The Execution Of Hideki Tojo - Japan's WW2 Prime Minister

Following the Second World War, a number of war crimes trials were held to bring the perpetrators of crimes against humanity to justice. The most high profile trials took place in Nuremberg with the remaining members of Hitler's inner circle being brought in front of a judge, however following the end of the War in the Pacific, Japan too held war crimes trials. One of the most high profile defendants was Japan's wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo. Tojo was seen by many in the allied nations as the main aggressor against the United States.
Tojo favoured pre-emptive strikes such as what occurred at Pearl Harbor, and during his time as Prime Minister he also oversaw the whole Japanese war effort. This meant that in his role he was deemed responsible for the horrific war crimes committed by the Japanese, for example the Baatan Death March. Tojo was deemed to have also ordered the executions of Prisoners of War in barbaric ways, and he was placed on trial at the Tokyo War Crimes Trials. However before he did shoot himself and try to take his own life, but this did not succeed.
He was found guilty of many different charges inside the Tokyo Courtroom, and was sentenced to death for these. He was seen as the figurehead of the Japanese war effort, and was then taken to Sugamo Prison for his execution. He was held here a while before he was executed along with other members of the Japanese government and army who had been condemned to death. Tojo fully accepted responsibility for Japan's crimes during the Second World War and before.
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[@rick2112rkrk]

My dad was a surgical tech in the Pacific during WWII. After Tojo tried to commit suicide, he ended up in my dad's hospital. My dad, Staff Sergeant David Klugman, was the one who donated his blood so Tojo would survive the surgery necessary for his recovery so he could be tried for war crimes and hanged.

[@sphinxrising1129]

Sure he did, in your imagination.

[@SuperParatech]

@rick2112rkrk - a minor correction of grammar. Hanged is the past tense and past participle of hang in the context of people. You hung a picture on the wall; the murderer was hanged at the gallows. It would be a shame if you were to carry on through life with the incorrect understanding of the verb, hang.

[@jacobmccandles1767]

@@sphinxrising1129 real people have real relatives. Mine helped train and corner former Middleweight Champion Gene Fullmer for one of his fights with Sugar Ray Robinson. He knew the Leaders of the A.I.M. movement in the 70s, and Minneapolis kingpin Isadore "Kid Cann" Blumenfeld in the 30s. He also fought his way across the Pacific, in the early 40s, and nearly had a date with Lana Turner after the war (her sister was dating his friend). People have brushes with fame. It's not that rare. I myself have had breakfast with NYPD Blue actor Dennis Franz, and Cocktails with James Woods (I didn't let on to either that I knew who they were). I met the grandson of Gunther Lutjens, Commander of the Bismarck battle group. It's a small world, and I see no reason to doubt Mr. Klugman's story.

[@rick2112rkrk]

@@SuperParatech Thank you. I'll make the correction.

[@hpharridan]

@@jacobmccandles1767 you are kind.

[@philbrown9764]

My dad was a Marine from 38-46, served in WW2 in the South Pacific but he never talked about it. So wherever he was there and whatever he did, I’ll never know. He passed before I hit 17 and joined the Marines in 68-70. I miss you Dad.

[@Backroad_Junkie]

I know, you were young, but I wish you could have gotten him to open up and recorded his memories on tape or paper. Sad so much history died with these souls. In some cases, we know more about Lewis and Clark from the early 1800's because they kept journals. Historians can espouse all they want. The guys who were there could have told the real story...

[@stephenb2276]

Welcome home bud. Thank you to your dad and you for some of the greatest services we've ever had to see

[@arunamahendradissanayake8084]

Brutality of Japanese army was unparalleled. That's why US decided to drop atomic bomb over the Hiroshima

[@darrylmuse9948]

Semper Fi Brother

[@dillianwhyte443]

Man the US has had a bad rap with fighting nations that committed war crimes. Japan and then veitnam.

[@bradbankes8137]

It was justified not vengeful. It's a shame that the leadership of Japan got off lightly considering all the harm to people and property they destroyed.

[@RIchardDavidson007]

Vengeful, lol. They need to go back to school.

[@sweetleaf9668]

Word! Strategic obviously.. however, nothing wrong with the vengeful aspect, no question.

[@kimiokadota8740]

Hey, Brad, You must read the book called Freedom Betrayed written by Ex President Herbert Hoover. Then, you can understand why Japan had to fight !!!

[@Tellyfive]

@@kimiokadota8740 Please explain this.

[@shivmalik9405]

It was not justified the real criminal , Tojo’s boss got away with his Position and throne intact, and even his entire war criminal imperial family immune from prosecution.

[@jacobmccandles1767]

You misspelled "Justice". That Tojo tried to cheat the hangman is of no consequence at all. That he wasn't tortured as he had tens of thousands of others tortured, is a testament to the mercy of a civilized system of justice. Japan was handled with kid gloves.

[@catdaddy2643]

Nintendo and Honda come from Japan

[@paulorocky]

Indeed, Japan got off a lot lighter than Germany when it came to shining a light on atrocities. MacArthur was more concerned about Korea and that’s where the focus went. In Germany today it’s a crime to deny the Holocaust. In Japan, politicians openly deny the Rape of Nanking and refuse to apologise.

[@justaguy5770]

Well minus two moments

[@FYMASMD]

@@catdaddy2643wow. You are really smart. 🙄

[@catdaddy2643]

@@FYMASMD smart as a Cat

[@Dive-Bar-Casanova]

My dad was a kind and compassionate man without an enemy in the world. He fought in the Pacific the entire duration of the war. As nice and good as dad was, he never forgave the Japanese. Kept it to himself, but it was a presence in his soul.

[@Chief-Solarize]

My grandfather was the same way. I was never taught to hate anyone but at times I could see rage in my grandfather, anytime someone said "Volkswagen" or anything about Germany. I have all of his battalion deployment pics and books and lots of little trinkets and odd money he picked up during the war. Lots of propaganda leaflets are glued into the books. I treasure all that stuff. Theres also an eagle and swastika badge cut from a uniform glued into the book.

[@alanboots1106]

My Grandad fought in Burma and was exactly the same, he never said it but you just knew it.

[@kdfulton3152]

I can watch the European Theater of WW2 for hours, but NOT the Pacific Theater with US Soldier’s and their abuse by the Japanese. They made the SS look like choir boys.

[@jacobmccandles1767]

My Dad fought his way across the Pacific. It took him about 70 years to bury the hatchet in his mind.

[@caroledwards2488]

Same with my dad. My dad survived the bombing of Pearl Harbor

[@eleanorkett1129]

The Americans showed more compassion for the Japanese than the Japanese did to the Chinese and the hapless prisoners of war. Thank you for this episode, which reminds us of the Japanese war crimes which are so often overlooked.

[@peterdebrie]

But how much compassion did the western countries give the countries they occupied in the pacific?

[@eleanorkett1129]

@@peterdebrie A lot more than the Japanese gave.

