THE JAPANESE ARMY AND NAVY WWII RESTRICTED U.S. ARMY MOVIE 23514

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An official U.S. War Department film restricted in nature and produced by the US Army Pictorial Service, “The Japanese Army and Navy” is a black-and-white creation that “has been assembled from Japanese films and is designed for use in the Civil Affairs Training Schools conducted by The Provost Marshal General.” With that introduction, the World War II-era film opens at mark 00:48 by explaining the “Code of the Samarai” - highlighted by devotion to duty “and a loyalty to a Divine Emperor that gives in death its last full measure of allegiance.” (During World War II, that allegiance was to Emperor Hirohito).
Japanese officers are trained in swordsmanship such as kendo or kenjutsu, as a demonstration of such martial arts skills is shown at mark 01:15. Fencing, the viewer is told, is an important combat training regimen, and also promotes stamina and alertness. Judo also has an influence on the Japanese character, it is said at mark 03:07, as synchronized movements are shown on the screen.
Military training is ingrained in Japanese youth from an early age, the narrator explains. For a boy, training begins at age 6 and by age 12 he is in uniform and participating in annual maneuvers. By the age of 19, he is ready for induction. Demonstrations of strength and teamwork by Japanese soldiers and marines follow, and at mark 06:42 we are told, “The public claims the army as its own and looks to it for leadership.”
The picture switches focus to the Imperial Navy at mark 08:37, but again, stresses the importance of training and regular maneuvers. In 1906, we are told, Admiral Togo Heihachiro explained, “Heaven gives the crown of victory only to those who by habitual training win without fighting and forthwith deprives of that crown those who content with one success give themselves up to the enemies of peace.” (Although Japan relied heavily on its army during WW2, the navy was charged with defending communication lines and territorial waters). The narrator continues to discuss various maneuvers implemented by Japan’s army and navy as training and combat scenes play out.
“Many Japanese soldiers are so determined to die on the battlefield that they conduct their own public funerals before leaving for the front … It is admired as the spirit of the true samurai who enters the battle with no thought of his return unless victorious,” the narrator says at mark 13:36, as continued fighting scenes are shown. At mark 16:34, the viewer is told that the mantra for Japanese infantrymen is that “the enemy forces will be annihilated.”
More training scenes are shown, as the narrator again explains the devotion of the Japanese soldier to the Emperor. “Through the youth of Japan, the army seeks to build within the nation a denial of self, an ardent loyalty. A devotion that glorifies death for the Emperor as life’s greatest reward.” Hirihito is shown beginning at mark 20:30 reviewing the Imperial Fleet at the harbor at Yokohama.
Scenes of Japanese sailors and soldiers continue, and near mark 23:00, the narrator explains that there is some discord between the two branches of service, with the army more politically minded and therefore more able to able to gain appropriation and public support for their positions.
“Into the spirits of soldiers like these had been infused the savage exhilaration of battle,” says the narrator at mark 27:15, as we see infantrymen gathered together.
The final few minutes of the informative film are dedicated to Japanese military hospitals and medical hospitals, as numerous scenes of recovering soldiers are shown, along with images of Japanese troops training for winter maneuvers in the blinding snow.
“The Japanese are still in a strong position,” says the narrator at mark 34:13. “It will require a great effort to defeat this closely knit, fanatically stubborn power.”
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[@gfuck1]

I am Japanese, but I was surprised to see that the American authorities had understood Japan with considerable resolution since then. On the other hand, the Japanese underestimated the U.S. in wishful thinking.

[@lesgriffiths8523]

" Plenty of soldiers said that they would fight and die to the last man. The Japanese were the only ones who did" Field Marshall Sir Wiiliam Slim British 14th Army Burma Les Griffiths Australia

[@deadby15]

moonbeam the red army easily destroyed the imperial army in Manchu guo in 1945, but the most capable units had been sent to other battlefields by then, so Kantkougun was a ghost of its former self by then. Even in their best condition they would have lost, but they were indeed in a very weakened state.

[@nicktaylor7680]

@moonbeam And this all may not have been necessary hadn't Stalin planned the invasion of Poland in a pact with Hitler.

[@markdemell3717]

Wars are scripted and then falsely reported.

[@distantthunder12ck55]

@moonbeam Hitler invaded the USSR because he lost the Battle of Britain.

[@85Funkadelic]

@@markdemell3717 You assume too much overall control. I'm sure there are some attempts to script things and sometimes it works...... But humans have been in conflict our entire history it's ridiculous to propose that it's all some act.

[@seiyauzaki]

This video shows how well the Allies at that time studied Japan-and how much they devoted themselves to the capture of the Japanese Imperial Army and Navy. With so much research, it's no wonder that Japan lost. Thank you very much for uploading this valuable film.

[@PeriscopeFilm]

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[@rino19ny]

doubt it. the US afraid of hand to hand combat so they resorted to using technology in defeating Japan. without the A-bomb, you think the US can defeat the Japanese on the ground?

[@RAHULSHARMA-wf7po]

@fudgepacker लाल ओ

[@VIPERGUNNERCHANNEL]

They were...

[@jimluebke3869]

@@PeriscopeFilm Why aren't the National Archives leading the charge on this? They used to be about making primary-source historical material available on KZbin, but then they devolved into politically correct videos by government employees who aren't really KZbinr material. Are you able to access the same material they are, to do the job they ought to be doing?

[@stevekaczynski3793]

The Japanese Army preferred soldiers from rural backgrounds, as the narrator points out. Later in the war casualties made it necessary to conscript more from urban backgrounds. The latter tended to less physically hardy and a little more inclined to question the wisdom of their superiors. Some urban recruits had some exposure to left-wing politics which made them less uncritical of Bushido and they were (marginally) more likely to surrender. Naval recruits were often more technically skilled than their Army counterparts but otherwise differed little from them.

[@wardenphil]

It would be interesting to see a Japanese WWII Film depicting their take on US Forces.

[@vanmust]

The eternal Zero is a fantastic movie.....and they never depict americans in a negative way

[@billhuber2964]

@@vanmust where can you get a DVD on it?

