History of Japan - Bill Wurtz REACTION!! | OFFICE BLOKES REACT!!

[@realsheasmith]

I love Bill Wurtz so much. Especially how he leave the only long silence after the nukes. Really makes it hit. Great reaction Boys.

[@-Infinite92-]

It's funny you mentioned that you think it takes a year to make one of these types of videos. Since bill did mention on the h3 podcast a while ago that it did literally take him nearly a year to make the history of the world video. I think he said this video on Japan took him like 4-6 months. Most of that time is just researching everything and making sure it's as accurate as can be.

[@cybercritterowo]

Researching is harder than Editing.. sometimes

[@solus2074]

I respect his commitment

[@yourmother8551]

It took him 11 months to create the "history of the world,I guess" video

[@maybebasssing3291]

I know this one too by heart

[@TheMakoyou]

It wasn't Ieyasu who initiated the isolation of Japan, though, but his grandson Iemitsu. The culture of the Edo period was quite rich. The literacy rate was 70%, and even women learned to read and write. Geometry and math problems were popular among farmers, including problems to find the area of the same figure as Soddy's hexlet. If you do an image search on 算額, you can see the issues that were drawn at the time. All the answers are by farmers

[@katara2021]

Ah that's why he didn't say that the leader did it but that the "government did" while the family name is written near Edo. He should have been more clear though.

[@solus2074]

Wait, so there's a probability that Japanese farmers back then are more good at math than me?

[@hainleysimpson1507]

Anon and thus part of why Japan was do successful in warfare before they had two extremely untested bombs that no one is sure what the consequences of using were.

[@minhuang8848]

Nice insight

[@LonerWithBoner03]

@@solus2074same :(

[@rachaelwhite5961]

I just love Bill! If he taught history to children, everyone would want to be a historian! I definitely have to pause for laugh breaks.🤣

[@cjrecio5702]

Can you guys watch the American Civil War By Oversimplified, please?

[@aindoria]

Yeah that'd beg reat.

[@AG-xg2lz]

They should watch other vids, such as hitler Oversimplified,cold war OR in general watch more oversimplified!

[@danawitta9739]

In regards to what Dave was saying at the end about Americans not buying Japanese cars, especially in the 1970s and 1980s, it was more about people losing jobs in automotive industry than it was about World War II. In 1982, two auto workers beat a Chinese guy, who they thought was Japanese, to death because they were upset about losing their jobs. The war was a factor for some but I think jobs were a bigger factor.

[@jacksonhodge4638]

Happy to have it. Ashamed of how you got it.

[@wahaha6961]

Fabulous! Yeah, the history of Japan is quite... Extravagant. Which is intense. Have a great one, gents!

[@junitsu00]

These kind of history videos are more entertaining when you know the history.

[@taylorgang2237]

I’m gonna take credit for this considering I told you to review it the other day. Thanks for the upload!

[@RayearthIX]

It's interesting that he never mentions Shintoism, the dominant religion in Japan based on regional spirits and that the Imperial Family is supposedly descended from (The first emperor is, according to the religion, a descendent of Amaterasu, Goddess of the Sun). Based on studies, over 70% of Japanese people identify as Shinto (though 69% also identify as Buddhist, so there's a lot of crossover there).

[@greenfilly]

It bothered me that he never mentioned the jomon peoples.

[@hainleysimpson1507]

Or the Ainu peoples.

[@chriswhinery925]

Japan has a weird religious makeup where people sort of pick and choose parts from different religions for different purposes. So the same family will celebrate Christmas in December, then visit a Shinto shrine for new years, while having Buddhist funerals and Christian wedding ceremonies.

[@michaelgonzalez6295]

About cars: Resistance to Japanese car imports (and others items) in the '70s was due to the dying of the American steel industry and the perception that Japanese products were much lower quality. Brought on by the various labor unions (steel, autoworkers, etc.) trying to protect their remaining member's jobs. TBH the cars were cheaper quality but mostly because they contained less conveniences and priced according. But throw in VAT and other import taxes...

[@Indarow]

There’s a great channel called “The Shogunate” that has a whole video series on the Sengoku Jidai period (warring states) if you guys are interested. I don’t know if I’d recommend it as a reaction series as it’s very long, but if any of you are personally interested in Japanese history I highly recommend checking it out.

