THIS IS WILD!! | History of Japan Reaction

[@AquaLantern]

4:29 I love this part. The Mongols tried to invade Japan and failed due to massive storms. The Japanese thought it was the gods saving them (hence the term "Kamikaze" or divine wind), but really the Mongols accidentally invaded during typhoon season... *twice!*

[@patrickwaldeck6681]

Not even GOD HIMSELF could sink our fleet...twice!

[@Efgand0894]

Just like Napoleon and Adolf trying to get to Russia... during winter

[@ardel-4964]

@@Efgand0894 my brother in christ, Napoleon invaded in June and lost most of his men during the summer in russia not the winter. And Adolf invaded russia in June.

[@requiem6465]

​@@ardel-4964It was winter in the Southern Hemisphere.

[@TheGallantDrake]

@@ardel-4964yeah people forget that when the mud dries out it gets super dusty, which creates issues of its own. That and long supply trains are difficult to manage in any weather.

[@KyleAllen001]

I hope Alicia watches the "sequel" to this, History of the Entire World, I Guess. It's fantastic.

[@VyceofMataMertha]

There's also a TL;DR version. About 8 secs worth.

[@marksamson4173]

I'd also argue that History of the Entire World is a lot better than this one, so it's definitely worth a watch

[@VyceofMataMertha]

@@marksamson4173 No doubt.

[@gliocasneko]

Oh yeah History of the Entire World is one of my fav videos.

[@Watcher1134]

Murder Drones.......She will love it👼 👌🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

[@MHF013]

It's actually crazy that the Imperial House of Japan is the oldest running hereditary monarchy in the world, being able to verifiably trace their lineage all the way back to the 6th century AD... And all because every single military leader who took over Japan was nice enough to let the Emperor still be "Emperor" while he did the actual ruling. Any one of the dozens of coups that took place could have ended them but every single time it happened they were like, "Nah let them be".

[@DrD0000M]

...and then even after WWII the USA let Hirohito off too. Even some Japanese wanted him put on trial for war crimes, but General Douglas MacArthur insisted he stay on to give legitimacy and continuity to the new government in the eyes of the Japanese. Got all the war criminals on trial to blame Tojo and absolve any imperial family members of responsibility.

[@TheTenguwarrior]

The reason for that is that in the Shinto Religion the Emporer is a direct descendent of the Gods (only after the loss of WW2 the Emporer declared that he isn't infact a God). The Shogun on the other hand "officially" was tasked by the Emporer to lead the army and rule the land. Therefore ruling himself by heavenly degree through the emporer. Removing the Emporer, who was the most important religious figure of Japan would have been politically suicide for the Shogun. All of Japan would have assembled behind the next best rival warlord to bring justice back to the land, who would have been made the next Shogun by the imperial Family (which was rather large to begin with). So the relationship between Emporer and Shogun wasn't one of two competing "Monarchies" but more similar to a Pope and a King in a delicate web of political power both parties had to balance

[@spongeintheshoe]

@@DrD0000M Did they even have any power?

[@DrD0000M]

@@spongeintheshoe More recent history, revealed after his death in 1987, showed that yes, Hirohito was directly involved in the decisions on the war and the mass atrocities. He wasn't just a helpless figurehead as was portrayed. But again, the USA thought it would be too disruptive to remove him as they were trying to rebuild Japan into a friendly nation. Though some top guys thought he should have faced trial and been executed.

[@mranonymous00]

because of their calender right?

[@rumplstiltztinkerstein]

I liked the part when Tokugawa Ieiyasu said "Make Japan great again" then closed its borders for generations to come.

[@steel8231]

In retrospect both nukes combined killed less than the total of any 3 regular air raids. And there were a lot more than 3 regular air raids.

[@aidreinhorn1534]

Didn’t napalm kill more people? Also didn’t swords in WWII kill more people?

