The Days before Japan's Occupation - August, 1945 Tokyo [ WWII Documentary ]

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@Fevebblefester Ай бұрын

This is something I have never seen. Thanks for it.

@TSUTENKAKU007 Ай бұрын

My mother told me she was so glad that the war finally ended. She told me she had difficult time understanding the surrender speech of the emperor. After the war people of Japan had the strong determination and will power to rebuild the nation with peace in mind.

@PeterNebelung Ай бұрын

You don't see too many grim faces. Looks like they are happy the death and destruction is at an end. That fellow doing the art was quite talented. Wonder how he made out in the post war years.

@terry9325 Ай бұрын

I’m impressed with the orderly queues for there newspapers ,even among the devastation around them .

@harrycurrie9664 Ай бұрын

I would think it may be for toilet paper.

@wplg Ай бұрын

Outstanding archive video.

@wplg Ай бұрын

I served in the US Army during the Pablo crisis in Korea and Vietnam conflict (1968-72). While in Japan, Hiroshima and Nagasaki had a curfew and was off limits to off duty military personnel at night. In 1969 I saw a few Japanese World War veterans in haggard uniforms, suffering from PTSD.

@mikloridden8276 Ай бұрын

What were those vets doing? Do you think they were going insane due to atrocities they committed? That’s really cool that you got to Live in Japan with the army

@johnarmstrong472 Ай бұрын

😮😮

@SeanHogan_frijole Ай бұрын

@@mikloridden8276thats lazy slandering . Not all soldiers committed atrocities.

@maddyg3208 Ай бұрын

@@SeanHogan_frijoleIf they were in the IJA, there's a high possibility that they did

@neiljohnson6815 Ай бұрын

@@SeanHogan_frijole Most of them did. Read some history.

@pimpompoom93726 Ай бұрын

Good stuff, keep them coming! I have been to Japan many times on business, but only in the last 2-3 decades. My father was in Japan during the Korean war, he had lots of stories to tell me about then.

@ratfinkie62 Ай бұрын

My dad was too.

@cocobean9160 Ай бұрын

Had a Uncle in the US Navy to see the devastation of Nagasaki after the surrender and he said it bothered him (PTSD) worse than fighting the Kamikazes

@wasserdagger Ай бұрын

Interesting to see the various expressions on their faces. Some seemed happy, others seemed sad, others seemed too intimidated to look at the camera for very long, if at all. But I would imagine most of them were just glad the damned war was over.

@nikonmark37814 Ай бұрын

This video tells me what my mother who would have been 13 at the time saw in Tokyo where she was going to school during the duration of the war. She never talked about WWII only telling me most of her family died during the war either fighting in the military or dying in bombing raids in Japan.

@andrewemery4272 Ай бұрын

Ironically, the atomic bomb probably saved her life. The allies forecast 5 million Japanese Civilian casualties during an invasion, the Japanese themselves forecast 10 million.

@barryguerrero6480 Ай бұрын

@@andrewemery4272 There's very little evidence to support the notion that the two bombs were the deciding factor. I'm of the opinion that they did not need to dropped on the heads of women, children, old people and animals.

@andrewemery4272 Ай бұрын

@@barryguerrero6480 You see, you care about the 40,000+ deaths in one day at Hiroshima, but you don't give a hoot about the 100,000 deaths in one night during the fire-bombing of Tokyo. Why? Because you find prosing about a single bomb 'sexy', but the 100,000 deaths in Tokyo does not thrill your ego.

@barryguerrero6480 Ай бұрын

@@andrewemery4272 You're wrong, and how dare you make any assumption about me, when you know absolutely nothing about me. I also think the use of napalm on civilian targets through low elevation bombing was a war crime. Plain and simple. I don't know you. But SHOULD I ASSUME that if you were to first meet somebody in a room, and they happen to express the opinion that the two atomic bombs shouldn't have been used on civilian targets, that you would then turn to that person and say to them, "why? - because you find prosing about a single bomb 'sexy' (there were two!), but the hundred thousand deaths of Tokyo civilians doesn't thrill you?"? . . . Would you say something so utterly stupid to somebody you didn't know, in the flesh?

@andrewemery4272 Ай бұрын

@@barryguerrero6480 I think we all have you assessed fairly. You're a Snowflake who jumps on a trendy bandwagon, but in reality cares nothing for lives.

@josephbingham1255 Ай бұрын

Thank you for saving this piece of history. 1:36 man in center with dark hat and light lapels. 2:10 again on a different street and he just called someone to follow him. 3:44 The youth have various cap insignia which is likely their school insignia. 3:05 a curious cap insignia for an adult.

