Surrender and Occupation of Japan (Archive, World War 2, Original Footage, Japan World War)

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@pwood3850 Ай бұрын

My father served in the the Army of Occupation in Japan with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from 1946 to 1947. His unit, the 43rd ECB worked on airfields and even levelled off some nearby high mountaintops near air bases to create better terrain clearances needed for more level less steep instrument approach procedure glidepaths into the airfields. My father remembered during his time there, he met many Japanese people, young and old including an uncalled upon kamakize pilot who, while friendly and respectful, was like most veterans still a very proud man. The uncalled kamakize pilot told my father it was nice to meet Americans but wanted to know how soon we were going home.

@minhthunguyendang9900 12 күн бұрын

Was he in such a hurry to feel the russian boot on his neck ?

@gordonayres2609 2 ай бұрын

My father was in the Occupation Troops of the New Zealand Army after peace was declared. There until 1946. His snapshots are a piece of history.

@timmellin2815 2 ай бұрын

Ditto my dad who served on the USS Santa Fe in the Pacific in WW 2, and he was in the occupation force, too. He got a nice samurai sword that we still have, in our family.

@grantadams4114 Ай бұрын

My father was also in the NZ Occupation Troops to Japan.

@joebudi5136 3 ай бұрын

I've watched a zillion ww2 documentaries . Never this one. Thanks to the uploader.

@johndeboyace7943 2 ай бұрын

Crusade in the Pacific, on KZbin

@fredvaladez3542 2 ай бұрын

One of the best documentaries I have ever seen. I grew up during this era and yet have learned so much. Thank you for a job well done.

@pcbacklash_3261 Ай бұрын

It's funny how the video speaks of the post-war Japanese "seizing" upon and adopting anything American. Now we do the same, but in reverse -- from Godzilla to sushi to Ramen to karaoke to Pokemon to Power Rangers. Human nature is fascinating.

@user-yx9xt5iy3m Ай бұрын

Power Rangers is actually war of the future, with some Asian countries fielding heavily armored fighters. ❤

@diannegooding8733 Ай бұрын

Unit 731 not being prosecuted in any way was utterly unforgivable!

@ron88303 Ай бұрын

Welcome to reality.

@loydevan1311 19 күн бұрын

The US brought the whole unit to Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. Built them a Japanese village, families, schools, Japanese teachers, doctors, dentists, and boot makers just so they could work for the USA. We wanted to know every dirty secret that they learned from poisoning American POW's.

@robertgroves4293 18 күн бұрын

My father was held as a POW in Mukden POW Camp. They never knew about the research in 731 until after they were liberated and the Americans took them around to show what was going on. But he did say that they never let the Japanese know they were sick as they were led away and never seen again (thought they were transferred to another POW Camp). Live medical research on humanity prevailed over morality.

@toastnjam7384 Ай бұрын

Dad was a camp guard for Pow's in the states and his last assignment before being discharged was escorting Japanese Pow's back where he was station for a couple of months. He was very apprehensive of how he would be treated by the people, but they were very nice and polite. He said if it wasn't for the bomb damage you never thought the two nations were recently at war. He also said commodities like soap, toothpaste, cigarettes and the like were more valuable than money.

@johndeboyace7943 2 ай бұрын

I believe this the documentary “Crusade in the Pacific” @1950

@markhorrell9213 Ай бұрын

This glosses over how well prepared the home islands were against the allies. Grabdad(army int and a japanese literate) was horrified at what was prepared against us both militarily(airforce- hidden reserves,fuel storage) army(ammunition reserves and man power) navy (suicide small atack boats, assorted mines,submarines)..substantially more than Allied beleif! He told me that- the bombs- saved sooo many more lives than the projected cost for both sides

@skyedog24 Ай бұрын

Without a doubt 🧐

@minhthunguyendang9900 12 күн бұрын

The militarists were prepared to fight as long as the thickness of the human shield

@Thrakerzog Ай бұрын

Cool documentary, I'm glad that modern dentistry also came to Japan. I mean did you check out the emperor's grill?

@user-fu9vj9ix3g Ай бұрын

Pretty much common all over the world then - even in America, where dentistry was by any measure the best, but nothing like today. I'm 68, and well remember my parents' generation around the neighborhood. Bad teeth and early dentures were almost universal. If an adult had great teeth - they were false. Even my generation had lots of cavities and fillings that young adults today have never experienced. Modern dentistry didn't really come around until the early 1980's. Kids born after that all had sealants, and far better dental health. My 34 YO daughter has never experienced a toothache, or a cavity, or even a procedeure of any kind - but she had braces, bought and paid for.