[@gizmo12055]

bill wurtz did history of japan before the world video

[@DEATHBYFIRE09]

This is the sort of video you have in your first lesson - its nowhere near enough to learn from, but its the sort of thing that you'll learn something and go, "oh yeah, I remember something about that, sort of" and have a sort of general overview, even if you didn't really place it right away. Its kind of genius honestly, learning without actually learning.

[@Finkele1]

There's actually series on netflix about that Japan big war until they had 200+ years of peace. Check it...it's pretty good.

[@KilyanAustin]

fun fact, even after the second atom bomb the japanese imperialists didnt want to surrender

[@MK-dy1bw]

日本は原爆を落とされる前には降伏すると伝えていました。アメリカは日本を核の実験に使いました。

[@Sprayber]

The war in the Pacific was extremely brutal. War is terrible wherever it takes place but the Pacific theater was especially brutal. There are a lot people who blame racism but most of it steemed from the Japanese disdane for anyone who surrendered. Ask Australian or British veterans of the war what they thought of the Japanese. Ask Filipinos who were victims of the Japanese. The Japanese are still disliked in China. The Japanese believed in total submission to the emperor and the state. So imagine just 20 or so years later a former Marine being asked to buy a car made by the country whose soldiers brutalized him and his fellow Marines. I'm happy that we have advanced in our understanding of different peoples but I'm not going to criticize a man for not being able to move on from his experiences. Context is always an important aspect. If anyone is interested in investing some time into the history of the Japanese experience in WW2 I would suggest Dan Carlin's Supernova in the East on KZbin. It's long but it's an amazing view into the Japanese experience in the war and a peak into their amazing and complex culture.

[@peters4115]

Japan is just the England of the East. History full of civil wars, imperialism, and devotion to an archaic monarchy.

[@megatme]

I’m from Japan and I agree with you.

[@aaronrobertson8334]

Maybe 60s and parts of the 70s americans didnt drive as much foreign cars but by the 80s Toyota was popping off in the USA

[@ely4054]

good thing I came here after I saw your TikTok content

[@bracejuice7955]

My grandfather served in the pacific, and while he was an open minded guy and made friends with several Japanese people after the war, he never bought any Japanese cars and didn’t let his wife or kids buy one either. Those companies made all the military equipment, so while I think of sports cars when I hear Mitsubishi, he thought of fighter planes. After he died grandma bought a Toyota.

[@SAVikingSA]

Out of all the Japanese car companies, Toyota is the least "responsible" for the war effort. They really only contributed trucks, which due to the nature of the Pacific theater, weren't really a huge thing. Still took part, but not on a crazy level like Nissan, Honda and Mitsubishi.

[@bracejuice7955]

@@SAVikingSA she just bought it for the fuel efficiency

[@bc3nt]

@@bracejuice7955 lmfao

[@langstonfuller9228]

I wasn't expecting that ending lol thanks for the laugh

[@clipsedrag13]

@@bc3nt idk if he even realizes how funny that was

[@ΒΞΔΝ]

Another fun video BYE!

[@DlcEnergy]

If you find out a restaurant has rats, they're not exactly gonna be your first choice if you're going out... If an outbreak happened in Sweden, it'd be the same thing. Everyone would be wise/cautious of containing the spread until it's over. You don't suddenly say, alright lads, this is the best time to go to sweden! lol

[@xBubbaxx]

When we getting our hands on those fancy hats

[@OfficeBlokes]

Coming soon 👍

[@JustSoRadicaL]

@@OfficeBlokes u should make hoodies with the same logo

[@RawTimee]

Its only hard for older people to follow as ive noticed. Younger people like in their teens are alot easier to process the words faster and gen Z takes in more info because of how fast it is

[@catchingbird1]

Name any country and Daz will tell his story lol

[@charlottedrolet9000]

Dave's rap name is Lil Ginger. 🤣

[@OfficeBlokes]

😂

[@kensteel9872]

You’re welcome 🇺🇸

[@JillSiena]

Love your channel. I'll send stateside snacks as soon as I can!

[@zerox9959]

BILL WURTZ! NO FUCKING WAY

[@bombasticgamin8447]

Y’all should react to Operation Downfall, or “The Insane American Plan to Invade Japan in 1945”, by Real Life Lore. It kinda gives you insight as to why we dropped two atomic bombs on Japan.

