OUR ENEMY THE JAPANESE (FILM 2) WWII PROPAGANDA FILM W/ JOSEPH GREW 48284

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"Our Enemy-The Japanese” is the second of three 1943 short training films produced by the United States Navy and Office of War Information to provide background knowledge about the wartime foe. The film begins with the narrator, former U.S. ambassador to Japan, Joseph C. Grew (mark 00:38), stating that he has lived in Japan for ten years (mark 01:07) and that their logic is incomprehensible by Western standards, and that they are 2,000 years behind in ethical and social thinking. “You cannot measure Japanese sense logic by any Western yardstick,” he says.
The film is an odd assortment of truths and untruths, and begins with scenes of Emperor Hirohito on horseback (mark 01:50). As it continues, the film correctly states that Japan had been geared to a war path for most of the 1930s (mark 03:13), that it was a totalitarian society with a tightly controlled press and militaristic education system, and that war production was being carried out in family houses. However other statements are prejudice, or unsubstantiated. The film implies several times that the Japanese are not inventive or resourceful, and that they get many of their ideas from the west or copying Nazi propaganda (mark 05:50). It also states that the Shinto religion had always been, and that the Japanese people had always believed, an ideology preaching world domination and fascism-in fact the militarist brand of Shinto was a comparatively recent development.
There are a few combat scenes including a Japanese plane in flight (mark 14:27) as the narrator explains that it is goal of the Japanese to bring “pitiless destruction upon unarmed people” and “by slaughtering all those who stand in Japan’s way.” There are also scenes of young military cadets participating in drills (mark 16:11) and learning how to use a rifle so that they may become a soldier “ready to die for his Emperor.”
“This then is the enemy: primitive, murderous, and fanatical,” says the narrator starting at mark 19:29. “This people, this war machine, this Empire, can be beaten … but for total victory we must make total sacrifice.”
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[@teddyvincent4833]

I went to Japan as a US Marine from 2008-10. I loved Japan and its people. Hardworking, humble, loyal, are some of the adjectives that come to mind. And Tokyo was clean and crime free. Can’t say the same for San Fran, Portland, Baltimore, or many of our other cities that have become crime-ridden shitholes. Funny how times change.

[@badbotchdown9845]

That's entirely the fault of your own You would spend so many billions in unjustified wars letting so many people in your country on the side roads, free guns are a plague as drugs trafficking mixed up with poverty and education

[@time4clocks]

Never been to Japan but I love learning about their culture and watching videos on their craftsmanship. In schools they are taught from early age to clean up after themselves and to be tidy and neat. The animals coming out of the failed American school system are quite a contrast. 😸

[@nekota5967]

The broadcast to the entire nation at the beginning of the war was "The country will die whether we fight or not. But to perish without fighting is to perish without fighting is the perishing of a real nation, the perishing of a real people." Japan has returned to normal economically, but it does not exist anymore. When Roosevelt died, Hitler rejoiced and cursed on the radio through Goebbels, but the Japanese government said, "In today's war, the United States is superior because President Roosevelt's leadership was so outstanding. The loss of such a great president today must be a great sadness and tragedy for the American people. Japanese words of condolence traveled around the world via news agencies. His words transcended the human dimension of friend or foe and expressed his sorrow at the death of a human being. In response, Hitler, the German chancellor, who was on the verge of defeat, issued a statement regarding President Roosevelt's death, saying, "He will go down in history as a foolish president. The world was moved by Kantaro Suzuki's words in comparison to Nazi Germany. Thomas Mann, a German writer who was living in exile in the U.S. at the time, wrote: "Dear German people, in the Oriental country of Japan there is still a spirit of chivalry, a deep respect for human death and dignity that is unshakable. Compared to the high spirit of Prime Minister Suzuki, you Germans should be ashamed. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

[@mitsuk6618]

I have also been to USA many times. I was always helped by kind, cheerful Americans. Americans are our dear friends.

[@victoriapendleton4099]

The difference is that they don't have liberal democrats

[@joevignolor4u949]

Emperor Hirohito's wife said a week after Japan's surrender that she had realized that they had put too much faith in ancient thinking, which she said no longer applied in modern warfare. She also said she realized it when she looked out her palace window and saw hundreds of American B-29's flying over the city.

[@steviecagle933]

Pppppppp K

[@WilmerCook]

It was a little late, Yamamoto knew they would never win.

[@spikespa5208]

Pity she and her hubby couldn't figure that out in 1941.

[@balancedactguy]

@@spikespa5208 They should have known. By the time of Pearl Harbor, the Japanese had already lost 1.5 Million Men fighting the Chinese since before 1937.

[@patfromamboy]

@@spikespa5208 exactly, think of the millions of people who died and their descendants who were never born because of war. My ex boss had a letter his dad took off of a dead Japanese soldier he killed in a battle in the war. He thought it was cool. I had my sister in law translate it and it was very sad. It was to his parents. He said he probably wouldn’t see them again and loved them and his family very much. He thanked them for everything they had done for him. He said he missed Japan and loved his country. He said the US soldiers were getting closer to the island he was stationed at. It made me realize that all people are the same and love their families and country no matter where they live.