[@vanmust]

@@billhuber2964 don,t really know.....downloaded it from Popcorn Time....luckily there are english subtitles...the soundtrack (especially during the Zero,s Kamikaze flight ) is fantastic as well

[@ljubomirculibrk4097]

@Emmanuel Goldstein Nope, purpose was to make them shot to kill. Thats difrence betven veteran and fresh from traning trops. Guess who is going to win? Thats why drugded vermaht soldiers where eficient.

[@deadby15]

You have to distinguish propaganda for the gullible mass from the briefing the officers received, I think.

[@sibarrazcl1021]

I was expecting a caricature of japanese soldiers, but this film is really insightful and well crafter to train the us personnel on knowing their enemy. There was some propaganda obviously but overall is a very well grounded video. Still my favorite part of the film was the narrator criticizing the filmaker of the japanese movie for not knowing how formations or sentry soldiers work

[@RCN2820]

I can almost swear all these films were voiced by the same guy...

[@oduffy1939]

He was under contract, besides why keep hiring a new guy for each film. Quite a common practice in civilian newsreels and educational films to have the same narrator. It made it easier to recognize the studio/education institution. The same narrator gave authority to the film, it what was known in Hollywood as the "VOG" Voice of God, or the "Voice of Authority".

[@FranzBazar]

They were

[@doubleghod]

I am almost positive that the narrator is Hugh Beaumont, aka Ward Cleaver, who played Beaver's Dad on Leave It To Beaver

[@nelsonthomas1074]

Franz Baza

[@markdemell3717]

History is scripted and skewered .

[@daleeasternbrat816]

I studied Jiu-Jitsu with a Rikkusentai. He was in his 70s at the time. He raised my expectations of and changed my perceptions of what it means to be old. I asked him why the Japanese did not fear death. He said: "we fear death and suffering like anyone else. But there are things we fear more." Then I understood.

[@AudieHolland]

Peer Pressure

[@mxferro]

What?!?!...what did he fear more?!?!

[@xGoodOldSmurfehx]

@@mxferro Its the old Japanese imperial mentality They fear shame more than death and suffering To some of them outliving the war to continue their legacy is the right thing to do while to others "dishonoring" the emperor is an unacceptable shame that their ancestors would not forgive and therefore they should die in combat This brings one back to the question of surrendering or committing sepukku/harakiri

[@AudieHolland]

@@xGoodOldSmurfehx I'll say one thing for harakiri: It takes guts

[@jimluebke3869]

@@xGoodOldSmurfehx Probably explains why it was so important to let Hirohito live, and be the one to ask the Japanese to accept the fact of their own defeat and surrender.

[@armchair22]

Always a pleasure to see footage I haven't seen before.

[@yilderim1924]

The man with the moustache at 2:03 is a famed swordsman by the name of Nakayama Hakudo.

[@djquinn11]

Any private with a rifle can dispatch a famed swordsman

[@NishiMiyamura]

Japanese Stalin

[@oldgringo2001]

At around 25:35 the narrator relates that the Japanese Army replaced its French instructors with Germans after the Franco-Prussian war. This might puzzle some of you; the Franco-Prussian war doesn't get a lot of coverage in America, even in the military academies. This war was fought in 1870 and 1871. Emperor Napoleon III of France (son of one of Napoleon's many brothers and Josephine's daughter) declared war on Prussia, and all the remaining German states that weren't controlled by Prussia allied with Prussia to defeat the French in a few weeks, capturing the Emperor himself. Then the French, being French, started fighting each other, and in Paris, the very first Communist government was established, shortly before beginning the very first Communist mass executions. The Prussian Army surrounding Paris helped what was left of the French army crush the Communists, then dictated yet another Treaty of Versailles (not the last), leveled a huge reparation on the French, and made the King of Prussia into the Emperor (Kaiser) of Germany. The French cobbled together another Republic, the third, which, being a makeshift, proved the wisdom of the old French proverb "Nothing lasts like a makeshift" by lasting longer than the two republics before it, the Fourth Republic, and (so far) the Fifth Republic, which still has ten years and change to get through before taking the title. The Imperial Japanese Army followed German doctrines for the most part for the rest of its lifetime (which ended in 1945), but as we have already seen, kept buying or copying some French weapons. Just about all the pictures you've seen of Hirohito in World War II show him wearing a dress uniform which looks a lot like most of the dress uniforms DeGaulle or Napoleon III wore.and the French army still wears.

[@Salmon_Rush_Die]

Yep. Good job. No one ever talks about this.

[@marbleman52]

Thomas Sewell...That was very good..a lot of history...thanks..!!

[@olliefoxx7165]

Much obliged. Didn't know either and will look into that era.

[@deadby15]

An interesting what-if is, if japan had adopted the French system. The shogunate government was friendly with France, and even after the Meiji restoration, some Japanese advocated building the new nation based on the French political system because they thought it was more democratic than the Prussian system.

[@stevenheiser6888]

The French being French. I was laughing too much to read after that

[@johnnysunday402]

The purpose of this film (and many like it) was to impress upon US soldiers that the Japanese we're serious, capable, die-hard warriors, and not some propaganda caricature with big teeth and thick glasses. He was an enemy that deserved ones full respect for the danger he posed in his willingness to give his life in order to kill you in the name of his god. "You don't have to believe, but they sure as shit do!"

[@JackGordone]

@@paulstarr4639 What are you drinking, Pablo? I'd like to get my hands on some of it, even if to do so I have to speak this phony Elizabethan English you brandish here.

[@AtomicFire1972]

That why these kind of films tended to be restricted and not intended for public consumption. You pump the propaganda to the public to keep up morale and support the war effort. You save the actual facts and figures for the war planners and leadership.

[@billgoss9007]

@6 6 When it comes to Mericas Evangelicals you're right.

[@SuperPhunThyme9]

@6 6 You sound just like them. What's your dogma? What do they call that? Projection?

[@lesgriffiths8523]

Well said....the Japanese were a formidable enemy. Les Griffiths

[@calc1657]

I was impressed by the lack of racism in this. Whatever the American general public's attitudes toward the Japanese, the US military was certainly on the ball.

