Japanese Reacts to Why Japan Doesn't Hate the USA

Japanese Reacts to Why Japan Doesn't Hate the USA and gives some opinions. The intension was just to give you a my Japanese perspective on this video no hate at all in fact much love ;)

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[YaBoiDoon]

USA and Japan are like good bros we just had to beat each other up first lol

[BestBFam]

We have a Japanese Cafe in my city. Apparently the owner has been bullied many times by our local comissioners. They have tried to run her out of town and shut her down for nonsense reasons. When she posted on Facebook the community came together to rally for her. I asked the comissioners to explain their racist and or sexist behavior. They gave no answer but they were publicly shamed. Thankfully she is up and running again. Many in our community really love her business. My kids and I love trying her products from Japan. I have discovered that I love nori!

[Nightout]

so my great grandpa fought in the war. He was born at the end of WW1 and was able to fight in WW2 growing up when I ask why did he fight in the war, He told me "so nobody has to live under a dictator, and people are free to make their own choices."

I miss hearing his stories a lot they helped me grow and are the reason I want people to have their own choice as well.

[MsCassidy]

An American veteran during the Pacific Theater once described it as two scorpions fighting one another. Too much, too far, and too long to point of when it suddenly stopped, there was nothing left _but_ each other. As an American, I feel like we're different and alike in where we had the potential to bring out the very best and very worst in one another, and did. Maybe it's just me.

[RoseB]

Of course that video won't mention the japanese attack in hawaii 😅 those people get off making the world hate us. But in all seriousness, I'm happy the us and japan are allies.

[MilkyWayWasTaken]

Love Japan from the U.S and Pakistan🇺🇲🇵🇰❤🇯🇵

[lucasharvey]

I admire how our two countries took very different paths throughout world history, and yet today, even after such a brutal war we are such great friends. Perhaps our relationship today is an alliance of necessity against China first and foremost, but the average American and average Japanese thinks fondly of the others' country based on simple appreciation as well. You've spoken many times of how you like the USA, and I return those same feelings!

Go Japan!

[stephenremo]

I would also point out that conquered nations don't always recover. We could have made it a territory or a state instead we helped rebuild the nation.

[remains]

Actually learned a lot from this video

[JoeCensored]

In the other direction, the only Americans I know who have voiced any bigotry or hatred of Japan were WW2 vets who fought the Japanese in the pacific theater. Traumatized by it, I can at least understand why. Those people today are all but gone. Everyone else generally has a positive opinion of the Japanese.

[antoniotrew]

I was confused at first when they said Emperor Showa, because I've always heard him refered to as Hirohito...

[rottytherottski]

Lol doubt anyone will see this but here’s some history they left out XD
Japan and the US were big allies before WW2 and had close ties since Admiral Perry forced the nation to end isolation. A lot of Japanese diplomats and leaders had gone to the US for education, the nation had a major trade relationship with the US, and heck they were allies in the Boxer Rebellion and in WW1. But in the decades before ww2 you had Ultranationalist Japanese people like Tōyama Mitsuru trying to drive a wedge in the relationship. This was due to a few things like tariffs on the Japanese for the second Sino-Japanese war, support for China’s independence (funny enough Germany also supported China), the Washington Naval Treaty, and the US owning the Philippines at that time. Thusly you get the Japanese attempting Pearl Harbor to try and force an early peace concession with the US the same day as the invasions of the Philippines and US bases.

[danwiesdamageinc]

Post war Japan is an example of what the U.S. used to do (and to a lesser extent, still does) after defeating an enemy - Help them rebuild.

[remycallie]

It's a kind of a weird question. You might as well ask, why doesn't the US hate Japan, given Pearl Harbor, widespread atrocities, the Bataan death march, etc. The Japanese were preparing a "defense to the last man" (actually the last school child, being armed with sharpened sticks) of Japan. . The only way Japan would have surrendered would have been through invasion (which would have cost hundreds of thousands of American lives as well as huge Japanese losses) or bombing. And even bombing wasn't a guaranteed thing given that even after Hiroshima they were still not convinced that surrender was the only option. That took a second bomb.

I grieve for every death -- civilian and military -- in every war. But the US did the correct thing. I might add that my father served in the Pacific in WWII and he never held any animosity against the Japanese, which is more than can be said about many Filipinos, Chinese and Koreans. (Today would have been his 100th birthday, BTW!)

[SFLConstrictors]

Thank you for making this short documentary. I feel your Vibe!

[arminiusofgermania]

short answer: WE KICKED THEIR ASS!!!!

...and made them our friends.

funny how that works.

[anonygent]

One additional thing not mentioned (too short, really) is that the Japanese government agreed not to remilitarize after the war, and even wrote it into the constitution. So America is Japan's first line of defense.

[DanJunkins]

im not sure about the rest of the States but, here in California, a lot of people love Japan. First, our hearts will forever go out to Japan for what we did in WWII.
Plus we love the very rich and deep history of Japan. Japan is very beautiful... ( and so are Japanese women). We here in California watch Japan closely, we watch all the earthquakes and tsunamis, all the radiation still leaking into the ocean, heading our way. Its kind of scary because we could have the same earthquakes and tsunamis here.

(edit: 8/2/2021 just as I was saying, Alaska's quake, but there were no tsunamis)

[johnalden]

U.S. foreign policy in the post-WWII era emphasized two imperatives: (1) rebuild the global economy so that markets would function optimally with our economy as an integral part; and (2) ensure that representative democracies like the United States could withstand the challenge from Soviet (and eventually Chinese) communist movements. We saw the benefit in acting immediately to help the defeated countries to rebuild their economies and re-engage in the global system as market economies and representative democracies. A strong East Asia and a strong Western Europe would help us and our allies (UK, France, Canada, etc.) and ultimately would benefit the former enemies, as well. We all became linked through trade, military alliance and political and cultural ties. It was a smart geo-political strategy, and one that has led to peace and prosperity in many countries around the world, including the U.S. and Japan. Of course, that success is due as much to the other countries as it is to the U.S. Great countries think alike, as they say.

[sangyup]

if you compare how the USA treated Japan after WWII with how France and the UK treated Germany after WWI, the post war was a pretty good deal