@harrycurrie9664 Ай бұрын

The happiness on the kids faces was probably because they knew the war was over and didn't have to become Kamikaze pilots

@phillipholland6967 Ай бұрын

. despite the eerie silence i was still struck by the eternal beauty of the japanese ordinary folk...

@futuregenerationz Ай бұрын

My dad was sent to Japan I believe in 1946. What a historic, though awkward, moment. The trauma these people must've went through during the firebombing. Considering the propaganda they were probably being told about Americans. They're probably relieved we're not going to try to eat them.

@John-wx9oy Ай бұрын

I read an account from a Japanese citizen who said towards the end of the war, the population was fatigued. They saw the writing on the wall and just wanted a return to normalcy. Of course, not all agreed, but the prevailing attitude around the beginning of 1945, especially after the fire bombings, was a desire for the war to end. That's evident in the behavior of the people shown here.

@JedRothwell Ай бұрын

Starting around minute 1 it shows a large movie theater. The Hibiya Movie Theater. A big crowd is milling around in front of it. I'll bet they are there to see a movie. I have read that when the war ended, "everyone went to the movies." They wanted to escape from the relentless misery. They wanted some relaxation. In a similar story, a woman decided to re-open her sewing school, the Do-Re-Mi school of dressmaking. Dressmaking was considered frivolous so she had to shut down during the war. She put up announcements on billboards around the neighborhood. She was hoping a few women would show up. The morning she opened up there was a long line of people around the block. Everyone wanted something frivolous back in their lives.

@covertops19Z Ай бұрын

Great video, Thank You. Yes, showing the human everyday side of the common people of Japan, dealing with the largest national reality check ever. Way beyond their wildest imagination just four years earlier.

@Kubotahonda5 Ай бұрын

20 years later, Japan organised the Olympic games, built massive scales of expressways, highways, bullet train 🚅 railroads, advanced international standards airports, seaports, modernized the whole country and it's cities and becomes the second largest economic nation in the world. 70s /80s was the golden era of Japan

@douglasb5046 Ай бұрын

Only to accommodate the filming of James Bond in “you only live twice” 😂😂😂😂

@treystephens6166 Ай бұрын

@@douglasb50461967

@jeep146 Ай бұрын

With much help from America. It did not want it to fail and become pro communist. Once on it's own the older generation gave all they could into the rebuilding of Japan. Working many hours.

@johnmay23 Ай бұрын

LIVED AND WORKED IN jAPAN JANUARY 1969-AUG 1974 YOU ARE CORRECT - THE GOLDEN AGE FORJAPAN AND FOR ME & MY FAMILY FAMILY LIVED IN YOKOHAMA KIDS (3) AT YOKOHAMA INTL SCHOOL & ST MAURS - YAMATE- CHO YOKOHAMA ME- WORKING - TOKYO SAKURADA BUILDING, NISHI -SHIMBASHI - TOKYO WIFE - LOVING EVERY MINUTE WE MISS LIVING IN JAPAN AND THE PEOPLE WE MET ALL SPEAK JAPANESE WE ARE ORIGINALLY FROM THE U K J MAY VANCOUVER CANADA

@vibrolax Ай бұрын

1950 - 1972 was the golden age of the USA. It's been feasting on the carcass ever since

@seanlander9321 Ай бұрын

Actually a third of Japan was occupied by the Australians and the commonwealth countries in their force. The Australians also ran the war crime trials.

@ultimobile Ай бұрын

Australia has a good relationship with Japan after the WWII Cowra Breakout of Japanese POWs expecting to be slaughtered as a kind of ritual suicide - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowra_breakout thinking that 'Regaining honour was only possible through death' ... they couldn't believe it when some survivors weren't killed and were treated kindly by local Australians - 'There was my Mum calmly pouring tea and being the perfect hostess, as always, and chatting away to these strange looking gentlemen, all dressed alike, in their maroon coloured prison clothes, and all wearing old felt hats which we later suspected they had found in our shearing shed. They finished their meal and thanked my mother, and then they just sauntered off down towards the creek, where they were resting when the army arrived to recapture them' - anzacportal.dva.gov.au/wars-and-missions/world-war-ii-1939-1945/resources/cowra-breakout-1944#2 'the sixty years since the breakout have seen Cowra develop into a ‘Centre of World Friendship’. The town’s residents boast a very positive relationship with their old enemies, the Japanese' - anzacday.org.au/cowra

@johnmoulton9728 Ай бұрын

So so interesting thank you

@bearsagainstevil Ай бұрын

My dad was in a ship preparing for the invasion of Japan he was British merchant navy went in the war at 14 . People say dropping atomic bombs was awful but most of these people would have been killed without them . Because they were fanatics that would have kept fighting , most of these guys look happy the wars over and they survived and didn’t have to die for the emperor. And yes there were rapes by occupation forces, but they expected much worse and I would think were pretty happy things went back to normal

@alexanderv7702 Ай бұрын

Americans raped women in England and France; both countries were Allies.

