Last Samurai Describes Final Days of Old Japan

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3 ай бұрын

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Extracts taken from Marquis Ito´s Experience, translated by Teizo Kuramata: archive.org/details/marquisit...
Edited and Image Curation by Manuel Rubio - check out his amazing channel for more: @ArtandContext
Narrated and Script Edited by David Kelly
Music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist
Thumbnail Art by Ettore Mazza

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@VoicesofthePast 3 ай бұрын

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@Carbuncle0168 3 ай бұрын

now Japan is a colony of the USA 🎉

@pete8276 3 ай бұрын

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@Carbuncle0168 3 ай бұрын

@@pete8276 many young Japanese are ending their lives because of how difficult Japanese jobs are

@HistoryDose 3 ай бұрын

Japan speed running from medieval to an industrial age is one of the most endlessly fascinating occurrences in history

@johnburke964 3 ай бұрын

Heck yeah History Dose

@atomic_wait 3 ай бұрын

The Imperial government managed to consolidate power pretty quickly after the country was forcibly reopened, and looking at what had happened to China and their other neighbors they were highly motivated to not suffer the same fate at the hands of foreign interference and conquest.

@drgonzo305 3 ай бұрын

Then from expansionist imperial rule to pacifist constitutional democracy all in about 100 years. They went from medieval warfare with no navy to defeating the industrialized Russian navy outright in like 60 years. People talk about Germans being efficient but they got nothing on the Japanese

@breakerdawn8429 3 ай бұрын

Adapt or be colonised, that's what they saw and luckily they chose the latter.@@atomic_wait

@SuLokify 3 ай бұрын

Their long isolation and whiplash into modernity continues to be fascinating, in my opinion. Especially when you compare it to how first contacts between less advanced natives and explorers have so often gone (and gone badly for the natives).

@gierokd 3 ай бұрын

The Englishman named "Girl" was probably actually named Joe. The character for girl (女) is pronounced じょ (or Jo). Got a good laugh from that one.

@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 3 ай бұрын

Džo would make much more sense than girl.

@mastersafari5349 2 ай бұрын

Aren't you supposed to use katakana when writing a name of a foreigner in Japanese? My suggestion is that the Englishman's name was spelled as "ガール" in katakana which could be both "girl" or "Gull" converted back to English.

@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 2 ай бұрын

@@mastersafari5349 "Aren't you supposed to use katakana when writing a name of a foreigner in Japanese?" You are. Heres my name グンタース・ミエリシュ. "My suggestion is that the Englishman's name was spelled as "ガール" in katakana which could be both "girl" or "Gull" converted back to English." Its quite likely that the japanese did not know his name properly as their writing is not one in which you confuse anything.

@Ciacien-ke7ot 2 ай бұрын

that satisfying moment when you've studied enough japanese to recognize that character and know it's on'yomi pronunciation. i know it's a kinda basic one, but it feels rewarding to be able to fully understand the funniness of this 😂

@gorgeousgentleman5390 2 ай бұрын

Joe Joe want to have an adventure

@alexandertran2442 3 ай бұрын

I then realized the one recounting this is none other than Japan's first Prime Minister

@yichengyi 3 ай бұрын

Same here. In the description, I saw "Marqis Ito." Then, after about five minutes of listening further, I was like, "This sounds an awful lot like Ito Hirobumi."

@somedesertdude1308 2 ай бұрын

you're

@yichengyi 2 ай бұрын

@@somedesertdude1308 "You're" what?

@SlimbTheSlime 2 ай бұрын

@@somedesertdude1308nobody even said “your”

@somedesertdude1308 2 ай бұрын

@@SlimbTheSlime seethe

@simontoppin6844 3 ай бұрын

"If you don't let us on the ship, we'll disembowel ourselves where we stand" "Erm, ok. I guess you can go then"

@TaxEvader08 2 ай бұрын

the Dupont approach

@mikicerise6250 2 ай бұрын

Used to be so easy to get a visa. 😅

@zandaroos553 2 ай бұрын

@@TaxEvader08This man is actually Roy’s ancestor. They moved to the U.S. in search of better uncles. Read that again

@Jefrings 2 ай бұрын

''So, how's your determination to get on this ship?'' *Puts knife on own belly* ''Hum, ok sirs right this way!''

