Timesuck with Dan Cummins - 323 - Devastation in Asia: WW2 (Part 2 of 2)

Episode Date: November 21, 2022

The Pacific War may have been even more brutal than the War in Europe. Imperial Japan had a ferocious fighting force, they despised their enemies unlike even the Nazis, and they arguably tormented locals unlike any conquering army in modern history. The stories of local civilians being raped, tortured and killed en masse are truly disturbing. We also examine disturbing acts committed by the allies - like the brutal firebombing of Tokyo.  Today we examine how Imperial Japan rose to power, how their attack on Pearl Harbor was decades in the making, and how the Allies defeated them.  AND... no Typewriter sound beds! :) Hail Nimrod! Bad Magic Productions Monthly Patreon Donation: We donated $15,228 to the United Heroes League, who provide free sports equipment, game tickets, cash grants, skill development camps, and special experiences to military families across the US & Canada. To find out more, please visit unitedheroesleague.orgGet tour tickets at dancummins.tv Watch the Suck on YouTube: https://youtu.be/anPYwwY_CVQMerch: https://www.badmagicmerch.comDiscord! https://discord.gg/tqzH89vWant to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever happens to be our most current page :)For all merch related questions/problems: [e-mail] (copy and paste)Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG and http://www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcastWanna become a Space Lizard?  Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcastSign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits.

A bright light filled the plane. The first shockwave hit us. We were 11 and a half miles slant range from the atomic explosion, but the whole airplane cracked and crinkled from the blast. We turned back to look at Hiroshima. The city was hidden by that awful cloud, mushrooming, terrible, and incredibly tall.

That was Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot of B29 and Nolige. Riding about the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945. It was an action that would kill an estimated 80,000 people immediately. Tens of thousands more would die later, though surprisingly, not the deadliest bombing campaign during the Pacific war.

And it was an action that just a couple years before, many would have thought impossible. Impossible because atomic power had only recently been explored by the Manhattan Project. Impossible because no war had ever gotten to this point before. The need for the total obliteration to bring about a decisive end. And impossible because the US during the war's first couple of years was adamant about not becoming a part of it, campaigning for re-election in 1940, president Frank then Roosevelt assured Americans that they would not be getting involved in anyone else's war But then on December 7th 1941 a day that would live in infamy world war two would become America's war On that day Japan stage a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor devastating the US Pacific fleet

For an hour and 15 minutes Japanese firepower rained down upon American ships and servicemen Cap sizing ships and sinking sailors to their doom. When Germany and Italy declared war in the United States, days later, America found itself in what was now truly a global war. While Japan's deadly assault on Pearl Harbor stunned Americans in hindsight, the attack or one like it seemed inevitable. It's root stretchback for decades. In many ways, it was a clash of enemies that was a long time in the making. As Japan industrialized during the late 19th century after being forced by threat of violence into opening this borders by the US, it sought to imitate Western countries, such as the United States, which had established colonies in Asia and the Pacific to secure natural resources and

markets for their goods. Japan's new process of imperial expansion put it on a collision course with the US particularly in relation to China. 1931 Japan took its first step towards building a Japanese empire in eastern Asia by invading Manchuria, a fertile, resource rich province in northern China, but the United States refused to recognize the new regime or any other force to pawn China. Still isolationist, the US decided to stay out of it militarily. And while US politicians denounced Japanese expansion into China, US companies continued to supply

China with resources they needed for that same imperial expansion. With the beginning of World War II in 1939, this hypocritical relationship would soon come to an end. As Hitler and the Nazis began conquering Europe, Germany's military success has unsettled the other European nations claims on Asian colonies. Japan would now swoop in ready to make their own empire. And Japan sees the opportunity to become the dominant imperial power in Asia, United States, Japan, relations, sourd. We stopped selling them that sweet, sweet oil.

They desperately needed to run their war machine. As the historian David M. Kennedy, PhD explained, each nation stepped through a series of escalating moves that provoked but failed to restrain the other all the while lifting the level of confrontation to ever risk your heights. And after December 8, the two nations would be in an all out war fighting for control of the Pacific's many islands, natural resources and like in Europe, freedom to live under a democratic government. This week we'll continue our World

War II series with the war in the Pacific. How did US and Japan inch towards war for almost a century? How was the war in the Pacific different from the war in Europe? And how were civilians, both Japanese and Japanese Americans caught in the clash. All this right now, another historical big time war edition of Time Suck. This is Michael McDonald and you're listening to Time Suck. You're listening to Time Suck. Happy Monday, meet Sacks. Welcome to the Cult of the Curious.

Learn a more important history this week. I'm Dan Cummins, the master's sucker, the suck daddy, guy who maybe talked too much last week about a variety of nations using their uncle Dix to wear out Hitler's pussy. And you are listening to Time Suck. And there will be no aggressive a tie prider. Sounds this week. Yeah, we heard from many of you that the tie priders was way too loud. The culprit. And it was. And that was just a communication error here behind the scenes. You know, we're always tweaking to try and make things a little better, you know, but not mess up the recipe and end up with something you don't like.

And, you know, sometimes we go too far in one direction. So yeah, we realized also that was, that was too loud. So apologies. And today, almost no sound bits. Not because of that, just didn't work out into what I wanted to do with this story, but yeah, we were talking about the process is still and stuff like that shouldn't happen too often. If you wanna see me live, come to Louisville this weekend.

I'll be bringing my tie-priter. I'm gonna work it into my show. I would have, I'm gonna have an old tie-priter. I'm gonna have a guy behind me. He's gonna type at 30 decibels. And I'm gonna speak at five, and we're gonna see an old typewriter. I'm gonna have a guy behind me. And he's gonna type at 30 decibels. And I'm gonna speak at five. And we're gonna see how it shows us. No, I'm gonna be in Louisville.

This weekend shows Friday and Saturday, November 25th, 26th at the Louisville comedy club. Also being Portland organ, helium, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and December 1st and 3rd. And finally Minneapolis to record a new album to December 19th and 10th at the Parkway Theater. Some tickets may show up last minute for those shows based on releasing some more tickets.

If the cameras don't take up as much room as we're thinking. If you're here, my voice still sounds different. Yeah, this cold man is brutal. Brutal cold, still sick from last week. All of us here in the office are sick. Really looking forward to recording the new standard material. I'll be better by that, I think.

And then I gotta figure out how to get my catalog. The back catalog of standard, back up on Pandora and Spotify. Gonna be working by that, I think. And then I got to figure out how to get my catalog, the back catalog of staying a backup on Pandora and Spotify. Gonna be working all spring, probably trying to negotiate that legal fucking nightmare. What a mess. Big publishing rights battle between streaming platforms and publishing companies and a lot of us comics like myself. Want nothing to do with this battle,

I'm caught in the crossfire. This being another military themed episode, good time to plug my friends at Black Rifle Coffee. They continue on with their mission of opening enough stores to employ at least 10,000 veterans. Fellow North Idaho and Evan Hayfer and the crew marching steadily towards that goal. And the coffee this veteran found in company makes is just the best. They just released 90 new products back in November 18th.

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who provides free sports equipment, game tickets, cash grants, skill development camps, and special experiences to military families across the US and Canada. The United Heroes League keeps military kids active and healthy through sports while their parents are out serving their countries. So to find out more, you can go to UnitedHeroesLeague, UnitedHeroesLeague.org,

and donated $1,692 to the upcoming scholarship fund. And now, onto the conclusion of our two part series on Hitler's pussy. No, more than that on World War II. In this episode, we'll move on to the Pacific theater of the war that will happen simultaneously with the war in Europe, the war in the Pacific would be much different, different styles of fighting,

different kind of enemy, different picture of the war as a whole. There's a lot to go through here since we have in coverage of Pans rise in other episodes like we have with Hitler's with the limited time We'll be devoting to this. We'll first take a look at how the Pacific war was different than the European war before moving on to a brief history of Japan's road to be coming in Imperial Empire Then we'll back up a little bit move over to the timeline look at how the US's relationship with Japan changed over almost a century until both nations were in and all that war how it Sourid resentments built up. So here we fucking go. So diving back in, from a point of view, we haven't really covered yet on this war. We spent a lot of time in the suck first, talking about Hitler and the war in Europe.

Maybe not about Allied Uncle Dix, we're not Hitler's posting to last week, but a lot of time talking about adjacent things to the one war two, parts of one war two in Europe. But we never really covered the rise of Imperial Japan before, not here. And why the US found themselves fighting the war in two massively different arenas facing off against two massively different enemies. How different were they? General Joseph Layton Collins, aka Lightening Joe, was one of the few generals to fight in both the Pacific and the European theaters in World War II. And he would say this about the differences in fighting the Germans versus fighting the Japanese.

They were radically different. The German was far more skilled in the Japanese, most of the Japanese that we fought were not skilled men, not skilled leaders. The Germans had a professional army. The Japanese army was very much like ours in a sense, that a small core of officers who were professionals, but the bulk of their people were not professionals in the sense of knowing their business and so on.

They didn't have the equipment that we had. They didn't know how to handle combined arms, the artillery and the support of the infantry to the same extent we did. They were gallon soldiers though. They fought to the end and you had to knock them off that. That was all there was to it. And we had to do that right on Guadalcanal. The Japanese were very gallant men.

They fought very, very hard, but they were not nearly as skillful as the Germans, but the Germans didn't have the tenacity of the Japanese. Despite the enemy not being as skilled in combat, the German had dedicated efforts towards building their war machine like no one else had prior to World War II. Many historians think that the Pacific War conducted a remote islands against an enemy, especially dedicated to fighting to the death, was probably the tougher fight. It was common for the Japanese to truly fight to the death. I mean, death before dishonor, right? Think about all the kamikaze fighters who java was to fly one and only one mission to crash their plane into an enemy target to gladly sacrifice themselves to kill the enemy.

Not every enemy is that dedicated to the cause. This is part of the reason that some have argued that the Pacific War was the more brutal theater of World War II. The casualties sustained in the Pacific War, number between 30 and 36 million, about 50% of the war is probably, you know, overall total casualties. I mean, the numbers again, very from source to source, which actually says less about the record keeping abilities if everyone involved was World War II. And I think more about how there was just so much fucking death occurring in such a short time frame that it was hard to keep track of it all.

The fighting the Pacific theater was wrought with the same hatred, nationalism, racism, war criminality that raged across Europe. Sometimes on the part of both the Japanese and the US, and then, you know, other allies fighting with the US was primarily the US, but also, you know, Australia and Britain, others. The brutality of the Pacific war was also equally astonishing. Beginning with the rape of Nanking, what some considered to be the true beginning of World War II back in 1937, The tone for the conflict was set, carnage brutality, nasty surprises, started around December 13th, 1937 and continuing for more than six weeks. Nan King suffered as few other cities in history have suffered since the Mongols brutalized various kingdoms in their bloody march west. Conquering Japanese, looked at the population of Nan King and up to 90,000 POWs that captured

as an opportunity to train their soldiers in brutality. They marched Chinese soldiers into designated killing fields. Their Japanese officers and listed men shot, stabbed, beheaded the Chinese in an attempt to condition their men out of having any fucking empathy, any pity towards fallen enemies. With their supply of when the supply of POWs ran thin, the Japanese turned onto the city's 600,000 civilians, whom the retreating Chinese nationalists had prevented from fleeing. In the orgy of literal rape and murder that followed carnage,

saw babies run through with bayonets and pregnant women sliced open with swords, as many as 300,000 people may have died. And they died fucking brutally, literally rape to death in some cases, raped or forced to watch loved ones be raped, children killed in front of parents, civilians intentionally buried alive while crowds of soldiers watched and laughed, wanton torture.

The most depravity you can literally imagine, true hell on earth. Photos available online capture some of the surreal horror, smiling Japanese soldiers, holding up severed Chinese heads, grinning Japanese soldiers preparing to beed Chinese heads, grinning Japanese soldiers preparing to be head Chinese children or forcing themselves on Chinese women bound to polls or immobilize in other ways.

Dead babies thrown across city steps, nude women's bodies, women bayonetted after being gang raped and sexually brutalized with various foreign objects. I mean, it's unfuckin real, the levels of depravity. Check out with John Ray, but German businessman and Nan King who helped establish a safety zone that helps spare 250,000 civilian lives there, wrote. Two Japanese soldiers have climbed over the Garden Wall and are about to break into our house. When I appear, they give the excuse that they saw two Chinese soldiers climb over the wall. When I show them my party badge, they return the same way.

In one of the houses, in the narrow street behind my garden wall, a woman was raped and then wounded in the neck with the bayonet. I managed to get an ambulance so we can take her to Kulo hospital. Last night up to a thousand women and girls are said to have been raped, about a hundred girls at Gingling College alone. You hear nothing but rape. If husbands or brothers intervene, they're shot. What you hear and see on all sides is the brutality and bestiality of the Japanese soldiers.

And John Rape was a member of the Nazi party. That's the fucking party bad you talking about. He actually wrote to Hitler. After seeing all this, asking him to try and persuade the Japanese to be less fucking brutal. That's a lot. Dude, asking Hitler to tell the Japanese to cool it down. Fucking easy on the rape. Robert Wilson, an American surgeon president of the massacre, Dude, asking Hitler to tell the Japanese to cool it down. Back in easy on the rape.

Robert Wilson, an American surgeon president at the massacre, wrote the following letter to his family back home. The slaughter of civilians is appalling. I could go on for pages telling of cases of rape and brutality almost beyond belief. Two bayoneted corpses are the only survivors of seven street cleaners who were sitting in their headquarters when Japanese soldiers came in without warning or reason and killed five of their number and wounded the two that found their way to the hospital. Let me recount some instances occurring in the last two days.

Last night the house of one of the Chinese staff members of the university was broken into and two of the women, his relatives, were raped. Two girls, about 16, were raped to death in one of the refugee camps. In the university middle school, where there are 8,000 people, the Japanese came in 10 times last night over the wall, stole food, clothing, and raped until they were satisfied. They bayoneted one little boy of eight who had five bayonet wounds, including one that penetrated his stomach, a portion of his ommentum outside the abdomen. I think he will live.

Russian serial killer Andrei Cicatilla, wrote the following to his family back home. I have in best time in that king heaven on earth. It's so many ladies to wrestle. Everyone rastole here. It's one big fun rastole melia. I never come home. And of course he wasn't there, but that's six out of the bitch would have fucking loved it. It was just an orgy of just depravity. The Japanese hadn't suddenly turned brutal either once they made it to Nanking. They were brutal whenever they encountered the Chinese or really any enemies. They were just fucking brutal period. In 1937, two Japanese newspapers covered a contest

between two Japanese officers, Toshiyaki Mukai and Suyoshi Nohda of the Japanese 16th Division. These men were described as vying to be the first to kill 100 people with only a sword before the capture of Nanking. On the way to Nanking, um, who killed 89 people, right? With a sword, uh, while not a killed 78, the contest continued because neither killed 100, both officers supposedly surpassed their goal during the heat of the battle, making it impossible to determine which officer had actually won the contest. And these are fucking newspapers, like covering this, like it's a sporting event. Therefore, courted journalists, they decided to begin another contest to kill 150 people. So clearly, the public not outraged by this. They're reading this newspaper, like, yeah, yay, big numbers.

Overall, beginning in 1937 through the end of World War II, China would suffer up to 20 million civilian deaths. 20 fucking million. Meanwhile, Japan's biological and chemical warfare research, you know, and unit, unit 731 was committing its own medical experimentation horrors. We covered them in their own suck. Founded in 1931 as a normal army medical unit, by 1935, the team with stockpiling supplies, sububonic plague, anthra anthrax cholera and forms that were distressingly easy to deploy against civilians just a single attack in Manchuria the Japanese dropped aerial bombs filled with sawdust and plague infected fleas over population centers this is partly a tear bombing against the territory the Japanese already controlled to

further beat the population into submission and partly just you know just kind of fucking around just seeing how well the weapon worked. Might as well test on some real people. When the bomb case, in split open in the air, the fleas fell unharmed to the ground, began biting people, infecting their blood with a strain of plague that had been bred for greater violence by being passed through multiple generations of Chinese and Korean prisoners. They'd used other human guinea pigs to make this thing stronger. Pouring over population figures before and after the war,

the Chinese government now estimates this one attack may have killed around 600,000 people. Jesus. Unit 731's other activities may have killed another half a million or so innocent people before the end of the war. Just like the Nazis were covered last week, these motherfuckers waged war with seemingly zero thought towards any sort of morality. It was when at any costs, do whatever you wish to enemy civilians. these motherfuckers waged war with seemingly zero thought towards any sort of morality.

It was when at any costs, do whatever you wish to enemy civilians. If raping the locals boosts soldiers morale, well, let the raping begin. If killing hundreds of thousands of enemy civilians helps you develop a biological weapon that can help you gain further imperial colonial conquest going forward, we'll drop that fucking plague. Cause fuck them all. The astonishing brutality of the Japanese war machine, just like the equally devastating brutality the Nazis would not draw the Americans into military action.

Only a direct attack would do that. And then occurred on December 7, 1941, the day the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. This attack was so unexpected. One soldier as the bombs began to drop on Pearl Harbor, remarked to a friend, this is the best goddamn drill the Air Force has ever put on. The army Air Force. But of course, it was the drill. With in minutes, in 800 pound bombs smashed through the USS Arizona and sent it underwater with more than a thousand men trapped inside. Then another set of bombs took down the USS Oklahoma with 400 sailors aboard. The entire

attack was over in less than two hours. And by the time it was done, every single battleship in the Pearl Harbor, if not sunk outright had sustained serious damage. The attack killed 2004 and three US personnel, including 68 civilians. Meanwhile, Japan was busy attacking other bases too. American bases in Guam, Wake Island and the Philippines. Japanese also attacked the British colonies of colonies of Malaya, Singapore and Hong Kong. They invaded Thailand too and their relentless quest for Asian supremacy. Things got nasty

on both the part of Japan and the US as the Pacific war heated up. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, racial hatred for the Japanese, even if they were American citizens, burgeoned across the country. Time magazine reported, and I quote, why the yellow bastards and lyrics, we're gonna find a fellow who was yellow and beat him red, white, and blue. We're commonly crooned around the country. My God, mindless Japanese American hate

spread across the nation. Reminds me of my sister who's a teacher in Boise, he's telling me about white Idaho kids, taunting Hispanic kids just a couple years ago on the playground with chance of build that wall telling them to go back to their country. It's so easy to be better than that. And I say that as a former ignorant racist

homophobic white Idaho kid. I changed. Gotta push yourself out of the wrong echo chambers. Listing the shit like this, maybe you could started. They can every one of a certain skin color or culture thinks the exact same way. That is the height of lazy thinking. We do it so much. We humans. Within two months, Japanese Americans were rounded up, forced into internment camps within weeks, some 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were locked up purely for their heritage. Many suffered these camps. some even died in American soldiers' hands, American soldiers

who would then be let off the hook by a government war. American soldiers will also suffer. And as a hundreds of thousands of American men who had just enlisted were about to learn fighting in the Pacific was going to be more brutal than what most of them would see in Europe. Because the Japanese didn't fight by the same rules even as the Nazis. Yes, the Nazis committed war crimes for sure. Obviously they killed POWs,

but they also didn't kill a lot of POWs, right? The Japanese didn't kill all of them either, but they were more inclined to mistreat them. They had, the Germans had signed the Geneva, I'm sorry, the Japanese had signed the Geneva Convention in 1929 but failed to ratify. And as such, had no incentive to treat a prisoner of war as the agreement stipulated. Their culture at the time was ruled by a state-controlled version of shinto.

They believed that a soldier should die honorably and surrendering was a complete disgrace. A disgrace that meant that their prisoners could be dealt with anyway they wanted. By virtue of surrendering, I mean these guys were dishonorable men. That's how they saw them. Pussies, cowards who forfeited any right to be treated with any sort of dignity, right? Fuck them. The Japanese told their prisoners of war outright.

They saw no value in their lives. Captain Yoshio, Sunioksi, Sunioksi, told a group of recently captured American captives. We do not consider you to be prisoners of war. You are members of an inferior race and we will treat you as we see fit. Whether you live or die is of no concern to us. Imagine me some scared 19 year old kid just captured here in that shit. He was echoing in order that it comes straight from Tokyo, the war ministry of Japan had explicitly told its men, it is the aim not to allow the escape of a single one to annihilate

them all and to not leave any traces. One group of soldiers who crash landed onto Q shoe island in 1945 were carried off by a group of Japanese soldiers who told them they would treat their injuries instead they brought them to a facility for medical experimentation. One had seawater injected into his bloodstream to see how it would affect him. You know, just curious, just ticking around. Hey, does that hurt like fuck? Oh, cool. We thought it would.

