially Appeal to Authority Fallacy), but modern state-accredited, or otherwise modern-finance-system-financed, schooling systems, and peer-pressure-bending with money in science has made sure that was quashed in the last century or so, before it could even properly develop.... Making sure you chastise your fellow man with your factually unnecessary, culturally and socially subversive, but almost global religiously dogmatic state, world bank, and conglomerate media pushed drivel (i'm sure every chance you see to get a dopamine rush for your "correct act" for good-boy points) is actually part of the REAL CRISIS of the future of all mankind right now...and that actual crisis is nothing to do with a cold virus (which IS what the Coronavirus family is sometimes called), except how it's being used as a tool of fear-mongering for such.... I might foolishly dream to expect better from those who would be interested in hearing readings of primary sources, such as from this wonderful channel, lol....but then it does also attract the hordes of brainwashed pseudo-academics of the past few decades of Post-Modernist Western-school Marxist indoctrination that goes on in the universities these days.... Fear-based commies like you, who are so quick to throw away many centuries of civilizational mannerisms, that have built the intricate beauty of civilization, over a the occassional...inevitable and fairly regular...plague, if your "authorities" tell you to, are human scientifically socially-engineered drones/cattle, who think like you are literally helping our global masters set up their endgame of total techno-domination, and the end of free thought...and the outright extinguishing of Human Potential and the Creativity of the Human Spirit, beyond space...and perhaps eventually times, and civilization as we have understood it. That, to be replaced with a meaningless cybernetic hell-scape dystopia of total slavery. It's LITERALLY is a declaration of siding with the diabolical enemy in this existential war on true Humanity, in this most desperate and awful moment...whether you realize it or not....

Japanese envoys did visit Prussia and the new Japanese army was build on the Prussian model.

@@Sensko I'm aware- that's part of why I was curious there wasn't a visit to one of the german states in the european visit- but I don't know much about it in any depth, would be cool to find a primary source =). Genuine thanks though!

@@BundistButch1919I Honestly want to jear about what the Japanese saw in the Franco Prussian war.

Remember reading Clavell's books in high school. Really loved them. His books set in Hong Kong are really amazing as well.

Read then Gaijin, where it goes after the opening of Japan after the coming of Commodore Perry.

Unfortunately this was the last one I wanna get his biography though

Or William of Rubruck

Marco Polo's account isn't a first hand account, it's his cellmates 2nd hand account of what Marco Polo told him before he left prison. There are a number of things that we can't confirm are real about his story, but there are a number of things which are definitely evidence that parts of his tale were true, such as his mention of paper money, in the court of Kublai Khan, which would have been a wild fantastical idea to most Europeans, but which the Yuan dynasty of the mongols had actually done. I doubt Voices of the Past will do Marco Polo because it is not a first hand account though. It is believed after he left prison he wrote another account of his travels which would be first hand, but it has been lost to time unfortunately.

@Interpersonal Communicator yes blame it on China you foo

@Interpersonal Communicator You hold animosity towards someone who unwittingly communicated diseases in the 13th century...? Before anyone really even understood what that meant? And he didn't 'act like he founded a continent'. He acted like he /found/ a continent, which he did. Simply not having the been the first person to do so isn't that big of a deal, unless you are a person who also thinks that 13th century explorers should not only act on a modern understanding of medicine, but a modern understanding of geography and history. You are right, he wasn't an omniscient time traveler. What a piece of shit.

@@homelessrobot The guy you're replying to deleted his comment, so I can't reference it, but I just wanted to mention something. I mostly agree with what you're saying, in that Columbus initially could not have known European diseases could spread so easily to Native Americans, hell, he didn't know he was going to meet Native Americans. However, it is worth noting that the concept of disease was not foreign to Europeans. While they didn't know precisely how they were spread, or what they were, they had experienced several massive pandemics over their history. Columbus and his people, if they had cared about the well being of the natives, would have known what the problem was, and how to not wipe out 90% of America's population. Essentially, I mean to say, this is not purely a "modern understanding". I would love to hear your response to this idea.

