The Hotel That Funds Extremism

Our last video from Japan! Onward to Cambodia!
This is a video about freedom of speech, the effect of protest, and the most audacious hotel chain I've ever stayed in. Imagine selling a product that openly degraded 30% of its customers? Welcome to APA.
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[@RareEarthSeries]

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[@MDGeist-ws2rh]

Rare Earth Isn’t that just strange? What would the Japanese want with the Jews and anti-semitism?

[@esgee3829]

you post some videos like this which could displease big money advertisers. Had this lead to demonetisation for this or any such videos?

[@praggypopsqa4652]

I *fully agree.* I'd rather know up front, rather than go about blindly supporting an agency. That is why I want *statues in the US south to remain* wherever they are. I want the world to know southern history as a bastion of hatred hardcore racism. By removing the statues, you get to whitewash the architectural landscape that tells the story through each period of southern history. If I see statue that I am not familiar with (and that will be most), I can google it and do extensive research about that name.

[@RareEarthSeries]

Out of curiosity, does that mean you think ex-Soviet states shouldn't have torn down the USSR's statues? Stalin and Lenin, etc? Was it a bad thing when Saddam's statue was torn down in Baghdad? I'm not offering judgement, just curious.

[@augusthayek4957]

Nanking Massacre: All the evidences for the Nanking Massacre were fabricated by the Kuomintang’s Publicity Section for raising funds in US; used after the War by GHQ and US for Tokyo Trial and WGIP to record Japan as the aggressor and to lessen the guilt for the dropping of atomic bombs; and today exploited in CCP’s propaganda as a weapon to break up the ties among US, Japan, Taiwan and other US allies for their military expansion into the Pacific and Indian Ocean. China is spending 10 billion dollars for these issues in UN, US, Japan and other US allies annually since the modern history is a source of government legitimacy, territorial rights, national security, military advantage, economical profits. If you are confident, show your primary source evidence that convinced you that this fabrication is in fact a true story. So far all I saw from the people like yourself are: photos of so-called "Japanese soldiers" wearing look alike outfits made in China, which were fabricated by the Publicity Section of Kuomintang to raise funds in US through Chang-kai Shek's wife, Mei-soon Lin; hearsay from Kuomintang like the diary of Rabe who admitted that he did not see any civilian massacre, and thus did not testify at Tokyo Trial nor his diary was used in it; news distributed to the world mainly through an Australian journalist, Harold John Timperley, who was revealed by Kuomintang's documents in Taiwan in 2015 to be one of their five chief agents, and was responsible as the head of the London Brunch of Kuomintang’s Publicity Section regularly receiving money. Timperley wrote the famoust book "What War Means: The Japanese Terror in China,” which first spread this fabrication to the Western world but he later refused to testify at the Tokyo Trial. The head of the International Publicity Section of Kuomintang, Zeng Xubai, later admitted in his autobiography that they paid Tmeperley and Smythe to write two books to propagate Nanking Massacre to overseas and the books achieved their goals. Also, all the confessions from Japanese veterans, which were presented by CCP and registered in UNESCO as evidences for the massacre in China, were made by members of a communist group called Chukiren. All of them, without an exception. They were brainwashed by CCP during their captivities. The CCP's objective was to use them as activists in order to emotionally separate Japanese citizens from the government by brainwashing the Japanese how bad Japan behaved during the War, for a later communist revolution in Japan that the CCP was planning. GHQ cooperated with this CCP's plan through the Japan’s Communist Party for their War Guilt Information Program, and the document for the operation was declassified in 2014 by The National Archives United Kingdom, TNA, in England under the name, Norman File KV2/3261, after a Canadian diplomat in charge, Egerton Herbert Norman, who committed suicide when he was suspected as a communist spy. Before the Japanese Army marched into Nanking, the International Committee for Nanking Safety Zone, for which Rabe was the leader, notified them where the Safety Zone was, and subsequently sent a latter of appreciation to the Army for not bombing it. The population of the city as counted by the Committee before the Japanese entry was about 200,000, much less than the CCP’s claim for a massacre of 300,000, and the number increased to about 250,000 in the following months because the Chinese civilians who escaped to outside of the city returned once they found that it was safe. It was the CCP and Kuomintang who were killing the civilians, and they were the ones that civilians were scared of. That is why tens of western media journalists who were in Nanking or along the way to the city from Shanghai at the time never reported any civilian massacre by the Japanese Army.

[@hxhuang9306]

Whatever you say about Chinese nationalism(which I usually don't agree with), this hotel getting boycotted by Chinese people was a pretty big deal last year, and that's something I can agree with.

[@moonmoon4577]

well no, the fact is denying the massacre is offensive to the chinese people, who were the ones massacred. so for them, who i assume are big travellers to japan simply because of proximity, to boycott one of the hotel chains is gonna be a big deal

[@hxhuang9306]

No. I mean Chinese nationalism that leads to chinese people boycotting the hotel.

[@raioni1059]

I wonder if the Japanese boycott Chinese hotels for supporting the CCP. I mean China does spend most of it's time blatantly lying about it's past. Realistically the Nanking massacre, although bad, is nothing compared to the CCP's atrocities. Shame that an entire country can unify in lying to itself, and the outside world all to keep an oppressive government in power. I suppose it is a kind of cycle.

[@lc9245]

Raioni Asians are bitter and put hatred over practicality and call it "honor". The Romans could be at each other throat one day and then arrange marriage the next day if the need arises. Asians care little about human rights but bring up colonialism when it's convenient, especially when it concerns why they lack behind the west so much and why their couldn't invent anything significant or win any Nobel prize on their own. Unfortunately for most of those who lived under Japanese occupation, the uncomfortable truth is Japan is the exception to all this.

[@pinoji]

He will not be able to speak freely as he does in Japan. He cannot even find propaganda-free documentation in China. If there were any such documentation, it would be censored. Chris could say "Starbucks in China does not taste as good as in it does in the US," but that is as far as Chris can and will go. We will see if this channel is real journalism or not.

[@Cerise4697]

You think this is uncommon? The amount of hatred Korea gets for even mentioning Japan's atrocities during the colonial period is staggering. I can only imagine it's similar for China. The Japanese government can be surprisingly revisionist, right down to the textbooks they use to teach children. I wish I could say I was shocked, but I'm more disgusted than surprised.

[@drivesthecar3247]

Alice Liddell things change slowly in Japan, but they do change! I was an exchange student in Japan 35 years ago and the high school kids were protesting new text book that left out some of the more horrible details of Japan's War making history.