We just wanted to be sure. Another had his lungs surgically removed so that the doctors could watch how that would affect his respiratory system. Hey, is it harder to breathe with one less lung? Okay, cool. Yeah, no, we thought it would be. We just wanted to be sure. Thanks, buddy.

Another died when a doctor drilled into his brain to see if it would cure his epilepsy, or maybe there was no hope of a cure going into that one. And I witnessed to these deaths, Japanese doctor Toshio Tono said the experiments had absolutely no medical merit. They were being used to inflict as cruel a death as possible on the prisoners. Instead, many more were simply subjected

to the cruelest deaths possible without any attempt to disguise torture as science. Right? Or start not, not instead, indeed. Some prisoners reported being tied to a stake under a blazing summer sun with a glass of water just left right out of the reach. Japanese guards watching laugh as they struggled to get it. Right? This torture was entertainment. And these guys went back home after the war and had families and worked at companies, or businesses. Uh, fun. Other prisoners were forced fed water than tied to the ground while guards literally jumped on their stomachs to see how long they'd take them to piss themselves.

Again, just for funsies. Still more reported that the guards would start each day by naming 10 men who would be forced to go out and dig their own graves. Lots of fun. In the Pacific War, it was not uncommon for allied soldiers to stumble upon scenes straight out of a fucking horror film. We talked a bit about that a few weeks ago

in our Cannibal Cop episode. How numerous Japanese soldiers literally feasted upon their enemies. Australian corporal Bill Hedges described finding a group of Japanese soldiers in New Guinea, cannibalizing the flesh of his brothers and arms. Said the Japanese had cannibalized our wounded and dead soldiers. We found them with meat stripped off their legs and half cooked meat in the Japanese dishes.

I was hardly disgusted and disappointed to see my good friend lying there with the flesh stripped off his arms and legs as uniform torn off of him. Before I continue, something very funny to me about his word choice here of disappointed If you disappoint I mean obviously this isn't almost unimaginably horrific act to see I'm so traumatic. I'm sure the witness in this you know fucked a corpabila head is up I guess he felt more than disappointed like he was a like a bummed out dad like he was the father of these Japanese soldiers He just caught him sneaking back into the house after going to a party or something just guys. Oh No, what have you done? You just ate my good friend?

You fucking ate him! This is uh... This is really disappointing. I just... I expected so much more out of you. I'm not mad. I'm not mad. I'm just disappointed.

Go to your rooms and think about what you've done. I had to spoke of how this wasn't the desperate act of starving men. The Japanese soldiers had to say I had plenty of rice and cans of food to eat. They just they want to do this. It was an act of hatred in his eyes. Wasn't even an isolated event nor was this the act of a lone crazed crew Japanese soldiers have been uncovered explicitly giving their men permission to eat their dead. crew, Japanese soldiers have been uncovered explicitly giving their men permission to eat the dead. One note signed by Major General Toshibana, read, order regarding eating the flesh of American flyers.

One, the battalion wants to eat the flesh of the American aviator Lieutenant Hall. Two, first Lieutenant Ken Murr will see to the rationing of this flesh. Three, cadets Sakabi will attend the execution and have the liver and gallbladder removed. Anyone else think it's weird that they fucking named Lieutenant Hall specifically? It makes me think they had a variety of guys and just wanted to eat him the most. Why? Did he give him a bunch of shit? Was he just a delicious looking dude? Another Japanese officer, Colonel Masanabou, Suji even berated his men if they failed to join him in eating the flesh of the dead. Suji said, the more we eat, the brighter we'll burn the fire of

our hatred for the enemy. Not the fuck. Nazis get all the evil villain hype, but these imperial of Japanese soldiers equally monstrous, scarier in some ways. However, to be fair, some American soldiers fighting the Japanese were also brutal, right? You won US Marine colonel ordered his men to take no prisoners. You will kill every yellow son of a bitch and that's that. That's, you know, maybe not the best thing. According to the, across, excuse me, across the Pacific war, American soldiers would skin the bodies of the dead Japanese, boil their bones clean and keep them as souvenirs. Fairly macabre. At least one soldier sent his lover a Japanese soldier's polished skull as a gift.

Well, another sent President Roosevelt himself, a letter opener made from a dead soldier's arm bone, and Roosevelt reportedly said, looking over the severed body part of this Japanese soldier, this is a sort of gift I like to get. Now, there's a lot of fucked up stuff going on. Practises like these are so common place that when famed pilot, Charles Lindbergh, who wasn't allowed to enlist but did fly bombing missions as a civilian, passed through customs and Hawaii on his way home from the Pacific, the customs agent asked if he was carrying any bones.

When Lindbergh expressed shock at that question, the agent explained that the smugged out of Japanese bones had become so common that that was now a routine question. Elsewhere in his wartime journals, Lindbergh noted that the Marines explained to him that it was common practice to remove ears, noses, and the like from Japanese corpses, and that killing Japanese stragglers for that purpose was quote, a sort of hobby. That's beyond fucked up. Somebody that should be a POW, just like, nah, I just want to kill him so I can get their notes.

Lindbergh would write in his journals. As far back as one can go in history, these atrocities have been going on, not only in Germany with this duck house and it's a book involves and it's Camp Doris, but in Russia and the Pacific and the writings and lynchings at home and the less publicized uprisings in Central and South America, the cruelties in China a few years ago in Spain, the pogroms of the past, the burning of the witches in New England, tearing people apart on the English racks, burnings at the stake for the benefit of Christ and God.

I looked down at the pit of ashes. This I realize is not a thing confined to any nation or to any people. What the German has done to the Jew in Europe, we are doing to the Japanese in the Pacific. Fucking meat sacks man. Awesome. Fucking quote there from Lindbergh too, man. Very insightful. Yes, this is not unique to the Japanese.

This is not unique to the Germans. This is what humans have done to each other throughout our history. We're so malleable, our overall morality, so adaptable to our surroundings and circumstances for better or for worse. We're capable of such nobility, of so much love and honor and sacrifice,

and unfortunately equally capable of acting in ways more savage than any other creature on earth, of treating fellow humans far worse than any predator would, any other predator besides us, defiling, torturing, sexual status of the most demented and ruthless kinds, and then able to head home from war, wherever this occurred and reacclimate to whatever the civil norms happen to be, our adaptability both inspiring and absolutely fucking terrifying. The capability to behave in an evil manner is not some potential side effect to be a Nazi

or a soldier of Imperial Japan's army. It's a potential side effect of just being human. I always gotta keep an eye on that. Fighting in the Pacific was brutal for the Americans and any allies fighting with them. As a soldier, you were faced in an enemy who would gladly kill himself and meant taking you out with him. Not even the Nazis had those kamikaze pilots. You're captured by the Japanese. You faced any number of horrific tortures for locals.

There was a real good chance that we're going to rape the women for men. Now they might literally fucking eat you after torturing killing you. Location of the battles offered its own unique challenges as well. While soldiers in Europe had to deal with harsh winners and the threat of frostbite and have actually freezing to death in some cases, soldiers in the Pacific were on wet hot islands riddled with tropical diseases and dangerous animals, where they could die just as easily from nature as from an enemy. Almost 800 Japanese died in 1945 while retreating from a ramry island just along the coast of Burma rather than surrendering to the British

It fucked up chose the wrong way to exit. They fled into the swamp and many of them were literally eaten alive by crocodiles Soon after entering a slimy mud hole Japanese soldiers began to succumb to disease dehydration and starvation mosquitoes spiders venomous snakes and scorpions hidden the thick forest picked off some of the troops one by one Imagine this shit fleeing soldiers trying to kill you and you're in it But a fucking swamp full of dirty ass water riddled with bacteria and venomous snakes and scorpions Actually venomous enough to kill you you getting bit and stung and sick You're out of rations. You're starving. You keep waiting further and further into the dark swamp day after day and then crocodiles Start eating you

All right, just picking off the soldiers around you just pray that you're not the next one. Crocodiles appeared when the Japanese got deeper into the swamp, saltwater crocodiles, nocturnal hunters who excel at taking prey in the dark. The most prominent first hand retelling of what happened comes from naturalist Bruce Stanley Wright who participated in the Battle of Ramory Islands and gave this written account. The 9th of February, 19th, 1945 was the most horrible that any member of the ML Motor Launch crews have ever experienced. The crocodiles alerted by the din of warfare and smell of blood gathered among the mangroves, lying with their eyes above the water, watchfully alert for their next meal.

With the ebba the tide, the crocodiles moved in on the dead, wounded and uninjured men who had become mired of the tide the crocodiles moved in on the dead wounded and un-injured men who'd become mired of the mud The scattered rifle shots and the pitch black swamp punctured by the screams of the wounded men crushed in the jaws of huge reptiles And then blurred worrying sound of spinning crocodiles made a cacophony of hell that has rarely been duplicated on earth Had done the vultures arrived to clean up what the crocodiles had left Hocking incredibly brutal. And all these examples of the Pacific Wars brutality have nothing on the war's end to dropping out of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which we covered more in our,

you know, more thoroughly in our suck on the Manhattan Project. So how do we get here? How the fuck did the fighting get so savage? And how did the relationship between Japan and the US become so fucked up? Delete all this. We're going to go over that today. Charity the beginning of Japan's relationship to the US in the 19th century And it's increasing prominence as a world superpower before it turned to imperialism, nationalism and Expansion at all costs. I'll also cover the rise of anti-Japanese and anti-agent sentiments in the US

That would eventually lead to the creation of internment camps for Japanese Americans many of whom had been born in the US and had no allegiance to Japan. First I'll present a brief overview of the road to war. Understanding how a one small isolated Japan will become such a formidable enemy on the international scale before diving into today's time suck timeline. So unless you happen to be a World War II scholar, it's likely that the dimension of Japan conjures up a couple of things for you, right? Maybe anime. Maybe so much super fucking cool electronic tech.

Love my Sony flat screen TV, right? PS5, we should have more time to spend with both. Maybe you think of the futuristic city of Tokyo or the badass history, right? Of the samurai's. All these things. So much more like Japan's delicious cuisine. Hello? Sushi.

Fuck yeah, bro. I've given Japan a preeminent cultural position globally. I don't know anyone who doesn't know and loves something Japanese, right? Social cash A wise. Japan has been coolest fuck for a long time now. I had a foreign exchange student roommate from Japan. My freshman year in college and Sugi and his friends seemed just the coolest to me. It was like they were from the future. And not gonna lie. The Japanese girls that they hung out with. Holy shit, where they hot. Hello, Sufina. I probably would have moved to Japan with them. Had they wanted me to, which they did not. But a century and a half ago, Japan was not seen as cool by much of the world. It was a very different place. In the mid 19th century, Japan was a militarily weak country, primarily

agricultural, at very little technological development. Instead of a centralized government, it was controlled by hundreds of semi-independent feudal lords. The Western powers Europe and the United States would soon capitalize on Japan's relative weakness to force Japan to sign trees that limited its control over its own foreign trade. The US and Japan signed their first true commercial treaty, sometimes called the Harris Treaty in 1858. It provided for the opening of five ports to US trade, in addition to those opened in through a commercial treaty, sometimes, or sometimes called the Harris Treaty in 1858.

It provided for the opening of five ports to US trade. In addition to those opened in 1854 as a result of the treaty of Kanagawa, also exempted US citizens living in the ports from jurisdiction of Japanese law, guaranteed their religious freedom and arranged for diplomatic representation and a terrif agreement between the US and Japan. And this all began with a threat of force.

In 1853, US President, Millard Fillmore sent a fleet of warships to Japan to force the Japanese to open up trade to America. And did you forget that some other fucker named Millard was once our president? Me too. He didn't win an election. He took over when Zachary Taylor died in office of some kind of stomach ailment. Millard was succeeded by Franklin Pierce. And I honestly forgot that all three of those dudes

and once been present. For me in the 19th century, there was Abraham Lincoln, he listed Scrant, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and fucking some other dudes. And I don't even remember John Quincy Adams because he almost signed off on an expedition to look for mole people hiding in the center of the earth.

Anyway, Japanese and US relations. After centuries of Japanese isolationism, we're kicked off by the US essentially putting a fucking gun to the head of the Japanese leadership and telling them they can trade with us the way we wanted to or they can get their brains blown out. And that is a great way to build later resentment. Great way to later want to enact some revenge.

The European powers soon followed the US's example, drew up their own trees with Japan, all very favorable treaties towards everyone, but Japan keeps stoking those fucked the West fires. Although Japan opened its ports to modern trade very reluctantly, once it did, it took advantage of the new access to modern technological developments. Japan's opening to the West enabled it to begin

to modernize its military and to rise quickly to the position of the most formidable Asian power in the Pacific. Japanese national pride might be historically unmatched. That helped to proud fierce people, right? Way the samurai and all that. And now they're interacting with the world around them for the first time after centuries of self-imposed isolationism. Japan's culture became somewhat westernized with men and women embracing new kinds of fashion,

entertainment and goods. Same time the process by which you do US and the Western powers forced Japan into modern commercial intercourse, along with other internal factors weakening the weakened the position of the ruling Tokugawa Shogunet. A group of Japanese nationalists protested the insults against their national sovereignty and led the forces which overthrew the Tokugawa regime, reinstalling the Meiji emperor in 1868. After 1868, the new leaders of the Meiji Japan worked hard to improve their country's status in the world and to abolish the unequal treaties and racial discrimination imposed upon them

by European and US powers. Watched nervously as much of Southeast Asia fell under French colonial rule. They watched Russia move rapidly in demand, Syria and Northeast China. The US pushed Westward from California to Hawaii. Britain fought two wars to advance its interests in China. Japan wondered what strategies could it use to preserve its own independence? What models of international behavior should it follow? Based with the very real possibility of a takeover by Russian or Western forces, Japan moved quickly to create its own colonial state. By first extending control over nearby islands, which did not identify as Japanese.

In 1869, Ezo, the lands to the north of the Japanese island of Honshu, was incorporated into the new state of Hokkaido, the North Sea's district. I didn't realize that prior to 1869, what is now Japan's second largest island was not Japanese. Although there were Japanese settlers who ruled the southern tip of the island since 16th century, Hokkaido was considered foreign territory. That was inhabited by the indigenous people of the island known as the Ainu people. These people, since 1869, have almost completely been assimilated into Japanese culture. Fewer than a hundred are estimated to still be native speakers of the Ainu language today. Less than 300 thought to be racially pure Ainu. Much like

how the US government forced the destruction and assimilation of various native tribes, the Japanese conquered to the same exact thing to the Ainu people. By 1895, the Japanese army and navy had purchased high quality European style weapons and reorganized their military according to European structures. Meanwhile, the Qing Dynasty government in China and the Joseon government quality European style weapons and reorganize their military according to European structures. Meanwhile, the Qing Dynasty government in China and the Jossang government, Korea, had not grown more sophisticated militarily. Comparatively, they were weak and Japan exploited their weakness, claiming to be 80 new pro-Japanese

group in Korea's Jossang court. Japan sent troops to attack both Korea's national army and the Chinese Qing troops that came to their aid. Japan's victory over both Korea and the Chinese forces was rapid and total. On both land and sea, demonstrating the effectiveness of Euro-American military technology in Japanese hands. Through a peace treaty, Japan took the island of Taiwan and the Laodong Peninsula as colonies, as well as a huge sum of money.

Japan also ended Qing power in Korea. And Japan's victory would threaten another rapidly expanding empire, Zara's Russia, with help from Germany and France, Russia pressured Japan to return at Laodong to China and exchange for cash. And when Japan took them up on this offer, much of the Japanese public delighted by Japan's easy victory,

now rioted against the government for caving into foreign demands. Japan's nationalistic pride was growing stronger, a cultural feeling of racial superiority was increasing. And the Japanese public was not interested in bending the knee in any way to any foreigner, all of whom were seen as racially inferior. Just like many Germans under Hitler, believe themselves, you're part of the master race, imperial Japan believed the Japanese to be racially superior to all others.

And they came to believe it was their destiny to rule all of Asia and the South Pacific. And Japanese government documents from the 1940s recovered after the war. Imperial Japan believed that just as a family has harmony and reciprocity, but with a clear cut hierarchy, the Japanese as a purportedly racially superior people were destined to rule rule Asia eternally and become the supreme dominant leader of all humanity and ruler of the world. Yikes. Where are number one? Where are number one?

Right? International. The classic battle cry of the deluded nationalist. Japan similar to the Nazis in so many ways. A decade after Japan returned Laodong to China, they enacted revenge against Russia. After careful planning and alliance with England in 1902 and a very costly military buildup, Japan went to war with Russia in 1904, effectively eliminating the Russian fleet in southern Laodong in the initial battle.

We've mentioned the Russo Japanese war of 1904 and 1905 in a few Russia-related sucks. This war accelerated the fall of the Russian monarchy and helped lead to the Bolshevik revolution, the Usherian communism. Although Japan won the war with Russia, they were not given cash payments from their enemy as they'd expected in the ensuing peace treaty. A treaty negotiated by Theodore Roosevelt, right, the American president. Again, the Japanese public felt that Japan did not receive his due and rioting broke out in major cities. More anti-American sentiment is now built up. America's strong armed Japan had to open up their land to Westerners and now America helped negotiate a bullshit treaty with Russia.

A lot of Japanese citizens feeling a whole lot of fuck Uncle Sam. Japan's militarism really ramps up now. They're done negotiating with the West. The annex North or annex not North, just Korea in 1910 attempting the same kind of cultural erration with the Koreans that they pulled off with the I knew people. Schools and universities forbade speaking Korean now emphasized manual labor and loyalty to the emperor. Ethnic Koreans became a servant class of sorts to the Japanese and Koreans were exploited

as second class citizens. Speaking Japanese became expected in public places and an edict to make films in Japanese soon followed. It became a crime to teach history from non-approved texts. Korean history archives were literally burned to senders, right? Book burning has anything literally ever good come from burning books. I'm going to say no. I'm going to say if you're in favor of burning books, you're probably an ignorant and

or hateful cunt. More importantly, this big territorial acquisition also gave the Japanese some word to settle. Shades of Hitler's leaving from here. The earlier 100,000 Japanese families settling in Korea with land they'd been given, they chopped down trees by the millions, planted non-native species,

transforming a familiar landscape into something many Koreans didn't recognize. Right, and then land those Japanese families were given. Sometimes you know straight up taken from Koreans, the early 725,000 Korean workers forced to work in Japan and his other colonies. No doubt many of them working to produce the materials that would allow Japan's next conquest and the deaths of the, and then the death of the Meiji Emperor in 1912 would

shake things up in Japan. Now, he didn't have much real political power. He represented Japan's new international success. He was a beloved leadership symbol. Citizens lined up outside the Imperial Palace in Tokyo to pay their respects. General Nagi, a hero of the war against Russia committed suicide with his wife, following their lord and death as an act, uh, enact widely admired by the public, not seen as a tragedy. General's wife killed themselves widely admired by the

public. They're that dedicated to the emperor. How alarming. Not even the Nazis were quite that national nationalistic. Many Japanese were all in on Japanese nationalism, willing to die for the cause, happy to die for the cause. Then just a few years later, World War One would give Japan a new opportunity to gain wealth, producing weapons for the conflict in Europe and light industrial products as well as shipping. The same time, China's Qing empire collapsed, and Japan used the ensuing power vacuum to demand that China turn over much of its economic and political power to Japan. And then Japan's aggression would pave the way for many Chinese to join nationalist movements of their own. There's a time of upheaval, even within Japan. In Japan, many sectors of society,

workers, farmers, intellectuals, suffragists, others, disagreed with the government's call for obedience and national unity. Some people favored communism over nationalism. Young people in the cities called modern boys, modern girls, and watched American movies, wore the latest largely western fashions, bought products, advertised, and fashionable magazines. Elsewhere inspired by the success of the Russian Revolution, radical Japanese intellectuals and workers tried to form unions

to, for factory employees, to obtain better wages or working conditions, influence the government. Some of them became authors, leaders of social groups, even politicians, despite great traditional social pressure to conform to the ideal traditional role of good wife and wise mother. At universities, intellectuals and professors taught a wide range of topics, including Marxism, Darwin's theory of evolution, Woodrow Wilson's internationalism, and even Freudian psychology.