I have even heard some explosive ordinance technicians reffering to explosive devices as things that have “wa” which is not to be capricously and disturbed by unskilled idiots who lack respect -- lest some stupid person, monkeying with the explosive device, cause nothing but terrible disaster.

I would imagine it's a Confucian thing, because there's no equivalent in Chinese either.

Elements within both the French and British governments supported the confederacy, though they remained 'officially' neutral and refused to recognize it as an independent nation, probably because they didn't think they'd win and secondly because of the whole anti-slavery matter of politics that'd recently become dominant in their nations what with the South being heavily invested the the preservation of that particular trade. They also however conveniently 'doubted' the North's interest in ending it (despite most of the North already having abolished slavery) and their strong anti-slavery and abolitionist parties up until the emancipation proclamation, probably less out of sincere doubt so much as the provision of a convenient excuse to avoid outright condemnation of the Southern Confederacy despite their own local politics. See political weakness in the US aside, the abolition of slavery in the European states of note had led to a shortage of certain profitable and popular goods, cotton, tobacco etc. The Southern US just happens to have become a major exporter in exactly those goods, cultivated with the very same form of labor that European states had recently outlawed and thus couldn't exploit.* Ah good old political bullshit artistry at it's finest.

Britain and France were far more concerned by Prussia and Russia during this time. Japan was hardly a threat considering Britain and France had burnt down the Chinese capital a few years before just as the British had burnt Washington 50 years previous. Japan got away lightly.

Yeah later on in the 20th century when America became first a great power and then outright hegemonic during and after ww2 I read that someone, may have been Churchill or Eden, Mountbatten one of those famous brits of the time when speaking of the frustration in having to bow to America said “We had our chance to curtail the American behemoth and we didn’t take it, we have to deal with it” referring obviously to the civil war.

@@HueyPPLong By 1900 the US was the world's number one producer of steel, oil, and food. It also had 45 of the 50 states and was one of the largest territories in the world.

Race-mixer

I thought the Japanese evvoy's fears about not having a receipt was fascinating. Because they didn't have one, they really feared America would genuinely (or maybe pretend to) not know what $800k they were talking about. The Japanese feared this even though the deal was made with an official American minister of state, and one of the two ships had already been delivered. I think it goes to show just how disjointed and ineffective the government of the Shogunate had become, for their envoys to make the assumption that the American government would be the same.

@@torrent But there was a war in America at the time, and when a government suddenly becomes replaces rules could change well.

@@torrent You can ask native americans what promises from American government are worthed(even on paper) as you clearly are clueless in the topic of American history in this matter. Or just read the constitution and some history of black americans or Chinese imigrants that were invited to USA to do the work and after they did the work... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_massacre_of_1871

You clearly are clueless of all the empty promises U.S government has made I've the years. The only reason why they kept this promise was because they needed Japan as a trading partner against the English and Russians (and to offset the Chinese).

@@Bialy_1 this massacre doesn't seem to directly involve the US government

okay now I want another one lmao

I can see how this would've fit in perfectly as a short segment in the old History Channel. Unfortunately we all know what a dumpster fire the History Channel has become now.

@@DejectedCat "You're gonna watch Pawn Stars and you are gonna like it!" -History channel

Dionaea floridensis YO I HEARD FROM SOME GUY WHO HEARD ANOTHER GUY ONLINE THAT PYRAMIDS WERE MADE BY ALIENS! -History Channel

NHK Japan has those in droves...

@Here to comment/watch weird stuff probably

He would think, "My face is printed on 10,000 yen bill yeah. XD"

He would be extremely proud because Japan is now a constitutional monarchy with respect of basic human rights and a great emphasis on education.

japan is the third largest economy right now, he would be proud that he had a roll in creation of modern japan

@@quisqueyanguy120 He'd be very disappointed and sad for many other reasons tho, I'm sure you understand this right?