LOL

I saw the poor pour, then immediately scrolled the comments.

Perhaps we just got trolled as so we would comment.....

@@sgt290983 same ahah

I immediately recognize the Dutch accent :)

They definitely didn't knew about how much loan japan has in debt.

that's what's going to happen if lose against the U.S.A. with a post war economic plan guess what happens if Japan lost to the U.S.S.R. or was slapped a treaty compared to the Treaty of Versailles

@@businessmanbrute2211 you deffo don’t know how much they lend

Persia vs Greeks = respect Greek power Allies vs Turks = respect Turkish power France vs Germany = respect German power USA vs Vietnam = respect Vietnam's power Briton vs USA = American freedom Anti- Communist powers: (stop communism and build empires) Germany - no empire Japan - no empire Italy - no empire Balance of power Team: (keep power balanced) Briton - empire USA - capitalism France - empire Russia - USSR China - Communism

The Japanese government also encouraged Japanese woman to become pmrostitudes for American soldiers in an attempt to please them.

As Asians, we should be allies with Japan, South Korea, Australia, Vietnam, America and the West rather than with china. china will start World War III very soon and it will drag the whole world down to destruction.

@@jonaspete then study the history of Cambodia why there is a genocide during the cold war

@@jonaspete Because the Chinese monsters told their Khmer Rouge slaves to do so. Evil china MUST PAY for their crimes against humanity!

@@jonaspete Bro is asking him like HE is the one who did it lmao

@@KeooVAL right 😂. How many men how many

Haha I'm sure Samsung ensured he got "helped" as well in the Gangnam clubs.

Japan's population is not large enough, the domestic market is not large enough, the Japanese semiconductor industry needs to rely on the U.S. market, which allows the U.S. can hold the market hostage by raising tariffs to coerce the Japanese government. Now the U.S. wants to hit China's semiconductor industry, but China's domestic market is huge, the U.S. is difficult to succeed.

@@user-pv9ln2pg2u china needs semiconductors because china is the largest consumer of semiconductors they are proned more than japan so they have to be independent

If one is well paid, we call it a 'work' not 'help'. I think the expression 'help' sounds absurd. America is absorbing global talents by offering high salary now. Even some developing country's big companies hire global talents in the same way. We don't say those workers are 'helping'. Such expression seems based on emotional sentiment and victim mentality about the fact that they left Japan. Japan is the first and still a few democratic country in Asia with freedom. It wasn't such a thing as a humanitarian action or aid. Nor forced labor. They had a good job offer that could support their family. That's it.

It's really funny Japan, a US vassal state by definition, refers to itself as a democracy...😂

I don't think I did enough to show this in the video. Looking back at it, I did mention that Japan was highly aware of the outside world but I never mentioned how they understood the outside world (afterall, if you don't understand engineering how are you ever going to understand a steam engine). I should have added 1 or 2 lines about education, you're right.

Tokugawa period is the key to Japanese industrialization, this video is very poorly made and has errors, also is very propagandist anti-West

No. they just can lie very well to the world like Fukushima.

@@rosemcginnis914 If you have an opinion about the video that is great. However, please add why you think that. I saw your comment and was just shocked, and you give no reason for your thought process so I can not understand why you think so.

@@HistoryScope ur reply here is what knowledge seekers need….. its much appreciated

I am glad to hear you say so, as a Japanese. You will be blessed, and we will not only improve our international standing, but also find a way to make the most of trade. We will make each other happy. This is also the way for Japan, a small country, to live. I wish Tunisia and Japan eternal development!