[@AroWolfArts]

You definitely have to do "The History of the entire world, I guess" next. It's a must watch anyway and now that you've already watched another video of Bill Wurtz it's even more of a must watch

[@nslater1388]

Brief history lesson. Japan was getting firebombed long before the atom bombs were dropped and, ironically enough, the casualties of a single firebomb raid on a city could typically be greater that the casualties of the atom bomb itself. The difference was that the A-bomb was one single massive explosion, big and loud enough to prove that the US wouldn't need hundreds of raids with thousands of planes to fire bomb the country as they had been doing, bit that instead they could do the same damage alot more effectively. I'm mentioning this because there is a trend these days to believe that the two atoms bombs used on Japan caused the most devastation to the country. They didn't. They just left the biggest legacy of fear, which was the intention.

[@jgaringan]

The documentary "Fog of War" about Robert McNamara goes into detail about the firebombing of japan; the section is available on youtube. Imagine burning alive 100,000 people in a single night. Or burning down 51% of Tokyo, equivalent in size to New York, over the course of the war

[@TerraWispr]

You should definitely see The History of the Entire World, I Guess also by the same creator if you haven't already, it is amazing

[@aganaom1712]

12:08 while the video's presentation is very lighthearted for the most part, the moment of silence here is meant to serve as a time to fully process the gravity of what had been done here and to try to give time to respect not only to what was lost here but also the magnitude of will that made the decision to do this necessary.

[@Alexanderthegreat159]

And I love how everybody's saying in the chat that it was dropped after they surrendered. No the hell it wasn't. They finally surrendered the day after the second one dropped. Literally the next day. And as bad as the death toll was it could have been a lot worse if they didn't surrender. Because at that time Russia was starting to turn its sites on other places after they beat Germany and it was looking like they were planning on continuing the war attacking the allies So if the fight went on too much longer with Japan that war could have possibly continued and instead of a few hundred thousand it could have increased by millions. Instead of only 70 million deaths it could have kept going. 100 million? 150 million? It's terrifying to think that possibly dropping those bombs on Japan were the best case scenario. Of course we will never actually know. It's a horrible thing that happened that never should have had to happen but at the same time we don't know if what could have happened otherwise would have been worse or not

[@happydemon3038]

@@Alexanderthegreat159 It's not even the deadliest bombing of Japan in WW2. The incendiary bombings on Japan were killing way more people. But yeah, Japan was digging in expecting to be able to make the war so costly the US would settle for white peace. The nukes showed that the US had the money and industry to bomb them to the stone age if the war went on, so surrender was the only option.

[@Monarth]

@@Alexanderthegreat159 There also used to be an annotation show up in the top left reading "Soviet Union has declared war on Japan", which leads up to the white flag being raised, aka implying mounting pressures on Japan to surrender. As KZbin removed annotations a few years ago, it's not there anymore, which makes the silence feel a little longer.

[@tim1259]

moment of silence for Japan is the same as moment of silence for the Nazi's. The atrocities the Japanese have committed were on par and they got away with it because their oppositions were not able to defend themselves. If they cared about the lives of the Japanese then they should've never attacked Pearl Harbor.

[@tim1259]

@@ReaderViaNil I've seen some dumb shit in my life but this might take the cake. Say more because this is actually amusing.

[@arvidfrykman9850]

"Monkey Fun" is an overly literal translation of "Sarugaku", a kind of traveling variety show, sort of like a circus or one of the old-timey medicine shows.

[@dongojangle106]

Did they have fun circus freaks or monkeys or is it more of a metaphorical monkey?

[@arvidfrykman9850]

@dongojangle106 More metaphorical. Animal acts weren't unheard of, but the bulk of sarugaku performers were either musicians, dancers, acrobats or storytellers.

[@ozmul5810]

I love the part where he said "With vary little outside help" and you can see the British flag. Because remember at this time folks, American and England were NOT friends!

[@ZaneEX]

Ain't no way people in that chat were saying the second bomb was dropped after they had surrendered. What in the history revisionist is that?

[@Geth-Who]

6:49 The Sakoku Decree that closed the borders is legit what inspired how hard the Shogun makes it to get into Inazuma in Genshin.

[@steven95N]

The atomic bombings were horrific, but it was war. Japan committed far more atrocities during WWII. My great-grandfather lost his best friend in the Baton Death March.

[@LibeliumDragonfly]

I mean, Chinese Canadian here, need I say more?

