Japan Does Not Want You to See This Photo

[@MicroBihon]

Some of the pictures here are actually discussed in our history lessons in Philippines. I find it dubious on how censored the American and Japanese history lessons were compared to us. The worst part is some people deny it happened when it did. Imagine having another country know more about your country more than you do.

[@Kingachi_]

yeah people try to say the holocaust never happened

[@robertmoreau8663]

Its close to japan

[@smeeAndyEN]

Ppl. are so st...range. I live just a couple hundreds kilometers away from the infamous nazi concentration camp Osvienčim. I was there. The smell still lingers... Yet there are a lot of people denying the holocaust happened, that our courts have to constantly busy fighting political parties with nazi agenda (which are growing stronger with every elections, even making into our parliament). They cancel one, another two appear. It's just like the Marvel Hydra. I feel so much shame and anger about my countrymen, I just want to leave and never look back.

[@robertmoreau8663]

@@smeeAndyEN you are right josuke

[@mt4798]

I am just grateful for my history teacher. He had to teach the examination syllabus, but he taught the history with all of its love and brutality. He frequently said that if you don't remember history and learn from it, then you are doomed to repeat it. So we learned a lot about the "wonderful" things that countries have done and try to forget. Particularly how wonderful we were when we ran our little empire on which the sun never sets.

[@yumemorqualin6899]

I remember a girl in my middle school proudly proclaiming that her grandfather was one of the pilots to drop one of the bombs on Japan, and I just remember being so horrified that she would be proud of that. And seeing a photo of a shadow burned into the concrete was just so heartbreaking :(

[@yagsipcc287]

Welcome to war also the worst part was it was not needed to do, they tried to say "the damage was so bad that Japan gave up" but documents showed Japan used it to save face for the empeor as over 80 areas cities and so on were more badly destoryed by "normal" bombs in previous weeks, they dropped two bombs for one reason to show they had more than one and it could bed done again and not a once off weapon. The other reason is the Soviets were doing massive progress (as they done almost all of the fighting in terms of battles, people lost and just the engagments in general if it wasnt for the soviets Europe would of been totally gone as the east took away so much man power and equipment. Funny enought the soviets wanted to make a pact eariler so they could get into the war sooner but the British and French refused... (I am very much not pro commie guy but reality is just that) today we think it all went one way because of one or two reasons when there were countless reasons that are ignored today mainly because of media and secondly academia (after world war 2 the US took over pretty much running large amounts of Europe and in turn were alot of the history books came from, took over colleges, academia etc... up until the late 60s and early 70s many countries were still recovering the UK still had major supply issues and restrictions in place. Nevermind how Japan to this day does what the US wants and recently at an event for the anniversary of the bombings they refused to even say how the US was involved nevermind the fact they dropped both bombs, had US reps there as well.

[@rvzn]

@@JohnDoe-og2bt you’re right, it was avoidable. but thousands of innocent people got killed aswell because of it

[@peagames2002]

Second world war was a moral mess. Japan, nor United States, USSR, German, Britain, France, Finland, Poland, Italy etc. were safe from the atrocities they commited. United States helped liberate Germany from its tyrant, however used nuclear head in war as warcrime. Japan faced numerous assaults from USSR and United States, having numerous towns and cities bombed to cinders. However Japan was part of several warcrimes it commited: Concentration camps for opposite side soldiers, captured foreign women to be expended sexually (Comfort women), executed and raided foreign villages, robbed estates and metal etc. many foreigners were lied to that their daughters get a well paid job in Japan only to be used as sex slave. USSR decimated tactically the most of wartroops Hitler sent, but in expense of Poland's own infrastructure and wealth. In Poland many of these people starved to death while fleeing inside Russia for safety. USSR under Stalin also commited inner ethnic cleansing, executing ethnicities not exlusive as russian for petty crimes often accused by state police. German captured political rivals, enemies, jews to be wrongfully executed by gas poisoning. German also assigned capable jews for construction or in frontlines when they were about to lose the war. Despite all these astrocities, science from Germany elevated standards of living and increased food production significantly... despite the somber and horrifying past. Britain aided, defended itself from Nazi-Germany, but also was part of racism against jews especially when it came for jobs, living and military. France surrendered to Germany, made war last longer since France needed to be recaptured to raise war. When Germany had their eyes on Poland France joined Britain in assault.

[@LiveLaughLovecraft]

Nothing to be proud of. In war, innocent people are the only ones getting hurt.

[@JohnDoe-og2bt]

@@rvzn I should also add that im speaking in terms of historic significance in relation to my comment.

[@starchambers8200]

Hey Aki! just a reminder surrounding the case of Issei Sagawa, the picture of the victim that you put, which is all over the internet is not Reneé Hartvelt, she's called Lindsay Hawker (who's also a victim of another japanese murderer) but just to clarify because even if the cases are similar, the circumstances around them are very different.

[@Lady_Chalk]

Is your brow piercing okay?

[@julesoxana]

Rest in Peace Reneè Hartvelt, Lindsay Hawker and all the victims💔🙏 Prayers and best wishes to them, and all their family friends and loved ones❤

[@luka_tomi]

also renee hartvelt is dutch not french , it did happen when they where both living in france

[@basedsketch4133]

Issei is dead sad he truly didn't pay for his crimes. If there is a Hell he is there. I have his manga and Shinjuku Gaijin House book. He's a true monster. Not all are religious but if you look at a picture of him you can say this is a demon real or not he encapsulated everything a demon is.

[@tyrant7583]

I wonder when is this bullsh!t trend of posting comments of "sending my prayers to the family" is going to end? What's the point of them? Do they actually think the families is reading them? Like the whole world revolves around the KZbin comments section. Do they believe KZbin comments is a direct line to GOD? It's one thing to say "in my prayers" at the end of your post. But to make a whole post of just saying "in my prayers" is weird.

[@fathergalaxy]

I know that this advice is not asked for, but I noticed a while ago your piercing was developing a little bit of a piercing bump and now you’re covering it with a Band-Aid and it typically isn’t recommended for it to be covered because piercing bumps normally are there because of irritation, so putting a Band-Aid on and off of it is going to just continue to irritate it it’s best to just leave them alone and clean them regularly until they go away. (Sorry if this was unwanted advice I just have a lot of experience with piercings and piercing bumps)

[@forrestpatterson6053]

Well I definitely learned something today. Thank you.