[@brandon-hh7jf]

@@peterdebrie very compassionate at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.....The two bombings killed up to 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians.

[@Battleship009]

@@brandon-hh7jf Which saved more lives than it took, an invasion would've had casualties on both sides in the millions.

[@brandon-hh7jf]

@@Battleship009 that's just an excuse to justify War Crimes. By that time US Air supremacy and conventional bombing of military targets could easily have taken out Japan's military capability.

[@johnshaft5613]

The only thing I dislike about this channel is the "judgement" of every execution reviewed. Basically if it involves a Nazi, it is deemed "justified".....anyone else and it is "vengeful" or "brutal" or whatever. The Nazis weren't the only war criminals....

[@helloman3676]

Defending Nazi? Lmao.

[@johnshaft5613]

@@helloman3676 Room temperature IQ? Lmao.

[@Dive-Bar-Casanova]

Those executed had over-whelming facts presented. Remember some of the worst got off. Piper for one example. Eventually the resistance caught up with that SOB. Maybe you can preset facts where they got it all wrong?

[@johnshaft5613]

@@Dive-Bar-Casanova Sorry, if that is directed at me I don't understand what you are asking...? The only point I was making was that the channel questions every execution, no matter the facts, unless it involves a Nazi. Yes, the Nazis did horrible things. So did Tojo. Why is every Nazi execution "justified", while Tojo's is "vengeful", a term that certainly implies it was not justified? That's all.

[@schnoodle3]

The guy trolls his own videos with these stupid adjectives he always tosses in.

[@percussion44]

Strange that Tojo's execution was "vengeful" and that of many Nazi's such as guards at camps was "justified". Care to explain this difference in terminology?

[@thevinmeister5015]

I mean they were all both vengeful and justified

[@lawrenceallen8096]

Here is all you need to know about why the Japanese leadership were tried and executed. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bGS1Y5R4ptymhsk NOBODY did anything in the Japanese army with out orders and permission from higher ups. Even the NAZIS didn't eat their prisoners!

[@krishanuA]

Well, this here is a very valid point and an excellent question. I believe that the videos are named differently to ensure that they appear dissimilar to someone who is randomly browsing this channel. To ensure variety and maybe to prevent that dreadful clickbait tag.

[@bigyin2586]

Adolf hitler wanted to commit suicide- that’s why he shot himself in the head. Tojo wanted to injure himself to delay a subsequent trial and execution. Coward. So much for Samurai culture.

[@rg20322]

@@thevinmeister5015 No - they were all just justified in my opinion. Nothing vengeful about about bringing people to justice and their demise based on their crimes. If you look at the terror caused there should have been many thousands more that escaped trial.

[@TBreezy17]

Crazy to think the emperor was given immunity and treated as a guest in the states for many years to come.

[@RedHawk785]

I greeted the Japanese Emperor and his wife with a two finger Hitler mustache and Nazi salute when his motorcade passed me here in the west. I think they were really taken aback.

[@johnreese3797]

It was all just public relations. The American occupiers felt it would be to great a humiliation for the Japanese people to see their emperor executed. We wanted their cooperation but someone had to pay. And that fell on Tojo. He was guilty however, the ultimate authority belonged to the emperor. Tojo even mentioned that during his trial and they had to stop the proceedings and go over again what he was supposed to say. I wonder if he even understood his rehearsed testimony was for him to exonerate the emperor so he (Tojo) could take the fall.

[@thesheeplewillhavetheirsay7288]

Insane. Thank MacArthur for that, among others.

[@coxmosia1]

Watch the movie "Emperor" with Tommy Lee Jones as MacArthur. It addresses this very issue and why they didn't arrest and execute the Emperor. Well done historical movie

[@thunderbird1921]

Under that logic, King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy is responsible for all of Mussolini's crimes. I'm not sure how much is fair to blame on them because of the fact that he and Hirohito were mostly figureheads. Spineless cowards? Definitely. Corrupt? To some extent. But war criminals? That I'm not sure is correct. Plus, Japan was in danger of becoming Communist in the late 40s and early 50s (they were very active on the island), so Hirohito heading a new constitutional monarchy was seen as the lesser of two evils.

[@jackwebb437]

The execution is NOT vengeful. It was JUSTICE.

[@krishanuA]

Tojo had it coming for sure. You're right: the video should have been named "The justified execution" or something similar.

[@djryan8944]

This guy loves using caps and words like vengeful in his titles.

[@stevenunyabidness]

@@djryan8944 for sure. comes off with a real click bait vibe despite the semi decent content.

[@tyronevaldez-kruger5313]

@@djryan8944Maybe it's because this guy uploads historical figures where the word "vengeful" applies. The desire for vengeance is not a phenomenon when one is attacked in the most atrocious way. Pearl Harbor... Even after Bin Laden's killing, Americans celebrated on the streets. Ppl here in Germany are satisfied too that Hitler executed himself knowing he'll remembered as the biggest pos ever. Sweet.

[@tyronevaldez-kruger5313]

@@stevenunyabidness I wouldn't label VENGEFUL as click bait despite the annoying all caps.

[@markmarkmark1821]

I worked at a UK oil refinery With a man who had been a Japanese prisoner of war He was still in a hell of a state Decades after the war He shook that much he found it hard to drink

[@harrietharlow9929]

The only thing I will give Tojo is that he fully accepted the responsibility for War crimes committed by the Japanese. That's a definite improvement over the Nazis who tried at every turn to evade responsibility for their crimes.

[@TRak598]

I believe that Hoss also accepted full responsibility and apologized to all of Hungary and Poland's people for the killings done in Auschwitz II and all the other camps he saw over, though he never specifically resigned from antisemitism as a whole, probably seeing everything but the massacres as necessary (including stealing jewish wealthy and unjust incarceration).

[@harrietharlow9929]

@@TRak598 I'm glad to hear that. I think he returned to the church before the end. And since he paid his debt by his death I hope he is at peace.

[@twostate7822]

@@harrietharlow9929 Quoting "And since he paid his debt by his death"??? Hoss can never pay his debt no matter how many years have passed.

[@wimschmied3800]

Most of the National socialists were dead by wars end though.

[@trzmdpath1981]

My late parents were of the WW II generation. My father was in the US Navy 🇺🇸 in the Pacific theater. After the Japanese surrender, my father was posted to a ship at Yokosuka for the American occupation under General Douglas MacArthur. There was a young man in my mother's church who was part of the Bataan Death March. My parents really never forgave Japan and were exceedingly irked when I purchased a car from a Japanese company.