[@steven95N]

@LibeliumDragonfly Not at all, Your parents/grandparents got the fuck out of there. Good on them. When people talk about Wars of annihilation, the Sino-Japanese war is the first thing that comes to mind, for me. Also, you can't fight against that without becoming pretty bad, yourself...

[@CABRALFAN27]

I mean, yeah? No one, at least in this conversation, is denying that, but it's not a matter of "Country A did X, so Country B did Y to them in return". No nation is a collective, and there are always going to be innocents in every nation on every side.

[@LajosKossuthOnline]

@@CABRALFAN27 Japan was as innocent as a baby... not. Yeah killing 30+ million Chinese people, impaling babies on bayonets and burning people alive in boilers is no innocent nation.

[@isengarde9490]

For future reference, a lot of insects like sweet stuff. Like natural honey, or the same sugar syrup stuff you put in hummingbird feeders. So if you ever find a pissed off hornet in your room, just feed it some honey, and it'll calm right down. Well, relatively. As much as a hornet can calm down anyways. If you're remarkably unafraid of stings, you can even finger feed it and it'll crawl right up your hand and just sit there. It's actually nuts to think that all you needed to not have a bunch of bees evolved to kill bigger things is to just give them what they're looking for.

[@thegameglitcher2439]

I saw a lot of people in the chat talking about the nuclear bombings and it didn't seem like many of them knew what they were talking about. It was a horrible event, but the alternative was invading via manpower alone, which would have been a real mess. That aside, I agree with the other commenters; you should watch History of the Entire World.

[@sweetrolldealer]

Well her chat isnt the brightest of people. Although it seems like there was at least one person in her chat that understood history

[@BubbaJubbs9926]

​@@sweetrolldealerI love to watch Alicia, but with how many argumentative people I see in her live chats I don't ever join any of her livestreams.

[@_Trash_Goblin]

​@@BubbaJubbs9926That's just Twitch chat in general tbh.

[@kaiza6467]

Just replied with reasons I believed the bombs were unjustified but researched the facts again just in case I was wrong. So apparently there were 6 members of the Japanese war council, 3 of them wanted to conditionally surrender, the other 3 wanted to keep fighting. What finally tipped the scales towards surrendering was actually Soviet Russia entering the war against Japan. So a ground invasion by the US was very unlikely to have happened at that point since Japan was just about to surrender. (I’d thought that Japan actually did formally propose a surrender, just with conditions on the emperor staying emperor which the US rejected) I still think the bombs were unnecessary, even more so since they targeted the 2 most heavily populated civilian cities. Japan would have surrendered anyway because of Russia and all it did was give them a convenient excuse as to why they surrendered. Because it’s less embarrassing to them if they surrendered because of a miracle weapon, instead of being scared of Russia.

[@kaiza6467]

So it isn’t so black and white that “the bombs WERE good” or “the bombs were bad.” Japan hadn’t officially proposed a surrender yet but they were going to. It’s unclear whether America knew this and rushed to drop the bombs before that happened as a demonstration of strength to the world. Or whether America had no clue that Japan was about to surrender, and genuinely thought that dropping the bombs were the only way to avoid an invasion. I lean towards the former, because of where they dropped the bombs and the timing of it. The proposed invasion was still months away, and they just had to target Hiroshima and Nagasaki, densely populated civilian cities instead of military targets. But you’re entitled to your own opinions.

[@jonathancrespo3274]

Im not even gonna go into whether it was right to use the bombs or not, because at the end of the day, the TLDR is that Japan was hypermilitarized to the point where they did war crimes to China/Korea that even made the Nazis recoil in disgust(which is saying sum); not to mention that the tenant of Bushido “Death Before Dishonor” was a saying that their military took EXTREMELY seriously (In Europe, 1 Nazi would surrender for every 3 Nazis killed; in Japan, 1 Imperial Soldier would surrender for every 120 Japanese soldiers killed) Think about it: if we did a land campaign, not only would we raze Japan to the ground, but we wouldve done far more evil and horrific war crimes than the bombs, because American soldiers had a ENDLESS amount of bones to pick with Japan after they watched more and more their friends get horrifically mutilated and demonically tortured to death from island to island. The A Bombs were the only sensible option if you wanted a quick end to the war with the least amount of bloodshed.