[@GrianyBunch]

@@forrestpatterson6053same 😊

[@KenbenizStupid]

“Japan does not want you to see this photo” *Shows it to us* (Joke, I love these kind of videos)

[@aihoshinoirl]

Lol!

[@bilelsmith6333]

😂 yeah I want nto see America does not want you to see this photos 😂

[@randomguypostanimeupdates6703]

Joke on us we go deeper on deeper a

[@sousukesagara-im3td]

I love Japan, but even they can't stop my curiosity

[@marclenraymagdaraog691]

nope it meant that JAPAN themselves wouldn't want to show these to us. because it shows their weakness to the people not in japan. so AKI being her which she isn't a Japanese Citizen would put her in a spot to be able to show this without issues.

[@usubenidango]

To me, the worst part is that they deny it all happened. If they did something terrible, at least have the guts to admit it. Say “yes, we did it and we recognize our terrible actions in the past and the consequences of it, we’ll do better in the future” that is true humility. Denying the truth only makes it way worse, almost seeming like escapism.

[@marianangelie]

This!!!! Ex. Comfort women.

[@Mari_Izu]

that's every country, unfortunately.

[@Tz3952ii]

@@marianangelie It is now described as highly compensated prostitutes by contract according to Harvard University. Korean comfort women were hired by Korean business men and these brothels were described as a camp followers.

[@aphyngodiva2551]

And even more worse, the US decided not to prosecute them for war crimes both including the nanking massacre and other war crimes feudalist Japan committed, because we did not want to lose them as allies. I believe even in the USA we do not talk about it much. The woman who wrote the English book on it, Iris Chang, also seemed to have experienced psychosis followed by suicide. I say seemed because she believed she was being followed by the US government who was trying to silence her... Whether that was the truth or not, who can say. I've read about this atrocity a lot because it was truly one of the most horrifying incidents in history committed by human beings (and that went 100% unpunished), I have no doubt that the level of research it took to write about it in detail could mentally break someone.

[@calimantis]

All our history, especially the ugliest parts of it, need to be seen and remembered. We need to know and understand the horrors and atrocities that were committed by those that came before, in the hopes that such things may never happen again

[@randomguypostanimeupdates6703]

Yeah know right we need share and learn them this the history we got school to college man WE NEED IT SO MUCH! a

[@gandalainsley6467]

There are couple countries who like to ignore their history. America, Japan, China, Russia and there is probably more. Its rare when a country goes German route and actually acknowledges their terrible past.(they even have a group that goes around the world and cleans ww2 grave stones).

[@laurapaivab]

Yes, totally!

[@usubenidango]

Well said!

[@aphilipdent]

One of the historical things they don't want out is that Japan was working on their own nuke.

[@gabri_maybe]

For the 2nd image,a quick footnote: Rescue operations were delayed due to difficult terrain and poor visibility when the JDSF heli arrived. One of the survivors after her recovery in the hospital said she recalled bright lights and sound of helicopters flying above whilst hesring scraming and moaning from other survivors,the sounds gradually faded into the night.

[@Leidnix]

Doctors later stated that there were a lot of people with non-fatal injuries who would have survived if not for the delayed rescue which was also due to the rescuers assumptions that there was low chance of survivability after they saw a huge fire at the crash site. Also no Pilot trainee to this date was able to land the plane with that damage in the simulator, let alone keeping it in the air for as long as the pilots did.

[@novanettle7497]

​@@Leidnix it is also likely that the flight crew started suffering from hypoxia (when the brain doesn't get enough oxygen, because of decompression at that altitude, for anyone who wonders), as they were heard asking the flight engineer repeatedly if hydraulics had been lost but didn't seem to understand the respons. Tokyo controll also got confusing reports from the crew about their heading and in general. The structural faliure that caused the stabilizer to tear off was caused by a faulty repair after a tailstrike seven (!) years earlier. When it eventually failed and the stabilizer tore off the damages included the loss of the on-board hydraulics system - and landing a plane without hydraulics is very, veeeery difficult (see United Airlines 232 for one of the best case cenario). So not only were the odds against the flight crew, with hypoxia added in the mix - it was practically impossible. But the crash caused deaths even after the fact. A maintenance manager at JAL took his own life, as he felt he was to blame for the incident. So did an engineer who had inspected the plane and deemed it flight worthy. He was bullied at work for his connection to the incident and could not handle the guilt.

[@stahlhelmturtle9822]

There was a USAF helicopter in the immediate area that wanted to offer assistance a very short time after the crash, and the Japanese authorities rejected the offer of assistance and turned them away, preferring instead to wait until the following day to conduct recovery operations

[@angelaa3617]

Southern Californian who graduated HS in the very early 2000s here. The Japanese internment camps from WW2 were definitely discussed in my High School history class. A whole day was focused on this - We watched a documentary on it and read letters written by families who endured that struggle. I'm sorry to hear you did not experience the same in your schooling, though this possibly could be because we lived on the west coast which tends to have wider diversity then a lot of America.

[@PrinccesEllie]

I graduated late 2000s in SoCal as well, and I don’t remember anything about this. It could just be the district or the teachers trying to filter things. But I really don’t remember anything of this being discussed.

[@ladylily]

Went to school in Louisiana, taught school in Louisiana, Virginia, and Connecticut, and my daughter has attended school in Texas, Virginia, and Connecticut. It was all taught in every school.

[@victorkaegi8716]

I learned about it and I lived in new jersey so your hypothesis is wrong

[@KyrenaH]

I went to school in the Midwest and this topic was covered.

[@KyrenaH]

​@@victorkaegi8716 It might depend on the teacher. We had really decent history teachers at my high school.

[@oitsnana]

I learned a lot of Japanese history from my Japanese class. I am thankful I was able to learn about the history that should be shared to everyone.

[@addictaedtokookie1622]

do they shed light on the brutalities japan committed though?

[@sneakysquirrel1990]

@@addictaedtokookie1622 like unit 731 during ww2?

[@aaronball4700]

@@sneakysquirrel1990Or Nanking. Or the fact mixed immigrants from other Asian countries were historically demonized and not offered many opportunities besides begging or stealing to survive(this still happens to this day). The list goes on.