@John3.36 2 ай бұрын

This was only possible because of the Christian compassion of English who valued the life of people. Unlike Japan where life was not valued and self-suicide was seen as the right thing to do.

@DruidEnjoyer 3 ай бұрын

12:22 "Someone's planning on assassinating us? Better kill ourselves!" That seems to be the one-size-fits-all solution to most problems Samurai had.

@ToastyMozart 3 ай бұрын

"Ah! But who is stupider? The man trying to kill himself, or the man trying to kill the man trying to kill himself!"

@ianfinrir8724 3 ай бұрын

I mean, if it ain't broke...

@bricc9964 3 ай бұрын

You can’t assassinate someone who’s already dead.

@civilengineer3349 3 ай бұрын

It has something to do with their culture I guess. Perhaps the afterlife or reincarnation

@ianfinrir8724 3 ай бұрын

@@civilengineer3349 It's death before dishonor. It's better to die by your own hand than suffer whatever torture/death/humiliation the enemy will do to you; it also denies the enemy their trophy. It's similar to burning your own fields so the enemy can't use them.

@ferretyluv 3 ай бұрын

The author of this, Itoh Hirobumi, was Japan’s first prime minister and longest serving prime minister. He modeled Japan’s government on that of Prussia. Edit: he served in the capacity as a prime minister in the Meiji government before the title “prime minister” existed. Hence why he’s the longest serving, above Abe Shinzo.

@riowhi7 3 ай бұрын

The military sure, it incorporated a lot of German systems and ideas. It's government however seemed to be much more influenced by the United Kingdom, not Prussia or Germany.

@tiffanybatcheller-harris522 3 ай бұрын

Ito Hirobumi was both a samurai and a leading member of the genro. Unfortunately, he was assassinated by gunshots. 🤔

@thebelgfrommt 3 ай бұрын

yeah he got assassinated by korean independence activists

@ferretyluv 3 ай бұрын

@@riowhi7 The peerage system and bicameral legislature (house of commons and House of Lords) was based on the UK. But the constitution and absolute monarchy was based on Prussia.

@nomorechess 3 ай бұрын

@@ferretyluv Was Prussia during that time really an absolute monarchy?

@misfortunemate8261 3 ай бұрын

Hirobumi Ito was a former samurai, but as a politician he was far more moderate and prudent than his fellow Samurai. Unlike Saigo, who wanted to restore the samurai way of life, and the militarist Aritomo Yamagata, Ito hoped to solve problems through international cooperation and diplomacy, Especially opposed to war with Russia. He wanted Korea to remain a buffer state with Russia rather than annex by force, but he was assassinated by a nationalistic Korean, his death ironically aided Japan's annexation of Korea.

@ories 2 ай бұрын

rather than annex by force... how so?

@LuigiCotocea 2 ай бұрын

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itō_Hirobumi Sadly he got assasinated on 26 october 1909... :(

@Silvergalaxy7383 2 ай бұрын

@@LuigiCotocea It said here he changed his mind and advocated for annexation but despite this, he was forced to resign and shortly there after killed which only accelerated Koreas annexation process

@massalleh5255 20 күн бұрын

Through international cooperation and diplomacy? But it's written he's the one who oversee the Sino-Japanese war?

@Mk-qb2ny 2 ай бұрын

Japan transitioned to modern times in a blink of an eye. The emperor, after the decision was made to open the country up, said to his nation (paraphrasing here) on the lines of: "Go to all the world and learn everything there is to know about everything, bring it back an apply it here"

@Dncsuxadic 2 ай бұрын

Then they fooked with America and got sent back a 100years 😅😅😅😅

@brad5426 2 ай бұрын

@@Dncsuxadic No they didn't Japanese economy thrived post-war

@haha-lj5sq 2 ай бұрын

@@Dncsuxadicbro forgot about the post-war economic miracle

@Dncsuxadic 2 ай бұрын

@@haha-lj5sq Because America built them back. Read your history 😂🤣😅

@haha-lj5sq 2 ай бұрын

@@Dncsuxadic so you’re admitting they didn’t get sent back? Okay

@peefart1410 3 ай бұрын

Next video: “last cowboy describes his finale days in old America”

@coolkidsman. 3 ай бұрын

Wait, aren’t cowboys still around in the usa?

