[RARE] The Voice of Hirohito - 1945 Jewel Voice Broadcast (玉音放送)

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This is a 1945 recording of the 'Jewel Voice Broadcast'. The 'Jewel Voice Broadcast' (玉音放送) was the radio broadcast in which Japanese Emperor Hirohito read out the 'Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the Greater East Asia War' (大東亜戦争終結ノ詔書), announcing to the Japanese people that the Japanese Government had accepted the Potsdam Declaration demanding the unconditional surrender of the Japanese military at the end of World War II. This speech was broadcast at noon Japan Standard Time on August 15, 1945.
The speech was the first time that an Emperor of Japan had spoken to the common people. It was delivered in the formal Japanese that few ordinary people could easily understand. It made no direct reference to a surrender of Japan, instead stating that the government had been instructed to accept the terms of the Potsdam Declaration fully. This created confusion in the minds of many listeners who were not sure whether Japan had surrendered. The poor audio quality of the radio broadcast, as well as the formal courtly language in which the speech was composed, worsened the confusion.
Nevertheless, it is an important and fascinating piece of history, one which marks the end of an era of suffering for humankind.

[@harrisonofcolorado8886]

"We surrender." 👎 "The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage." 👍

[@Litovskyy]

@Hire a Samurai is this a JoJo reference

[@riquezenramos2734]

English 100

[@Litovskyy]

@Big Prick no u

[@carlosmpsenyorcapitacollon6977]

Losing like a boss.

[@errorinscript1127]

It did, cuase they rule the anime, hentai and gaming industry now..

[@jasonsteward99]

*The USA, British Empire, USSR and China is kicking Japans arse, and 2 nukes have been dropped on your cities* Japan (Hirohito): "the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage"

[@idsfxtm5759]

HOI4 😂😂😂😂

[@fatkaiser3377]

@@idsfxtm5759 yup

[@user-zf7ol6mb9c]

Banzai

[@pola5392]

Only russia and America were raping japan, not China and not Britain

[@derekvigil9788]

Tom Edwards if anything only America, Russia joined too late and by the time Russia was doing anything Japan was already out the door

[@user-ql6py1vv9c]

Fun fact: His Japanese was so classic that most of the people who heard this couldn't understand until the announcer later explained what he was talking about.

[@lienquanzhen6038]

Lol

[@cecil7891]

i thought he was having a hard time pronouncing out the words

[@enigmagrieshaber5555]

@@cecil7891 same

[@euivets2892]

Why was his japanese different to the japanese spoken by the people?

[@Onio_]

@@euivets2892 The Japanese emperors were separated from the rest of Japan, so they developed a unique court accent that sounds archaic.

[@lillyie]

When you have to translate Japanese to Japanese

[@meanwhileinjapan2265]

As you did for your KZbin name.

[@ADeeSHUPA]

@Emperor Bobby Edwin IV of Attsburg uP

[@flamecharge8019]

@@ADeeSHUPA 69

[@ADeeSHUPA]

@@flamecharge8019 六九

[@user-it2jy3fh4j]

日本人ですか? すみません、私はしつもんふたつがあります。 ビデオのはじまに何歌ですか。 日本人は昭和店王好きですか、すきじゃありませんか。

[@khata1169]

This anime is wierd.

[@delalucius5137]

And complicated

[@user-oc9lx1ih9i]

This is not an anime though....

[@arya31ful]

Wait till you read the Manga

[@RBAOfficial-w6r]

石神 雪 -大日本人 r/woooooosh

[@user-oc9lx1ih9i]

@@RBAOfficial-w6r Ofcourse... why not.

[@qwerty-dn1zh]

"The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage"

[@user-rv1ey8pl7q]

Mr. Wallace your empire is strongest in the world.

[@user-bj4mv6bl7l]

Euphemistic statement to prepare for surrender

[@Nugcon]

Lmao

[@akram591]

@@cowboymooman8776 not really sure if it really is *2nd nuclear bombing* hmmmm well if you insist upon what you're saying maybe hmmm i could see where you're coming from

[@adastra2238]

anime

[@beatlemaniac]

"You're fired." 👎 "The job situation has developed, not necessarily, to your advantage." 👍

[@chickennugget6654]

“The war situation has developed, not necessarily to Japans addvantage” understatement of the century I’d say

[@melonlord1414]

It would have been a giant pain in the butt to actually conquer Japan with troops, so the war probably would have continued for a long time if they didn't surrender. But yeah, they would have been bombarded to ashes if they did that

[@user-is3yn7xr4c]

From the perspective of former WW2 Imperial Japanese warlords: "We are not surrendering, we simply just postponing the war fighting the western powers, in other to save our loyally-devoted-population from extinction that can be caused by the military anger of the American elites."

[@mayukhmitra5819]

@Emaan Shahid In 1045 at the time of Surrender , not very much.

[@NautilusSSN571]

@Emaan Shahid Yeahz that's because those same people who were saying that were found guilty of multiple war crimes and sentenced by American committees.

[@madladz457]

In other words: "We're winning, just backwards."

[@nqh4393]

The emperor: *Broadcasted so that every Japanese would hear him and surrender* Also the emperor: *Spoke in a dialect that is incomprehensible to 99% of Japanese*

[@IStMl]

@Esoteric Groyper that was a joke...

[@punishedvenomsnake716]

Why wouldn't they understand him?

[@user-ke7lx9pe5g]

@@punishedvenomsnake716 It's a weird kind of Japanese

[@brendonhalverson5178]

Usze 'Taham Actually it’s called “Classical Japanese”

[@jqa16]

Okay try imagining a british person speaking the most ye old english ever. That's what my 天皇 basically said.

[@user-pg3rh3sy2n]

I am Japanese but I can hardly understand Japanese of this era.

[@user-pg3rh3sy2n]

@TheBlueSpecter 英語で大丈夫だよ。ありがとう。

[@alexfriedman2047]

wow is it really that differnt? I guess it would be like me listening to old English like how they spoke in the 1700's the used a lot of words that we don't use anymore like Thy and Thine. Also Why do Japanese still use Kanji?? Its's kind of an outdated writing system it seems.