[@user-co5ri8dp_978]

@@addictaedtokookie1622 Also, Japan is also the country that saved the most foreigners during the war. it is not known. Asia-Pacific Research Center of Stanford University, The team of Daniel C. Sneider investigated textbooks of Japan, Taiwan, China and South Korea. They found Japanese history textbook is the most accurate. Both China and Korea don't teach the WW2 correctly. It started from Europe and many complicated battles happened. Chinese textbook even doesn't teach about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japanese textbook had no patriotism and distortion. China and Korean textbooks are fillef with distorted stories and patriotism

[@user-co5ri8dp_978]

@@aaronball4700 Nanjing Massacre List. Nanjing Massacre by Chinese Soldiers (A total of 6 times). I guess everyone knows that. This is a famous story in both China and Japan.

[@kingofflames738]

9:50 It isn't the shadow that's burnt into the ground it's the area around it that was bleached by the heat and light.

[@snailart14]

I think they still refer to them as shadows though just because they look like shadows, even though they aren't

[@musicfriendly12]

@@snailart14 That's basically what they are though, shadow is when light travelling is stopped at some point and projects darkness, i.e. basically what that is... But yes, the way Aki described was not so clear or technically correct. But those ARE shadows

[@bussyman9655]

Thank you for covering the Nanking massacre and raising awareness about it - and yes, most far-right Japanese people would deny that it happened day in and day out. For the record, you can call it either Nanking or Nanjing - back in the day it was called Nanking but in Mandarin it's called Nanjing, and Mandarin is the main language in China. Also, Japanese schools are notorious for not teaching the war crimes the Imperial Japanese Army (which far right fascists want to bring back) did to the rest of east and southeast Asia.

[@ladylily]

Even on social media, if you bring up the atrocities committed by the Imperial Japanese Army, you're attacked and called a liar.

[@TheBlueAcid]

The movie about it is pretty crazy too. Really sad and disturbing.

[@tsdfghjkl]

>Japanese schools are notorious for not teaching the war crimes This whole claim is just lots of hype, click baiting and misinformation done on purpose to be exploited as pr0paganda by both by South Korea and Mainland China. A comparative study begun in 2006 by the Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University on Japanese, Chinese, Korean and US textbooks describes 99% of Japanese textbooks as having a "muted, neutral, and almost bland" tone and "by no means avoid some of the most controversial wartime moments" like Nanjing or to a lesser degree the issue of comfort women. The project, led by Stanford scholars Gi-Wook Shin and Daniel Sneider, found that less than one percent of Japanese textbooks used provocative and inflammatory language and imagery, but that these few books, printed by just one publisher, received greater media attention. Moreover, the minority viewpoint of nationalism and revisionism gets more media coverage than the prevailing majority narrative of pacifism in Japan. Chinese and South Korean textbooks were found to be often nationalistic, with Chinese textbooks often blatantly nationalistic and South Korean textbooks focusing on oppressive Japanese colonial rule. US history textbooks were found to be nationalistic, although they invite debate about major issues. SOURCE: Divided Memories: History Textbooks and the Wars in Asia The overwhelming majority of Japanese textbooks fully cover everything that happened during World War II, including many Japanese atrocities. About 1% of them don't. It is on that 1% that South Korea and China zero in for their pr0paganda purposes. And it is important to remember that the Japanese government cannot, as per their constitution, censor or ban textbooks. In Japan, individuals are free to write and publish whatever textbooks they want. It is up to the school administrators to adopt the books or not, and the overwhelming majority of the schools DO NOT adopt nationalist-revisionist textbooks. This whole "Japan denies war crimes" narrative is a red herring used by the governments of South Korea and the PRC to distract and manipulate their population when it becomes politically necessary. Look at the current Fukushima issue. They tend to overreact and demonize Japan for things that are not problems. When they do bash Japan, it is almost always for political reasons.

[@bussyman9655]

117 likes what the-

[@rizkiramadhan9266]

Forget the far right, the average Japanese denies it

[@kimemerson5732]

The photo of the brothers at the crematorium has haunted me for years, I will never forget that image of that brave little boy. I did see the documentary of the search for the location of that spot, and the child., heartbreaking. Perhaps it is better we don't know, as you say, the image is all you need, it speaks volumes.

[@water6teendragon]

I remembered when I was in high school, we did go over about what the States did to Japanese citizens during WWII. It wasn't gone over as much like the holocaust, but I do remember learning about it. I felt sorry for the innocent people who where sent to these camps.

[@jonniemayhem]

It was just a different time and a difficult one at that, the CIA isn't what it was today and we didn't have the intel that we do, so that's probably why people did some less than smart ideas for national security

[@jamie1602]

@@jonniemayhem No they literally sent back an entire boatload of Jewish children knowing they would be murdered. They knew. The wives of politicians on Capitol Hill literally stormed a few sessions to argue how Jewish Children would "grow up" to be drains on society and they shouldn't be let in, even if they were going to be murdered. You should probably look into that. Or why Franklin Roosevelt really invented Columbus Day. Hint; because people got lynched and he needed a distraction. We actually had AMAZING intelligence, even then.

[@Hollyweeds]

It wasn't just the States, all the allied countries interred their Japanese citizens. Canada did for sure.

[@painlesskun3959]

All we learned was about the comfort women and bombs, and some really famous/talked-about parts of war. A lot of it wasn't taught as we were in junior level of high school (grade 10 for most countries). Teacher did give us an idea of the horrors but not muh.

[@tomokanumber1348]

I remember Hanako-San the urban legend-

[@halkiierid4084]

On a lighter, but still related note: Did you know that heated floors existed in ancient Rome? The setup was known as a hypocaust - you'd have a tiled floor with a hollow space underneath connected to a fireplace.

[@LilaKooks]

Read the manga “Barefoot Gen.” By then, I was able to read Japanese, and I found it heartbreaking. I felt sorry for Gen, his mother, his baby sister, and a boy they adopted whom was a doppelgänger of his baby brother. Only in Japan John Daub visited Hiroshima recently…

[@soybeansoybeansoybean]

i watched the barefoot gen movie and its soo sad

[@marginbuu212]

Parents borrowed it from the public library for us kids thinking it was a harmless cartoon. I grew up real fast.

