16:05- like all governments ….

Hard to believe anything about ww2. It’s all propaganda. Nasty people in government.

USA is a terrorist organization. Churchill was a terrorist. All governments are corrupt.

I am Chinese, and like many, I wasn’t taught about the historical actions of China toward its neighbors, whether for personal, tribal, or imperial gain. Korea has been an independent nation for over 13,000 years, yet every couple of centuries, there would be invasions by forces from China, often with no clear justification. The same can be said for Vietnam, Thailand, Tibet, and various northern ethnic groups, where many lives were lost over the years. In textbooks, these events are often framed as territorial expansions or responses to unrest (which raises questions about the events they reference). This pattern of behavior has understandably fostered resentment towards the Chinese. Unfortunately, it has led to a climate of distrust even among Chinese people themselves. 😢😢😢

While it’s important to learn history so we do not repeat it, I do not believe in harboring ill feelings towards present or future generations for the sins of their ancestors. Our task is to make the future better than what has come before, and we can’t do that by holding on to old hatreds. Love and kindness will go a long way towards mending this world’s wounds. Vengeance will only make it worse. At some point we have to acknowledge that holding onto old grudges does society no good at all. America and Japan were enemies in WWII. We are friends now. We should try to be friends with everyone.

Yeah unfortunately and my great grand father fought the Japanese too. We have a katana in our basement from a Japanese soldier

The Japanese Soldier kill my great grandpa.

Shame on japanese psychopaths and the emperor was not punished

Unit 751 was and is worse than anything Germany did the war crimes of the Japanese are insane.

Can I surmise that not one word about 2 millions Vietnamese died under Japanese occupation.

Your English is great!

Please going on to a peacefull future . Past worldwide wars wont giving us anything. It is a new age and i wont ever teach my children and grandchildren anything about it. Now Japanese people dont hurting anyone and must not blame anyone about it too.Japan.🧑‍🦳

your english is good, don't worry :)

If there’s one thing I noticed, and it’s not you or the civilians’ fault for this either, is that Japan deflects a lot of atrocities they made when the proof is right there. And because of this, they’re also trying to change up the history and cover up what they did by not teaching you guys the part that actually got to the point of Japan being sadly bombed. So they use the bombs to victimize themselves and it also leaves their civilians unaware of the things the Dictator Emperor at the time ordered to do. But just know it’s not your guys’s fault. The civilians I mean. It was the dictator at the time and the military who chose to do all those horrible things which led to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Ultimately sacrificing their people. Worse part about that too is that prior bombs, the US had told them twice about the bombs about to be dropped on them and even dropped flyers. All to which the dictator ignored despite his peace advocates saying otherwise. Even one of the generals at the time warned him about the US

Every country has things they've done that are not very good. In the USA we had slavery up until 1865 we also stole much of the land from Native Americans.

Very interesting video. You should try and go to Vietnam and visit their WWII museum. The overall theme is the atrocities committed by the US Troops.

Wats scary is that those who deny history r doomed to repeat it

No matter what horrors war brought out in the past it cannot be forgotten. It must be taught, but people should not fall to hate propaganda against what the ancestors of a nation or culture did to another during those times. We were not there so we cannot and should not be held accountable for our ancestors actions. This in turn is why we can’t teach about a nations shame, that country would not survive in a positive in the world’s view.

The Americans are complicit in the cover up of the atrocities of Unit 731 because they wanted the expertise and research for their own bioweapons program. Many of the perpetrators of atrocities received amnesty and went on to work for the Americans.

Regarding Hawaii, I'm Hawaiian on my grandmas side. my family is from Oahu, Hawai'i. My Grandma and her siblings would tell stories about the time Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. She also mentioned that every night, the entire island, and all the other islands were required to put all lights and candles out so that the Japanese couldn't find them at night and attack. My grandma also said all the islanders and mainlanders on the island were trained to use gas masks. She was just a little girl at the time but still remembers the fear. My Auntie Lei (my grandmas older sister), really hated the Japanese and was racist towards them, sadly. It's understandable given how the Imperial Army was taking over islands and attacking. But I remember when I was a kid, my Auntie Lei would say racist things about Japanese. She never stopped hating them. I love Japanese people and the Japanese people are not the military plus it was many decades ago. I just wish the world lived in peace. I hope japan one day decides to teach the true history of Imperial Japan. It's important to learn and to never forget, like you said. I don't blame Japanese people today though. It's not their fault for what their ancestors did, but I just wish they would acknowledge the truth and own up to it and accept it. Thank you for sharing! <3

