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Hi, Chris, this is so good, I knew hardly any of this, it is really interesting. Looking forward to the rest.
I first learnt about the blowing up of the Manchurian railway as a kid by reading the Tintin story "The blue lotus". The book made the Japanese government so angry diplomats threatened to break off diplomatic relations with Belgium
Hey VTH,
Just wanted to say thank you for your content. I’ve been going through tough times, and your videos always help me re-ignite my love of history.
Could you react to Brandon F's machine guns and cavalry video about British cavalry during WW1 which tells about the role cavalry played and how they were still tactically viable on those battlefields
It's my birthday and Chris just uploaded a new video I didn't think this day could not get better
Love your content! Greetings from Germany!
EC's series of series (lol) on Japan has helped me realize just how much clichés Westerners in general (including myself) have in our vision of Japan. People obsessed with honor, politeness, efficiency, "between tradition and modernity"… There is very little interest or awareness of the massively disruptive social transformations that Japan went through in sixty-something years, or the context that lead to its involvement in WW2.
This one is hard to follow. too may things going on. I didn't think imperial Japanese history would be so complicated.
would make for a good political drama
I love your videos, they keep me going while I’m working.
The fact that history channels can get demonetized for just talking about what happened in history will never cease to infuriate me.
Since they glossed over it I'll add some stuff about Chiang-Kai Shek, the Nationalists and thier relationship with the Soviet Union. So what extra history was taking about with the war in China is what's known as the Northern Expedition, where the Kuomintang( Chinese Nationalist Party) launches and invasion of northern china with the intent of ending warlordism and establishing a Chinese Republic. Because the Nationalist were opposed to concessions to foriegn powers and in favor of things like land reform they also had an uneasy alliance with the Chinese Communist Party, and due to the northern warlords being backed by primarily western powers the nationalists also had an alliance of convivence with the Soviet Union. The Nationalist Party itself also had internal factions with a left wing that encompassed most of the civilian leadership, who were largely liberals and socialist and wanted a mostly clean break from China's past, an eventual transition to democracy, and a limited role for the military in politics. The right wing was composed mostly of the military leadership who while also being opposed to warlords and concessions to foriegn powers, saw the military as having a vital role to play in defending the new Chinese Republic from intervention by foriegn powers or warlords reasserting control, had much more respect for Confucianism and China's traditional culture, and were less interested in democracy. The Right wing was also lead by Chiang, who by the northern expedition was also in charge of the entire army and as he started to win victories he got much more popular particularly with the common soldiers, this caused the political leadership to start plotting to limit his power. This plan backfired because Chiang found out about it and responded by purging the left wing of the the nationalists and the communist party in what was known as the Shanghai purge which resulted in the deaths of over a million suspected communists and most of the CCPs leadership. This had several results, Stalin was livid and stopped supporting the nationalists and would never fully trust the CCP either for failing to stop it, most of the nationalist left wing fled into exile, and the remaining communists fled into the Chinese interior it what's known as the long march which also brought the then mostly insignificant Mao Zedong to power who would begin fighting a guerilla war against the nationalists.
Just today I finished up a paper on the collapse of Japanese democracy in this period and the interactions between the government and the military are absolutely fascinating. Ultimately I think that a military takeover of the civilian government was inevitable given the special status of the military within the governmental structure as well as the fact that the democratically elected government had multiple superior or equal structures that were unelected.
Please react to some Polish history! It would be cool👍🇵🇱keep it up the good work!
What is it with Japanese history that is soooo fascinating? I cant helpt but to be extremely intrigued. So… Sabaton – Valley of Death, yes?
Ah yes, the standard mantra of far right conservatives everywhere…we need to get back to the good ol' days. You know, the ones that never actually existed. Well, that's not strictly true. They often were good ol' days for the type of people who want to get back to them, just not so much for everyone else.
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Keep up the great work Chris 👍
4:15 I like the point made here about the falsehood of the glorious history. But id like to add, there's other things i find equally as annoying. 1) acting as though there was never any positives to the nation you reside in 2) Acting like current times is worse than the past even though by basically any metric this can be disproven. 3) assuming that there is an ideal eutopia humans can reach where all struggle and plight is eliminated. In truth, humans will progress and make a society mostly great eventually, but it will never be perfect for anyone, as that is an unattainable goal due to human nature. We need some sort of struggle to overcome or succumb to, its hardwired into humans, so for that reason there will always be a movement attempting to move society in their direction.