[@moistmike4150]

My Grampa was a SeaBee in the Pacific and fought/worked through several island campaigns. On his first experience in the Pacific theater he was deployed to Guadalcanal where they were clearing land around a Japanese airbase for the U.S. Navy and one of the guys operating a bulldozer was hit by a sniper. The wounded man was pulled from the dozer by his fellow SeaBees while the Marine security detail blasted the sniper's suspected hiding place with rifle, 30' cal machine gun and mortar rounds. Confident that the sniper had been eliminated, a Naval officer ordered another SeaBee onto the the bulldozer and this man continued to clear the area of blasted coral. A few minutes later, another shot rang out and the unfortunate SeaBee suffered a headshot. The Marine security detail again thoroughly blasted the area where they were sure the shot had originated and my Grampa was then ordered onto the dozer by the same officer. Grampa said that when he got into the driver's seat, he saw a lot of blood from the first wounded SeaBee and bits of brains and skull bone from the second splattered all over the driver's area. After about 10 minutes of working in this sticky, nasty mess, with a swarm of flies all over the gore, another shot pinged off the steel engine housing right in front of his head and he dove off the machine for cover. Luckily, the Marines providing security had seen the muzzle flash of the sniper's rifle and, after a sustained 3rd volley of ordinance, they were able to verify that the sniper had been killed, as they saw his body fall from the palm tree in which he'd been hiding. Grampa finished clearing that area of the airfield, but he said that for the rest of his life, every night before he went to sleep he could never get the sight of his fellow Seabees' blood and brains out of his memory and he would drift off to sleep with that terrible visage in his mind. God bless Grampa - and God damn that war.

[@vipermad358]

Made up story. Total bullshit.

[@paul9156c]

I had an Uncle that was in the Navy during WW2. After the war he worked for a Ford dealership. My cousin, his son, always bought Fords. My Dad was in the Army during WW2 and was his brother. Dad never had any known issues with me buying a Toyota. My uncle on the other hand did seem to take issue with it, and made a few negative comments, like it wouldn't last if I kept driving it like I was.. That was my 1985 4Runner, which I will keep the rest of my life as a sentimental keepsake. I wish I could take it with me, so when I see him in the afterlife, I could show him that it's still running great!... 😂

[@masudaharris6435]

My mother was a teenager at that time who was forced to work producing aircraft parts, and I doubt that she, or her family, or her friends, ever thought about world domination.

[@eddieboggs8306]

I believe most of the human race no matter their nationality wants to live and let live. It the leaders that want war. It's your children they are more than willing to sacrifice on the alter of war to gain their greedy desires.

[@fearlessfosdick160]

The economic crimes of the Japanese government against the poorer of its own citizens were atrocities by themselves.

[@schurlbirkenbach1995]

The problem with winners is, they believe in their war propaganda and transfer it in their history books. Anyway I know a nation which believes in world domination in our days. It is the nation which believes in their manifest destiny and the end of history.

[@azzazel225]

That's probably because, nobody in Japan was interested in such idiotic goals, like world domination. Stupid things like that, are something only egocentric westerners dream about. People of Japan simply had a front row seat to observe and contemplate their own future, as the Great Chineese Empire was sistematically dismembered, humiliated, poisoned and impoverished by forced opium addiction into becomibg a broken bloody anarchy and nonstop internal deadly turf war over the few remaining shreads of wealth. Suffice it to say, they were not looking forward with much hope unless the status quo could be radically modified. Their choice was certain slavery and death, or to fight a hopeless fight, for a tiny chance of remaining free. Not a very difficult choice to make for any sane individual.

[@azzazel225]

Oh, and all the talk about Japanese fanaticism is a carefully crafted PR campaign. PR is the only actual area of superiority Americans ever achieved. The reality is, American treatment of Japanese (any non white people, really) prisoners and civilians was so disgustingly racist and inhumane, that many Japanese chose the prospect of quock death as the better option. Russians didn't firebomb or drop nukes on major population centers, nor did they collect the skulls, scalps, or bones of their enemies as American barbarians considered a normal thing to do. Just Google Life magazine printed ww2 story, about a J. I. sending his girlfriend a human skull made, by cutting off and boiling a Japanese soldier's head. In fact most genuine human skulls, held in American medical schools, privately owned, and used in anatomy classes came to US in a similar way. Not that unexpected, considerig what they've done to pre colonial Americans, Iraqis, Vietnamese, Koreans, Latin Americans, Africans, and everyone else.

[@64arguz]

Unlike Chinese and Russians, everything Japanese replicate or make got better and cheaper , their quality control and discipline are one of the highest in the world !

[@visionist7]

THE absolute highest in the world and it ain't close

[@matthewfusaro2590]

That's not entirely true...when the Japanese first started exporting goods to America they were thought of as cheap junk. It took years to refine their products and build a reputation. Russian products are rugged and were made to last. People consider Chinese products as junk but that's only because they are buying the cheapest products available. You get what you paid for...true, even in China.

[@duartesimoes508]

Very much true. Just compare a Japanese wristwatch with a Chinese or Russian wristwatch...

[@roberttelarket4934]

You don't understand. There is no other choice for such a superior people since they live on a small land mass with no natural resources! Their outstanding finished products bring in these. The problem is there is very little left to improve! As a result they will go to war sooner or later!

[@masin2671]

@@roberttelarket4934 弱いアメリカ人は戦場に行ったらショック死するでしょう。

[@daibutsu009]

アメリカ製映画なのに1940年代の日本を正確に描いている ハリウッド映画は2023年になっても、日本どころかアジア全域について完璧に不正確なのに

[@user-us2zp1yf6g]

大抵のアメリカ人は日本の歴史を知ったようなふりして知らないからね

[@scratchdog2216]

Humans have progressed very little in their thoughts and actions since this was filmed. Just depends which side you're on.

[@jonnydanger7181]

Regressed.

[@benking4367]

As humans we are nothing more than a parasite, we DO NOT deserve this planet ..

[@lostheir7988]

@@benking4367 Just as you do not deserve this planet?

[@rgglick]

@@benking4367 Then...why are you still here?

[@johnzeszut3170]

During the 1940's the Japanese understood America about as well as America understood the Japanese...

[@domenicv7962]

but....they knew how to bomb us and kill thousands

[@sockmonkey22]

Yet they attacked us, causing death of millions.