[@BuickDoc]

Certain political groups go out of their way to point out any racism they perceive and generalize to the whole nation. If they can't find any, they have been known to invent it.

[@calc1657]

@@BuickDoc Which political groups? And what does that have to do with pre-WW2 attitudes toward the Japanese?

[@joebudi5136]

You gotta respect your enemy. Not could get you killed.

[@Waltham1892]

Before the war racism was rife in attitudes, military and civilian, towards the Japanese. This video is from after the start of the war, when combat gave American leadership a respect for the Japanese born of actual experience.

[@JamLeGull]

BuickDoc are you implying that racism doesn’t actually exist or didn’t exist in the US before and during WWII?

[@wbeman1723]

The ship at 22:21 - :28 is the Shiratsuyu class destroyer HIJMS Kawakaze. Earlier were seen a light cruiser at 21:10 and a heavy cruiser at 21:30.

[@esbendit]

The light cruiser is either a Kuma class or a Nagara class ship. The heavy cruiser is likely either a Furutaka class or a Aoba class.

[@caloyvictor1199]

many never knew that one of the greatest rivalry in the war was with the IJA and IJN....both the Army and Navy of Imperial Japan had their own agenda and cooperation is almost non existent.

[@michaelinhouston9086]

There is a story about a meeting between the Japanese Army and Navy where, after an Army officer stood up to speak, a Navy officer moved the Army officer's chair so that when the Army officer went to sit down, he fell on his ass. lol

[@doubleghod]

I am almost positive that the narrator is Hugh Beaumont, aka Ward Cleaver, who played Beaver's Dad on Leave It To Beaver

[@PhisandethFarm]

Thank you for posting

[@iamrichrocker]

didn't see the part where they taught brutal treatment and killing of civilians and prisoners...

[@robertlombardo8437]

I think that was somewhat suggested when the narrator said that Japanese soldiers became much less disciplined and sober in mood and disposition once away from home.

[@kikufutaba524]

I found this film fascinating. Thank you for posting.

[@Lockbar]

Produced by Warner Brothers studio, you can tell from the opening music......

[@user-mi1gn9wz8v]

知っていますか？ 当時の海軍兵学校と陸軍士官学校は倍率50倍だったんですよ。 当時、東京大学と同じくらいの実力者が集まっていた。

[@kevinhealey6540]

Some Vet who fought in the South Pacific against the Japanese told me that they when a Japanese Unit would go into surrender mode it was not to be believed. It was always a ploy. My father was in Intelligence in the Navy in the South Pacific. They use to island hop. Sometimes in the middle of the night a Japanese soldier would sneak into the American encampment. He was not there to do sabotage, he was looking for something to eat. But nevertheless he had a grenade. If he was discovered he would blow himself up. This was because Japanese soldiers were convinced that American soldiers did to their prisoners what the Japanese actually did to their prisoners. Sometimes they would blow themselves up and blood would be splattered on tents or clothes that were left to dry out for the night. The blood stains could not be washed out so troops had to wear the clothes with blood stains on them. My father told me his unit was approaching a Japanese area where the Japanese Army retreated from. He saw a Japanese civilian throw his wife and children off a cliff from a distance. The Japanese father had been taught to believe that American soldiers would brutalize women and children. The father was shocked to find out it was not true. My mother told me that when everyone heard on the radio Hiroshima and Nagasaki were hit with atomic bombs, no one knew what in the world what an Atomic Bomb was. But everyone was stunned by the high casualty rate. But on the day that it was announced that Japan surrendered everyone was elated. It meant an end for people getting telegrams explaining that a husband, father, son, cousin, the kid down the street was seriously wounded, lost an arm or leg(s), was dead, or MIA. My father told me about some rich guy in his area, would give big parties to soldiers. He said there damage that they use to do, but the rich guy did not care about it. Because he knew a lot of them would not be around too much longer. One WW2 vet told me in the film "It's a wonderful Life" George Bailey got a draft deferment because he could not hear in one of his ears. He told he was deferred in the 1940 before the war started because of the same problem. Then in 1942 they called him back and told him he was going in the Army. They told him with the bad ear, they would put him in the artillery. That way it would make no difference. I asked him about it and he said in his own words, "That was WW2. In those days, if you were breathing you were going." He was put into an infantry unit and had to fight his way through France. One vet told me that 2nd lieutenants and machine gunners did not have long life expectancies. One vet told that Clark Gable would always gladly hand out an autograph upon request. He saw him in England. Im 1938 and 1939, lots of college educated young men would join the police department, because they realized the draft was coming and cops did not have to go. One guy told me how he avoided from getting drafted. He use to move every 3 months to a different area and this way they could not keep up with him to send him a draft notice. He said it was easy to get a good paying job in those days. The guy with the bad ear I mentioned before, told me that his sister who not doing well in school. So the mother told her to get a job and work in a factory. She went and filled out an application and the Supervisor looked over the application and asked her how old she was and she said, "18." He said, "Ok! You start on Monday." They were desparate for workers and they would hire people over 65.

[@marshmelo15]

surprisingly respectful. even called the girls maidens

[@104thDIVTimberwolf]

Subaru also built bombers and fighters as the Nakajima Aircraft Corporation. It was renamed Fuji Heavy Industries in 1945 and still builds airplanes today. In the 1960s, their most popular general aviation plane was the FA200 Aerosubaru. The cars were names after that plane for import to the US by Malcolm Bricklin. The company name was changed to Subaru in April, 2017.

[@billhuber2964]

Thanks for the information.

[@mmmoroi]

Just FYI Subaru means Pleiades.

[@moosesnWoop]

subscribed. Love these prep for war videos. so jovial.

[@albertyap1197]

The martiall art shown being practiced from 2:18 to 2:36 is actually Aikido not Judo.

[@stephenrodenbough2186]

Having studied ancient history, I see marked similarities between imperial Japan and ancient Sparta.