An old narrative that did not measure up with facts. The rise and decline and rise again of Japan was in fact due to the decline and rise and decline again of CCP China. The Japan Miracle in 1960's coincided with the Dark Ages (Cultural Revolution) of China. US picks Japan as their Far East manufacturing partner. When Deng opened up the Chinese market for the world they sucked the lives out of their Asian neighbors. Now with Jizz-ping as the CCPee King-for-life he chose to pick fights against the free world and present Japan with the opportunity to rise again as seen by the stock market reaching 30-year high

US always doubt Japan Loyalty , the US instead invest in China which is a traditional enemy

I think you have never worked in the semiconductor industry, but are making excuses for Japan's failure, which was real. The Plaza accords were in response to charges of dumping, which was certainly going on, not technology theft. But the real reason Japan fell behind in semiconductors is that it failed to transition from low-cost commodities like DRAMs to higher value-added designs, like microprocessors. At the same time, even lower cost competitors from Asia, just as hard working, companies like Samsung, entered the market at the low end. Japan could not get a share of the processor market at the same time its market share in commodities was consumed by the South Koreans. It lost a two front war and afterwards could no longer generate the capital necessary to compete in the ever more expensive fabrication processes. And all this happened while the Japanese real estate bubble collapsed. I recall in 1989 at Cypress Semiconductor, the president declared at a company meeting that if an American company wanted to compete in DRAMs, it would only place third behind South Korea and Japan... in that order.

In fact, Japan was not the only country that signed the Plaza Accord, including France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, which signed the Plaza Accord. However, Japan was the only country that subsequently fell into Economic stagnation.

What? The Plaza Accord was about unwinding extreme usd strength caused by US interest rates going to 20%. The usd strength created massive dangerous trade deficit in the US and surplus in Japan and Germany. Japan was benefiting from an under-valued yen and running a huge trade surplus. The Plaza Accord was an agreement to rebalance currency values, a weaker usd and a stronger yen, mark and pound. The stronger yen eventually contributed to the Japanese asset bubble. But pre Plaza Accord Japan benefited from a weak yen through exports then post Plaza Accord Japanese benefited with massive asset inflation.

Towards the end of Edo period, English Photographer took Panorama pictures of Edo. He said that most cleanest Capital compare to Europe and all of Asia. The Capital looked much better buildings than Kyoto and larger city. All plumbing systems were there with running clean water and waste water without waste. Japanese were Vegetarian for thousands years. so no mess from animals, nor humans were seen at all. That was English man's diary with photos of Edo. Also he took Panorama view of East from Atago Yama. mountain. Japanese literacy was over 70% and England was only 20% .

@@may-ky6jl Important point of view. It may seem surprising, but Edo (Tokyo) is a city of rivers. Most of the rivers are now culverts. Some researchers argue that Edo was better equipped than Venice. The development of rivers that suffered from flooding supported the development of Edo. Modern Tokyo is built on the legacy of the Edo period, such as well-maintained roads and regular trains.

@@freneticness6927 British literacy in 1700 that is as low as 30%. the late 1400s 10% of men were literate, climbing to 20% in the 1500s, 30% by 1650, 45% by 1714, and 60% by 1754. For women was : 10% by 1600, 25% by 1714, and 40% in 1754.

Lots of countries have such a mentality without getting rich. While even more countries which don't have that mentality did get rich. "national character" doesn't appear to influence the wealth of a country as much as competent economic policy.

​@@HistoryScopesource?

logistics and geopolitics are way underrated

Wikipedia is great

@@BRYCONIC I stopped giving Wikipedia money when they started taking political stance instead of staying neutral. These days they really lean hard to the left

There was one more thing. The US's interest to get just one* more market to sell its goods to at the advantage of American corporations; the defining trait of American imperialism (ie: Banana Wars). That's why they were the first to succeed in making Japan open up. The new companies that were being founded under the Meiji Restoration only thrived by dealing with these American business interests.

The scramble for ports isn't new when Perry shows up. Age of sail vessels also had to land and make repairs or take in fresh water, food, rope, canvas, timber and all the things a sailing ship with some hundred blokes on it need. Port towns would have whole little industries build up for servicing the ships and the people who crew them. The european power who controlled a port town would get to put down the rules for it, from how long pubs could be open to banning import of competing tobacco.

Its a convenient answer indeed, leaving out the factor of quality of human capital as always.

woah. careful now on the "facts" 20:38

Cheap labour's I can see lack of immigrants but cheap labour seems over the top. I think the long shifts they work. I think they make a lot of money unlike say in China where their is no such thing as overtime pay.