[@balancedactguy]

The Japaneses should have understood on and before 1941 they had ZERO CHANCE of ever defeating the US.

[@ironhell808]

Nothing's changed. Look at atarashii gakko and tell me it has. I left Okinawa due to this.

[@worldcomicsreview354]

​@@ironhell808 Thanks for the recommendation, looks like a cool band

[@CoreyChambersLA]

Those eyebrows are wild, man!

[@eddieraffs5909]

New (2022) book about Ambassador Grew is titled : "Our man in Tokyo" by Steve Kemper and a great source of the prewar Japanese mindset

[@davidb2206]

Buy and read Grew's own book. Fascinating. Think it was published during the war after he left Japan or got exchanged.

[@wyattsdad8561]

As a young guy I was always fascinated by the combat side of the world wars. Now into my 50’s I’m more interested in hearing about what was going on with the economies and governments, that lead up to war. Why? Because it doesn’t seem to change and the reasoning for war back then seems to be applicable for today.

[@kd6844]

Follow the money trail. Works every time.

[@weilm]

mankind has always been killing each other for resources throughout history. Japan was modernising rapidly in the early 1900s, its energy needs was growing beyond what it can harness within the country, and back then the world was not trading as freely as it is now. if you have what I want and you are not going to sell it to me, I will have to take it from by force, so Japan attacked Manchuria and tried to conquer China, and also south east asia for rubber and palm oil.

[@TaharkahX]

Me too! Been binging WW 2 documentaries.

[@valicourt]

Also, we seem to be heading to war again. It’s clear to see

[@wyattsdad8561]

@@valicourt yes we are. And it doesn’t need to be this way. They will commit our young men and women to fight for nothing other than money that will go to contractors and themselves. Kinda like what our government is doing with Ukraine right now. We’re supposed to hate Russians now.

[@brentsummers7377]

The narrator would have been such good company at a party😂😂

[@reynaldoflores4522]

Imagine dining with him at a sushi restaurant at the Ginza, then riding the bullet train to party all night at a geisha house in Kyoto or Osaka.

[@TheEfvan]

Underestimating your enemy is typically fatal. It was nearly fatal for the Allies. It was fatal for the Axis.

[@reynaldoflores4522]

3:03 The Mitsukoshi Department store is still standing today at this exact same spot in the Ginza district of Tokyo !

[@massiveidiot3587]

what was the name of music at the first of vidieo?

[@alexpapapoo]

I lived in Detroit in the mid-2000s as an expatriate for a Japanese company. On my first business trip to Buffalo, New York, I drove through I-90 what is now called the Rust Belt. What I saw there was a group of factories that looked like ruins that would have been in operation at the beginning of the 20th century. Some were still working. I remember feeling very sad that my grandparents and parents' generation went to war with such a country. Now, Japan is trying to make Japan a country where politicians who have not experienced defeat are now expecting the support of the United States and can go to war again. I want to protect Article 9 of the Constitution, which declares the renunciation of war, which was finally created after the terrible defeat. I ask for the understanding and cooperation of everyone who reads this message.

[@stevep5408]

Sorry wishful thinking can only lead to disaster and subjugation by other societies!

[@francislutz8027]

I'm from Buffalo and those factories along the waterfront of Lake Erie have been monoliths of how the people suffered more when the steel mills closed thsn during the war times.

[@dysfunctional_vet]

this is so depressing. it is like life in america now. living for the lies one believes. this is tragic on a scale i can't image

[@PowerSynopsis]

I feel you. The propaganda reels that could be made of America after we fail will be much worse.

[@SuperDoright]

Yep, propaganda by the left is brainwashing many. Let’s hope they see the light soon.

[@kd6844]

Profoundly stated. I have flipped 180 degrees in the lies I was living all my life. Europa changed my life. My heart broke for the genocide there and the good people everywhere. Including Japan.

[@TheEfvan]

We're free to criticize the state (or anything else) here. There's no real mandatory love of country here.

[@paulbourgeois4491]

My father's war... China Burma India Theater of Operations, 1944-45.

[@hawkmaster381]

If you choose to look at it this way, the same thing can be said of any nation’s people who wish the world would have the same kind of nation as their own. We in the US were fed the same kind of patriotism.

[@dirckthedork-knight1201]

He's kinda exaggerating when he talks that Imperial Japan thinks about "world domination" but he's spot on about the way he speaks about how the ideology of Imperial Japan was structured (ultra-nationalism mixed with religion with obsession around honour) and how every single Japanese was indoctrinated by it and the influence it had on society

[@stevep5408]

No the Japanese at their most ambitious and optimistic only thought of dominating Asia and the Western Pacific. They intended to rule all asiatic nations and people. Even at their most unrealistic ambition they knew they could not conquer mainland US. Why in all the pictures of Japanese preparations and rehearsals for Pearl Harbor don't you ever see the US aircraft carriers represented? The Japanese were forward thinking enough to use an untested weapon(aircraft carriers ) to try to strike a knockout punch against the US but not making the destruction of the enemies weapon a top priority?

[@worldcomicsreview354]

Imagine getting to live in Japan for 10 years of the early 20th century, lucky man.

[@davidb2206]

One of Gen. MacArthur's aides had lived and worked in Japan in the 1920's and married there to a local, which was extremely rare at the time. He also wrote a book. Named something like Seibert or Seibel, as I vaguely recall.

[@ironhell808]

About the last time there was a real Japanese culture.

[@shastaham7630]

Ten years, and he learned so little!

[@waynemontpetit8181]

And now they're our enemy again In the World Baseball Classic (WBC).