@toastnjam7384 Ай бұрын

@@user-fu9vj9ix3g Yes. I'm 73 and both my parents lost most of their teeth by their 30's. Mostly thru gum disease and were wearing dentures. I had a lot of cavities during my youth and my memories of the dentist back then was the slow cable powered drill. Nothing like modern pneumatic drills. About 5 years ago I had a small cavity for the first time in a long time. After a bit of drilling a sealant was applied and then the assistant came in with a device that looked like a ray gun and zapped it, and it was done. I thought, we've come a long way.

@ecs2ecs46 Ай бұрын

Going to high school in the 80s I remember a huge surge dentistry. Annual check ups suddenly became the norm and dozens of dentistry schools opened up in my state. At the time I just ignored it but having watch docs over the years especially older ones, dental hygiene improvement was definitely needed!

@robertg.arbuckle6838 Ай бұрын

No one would go surrender except a man who had lost a leg and parts of his body. He knew that he would be killed for his signature. And he was.

@desmondbrennan3030 4 күн бұрын

Nope. Fake news. Foreign minister Shigemitsu ( guy with the cane) died of heart disease in 1957….. and he wasn’t the only one to sign the surrender.

@frequentlycynical642 Ай бұрын

Thank you! I've always been amazed at how the Japanese adopted Western wear, decades before the occupation, resulting in the Japanese representatives wearing top hats, still in good enough condition to wear. And tails.

@billmalone5050 24 күн бұрын

It was American economic and industrial might that payed for and supplied the Allied war effort all over the world and American miltary power that took the fight to the Axis powers. Plus we rebuilt much of western and southern Europe after WW2 courtesy of the Marshall plan and we also rebuilt Japan after the war as well.

@michaelrooks4030 23 күн бұрын

@billmalone5050 of course it was mate ...just like the first world war ..wait till the end and after all the commonwealth countries have been fighting from day one ...and America has been making millions selling arms and the axis countries are on the run...then come in and believe u won both wars single-handedly...u lot are all brain washed...ww1 joined 1917 ..we been fighting since 1914 ....ww2 joined December 1941 ...we been fighting since 1939 ...funny when u lot start a war u can never win it ...but u keep believing what u want mate ...the rest of the world is used to it

@DM-iw2qt 2 ай бұрын

If you do not want to surrender do not star a war !

@DaveP326 Ай бұрын

They should've listened to Yamamoto when he said he could guarantee only 6 months of Japanese military and naval supremacy, and after that American industrial might would tilt the war against Japan. The thought of the Japanese government at the beginning was that since our fleet was destroyed, we would agree to Japanese supremacy in Asia in line with their "Asia for Asiatics" mantra, and that would be the end of it. They completely misjudged our reaction, especially considering the way the war started-an attack without a declaration of war. They aroused a sleeping tiger.

@minhthunguyendang9900 18 күн бұрын

Read William Manchester’s « American Caesar » Read it before seeing the distorted 📺 version made from the book.

@seanlander9321 2 ай бұрын

Wrong. Japan was occupied by two powers; Australia had a third of the country and America the rest. Australia also led the war crimes trials its constitution is the framework for the Japanese constitution.

@johnlowell5905 Ай бұрын

I was under the impression that BCOF included units from other colonies and dominioms. It wasn't called Australian Occupation Force but British Commonwealth Occupation Forces.

@seanlander9321 Ай бұрын

@@johnlowell5905 BCOF was alway under Australian command, same in Korea. Similarly the Japanese war crime trials were led by the Australian judiciary.

@markhorrell9213 Ай бұрын

My dad was an enlisted man in the AIF n a Japanese speaker (originally 2 /12 n 2 yrs combat experience as a gunner). His father(my grandad) had him transferred to the war crimes tribunal. Dad oversaw about 80+ japs hung b4 transferring out after health issues(gonnerea)...he found a position in the occupation forces in HQ as an advisor/interpreter working at some point with his dad(grandad transferred from Australia due to Macarthur's request...he'd been army Intell n gave Mac his daily briefing in Brisbane n elsewhere)...dad n grandad were both returned to Australia by late 1949 by choice. The hangings dad stated were mostly low to mid ranking officers with a few high ones tossed in by the yanks. Pop stood over watch out side cells after grandad interpreted at that point