Plaza Accord, as Japanese strongly agree. That’s the beginning of the downhill.

Cheap immigrant labour has propped up Western countries, but it's not a solution to the problem, only a band-aid. The West is simply kicking the problem down the road, and when it finally does blow up it'll be far more disastrous because Western nations will have become far less culturally stable.

Western countries are actually facing the same stagnation, but they're being offset with foreign labor. Without foreign labor, they would be in the same situation as Japan with negative population growth. However, as we can see around us, it has become an area of conflict and cultural degradation (the US especially likes to spin up race issues from nothing so its people don't unite and demand for reforms).

You left out the most fundamental problem. The real estate bubble. It was started by the BOJ which directed banks to lend ever more and more money for home mortgages. According to the head of the BOJ this was a "necessary shock to enable the introduction of structural reforms, to make the Japanese economy more efficient." Ten years after the Bubble had burst, MITI (the Ministry of International Trade and Industry), which had directed strategic investment during Japan's pre- and post-war industrial expansions, was deposed from its premier position in the government bureaucracy, stripped of its powers, and made subservient to the Ministry of Finance. Ever since, neoliberal reforms of the usual kind (social spending cuts, austerity, privatization, de-regulation of capital, shift to temp jobs, outsourcing, contracting, offshoring, mergers, foreign investment) have degraded purchasing power, job security, and the confidence to have children or start families or even to go on dates. The Japan Postal Savings accounts, mainly the savings of ordinary salary- and wage-earners, totaled over $2 trillion -- liquid, not notional -- before privatization, the largest single accumulation of capital in the world at that time. In neoliberal terms, the small interest paid to small savers for their no-risk investment equals inefficiency. The Japan Postal Savings wasn't the only attraction, of course, but it was quite a tempting one. The scourge of neoliberal economics is the West devouring itself from the inside out. PS About 20 years after the Bubble hit its high point in Japan, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the quasi-governmental mortgage underwriters in the US, started following the same policy as the BOJ had done, with even more catastrophic results. The majority of people of the US have not only not recovered, they have lost their hope of ever doing so, and life expectancy is now declining, a first in human history (excluding the former USSR during its decade of neoliberal "shock therapy").

US politics do work together when it comes to making lives easier for the rich corporations.

Efficient is possible when you're not relying on selfish politicians to come to agreement to do so. In Japan's case, the emperor made decisions and the government followed

Hokkaido have amazing dairy products too!❤

I'm a HU student. I'm surprised Hokudai is mentioned in the comments!

@@m45u Great place. Peter is a great guy too. :) I'm visiting Sapporo now. We should hang out haha.

@@AdamWaltersPDX I'm glad to hear that:) Yeah, Sapporo is nice place(weather in winter is a litlle bit harsh tho). Sapporo has less snow this year, so hope you enjoy your visit!

With your education and knowhow and especially your experience in Hokkaido, can you tell me why the Hokkaido milk is so different from my country's milk? Makes everything taste better, ice cream, stews...

From the sources I've read Japan was considered a poor country, even compared to the Ottoman Empire. My sources state that Japan's plans worked because they never indebted themselves to other countries. While the Ottoman Empire spent 13% of its budget repaying debts to other countries, Japan repaid its debt to Japanese people. So any money that was borrowed came from Japan and stayed in Japan. This had 3 consequences. 1. The profits stayed in Japan, instead of going to another country (as was the case for a lot of others) 2. The Japanese were personally invested in making the Meiji Restoration work. 3. Foreign countries couldn't meddle as much in Japanese affairs because they had no leverage over the economy.

