Japanese History Teacher Reacts to "History of Japan" │ Bill Wurtz

[Music] this is miyuki thank you for clicking this video today we are doing a reaction video for history of japan this is one of the most requested it's actually an old video that i've already watched few years ago and i remember not being that happy after watching it well i used to teach japanese history to kids in cram school it's a well-known cram school i had few classes full of you know sleepy kids because that's where you go after school to study for the entrance exam i had to deal with like 10 to 20 students that time in one class anyways um since you guys requested it i'm gonna watch this with you guys and i know i'm not gonna be able to cover everything because this video is only nine minutes and japanese history deserves more than that for sure i might get frustrated but i'll try my best by the way before we start please don't forget to join our subreddit i'll put the link in the description we review japan related memes here in our channel so if you want to share yours join the club all right let's go it's been a while since i watched this video [Music] in the year negative a billion japan might not have been here in the year negative forty thousand it was here and you could walk to it and some people walk to it german era there were many people who lived in japan who had more defined facial features people from korea and china came to japan and that's where around a yayoi era so i guess that's why we have this uh type of what's that word because it's warmer so now there's people on the island they're basically sort of hanging out in between the mountains eating nuts on trees and using the latest technology like stones and bowls ding-dong is the outside world and they have technology from the future basically they were mainly doing hunting before they were introduced to farming and this is a very important event so the important thing here is understanding how farming affects afterwards you can make a lot of rice really really quickly yeah that means if you own the farm you own a lot of food which is something everybody needs to survive so that makes you this is the time when they start thinking about their territories you know because they want more fields they want to produce more rice so it was also this time when the gap between rich and poor has widened rice farming and rice kingdom spread across the land all the way to here the most important kingdoms were here here here here here here and here but this one was the most most important the yamato government right ruled by a heavenly superperson heavenly super okay let's go there's a rumor that he actually didn't existed to be honest i'm kind of surprised that uh sogano umako wasn't in this video because he was a key person who made all of this happen basically he made his own niece and emperor uh her name is so three of them work together please try this religion he said no said everybody try it he said said everybody again quieter this time and so the religion is put into place and all the rules yeah okay so if you study world history it's kind of uh similar to japanese history to be honest because from here you'll see the power struggle between religion and [Music] samurai and the emperor so around this time it was a religion it was taken over who has mostly made some power wait what yep like making the government govern more and making the government more like china's government which is a government that governs more okay so japan before that japan was called wanokuni uh it was not nihon around this time the taika reforms taikanokaishin was the time when japan started to build their own identity hi china they said hi said can you call us something else other than yeah like what said china how about sunrise so the key person who made this happen was a guy even if he has a call in his uh first name imoko like the first emo which means a little sister asked him to go to china uh to give this um letter it's uh basically it's a letter about um telling them that hey we are japan now we are nihon now and we want you to treat us equally like have a you know equal relationship and during that time uh the emperor in china was uh yodai if you know chinese history he was very very powerful guy imok was pretty lucky because around that time they were dealing with other countries they were having fight with other countries so emperor yang was probably pissed off to that to him but he let him go back to japan alive funny thing here is he didn't tell to seeko emperor that he gave the letter he just said that it was stolen maybe because he was too scared to say that they didn't agree or something by the way that's that was the first time uh when japan kind of had that courage to say to china at that time because like china was like treating all the vessel states uh very poorly and they were like kind of forcing them to use their own uh era so taika was the first era like official era in japan and they stole china's alphabet and wrote a book about themselves oh that kojiki i won't go deep into this book but this is really interesting because um the character settings in this book is uh kind of similar with the hinduism and then they made lots of poetry then they stopped moving the capital every time the emperor died and kept it in one place for a while right here north finally get that squared away a rich hipster named kukai hipster modern buddhism visits china and learns a better version which is more specific it comes back reinvents it was the religion that had the most power power they're trying to find a way to not let the religion you know be related to politics so kukai they were the one who actually um introduced mikyo it is same buddhism but it's like more of a focusing on training on the shugo so it's about like being on the mountains like doing training all the time so i guess that time the empire was trying to like take over the power so back reinvents the alphabet alphabet yeah by the way this this is a hiragana in the background that you see here maybe you already know it but the hiragana was made mainly for the women because that time women cannot really read kanji so they made hiragana for them to use it and the guys were using kanji so katakana was made for them to use it while they're studying kanji the basically the kanji the character that came from china and the royal palace turned into such a dream world of art that they really didn't give a [ __ ] about running the country so if you live outside the palace how are you supposed to protect your [ __ ] from criminals people hired samurai poor people who could not afford to hire samurai did