How Japan Became a Modern Nation: The Meiji Restoration and Sino-Japanese War

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💬Learn about Japan, The Meiji Restoration, Boshin War, Sino-Japanese War and the humanities at large with CallMeEzekiel in this fun and informative video presented in the Polandball/Countryball style.

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[CallMeEzekiel]

🎵🌸Imperial force defied, facing 500 samurai
Surrounded and outnumbered, 60 to 1 the sword face the gun
Bushido dignified, it’s the last stand of the samurai
Surrounded and outnumbered🌸🎵

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[RyujinNoKami]

Thinking how Japan basically skipped almost 300 years of technological advancements and gained it in a few decades and still maintain its title as the most technologically advanced Asian country even after beaten up badly during World War Two is wild

[mryav]

Love the Shogun 2 total war intro lmfao

[foxin]

It's 5 AM in Poland, and you just gave me another reason why not to sleep.

[erich]

The oversimplified napoleon hight thing was funny

[serganta]

1:03 Does anyone else get PTSD when Ezekiel uses the war declaration sound, uprising sound and stability losing sound from EU4?

[V-S]

The irony is that those who wanted to overthrow Shogunate and remove foreign influence in Japan became prominent figures who were willing to embrace foreign systems when they won over shogunate.

[stanisawzokiewski]

24:40 fun fact:
French army advisors in Japan introduced high kicks into Karate from the French martial art of Savate

[gravelhands]

Just discovered this channel and I love how they kept the old tradition of the countryball’s speaking in broken English. Very enjoyable video.

[CliffCardi]

Satsuma: “I can’t believe I’m going to die fighting alongside Choshu.”
Choshu: “How about fighting alongside a friend?”
Satsuma: “Hai. I can do that.”

[jaflob]

How do you only have 110K subs? Criminal y’all deserve wayy more

[In_Our_Timeline]

many people say that china is the Germany of Asia but I disagree imo, Japan is the Germany of Asia because both countries were fractured and were united by a strong man leader type and then became the power houses of each region, and the funny thing is both countries defeated big countries like Russia and France respectively and both lost a great war but still mange to become global power in making cars

[timeismoney]

I love your channel. I always liked country balls and history. So thank you. Love from Slovenia 🇸🇮🇸🇮

[achour.falestine]

I still can't believe this guy is pumping such high quality content with such little time
No joke this guy deserves way more recognition

[lovelylavenderr]

The Oversimplified Napoleon reference was superb.

[basileusywolvish]

Is no one gonna talk about how the Japanese were literally using a former confederate states of America warship and they were fighting against the so-called Ezzo Republic style after the American style democracy so technically, if you think about it, the confederates got a final laugh in Japan when they destroyed the Japanese style America

[yers]

Ain't no way you just animated the Shogun 2 intro, it's so good.

[Mr.KaganbYaltrk]

Meiji restoration is really fascinating event

[mr.shepherd_]

I love how they were the irl equivalent of sped running your tech tree to catch up with other players’ civilizations. A prime example of Japan’s adaptability when necessary.

[OCN_MN]

Thank the heavens Ezekiel has descended and released some more awesome content