"KNOW YOUR ENEMY JAPAN!" WWII TRAINING & PROPAGANDA FILM 28232B

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Produced by the Princeton Film Center in cooperation with the Institute of Pacific Relations, narrated by Radcliffe Hall and featuring text by Major George Fielding Eliot, "Know Your Enemy Japan!" attempts to answer such vital questions as: How large in the Japanese Empire? Is Japan self-sufficient in food? What is Japan's naval and military strength? What are the living standards of the Japanese people? What are Japan's vital weaknesses? How can Japan be defeated?" It includes footage of the Japanese invasion of China and the attack on Pearl Harbor. Shows the long history of Japanese expansion and military campaigns. Details how Japan is exploiting the natural resources of other Asian nations. This film represents the orientalist and racist opinions directed towards the Japanese people in World War II.
The Princeton Film Center (PFC) was formed by Gordon Knox in 1941 in Princeton, New Jersey. Growing rapidly, in 1943 the Film Center settled in a larger house in Princeton Township with room for its expanding production and distribution services. In 1948 the Film Center moved again five miles from Princeton to a state-of-the-art facility, including its own theater, a five thousand square feet sound stage, an employees’ commissary and a wing dedicated to its film library and distribution department.
The company produced many films during World War II, for entities such as the Institute of Pacific Relations, the CIAA, and Boeing Aircraft. The PFC distributed CIAA and Office of War Information films, as well as other educational and informational films.
George Fielding Eliot (22 June 1894 - 21 April 1971) was a Second Lieutenant in the Australian army in World War I. He became a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and later a Major in the Military Intelligence Reserve of the United States Army. He was the author of 15 books on military and political matters in the 1930s through the 1960s, wrote a syndicated column on military affairs and was the military analyst on radio and on television for CBS News during World War II.
A longer-length film with the same title -- "Know Your Enemy: Japan" was directed by Frank Capra, who was commissioned by the U.S. War Department. Completion was delayed by disputes between the Hollywood producers and Washington. The original intention of the film was to prepare U.S. soldiers for war before deployment in the Pacific, though ultimately it never realized this purpose due to the war’s abrupt end soon after its completion.
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[@BabaDka]

I learned a lot about the Japanese from my uncle. He was a Marine sergeant who server in the Pacific during WWII. Great man, great stories. RIP Uncle Jimmy.

[@billysheppard6091]

My dad.served in the navy from 58- 75.. I served in the Marine Corp from 82-91.. my dad said ese... Japan ese..chin ese.vietnam ese...you fill in the blanks... semper fi

[@Yellow-dx8uk]

@@billysheppard6091 thank you for your service

[@bobjacobson858]

My father was in the Army Air Corps, and flew a P-38 in the Pacific Theater. He fought in both the Philippines and New Guinea.

[@horseyhorselips3501]

I had an Uncle Killed in Combat April 6,1942 Bataan Philippines Listed MIA 2nd Lt John Roslick of 31st Inf Reg from Old Forge Pennsylvania VFW Post is Named Del’Rosa/Orzolek Post Uncle John Joined the Army in 1924 age 14 by changing his last name from Orzolek to Roslick. Dad got drafted December 1942 and changed his last name from Orzolek to Orzolick and was made a Combet Medic Surgical Tech 924 Field Artillery 99 In Div

[@user-ux8rh8mw9b]

think you uncle against Japan fascists--love form china

[@schizoidboy]

I recall hearing from someone who served on a submarine during WWII when they were stalking the shipyards in Vietnam. The Japanese built a destroyer which the sub and the crew watched for a long time and then when it was launched they sank it as it came out of the harbor.

[@LEONFENG134]

schizoidboy Even You’ve got all the knowledge and secret of the universe , but if u giv sum moky a wepon, they’ll begin to imagine things and trying to kill all your families, the only thing you can do is still,level down with mokys and fck your politeness and punch that moky in the face.Thats earth.

[@mnpd3]

My Dad was there in the South Pacific. Bet he didn't know his yet unborn son would be the one returning to Vietnam a generation later.

[@JoseMartinez-zv9wl]

+

[@halColombo]

@@mnpd3 God bless him & God bless you Sir!! My Grandpa was Army 44th Engineers, 1944. They were a tolerant generation, though I'm unsure, if Pop were here, healthy, what he'd think. 🤔🇺🇲🌹

[@marcopagella5909]

😊

[@normandy1140]

I was in NYC back in Fall of 2009. Somewhere on the upper east side. I was waiting for the bus when I got into a conversation with this older gentleman. Said he came to the city after WW2. Actually, he missed out on all the fighting and his job was guarding all the Japanese who were in war crimes trials. It was really interesting hear this man talk about this. Said the Japanese he guarded were highly educated and some of them received their higher education in the U.S. That being said, I wish that old man well.

[@mindlessboy899]

That’s incredible

[@bis8366]

Japanese were never tried for their war crimes lol

[@paigetomkinson1137]

Many of the Japanese that Americans know from the War were very educated, and quite a few were educated in the US---Princeton, Harvard, some in Britain, like at Oxford.

[@forfun6273]

Yeah that’s why we let a lot of them slide. There and Germany. I thought there wasn’t a Nuremberg trial for Japan. Maybe I was misinformed but you don’t hear about it at least.

[@paigetomkinson1137]

@@forfun6273 Yes, there were trials in Tokyo. There were also many trials in Nuremberg after the one people remember of the top guys like Göring, that one is known as the International Military Tribunal (IMT). They had a Doctor's trials, Judge's trial, High Command trial, and more. The first trial, where the top Nazis were tried was only 22 people. They could have tried millions, but they couldn't really. But, with the other trials they did try to try lower Nazis who did specific things; Dr. Mengele doing medical experiments on unwilling concentration camp victims, for example.