Japanese society became more fragment of the never, which scared many traditional nationalists who started to fret that Japan was on the road to disunity. These thinkers argued that Japan needed to return to traditional values, reject European and American influences. They stressed unity, cultural and political, and the willingness to sacrifice for their countries in the face of their enemies, written the US, and the newly formed Soviet Union, fuck Russia, fuck the West. To these conservative thinkers, the military represented what their culture currently

did not, something organized, uniform, with a clear singular purpose and a hierarchy of leadership These strains of thinking became even more prominent after the 1929 stock market crash as well as a giant earthquake They destroyed much of Tokyo in 1923 During the following years of the great depression the Japanese lost 50% of their overseas sales domestic prices crashed Japanese income fell 30%. Desperate times follow, right? Desperate measures follow the desperate times in the tumultuousness that accompanied all

this. Many citizens turned to right wing organizations, both civilian and military to save them from hard times. The right wing ultra nationalist groups, the nation was turning to oppose international diplomacy, which they claimed kept Japan weak by limiting its military options. Instead they encouraged citizens to support to love the army and Navy abroad, which they claimed kept Japan weak by limiting its military options. Instead, they encouraged citizens to support to love the army and navy abroad, and they praised the virtues of self-sacrifice and nationalism. They also used Shinto, part of Japan's religious tradition, to idealize the Japanese spirit at samurai virtues, right?

Through local shrines and priests who preached Japan's superiority over other people and practice rituals of uniquely Japanese purity and love for nature. Many Japanese people became convinced of Japan's sacred task to drive your Americans out of all of Asia. And after that, maybe, you know, might as well just get rid of the Europeans stock around the world just fucking kill wide in general. They came to believe that making war was a central part of their spiritual mission, the beauty of nature, especially of cherry blossoms falling, constant reminders of the brevity of human life, of sacred mountains and of the sea, came to be equated with heroic death, living for dying for the national cause.

Young men, this big cultural movement, young men, both military officers and their colleagues in civilian organizations such as the Amher River Society, or Amher, excuse me, River Society, expressed their nationalist passions through assassinations of politicians, industrialists, intellectuals, there was a lot of assassinations. Others who did not conform to their rigid standards of pure Japanese behavior and beliefs. Prime Minister Hamaguchi died from the wound he received

in an assassination attempt, becoming infected in 1931. Then Prime Minister Unakai Suyoshi shot by 11 junior officers in 1932 fucking bad time to be a Prime Minister in Japan. Both assassinations perpetrated by ultra-nationalists impatient with their perceived corruption of political parties eager for Japan to be driven by the military. Following Prime Minister Unakai's assassination, the Japanese military we controlled the government and tell the close of World War II. Beaf enough to military here in the 1930s and 40s, put in so much money to ship aircrafts,

other weapons and tech. It required a lot of raw material as well as oil. And Japan was very dependent on US oil and American controlled oil fields in Mexico. Ironically, the Japanese military found itself dependent on its most likely enemy for a crucial material resource. The nearest developed oil field to Japan lay in the Dutch East Indies at the end of a long north south sea lane that the Japanese Navy felt now that it had to secure for themselves for its future domination ambitions.

Thus by the 1930s, Japan was now on a real quest to pass to dominate Asia and the Pacific and crush anyone who stood in their way. Manchery would be their first target, which they took by force from 1931 after using the bombing of a Japanese railroad as a pretext for invasion. The Manchurian incident, a false flag operation used to justify war. They actually bombed the railroad themselves. And poorly at that, the explosion was so weak it failed to destroy the track and actually a train passed over it, minutes later with no fucking problem.

With the Imperial Japanese Army accused Chinese dissidents of the act, right, and then responded with a full-on invasion that led to the occupation of Manchuria, in which Japan established its puppet state of Manchukuo six months later. The deception was quickly exposed by the Lytton or Lighten report of 1932, leading Japan to diplomatic isolation, and its March 1933 withdrawal from the League of Nations. But that a few short months Japanese army overran the region having encountered next to no resistance from the untrained Chinese army and went about consolidating its control

on the resource rich area from 1932 to 1936 domestic political conflict escalated in Japan as war and China required more and more troops and money to control the rising influence of Chinese nationalism. Unsurprisingly, they didn't love being ruled by a tyrannical foreign oppressors. Many Japanese citizens became more and more convinced that Japan truly was inherently superior

that the Japanese military could never be defeated. The Japanese culture and morality were uniquely pure and true. But as was also the case in Germany, not all Japanese people were ultra-nationalists or militarists, of course. Resistance came internally from civilian politicians fearful for their own power, intellectuals unwilling to accept the simple-minded ideals of national unity and military virtue from socialists, Christians, others committed to self-determination of their peoples, including Chinese and Koreans to the unity of the humankind.

In a February 1936 election, resistance became significant when one of the mainstream parties won a majority with slogans like, what shall it be? Parliamentary government or fascism? Even the small socialist party made modest gains at the polls during the 1930s in the face of this high tide of Ultronationalist propaganda but only a week after those elections on February 26th 1936 Some good old might made right The Army first division stationed in downtown Tokyo attacked the civilian government

Vote for parliamentary government all you want and lighten citizens We see your social consciousness and we raise you a lot of fucking guns and willingness to kill you. Our way is the best way. You disagree? Put a new fucking hole in your head. After killing a number of dissenting high officials, they held several blocks of the central city for three days. The military's high command finally called in reinforcements.

Many of them not surprising from the Navy forced the rebels to surrender as a civilian government attempted to recover from this blow. Their indecision and need to appeal to the military on some matters in order to not be attacked again, while trained to maintain their own autonomy and infighting with each other as politicians are want to do, reinforce the views that politics was only about self-interest, not of high-minded patriotism and loyalty to the Japanese spirit in many people's eyes. A significant power not only political, but over Japanese society and culture. The military now decides to attack China and become a true empire. Interestingly, if this is all confusing, it is a little confusing.

There's no Hitler equivalent with Imperial Japan. The leadership structure way more disorganized. Emperor Hirohedo was in charge in theory, but actually had no real power. I'm a spoke last week when I called him ruthless. I know now that that is not necessarily the case. I assumed he had more power than he did. He's actually a peace loving ruler manipulated into making various decisions by war loving military advisors. And he either went along with their decisions, you know,

decisions made by a rotating cast of military leaders internally or risked assassination or being disposed. Right. There was no one leader in imperial Japan that rallied the people towards ambitions of world dominance like Hitler. Rather, it was a series of politicians in general to collectively just kept pushing the nationalistic, you know, imperialistic ball further down the court towards war.

Many Japanese politicians, military leaders, members of the general public hoped that the war with China, known as the second Sino-Japanese War or war resistance, would establish a new order in East Asia, one based on Japanese superiority, and overall Asian opposition to European and American imperialism and colonialism. This theory was called Japanese Asianism, a version of Pan-Asianism. That worked a lot like Hitler's theories of Aryan unification to ban people together in support of Japan's fascist government. And now soon the US would find themselves to be a military target of Japanese asianism and be called to fight a formidable enemy, a newly fascist enemy, minus a true dictator,

who deeply hated Western culture and blamed Western powers for its instability, as well as use the justification of protecting Asia from Western powers for its own colonialism. It will be a war against a country that had grown to worship their military, not to worship a dictator like Hitler, but instead kind of scary or really worship the institution of the military, right? As an instrument of Japanese nationalism and superiority, to worship sacrifice, obedience, organization, and winning at all costs. This made them a harder enemy to defeat.

With the Nazis, at least you could kind of, you know, try and cut the head off the snake to kill the movement. There was not a real equivalent to that with Imperial Japan. The snake didn't have a real head, a symbolic head in Harry Heidel, but not a true one.

Okay, now let's back up a little bit to the end of the 19th century now. Look more in depth of Japan's progress towards fascism, its relationship with the US and the eventual outbreak of war in today's time, such timeline. But before I do, I want to add something interesting about World War II that doesn't get spoken about much. I could never figure out why Japan would align themselves with the Nazis and vice versa. The Nazis with their vision of racial superiority, obviously

look down on the Japanese, and the Japanese, with their own vision of racial superiority, superiority, and the state of Europeans and European colonialism, well, they looked down on the Germans. So why would these two join forces? Well, they didn't, not exactly. There are actually no recorded instances of Japanese and German troops fighting alongside one another. They both just used each other. Lately, kind of like how Russian and Germany worked together to carve up Poland early in World War II and then fought later, Japan wanted to dominate Asia. Germany wanted Europe and North Africa.

Had each of them gotten what they wanted, I do think eventually they would have collided with one another for control of the entire world. Japanese German ties were always limited by distance, distrust, and claims of racial superiority. The Japanese were uninformed about Nazi plans for attacking the Soviet Union, for example, and the Germans were not told of Japan's plans to attack Pearl Harbor and Hawaii. So they weren't really this coalition of forces truly fighting together in the way the allies did join together. Okay, a lot of info already laid out, a lot of context to help

understand Japan and its relationship with the rest of the world, leading up to World War Two and its ambitions. I know I didn't go that in-depth with any of the info, didn't name a lot of names, they're just not space for it in this two part, they'll bog it down, I want to overreach. This two part to be clear meant to be a summary of World War Two. Just get our heads around the little more than the basics. Plus some cool little deeper dives here and there to make you sound that much smarter to anyone you're talking about World War II with.

If you want to get real detailed, there are so many other options you can explore after this episode. There's a some podcast called the History of World War II podcast. No idea if it's good or not. Haven't listened to it. But it has almost 400 episodes and counting. All of them about where it hurts you. Right, I get it.

There's just so much, but that much depth. Not for me. I just want to learn the basics and do it in a fun way. Have some weird laughs here and there and keep entertaining. I hope you're enjoying the presentation so far and enjoying giving it hail, Nimrod. And now before this week's big timeline, let's hear a word from our sponsors.

Thanks for sticking around. Off to that Pacific War now. Shrap on those boots soldier, we're marching down a time suck timeline. Backing up to 1894 now, almost half a century before World War II would begin, but important understand Japan's imperial ambitions and how they would evolve into the formidable enemy they were during World War II. 1894 marks the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War, aka the first Sino-Japanese War, in which Japan asserts its first gains as an imperial power collecting colonies from China. This year will also be a landmark one for Japanese immigration to the US. Japanese immigrants began coming to the US Pacific coast

primarily California in the middle of the 19th century, but in 1894 treaty would finally grant, sorry, wrote it as 1984, but that was not a clear 1994 treaty, would finally grant Japanese people immigration rights, finding migratory labor jobs and often working farms, railroads and mines for low wages. The Japanese soon found themselves a major target of discriminatory campaigns in America. They were excluded, for example,

from joining the American Federation of Labor, largest union in the country, just not allowed to join. And the A.G. Attic Exclusion League was founded in 1905 with the express purpose of putting the stop to Japanese and Korean immigration. How fucked up is that? A league of people is publicly founded, gathered around the sole purpose of like, ah, get on the fuck out of here.

No more Asians in this country. There was no mainstream pushback against that league. This was following several decades of anti-Chinese sentiments, riots, even massacres of Chinese people have been in the current in the US for years. This was following several decades of anti-Chinese sentiments, riots, even massacres of Chinese people have been in the current in the US for years. Anti-Chinese legislation have been passed decades earlier. This is all happening not that long ago. 1905, the San Francisco Chronicle launched an 18-month anti-Japanese newspaper campaign that warned of an invasion of quote,

little brown men with headlines like the Japanese invasion, the problem of the hour. God damn, these little brown men are, they're ruining our city. I don't like them because they're different. Yeah, they speak a different language, they worship different gods, they don't even fucking eat with forks for Christ's sake. Get them out of here. Change is always terrified. So many of us be sex, which is which is really crazy if you think about it because change is constant The world is always changing Right, and it's always going to change. You can try and fight it You know, you get mad

Become the stereotypical angry old man or woman or you can just make your peace with navigating the continual currents of the big river life We're all swimming in it's never gonna fucking stop for you to know how much you wanted to, right? That's when people just get too conservative that way. And they're like, oh, we got to make things like this. Well, no. Yes, let's get recapture some things from the past that were better and working that going forward. But like, you don't get to go back in time ever.

And I know it's not always easy to navigate with change, not at all. I often have that feeling like, whoa, whoa, can we just stop for a second? Can I have a moment, right, to sit in this reality a little bit. I'm an nostalgic person. I love watching shit from the 80s. It was a great time for me, right? My god, man, life was so simple. It was fucking great. I like the space. I want to leave it. But times like so what time just keeps on March of forward Best of March with it now onto the Russo Japanese War I touched on earlier this conflict would begin in 1904 by the end of 1904 the Japanese Navy It sunk every ship in Russia's Pacific fleet and gained control of its garrison on a hill overlooking the harbor of Port Arthur at the tip of China's

Loudong Peninsula major trading port overlooking the harbor of Port Arthur at the tip of China's Liao Dong Peninsula, major trading port. In early January 1905, a Russian major general and a totally stessile commander of the Port Arthur Garrison decided to surrender, much as a surprise of both the Japanese and the Tsar and Moscow, believing that the harbor was no longer worth defending in the face of humiliating losses. With that, the Japanese had achieved a significant victory and dealt a blow to the Russian Tsar that would help lead to the Tsarist Russia's, you know, to the fall, to the end of it and paved the way for that Bolshevik revolution, the rise of the Soviet Union. Within two months of Russia's surrender, Japan had taken over Seoul and the rest of the

neighboring Korean peninsula. The fighting continued with the Treaty of Portsmouth, which was mediated by US President Teddy Roosevelt in Portsmouth, New Hampshire during the spring and summer 1905. Although Japan won the war decisively, victory had come in a severe cost. The country's coffers were virtually empty. Japan was broke. And because that Japan didn't have the negotiating power, many expected under the terms of the treaty, which was signed by both parties September 5th, 1905, Russia accepted that

port Arthur belonged to the Japanese while retaining the northern half of Sakeland Island, a massive island that sits roughly 30 miles north of Japan and now belongs to Russia. It's like Holland, I think. I messed that one up a little bit. The Russians had also agreed to leave Manchuria and recognized Japanese control of the Korean peninsula, but Roosevelt sided with Zarnickles and his refusal to pay indemnities to Japan. Sort of like the reverse. And what would happen in World War

1 with Germany in the treaty for side. And that in sense, the losing country, Germany was forced to pay reparations of France, which crumbled the German economy and paved the way for the rise of Hitler. In this instance, the treaties failure to acknowledge Japan's win made them even more nationalistic. Japanese accused the Americans of fucking them over, cheating them, and days of anti-American riots in Tokyo ensued. This also marks the first time in modern history that an Asian nation had defeated a European one and military combat gave Japan citizens a new rallying point. As expected, tensions between Japan and the US still, you know, high in 1906.

I don't like people in Japan. We're here and how Japanese people weren't being discriminated against and hated in the US. And then Teddy Roosevelt, you know, fuck some over this treaty. Relations made even worse when in October 11th, 1906, regulation passed by the San Francisco Board of Education called for all Japanese and Korean students, along with Chinese students, to be sent to segregated, quote, oriental schools. Despite the fact that the only 93 Japanese students 90 25 of whom were born in America lived in this district It's a very cringey

Japanese government rightfully outraged present Roosevelt also outraged, but the bill still passes Roosevelt said to shut Japanese students out from public schools is a wicked absurdity He told Congress that in December of 1906, and Congress like, now I don't care. 1907, the US and Japan reached what was called a gentleman's agreement. It's pretty fucked up. The gentleman's agreement of 1907 and 1908 was an informal arrangement between the US and Japan to ease growing tensions between the two countries, particularly pertaining to immigration.

The agreement stated that the US would neither impose nor enforce restrictions on Japanese immigration. If Japan would no longer allow further immigration to the US That is ridiculous. Hey Japan. We're not gonna ban any Japanese for entering the good old us of a That's not that's not the way we operate Give me your tire your poor your huddled masses You're need to breathe free the wretched refuse of your teaming shore send these the homeless Tempest toss to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door. Oh, fuck you have bro, but do some favor

Do not allow any Fucking more of you gross oriental fucks to ever come here again. Capice We won't turn in Japanese away. If long as you don't fucking send them here. Okay. And that has absurd. This agreement also called for Roosevelt to force San Francisco to repeal his Japanese American school segregation order in exchange Japan would deny immigration passports Japanese laborers while still allowing the wives, children, and parents of current immigrants to enter the US. Well, many male Japanese immigrants now engage in arranged marriages to so-called picture brides.

If a Japanese American man married a woman who was in Japan, he could bring his new wife into the country legally while becoming a picture bride, so-called because husbands just selected them from photos, provided some women with the opportunity to start new lives in America, also entailed risks since the women, you know didn't know these dudes More the condition of their future homes more than 10,000 Japanese women enter the US until 1924 And 15,000 plus immigrated to the territory of Hawaii At the time Japanese immigrants made up approximately one percent of the population in California What a weird thing to be a male order bride

To have no idea what kind of person your husband's gonna be or what he'll look like And if your husband is ordering you from a catalog I'm gonna say odds are he's not the cream of the crop like looks wise or social-scalwise Right like if he can't just get a local lady Probably not probably not the fucking top tier dude You're not you're not seen him for the first time and think oh shit What a looker! I hit the jackpot!

Now it's probably more like, oh no, no, no! Oh, whoa, I have to fuck that! Is that bridge troll even have a dick? So much of history makes me feel so lucky to have the life of you right now. The heels of this gentleman's agreement, which is not very gentlemanly. On November 3rd, 1908, the root

uh, ta-kira agreement was entered between the US and Japan stemming a potential war. With the defeat of Spain and the Spanish American War of 1898 and Spain seeded in the Philippines and wam over to the US, the US had now become a major power in East Asia. The American annexation of Hawaii also in 1898 and aggressive economic policies in China in the early 20th century were increasingly perceived as a threat by the Japanese government,

right? US trying to take should over in their area. The American government on the other hand increasingly concerned by Japanese territorial, territorial ambitions at the expense of China and with the modernizing and strengthening imperial Japanese navy and the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War. Negotiated by Secretary of State, Alihu Rout, and Japanese ambassador, Takahira Kagoro, and I don't know how the Secretary of State, Elihu, Rout, maybe. I've never seen that name before, E-L-I-H-U. This treaty was a pledge to maintain the existing status quo in the Pacific, along with China's independence. It was a, don't maintain the existing status quo in the Pacific along with China's independence It was a don't fuck with our shit in the Pacific and we won't fuck with your shit kind of deal Critics charge Roosevelt was sacrificing Chinese interests in Manchuria and Korea for the sake of improve relation with Japan

But the agreement was seen as a success that helped avoid a war with Japan by most people 1910 Korea is formally annexed by Japan We already covered this in our lead of how Japan became more and more imperialistic under the guise of liberating nations from European colonial rule or the possibility of European colonial rule. From the formal declaration on August 29, 1910 until 1945, the nation would be considered part of Japan and Japan would abuse the fuck out of Korea. Japan's empire grows stronger. Meanwhile, back in the US, although Japan and the San Francisco Board of Education

adhered to the gentleman's agreement, which was never ratified by Congress. It didn't end discrimination against Japanese immigrants. Attacks and protests against Japanese immigrants and businesses were frequent. They often led to assaults, murders on occasion, the perpetrators too often escaped any form of punishment. Further in flaming, US Japanese relations, California's web Haiti Act of 1913, also known as the Alien Land Act, banned quote,

all aliens ineligible for citizenship, land owning rights. Yet another way to remind the Japanese that they were not wanted. They were second class citizens. Then in 1914, Japan enters World War 1, though they would enter on the side of the Allies after requests for assistance from Great Britain on August 6, 1914, Japan's concerns during the war would mainly be using the war to exercise its growing influence in Asia and the Pacific. Britain requested help from Japan's Navy and hunting down armed German merchant ships in Japan agreed. Happy to protect the waters.

It saw as Japanese territory. As one Japanese statesman, you know, who, you know, I don't know how to say his first name. I'll be totally honest with you. Couldn't find it online. I know you eat. Fucking your guys is good as mine. Karu put it, the war was divine aid

for the development of the destiny of Japan. On August 14th, 1914, Japan delivers an ultimatum to Germany. Germany. We consider it highly important and necessary to the present situation to take measures to remove the causes of all disturbance of peace in the far east. That's how the ultimatum began. And to safeguard general interest as contemplated in the agreement of alliance between Japan and Great Britain, i.e. Germany leave now or will fucking kill you. When Germany did not respond Japan declared war on August 23rd It's Navy immediately began preparing an assault against singtow

With Britain contributing to battalions to Japan's force of 60,000 the Japanese approach the naval base across China breaching China's neutrality On November 7th, the German garrison in singtow surrendered and Japanese troops were home by the end of the year Japan's foreign minister, Kato Takai, excuse me, Kato Takai would skillfully use World War One to redefine his country's relationship with this most important rival China into assertive supremacy in the far east. Foresign and internally divided China to submit to the majority of the humiliating list of demands known as 21 demands in early 1915, Kato extended Japan's control over the Shantong Peninsula and indirectly over the rest of China. These demands include a shit like China

not leasing any land on the coast, any other power on any pretext whatsoever. The Chinese government also had a degree to Japan's building a railway connecting Chi Fu or Lung Cao with an existing railway that opened Chinese cities to foreigners, aka Japanese businessmen, and so on. Japanese economy now begins to boom during wartime, large at the strength of the exploitation of new and improved access to Chinese raw materials and exploited labor. Then as part of the post-war settlement at Versailles, Japan was given control of some Pacific islands, formerly under German rule, such as the Marshall Islands, Micronesia,

and the Northern marine islands. Japan was allowed to maintain its hold on Shantong until Chinese sovereignty was restored in 1922. During the next few decades, ambitious Japanese militarist leaders would assert their hold ever more strongly on the Japanese government and his powerful economy, clashing brutally with China and other rivals in the Far East while ready themselves for another great struggle. Many of them had long anticipated between Japan and the US in 1919. Japan fails to get a racial equality clause inserted into the covenant of the league nations.