@atompunk5575 3 ай бұрын

I was gonna say 😅@@coolkidsman.

@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 3 ай бұрын

@@coolkidsman. Catle herders yes, frontiersmen no.

@salmonellafunk 3 ай бұрын

I mean that period was really only about 20-30 years in American history so itd be hard to tell who truly was the last frontiersman since they'd mostly all be from the same generation

@isaiahrogge 3 ай бұрын

@@coolkidsman.yeah the 1800s train robbing dueling “cowboys” didn’t really exist the old cowboys have just been romanticized. Cowboys had a bad reputation kinda like sailors used to before the “modern era” and the extreme examples fascinated the rich people… right as movies were first being made. Guys like Clint Eastwood weren’t really a thing cowboys were just people on the fringes of society looking for work

@cpt.honklerof3rdkekistania400 3 ай бұрын

Hearing him talk about america was so wholesome and flattering

@410cultivar 3 ай бұрын

Have you read or listened to the diary entry if the first samurai group to go to America? It was when america first forced them to open up. They were blown away by ice cubes for drinks, in the summer. Also that we had enough wealth to buy enough fabric, to walk on, carpet lol But that we are wasteful, iron and steel just laying around rusting

@comradecameron3726 3 ай бұрын

@@410cultivarJapan doesn’t or at least didn’t have much iron or steel in those days. But America being so big has more than enough to tear it out of the ground and leave it to rust.

@tek87 3 ай бұрын

Hardly hear that today...

@cpt.honklerof3rdkekistania400 3 ай бұрын

@@410cultivar i have listened to that one, pretty comical at times. Dude lit his sleeve on fire with a cigarette cherry.

@manmanboyboyman9863 3 ай бұрын

@@cpt.honklerof3rdkekistania400 Yeah till this day japan is still obsessed with American culture. They often dress up as cowboys and read American comics, they are kinda like the reverse weeabo right now🤣🤣

@MysticChronicles712 3 ай бұрын

The rapid transition from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution in Japan is one of the most enthralling events in human history.

@zzerutan 3 ай бұрын

Did you just basically reword one of the top comments? lol

@sonb0t 2 ай бұрын

@@zzerutanwas about to comment that lol

@princejaxisblack8789 Ай бұрын

bro got caught red handed in the replies 💀

@BurroDevelops Ай бұрын

@@princejaxisblack8789hahahahahaha

@BurroDevelops Ай бұрын

@@princejaxisblack8789i get them though. The need to rewrite it shows how impressed they are. It's a human thing.

@connorperrett9559 3 ай бұрын

The difference between America or Europe in 1824 and America or Europe now are stark, but to think of what Japan was like in 1824 versus what it is like only 200 years later is just astounding.

@ijansk 3 ай бұрын

The US. America is a continent.

@zeedub8560 3 ай бұрын

@@ijansk North America is the continent. America is shorthand for the USA. Everybody in the world knows what country is meant when someone says "America."

@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 3 ай бұрын

@@ijansk Ameica is the reduced form of United States of America. Just like Latvija is the reduced form of Latvijas Republika.

@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 3 ай бұрын

After talking to myself about it for an hour, including sheddint tiers when I said that a latvietis from 1824 would not care that with our cars he can cross the country in 6 hours hed rather walk for a week with everyone on the road saying hello, you underestiamate how much Europe has changed. It wasnt depressing in the olden days, you think northern europians are cold now it wasnt at all like this 200 years ago.

@GhostHax0r 2 ай бұрын

@@ijanskI’m sorry, is Europe a country then?

@thebreadbringer9522 3 ай бұрын

These videos are a unique delight for someone fascinated by the history of more ordinary people and how they experienced it, like myself.