[@ShadowKnux372]

This and the history of the entire world videos are such fun, happy to see you reacting to this one!

[@Zacheize]

4:40 "Monkey Fun" is an overly literal translation of Sarugaku, which was an early form of Japanese theatre

[@Kardia_of_Rhodes]

Western nations: "Did they have to drop the bombs?" Asian nations: "Why did they only drop 2 bombs?"

[@BalkanRedneck]

May I humbly recommend Ze Frank's "True Facts About" series. I think his humor is right up your alley and they are legitimately educational.

[@drippy42069]

Yes

[@thewinterprince1731]

Am I the only one that always thought his way of saying "Beakje" always sounded like a clever way to disguise the B word? XD

[@koraegi]

Or maybe because he read baekje phonetically It's pronounced beck jeh

[@BroNovaGaming]

Bug said: I Vanish Now And Will Strike When You Expect It Least. 🤣

[@reddytoplay9188]

12:49 ThirstyNeko the USA did warcrimes but covered up even the bigger war crimes of japan

[@BlooMonkiMan]

Which is weird cus they were the ones who came after us, not the Germans

[@JacobFors]

@@BlooMonkiManAmerica wanted their research they got from the “experiments” they were doing in unit 731 and others but documents were destroyed so made deals with peps. The I for was also useless.

[@ventilated6443]

Believe it or not, but the ending casualties if we hadn't used the nukes were projected to be massively higher. Women and children were being taught to rush enemy lines with explosives in suicide rushes. It was genuinely horrific.

[@sovest555]

Does that count the deaths related to cancer and stuff due to radiation poisioning afterwards?

[@_Trash_Goblin]

Pretty much this. You would've had to pretty much level the entire country otherwise, but some people just don't take that into consideration.

[@ingloriouscanadian9323]

the messed up thing is yes; both sides expected total casualties to be in the millions@@sovest555

[@Patte-chan]

I think Shaun's video "Dropping the Bomb: Hiroshima & Nagasaki" on the topic is worth a watch.

[@red14carbluebattleship76]

One admiral said that had the invasion taken place, Japanese would be a language spoken in hell.

[@TrueTgirl]

I was taking a class in college on the history of modern Japan when this came out (the late sengoku period up to the present). The way I first saw it was, at the start of a random class relatively early in the semester, my professor came in, put this on, played it out, and then when it was over said "alright, see ya at exam time" and walked out for a good few seconds lol.

[@kaporalhart]

I have to agree with the other comments about the atomic bombs being the right choice to end the war. There was 70-85 million people who died during WW2. The nuclear bomb was efficient into forcing the japanese people to surrender, they "only" killed 130k-220k people, otherwise it would have been a bloody war indeed. Although the americans were favoured to win, the japanese would have fought to their last breath. Though, iirc, the emperor was already favourable once germany fell to surrendering and stopping the war, but he couldn't have given the order. The japanese at the time were a stubborn proud people who think in war "death before dishonour". I'm sure you've heard of the seppuku. It's not exaggerated. As a soldier, you are supposed to die in combat. If you are captured alive, it is your duty to commit unalive. I heard stories of whole villages of women and children, about to have their village attacked while the men were away at war, who jumped off cliffs with their children to avoid the shame of being captured by the enemy. The emperor feared his people, and his ministers, would refuse to believe the emperor himself asking for surrender, or quite simply rebel, do a coup and keep fighting. Those atomic bombs were at the time a much lesser harm to japan than the alternative. Both of them. When the first bomb dropped, the emperor immediately jumped the occasion to propose surrender. He told people that he did not refuse to fight, but refused to die helplessly. There is only honour in dying in battle, but this was not battle, this was technology they couldn't fight. And even THEN, one of his ministers still opposed to the surrender, speculating that the americans would certainly not have a second bomb that great. There was also a talk at some point of mass suicide, inspired by historical events where 47 ronin unalived themselves to keep their honour. It's only after the second bomb dropped that everyone agreed they had to surrender.