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As a Korean, I harbor no ill will toward modern Japanese individuals, for they bear no responsibility for the actions of their ancestors and have done me no personal wrong. However, I do wish the Japanese education system would present a more accurate and comprehensive account of Japan's actions during the first half of the 20th century, leading up to World War II. Such awareness is vital not only for fostering understanding but also for preventing the recurrence of similar events in the future.

Before any atomic bombs were dropped, the japanese soldiers took over many south pacific islands, shamefully none of those men were told the war had ended. Years later they were unsupplied and still waging war on their own. The japanese bombed Darwin in the north of australia, sent tiny submarines into Sydney harbour and blew up a ship. They also bombed Pearl harbour in Hawaii. They took over in Singapore and forced people out, made prisoners, build them a railway at Kokoda. There were many camps for prisoners, civilians, women and children and soldiers too, where folk were starved and tortured. Inhumane all of it. Then the bombs were sent out. The effects were horrendous as is any war. The rest of the world learned about hari kari from the japanese soldiers. Learn about it and learn, not to repeat such atrocities.

Most Japanese Talk About How Bad The Bomb Is But Never Talk About Their Ancestors War Crime. (It's Worse Than Bomb Itself TBH, Because That's Didn't End Faster Like Bomb)

2:45 Japan and the United States have a long and verifiably competitive history between each other. Relations between the US and Japan began in the early 1800's under threat of force by the Americans with the support of the subjecation of Spanish states.

This is like pretending slavery never happened here in the US. great video. respect to you sir. The best thing about the internet - it lets average people communicate around the world. 👍

You didn’t commit the war crimes, yet you still apologised. You are the definition of a good person.

为了保证我是真的中国人，我用中文写我的心情。 我是土生土长的四川人，我现在正在中国四川。我们从小学的就是日本侵略中国，屠杀中国人，强奸妇女，在中国南京犯下了滔天的“南京大屠杀”惨案，但是我们同时也会学习日本的其他知识，我们初中课本上把日本视为“中国一衣带水的邻国”，这表明了日本在历史上是中国最重要的伙伴之一，我们中国乡村小学教室在十多年前就安装的就是Hitachi投影仪，银行用的也是Hitachi的ATM机，日本企业在中国有优势，也极负社会责任。 为什么学校会学关于日本屠杀的历史，因为日本是中国这一百年来最糟蹋中国的国家，但是我们教材不会教学生憎恨日本，我们是让学生记住这一段历史，然后奋发图强，反对一切“军国主义”。我们中学也会学一篇文章，名字叫做《奥斯维辛没有什么新闻》，讲述的也是德国纳粹对犹太人的大屠杀，学习这些东西都是为了让人了解历史。对于广岛长崎被轰炸，中国人也各持己见，因为从客观来说美国的原子弹阻止了日本进一步侵略中国，对于很多激进一点儿的中国人来说他们恨不得把日本全炸了😂😂😂我在大学里学的是英语，我们的中国英语专业《高级英语》教材里还学了广岛，说广岛是一座很有活力的城市，广岛爱好和平，广岛是传统和现代交融的都市，哦，广岛的牡蛎很肥美😋 不过对于台湾人来说，因为台湾政府总是说共产党会侵略台湾，所以台湾人对中国大陆人普遍都是愤恨和不满，于是在很多时候中共提到日本侵略时台湾人都嫌弃日本曾经杀中国人杀少了，我觉得那些台湾人就是极端分子，因为他们没有想过自己的爷爷和太爷爷也是被日本人迫害过的。而到了今天他们会觉得当初的日本人杀少了😅 中日是很重要的贸易伙伴，无论过去发生了什么，我也不愿意让那些事情影响两个国家的正常交往，我也学日本语，我希望有一天能够去日本玩甚至工作，我坚信今天的人普遍爱好和平，我也不希望现在还有谁会因为战争受伤甚至死亡。🇯🇵🇨🇳

@13:04 literally describing what you are doing right now haha

Just a few months ago, a viral video of a local woman asking her japanese friend about the horrible things japan did to our country made the news, all he had to say was that he didn't know all that had happened. Japan is so advanced but couldn't care less about educating their people on what atrocities their ancestors did to Asia smh.