@riowhi7 3 ай бұрын

I mean, this guy was a member of the samurai ruling class pre-restoration and later became part of the ruling aristocracy post-restoration as the country's first Prime Minister. I would be hard pressed to call him an ordinary person, but I agree that these videos are very fascinating.

@IndicatedGoodLife 3 ай бұрын

This one is absolutely crazy. Its beautifull that these accounts still exist, wow. What a wild trip for these gentleman and what impact that they may had in turning the final tide.

@samsonadeyemi2169 2 ай бұрын

The narration was by the first PM of Japan

@15098D 3 ай бұрын

“If you don’t let me go on your ship I’m gonna kms”

@brad5426 2 ай бұрын

funny to imagine the man was not expecting to hear that and was like damn bro ok

@clarkh4133 3 ай бұрын

The narrating is articulate. Thank you for giving us all such a gift

@derekstaroba 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for giving thanks

@clarkh4133 3 ай бұрын

@@derekstaroba Thank you for thanking my thanks

@GunterThePenguinHatesHugs 3 ай бұрын

_Goes to get milk for tea_ >>> _Discovers we ran out of milk_ >>> _Begins to unsheathe wakizashi_

@scotbotvideos 3 ай бұрын

An upload from Voices of the Past is like a correspondence from a long lost friend.

@Makabert.Abylon 3 ай бұрын

One thing I didn’t understand was the part where they had $8.300 dollars and it “was very little, but enough to cover the expenses which the journey necessitated” $8300 which would be about $280.000 today. Sounds like that would cover a lot.

@suzbone 3 ай бұрын

Right! I was like HUH???

@RogerTheil 3 ай бұрын

He might have meant "yen" (or whatever they used then) and simply called them "dollars". This happens a lot in writing where an author will use terms for currency interchangeably, even today.

@vulpes7079 3 ай бұрын

He said that they got that money, but the amount they carried in their pockets wasn't a big one. As in, they weren't flashy with the money and used only what was necessary

@vulpes7079 3 ай бұрын

@@RogerTheil"Yen" was not the currency then. He was describing how he excanged Ryō, which were those large gold pieces used as currency and a store of wealth, into that amount of dollars, as he said.

@christianr4769 3 ай бұрын

I think he meant that they only kept small amounts in their pockets, and put the rest somewhere safer.

@loszhor 3 ай бұрын

Fascinating! Thanks for uploading!

@patrickcosgrove2623 3 ай бұрын

Brilliant storytelling and enjoyed the illustration's and photograph's of Japan. Thanks for sharing 🙏

@Soniti1324 3 ай бұрын

Absolutely incredible video. It's fascinating to me that the Japanese perceived the US in the exact same manner pre-WW2 as they do today. Really great work man, awesome piece of history.

@lopezalehandro1666 3 ай бұрын

A magnificent narration. The aesthetics of the animation are commendable.

@jesserai 3 ай бұрын

Excellently made, thank you for your efforts.

@rentristandelacruz Ай бұрын

And now the entire world has access to anime. Thanks to that man's efforts.

@PenguinofD00mxxx 3 ай бұрын

I get so excited whenever I see you upload.

@AnnatarTheMaia 3 ай бұрын

This was very insightful; thank you kindly for it.

@campervanhelsing 3 ай бұрын

What an awesome episode. Thank you

@WhosThere26 3 ай бұрын

This was so beautiful that it gave me shivers.

@zoroaster3053 2 ай бұрын

Wow, it's simply amazing. It's like time traveling. A video on Sassanid dynasty Persia and Tang dynasty China interacting would be absolutely insane. Love your videos man. I've been binge watching all of them. ❤

@afptoronto1 3 ай бұрын

Thank you again for these videos.

@certainnoodlesinapasta.5265 Ай бұрын

The illustrations are beautiful. I'm impressed.

@Sheepybearry 3 ай бұрын

Accounts like this about the end of Tokugawa are fascinating!