@@HistoryScope I was mainly talking about other countries who tried to industrialise like Thailand and Korea rather than European countries when I said that they were wealthy, the Ottomans were already actively industrialising well before Japan. The main thing though is that literacy in Japan was very high and businesses were doing well even before the Meiji restoration, which allowed for the fast industrialisation after opening up the country. The Janissaries were one of the main factors holding the Ottomans back but even after they were removed, the Ottomans kept getting into large expensive wars (that still necessitated a large army) and they kept losing and taking on debt from those wars. The Ottomans were taking a lot of foreign debt for industrialisation in part because they didn’t have enough public money or domestic private investors to quickly industrialise their massive country, unlike Japan. Island countries or countries that were otherwise naturally defended didn’t need large armies and thus had stronger merchants and nobles compared to their governments. This meant that they had more of the nation’s manpower and resources going towards economic innovation and growth, and so they industrialised more easily and with less obstacles.

explains why DPRNK's are so poor spending 25% of their GDP on the military for a war that never happens

​​​​​@@gatuarhinJapan during the late bakufu period particularly the peasants were not literate and certainly not wealthy. As one of the policy enacted by Tokugawa Ieyasu was to keep the people poor so they will not be threat to the shogunate. One of the major reason meiji restoration was successful, because the transition of power and political stability is more or less "stable", those who opposed the reforms are few and easily dealt with and no major battle/war occured in the japanese soil prior to the meiji restoration and then after that the only major event that tried to oppose the modernization was the last stand of saigo takamori to the central govt which was easily dealt with. After that centralization of political power to the natl govt was achieved and reforms are easily conducted and the policy of the govt that time was strong economy strong military and they tried to emulate the european powers as much as possible in everything.

I would also add, the Joseon dynasty failed to modernize because the nobility opposed it to the point the real power was not in the imperial family but those powerful ministers who were very conservative as any change were threat to their powers and their backward thinking😂😂

excellent remark, in fact, the Japaneses are excellent tacticans and executors, but they don't use to have great strategists or world-class leaders in their History, expect some few exceptions like the Meiji emperor, an advantage in the past can become the obstacle in the future, without doubt, Japan is a very successfully nation from 1850 until today, the biggest challenge for Japan is it is hard to go farer, it means that Japan is already at its zenith, later is just the decline, Japan loses their absolute domination in more and more traditional industrial fields such as smartphone, shipbuilding, television, computer, and even automobile due to the rise of electric car, face to the Chinese and Korean competition, and in some new and strategic fields, Japan hasn't been more advanced than China, such as civil drones, 5G drones, civil jet, space exploration, rocket and space station, hypersonic weapons... in the past, without competition from China, Japan can earn many money by ita products, then invest them in R&D, today, Jaoan loses markets shares and incomes, they don't have enough money to maintain their technological advance, if France and Germany can create the EU and becomes its leaders, having its own Sphere to compete with China and US, Japan doesn't have it, Japan doesn't have any organization in which Japan is the main leader, the lack of political power status is a lethal disadvantage for Japan, yeah, Japaneses are hard working and have discipline, but theses quality can also be possessed by the competitors of Japan, so Japan doesn't have other unique and special great advantages in the future, even Japan can still be an developped and rich country, it can't avoid to become a secondary power such as Spain, Netherlands... the decline is inevitable,

It’s still not clear to me. Where Japanese discipline or not?

I mean to be honest the work culture in Japan is sincerely toxic. The country rebuild itself at great personal cost and lots of sacrifices. It wasn't really that "'good," and it's a good thing that now the country is changing.

@@thekarmicbratJapan is a very successfully country in 19 and 20th centuries, but the success of yesterday may become obstacle if tomorrow, today the Japanesea seem to losse the enthusiasm and become too conservative, they need courage to reform and change,

Japan would have not gotten as far as it did without the west to model itself after. The rapid industrialization and westernization of Japan was the result of having an example to follow, that being western countries. And they followed it very strongly, to the point where they even copied their model of colonization against "inferior races". Where would they be without their examples to follow and the institutions necessary to follow them? Japanese discipline has been able to shine through because they have the necessary institutions to allow it to shine through. Without them, it wouldn't even matter, and thus, you wouldn't know it exists.

Did u mean china instead of india?