@keithammleter3824 Ай бұрын

@@johnlowell5905 : BCOF as set up included troops from India and New Zealand. When India got its independence, they pulled their troops home. The New Zealand contingent was very small, which was fair enough as New Zealand's population was very small. Australian troops were there for the duration. New Zealand pulled its contingent out early as the occupation was a very expensive process. The reason why it was a called BCOF is political and a bit murky. Before the War and immediately after Britain was Australia's largest trading partner, and it was seen as a good thing to kowtow to Britain - also many Australians thought of Britain as the mother country, even though the War had finally taught Australia that Britain thought only of itself. Britain was not the slightest bit interested in Japan, during the War or after. BCOF would not have happened, but the Australian Government were determined to play an important role, and to be seen to be playing a major role, especially by the Japanese.

@minhthunguyendang9900 12 күн бұрын

@@keithammleter3824 William Manchester’s « American Caesar » shows that as the war was approaching its end, the Aussies would rather that the Brits were replaced by the Yanks.

@currentbatches6205 22 күн бұрын

2:51 - Pronounced "Yokuska". 9:32 - There's much to dislike about Mac, but his handling of the occupation was his finest hour. 13:51 - Japan had not protected its shipping and needed to import food to avoid wide-spread starvation; there were no bottoms left to import food. Mac told congress he had just hung POW officers for starving US POWs, and the US had to do better. He got rice enough to quickly reduce starvation, if not hunger. 14:41 - The wife of a friend was a Navy wife in the occupation forces; she found appreciation for the US forces was far from universal. 15:49 - Hirohito and his associates were concerned regarding the possibility of a Commie take-over; the horrors of Stalin's rule being ignored as it was largely in Europe at the time. 16:14 - Wise, and broadcast the horrors of Commie rule in other places, also. Excellent 'footage' (and it was, at the time). Some obviously 'posed' but much 'found'.

@minhthunguyendang9900 18 күн бұрын

Thank you for the extra information. Read William Manchester’s « American Caesar » Don’t judge the book by the distorted 📺 doc made from it. Mr. Manchester a Pacific War Marine veteran, has written one of the fairest biographies of MacArthur. One of the funniest passages of the book is related to Tass’ appreciation of MacArthur’s Liberation of Seoul. MacArthur shared with Julius Caesar the ungratefulness of the nations to whom they gave their best. It’s only the difference in customs that in the case of Douglas they used their 🐍 👅 instead of their 🔪 as they did with Julius.

@user-js4zx1lr2u 2 ай бұрын

39 seats in the Diet? I'll bet a fair number of men choked on that. You have to give the Japanese credit for how fast they rebuilt their cities. Compare photos of fall 1945 and mid 1950. 9 years post war, Godzilla romped through a completely rebuilt Tokyo. 😀

@michaelhoffmann2891 Ай бұрын

Which Godzilla? Minus One didn't even wait 9 years, but a mere 3.

@user-js4zx1lr2u Ай бұрын

@@michaelhoffmann2891 Agreed. I watched it last night, really liked it, and it was outside the canon time span, so you could call it an addition to canon. Prequel. And I really did like the way it was citizens/ex warriors who took matters into their own hands. That Shinden fighter was AOK. I'm glad he and his "wife" survived. Possible follow on movie(s) with the same actors??? Who knows.

@michaelhoffmann2891 Ай бұрын

@@user-js4zx1lr2u You never can really tell what the "canon" is. They reboots, resets, etc through the various Eras (showa, millenium etc etc). The best we can say is various timelines in the multiverse. One that includes Godzilla vs Megalon .

@p51wildfyre Ай бұрын

Unlike PRC/China, Japan abandoned its imperialistic stance post World War II. Japan has no territories. Japan conducts friendly economic competition with no debt traps! Japan to the risk of OUTSOURCING its massive automobile industry to the US, Canada, and other countries, providing employment to those countries. Japan providing geopolitical sanity in Asia by respecting sovereingty of nations (unlike PRC/China)! Japan had genuine concern for its people by postponing the Tokyo Summer Olympics 2020 by one year (2021) during a covid-19 pandemic, setting aside national pride and honor, listened to its medical professionals/citizens, sustaining massive financial loses from investments, incomes and/or revenues from the Olympics! PRC/Xi, on the other hand, push through with the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022 despite rising covid-19 cases!