[@frankmcgovern5445]

The chief author of this, Major George Fielding Eliot, wrote some great pulp stories for Weird Tales, along with HP Lovecraft and that whole crew. One of his stories, "The Copper Bowl," is considered maybe the most shocking and controversial story ever published in Weird Tales.

[@rififidanslerif8439]

Owww Weird Tales I love that sh*t 😍

[@mushroomcloud5305]

What's it about

[@paigetomkinson1137]

What are Weird Tales and Lovecraft? Never heard of them.

[@pierreo33]

@@paigetomkinson1137 what am google

[@patricklarkin9666]

Weird Tales.. that brings back memories!

[@killer1963daddy]

I can't imagine the creators of this "urgent" and "current " information, could imagine people would be watching this so many decades later!

[@forfun6273]

I mean they called ww1 the war to end all wars. I’m sure they had an idea this was a historic moment.

[@paigetomkinson1137]

I imagine they thought it would go out with the trash after the war. Most of the people of that time weren't incredibly sentimental. That doesn't seem so strange for folks who went through the depression and then this massive war.

[@ieatoutoften872]

When the narrator started listing the places that the armed forces attacked at the same time as Pearl Harbor, he should not have omitted Wake Island, or Hong Kong. And should not have included Java because I am pretty sure Java was first attacked weeks later. --- I was astounded that the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) attacked Malaya (ship to shore artillery strike) a few hours before Pearl Harbor. Some other time, in some other comment in this thread, I will list the other places that the armed forces of Japan attacked within 48 hours of attacking Pearl Harbor. I give credit to the makers of this movie for as much as they were able to present, with short preparation time, under world war conditions ... as if the producers were listing what they could remember from radio broadcasts and such from December 7, 1941 (Hawaiian time which was December 8, 1941 across the international date-line in the Philippines and Japan), and the following day.

[@michaelnewton1332]

"The Princeton Film Center." Ironically, Rear Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi, who was Commander of the 1st Carrier Division, IJN, at Midway was a Princeton graduate, receiving his M.A. there in 1922.

[@user-ez8le1rp3x]

Nothing ironic.

[@christopherwagner2395]

@@user-ez8le1rp3x if not ironic, then what?

[@davidhull1481]

Not unusual, weren’t many, if not most, of the high level Japanese military staff educated in the US?

[@johnolive3425]

I believe Yamamoto was a Harvard or Yale graduate!

[@bustermorley8318]

Then the world feared Germany and Japan and the Russians and Chinese were our allies. Now the enemies and allies have basically just swapped around. Not really learned a lot, have we?

[@fordhamdonnington2738]

Naive much?

[@John-rn1nm]

Japan to China: Now you be the bad guy

[@minitetourou8744]

no friends forever! Watch out for Japan! As Chinese, we have been dealing with Japan for over a thousand years.

[@dsedh23]

@@minitetourou8744 But currently, China is doing the crimes against humanity. Deal with your country first then worry about Japan

[@moedictatornoriega8475]

The real thing that you should see is that we are always ever changing and it isnt always for the better. Just be happy we arent all dead yet

[@ianbell5611]

Great seeing the historical content. Thank You for posting

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[@brianfoley4328]

Yep, it's a propaganda film but it is more accurate than not.

[@killtrump_666]

ok racist

[@vorynrosethorn903]

On the surface, but in fact much of it is actually untrue. The peasants no longer were tenants (that's not really how they even ran things in the first place, tenant feudalism was very much a European thing) there had been considerable land reform as well. The Japanese had made it very clear that they viewed sanctions as an existential threat, they didn't change on a dime. Basically all the little details are just wrong enough to not be picked up by someone unless they knew quite a lot about Japan during the period.

[@squirrelz6117]

@@vorynrosethorn903 Governments are designed to encapsulate and manipulate people in all facets of their existence, the matrix (movie) is a way of exposing how people live 'real' life thinking that they're free when they're part of a simulation. The simulation is life itself, and the human is viewed as a battery that gives the beast it's power. The human subject thinks the Japanese kid overseas needs to be defeated, the Japanese kid overseas believes religiously they have a right to rule over the rest of the world. The Islamists, Jews and early Catholics all thought like this. The key to war is Dogma, all countries are masters of it. Because it is a program, and every country plays a role in a script. Japan is China now, Germany is Russia. Germany was Napoleonic France; It is a generational curse. The USA is now weak, and the big WW is coming. The economy crashing, the pandemic is repeating (comparable to the past), the money changers are coming in with digital wallets, the World War is hyping up. The people are buying the Dogma, we're repeating the early 1900's, 1800's etc etc. It's all an illusion, we live in hell. We have real souls, and it is our job to recognize this and ascend our consciousness to levels above the demons that have kept humanity in a state of this perpetual hellish existence. The Demons literally tell people what they're doing on the script with movies, the Fentanyl they're bringing in... they'll poison our food and water with it. It will turn people into zombies. Literally everything operates on a script. I wish people could snap out of it and recognize that this is a perpetual simulation of horror that rules over mankind. We're capable of growing, but only through knowing our true existence inside, and ascending our conscious awareness above all the dark energy that envelopes all of us in distant lands.

[@jctai100]

After listening to Dan Carlin's "Supernova in the East", A lot of this is on point.

[@TheMaxWhoKnewTooMuch]

That was a fantastic podcast series.

[@toddandangelbrowning2920]

“ niponese “. Never heard that before. I knew they were at war with China and Russia at one time, but never knew that they controlled soo much territory.

[@czechchineseamerican]

I mean, it's probably more 'correct' than saying Japanese. Nippon/Nihon are the Japanese words for Japan.