@@brothermalcolm I am from India and my Uncle is from India. The story he told us about was from India. But I wouldn't be surprised if the same was the case in the European ruled areas in China. In Vietnam there is video footage of White women throwing food to poor Vietnamese children like they are birds so I'd say this was true all over Asia.

Stop the cap, this never happened😂😂 or find me a source for that

@@jacques.cousteau this story was told to me by my uncle. Idk from where he learned that but there is a video footage of French women throwing food to hungry Vietnamese kids like a pastime which is a similar instance to what my uncle told me. So such cases might have happened in several places. The humiliation faced by Asians and people from other continents under European colonisation knew no limits. From forced migration to places far away from their homes to being kept in human zoos. So this isn't impossible.

What you have heard is correct. Because most Japanese people know this kind of story. In fact, it was not necessarily only India that attracted attention, but China, for example, which was being exploited by opium, which was shocking to Japan at the time. As you say, Japan imported many religions, cultures, etc. from India and China for a long time. For us Japanese, China and India are civilized countries with a long history, and if those countries are being exploited by Western countries right before our eyes, it is enough for us to feel that Japan is next.

その通りです！

よく知っていますね。 凄い！

参勤交代

@@user-tl4tj4zx2u Yes, I remember learning about the Sankin Kottai system in school. thank you for reminding me

​@kijesticproductions7640no u r wrong. Japan started first then Korea then China. The time line doesn't match so to compare China number now is not exactly fair. China is actually exactly on the same path as other east Asian nations except they now got a huge push back from the US because China grow to the same level as Korea and Japan prosperity means it will eclipse the US due to its size.

The feeling of admiration for the emperor unites the Japanese people.

@@rayg4988 The economy growth of China is made at the expense of its own people, so no, China can't get to the height of Japan even without US push back.

Also geography probably

@kijesticproductions7640 The China that had a massive civil war in the 40s and is still threatening Taiwan and oppressing Hong Kong? Not really the same cohesion level is it?

economics and econometrics is totally different thing. econometrics is an application of statistics. 😂

Crimson, this video is mostly fiction. If you want to know the real history of Japan, find a real history channel.

@@earlysda would you care to point out the inaccuracies to History Scope then? I'm very aware that not all history videos are completely 100% accurate. History is prone to bias and sometimes simplification due to time constraints fails to portray the full picture.

@@crimsonnight824 Sure, Crimson. At first, I thot there might just be one or two inaccuracies that would be hardly worth mentioning, but seeing lots of them in just the first 2 minutes 3 seconds, I gave up. . 0:46 "Japan was the first country that managed to catch up with the other developed nations of its time". This is completely false, and even strange in its use of English. . 0:49 Actually, Japan never became an example for Greece. Korea and Taiwan were former colonies of Japan. . 1:20 Actually, the time is called the "Edo" period, not Tokugawa, altho that phrase is used in some situations. . 2:03 This lie was the back-breaker for me: "Japan was... fully aware of the outside world".Totally, completely, laughably false. I refuse to waste any more of my time on this, and feel sad for those who think they are learning something when actually they are being fed fiction. .

You are the only one who researched the real history of Japan. If you listen to the words of those who criticize Japan, there are many people who are swayed by emotional theory.

南京事件についても調べてみてください。この事件は不可解な点がいくつもあります。

@@soncho4203南京事件の資料館に展示している酷い写真資料の多くが、日本の新聞社である朝日新聞や毎日新聞の出版している、写真集から引用したものが多いことも知ってほしい。しかも引用元の書籍には写真と一緒に撮影者が撮影時の状況の手書きも一緒に掲載されている。しかし、南京事件の資料館に展示されている写真は引用元から手書きの状況説明部分を切り取って展示している。これは明らかに無関係の写真であることをわかっていて、印象操作のため出来事を捏造していると言わざるを得ない。実際に捏造の例であったのは、鶏を現地の人から購入した日本軍人の写真を、解説部分を切り取って現地人から食料を強奪した日本軍人と紹介されている。

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@@user-gq6de6bi2v Such people are in every country.Even in your country it is the same again. I believe your comments do not suit your character.