[@lilili8966]

do you know the name of music at the begining?

[@user-pg3rh3sy2n]

@@alexfriedman2047 Because it is communicated in sentences shorter than writing in hiragana.

[@user-pg3rh3sy2n]

@@lilili8966 This song is called Field Encampment Song（露営の歌）

[@Justarandomchineseguy]

Hitler: 50 year old guy who rants Mussolini: 60 year old bald guy Hirohito: 44 year old who still sounds like a 20 year old

[@_McCormickProductions]

Hirohito looks so young lol

[@educk67]

Wait he was 44 at the time ? Bro he looked like he was 19 years old at the time

[@sethzimmerman7601]

He looks young damn

[@adonissherlock]

@@sethzimmerman7601 He was 34 in the picture on this video

[@adonissherlock]

@FlochBasedKing yes actually. thats the japanese for ya

[@hirohitomichinomiya-japane9519]

"Defeat is not the end of Japan. In the future we will still be the strongest nation" ~Emperor Hirohito

[@roman_empyr4457]

Proceeds to become kuwai

[@eliasziad7864]

@@roman_empyr4457 Kuwait?

[@pelotaconhambre380]

Nya~~~

[@asoru5573]

@@eliasziad7864 I think he means "Kawaii" sir, he's typo ing

[@scintillam_dei]

@Bugs Bunny My harem isn't going to make itself.

[@IconiaAngelos]

"if we continue fighting, the entire human civilization may cease to exist" what a way to phrase it huh

[@zainabe9503]

Not to mention had Japan not surrendered, Russia would've swept Manchu toward the main islands, and that truly would become WW3, Comintern vs Allies, fighting for the scraps of Japan and control over East Asia and Pacific.

[@CrnaStrela]

With nukes too, don't forget USA just happened to develop atomic bomb faster than others, Soviet also tried to build one and Japanese intel got a wind of that bomb long before it was made, had the war keep going on, it's highly possible we would live like Fallout universe now.

[@emperorfaiz]

@@zainabe9503 Nah, it's just WW2 last a bit longer. I bet there would be North Japan and South Japan and then WW3 will happen if one of the two countries decides to "unite" with the other half.

[@zainabe9503]

@@emperorfaiz US policies saw Japan as the main stand against communism, with Korea as the buffer. History taught us that McArthur repeatedly appealed for the use of nuclear weapons in the Korean war, even against Chinese cities. You can imagine if it was Japan at stake.

[@grindelz]

Hey you are that dark bhuddist patreon!

[@emperorhirohito8166]

That's perfect sound of myself

[@weirdasspomeranianlover7746]

hirohito heyyyy

[@LionJamesBuchananBarnes]

Tenno heika banzai !!!

[@taidordz]

there is no space between hiro and hito, the kanjis are together.

[@user-jt4ht9pe7t]

Arslan Magomedov Tenno heika banzai

[@thesunriseintheeast8342]

Me too

[@user-lg2fn1tq2e]

I am Japanese, but Emperor Showa uses classical and highly formal language, so there are many parts of this broadcast that I cannot understand without translating it into modern language.

[@lmdify09]

Да, заметил что он говорит на очень старом японском языке

[@mattfromwiisports2468]

Would it be like me hearing someone speak like Shakespeare or more like someone speaking in super intense vocabulary? Native English speaker for context

[@zhumochi2117]

​@@mattfromwiisports2468 for example, old english + strong scotish accent + a bunch of big tech company terms you would never use in daily life

[@davidw.2791]

@@mattfromwiisports2468 Plus weird syntax like Yoda’s “English”.

[@3ducksinamansuit]

It was a dialect used in imperial court for centuries.

[@alexisbertrand5914]

Damn he has all the Pokemon badges !

[@aru9722]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@enanan_]

He's the Pokemon Trainer nobody knows about!

[@scintillam_dei]

The 8-pointed star he wears is the masonic symbol referring to the Tower of Babel (Star of Ishtar has 8 rays). That was when mankind united to try to conquer heaven as mislead by the devil. Masons are builders, and they build the NOVVS ORDO SECLORVM (NEW WORLD ORDER) to try to conquer heaven again. The world wars were preplanned, as well as this plandemic that exists more in the minds of the gullible than in reality. The WHO symbol has Satan on it: the serpent on the tree, stylized. The UN logo has 33 sections. Guess how many degrees there are in masonry. There's much more evidence proving what I say but people prefer their superficial PG Disneyesque version of history rather than the grim truth.

[@NEUTR0NDANCE]

@@scintillam_dei Which medal are you referring to?

[@skeletonjanitor]

@@scintillam_dei ók

[@paddle_my_mad_laddle]

US: "Do you surrender, Japan?" Japan: "Well no, but actually yes."

[@sce2aux464]

"Certainly not...however, in the interest of building lasting relations between our two nations, we shall put our arms down, and your armed forces are welcome to set foot on Japanese territory and remain as long as your want and if you have any paperwork that would lead to long-term peace, well by all means bring it by and we shall review it with a strong inclination towards endorsing it..."

[@emmaantenna4352]

Us before the war: How could we justify war against the Japanese? How can we spread our power?

[@sce2aux464]

@@emmaantenna4352 - Japan took care of that on December 7, 1941. But FDR was expecting that there would be war with Germany...there was war with Germany in every way but an actual declaration. FDR was hoping to avoid a war in the Atlantic AND Pacific. After all, Japan had kicked the shit out of Russia not too long before.

[@emmaantenna4352]

@@sce2aux464 plans of invasion were ready long before the war. Just like before any "peace making" american war. Just my opinion though (backed with facts)

[@sce2aux464]

@@emmaantenna4352 - Name your sources

[@Tsirkon]

Why it sounded the Emperor is telling a scary Story meanwhile there's a camp fire sound in the background

[@yougoslavia]

Because in those days people ate sausages during important speeches.

[@Philip54622]

Ha ha

[@Philip54622]

@@yougoslavia Yeah I can imagine him sitting next to the microphone with a plate of sausages and slowley eating them meanwhile someone was frying them next tp him

[@yougoslavia]

@@Philip54622 "These sausages help me speak clearly."