@michaelfoort2592 Ай бұрын

Im amazed to see live young men at that stage of the war

@yoojin-oi8ij Ай бұрын

Different country, culture, language, .... but the expressions on their faces all spell RELIEF.

@luizdias1190 Ай бұрын

No sound, no descrption.

@ВатнаяфабрикаимениКрасныхпарти Ай бұрын

В воспоминаниях Владислава Микоши и Бориса Соколова описано это время. Советские операторы-документалисты попали в Токио как раз в тот момент, когда старая власть уже не распоряжалась, а новая власть ещё не появилась. И, в результате, снимать на камеру можно было всё! Но это был не август, это было 3 сентября - только после подписания Акта о капитуляции Японии иностранную прессу пустили в столицу

@d.pierce.6820 Ай бұрын

Note how few women there are on the streets- in this early film-they had been told that the American soldiers would do terrible things to them-many were still hiding in the countryside

@iatsd Ай бұрын

And indeed, tens of thousands of rapes were reported committed by US forces in the 45-46 period. US forces acted on fewer than 400 of those complaints, but did eventually impose crufews on US military which saw the rape numbers drop.

@d.pierce.6820 Ай бұрын

@@iatsd tens of thousands? what is your source?

@picklerick8785 Ай бұрын

@@d.pierce.6820 John Dower, in his book "Embracing Defeat" uses Japanese sources to estimate 50 to 300 per day in the 1945-1946 period, so dude is correct. The occupation army was composed of low quality troops, with bad discipline. The combat troops were discharged quickly, and the shitbags remained. There's a reason the US Army was utterly unprepared to fight the North Koreans in 1950, because the Occupation Army in Japan was garbage. Source- Dower, "Embracing Defeat, pg 130, note 16, pg 579.

@d.pierce.6820 Ай бұрын

@@picklerick8785 an excellent book-I was just looking at it to see what was said in there about rapes. I missed that estimate,though.

@seanlander9321 Ай бұрын

What were they told then about the Australians, who occupied a third of Japan?

@mikegreenguitar Ай бұрын

I think I read somewhere that the average Japanese knew the war was unwinnable towards the end. Their war started much earlier than the one in Europe, easy to imagine them being tired of it.

@j.dragon651 Ай бұрын

Many of them are smiling, must be because the war is finally over? Very interesting. I have never seen this footage. Is there more?

@MrEjidorie Ай бұрын

Though Japanese people knew that Imperial Japan had accepted the unconditional surrender, their life had not changed at all. I cannot find any hostilities among Japanese people who were shot by US cameraman.

@Pjuyter61 Ай бұрын

i saw a jeep passing by in the background....so occupied by the time of filming.

@benpayne4663 Ай бұрын

maybe advance party for planning of logistics, quarters and camp areas, who is the civilian government n charge of certain areas, etc....before the landing of large occupation forces.

@mdmarko Ай бұрын

Advance party, likely, not in force.

@wasserdagger Ай бұрын

Some advance Allied personnel were already there before the occupation troops arrived. U.S. troops first entered Tokyo, Japan on August 30, 1945 when General Douglas MacArthur landed at Atsugi airdrome, near Tokyo. The film crew itself was part of that advance contingent. The Jeep probably belonged to them.

@j.dragon651 Ай бұрын

I thought I saw two Americans in the crowds?

@Franky46Boy Ай бұрын

The very young men and children in uniforms are pupils and students who used to have school or university uniforms in a military style.

@TSUTENKAKU007 Ай бұрын

My mother attended all female school in Osaka during the WWII and she told me the part of school schedule was for military training.

@peeler1972 Ай бұрын

画質が綺麗にされているせいで連合軍進駐前の光景に思えない笑東京にも若い人が結構いたんだな。みんな兵隊に行くか、地方に疎開していたかと思った

@DarlowMaxwell 25 күн бұрын

A little sound or commentary would be nice

@MrRugbylane Ай бұрын

Meanwhile Godzilla lurks in Tokyo Bay...