[@robertmiles1603]

nipponese and japanese mean the same thing. he used nipponese that time to avoid sounding redundant. imo they couldve just phrased it better so they wouldnt have to use that tho

[@joelonzello4189]

Old Joke : American flyer gets shot down over Japan. Parachutes into a rice field where he meets a Japanese woman. Not speaking he language he remembers the American Flag tattoo on his chest. He rips open his shirt and says American ! American ! She smiles and rips open her blouse. Says Nipponese ! Nipponese !

[@Boypogikami132]

Japanese government: we want peace Also Japanese government: *goes back on their word*

[@capivara450]

Militarized ultra nacionalist countrys in nutshell

[@Mr0_0Gaming]

Japan didnt mention what kind of "peace" they talk about

[@haikalmiftah2529]

Also Japanese goverment: can't handle their rogue military and ended up corrupted by it. If you know Japanese history from 1920's to early 1930's.

[@oscarwind4266]

I gotta say chief, we ain't much better.

[@combativeThinker]

@@oscarwind4266 In our case, our government has gone rogue and does not have the consent of the governed, merely a manufactured consent through fraud.

[@danbanks7930]

I never realized how close Australia came to a Japanese invasion it's pretty crazy when you look at it on the map make sure it all the islands Japan took before they were inadvertently taken back by the axis allies

[@adamwegner2520]

Japan would have never touched Australia, logistically impossible and the army and navy could never make up their minds on strategy. Their forces were far to stretched by the point they were in Papua New Guinea.

[@heretocomment2337]

@Adam Wegner That is factually incorrect. Japan bombed Darwin, a northern city of Australia on February 19, in 1942.

[@adamwegner2520]

@@heretocomment2337 bombing is very different from invasion...

[@quintinebrown3884]

@@heretocomment2337 Japan didn't intend on invading Australia, they only wanted to cut it off from the rest of the Allies. The bombing of Darwin served to prevent the airbases from being used.

[@rags417]

I was going to say that the film was made in 1942 based on the shots of the USS Lexington (it says LEX on the deck) and the overflight of TBD dive bombers at the end, the end credits confirmed it. The above notes to this video ended by mentioning the Quebec Conference but the earliest of the two of these in WWII was held in August 1943, my guess is that this was one of the Washington or Allied conferences of 1941 or 42 . Another giveaway for the 1942 date of release was the emphasis on surface ships, no mention of the Battle of Midway and the shots of M3 Lees coming off the production lines (these were phased out by 1943 in favour of Shermans). The ships rolling down the slips from 12:50 onwards include the SS John C Fremont a 4500 ton bulk carrier (no info), DD-453 a Gleaves class destroyer sunk by U Boat in 1943, I could not read the name on the last ship. Great video, interesting to see that even in 1942 US propaganda was emphasizing that the war was between the US and the Japanese government, not the Japanese people.

[@mnpd3]

It's ironical that this documentary talks about the weakness of Japanese industry and it's need to import almost everything. At the time this film was made, the U.S. was self-sufficient with unlimited natural resources. Today, the U.S. industry is dead, and we require everything to be imported. The U.S. no longer produces a single watch, TV, radio or kitchen appliance; not even a computer monitor. All these things - and even parts for our military's weapons systems - are imported from China. Even most of our drugs are made in China.

[@suprememasteroftheuniverse]

Don't you understand communist-socialist-progressive infiltration, destabilization, sabotage, subversion and cultural revolution?

[@jeffcampbell2710]

Roper to n Lafayette Georgia makes Stoves. So there's that.

[@fordhamdonnington2738]

We’re in the technology age and we lead that now.

[@Debbiebabe69]

@@fordhamdonnington2738 Look where that iphone or laptop computer is made......

[@fordhamdonnington2738]

@@Debbiebabe69 where is the headquarters for Apple, Microsoft, space x, tesla motors, paramount, universal, marvel?

[@loginavoidence12]

13:58 ouch. imagine being inside that can with little to no suspension doing that

[@krb5292]

Bo and Luke Duke were in WWII? Whoda known.

[@ghostmanlemagnifique9110]

Thx for sharing this video, maybe future generations will study this video, only to discover that war, war never changes. (extra points to those who got this reference) 😊👍

[@colevandyken2871]

Fallout 4 lol

[@paigetomkinson1137]

War, what is it good for? Ugh! Absolutely nothin'.

[@caliscribe2120]

My father was kind, loving, and very intelligent man. Yet, he was for the Japanese internment. He said it was necessary for national security and for the safety of the Japanese Americans themselves because of inflamed passions from Pearl Harbor. Those those beliefs waned a bit over the years, they never disappeared. PS. He would have volunteered in 1943, but his parents wouldn't allow him as a 17 year old. He did go into the Army when he turned 18, went through basic training, was ready for the invasion of Japan proper, but the Bomb was dropped.

[@KonradvonHotzendorf]

The problem with that was that they where US citizens. Basically the US government suspended the constitution for them. Aren't you lot all about freedom and rights? 🤭

[@paigetomkinson1137]

I think most people felt that way back then. Your dad wasn't alone. One logical reason was that the government was very concerned about the West Coast. Since that was the direction to Japan, they were concerned that Japanese-Americans might be spies. (They could have just put a few people under surveillance.) Today, we tend to forget that there were also German-Americans and Italian-Americans who were also rounded up into camps. Not nearly as many, but still.

[@KonradvonHotzendorf]

@@paigetomkinson1137 The remnants of the Afrika Korps got POW in America. Poor guys. 😥Where given the choice of returning to carpet bomb Germany or giving the American dream a shot. Guess their choice 😂

[@alexciocca4451]

The turn around of Japan after the surrender was amazing I cannot imagine why these tactics both pre surrender and after are not used today in 2021 in the modern world

[@GrassPossum]

You cornered Japan, try and learn ALL the history in context and you pillaged the nation, made it into a satrap same as Germany. Germany and Japan were potential US competitors on the world stage and the people who own the USA do not do sharing well.