[@optimusprinceps3526]

That's PRC 🇨🇳

[@waynemontpetit8181]

@@optimusprinceps3526 China sucks at baseball

[@optimusprinceps3526]

@@waynemontpetit8181 I know, but they're pretty good at getting their CCP military Scientists to develop and release unknown Wuhan Institute of Virology, Covid-19 Bio Weapon upon the Earth

[@WILLIAM1690WALES]

What the spokesman stated at the start of this clip applies to modern day Japan, an extremely sophisticated society, but underlying that they have a distrust. A dislike of foreigners. Some would say hatred depending which part of the world you come from. I am biased because I am British, but they seem to have an understanding of the island mentality, of our royal family and our long history of tradition, which they can understand, because it applies to themselves.

[@phincampbell1886]

Are you highlighting the good bedfellows Japan and Brits make?

[@WILLIAM1690WALES]

@@phincampbell1886 probably the first time ever UK and Japan, less than six weeks ago, signed a major defence agreement. Japan knows it needs UK and USA and others military support because of the threat coming from China?

[@tommiatkins3443]

Your profile picture and username is hilarious!

[@WILLIAM1690WALES]

@@tommiatkins3443 first of all get your grammar right it is are, to me my username and picture they are extremely important and meaningful. Perhaps you think your username with Tommy Atkins representing British soldiers in World War I,750,000 dead.🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

[@canuck_gamer3359]

I don't think they so much dislike foreigners as much as it is they are unique in their willingness to preserve their race and frankly, I don't see anything wrong with that. They have lots of options open to them economically to boost their birthrate and I don't think it's anything more than this disease we call 'political correctness' when people say Japan can't survive as is. Of course they can!

[@whitepeoplewonttearitdown1127]

I hate it when people post these videos and add the word 'propaganda' to it as if none of this was true. Everything said in it was true about Japan at the time so stop assuming that this was somehow false. Also, this video was pretty complimentary towards the japanese since it didn't say something like 'look at these squinty eyed bastards'. There was none of that and I think the entire point of this video was to educate soldiers on how and who the enemy was at the time. They told them that they were fierce soldiers who would not go down without a fight which was 100% true.

[@demetridar506]

There is a lot more in this video. Or film, there were no videos back then. The objective in this is to generate hatred and motivate people to become killers. It was also an effort (very successful, apparently) to justify large scale crimes that were coming at that time or shortly afterwards. True, not everything is false in there. There are a few truths. Also lots of lies and confused stereotypes. Probably more important, critical factors and facts are completely obscured. But it is all knitted together very carefully in order to generate an alternative reality which is fairly severely disconnected from this universe. Therefore, I think it is very fair to call this propaganda. Or brain washing, which ever term suits you best.

[@LeastTresCharLargo]

Propoganda is not necessarily synonymous with lies. But the point of any propoganda is invariably to paint one 'organization' in a better light

[@cruelty6368]

@@demetridar506 Very sell said. The cultural arrogance in this film is truly astonishing, but considering its audience, and the hell many of them would endure, I have no problem with it. It's easier to kill people who have been depersonalized.

[@demetridar506]

@@cruelty6368 There is no doubt that the film is brilliant in its execution, and the way it conducts its misinformation.

[@sockmonkey22]

I wonder what a Nazi vs. Japanese war would look like, theoretically, if the rest of us were somehow made to leave, or were exclusively vaporized?

[@philipinchina]

Very clear and informative.

[@weredrgn]

It is propaganda, so it is biased in order to promote a point of view.

[@bottledwaterprod]

*MIS-informative

[@kevinwade1775]

Very accurate information as we see in hindsight.

[@elliotthalsey2810]

Excellent video, perfectly accurate

[@weredrgn]

Remember it is still propaganda.

[@lindaeasley5606]

An American WW2 veteran recounted seeing a Japanese soldier carrying a severed head in his arm . During a little known battle fought in the Aleutian Islands during WW2 between American and Canadian troops vs Japanese ,it is estimated that more than half of the Japanese deaths were acts of suicide. Allied soldiers witnessed Japanese soldiers strapping grenades to their heads

[@glengamble526]

Well, Americans committed atrocities also. Ever see the pic of that US senator that served in Vietnam? He’s holding up a Vietcong corpse by the hair…except the lower half of the body is missing. You can see the spinal cord just hanging there…legs gone. And he’s smiling.

[@joesantamaria5874]

@@glengamble526 whattaboutism. Nice try.

[@glengamble526]

@@joesantamaria5874 I’m not ‘trying’ anything. Merely stating facts. People-especially Americans, which I assume you are, given your sensitive response-tend to point fingers without explaining their own similar actions. Which is hugely hypocritical. At any rate, yes the Japanese resorted to some insane and savage acts during WW2. But America isn’t exactly guilt-free either. Don’t like it or don’t agree? Read some actual history and find out…just make sure it’s not America-centric history. Cheers!

[@joesantamaria5874]

@@glengamble526 do you understand the logical fallacy of the “whattaboutism”? It’s not a cultural bias, it’s not lack of knowledge of history (I studied at the University level). It’s simply that if Americans or forces of other nations committed atrocities in war, and they certainly did, it in no way diminishes the horror of what the Japanese did to untold humans.

[@tripmcneely6519]

@@glengamble526 you're such a little tattletale

[@paulgram3967]

I love Japanese culture.

[@sonnylatchstring]

I especially love their harakiri

[@stevenmeadows6917]

Yeah....70% Logic and intelligence, and 30% bat-shit crazy

[@user-yr1uq1qe6y]

Is “Sam your eye” the correct pronunciation of samurai?

[@mkrump9403]

2000 thousand years out of this date!