[@BigDave423]

14:30 DAVE=No French stuff. Though you can get great deals on French military rifles that have never fired, and only dropped once. 😜

[@tommyhallum2054]

My grandfather was stationed at pearl Harbor when it was attackedand then he got sent to Japan and then afterwards got sent to Korea so he was absolutely one of those people that hated Asian people and any product from that part of the world. Now I don't condone the hatred of whole cultures of people but for a generation like my grandfathers that lived through those things he did it's completely understandable.

[@praeposter]

Some constructive criticism. I noticed that you guys let the video go for about 5 minutes without saying anything. It’s probably about the very fast pace of the video, but I do enjoy it more when you all provide input, even if it’s a subject you don’t all know much about. I hope you appreciate this, and congratulations on 80k subscribers!

[@OfficeBlokes]

Thanks. We usually have a lot more to say but there was a lot to take in with this one! 😂

[@willrobinson4976]

Great reaction guys.

[@geofftottenperthcoys9944]

Just finished watching a doco about this exact same subject!

[@marlot8772]

Found your channel love your vids!

[@generalgaming2019]

Hey you should watch here comes the sun by bill wurtz its a very good high quality video

[@wallapee]

Those hats are cleeeeeean, just got one that looks just like it but has OC for ocean city. Gunna snag one when they come out for sure.

[@Ryan-ij3ge]

Guy in the white hat looks kinda like Andy Serkis

[@emobx02]

Well, it wouldn't be a stretch to say that the US had a large part in how well the Japanese did post WW2 economically,, and was closely partnered with them past the oversight stage... having that said, Japanese cars are very common and have been a long time in the US. I don't know of anyone that ever "boycotted" Japanese cars, because government contracts and the like kind of made them mainstream. It's almost the opposite of what you're saying; Japanese products were pretty much pushed onto the American people. There are lots of Toyota, Nissan, etc. factories all over the US, and they employ lots of Americans.

[@670-u3q]

Should watch the war with Japan and U.S in the pacific. Veteran nterviews 😊

[@bracejuice7955]

Yes! And now onto the entire rest of the world Edit: oh

[@OGS2099]

They've already done that

[@bracejuice7955]

@@OGS2099 that was the point of the edit. I was just excited to be first

[@OGS2099]

@@bracejuice7955 I got to you before the edit

[@SomethingSeemsOff]

I'll be straightforward with you guys. It was a great decision going with a simple logo on the hat. You could place that logo on a shirt as well and I guarantee you it will sell better than the current "walmart cartoon" design shirt you guys have. The cartoon is great as a profile picture, but merchandise will always sell better if the design is simple and/or minimalist. You guys are hilarious and I watch all your videos :)

[@nanoisa7065]

3:14 この｢聖徳太子｣というのは確かに、｢厩戸皇子｣という名前がついていますが、天皇陛下の側近となったため、｢Prince｣というのは難しいところです。 あと……ちょこちょこ時代がごっちゃになってたり、実際と違うところがあったりするのが気になりますね…… あと日本ではすごく有名な遷都だらけ のあの人がいないのが気になる……あの人絶対遷都しかしてない。 長文、失礼しました。 日本人としての感想として流していただけると幸いです。

[@cj_curles0671]

When we gonna get some Rainbow Six Siege Reactions to TheDooo

[@barryosborn830]

FINALLY

[@cavscout888]

Around the 70's, 80's, etc; people wanted to boycott Japanese goods because it was hurting out economy. Like the imports from China are doing now.

[@cocaineminor4420]

But unlike Japan China is much more powerful and bigger and smart.

[@cavscout888]

@@cocaineminor4420 HUH? No. Of anything, the Chinese people are getting sick of the control from their government as things that relied on heavy cash flow from the US are starting to fail. A bit of internal struggle as soon as times get tough because of the tyranny. Like not allowed to own land or invest, and the one thing they could invest/save for retirement is a pyramid scheme with no foundation. Economically, China has likely peaked and about to start grinding to maintain, and will also begin their backslide.

[@scottishmob7982]

this was Really good! the massive pause. it was like a high note from my favorite singer for some fucked up reason.

[@HeavenlyDemonicEmperor]

Man that series on Netflix is really good too lol

[@tuber420]

Is that Daniel Craig?

[@JustAnotherJosePinto]

have these guys reacted to epic rap battles of history???