[@DrD0000M]

Except the few Japanese soldiers that kept fighting WWII hiding in the wilderness for DECADES after the war ended. Japanese dedication is something else. The last known Japanese holdout soldier didn't surrender until 1974.

[@JohnBrown-tw2qi]

Actually many Japanese officials were already indicating that they would be willing to surrender as long as the US assured them the emperor would be safe. And even if they wouldn’t surrender without such a devastating threat the US could have easily just dropped them on some uninhabited islands nearby to intimidate them.

[@facundomontivero2299]

Well, now we have the ever looming threat of worldwide nuclear annihilation because Russia and the US both armed themselves with nuclear weapons because they hate eachother. So I still believe the Nuclear bomb is one of the worst things to happen in history.

[@crescentmethod]

Did you ever see the fan film "Legend: A dragonball story"? Very small team did a totally original story (hand drawn animation, original VO) with dragonball characters. The animation is clean AF and shot composition is fantastic. Check that out!

[@w.h.o3161]

I second this

[@tyforestreacts]

It could’ve been worse. The USA could’ve used Bat Bombs instead of Atomic Bombs.

[@Mare_Man]

It's amazing and terrifying that a thousand bats with some jungle jelly strapped to them would've been potentially more devastating than atomic weapons

[@echolynn13]

"Knock knock. It's the United States" in the most monotone voice I've ever heard out of this man, always gets me-

[@theshamurai32]

Yay, history time! For my suggestion, since youre working through Bricky's overview, "If The Emperor had a Text to Speech Device" is a great bite sized comedy series on youtube. The episodes are only a few minutes long, so its not as heavy as the lore deep dives.

[@TheAngryMoth104]

I feel TTS is better for people who are already fans, cause thats a hell of a lot of in jokes getting missed, plus it requires a reasonable understanding of the heresy. Though it would be interesting to see a relative newcomer reacting

[@theshamurai32]

@theangrymoth3792 I agree to an extent, but I think Bricky covers enough to get most of them. I only really got into 40k this year and I caught most of em. Plus like with the overview, she got Chat to back her up.

[@Codemaster1138]

I'd rec this after Bricky's space marine legion breakdown

[@MaskedSongbird]

@@TheAngryMoth104 I mildly disagree, on the basis that TTS does a lot of work in explaining the background lore of 40k, albeit comedically, and there's a lot that can easily be picked up from context. TTS was how I got into 40k, so I don't think it's totally impossible for someone unfamiliar to enjoy it.

[@funkemonke8084]

TTS got me into Warhammer I was completely in the camp of “ew, Warhammer I hate those cringey space marines and their fans.” until I sank my teeth into tts.

[@CPPpotkustartti]

Fun...err depressing fact: During WW1 "Spanish Flu" was more deadly than any weapon used during war. Deadlier than all of them combined! During Japans attempt to attack Korea ONE Admiral was keeping Japans Fleets occupied and this held back Japans troops long enough that Chinese and Korean armies had time to regroup and push Japan out. His name was Yi Sun-sin, although he died during last days of war, he is still considered Best Admiral and Paragon of Loyalty, since corrupted Korean ministers tried to have him removed, even killed during this war.

[@Pockets868]

Admiral Yi, the king of micro play, the absolute carry of the Korean navy

[@MakoWoman]

You’d love his video “entire history of the world, i guess” 😗

[@voicesfromjapan]

Japanese here. Thanks for your reaction. I feel like the video's got a melodious and catchy vibe, giving you a bit of the feel for Japan's history. But, I get it, understanding everything in just 9 minutes is a challenge. Back in the day, Japan was all about that expansion life, calling themselves the Greater Japanese Empire. The video drops a "make fun of" comment, and honestly, I can see where that's coming from. The U.S. probably had its own agenda to wrap up the war ASAP, you know!?😅

[@ForsakenMemories45]