[@lotus_dream]

It was getting better post war but with the current leadership, it becomes extremely revitionists.. they even denies that comfort women were slaves when the women are still fucking alive

[@haruka6672]

Alice Liddell Stop bringing u leftist idelogy

[@BizzeeB]

@@lotus_dream It's hard to build a sense of nationalism while at the same time being honest about past events. To varying degrees, every nation in the world has this issue, and in countries which are racially homogeneous (like Japan and Korea, which also has its prevailing myths), it's even more acute, and will continue to become more so as these countries fight to maintain their constructed identities in the face of declining birthrates and the attendant realization that accepting immigration is becoming necessary. In Korea, they've been fear-mongering and myth-building as they very aggressively protest the arrival of a few hundred Yemeni refugees. At least in countries where basically everyone is the same ethnicity, though, you can understand the origins of the "us vs. them" ideology (even if its misguided). In countries like the US and Australia, which are built on immigration, it's just absurd.

[@taiundoo8435]

@@BizzeeB The few hundred yemeni refugees were involved in a deadly assault case(knives involved), two seperate sexual assault casees, controlled substance case(smuggled khat whith them) and vandalism( smashed a store window with a brick for having expensive bread). Not really a good impression when 10% of your group gets arrested in the first 3 months for severe crimes eh?

[@jasonrobertson9618]

You make a great argument for free speech. Letting people and companies espouse their beliefs lets you be more informed about them.

[@TheJerbear101]

but i can see why nike dropped him. it a company sponsors someone that person represents that company in the public's eyes, so when it comes to large political views like anti same sex marriage nike had to decide if the wanted that view to be seen as part of there company.

[@momentary_]

+Rustedblade Anyone that Nike sponsors becomes a representative of their company. Nike can't just twiddle their thumbs at everything their representatives say. It all reflects back on their company. If Nike didn't drop Pacman, then people would begin to associate Nike with those beliefs.

[@michaelsherman3472]

+Rustedblade he also said that they can't be seen as human. Plus, it could be argued that Christianity is dangerous and extreme based on its own literature and history. So....

[@nefariusfriday9518]

all religions have that

[@hedgehog3180]

But we have free speech. Like we settled this about a century ago.

[@nicknakamura164]

I am Japanese and lived overseas for 12 years. I notice that every single one of the extremist ideas on Japanese history introduced by you is actually much more mainstream and believed by Japanese people (well the ones that care anyway) in general. I grew up in a western education system with parents telling me all sorts of pro-Japanese versions of WWII. I must say I was confused, now I am quite indifferent about modern history. One thing for sure is that I would rather be uninformed than misinformed. I love your channel btw.

[@crookedeagle9455]

True true, another Japanese person here although I think I'm quite a bit younger than you. Although I would disagree about the mainstream believing extremist ideas, mostly people are uninformed. Like at my old public school, textbooks describe the atrocities committed with a single sentence, maybe a couple at most. Although textbooks and mainstream media don't blatantly deny war events like this weirdo hotel owner, there's definitely avoidance of these extremely important topics

[@JonManProductions]

Excuse me the hell did I just read?

[@amaizeing.dumbass5123]

@@JonManProductions I don't know for sure, sounds like a ultranationalist, but with that name could be a hypocrite or a troll.

[@Jotari]

John Rabe's dairy seems like a pretty reliable first hand source. Absolutely no reason a Nazi would have lied about the atrocities to Hitler when Japan and Germany were allies.

[@-ahvilable-6654]

Japanese keep themselves clean of modern bullshit

[@TheNostradamus13]

0:24 404 room not found

[@nicknakamura164]

It's cultural. the number 4 in Japanese is pronounced 'yon' or 'shi', and 'shi' also means death and is considered a bad luck number on buildings. It is very common for some building to skip the 4th floor entirely even, and tenant prices are cheaper on the 4th floor.

[@amittenforkitten7016]

Nick what are you talking about he was referencing how the room number was 404 which is the same number computers use for an error.

[@Frahamen]

0:30 405 sleeping not allowed

[@ich6885]

Oh, obviously they would find this stuff in 405 Method Not Allowed

[@waynesanford2869]

@@nicknakamura164 so basically 4 is Japan's 13?

[@SnowmansApartment]

Now i know where not to stay, thx 😄👍🏻

[@aryanrealbtw]

SnowmansApartment Now I know where to stay.

[@davidhollenshead4892]

Because you want to finance hatred, Arian Pig ???

[@RazorRyan100]

Why do you think this is Hatred?

[@mjouwbuis]

Even if it isn't, chances are it leads to it - some people believe everything they read or which happens to fit in and feed their bubble.

[@xplicitmike]

Yup, never staying here!

[@dwightwilliams5892]

And now I want to know which hotels they've bought in Canada and the States. Because I'd prefer to avoid them wherever possible. Thanks for the heads-up.

[@RareEarthSeries]

Dwight Williams Okabe in the US, Coastal in Canada.

[@dwightwilliams5892]

Thank you.

[@MichaelBerthelsen]

Dwight Williams Yeah, when I went to one in Japan and saw this, then read about the acquisition of NA hotels, I wanted to write a piece for a newspaper, but didn't know who to contact. People need to know if they're staying in a hotel owned by a guy who insists that LBJ tricked the Japanese into attacking Pearl, because they wanted the war...!

[@-ahvilable-6654]

If I was rich enough to stay in hotels like you, privileged boys, I'd stay in those hotels just to have at least someone challenge dogmas

[@redmeat4vegans62]

@@MichaelBerthelsen Did you mean FDR?

[@zack875]

I like how Rare Earth can roll out of bed in the middle of the night and make one of the most thoughtful videos on youtube

[@eponack]

The app buycott is a barcode scanner that tells you where the money goes.

[@funofboredom]

Wow, that is really cool. Thanks for the share.

[@scottanderson7793]

Who makes the app buycott? 🤔

[@tobyevans2474]

eponack, Downloading now, thank you!

[@neolexiousneolexian6079]

@@scottanderson7793 They're located between a hospice, a dance school, and a temporarily closed noodle restaurant, in a nice suburb-y residential area, it seems.

[@neolexiousneolexian6079]

...That said, I don't know who owns the websites where I found this information. They try to look very governmental, but their design, opacity, and pricing contradict that.

[@jdraven0890]

I prefer unfiltered free speech, and for people to be free to say what they believe - exactly for why you demonstrate here

[@dundoderdumme3044]

In my opinion, this is more about people not being opportunistic (keeping quiet) about their opinions. Almost noone in buisness and politics these days is willing to give a very unpopular opinion, because they fear the repercussions, they fear losing money, not getting rich. This opportunism however is poison to a society, because the only people brave enough to give unpopular opinions are usually the extremists, who can spread their ideas because very few will give up their "good reputation" (wich is basically political neutrality) by arguing against them. Only if it is a real "safe space" they will give their opinion.

[@drg8687]

Its one thing to present a personal opinion, its another to present blatantly false claims.

[@conorhoade8793]

Ponder this: Free speech to talk about the terrible things being created in the world or free speech to spread my rage and anger to those that may be bent to my will... Why can't life be easier?

[@slome815]

The problem with that, is that things like the nanking massacre, or comfort woman, or not opinions or believes, it are facts. And the revisionist claims by some prominent japanese politicians and bussinessmen are blatant lies, that have been repeated so much, that a large portion of the population believes this.