[@WishGender]

My Asian Studies teacher showed us the Barefoot Gen movie as part of our lesson on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings

[@joshuac2991]

As a Canadian who is now in his mid 40s I never learned of Japanese internment (we did it too) nor any of the horrible things we did to indigenous people in Canada.. Residential schools, 60s scoop and other things. Never taught to us in school and didn't even know about it until like my late 20s. Absolutely shameful.

[@ZombieCSSTutorials]

Im in my early 30s in America. We were taught about what Andrew Jackson did to native americans more than what he did to repel the British in the war of 1812. We also learned about the internment camps and the atomic bombs in WWII. Was it watered down? Yes, but students just goofed off anyway or coasted by. I cared back then, but it's naiive to think that these kinds of things will stop merely because we learn about them. Look at the atrocities Ukraine does, or how America used Afghanistan as a training ground. The vast majority do not care, or if they did they do, not enough to want to stop it.

[@x77punk77x]

@@ZombieCSSTutorials So RF soldiers & mercenaries have performed no atrocities in Ukraine, got it. This and the absurd & often incoherently shrill polarization of international conflicts on college campuses across this country by people who have no recollection of either of the previous two Intifadas convince me that we will actually be much further from peace in the Middle East and elsewhere because too many younger people in this country would rather be self-righteous black-and-white thinking partisan activists who have no genuine desire for diplomatic solutions to our bloodiest & most hellish global conflicts and would rather widen already-broad divides. Go ahead and savor your smug self-righteousness while civilians suffer & die on both sides of all of these conflicts, Millennial & Gen-Z know-it-alls. 👍🏻 You jerks probably wouldn’t want a peace process & treaty accords anywhere because it might undermine your ideological purity tests and sanctimoniousness.

[@hoathanatos6179]

Well I'm 31 and we literally visited residential schools run by victims and learned the full history.

[@hermdude]

With regards to the ill-fated Japan Airlines flight, the most infuriating part was that the Japanese govt refused any foreign help with regards to the rescue efforts. Iirc, there was a US base stationed nearby at that time that were ready and able to start rescue efforts, but they were refused to help out, stating that Japan has enough resources to do the rescue, which of course turned out to be false.

[@PointReflex]

Even worse is the fact that more people would have come alive if the US was allowed to help out since it is reported that a lot survived the initial crash but died hours later of their injuries and freezing conditions in the mountain. Regardless what the pilots did that day was like black magic, they kept the 747 in the air by just operating the engines (the only controls aside from the landing gear that still worked) for almost 40 minutes before crashing.

[@okayyy-mp8ft]

This reminds me of the Sewol Ferry Tragedy when their government refused help from us marines😮😮😮

[@CelestaDarkdweller]

I love that you give the backstory of the pictures I've seen people show bad pictures and they don't say anything about it there's no context so I love it

[@InsanityRelapse]

The photo of the family with the No___ Wanted graffiti, as an American we didn't learn about it at all in school. My grandmother told me about what happened to families in her community. Including stories of the families' property straight up being stolen from them, which in a farming community is their whole lively hood. American schools do a lot to try and cover up shameful events.

[@PizzaPyrate]

Where were you schooled? If you don't mind me asking. I was schooled in the south, more specifically Arkansas, and we were taught this. Wasn't a super long lesson, but maybe a day's worth?

[@InsanityRelapse]

@itsBenson California, I did have a history teacher that I spoke to post school, let me know they were "discouraged" from teaching about certain topics. Found out that sometime after I graduated that a bunch of parents had evolution removed from the bio class so im not really surprised that they didn't teach about this topic.

[@PizzaPyrate]

@InsanityRelapse That makes a lot of sense. School boards vary quite substantially in different regions of the US. I'm sure my area missed out on some stuff. Some are afraid to teach certain topics thinking it may be too much, like they want to forget it, but we need to know this type of stuff

[@SiriProject]

Actually, years before the Internment Camps, the treatment of Asians in USA was pretty fucked up by itself. They couldn't even use the pools along with white people.

[@orangeflames]

As American myself I feel so bad for those innocent people from Japan

[@CherriSherry]

The worst part about the boy sneaking in to the wheel compartment is if you forget literally everything else about it, say he could breathe, he didnt freeze etc... the wheel retracting would have crushed him to death anyways. there's not space for a person, even a teenager, in that compartment. Just a wheel and its leg.

[@milesmack2798]

I remember my 3rd grade teacher taught us what happened to Japanese citizens, mainly through the book "Baseball Saved Us". Really good heart breaking book

[@paolaanimator]

While I did learn a lot from American history, most of the history I learned from other parts of the world, or parts of history that were censored in American history class, I found out more in college (uncensored), and of course the internet as well. I saw Barefoot Gen, hard film to watch but important as well. Most of the photos you covered, I have never seen them before, especially the boy standing with the baby in the back, that was a powerful photo. Thank you for sharing Aki. It's a shame so much of history I learned in class are censored or only focused common history topics in America, but I rarely learned history from other parts of the world. Most of the history I learned now are due to internet or documentaries/videos.

[@Almightyrastus]

My wife and I have had the pleasure of visiting Hiroshima city twice and it is a beautiful place. We took the tour bus around the city and also visited Miyajima Island. Visiting the A-Bomb dome and then walking through the Peace Park was a bit mind blowing, knowing that we were walking about as close to the detonation centre as you can get (the hypocenter plaque is just around the corner from the dome). What struck me was the walls of the dome building and that they have the same cracking as you see on wood when it chars. The same thing happened with concrete...

[@Akumabaka]

Surprisingly, in my very very small rural town...we actually got taught most of the historical things happening in WW2 by my junior high history teacher. Didn't stop some kids from only focusing on Pearl Harbor and calling me Jap and wanting my Grandma to die. She was 10 when WW2 ended. Most neighboring small town schools were not taught this. They get taught up to WW2 and that America was awesome. The end.

[@paulgoogol2652]

The US were kinda good until they dropped the 2 nukes. Then the US was like: "look at me. I have the best military technology. Look what I can do. I'm the best."

[@DoggyP00]

@@paulgoogol2652 They were kinda good including dropping those 2 nukes and for years afterwards. All the infrastructure that japanophiles love to hold over America was started by America post WW2. They were also kinda bad in the way that everybody was kinda bad until Americans decided to be better in the late 1900s

[@D4rthsunny]

@@paulgoogol2652 while they were doing the same thing Japanese did... to it's own citizens, wait people like me, or brown folks weren't citizens... we were entertainment to be killed, raped like pigs to the slaughter. Not defending Japan, but The US is doing the same w it's sordid history, besides changing its racists ass laws like redlining.