[@kevinlucas1987]

You mean murdering several hundred thousand people and forcing them to host your military indefinitely? I mean, yeah we've been doing that in various ways since then and just look how we're doing! (Bad)

[@jbshiva865]

Because it costs money.

[@DANYELLE1122]

E

[@simonnachreiner8380]

Because total war is absurdly expensive and unpopular. No matter how much you steal war is pretty much always a net economic negative.

[@collateral__damage]

My grandpa was a barber for the americans during ww2 He was filipino. He told his wife and children what attrocities they did Like robbing and mass torture. He was lucky to survive the war Along with my grandma who was an infant at the time (My grandpa was 40 years old or more when he married my grandma) Besides being a barber The americans hired him as somekind of spy. And he did say something about a cave full of treasure in eastern china and somewhere in the oceans of west philippine sea. But who knows

[@schizoidboy]

It sounds like the Germans and Japanese had similar goals. I can't spell the German name for it but the translation is "living space" and if this film is truthful it seems the Japanese also had this in mind when they started to conquer Asia.

[@WhereDoGangstersgo]

schizoidboy You are thinking of "Lebensraum" and you just gave me a new view on Japan in WW2. :)

[@FawfulDied]

+schizoidboy The "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" except it wasn't prosperity. at all.

[@matthewpham9525]

+FawfulDied They help Asia prosper in the same sense the US gave freedom to the middle east

[@benedictwaithaka375]

lebensraum

[@eduardogore5216]

Ding Ding, my friend

[@yuuleo8404]

im japanese and now watching it

[@coasterexpert7501]

Why tho?

[@HardcoreNaturalFitness]

Better ssy sorry

[@bayuhannas1531]

I'm Indonesian and I'm watching it too.

[@z1u512]

@Jim Catanzaro LMAO

[@bleuemoone8710]

@@HardcoreNaturalFitness well they attack us first and we got even no need to apologize any more lol

[@ShareefusMaximus]

@8:52 harvesting rubber seems so ominous with that soundtrack playing.

[@ChasOnErie]

Reading comments seems to indicate a lot of people don’t know history !!

[@ramonemiliochaconperdomo7225]

Why do you say that?

[@unoptimalvods5792]

literally lol, how are ppl falling for a propaganda film from 1942 and taking it at face value

[@tripacer8259]

I just wish the counter wasn't on the screen but enjoy these anyway.

[@eastcoastnews9529]

Love 1930’s B&W films 🎥👍🏻🇺🇸👍🏻🙏🏻🇺🇸🙏🏻

[@paigetomkinson1137]

This is a good one. But it wouldn't have been made until some time in 1942, at the earliest.

[@chandrakant1479]

The artworks are amazing

[@525Lines]

We trained and supplied anti-Japanese fighters in French Indo-China, among them Ho Chi Minh. Sound familiar? He turned around and fought us. It wasn't the last time somebody we trained to defend their country turned around and fought us. Something to learn there.

[@ChristianVBlue3]

Wow, the Vietnam War... also how we trained and supplied Muslim groups in Afghanistan when the Soviet Union invaded them

[@525Lines]

+John Grogan When you train and finance an insurgency, be there to help them found a democratic government because chances are the people you're funding would be despots on their own. One hopes the United Nations can manage these transitions more decently than the US has tried to do in the past. (We were saying after the first gulf war that Saddam was probably the only guy to keep his country together.)

[@525Lines]

In all fairness, Japan was relatively isolationist until Admiral Perry demanded otherwise. Japan was a collection of dukedoms until this event forced them to become a nation.

[@danzel1157]

Yeah, sure.

[@robertcuminale1212]

Have you forgotten Osama bin Ladden? We supplied him and the Afghani rebels with arms d training. When the Russians were gone it become the Taliban.

[@colderbeer]

No, not propaganda........everything said in this film was TRUE about the very warlike Japanese of the 1930's and 40's.

[@johnharrison6745]

Well, technically, propaganda doesn't have to be untrue; but, I hear ya, and agree.

[@Jjames763]

Surprisingly nuanced, separating the leadership from the oppressed Japanese underclass. I was expecting something significantly more racist and jingoistic.

[@zapthefirst3423]

Historians and history books overstate how bad racism was in the US. Despite racist Legislation, many would argue its worse today, as there are larger groups of each race and a rabid global antagonist media stoking the flames

[@someguywithbagels5907]

I feel like you view everything in a "racist" lens

[@robpelick7460]

That's how history is taught these days

[@simonsimons1252]

The sympathies for the average Japanese people were nice to see.

[@edmundcharles5278]

I keep hearing the words 'United Nations' in this film, although the U.N. was not a formalized body until well after WW II ended!

[@PeriscopeFilm]

The Allies referred to themselves as the United Nations throughout the war.

[@edmundcharles5278]

That was not a 'universal' term. 'Allies' was most prevalent.

[@edmundcharles5278]

I have been watching and reading WW II films and books for over fifty years and I also knew many WW II Vets as well, the term 'United Nations' was inded an exception to the terminology to which most Service members and wrters referred to the term as 'Allied' forces, not 'United Nations' forces.

[@oldgysgt]

The term, “United Nations” was used throughout WWII, and was used as the name of the formal organization that replaced the “League of Nations”. The terms "Allies", "Democracies", and "United Nations" were all used to describe our side during the war. What we now call the United Nations did get started before the end of WWII. The UN Charter was drafted at a conference between April-June 1945 in San Francisco, and was signed on 26 June 1945 at the conclusion of the conference.