@hillaryhow6375 28 күн бұрын

Unlike US, Japan never bombed other countries by lying to the world that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction. Unlike Japan, US cannot accept other countries doing well economically and try to distabilise coutries which are doing well economically. Unlike Japan, US keep on making weapons and exported to other countries so that US can make money. Imperialist yankee

@bernarddavis1050 23 күн бұрын

Of course Japan abandoned its "imperialistic stance" after WW2. It was absorbed into the US Empire lock stock and barrel, and is still there nearly 80 years later as a de facto defeated and occupied nation. Now it is being forced into taking part in a coming American war of aggression against China. Everyone can see who are the real imperialists.

@user-du9ko1fj1h 16 күн бұрын

MacArthurs nose didnt look real in that one shot. Probably Gin Blossoms. Lol

@danr1920 14 күн бұрын

We have two USA made Honda's in my garage. So I thing everything worked.

@Jason-ke2nj 2 ай бұрын

How humiliating...

@qwert_yuiop7506 12 күн бұрын

This doesn't mention the MIS (Military Intelligence Service - linguists/translators/etc.) Mostly made up of 2nd generation Japanese Americans. their work was crucial in shortening/ending the pacific war as well as to the success of the occupation that followed. The man at 17:07 who is translating was probably an MIS member.

@jerrygoller4269 Ай бұрын

Ah, Dugout Doug. The Marine Corps remembers him well.

@patrickmurawski400 Ай бұрын

It's called a atomic bomb! One brain cell!

@user-dh6bj2me5p Ай бұрын

One brain cell... "AN atomic bomb." Learn very simple English.

@ohasis8331 24 күн бұрын

There is strong support and evidence that the two bombings did not force Japan to surrender. The advent of the Soviet Union declaration on August 8th of war against Japan was the main trigger for surrender. The Emperor of Japan used the bombings as a face saving means to offer surrender. In the meantime, the Soviets took a number of territories from Japan.

@demef758 19 күн бұрын

@@ohasis8331 Yeah, but the reality was that Japan was in no position to be fighting a two-front war (as the US had done). It was bad enough that the US was closing in on from the West, South, and East, but now the Soviets coming down from the North? And Stalin was still a bit peeved about losing two earlier wars to Japan. I agree that the Soviet invasion of Mongolia was the deciding factor to surrender. If not for that invasion, the war could have gone on a little longer, but not much. The entire country was literally starving. It's impossible to fight a war when you have nothing to eat.

@raybarnes3888 26 күн бұрын

after 3 mints of this film I felt so glad that America had won this war and the rest of the world did not have to be involved, I am shure we could not have been helpful in any way.

@michaelrooks4030 23 күн бұрын

@raybarnes3888 lol😂😂😂..sarcasm yes

@williamkenealy3471 2 ай бұрын

Money and 400000 dead

@beowulf1312 Ай бұрын

The lack of recognition of US Allies given in this video is typical of American bias in these older news reports. Any casual viewer would assume the USA won the war alone despite the brief mention of the British Commonwealth taking the surrender in Singapore and Malaya. When mentioned, it is qualified by stating the Japanese armed forces didn't think they had been defeated in those areas, Malaya and Singapore. Really? Like they also didn't think that in Japan? Why say it in relation to SEAC?

@user-jw6km4kz4y Ай бұрын

Every. Bloody. Time. The Russians and Chinese fought truly well. Russian tanks obliterated Manchukou. What was the most bombed city in WW2? Guang bloody zhou. The yanks never heard of it. What of the Dutch, Brits, New Zealanders, Sub-continental Indians (and future Pakistanis), the Gurkahs and Aussies? What do these guys think? That Japan only fought on one front? Bugger off.

@michaelrooks4030 23 күн бұрын

What ...didn't America win both world wars single-handedly

@williamkenealy3471 2 ай бұрын

Who funded the brits and china we did

@andrewsmith-cm9qw 2 ай бұрын

You charged Britain for the so called aid and we only finished paying you back 20 years ago. Also you took the British Naval bases in the Pacific so with friends like you other nations need deep pockets

@williamkenealy3471 2 ай бұрын

Allies gave 5 percent america gave all

@user-js4zx1lr2u 2 ай бұрын

Don't break your arm patting yourself on the back. Your country didn't have it's cities bombed flat, or occupied. Your industries never suffered a saturation bombing. And they made a lot of money supplying the allies who were fighting for two years before you got dragged into it. America did a lot to sustain the allies and finish the war, but don't think it wasn't a major effort by the other allies.

