The YAKUZA in the lead-up to WW2 - Toyama Mitsuru & The Dark Ocean Society

[@thatoneinasuit6404]

Fantastically put together video and very well sourced, actually made me go and do my own research into the Dark Ocean Society after watching this and I honestly think you've done a superb job of presenting all the key points about them here, please keep up the great work, we are all loving your content

[@anikihistory]

It's comments like these that keep me working on the next video. Thanks for your support!

[@jmwilliamsart]

@@anikihistoryHow was the government able to destroy the influence of those ultranationalist groups after the 2nd world war. How did the government get the people to finally accept various western institutions and influences after the war?

[@Stumbo99]

The entirety of Japan's entry into WW2 is just a giant shit show. This was really interesting, I've never heard about the Yakuza connection, and I'm not even sure if I've heard of mitsuru before this. Great video, keep up the good work!

[@anikihistory]

Yeah it's crazy how little information can be found on Toyama and the Yakuza involvement (at least in English)! Glad you liked the video! More good stuff coming very soon 😁

[@Stumbo99]

@@anikihistory I read a pretty interesting book on Japan and how pop culture, like anime, manga, video games, electronics, etc helped rebuild Japan post WW2. This makes me wonder what kind of connections the Yakuza might have had with all this, mainly video games and the like given their connections to gambling and pachinko parlors, and the rest of the rebuilding process until the crack down

[@anikihistory]

Did Toyama change history? Or do you think World War II would’ve been the same without his influence on politics? Drop a comment and let me know what you think!

[@nyarlathotep616]

Toyama definitely did.

[@Goose20235]

Excellent video, and bonus points for using Yakuza 0's soundtrack lol

[@anikihistory]

Always love me some Yakuza... The games, that is! Haha

[@DionysianLovecraftian]

I never knew any of this. Good to know what kind of other influences lead Japan to join WW2!

[@nils-kristiantalbot7045]

Awesome videos you’ve been putting out! Very recently started to get interested in the rich history of Japan and you’ve been a great stepping stone in that journey. Thank you so much

[@anikihistory]

Thank you! We share a common interest then, let's explore it together 😁

[@henrxv]

A gem of a channel. Will watch all videos asap o.o

[@anikihistory]

Thanks dude! Hope you'll enjoy them all and future content as well 😁

[@jarrywanakerta]

I enjoyed this series, thank you. Looking forward to your future uploads.

[@connorbrotcke254]

Great video, can’t wait to see more!

[@anikihistory]

Thank you! Already working hard on the next one ☕

[@nyarlathotep616]

Really interesting. I'm here for this. Keep it up.

[@mariomene2051]

If these were strung together, you'd have a Yakuza historical documentary I'm sure many would be interested in viewing. 🎉

[@anikihistory]

I thought about someday "remastering" my first few videos and combining them into one huge Yakuza history video 😁 but that'll be someday in the future, when i'm better at video editing haha

[@Noforzion]

​@@anikihistoryyou are good at editing

[@anteriax5175]

It's been done, ladies and gents. Remastered documentary is now here

[@young_chapo_jr7032]

I love the Yakuza ost you have in the back

[@anikihistory]

Such a perfect fit, right? 😁

[@BigBoss_893]

This is one of the most professional videos i’ve seen from someone with under 1k subs. I can’t wait for your future uploads

[@anikihistory]

Now that's a great compliment, thank you very much sir! Always working hard on the next one 😁

[@deividweiss]

Good information, clean video with direct information.

[@anikihistory]

Glad you liked it! Hope you enjoy the next one too 😎

[@AryanKumar-fz2dm]

Quite a brilliant, video, sir. Keep up the good work.

[@anikihistory]

Thanks! Will do 😁

[@AryanKumar-fz2dm]

@@anikihistory Sir, I just had a question. You may choose to not answer it, if you like. Sir, are you from japan? By the way, I am from India.