[@sherriolsen7578]

There are actually lines in the video called “errors” and plus audio isn’t good but I can agree that it does sound like a campfire

[@erenyeager3829]

Hirohito sounds so different than I had expected...

[@lerandompersononline3746]

I mostly thought he was the one who is singing because it fitted his voice so well so i thought it was him

[@skeletonentertainment4201]

@@lerandompersononline3746 lmao same, i thought he was the one singing aswell

[@googleandsusansucks]

@@skeletonentertainment4201 What? The soy voice fits him perfectly. Just look at that manlet.

[@NovikNikolovic]

Hirohito told us not to tatakae

[@kmsbismarck8618]

Hitler: *speaks like a mad man* Mussolini: *Little man With deep voice speaking* Hirohito: *Presents a PowerPoint presentation*

[@lukasschulze7764]

Papa Franku giving his last Words before dissapearing into the Void 1945 (Better Audio)

[@chkbrki8992]

Ah, another man of culture *claps

[@avennmevhora3595]

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! :(

[@kouham420]

@@chkbrki8992 He's not a man of culture. He's a man high on knowledge.

[@antithesis4715]

a man gotta feel, but a man also need to grow up, lets accept papa franku has gone, its the time of the great joji era

[@nokatpalac5568]

Rip Franku he sacrifised him self for us who knew him to late and for those so early who knew him years ago he will be remembered in the comment section

[@gregorflopinski9016]

This is the japanese equivailent of the queen adressing the nation in old english

[@rbvfeehfbudenrj]

Everybody gangsta till the queen starts speaking _Old English_

[@federicov.8685]

Þe olde anglisch

[@celestialorb1680]

@@federicov.8685 Oh god

[@mynameisaj8500]

@@federicov.8685 thorn :)

[@sorarouge6351]

@snurk agurk Please, DON'T compare Thee Emperor of 🗾 to that piece of 💩 Crone.🙄

[@domi6542]

It is interesting to see the discussion about the emperor's accent here. As a student of Chinese classics and the Japanese language, I actually think the difficulty to understand him is actually due to the writings which the emperor read from, instead of his accent being so distinct. Classical Chinese can be viewed as something close to Latin as in Europe. For many centuries, countries in the East Asian Cultural Sphere, including Japan, had used classical Chinese to draft government documents. I had a close look at this specific royal rescript on the termination of the war, which was read by the emperor in this recording, and I can say with confidence that the writing was still heavily influenced by classical Chinese. If you compare a modern Japanese government document and this one, you can easily find a huge difference in the style of writing as well as grammar. Classical Chinese is hard to understand for people who had not received education in classics. And I believe this is the major reason.

[@keenjoaquin847]

Real Audio of Emperor Showa announcing his surrender while cooking sausages

[@leemperor44]

under-rater

[@dochhiowo.8649]

Having a great dinner

[@sokyu7723]

Virtual classes moment

[@tennisguyky]

I think he was speaking a more archaic form of Japanese sometimes referred to as “court Japanese”.

[@bones3439]

Classical Japanese

[@user-rv1ey8pl7q]

for now, most of japanese can not understand this type of grammar. let alone using.

[@alessandroproietti7742]

This kind of japanese looks like ancient chinese not for the words but for the tone: a lot of long words and then a shorter word like a rythm of a song

[@jomo5800]

@@user-rv1ey8pl7q I'd honestly like to learn that style of speech, but I'll work on my "classical Filipino" language first~

[@user-rv1ey8pl7q]

Mr. John, you are industrious. Indeed this speech is cool. This type of speech sounds like ancient Japanese called 漢語"Kango". It derived from ancient Chinese. As far as I remember, it was spoken in 1000-1200 around or before. Good luck!

[@ernestorivas3764]

The end of the WW2 Hitler: Suicide Mussolini: Lynched Hirohito: Surrendered

[@darthmango994]

Well he had no choice but to surrender

[@samibryan5119]

@@darthmango994 same with hitler but he cant take heavy loses so he commit gun fire on head

[@nonscripts1843]

@ and allegedly, america is communist. right?

[@nonscripts1843]

@Sunako Kirishiki source, please?

[@bibleboy1147]

@@nonscripts1843 I think everyone kind of just knows about it & a source is over doing it a lot pf people I know pretty much says that they think they mainly went to Argentina

[@Razzle_Dazzle-]

Hitler: take cyanide and shot his own head Mussolini: lynched by his own people Hirohito: The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage. But the good news is, i'm still your Emperor

[@jrexx2841]

Sushi, pizza and sausage lost to hamburger, tea and vodka.

[@AxK_Editz]

Japan , italy and german lost to usa , china and mothherrrr Russsia

[@thrwwyaccnt123]

@@AxK_Editz *USA, UK and Russia

[@AxK_Editz]

@@thrwwyaccnt123 oh thank-you

[@winstonchurchill2317]

Don't forget the buggtte it's france

[@cloudysoup9056]

Then Hamburger overuse the Sausage then ruin Pizzas

[@dzmarinemechanics3238]

this language is rarely spoken in japan with this new generation

[@nethur1616]

Yeah, my grandfather still speaks like that and only my grandmother can understand haha.

[@nethur1616]

And the language didn't really change a bit just pronouncuation of words make it hard

[@skyhawj251]

@@nethur1616 I can relate

[@acurrz3609]

its formal japanese, its not some other language.

[@hajimeokajima]

I think he used court Japanese, not used nowadays (I can't understand a damn word, even after knowing enough Japanese to have a conversation with a Japanese guy)

[@user-go6sv3rm5j]

For us japanese listening to this is like listening to Shakespeare english LOL

[@Pink-ol2zc]

馬鹿野郎！

[@DrewPicklesTheDark]

I think a better analogy would be if Queen Elizabeth addressed the UK in Old English. Shakespearean English isn't too hard to understand compared to modern English, but Old English to a native English speaker, doesn't sound foreign, but also can't be understood. At least the few native Japanese speakers I know have said this is very hard to make out.