[@fionakhan7940]

Nice

[@angrybear3439]

USA dropped two bombs Japan gave us hentai fair trade to be honest

[@thomasdemay9805]

Fun Fact it was almost the British who dropped the Nuclear Bombs on Japan. Britian was heavily involved with the research and development of the Bomb. At that time the USA didn't have a plane that was big enough to carry the massive bomb and also had the range to reach Japan. The only capable plane the US had was the B-29 but it had to be significantly modified to be able to drop the Bombs and had their been any delays or problems in accomplish this there were plans for the Brits to carry out the mission using the Avro Lancaster bomber. The Brits even did practice Bomb runs and everything. The squadron was top secret known as the "Black Lancasters". kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4m7aqOqeLOjn80

[@NandR]

We don't buy American or Japanese cars. We buy Korean cars made in America, and American trucks made in Mexico.

[@deo7320]

Why?😂

[@NoireWidow]

More oversimplified would be great!

[@stevek6486]

Anyone who served in the pacific absolutely forbade their family from buying Japanese goods. Grandpa talked of how horrible the Japanese soldiers were - just cruel an brutal. You can’t really blame them - it would be hard to forgive. A second reason that many Americans didn’t buy Japanese cars is the importance of the auto industry in the US, it meant many jobs being lost.

[@independenceltd.]

One of the reasons Detroit fell to pieces. But not the number one reason.

[@TBoneTony]

When America dropped the Atomic Bombs onto Japan, after the long pause of silence you see the while flag with the words "You Win" as a nice touch to how Japan surrendered instantly after the bombs were dropped. It would have been funny if the white flag said "You're Winner" just to explain the Engrish that the Japanese had to the western countries.

[@theemptyatom]

The initial Japanese stuff was crap is why people didn't like it. Over time, they got better at it making it, especially their cars and CNC machines, but for several decades they were pretty crappy.

[@satsunada]

You guys should react to the Insane Plan to Invade Japan in World War II. It would really put a picture on what the heck would have happened if the Japan hadn't surrendered.

[@Dinnetola]

Damn i missed the notification by an hour 😔

[@angel1202003]

react to more of these !!! listen !!!

[@Tkm112093evadell]

The reasoning behind the US dropping the bombs thankfully wasn’t because the wanted to try them out. Lol

[@TrustInTheShepherd]

Actually it kind of was together with showing Stalin their power. Japan was pretty much defeated already. They were open for negotiations as by this time they knew they were losing the war.

[@independenceltd.]

@@TrustInTheShepherd lol...no they weren't. They could've surrendered when Germany did. They didn't. They could've surrendered when the US firebombed Tokyo, a bombing far more devastating than either atomic bomb, which happened 3 months before Hiroshima. They didn't. They didn't surrender after Hiroshima, and they didn't surrender after Nagasaki. The only thing that got them to surrender was the thought that the US had more nukes. They had fully planned on a US invasion of Japan. They knew how deadly the the war in the Pacific had been and they believed that invading Japan would be so bloody and so costly that eventually pressure on the home-front would cause the US to give up before they could take the island.

[@TrustInTheShepherd]

@@independenceltd. You are very misinformed Japan knew they were done, they just wanted a conditional surrender.

[@independenceltd.]

@@TrustInTheShepherd "Japanese military planners much preferred decisive battles on the beaches of the homeland. At worst, these tactics would salvage honor in defeat. At best, they believed the Americans would reject this invasion strategy because the cost in human casualties would be too much to pay. To underscore their resolve, Japan’s War Guidelines Council approved a resolution in Hirohito’s presence calling for supreme self-sacrifice and the honorable death of 100 million men, women, and children. With suicide engrained in their culture, it appeared that the entire country had embraced the imagery of national salvation through mass suicide, a willingness to die for their homeland that dwarfed anything in history."

[@hainleysimpson1507]

The Donald That was the government the general populace was forced to go along with it.