[@GCarty80]

It's a reference to the "Declaration by United Nations" that the Allied powers signed on January 1 1942, and which later became the basis for the U.N. organization in 1945.

[@sunami808]

プロパガンダ込みで面白く観れました。貴重な資料ありがとうございます

[@komorinet4831]

Американцы как всегда, подло врут. Трусливые убийцы гражданского населения. Они умеют оправдывать свою подлость. Нация воров и убийц захватившая континент путём геноцида индейцев!

[@komorinet4831]

@handsup4055 То как янки убивали детей и женщин в Югославии, невозможно повторить никому. Ковровые бомбардировки нельзя сравнивать с войной которые янки развязали на Украине. Россия приняла беженцев из Украины больше чем вся лицемерная Европа. Все получили жилье, работу, детские сады и пособия для детей и пенсии для стариков. Янки понятия не имеют как нам жаль бывших сограждан которых не выпускают из Украины и заставляют воевать.

[@komorinet4831]

@handsup4055 Наш Путин красавчек, ему не надо говорить, он все знает сам. Не судите о нём по президенту Байдену который должен лечиться а не управлять страной. Американских военных убитых на Украине посчитайте. А все оружие которым воюют украинцы дали янки. Переговоры в Турции закрыли янки. Земли на Украине куплены янки и сыном Байдена. Две военные биологические лаборатории которые проводили опыты на украинских военных построены янки! Не нужно нам говорить что то передать Путину. Народ требует от Путина и своей армии что бы в плен брали только украинских военных. Украинские военные наши глупые братья которых продало правительство. Все янки, поляки, и другие наемники не должны попадать в плен! Они должны умереть вместе со своим оружием! Это люди России требуют у Путина. Мы не хотим видеть на обмене пленными наемников, которые стреляют в спины украинских пленных которые хотят сдаться. Мы ненавидим наемников и их руководство. Требуем у Путина что бы они были не обменным фондом а удобрением!

[@marvwatkins7029]

Radcliffe Hall: What a voice! And what "heroic" music!

[@slapnut892]

And now Japan is one of the most technologically advanced and well-developed civilisations in the world. Funny that.

[@hotelromeo9189]

Eww-wooo

[@melbedewy]

Really? Even without 100 million third world people and open borders? Funny that.

[@SMichaelDeHart]

And after America /Britain had to destroyed their country, rightfully so...we built it back during the Occupation.

[@carlosbuchlein]

based on debt

[@benn454]

That's what happens when the US pours billions of dollars into rebuilding your country. Same in Germany.

[@larryburton5305]

I had three uncles at Pearl Harbor when the attack occurred. The youngest was killed.

[@Johnny-rx4hs]

"Japan is not bent upon conquest, and has no desire to detach(?) or annex any part of China. What our people and government want is peace and security in the far east." Russia 80 years later: "Genius! Write that down!"

[@everforward8651]

Nah, actually, the situation in Ukraine is different. Russia invaded Ukraine because of the genocide of Russians in eastern Ukraine. There was no genocide of Japanese people in China. Russia invaded Ukraine because of the US-led NATO alliance's desire to make the latter country a NATO member, with the resulting strategic advantages. China had no desire to expand into Japan. Russia invaded Ukraine because of the bioweapons labs there. China had no bioweapons. But you keep on listening to the Western media, and letting them do your thinking for you.

[@nonono88no]

what about this: U.S. 80 years later: "Genius, let's make Russia look like that, all over the western media"

[@everforward8651]

@@nonono88no Exactly.

[@Johnny-rx4hs]

@@everforward8651 So Russia responded to genocide with even more genocide? They've been deliberatley killing civilians.

[@everforward8651]

@@Johnny-rx4hs "So Russia responded to genocide with even more genocide? They've been deliberatley killing civilians." Well, what can I say? It's takes brains and a moral compass to not readily believe the Western medias' lies. Which is why so many Americans accept whatever their news outlets (both leftist and rightist) tell them. Tell me: before the war started, did you express any outrage at the atrocities committed against Russians in Ukraine?

[@johnharrison6745]

*NEVER* trust an 'Eh shun'.

[@stevehoffman9735]

Major George Fielding Eliot, a regular on CBS News of the time...

[@marvwatkins7029]

A lot of people still think this way. Koreans for one, North and South.

[@Nico93]

how did you get that film style logo at the start?

[@PeriscopeFilm]

It's real film. We printed out our logo on 16mm.

[@Nico93]

Thats a interesting idea to do.

[@slavvodkaman9359]

Netherlands indie aka Indonesia

[@nawwafhusein6702]

thanks for all the help mr Stalin

[@billomalley1168]

@Håkan Bergvall whatever HaKAn

[@cruisingscenesandtakingbea4197]

"we have the weapons and nowhere to use them" That attitude persists to this day. Good thing they made extensive use of them in ww2, Korean war, vietnam war, Bay of Pigs, Grenada, Panama, Gulf war, Somalia, 2nd Iraqi war, Afghanistan, and dozens of other proxy wars.

[@CosmosNut]

love this stuff

[@toastmation]

13:56 he hey look at me -oh shit

[@evilpandakillabzonattkoccu4879]

he looked like he flipped that fucker :-D

[@doopdopperson3682]

I was feeling bad for them in the beginning isn't this supposed to make you want to end them. In WWII obviously not now

[@jessicalulila5709]

I believe the idea behind this video is: please, don't lower your guard. We're trying to win this war

[@BigboiiTone]

In the beginning the narrator implies the ambassador knew about the Pearl Harbor attack but I actually find it easier to believe the Japanese military kept it secret based on how much influence they had

[@Jarris2]

They actually declared war before the attack but they're ambassador did not deliver the message!

[@tracyshute5399]

@@Jarris2 Your 100% right.