[@jesusjimenez2899]

These series are amazing. They deserve much more views and recognition than they currently have. The prose and natural transition of ideas is remarkable, please continue this great work.

[@tyrael280]

6:22 and at the end where does google money go when you google ?

[@tom7467097]

tyrael280 It goes towards a lot of things, but I'd imagine most of it goes into funding research.

[@Schmidtelpunkt]

Control of the public will.

[@pIacehoIders]

tyrael280 google deepmind. Google recently released a bunch of vidros on machine learning check it out. Worst cast scenario, google money goes to creating skylab

[@pIacehoIders]

Sry skynet not skylab

[@Baigle1]

or Microsoft money when you type or use the os

[@Professicchio]

You have unwittingly highlighted one of the main problems with "cancel culture": forcing someone to go into "hiding" mode rarely makes them change their mind, it just makes them more sneaky and possibly dangerous.

[@GenJotsu]

The Truth; people pretend to worship it, until it makes them feel uncomfortable. Then they corrupt it to fit their own agenda. Truly, the inability to accept real Truth is a sign of weakness.

[@khikaru7846]

Hi. I live in Japan, never saw these books, the only one I saw in every APA hotel so far was the comic showing perhaps the creator of the company... Never saw these books. Is this Tokyo? Will stay away in the future thanks for this video.

[@senorsiro3748]

APA hotel: "Tojo did nothing wrong"

[@Trollificusv2]

Yeh. WWII was an inside job. It was the world trying to get the world that the world was at war. TOTAL black op.

[@MrMeoow91]

And yet im writing this from my APA hotel room. Im in Japan for holiday. I stayed in Apa Hiroshima and tokyo. I watched this video a few months ago and completely forget about it. Until I saw the books and magazines and I was like “I saw this somewhere on youtube before...”

[@meevil24]

Did you run out of the hotel as soon as you realized your error?

[@Ketsuafureskit]

The Japanese proverb is “the wise hawk hides its claws”. Maybe the headline on the front page was an indication?

[@bdbgh]

I've been to one, pretty decent for a business hotel edit: I didn't find those books though, I was in Japan circa 2014

[@JohnMichaelStrubhart2022]

Yes, it is better that anyone - person or company - to show their true colors so that the consumer and/or investor can decide what their relationship with that person or company should be. As is pointed out in this video, it is worse to inadvertently support the obscene position of people or companies by knowingly patronizing them, without knowing what is actually being patronized than it is to shut those people or companies up and let them continue promoting their obscene positions. Personally, I won't stay in a hotel that allows the Gideon society to place bibles in the guest rooms. Why? Because I think that the only ideology that a hotel should promote is being in a safe, clean, comfortable place with the _common_ conveniences of a home (or _uncommon_ conveniences at request). A hotel should _not_ be in the business of promoting a particular religious, political or sociological ideology.

[@luxnova8211]

Yeah, same. I was traveling through to Chicago for a tour of Fermi Lab, and in our hotel, we found a Gideon Bible. Now my roommate is an atheist with very Jewish parents, and I myself am a devout Catholic. I was amazed, I had my personal bible, but I never gave it to my co-worker out of respect for his decision but when we came across a bible that was kept in a hotel, not by an person who left it there, but by a group who intentionally kept it in, I was appalled. There is a time for preaching for your God, but there is also a time for shutting up, and letting bygones by bygones. I really wished our group didn't book our rooms there, but the problem is that its not really that easy to find if the place had Gideon Bibles or not.

[@gregsanders61]

John Michael Strubhart Yeah, a hotel that I sometimes frequent has a bible sitting on the desk or resting inside a drawer. It's kind of disgusting.

[@magnumbrahms5339]

Pussies!!! Bitching about a book?

[@willprichard9029]

Imagine if a group left Qurans in hotel rooms, there'd be riots

[@benjamintalbot201]

unlikely, there are groups that leave Qurans in hotel rooms, but no riots.

[@thatsnodildo1974]

japan tries to make the usa seem like the starter of the war me- *sigh how many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man*

[@jamisojo]

lol. How many years was Japan at war before America got involved? YEARS! Case closed on that one.

[@RedCrowJXU]

In case anyone didn't know. Spongebob reference.

[@menib7574]

(I am really misinformed) Though I believe there are some arguments to be made in order to justify that belief by those who want to believe it ( I am really misinformed ), like how the heck was the USA's army so naive or even incompetent by letting the Japanese to just walts in and kill so many people. The USA had blamed I believe Spain in the past in order to justify going to war against it. The USA also suffered from an economic depression and perhaps they needed a reason to get more involved in the war to improve their status quo, The mind does not need a lot in order to justify or deny certain events or claims

[@menib7574]

@Joseph Douek well on the bright side at least I was right about something

[@menib7574]

@Joseph Douek say do you know where or what to search in order to become more informed

[@tenaciousdnk1]

Hi there! First off, I am a Korean American and have recently stayed at APA Hotel for my good ol' childhood Japanese friend's wedding whom I have known since kindergarten. Whilst laying on the bed, I noticed some books on the wall and decided to take a gander. I went from glancing to perusing the book, and I was stunned that such a book existed especially within the confines of my hotel room. Initially, I was outraged & livid; however, being a libertarian as I am & someone who respects freedom of speech, I tried to take a different perspective. And after much contemplation, I ended up with the same conclusion as yours. I felt the only solution I could find was, simply, don't book a room there any further; I honestly believe losing future business will be the greatest detriment to this hotel owner and trivialize his personal agenda by simply ignoring it. Albeit they have a very nice sentou (public bath house) for patrons, I will not return.

[@VicodinElmo]

I don't disagree that this is deplorable but Nanking denialists and ultra-conservatism are rife in Japan. That said, pushing your agenda through your business is concerning.

[@sparklesparklesparkle6318]

What about Pepsi pushing Pride is that concerning? are you a homophobe then? or do you just have double standards when the company is pushing something you don't agree with?

[@BothHands1]

It's strange, because my American History teacher in American high school told us that he thought Pearl Harbor was a false flag operation, though not quite in the way you're describing. Rather, he says that the war was very unpopular, and so the president did nothing upon hearing that the Japanese were attacking, so that he could convince the American people to go to war. So not quite a false flag, but not quite *not* a false flag either. He showed us telegrams that the president had received showing he had been alerted to the attack and stuff. This was 17 years ago mind you, long before this whole Japan-fever came across America's youth. While Japan did commit atrocities in China, and were utterly merciless and evil in war, do remember that the winners get to write history, and so the truth is probably somewhere in the middle, at least in certain circumstances. About 100 years before the war, America had it's imperialist dick all over East Asia, and Japan was certainly affected by it - they had been completely isolationist for 300 years prior, and their entire government was completely overthrown when American gunships forced them to open their borders. While Japan took up that imperialist flag, and ran with it in many horrible, evil ways, it was the same flag that America had planted on their soil. They were put under multiple unfair treaties, and at a certain point they were left with two options - remain a subjugated nation, or take the mainland, and join the empires of the west in massive expansionist behavior. They're a small island nation, after all, and so they wouldn't have the resources to compete otherwise. Just food for thought. I certainly don't deny that they did a lot of shitty things in war, but so does every country come war-time. American GIs had their own "comfort women" during the Vietnam war, after all. What is most important, I think, is ensuring that war never happens again, because it definitely brings out the worst in humanity.