@dragan5451 3 ай бұрын

Great work 👏

@anthonyfrench3169 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the insight and thoughts of Ito Hirobumi. Great job mate

@arcbrush 3 ай бұрын

wow! such an engaging and thoughtful speech

@deus22488 3 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@AustereHare 3 ай бұрын

wow, gave me the chills. i LOVE Japan

@MackerelCat 3 ай бұрын

Fascinating. Thanks.

@myshepspud1 Ай бұрын

Love your work.

@BobWeaver3000 3 ай бұрын

fantastic, thank you!

@fuferito 3 ай бұрын

Us _Blackadder_ fans appreciate hearing of a Custom House gentleman whose name is Mr. Girl, since we'll never tire of Capt Darling.

@otorishingen8600 Ай бұрын

I knew this but it's so different to see it so well sun into a animated story Thank you 👍

@EnchiladaBoredom Ай бұрын

Beautiful art!

@civilengineer3349 3 ай бұрын

There's something enchanting about Japan before the Meiji Restoration, a bit like Medieval Europe or even anytime in Europe before the First World War wrecked much of her

@VespasianJudea 3 ай бұрын

If you’re a gamer, like a dragon Ishin takes place during this time. It’s a fun little game.

@Evanspar 3 ай бұрын

They threatened to commit suicide like an abusive ex boyfriend to get onto the ship lol.

@areaxisthegurkha 3 ай бұрын

Sounds oddly specific, but the points they made to the sailor were valid tbh.

@thenotoriousgryyn342 2 ай бұрын

A Glorious Narration 👍

@fatbutterimp4166 2 ай бұрын

Absolutely fascinating, the growing pains of living through such a short time must have been unbearable for some…

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@robertcrocker901 3 ай бұрын

Very interesting. Very interesting period in Japanese history-this added a lot to my knowledge of this fascinating time. The period photos added a lot. Doomo arigatoo gozaimasu!

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@PeterGordon1 3 ай бұрын

what an incredible story. what an incredible life.

@colt777rulz 3 ай бұрын

Beautiful! I love hearing the writings of the Japanese in these videos the most. They’re so eloquent and humble in how they write. Thank you Voices of the Past! This was worth the wait.

@jebhampton6031 2 ай бұрын

1860s yup my grandpappy was in the Civil War lol he lost and ended up poor with his house burned down an having to rely on the generosity of family and friends, but the fact we are still alive means our story continues on today.

@level9drow856 2 ай бұрын

This is beautiful.

@drewwilson8756 2 ай бұрын

What a beautiful story.

@allrequiredfields 3 ай бұрын

I'm not going to lie, I was really hoping to see something like '2:00:00' in the lower left corner 😂

@CouchAlien 3 ай бұрын

Perfect. Just what i needed during a late night snack 😋awesome qnd interesting video aa usal !!

@JAdams-jx5ek 3 ай бұрын

Excellent. Thank you.

@johnfyten3392 Ай бұрын

This man's thirst for knowledge is so wholesome and admirable

@KLUGYYY 3 ай бұрын

While I know it’s earlier in history, it’s good timing that you posted this with the new show from Hulu shogun coming out.

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@jomorken4853 2 ай бұрын

Wow. This might be the most informative video and also a great story. What heroes. They just went straight back and convinced everyone. Maybe they all did not need convincing

@doejohn6855 3 ай бұрын

Excellent video. This is what I'm a patreon patron for.

@BlueBaron3339 3 ай бұрын

Difficult to watch without personal bias, sadly. My uncle was a pilot POW of the Japanese in WWII. And, although just surviving was a miracle, he was a broken man. But personal bias in an enemy we must battle daily. Thus I could not help but deeply admire this brilliant and dedicated man, caught to such a degree between two eras and two cultures that he nearly ended his own life...twice.

@WaterShowsProd 2 ай бұрын

I've participated in performances and other events recounting the story of POWs forced to build The Thai-Burma Railway and have visited several areas on many occasions, watched many interviews and documentaries, and read books about what was endured. I've had descendants of POWs approach me after performances to say how moved they were. May I ask, if you know, where your uncle was held? Did he work on the railway, or was he held in another location?