@dannycalley7777 Ай бұрын

MRL ............Raymond Burr lies in wait in the U.S.

@treystephens6166 Ай бұрын

@@dannycalley777730 years ago he thought it was over…

@stevewilliams4005 Ай бұрын

Too cool!

@timothyirwin8974 Ай бұрын

Who produced the film?

@benkanobe7500 Ай бұрын

Is there sound?

@georgenish Ай бұрын

During the Tokyo air raid, my aunty was running towards the shelter with her neighbor and suddenly a P-51 started strafing and saw her neighbor's arm flew off. 　When I was stationed at camp Zama, a Japanese worker told me his story when he was 5 years old. Right before the war ended, he was playing at nearby Sagami river with five of his friends and saw the P-51 coming towards them. The plane flew so low and close that they could see the pilot's face. Being kids, they waved at the pilot. The plane made a turn and came back strafing, bullets missing the kids by inches. I heard quite a few stories as such. While B-29's were dropping bombs, the P-51 escorts were free to roam around and expend their bullets. My coworker was a B-29 crew and on his first mission he was shot down by an anti air gun and parachuted to safety with his crew and was a POW for several month until the end of the war. He married a Japanese and drove a Mitsubishi car saying "can't go wrong with Mitsubishi that made a zero fighter." Well general LeMay who implemented the fire bombings of Japan targeting civilians certainly understood that it was a war crime but he thought there were no innocent civilians and said they were just bystanders...

@reynemayer2942 Ай бұрын

Unfortunately yes there were some service personnel who did things that were wrong. Some were motivated by rage at having had friends killed savagely by the Japanese, who didn't really recognize the laws of war at all including in treatment of prisoners - not to mention civilians -- see the 'rape of Nanking', for example, the Japanese are estimated to have killed from 3 to 10 million including outright genocide in a sort of Asian holocaust.

@jeep146 Ай бұрын

We don't excuse the shooting of children but understand it. The US government presented them as little better then animals. You also have the war crimes committed by the Japanese. I knew WW2 vets that refused in the 1980's to ever buy a Japanese car.

@davidcole333 Ай бұрын

Really? What happened to American flyers when they were shot down and captured in Japan? What happened to the civilians in Singapore? What happened to the comfort women from all over SE Asia? What happened to the US soldiers during the Bataan death march and to those prisoners that survived it? What happened to the Chinese in Nanking? What happened to the Americans at Pearl Harbor? Freaking cry me a river about firebombing being a war crime. Total war in WW2 was participated in by ALL sides. Civilians = war plant workers, they are not exactly innocents.

@theoztreecrasher2647 25 күн бұрын

@@jeep146 Had an Uncle, a vet of the fighting in New Guinea, who would never own a Toyota. I, personally, have never owned any other brand. Different times!

@jeep146 25 күн бұрын

@@theoztreecrasher2647 I just finished reading a book on how the Japanese treated POW. They were brutal almost sadistic. So I can understand the hatred. The Japanese even today try to ignore the war crimes during the war.

@chrisbrady-t1u Ай бұрын

At least you dont subject us to those annoying numbers that Periscope films has going by at the bottom of the screen at 100mph.They probably add them to the movie to make them seem more authentic.

@LookinThePastWarArchives Ай бұрын

They add them, because they make money selling the originals without the running numbers on their website.

@scottloar Ай бұрын

"Catastrophic famine in Japan was avoided in 1946 because MacArthur (to his eternal credit) insisted and demanded that the US provide food relief. This resulted in the Harris mission and an investigation by Herbert Hoover, both of whom agreed with the Supreme Commander. US Army food that had been accumulated for the invasion was released to the Japanese, as were Japanese military reserves, and food was imported from the US, despite the worldwide food shortage. Along with quick action by the occupation forces against outbreaks of typhus and cholera, and improvements in public health, millions of lives were saved."

@TSUTENKAKU007 Ай бұрын

But also many black market flourished as well.

@JT-vn4cx Ай бұрын

9月２日の降伏文書調印前の東京の風景、秋雨前線か、温暖化は始まっていない。

@MrJm323 Ай бұрын

05:39 ....That guy, there, the one staring, glaring at the cameraman, he's got some unfinished business with the Americans!

@joeedge576 Ай бұрын

No audio....

@theoztreecrasher2647 25 күн бұрын

Not many MacDonalds paunches amongst the locals there, yet!

@majscrap2629 Ай бұрын

I'd love to read a translation of that paper the girl was handing out.

@ButcherBird-FW190D Ай бұрын

Most seem happy the war is over.