[@Killua2001]

It's not an uncommon 'conspiracy theory' to suggest that the USA had advanced knowledge of the bombings, but Hanlon's Razor works pretty damn well for why US response was so slow. The attack was pretty damn well timed and in truth there wasn't a lot the US could have done barring knowing exactly when to have planes up in the air. We broke a message indicating war was about to happen on December 7th, but by the time anyone was able to act on that action the Japanese had already bombed Pearl Harbor, and the intercepts didn't mention a specific time of attack. There was little to nothing that could have been done. The Japanese had their own reasons to attack, they're an island nation so with the US cutting off oil they needed some other method of getting it. Crippling the US fleet so they could secure island rich areas under allied control (with the tacit approval of their German allies) was as far as they were concerned their only good play. .... Of course that move ended up backfiring quite spectacularly. Still I wonder how history would have changed had they managed to sink Yorktown, rendering it out of the fight at Midway.

[@Pandababy1950]

Comfort women may be common but slaughtering these women then desecrating their vaginas with bayonets is not. That's the difference between Japanese and other soldiers.

[@MrCordycep]

The thing is, reports of the brutality of Japanese atrocities tend to be fairly ubiquitous where ever they invaded rather than there being a middle ground. Times have changed however and you can see that with the spread of Japanese culture throughout South East Asia (not too sure about Korea or China).

[@capras12]

I feel like the US wouldn't need a false flag operation to declare war in WWII if they wanted to...

[@jasper677]

Capras12 roosevelt was a great supporter of the war, a friend of churchill and he hated hitler. The USA did enter a neutrality law, which said, that they cant enter a war without being attacked in the first place. Also, before entering the war officially, thes send a few expeditionary troops to egypt (english colony at that time) and free france (the french colonies that didnt colaborated with hitler like vichy), which ended in an complete desaster, because the untrained, technological inferior divisions didnt stand a chance against the experienced german and italians, who fought for 3 years already. The casualties were insane: the american divisions were slaughtered and the anti-war voices were really strong at that point. So he didnt needed a false flag operation, but he needed something

[@TheKangaroo1111]

There's a lot of nationalism here in Japan. A lot of it is more subtle though. It mostly comes down to their myth of uniqueness.

[@PKMNFan4664]

I think Japan and the United States are alike in that aspect...

[@sparklesparklesparkle6318]

how dare these people be proud of their nation. We must put a stop to it.

[@lieuwestra]

Being able to openly say outrageous things does legitimise it in the eyes of some people.

[@Ramidemi710]

Lieuwe Westra So just dump free speech?

[@MacheteSquad]

Losing the ability to acknowledge the existence of hatred is not a worthy cost. I would say those that have said hateful things and public opinion effecting their business/ persona is democracy in action. Ie. Daniel Tosh jokes of a woman's rape when she heckles him, and it's the court of public opinion that showed he's wrong to do that in this day and age. Besides, the legal actions to block out the KKK have been around for ages, but they still have grown prevalent again, so what good is legal action when a large portion of society chooses otherwise?

[@lieuwestra]

I am saying that hate speech from a person of authority (successful business man) gives a level of legitimacy in the eyes of those who can not see these things as separate.

[@MissLilyputt]

Lieuwe Westra People need to see hate speech to know what it is, to name it, define it. Hiding it or suppressing it has never made it go away. By letting them speak we can hear the fallacy in their words and use logic and reason to prove them wrong. It also lets us as a society know who believes these terrible, horrible things. People don't stop believing these things simply because they're not permitted to voice them in public. You stamp out ignorance with facts and sound reasoning.

[@SergeantSquared]

Pakislav does that include _'micro-aggressions'._ 'cause I thought threats were already illegal. Isn't that pure hatred? Threats. *You're talking about disagreeable views to your political world view.* Try honesty by actually saying what you mean, _"you want to silence by force all who oppose your groupthink's particular ideological presuppositions."_

[@garycollins2995]

Looking forward to hear from your experience in exploring Cambodia, I imagine it will be very different in many aspect from Japan. Keep making Video! I'm enjoying your contents

[@brettdavidson1762]

I'm much happier with your presentation of this than some of your other videos. This one was much more calmer and more speaking face to face feeling, rather than 部落民 which was very teacher to student kind of feeling. Though people did come here to learn. Personally I didn't come to get lectured. I liked this video because of it's more natural feeling of thought sharing, instead of something being forced into my brain (Sorry! I don't really know how to put it in better words!)

[@eltiochusma]

"forced into my brain"? No one is forcing you to "CLICK" on play....

[@ilyaakadishtungha7337]

Brett D I'm just gonna say; I worked on a project very similar some years ago and the pressure of having the camera rolling while you expose topics you may or may not be too familiar with while at the same time being very mindful of your body language can result in the videos ending up looking pretty lecture-y. Believe me, you can study a topic for a whole week before shooting but after a dozen or so videos it starts piling up, and it gets harder and harder to remember the little details, the fun facts. I also noticed that in his other videos he sometimes has to struggle a little to string together his lines and have them be both coherent and nice sounding. I did the same, you have no idea of how hard it is to avoid the "hmmm", "errr" or ",like," on the fly.

[@MrAnonymous825]

Brett D Oh Jesus Christ it's a weeaboo

[@kabu506]

Blue Guy a weaboo in 2017? god I hate those creeps

[@theloniousm4337]

Brett D - read the credits at the end of every video. "Don't take Evan's word for it, do your own research and decide if you agree or disagree" (paraphrased). I appreciate the credits and he essentially says he could be wrong.

[@Henchman1977]

Did you do that cold in a single take?

[@RareEarthSeries]

Ian Colquhoun Yes. But we clipped out some of my pauses and repetitions.

[@stuartharvey3597]

404: room not found

[@onejerlo]

But you would only know about it after you actually stay in the hotel. There should be an app for this, so you can avoid it.

[@ItsumoSeppun4]

Thanks for uploading this video. My husband and I actually honeymooned in the APA about a year and some months ago and we had no idea! We liked the rates for everything but at what cost. Our next visit will definitely be with another franchise.

[@disciprine]

That's why this video is important.

[@sparklesparklesparkle6318]

@@disciprine I agree. The Japanese must suffer as a vassal of America after what they have done in the war.