4:10 Yep. Even today many Republicans want us to go back to the golden days of the 1950s, ignoring all of the problems that existed in that era.
Is it just me? Or do others what videos like this and see the parallels with Putin's Russia?
What if Obama had actually enforced his red line in Syria. Would the Ukraine conflict ever happened if there had been much more severe consequences in Syria.
First Part Zhang Zhuolin was the leader of Beijing, while Chiang Kai-Chieck was the leader of Nanking, there was a civil war, the Japanese didn't want one of them to become too powerful, so when Zhang was defeated three colonels (2 of whom will be amongst the 7 death senteces in the Tokyo or Far East tribunal in 1948) assassinated him, to start a Japanese seizure of Manchukuo, however Beijing was handed over to Chiang as revenges by his son. Zhang Xichang who in 1936 will become involved in the XI'An Plot who was the arrest of Chiang in order to form with Mao Zedong a Kuomintang against the Japanese, after that he was arreste by Chiang and was imprisioned in Taipei until 1975, and died in Hawaii in 2000
One thing, who they got fundementaly wrong: The Hokushin-Ron and Nanshin-Ron Northern and Southern expansion were both of the army, one was popular between the Kodoha (led by Sadao Araki) , who was Nativist, the other was popular between the Toseiha (led by Tetsunan Nagata and Hideki Tojo) who was corporativist (Zaibatzus) the Navy on the other hand was split between the majority who wanted to mantain cordial foreign relations, and the minority who wanted to abandon the Naval Treaties, and supported the Toseiha, (the first was leaded by Teikichii Hori who was expelled in 1935, Mitsumasa Yonai, fired in 1940 Isoroku Yamamoto who was demoted in 1939 and Shigeitaro Inoue who was demoted alongside Yamamoto in 1939, while the second was leaded by the Prince Fushimi (who was the uncle of Hirohito) and thus was in the line of sucession if Hirohito and his male brother would had died)
The Prime minister from the last video who calmed the things was in a "Garfield style" after being shoot by a nationalist. He will eventually die. and the Diet will disavow any member of his party who wasn't him, thus electing a Seiukai prime minister who nevertheless will also be murdered.
By the ways the Sakurakai leader was a civilian, who at the Tokyo trial slapped Tojo's bald and was removed for "insanity"
The Civilian Leadership did not have to resign and this video does not give an accurate portrayal of the event with the Emperor. The Government PM in power resigned because the EMPEROR questioned why they were not dealing more harshly with the perpertrators not because the emperor was siding with the military faction as insinuated by the video. True the PM felt he had lost face but his decision to step down was purely personal. No one expected it and the chaos that followed was his second miscalculation. It is this meeting that convinces Hirohito to never again question the government Leadership in public or even in private.
I really enjoy your reaction videos and your vlogs as I have learnt a lot from them, I would love to see you react to the ‘history of the British empire in one take’ by History bombs as it is one of their newest videos and I don’t believe you have reacted to them before.
I first got interested in Chinese history and Japanese history with the film The last emperor. The story about the last emperor of china Pu-Yi who ends up collaborating with the Japanese when they took Manchuria. It’s a good film with Peter O’Toole as a supporting actor. The real story is more tragic than what they let on in the movie. There is a documentary about him on YouTube. I think they make a small mention of him in one of the other episodes on this series.
Just what I need. I had my wisdom teeth removed several hours ago, now it’s time to focus on history.
1:50 I think the answer as to why the Japanese military assassinated their 'ally' is much simpler than wanting to create chaos in China. The Chinese warlords were doing that just fine by themselves. Zhang had changed from an asset for the Japanese in controlling Manchuria for them from the 1904-1905 war with Russia to an obstacle to their control over Manchuria and a risk of loosing that control to Chiang Kai-shek. Therefore given Zhang is now a risk to Japanese control of Manchuria, the Japanese army eliminated him and secured their control of the region.
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Did Hitler have any Contact with Japan ? I mean the Events between Japan and Germany in the 20s and 30s is almost identical. Hitler stole the False Flag trick on Poland
Do you really get demonitized for saying bad mustache mans name?
In East Asian countries there was definitely a proud martial tradition. In China famously there is Yue Fei's tattoo 盡忠報國, "serve the country with the utmost loyalty." The Japanese also had similar strong sense the army must be the heart of the nation.
This series doesn’t really explain why Japan is militaristic or the origins of militarism. For that you have to watch End of Samurai. Probably sometime in the future.