This is big as far as tilting them towards war. This is pretty fucked up. In the Treaty of Versailles, World War I was officially concluded global bloodshed turned towards new and fragile peace. The treaty spoke in idealistic terms about the international community's future. That country should have a right to self-determine. That awards victors should negotiate how to move forward. That defeated power should be held responsible for damages they inflict.

Seeking to solidify themselves as a new world power as a member of the allies and as the only non-white international superpower, the Japanese delegation of the Versailles negotiations sought to add a little bit of language about, I don't know, maybe some racial equality. Here are the exact words Japan initially proposed. The equality of nations being a basic principle of the league of nations, the high contracting parties agree to accord as soon as possible to all alien nationals of states, members of the league equal

and just treatment in every respect, making no distinction either in law or in fact, on account of the race or nationality. The added language would have meant that Japanese immigrants coming to the US could be treated the same as white European immigrants. France got behind the proposal, they're like, oh, yeah, fuck yeah. Italy was like, oh, that's cool. Greece was like, hell, yeah. But then Australia was like, oh, yeah, fuck yeah. It Lee was like, oh, that's cool. Greece was like hell. Yeah, but then Australia was like, now my fuck that Nah, fuck that you fucking cuts. Now Australia push back seriously though. The British dominion had instituted a white Australia policy in

1901 limiting non-white immigration Australian Prime Minister William Morris Hughes strong armed arrest of the British delegation and do opposing this clause and US President Woodrow Wilson, he kind of fucking bitched out and supported it till. Not a good look. A lot of prejudice US lawmakers at home supported Wilson. Democratic California Senator James Phalen, Senate telegrammed with the US delegation in Paris writing, believe western senators and others will oppose any loophole by which oriental people who possess such equality with white race in United States. It is a vital question or self or preservation.

That's how I picture him talking. It is a vital question of our self or preservation. Next like Asian people were actually an alien fucking race coming down to destroy us, right? From some other planet. It's vital for self-preservation. Oh no! What if we all would have started enjoying delicious udon noodles instead of our traditional mashed potatoes?

Like I'm not sure what was, there was to fear. Other than just a culture being different, right? Japanese culture, not perfect historically. Pretty fucking racist. Same with white American culture. Maybe that's what we're afraid of, right? What's Japan in particular being on the bottom run of a new racial hierarchy ladder.

Oh, we will not allow these Japanese racists to come redo our carefully imposed high. We are the, we are the most important racists in this country. We cannot have another group of racists who sees us as being on the bottom of a racial ladder when we're the there the bottom we will now we are a strong racist than those racists and we must put that in law uh present Wilson came up with a new way of uh came up with a way of killing the proposal without ever openly saying he opposed it. He imposed a unanimity ruling that effectively squashed the racial equality

language, even though majority of nations supported it. Right? As we can all agree, well, we can't have it. Uh, so the league of nations didn't go for it. And in fact, they would codify the nearly the opposite article 22 denied independence to Arabs, Africans and Pacific Islanders once ruled by Ottomans and Germans, ouch. In the condescending language of moral uplift, this article designated them as, quote, people's not yet able. I feel like I should read this in a, well, people's not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world. They try hard. You know how they want to get it, but they're just not there Therefore they'd be placed under temporary European rule as a sacred truss of civil say they're cute. Oh

They look cute, but they don't think too good. So we got a we got to take care of them All these territories many of them in the Middle East and Africa would now be given over to great Britain and France to administer Yik How those those you know still the Japanese that tried hard, they mean well. They had just not, you know, oh, how should I put this? They're not, uh, full human beings. They're not smart. They're not to run their own shit.

Well, we'll check back in with them later. Uh, Q-Japan, uh, Q-Japan, Q-Japan and other Asian nations. Now, you know, the fucking hating that, uh, the, the-Japan, Q-Japan and other Asian nations. Now, you know, fucking hating it, the League of Nations, obviously. And also, Q-Japan and many other nations today dominating many educational assessment tests. In a nod to a piece, Japan, Woodrow Wilson supports us to man to keep war-acquired territories like Shantong. But that doesn't make up for everything else, right? The incredibly condescending language. Just a few years later, anti-Japanese sentiment further increases in the US.

The Immigration Act of 1924, aka the Johnson Red Act, signed into law by President Calvin Coolidge, making the gentleman's agreement obsolete. It says, of all the races in eligible to citizenship under our law, the Japanese are the least assimable and the most dangerous to our country.

And that's what V.S. McClatchy, a California newspaper publisher said while lobbying for the act. That was not a quote from the law. This is what this guy, McClatchy, which established a national origin quota system in a ban on Japanese immigrants until the law was repealed 1952, almost three full decades later. And not as a symbol. They won't play ball over here. Meanwhile, Japan becomes increasingly nationalistic and militaristic.

This comes after a period of increased liberalization reforms in the first few years, 1920s, when it looked like fascism wasn't likely in Japan. On the international side, liberalization meant that Japan agreed with the US, Britain, and France to limit the size of its navy, also agreed to leave the Shandong province of China, curb its military spending, domestically reforms included extending the right to vote to all adult men, growing the power of political parties and increased civic participation for citizens. But on the downside,

these political parties were often manipulated by the Zai-Batsu, Japan's powerful business leaders, who pushed for policies that would favor international trade. This was a group of dudes like the, what can Japanese Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos of the time. If they had even more say with a more sway with the government, Japanese society becoming increasingly tumultuous despite increased civic participation

of the middle class, rural peasants remain poor, factory workers are drawn to socialist ideas as they earn low wages and watch the businessmen get rich through political medallines. Meanwhile, younger people adopt western fashions and philosophies, conservatives blame Western influences for young people's lack of obedience and respect for authority. Fucking kids these days. These conservative leaders also complained about government corruption, the influence of these Ibotto. In 1923, Major earthquake in Tokyo kills more than 100,000 people.

Causes a major property damage, a lot of unemployment. Rampage in Japanese mob subsequently murdered several thousand ethnic Koreans in leftists some people causes a major property damage. A lot of unemployment rampaging Japanese mob subsequently murder several thousand ethnic Koreans and leftists who were accused of setting fires and looting in the quakes aftermath. Shit's getting wild. Just a token begins to recover. Another crisis hits the Great Depression, trade suffers, urban unemployment sores. She gets so bad for real peasants. Many end up very close to starvation. Numbers, Japanese military officials, many of them nationalists, they blame the depression on Western influences.

They capitalize on this. They blame Japan's struggles on the fact that Japan had agreed to curb its imperialistic impulses. It said that renewed expansion will provide Japan with the resource it needs to fuel its industries, provide wealth and prosperity to all. We just got to fucking take shit over and we're all going to be doing great. These military officials would grow in power Eclipse in the power of the civilian government

Unlike the civilian government the military possess an overall unity of purpose based on centuries old xenophobia a distaste for civilian rule And modern Asia's first victories over Western imperialist powers and the public overall support of them Another military advanced with the fact that the pan's government had made its army and navy ministers more powerful than the rest of the cabinet that advised the emperor, co-equal with the prime minister, but really much more powerful because they controlled the military. They had direct access to the throne in an emperor-worshipping nation. Also by simply refusing to name a new prime minister, the military could force the disillusion of any new civilian government, it disapproved of.

This is a civilian government intimidated and looks as if only the emperor could rein in these free wheeling extremists, but emperor here are hedo not up to that task. They intimidated him as well. Emperor here are hedo is said to the throne in 1926. L. the son of crown prince Yoshi Yoshi Hito born on April 29th 1901 within the confines of the Ioma. I didn't get the pronunciation for this one. I, ah, Ayama, perhaps, palace in Tokyo, apologies. According to custom imperial family members,

we're not raised by the parents. Instead, here are he'd spent his early years in the care of a first, a first, a retired vice admiral and then an imperial attendant. From age seven to 19, here are he'd attended attendant school set up for the children of ability, receive rigorous instruction in military and religious matters, along with other subjects such as math and physics. 1921, here are Hito and a 34 man entourage, traveled to Western Europe for a six month tour. First time a Japanese crown prince had ever

gone abroad. No doubt angry and all the conservative military leaders who didn't want Japan to have relationship with the West Upon his return to Japan hero hero he became region for his chronically ill father assumed duties of emperor Came emperor December of 1926 after his father's death and chose a showa Which roughly translates to enlightened harmony as a rain name and he was not very effective No, we're near up to the task of standing up to the military Although he disapproved of the army's overseas escalations and a lot of their violence, he didn't fucking do anything about it. He essentially fired the prime minister in 1929, dealing a blow to the civilian government,

the next prime minister, probably the military's behest. Next prime minister was shot, mortally wounded, 1932, another prime minister assassinated, and from then on almost all prime ministers came from the military, rather than from political parties, which were disbanded all together in 1940 But before that in late 1930 the military government would begin shoring up even more power when Lieutenant Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto Formed a cherry society Consisting mostly of mid-level officers. It was dedicated to establishing a military controlled social structure in Japan They would briefly plan a coup

But later would simply just decide to wage their war without Tokyo support, increasing Japan's territory resources and prestige. Again, it's just not as organized, it's like, Taylor, but they would just like, sometimes just, it'd be like just doing shit without the approval of Congress or whatever. And like, what the fuck are you gonna do about it?

With much of civilian population back in the military, worshiping is authority and ideals. You know, there wasn't a ton of pushback. That's so interesting to me. This was if like, if the US military today just went ahead and joined the war in Ukraine without checking in with the president, just told him later, just, hey, Joe, just give me a little heads up. We're, uh, we're over in Russia right now, fucking a whole bunch of shit up. We'll check back in you later. And we'll let you know how it's going. You know, back guys, I never said you can, hello, hello, oh gosh dang.

I guess everyone just doesn't really want. Like it was that kind of equivalent. I guess you know, it could happen. September 18th, 1931, the Japanese army sets up a small bomb to explode in their manchuring railroad, mentioned that earlier, so they could blame it on China, a whole false flag operation, so they could seize control of a large post-manchuria. Chinese soldiers ordered not to resist the Japanese media, celebrate the victory, which

helps generate patriotic war fervor. The military government would justify this to its citizens with the concept of the greater East Asian co-prosperity sphere. prosperity sphere, colloquially, Asia for Asians saying that their rule would be one UN inf- uh, the rule, well, you know, it'd be better than a UN influence one by Western powers. The International Community reacted angrily to the Manchurian Incident. US Secretary of State, Henry Stimson assured what would become known as the Stimson doctrine, stating that the US would not recognize agreements between the Japanese and Chinese that limited free commercial intercourse in the region.

China appeals to the league nations saying that the manchurian incident was an active aggression by Japan and the establishment of the state of Manchuria would not be recognized. League of Nations reported that Japan's claim that it had invaded Manchuria for self-defense was not valid in the state of Manchuria, right? Again, not recognized, but then Japan told them to go fuck themselves. Japan withdrew from the League of Nations March 27th 1933, isolating itself further from Western international powers, further beefing up into war machine. March 1st, 1934, the previously deposed Chinese

emperor, Puyi was enthroned by Japan to serve as a puppet emperor of Manchu Quo. So while the state of Manchuria was supposedly freed by the Japanese, it was just actually under their control, of course, as Japan neared its entrance to World War II. The Japanese media staunchly pushes the spirit of Japan, it's called an ultra-nationalistic celebration that promotes a native Japanese harmony. This movement feeds off the fears of a large section of the Japanese population

who were afraid of Western colonialism, right? So they bought into this propaganda. Japan had to go fucking take over these countries before the West. On November 25th, 1936, Japan signs the anti-common turn, common turn, packed. I called not helping me today with Nazi Germany. It concludes a similar agreement with Italy in 1937. Japan again didn't actually give a fuck about Germany or Italy, but knew that they were building up their own war machines and had a shared hatred of many of the same world powers that they

did. Should they go rogue in Europe, it would provide Japan a great little window to do the same in Asia. Based on how easily Japan did overrun Men's Syria and anti-Chinese and anti-Chinese resentment amongst the Japanese, Japan now eager to invade China. At Marco Polo Bridge, which was just a few miles outside of Beijing on July 5th, 1937, some Japanese soldiers fire some shots that lead to a war quickly breaking out between Japan and Chinese nationalists.

The second Sino-Japanese war now, the war of resistance. Right? What many see is the true beginning of World War II. Japanese soldiers going to violent rampage, committing mass murder, mass rapes of Chinese civilians, as I said in that rape of Nanking went over earlier and rape not just limited to Nanking, there was so much fucking rape committed by Japanese soldiers in this war that the Japanese government, this is so fucking crazy. Japanese government actually signed off an opening like official brothels, wherever troops

were stationed in the hopes that their troops would just do less raping and create less anti-Japanese pushback amongst locals because of all the raping if they just had easier access to sex workers. Seriously, the problem is that widespread. One were two, no one raped like the Japanese. They appeared to be in the world champions of rape by leaps and bounds. Allied soldiers, German soldiers, Russian soldiers, all committed scores of raping. Unfortunately, the exact number of German women and girls raped by Soviet troops during the war and following occupation is uncertain. But historians estimate their numbers are likely

in the hundreds of thousands, possibly as high as two million. US soldiers suspected a raping hundreds of women if not more thousands, perhaps, in the later World War II Battle of Okinawa. I had no idea prior to this week that World War II was so fucking full of rape, but it sure was. And it also sure seems that if mass rape was this week that World War Two was so fucking full of rape, but it sure was.

And it also sure seems that if mass rape was a contest of World War Two, Japan would have, like, easily taken home the gold medal. Japanese brothels were staffed by around 200,000 women from occupied nations, primarily Korea, deemed comfort women, forced into sexual slavery. This was done to cut back, again, on all the raping of locals and a huge outbreak of veneerial disease within Japanese troops due to all the wanton raping. This plan did not work on either front. Occupy nation still hated Japanese soldiers for now forcing their women to become sex workers and veneerial disease, even a bigger problem. Japanese emperor here, a hero didn't condone any of this, but perhaps because he worried

the military would, you know, make him advocate the throne. If he stood up to them, you know, didn't punish anyone responsible. Again, he's a fucking puppet. In the end, despite hoping that Manchukuo, Manchukuo, would help create a self-sufficient economy full of all the necessary materials needed to build a bigger and more improved military for Japan. Japan saw that it instead drained their economy further, which emphasized the need to rely on imported resources, such as oil from several countries like the US. So they now, you know, need to just,

are now need to conquer more territory for their ambitions. September 1st, 1939, Germany invades Poland, kicking off World War II in Europe. Japan won't become involved until June 14th, 1940. On that date, with the fall of France and Nazi Germany, Japan moves now to occupy French, Indochina, which is the now the nation's the Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. In response, July of 1940, Frank and Roosevelt cuts off shipments of scrap iron, steel and aviation fuel to Japan. Even as he though still allows American oil to continue flowing to the empire.

Oil companies gotta keep making that oil money. Even if it definitely is literally fueling a dangerous enemy and helping them build a terrifying military across the Pacific. What could go wrong? September 22nd, 1940, the empire of Japan and Vichy French in Dochina, Vichy France, being a new French government that cooperated with Nazis in an unoccupied area of southern France. being a new French government that cooperated with Nazis in an unoccupied area of southern France. And this government signs an accord granting Japan the rights to station up to 6,000 troops in China and to move troops and supplies through the former French territory. Japan's empire is growing. Another easy victory for them.

Japan enters the war formally September 27th, 1940, when they sign the Tri-Partite pact with Italy and Germany. Tri-Ppartite, where I was unsure how to pronounce last week. This formalizing of the alliance was aimed directly at neutral America designed to force the US to think twice before venturing them to the side of the allies. Pact also recognized two separate spheres of influence. Japan acknowledged the leadership of Germany and Italy in the establishment of a new order in Europe, while Japan was granted Lordship over greater East Asia, carving up the world. In July of 1941, Japan moves into southern China in preparation for an attack against both

British Malaya, a source for rice, rubber, and tin, and also the oil rich, dust, Dutch East Indies. This prompted Roosevelt to freeze all Japanese assets in the US on July 26, 1941, which effectively cut off Japan's access to US oil. And now Japan is to put it mildly, super fucking pissed. The attack on Pearl Harbor didn't actually come out of nowhere. It happened as response to the US cutting off Japanese access to our oil.

Naval planners in Tokyo now order their finest strategists, Admiral Yamamoto, to draw up a plan for destroying US power in the Pacific and rendering the Western Pacific sea lanes, including those to the oil fields, safe for Japanese shipping. Yamamoto, I think I said in the first time, Yamamoto tried to persuade his appears that attacking the US would be catastrophic for Japan, and the Japan would never be able to match US industrial might. He argued from first-hand experience. He studied and worked in the US in the 1920s was very familiar with American military and industrial technology. But other Japanese disagreed with him because

Japan is the fucking best. And you know, as a good soldier and patriot, he went ahead with his job despite reservations. Japan also begins to secretly ready its southern operation, a massive military attack that would target Great Britain's large naval facility in Singapore and American installations in the Philippines and at Pearl Harbor, thus creating the path for conquest of the Dutch East Indies. Awesome. Diplomatic relations go down in the US, between the US and Japan regarding all this, neither side really budgets accomplishes anything.

Japan refuses to seed any of the acquired territory. US won't sell oil to Japan unless it immediately withdraws troops from China and Indochina between July 25th July 27th 1941. Written Australia and New Zealand freeze Japanese assets pushing Japan further towards more aggressive acts. Worried about a war with Japan that's seeming more and more inevitable. The US Army in the far east. It's the USAFFE. This is their acronym is created

on July 26, 1941 and it consists of about 100,000 Filipinos and 20,000 American soldiers. This is an attempt to beef up the American presence in the Pacific and hopefully not let the Philippines fall to Japan. November 6, 1941, Japan creates the Southern Expeditionary Army led by General Hissachi. Hissachi. Hissachi, there we go, who had previously been their Minister of War. The army was ordered to prepare for war with the US, the event and negotiations with the US didn't succeed peacefully, meeting Japanese objectives. Included in this plan was the occupation of the Philippines, in preparation for a greater Asia war. The Philippines had raw materials Japan wanted for its armed forces.

November 26, 1941 as US officials present the Japanese with a 10 point statement re-iterating their longstanding position on what they needed Japan to do to re-open trade. The Japanese Imperial Navy orders its armada that includes 414 planes aboard six aircraft carriers to set to the sea. Following a plan devised by Admiral Yamamoto, who had earlier studied at Harvard and served Japan's naval attache in Washington DC, the Flotilla had one objective,

destroy the US Pacific Fleet base at Pearl Harbor to wipe out the US's chance at dominating the Pacific. Had they actually accomplished that, the war could have ended up falling a very different course in Japan and can easily control Hawaii right now and God knows what else. The Katsumericans by surprise the ships would maintain strict radio silence throughout

their 3500 mile trek to a predetermined launch sector 230 miles north of the Hawaiian island of Oahu, Oahu, Jesus. On November, on December 6, all these words, 1941, the US intercepted a Japanese message that inquired about ship movements and berthine positions at Pearl Harbor. The cryptologist gave the message to her superior who said he would get back to her on Monday, December 8th, but by Monday, it'd be too late. On the morning of December 7th, 1941, Japan bombs Pearl Harbor.