[@user-kb1mn7si9g]

初めて観ました… とても貴重な映像… 戦争を知らない私達も、当時の光景を目の当たりにしたら…… ぞっとします…

[@williamvbone5734]

There is no negativity in the optimism of humanity's future. Though my past and present are flawed, in ways that go beyond my joyful perspective.

[@user-zk1lk9ep5e]

軍事に少しでも知識のある方が見ればお粗末な資料フッテージ集ですね。まぁ､どの国でもプロバガンダ映像はこんなモノですが。それにしても冒頭の真珠湾攻撃の映像はヒドい｡空母6隻からなる機動部隊からの艦載機による攻撃なのに４発の爆撃機(あきらかに米軍のＢ17)や双発爆撃機が爆弾を投下してるし(投下する場面は複葉機の翼下に懸架した小型爆弾)コクピット映像の日本パイロットは訓練飛行のフィルム盗用。因みに1941年12月開戦時に実用化の４発爆撃機は日本には存在しない。全体に寄せ集めフィルム(年代バラバラ)を使用し最後の艦隊上空を複葉機が先頭に飛ぶ編隊飛行は他のプロバガンダ映像では「真珠湾に殺到するジャップの飛行機」と言ってました🤭💦

[@user-ht2xd5zf3c]

@@user-zk1lk9ep5e 그때로 간다면... 그런 말이 나올 수 있나요?

[@THE-X-Force]

What year was this made? I'm sorry if it's obvious .. but I'm missing it. Thank you.

[@danmaddox2849]

"The world has never known a nation so vicious and predatory" all of Europe looks away

[@johnn.2017]

How dare they take the land that the Dutch and British took fair and square! Lol

[@fordhamdonnington2738]

FDR was against colonialism and worked very hard against Churchill about it.

[@John-rn1nm]

Not that I'm siding with the British or the other Europeans who took colonies. But compared to them, the Japanese was just so cruel that those Europeans felt like Saints and liberators when they came back.

[@jirachi-wishmaker9242]

@@John-rn1nm no European ain't saint. Their deeds were whitewashed, the same way as Japan.

[@jirachi-wishmaker9242]

@@John-rn1nm Only USSR & Germany paid for their deeds.

[@robbiemeyer1581]

Hey... At this present time and place, we need as many allies as possible! Put aside old hatred! Hey Japan; 🇯🇵 Vancouver Canada 🇨🇦 loves you!!

[@caidyc]

You need to talk to the whales about that.

[@tracyshute5399]

@@caidyc Get a live you LEFTIST

[@Icantkeepout]

What is the "PF# 28232b 00:00:......" numbers about. It blocks the screen and doesn't really count anything unless it is base 24 or something. The counter starts from zero but doesn't go past 23 but clicks over. C'mon unclutter the screen.

[@PeriscopeFilm]

Here's the issue: Tens of thousands of films similar to this one have been lost forever -- destroyed -- and many others are at risk. Our company preserves these precious bits of history one film at a time. How do we afford to do that? By selling them as stock footage to documentary filmmakers and broadcasters. If we did not have a counter, we could not afford to post films like these online, and no films would be preserved. It's that simple. So we ask you to bear with the watermark and timecodes. In the past we tried many different systems including placing our timer at the bottom corner of our videos. What happened? Unscrupulous KZbin users downloaded our vids, blew them up so the timer was not visible, and re-posted them as their own content! We had to use content control to have the videos removed and shut down these channels. It's hard enough work preserving these films and posting them, without having to spend precious time dealing with policing thievery -- and not what we devoted ourselves to do. Love our channel and want to support what we do? You can help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference.

[@Icantkeepout]

@@PeriscopeFilm Thank you. I am down with it and made a longer reply elsewhere.

[@marioriega]

Then why throw two nuclear bombs on them? If they where easyly defeated?

[@komorinet4831]

Для чего было бомбить Югославию? Вьетнам? Сирию? Безнаказанность позволяет преступникам совершать все новые преступления. Им не нужно оправдываться перед более слабыми странами. Зачем? Они взорвали нефтепровод лишив немцев газа. Что они сказали немцам? Ничего. Они нагло смеются им в лицо. Америке придется ответить за преступления своего правительства. Слишком длинный счёт им будет предъявлен.

[@autumnmissepic8498]

10:20 the narrator: - talking about war - the scratch on the tape: 💃💃

[@KonradAdenauerJr]

The Japanese diplomat speaking English at the very beginning had been very critical of the Japanese military's aggression in China. It was a feature on Japanese politics of the time that the Foreign Ministry would say one thing, and the disobedient Army would do another.

[@shampoo1991]

13:59 that tank totally flipped 😂

[@macrosense]

I’d like to see the one on italians

[@Richie_roo]

My great grandfather was in saipan and Okinawa

[@desayeedcharles5242]

Nice to see a documentary video about Japan during WW2 by the US.

[@theupperhook]

Funny how they are acusing Japan of being thieves when most of the territories they conquered were already occupied by other exploitative European powers.

[@paulmaxwell8851]

True, but the French and the Dutch didn't rape, torture and murder millions of the civilians.

[@veduci22]

What's funny about geopolitics and world order? The strongest nations always made the rules...

[@rayyy6523]

and ? The Dutch didn't murder thousands of Indonesians around the same time but the Japanese did

[@user-xb2cn6uc3s]

日本人です。あなたがどこの国の方かは知りませんが、当時の世界情勢を冷静に理解されている方が海外にもいらっしゃることを知って喜ばしく思っています。

[@SomberYeti]

13:25 Go Aussies!!

[@ultramanterulung4700]

Aussie are brave..not like Brits coward against Japan army

[@SomberYeti]

I thought they were rebuilding their towns and damaged cities.