War is (sometimes) a necessary evil

Fun fact: Japan used manga, anime , electronics, affordable but durable automobile like toyota, honda etc and japanese samurai movies to cover their war crimes

Now you know, Kuma San.

The Nanking Massacre was not a "mistake." The Japanese army fully enjoyed committing literally unspeakable horrors on the people. Even the Nazis were shocked by the brutality. Yes, the Nanking Massacre (Also called "The Rape of Nanking.") was horrible even by World War Two standards. Unlike Germany, Japan has never fully acknowledged this atrocity.

As a Japanese I don’t know why people say we don’t learn this stuff. We do learn it at school… unless u guys weren’t paying attention in class or forgot what we learned we learned about the so called 731 butai, nanjing incident, and so called comfort women etc. I guess what non-Japanese ppl want us to learn is that this was pure evil and imperial Japan bad. It we learn both views from the eyes of the imperial Japan and also from the outside world. It’s up to each student to come to the conclusion if that was unjustifiable or not. If history is to learn the facts from a third person perspective, we are learning about it. If you want history to be a time to learn about social Justice and not just the historical facts and povs of different involved parties, then no we don’t learn that stuff.

Here in the philippines as well what happened in ww2 is so horrible

I learned to dislike japan because of history books, then my dad took me to TOKYO and I have loved Japan and it's people ever since.

I once heard of a man who grew up half Japanese- half Korean. He said his life growing up sucked because he received racist remarks from both sides. Unfortunate that genuine love between two people and the desire to raise a family is crushed by nationalism.

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My friend every country behaves badly in war. Some are much worse than others. What Japan did during the war was truly horrific. As an American, I thought extremely badly of Japan and how it has handled the after war period. I still believe it is wrong. However, I tempered my own feelings about war crimes when I learned of the My lai massacre perpetrated by the US soldiers in the Vietnam war....and don't even look at how we treated the Native Americans. I think the lesson to be learned here is that war is the worst burden humans can place on each other and we must do everything we can to prevent it from happening in the first place.

I believe, as funny as it sounds, it's not taught much as it's "disputable" and messy (kzbin.info/www/bejne/gKCmZHiLlK1lqsU&lc=UgxZaXN1TIpyiO_ct7h4AaABAg.9Z5J2WRqeEKA7sfhEVf3Tg) What I also found in the comment where I got this idea from that, intellectuals are tools, that after use, must be promptly disposed of. Despite being interested in records, he clearly doesn't show records, just his intuition. Bully the intellectuals into giving sources, compete with them, make videos and novels out of their cunningness. Every textbook is garbage as it forgets the most valuable skill, what have made mankind survive, imagination, if they wrote it as a novel with cites, good would happen. You learn nothing from a textbook. There is no sources for either even if they act as it has them. This is what happens when you deal with records and ideas, you become absorbed into it. Especially messy records like these that can't be easily put down and educated. I mean it already teaches you the basics, probably or something, if you even needed to know it, you can just learn it elsewhere. Also it's corrupted by politics.

I would like to add that after the war, the United States, as the victorious nation, could have concocted any number of allegations, but in response to a request from a Chinese organization, it conducted a seven-year, publicly funded investigation totaling 3 billion yen. The investigation concluded in 2007 with a report that no evidence of human experimentation, Unit 731, the Nanjing Massacre, or comfort women had been found. The US government spent $30 million over 7 years under Bush/Clinton Admins, aimed to find the War Crimes of NAZI and the Imperial Japanese government. The final conclusion was made in the IWG report in 2007. They have thoroughly checked the entire declassified documents from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Office of Strategic Intelligence (OS|=the predecessor of CIA), and the General Headquarters of Allied Powers (GHQ). Women), the Nanking (Nanjing) massacre of civilians, or Unit 731 by the Japanese military was found. The U.S. government at that time was demanded by a Chinese organization to find anything against Japan, and the U.S. was at odds with Japan at that time, there was no reason why IWG could not find them, except that they didn't exist in the first place. www.archives.gov/files/iwg/reports/final-report-2007.pdf