[@Desert-edDave]

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[@Aaroncadwell]

​@@Desert-edDave hey small eyes😂 stop eating dog😂

[@MacJaxonManOfAction]

When your boys - whose lives your government(s) must defend at all costs - were captured by the Japanese, forced to slave for years (three and a half in the case of the man who brought me up, my grampa) building airstrips while being fed two balls of rice a DAY, jumping on dying seagulls that fell out of the sky and tearing them up in their teeth because they were starving so much, having pickshafts dug into their bare, skeletal backs, watching men being tortured to death by having rats in cages tied to their torsos so the only way the starving rat could get out was by burrowing through the living man's chest, dying en masse of malaria, beri beri and dengue fever... and by 1945 burying up to TWENTY of their fallen comrades in shallow graves every single day - you don't use a word like "vengeful", mate. You use a word like "justice". This POS got what he deserved - sadly, the Emperor didn't.

[@lawrenceallen8096]

Don't forget cannibalism! kzbin.info/www/bejne/bGS1Y5R4ptymhsk

[@willylao5430]

Agreed 💯 percent!

[@johnboomerboy3042]

The emperor was a figurehead. Tojo’s Black Dragons ran the country, not the emperor. I’m sure Tojo expected to die; but I suspect he was shocked when he met his maker.

[@scottgeorge4268]

No mention of Unit731?

[@paultrevett1287]

Wasn't vengeful absolutely justified

[@abnerdoon4902]

It being vengeful does not make it not justified.

[@itseperkele181]

Haha, seems like this dude likes CLICKBAIT titles on his videos. Meh, I guess thats one way of getting subs, count me out though.

[@Rezqewr]

True story: Whilst Tojo was in custody awaiting his trial and ultimate execution, it was deemed that he needed new dentures. The U.S. Navy Dentist that make them, engraved "Remember Pearl Harbour" in Morse Code across the front of Tojo's new chompers.

[@jonhall2274]

Yes, it's also stated in the video too. Maybe watch the video before commenting.

[@Chef_Alpo]

Pearl Harbor, whoop-dee shit. That target is entirely fair game in war, unlike nuking the general population.

[@Fractal_blip]

​@@Chef_Alpoit be like that

[@larsongramckow7495]

​@@Chef_Alpono it's not.

[@fenrirgaming37]

@@Chef_Alpo The attack on Pearl Harbor was not justified, as we were not at war with Japan at the time. Also, if you compare the casualties of battle in the Pacific Theatre alone, there were far more deaths than those that had been killed during the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Also, it was later found that the areas around both cities were not as irradiated as previously thought in recent studies if I recall. Also, you have to keep in mind that the Japanese were refusing to surrender, even after the first bomb was dropped. If the bombs had not been dropped, then there would have been countless casualties from a ground invasion.

[@merlecharge6813]

Not Vengeful...JUSTIFIED

[@phillipanderson7398]

I agree.

[@merlecharge6813]

Our family were from Singapore and sent to Bahau in Malaysia to POW camp My father was dragged out in the early hours of the morning My mother and us youngsters I was just 4yrs then had to witness this atrocity My father had tattoos on the back of his hands, on one he had the tattoo of the Union Jack and US Flag on the other The head of the British Lion he had to hold his arms out and the Japanese Soldiers severed his hands then they severed his head and kicked my dad Into a Makeshift grave, they would not allow my mother or brother and sisters To bury him.. we have lived with that memory until today

[@theon9575]

It is never justified to commit murder, even or especially when the murder is organised by the State. And then it is a vengeful barbaric act, leaving blood on the State's hands. Justice is not revenge in a civilised society. Unconditional imprisonment, in strict, total solitary confinement for the term of his natural life is actually a more severe punishment, as similar post-War cases in Europe showed. These begged to be allowed to commit suicide. We put down dogs to put them out of their misery. This dog got a quick & painless end to his shame & misery. The easier way out.

[@beowulf1312]

​@@merlecharge6813 how awful. Words fail me.

[@PUAlum]

can't it be both?

[@bipedalbob]

Nah, vengeful would using a bungee cord, when it stops bouncing your feet don't quite touch the ground, That's vengeful.

[@MichaelSmith-df2mh]

In this case, that to would be justice

[@mondoseguendo6113]

That would be comical.

[@michaelosullivan9705]

This execution was fully justified, Tojo deserved the same 'mercy' he showed so many, the execution should have been with short drop and up to 20 minutes of strangulation at the end of the robe.

[@iatsd]

That you want to descend to the level of the Japanese in torturing him as well as executing him shows your true and complete lack of character. You are no better than they were.

[@G53X0Y0Z0]

If would have received the same mercy he would have had been on a forced starvation march, and then he would have been stuck with a bayonet at the end. He got off easy, like a lot of the Japanese and Nazis did..

[@KS-bo5bg]

Even with that it would pale in comparison to the suffering he spread readily and eagerly. If you don't know what happened in Unit 731 you don't have a right to judge anyone feeling angry at Tojo. OP isn't even a fraction of how evil this man was, but one of you dares to suggest that they are "as bad." Not possible. The rules are in reverse here. That's how fucked up Tojo was.

[@raymondlengvarsky618]

Should have just put the noose on him and slowly hauled him up

[@keithkarpe2859]

My mother's cousin was one of the thousands of brave US soldiers who died during the forced 77-mile Bataan Death March. In the tropical heat of the Phillipines, already suffering from the effects of having their rations reduced for months as they threw back one Japanese attack after another on the besieged Bataan Penninsula, the March showed the world atrocity after atrocity. American prisoners, many wounded and limping along with the help of their buddies, were denied water while their Rising Sun torturers drank clean water freely in front of them. Many were delirious, and malaria and dysentery rampant, were murdered where they fell. Laughing Japanese guards would shoot them in the head if they were lucky. But bayonettings and, of course, beheadings with Samurai swords, were the preferred methods of killing any stragglers. This was not an isolated incident, it was common among the Japanese in WWII. The rape of Nanking, cutting out the livers and eating them of still breathing American POWs, cutting off the testicles of other POWs and shoving them in their mouths and watching them strangle to death were others. Don't tell me there was any execution not justified. Emperor Hirohito should have been hanged, as well, and Japan nuked back to its feudal state.

[@joeabadier]

In the 1970s, old folks in our town could still remember how the Japanese would not hesitate to kill anybody, including babies.

[@lawrenceallen8096]

Or eat them! kzbin.info/www/bejne/bGS1Y5R4ptymhsk

[@1pcfred]

When the US firebombed Tokyo a quarter of a million were burned alive. It was the greatest loss of life due to a military operation in human history. That night we killed anyone, including babies. And you'd better believe if we'd lost they'd have executed those responsible for it.

[@joeabadier]

@@1pcfred Possibly. But remember who started it. I remember somebody said “if you start a fight, everything is your accountability”. Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing could not have happened without the Pear Harbor attack. Were the bombs necessary, or were they an overkill? A discussion on that would be useless nowadays. Anyway, our folks of the generation were not even Americans. But they were subjected to the brutality of men being tortured to death, women raped and enslaved, and babies being killed just to make sure everybody feared the Japanese.