Japan isn't a big country there isn't that much housing space for all Japanese if it was like that and even if it had everything they lack startup culture, the students are dreaming for having a job in Corps

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, Was this really, how events happened? Did Japan invade China and South East Asia? It seems so. However, the Propaganda does NOT say that for centuries, all Asia was invaded by Western Powers. England occupied India, Burma (Myanmar); Borneo, Sumatra, Singapore, 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, Australia, 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 1931, 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, 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. But, Propaganda has made us believe that the good guys were us, the US. And of course… Nanking was a horrendous Genocide committed by Japan, but, it was no more horrendous than the 12 Genocides committed by the United States in his History and all over the world. Nor was it less horrendous than the Genocide committed by King Leopold II of Belgium, in Central Africa. Nor was Nanking more or less horrendous than the Genocides that the British Empire committed in America, Africa, Australia, Middle East, India and also in China too. In the Philippines (1898-1902), the US Army produced a Genocide of One Million people dead. ONE MILLION. And now, the Japanese are our friends and allies... Yup… But, to fight against China, AGAIN!!! Well… No More. No More British Malaya nor British Borneo nor British wherever. No More French Indochina. No more Dutch Indies. No More Portugese Domains. No More US Domain here. Asia is for Asians and “The China Sea” belongs to CHINA. Westerns powers have nothing to do in Asia. NOTHING!!!

I thought that was a joke?

Naitive Americans…

He was being sarcastic

Puerto Rico and Guam...since 1898

What about Hawaii....

Eat the atomic bomb

Rich country, poor people. This is Japan.

You made some very good points.

Hello, from another person who has lived in Japan for quite some time. 1.) infertility is the inability to procreate at the most basic and physical level, not the lack of desire to. 2.) creating a system for women to gain upward mobility and define themselves other than potential wives and walking, talking incubators is not a western ideal. It’s an ideal that flows through a society which has achieved adequate resources to provide individuals with the time to reflect on their own wants and needs. Your apparent prioritization of procreation does not and should not dictate how individuals, or women, spend their time and energy. If suddenly you were able to carry children, would you feel comfortable giving up all your ambitions to birth children and care for a household. Probably not, so why on earth would you sit here and act like it’s “their place”. It’s really gross. I think women can have important traditional roles in the household if they so choose to take on that role. Men also have an important role in the traditional sense but that role comes with a lot more freedom and autonomy. Women couldn’t even vote until after the war. Cut the crap.

About this idea that having a career woman decreases fertility I beg to differ. To this day, most japanese women are still either housewives or work only part time. The reason they don't have kids is because of economic stagnation versus cost of raising those kids, and most importantly, their husbands are too overworked at the end of the day to get-it-up, let alone even make it home. They are literally too tired to have sex.

Withheld Technology? Japan is more technologically advanced than the USA!

With American troops stationed in Japan, it's impossible for Japanese to refuse American demands.

What tech would that be?

@@xpusostomos Semiconductors. They cancelled the right of Japan to licence the patents and buy some tech from he US. Japan never recovered from that and actually never tried. They knew they were dealing with a jealous occupying force.They just submitted. The only hope of Japan is actually a Multi-polar world where they can compete freely among nations without fear of retaliation.

@@walid7885 I mean... Sure, if Japan was locked out of building semiconductors, they missed the business that Taiwan ended up grabbing, but it shouldn't hurt every other business on the planet up for grabs

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Very true!