[@danissdiary]

Typical small town. Casually being racist.🙄 - a black woman who also grew up in a small town going to my maternal grandparents farm

[@itsleighwhannel]

PLEASE make a part 2, I love hearing the stories of these photos.

[@justmeyou4795]

I found you on disturbing/dark/sad/depressing vocaloid songs and you did a good breakdown on it You came back with this and i miss this alot

[@garys5540]

Thanks Aki, this was very educational, emotional and thought provoking.

[@Pompom1324]

I'm so upset about the Nanjing massacre and the fact I didn’t know about it at all. Thank you so much for covering it and raising awareness.

[@garretthong9939]

Which is the main reason why China's hatred towards Japan are so strong. Japan tries to hide and denies it while China keep reminding themselves about it, making sure their new generation does not forget this history. If Japan just handled it better, the hatred should soon become just another history.

[@user-co5ri8dp_978]

Oh, Don't tell me, Are you a ccp fan? If the Nanjing massacre never existed and it was all fabricated by the Chinese Government? Try to be open minded. If only one side of the story is told we should all get suspicious. History is not 100% truthful. History is told by the winners, History is written by the winners. How can you know what you were taught in school is even true? It is Chinese propaganda. Frame-up. There is a lot of evidence that the “Nanjing Massacre (300,000 people)” was due to a false rumour/hyperbole by the Chinese government. Also remember that Chinese soldiers killed a large number of Chinese.

[@helRAEzzzer]

I had a few teachers in school growing up in Massachusetts cover the Japanese internment camps with us. In English class in, maybe, 5th or 6th grade, we read a book about Japanese kids using their mutual love of baseball in the camps to focus on the good in their lives. In high-school, my history teacher read with us an excerpt of a memoir written by a woman who was a little girl in the camps and spoke to us about separating people from their government and/or ethnicity and why it's important to do that. That teacher also made a point to teach us about modern racism and prejudice, why prejudices happen, how beliefs are passed down through different generations, and how some people learn that their prejudices are wrong. She, also, taught us about mass hysteria during the cold war and things like that. She was an AMAZING teacher, on par with Mr. Feeney from Boy Meets World but a young woman instead of an old man. After September 11th, 2001, teachers, especially history teachers, in my school would find ways to teach us about the realities of war and prejudice while fitting it into the required curriculum. We were only a 3 hour drive from NYC and had students who lost their father in the attacks; he was the pilot who flew into the north tower - I don't remember his name, it's a long name. He was from Dracut, Massachusetts, and worked for Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts if anyone is interested in learning about him. I was in 5th grade when it happened. We all know kids process things like that rather poorly, and the teachers definitely picked up on some of us crossing lines beyond "age appropriate," for lack of a better term, racism that almost all kids outgrow and starting down a path of genuine hate and lack of empathy. I think that is probably what triggered the teachers to get serious with covering these tougher things wherever they could. They knew we didn't understand what was happening and that some of us were going home to prejudice families who were getting louder about those prejudices because of the fear of everything. They knew the extreme patriotism without opposition wasn't a good thing for us to see so much of at such a young age. I really respect my teachers for stepping up. There is a reason our teachers get over $60k/year, no doubt about it. It is unfortunate that we only briefly touched on the German hate that German-Americans got and never touched on the hate Italian-Americans got, as there are a LOT of people here who hate white people for simply being white, thinking it makes up for all of the injustices that SOME white people committed. We did touch, a little bit, on Irish-American hate, but hardly at all. French-Canadian hate is something I had to learn about on my own time, and I'm glad I did because it is DEVISTATING to watch your own culture die from the inside. It's devastating regardless; I'm Irish-American, Cajun and Quebec-American, German-American, and Scottish-American with step relatived and adopted relatives from all over, but not understanding why your family looks at you with disgust when you ask them to teach you your grandparents native language is extremely hurtful. It hurts me more than my Irish-American father having to lie to my sister and I that his surname was the French version of Lambert because my Quebec-American grandmother and great-grandmother hated the Irish. My great-grandmother was born in 1904, I'd be surprised if she didn't hate my Irish roots.

[@ExcuseZero]

Truth. I'm not going into the details, but as a Mestizo, I'm in the same boat. Keep your head up. We're stronger for not being "pure"

[@pptenshii]

im a mestizo from boston with irish heritage and learning about irish hate really made me happy that i could celebrate it without being seen as less than. i went through a similar journey with my indigenous heritage as well, and im happy to embrace every part of myself.

[@starthornfromscratch2718]

For input on the photo of the Japanese American family as well as the Nanking photo, in my high school we learned extensively about both that section of American history and Japanese war crimes in WW2, so you may have gotten unlucky with your school. I have friends online who also learned about these two topics, but some others who didn't learn about either or one or the other. It probably differs from school to school. Very interesting and sad video.

[@guitarsaremyfriendzzz7077]

In TN we got pretty brutal and honest history. We spent plenty of time talking about the atrocities of WW2 including American atrocities. It was the 1st grade when I learned that my country was corrupt.😂

[@starthornfromscratch2718]

@@guitarsaremyfriendzzz7077 Yeah, similar here! I'm in NY though.

[@Valecan]

@@guitarsaremyfriendzzz7077 I had a similar experience in Louisiana but it was in middle school I was taught these history topics. I also had the pleasure in my college years being able to take a great WW2 history class with one of the best experts at the time. War really brings out the worst in people.

[@guitarsaremyfriendzzz7077]

@@Valecan it sure does.

[@user-co5ri8dp_978]

There are also photos of Nanjing where Chinese National Revolutionary Army are killing Chinese people. Also, There are many photos of Japanese soldiers and Nanjing citizens smiling and talking.

[@Jaziem]

The third one is sadly a Darwin Award. He would have suffocated due to the lack of oxygen in the wheel wells. 😢

[@BlackKnight865]

Welp he would have been alive still at 200 ft off the ground, at least conscious enough to realize that he was falling. Since he fell out right after takeoff

[@dannyg.4421]

to be fair if it was before smart phones i can see a 14 year old not knowing. hell, I seen prank youtubers pretending to be mailed off in airplane crates and people believing it was true like 6 years ago. just search "i mailed my self".