@seanlander9321 2 ай бұрын

Bulldust. Australia gave more to America than it received.

@frequentlycynical642 Ай бұрын

Oh, please. Your extreme bias is more than showing. It was a team effort. You know, ALLIES.

@michaelrooks4030 23 күн бұрын

What a lot of yank crap mate ...no wonder some people get sick of u lot ...u can't even beat a lot off peasant farmers..Vietnam...Afghanistan...what went wrong there bro ...

@charlieheywood7401 2 ай бұрын

Sorry I am to hear AMERICA won the WAR OVER JAPAN. " WITHOUT THE ALLIES. AMERICA WOULD NOT OF ACHEIVED PEACE. IT IS TO ALL ALIES OF WW11 THAT PEACE WAS ACHEIVED. WE MUST NOT FORGET SO MANY NATIONS SACRIFICED FOR PEACE.". LEST WE FORGET.

@lylecampbell9036 2 ай бұрын

Yeah, we did.

@jeffyoung60 2 ай бұрын

The British were heavily involved in Burma and the Indian Ocean. The Pacific War was between Imperial Japan against the United States with Australian participation.

@lawrenceallen8096 2 ай бұрын

Well, let's look at the facts. WWII started with 4 axis powers: Japan, Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union. Yes, during the first 1/3 of the European war (1939-1941) the Soviet Union and Germany were allied: carving up the portions of Eastern Europe that lay between them. And, during the entire Pacific war, the Soviets were allied with Japan through a so-called non-aggression pact. The Soviets imprisoned American Airmen for emergency landing in the Soviet Union after bombing raids on Japan (e.g. Doolittle raid). After Hiroshima, the Soviets quickly declared war on Japan to act like a jackal to steal some territorial scraps from America and UK's kill. But Soviet Invasion of Japan was not even possible: they had neither their air power nor sea power no amphibious naval power to effect landings. The Soviet military was a land-based force: it fought one enemy (Germany), on one front (Eastern), in one dimension (Land). Now, the American, British and UK commonwealth countries (Canada, India, Australia, NZ, etc.) did indeed fight and win WWII. 3 enemies: Japan, Germany, Italy, on hundreds of fronts from the Arctic to the Equator to the South Pacific, in the air, on the sea, below the sea, and on land. In spite of the Soviets giving Japan a backstop to its northern and western flanks! There was indeed massive sacrifice and heroism by UK and Commonwealth countries. India, for example: Sadly Japanese ate... YES ATE! Their Indian POWS (look up the documentary on KZbin). UK forces fought in the jungles and on the seas, while the Americans lead the vast majority of navel battles, Island hopping, and totally dominated the skies with its air forces. Not to mention the A-Bombs which decisively ended the war in total surrender within a week. No one who understands the war would say the British and Commonwealth wasn't instrumental in winning the war: both in Europe and Asia. In fact, when Britain was standing alone, Churchill's ordering of the sinking of the French Fleet at MERS-EL-KEBIR (which was likely to fall into German hands), was the impetus for the USA to finally get into the fight, realizing that they had an unsinkable aircraft carrier 26 miles off the coast of Continental Europe! Not to mention Churchill inspiring the world to stand up and defeat the evil enemies of the Axis. The UK and Commonwealth forces were the best allies the USA has ever had!

@sandovalperry2895 2 ай бұрын

@@jeffyoung60the British along with Indian forces were heavily involved in fighting Japan. Hong Kong and Singapore were British strongholds. Even the Dutch and Russians fought the Japanese. The Chinese lost millions fighting the Japanese prior to Pearl Harbor. Had China completely collapsed Japan would have been able to move millions of more troops against the Americans.

@jeffyoung60 2 ай бұрын

@@sandovalperry2895 Of course I'm not diminishing Britain's participation. I'm referring to, "The Pacific War", in definition. That colossal struggle started at Pearl Harbor in December 1941 and progressively moved westward across the Central Pacific and South Pacific. The conflict involved the military forces of Imperial Japan versus those of the United States and Australia. The British entered the Pacific War with the deployment in very late 1944 with its new British Pacific Fleet, a force of 4 armored carriers, 1 battleship, and assortment of cruisers and destroyers. The British Pacific Fleet joined combat in April 1945 serving alongside the American Fifth and Third Fleets in the invasion of Okinawa. The powerful British Pacific Fleet was a short-lived naval formation, being decommissioned not long after the end of WW2 as the British Government simply could not afford to keep it.