[@danielforaboschi8958]

I think nobody asked about plus do you really found that funny?

[@user-go6sv3rm5j]

@@danielforaboschi8958 The comment section is where people wirte stuffs that nobody asked so deal with it.

[@kingsonsofaru423]

@@user-go6sv3rm5j Finally somebody said it.

[@Immortal-Daiki]

As a Japanese, listening and even reading Emperor Showa's surrender speech is difficult because of his use of Classical Japanese (文語体, bungotai). Classical Japanese was mostly used by 19th and 20th centuries by the Emperor, his Imperial Court and government officials. Old laws written during the time of the Empire were also written in Classical Japanese, characterised by old Kanji forms and the use of katakana for particles. The common Japanese only knew spoken Japanese which is vastly different than the Classical. Here's an example of how vastly different these two Japanese are. (From the first line of the Emperor's surrender speech). Classical: 「朕󠄁深ク世界ノ大勢ト帝󠄁國ノ現狀トニ鑑ミ非常ノ措置ヲ以テ時局ヲ收拾セムト欲シ茲ニ忠良ナル爾臣民ニ吿ク」 Modern:「朕深く世界の大勢と 帝国の現状とに鑑み 非常の措置をもって時局を収拾せんと欲し ここに忠良なる汝臣民に告ぐ」 You don't need to understand what I wrote above, but you can actually see writing differences between the two. Commoners back then and even today can't really understand what Emperor Showa was saying without using some type of reference material

[@user-kg8sx8yh5j]

How did you learn classical Japanese and can you understand what hirohito speaking 100%?

[@Immortal-Daiki]

@@user-kg8sx8yh5j we actually start learning some differences between modern Japanese and old Japanese starting around junior high school (AKA middle school). I remember we learned Japanese classical literature such as The Tale of Genji (源氏物語, Genji Monogatari) as well as their structure and even kanji. And no, I can't fully understand Showa's speech. Not only because of the type of Japanese he used but because of the sound quality of his speech. I usually read his speech transcribed in modern Japanese using modern characters

[@flyingdreams5005]

Thanks for the context. I'm from Taiwan and with all thr "old Kanji", I actually understand it better. Most Taiwanese documents in Japanese colonial period were also written in 文語体, so this is not too strange to us.

[@reeb3687]

but you just switched from hiragana to katakana and re-used old characters for ここ

[@Immortal-Daiki]

@@reeb3687 It's not just about switching kana. It's about switching from a way of thinking, a way of expression. It's like changing from the way Shakespeare spoke to the way modern English speakers speak

[@gehirnbar5730]

昭和天皇陛下の崩御を心から悼むと共に先の大戦で亡くならられた全ての兵士、民間に最大の敬意を評します。

[@Nor1998_]

Fun fact. He's speaking in a dialect of Japanese that to my knowledge is so old. Most if not all of his subjects doesn't know what he's saying.

[@brettkane9175]

Interesting. It's as if this same thing isn't in the video's description.

[@jayfriberg2789]

Correct, and I have read some reports of "The Conman Japanese Man" feeling they had won. Because they could understand about 1/4 of his words.

[@DaveF]

This isn't true. The speech was understood by most Japanese but was somewhat difficult to interpret, and many didn't understand exactly what he meant, but could still interpret the language just fine.

[@DrewPicklesTheDark]

@Emir Mohamed Al-Bergha Old English would be a better analogy.

[@norekolova868]

That’s not dialect. It’s the traditional formal Japanese which is close to ancient Chinese.

[@anonimus077ch]

Mussolini: angry little man with kinda of deep voice Hitler: furious-for-no-reason man with normal (German) voice Hiroito: kinda poet in nerdy style voice

[@rbvfeehfbudenrj]

Vietcong: Tree

[@roro-mm7cc]

You should compare hideki Tojo to hitler and Mussolini not Hirohito

[@dodosoedjana2416]

@@roro-mm7cc i guess tojo is more like hitler but only when they already conquer the country, like korea and china he really piece of human garbage. But for the pearl harbour case i guess hirohito is the real shit here because he allowed tojo to do that

[@user-cf4nn4ro9p]

Antonescu: angry, very short man with a high-pitched voice.

[@roro-mm7cc]

@@dodosoedjana2416 I guess we will never know how involved Hirohito really was in the war but if u look at him he seems more like a shy bookish person and actually his main passion was marine biology- not at all like the aggressive warlords. He was timid and weak and basically lived in total isolation and the only ppl who he saw regularly were his family and these incredibly aggressive warlords... you can see how easily they could have manipulated him/frightened him but ultimately he put the life of his family over the untold suffering of millions and could’ve brought an end to the war sooner. He certainly had more power than say queen Victoria who was just a constitutional monarch and basically had no power and she had to sign off a load of documents just like the queen does today. So blaming him for pearl harbour is sort of like blaming queen Victoria for the atrocities of the British empire when she herself literally had nothing to do with any of the plans. Although Hirohito certainly had a lot more power than queen Victoria until after ww2. The current emperor of japan Naruhito and his recently abdicated father Akihito are much more like ceremonial like the constitutional monarchs of Europe. Actually my uncle was friends with Naruhito when they were both in Oxford. They played music together in a small quartet.

[@wimpwampwomp]

'The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage' 'The Allies are making gains to some degree in certain areas' 'It has been slightly balmier in Hiroshima and Nagasaki recently' 'These are small issues which are not irreversible'

[@ok.2088]

Me and my term paper :

[@lucasgrey9794]

Hirohito is actually NOT downplaying anything. Japan could've continued the war and taken the U.S down with them using their bioweapons which were capable of EXTERMINATING the entire American population.

[@metaknight115]

Our army is still strong and powerful, and not being pushed back at all. They are equipped with some high quality tanks. We still have a powerful navy, with plenty of carriers and pilots, and we totally didn’t sacrifice the worlds largest and most powerful battleship in a pointless suicide mission.