This is the incident that would officially start the Pacific War bringing the US into World War II and up against two fucking massive and mighty empire simultaneously. Because American military leaders were not expecting an attack so close to home, the naval facilities at Pearl Harbor have been left relatively undefended. Almost the entire Pacific fleet was mored around Ford Island in the harbor and hundreds of airplanes were squeezed onto adjacent airfields. But the Japanese Pearl Harbor was an irresistibly easy target. At 6 a.m. Sunday,

December 7th, the first wave of Japanese planes lifts off from their carriers, followed by a second wave an hour later. That same day, a radar operator on a Wahoo saw a large group of airplanes on the screen heading towards the island. He called a superior who told him, ah, probably it's a group of USB 17 bombers. That don't fucking worry about it. Whoops! Yes, and that superior got a bit of an ass chewing later. Bad day at the office led by Captain Mitsuo, the Japanese pilots spotted land and assumed their attack positions around 7 30 AM, 23 minutes later with his bomber purged above the unsuspecting American shifts, Morton pairs along Pearl Harbor's battleship row. Mitsuo breaks radio silence to shout, Torah, Torah, Torah, Tiger, Tiger, Tiger, the coded message informing the Japanese fleet

that they had caught the Americans by surprise. At 810, an 1,800 pound bomb smashes from the deck of the battleship, USS Arizona lands in her forward ammunition magazine. The ship fucking explodes, sinks with more than a thousand shocked and dying men trapped inside. Next torpedoes pierce the shell of the battleship USS Oklahoma with 400 sailors aboard the Oklahoma loses their balance rolls onto her side slips underneath the sea. Less than two hours later, the surprise

attack is over. Every battleship in Pearl Harbor, USS Arizona, USS Oklahoma, California, West Virginia, Utah, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Nevada, AdUSS in front of all those names had sustained significant damage. Most important, 2,403 sailors, soldiers and civilians were killed and about a thousand people wounded. America is fucking shook. While the attack inflicted significant destruction, the fact that Japan failed to destroy American repair shops and fuel oil tanks did mitigate the damage. And much more significantly, no American aircraft carrier happened to be at Pearl Harbor that day. That's big. Pearl Harbor often had three aircraft carriers there, the USS Enterprise,

Lexington, and Saratoga. Had the Japanese waited a bit, they could have struck Pearl Harbor by surprise, possibly sunk all of them, which would have greatly hindered the later war effort against them, because aircraft carriers would become the most important naval weapons during the Pacific war. The Japanese immediately followed their Pearl Harbor assault with attacks against US and British bases in the Philippines, Guam, Midway Island, Wake Island, Malaya, and Hong Kong. Within days, the Japanese would be masters of the Pacific, but they didn't get those aircraft carriers.

Big misstep. At the White House, Roosevelt learned of the attack, and they didn't get those aircraft carriers big misstep at the White House Roosevelt learned of the attack. And as he was fit as he was finishing lunch and preparing to tend to his stamp collection. All right, his stamp collection. Whatever fucking dork. Come on. FDR spent the remainder of the afternoon receiving updates, riding the address he attended to deliver to Congress, the following day asking for a declaration of war against Japan. He drafted a redrafted speech. Roosevelt focused on rallying the nation behind a war many hopes, hope to avoid. Meanwhile, in the West Coast, just hours after the

bombing of Pearl Harbor, the FBI rounded up 1291 Japanese American community and religious leaders arrested them with no evidence and just freezing their assets, you know, just to be safe. with no evidence and just freezing their assets, you know, just to be safe. Yeh. December 8, 1941 Franklin Roosevelt addresses Congress. He knows there's no avoiding war. His speech will become famous as a response to a day of carnage that Americans could have scarcely imagined before it took place. And it's a mastery of language that would push the neutral US to formally declare war.

Roosevelt would say, get a little sound. Don't worry, it's not gonna be too loud just to give some dramatic effect. Yesterday on December 7, 1941, they's the limit of me. Well you're not that in America, it's not only the limit of that, my name will never be able to, the limit of the panel. Sorry, I never get tired of doing that. Obviously that was a fucking terrible choice of music. But we get so much more, you know, appropriate for this very important speech.

All right, sorry. Like this little button here, and here we go. Yesterday, December 7th, 1941, a date which will live in infamy. The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. The United States was at peace with that nation, and as a solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with the government and its emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace

and the Pacific. Indeed, one hour after Japanese air squatters had commenced bombing in Oahu, the Japanese ambassador to the United States and his colleagues delivered to the Secretary of State, a formal reply of a recent American message. While this reply stated that it seemed useless to continue the existing diplomatic negotiations, it contained no threat or hint of war or armed attack. It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago.

During the intervening time, the Japanese government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace. The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian Islands has caused severe damage to American naval and military forces. I regret to tell you that very many American lives have been lost. In addition, American ships have been reported,

torpedoed on the high seas between San Francisco and Honolulu. Yesterday, the Japanese government also launched an attack against Malaya. Last night, Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong. Last night, Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong. Last night, Japanese forces attacked Kuom. Last night, Japanese forces attacked the Philippine Islands. Last night, the Japanese attacked Wake Island.

This morning, the Japanese attacked Midway Island. Japan has therefore undertaken a surprise offensive extending throughout the Pacific area. The facts of yesterday speak for themselves. The people of the United States have already formed their opinions and well understand the implications to the very life and safety of our nation. As Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, I have directed that all measures be taken for our defense. Always, we remember the character of the onslaught against us. No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people and their righteous might will win through to absolute victory. I believe I interpret the will of the Congress and the people when I assert that we

will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost, but will make very certain that this form of treachery shall never endanger us again. Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory, and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph. So help us God.

I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attacked by Japan on September, on Sunday, December 7th, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire. Let's wear that fucking putty out! Or something like that. You might not have said that last part. That would have been a weird curve ball. Uh, congress would declare a war that same day and here we fucking go.

Following day, December 9, 1941, Roosevelt would broadcast one of his fireside chats, radio broadcasts were the president in an intimate yet self-assured tone, updated the American people on the war's progress and reassured them of their costs. He said, we go to 1933 as a way to reassure families of recovery from the great depression and in total Roosevelt would broadcast 30 of these addresses. Last between 11 and 44 minutes. You probably could have done more, but he was too busy, you know, with his fucking stamp collection. They keep him high.

Now, these speeches keep him high in the public's regard throughout this presidency and revolutionize the way the presidents communicate with average citizens. Now, for better or worse, we have Twitter. What a shit show. Oh, man, FDR probably has a few official accounts right now. Probably communicating with the American people all over again. I'm sure Hitler, here are Hito, have some official Twitter accounts as well. December 8th, Roosevelt would describe the attack on Prolo Harbor in Japan's actions in the Pacific. He would be honest about the sacrifices required

from all Americans saying that we are now in this war. We are all in it all the way. Every single man woman and child is a partner the most tremendous undertaking of American history We must share together the bad news and the good news the defeats and the victories the changing fortunes of war Unfortunately, he did not talk a lot about you know, where now Japan's pussy or anything You didn't have you didn't have Churchill swagger You know from the fake speeches he didn't write I talked about last week More than anything you told Americans to strap in, but the fuck up, it was gonna be a long war and a hard one.

And then we're gonna have to rely on the allies and on each other to get through it. He would finish his December 8th fire side chat with and in the difficult hours of this day, through dark days that may yet be to come, we will know that the vast majority of the members of the human race are on our side. Many of them are fighting with us, all of them are praying for us for and representing our cause.

We represent theirs as well, our hope and their hope for liberty under God. Got to have got to the God part of the end. So now the question was, how was the US going to fight in this war? Japan's idea was to destroy the US carrier fleet so that the US wouldn't be able to fight in a war that would and would have to navigate for peace. Negotiate, not navigate for peace. Sorry, but the US wasn't playing that game with this battleship fleet crippled in the Hawaii, the US Navy turned to two surviving powerful naval assets, aircraft carriers and submarines. Early on the morning of the 10th, December 10th, Japanese forces aboard the third gunboat

division, part of the Batan attack force seized, come again. Oh my gosh, come megan island in the South Philippines. A sea plain base was immediately established on the island by naval base force, thus providing the Japanese with an air base over only 35 miles north of a peri. A peri was before the war of a fairly large port with the population of 26,500 people. Isolated to mid mountain ranges, it was poorly defended with American forces spread very thin. Quick to the Japanese have a foothold in the Philippines now. They hope to injure way towards Hawaii. They want to take over in Ireland close enough to the American West Coast with airstrips

and refueling stations so they can run successful bombing runs on West Coast cities. And imagine if that shit would have happened. If Seattle and Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and more would have been fucking firebombed. Imagine if an amphibious assault would have been launched on the beaches of Malibu or Santa Monica. That's crazy to think about. How that would have affected the war.

How that would have affected morale. US civilians at home so shielded from actual combat. Meanwhile, over in Burma on December 11th, Japanese aircraft strike airfields at TVoi, South of Rangoon. The next day, small units of Japanese troops infiltrate into Burmese borders and engage in skirmishes against British and Burmese troops. A week of air raids over Hong Kong, which was then a British colony, followed up on December 17th, with a visit paid by Japanese envoys to

Sir Mark Young, the British governor of Hong Kong. The envoys' message was simple. The British carousel there should simply surrender to the Japanese, resistance was futile. The envoys were sent home with the following retort. The governor and commander in chief of Hong Kong declines absolutely to enter into negotiations for the surrender of Hong Kong. So the Japanese decided to fuck them up. December 18th, Japanese force at land in Hong Kong and slaughter ensues. The first wave, Japanese forces land in Hong Kong and slaughter ensues. The first wave of Japanese troops lands in Hong Kong with artillery, fire for cover, and the following order from their commander, take no prisoners. Upon overrunning the volunteer anti-aircraft battery, the Japanese invaders roped together

and captured soldiers and proceeded to bayonet them to death. Should have surrendered. Even's who offered no resistance, such as the Royal Medical Corps, let up a hill and massacred. Hundreds of surrendered soldiers are killed, roughly 10,000 Hong Kong civilians executed, and untold amount to women raped. The Japanese quickly take control over key reservoirs,

threaten the British and Chinese habitants with a slow death by thirst. The bridge finally surrendered, full control of Hong Kong, December 25th, Christmas day. The Japanese soldiers celebrating in part by doing a lot more raping, not even kidding. They raped at least a dozen nurses at Hong Kong Hospital in Christmas day to celebrate. I feel like when you listed the Japanese military for World War II, how good are you at raping? Might have been the very first question you were asked. Meanwhile, back in the US, the War Powers Act is passed by Congress on December 25th, authorizing the president to initiate

and terminate defense contracts, reconfigure government agencies for wartime priorities, and regulate the freezing of foreign assets. It was all hands on deck, right, for the US citizenry. This all permitted FDR to, uh, are they also permitted FDR to censor all communications coming in and leaving the country. FDR appointed the executive news director of the associate of press Byron Price as a director of censorship, scary, but maybe necessary. Maybe not, but maybe control the press, what a dangerous game to play. You can, you can, uh, it can help you win the war by playing this game, but you can also

end up with a country much less free and not worth fighting for by playing that game. Although invested with the awesome power to restrict and withhold news, price took no extreme measures allowing news outlets and radio stations to self-censor, which they did. Most top-seeking information, including the construction of the atomic bomb, you know, remain just that top secret. The most extreme use of the censorship law seems to have been the restriction of the free flow of girly magazines to servicemen, including Esquire, which the post office considered obscene for its occasional saucy cartoons and pin-up pictures. My God, fucking

American pure tanical nonsense. I bet the Japanese military brass fucking laughed at that. Like seriously, they wouldn't let their soldiers see pigs and women in swimsuits. How are they supposed to get riled up enough to rape with that restriction? December 31st, martial law is declared in Singapore. That day, Japanese forces will get within 30 miles of Manila in the Philippines. By that time, the Japanese had landed two divisions, about 30,000 men in Borneo, seven divisions, a total of about 105,000 men in Malaya. They had over 100,000 men on the island of Lusanne, Lusanne. Oh boy.

Despite FDR's reassurances, the US Army Air Force in the Far East, those American and Filipino soldiers would quickly be overrun. Despite promises by the commanding US general Douglas MacArthur that thousands of troops, hundreds of planes were being dispatched. No help ever came January 2nd, the Japanese would take Manila January 16th, 1942. Japanese battalion occupies Victoria Point, the southern tip of Burma, giving them their first airfield inside the country. Japanese wanted to use the famed Burma road to cut off a stream of military aid to nationalist

China, which had really helped Japan conquer them. Furthermore, possession of Burma would place the Japanese at the gate of India, where they believed general insurrection against the British Raj would be ignited once the troops had established themselves in a psalm within reach of Calcutta. How do they think that would have happened? Seems like the British were way less rapy than the Japanese. Now they put their plans into motion. The next Burmese city to Voi would fall in January 19th.

This gave the Japanese control of three airfields, allowed them to launch the first air raids of Rangoon. These first air raids ended with a rare allied victory as the radar assisted fighter squadrons based around Rangoon inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese, forcing them to abandon daylight raids until the radar was lost. January 30th, 1942, the Japanese would be within 18 miles of Singapore. February 15th, Singapore would fall. There had already pretty much been bombed as shit.

An estimated 100,000 people in Singapore were taken prisoner, some 9,000 of whom would be would go on to die building the Burma Thailand, Burma Thailand railway. The estimated deaths of these under Japanese control in Singapore these people range from a Japanese estimate of 5,000 to that of China a Chinese estimate of 50,000 whatever the exact figure Undeniable that thousands lost their lives under Jack Japanese occupation there They're in the fighting and immediately afterwards civilians were murdered enemy soldiers decapitated prisoners burnt alive Hospital patients slaughtered where they lay, patients were bayoneted in their beds where they lay prone, one poor fellow, even on the

operating table where he lay a nestedized, got killed. All medics and orderlies rounded up, forced into outhouse sheds overnight, and then next day they were bayoneted or shot. The savagery truly shocking to the British colonial troops, especially those who until this battle had never been in action I guess what also happened I bet you can guess yeah, yeah fuckload of villagers are raped February 1942 Japan attacks Indonesia and Darwin Australia is rated for the first time Japanese air raids in Australia would continue through March also on February 19th 1942 FDR issues executive order 9066

based on a report by Lieutenant General John DeWitt. DeWitt, leader of the Western Defense Command, believed that the civilian population needed to be taken control of to prevent a repeat of Pearl Harbor. As in, let's imprison thousands of innocent Japanese Americans for years and destroy their lives, just in case they might want to help Imperial Japan sometime. To argue his case, DeWitt prepared a report filed with known falsehoods, such as examples of Japanese-American sabotaging electrical grids here in the States, when the real culprit, as later revealed, was a cattle damaging power lines.

Dickhead DeWitt suggested the creation of the military zones and Japanese detainment to Secretary of War Henry Stimson and Attorney General Francis Biddle. His original plan included the Italians and Germans. They'll the idea of rounding up Americans of European descent, frowned on, not as popular. They were a lot more of them, and they were white. At Congressional hearings in February of 1942, a majority of the testimonies, including those from California governor, Colbert Colbert, Colbert, yeah, El Olsen, and State Attorney General Earl Warren declared that all Japanese should be removed. Attorney General Biddle pleaded with the president that mass incarceration of citizens was

not necessary, preferring smaller, more targeted security measures, regardless Roosevelt signed the order. The order authorized evacuation of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to relocation centers further inland. How fucked up? If they would have also done that to the German and Italian Americans, it'd still be fucked up, but at least you could argue that it wasn't blatantly racist. Cannot argue that now. Military zones created in California, Washington, Oregon, states with the large population of Japanese Americans. Roosevelt's executive order forcibly removed Americans of Japanese ancestry from their homes. Executive order

9-066 affected the lives of roughly 120,000 people, the majority whom were American citizens. Over the next six months, men, women, children of Japanese ancestry are rounded up. Canada soon follows suit forcibly removing 21,000 of its residents of Japanese descent from the west coast Mexico in access own version relocates about 5,000 Japanese citizens And eventually 2,264 more people of Japanese descent forcibly removed from Peru, Brazil, Chile and Argentina Army directed removals of Americans of Japanese descent began on March 24th people had six days notice to dispose of their belongings other than what they could carry. Holy shit. Anyone who was at least one-sixteenth Japanese was evacuated, including 17,000 children

under the age of 10, as well as several thousand elderly and disabled residents. My God, if you had one great, great, grandparent from Japan, you could be put into a camp. This is so fucking dumb. It just embarrassingly stupid. I have a great grandpa born and raised in Sweden. If Sweden ever attacks the US, hey, it's probably not gonna work out very well for Sweden. B, I have zero association with Sweden.

And not even because I don't want to, I have nothing against Sweden. I just don't happen to know any of my family members there. Not a single one. How many people who were in turn of these camps literally didn't know fucking anyone in Japan. I'm guessing a lot. Japanese Americans reported to assembly centers near their homes from there. They were transported to a relocation center where they might live for months before being transferred to a permanent wartime residence in internment camp. Assembly centers were located in remote areas, often reconfigured fairgrounds and racetracks

featuring buildings not meant for human habitation, like horse stalls or cow sheds. That's a fun description of a place to live. Here's your cow shed. Get in there. Uh, in Portland, Oregon, 3,000 people stayed in the livestock pavilion of the Pacific International livestock exposition facilities. The Santa Anita Assembly Center, just several miles northeast of Los Angeles, was in De facto City with 18,000 incarcerated, 8,500 of whom lived in stables, food shortages, and substandard

sanitation prevalent in these facilities. They were a total of 10 prison camps, typically the camps included some form of barracks with communal eating areas. Several families were housed together, residentsidents who were labeled as dissonance were forced into a special prison camp in Tool Lake, California. Each relocation center was its own town, including schools, post offices, and work facilities, as well as farmland for growing food and keeping livestock. Each prison camp town was completely surrounded by barbed wire and guard towers. To flee would be to risk being shot.

Assembly centers often work to prisoners with the policy that they should not be paid more than an army private jobs range from doctors to teachers to laborers and mechanics. Couple where the sites of camouflage net factories, which provided work over a thousand incarcerated Japanese Americans were sent to other states to do seasonal farm work. Over 4,000 of the incarcerated population allowed to leave to attend college. But as lacks of some of this might sound life these internment camps was brutal or at least you know, could be very often. The following July during a night march, two Japanese Americans, Toshio Kobata and Hiroto

Isomura, Isomura were shot and killed by a sentry who claimed they were attempting to escape. Japanese Americans later testified that these were two elderly men who were disabled and have been struggling during the march. The Lord's perk, the sentry found not guilty by the Army Court Marshall Board. Next month, the ride breaks out in the Santa Anita Assembly, center of the result of anger over insufficient rations and overcrowding. At California's Manzanar War relocation center, tensions resulted in the beating of Fred Teyama, a Japanese American citizens leader by six men. Jacelle members were believed to be supporters of the prison camp's administration, fairing the riot, police tear gasped, crowds that had gathered at the police station to demand the release

of Harry Unio or you know, you know, you know, I've been arrested for allegedly assaulting Tanyama. James Edo was killed instantly. Several others wounded. Amongst those injured was Jim Kanagawa, 21 who died of complications five days later. One more thing about these camps, the businesses and the homes, these people owned when they were in turn, almost always lost. The jobs they held gone. Right. But hey, the US government eventually would make things right. The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 signed into law by President Reagan gave each remaining internment camp survivor a whopping brace yourself $20,000. Even Stephen. Hey, sorry, we fall asleep prison you and your family for four fucking years and you lost

your home and your business. But don't worry. 43 years from now, if you're still alive, you'll probably get $20,000. That is so outrageously gross. And sadly, I bet my life that millions of Americans would have been all four tossing in Iraqi or Syrian Americans or Afghan Americans into the same kind of internment camps with the same policies just a couple years ago. Drastic times call for drastic measures. I get that I really do, but they don't call for blatantly dumb fuck measures. Let's circle back now to the spring of 1942.

Majority of the remaining troops, the US Army Air Force in the Far East were suffering from disease and starvation when they surrendered on April 9, 1942. The Philippines had officially followed the Japanese, and I realized I didn't have to say that day twice. These children were now forced to walk to the prison camp, some 65 miles away under extreme tropical conditions with no provisions for food, water, shelter, or medicine. Those who could no longer go on would be beaten,

bayoneted, shot, even beheaded, for sport by their Japanese captors. And some of them also eaten. Thousands died in what would become known as the baton death march, an estimated 5,500 to 18,650 American and Filipino POWs died. In one case, a group of 350 soldiers who had just surrendered were all hurted over to a river and massacred. Despite the agony of defeat, the soldiers did delay the Japanese army's 50-day timetable by holding on to the baton peninsula for 99 days. Baton Death March was one of the first of many atrocities the Japanese commit in the Philippines.

Although Japan granted the Philippines its, quote, independence 1943 as part of the greater East Asian crow co prosperity sphere program. Now the Filipinos suffered greatly at the hands of the Japanese from many atrocities. I inflicted not only unsuspected guerrillas, but on many innocent civilians, torture, rape, pillaging, massacres. Sometimes massacres of entire villages took place all over the country, later leading up to and during the Battle of Vanilla from February to March 1945 when the US drove out the Japanese.