[@GreggDuncanMcLean1]

The 1940's Japanese man was so totally different than todays man. Thank God. They loved war but today they hate it even putting in their constitution never to do so ever again and all though I admire them for doing so I'm afraid they must build a military big enough to go on the offense with the way things are in the far east with China. We will need their help in order to keep order in that region of the world...time to change that view on war Japan you must build up or else we could all be in a far greater danger unless you do. I am fully at ease with them doing so not going out to start another war but to be there when war breaks out to help the free nations of the world. Money won't cut it anymore we need ships, jet, and a well trained navy and army troops working with us to promote peace within the region. A upcoming war with China is very possible in the near or distant future and we need Japan to be up to the task of helping to defend itself for we are so limited by being so far away. A very strong military Japan along with the USA will be a strong force against war by China. God bless the USA God bless Japan long may they stand together for peace.

[@tjsells9288]

As 28 year old American I would enlist to fight for our Japanese people, as well for Taiwan peoples!!! Much love & prayers for our friends across the Pacific Ocean LOVE FROM INDIANA U.S.A!!

[@thomasdupont7186]

You guys know that it is the US government that prevented (since the late 40's) Japan to build an army right ? They literally forbidden them to have an army after 45. To this day they don't have an army but "self defence forces", they should have had nuclear weapons since quiet some times (they have the knowledge and technology) but the US totally dominated them ideologically in order to make Japan a docile paper tiger. They even have in their constitution (imposed by the usa after the end of WW2) the "decision" to renounce war.

[@brucefranklin1317]

Thanks kid

[@masin2671]

@@tjsells9288 ビビんなよ

[@outman1923]

The impudent United States is instilling war in the Japanese. So that you can come out and be a messenger of peace after Asians fight each other... The United States waged most of its wars after World War II. The United States invaded Cuba, Grenada, Chile, Liberia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Syria, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq......................................

[@unbrokenandalive1089]

For a comprehensive revealing of the WWII-era Japanese mindset and their associated atrocities - I highly recommend the book SHEATHING THE SWORD: The Demilitarisation of Japan - authored by Meirion and Susie Harries.

[@ThommyofThenn]

Never

[@unbrokenandalive1089]

@@ThommyofThenn nev·er /nevər/ 1. At no time in the past or future; on no occasion; not ever. 2. Not at all. There's your definition. Glad I could help.

[@ThommyofThenn]

@@unbrokenandalive1089 Very good! Keep it up and I'm sure you'll learn more word definitions. Might I suggest a dictionary?

[@nuclearwarhead9338]

​@@unbrokenandalive1089 do you feel smart now after copy pasting from google?

[@unbrokenandalive1089]

@@nuclearwarhead9338What a witty response!! My intelligence isn't on trial here. No, Nukie - I'm one of those people who actually enjoys the enlightenment that I derive through READING!! I recognize that anything beyond the thinnest sliver of superficial familiarity with the written word is likely an alien concept for you. That's fine - I forgive your ham-handed attempt to fling that tragically benighted barb. Some people actually enjoy wallowing in their darkness - so carry on with your blissfully vapid stumbles and missteps. To clarify: SHEATHING THE SWORD: The Demilitarisation of Japan represents just one of the many pieces of peer-reviewed literature that hold a fond place in my small library. I don't waste time with empty diatribe - any analysis of history requires accurate representation, and this book doesn't pull any of your mushy little punches. By the way - Google is the name of a business; as such - it's a PROPER NOUN that requires capitalization. Try to get it right the next time. Thanks so much.

[@WindThrusters]

Were there some similarities between the Japanese Empire and the British Empire? Something to think about.

[@stevep5408]

Yeah the British managed to get hugh numbers of natives to suppress the other natives?

[@bluemouse5039]

I don't think the Japanese ever officially admitted they lost the war, when the emperor announced the war was over, he said that Japan has ceased hostilities then when on to say things about how they must begin to rebuild and endure the hardships coming and so on, I have always been a admirer of Japan and studied all the WW-2 Pacific battles, it is impressive to me how such a small country could become a major power on the world stage with very limited natural resources to work with could build such a huge military force to take on the United States and before that how quickly it adopted to becoming a industrialized nation in such a short time while many other countries around the world with much more to work with in land, natural resources stayed underdeveloped economically while Japan leap frogged them all in progress in such a short span of time

[@chrismonan585]

This was a 10 out of 10 anime.👌 I deffinently recommend😊

[@user-kz8wf9gu7r]

You mean it s not a documentary?

[@krapeevids6992]

5:12 definitely, an inventive and creative people nowadays.

[@wbiro]

Two interesting observations in the description: 1.) "They are 2,000 years behind in ethical and social thinking." Now it's North Korea. 2.) "The enemy: primitive, murderous, and fanatical." Now it's the Muslim world (how it allows these behaviors to flourish in their cultures).

[@Bellvista2]

A third interessing aspect, which you could observe in the beginning of the film, was the quoting of the source of the raw material for war. All places were colonies of western states. The nations exploited the natural resources not for the benefit of the indegnious people.

[@craigkimmel8093]

War has been a constant throughout history , war will be a constant throughout future history . We are the only beast on the planet hell-bent on self-destruction .

[@matthewfusaro2590]

Just replace the "Japanese" with whatever the state deems as a threat; "Russians, Muslims, Chinese, North Koreans, Iranians, etc". With the North Koreans and the Chinese, they can reuse the old footage because Americans can't tell the difference anyways.

[@oozarusama]

i find it funny how here there are comments that everything in japan is nice and beautiful and friendly people remember that now you are seeing the japanese of third or fourth generation do not look anything like the old imperialist, neither the post war ones do not exist anymore.

[@TheEfvan]

Luckily for the Allies, their equipment (with some notable exceptions like aircraft and warships) was middling to poor.

[@bigchiroal1]

Ìt was made from old American toasters, what did you expect?

[@Dino6961]

No propaganda in this film

[@netfalsifikaciiistorii]

Просто обожаю такой неполиткорректный формат!