[@michael_mouse]

... the video shows the Japanese war machine in quite a good light... no wonder this film was restricted

[@morecopemorerope4372]

Difference between military intelligence and propaganda

[@vito7428]

Drawing the average Japanese soldier as a buckteeth cartoon might raise morale for your troops but sure as hell won't help prepare them in any way to fight them

[@xapaga1]

Accurate and objective indeed. No wonder Japan lost the war though I wonder if the Americans are still capable of producing such a high quality material about their current enemies.

[@carolbell8008]

Nope

[@werewolfx51]

Well, im impressed they show some respect an knowledge about the enemy back in 40s, instead of typical mockery civillian propaganda.

[@xapaga1]

@@werewolfx51 That was as it should be in the 1940s and as it should also be today. My concern is whether the USA has evolved in a bad way since then, notably post-9/11 or even post-Vietnam.

[@AudieHolland]

Following the air raid on Pearl Harbor, the American high command realized it had to do its homework again.

[@jefflwadfordjr.1128]

These war videos are fantastic. So interesting

[@phillipbrewster6058]

Boy how times have changed

[@piercehawke8021]

12:00 those tactics have a strong 'Prussian' (historic German) vibe.

[@MorningGI0ry]

The imperial Japanese army was based on the French doctrine and then later the Prussian doctrine

[@marvwatkins7029]

Fascinating. But why was this film restricted? There's nothing here that the general public didn't need to know in a newsreel.

[@well-blazeredman6187]

What a very intelligent film.

[@thechetjr]

Damn! Japan was a tough town.

[@priscillamccain2301]

My dad fought in WW ll as a US marine in the battles of Peleliu. He said that the Japanese soldiers were told that in order to become a IS marine the marine first had to kill their own mother or father. Another reason for Japanese soldiers would not surrender as this was a big fear factor for them.

[@priscillamccain2301]

My dad fought in the battles of Peleliu and Okinawa as a US marine. Dad drove a tank, was a machine gunner. He also used a flamethrower strapped to hi back but was only in that positive for a day as a direct hit on the tank would have exploded. He said that when they would capture Japapanes ositions they had a woman with them in the foxhole. He said a lot of the Japanese were hopped up on dope and when they captured a Japanese camp they could smell the dope. He said that when they captured a cave on Okinawa there was a Japanese nurse and soldier that came out to surrender and wanted to be married. He said that they did get married.

[@sixtythreekraft2608]

Today, they would be told that millions of Americans have killed their own children for their own convenience. It would not be a lie or propaganda.

[@Ebash-Banderu]

09:30 - 36 10:18 19:15 Mitsubishi G3M "Nell" bombеr 09:53 10:40 - 47 21:52 Mitsubishi F1M2 "Pete" reconnaissance floatplane 11:02 11:59 16:23 33:02 Type 11 (1922) 6,5 mm light machine gun 11:30 field gun?? 11:34 11:37 (left) 11:42 11:57 12:06 12:11 12:26 14:04 34:08 Type 38 (1905) 75-mm field gun 11:31 (right) 11:37 (right, two) 12:32 Type 89 medium tank 12:34 12:40 12:46 34:22 34:29 Type 4 (1915) 150-mm howitzer 12:59 13:22 (rear plan) truck?? 13:00-04 13:12 13:18 13:22 (line) 13:53 Nissan 80 truck 11:20 13:37-43 13:52 14:33 33:11 33:23 Type 92 (1932) 7,7-mm heavy machine gun 14:38 15:36 (all?) Type 94 medium tank (lаst variant Type 89 medium tank) 14:49 15:05 15:15 plane 15:42 Type 94 last variant or Type 97 Те-Ке?? 15:53 Type 94 early variant 16:16 type 41 (1908) 75-mm mountain (infantry) gun?? 16:02 16:10 - 13 (without shield) 16:20 - 22 Type 92 (1932) 70-mm battalion field gun 16:27 - 40 17:07 26:39 soldiers in uniform early type 90 (1930 ) and helmet (type Adrian) with sakura . 18:57 19:01 Type 90 5t Prime Mover "I-Ke" & type 92 (1932) 105-mm gun 22:51 Soldiers in uniform type and 90 helmets of the sample in 1932

[@PeriscopeFilm]

Thank you so much for this!

[@Ebash-Banderu]

unfortunately not all were able to determine . Therefore , if someone determines to remain anonymous , I will be greatly appreciated .

[@inouelenhatduy]

what the lmg at 3:52 ?

[@Kamakura-ui8fq]

inoue jerry it look like the type 11 or 30

[@John77Doe]

Карл Маркс You need to get a girl friend, mate.

[@stevemartin4249]

29;18 ... The distinction between Chinese individualism and Japanese compliance to micro-managing authority rings true to my experience - 40 consecutive years now in Japan as a marginalized educator. I was the biology lab director at Temple University Japan for about 20 years, and a tenured Professor of English Communication at Jissen Women's College, RIP (resigned in protest).

[@ShinnosukeTokuda1684]

protest of what?

[@stevemartin4249]