@kn2549 2 ай бұрын

Dont know what this has anything to do with ww2. This was more than 70 years BEFORE the events of ww2. About the same time span from the end of ww2 to present day.

@BlueBaron3339 2 ай бұрын

@@kn2549 WWII represents an endpoint to the post-feudal progress of Japan that would no doubt have appalled Marquis Ito whose account is translated and narrated here. The events he recounts contributed to WWII. Not intentionally by any means. That's the poignant part.

@sheastadium2008 2 ай бұрын

I like how this is the latest video uploaded after I start watching the Shogun 😂

@sarahenglerstone2814 2 ай бұрын

Hahaha at first when the narrator mentioned the Tokugawa regency I was like you mean Toronaga? Then I was like wait… I’m getting reality and the show mixed up 😂

@pebbleoverpond 3 ай бұрын

Japan has a special place in my heart

@alexigray7893 Ай бұрын

Great video! I loved the storytelling. The unfinished photo restoration kills me though. I want to redo it all. :)

@darter9000 3 ай бұрын

*unthinkingly listens to ad read Man, samurais say all sorts of things...

@annunakian8054 3 ай бұрын

Political leaders willing to sacrifice their lives for their country...those daya are long, long gone.

@mirzaahmed6589 3 ай бұрын

That was never a thing.

@gracequach6769 3 ай бұрын

@@mirzaahmed6589 Ever heard of Leo Ryan? Dude was a legend. I wish every politician was more like him

@Pickledsundae 3 ай бұрын

Zelenksy's "don't need a ride, need more bullets" comes to mind

@ihl0700677525 3 ай бұрын

Not really. Personal sacrifice and heroism still very much exist among the ruling class today. Whether leftist ideologues like Cuba's Fidel Castro, Venezuela's president Nicholas Maduro, etc, or "Liberal reformists" like Soviet premier Gorbachev, China's Deng Xiaoping, or "religious fundamentalists" like Egypt's former president Mursi, ISIS caliph Al-Baghdadi, Tibet's Dalai Lama, etc, basically those with strong conviction and idealism, those are the type who are willing to sacrifice their lives for their "country" (well, more like to their ideology and idealism). Anyone who are running for the highest office in the land is opening themselves to relentless attack by their opponents and by the public. So they already make quite a personal sacrifice even before they get elected.

@goodpuffs 3 ай бұрын

@@Pickledsundae All his Ukrainian men die while he's taking all the cash from military defense contractors...

@bigsarge2085 3 ай бұрын

Fascinating!

@baboon_bandito 3 ай бұрын

This is great! Very interesting.

@shadstyle 3 ай бұрын

PLEASE MORE ASIAN HISTORY CONTENT ❤️

@B3FMandCProductions 3 ай бұрын

It's amazing that Tom Cruise said all this

@Survivalist-of-war 3 ай бұрын

Funny actually that the guy who said this was the short little non samurai dressed US army simp in that film. He went on to be the 1st prime minister.

@mattohara7736 3 ай бұрын

Fantastic synopsis!

@deus22488 3 ай бұрын

The quality of this content leaves me in awe.

@acslater017 Ай бұрын

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@avrahamvidal4255 24 күн бұрын

LOL 😂

@WORLDCRUSHER9000 3 ай бұрын

Damn they really just threatened to kill themselves if they couldn't go and it worked lol

@buzz5969 3 ай бұрын

hari kari is real amigo

@mikicerise6250 2 ай бұрын

They didn't yet know that's a big red flag. 😜

@DZC-bc2ol 2 ай бұрын

Nice I learned a lot

@ramseyr2852 3 ай бұрын

What a fantastic people and group of up and coming leaders. They navigated this ancient civilization to a great power in the world and in a manner of great nobility. Well done in finding this letter from the past.

@gagamba9198 3 ай бұрын

You ought to do some videos about contact and conflicts between Japan and Russia from the early 18th to mid 19th century. No channel covers this.