I let you down VTH, I watched the brief history of the royal family last night and lost a jeopardy question about William the Conqueror. I called it the Normandy Invasion and not the Norman Invasion :/
For context, it should be added that the crash of 1929 did hit Japan exceptionally hard. Part of it is the crash in silk exports, as demand for luxuries is especially sensitive to the business cycle. Another, perhaps more significant cause, is that the crash of 1929 led to lots of countries engaging in protectionism and racking up tariffs. With little natural resources of its own, Japanese industry was particularly dependent on foreign trade, and on it being as free as possible. In this context, invading resource-rich Manchuria makes perfect strategic and economic sense. It possibly even helped the economy recover, or was at least seen as such by the Japanese public. This is the background against which the Japanese WW2 quest for economic self-sufficiency through conquest took place.
6:10 I'm curious, did it actually demonetize the video for that?
…and that's why I got the hell out of China this past summer when I had the chance to try teaching in Thailand. The country was falling apart, and it looked like at any minute the gov might pull some Mukden incident to garner support of the people against a foreign enemy.
Anyway, as for this story, there was more prior to the Mukden incident. Japan was getting filthy rich off the trade business, and used it's wealth to push around Korea. Korea, being a vassal state of China, brought China into a war with Japan (first sino-japan war). Russia being a neighbor offered support of China in exchange for a warm water port and lease of a train network connecting Moscow and their warm port (Siberian tundra sucks running a steam train on). Tsar Nick decided to take his leased Lushun naval port and turn it into the world's strongest fortress. Many countries were worried Russia was gaining too much strength in Asia, so Japan offered to throw itself into the meat grinder to regain their honor and get a buddy relationship with the western powers. 1904 was the battle of Port Arthur 10 yrs prior to WW1. Russia lost, and gave their lease over to Japan as war reparations.
Time out:
If I lease a car from you, and then I use that leased car in a poker game and lose, then the winner gets the lease of the car, correct? Let me reiterate the word "lease".
Time in:
Japan took over the lease, but then claimed ownership of said territory. To defend their territory, they stationed the military along the train network to protect it from anyone. Said defenders felt like they were owed more plus they were not well supplied, so they resorted to stealing food from the local Chinese and later some officers came up with idea of blowing up the train in Mukden (Shenyang) and blaming it on the Chinese. Who should we thank for…Oh hey Teddy! I heard you got a Nobel Peace prize for the Treaty of Portsmouth that gave the Russian lease over to a pissed off Japan that felt like it was owed more. Congrats, Teddy! 😀 Going back to what I was saying that there was more to the story of the Mukden Incident, in a way the Treaty of Portsmouth was a piece of the puzzle leading to the Second Sino-Japan War (or as Americans call it the Pacific Theater of WW2). Hell, there was A LOT more we could have done to prevent all this. I used to live in Shanghai off/on for the past 10 years. Nice city. What's strange is the story of the defense of Sihang Warehouse in which Chiang Kai Shek stuck his best men to defend a warehouse in Shanghai LITERALLY across Suzhou creek from the old foreign district. There were many Europeans and Americans dining or sitting out having a cup of tea literally watching the battle take place. Anyway, the Japanese takeover, hunting, and brutal execution of those defenders INSIDE the foreign district along with the story of Chiang Trump Morgan owning Shanghai companies and brutally putting down a union labor strike of communists that REFUSED to make gear for the Japanese invaders will be a story for another time. 😉
Always interesting to me how the faction with power in Japan during WW2 was the more "moderate" out of the two.
We youtube commentors are well versed in HOI4 event notification historical events.
I'm glad you brought up watching their previous series' on japanese history. It's really not possible to understand japanese militarism in the 1900s without understanding the meiji era/end of the samurai, which in turn is impossible to understand without learning about the sengoku jidai, the understanding of which kinda necessitates understanding japanese culture and geography prior to that time period. It's also impossible to understand why japan is the way it is today, without first understanding this era of militarism, the mistakes the japanese made, and the efforts they took to rebuild post ww2 without making those same mistakes again.
11:30 in the summer of 2020 rioters across the US got off with crimes because the violence was deemed “acceptable” by the media.
Fascinating view
The past sucked. The further back you go, the worse it was.
Sure would be a shame if a modern military superpower failed to punish people for attempting a coup because the riot claimed to be patriotic and the courts feared causing division.
what happende to half of your oversimplafid videos they are privetede
Ah the Mukbang Incident.
If this is demonetized for simply talking about history in the way you have. Please speak out about it. That is not right or fair to you a creator and teacher. Always love your work!