[@bittercephalopod1569]

The owner is a rich, loopy old woman who loves to have her face on billboards, bottled water, etc. I think she inherited the business from her father. If she wants that reading material in the rooms, in it goes! BTW good hotels. Reasonably priced, clean and good amenities.

[@sunnohh]

Forced prostitution is a really perverse way to say rape....

[@uchuuseijin]

Jesus I live here and see their ads all the time. Almost set my family up to visit me in one thank you for making this video.

[@Sailingbad]

This is why I am against censorship. When you censor groups then you don’t know what they’re talking about.

[@sparklesparklesparkle6318]

Im procensorship. We managed to get rid of Trump by silencing him, why not silence more people? its helping bring us closer to a true Communist utopia!

[@CatsMeowPaw]

Well. This guarantees I will never stay at an APA hotel next time I visit Japan

[@eighty-nine89]

Thank you for making this video. This hotel prices quite generously so that an average person could easily make it their top choice to stay at without knowing their underlying pursuits.

[@aaronreece6242]

Amazing series. Always interesting, polite but honest in it's presentation and it digs into the subject areas that you won't find anywhere else. Thank you for the hard work guys!

[@MacheteSquad]

I subscribed to this channel because Chris Hadfield is awesome, and promptly forgot about it. This video's the first I watched, and goddamn if it's not great. Good job on providing a compelling thought and not just disbelief and standard political rhetoric.

[@speedzero7478]

Whoa, I almost stayed at one of these places--I never would have known or heard about this without Rare Earth. Cool find.

[@AnastasiaSilvi]

He.. he.. He uploads...

[@lohphat]

First....sane comment poster. Thank you for clearing away the smoke and mirrors. If we lived in a world where we could just go to a repository of factual information before we engage our resources this sort of creeping idiocy wouldn't go far.

[@AWatson87]

lohphat I

[@Trollificusv2]

Sadly, will never happen, because certain 'tribes' are so convinced of their own correctness they could not allow a "REPOSITORY OF FACTUAL INFORMATION" to exist without thoroughly vetting it for conformity to THEIR ideas. *sigh*

[@unflexian]

Who writes the library?

[@BatCaveOz]

I can confidently say that I don't care at all about the socio/political views of the owner of the hotel I am staying at.

[@SheshankReddyS]

Pearl Harbour as 'The Trigger' for America's involvement in the war is a little simplistic. That said, whatever the evidence, Pearl Harbour was an act of war, Hiroshima was an act of war and so was Nanjing. The majority of Nationalist opinion within Japan seems to agree on this. They don't all deny Nanjiing. They question the fairness or the legality of the trials that followed the War. There's a reason why there's a monument to Radhabinod Pal at the Yasukuni Shrine you visited despite him openly acknowledging the atrocities perpetrated at Nanjing by the Japanese. Personally, I think Nationalism, like any other tribalism, is a disease that threatens to cripple modern civilization. That said Right-wing Nationalism also exists in a spectrum. Not all of them are cuckoo, tin-foil-hat-wearing history deniers.

[@williamchamberlain2263]

Pearl Harbour _wasn't_ an act of war, because the Japanese embassy buggered up their decryption process and didn't declare the war with the US to the US government until after the attack on Pearl Harbour had started. I mean, in reality the US knew that the Japanese were probably going to kick off, and the US was way too complacent about everything, but under international law it was an illegal act, not an act of war.

[@williamchamberlain2263]

Now the Rape of Nanjing being on a level with the firebombing of Tokyo or the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is also wrong: Nanjing was a systematic up-close-and-personal multi-day murder-and-rape-fest with rifles, pistols, bayonets, and swords without a strategic aim. Hiroshima was an attempt to get a surrender without having to go through Io Jima levels of losses across the entirety of the main islands. But the high command were too stubborn and the emporer was too stupid to sign off, so Nagasaki happened. The choice of targetting should have been treated as a war crime - but they were using the opportunity to test the effects of nuclear bombs on civilian and military installations in preparation for nuclear conflict with Russia, so the US made _that_ choice. Personally I'd have dropped the first one on the Emperor's palace, then got the surrender from whoever survived. But the US probably didn't want to run the risk of the imperial Japanese forces going completely batshit when their total inability to protect their idiot of an emporer was demonstrated to the country they'd been lying to for 30+ years

[@Ac-wn4nz]

@@williamchamberlain2263 You do seem to have a bit more insight than the common man, which is great, but do you believe the Emperor was behind it all? Maybe read up a bit more about his position during that time before commenting? You might believe that the Japanese thought the Emperor was a "God", but kindly read up on that as well. I do recommend the award-winning book "Racing the Enemy" by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa as a starter.

[@madisondines7441]

@@williamchamberlain2263 there's also the issue that if we had killed the Emperor, we likely would have had a much harder time bringing Japan to peace.

[@boninacadiz]

Thank you for sharing this. Thank goodness for free cancelation policy, I immediately canceled that booking with APA Shinjuku.

[@theoriginaledi]

Wow. What a fascinating video! I agree 100% with your opinion. I'd LOVE always knowing where my money goes, good or bad, so I could make informed decisions. I can tell you for sure, I'll never be staying in that particular chain of hotels...

[@sparklesparklesparkle6318]

No you wouldn't. You don't want to put in the amount of research to truly understand what is happening in the world around you. You just think you want to know. But really, you're just lazy, and are looking for a quick rush from feeling like you are right and you are with the right team. You're a spoonk.

[@sensibudz]

Thank you guys for this series! I love the feel of it and the knowledge I gain from it! Please continue to do it outside of Japan.

[@Jotari]

Thanks for making this video. I live in Japan and APA hotel is slightly omnipresent. I'll make an effort to avoid contributing to them (course even if I could afford hotels, I'd probably still stay in hostels because their awesome). Would like to visit one to check out the propaganda though.

[@An-Islander]

This is a great testimony about consumer responsibility, the best dissection I have seen in my memory. But more so, the ending is one of the realest moments in KZbin.

[@nantzstein3311]

Honestly, this was not a coincidence. I bet.

[@jamesrocket5616]

How to earn social credits on APA Hotel: *Nothing happened in Nanking in 1937*

[@9786oof]

Isn't what u call the back of the book the front in Japan

[@MastaGambit]

The book is also clearly written in english.

[@TAEYYO]

I agree 100% and have felt this way a long time. It's so much more dangerous when, instead of allowing / encouraging people to speak openly, we urge others to keep any unpopular perspectives to themselves. Censorship can give us the false impression that things like racism are disappearing, but when in truth it's only becoming less likely that people with these views discuss them openly. Left to fester for long periods of time, these ideas can actually grow and spread, protected from the scrutiny and criticism that help us develop / evolve our perspectives.