Japan's "prosperity" was just trillions of US taxpayer dollars. All that asian version of Marshall Plan money which was gonna go to capitalist china went to Japan alone because Japan destroyed all the capitalist regimes left in Asia and even allied with the CCP in May of 1945 to communize China (from there more nations Japan destroyed would have easier time using China as a springboard to get communism spread). Much like how West Germany grew prosperous right after WW2. Both Axis Powers were also behind making Europe and Asia more communist after all. US poured 6 trillion in 20 years in Middle East, now imagine dozens of times that money just for Japan especially every time there was a communist-capitalist war on the continent and US Senators needed a moneylaundering scheme where they get Congress to give the money to Japan, Japan pours a bit of that back at legalized lobbying firms in Washington DC so senators can legally get a boost to their political funds in a roundabout way. Do you think if a nation got itself rich on its own two feet, it would ever have gotten into an unprecedented 30 year recession and deflation economy in the first place, which somehow "coincides" with the end of the Cold War? This is no different from when East Germany's economy floundering when Soviets had to stop pretending communism makes nations prosperous. Japan never got here on its own two feet. Its history since samurais was always about massacres, at least 3 times the tax rate of world averages to build big armies to invade and steal from others (and switch sides whenever they desired. While selling tons of Japanese girls to Portuguese slavers to buy muskets, like what was going on in 18th century Western African nations) Starting ith massacre of the Japanese native tribes because that was the shogun's job as the "Sei-i Taishogun," or the "Grand General to Conquer Barbarians." Not just any grand general, but it was a national project to eradicate natives. Japan eliminated Ezo, Hayato, Kumaso, and ran off Ainu, Nivkh, Oroks to Siberia. Okinawans were too far to eradicate so they made do with 90% tax rates which was a bit higher than the already high 75% average on the Japanese mainland, which made the Japanese peasants very cynical about the samurais ruling them, and had 3000 ikki uprisings in the 250-year "peaceful" Edo Period alone (That's 1 per month on average), because peasants got tired of starving so much that they had to kill their own kids in Mabiki rituals just to survive (look it up, there's even a book on it) to the point Edo Period saw a population growth stagnation because of too many infanticides (Nobuhiro Sato in the 19th century said 1/3 households kill a baby each year, giving rather specific numbers of recorded infanticides per region). Even China today has 55 minorities, some even thriving to reach a population of 40 million. America today after 250 years still has 550 nations of natives alone. Even the small island of Taiwan has 15 natives nations left. Japan has Ainu and Okinawans left, and only on the very far north or very far south on very remote islands, and the Okinawans absolutely resent the 400 years of massacres and samurai oppression, that they developed Karate to fight the samurai with inconspicuous farming tools because samurai confiscated all their swords and spears already, fearing uprising. It's why Nunchaku are actually grain-threshers, and Tonfas are grindstone handles, and lots of Karate moves make more sense if they are paired with such farming tools.

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​@@Toanharry that's what has made them to be what they are.

yes exactly

japanese are trying so hard to glorify their war crimes

Lol

In World War II, Japan invaded China and Korea, and Japanese soldiers brutalized the people of the invaded countries like the SS did, with the difference that Japan has not apologized for it to this day, and is even publicly honoring the executed war criminals

As a Chinese, I gotta push back a bit. Given the brutal history of Japanese invasion during World War II and their reluctance to fully acknowledge their wrongdoing, most chinese folks hold a pretty negative view of japan. the admiration you mentioned might be more of a thing among koreans, but personally, I've never come across anyone around me who's all gung-ho about japan.

This is because the Chinese Communist Party is conducting anti-Japanese education to prevent criticism against them.@@dddiving

True, most history of Japan videos always praise about admiral Perry and joke about how him force Japan to open. But I never quite understand why Japan insists on isolation or other country even wants to trade with Japan, until after this video.

I had those same questions when writing this video. I'm glad I was able to answer them for you as well

@@nomulahemanth3109 Bro quit spamming him!

@@nomulahemanth3109 the fact you spammed so many comments and wrote so many words proves exactly how insecure you are about India.

​@@nomulahemanth3109And yet 10% of the population still lives on less than 2.15$ a day, again, no one wants to end up like india, no offense

ありがとうございます😆❤️🇯🇵

This video's story is not of the real country of Japan.

