Japan: Our Far East Partner - Post-World War II Documentary Film
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http://thefilmarchive.org/ A period known as Occupied Japan followed after the war, largely spearheaded by United States General of the Army Douglas MacArthur to revise the Japanese constitution and de-militarize Japan. The American occupation, with economic and political assistance, continued well into the 1950s. Allied forces ordered Japan to abolish the Meiji Constitution and enforce the Constitution of Japan, then rename the Empire of Japan as Japan on May 3, 1947. Japan adopted a parliamentary-based political system, while the Emperor changed to symbolic status. Many political and military Japanese leaders were convicted for war crimes before the Tokyo tribunal and other Allied tribunals in Asia. However, all members of the imperial family implicated in the war, such as Emperor Shōwa and his brothers, cousins and uncles such as Prince Chichibu, Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu and Prince Asaka Yasuhiko, were exonerated from criminal prosecutions by Douglas MacArthur. The Japanese military before and during World War II committed numerous atrocities against civilian and military personnel. Large scale massacres, rapes and looting against civilians were committed most notably the Sook Ching and Nanking Massacre, and the use of around 200,000 "comfort women", who were forced to serve as prostitutes for the Japanese military. The Imperial Japanese Army also engaged in the execution and harsh treatment of Allied military personnel and POWs and biological experiments were conducted by Unit 731 on civilians and prisoners of war; this included the use of biological and chemical weapons authorized by Emperor Shōwa himself. According to the 2002 International Symposium on the Crimes of Bacteriological Warfare, the number of people killed in Far East Asia by the Imperial Japanese Army germ warfare and human experiments was estimated to be around 580,000. Shirō Ishii and all Unit 731 members received immunity from U.S. General Douglas MacArthur in exchange for germ warfare data based on human experimentation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Japan#After_World_War_II
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Defeated Japan was lucky that U.S. occupied the country in which they enjoy the freedom and peace with democratic way of life.
Can you imagine what would be IF Russia occupied Japan, with Joseph Stalin in charge, and how they would be living under Putin's rule today? This is why more Japanese people should show the appreciation and gratitude toward US and continue to jointly help each other for the better future for both countries to make progress. -
You mean Japan didn't blame everything on whites, the occupation and the nuclear bombs?
Very different than the BLMs and Trump haters. -
The horrors of the Pacific war did work for the best for everyone. We now have their backs and they don't have to worry about anybody ever fucking with them. Japan and it's people are great.
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lol at the narrator pronouncing "irashaimase" as ee-rhut-sya ee-ma-soo LMAO
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best country in the world
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the man at 16:22 is that Richard Nixon?
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i never seen anyone making friendship with two big ass nuclear bomb
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Watching these videos, of both Japan and Germany after the war, I am always inspired by America's generosity to what were brutal enemies. Japs were unspeakably brutal like beasts. They were SOBs and they came of apes. They were no humans. They practiced widely "canniavalism on U.S and Allied POWs while they were still alive".Look at what Japan did to those places it conquered. Look at what Germany did to the rest of Europe. Rather than crush them we gave them food, technology and admittance into the world's community. We also helped those who were our allies. I am proud of our history... quietly proud, and no amount of ill will and nay-saying will ever diminish that pride.
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Those men were a different type of men from the men they send over there nowadays. It's just the cultures are so radically different, they might as well be different countries.
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Hey GI gibu mi chocoreto
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should've taught them about the american justice system... oh wait, fuck... hell, at least they've got baseball
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Any war is an act of the devil but God always wins at the end ,the US and japan war it ended whit the japanise people better in everyway ,God bless America and God bless japan.
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Watching these videos, of both Japan and Germany after the war, I am always inspired by America's generosity to what were brutal enemies. Look at what Japan did to those places it conquered. Look at what Germany did to the rest of Europe. Rather than crush them we gave them food, technology and admittance into the world's community. We also helped those who were our allies. I am proud of our history... quietly proud, and no amount of ill will and nay-saying will ever diminish that pride.
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fucking scumbags gave japan 100% oil embargo, then call them agressors afterwards. Icing on the cake was a fucking nuke because the brave japanese would have fought to the last man with no fear of death. Now japan is beeing controlled by washington and pressed for what they can. And the continous occupation of Okinawa and threats to china. Im disgusted
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What a load of Propaganda this is!
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While Mao had his people pull him up river into Xinjiang to hide with the Muslims from Japan - America was making a new powerful friend - tricky - tricky- tricky
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America was preparing and aiding japan for china in the 50's. Let off their short chain Japan will devour China. Remember America is tricky - shhhh secrets are tricky
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US government propaganda, lol. Showing only the positive aspects of the occupation. And here we are 50 years later, with American troops still there despite the fact that Japan can defend itself now.
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Has anyone noticed that after the occupation he keeps referring to Japan as 'her', didn't realise countries had genders.
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