[@TheMetrored]

You make a pretty interesting argument but it kind of ignores the purpose of propaganda. You're discounting the persuasive power of the propaganda itself. The work of an extremist movement, like any movement really, is in spreading the message. Those pamphlets spread an extremist message to every guest in that hotel chain completely uncontested making them a powerful vector for bringing extremist views into the mainstream. All kinds of people who had never given much thought to extremists will go to one of those hotels and get an introduction to this extremist ideology on the extremist's terms. Even those who are unswayed may find themselves taking the extremists more seriously than they otherwise would have. I understand the impulse to think that it would be worse to unknowingly give financial support to bigots but I think taking in their sales pitch when you least expect it is far more insidious. Also, I don't know about Canada, but in the US the state can't shut down a hotel for hate speech. It is also highly unlikely that activists would be able to convince the hotel chain to put itself out of business. Keeping that in mind, eliminating the hotel chain's primary means of actually spreading extremism in North America goes a long way toward blunting the impact of those views.

[@RareEarthSeries]

Charles Henry Bell Yes, it's a multi-headed problem. If the only place the propaganda were being promoted was the hotel, I'd be more inclined to agree. But it is just a tiny part in a massive campaign that is mostly targeted at political sponsorship. The hotel's main value to the movement is as a source of cash. I don't know the right answer, but in my eyes rats are easier to kill in the light. Without knowing what the hotel is for, I would inadvertently spend much more towards ultra-nationalist political change in Japan. A thorny issue for sure. Thanks for the comment!

[@TheMetrored]

Thank you for the response. What do you think the movement would do with that cash that is more useful than having a stack of propaganda literature in every room in the largest hotel chain in all of Japan? Political patronage has its limits. I don't know a whole lot about Japanese politics but I have heard that the campaign season is incredibly short (and not just by US standards). There is but so much time to campaign and three whole books presenting the ultranationalist view of modern Japanese history wouldn't fit on a campaign poster. As far as his North American hotels go, where is the massive anti-semitic propaganda campaign that this would have only been a small part of? Is there another video where you place this in the larger context of Japanese ultra nationalism? If not, I think you're taking it for granted that this is relatively minor stuff.

[@RareEarthSeries]

Charles Henry Bell Considering the current PM is part of an organization that espouses the same beliefs, and has set about a government campaign to reintroduce policies that are in line with APA's mandate, I'd argue that the patronage is incredibly important. He is one of the major backers of the current government and helps them lean left. Propaganda is one side, but Japan is ultimately a virtual one-party state. Ultra-nationalist political clout and backing is a huge push towards the current situation. I think pressure from Chinese military power is far more of a propaganda piece than these hotels. Everybody in Japan already knows what APA says, in the same way that Trump hotels having anti-black or Mexican literature would be unsurprising. It is clear he is aiming at foreigners just as much as he is locals, as the books are first and foremost in English. But I don't disagree. I think there isn't a right answer, only a spectrum of opinion. How we solve extremism is a question as old as humanity itself. I'm certainly not the authority.

[@TheMetrored]

I"m not trying to argue that political patronage isn't and incredibly powerful force but I don't think it serves the same purpose as propaganda on its own. The PM may be backed by this guy and a supporter of his views but I don't think he's free to publicly deny the Nanking Massacre. If he is, I haven't found evidence that he has done so. Just because everyone knows what APA is about doesn't mean that they can't be persuaded by its propaganda. You seemed to be arguing that it is better for the hotel to continue its unfettered ultra nationalist advertising because it would it allow the consumer to be aware of where there money was going to and avoid the chain. If that worked in Japan, I don't think APA would still be the largest hotel chain in the country. Everyone in Japan knows what APA is about and their willing to tolerate his message. It isn't that far of a stretch to think his rewriting of 20th century Japanese History is actually reaching people? The whole thing makes me think of the 'lost cause' myth about the motivation for Southern Secession just before the US Civil War.

[@RareEarthSeries]

Charles Henry Bell All very good points, many which I completely agree with. But from my eyes, the only solution beyond letting him rant is shutting down his ability to speak. Were he committing hate speech, it would be an easier pill for me to swallow. But this is a blurred line for me, because shutting him down means deeming certain opinions disallowable. That's a slippery slope, particularly since the nation has a denialist government. If the authorities have the ability to decide what is and isn't denialism, whose to say they won't turn the eye on the truth? What's to stop them? As always, appreciate the respectful and thoughtful comment.

[@tristarperfecta1061]

"A wise hawk shows its claws" is brilliant on a razor. It tells me to put the razor down and let the beard keep growing.

[@MichaelRichardson]

Which hotels in Canada do they own?

[@Cody-Bear]

I'd like to know also

[@magikmann3952]

Its So rare to see people who are principaled on youtube, Im so happy that your are. and that you make such good content too

[@Juliano0365]

You're a pretty wise man, Evan You know how to decide what's good and what's not

[@greenish8100]

Me too, thanks

[@kabu506]

Me too, thanks

[@icantthinkofaname5687]

you sure have a lot of alts

[@Jaewizzlw]

I mean the ccp currently have 1.3 million uyghur muslim in concentration camps, but I see no one batting an eye.

[@Schnipah]

Uh, right... Japan was false flagged by us sinking or damaging our entire fleet for sure definitely not bull shit.

[@JohnDoe-vq9ck]

Didn't we false flag ourselves into a war in Cuba?

[@Schnipah]

John Doe under a different administration than that of roosevelt, yes and no, It may have been intentional, but also an accident as that type of ship was poorly designed.

[@HaganeNoGijutsushi]

9/11, Pearl Harbour... Really, I have to believe it's the US government itself who spreads these myths. It furthers the myth of US invincibility if people believes that every time they were owned throughout history they actually did it to themselves. Up next, "Vietnam was on purpose, we wanted to lull the USSR into a false sense of security which eventually led to its decay and fall".

[@SpeedfreakUK]

Funny part is this isn't even the craziest thing I've heard. One Japanese guy told me the leader of the entire Japanese navy was a CIA spy, and that is how Japan lost the war in the Pacific.

[@Schnipah]

Hagane no Gijutsushi What do you mean 9/11 is a myth?

[@theloniousm4337]

Evan - thanks for another video. I had heard a few comments or rumblings about APA hotels but didn't really follow up on it. I can't believe I missed all that has happened with the chain and that they are also in Canada and the US. I feel I've been under a rock. Oh, well can't be up to date on everything. Thanks again.

[@biowerks]

There are hundreds of comments being deleted.

[@coldpizzaslut]

John Silverman get rekt

[@jasper677]

how is this rekt? no matter how you put it, free speech is the highest standard in my country and there is no justification on filtering an open comment section. These voices exist and silencing them will only radicalise them.

[@firefighters540]

Jasper, free speech is limited to the website you use the services of. In real life, you can advocate Hitler and talk about Genocide etc and will not be arrested in a western world but online is different because free speech is more limited online because you follow the websites guidelines.

[@tylerhind6709]

Conker the Squirrel "In real life, you can advocate Hitler and talk about Genocide etc and will not be arrested in a western world." Tell that to Count Dankula, the world is full of double standards. (I'm not trying to be a prick, so hope you didn't read it in that way.)