@ericsonhazeltine5064 Ай бұрын

Surprised at how many women were wearing trousers.

@cataginandtonic Ай бұрын

Sad that as soon as they get the Ginza rebuilt, Godzilla will come along and destroy it.

@Han-wh5ie Ай бұрын

Het lachen zou ze snel vergaan. Op een verschrikkelijke manier trouwens.

@grampsinsl5232 Ай бұрын

So Tokyo wasn't the totally bombed-out hulk that I've always been told? Interesting!

@davidcole333 Ай бұрын

You saw one tiny little clip. You need a bigger sample to draw a conclusion.

@monkberrymoon4042 Ай бұрын

Some of the worst bombing in March was in the older part of the city, further to the east (and slightly north). Parts of this film is a bit to the west -- badly damaged, but not carpet bombed.

@paulgee8253 Ай бұрын

All those proud IJA soldiers now with their world flipped. Thank God.

@MinhNguyen-cn8kx Ай бұрын

Fantastico Japan... Respect from Vietnam.... Allahu akhbar

@bobjackson4720 Ай бұрын

So who was filming these people, there seems to be no resentment. Most seem to be wearing military hats.

@MaoRuiqi 24 күн бұрын

物の哀れ!!!

@jerryp.4459 Ай бұрын

For a defeated and nuked populace, they sure don't look downbeat. They're even smiling a lot. So much for all that Hiroshima guilt we took upon ourselves.

@bruceburns1672 Ай бұрын

It looks similar to Mao's China.

@steveg2479 Ай бұрын

Not sure about bearing the unbearable, most of them looked relieved that they didn’t have to die for the emperor.

@mosesodhis365 Ай бұрын

no obese

@j.dragon651 Ай бұрын

The same with films in the states from the same time period. Interesting isn't it? I notice it between cultures these days.

@richardbrown6565 Ай бұрын

For being a fanatical people, They don't seem very concerned.

@treystephens6166 Ай бұрын

I wonder if we’ve been told the whole truth. 🧐

@anonimosu7425 Ай бұрын

because the people weren’t the fanatics, it was the imperial army.

@nivek5031 Ай бұрын

My Dad, a retired kamikaze pilot, had 4 aborted missions to his credit. On September 2, 1946 he flew his final mission against the 250 allied ships in Tokyo Bay and missed all of them.

@j.dragon651 Ай бұрын

I'm not buying it.

@nivek5031 Ай бұрын

@@j.dragon651 Oh come on Dragon, be a devil. 🙂

@Trevor_Austin Ай бұрын

How amazing. Considering what the Japanese did to other countries and the millions they slaughtered, they lost but still ended up with a functioning society. Those who counties they ruined took considerably longer to recover. So no wonder so many are smiling. They got away lightly.

@Jazzfestn Ай бұрын

Japan's MOST FOOLISH MISTAKE - PEARL HARBOR. America's SMARTEST military operation - HIROSHIMA and NAGASAKI.

@eagleswatch6905 Ай бұрын

Tokyo Japan looked like Shanghai after the Sino-Japanese War in 1937. You would have easily mistaken they were Chinese. Finally, the Japanese got a taste of their own doing.

@treystephens6166 Ай бұрын

The civilians didn’t do that.

@eagleswatch6905 Ай бұрын

@@treystephens6166 A country cannot indulge in militarism and imperialism without the support of the general public.

@treystephens6166 Ай бұрын

@@eagleswatch6905 I don’t think they had much of a choice. It’s kind of like the Iraq 🇮🇶 War 2003-2022 🇺🇸

@eagleswatch6905 Ай бұрын

@@treystephens6166 Different scenarios. The Japanese people enjoyed prosperity under the imperialist gov't, and immigrated to Manchuria, China - a region larger than Japan itself. On the other hand, Iraq under Saddam Hussein, only the privileged class enjoyed the oil rich.

@treystephens6166 Ай бұрын

@@eagleswatch6905 I mean Americans were being patriotic in that pointless war.

@wackadakka3134 Ай бұрын

every male , every age , is in uniform

@JedRothwell Ай бұрын

That does not mean they were in the military. The government decreed that all men had to wear "civilian uniforms." Which were like army uniforms without insignias. The other reason everyone is wearing a uniform is that in the days after the war ended, the army opened up their warehouses and distributed clothing, rations, pots, pans, medicine and everything else that could be used in the civilian economy. It was a tremendous help. It probably saved many lives from starvation and disease. Even though many of the goods ended up in the black market. So, anyway, many people got uniforms. Many had lost their worldly goods in the bombing raids, so they needed clothes.