not hire samurai the samurai became organized and powerful more powerful than the government so they made their own military government here they let the emperor still be emperor but the shogun is actually in control so you see this is a time where uh it's shifting from religion to samurai the power struggle breaking news the mongols have invaded china we've invaded china the game yes or else we might invade you as well if you studied world history you already know that they're very very powerful the mongol empire is very is very powerful so the mongols came over ready for war at first i think they only brought like around like thirty thousand i think not in a tornado but they tried again and then after that one hundred thousand plus people living with the japanese but then died in a tornado tornado they call it kamikaze in japan they were so scared they already knew that they would um gonna lose then the emperor overthrows the choke in it then the shogunate overthrows him back and the mongols didn't come back because they were so busy conquering the other parts of the world it moves to kyoto and makes a new shogunate ashikaga shogunate yeah they lasted until like a 15 generation emperor can still dress like an emperor if he wants that's fine like painting with less colors collaborative poetry plays monkey fun tea parties gardening architecture that's kinkakuji the one uh that you see in kyoto a lot of people visit that place it's time for who's going to be the next shogun usually it's the shogun's kid but the shogun doesn't have a kid so he tries to get his brother to quit being a monk and be the next shogun he says okay but then he had a wife uh her name is uh and they didn't have a kid for like 10 years and then after that and everyone voted so hard that the palace caught on fire and burned down this is actually a very interesting story because uh when she gave birth to her son she loved her son so much that she wanted him to be the next leader and they had like a very big war it's called owning uh onigwar the crazy thing here is the her husband uh ashikaga was not very interested about this at all and he was more interested in the art he's basically a guy who built the gin kakuji the shogun actually didn't care he was off somewhere yeah that and the whole thing that's broken into pieces everyone is fighting with each other for local power and it's anybody's game knock knock it's europe no they're not here to take over they just want to sell some [ __ ] like clocks and guns and cheese but everyone's still fighting each other for control now with guns or kids wouldn't it be nice to control the capital which right now is puppets with no one controlling them this clan is ready to make a run for it but first they have to trample this smaller clan which is in the way surprise the smaller clan wins who's from our prefecture i think he's the most yandere leader in the history in japan yeah he did pretty crazy stuff uh during his time invading the capital and invades the capital and it goes very well he's about halfway through conquering one thing that i love about him is he's very an innovative person uh i love the fact that he used a merit-based system in politics and he was very smart guy in my opinion although he killed someone someone who works for him kills him and someone else who works for him was the guy who killed him he this was the largest gekokujo in the history yakokujo means a superior overthrowing the inferiors kills them and that guy finishes before uh odanova naga got killed by hideyoshi he was uh fighting with mori morishi he reconciled with morishi and just came back because he wanted to be the next leader they were like fighting with katana and then they heard them like hey hey i'm sorry um can we be friends again like are we cool yeah i have to go of course he didn't say why because you know he didn't want morishi to know that you know there's something bad happening in this country he told these five guys to take care of his five-year-old son until he's old enough to be the next ruler of japan and the five guys said yeah right it's not going to be this kid it's going to be one of us because we're grown-ups and it's probably going to be this guy teotomy already knew that tokugawa yesu was very powerful so yes it became a subordinate who happens to be way more rich and powerful than the others did i see trump there people support him but a lot of people support not supporting him they have a fight so this was the segigahara war he wins and starts a new government right here this was the start of edo era so it's a samurai time you know the power has taken let's the emperor dress like an emperor and have very nice things but don't get confused this is the new government and they are very strict no one can leave and no one can come in except for the dutch if they want to buy and sell well not only dutch and actually it's not only there he put about four places to conduct trading with not only dutch but but with china i knew uh uq uku is um okinawa i want to buy and sell [ __ ] but they have to do that now that the entire country was not a war with itself the population increased a lot business increased schools were built roads were built everyone learned to read books were published there's poetry plays sexy times puppet shows well when it's peaceful we uh we grow our culture right dutch studies people started to study european science from books they bought from the dutch we're talking geography skeletons physics chemistry astronomy and maybe even electricity over time the economic and cultural prosperity began to gradually slow down it really slowed down tokugawa the show um i think the first uh three generation were very strict and then after that they switched to um civilian government and they kind of loosen up because people didn't like it knock knock it's the united states boats having it be closed said the united states i think around this time was a industrial revolution in the usa and they needed more oil so they came to japan to get more uh fish oil from kujira whale there's really nothing they could do so they signed a contract that lets the united states britain and russia visit japan anytime they want churchill i like that i hated this that sucks so much and with almost very little outside help they overthrew the shogunate and somehow made the emperor the emperor again and moved him to edo which they renamed eastern capital they made a new government which was a lot more western they made a new constitution that was pretty western modern history and do you know what else is western that's right it's conquering stuff so what can we conquer korea they