@@ShinnosukeTokuda1684 Hi Shinnosuke. Coming from the states, I had assumed that community outreach activities were part of the requirements for promotion from lecturer to Assistant Prof. to Associate Prof. to full Prof. I was involved in more outreach activities than research ... for example, on the riji-kai of Hino City's Kokusai Koryu Kyoukai, was one of only two native speakers in the country on the MEXT textbook committee for about 4 years, often introduced students to Shinjuku's Soup No Kai - an NPO helping the homeless, volunteered to judge All Japan English speech contests for Sophia, Waseda, Todai and other highly ranked school but only if they doubled my judge's honorarium fee and donate it to an NPO of their choice, etc. The main office loved it because they would interview me once every three years, get a list of my activities, and turn it in to MEXT for the school hyouka as proof of community service. But my fellow department members grew increasingly uncomfortable because they were more comfortable staying home and indulging in their academic specialties as a hobby ... and did not want to appear to look bad compared to the foreigner who did all that community outreach work. Those 2 -3 hour weekly department meetings got so cold, they would not greet me, and when they talked about anything to do with me, they would not look at me ... only talk with each other, and refer to me in 3rd person "he". At one meeting, they expressed outrage that I did not some volunteer work for another department at the same college .... without their permission. And then, it hit me, they regarded me as their personal assistant, and even other teachers at the same school had to find their own professional foreigner. I told them that I was hired under the same contract as Japanese professors. They said no. I was bound to the rules of another contract which I did not see or sign. WTF? I went to the Dean and he said that this was not true, and that I had equal rights and responsibilities as Japanese professors. I went back to the Department Chairman and she said the Dean was wrong, because he was not the dean when I was hired. I went back and forth but they refused to have a joint meeting with me. I asked the Department Chairman to let me see the secret contract. She said that was against the rules. What rules? I asked. Rules that I am not allowed to see. Then I realized that Japanese labor law and official contracts mean nothing for foreigners or even other Japanese. Institutions are thin covers for the law of the jungle ... might makes right. Shortly after a colleague committed suicide (a full-time female Japanese teacher), I started seekine medical counseling, and after experimenting with medications and dosages, found a good regime of sleeping meds and anti-depressents. That was about 10 years ago. About 8 years ago, I quit the school, thinking i would go back to working as a hijokin (part-time lecturer) juggling several other colleges. I was unpleasantly surprised to find that despite over 30 years experience teaching in Japan, lots of volunteer - community outreach work, my resume meant nothing. The colleges don't care about "education" in the liberal arts sense of the word, and there has been a lot of conflict between LDP policies and the few Deans who have been educators in the best sense of the word. I am merely collateral damage ... and now at 68, too late to start life again. I am lucky to have never married and tried to raise a family .... otherwise they would be suffering under a hostage-working situation. All of the above being said, I will spend the rest of my life in Japan. I visited the U.S. a few times briefly, and it is not the same U.S. I left back in the early 1980's. Besides, my best friends are Japanese, and I could not have survived here without them. Plenty of other details ... but I have gradually found the same processes have been applied others not connected-enough to fight for their rights.

[@badgumby9544]

Any fighting force that believes a honorable death is more important than living. Will always fail.

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

The script for this U.S. Army training film was exceptionally well-researched and well-written.

[@jasons44]

WOW AMAZING. But I can see why they renounced violence in a whole. Just know when to use your strength is important

[@MatthewBaileyBeAfraid]

This must have been created in preparation for Operation Downfall (the invasion of the Japanese Home Islands). That would have been one of the greatest tragedies on Earth were it to have happened.

[@pjkentucky]

Matthew Bailey my uncle was on a ship ready for the invasion. It turned to occupation. They lined up and all soldiers over 6’ was made an MP. They wanted the physiological effect of a towering presence over the defeated Japanese. He was in the first wave to occupy Japan.

[@marbleman52]

@@pjkentucky Hey there, pj...My Father was on one of the aircraft carriers that went to Nagasaki and Hiroshima after the war was over to evacuate U.S. POW's and also a lot of Japanese people. That must have been real interesting.

[@rubiconnn]

Not even close. The Japanese inflicted many times over the entire US invasion force of deaths to Chinese soldiers and civilians.

[@HardRockMaster7577]

@@rubiconnn China remembers....

[@rx-7939]

The Japanese planned to mass 600,000 soldiers on Kyushu to engage the Allied Forces, over 1 million. It's like hell. I am relieved not to be executed as a Japanese.

[@Mikeb8134]

Awesome, thanks guys.

[@PeriscopeFilm]

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[@RT-hi1ms]

All of that Budo, honor, discipline, tenacity, sacrifice, and hate yielded them what in the end?

[@robertlombardo8437]

One hell of a post-war reconstruction effort which ushered in modern capitalism. And anime!

[@yalezhang8831]

If you lose, the next most important thing is, did you faithfully do you duty?

[@ernesthofmeister3054]

A couple of big boom booms!

[@molanlabexm15]

Uhh...they have a nation that puts the Japanese first and never puts the Japanese man,woman or child second to a foreigner. Also they are not taught to wallow in self hate and shame for the glorious deeds of their forefathers. Meanwhile all of the Western World is being taken over without firing a shot all because they're afraid of being called racist.

[@dougabbott8261]

Fanatical military was only excelled by its own sub human behavior against civilians ,POW and the wounded.

[@martinsaunders7925]

@ Doug Abbot. If surrendering as an allied soldier you earned the absolute contempt of the captors for not fighting to the death. European sailors were terrified of Samurai and some nations employed Ronin that terrified their armies. They took no prisoners. No swords of european origin were capable of cutting a man in half

[@HardRockMaster7577]

Japan believed their race superior and so viewed other races as beneath them.

[@BullLRED]

@@HardRockMaster7577 そんな話は聞いた事もない

[@WAFFENAMT1]

After watching this I now know why it was restricted.🧐

[@stratostatic]

Very well done for the era. Not loaded with propagada.

[@davidb2206]

"Obeisance." This film uses a high reading-level vocabulary. It is unimaginable that it was shown to new recruits or average troop GIs. It being "Restricted," it would be enlightening to know who the audience was during the war. Also, did anyone catch the date when this was made? It seems to be post-1942 at least.

[@devintariel3769]

Probably for officers and command staff.

[@stevekaczynski3793]

I think a fairly late date in the war - Japanese defeats are mentioned, so I think 1943 or later. I doubt whether this was seen by armed forces personnel who were not commissioned officers. Intelligence personnel like the Military Intelligence Service and the OSS may also have seen it.

[@richardm3023]

A good deal of this footage is from the 1920's and early 1930's

[@youngpistol6117]

I like how the narrator roasts tf out of Japanese directors

[@allgood6760]

Interesting these old vids👍🇳🇿

[@PeriscopeFilm]

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30:19 even in the realm of historic films you can't escape the theme of 2020 😂 😷 .

[@johnstudd4245]

In Japan it has been common for many years for people to wear masks in public places when they have a cold or some other sickness.

[@billhuber2964]

Dad fought in the Pacific. He called the Japanese " tenacious little bastards ".

[@frankus54]

So did mine and also my Uncle. They said the Japanese were tough and disciplined soldiers. In a Banzai charge it would take 2 or three bursts of MSG fire to take one down.