@yugioht42 3 ай бұрын

Japan still has clans just they aren’t as powerful as they once were. The clans have some say in local governments but not much. After the Meiji restoration the clans pretty much went into trade or anything to gain wealth. Some companies were started by clans like Toyota and Honda. Modern day clan titles are purely ceremonial mostly to figure out the line of succession and who runs what in the family. The person has to earn the title through hard work too. Also marriages tend to be arranged already in these clans although these can be held off if the person has found someone that is a good match. I have a friend who is part of a major Japanese Clan and yeah your future is pretty much laid out for you and yeah you get married usually right out of college working hard in a office and rising through the ranks and by your 5th year you are a section manager or floor manager and by year 7 you’re working at HQ as a major contributor. It’s a very rough life as you constantly work to get higher with the clan head as the CEO or president.

@buzz5969 3 ай бұрын

There have been Prime Ministers, some rather recent tied to Samurai bloodlines, one was the only assasinated in the last few years, Dude was still pretty hardcore against SK and China and was full of controversial matters. They truly believe in maintaining their history.

@user-im7tp2os9g 3 ай бұрын

full of lies

@user-im7tp2os9g 3 ай бұрын

Show me the evidence.

@highonlife2323 Ай бұрын

please whatever you do never stop

@bethamous 8 күн бұрын

What an absolutely fascinating life he lived. The amount of wisdom he had to know what their weaknesses were and to love his home so much that he did what he believed was right to keep it going and not totally destroyed. Him and Ulysses grant could have had fascinating conversations.

@deathdoor 3 ай бұрын

14:00 This will never not infuriate me. They insisted in fighting a civil war just to... immediately adopt all the losers policies that they complained so much and fought against.

@armitage1950 3 ай бұрын

I’m no scholar of Japanese history, but I wonder if the sudden leap from a strictly isolationist and deeply conservative society into a much more global, industrial, and burgeoning multi-cultural one was in fact a major cause in Japan’s return to those ideas after WW1. I’m told their treatment at the Versailles conference was also a contributing factor.

@moritamikamikara3879 3 ай бұрын

Don't project our modern era into the idea of modernisation. Multiculturalism is a 21st century concept, Japan in the Meiji and Taishou periods was no more multicultural than it is today, which is to say VERY not. That aside, I would argue that the speed of transition probably had little to do with this percieved flip flop on values. Japan remained simping for and emulating the west the whole time. First they emulated the west's liberalism, then they emulated the west's colonialism.

@ferretyluv 3 ай бұрын

It was the military not being under civilian control. The military went out of control and decided to kill anyone they didn’t like. The army and navy also hated each other and were at odds on everything. The outcome of the Russo-Japanese War also made them cocky and assumed that as long as they just kept throwing soldiers at the problem that it’ll solve itself.

@jasonbrown8155 3 ай бұрын

To think that Japan has not always been multicultural is strange. It was Yamato consolidation during edo that gave the affect of xenophobia. Okinawa and Hokkaido weren't conquered until the twilight of the edo period. Also the boshin war was an internal struggle more than an external one. Kyushu had much more contact with foreign powers than history books report.

@ferretyluv 3 ай бұрын

@@jasonbrown8155 And there was Tsushima, who were nominally Korean vassals so they could have diplomatic contact with China and Korea.

@spacejunk2186 2 ай бұрын

WW1 and WW2 bled into each other from the japanese perspective. What ultimately lead to the japanese imperialism was an addiction to colonialism, and the military taking over the government and using the samurai mythos to create loyalty and recruits.

@filipe5226 22 күн бұрын

- Hmmmm we’re gonna die - better now than later - Yep let’s go * ends up not dying

@koreypenn1707 15 күн бұрын

Please don’t support better help. They are not a good company

@spacejunk2186 2 ай бұрын

Daily reminder that Betterhelp is unethical.

@brad5426 2 ай бұрын

Thank you

@rosshugecaulk 2 ай бұрын

How?

@bagamnan9170 Ай бұрын

AAAAA your Quilava PFP is sooooo cute!

@pulgasunidos6685 Ай бұрын

Why?

@SeptimiusSweetwater Ай бұрын

Daily reminder that the burden of proof lays on the party making the claim.