[@SomberYeti]

lol sorry ultraman i know what you were talking about now xD

[@donaldtrump6491]

@@skinnyguy3900 I can not say with 100 % certainty but i think he is referencing to the British retreats from strong points of defense like Hon Kong with no resistanse.

[@izuksammy]

Almost like history repeats itself.

[@jeffcampbell2710]

Even the lies and Propaganda.

[@fordhamdonnington2738]

You mean rhymes.

[@oscarwind4266]

I didn't know there was footage of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

[@thelostone6981]

Since we’re all sharing stories… …lived in Micronesia back in the day and played on Japanese tanks and large battery guns left after the end of WWII. Those island have seen nothing but occupation and ownership by foreigners; Spain, Germany, Japan….and I guess you could even say the U.S. has occupied the islands through pacts, compacts, etc. But I would argue it’s been more of a benefit because the US has supplied money, heathlcare and education, all the while allowing the people there freedom to practice their culture. Sadly, it’s so painfully clear that China is attempting to take over the islands (and other places) next. Just look at how the Solomon Islands just entered into an agreement with China. There’s another world war coming. It may be soon or it may be later, but it’s coming. And those islands and their peoples will be subjected to an oppressive system of government.

[@crystalcat1002]

Peace and prosperity to all nations.

[@98gsoup]

Where did the Japanese 4 engine bomber come from

[@Ibhenriksen]

...Then Japan brought us Anime and we all signed a peace treaty.

[@swaythegod5812]

Anime came from comics witch came from American culture due to the occupation of Japan after the war

[@Sahiyena11]

That was the worst thing and I'm certain Japan regrets it. They created this awful newer generation of dumpy weebs and girls in stupid looking colorful wigs. A generation of accepted cultural appropriation that almost makes me feel ashamed of being a student of East Asian culture.

[@lonewolftech]

I’d actually be okay with us nuking them again because of anime!

[@galarstar052]

@@Sahiyena11 i mean... it's not their fault they write good fiction. That's on weird Americans for being obsessive nerds.

[@suprememasteroftheuniverse]

Anime is worse than the atomic bombs. They certainly won. Now we have a degen€®@+€ ®+@®d€d Otaku generation.

[@ricksuter6038]

It seems like China now.....we don't learn from history we repeat it.....sad lol

[@ahmedshaharyarejaz9886]

I watch this before visiting Japan. I am now very confused.

[@LRGDuran]

Perfect Im ready for next trip to J-pan. Toyo wont know what hit him.

[@mouwersor]

How come the most fierce countries, Japan and Germany, are now the most docile and self-destructive?

[@johnharrison6745]

I don't think that Japan is. They seem based and quite self-interested.

[@AB-bg7os]

A unique insight to Japan at the time but you can feel that this is just propaganda to inspire the troops

[@francisjohnbanlasan5444]

Imagine if someone made a propaganda and training video today if we are at war, they would use TikTok songs and techniques on making it hahaha

[@moresnacksplease526]

The American People deserve modernized anti-Japan propaganda, so this film should be updated with a hard-rock/heavy metal soundtrack and provide helpful information about the threats of budget animation and emotionally-intelligent robot lovers. Otherwise, this all pretty much checks out.

[@malachiwhite356]

That's a funny comment!

[@petervarga7913]

😆👌

[@gardengeek3041]

Most Japanese still have a huge superiority complex & dislike of foreigners. The 'divine right' to rule the world. Very few of them know about the cruelty and atrocities done to POWs and harmless civilians in the countries they overran. After the surrender, nothing was done to make them teach this in schools. Always amazed me how we gave more help to Japan & Germany after WW2, than we ever gave to the Russians. They lost far more than any of our allies. 80 years later, that kind of unfinished business is partly what fuels Putin's distrust of the West and need to make war in the Ukraine. 80 years later, we know there are a lot of things to admire about Japanese culture. Much of that can only be accomplished in a homogeneous culture of just one race. Much the same as it was during WW2. It is shrinking every year. Meanwhile, Germany, our other arch enemy from WW2, has transformed itself. It is a growing, dynamic society which has accepted folks of all races. It pays the bills for much of Europe. It seems once the people of Germany realized the damage the Nazis had done to the World, they tried to heal it ever since. That hasn't happened in Japan from what I can see.

[@komorinet4831]

Большая помощь России была оказана в 90е годы. Америка скупила все нефтяные месторождения, заводы, шахты. Так же как сын Байдена скупил все на Украине вместе с компанией нескольких американских промышленников. Все эти годы Америка оплачивала цветные революции в бывших республиках СССР. Ближе к России двигала военные базы. О каком доверии можно говорить? Байдена нужно заставить ответить за все преступления что он совершил. Именно он отдал приказ бомбить Югославию. В России имя Байден ненавидят так же сильно как имя Ельцин и Горбачёв. Два предателя и агрессор. Три мерзавца. Когда американцы бомбили Югославию, они рвали сердце каждого русского! Мы носим Путина на руках в надежде что он заставит ответить Американское правительство за все преступления.

[@user-xb2cn6uc3s]

@gardengeek3041さん >After the surrender, nothing was done to make them teach this in schools.　いいえ、やってもいないことが、ほんの数年前まで真実として学校で教えられていました。（一部の学校や教師は今もそれを続けていますが）日本統治下の朝鮮半島での「強制連行」、満州での731部隊「細菌実験」、チャイナでの「南京大虐殺」など、共産主義者と反日活動家の作り話がほんの数年前まで真実として子どもたちが使うほとんどの教科書に掲載されていました。最近、虚構と判明した「強制連行」や「細菌実験」はようやく削除され、「南京大虐殺」についても、その規模について論争があるという記述が追加されるようになりました。日本と世界の全ての人々が歴史を直視できる日が来ることを願っています。

[@jakewinters1138]

1942: We have the weapons, and know where to use them 2022: We have the weapons, and nowhere to use them

[@snickle1980]

😐Are you kidding? We just passed Lend Lease II...The Leasening. We're doing what we do best. Shipping freedom and billions in heavy arms across the globe. When you have a talent, it's best to just lean into it. 😁 It's a great time to be a Westerner.