conquer korea taking it from its previous owner china and then go a little bit further and russia rushes in out of nowhere and says stop no you can't take that we were gonna build a railroad through here to try to get some warm water and russia builds their railroad supervised by a ton of soldiers and then when the railroad was done did i say downgraded upgrade and japan says can you maybe chill and russia says how about maybe you chill japan is kind of scared of russia you'll never guess even now actually great britain so japan and great britain make an alliance together so they can be a little less scared of russia feeling confident japan goes to war against russia just for a moment and then they both get tired the world is about to have a war because it's the 1900s and weapons are getting crazy and all these empires are excited to try them out on each other meanwhile japan has been enjoying conquering stuff and wants more and the next thing on our list is this part of china and lots of tiny islands so many countries britain because britain was friends with belgium which was being trespassed by germany in order to get to france to kick france's ass because france is friends with russia who was getting ready to kick austria's ass because austria was getting ready to kick certain world history someone from serbia shot the leader of austria's ass or actually yeah [Music] which they wanted to do anyway so they called britain on the telly to sort of let them know and then they did it and they also helped britain a little here and there with some errands and stuff now the war is over and congratulations japan you technically fought in the war which means you get to sit at the negotiating team with the big dudes where they decided who owns what and yes japan gets to keep all that [ __ ] they stole from germany you also get to join the post-war mega alliance of nations whose mission statement is to try not to take over the world japan's economy is now crappy but the military is doing just fine and it invades manchuria in the league of nations you're not supposed to take over the world and japan invaded more and more and more and more of china and was planning to invade the entire east you've got mail it's from germany the new leader of germany he has a cool mustache and he's trying to take over the world and needs friends this also got forwarded to italy they all decided to be friends because they had so much in common it's time for world war ii germany is invading the neighbors then they invade the neighbor's neighbors then the neighbors neighbors neighbors who happened to be britain said holy [ __ ] and the united states started helping britain because they are friends and started not helping japan because their friends and our friends are not friends plus they're planning on invading the entire ocean the united states is also working on a large very huge bomb bigger than any other bomb ever just in case but they still haven't joined the war war looks bad on tv and the united states is really starting to care about their rich but then japan spits on them in hawaii and challenges them to war and they say yes and then germany as a symbol of friendship declares war on the united states also so the united states goes to war in europe and they help the gang chase germany back into germany and they also start chasing japan back into japan and they haven't used the bomb yet and are curious to see if it works so they drop it on japan yeah that happened too by the way i made a video about the survivors of this bombing i'll put the card here in the video by the way i heard that when albert einstein knew about this bombing he went to japan to apologize he loved japan so much it was his dream country pretty much that was like the it's enough you know the sad thing about this is um the media in japan when they were telling that japan was uh winning and war and after this it was just like saturday new government inspired with just the right ingredients and japan starts making tvs vcrs automobiles and camcorders as fast as they can and also better than everybody else they get rich and the economy goes wild and then the miracle wears off but everything's still pretty cool i guess bye bye one thing that i'm gonna address here is in japan they don't really teach you so many stuffs uh about modern history that's the one thing that i did not like about it i was lucky enough because i majored in asian studies and we had to really learn about this stuff you know about you know let's say how japan handled you know everything after world war ii i still clearly remember it when my professor was doing a comparison between japan and germany and how you know they did it most people here especially the younger generation think that past is past we don't need to know about it at all for people like for example in china the younger people there like they think opposite they do know that past is very important maybe for other people it's just a history but what i'm trying to say here is there's also part of them that help us to become where we are right now so it is very important to learn what japan did that time you don't have to learn every single bit of it but the more you learn about this stuff i think it will get easier for you to understand news because you'll know about you know why or you know what happened in the past and why is this thing a problem you know i do hope that japan government puts more effort and educating people about the modern history it's crazy that they made us study jomon era about those jomon vase so much but they didn't really and modern history is very connected to the present i do believe that for japanese people it's their responsibility to know what happened in the past so think of it as a inheritance you know let's say you have a rich parents who died and you take all this money so that's actually how i see our generation right now like we are very lucky that you know we're not really like literally struggling when you basically when you're receiving those inheritance you're also gonna have to take care of your parents debts if they have something they need to pay then you should like also take it not only those in heritage and i feel like that's what's happening to our generation now we all we only get the good stuff from them we are also getting called out because we don't know what happened in the past which is in my opinion again is true it's our responsibility to know i'm getting too deep but it's just my opinion don't attack me i don't want to cause any controversy but and thank you for watching it 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Published: Sat Oct 10 2020