[@taiyonoboru1192]

Where is the JOMON ？

[@minhuang8848]

It's ridiculous how good of a primer this is, actually. You say it's at best edutainment, but it way, way surpasses everything about your ordinary TV (or school) lessons - never mind that no country ever teaches their kids the history of Japan, of all things they don't have enough time to teach. And you have to be careful to not dismiss any of the information he conveys as fluff, just take Russia building railroads because they want warm water - sounds like a throwaway line, but every little blurb he puts in there has a historical reason for it. Warm water is indeed a big motivator in this ordeal, and while it sounds dumbed down, he puts in huge headlines of the countries history which if you looked up or had some accompanying guide to (people made those btw for Wurtz' vids), would probably mean that you end up with a more intimate knowledge of Japan than of your own country... on average at least. You have to supplement any resources, but if you treat this like a Tom Lehrer song or the Animaniacs stuff, you end up with kids who memorized entire abstract overviews of every single country in the world - easily because you can just infuse kids with knowledge if you approach the issue properly. Making it appealing is the biggest part of it all, so many great teachers went unnoticed because they just couldn't go the last mile. Which they are painfully aware of more often than not, it's an art in its own right to be sure. Still, take this material into the classroom, something a couple folks are thankfully doing already, and watch the average "slow" kid in 2030 completely outmatch us stupid adults with niche knowledge at best. Super exciting stuff, clever kids are going to change everything.

[@IErfanCN]

👍,

[@kunyari6906]

React to NBA three point contest

[@yellowmaggotsjapoon1665]

jarjar binks🍌

[@محبيالشيخياسرالحبيب]

you please react to the lady of heaven trailer

[@theemptyatom]

He is clever, but way too left-wing in his historical revisionism for his histories.

[@joelockard7174]

Fun fact there was a massive invasion planned for Japan that was estimated to potentially add two more years to the war if Japan didn't surrender. There was also a third nuclear weapon almost ready to use as well but Japan surrendered before any of that occured.

[@thenorthstarsamurai]

I wouldn’t call it a fun fact by it is a interesting fact

[@rvt_h3d]

@@thenorthstarsamurai normies love to preface with "fun fact"

[@appletv4327]

🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

[@operator0]

There were a lot of WWII veterans who wouldn't buy anything from the Japanese. My dad was an engineer at an tier 1 automotive supplier. They made sun visors and other interior parts for America auto manufactures. One of the Japanese car companies wanted them to make parts for their cars. The guy who owned my dad's company was a WWII veteran from the Pacific and flat out refused. He would routinely use derogatory words to describe the Japanese, and hated them with a passion. The thing is, the Japanese were ten times more brutal than the Germans. We see these WWII movies set in Germany and everything is very chivalrous. Prisoners are treated with a modicum of respect on both sides. Cease fires for Christmas were honored. In the Pacific, none of that was true. The Japanese fought to the death. They fought hard, and what the Americans considered dirty. They fought to the death. If an American was taken as a prisoner of war, he would be lucky to survive the next year in a Japanese prison camp. Unlike the European theater, the men who fought in the Pacific theater were very reluctant to talk about the war. Many of them had PTSD until the day they died.

[@thenorthstarsamurai]

Isn’t the cease fires for Christmas WW1?

[@thenorthstarsamurai]

As a Japanese I only hope we don’t repeat these mistakes again And what I meant by we is as all of the countries of the world

[@operator0]

@@thenorthstarsamurai It also happened in WWII. It's not that there were cease fires for Christmas, it's that the two sides fought in a way in which there COULD be a cease fire for a shared holiday.

[@thenorthstarsamurai]

@@operator0 ahh I see ya

[@ВадимЛивитин]

Естественно ни слова о разгроме Квантунской армии войсками СССР. И отчего я не удивлён. хехе

[@neversuperfennecwarrior9486]

I thought you wouldn’t get most of the facts, but then I remembered you weren’t americans

[@ashleym8170]

I love watching non-americans react to these fun history videos haha (Americans wouldn't understand jack shit lol)

[@gyeonglee3691]

Korea influenced to Japan in ancient history was still diminished in this video. And 16 century Japan invade Korea but finally failed cause navy commandos ‘Lee Soon Shin’ destroyed Japanese supply route in ocean. It is missing. Japan killed Korean queen and eat Korea for 36 years and killed so many innocent civilians and stoled Korean National treasures during WW2. They never apologize what they did in Korea and never teach about their darkness history to their young generation. Their economy was grown by Korean War and Vietnamese war. Also 30 years lost of economy development make them Japan become 3rd world country again. They still use fax machine and CD. Credit card is not prefer to use buying stuff.

[@adelehaenel_]

no korian,that's Chinese

[@yoshikoxxx]

😂 I believe that the Anglo-Japanese Alliance was the real ally. And Churchill, too, was said to have had a fondness for Japan because of his mother's influence. History is manipulated by its writers and we should be able to see the truth.