[@EGReviews]

Think he realised the red army were now being redirected from Europe, with Sakhalin and other lands which were already disputed, it wouldn't have been long before they joined in on the assault on Japan,

[@john-us4zw]

The background music is "prayer for peace" from the godzilla soundtrack, which is actually an incredibly good choice because godzilla was originally a metaphor for the massive destruction brought by nuclear weapons. Also note the word peace.

[@ChairmanZhongXiNa]

No one: People in old audio recordings: *fries sausages*

[@emh-5046]

Tao Tao Is this our legacy just memes?

[@ChairmanZhongXiNa]

@@emh-5046 yep

[@sherriolsen7578]

so no credit huh?

[@sailorwallachia2484]

Mmmmm.....😋😋🍟🍟🍟🍟🍖🍖🍖🍖

[@sailorwallachia2484]

@GuitarTee ROBLOX I am going to eat fries

[@quocvietophu1627]

Japanese in the comment section: *He's speaking the language of gods*

[@emperorjacques7282]

he is god

[@dragonchang4979]

@@emperorjacques7282 a midget god

[@idiocrat3744]

@@dragonchang4979 ancestor of gods

[@dragonchang4979]

@@idiocrat3744 Ancestor of a midget god

[@boringnames6920]

He's a demon who would allow the salughter and defilement of other parts of asia. Countless Chinese were met with fatalities.

[@herredward9277]

"The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage." My man was trying to reach the minimum word limit out here and he did it like a champ.

[@jaydenbooty]

Okay, I didn’t expect him to sound like that.

[@Juak05]

funny how he never says the word "surrender"

[@Juak05]

@@samuraineko3 ofc, how would he admit defeat aniways , at least in a literal way?

[@storrho]

Why the fuck would he say ‘surrender’ he’s japanese.

[@chiefster11]

If he was french that wouldve been the first word stated. Japanese are relentless LOL

[@InchonDM]

When you've spent the last four years with your propaganda machine not even admitting retreats, using the term "turned advance" instead, you have to break it gently, living god or not.

[@cv4809]

He's the emperor of Japan,not France

[@user-gc5wb7bi9p]

it is said that allmost of all citizen couldn't understand what he said because of his difficult japanese. Even for a japanese like me, it's difficult to understand what he is saying.

[@user-oc9lx1ih9i]

Well he is speaking Japanese normal people wouldn't understand.

[@braincoolo9399]

Its essentially due to the closed off relationship between the people of japan and the emperor, emperors rarely lived out of their... palace? I guess palace and basically spoke their own version of japanese, as opposed to regular japanese spoken by the people.

[@condorX2]

He was role-playing, to be the higher power nerd. Nobody can understand him except for himself.

[@mr-vb3id]

@@condorX2 nope. its actually a japanese that the aristocrats(royal) only can understand. maybe its only taught to aristocrats

[@aimanasyraf5657]

@@condorX2 hahahahahaha

[@cagdas_demir_albayrak]

Many Emperors lived and spent their lives in Japan but that day was the day an Emperor has truly died. You have no idea how much important this broadcast was for an average Japanese. They didn't hear a man in power talking to his nation. They heard the last wheezing breaths of a dying god.

[@mysticalmargaret6105]

That's a beautiful song at the beginning. Emperor Hirohito sounds sad but dignified.

[@spade3779]

what’s the name of the song?

[@user-hkkn1kyls6hevb8v]

Akagi bluce

[@idimusiccollection2561]

@@user-hkkn1kyls6hevb8v terima kasih atas informasi judul lagu nya.

[@user-op9dn3ws6m]

Old formal Japanese is difficult to understanding😓

[@Eza_yuta]

It's like when you speak with holding water inside your mouth.

[@kanak9305]

It’s unfortunate how you guys don’t have an alphabet or easier characters.

[@anonimosu7425]

America, what hast thou done

[@denizinneed6384]

yeah just use romaji who the fuck does want to learn kanji

[@Shey_08]

@@denizinneed6384 When you don't understand what Kanji is for.

[@lgiver5148]

Fun fact: for nearly all Japanese this was the first time hearing their emperors voice who they view as a god, so this is like hearing Jesus voice if you’re Christian.

[@pr3ttyb0yfl4cko]

And the first time they heard it, it was about surrendering. After hearing the announcement, several Japanese people stayed to their homes and left their businesses to quietly contemplate and absorb the message. It was like an instant holiday.

[@evabugiugi]

Well, except if Jesus was still alive and lived in a palace, haha.

[@salz446]

uhm they didnt belive the emperor was their god, im pretty sure they were buddihsts muslims and even christians, many religions the main one is shinto tf u got this from man

[@evabugiugi]

@@salz446 State Shinto was a thing, it put the emperor at the top, being a supposed descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu, who was essentially the head of the whole Japanese Shinto pantheon. In fact State Shinto was at one point (who guessed it) mandated by the state! So a lot of people were used to thinking of him as at least something higher than any other man.

[@DoctorDeath147]

@@pr3ttyb0yfl4cko many Japanese couldn't understand him anyway because he spoke in an archaic Imperial court dialect

[@pacificostudios]

The speech was actually recorded onto a phonograph record, presumably so the recording would have no mistakes. The night before the broadcast, rebellious Army officers led a violent coup and invaded the Imperial Palace searching for the record, among other things, to try to prevent the recording from being broadcast. They failed and the recording was broadcast at noon, Tokyo time.

[@RedTsarOldChannel-INACTIVE]

Showa Hirohito: Guys can you please stop attacking other peaceful countries? It'll backfire... Hideki Tojo and his military gang: Nah.

[@KaiX_Gaming]

Yep

[@ayankhanayankhan2012]

He def wasnt like that

[@rampage3390]

Who the heck is frying burnt sausages during a broadcast

[@UCmDBecUtbSafffpMEN3iscA]

The audio recorder is over-heating and they're using it to cook sausages like your mom does

[@dreadedenterprise51]

ᅚ yes mom jokes in 2019 quite funny

[@hoominbeeing]

Killergaming That's just the sound of the burning corpses after the nuke.