Barring the fact that yet again that 'archangel' guy in the chat has very apparent yet skewed opinions on complicated topics, he was flat-out wrong in the chat about the bombing, and I'm glad people in that chat and here are being honest and informative about how things were going to play out had we not dropped them on Japan. Is it horrible what those bombs did to people and the land? Absolutely, 100% Would it have been mind-numbingly worse if we went with the prior plan instead? In every possible way. Did we ignore Japan's surrender at any point? Absolutely not: as a people they were stupidly stubborn with an outdated sense of honor in that era and their own leader couldn't convince everyone involved after the first bomb was dropped, so we doubled down and then Russia declared war on them after that and only THEN was Japan's surrender official. And guess what: as the video states, we showed up afterwards and spiked them into the modern day with so much success that it was boggling to the mind, even if they have started to plateau now and have many societal issues.

[@decilence6184]

While the bombs were really grim , it made japan stop comitting horrible crimes. Seriously japan did some really messed up shit before they chilled out.

[@M_SRC]

“The Spy who hilariously won War World 2” by Wendigoon is another fun watch that's mostly light-hearted considering the subject matter.

[@ymir6286]

lingers on the bombs but dashes over all the horrific shit japan did. Very nice.

[@robertwalker7454]

Here's a fact about the whole atom bomb dropping we were going to invade Japan by land like we did with Normandy but that would have cost a lot more lives on both sides especially with Russia joining in to attack Japan, And they that did not believe in cylinder The population of Japan was taken a drastic hit

[@grimreaper63151]

12:19 “we destroyed some of their boats, they dropped the sun on us twice.”

[@chrisbingley]

The Operations Room has some great aminations breaking down military engagements. Especially the Black Buck One, and Dambusters raids.

[@briguy811815]

Tsutomu Yamaguchi is the man who survived both nukes.

[@TheFlamemaster9]

I recommend “The Spy who hilariously won War World 2” by Wendigoon

[@michaelmcdoesntexist8350]

Yes!!!! That would be amazing

[@AnnothArt]

Girl! I definitely recommend "Animated History of Poland" and "the Unconquered" ^^ You won't be disappointed. Dragon-greetings from Poland! Glory to Slaanesh! ^U^

[@H3R0_]

I recommend another video from Bill Wurtz which is "history of the entire world I guess". Its super good

[@zachwillett5853]

Oda Nobunaga. There's so much from the KZbinr Gaijin Goombah that talks about that dude. If you want to know more about Japan, that's the dude that spent several years teaching in the country, and now he teaches *about* that country, through popular media. Several series that could be interesting in their own rights, too. Which Ninja, Which Samurai, and Yokai Hunters/Watchers (there was a naming conflict that prompted a change) All of which look at popular media's takes on the three named topics.

[@jamcalx]

👹 YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[@BrendanKOD]

Actually if you some more details with cute animation, Extra Credits Extra History channel has done series on the end of Japans Waring States, on how the country got so hyper militaristic going into WWII, as well as a little series on the lead in to WWI. Episode 2 of that series highlights how much of a near clown show the assassination was, except for a final success due to blind luck.

[@aidreinhorn1534]

I’m surprised he didn’t talk about Nanking or Korea in the WWII.

[@ivangood7121]

I would like to nominate "Eating Spider Cheese. The Rare German Delicacy 🇩🇪" for a reaction. This cursed cheese knowledge must spread

[@Raizer_VT1998]

the way japan recovered after ww2 is kind of crazy when you think about it, they got 2 atom bombs dropped on them and STILL became one of the wealthiest and most inteligent countries on the planet.

[@T-51_]

I learned more history from Bill Videos, than I ever did from middle school and high school

[@taa347]

He definitely skipped over all the unbelievably abhorrent, disgusting acts Japan committed when they invaded places like China there lol

[@michaellawhun5941]

The sheer amount of misinformation about the bombs in live chat disappointed me greatly

[@PencilKing21]

I really recommend Wendigoon’s channel. His videos are long, so it may be more of a multi-episode thing, but he’s a great creator. He mainly makes videos about either conspiracies/mysteries and various horror media. He’s also the dude who voiced the guy who got stuck in the cave in the Internet Historian cave video

[@-zerxvil-5208]

Trivia. Japan is the only remaining Emperor title that exist today.