[@jakewinters1138]

Bllehhhghhh..

[@snickle1980]

@@jakewinters1138 Indeed. Blarg & Phnaa.

[@ewmhop]

IS WEIRD LOOKING AT FILMS MY FAMILY LOOK AT DURING THE WAR.MY FATHER IN LAW ,FATHER ALL MY UNCLES AND MY WIFE UNCLES SERVED IN THE MILITARY.OUR MOTHERS AND AUNTS WORKED THE HOMEFRONT.STRANGE THE ONLY TIME THE COUNTRY STAND TOGETHER IS WHEN WE FACE TOTAL EVIL.TODAY EVIL IS THE HOMEFRONT.

[@nottherealpaulsmith]

Really stark contrast to the much longer film with the same name, it's interesting to see a propaganda film actually make it clear how much the Japanese population was suffering under imperial rule and portray them somewhat sympathetically.

[@whiteclifffl]

13:10 "Brave Filipinos" Thanks. I needed a laugh today.

[@BiggieCheese6945]

Hmmm I like how they make Japan look like it is medieval

[@WarPigstheHun]

One thing is certain. Oil is a major factor in war. And we'd be better off without it.

[@heretocomment2337]

I wonder how they got the footage of the enemy from, it's not like your enemy would let you in to film them.

[@user-gh7go3nx9i]

Dear American Soldier. You have my sympathy. Your grandson is obsessed with our country's anime...

[@minitetourou8744]

Don't forget, the Plaza Accord signed by the United States and Japan

[@user-gh7go3nx9i]

@@minitetourou8744 Your anime icon is nice.

[@minitetourou8744]

@@user-gh7go3nx9i thanks for your reminder! I mean, before I woke up, I looked at your country and people with normal eyes. This is the evidence.

[@komorinet4831]

🇷🇺😁👍 отличная шутка японский друг.

[@user-gh7go3nx9i]

@@komorinet4831 And Putin's army will lose.

[@douglasconnolly6357]

Kraut and Tea brought me here.

[@go-goyubari8776]

Resources is the name of the game.

[@mauromartyn7941]

"Japan Air Force, is good. But it is small" That's rigth! The American style to did wars, was, is, and would be; just numerical different!

[@sputnickjones1661]

The leopard can change its spots..?

[@roberthaworth8991]

Not as much as you'd think. The leadership of Japan in both the political and economic spheres remains staunchly conservative, paternalistic, and top-down, much as the US was in its heyday of the 1950s. this is no coincidence; the Japanese are highly imitative. Theirs is still essentially a feudal society, with primary allegiance owed to one's school, clan, employer and region, rather than to some abstraction such as a "nation" or "democracy". Women are subject to a lot of sexism, and their opportunities are still generally limited. Aside from some artists and the like, LGBTQ and other "alternatives" (nonconformists) are looked down upon. Their conservatism perhaps increases as the population ages. But the country will never go to war again, unless attacked.

[@alexm566]

FYI Formosa is Taiwan

[@tdirtyatl]

For a propaganda film, the context, military realities of the day and historical background information here is surprisingly realistic and even handed.

[@lotsofthisandthat9791]

CHICOMS doing the same now, spreading The Newer CoChinChina Greater Prosperity Sphere.

[@johnlynch-kv8mz]

2:54 imagine using such words today?

[@fromthesidelines]

Originally released in 1942.

[@RomBoy1108]

Im so happy that noone of my family members fought in the war , im not american tho

[@TheTishbite]

Turned out Japan is one of our best allies and china is our enemy. China forgets.

[@drintall_11.29]

Republic of China is still the ally of the US, People's Republic of China is ruled by communists.

[@sumi2973]

China's biggest enemy is the CCP

[@lonewolftech]

@@drintall_11.29 the republic of China is no more, they are the ccp..

[@drintall_11.29]

@@lonewolftech the republic of China is now in Taiwan

[@drintall_11.29]

@@sumi2973 I agree

[@user-cu8lq1mk7h]

戦争終わったあとの日本の復興とか経済成長とか技術革新とか見てると戦争に負けて勝負に勝った感あるよね

[@sadekgheidan]

And now we're left with broken promises.

[@williamvbone5734]

The absence of poverty is the ultimate goal

[@en.copedawg2321]

I sure am glad that Germany and Japan friendship is in the past and NO OTHER FRIENDSHIP like that IS PRESENT TODAY...China and Russia with a dash of Iran and N Korea...WTH! are We The People doing?...Hello! McFly!!!!!

[@royrice6060]

Well before SONY and HONDA……..

[@CGJ7755]

My man sounds like admiral Yularen from clone wars.

[@treatzfortruckerz3913]

My father was a ww2 veteran he was in Japan after the surrender the military sezied a sock factory 🏭 he had new socks all the time he sold his dirty socks to the Japanese.

[@user-gh7go3nx9i]

Dear American Soldier. You have my sympathy. Your grandson is obsessed with our country's anime...haha

[@williamneumyer7147]

"There should have been no surprise"? Kimmel and Short were surprised.

[@anthonyesposito9251]

You talking about Austin and Milley or Kirby and Blinken ?

[@williamneumyer7147]

@@anthonyesposito9251 My best source for Pearl Harbor is Gordon W. Prange, et al. I think the analogy you suggest is inexact.