[@EricToTheScionti]

The emperor obviously. He is reading a recipe

[@griffinh.966]

Bruh

[@jesuisanonyme7312]

Google: People talk faster when they show interest in you. People when they talk to me:

[@johnpaulabocad6941]

he actually talks fast

[@calzabbath]

He asked his subjects to endure the unendurable and to suffer the insufferable, after losing a most terrible war. I'm not Japanese but, having read that statement years ago, I have tried to put into perspective those words every time I encountered difficulties and find my strength in them.

[@tony8717]

He has seen through the suffering Japan endured through the war and he has the power to end it.

[@fifervonpiper6707]

Hirohito be really trying to phrase his surrender to make it sound like Japan just signed peace instead of actually surrendering.

[@salyoutube7023]

They scared to lose honor

[@arifahmedkhan9999]

They did that, their terms were agreed upon and it wasn't an unconditional surrender. And yes, honour above all else, that's one thing that you cant lose in Asian cultures.

[@rockzstarworld]

@@arifahmedkhan9999 what honour? they literally committed war crimes in southeast asia lol

[@Berghendorf]

@@salyoutube7023 they had none to begin with.

[@Berghendorf]

@@arifahmedkhan9999 what honor? You mean committing such ghastly war crimes that even Nazi Germany had to disavow it? Yeah dude, really "honorable" behavior.

[@thehaloscrolls391]

“Should we continue to fight, It would also lend to the total extinction of human civilization” The scariest part was, he’s right

[@vespasiancaesar9842]

not really

[@conversationtosaurusrex]

Japan did not have any Nuclear Weapons and the Soviets wouldn't get it until 1949 thus making the US with theoretically the biggest stick. It wouldn't lead to the total extinction of human civilization, but only the total destruction of Japanese society and mass amounts of more casualities.

[@thehaloscrolls391]

Madara Uchiha I’m talking about how in the future if the Soviets and Americans didn’t stop the Cold War at one point someone would have pressed the red button

[@ancientwarrior3482]

@@conversationtosaurusrex the invasion of mainland Japan would have cost millions upon millions if not even tens of millions of lives.

[@conversationtosaurusrex]

@@ancientwarrior3482 I know that

[@c3a118]

this makes me nostalgic for no reason

[@shyamdevadas6099]

My mother was a 15 year old Japanese-American girl who in Japan at the time of this speech. She had been sent to Japan years before to spend time with her grandparents and became trapped there after Pearl Harbor. She heard this speech along with everyone else, listening to NHK. She had told me years ago that Hirohito's Japanese was so "archaic" that nobody understood it. This is the first time I've heard this and I'm going to play it for my mother who is now 93 years old.

[@Hogan231]

He made the right choice to surrender, to save his people and Japan.

[@falcon9ft710]

RIGHT CHOICE : *ATTACK PERAL HARBOR*

[@Hogan231]

@@falcon9ft710 He did not order the attack on Pearl Harbor.

[@admiralgedi107]

김승민 It was the generals that attacked America

[@galactica604]

Like France

[@viscount_of_troyes]

@@galactica604 France only partially surrendered since the day right after the armistice was announced by Pétain, Charles De Gaulle created Free France in London. The surrendering was total for less than 24 hours.

[@MaitreKorda]

>first time hearing the voice of your Emperor for everyone in the nation >tfw he declares surrender And yet, he spoke like a true worthy monarch.

[@oogaleeboogalee6522]

Shut up weeb

[@chrislaute984]

he is a war criminal and mass murderer…...

[@oogaleeboogalee6522]

AlexTheTsarist say “it” weebs are not real people

[@broquestwarsneeder7617]

>true worthy monarch That doesn't exist.

[@thebarrellord.6683]

lotzkny bismoyla As a loyal British subject of her majesty the Queen I will have to disagree with you on that. God save the Queen. And while Emperor Hirohito may or may not of ordered the war crimes he did the right thing in surrendering to the allies in order to save his subjects from nuclear annihilation. Most monarchs would of continued to fight but he did not. That is admirable.

[@Catto217]

What I liked from his perspective, is that he's aware if they didn't stop the action it'll not only result in ultimate collapse of the Japanese nation, but also it would lead to the total extinction of human civilization. The emperor knew the danger of the atomic bomb, and the greed of who controlled it in the future.

[@ericchristopherjacintohusi661]

Do you guys know what's the name of background choir song during Emperor Hirohito gave his speech?

[@IvanSoregashi]

Wow, I thought in the beginning emperor was singing about surrender...

[@zainabe9503]

ikr 😂

[@darklex5150]

Me too i thought that he was singing xD

[@fosi3246]

haha

[@dominic0900]

What even is the name of the song?

[@RunDownn_]

ARLEFD yeah I wanna know

[@user-qx1wr7hh8s]

He's speaking the language of gods

[@Toyhub2345]

The only gods here are you and me

[@condorX2]

A brainwashing God. Cut belly now?

[@user-oc9lx1ih9i]

@@Toyhub2345 Yes you are my God lord Ricardo!

[@Toyhub2345]

@@user-oc9lx1ih9i dance is what fills your soul

[@sneekibreeki4952]

condorX2 cant take a meme huh

[@artificialanimeuniverse5063]

"The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage." The best speech of all!

[@1228yukio]

今この玉音放送を聴いてすべての意味を理解できる日本人がどれだけ居るんだろう？たしかに軽い言葉では表現出来ないかもしれませんが　それにしてもこの　いきなりの古文的表現は謎　放送状況音声もクリアではない為　終戦を直ぐに理解出来なかった人も多い筈だ

[@maximilianiemperorofmexico455]

No one: KZbin: Hey, wanna hear hirohito's voice?

[@DwightLivesMatter]

Dead meme.

[@claudiakapranos]

I know right?

[@chickensandwich1761]

Me: You bet!

[@CrnaStrela]

I don't, but here I am

[@helppls4836]

H

[@lawliet1752]

General: "So are we surrendering?" Hirohito: "Well yes and also no."

[@globallyfamouse6609]

Actually many generals were against it and tried a failed coup de ta against the surrendering government

[@adrielsebastian5216]

@@globallyfamouse6609 the ultimate goal of the coup attempt was to seize this very recording (and its duplicate). Luckily, both managed to be smuggled out of the palace.