[@anikihistory]

@@AryanKumar-fz2dm I'm actually from Austria, i wish i was from Japan 🥲 Greetings to India! 🇮🇳👋🏻

[@AryanKumar-fz2dm]

@@anikihistory Thats brilliant sir. I happen to know quite a bit about austria, as I am very interested in topics related to prewar, WWII and cold war era. Sir, where (in austria) are you actually from? I am from New Delhi (capital of India). Additionally, sir, I know a bit of german as I have a certification of A1 in german from Goethe-Institut, New Delhi.

[@anikihistory]

@@AryanKumar-fz2dm Oh that's great! I'm from the state of Tyrol, right between Germany and Italy 🇦🇹

[@madoggish95]

Using Yakuza 0 music is a nice touch

[@anikihistory]

The Yakuza games got a special place in my heart haha 😁

[@dees.daniel7]

I actually just purchased some original calligraphy by Mitsuru Toyama.

[@romansjermalonoks7533]

Great stuff

[@anikihistory]

Thank you very much!

[@SpencerPrice-o1u]

Thanks for this great series, in one word fantastic. I do have one quesion, the soldiers in the picture (min 19.28) don't look Japanese to me as they are wearing German helmets and also their uniforms don't look like what they wore, or am I mistaken? By all means, I'll keep on watching and I've subscribed.

[@Jobe-13]

Quite fascinating

[@3bood369QQQQ]

awesome man

[@youngimperialistmkii]

Wow! I had no idea that Yakuza had such a strong influence on the Japanese militarist and Imperialist movements before WWII.

[@KnowNothingNerd]

Recently revealed letters show one of the diplomats from Japan to Korea was with the assassins when they killed the Korean empress.

[@brendameistar]

Kyushu is where i roll as the Shimazu, total war 1 and 2. Lmfao

[@AGS363]

19:24 I am not sure, but those soldiers look more like Chinese to me. The Japanese did not use the Stahlhelm design.

[@anikihistory]

You're absolutely right! Another commenter pointed that out already. I wish i could fix that mistake 🥲

[@loois3431]

A channel called Aniki talking about Yakuza O.o

[@anikihistory]

I swear i'm harmless, just curious about this stuff haha

[@loois3431]

@@anikihistory yeah I didn't notice any rolling of the Rs so we safe lol great content keep up the good work.

[@anikihistory]

@@loois3431 Haha 🤣 Will do! Thanks for watching 😁

[@0MVR_0]

black dragon is likely a play on the Chinese river in Manchuria

[@christianlorentz9981]

Great video yet you have a photo of Chinese Nationalist troops in dress formation towards the end of the video

[@joaomanoel3197]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@dsnodgrass4843]

It would be interesting to have a video dedicated to the breakdown of relations between the Yakuza and the Tojo government in 1943-44; and the crackdown that drove the Yakuza into the "wilderness " while the ultra- nationalists lost the war. Never trust "Nationalists"; once they have power, they inevitably turn savagely upon those who helped them get it.

[@HootOwl513]

Aren't those Chinese KMT troops at [19:21]? Chiang Kai Shek had support from Weimar Germany. They got Mauser rifles, Stahlhelms and some Pz I tanks. Under National Socialism the support continued until Nazi Germany signed Imperial Japan into the Tri-Partite Pact. Then Chaing had to find help elsewhere [USA].

[@anikihistory]

Oh wow that's possible, you really know your stuff! Guess i was googling Japanese soldiers and found this pic and assumed it was what i was looking for 🥲

[@HootOwl513]