[@frankus54]

Sorry, that should read SMG (9mm)

[@unclestuka8543]

The only people and country that China fears, even now the Chinese have nightmares about Japs. A few years ago I was "looking after" some Chinese engrs. To entertain them I put on a TV tape showing Japanese, they immediately jumped up pointing to the screen and shouting " very bad people ". I had to turn off TV.

[@patrickmcleod111]

**(**1:20**) They are learning to block machine gun bullets with their swords, for when they launch major banzai charges on Pacific islands later on. You see, their military forces were organized differently than ours. For each infantry storm trooper who is ordered to sprint across open ground to attack enemy defensive positions, there are at least 1-2 bullet-blocking N.S.(ninja-soldiers) running directly in front of the infantry attackers, swatting hundreds of bullets aside to open a path of attack!** The American military had its own terminology to describe these troops, they called them "fullbacks".

[@gutterfightsecrets]

Do you mind if we share this on our channel and give you guys and you're channel full credit?

[@grantjohnston5817]

If all men are brothers then why are the winds and the waves so restless?

[@grettelvargas844]

Bushido Code (Samurai's Code)

[@user-jb7fi8ct1u]

5:15 DAMN!

[@jg2072]

This film embodies all I was taught about the Japanese military leading up to and during WWII. Clearly the US intelligence had a great grasp on what we were facing.

[@sabian8700]

I like this anime

[@mkrump9403]

thank you

[@strfltcmnd.9925]

Every WW2 Pacific War veteran I knew as a kid in the 60's told me that they had no problem with the Japanese dying for there country.

[@billhuber2964]

The narrator sounds like Hugh Beaumont. The beavers dad from the 1950s family show.

[@doubleghod]

Yes, I am sure you are right....it sure sounds like him

[@HardRockMaster7577]

Beaver's dad was running Psyops in the war...

[@nealramsey4439]

The Japanese had many millions of deities by the and of the war, if they see a dead soldier as such. I bet they quit carving names after awhile or it would've taken a small army to keep up.

[@davidb2206]

The shame is that they put Tojo's name in that shrine and, even worse, recent prime ministers have honored him there.

[@Celler2]

Been trying to skip back to rewatch, but every frames needs to be seen over and over just to catch all of the jaw dropping details.

[@duartesimoes508]

Notice the high level of the comments here. Obviously written by mature, educated people with good knowledge of History and willing to learn some more. Such an excellent documentary like this one tends to attract educated people. Nice to see! If I may say so, I always thought that the Japanese had much more excuse to start a war than the Germans or Italians, which had none whatsoever. I'd say that the Japanese Empire wasn't really an Empire until after Pearl Harbor. Actually they were precluded of having their own Empire by the United States, who had the power and willingness to do so, and for the Japanese that was unbearable. The US could rule over the Philippines after taking them from Spain, the British were all over the Far East, the French had Indochina, the Dutch had the Dutch Indies, even we Portuguese had Macau, Timor and the Indian enclaves of Goa, Damão and Diu (India would retake them by force in 1961) but when the Japanese tried to emulate the US and Western Powers and invaded China, Roosevelt ended up ordering the Japanese Government to either withdraw or face an Oil embargo, not to mention that he also started helping Chiang Kay Chek militarily. (with no success whatsoever, as we all know) For an extremely proud people like the Japanese, always so conscious of their History, their Heritage and their Honour, the humiliation must have been intolerable. So, everybody could have colonies except them?! It was ok if they were American or European, but the Japanese had no right? Intolerable! And so by the end of 1941 they were left with no feasible choices except going to war. To oblige and withdraw from China was out of the question, and to be left without Oil would push them against the wall. So, what could they do except going to war? What would you do? We will never know if the Japanese High Command really believed that they could win a long term war against the US. They certainly and rightfully believed that Great Britain would very soon be defeated, France was no more and the Soviet Union had their hands full against Germany and therefore was no threat. That left the US only. It was now or never, and the temptation must have been enormous. They were doomed to fail for several reasons, namely for having estimated the American resolve so poorly but also because it seems that they never anticipated that shipping all that precious Oil, rubber and so many other commodities from the conquered territories to Japan would be resolutely prevented by the USN submarines. In the end they started the war for nothing, but from a Japanese perspective at least they were left with no choice. By the way, you may care to know that one of the conditions for neutral Portugal to allow the Americans to build an airfield in the Azores in 1943 - current Lajes Air Base - was that Timor be returned to Portuguese rule after the Japanese were expelled by the American Forces. Our leader of the time, Salazar, was indeed as able and clear minded in Real Politik as Kissinger!

[@phil4483]

Japan had taken Manchuria and Korea prior to the start of the war, sufficient enough conquests to call them an empire. The US was on the way out of the Philippines, having promised them independence in 1946. As the film showed, Japan was a thoroughly militarized and expansionist nation, completely believing in their spiritual and racial superiority.

[@koukimonzta]

Combat readiness and sacrifice all in the name of the emperor.

[@davidb2206]

Yet he was allowed to escape all responsibility and even visited the U.S. in the 1970's.

[@jinenjuce]

I have to go back to the 1940s so I can obtain a gun toting waifu

[@germany456]

Such a great professional film

[@nomadnametab]

a friend from south texas, an old texas ranger family, was drafted and sent to the pacific. he said that he was disappointed. he wanted to go to europe . shoot germans. he said; "the japanese would jump up and let you shoot them. the germans made you have to work. " afraid to even estimate how many he shot , but his daughter told me he never told them anything about it and he had PTSD. with his marksmanship skill i have the feeling it was like shooting cans lined up on a fence. he came home and never went more than 100 miles in any direction the rest of his life. he had seen enough of the world.

[@philipinchina]

Fascinating.

[@artmcteagle]

And what what was the end result? Suffering on an untold scale.

[@anatolib.suvarov6621]

I am watching this film, and I think that most of the infantry are wearing M-1917 Sohlberg helmets. Everything I have read says that the IJA adopted a local made variant of the M-1915 Adrian, and then went to the Type 92 (1932) Japanese designed helmet. Yet many of the troops shown in this film are clearly wearing Sohlberg helmets. So, did the Japanese also use Sohlberg's, or are these not really IJA troops, or what is the deal?