[@user-mh2yb7ry1g]

Many Japanese think, we were not here ,if this broadcast had not been at that time. His majesty won the people's support, and never lost divinity itself. This sense must not be understandable for Non-Japanese.

[@stoggafllik]

日本投降=帝國恥辱

[@zeten___9908]

I had no idea he sounded like that!god damn that's a surprise.

[@raspi-id1xg]

I could partially understand its Japanese without sub, but not fully. Even though Im Japanese. Japanese at this era, and the way the emperor says is complicated.

[@zhouwu]

I think he was trying very hard to change his people's minds about the war without upsetting anyone, since he's basically saying that they are no longer to fight for victory, but to accept the terms and focus their energy on the rebuild, and not permit anyone's outbursts of frustration at the turn of Imperial policy to jeapardise either the peace with the outside world, or to cause divisions between the pro war and anti war factions within Japan itself. In other words, he is essentially field marshalling his entire nation and making a pivot of the national direction from attack to withdrawal. He has to choose his words very carefully to not allow Japanese to feel either betrayed, or to allow them to feel self blame, or to feel excessively horrible. Essentially, he was attempting to preserve a fragment of dignity, even with this unwilling relenting to the will of the coalition forces of the outsiders.

[@braincoolo9399]

Its formal japanese, pretty much only used in court

[@humbertoflores2545]

Are you serious?? This is old japanese language??

[@user-ki5lj1dh5z]

@Humberto Flores His Japanese is 文語体(bungotai): "Literally Japanese" and it was used only for official document etc until WW2 Even in WW2 era, only people who had high education can understand it that because they used only 口語体(kougotai): "Verbal Japanese" life for everyday and it is almost same as modern Japanese That's why it's hard for us and most of people at that time to understand it By the way, if the words are written, most of part would be understandable for us Actually, listening is hard for me, but reading the sentence is not so much difficult and I can understand 80%-90%

[@HelloHello-yf8dz]

他用文言文说的，听起来肯定难懂

[@cheems5643]

Only 1940s kids remember this

[@supraptisuprapti8577]

Chinese people will remember that

[@culturedcrazygirl]

Give me the N-pass! Oof

[@anthonyc4138]

@@supraptisuprapti8577 Lol

[@Aerodeth]

@@supraptisuprapti8577 Dont forget the Filipinos! ...Their grandmothers didnt!

[@carnage0685]

why do they have the godzilla 1954 prayer for peace song in this broadcast? is that where godzilla 1954 got it from, or was it added in this footage?

[@exist505]

Interesting to hear a recording that changed the course of a nations history for free on KZbin

[@Serelor]

Recommended because you liked: Neon Genesis: Evangelion

[@brickbrick8299]

YES

[@paulludwigewaldvonkleist4039]

Yes

[@abandonedchannel281]

Nice

[@evvt7326]

No, I had to make a thesis about Hiroshima 😎👌

[@JazzCity132]

No, it's because of that one 60's video of Japanese life in my playlist?

[@stalker4474]

Top 10 saddest anime endings

[@yusuffulat6954]

*best endings

[@settiks3986]

@@yusuffulat6954 How is it a best ending if they get nuked, their people get thrown into degeneracy and fertility decay? On some areas, they accept hundreds of Brazilians and Muslims, there are THOUSANDS of videos on YTB of that.. Just sad.

[@yusuffulat6954]

@@settiks3986 what are you on about?

[@settiks3986]

I'm not native English but i think i wrote good enough to be readable

[@greyscaleb1537]

@@settiks3986 no they didn't? Japan has no foreigners...

[@clydepatrick27]

One person didnt get the memo on time, his name is Hiroo Onoda. Memo came 25 years later.

[@RichardC313]

This speech marked the end of an imperial empire and the beginning of a 2D one.

[@thomasvendetti3742]

Again Historical Recordings have mined the historical audio and visual archives and has presented a valuable and fascinating artifact. Thank you!

[@datchiggatai6737]

Fun fact no one in the history of japan has heard any of the emperors voice until this point in time when Americans made him speak. This is what my grandpa said

[@kappsa5365]

@tu tu no foreigners or commoners only his personal staff relative's or high command

[@DZ-1987]

"Mo, iya desu, american-san" "My emperor said he does not want to, mr american" "Dew it"

[@splashautumn9163]

How did they translated it to english of only royals can

[@Jupiter.141]

Their emperor is a god. As what they believed

[@mingshili4101]

@@DZ-1987 Its more like do it or i will fry your sausage on the frying pan you lil shorty. LOL

[@nathanmontes1072]

Wow this is incredible footage

[@nanoff815]

Why is "Prayer for Peace" from Gojira(1954) playing in the background?

[@TaushaTW]

I studied Japanese in the past. The Emperor's voice is melodius.

[@z0h33y]

It sounds like a motorcycle stuck in the mud running its engine.

[@aimanasyraf5657]

@@z0h33y hahahahahahaha

[@the33rdguy]

z0h lmfao ok that was funny

[@volrosku.6075]

might be my western views but his voice doesn't sound like one of a warlord or terrible person equal to hitler or moussilini but much like a almost priest like softness to it almost as if despite knowing he might be deposed put on trial and possibly sent to the firing squad he wasn't angary wasn't sad just accepted it with a serenity many leaders could truly learn from and fortunately the west knew how to handle Japan after the war and now they are our closest ally in the east and a check on DPRK and PRC aggression. a better world because of this emperors courage to end that war in the way he did

[@Imbecile_crazy_philosopher]

​@@volrosku.6075well, his voice sounded like that because he was a reasonable and admirable person, nerdy even, the goverment was mostly ran by the Prime Minister, aka Hideki Tojo, policies were only approved by instead of made by him, apparently, his Father, Emperor Taisho was very sickly in his rule so most of the governing was given to the Prime Ministers and.....well, the office became more and more militaristic and chauvinistic, and the rest is history

[@CarefreeMan]

*To anyone wondering the song in the beginning, the name of it is: "Kirishima Noboru - Akagi Blues". Enjoy!*

[@sleepyrowdy1826]

Hello red baron guy

[@CarefreeMan]

@@sleepyrowdy1826 *Greetings, some unknown person who is sleepy.*

[@scintillam_dei]

No, it's Darude Sandstorm or: kzbin.info/www/bejne/moLaZapvjMyLmbM

[@scintillam_dei]

@Boring clips Because you had to open your virtual mouth.

