Ottoman Empire and Meiji Japan: Connected in Turbulent Times | Phase II: The Imperial Era

After thousands of years of migrations and being apart, the Ertuğrul disaster re-connected the Turkish and Japanese people in the year 1890. But by now, the once glorious Ottoman Empire was in its last stages trying to fend off foreign invasions, while the Japanese Empire after the dissolution of the Shogun policy rose quickly to become an internationally recognized world power. Turks and Japanese were at the edges of the Asian continent. Their looks, their religions, their languages had moved apart. Yet once again, similarities outweighed differences.

We now enter the second phase of historical Turkish-Japanese relations and we are going to discover that more then just one disaster served as catalysts for the rapprochement between both peoples. We will discuss topics such as diplomatic affairs of both empires in-between the colonialist wars of the European nations, cultural exchange between Constantinople and Edo (Tokyo) as well as the disaster that connected both Turks and Japanese after being apart for so long. In-between, we will also compare the Turks and Japanese with regards to the fate of the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Abdülhamid's and the Meiji restoration in Japan under Emperor Meiji's rule, respectively.

[KhansDen]

Due to time constraints this episode features less sound effects, high-quality videos and so on. I hope that you nonetheless enjoy.

[Attni]

This is so cool. I've been learning both Japanese and Turkish for almost a year now, and while I've never come up with any notable similarities between the two languages, it's all in the details. Their values and the essence of their language, both in structure and in sounds, are so similar. Thank you for shedding some light on their incredible histories, and here's to many more years of alliance between the two nations!

[AdGarden]

And there is *Lieutenant Colonel Yukichi Tsumura* too.

When Japanese won against russians, they captured Ottoman POWs in far eastern russia. They bring them back to Ottomans, greeks intercepted them and asked for hand over POW Ottomans. He rejected that. Greeks pulled the ship in their docks and didn't even give supplies for 6 months. Then diplomatic happened a lot, italy became mediator and they all agreed POWs will be landed in island around corsica. Then they handed over to Ottomans for a condition which they won't join in army.

Then there are Japanese people who stuck in iran in iran-iraq war. Nobody wanted to save them except THY (Turkish Airlines).

[ИванБелый-фр]

Seliam bütün Turk insanara Gagauzdan 🇹🇷🇺🇿🇹🇲🇵🇼🇷🇺🇰🇬🇦🇿🇧🇬🖐

[NoMadMediaProductions]

Very interesting. I must confess that I initially suspected these videos were somewhat politically motivated. Interesting topic and historical parallels are raised here. Looking forward to learn more.

[xCCCPCLANx]

When will you do videos about Turkey having relations with actual turkic countries ?

[shogun]

very interestig. thank you for sharing this

[ChaosAT]

What is about the Turkish American Natives Tribes?

[beruritsu]

Excellent video! Could you please post the link here to Phase III: Age of Republics? I am having trouble finding it.

[princekrazie]

Anatolian Türk try not to glorify genocide challegenge: IMPOßIBLE

[toyotafjcruiser]

Great video thank you, what is the name of the river you said both ottomans and Japanese originated from?

[sabrik]

I liked the first episode with Prof. Robbeets. It was informative and well made. However, I think you should have stopped after talking about the linguistic connection between Turkic and Japonic languages. There was no need to make three whole episodes of nonsense waffling on about the imaginary connection between Turks and Japanese.

[sonny]

It's not Constantinople at the time it was Istanbul do your research and history right

[WhyIsYoutubeSoTerrible]

Talk about how Russians are Turks next