The Real Reason Japanese Samurai Were Killed Off

The Empire of Japan was on the rise until 2 American bombs decimated the country. Check out what Japan was like before the war destroyed the country, and why it was one of the fastest growing empires in the world!

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[steemlenn]

Fun fact: When the emperor announced the end to his people, it was on radio, the first time most Japanese heard his voice. And since he used Palace Japanese nearly nobody understood him.

[yukibobz]

0:36 the clothes as shown is from the Qin dynasty in China and is way different from the ones Japanese wore.

[GabrielUngacta]

The Japanese military was also extremely divided, with its army and navy acting more like rival war clans than a united military force.

[lazyman]

0:36 : Chinese clothes
1:50 : Korean clothes
"Japanese"

[angrymanwithsillymoustasche]

"If a sun rise, One day it will set anyway."
-Sun Tzu; Art of War.

[monteeh]

I love how the new emperor was 15 with a full goatee 😭😭

[rainroscoe.mm]

The Japanese can be pretty terrifying when you face then in combat, especially when they get close to you *CoDWaW flashbacks *

[noahfym]

The quiz I have tomorrow is literally titled "The rise and fall of the empire of Japan"

[sauceyeti]

Japan's history is one of great irony and tragedy. A unique kind of history no other nation has and might never will have...

[lanceelamparo]

Japan is like the first of many Asian countries to enter into their modern era.

[jonnymac]

Imagine reigning over a country for 40 years and being 55 years old 😆

[InfernoXV]

the ‘traditional’ japanese costumes here are chinese from the early 1600s…

[jullianferreras]

No wonder japan is a world power, they have nine tails, the king of the pirates, a one punch man, a super saiyan and more. We're considered lucky 🤣

[samwong]

As a Malaysian, I can say that what they've done to our ancestors here are brutal beyond imagination, when they conquered the Malayan peninsula.

[Mark_nobody]

Fun fact, Demon slayer mangaka based the story in the Taisho period when everything is starting to modernise but the way of the samurai was continued in secret

[austinreed]

“No Weeaboos Allowed”

I’ll accept that policy. Lol

[rickyalfonsosantillanes]

I like how on 2:30 Tom Cruise pops up as a reference to the movie "The Last Samurai"

[Neptune_the_Mystic]

I've watched a few of these vids now and I'm definitely subscribing xD love the way you break down complicated (and often brutal) periods of history with vibrant animations. One thing though, the atomic bombs were dropped on Japan in August, not March. The USS Indianopolis didn't even bring the parts for the bombs to the Pacific until July 1945 (and was sunk that same month).

[ystoobme]

It was not March 1945 for the nuclear bombs it was on August 6th Hiroshima and 9th Nagasaki. I love your website I can spend hours catching up on your older ones. I didn't find your site until a few weeks ago. Keep up the great work.

[aqiriel]

At the history intro, it felt like Mihoyo get the idea for the Inazuma region with the closed-country policy.