[@lawrenceallen8096]

@@1pcfred Your stats are wrong. 120,000 dead, 1 million homeless. The Japanese murdered 400,000 Chinese in 2 weeks with bullets, bayonets, clubs, fire by hand during the Rape of Nanjing. It was a world war. Your point? What do you think was is?

[@1pcfred]

@@joeabadier I do remember who started it. The US started it. Dropping bombs is not the only act of aggression. Before Japan attacked the US the US had already levied crippling sanctions on Japan that left them no choice but to attack.

[@You-Tube-FBI]

Are japanese willfully ignorant of their war crimes? I never understood why they put this man in the yasukuni war memorial. They got keep their Emperor, least they can do is own up to the horrific stuff they did.

[@Clem_Fandango11]

Believe it or not, they teach in their schools that they didn't lose the war. China still despise them as there has never been a formal apology for their crimes. I was in Tokyo 25 years ago. An awful lot of rudeness towards all other non japanese. Whereas you or I would hold a door for someone, they seemed to almost slam it in my face. They just seemed very rude, especially to black people. Never saw a Chinese national there either.

[@blatherskite3009]

Every country that goes to war thinks they're the good guys and believes the bad guys deserve everything they get. That's the nature of war.

[@You-Tube-FBI]

@Blatherskite you must be japanese haha my grandpa fought the Japanese In the pacific. He saw what they did to American marines. They cut their hands, heads cut off. The pee pee cut off then jamed into the beheaded soldiers mouth. Their Buts got rapped by Bayonetts. If they did that to white people. Imagine the stuff they did to chinese or their perceived lesser races. You don't need to imagine, look up the Japanese contest (they put it in their news papers) a race to see who could decapitate 100 Chinese POWs first. When the 2 men who participated went on trial, their excuse was.... it was more like 70 people we decapitated. American forces were not saints. I will give you that. But they didn't pick this fight. And once they saw the japanese didn't follow the geneva convention, all bets were off.

[@papapabs175]

@@Clem_Fandango11 Have you read Knights of Bushido by Edward Russell, a very interesting read on the conduct of the Japanese during WW2.

[@randymagnum143]

@@Clem_Fandango11 the Chinese that actually fought the Japanese? You mean Taiwan? The communists hid in the hills and stole food from the peasantry.

[@sphinxrising1129]

Another thing that puzzles me is Tojo was charged with human experiments, but the unit that carried out said experiments was given a free pass in exchange for turning over to the allys, all results of the experiments.

[@scottystcloud7086]

Operation Hereyougo

[@bobbybates2614]

The japanese emporer was just as guilty he failed to stop the atrocitys

[@Kelly14UK]

Just hid with his wife. Had America dropped the 3rd bomb August 19th, they would have got him. But we'd have outraged renegade Japanese navies running amok all over the Pacific, maybe they'd have bombed the west coast of America. Lucky for Japan though, they surrendered after Nagasaki.

[@thesheeplewillhavetheirsay7288]

Exactly. Should have hung the emperor too (notice, the e in emperor is not capitalized…..he doesn’t deserve it).

[@thunderbird1921]

Like King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, Hirohito was more of a figurehead. Tojo held most of the real power, but that does not excuse the emperor of not speaking out against this evil. He was at very least a spineless coward.

[@genghisghost]

the only atrocity here is your grammar

[@purefoldnz3070]

@@thesheeplewillhavetheirsay7288 the emperor was a living god in japan that would have destroyed the peace accords instantly.

[@kevinduffy2502]

If you really dig into the Japanese war crimes of WW2 the more you dig the worse it gets, it's to bad that America covered up and buried it all after the war, and they cried out how horrible America was to drop the bombs, I bet a lot of the people who came in to contact with Japan, would have taken the bombs instead of the cruelty of Japan.. Nazi were number 2 in war crimes.. and yet you would never know

[@sburns2421]

An entire generation of doctors in Japan, basically anyone born before say 1918, was trained or operated within the context of military (the military and imperialistic ambitions WERE Japan prior to WW2). Which means also that nearly all of them participated in war crimes at some point during the war.

[@DACFalloutRanger]

Funny how when it's some 83 year old Nazi camp guard who gets imprisoned for the rest of his very little remaining life, nobody calls it "vengeful"

[@robertwilliams2850]

Not vengeful, one must rid the world of vermin.

[@47of74]

My paternal grandpa was one of the guards at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo who helped guard Tojo. Grandpa said Tojo told him that he had been to Iowa once (where both I and my Grandpa are from). He talked about the stuff that happened there, including seeing Japanese war criminals hanged. He wasn't there to see Tojo hanged as he was already home in Iowa and raising a family by then.

[@heritageimaging7768]

Vengeful? He should have been handed over to his own Unit 731 and treated like their prisoners.

[@paddyodriscoll8648]

Tojo deserved it. It wasn’t vengeance. It was justice.

[@harrynking777]

Hardly vengeful. I don't think the meaning of the word was understood by the person who posted the thing.

[@msutter117]

My Great grandpa had a brother who was a pilot during WW2, he was caught up in the attack on Pearl Harbor and was MIA after the attack. My Great Grandpa never learned the exact details as his brother was confirmed MIA and his body was never found. It’s extremely sad and my great grandpa chose to build ships for the navy as a contractor instead of fight according to what he told me. He never fully forgave the Japanese for taking one of his brothers but before he passed away with dementia as bad as it was I’m happy he told some of my family some of the stories he went through. You don’t have to be a veteran to appreciate the sacrifices people made back then.

[@drmasroberts]

He was complicit in many war crimes and was convicted and executed for his crimes, not for the sake of vengeance. God said “Vengeance is mine.” But he also said the murderer should not be allowed to live. Exodus 21:12, Leviticus 24:17, etc. Executing is murderer is not vengeance.

[@mysticdragonwolf89]

Not exactly a good quote as this is the same god who ordered the destruction of 3 cities, the world, and played a betting game with the devil over a man’s life, family, and livelihood

[@jacobmccandles1767]

@@mysticdragonwolf89 I think it's safe to say Be could foresee the outcome. Did HE need proof...or did we?