[@Frenchy849]

What you call the Sohlberg is in fact the Cherry Blossom helmet, the M-1915 copy you were also talking about. Not that the Sohlberg wasn‘t an Adrian copy either.

[@stevekaczynski3793]

I suspect some of the Japanese film was shot in the early 1930s.

[@skyecooper]

does anyone know the name of the japanese movie that was used in this?

[@tourettesguy3858]

majical opening music

[@wxx3]

Wow, really good.

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[@perfection4749]

Could you imagine being trained by these masters?!?! WOW

[@olliefoxx7165]

Nah, I'd rather learn from the ones that BEAT those masters, tough as they were.

[@Jareers-ef8hp]

@@olliefoxx7165 Beat? You mean with all their technology and superior production capacity? That’s almost like cheating

[@olliefoxx7165]

@@Jareers-ef8hp How so? Cheating would be launching a coordinated surprise attack on peaceful nations. Cheating is not abiding by the Rules of War as set out by the Geneva Convention while you're opponents are bound by those rules. The Japanese had superior technology in many areas until the victims of their surprise attacks recovered and fought back.

[@hellomoto2084]

​@@olliefoxx7165 and boi did they fought back well magnificently

[@junanougues]

Just wow level of intellectual level of production from an American government at war with Japan. Practically a class on cultural anthropology for Marines, difficult to imagine in our days.

[@randelbrooks]

Well kids I don't know what Warner Bros. movie company had to do with this government production but that is their fanfare in the opening title sequence and boy does it sound great but that's definitely Warner Brothers. The history of all these films is just fascinating.

[@guitaoist]

That music off the bat lol

[@oldgringo2001]

The section about Japan's fighting in China makes the Chinese look much better than they really were. Chinese troops were more likely to express their individualism by running away; Chinese peasants had a long and justified tradition of not trusting their government. Communist Chinese troops had better discipline due to at least some belief in their cause, but more because they knew they were likely to be executed, and the Communist aim was to take over their own country. There's also the factor that Stalin didn't trust the Chinese Communists (what a surprise for a man who didn't seem to trust anyone) and gave more support to Chiang, who was always happy to get support from anyone, not excepting Japan.

[@deadby15]

Thomas Sewell in defense of rather low morale of the Chinese soldiers, around the end of the war the officers secretly ordered the soldiers not to engage with the IJA units because they knew japan would lose sooner or later, and wanted to preserve their units for the coming war with the communists. Such an attitude infuriated Gen. Stilwell, because even when The nationalist army units were way better equipped and had more soldiers, they refused to march and fight.

[@2serveand2protect]

Was that supposed to build up morale in the American soldier?? ...because from what I see here I kinda have a feeling I'd shit my pants if I had to face enemies like these ones...

[@sinibar5850]

No. This is to inform the GI about the enemy he faces.

[@HardRockMaster7577]

Maybe this was shown to Officers to educate them.

[@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat]

For some reason I expected a mention of Mountbatten, or the concept of face

[@wntu4]

It is no wonder it took the fire bombing of Tokyo, 2 nukes and intercession by the Emporor to make these people surrender.

[@mikepowell8611]

Those nuclear bombs were a blessing. They saved millions of lives. Can you imagine having to do house to house fighting with housewives trying to spear you or little kids with swords jumping outta closets. Or our troops coming home after killing a bunch of women and children. The Japanese had to be broken.

[@wntu4]

@@mikepowell8611 No argument from me. That entire society was evil and had to be dismantled.

[@elcidgranada3549]

@@wntu4 evil? So was colonialism.

[@elcidgranada3549]

You should remember this society was the direct result of US intervention. If us admiral did not forcefully open trade with japan, they could have been left in the old age. Greed. Thats it. Just greed is the root of all the shit we are i today.

[@billhuber2964]

Those two nukes brought my dad home from the Pacific.

[@KarldorisLambley]

i expected this motion picture to be more propaganda-y. but it was surprisingly balanced.

[@mikhailiagacesa3406]

Time on Doc? 1943? Would be interesting to see a comparison on Allied attitude toward IJA/IJN 39-40. By '43, this info is good; but late.

[@Skoko-oh2fz]

How do you win a war when every one wants to die ?

[@kenoliver8913]

You grant them their wish.

[@thomasjoyce7910]

[Spoiler Warning] Amazingly powerful superweapons.

[@robertlombardo8437]

General Patton had the answer to that. We've all heard it. You make the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

[@HardRockMaster7577]

Take out their "God"??

[@mikekeyloh]

only unless victorious

[@nomadjensen8276]

at 17:38. is it really that surprising that japanese soldiers would enjoy mail from the family?

[@darkwood777]

Surprising, only because most were unable to read or their family members were unable to write. These were the peasant class as the announcer describes.

[@minergames8671]

@@darkwood777 no. 99% japanese can read and write. not like your country.

[@stevekaczynski3793]

Not necessarily easy to organise, and quite often families acted like the family member being called up meant they would never see him again. Sometimes he would leave a lock of hair that would be treated as his remains by the family in the event that he was killed.

[@blank557]

For all the good qualities the Japanese soldiers possessed, most of their leaders threw such good men away with suicidal Banzai attacks, complex plans that were impossible to fulfill, and with inantiquate resources. Too late they learned that flesh and blood alone, no matter how brave, could stand up to technologically superior firepower and unlimited supplies of the US. Their hubris starting the war based on the premise that Americans were weak and be cowed and not fight to the bitter end resulted in national suicide.

[@williamlaubach3285]

That's an interesting thing to think about.. here is the US govt preparing their troops to fight a strong, stubborn foe willing to give his life for his side, while Japan was convincing their soldiers that Americans were lazy and would fall easily. Goes to show you should always be ready for a formidable enemy.

[@deadby15]

After fighting Japanese in Manchuria, Zhukov wrote that though Japanese soldiers and petty officers were brave and able, the officers were inflexible and inferior. You can't deceive Zhukov's prying eyes...