The Japanese would murder over 100,000 Filipinos civilians. And it seemed mostly just for fucking sport, just to amuse themselves. So much fucking rape, Japanese officers designated Manila's Bayview Hotel to be a literal rape center in this time period. According to testimony, in a later war crimes trial, 400 women and girls were rounded up for Manila's wealthy or meat a district, taking to this hotel,

submitted to a selection board that a fucking board put together, were rounded up from Manila's wealthy or media district, taking to this hotel, submitted to a selection board that a fucking board put together, totally based on who they wanted to rape, and they picked out the 25 women they consider the most beautiful. The rest are killed. The select women and girls, many of them between 12 and 14 years old, forced into hotel rooms where Japanese and listed men and officers took turns raping them. And sometimes much worse. There are numerous accounts of soldiers doing shit.

This is going to get even more brutal than the stuff we've talked about before. Doing shit like literally slicing women's breasts off as the women are dying, you know, holding them on their own chest and just kind of laughing like just fucking ripper crew stuff. Dowsing women in gasoline and burning them alive after raping them. That exact sequence was apparently a thing. What do they say about one's character? The true test of character is what you do when no one's watching. I think a better phrase might be, the true test of one's character is what you're willing

to do if you know you can get away with it. A lot of heroism in World War II. Lot of other soldiers revealed themselves to be fucking evil pieces of shit. It seems like just like the Nazis, the humanized Jewish people, the Japanese pretty much do humanized everyone but the Japanese. April 18th, 1942, US general Douglas MacArthur assumes command to the Southwest Pacific area. A larger than life controversial figure. MacArthur was talented, outspoken, and got a, you know, point this out in the US too, not

just the Japanese. He was also known to constantly rape his subordinate officers. Daily. World War II was mostly about rape, you guys. McCarthy would rape the officers beneath him. They would go into rape other officers beneath them. Those guys would then rape some sailors and stuff. Then those guys would rape some villagers.

Then those villagers would rape their pets. Then those pets would rape, I don't know, babies and stuff. And then those babies would rape General MacArthur and the cycle would repeat. Sorry, I had to take it that far. I had to make it absurd to shake off some of the fucking horror of what I've been talking about. I've read about so many other completely evil atrocities.

I won't even share with you. I saw a stupid amount of photos this week of dead women and children whilst reading articles on World War II atrocities. I felt like I was going crazy for a second there. Cockies, what I should have said earlier about MacArthur. And the eyes of many MacArthur was seen as being super egotistical and cocky. He graduated from the US military academy at West Point, 1903. Help lead the 42nd division in France during World War I where he committed numerous acts of valor, like leading the reconnaissance patrol of soldiers

into no man's land between allied and enemy trenches one night to confirm a gap in the enemy's defenses and then being the only man to return alive with the necessary information. After World War I where he was awarded two distinguished service crosses, four silver stars nominated for the Medal of Honor, et cetera, et cetera. He went under the serve as a superintendent of West Point, chief of staff of the Army, and field marshal of the Philippines, where he helped organize a local military presence. Homeboy would earn over 100 military decorations from the U.S. and other countries, including the Medal of Honor.

Often described by fellow officers as one of the bravest men that ever met. He would return to liberate the Philippines in 1944 before then many campaigns would lie ahead. One of them would be the Battle of the Coral Sea. The Battle of the Coral Sea was the first time the US Navy fleet saw major action against Japan. The US having broken Japan's secret war code and been forewarned of the impending invasion of Toulagi and Port Moorsby or Toulagi. Excuse me, attempted to intercept the Japanese Armada. Four days of intense battle between Japanese and American aircraft carriers resulted in 70 Japanese and 66 American warplanes destroyed.

This marked the first air-navaled battle in history, as none of the carriers fired at each other directly, allowing their planes to take off from the decks to do the battling. Among other casualties was the American carrier Lexington, the blue ghost, so-called because it was not camouflage like other carriers. She suffered extensive aerial damage and was scuttled by destroyer torpedoes. 216 Lexington crewmen died as a result of the Japanese aerial bombardment. Although Japan would go into occupy all the Solomon Islands, they paid a high price to do so. The loss of experienced pilots was so great. And in ships as well, they lost a destroyer, three minesweepers, a light carrier and numerous other ships suffered extensive damage.

The Japan led had to cancel its expedition to Port Morsby, as well as other South Pacific targets. But pretty soon, after more code breaking, the US learns of Japan's next plan. The US was aware that the Japanese were planning to attack in the Pacific on a location. The Japanese code named AF Because Navy crypto or crypt analysts have begun breaking Japanese communication codes in early 1942 The attack location and time were confirmed when the American base at midway sent out a false message That it was short of fresh water

Japan then sent out a message that AF was short on fresh water, confirming the location that the attack was the base on midway. Early in the morning to June 4th, aircraft from four Japanese aircraft carriers attacked and severely damaged US base on midway. Unbeknownst to the Japanese, US carrier force were hiding just to the east of the island and ready for battle. After the initial attacks, the Japanese aircraft headed back to the carriers to rearm and refuel. While the aircraft were returning, the Japanese Navy became aware of the presence of US naval forces in the area.

Douglass, TBD, Devastator Torpedo Bombers, and Douglass, SPD, Dauntless dive bombers from the USS Enterprise, USS Hornet, and USS Yorktown attacked the Japanese fleet. The Japanese carriers Akagi, Kaga, and Soryu are hit, set ablaze, and abandoned. And so are you are hit set of blaze and abandoned Harayu the only surviving Japanese carrier responds with two waves of attacks Both times bombing the USS Yorktown leaving it severely damaged but still afloat But then on the afternoon of June 4th the USS Yorktown scout plane locates the Harayu and the enterprise sends die bombers to attack it And that attack leaves a Harayu burning without the ability to launch aircraft before it finally sinks It's fucking huge victory for the US over the next next two days, the US troops at C and on Midway continue their attacks, force the Japanese to abandon the battle and retreat.

Battle in Midway, big, big win, big major turning point in the war for the US. Japan lost approximately 3,057 men, four aircraft carriers, one cruiser, hundreds of aircraft, while the US lost approximately 362 men, one carrier, one destroyer, and 144 aircraft, critical US victory, critical US victory, excuse me. Stopping Japan's relentless growth in Pacific and putting the US in a position to begin shrinking an empire that have been growing for decades. And this battle might not have been won

if not for the decision of one dude, Lieutenant Commander C. Wade McCluskey to go rogue against orders. I love little moments like this. decades. And this battle might not have been won if not for the decision of one dude, Lieutenant Commander C Wade McCluskey to go rogue against orders. I love little moments like this. Had this guy followed orders, they might have lost this battle, which it could have been an attorney point in favor of the Japanese, which could have, I mean, honestly led to the US losing the war in the US specific. There's just so many little pivotal moments where someone steps up and does something incredible

that decides the fate of, you know, possibly thousands, millions of people's lives during the battle of midway while leading to his air groups 32 scout bombers on June 4th. He makes it the critical tactical decision that lead to the sinking of two of the Japanese fleets carriers, Kaga and Akagi. When McCluskey couldn't find the Japanese carriers where he'd expected them with his air groups fuel running dangerously low Instead of pressing on towards the coordinates he had been given as ordered He decides to switch flight paths based on a little more than gut instinct and follows a course that you know Might not allow his groups bombers to be able to refuel in territory that wasn't at least partially occupied by the Japanese very risky He begins a box search and on the second leg spots the Japanese destroyer

Arashi, Shimizin Arashi must be following the main fleet McCluskey orders a change in his course in the same direction as a Rashi. This leads him directly to the sought after enemy carriers McCluskey gives the orders to attack which results in confusion with both squadrons of 31 aircraft diving on the closer carrier Kaga with both squadrons of 31 aircraft diving on the closer carrier Kaga. Doctrine calls from a clusky forward squadron to attack the more distant carrier, a Kagi and the squadron behind his to attack Kaga. Two simultaneous carrier attacks would have made it harder for Japanese zeros to respond. Lieutenant Richard Beste. Finally, get a good dick in his suck. Dick Beste, the fucking Besteak, who commanded the other squadron and was considered to be its best pilot. Of course he was best dick. Always the alpha notices the air pulls out with the with two wingman

to attack a coggy with best scoring a direct hit the other 28 dive bombers. Some which nearly clad with one another. This is so dramatic. All this happening so fast score at least four hits on Kaga leaving it a burning wreck as he pulls out of his dive. McCluskey's plane is pronounced is poundstone. She's been by two zeros, which put 52 holes in his plane in a bullet through his shoulder. After his gunner shoots down one of the zeros, McCluskey able to land his plane safely on enterprise despite being fucking shot up, right? Despite partially shot up controls, he pulls a fucking top gun. He pulls a Tom Cruise within minutes, three of the four Japanese carriers have been turned

into burning halx and the battle madeway turned into an overwhelming victory for the allies, leaving them the dominant naval power in the Pacific hail Nimrod. The US entered this battle, losing the Pacific war. A crucial 30 minutes later, they're winning it. Soon after the first major land confrontation takes place. After the US strategic victories at the battles of the Coral Sea in midway, the Japanese Imperial Navy is no longer capable of major offensive campaigns, which permits the allies to start their own offensive in the Pacific, time for some island hopping. In August 1942, America mounts its first major amphibious landing of World War II at Guadal Canal, using innovative landing craft recently built by Higgins Industries out of Nola, Nolens.

American forces first land on the Solomon Islands of Guadalcanal to loggy in Florida on the morning of August 7th, 1942. Not our Florida. This one does not have any sketchy white dudes on basalts does have a lot of sketchy fight to the death rapy Japanese dudes though. After some fears fight in the US Marines, clear to loggy in Florida by August 9th. Almost immediately, however, Japanese naval aircraft attack transport and escort ships and Japanese reinforcements arrive via or India in the area.

Excuse me. Over the following days, the first of many deadly naval battles occurs. The naval battle of Savile Island, described by some as the US Navy's worst defeat as one of them. In this opening battle, fought over two days, the Allies, primarily the US, lose over a thousand men and four heavy cruisers. Japanese only lose 58 men, no ship sunk. Luckily, not all the fighting around the island of Guadalcanal goes down like this. The fight for control of Guadalcanal, it's critical airfield and the seas around them will continue for six months with both sides losing men, ships and aircraft

neither side able to drive the other off the island. During the first amphibious invasion in the Pacific, the US makes many initial mistakes, including not having the proper resources on the beaches to move men and material inland. The logistical challenges of transport and supply across the Pacific also immense, difficult jungle terrain, inhospitable weather, lack of infrastructure, and a foe fighting to the death gives the US its first taste of what is going to come throughout the Pacific War. It seemed that every time the US inch closer to victory, the Japanese would resupply Guadalcanal by night to be ready for more fighting

the next day. Finally, the US forces will prevail for all real intents and purposes in October of 1942. When the Japanese 17th Army launches an assault on October 23rd, striking at multiple points along the airfield perimeter over four days, tenacious fighting by US Marines and soldiers throws back the attacks. American losses are significant, but Japanese losses devastating. Over 7,000 US Marines and other military personnel die in Guadalcanal Campay. The Japanese lose almost 20,000. Each side loses over 600 aircraft. US loses 29 ships. Japan loses 38. The battle at sea also heats up in the fall of 1942.

On October 26th, American and Japanese naval forces clash off of Santa Cruz Islands. Japan scares the tactical victory, sinking the US carrier Hornet, but pays a severe price in aircraft and skilled aircrew, losing 99 planes, 500 pilots and soldiers. Then, from November 12th to the 15th, the frantic naval battle of Guadalcanal American soldiers,

and Airmen blocked Japan's last effort to knock out Henderson Field from the sea at heavy cost. Each side loses over 1500 men, dozens of aircraft numerous ships. The US ultimately wins the battle, but the Japanese won't withdraw their final men and leave the island to the Allies until February of 1943. Few weeks later, very important war development goes unnoticed by everyone but a handful of US government and military officials and top secret clearance back in America. From December 2, 1942, or excuse me, on December 2, 1942, Professor Enrico Fermi sets up

an atomic reactor in Chicago. Just one event within the scope of the Manhattan Project, one event amongst many, the US efforts at making an atomic bomb and a former SUCK subject is the Manhattan Project. This first atomic reactor would be set up in a squash court under the stands of Stagg Field of the University of Chicago. The reactor itself called name Chicago pile one or CP one for short, a 20 foot tall pile of graphite blocks, studded with hundreds of smaller blocks of uranium. Something that most people just see them fucking pile of blocks.

Someone like me would be like, what's with this pile of blocks? Others like, no, that's so much more than a pile of blocks. That's an experiment. At 3.53 p.m., the group of 49 scientists recorded that a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was achieved for the first time ever. It took 28 minutes, first step of something massive. In order to build an atomic bomb, the Manhattan Project first needed to prove their chain reaction would actually work the way they thought it would and it did.

Military strategists now know that an atomic bomb is truly possible to develop and quickly and research on it will be moved to Los Alamos, New Mexico. Back in the Pacific, there are more allied victories in 1943. January 22nd, Australian and the US forces defeat Japan in the Papua campaign. The Allies captured Buna on the northern coast of the Papua in Peninsula. Throughout 1943, as well as 1944, the Allied forces continue to fight along the rugged coastline of Papua and New Guinea to a multitude of other islands. More than 200,000 Japanese would lose their lives in the New Guinea campaign, and it would last until 1945. Over 7,000 Australians over 4,500 Americans will also die.

January 29, 1943, Japan begins with drawing land forces from Guadalcanau, paving the way for a full Allied victory there. August 15, 1943, U.S. troops landed Vela Lavela in the Solomon Islands. The Battle of Vela Levella, later fought on October 6th, will be the last significant naval victory for the Japanese of the war. They'll damage two US destroyers, sink a third, and then the US will push them out of the Solomon Islands afterwards. Now that the Japanese are facing defeat on Guadalcanal, their new strategy is defensive. Defend each of their island bases. Fiercely try to wear the Americans down while the next base gets reinforced.

They're hoping they can have flipped enough losses as they kind of back, you know, back down one island to the next. They're hoping they can have flipped enough loss on the Americans to destroy our morale, weaken our military enough, that they'll then be able to go on the offensive once more. But the strategy will not work. Some historians think that what was really hurting the Japanese on these island battles was a low population base of locals. There were less than 10,000 islanders living in the Salon Islands back then, not enough people

for the Japanese soldiers to rape to keep them morale up. Think of a video game where you have to find like a food source to power up your character's health bar. No food your character's slowly starves. Now replace food with raping. Lonely Japanese soldiers, power bars were dwindling down to dangerously low levels in those jungles. No historians think that. My brain is just permanently warped.

Thanks so much, shit I read about these fucking Japanese soldiers horrific sexual behaviors in World War II. Though the Allies, British and Australian troops fought with the Americans, will lose approximately 10,600 men around 86,000 Japanese will die. And while Allied forces will lose roughly 800 aircraft, the Japanese will lose approximately 1500. Allied success in the Salon Islands campaign

prevents the Japanese from cutting Australia and New Zealand off from the US. Finally continues all the way until August, 1945. The US Center Pacific campaign begins with the Gilbert Islands, south of the mandated islands. US forces conquered the Gilbert in November of 1943. Next on the agenda was Operation Flitlock, a plan to capture the Marshall Islands. So many islands.

January of 1940, the US invades the Marshall Islands. Man, all these fucking islands surrounded by thousands of miles of open sea in some cases, just such unique terrain to fight. The Marshalls, east of the Caroline Islands and the West Pacific Ocean, had been in Japanese hands since World War I. Occupied by the Japanese in 1914, they were made part of the Japanese mandated islands as determined by the League of Nations. And now the US taking them fucking away from them. More islands they could take, the closer they could get to Japan, right? Their goal similar to the Japanese. They wanna get bases close enough to mainland, you know,

Japan, if you will, the main islands, to be able to run successful bombing campaigns against him. Admiral Raymond Spruance led the fifth fleet from Pearl Harbor on January 26th, 1944 to the marshals with a goal to getting 53,000 assault troops ashore at Roy Amur. Meanwhile, using the Gilbert as an air base, American planes bombed the Japanese administrative and communication center for the marshals, which was located on Kwajilane, and a toll that

was part of the marshal center or marshal cluster of a tolls, islets. I didn't look up that word either in reefs. By January 31st, Kwajilane, that's a tough one, was devastated. It doesn't look like it should be pronounced that way. A repeated carrier land-based air raid to destroy every single Japanese airplane on the marshals. By February 3rd, US infantry over Rand, Roy, and Emmer, the marshals were then effectively in American hands with the loss of 400 American lives. Small number compared to previous battles,

almost 8,000 Japanese soldiers were killed. February 29th, 1944, US General Douglas MacArthur's forces invade Admiralty Island. The Admiralty Islands, group consists of 160 small islands. So sorry, I should've said islands that first time. So in these places, I'd never fucking heard of before this by the way. The chief of which are Manus and Los Neggros located 200 miles northeast of mainland New Guinea and approximately

360 miles west of the township of Rebal. The two main islands were also home to an important airfield in Harbor, the latter of which was the largest in the region. When the report came back to MacArthur that Los Negros might be deserted, he knew it was time to strike, but he knew that it would be a gamble. What if it was act, what if it wasn't actually deserted? What if he was leading soldiers into a trap? MacArthur decided to take the risk on February 29th, US forces go to work.

All doubts as to the presence of the Japanese were dispeled when shore batteries began exchanging fire with American warships. The first wave of troops proceeded to take the beach at 7.55 a.m. local time and 8.14 a.m. the order was given to cease the bombardment as landing craft arrived at their destinations. APDs lowered LCP Rs landing craft personnel ramped uh each holding 37 men and the soldiers stepped out of the beach at approximately 8.17 a.m. troops continued to be ferryed ashore over the next four hours a heavy rain set in which

forging for the Americans reduced their visibility in the eyes of Japanese defenders. The Allied soldiers eventually broke out from the their visibility in the eyes of Japanese defenders. The Allied soldiers eventually broke out from the beach overran the nearby airstrip. Following day a second wave of follow up forces arrived in addition to three tons of supplies dropped by the aircraft of the three hundred and seventy fifth troop carrier group so much coordination of all than all this. On land the fight for Los Negroes would continue through the rest of the month. In the end the game will pay off and the allies were one step closer to checking Japanese aggression.

Now it's on to the next island, Guam. The US acquired Guam and the Philippines from Spain in 1898 following the Spanish-American War. Guam had been captured by the Japanese in 1941, right, days after Pearl Harbor. Now it's time to take it back. The invasion of Guam would be part of a larger island campaign known as Operation Forager, which included Guam and the rest of the Marinere Islands, as well as the Palau Island group. The invasion of the 212 square mile island of Guam made by Marines from the 3rd Marine and Fabius Corps, supported by naval aircraft, naval gunfire and air strikes.

The armies 77th Infantry Division. Yeah, also conducted a landing and participated in the battle. Coast Guard cutters also participated in the battle, making it a truly joint operation with every military service present. Excuse me, around 59,000 US service members and a large number of native Chamarrows faced around 18,000 Japanese fighting in the thick jungle, steep terrain, difficult for both sides with about 3,000 US troops killed and more than 18,000 Japanese fighting in the thick jungle steep terrain difficult for both sides with about

3000 US troops killed in more than 18,000 Japanese dead when it was over. Although organized Japanese resistance ended on August 10th some 7,500 Japanese soldiers remained hiding in the jungle for a long last time. And some continue to fight. uh... last the japanese soldiers sochi yoko not discovered uh... so glad i came across this until juneuary twenty fourth nineteen seventy two you heard right not discovered until nineteen seventy two no one told homeboy the war was over

so i thought this is crazy history do still thought that one were two might so we have when the u.s. was about a year away from withdrawing from Vietnam. This is fucking ridiculous. After American forces capture the island, Sergeant Yokoi goes into hiding with nine other Japanese soldiers. They spread out.

Seven of the original 10 soon move away. Probably one out of the jungle and realize the war's over. But three remaining in the region. These fucking three are just hiding. These three separate. They've visited each other sporadically until 1964. And then the other two died in a flood.

And then for the last eight years, Yokoi lives completely alone, still hiding. Dude spent almost 30 fucking years hiding in the jungle. He survived by hunting, primarily at night. He just became a creature of the jungle. He used native plants to make clothes, bedding, and storage implements. And then he hid in a tiny cave.

Oh my God, he was like a Japanese Tom Hanks and castaway. But except for being alone for four years. He's basically alone for 28 years. He returned to Japan in 1972, where he went on to become one of the founders of Nintendo dude died almost a billionaire. Yeah, right. No, he didn't fucking do that.