[@lychan2366]

For the keener students of history, be encouraged to read Eri Hotta's book "Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy", if you haven't. In the book, this Japanese historian critically analyses and evaluates the key civilian and military decision makers (including Hideki Tojo) and their collective decision-making processes that sparked off the Pacific war. While Tojo played an important role, he was not the only one (lest there be salience and attributional bias). He was a product of the Bushido code and militaristic system and culture that enabled the military faction to play an increasingly dominant role in Japanese politics and government after the Meiji restoration. Japan has had several opportunities to turn towards and stay on the path of peaceful democratic development, but was hijacked time and again by its military faction. For example, when Baron Giichi Tanaka, himself an IJA General, was premier in 1927-1929 under Hirohito as Emperor, Japan turned even more militaristic and ultra-nationalistic. Allowing the more hot-headed junior IJA officers to dictate the national agenda (e.g. by planning for war) was dysfunctional and betrayed weak leadership. The military also assassinated two prime ministers in the early 1930s. Besides the Japanese culture of group decision making that is usually non-openly confrontational, this threat helped to create a climate where the voices of reason, reservation and moderation to speak out clearly, boldly and consistently against war, were tampered during imperial conferences. There're many lessons to be drawn from WWII. The following are certainly not exhaustive: Undeniably, Japan had its share of historical grievances, such as being unfairly treated by the victorious Western allies of WWI (especially USA and Great Britain at the Washington Naval Treaty), after Japan supported them in WWI. So can many other countries harbor historical grievances, for a variety of different reasons and circumstances. But using historical grievances to justify war is ultimately self-serving. Lurking behind this excuse is the dynamic of unlimited ambition, lust for more power and nationalistic pride, feeding on one another that fuel the regional security dilemma that edge/spiral nations downwards into a narrowing funnel of options to avoid war. Stoking up the fires of nationalism, while being a good servant when it unites the nation that serves to legitimize the governing regime, can be a bad master when it pressures decision makers to adopt a hardline nationalistic stance (as the "only" politically correct option) instead of persevering with negotiations, compromises, reconciliation in the best possible face-saving way out. Lest we forget, the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Not just vigilance against external threats that fuel the action-reaction cycle, which we all too often focus on, but also vigilance against self-destructive impulses from our fallen human nature within and against the domestic dynamics of ambition, power and pride, interacting with one another that can lead to war. Unleashing the dogs of war is akin to serving a spiritual master who kill, steal and destroy. Have you heard of any physical conflict (war) where there is a no death, destruction, propaganda half-truth, lie, looting, rape and theft? In a nuclear age, when will mankind ever draw the more important lessons of history?

[@randall1959]

My father told me about a Japanese pilot that was dragged onboard a ship and they attached 4 deck winches to his arms and legs and pulled him apart. Sometimes civilized men end up doing utterly barbaric things

[@unwnme]

The amount of Allied atrocities committed against Germans and Japanese will always be brushed under the rug. It is truly awful to see some people (especially Brits and Americans) bang their chest as if they did nothing wrong. I am of course not defending either German or Japanese committed atrocities.

[@randall1959]

@@unwnme The fact is that atrocities happened on all sides but the numbers of allied atrocities pale in comparison to those of Germany and Japan. They don't even come close and were never sanctioned by those in power as were the German and Japanese

[@karnaag]

I call bullshit. No officers aboard that ship stepped in to prevent it? Nonsense. Stop making shit up.

[@randall1959]

@@karnaag They apparently had just survived a Kamikazee attack. And GFY because if you called my dad a liar to my face you wouldn't be standing very long. My father was disabled from his service.

[@jeffhyche9839]

@@randall1959 It is easy for some with simple minds to sit in judgement of those that came before them. If your dad is still with you, tell him "Thank you for his service." I'm sure I speak for more than myself here.

[@PVBJR]

Interesting, amazing, and good narration as well. The denture story was ingenious. Thanks

[@jaredvh7034]

Love your content, but it wasn't vengeful.

[@gregbors8364]

Most executions are vengeful, by definition. They are society taking revenge on the accused

[@AO-ow6tt]

He was just one among other Japanese war criminals who had to pay for their heinous crimes but the most important one was spared by the US in exchange for the total submission of Japan and the Imperial family to the US authority.

[@jaytrace1006]

I agree. The Emperor should have been severely punished, at least, if not executed. There were plenty of lesser Japanese that should have been executed for terrible things they did personally, but never were.

[@trj1442]

Another excellent episode. Thankyou for your awesome content.

[@TarpeianRock]

His hands dripping with blood, rivers of blood.

[@Pete-ln4vu]

Could you do a video of the Last person executed of the WWII trials?

[@fredparkinson1289]

You call Tojo a 'figurehead', but a figurehead is someone with no real power.

[@fredflintstone1761]

Whoever feels sorry for that bloody murderer is a fool !

[@senakaweeraratna741]

Why aren't there no Asian or African voices on this Channel? The whole of Asia bar Japan and Thailand were under Western colonial domination in 1939. Japan attacked Pearl Harbour in 1941 followed by ending British occupation of Burma, Hong Kong, Malaya, Singapore, and Dutch occupation of Dutch East Indies, and American Occupation of the Philippines. The dreams of Asian countries and their people for liberation from Western colonial Rule were realized through Japanese military assistance. The West thought they were invincible. But Japan disproved that myth and further more shattered the reliance on the Doctrine of Manifest Destiny by the expanding western colonial empires. Japan earned for itself the sobriquet ' The Light of Asia' from the leaders of the Asian countries that met at the First Asian International Summit Conference held in Tokyo from November 5th to 6th, 1943.

[@larsongramckow7495]

Don't ever try that shit

[@blondie944]

Sorry, did you forget about the Japanese bombing Darwin, Northern Territory Australia , catching Australian POWS and the unspeakable torture they went through ??!

[@chrisholland7367]

Not to mention British troops caught during the fall Mayla, Singapore,Hong Kong and Burma. Along with the Australians and those Indians that remained loyal to the British they were treated barbaricly.

[@blondie944]

@@chrisholland7367 exactly

[@chrisholland7367]

@CelticGermanicFinnicSoutherneric I know following the fall of the phillipenes.

[@stevenschuyler9527]

Vengeful execution? The dirtbag was guilty of WAR CRIMES.

[@AQuietNight]

What would have been vengeful is if Douglas MacArthur drove to any street corner in Nanking and then kicked Tojo out of the car.

[@solvingpolitics3172]

Once again, thank you for your fantastic channel!

[@kwuqb11]

Your voice is hard to tolerate. Use inflection, dude. My gosh, what a beat down it is to try to listen and follow along with this!!!

[@lindacollins6939]

Living History…. my family was in Yokohama, stationed with my USArmy father (veteran of WW2). My father had been there since September 1947. We arrived March 1948..my brother was born in Yokohama May 1948. My sister and I were toddlers, but I still have faint memories of devastation and rubble from the war. To think that Tojo was executed for crimes against humanity in December 1948…sobering. We left in 1950…the Korean War was underway and my father went on to fight in Korea.

[@marksummers463]

Roast in peace! He asked 4 compassion he never gave.

[@philbrown9764]

Was that FOR or FOUR or FORE?

[@q.e.d.9112]

@@philbrown9764 Read 4 meaning, Phil. 😉

[@danhemming6624]

Great channel. Had to subscribe yet again. Have to keep an eye on it. Great series so far. Why The Netherlands 🇳🇱?

[@jeffhyche9839]

Not subscribing and blocking right after this comment. Anyone calls the execution of a murder and war criminal vengeful, has a serious issues moral compass. Hideki Tojo was taken into custody after the war by US forces. He was given a trial and executed in a humane way. Something the Japanese didn't give their prisoners of war and civilians in China and Korea. This would be a great channel if the author kept his personal views out of the history part.