[@kippdipp6045]

Umm Im bot sure if anyones said this before, But i'd really recommend Brian David Gilberts Unraveled seires. You can just pick any video that piques your intrest! They arent really in order, except the Most edible Pokemon one as thats the last! Just wanted to recomend!

[@sardoniccocobird7575]

There was one Japanese man who was present for both bombs.

[@DrD0000M]

Some people have all the luck.

[@featherzynn]

History of the entire world! 🎉🎉🎉

[@arcadius3257]

This video is a honest to god masterpiece. School teachers should learn from it, information sticks a lot easier if you make it fun.

[@dragon_ninja_2186]

Just saying the moment of silence after the two atom bombs are dropped is his sign of respect for what happened.

[@MISTERX_5890]

About the US with the atom bombs. It was either that or Invade Mainland Japan which would've been even Bloodier and would've extended the war longer. But also Dropping the bombs was also a Propaganda stunt as a show of force towards the USSR.

[@chriskoloski32]

Japan was warned like 3 times about the atom bombs. 1st we did a test explosion and told them to surrender, when they refused we blew up a city and asked them to surrender again. They refused because they believed we only had the one bomb so we dropped a second one

[@CrouTheBlackwing]

YESSS! BILL WURTZ FTW

[@ETK_Henwyジ]

Niceee broo

[@vashdesperado1232]

I feel like every streamer eventually has an impromptu moment with a harmless bug. And it's always hilarious.

[@jacobcarey5097]

The history of the entire world I guess video by bill is also really good

[@gamershadow8]

i feel like the momemt of silemce he gave during the ww2 bombing part was respectful

[@astralman]

While I agree with others saying to check out "history of the entire world, i guess", I'd say bill wurtz's videos in general are always fun. It's hard to describe, but it's like he invented his own genre of music.

[@ComfortsSpecter]

Need to Point out Tens-a Hundred of Millions Were Murdered over The Course of This Video The Nuking of Japan? … Oh no, that’s so sad Maybe don’t Start Productless Wars? It’s almost like This Isn’t Especial Given The Context, only The Simplicity of It Is

[@npc2153]

Star Spangled banner like you never heard it

[@Muzan_Kibutsuji_DMJ]

She had to summon the Dog of Wisdom in the beginning to tell us to comment.

[@mpg272727]

To this day I still randomly hear HOW ABOUT SUNRISE LAND in my mind

[@Drakefance5]

First Japan, then the World, the Entire World, I guess.

[@sniperboom1202]

"star wars: tie fighter fan animation. It was a project that this guy made that looks like old school anime from the '80s

[@TheKingofGods69420]

Honestly japan during ww2 was just as bad as Germany

[@TheKingofGods69420]

@@dankmouse632 COUGH COUGH unit 731 COUGH COUGH

[@bluecoin3771]

@@TheKingofGods69420let’s not forget what happened in Nanking.

[@TheKingofGods69420]

@@bluecoin3771 yeah they raped Nanking way to hard, they should probably just deny it.

[@shimakaze798]

Worse

[@Zhelios9382]

Bill Wurts makes the History of Japan sound a Lot nicer than it actually was.

[@hayond656]

I thought the "History of the world I guess" would be suggested first

[@skootmeister3994]

That fella Toyotomi Hideyoshi wasn’t as insane as some folks would think. Hawley wrote a book and made a KZbin series on that conflict, the Imjin War. To sum it up, Toyotomi did it because Japan had just come out of a hundred years of ceaseless war and there were a shitload of samurai and other warriors still around with no war to fight. This alongside seeking to secure his legacy and a bit of ego as is only proper (lest someone else with an ego sweep him aside) and don’t get me started on the comedy of errors between the diplomats to try and end the war. Also, if you want some more mindfuck? Look up Operation Downfall. It was a proposed invasion of mainland Japan itself, and to give you a perspective, we created a shitload of Purple Heart medals (for wounded or killed in action) that lasted all the way into the 21st century alongside other newly made Purple Hearts. One of the reasons we resorted to the A-Bomb.