[@firefighters540]

Tyler, it depends what country, but I am refering to Freedom of speech in the US.

[@cbmcelina]

I fully agree that more companies should be completely open about their corporate beliefs/core values or even just the things they fund. We as consumers then need to be adult about it - if you don't like something a company supports, don't fund that company! There's no need to abuse their employees or picket their venues - everyone now knows what they stand for, your protests are completely unnecessary...

[@juanmiguelmaria]

I'm watching this drunk and I'm glad I'm doing so. Big ups guys

[@sparklesparklesparkle6318]

you still a drunkard?

[@JenOween]

I just found this channel. These videos are wonderfully thought inspiring. I'm so happy this channel exists.

[@lantus1237]

Can Boland into space?

[@ongobongo8333]

lantus123 Polan stronk!

[@nightfury20101]

no

[@rollingthunder8630]

Yes 🅱️oland can!

[@RealUlrichLeland]

Well on the other hand, having ultra nationalist/antisemetic literature in a hotel is intended to encourage people to become antisemetic or ultra nationalist. If no one knew about ultranationalist or antisemetes you could argue that they would cease to exist. Idk maybe I'm wrong

[@fakechemicals]

It doesn't matter where your money goes, as it will invariably always support something unethical or harmful towards some other facet of society or the world. Or to be pithy; "there's no such thing as ethical consumption under capitalism."

[@Metal_Enjoyer]

You lost me when you stared supporting communism

[@yashasvi8984]

Lmao Imagine being a commie in this day and age.

[@DerMannInDerWand]

lmao imagine being a capitalist in this day and age

[@stevec7923]

Better that they do this, so you can know? But you only find out *after* you've booked the room. Hmmm.

[@kevinpro6483]

Wheres Chris?

[@DHGameStudios]

He got replaced by a parasite that grew inside his wife.

[@Tardisntimbits]

Wolf Pro1 They made a video about this ages ago. Rather than letting the channel go dead whilst Chris films some stuff for the BBC and NAT Geo, his son Evan is running this show, with Chris executive producing it.

[@douglashoward346]

The Coast hotel chain here in Canada was bought by APA APA introduced a hotel magazine called apple . They had to remove it from the hotels here due to the presidents extreme racist editorials.

[@bw4500]

4:59 probably worth exploring where that Huawei money goes & their deep connections with the CCCP

[@noth606]

Danny Morrissey Chinese Communist Party, he put one C too many. Huawei is a joint venture in part between the CCP and the PLA (people's liberation army) of china, it is part of their intelligence gathering infrastructure, R&D as well as likely planned to be used offensively if required. If you have a huawei phone, your usage, search history, and various other data is sent to china, so if you ever want to visit there avoid searching for things they deem not OK like tienamen, Taiwan independence, Falun Gong, free Tibet etc, as they are not likely to give you a visa if you do ;-)

[@AF-qc5vo]

@@noth606 Same with apple, they send data to America and sell data to China. There is no real evidence that the ccp is spying on you via Huawei. Its possible, but no evidence. But there is plenty of evidence that the USA is spying on everyone. I also don't think that anything happens if you search up stuff like taiwan or tienamen unless you are in China. And its also quite hard to get a visa into China anyway unless your rich or whatever.

[@noth606]

Anthony, I don't know tha Apple sends data of non Chinese users to china, based on how they have acted she far in public my guess would be no. Huawei on the other hand certainly does and this has been shown several times, in fact you can check this yourself if you want to take the time and effort to. Take a huawei phone and remove the SIM(s), connect it to you own wifi and then check the location of the IP's it sends tracking and metadata to. As for getting a visa in china, I don't know how it is now but as a European getting a visa in 2014/2015 as a tourist wasn't a problem, but it took 4-6 weeks or so and you needed to have a set intinerary and an approved travel agent, on in-country 'sponsor'. However there have been some cases of western people getting there to only be detained at the border due to online activities, I don't recall exactly how those ended but it was certainly very unpleasant, and the online activities were not conducted from china but the persons home country. I'm sure you can find more info if you want, it's all online.

[@AF-qc5vo]

@@noth606 interesting experiment. Unfortunately i cannot try it because i no longer own a Huawei phone (though i probabaly will if i get a Huawei as my next phone) . But going by the news and articles, goverments haven't been able to find solid evidence that Huawei is sending data to the ccp or that the ccp is spying on US citizen's.

[@noth606]

The government testing has been on core network equipment like up/downlink stations, routers, repeaters etc, not end user handsets. But they have found some code that is ambiguous at best, the function of parts is not clear. They don't have absolute proof that the code is malicious but also not that it isn't.

[@andyr0ck]

I had to find a hotel quickly in Tokyo recently. These offered some of the cheaper/better rooms available. I didn't stay at them and chose a further out one. Thanks.

[@rangergxi]

It's weird how people care about social issues in their purchases more than that whole "kinda slave labor" thing that literally every single major company engages in on a giant scale.

[@WoahItsRuka]

Hat21 cheap labour is an inescapable aspect of the free maket. Please let's not insult people who have been actual slaves by calling cheap labour "slave labour". The main difference between cheap labor and slave labor is the freedom of choice. A slave does not have a choice in regards to if he wants to work or not. Closest thing to slave labor right now are the world cup builders in Qatar.

[@rangergxi]

There's also that "literally slave labor" thing too.

[@hedgehog3180]

No ethical consumption under capitalism.

[@annabellethepitty]

and communism is only possible by force. communism = slavery.

[@Dostwyn]

Well fuck. I just recently booked a trip to Japan, I'll stay at an APA Hotel, and only now I found this video.

[@projektsnowkone]

While the history Japanese troops having comfort women is true and it did happen, some sources say that the US did know that Pearl Harbor was going to happen/ there was some miscommunication. In the West, people learn that Pearl Harbor was an ambush more or less. While in the East/Japan, many sources (including extremist views) say that Japan did contact/make effort to contact the US before attacking. The US was being a hypocrite in the sense that it was saying it was a neutral country when in fact it was more or less an arms dealer (which lead the US to being a super power in the first place). Japan was in the mind that it was jab punching the US in the nose because the US was putting pressure on Japan by stopping the supply of resources to them. (you could say that this reflects the US attitude to present-day North Korea.) Roosevelt at this time, was looking for a reason to enter the war and this was the perfect timing to "waken the sleeping lion". Denying the truth of something happening is ridiculous, but isn't flat out denying other views without fact checking also dangerous as well? I would argue that the line between propaganda and history can at times be very thin, especially since most countries don't want to talk shit about their own countries. The US, for a very long time has said the atom bombs were to end the war, thus justifying their actions, when in reality, it was just a sick experiment (a show of power to their next enemy the soviet union) and Japan was already losing the war. I grew up in the US and I remember learning about the holocaust for a week or so in history class while only spending a day or so on issues like the trail of tears or the Japanese internment camps and other things that are less than noble done by the US government. As do Japanese textbooks, which don't emphasis on the war crimes they have committed. The problem with writing too much about the negative aspects of history is that, while important, it creates a generation of guilt towards the countries it has affected. Never the less facts should try to be as non-biased as possible. But as long as humans are the ones writing history there will always be some form of bias in the narrative. Don't believe me? Just ask any aborigine from any land.