[@getsmoked5263]

My history teacher never filtered anything and made us watch so many videos she was rly good we watched a whole thing on Japanese families in those camps and how they lived

[@user-co5ri8dp_978]

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe what is true (Soren Kierkegaard). If only one side of the story is told we should all get suspicious. History is not 100% truthful. History is told by the winners, History is written by the winners. How can you know what you were taught in school is even true?

[@nancychisholm5399]

In Canada there were also internment camps for Japanese Canadians (not taught in school when I attended) They have only recently started teaching about Canada`s abysmal record in our history with the Indigenous, Metis and Inuit people.

[@arisunohana]

Out of these you've mentioned, I only recognize the Nanjing one and the cannibal one. The cannibal one was out of curiosity for me while the Nanjing one was in Chinese school (in NYC). I was also only told by my aunt one time to never go for a Japanese partner and I wasn't sure why until this. I don't think knowing all of this influences my opinion on the matter (cus I don't date based on that, seems like discrimination to me), but this was worth knowing. Thank you for sharing these!

[@hassanbashar7832]

I’m confused about the cannibal. How come he wasn’t imprisoned and able to release a manga? I don’t understand

[@garretthong9939]

@@hassanbashar7832 There's a lot of documents about him, it's just weird. Like Aki said he is kinda "idolised" in a way. He did serve prison though.

[@mutatedsilverunicorn]

I don't remember being taught about the Japanese "relocation" camps in school until I was college. Even then it was watered down because I learned so much more about it outside of school since then. (This was also in the early 00s... I know there are things kids are learning now that we never learned. Not sure if this is one of them or not.)

[@Erndea]

I never learned about it from school at all. I live in the south. They only reason I learned at all was because I was a voracious reader and read a novel about a family's experiences in one of the camps. It was fictional, but I read of the real events soon after. It was horrible.

[@bladedsentiment]

I remember learning it, we also had to read a book about it in high school. I grew up in Georgia.

[@SpinningAround-sy9ri]

Interesting, cause I also grew in the south and I actually learned about Japanese internment camps in 5th grade and 7th grade. We also learned of the nanjing massacre in 5th and 9th grade. Though I guess it could be explained cause 1) I’m of more recent gen (graduating high school this year) 2) My district has a pretty high amount of Asians (12-15% iirc). This is more speculation, but food for thought

[@SpinningAround-sy9ri]

Forgot to mention, I also went to a public school.

[@Erndea]

@@SpinningAround-sy9ri we learned about Nanjing but not the internment camps for some reason. I live in Arkansas, the camp George Takei's family was sent to is here. Weird

[@daisy_king]

It's almost 1am here for me as I watch this before bed lol. It's wild that these things have happened in history, thank you for giving some info or just making these things known to those that want to be informed of history no matter how dark and sad. I've only heard some of these briefly in school.

[@killakamikaze88]

Hi! Im from America and outside of the cannibal, we learned all of these (and especially the internment camps. I think we spent at least a week every year until later high school on it). The US is a really big place and our schooling is not as unified as people think it is.

[@Kur0miman]

In my socials class, the relocation camp picture was shown. Our teacher taught us all about it, and I go to a Canadian school. But then again he is Japanese and his family did experience this.

[@oimeh3547]

Aki, hearing you say you didn’t learn about the camps in the US also made me rethink if I even did learn that too in school. I asked a couple of my old peers and they said we did not learn any of that, that this is a part of history that schools don’t teach.

[@rux1n]

(11:20) That image is actually present in our History books here in France, and the teacher didn't even give a warning really when talking about it, but i understand why Japan, or the USA would censor that picture.

[@Texas113]

It’s so heartbreaking how so many of these videos had awful tragedies accompanied with them, but thank you for showing and speaking about them because it’s so important to never forget about what happened in them

[@DjNerdRage]

I remember back in my English class in high school, we had went into a big discussion about this happening. We were reading the book "Farewell to Manzanar" and for one of our assignments our teacher had asked us to write letters to our loved ones as if we were one of the people sent to the Internment Camp. That lesson has stuck with me ever since and showed me just what kind of pain Japanese and Japanese-Americans had to go through at that time.

[@sadmelody1833]

I love u, aki. Thank you for these informative things that i would neverve known about. Hoping to see ur next case, detective Aki.

[@bethwondrely4371]

I love the compassion you show. It's in your voice, and it's obvious you are just as horrified as us. You should be a writer or journalist. You've got "it". Rock on, baby girl!❤ And may the Japan people forgive us for the evil we spread to them. It makes me so sick.

[@grayblob2359]

A great graphic novel to read for the internment camps (photo#8) in the United States is "They Called Us Enemy by George Takei". It showed his experience and explained the situation very well. Even the art style is like a combination of American comics and manga. It has as many sad moments as it does happy. It's a beautiful memoir.

[@itsyourgirlsharky5131]

In high school, we were required to take a world history class. In that class, we learned much about Japanese history even though we were in the US. It's fascinating that some schools, in the US, don't go over this type of thing. It's extremely heartbreaking and good to know knowledge, I'm really glad my school went over this type of stuff.

[@Goleon]

I found out about the Japanese US camps growing up via the American Girl books of Molly (in the Looking Back section at the end of it which was basically a mini history lesson revolving around whatever the story itself was) and her Welcome To Molly’s World book which is something I recommend along with the other Welcome To books. So much of my knowledge of US history and stuff that were made or what not from back then are due to those. I spent so many hours reading these books. Should reread them.

[@Ozai75]

The Pilots of the JAL flight are heroes. They did their best to keep that plane flying. To give you an idea, when the vertical stabilizer (That controls the movement) snapped off, it also cut the hydraulics to basically every other control surface. The fact that they didn't immediately drive directly into the ground is a credit to those pilots. The flight itself is fairly controversial because the Japanese government refused outside help (Including help from a nearby US Military base with numerous Helicopters) and it took them nearly a day to get to the crash site. Many people died *on the ground* because of the delays.

[@bluepartyhat93]

Favourite type of content from Aki!