No, he returned after me. He returned to Japan and was quickly crowned world all time hide and seek champion. And then he entered a televised hide and seek tournament in 1973 and he hasn't been seen since. No, come on. No, he did make it back to Japan and He got a little place out in the sticks of course he did and he wrote a book on simple living also not surprised Surprisingly, he did get married and he lived until the age of 82 God I bet that guy did a lot of fucking in the 60s and 70s

Make it for a lot of last time right making up for three decades of beating off in a cave. It's nothing but memories. Maybe the occasional, I don't know, it's actually looking water buffalo or something. Anyway, a few months following Guam's liberation, I just had to take that detour for a little comic relief, unbelievable. Navy Admiral Chester Nimitz, Commander-in-Chief

of Pacific Ocean areas, established the island as his headquarters for the remainder of the war. He's had no idea there was a little fucking one dude hiding out there near him. The strategic location of Guam and the rest of the Mariners islands allowed American land-based bomber crews for the first time to make round trip strikes directly at the Japanese home islands now. Fuck yeah, bro. Bringing it home to the Japanese. Now it's time for the US to take back to Philippines. December 12th, Brigadier General, William Dunkel, and his troops sailed for Mendooro, the seventh largest and eighth most populous island in the Philippines, under the protection of the seventh fleet. The landing took place on December 15th. The landing

was unopposed. Japan not expecting them. Carry aboard aircraft, circle above the also nearly unchallenged, but, excuse me, carry aboard aircraft, circle above also nearly unchallenged. But many Kamikaze aircraft slip through and cause considerable damage, including sinking too landing craft, though in the grand scheme of the invasion the sacrifice achieved little. By December 28th, two fighter bases were ready

for the Luzon invasion scheduled for January 9th. With Mendoora lost Japan, also lost use of Manila as a central transfer station of naval transport With mandorra secured American forces now just south of Louisiana Like the Luzon I keep it. I want to say Luzon sorry Luzon while MacArthur's intention was to make his main landing assault the city of Ling with Ling the Yen in northern Luzan Alabrant attempts at deception were made in the south Yet his aircraft unceasingly make reconnaissance flights and bombing missions in southern Louisiana, or Louisiana.

Jesus, my brain doesn't want, Louisiana, Louisiana, Louisiana. Transport aircraft make many parodrafts with dummies, but while mine sweepers clear the base. Filipino resistance fighters in southern Louisiana, two were called to conduct major sabotage operations. All the effort was to provide a false notion that the American landing was to take place at Southern Luzanne instead of Ling.

Oh my god, my brain is shutting down. Ling, G-N, Ling again. The opening amphibious operation at Luzanne, how many fucking times are to say that work? Unopposed by the giant, I should have cut it out of the script. Unopposed by the Japanese except for airstrikes. Landed more men than the first wave of the Normandy landing 175,000 were short within the first few days securing a beach had 20 miles wide Vice admiral shinguru Fukudomi

Noted after the war that he had no advanced information of American movement against Linky end until the fleet actually departed When all of MacArthur's first phase lander set foot on Luzon, he had 280,000 men at his disposal. That was more than the number Eisenhower had in campaigns for North Africa, Italy, or Southern France. Special attack units again pose a threat for the landing forces. A U.S. escort carrier was lost when a kamikaze aircraft dove through its wooden flight deck.

Two dozen other warships damaged by similar suicide attacks, one destroyers sunk. As the campaign stretches on, rear admiral, old and dwarf would lose more than 20 vessels from kamikaze strikes. Man, bucking kamikaze, Japanese pilots, gleefully killing themselves to help with imperial Japan's war effort, dying what they saw is extremely noble deaths, sacrificing themselves to protect their loved ones back home from the barbaric Americans. General Yamashita led the defending Japanese troops and fighting valiantly against the advanced US army, though wielding a larger force, he could do little to stop the American advance without air power. He decided to take

part of his troops. He decided to take part of his troops into the island's interior and attempt to draw the campaign out as long as possible. It was a do some jungle fighting. Clark of his troops. He decided to take part of his troops into the island's interior and attempt to draw the campaign out as long as possible. It was a do some jungle fighting. Clark Field would be captured by a US forces January 23rd reclaiming the airfield to solve the destruction of part of the US Air Force helplessly on the ground. On January 31st, MacArthur visits the US First Cavalry Division and gives major general mudge in order go to Manila. February 3rd, the first cavalry division does just that 20,000 Japanese troops are fortified in the city, slowly falling back toward the fortress like district built by the Spanish colonial government from a former era.

Although the Americans were under orders to advance without causing too much destruction in the city, influenced by MacArthur's liking for the city. City still suffered dearly from American artillery and air attacks during the month long urban fighting. An estimated 1000 Filipinos killed from American tank and artillery fire. However, much greater part of the damage, both material as well as human lives caused by the Japanese. After Yoshimita left Manila, vice admiral, vice admiral, Yakochi went fucking buck wild with the division equivalent of mostly naval personnel, a cochina's man engaged in a horrendous pillaging act,

hospital set a fire with patients tied to their beds. Right, we talked about some of this earlier, women of all ages raped and murdered, absurdly horrific shit carried out. One example, I'm not making this up, babies fucking eyeballs gouged out, smeared on walls in a hospital, like what the fuck,

more of the horror of the battle of vanilla, I mentioned earlier. Over 100,000 Filipinos will be murdered, he's fucking eyeballs gouged out, smeared on walls in a hospital like what the fuck, more of the horror of the battle of vanilla I mentioned earlier. Over 100,000 Filipinos will be murdered mercilessly in Manila and all around Luzanne in the or Luzanne in the last days of Japanese control. With the battle tactics and the hands of MacArthur's field commanders, the general decides to visit some US POWs recently liberated now. Some of the prisoners were his old baton troops. He's surrounded now by thousands of his former soldiers and he would later recall. They remained silent as though at inspection. I looked down the lines of men bearded and soiled with ripped

and soiled shirts and trousers with toes sticking out of such shoes as remained with suffering and torture written on their gunt faces. Here was all that was left of the men of baton and Karegador as I pass slowly down the scrawny suffering column a whisper said, you're back or you made it. I can only reply I'm a little late, but we finally came man What an intense life moment to see these men he led who've been brutalized for years by the Japanese now they've been saved man, how emotional February 25th MacArthur marches into his former residents, where his wife, Jean and son Arthur witnessed a hundred and thirty two Japanese aircraft ravaging a nearby

American base from the balcony over three years earlier. February 27th. Manila is considered safe for the return of the Philippine government. The city is finally declared totally secure March 3rd, 1945. By this time, Manila was nearly a pile of rubble in World War II only Warsaw, Poland experienced greater damage than Manila. 70% of the utilities, 75% of their factories, 80% of the southern residential district, and the entire business district all destroyed.

Backing up a little bit now to November 5th, 1944. On this day, Allied planes bomb Singapore, it'll be the beginning of a campaign that will last for months until March of 1945. Most of these raids target the island's naval base and dockyard facilities and mind lane missions are conducted in nearby waters. The raids have mixed results. While significant damage was inflicted on Singapore's important naval base and commercial port, some raids on these targets were not successful and other attacks on oil storage facilities on islands near Singapore are ineffective. The mind lane campaign disrupted the Japanese shipping to the Singapore area and resulted

in the loss of three vessels and damage to a further 10, but not a decisive victory. But allied air attacks more successful and raising the morale of Singapore civilian population who believe the raids marked the their impending liberation and they were right. The first of a long-range bombing raid on the Japanese home islands takes place as early as November 28th, 1944, mainly from the newly constructed airfields in the Marinera Islands. Back in January 1945, American general Curtis Lemay had taken over the 20th and 21st bomber commands, taken on the taskth and 21st bomber commands,

taking on the task of bombing Japanese naval and air bases from high altitude, though these attacks would do a little. So we got creative. Even before ground operations to secure the Marinerna Islands of Guam, Sipan, and Tinian ended, US naval construction battalions were already clearing land for air bases suitable for their new B-29 super fortresses. These new and massive bombers, flown for the first time in late 1942 had arranged capable of reaching the Japanese home islands, but there was a problem.

Japanese fighters taken off from two from tiny Iwojima were intercepting B-29s as well as attacking the Marinera airfields. So the US determines now that Iwojima Island must be captured in order for consisting bombing runs to be successful. How many fucking islands? So many islands had to be taken, hopping from island to island to island, taking ports, taking landing strips over and over, taking bases and so many lives sacrifice to take every single island.

US Marines invade Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945 after months of naval and aerial bombardment. Japanese defenders of the island were dug into deep bunkers hidden within volcanic rocks. Approximately 70,000 US Marines and 18,000 Japanese soldiers took part in the battle. In 36 days of fighting, nearly 7,000 US Marines are killed, 20,000 more wounded. Marines captured 216 Japanese soldiers, the rest killed in action. Island finally declared secured on March 26, 1945, one of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history. The now iconic flag raising, a top Mount Surabachi, took place on February 23, 1945, five days

after the battle began. Associated press photographer Joe Rosenthal took the famous photograph of five Marines and one Navy corpsman raising the flag. The flag raises were Corporal Harlan Block, Navy pharmacist mate John Bradley, Corporal Renee Gagnan, private first class Franklin Sousley, Sergeant Michael Strenke and Corporal Ira Hayes. Three of these men's strength, Sousley and Block would be killed before the battle of

Iwajima was over. The photograph was quickly wired around the world, reproduced in newspapers across the US. The image was used as a model for the Marine Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery. Twenty-seven medals of honor. The US's highest military award for bravery would be awarded for action on Iwo Jima, more than in any other battle in US history. After the battle, Iwo Jima would serve as an important emergency landing site for more than 2200 B 29 bombers and would save the lives of an estimated 24,000 US

airmen. Now the Allies can finally strike strike at the heart of the Japanese Empire Tokyo. On the night of March 9, 1945, two months before the Nazi surrender in Europe, US warplanes launched a new bombing offensive against Japan, dropping 2,000 tons of incendiary bombs on Tokyo over the course of the next 48 hours. Almost 16 square miles in and around the Japanese capital are fucking incinerated. According to one account, between 80,000 and 130,000 Japanese civilians are killed in the worst single firestorm in recorded history. The cluster bombing of the downtown Tokyo suburb of Shitamachi

have been approved only a few hours earlier. Shitamachi was composed of roughly 750,000 people living in cramped quarters in wooden frame buildings. Setting ablaze this paper city was a kind of experiment in the effects of fire bombing. It would also destroy the light industries called shadow factories that produced prefabricated warm materials destined for Japanese aircraft factories.

At 5.34 pm local time, over 300 superfortress B29 bombers took off from Sipan and Tinian with over 250 reaching their targets shortly after midnight on March 10th. Of the 334 aircraft that took off from three islands, 279 were going to make it all the way to remain you're aborted for technical reasons. The weather in and around Tokyo painted a confusing picture because the bombers planned to burn down the Japanese capital. The leaders had waited for a night when the area was dry and there was wind in the target area.

The wind was there, but there was also snow in place. The flurries was kind of all over the place, but the wind would be enough to spread the fire. It was indeed dry and windy at the Capitol. The bombs giant bonfire was fan by 30 knot wins. It helped raise shitamachi and spread the flames throughout Tokyo. Masses of panic and terrified Japanese civilians scrambled to escape this this inferno. Most unsuccessfully in Tokyo shelter construction, especially in the area near the bay was complicated because they could not dig more than a few feet

without encountering groundwater. Many people simply stayed where they were when the bombers approached and were exploded or fucking burned alive or suffocated when the fire sucked all the auction out of their lungs. The human carnage was so great that the stench of burning flesh wafted up and sickened the bomber pilots forcing them to grab auction mass to keep from vomiting. This is fucking horrific. The raid lasted slightly longer than three hours. In the black Sumida River, countless bodies were floating, clothes bodies, naked bodies, all black is charcoal. It was unreal recorded one doctor, the scene.

Kiyoko Kawasaki, a 36 year old mother, ran into the street with two buckets on her head for protection jogging into a sea of fire and seeing burning bodies floating into the Sumida River. She said the prostitute to hung out by the river bank, jumped into a nearby pond, but the pond was boiling. So they all died. They were fucking boiled alive. By 3 30 AM local time, March 10th, 1945, the fire bomb mission was wrapping up. Stack black and corpses were being hauled away on trucks. Tokyo resident Fusako Sasaki said she saw places on the pavement where people have been roasted to death weeks later in an army publication

staff Sergeant Bob spear wrote the great city of Tokyo third largest in the world is dead. The heart guts core whatever you want to call everything that makes a modern metropolis a living functioning organism is a waste of white ash and less fields of ashes, blowing in the wind. Not even the shells of wall stand in large areas of the Japanese capital. The streets are desolate, the people are dead or departed, the city lies broken and prostrate and destroyed. By the time the guns went silent, B29s had dropped 104,000 tons of bombs on Japan, reducing the rubble 169 square miles in 66 cities. Bombay missions in Japan would leave almost 9.2 million civilians, including 3.1 million in just Tokyo.

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, would combine, inflicted less overall damage than the great Tokyo fire bomb raid. And bombing raids of Tokyo would continue, so the beginning of April into August of 1945. But now let's pivot our focus a little bit. Now the allies are able to try and take Okinawa, one of the last and bloodiest battles of the Pacific War. April 1st, 1945, after suffering the loss of 116 planes and damaged three aircraft carriers,

50,000 U.S. combat troops. One of the command of Lieutenant General Simon B. Buckner, Jr. land on the southwest corner of the Japanese island of Okinawa. 350 miles south of Q Shu, the southern main island of Japan as part of Operation Iceberg. From Okinawa, US forces could greatly increase airstrikes against Japan and blockade important logistical routes, denying the home islands of vital commodities. The Americans quickly seized two airfields in advanced inland. They battled nearly 120,000 Japanese army militia and labor troops. The Japanese surprised the American forces with a change in strategy, drawing them into the mainland, rather than confronting them at the water's edge.

While Americans landed without loss of men, they would suffer more than 50,000 casualties, including more than 12,000 deaths, and as the Japanese staged a desperate defense of the island, a defense that included wave after wave of kamikaze air attacks. Eventually, these suicide raids proved counterproductive as the Japanese finally ran out of fucking planes. Despite their numerical inferiority, the Japanese were excellent defensive fighters. Each yard gained by the Americans was paid for in blood against a dug-in enemy. While the terrain in Japanese created challenging obstacles to victory, the heat and unceasing torrential rain for much of the month of May further hampered US operations. The 10th Army advanced only four miles in the first seven weeks of battle. With the rain finally slackening and facing a much weakened force toward the end of May,

the final 10 miles to the southern tip of the island required only four weeks of effort. Fighting offshore was similarly vicious and terrifying suicide attacks. Japanese aircraft continually harassed the fleet array to support the Pacific theaters largest amphibious assault During the campaign 34 ships are lost 26 sunk by suicide attacks a Back and forth artillery duel between the Americans the Japanese rocked aqua aqua Okinawa day and night the 10th Army fired 1.1 million, 100 and we back up. The 10th Army fired 1.1 million, 105 millimeter, how much surrounds during the battle in the process creating some of the largest artillery barrages of the entire war.

I am really surprised at the amount of ammunition the enemy has. A Japanese soldier confided to his diary in late April. When friendly forces fire one round, at least 10 rounds are guaranteed to come back. My morale further weakens and it was already low before the Americans arrival. It has been nearly eight weeks since I raped anyone. I may have added those last couple of senses. Operation iceberg used up to twice the amount of material needed in the mariners and three times that of the battle of Ibojima in In the frenetic fighting, US troops dropped some 521,000 projectiles down 16 millimeter

mortar, mortar tubes, expanded 9 million rifle bullets burned through 16 million 30 caliber machine gun rounds tossed 367,000 hand grenades and fire 25,600 rifle grenades. Damn, the US Navy's awesome guns added to the stunning violence of American firepower as some 600,000 rounds slammed into the Okinawa terrain in support of ground operations. So much firing by the time I Okinawa was secured by American forces. June 22, 1945, the US had sustained over 49,000 casualties, including more than 12,500 men killed or missing. When President Truman met with the US military leadership, in early June to discuss an invasion of the Japanese home islands, icebergs, terrible price led him to want to avoid another Okinawa. 58 year old lieutenant general,

Buckner, son of a civil war general was killed by enemy artillery fire just three days before the Japanese surrender there. Japanese general you, uh, you should jima committed ritual suicide upon defeat of his forces there. Dude stuffed a ceremonial saber into a stomach and then had a comrade cut his fucking head off with a sword samurai style very intense way to go out. This is the only battle of the Pacific that cost the lives of both commanding officers. Okinawan's caught in the fighting suffered greatly. An estimate is high as 150,000 civilians killed. Caught in the crossfire of what was called a Thai food of steel.

Waves of refugees became intermingled with the Japanese army as it stumbled toward a final stand on the southern coast. Others died by their own hands after Japanese propaganda convinced them the suicide was preferable to the horrors of Supposed American depravity the number is not known with thousands of suicides possibly tens of thousands occurred Japanese women taught that Americans were fiends worse than devils That if they were caught they would be raped the men would be killed That suicide was preferable in a doc. I watched some cameraman

Recorded women just tossing themselves off of the cliff rather than be captured on Okinawa. So many parents killed their children through their fucking kids off cliffs and jumped themselves or or you know, stabbed themselves, shot themselves, whatever. Some 80,000 women, children, older men emerged from caves at the southern tip of Okinawa where they had sought shelter during the final weeks of the battle. 80,000 hiding out between one third and one half were wounded. On July 14th, 1945, the US Navy now bombardes Hanshue and Hokkaido. During the last weeks of World War II warships from the US Navy, the Royal

Navy, the Royal New Zealand Navy, would try and take out as many industrial and military facilities as they could with battleships and cruisers. Japan is just being fucking obliterated. A major goal of the attack is to provoke the Japanese military into committing some of its reserve force of aircraft into battle. However, the Japanese do not attempt to attack the Allied bombardment forces and none of the involved warships suffer any damage. The Allied naval bombardments do disrupt industrial production in the city's targeted and convince many Japanese civilians that the war is lost, but it won't convince the Japanese government or their puppet emperor

hero, hero. No Japanese military unit surrenders during the entire course of the war. In fact, between midnight and in fact, between mid April of 1945, when President Harry S. Truman took office following FDR's death via a auto erotic asphyxiation at the age of 63 and mid July, Japanese forces inflicted allied casualties totally nearly half of those suffered in the first three four years of the war in the Pacific. Proving that Japan had become more deadly when faced with defeat.

Without an unconditional surrender, the war couldn't be over. Italy and Germany had been defeated. It was essentially the world against Japan now and they refused to stop fighting. Also, FDR died via cerebral hemorrhage while sitting for a portrait, not of auto erotic constriction. It's probably just sitting there, thinking about stamps and shit.

Late July, Japan's military-risk government rejects the allied demand for surrender, put forth in the pot-stam declaration, which threatened the Japanese with prompt and utter destruction if they refuse. And they weren't kidding. General Douglas McArthur and other top military commanders which threatened the Japanese with prompt and utter destruction if they refuse and they were kidding General Douglas MacArthur and other top military commanders favored continuing the conventional bombing of Japan already in effect and Following up with a massive invasion

codenamed operation downfall Sounds like a sweet codename, but actually pretty sad They advised Truman that such an invasion would result in the US casualties and US casualties of North of a million men. In order to avoid such a high casualty rate, Truman decides over the moral reservations of Secretary of War Henry Stimson, General Dwight Eisenhower, and a number of Manhattan project scientists to use the atomic bomb in the hopes of bringing the war to a quick end.

He chooses to target civilians in hopes of destroying what will, you know, and destroying what will to fight the general population has left. Obviously, he's still a controversial decision. Truman may have been motivated to make the decision because two decades earlier, Truman had taken his family on a kind of working vacation to Tokyo. He and his wife, best, their daughter, Margaret, on this vacation were raped over three dozen times. They began at the airport.

Japanese soldiers were waiting at the gate for him. Rape the fuck out of the trimmings, right? But they got to the plane. Then after that, when they make it to their baggage, some Japanese guy pops out from behind a jambaduce, kiosk, fucking rape some again, the whole family. Then they get raped to baggage claim, and then again, while they're waiting in line for a taxi. The concierge at their hotel, Rape's Mr. Truman, twice when he tries to check in.

That night at dinner, the host and manager and waiter and two of the cooks rave him. They like to take photos while on vacation and most of their photos from this vacation ended up really blurry and out of focus because while they were trying to take him, they were either being raped or trying to defend themselves from being raped.