[@Chuck59ish]

The APA group owns 41 hotels along the West Coast of Canada and the United States as well as in Hawaii. They are under the corporate names of Okabe North America in the United States and Coastal Hotels in Canada.

[@SuviTuuliAllan]

DYK there is no ethical consumption under late capitalism.

[@Ramidemi710]

Suvi-Tuuli Allan What are you babbling about?

[@hedgehog3180]

Isaac Plumbo It's a reference to the fact that it's impossible to buy or use anything that didn't somewhere along the line hurt or exploit someone or something. We all need many services but companies often either directly or indirectly use slave labour, child labor or force workers to work in inhumane conditions. Supporting fascism is just one more thing to add to the list.

[@Ramidemi710]

hedgehog3180 It's not that the system of capitalism that's the problem. It's the fault of a faulty framework for ethical constraints (the law). People will always strive to squash their competition. It's in our nature. That's the reason why socialism isn't workable and capitalism gets out of hand. It's not that either system is inherently bad, but they have to be adapted to our nature.

[@annabellethepitty]

socialism is only possible by force. capitalism is still the better alternative.

[@sutematsu]

Holy crap. Thanks for posting this video - I'm definitely watching out for these hotels in the future. No way I'm supporting that. D:

[@tonytang5452]

APA hotel is great

[@RareEarthSeries]

Honestly, as far as spaces to sleep go, I had no issues with APA. Their rooms were clean, easy to check-in/out, etc. As a consumer, they were pretty much all you need in a hotel. But beyond that...

[@tangneptune]

Did you really just happen upon the hotel and literature within? Even if you paid for a night there with the intent of showing their erroneous ideology, the ends justifies the means (to my mind).

[@bigbrowntau]

Lots of cheaper alternatives I've found. There's a chain of "salaryman" hotels nation-wise which are almost as nice, cheaper, and have less political baggage.

[@taichiwinchester1102]

APAhu akbar

[@Ted_bayly]

Can't wait to see what you do in Cambodia, I have recently discovered your videos and have been living in Cambodia

[@PenitentHollow]

sounds like a Trump Hotel.

[@Metal_Enjoyer]

Ah I assume you think that Trump is "literally Hitler"

[@annabellethepitty]

a trump hotel huh? ever been to one? or was that just a statement of ignorance?

[@rurounikenshin9948]

I GUESS YOUVE NEVER BEEN TO ONE YOU FUCKING IGNORANT PEASANT

[@yashasvi8984]

Cringe

[@cubicuboctahedron]

I unintentionally stayed at one of their locations when blindly selecting a hotel based on price and ratings on a travel booking site. I still feel irritated when I think about that trip.

[@sparklesparklesparkle6318]

I feel like you're the kind of person who starts to cry when they see the letter N

[@2000sNostalgiaTech]

This is like if Alex Jones ran his own hotel chain.

[@samshand616]

The Nanking massacre happened in 1937, not during World War 2.

[@Recon3Y3z]

I agree with what you said. I work my ass off the be a responsible consumer because the power (money) is in our hands. Complacent consumers are what the businesses count on and it's our fault.

[@roguishpaladin]

No. It's not our fault and saying that assumes that the current generation is to blame for the unhealthy state of economics. Yes, it's what we have to do in this current age, but it is by no means our fault. When a human is born, they are not imbued with the inalienable right to have to research every product that they buy lest they be funding abhorrent goals. Corporate capitalism is to blame here, and perhaps we should research reforming or removing the current system.

[@sparklesparklesparkle6318]

No you don't. You just say you work hard to boycott stuff. The lengths you go to virtue signal make you a chore to be around. People don't like you, they just tolerate you because they are as spineless as you, and don't have the gonads to tell you they're sick of your wormy face.

[@ミツ-n7d]

i wasnt aware of this at all and will stay away in the future. my bf and i stayed at two apa hotels during our time in tokyo this fall due to the price being much cheaper than other options near where we wanted to be.

[@PKMNFan4664]

I nearly considering staying at one of these due to the low price if I visited Japan in the future, yikes... I hope MyStays is better.

[@divineinpurple9058]

But he already has your money, so isn't it too late anyway? My mother, aunt and grandparents are concentration camp survivors from Indonesia, they have a lot of stories to tell about Japanese atrocities!

[@ArkaidDeims]

The APA thing's been known for a long time here in Japan. I travel to Tokyo for work every so often and I make a point of never staying at one of their hotels. Also, the lady with the weird hat freaks me out a bit x_x

[@slfuwm]

God dammit, I've been funding APA loyally for a month not being able to read the literature. Now I need to find another hotel chain.

[@bethroesch2156]

Sometimes the greatest gift hateful people can give you is when they try to preach their propaganda. The more they talk, the more they expose. Thanks for the video. Gave me a different way of thinking about not just how I spend, but who I spend with

[@neepgang4091]

A japanese owned hotel in Canada with antisemitic literature? That's not a sentence I'd ever thought was a fact

[@Lvlaple4Ever]

At least they’re honest, which a lot of people aren’t these days.

[@GazilionPT]

1:29 ". . . where our Bible would be in the West." You mean, in the US. Because at least in Europe I am still to find a hotel with a Bible present in each bedroom.

[@roguishpaladin]

Here's the folks who are responsible for distributing those Bibles: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gideons_International And it exists, or at least used to exist, in some form in Europe. The Beatles song Rocky Raccoon mentions a Gideons' Bible, which means that the band (or at least Paul McCartney) knew of the tradition.

[@kandigloss6438]

The thing is, you say that they are possibly the biggest hotel chain in japan. In that case, if I were to stay in Japan how easy would it be to avoid staying at one of their places?

[@sparklesparklesparkle6318]

how about you just stay away from Japan we don't want you here anyway.

[@MrLucky3576]

John the Only in Japan guy, did a review/live stream of an APA hotel. When asked about the politics of supporting a Nut Job historical revisionist. He said something along the lines of I don't really care. At that point I unsubscribed from him and put that dude and his crap on ignore. If he had said "I didn't know and would like to know more" or "I don't agree with the politics etc I would have been more forgiving. But "I don't care" was pretty crass and pathetic.

[@PKMNFan4664]

This hotel group has more controversies than just historical issues. They also built hotels that were less structurally sound, in earthquake-prone Japan...

[@lorenzoblum868]

Your observations confirm an hypothesis : what is most relevant is what we don't know. If we did more SERIOUS inquiry, we'd be surprised. And we'd have to boycott most products, especially expensive ones. Cause 99% information is INACCURATE. Truth is a matter of point of view... everyone wants to convince everyone.