@@anikihistory Unlike the Western Allies [who self-styled their group as the 'United Nations' long before it was the name of a second try at a league of nations], and made a regular practice of Lend-Lease; the Axis powers did not exchange much in the way of war materiel. Some say they were allied as a convenience -- and would go after each other when their war goals were met. I don't think it would have gone that far... As long as their agendas were in alignment, they were all onboard. In the late war, some advanced German technology was smuggled to Japan via submarine. The Me-262 spawned the Nakajima Kikka. Possibly the V-1 was the basis for the Okha rocket kamikaze plane. The Italians furnished designs for .50 Cal HE ammunition for the Japanese Ho-103 HMG, developed for their Breda-SAFAT 12.7mm aircraft gun. While both machine guns were copied from the American AN/M2 Browning .50 Calibre, they lacked the rate of fire of the original, and its reliability. There was no way any Axis nation could match its production or depth of logistics. No high explosive .50 cal ammo was made by the US. The Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien, an IJAAF fighter, was originally believed to be an Axis Lend-Lease product because of its inline V12 engine [looking like a DB601] and was given the McCoy reporting codename of ''TONY'' because they thought it too closely resembled the Bf-109 or Macchi C.202, but it turned out to be an indigenous design. Ironically, the Kreigsmarine submarine U-234 was carrying 1200 lbs [550kg] of Uranium Oxide, labelled ''U-235'' [plus mercury, a complete Me-262 and Hs-293 glide bomb in crates, optical grade glass,] German military and naval technicians and two IJN officers, LTC Hideo Tomonaga and LTC Shoji Genzo. The Type X sub had sufficient diesel fuel for a 6 to 9 month voyage. She departed Kiel on 25 MAR 45. On 4 MAY 45, they received an order transmitted by Adm Doenitz for all U-Boats at sea to surface, fly a white flag and surrender to the US Navy or Royal Navy. The captain changed course for the US East Coast. Tomonaga and Genzo were honor-bound not to surrender and committed seppuku via OD of barbiturates [so as not to spill blood on a friendly vessel.]. There is speculation that the U-235 from the cargo was given to the Manhattan Project, and would have contributed up to 20% -- once refined to Weapons Grade -- of a Fat Man type Device.

[@Vmac1394]

Germany's support of China was one of the reasons for Japanese invasion of China, as the KMT was courting the Nazi government, including H. H. Kung of the KMT palling around with Hitler in Berlin in 1933 and 1937. Japan sought to preempt a SIno-German alliance by ruining China's usefulness to Germany, that is as a large counterweight to the USSR in the East, by invading China themselves so they couldn't be left isolated from all the nascent alliance blocks forming. Germany not providing materiel support is more that the Japanese screwed up their initial plans and they were playing the situation by ear.

[@kaydee3407]

​@@HootOwl513 The berylium for nuclear triggers were mined in my neck of the woods..in kerala,india .. connected to an american jesuit , descendent of detroits first families.. Is there a german conenction to japan via jacob schiff who loaned them monies for the russo japanese war.. The modern japan was seeded by japanese trained in britain ....knowing how britiain funded mussolini via samuel hoarse ,mp who also created modern india law...is there a movement via freemasonry that also funds the ultra right wing ..to enable order from that chaos...the british via mussolini also fudned and copied into india the right wing movement that rules india now ie the RSS.. In india the british inteleligence which seems to be an extenstion of the rosecrusion soceity funds and controls both sides .. For examples the earl of Pembroke , descendents of earl of oxford were invovled in directly converting the holy roman emperor into freemsonry..and who then dismantled the feadal system practised in europe.. The earl of oxford is supposed to have encoded his names into shakespearean works.. Utube : earl of oxford shakespeare .. Where the earl of oxford family clandestinely connected to the occult side of jesuits ..

[@parkmallbaby]

Black Ocean Society or Genyosha supported a lot of pro-independence groups in Asia during the 19th and early 20th century particularly in China and the Philippines.

[@CostaCola]

Come on, watching, "The Last Samurai" for its history? That's like watching, "Avatar".

[@dereknelson4509]

Very good... organized crime is... what... the world's second oldest profession ?

[@anikihistory]

A very old and strangely fascinating profession 😁

[@DizzyCsango]

The third, actually; politics being the second. Although, now that I think of it, there is no real difference between politics and the first oldest profession...

[@gesamtkuntswreck]

Who'd know it was the far right behind the reason for Japan's entering ww2 /s

[@tobiisiba1641]

How the fuck is the fucking Yakuza "far right".

[@Oldass_Deadass_dumbass_channel]

Im really happy you attributed the Japanese surrender in ww2 to both the soviet invasion and the nukes, to many people act like those things happened in a vacuum and say it was just the soviets or just the nuke.