[@jasonl8326]

Yeah, I believe Japanese leadership understood early on that Japan couldn't compete with the resources and industrial might of the US in the long run, and that their only hope of victory would be their willingness to fight to the last man and cause the US to deem it futile to continue the war and seek a cease fire.

[@KageMinowara]

On the plus side though we got manga and anime out of it. So all the pain and suffering was worth it in the end.

[@earlyriser8998]

@@jasonl8326 That was Yamato's point "i can give you six months" then America will start to build their forces and response

[@confusedrhino]

33:22 at first glance I thought the barrel fell off :D

[@0MoTheG]

I find the enthusiasm of the donkey at 17:30 lacking.

[@TheSimba86]

He's sad he didn't get a letter

[@ericwethington]

Is it General Marshall narrating, can't remember his full rank he did the intro to the movie to hell and back and several other post war movies around that time of I'm not mistaken but not sure if it's him

[@goat1176]

what did I just hear at 12:03 lol

[@frostedbutts4340]

Lol Japanese fetishes sure have changed

[@jamesbugbee9026]

The quality of this film in part reflects anticipation of the invasion of Japan itself, a prospect of well-previewed dread

[@stevenpilling3773]

A very honest assessment of Japanese society and fighting capabilities. I frankly doubt that the Japanese had much in the way of a realistic overview of their opponents. Admiral Yamamoto- himself a great exception to this- was continually unable to bring the Army dominated high command into a true appreciation of what they faced in making war on America. After the war, the Japanese blamed their shortsightedness on "victory disease"; a vast overconfidence born of their early wave of success.

[@sufimuslimlion4114]

Their leadership, command, intelligence, etc all had it.. the average soldier? Certainly not this detailed necause it wasn’t necessary but yeah they were aware of other realistic analysis

[@robertlombardo8437]

Yamamoto, if I recall, actually went to college in the US. He KNEW the scale of the US in terms of manpower, patriotism and fighting spirit. No amount of initial success could overcome the sheer amount of force which comes from all of that.

[@voidimperial1179]

I remember their navy vastly overestimated the number of US ships that they sunk. For example, Enterprise (CV6) was reported sunk three times, and Lexington (CV16) was supposedly sunk four times.

[@asgautbakke8687]

I'm of the conviction that there was more to it than overconfidence after early successes. The case is that all - ALL - Oriental societies are more or less insular. Japaneses knew little about Western societies, Chineses not a whole lot more. The fallacy of the basic Oriental belief in own immeasurably superior culture made a high barrier to understanding. Again and again Oriental states had rude shocks but just as regularily they failed to learn: Opium wars against UK, Matthew Perry's rude awakening of Cinderella-sleeping Japan in 1856, French conquets of Vietnam, Boxer rebellion... The two nukes in 1945, coming after heavy losses in the Pacific and in Burma should have explained loud and clear for Japan (and other Oriental societies) that classic Oriental insularism is in the long run self-defeating but no, to me it looks like China, Japan and the rest of them are showing clear tendencies of falling back into the same national ego-tripping.

[@davidb2206]

After the largest surrender in American history at Bataan, the Americans almost lost at Guadalcanal, too. It was damned close. The U.S. Navy took a severe beating and departed the area for awhile, leaving the marines unsupported.

[@wiskadjak]

By the time this film was made actual combat against Japanese Imperial forces appears to have sobered up the Americans a great deal. A lesson they should recall when dealing with the PLA.

[@midoriyaizuku4403]

@Peter Rogan PLA as in People’s Liberation Army. That’s what Chinese call their army.

[@daleeasternbrat816]

Come prepared for a Real Dragon. If it turns out to be a Paper Dragon , Good! If not, we came prepared for a real one. The Japanese are, most certainly, a Real Dragon! As for the PLA? Like I said, we come prepared for a real one.

[@joecoonan3164]

When one looks at the rate of Allied losses at the island of Iowa Jima, off the coast of Japan, the indication is that the Japanese soldiers would build tunnels throughout the mountains, forests, hills and plains of Japan, and proceed to defend them to the death, at a tremendous casualty rate to the Allied forces. The first, and one of the only time an allied army inflicted true defeat upon the Japanese ground forces was the Australian and New Zealand forces, and the incredible course of events on the Kokoda Trail, in Papua New Guinea. The Japanese have always been a race of fearsome warriors since the dawn of known history. Theirs is a warrior culture, with the concepts of Budo woven throughout the culture and thought of the entire nation.

[@robertlombardo8437]

Found the weeb.

[@HardRockMaster7577]

Japan exemplified "Old Testament" fervor

[@kenneth9874]

Seems like they got their ass kicked across the pacific by the USA with help at times

[@danphillips2784]

Japanese counterattacks on Guadalcanal were routinely shot to pieces.

[@erin19030]

Never go to war without the proper head gear

[@oldgringo2001]

At around 14:40 you can see two splendid examples of poor Japanese armament. The first is that machine gun with the horizontal clip that moves from side to side as the cartridges are fired. It's actually a French design little changed from the first version dating before World War I and still in use in World War II. The clips, actually simple strips, were easy to bend, out of shape and because the cartridges were fully rimmed to fit the clips and mostly exposed, the ammunition was likely to pick up dirt, further increasing the likelihood of jamming. However, this was actually not the worst machine gun design they used in the war. The tank you'll see a few seconds later doesn't show its armament, but there wasn't that much to show. Japanese tanks were effective against British, Commonwealth, Indian, and Dutch troops from December 1941 to August 1942 only because the units they faced had few or no tanks or antitank weapons and little or no training in how to face tanks. This situation ended abruptly on Guadalcanal when the first Japanese tank assault was annihilated by a few Marine 37mm antitank guns (the smallest cannon America used in World War II) a very few Marine tanks, and .50-caliber machine guns, all of which could punch through the Japanese armor. The new situation continued for the rest of the war.

[@JackGordone]

I think the smallest cannon the US used in WW 2 was the 20 mm found on some aircraft (like the P-61).