[@Bluegallardo619]

I gotta say Aki my respect for you has just grown even more, I already watch your videos and like them but even talking about Japan and China takes some stones. Respect ✊🏼

[@eatinaburger]

Completely unrelated to the video but I have been watching your channel since middle school (for the vocaloid playlists) and I love your content. You are also beautiful and your make up and hair are always on point. Your voice is also very calming and also keeps up the energy at the same time- I don't know if that makes sense. Anyway love your channel.

[@chevgage6210]

Also pretty sure the standing boy of Nagasaki is the premise for one of Isao Takahata's films. I'm not going to name it in case you haven't seen it, but it's really obvious once you watch it. He definitely did the hardest to watch ghibli films

[@mycrochetlifeanime]

Thank you Aki for todays video it was really interesting, I can't wait for what interesting videos you will do next 😊❤

[@justboardwithlife9947]

1:52 that’s just me when the floor is cold, and the floor heating isn’t on yet

[@Yunriyu]

The last picture is heartbreaking indeed, you guys might not know but a person that has been infected by radiation; on best case scenario they will be sterilized and their insides will be melted... very very quickly

[@oddeyes9413]

My mom was a doctor, so I spent a lot of time reading and watching medical shows & books, and so I knew *exactly* what I was looking at in the Issei Sagawa pictures. 🥴

[@Tasnu14677]

Can you tell me which body parts they are? I wanna know.. i'm ready to geg traumatised...

[@hjc9114]

Going to the Hiroshima museum changed me forever. There are many things I'll never forget. When I left and looked at the river, all I could think of was it being full of dead bodies. Highly disturbing

[@whatnananeeds]

The most relatable quote: "You know that really disturbing image you saw years ago? You should go look it up!" With my OCD I constantly obsess over certain memories (especially at night while I'm trying to sleep) including scary videos or images I've seen and it won't go away until I look it up LMAO

[@NeoRio666]

i love your channel and i finally got my cousin to watch one of your vids and now shes hooked on your channel

[@gal-b9d]

About Japanese Interment camps in America, I wasn't taught that in history class either. I learned about it in English class when we read the memoir "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston. It's a memoir written by a woman who was a little girl when her family got sent to an internment camp. It was so odd to me that my history class never once mentioned any of this. If my english teacher hadn't decided she wanted to teach this book, I doubt I'd know about that even to this day.

[@AniGrannyOG]

I live in the midwest US. I went went to high school in the 90s. We did learn about Japanese internment. We spent at least a couple days on it in every US history class.

[@reizak8966]

Just went down a deep dive researching the Nanjing massacre. I never heard about that in school. It definitely stands out as one of the most horrific atrocities to ever take place in our world's history. I do feel like every country's portrayal of 'history' in their native schools is incredibly biased with how they present information. Internment camps were barely touched on, possibly mentioned in a sentence or two. I didn't learn much about them until I moved to Seattle, where that photo was taken, and also befriending a man who spent some of his childhood in one with his parents.

[@ezhumbug]

The mention of the Japanese family photo in Seattle Washington reminded me of when my World History Teacher discussed about it since I live in Washington, it was very sad and heartbreaking know that even if Japanese families born or raised in US, they still didn't take the risk, so they put them in Camp Harmony for little while.

[@johnnypollack3243]

Keep up the great work and videos Aki

[@ObliviouzRomantic]

I was raised in the south, none of this was ever taught. Learned all about it due to the Internet.

[@oNitex]

from USA in suburb of chicago and i did learn about this and saw a video animation of what the aftermath looked like when USA bombed hiroshima. We also read sadako in elementary school and i cried so hard as a child reading this story. so yeah my schools did go in depth of some of the things we did but learned as an adult what they did and what comfort woman were. History is very messy and sad.

[@strangerice4467]

In the US, I had a history teacher in 10th grade. She taught really well, but was old and had no filters. That said she went into great detail of the Nanking Massacre and other similiar events in history (one of which included Russia pushing back against Germany at the time, IIRC) That said in my highschool we also touched a bit about the relocation of Japanese Americans, but it wasn't till college I learned about that in more detail. In fact it wasn't till college that I learned about America's dark story in Vietnam war (some cases similar to Nanking). I guess in the US, there is a small chance to be taught the darkside of history.

[@boundless8951]

In middle school (public school) I was taught about the interment camps. They didn’t hold back on any details it sounded heartbreaking.

[@Gunnumn]

aki, your videos are popping off. that last frew have been gold. i kinda like that every now and then we'll get a pizza review on top of horror shit.

[@adaleenahall9213]

My English teacher had us learn about the Japanese Internment Camps in my 11th grade. We read the manga written by George Takei and looked into a few other sources. I was very glad my teacher had went out of her way to teach us that, seeing the image of after the interment camps probably broke my heart the most because of the prior knowledge. I always sucked and never could focus on history, in America the teachers who teach it gloss over everything and make it really boring making it difficult to actually learn about these things. My English teacher in 10th grade had taught us about the Auschwitz and we read a book by Elie Wiesl. I feel my English teachers are really picking up the slack for the history teachers. To think if the school system focused more on teaching us direct moments we would learn more, but instead they try to squish as much info in our tiny brain making none of it have any effect, and it's absolutely heart breaking! These things are important, and if not shared history can easily be repeated.

[@darrelsam419]

I wasn't expecting to be very disturbed by these photos, but the moment it hit photo #6 I had to pause the video and walk away for a bit. The photos to do with WWII in this video disturbed me. It's horrific to see innocent civilians suffer bigotry, torture, and deaths due to the war. Thanks for making this, and aldo spreading some awareness of certain events that happened in history.

[@doodlerom]

Oddly enough, I did learn about the terrible treatment of Japanese people in America in highschool, but I learned about it through my English class instead of my History classes because we read a memoir of a girl who's family was relocated to one of the interment camps. The topic was slightly touched upon by my world history teacher, but there wasn't official text book material. What he told us was out of personal knowledge and research he had done and felt it was important for us to know, especially because of what happened locally.