@TheClintonio 2 күн бұрын

This is insanely interesting and as a foreigner in Japan in 2024 it's really fascinating to hear how the nation's culture changed so rapidly in a significant part thanks to this one man.

@theurbandiaries418 3 ай бұрын

Watched 5 seconds of this video and subscribed immediately

@DeepDarkSamurai 3 ай бұрын

Great resets are a real thing and it happens every single time Babylon gets involved

@stonedwalljack9276 3 ай бұрын

Rev 2:9

@DeepDarkSamurai 3 ай бұрын

@@stonedwalljack9276 every single time. The usual suspects.

@KingNoTail 3 ай бұрын

@@DeepDarkSamuraiYeah, sure 😂

@overcomingidiocracy 3 ай бұрын

Have heard that the samurai class looked more like White Europeans in the past...crazy to hear an actual account stating that

@buzz5969 3 ай бұрын

Samurai, current day Yaks.😊

@tealover70 2 ай бұрын

Facially?

@bluesdealer 2 ай бұрын

Where did he say that?

@xtr.7662 2 ай бұрын

Not really its just that beards were associated with foreigners and the ainu(barbarians) so the samurai were forbidden of having beards before that they often had them grow you can see that in paintings

@xmariner 2 ай бұрын

I think this is one of the most remarkable episodes you have done. I honestly feel I have a better grasp of the Old World of Japan, being only slightly familiar with the differences. Everything is romanticized in the prism of the past, of course, but at least I can understand their zenith before the horrible events of World War II.

@SC-fk9nc 3 ай бұрын

Very interesting, thank you for this historical account.

@V-S7909 3 ай бұрын

It was quite obvious why Japan transformed faster than other asian countries. When it is compared to Korea or China, Japan had more willing to change themselves. Unlike Korea or China, Japan had a civil war ( Boshin War) that replaced their systems (Shogunate) and people who were part of it. Before the Boshin war, Shogunate was not effective modernisation and had weak diplomacy with Western powers which casued the civul war. During this process, the power was sized by people who wanted radcial reformation. During the Boshin War, they directly experienced the superiority of Western weapons which made them to choice reformation by studying the West rather than isolation from the West. These people began Meji restoration in 1868 to reform the nation and replicate the Western stuff as much as possible. Meanwhile, in Korean and China, both countries tried to modernise themselves as well. However, compared to Japan, it was more limited. Their focus was only replicating technology from the West. It meant that both countries did want reformation but tried to maintain the current systems as well and this made them slower. Due to this, people who vauled the old systems remained in power, which made the modernisation process slower, and the corruption by the current officials at that remained as well. These had limited impacts on modernisation and caused failure. Qing dynasty was destroyed in 1911, and Joseon (Korea) lost their sovierignity and annexed by Japan in 1910. The major feature of Japan walking the different paths was that people who led the country were willing to change it rather than being forced to change it like Korea and China.

@RogerTheil 3 ай бұрын

It also probably makes a difference that China has always been rather more dogmatic, and even a bit ideological about their philosophies and government systems. And Korea was hardly ever truly sovereign and culturally tended to just try to do what China did. China has long been convinced of its own civilizational superiority, even in the face of contradicting information, and surely this slowed down their ability to adapt as quick as they could have. Japan, for how rigidly traditional and conservative as they've always have been, are also very pragmatic, generally humble, and quick to adapt in dire situations. They're sort of a model conservative country- traditionalist and stubborn to foreign influence, but grounded and willing to learn and adapt on the fly. Hence, they kept their strong culture and even grew their prestige while changing the country dramatically through stable reform while China suffered a long decline, humiliation, defeat, and then a totalitarian takeover that killed well over 50 million of their own people and lost most of their meaningfully traditional culture and society forever.

@retribusion Ай бұрын

Just like one piece

@lpop2083 26 күн бұрын

THATS WHAT I WAS THINKING

@bamtoday 3 ай бұрын

I moved to Tokyo for work and I live near to the Marquis Maeda's former home and current heritage museum. Would love to hear you ready anything from 1885-1940 from his point of view.