[@GorCancio]

I read somewhere, that in exchange for immunity for the Emperor and the preservation of the monarchy, Hideki Tojo would accept and admit all responsibility for all Japanese atrocities during the war.

[@schnoodle3]

never happened

[@michaelcampin1464]

If you understand the Japanese moral code it was an honour for Tojo to accept responsibility rather than the Emperor. This is displayed and explained in the film with Sean Connery. I think the name is Red Sun

[@samkatts5457]

It wasn't Japanese . It was Imperialists, just as it was Nazis, not Germans. Stop Asian hate, by doing defining differences, as you do for Germans and Nazis.

[@GorCancio]

@@samkatts5457 Asian hate? Are you assuming my nationality as non-asian? lol

[@Wishmaster787]

The Emperor was just a figurehead. You don't see Iraqis blaming Queen Elizabeth for what Tony Blair did.

[@kevinjohnson7693]

Another excellent video

[@vespasianflavius8778]

Hideki Tojo brought great shame and dishonor upon himself, his family, his neighbors, his emperor, and his gold fish.

[@zqxito9558]

No he didn't. He made all of Japan proud and stand in defiance of the colonizers. Long live Tojo.

[@vespasianflavius8778]

@@zqxito9558 To bad they lost and someone ate his gold fish raw with some sea weed.

[@zqxito9558]

@@vespasianflavius8778 We weren't talking about winning or losing the war, we were talking about an individual who achieved greatness in the eyes of millions. No need to be jealous though, some are destined for greatness, you are not. Enjoy your sea weed with gold fish, we Japanese have higher standards.

[@vespasianflavius8778]

@@zqxito9558 I mean, he was okay. He was no Scipio or Demosthenes. Also don’t knock gold fish until you tired it.

[@vespasianflavius8778]

@@zqxito9558 I mean, he was okay. He was no Scipio or Demosthenes. Also don’t knock gold fish until you tired it.

[@Desert-edDave]

"Vengeful" earned a click of the 'Don't recommend channel' option. Truly doesn't understand history, war crimes, or geopolitical issues.

[@Kelly14UK]

Warmongering unreasonable savages. They got what they deserved.

[@G53X0Y0Z0]

I could argue they deserved more than they got..........

[@lawrenceallen8096]

Yep! This says it all: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bGS1Y5R4ptymhsk

[@richardcline1337]

Not really. We should have used up ALL of our remaining bombs and weaponry on the Japanese islands. If any Japanese survived, okay but if not....tough! Barbaric maybe but ask the many Allied POWs that did not survive the savage barbarism they were shown by the Japanese. The Japanese got off far too lightly!

[@Kelly14UK]

@@G53X0Y0Z0 I keep unearthing stories that disgust me. I would have dropped the Tokyo bomb, the 3rd bomb, but logistics said "no".

[@Kelly14UK]

@@richardcline1337 Heard a story. In 1971, Hirohito visited the west, only 26 years after the war. Allied vets lined all the pavements and at precise moments, in full view of his car, turned their backs. He was a war criminal, he knew and could have stopped the murdering. I remember '89 and one good thing about Prince Philip, to credit the guy, was that being a young man in ww2, he was well aware of the Japanese behaviour. So as far as i recall, he ignored the trip to attend Hirohito's funeral. He was well supported in Britain there.

[@impuseuser]

KZbin saying "you are not alone " with the sewer slide hotline attached to this war criminal is insulting.

[@edhernandez894]

When I was in grammar school there was this little Asian kid that wore glasses and we used to call him Tojo. He never committed any war crimes as far as I know.

[@tommasosantojanni]

Victors write History claiming justice, while delivering vengeance. _"Vengeance is mine"_ *Deut **32:35*

[@garrisonnichols807]

What angers me is Emperor Hirohito was never charged with war crimes and never faced the hangman's noose. He got to stay in power and lived a very luxurious lifestyle until he died in 1989.

[@jacobmccandles1767]

It's hard to say to what degree he was informed of the events of the war, or to what degree he was purely a figure head.

[@1pcfred]

That's the benefit of being a living God.

[@1pcfred]

@@jacobmccandles1767 It's been said that the only decision Hirohito made in the war was the decision to end the war. There was a debate and a tie and he was the deciding vote. It was the first time he'd ever weighed in on anything. Everyone was shocked that he did. But once he did they ran with it.

[@JudielFua]

Tojo sees himself as a samurai warrior. Doesnt even know how to commit seppuku or suicide. The americans just helped to put him out of his misery.

[@timwodzynski7234]

My great uncle was a prisoner of the Japanese and he survived. However my grandmother his sister in law never forgave the Japanese for what they did.

[@Styxswimmer]

My grandfather was at Pearl Harbor. He hated the Japanese with a passion after that.

[@samkatts5457]

Why should the Japanese be spared forgiveness, when it was the Imperialists, that did the war crimes?!?! Odd though, that Germans and Nazis, differences are consistently defined, so Germans are accepted, whereas all Japanese, are blamed, and Asian hate goes on, today for what Imperialists did, because the difference defining done for Germans and Nazis, is not given to Japanese versus Imperialists. I know Japanese, families that fought against Imperialists, though their relatives where locked up in camps. It is ill, of those who cannot forgive, Japanese, when it was Imperialists that committed war crimes, upon the world, including Japanese.

[@BumboLooks]

@@samkatts5457 Germans and white people in General are still hated today for what Hitler did....

[@gvyong]

Ironically, the most violent violence committed on Asian peoples are by Asian people like Tojo. Pearl Harbor was a slap on the wrist compared to the Imperials' attrocities in Nanking, the Death Railway and many other places. Ironically also, Japan's initial victories inspired Asian nationalists to rise up against their colonial masters, with the French and Dutch being the most brutal that had to be defeated by force.

[@historymaven]

This is fascinating. I'm just now researching WWII from the Japanese perspective. I've definitely developed sympathy for the common soldiers, sailors, and airmen. Can you imagine being sent on a kamikaze mission?

[@daveanderson3805]

They volunteered for those missions, I believe

[@historymaven]

@@daveanderson3805 "Voluntold" lol

[@randymagnum143]

Are you sympathetic of nazi soldiers? I'm not attacking, just putting things in perspective.

[@TheWolfsnack]

@@randymagnum143 Hugs for Himmler?

[@historymaven]

@@randymagnum143 That's a good question, Randy. Actually, I have never thought about it, but my grandfather told me a story about when he was in World War II on Christmas Day. He stumbled upon a group of German soldiers. They just shook their heads, and said, "It's Christmas Day." And both groups went on their separate ways. I imagine a lot of them didn't want to be there so I am sympathetic to anyone who is being forced to take up a cause they don't subscribe to. Does that make sense?

[@DelhiMan-xb8nm]

Tojo had committed unprecedented atrocities against humanity

[@bloodymary3008]

take 'em out, you gotta keep 'em separated

[@kermynator]

At 9:42 The script says that “President Truman wanted photos and videos of the execution.” Videos in the 1940s? Who wrote that?