[@masin2671]

俺も。

[@thomasdupont7186]

Jesus, the guy lived 10 years "among them" and what he has to say about it is "their thinking is 2000 years out of date" did he say it for the propaganda ? If he truly did think that about them, it's really sad...

[@davidb2206]

They were a feudal society at the time. With airplanes and cars (from the West).

[@dirckthedork-knight1201]

He wasn't that wrong the ideas and custom of the Japanese at the time did indeed look pretty archaic and outdated in the minds of Westerners and he even showcases it here talking about they believe their Emperor to be a supreme deity and their total devotion to the ideals of bushido

[@gillesguillaumin6603]

À propos, quelqu'un pourrait-il me dire à quoi servent les bandes molletieres. C'est le système le plus idiot que j'ai pu voir.

[@davidmulhall2710]

Ankle support, cheaper than high leather boots.

[@thomasdupont7186]

Idiot ? peut être.... Mais mais ils ont la classe et le look coco.... Also : speak ENGLISH you french weirdo ! We don't talk fashion here ! We talk WAR ! Comprende ?

[@carmium]

Not very far from exactly the way Japan was at the time. I don't know what's "racist" about it.

[@david_porthouse]

The Japanese do not believe that those who die in battle will enter Valhalla. Instead they believe that such people will go to Hell, but they have a very fatalistic view which we Westerners may find difficult to grasp.

[@thomasdupont7186]

"Japan" and "Valhalla" in the same sentence ?! What ? Are you serious ? Do Americans believe soldiers will go to paradise after they throw the atomic bomb on civilians ?

[@Denis.Collins]

@@thomasdupont7186perhaps the Japanese should have been less willing to fight a genocidal war of destruction. Murdering, raping, torturing at least 30.000 at Nanking and experimenting on living human beings in unit 731, or treating Manilans and Phillipinos as sub human, rather like their friends the Nazis.

[@marchellochiovelli7259]

Seems every country has a Manifest Destiny.

[@jody6851]

My guess is that neither Monaco, Montenegro, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Fiji, Guinea, nor Ghana among others I can think of have any desire to conquer and rule the world.

[@worldcomicsreview354]

​@@jody6851 The great black star will unite the world

[@weredrgn]

Militaristic countries.

[@pooddescrewch8718]

Not every country breaks its own creed in so doing

[@pooddescrewch8718]

The Emperor presented as a God was new to their culture and was a manipulation by the modern military . It was not traditional .

[@douglasdaniel4504]

One thing this piece of wartime indoctrination leaves out is how much of the "samurai" culture of the Imperial state was a product of a fascist, militaristic government. Democracy in Japan had largely failed in the 1920's, and by the time of the invasion of China the military was essentially running everything. They spent the better part of a generation producing a nationalistic version of history and culture, including Bushido, that served their ends and helped keep the people in line. Japanese society was not quite the monolith this picture presents, but by the time war came, the militarists were cracking down and few Japanese were in a position to express serious dissent. The film also keeps repeating that Japan was bent on world conquest. Not so much. The idea that they were was largely based on the fictitious "Tanaka Memorial", an alleged plan for world conquest. During the war this was widely believed to be an actual document informing Japanese policy, but it was later found to be a hoax. Having said that, the Japanese _were_ clearly bent on conquering and dominating Asia, and making that dominion impervious to outside (British, Soviet and American) interference. Admittedly, a nuance that would have been lost on a Chinese peasant or a Filipino farmer....

[@matthewfusaro2590]

The Japanese believed their were "liberating" other Asian countries of their Western occupiers. Why should they feel guilty if conquering lands that were Western colonies at the time?

[@JohnDoe-jn4ex]

They are nice people now.

[@patfromamboy]

Everone is the same and capable of doing terrible things. US soldiers raped thousands of French women after liberating France. The US government kept it quiet for morale reasons back home.

[@easternyellowjacket276]

Ironically, fast forward to today, and Japan is one of our greatest allies and friends.

[@optimusprinceps3526]

Communist China is the new Imperial Japan

[@codzymajor]

​@@optimusprinceps3526 Why? China has neither attacked the US or it's neighbors. Is it because China is rich again just like last time when the West waged battles on Chinese land almost 200 years.

[@optimusprinceps3526]

@@codzymajor It's because General Macarthur was correct in wanting to nuke Mao and the PRC into the stone age back in 1949, as well. He foresaw this future decades ago

[@thos.bennett567]

My Uncle, fought them and had great respect. Their equipment was outdated. Lived in Japan for two years, the Japanese are a conforming society and any emergency decision is out of their mindset.

[@thos.bennett567]

@fudgepacker the small arms used by Imperial forces were designed before WW1. The rifle type 38 was from circa 1905. Machine guns were awkward and used overly complicated feed mechanisms. The sidearms were below the level of a 32acp.

[@thos.bennett567]

@fudgepacker that was about the only decent mg. Most of them were from outdated Hotchkiss designed. Ammunition was varied.

[@bazzer124]

"...the Japanese have made good use of the inventions and conveniences of the western world." And then then made them better and cheaper. It's always fascinating to me what and how much of a role propaganda plays into war - and every day life, for that matter. Cheers....

[@matthewfusaro2590]

It took the Japanese just a few decades to go from feudalism to a modern society, an achievement no other country can make.

[@R281]

Some say the same thing about China

[@icewinddale2675]

What about anime and video games? They didn't say anything about anime.