[@ninjack11]

History of Japan and History of the entire world i guess, my favorite Bill Wurtz videos only 2nd and third next to my favorite: "still a piece of garbage"... that one just speaks to me

[@Nymphonomicon]

More importantly, Oda made Nobunaga's Ambition. Not that Oda, the other Oda.

[@17crawls1]

On the topic of other history related stuff I'd recommend watching/reacting too would be the Oversimplified series by the channel Oversimplified! It's a channel with similar energy to this about history stuff. Though the one I'd recommend personally is Oversimplified's Three Kingdoms video!

[@dukenukem42069]

Now you are legally obligated to watch his history video about the entire world

[@patrickb6124]

Isyander and Koda, the iron warriors, the emperor's silliest clown

[@natezabinski5615]

I always love reactions from this video.

[@mranonymous00]

Japan's backstory is the most anime thing ever

[@dolphinbanana3053]

4:07 NEURON ACTIVATION

[@DeathDefiant]

Now shes gotta watch The History of the Entire World, I Guess to complete her journey.

[@Zeed_316]

If you want to watch more goofy history videos, then I'd recommend Oversimplified. He does a decent job explaining and simplifying various events in history in a very entertaining manner.

[@codydees9681]

I will never not recommend my boi Wendigoon, he's really cool and his videos are great. A good place to start is his video 'That Time the CIA Faked a Vampire Attack to Take Over a Country', partially because its an absurd topic that should be more known, and partially because its one of his shorter videos

[@whtwolfgames7983]

As much as I love the video itself, It really doesn't give justice to what happened in like manchuria or Nanking, and also yes the atomic bombings in Nagasaki and Hiroshima were bad but the alternative was way way way worse, projected death toll of millions

[@tylerfreeman5926]

I would love for Alicia to watch some of Therussianbadgers video that man only makes bangers and i die laughing when i watch them i think Alicia would highly enjoy them

[@zotaninoron3548]

As terrible as the dropping the nuclear weapons was, it isn't all that much terribly worse than the alternative they had already engaged in with more conventional munitions. The Japanese cities were tinder boxes because of all the wood construction and fire bombing was absolutely horrific. Fire storms and flame tornadoes. "The Operation Meetinghouse firebombing of Tokyo on the night of 9 March 1945 was the single deadliest air raid of World War II,[22] greater than Dresden,[23] Hamburg, Hiroshima, or Nagasaki as single events." According to Wikipedia.

[@Scoonertuna]

Aliciaxdeath you are a gift for everyone!!!

[@christopherberk9474]

I hope she watches 'history of the entire world I guess' next!

[@steamworkfox4564]

I recommend Bo Burnham - Welcome to the Internet Lol it's a short video but very eye opening OwO

[@bobsspike6100]

THE HISTORY ARC BEGINS NOW

[@devioustea]

Crazy he skipped over all the stuff japan did to china but emphasized the nukes. Also whoever "arqhangel" is in your chat is dumb, it happened before japan surrendered

[@enderblazebeyond2452]

This video has a very simplified view of the bombings, it was more like: 🗽 "Sit down" 🗾 "NEVER!" 🗽 💥"Sit" 🗾 "no..." 🗽 💥"Well?" 🗾 "Fine"

[@LorgeDelta]

You should watch the sequel to this video "history of the entire world, I guess" there will be a moment in that video where it goes to intermission, basically that's where this videos history about Japan fits in.

[@Neutral_Tired]

12:01 its not my place to say whether those bombs were necessary but the fact remains Japan were not stopping the fight and _something_ had to be done, though there were certainly many other things that could have been done instead. Japan also did a whole lot of really heinous stuff in the war. For example, most of our modern understanding of frostbite comes from experiments Japan performed on PoWs in WWII trying to figure out how to weaponise the cold

[@Saeryfim]

Oh nice! Glad you're checking these things out, personally I'm "Still a piece of garbage"! Definitely need the "History of the entire world" one by him as well. It's already been said nonstop anyways, but I add my vote for that soon, lol.

[@stevemanart]

A note about the nukes. As horrific as they were (and I will not stand for downplaying the horror of deploying nuclear weapons), the loss of life that would have happened in a protracted ground war would have been exponentially worse.