[@DespairKarma]

0:02 Sound is a mood I listen to your videos while doing other stuff Do the ADHD walk And smack into things and I just go, "ouf- OW"

[@MissiBoo]

Hi Aki. I'm from the UK and in history class we only learnt about the war between Britain and Germany. I have recently seen a few documentaries on Hiroshima and it was beyond words 😢

[@KantoCafe715]

True I don't think we are taught it in school but absolutely everyone knew about it right? At least in my generation. Most of us had also read children of the dust by the age of about 13

[@Valentino016]

We learn so much about what the UK did but yall only know that 💀

[@stitchesx-x-x]

The fact that Issei Sagawa was freed and lived "normally" amongst everyone is disturbing af. What is most disturbing is everything that went wrong, resulting in his ability to live free from his crimes; Japan's inability to access his case files, Japan ruling him sane (really?! Wtf!), France dropping the charges against him (again WTF?!). Imagine grocery shopping for cold meat cuts and some strange guy keeps eyeing you like you're a sandwich and you later find out it was Issei Sagawa. 😱 The man even admitted to wanting to eat people still, nah totally sane thoughts I guess. And on history being taught from other's perspective...look up America's Nazi parades and summer camps for children in I believe the 1930's. Ruce hrdinů se po zhlédnutí těchto obrázků nezdají tak čisté. Zlo může také přijít maskované jako hrdina nebo přítel.

[@OtakuAnime01]

Actor George Takei and his family were imprisoned in an American Concentration camp in 1942. He was 5 years old at the time. You can find interviews with him about that experience

[@Anahit_Aa]

Thank you for all of this Aki, i learned a lot from this!

[@Hana.78v]

For those who are interested about Japan's history, there's also a film called Men Behind The Sun. It was a real life story and so disturbing because it really happened. I don't wanna spoil but you can watch the movie.

[@5000-p]

I love this channel! I watched these since 2019-2018

[@jennaprizm]

I actually did learn about the Japanese camps in History class, they were called "internment" camps, probably to water it down, interesting that some other Americans weren't taught that but not surprising to me that not all schools have taught it. We also learned about Hiroshima and saw "shadow" photos.

[@anriko7041]

I mean I've been in and out of this rabbit hole a lot and it got to the point that I can watch a horror movie alone in an empty cinema without being scared

[@HakuFreak19]

A lot of these photos I've seen. I also seen one where a Japanese soldier was slicing a baby in half. Over here in Fresno California we learn about the relocation camps for the Japanese because Fresno Fairgrounds was a relocation camps. They also have a plaque and photos of the camps over there.

[@ashleyjohansson230]

12:47 crazy to see real gore allowed on youtube, this was a series of photos including the one with her head on the table.

[@Enixon869]

I graduated High School in 2006, in central California, my classes gave a lot of focus on the Japanese internment camps when we went over world war II both in High School and Middle school, I don't remember if we went over WWII in elementary school or not. It always kind of surprises me when people talk about how censored their US history classes were, between the treatment of Native Americans, slavery, the racism leading to the Civil Rights movent, and more at all grade levels a good chunk of my history classes were dedicated to whatever horrible thing America was doing at the time.

[@liz9284]

It’s interesting to me about the “trigger warnings” I see everywhere these days (and this is not me criticizing anyone, it’s honestly just interesting to me), but according to psychology studies the trigger warnings actually make ppl more sensitive. Voluntary exposure is key to resilience. So hopefully ppl will watch these videos and get some resilience bc I’m kinda tired of seeing everyone freak out all the time bc there was slavery in an anime and crap like that, LOL

[@debbiechan8657]

I'm so glad you chose a picture from the Nanking Massacre (I believe both Nanjing and Nanking are correct spellings since they're based on 2 different in-use Chinese-to-English phonics system). A lot of people in China now still strongly resent the Japanese government, and even everything Japanese in extreme cases, because Japan refuse to acknowledge the existence of the massacre as well as all the other things they did in China back in WW2. It's such a painful part of our history.

[@NJbldragon]

Yeah, the Japanese internment/concentration camps are a thing that may be touched upon depending on what state you're in. For example, I remember it being taught in California when I was in high school. I've heard, however, in places like the South, they like to keep stuff like that out of history class to make us look better. As a Japanese American, it's annoying how some parts of the US just love to sweep our mistakes under the rug.

[@OrangeCat1992]

I would agree with you. I was taught about this in Oregon.

[@svp3rstzr]

2:37 me tryna fight off my friend who practices quads

[@Oompanon]

6:28 "What's stopping you from saving up a plane ticket?" I'm sorry but some adults can't even afford a plane ticket, let alone a 14 y.o. But yeah it was a very stupid idea and very much preventable.

[@thelocalguide2482]

My teacher who was new in 2018-2019 he made us sign a waiver to watch a whole documentary on the war of Hiroshima, and even though we singed a waiver he still got in trouble for showing us more history on Japanese people. The school wanted us to learn about amaerican history and not japanese. Needless to say that all the japanese history is the only one that stayed with me!

[@mayajasinski5972]

My Japanese construction worker friend survived the 2011 earthquake and he lived in the middle of it.

[@MegaPaborito]

10:14 It's not real. The famous jump rope girl shadow "from Hiroshima" is actually an artwork called 'Innocent Shadow' made by Mark Slone. He also have shown the process on how he created it.

[@sazari2861]

No uncle soup though? Nice video Aki (:

[@SakuraStardust]

Oh what I’m making this exact type of video with internet lore/2chan photos 👀 The JAL123 image still deeply disturbs me. I believe the 4 people who survived where children that remained unnamed.

[@atiredprsn]

I only found out like a month ago from my dad, but my Lolo’s brothers were skinned alive by the Japanese. I was just surprised, not too much because I know a lot of different torture methods used by lots of other cultures but it’s still scary to think of.

[@arweenietortellini6134]

I didn't hear about the Japanese Concentration camps until we talked about it in my third year of high school, and it just had me floored. I had never even heard a suggestion of something like that happening until I learned about it. In American schools we talk about the Holocaust all the time, but barely mention what we did.

[@dawnysinger7835]

My Grandfather/Dad, before he became a Navajo Code Talker. He was a supply truck driver delivering supplies to a Japanese Concentration Camp in Arizona. That information totally surprised me!

[@chevgage6210]

This war had no heroes, just worse villains to point the finger at and everyone else got to completely wash their hands of it all and is an incredibly important lesson of black and white thinking and how damaging that can be. When you're too busy fighting over who's worse and no one gets better and takes accountability, it escalates to unbearable consequences.

[@Cid_Sensei]

1:28 seen this on certain manga (Dark gathering) and it's called crawling on all fours