[@mkrump9403]

19:45 Total sacrifice that leads directly to total fail... No one would stand for the next battle if they are already death... Taliban Fanaticism was a bit more hardcore (in warfare spectral)

[@user-bc3ym9xp7o]

🇦🇫アフガニスタンの民主化は大失敗だったが、🇯🇵日本の民主化は大成功した！

[@jamesomalley4556]

5'3 117 lbs. Wow

[@glitchnyrmatrix7296]

Sent wrong address but will arrive the 7th of July

[@davidb2206]

All one needed to study Japanese behavior was to examine in detail what they did at Guadalcanal, the first major ground clash between Japanese and U.S. forces. The U.S. came very close to losing there, and the U.S. Navy was so badly beaten up initially that it withdrew and left the Marines unsupplied. The Japanese, who had already been running beheading competitions in China, began beheading almost immediately after Pearl Harbor, with the three American P.O.W.'s taken from Wake Island who were beheaded aboard ship.

[@frankcolumbo4481]

But Uncle Sam outdid them by vaporising hundreds of thousands of women and children with firebombs and nukes.

[@davidb2206]

@@frankcolumbo4481 Remember Pearl Harbor. Should have nuked them five times. Well earned.

[@whiskeysixindigo7371]

The japanese are such a ultured and polite race of people today and very inteligent too. The yjust realy went off the rails for about fifteen years back then.

[@reynaldoflores4522]

If you substitute the word " China " for Japan in the video it might make sense for today's situation.

[@wASCIIw]

Да это же Вархаммер 40к, один в один! ))

[@user-sd7mt8ky5f]

In Japan,discipline was very strict especially to women.The factory women's way of eating shows it very well.(11:42) They had been told not to eat with their mouth widely opening because they were female.

[@shawnzeppimiller]

Ambassador Grew... his eyebrows to an incredible length in 1943. Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his emperor. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his emperor.

[@paulnejtek6588]

Huh? That's such a zeppimiller thing to say.

[@shawnzeppimiller]

@@paulnejtek6588 I would hope so.

[@albundy6008]

​@@paulnejtek6588 it's a twist on the speech at the beginning of the movie "Patton" staring George C. Scott.

[@paulnejtek6588]

@@albundy6008 yeah, I know. I've seen the movie a couple times...although it's been about 25 years. The speech at the start of "Patton" is an amalgam of things the real Patton said in his life.

[@ChrisClaybern]

The japanese military had expected the carriers to be at pearl harbor. I believe that our military knew they would attack and made sure the carriers were away. If the carriers had been sunk, it would have given them the time to conquer and consolidate their gains. They could have sued for peace afterward. They knew they could only hold us off for 6 months to a year.

[@argus1393]

So when are we going to make `Our Enemy The Chinese`???

[@vnktravi]

Lot of the points in the documentary sound true for US or other colonial counties as well

[@robert-oq9jq]

Sounds like he's describing another small nation

[@martinedwards4522]

call it whatever you like... but its true

[@paulnejtek6588]

16:16 dude movin' his head around the rifle instead of moving the rifle around his head!!! So unmilitary. So undisciplined.

[@arthurlevine1840]

Today you can pretty much replace "Japan" with "China." Back then it only took 2 atomic bombs to disabuse the Japanese of their notions; today it's more complicated.

[@skipsassy1]

If this is a training film what is propaganda? Nothing's changed.

[@stubi1103]

As a German, I have to say that Japan violated all humanity (Nanking massacre in 1937) and China suffered endlessly under Japanese rule. What would have become of the Pacific region if Japan hadn't thought so backwards? The fanatical and death-defying fighting spirit of the Japanese, combined with a little more technological advancement and cleverness, could have spelled in a disaster for the Americans and British, I'm glad it turned out differently ! I don't understand a man like Yamamoto, he knew the USA and yet against his better judgment he prepared the attack on Pearl Harbour and led his country to its downfall. But I accuse the USA of not solving the problems we have today in global politics, and only the USA could have done it THEN, our world would be a better one today... Thank you very much for this interesting movie and greetings from Germany.

[@LONE_PUPPY]

@@115islandscompass6 yes, your comments are both true.

[@rossbryan6102]

LOLOLOL THE ANNOUNCER . MISSED THE CHANCE TO BAD MOUTH HENRY FORD FOR HAVING ASSEMBLY PLANTS IN JAPAN!! NOTE THE SCENE IN 11:56!!

[@electrolytics]

Yeah Ford had plants in every continent. What's your point? Don't you understand industry?

[@rossbryan6102]

@@electrolytics DO UNDERSTAND HISTORY! WAS AWARE OF FORD BEING IN EUROPEAN AUTO MARKET AS WELL AS RUSSIAN, BUT DIDNT KNOW JAPAN WAS BUILDING FORD STUFF AT THE TIME!

[@pac1fic055]

Interesting to see people wearing face masks in the subway even back then.

[@jonnydanger7181]

Can anyone make sense of why there is War?

[@AndreiTupolev]

And exactly the same things are being said about Russia now..

[@andrisaputra8427]

Jepang tahun segitu aja kota nya udah modern...

[@stevenmeadows6917]

On another note, They DO make some good pork fried rice..........

[@user-gi1uq2st8b]

うちの親父は、昭和ニ十年に海軍特別年少兵で、海軍電測学校に入隊してますが、アメリカ軍からこんな風に見られていたのかなぁ、しかし警察予備隊の二期で入隊してアメリカ軍からの 装備でした、で仙台に居た時にアメリカ軍の下士官から、今まで銃を撃った事が有るのは、手を上げろ❗と言われた時に、殆どが手を上げたそうです、 それは、射撃の成績が良すぎて、アメリカ軍の下士官が不審に思ったそうです、そりゃ何年か前には、中国軍とかアメリカ軍と撃ち合う立場でしたから😅😅

[@billiecrouse8002]

Who is this guy?

[@goodsun5336]

Amaterasu rule?misunderstanding. japanese old law 17 constituion saying"the most mighty rule must be built by commune.