[@1pcfred]

Television was invented in 1927 but it could only be broadcast and not recorded until 1951. So it really depends on what you think video is when it was possible.

[@johnemmert9012]

Ian Toll's trilogy on the Pacific War points out that the Japanese military agreed, prior to the surrender, to take the brunt of the responsibility for the conduct of the war, with the United States more or less agreeing to the terms of surrender in order to ease the reconstruction of Japan. Some Japanese military leaders were doubtlessly executed with minimal justification (in hindsight). However, the presence of European and American colonies and protectorates coninues to muddle discussions of Japanese war crimes and their own attitudes towards the people they conquered. In essence, American and European bigotry, racism, and imperialism is used as an excuse for Japanese agression in op-eds. I have seen many of my students and peope on social media parrot this narrative. There was absolutely no excuse for Japan to conduct the massive invasion of China and the Pacific rim. Equating "kill all, burn all" orders with arial bombing or unrestricted submarine warfare, which was practiced by all combatants, is an exercise in mental gymnastics. Many of those responsible for Japan's worst atrocities either died during the war, or were able to cover their tracks through what amounted to plea deals in the opening salvos of the Cold War. I just wish that the crimes fo the Japanese military would be viewed with intellectual and logical consistently when compared to the crimes of the Third Reich.

[@senakaweeraratna741]

There was a Jewish Holocaust in Europe. There was an Indian Holocaust in Asia. The people responsible for the Indian Holocaust were Winston Churchill and his British Empire. They withheld food deliberately from the people of Bengal, India and diverted the food stocks sent to India to UK for purpose of stockpiling. It led to the death of over 3 Million Indians between 1942 - 1944. The whole of India knows of this man engineered famine. The British Govt.decines accountability for this huge crime against humanity in starving millions to death. So long as Western countries evade accountability for their horrendous crimes in Asian Colonies, Japan and others will not take seriously accusations of the West against them. If there is no level playing field there will not be true Justice.

[@larryking2697]

To compare Japanese, Russian, Chinese and German atrocities with anything at all is impossible in every way. In many ways, British colonizations improved the countries they controlled. They brought law and order and governments that replaced kingdoms. In India there was constant war between the feudal kingdoms. They stopped the wars. They brought representative government, functional legal systems, and what would eventually be a universal language. In my opinion, much of the world was helped by the organization of the more progressed societies. The good outweighed the bad.....

[@senakaweeraratna741]

@@larryking2697 kzbin.info/www/bejne/joDbiY1pp7N8icU Churchill and the Bengal Famine

[@samkatts5457]

Imperialist military, is not the Japanese, unless Germans and Nazis are the same.

[@jamesfern6877]

The only thing I despise about the end of WWII is that more Japanese were not executed

[@FrankPoliat]

That was a "vengeful" execution? Maybe it was just an attention grabbing headline? No... they wouldn't do that, would they?

[@garygemmell3488]

You've got to give Tojo credit for taking responsibility for his actions while nearly every Nazi put on trial blamed a superior for ordering him to commit war crimes.

[@johnalanelson]

9:40 No, he did not want videos! He wanted films, i.e. , movies.

[@nordique59]

Vengeful? I would say ‘appropriate’!

[@Dive-Bar-Casanova]

I used to do some charity volunteer work and worked with fellow Veteran that had a heart of gold. They just don't make people like him anymore. One day over drinks he mentioned as a 2nd Lt in the Army he was in charge of carrying out many executions. A lowest ranking officer in charge was a further insult to the Japan and German criminals goes the theory. Him being Jewish was a bonus to that policy. He told me; "we did many, many more than the history books will claim. MacArthur wanted it carried out ASAP."

[@samkatts5457]

If it's Japan, why is it not Germany?! Germans and Nazis, are different, as Imperial Japan, and Japanese, you know like the 442nd soldiers and their relatives,who were placed in camps, because differences weren't defined, as with Germans and Nazis,

[@anthonybird546]

Tojo was sacrificed so Hirohito could experience anime

[@chrisholland7367]

British, Australian and Dutch troops captured by the Japanese were also treated barbaricly

[@1pcfred]

They shouldn't have allowed themselves to be captured. Least that's how the Japanese viewed it.

[@chrisholland7367]

@@1pcfred the allies should have looked closer at what was happening in China and have been better prepared. The Americans were caught completely by surprise at pearl harbour.

[@1pcfred]

@@chrisholland7367 Pearl Harbor was no surprise for us. Many believe the government allowed the attack to happen in order to galvanize public opinion to enter the war. Because the populace was very against going to war. The US was well aware of what was going on in China. FDR has been accused of being a Chinaphile in his response to Japan's aggression in China. The sanctions the US levied against Japan were an act of aggression. We did everything we could to goad Japan into attacking us. Just short of physically attacking them. So Japan's attack was no surprise whatsoever. We made them do it and some were happy they did. Yes the attack killed people and sank warships. But strategically the attack was an utter failure for Japan. It was a bit too convenient that nothing but obsolete battle cruisers were in the harbor the day of the attack. We'd have lost more hands had those ships been sank at sea. Which if we used them in a war they surely would have been.

[@chrisholland7367]

@@1pcfred whilst Britain lost Hong Kong, Mayalisa and Singapore and later Burma the Philippines also fell to the Japanese. The vichey French also lost control of indochina .

[@larsongramckow7495]

@@1pcfred their views don't matter

[@WildWombats]

He asks for compassion after provoking nations for no reason and showing no mercy to any of their enemies and engaging in some of the most heinous war crimes, some of which even the Nazis felt went too far. While we did end up not holding a grudge against Japan for this, I do find it ironic that he wanted compassion and forgiveness for his nation, when he refused to provide either to those he attacked. And yes, although war isn't pretty inherently, one can be merciful and one can do war without ravaging everything and everyone, and there was an active decision made to actively do the opposite, and decided to ravage as much as they could and show no mercy to anyone. Just the fact they went that extra mile. Again, no hate at all, I'm glad we're on good terms with Japan today and that we didn't hold a grudge against them for this, but I'm simply pointing out the irony in a man who refused to give to others what he was asking for.

[@johnthomson6507]

I don't think it was vengeful enough considering japans appalling crimes in China against allied pows and dutch civilians. Alot more should have seen the hangman. Or been given to the Chinese that they murdered by the millions carried out biological experiment's on.

[@jacobmccandles1767]

According to one commenter here, a lot more of them did.

[@Ciborium]

The fact that Emperor Hirohito was exempted from War Crimes trial, despite being the leader of the criminal enterprise, means there was NO JUSTICE for the people harmed by him and his myrmidons.

[@drpsionic]

There is only one war crime--losing.