​@@nami9078 such a long text for "thank you" omg

@@earlysda no

その通り。政治家が自己中心的な政策や、増税を繰り返したりするので国内的な政策においてはうまく行ってない。

The example is wrong. Korea's international trade began to shift from letters of credit to remittance methods in the 2010s, and as Korea's economy continued to grow, Korean bank credit rating and Korean foreign exchange reserves increased. As of 2023, the impact of Japanese letters of credit on the Korean economy I think it is insignificant.

正しい解釈です〜

I agree with you very much, because Japan is the most qualified country in the world, the people are honest, kind, humble, polite and enthusiastic, but South Korea and China are terrible in this regard!

​@@yy2byyyy980To be fair Korea for all of it history was the 2nd China. It got too much influence from China even greater then Vietnam. Who maintain it distance for China influence. Korea however was a different story.

Agreed ❤ Japanese are much better than these koreans who always criticize Japan

@@yy2byyyy980 Thank you so much for agreeing with me. Much appreciated ❤️

@@susanthapa3970 Exactly!! I'm so glad that there are people who understand that ❤️

This was actually done by another person. I will pass the compliment along :)

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Not saying the US strategy didn't bring evils with it, but the most guilty for the bombings, as I see it, was Emperor Hirohito and his exploitation of bushido, and actually, were the US to follow with their original strategy, there would have been way more deaths than what the bombings caused. The difference is that a nuclear explosion is much more dramatic and horrifying than consecutive bombings. Thankfully, those bombings and USSR's invasion of manchuria led Hirohito to finally surrender. But the version of history we learn isn't taught in Japan. I'm from South America by the way. And if we talk about being judged for war crimes, there's a lot for the Japanese to answer to, as well. The rest of Asia and the world knows it well. Koreans don't have such happy memories of the Japanese occupation.

​@@CerridwenAwelそれならば朝鮮半島の近代に国民は朝鮮のリーダーにどのような扱いを受けていたのか振り返ってみるといい。地理的にも中国と近かったため沢山の奴隷が連れて行かれた。日本が負けたときこのリーダー一派が再び戻ってきただけに過ぎない。

@@popcorn9006 don't mistake explanation for justification. One thing is the reasoning behind it, the other is whether there was justice or not. There's no justice in any war. War is the opposite of justice. And this reply of yours shows it quite well. People lose the ability to see both sides and be impartial. They go to the extreme, not to the middle. And that's human. So no, don't misconstrue me thinking that I'm justifying anything. I merely try to be neutral, and try to understand what truly led the events to be. There's no fixing anything if people aren't even aware of what actually were the mistakes and ride on divergent stories, to demonize an enemy and feed their resentment. But it feels good, doesn't it, to attack and talk of how absurdly horrible it all was, and how anyone who dares to not embrace the resentment, and even *gasp* try to understand the devil, they are all automatically horrible people. Yeah. It's been like that since the dawn of time. We really addressed none of our mistakes. But to satisfy you: it was indeed a heinous aggression, with terrible aftermath, and perhaps a great mistake in strategy. But it was not intended to be so. Such is ignorance. But go on, hate me to your heart's content. If that makes you happy, go for it. It does seem to be your cup of tea. About Korea: funny that the Koreans have such a deep resentment for the Japanese, it's as if the merits pale in comparison... But such is war isn't it? I'm sure the Koreans are just ungrateful psychopaths, for not recognizing the great advancements brought forth by Japan... aren't they?

In terms of pessimism, Italy and Japan are on the same level. We share the same fate, though: to be small but resourceful nations. Keep African and Islamic immigration out of your beautiful nation and you will have no problems. ❤

Japan took away Korea's resources.

miparun, please understand that very little in this video is actually of the real country of Japan.

@@Uribo_BFV 일본 너희들이 한국을 침략했잖아!!! 반성은 안하고 정말 뻔뻔하네. 나라에서 교육 제대로 하라고해라.

@@happy-nb9jd勉強をするべきなのはあなたの方だと思います。。私たちは侵攻ではなく同意の上での併合を行いました。

Think again, it just dropped to no.4 in global nominal GDP. It's in the path to well-deserved oblivion.