[@julioestorino4752]

...not much difference from communist Russia until today.

[@sam21462]

Ok so the film spends 19 minutes criticizing Japan's embracing of "total war" then spends the last minute encouraging the watcher to do the same.

[@joesantamaria5874]

The viewer at the time had little choice. At the time of the production of the film, the Japanese were waging total war against the US and its allies, torturing and murdering POWs, and conducting medical experiments on subjugated Chinese civilians. Bombs were being floated across the Pacific, held aloft by balloons, the Germans were in the process of developing the “New York Bomber”, designed to rain death from the sky on our East Coast. Was there an alternative?

[@hornet232]

Big difference is Japan's was by Choice. The USA's was by necessity...duh

[@mick4093]

@@hornet232 Nice phrasing. The Phillipines, once under Spanish domination, NOW under American guidance

[@sam21462]

@@hornet232 - There was never a point in WW2 where the US was even close to having to use total war concepts yet you believe we actually did so and it was out of necessity? I believe that it may be possible that you do not really understand what the term "total war" means. You should really look into it before posting any more lest you look even more silly. duh

[@justfun985]

There is a saying. To defeat your enemy, you must become your enemy. I believe there is some truth in that as this video shows. I also recommend the book "Kamikaze". It talks about the often-brutal training Japan used and the mindset of the Japanese.

[@jonoghue]

OH MY GOD IT'S KIM JONG UN! 5:03

[@italioraucci]

NOW IT'S OUR ENEMY THE CHINESE

[@SMH55]

”Never an inventive or creative people” couldnt have gotten that more wrong if you tried

[@robinj.9329]

AT THE TIME! THE 1940'S! Not long after America remade Japan. With the help of unlimited numbers of western educated natives!!! Read the actual History

[@davidb2206]

In terms of patents, yes. Much like communist China today, which really has invented nothing; just copied.

[@electrolytics]

What did the Japanese invent?

[@SMH55]

@@electrolytics they discovered adrenaline in 1901 for example

[@dirckthedork-knight1201]

Thats not an inaccurate description if you know about Japan's history prior to the 18th century While they did had a pretty rich culture they weren't really inventive they took most of their technological knowledge from China (as did practically all of east asia during those times) and they would of course end up outmatched by the Europeans later on (again like most of east asia) only to finally adapt European tech and ideas on the 19th century and become the single most advance nation in east asia in a surprisingly short amount of time

[@mgrudt5024]

Divine wind, a fart after eating at Taco Bell.

[@teledan105]

I still feel this way

[@joeldavidchevallier]

@4:19 Mr. Grew, the man narrating this bit of homemade military propaganda, shades the Japanese for decoupling their currency from the gold standard. I think the implication that this was a foolish move on the part of their financial system, mentioning it in the wake of inflation and as the basis for this move in blind faith in their country and the long-game it was playing on the world stage as a global power. As called out buy the channel in the notes on the film, this is indeed an odd assortment of truths and untruths. The gold standard in the U.S. was abandoned a decade prior to the production of this film, replaced by a Quasi-Gold standard where gold wasn’t tethered to the dollar in much more than faith for American citizens, and was used almost solely in settlements with the central banks of other governments. And by 1973 the final threads tying our dollar to gold were severed by the unscrupulous former president, Richard Nixon. The U.S. dollar was left to float on faith, a fiat currency established not by design, but by default. In this day of inflation, there is no lack of conversation and conspiracy around the gold standard. People look backwards towards precious metals as a safety net in the face of financial uncertainty. I’m no economist, but the U.S. dollar has enjoyed it’s day in the sun because it is in the unique position of being the the nigh-common currency of the world. That status is a precarious one requiring faith in the U.S. from the entire global banking system and each of the foreign markets that have invested heavily in the dollar. In 2021 China held over a trillion dollars, nearly 4 percent of the national debt. We have ceded an enormous amount of our own economic stability to economies that we are often at odds with…who could dump the dollar, resulting in catastrophic default, and leaving us once again in a situation not so far removed from the one Nixon found himself in in 1971. All this to say I found this one little moment four minutes into this bit of propaganda from WWII to be a bit rich considering where our country was economically when it was produced, and where it is nearly four decades on. Yikes. Can’t wait to cringe my way through the remainder of this b.s.

[@heckzotica]

Well said!

[@tuffguy428]

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[@toolazyforadecentname8412]

So, the Japanese were able to construct a 65,000 ton mega battleship while harboring literal medieval ideals.

[@stevetheduck1425]

In the 1920s people starved because the price for the rice and vegetables they made was too low for them to live. The money went on about 10 battleships, and many lesser ships. Shigeru Mizuki lived through this time and drew and wrote several manga accounts of Japan in that time.

[@michaelcrockette8694]

a film by Ford, GM and Chrysler.😂

[@mizanezooft4624]

Sadly the japanese new generation nowadays didnt know what their country doing Back There

[@colinjames2469]

and neither does any other countries' generations.

[@MultiDlandry]

canada

[@markworden9169]

Wow! some were wearing masks way back then

[@Thomas-ky3rl]

I have a Japanese neighbors and the woman is very controlling with a Temper who will get a grudge against you and is very unforgiving. But her husband is the apposite he is kind and forgiving.

[@user-io6pj8bz8h]

Not propaganda

[@lordbyron3603]

“…. Their thinking is 2000 years out of date !… “ You can say that again…. 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

[@PaddleDogC5]

Sounds like BribEM administration

[@fearlessfosdick160]

Drew lived a decade among the Japanese and didn't learn a thing.

[@larrystultz7545]

Humble yeah they got their asses handed to them🇺🇲🇺🇲

[@simonecanepa8168]

There are striking similarities with nowadays China. Simul stabant, simul cadent