The State Department was the primary motivator of Operation Paperclip. WHich should come as no surprise; it was a haven of anti semtism and many other prejudices

The Imperial Japanese Military Officers burning and destroying any records about their top secret operations, human experiments, warship blueprints and wonder weapon blueprints

I'm a Filipino and i've already been hearing from our grannies the Japanese occupation in our country during the WW2 from start to finish. It was indeed heartbreaking hearing them from those people who experienced such cruelties and brutalities. PH Comfort women haven't get the justice yet to date. And now, young generation is becoming aware of this dark era of our history thru the docu-drama " PULANG ARAW" that is being shown in PH television and Netflix. worth watching for it's an eye opener and it's a way for us to respect and remember by heart the sacrifice the filipinos made that time. 😢

You know what boggles me is that Germany was denazified unlike japan who was given a free pass on many things , aren't you all aware of that ? The flag of japan didn't even change and pro imperialist sentimental groups aren't outlawed under MacArthur. The nazi party who are loyal Hitler didn't denazify themselves without any foreign intervention. Over their dead body they would . Many committed suicide or fled Germany. China and Korea are just pretending that all doesn't matter and starting only just putting post war German standards on the Japanese since the 1980s They just demand literal ww2 loyally kept right wing politicians after the US occupation to stop visiting shrines only to have a normal relationship with the entire Japanese nation and society . Its like you are asking nazis running as a fraction in the political party in the German Parliament house after the allies let them stay to stop saying Sieg heil or heil Hitler in Germany or else I am entitled to hate Germany and their people. If Japan would be like Germany, it would take a lot of allied reintervention to kick all these politicians out by allied law reform and make the full opposition to these loyal ww2 right wing politicians a default establishment. If you want this to change , you better go to the white House and the UN for a serious dialogue rather than keep getting angry everytime and having demands of literal right wing Nippon Kaigi politicians to genuinely apologize and to teach the Japanese people about their own establishments crimes , or else im entitled to hate an entire country out of historical wounds , but I still want to buy it's products and eat its food . When will chinese and Korean people learn thats not how Germans and Europeans work? And I cannot change the laws of japan into Germany on my own. Its now a democracy after the US occupation where denial and ignorance is never been punished on a national scale like in Germany since WWII. Its only up to the world, the UN and the Chinese and korean governments together to change to take action for these victims under Japanese aggression to negotiate to reform japans political laws after WWII.

The west started during the Greek city stage age the public auditing of public officials Especially military officials put in charge of a particular war or battle This want a king warlord inscribing how great they were It wasn’t just public audits but also criticisms written down and circulated This meant defeats were autopsied to the 9th degree Especially if your political opponents had an axe to grind Victorious generals would find would come home to defend himself if there was something to nitpick This carried on thru Greek, Roman, dark ages, etc. granted to various degrees. It meant it was harder to memory hole disastrous events.

I'm Japanese. To tell the truth,we are taught about WW2 in detail including war crimes. My textbook talks about the Nanjing Massacre, the Pattern Death March, Unit 731, and the Burma-Thailand Railway. There are a lot of incorrect (and exaggerated) stereotypes about Japan on the Internet. We should not take them too seriously. Have you ever seen Japanese textbook we are using now? Just because few people don't know about WW2,it does not mean Japan's education system is bad... I really don't want you guys to belive deeply information on the internet . This doesn't just apply to war crimes, it applies to everything.

I'm Japanese. To tell the truth,we are taught about WW2 in detail including war crimes. My textbook talks about the Nanjing Massacre, the Pattern Death March, Unit 731, and the Burma-Thailand Railway. There are a lot of incorrect (and exaggerated) stereotypes about Japan on the Internet. We should not take them too seriously. Have you ever seen Japanese textbook we are using now? Just because few people don't know about WW2,it does not mean Japan's education system is bad... I really don't want you guys to belive deeply information on the internet . This doesn't just apply to war crimes, it applies to everything.

日本人なのに731部隊について知らなかったのですか？そっちのほうがびっくりです。日本の教育のせいというよりもあなたの勉強不足なのではないでしょうか。ほとんどの日本人が知らないと思う、という発言も驚きました。逆に知らない人がいることに私は日本人として驚いてます。