[@pashauzan]

@@scintillam_dei Memorized the link

[@kaito9836]

What is this "Chill by the fireplace with Emperor Hirohito"?

[@gogglestransparent9720]

Cook hotdogs with hirohito

[@Inadequate-Butters]

I just realized the song used in the background is the exact same song from the ending of Gojira 1954 really makes this feel really sad to hear because that's actually interesting as hell

[@wedolphinwilly5952]

Girls locker room: OMG! I totes can’t believe we beat the boys in dodgeball!!! Boys locker room: 1:07

[@Nugcon]

I have no idea why this made me laugh

[@chrisspades6183]

You S.O.B that made me laugh

[@imanuel22]

@Zebra Ataraxia Ok let's talk the story about him and his horse

[@MsPaintMr]

Thanks for actually adding a hint of originality and not just having there be a school trip to Japan or some shit.

[@idkboredlord1391]

F in the chat boys

[@sirashina]

Who's burning a fire in background

[@basemrab3028]

i was feeling cold for fuck sake

[@user-mt9pw3fs7g]

Me

[@Nugcon]

nuclear bombs tend to create a lot of fire

[@lidulkadut]

The chef who burned down all of Tokyo because he couldn’t make instant noodles for the emperor

[@Makabayan_Editz]

Lol

[@kresnataadiwaskito2317]

Hirohito: I conquer almost whole asian Comment: what a nerd

[@harveydogcognito2790]

Well he didn't conquered asia he didn't even ordered the attack on pearl harbor

[@kennymccormick3027]

Also Hirohito: UwU Marine Bioligy

[@rickville8898]

Genghis Khan : whoooopss

[@tritium1998]

​​​@@harveydogcognito2790The Japanese worshipped the shy nerd more than Germans did for their leader. He just ordered his officials to manage the war until his surrender speech.

[@MarkAndreYapching]

The translation can't even seem to keep up. I hear him refer to Tokyo many times yet it doesn't appear in the translation.

[@shuhratkessikbayev8886]

When you live in such a heavy Honor Society that you refuse to say that your nation surrendered so you beat around the bush and make a 2 hour novel for a simple declaration for surrender

[@prisminc158]

What's the point of broadcasting it on radio when people don't even understand what you're saying.

[@satriaputrapratama4703]

That's their way to save face

[@Berghendorf]

@@satriaputrapratama4703 saving face is absolutely impossible when they enslaved and destroyed almost every Asian nation surrounding it for their Imperial Domination cause.

[@czxlin9484]

@@Berghendorf if you were the emperor back then, you probably would've done the same...

[@Berghendorf]

@@czxlin9484 yes, if I was in such an improvisational as being The Emperor of Japan, I'm sure that I would have been able to do nothing to stop the militants from terrorizing the rest of Asia. I'm literally not even talking about that though, I'm talking about how pathetic and sad it is for Hirohito to still CONTINOUSLY pussy-foot around the simple fact that Japan lost. Not once, NOT ONCE does he just say it how it is.

[@ericvanz9015]

season II has ended, cant wait for the third

[@nazarethdude5070]

Personally, I'm waiting for the netflix adaptation.

[@yusuffulat6954]

Season 1: WW1 Season 2: WW2 Season 3: Hentai

[@MP-cv6if]

Here it is. COVID 19

[@ericvanz9015]

@@MP-cv6if oh fuck

[@MAG_1204]

Understandable, have a great day

[@Shuttercockperson]

Why does he sound so friendly and sad...

[@bruhbruhnay4074]

being indonesian and getting interest about this is so weird

[@johnmartinez12347]

I just realized I can't speak Japanese

[@kaistaunton4689]

Hate when that happens

[@bisexualbean2529]

And I oop-

[@bisexualbean2529]

Joseph Stalin Он по

[@helppls4836]

@Joseph Stalin H

[@helppls4836]

@Joseph Stalin H

[@sunclonkt7839]

Lmao they made that Japanese guy from HOI4 into real thing. Funniest shit I've ever seen

[@simplylife2544]

Hahahahaha best comment on this comment section

[@garp9269]

lmao

[@garp9269]

Double chin

[@you_dare_to_gaze_upon_me]

HOI4 and AOC2 (age of civilizations)

[@johnnysins8205]

@Tiziano Mellano you mean mussolini and hitler

[@Ezekiel934]

私たちは敗北しましたが、幸いなのは天皇陛下がご休息されていることです。私たちは今生きており、戦争もなく、人々も良い生活を送っています。幸せになれるよ、第二次世界大戦中の日本人の人生は少し休めるだろう..テンノ・ヘイカ・バンザイ

[@adrielsebastian5216]

If you think he speech sounded weird (both its sound quality and the language used), some chap at the NHK thought so too, so after this speech was over, to prevent any confusion, a radio announcer said, in no uncertain terms, that Japan has indeed surrendered.

[@Dingosean]

I live in Japan and this sounds so weird. Showa had a super strange old dialect and the fact that most Japanese had never heard him speak made this rather confusing to them. This might as well be Chinese compared with modern day Japanese. Its bizarre sounding.

[@fahoodie1852]

Famous last words of the Japanese emperor as he is slowly lowered into a giant vat of frying oil, September 1945 (colourised)

[@mazadancoseben4818]

He did?

[@thomsle3051]

I like how you say "colourised" even though it's still in black and white

[@nilz5909]

Cover yourself in oil

[@Demonetization_Symbol]

Did that actually happen?

[@codyyoung5946]

@@Demonetization_Symbol No, its a audio quality joke

[@DesGardius-me7gf]

Nowhere near as mighty as his grandfather, Meiji.

[@shadowbolt518]

Is the music behind Hirohito the Prayer for Peace? It sounds very similar.