It's fucking unreal. How horny Japanese, sorry, so stupid, so stupid. It's just unreal. How horny Japanese So stupid so stupid You know it's just unreal how horny Japanese guys used to be and Trim was still pretty but hurt over the whole ordeal when he signed off in the bomb He's literally you know Because of all that he ended up with a Ronnie Joe kind of fragile dandelion puff of a bottle Sorry, I just trying to light it up a little bit my own strange way. Okay, I'm done with that now. August 6, 1945, during World War II, an American B-29 bomber drops the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

Plane dropped the bomb known as Little Boy by a parachute in 815 in the morning and exploded 2000 feet above Hiroshima in a blast equal to 12 to 15,000 tons of DNT and it destroyed five square miles of the city. The explosion immediately killed and estimated 80,000 people. Tens of thousands more would die later due to radiation exposure, but still Japan does not surrender. Three days later, a second B 29 drops another atomic bomb, a Nagasaki. Kills and estimated 40,000 people immediately over the next two to four months. The effects of the atomic bombings kill between 90,000 and 146,000

people in Hiroshima and 40 to 80,000 people in Nagasaki. Roughly half a Korean on the first days of the bombings, most of them civilians, right? My God. And then just under a week later, August 15th, Japan finally surrenders Emperor Hirohedo, right? At the urgent and finally of his military staff announces his country's unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address, citing the devastating power of a new and most cruel bomb. Japan just had no match for it, no way to defend the obliteration of future cities. It was either surrender or basically have the entire nation possibly be laid to waste. The news spread quickly and victory in Japan or VJ day celebrations

broke out across the US and other allied nations. Finally, World War II was truly over. In Europe, in Africa, the Atlantic, and the Pacific, Asia, everywhere. The formal surrender agreement signed on September 2nd aboard the US battleship Missouri, Anchor in Tokyo Bay. In 1947, Japan implements a new constitution with a new parliamentary system. Japan renounces war pledges not to maintain land, sea, or air forces for that purpose. Also pledge to work on understanding it's not okay to constantly rape everyone. Sorry, they didn't say that last part. Now I really think I'm going to know with that. Let's get out of this timeline. Good job, soldier.

You made it back. Barely. Woo-woo! Man, World War II. Holy shit, so much info. I gotta tell ya, after the heavy and, uh, you know, mostly heavy and stat heavy missing and murdered in Digest Women's Topic, and then these two fucking bad boy stat monsters back to back. I'm gonna, I'm gonna pump the stat breaks for a bit. We're gonna get a little weirder for a few weeks.

Uh, but so glad to be covered these topics with our coverage of the war in the Pacific. We conclude our two-part series on arguably the biggest event of the 20th century. Certainly one that shaped nearly every country on the planet and touched literally hundreds of millions of live billions of lives really. World War II was so unbelievably massive. More than 50 nations in the world were fighting with more than 100 million total soldiers deployed. Conservatively, over 60 million people died. Many estimates think around 85 million people died, including anywhere from 38 to 55 million civilians.

If this war hadn't been fought the way it was, it's likely that many of us would not be here today. And then a strange thought, I wouldn't be around. After returning from overseas where he served as an army air core mechanic during World War II, my father's father married my grandma, Carol Sloan on February 15th, 1946, had my grandpa Bill Cummins not served in World War II. He wouldn't have ended up in Southern California, would not have met my grandma, Carol. My dad would have been born and neither would have, you world war two he wouldn't have ended up in Southern California would not have met my grandma Carol my dad would have been born and either would have you know and I wouldn't have been born either. I mean in this

particular case that probably would have been for the best you know my dad wouldn't have been able to go on to become the most prolific still uncott serial killer in world history and he would have never formed you know bear evil incorporated. But seriously many of our parents or grandparents would not have met or married when they did. Our world would have looked drastically different today. Did not expect to go so heavy on rape accounts heading into this week.

But once they started poking around, holy shit! Took some World War II classes in college. None of that was taught. Neither was the cannibalism stuff, right? The want and torture. I do think it's important not to shy away from that stuff, right? Man, haven't fought myself. Haven't been in or near a war zone. But after digging into all the uncensored accounts of what really happened, not just in World War II, but in other wars, it's just me and war is so fucking brutal.

So full of so many more horrors than soldiers trying to kill each other and a faster rate than being killed. It's full of civilian torture, rape, mass destruction that leaves homes and businesses destroyed, economies and shambles, lives forever altered for the worst. But also, it's what keeps people like Hitler and his goons or people like the members of the every bit as racist as the Nazis and imperial Japanese nationalistic military regime from from remaking the world and their terrible images Imagine the Japanese had one how many millions of women women forced to become comfort women How many millions of innocent people would have been slaughtered? Do some digging you can find plenty of atrocities committed by allied forces during World War two that don't include dropping atomic bombs

You know the fire bombings in place like Tokyo and Dresden don't include dropping atomic bombs, you know, the firebombs in place like Tokyo and Dresden, counts of widespread rape as well, abuse and murder of POWs on and on. However, there's no argument for which side waged the more noble fight. Germany and Japan, more than any other nations, started this fight and their aims were not noble. Their ambitions were downright evil and to do everything to stop them was the only righteous choice to be made. There are still World War Two veterans alive right now, over 150,000 American veterans. They're old, they're in their late 90s or older, and if you know one, I hope you can think and before they're gone, because we all owe them a great debt. One we can never repay.

If any World War Two veterans are listening to this podcast, man, thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you for literally saving the fucking world from tyranny. Thank you for the greatest collective act of heroism I can think of. For storming the beaches of France, pushing past the dead and dying, for fighting into the forests of Germany,

the jungles of countless islands, for sailing through the South Pacific, for soaring through the skies of Europe and Asia. And anywhere else you had to search for and hope to destroy dangerous men who wanted to kill, not just you, but your way of life, destroy your country, men who literally wanted to kill every member of your family in some cases. They used all the veterans who enlist not knowing if another war like this is on the horizon.

Men and women who fight in combat zones and never get the coverage of a war like this one. Men and women who never know if today is the day they're going to get called away from their loved ones and have to go kill for their country or be killed or help the war machine in so many other different ways that keep us from living under a tyrannical leader like Hitler or Mussolini or the random assortment of fucking dickheads pulling hero hero strings. You are all heroes. I thank you as much as I can.

Let us hope the world never sees another war as brutal as this one. But if it does, let's hope we have people as brave and formidable as the Allied soldiers who were able to stop enemies as powerful and fucking ruthless as the Axis powers all over again. Let's head now to today's takeaways. Number one, World War Two was the deadliest military conflict in history in terms of total debt with over 60 million deaths. The causes of death were many, not just fighting in combat, but from concentration camp, starvation,

bombing campaigns, disease, and more. What a scary time it was to be alive. Number two, the Allies were fighting very different enemies in the Japanese and Germans, but in both cases were fighting nations that had been gearing up for conquest for decades, not only militarily, but culturally, convincing their citizens that outsiders, in Japan's case, Westerners, and in Germany's Jewish people, were the real cause of their problems. The road to fascism did not happen overnight, instead it took decades of an increasing amount of ultra-nationalistic and xenophobic cultural sentiment, be wary of leaders who want

to blame a nation's problems on another group of people Number three, what the fuck was going on with all the raping? Holy shit Now remember hearing much about that in any class documentary or World War Two movie or show I've ever watched Number four in many ways World War two both in Europe and the Pacific directly stemmed from World War one in the Treaty of Versailles ways World War II, both in Europe and the Pacific, directly stemmed from World War I and the Treaty of Versailles. While Woodrow Wilson and the victorious allies envisioned the League of Nations in this treaty, where different states would come together to achieve international harmony, that wasn't quite the result.

The harsh economic sanctions imposed on Germany and the treaty, combined with the global stock market crash in the following decade, would lead to an atmosphere with a Nazi party convinced Germans that they've been mistreated by the allies and that have asked conspiracy was it work to keep the German people down. Meanwhile, the rejection of a racial equality clause, the Japan proposed further in the treaty, posed in the treaty, shot down by Australia, increased Japan's animosity towards Europe and the US and paved the way for their increased militarization and colonial ambitions against the West. And number five, new info.

In World War Two, British soldiers got a ration of three sheets of toilet paper a day. Americans got 22. Just thought that was weird. What are the Brits know about butt wiping techniques that we don't or the British people just have very, very dirty buttles. Something to think about. Time suck, top five takeaway. Devastation in Asia, World War Two, Part Two or Two has been sucked.

Woof. Happy shit again. I'm mentally exhausted. Thank you as always to everyone involved, starting with the Queen of Bad Magic, Lindsey Cummins. Thanks to Tyler C for directing and producing today, the Suck Ranger, also helped with production and getting clips, also helped with getting clips from various episodes for socials and so much more.

Thanks also to the Biddle-Xer for upkeep on the time, suck app, the art warlock, Logan Keith for creating the merch at BadMagicMers.com helping run our socials along with our Suck Ranger and a team managed by social media strategist, Ryan Halesman. If only I could get my back catalog of standup released by Warner Brothers and other labels, it would make it easier. Thanks producer Sophie Evans for the initial research again, this week. So good again.

And the Colt the Curious 2, private Facebook group does remain in purgatory. Colt the Curious 3 out of 5 stars. Now active, we're going to change the name here soon. Haven't decided on it yet. Thanks to Bodysu, Nyada for starting it and sharing the admin keys with Logan. And thanks also to the following Facebook admins and mods who been keeping our various Facebook groups alive for a while now. Kathleen Smith, Adam Gustafson, Sarah Peterson, Elizabeth Haggar, or Hagar, Danny Reim, Jeffrey, the strand, James Weber, Julie and Christine, my Lynn Wolski, Mendoza, Bodie again here.

Make sure I thank you. There's list Michael Graham, Dacia Arnold, mini Macintyire, PJ, Suniga, Brittany Lynn Whitehouse apologies if I mispronounced any of your names. I hope this group can help us with our new group going forward, whatever the name is that be. I haven't had the time to meet with everyone and talk it all out yet. We can for sure use a lot of help and just keep an eye on what gets posted so the group doesn't ever start to represent behavior.

We don't want anything to do with. Want to make sure there's room for spirit and discussion but also no racism, homophobia, et cetera. And thanks to Jess and Kelly over on Discord, keeping everything run as smooth, thanks to everyone running the time sucks, subreddit, and badmetic subredd. Yeah, with the social media groups,

I'm hoping once I get to the recording of my special here soon, I'll have a little more time to do some of this housekeeping that I just never seem to have time to week to week here. Next week on Time Suck, we're gonna be fucking weird. Let's take things in a very different direction. Let's talk about mice and utopia, maybe not being so utopian, and odd science experiments. This is fascinatingly odd to me. In the 1950s, right around the time that the M.K.A. Ultra experiments and former

suck subject John T. Lilly's attempt to communicate with dolphins kicked up, a very different scientist was wondering about the effects of overpopulation. As the common thought went at the time, the world may have been reaching overpopulation fast, and it was possible that the Earth's resources wouldn't be able to sustain us. But even if they could, what would the effects of overpopulation be? How would society respond? What John B. Calhoun found was not very promising. In a series of experiments with mice and rats called the mouse utopia experiments, John B. Calhoun provided the fuzzy friends with everything he could possibly need,

and a food, water, nesting material, and space to comfortably house a population of thousands. Though the experiments would start with just a few individuals. He said he expected the population to quickly fill up to fit all the available resources. Free for predators and other worries, a mouse could theoretically live to an extraordinarily old age

there without a single worry, but that wasn't what happened. Instead, within a matter of months, the mice started to exhibit very strange behavior. Rodents have social hierarchies with dominant alpha males controlling heroms of females. Alpha's established dominance by fighting, wrestling and biting any challengers. Normally a mouse that loses the fight will scurry off to some distant nook to start over somewhere else. But in mouse utopia, the losing mice couldn't escape. How who called them dropouts? And because so few juveniles died, huge hordes of dropouts would gather in the center of the pen.

They were full of cuts and ugly scars, and every so often huge brawls would break out. Vicious free frills, a biting and clawing that served no obvious purpose. Just senseless violence. Meanwhile, female mice stop nurturing their young. Some mice simply dropped out of the colony, not trying to reproduce or do anything other than keep themselves basically alive. Eventually, other deviant behavior emerged. Mice who had been raised improperly or kicked out of the nest early often failed to develop healthy social bonds. Therefore, struggled in adulthood with social interactions. John B. Calhoun called this societal degradation

a behavioral sink. And he believed it can accurately predict what would happen to human beings in over crowded cities. It was he right. The mice utopia ended half a century ago, but it continues to fascinate people today, especially as a gloomy metaphor for human society. Calhoun actively encouraged such speculation once writing, I shall largely speak of mice, but my thoughts are on man. The mouse utopia experiments would go on to influence everything from architecture to literature to journalism, but very few agree on how

seriously we should take these predictions about human society and its decline. As the saying goes, if you give a mouse a cookie, he'll start murdering and cannibalizing his neighbors or something. All that next week on TimeSuck. Right now, let's head over to this week's time sucker updates First some goofiness one of my stupid jokes from last week landed with at least one list here and that makes me so happy silly sucker Nicole Oh, oh, yes Nicole arms rights good afternoon suck master supreme. I'm ready to admit that I've got that I've been got. I never thought it would happen to me, but I fell for the Lamar census stat for the, for the well, we're two part one,

up to seven. And it's lucky I did. As a full-time mom of a two-year-old and a two-month-old, wow, the days get long. I always look forward to the occasions when the midday naps align, and I can get a piece, bit of peace and quiet to read, watch TV or complete household task independently. Today, everything was phoned into place beautifully. Then just as I got both the toddler and the baby to sleep, our dog starts barking out of the blue, waking them both. Is I headed back to the nursery, I put a headphone in to

drown out the course of Christ, while listening to time suck and tending to two babies, I seriously contemplated sacrificing my dog to Nimrod. When all of a sudden you sided the Lamar census statistic. First I was laughing because I thought it was true. Then I was laughing even harder knowing I'd fallen for your bullshit. You snapped me out of my frustration, it made me feel so much better.

Just wanted to say, I appreciate your dedication to content creation. It's such a comfort to have you in my ear, making me laugh during stressful times. And a quick shout out to my hardworking timesucker husband Nathan Nicole. I love it Nicole. Still makes me laugh thinking about how ridiculous it would be

to see that on an official census document. Just numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers, and then a name. Any name, just so stupid. Thank you Nathan for listing and you got a tough job. Two little ones. Good on you for having a sense of humor still. I hope they supply you with as much joy in moments

as they do frustration and sleep deprivation in others. And I bet you are a fantastic mother. And now Marvelous Meat Sack, Mia Moran, has a cool ass W World War II update for us. Mia writes, I was just listening to the World War Two suck, part one, and you were talking about the German panzer tank and its speed and how it changed the battlefield. There reminded me of a movie I watched years back

about Tucker, or excuse me, about the Tucker torpedo. In that movie, the also touch base on an armored car that pressed and Tucker created during the World War Two time frame. Though this vehicle never went into production, it could have easily changed how America fought that war. This car was capable of going 114 miles an hour, had a 37 millimeter anti-aircraft gun, capable of 120 rounds per minute on it.

The gun was mounted on a turret and because of its speed, was able to chase aircraft to shoot them down. Imagine how intimidating this vehicle would have been had a miniature production against the axis powers. Thanks for all the hours, great entertainment and knowledge, just a little sucker in this giant globe of meat sacks. Hope all is well, Mia. PS, just wanted to also throw in Preston Tucker's name into

the suckverse for a possible future suck. The man was considered both a con artist and a visionary. Well, thank you, Mia. I did not know about Preston. Francis Ford Coppola made a movie about him. Came out in 1988, starred Jeff Bridges. Tucker, the man in his dream. I looked into that crazy combat car and the military passed on it in part because it went too fucking fast. They got a V12 Yeah, that could have changed the battlefield. Probably want to see a lot of those bad boys go full dukes of hazard

Shoot up into the air, but maybe not land as well as bow and luke, Duke could land their car. Thanks for the extra info. Now for some first hand info from World War II. Awesome. Scott is sack. Alice Dehram and my Carthor

grandson of one of the greats rights, Stan. I'm sure you will receive lots and lots of messages about the second World War suck and family members who fought. I would like to share some of the stories that my grandfather shared with me about his experiences. My paternal grandfather, John Ian MacArthur was 15 at the beginning of the war in 1939. It was called up on his 18th birthday being born raised in the shipbuilding capital of the world. Glasgow, Scotland and watching the huge warships stream

steam up and down the river Clyde his entire life. The world navy was the only choice for him. His war experience culminated in an operation known as Operation Infatuate in 1944, which required my grandfather to sail in a converted flat bottom landing craft up and down the Dutch coast of Valcurren, basically acting as a diversion from the forces storming the beaches and bridges inland. I remember him telling me his orders were hard a port as they traversed the coastline and then advanced a short distance before hard a starboard as they retraced their path

drawing the enemy fire. He said that they came so close that they could see the individual flashes of gun embankments firing on them or gun emplacements. Always well until a shell struck his boat, caused it to sink. During this time, my grandfather received large piece of metal in his thigh above the knee, which led to his left leg having to be amputated some time later. The facts of this, he told me always rather matter of fact, as just something happened. However, after he died in 2010, I found some papers that he had written about his time in the Navy, which included a much more horrific account of the incident. He wrote about friends of his

literally blown to pieces and floating in the water. One sailor, he wrote about his entire lower job, obliterated. My entire life, I was told that Granddad lost his leg in the war. It was always said that he had lost it. So imagine my surprise when as a child played in the attic of their house, I opened a large cardboard box and a lake fell out. He yelled, I found it. I found Granddad's leg. Throughout his life, his prosthetic was often replaced with a newer model and it was a great satisfaction to him when he discovered that the latest model was made in Germany. He'd say they took my first one.

So at least the least they can do is give it back. Just some funny stories that came to mind as I was listing. Thanks for the info and constant quality episodes. Oh, it's nice. Thanks for the info and constant quality episodes. Oh, it's nice. Thanks, Alistair McArthur. Well, Alistair, thank you. What a brave bastard your granddad was.

And what a fantastic Scottish name you have. To be able to go through what he went through and have a sense of humor about it, be a great granddad beyond impressive, right? You had a top shelf grandfather. May he rest in peace. May he walk somewhere with two strong legs behind him. And now last one, just an all around good message

and a call to action from a super sucker named Kevin Daniels. This man with two first names, right? Greetings, suck master. I have been debating, reaching out for a long time, but I think it's time. I've been a loyal listener since the beginning because you and your first podcast, you were the first podcast I tried since I loved your comedy. I'll try to keep it short,

but I make no apologies, sir. I've been teaching high school for 17 years and my wife, a former teacher, has seen the toll it has taken on me. In this time, she has co-authored a book and is currently trying to promote mental health for educators everywhere. She created a group on Facebook called the Aligned Teacher Community. She's really trying to do everything she can to help good, caring teachers stay in the profession as we all need the help we and we need all the help we can get. She doesn't know I'm doing this but this beautiful meat sack has stood by my side for 22 years and she's an amazing mother to our three boys. If you don't read this on the podcast it's okay. It just means you hate teachers gosh dang. Thanks for all

the content to listen to I'm away to school with time sucks, care to death, and all the bad magic productions. Well, thank you. That's very nice of you, Kevin. Yeah, you and your wife doing some really good stuff. Thanks for the message, and thanks for what you continue to do. It sucks what teachers go through, low pay, parents that just complain and never compliment. Kids that don't respect how important what you do is know that some of us value the fuck out of you. You shape the future of society.

You mold young minds for better or for worse, how incredibly important. Hail Nimrod, Hail Teachers, Hail Veterans, and I hope some folks in need check out the aligned teacher community Facebook group that you wife started. Thanks everybody for the messages. Thanks, time suckers. I need a net. We all did. Another badminton production podcast in the bank.

Please don't rape anybody this week. You know, especially don't rape like an entire city. It's too much. It's fucking way too much. Just go beat off or something. And then sit down, shut the fuck up, and keep on sucking. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Oh, come in. Yeah, yeah. Your harbor has been bombed. Your harbor has been bombed. Your harbor has been bombed. That's terrible. But hey, no, real quick, though. Look at this. This is a Charlie Chaplin stamp.

This one, that's 1923 Charlie Chaplin stamp. So this over here, stamp, this is a North Dakota stamp. North Dakota stamp. It's very rare. Very rare. Yeah, no Pearl Harbor. That's terrible. We gotta, I have one more sheet.

I just have to lick these guys. Oh, I just won't forgive myself. If I don't do this right now, because you can lose them. That's the thing about stamps. If you don't get them in their spots, they just float away. It's happening so many times.

And we'll get right to that. We'll get right to the bombing and stuff. Oh, 90, 90 Japanese. I have some Japanese stamps as well, actually. Here's a, here's a stamp. This is a guy raping a bunch of people. That's traditional Japanese stamp. What?

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