[@SuperParatech]

The narrator must have been in the military. Correctly pronounced ranks, in the British vernacular. Not lazily like so many others on here. I will return because the narrator has credibility. Good presentation too! 👍🏻

[@jacobmccandles1767]

Ow good not like the ovver firt'y-free O' 'em. You'd think an Englishman would at least be able to speak the English!

[@fawziekefli2273]

I can do that, and I was never in the military.

[@ZeroBlackfire]

I always thought "Tojo" was racial slur for a person of Japanese decent..... Not some guys name.. >->

[@Dive-Bar-Casanova]

My uncle had a beat up Toyota we called Tojos death wagon. Not PC today.

[@1pcfred]

hehe that's funny. No Tojo was a real dude. But yeah it was used as a slur because of him.

[@minimusmax]

Remember when the u.s. coached Tojo into saying he was responsible for everything the army did? Remember when he slipped up and accidentally eluded to the emperor having ultimate authority, and then the Americans paused the trial to re-coach tojo to say what the u.s wanted him to say to protect the emperor? Yeah, I remember. Wiki Tojo and read his conviction part. Shows you what a sham this trial was

[@thunderbird7020]

Both Tojo and the Emperor were responsible. They simply agreed to spare the emperor so he could help subdue Japan. It doesn’t make Tojo any less guilty.

[@shutup2751]

asian himmler

[@harrietharlow9929]

He even looks a bit like Himmler.

[@TCW838]

"Vengeful"? Not the correct terminology here. Perhaps you would do better in refraining from assigning your definition of each execution resulting from WW2. These people, people who waged wars of aggression, were tried by courts of proper jurisdiction. You, in looking at this through modern eyes and issuing your judgement as to the justification of each execution is not really appropriate. Surely, the Koreans, Chinese, people of the Philippines, people who were abused beyond belief, soldiers who had their heads literally cut off might disagree this was vengeance. Vengeance would have been a slow, punishing and agonizing death. This was a fast death after a fair trial. To this day, Japan has yet to fully acknowledge the atrocities committed in their name by Imperial Japan. It's insane that the Emperor was not placed on trial, though understandable given that we needed to 'win the peace'. Insted, Japan enjoys playing victim due to Hiroshima. They have it backwards.

[@matthewgartell6380]

Everybody knew Tojo didn't have a heart...... Except Tojo

[@jacobmccandles1767]

Ba-dum, tst!

[@AngeloPerfili]

excellent video and love all the pictures...

[@matthewwhitton5720]

Honestly speaking, it’s almost impossible to take this wretch at all seriously as a reputable officer. As a maniacal overseer of countless crimes, yes, it’s completely logical to take his reputation seriously. Why ? Even after the Japanese debacles and failures in their hopeless attempts to challenge the Red Army in settings such as Khalkin Ghol, he VERY reluctantly gave up on his faction of the IJAs bonkers scheme to ‘ conquer ‘ ( ie. reoccupy ) eastern Siberia. He propelled Japan into a mad scheme to construct a ‘ Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere ‘, in the face of an incredibly powerful US response to the revolting sneaking the attack on Pearl Harbour involved. Not to mention that he was also, for a period, in charge of Japans variant upon the Gestapo, the Kempetai, an organization smothered in gruesome behaviour ( see Dr Mark Feltons superb text on them )….

[@jacobmccandles1767]

Given what a horrid man he was during the war, it is strange to me how honest and objective his assessment of his situation was at trial, and how he looked to the well being of the world and the prevention of future conflict. I wouldn't have expected that. I would have expected bravado and hate.

[@samkatts5457]

The 442nd and the Japanese, were not responsible for what the Imperialists did, unless the Germans were responsible for what the Nazis did.

[@samkatts5457]

Japanese, are not responsible for Imperialists, unless Germans are responsible for what Nazis did.

[@jacobmccandles1767]

@@samkatts5457 right or wrong, your opinion is not relevant to the subject of this conversation. Simply, no one was talking about that.

[@FloridaMugwump]

4:10. On December 8, The emperor announces total war. No mention of the sneak attack of December 7?

[@MrEjidorie]

History is always written by victors, and justice is also in the hollow of victor`s hand. If Japan won the Pacific War, US President Truman who ordered to drop A-bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki would be indicted as a war criminal and hung instead of General Tojo.

[@Dive-Bar-Casanova]

,,,,,,and we'd all be driving Toyotas.

[@stt5v2002]

“We are at war with Britain, the United States, and Netherlands.” “What did he just say?” “I think he said we are at war with the Netherlands.” “Do you think we can defeat the Netherlands?” “Maybe. Could go either way.”

[@johnm1720]

'justified' execution, stop using the word 'vengeful'

[@monicac.495]

Love your channel 🤩 But can you speak a bit slower? Not all of us are English 🤗

[@albertangeloro5832]

there's always a priest. they are on retainer and get paid per execution like the hangman.

[@1pcfred]

I think in the Army they work for salary.

[@audinos1840]

It was probably a Shinto priest.

[@albertangeloro5832]

@@audinos1840 they're all the same, they just love executions

[@thenorthstars2210]

The Japanese people were good people. It was their leaders and government that destroyed Japan.

[@Puckoon2002]

I have only one criticism, Tojo's execution could not have been videoed, since there was no such thing as video at the time. It would have been filmed, most probably using 16mm or 35mm colour film.

[@jacobmccandles1767]

We'll since they didn't do it, umm...

[@1pcfred]

There was video but it couldn't be recorded. The first television was made in 1927. It could be transmitted but not recorded. TV was all live. The first video tape recorder was 1951. Although it wasn't widely adopted for a few years.

[@jordanlewis4983]

“Show compassion to my people” Yeah man, that’s why you’re the one up here.

[@sphinxrising1129]

I find it interesting that many make a big deal of the Batan Death March but say nothing of the death march the Americans did to the Cherokee nation called the Trail Of Tears.

[@jacobmccandles1767]

We ALL think that it was bullshit, but this just isn't that video. The holocaust isn't this video. The crusades isn't this video. (Arguably justified) Wounded Knee isn't this video. The Spanish Inquisition isn't this video... ....it doesn't make them "not an atrocity" in people's minds, it just isn't the subject at hand.

[@1pcfred]

The Trail Of Tears? Boo hoo. Cherokees were murderous renegade savages. Marching them to death was more mercy than they showed their victims. So cry me a river. You're probably right though. We should have skinned them all alive. That's what they did. Maybe buried some next to ant hills and poured honey over their heads. That was another favorite of theirs.

[@Paandaas]

That's because this video is about Japanese war crimes in WWII.

[@johnbaxter3676]

The Bataan Death March was a big deal. So was the Trail of Tears. One has nothing to do with the other. Also, the Trail of Tears does get talked about.

[@wisconsinfarmer4742]

plenty is said about it and only the fascists feel nothing.

[@timmyhipbird7543]

ww2 vet that was in Pacific said the Japanese could put explosives in a coffee can that could sink a cruiser. the guns they had you couldn't interchange parts because they were hand finished,one part would not work in another.