Why wasn't Japan colonized?
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- Why wasn't Japan colonized?
Japan wasn’t actually completely free of European interference. The Portuguese were the first Europeans to land in Japan when a group of Portuguese traders anchored their ship on the shores of Nipponese in 1543. A new relationship between Japan and Portugal suddenly began to grow, mostly centered on economics, but religion quickly became a talking point as well.
Commerce was a huge factor in the Portuguese influence over Japan. Most of their trading goods were coming from China, which had long been off-limits to Japan after a ban of contact was put in place by the Chinese emperor. This meant that the Portuguese had something that the Japanese really wanted but would be unable to get on their own. It was a perfect system and worked well for a few decades. The Japanese could purchase goods like silk and porcelain from China, without having to go directly through Chinese merchants, and the Portuguese were able to expand their influence into Asia even further. Firearms were another popular purchase of the Japanese, especially during the Sengoku Period of civil war.
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And then a bunch of japanese moved to Brazil, learned Portuguese, adopted the culture...and that's my story
Oh!!! I was a bit confused as to why the world's most prolific writer Ryoki Inoue was Brazillian
Why Brazil specifically?
If the Japanese never moved to Brazil we wouldn't have BJJ.
@@appleslover Brazil needed imigration to ocupy the huge country and more labour force since slavery was abolished. Japan was overpopulated and in economic crisis. And Both countries were Empires at the time. The Brazilian emperor and the Japanese emperor made a deal. It has nothing to do with the Portuguese asian slave trade. That's why Brazil had the largest Japanese imigration in the word.
@@ender8759 just a minor correction: Brazil at the time was already a Republic, not an empire. The immigration began at 1908
Japan: *I’m a little bit of a colonizer myself*
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Excellent narrative!! Thanks for this content
After Portugal left Japan, Japan deepened its trade with the Netherlands. Because Dutch did NOT bring Christianity to Japan. After the end of the Sengoku (Warring States) period and the start of the Edo period (1603-1867), this relationship continued in detail. A few decades after the beginning of the Meiji Era, the "Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Japan and the Netherlands" was concluded(1896), but this treaty was unequal. However, at the end of the Meiji Era (1912), this treaty was revised and Japan received MFN treatment from the Netherlands.
As a side note, in 2016, based on this century-old treaty, Japanese can work in the Netherlands without a work permit.
When I heard this news, I was very surprised to see a treaty that I had learned about in history class.😂
So this works one way?
@@GlitchPredator Work visa privileges for Japanese nationals have also been reviewed and, as of January 1, 2017, Japanese nationals also need a work permit.
If only japanese would learn a bit about WW2 instead of just learning about all of their history before that.
@@CrissCrossCA lol I am Japanese and I have learned ww2 in Japanese history class in my high school 😂.Dont say bullshit.
@@user-bw7pk6fn6i Ive seen a street interview in Japan where 95% of the people didnt recognize the swastika flag (the flag of the 3rd reich), which is honestly shocking to me and lets me question that education.
Also many japanese dont know or deny that they commited war crimes in WW2 (eg terrible human experiments in china) and that they were the one-sided aggressor in WW2 alongside germany.
Fun fact: The Portuguese were the first westerners to have influence in Japan in the world and Brazil has the biggest Japanese population outside Japan in the world.
Technically the Dutch were.
@@amehak1922 what?? are you fucking dumb? portugal reached it in 1540 dutch way after
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Oh cmon, hes just genuinely posing a question man.
The ops fact is honestly cool but i think the dutch were more influential?
@@amehak1922 Both Portugal and Spain reached Japan first. Also, many Japanese Christians fled to the Spanish Philippines, during the early Edo period.
The Portuguese also gave the Japanese fried food! Tempura was born!
Spain gave the world chocolate and potatoes as well as knowledge of the Pacific even the Japanese lacked. Only Mesoamérica had chocolate before, and only the Inca area had potatoes prior.
@@scintillam_dei Cocaine.
@@dittmannrudolfrohr2149 "Cocaine." No, I don't sell.
I forgot about the coca plant. The Spanish Empire was against most vices (except idolatry of Mary), so it must have suppressed slavery to stinky plants. The British macro-evolutionists, however, and no qualms with drugging all of China with opium to exploit them. Spain was better than Britain. British tourists would say it still is.
@@scintillam_dei Before the Portuguese arrived in Japan, the Japanese had a term for "3 worlds", since their knowledge of the world was confined to Japan, China and India. After the Portuguese arrived in Japan, they changed their term to "3000 worlds".
Portugal also gave tomatoes, vindaloo and potatoes to India, horses to many regions of sub-saharan Africa, tempura to Japan, tea to England, sweet oranges to the middle East, and a lot more.
@@Omerath9 Portugal gave potatoes thanks to Spain discovering them. During the Iberian Union, the Spanish Emperor had Goa and everything else Portuguese including Portugal itself. Portugal "discovered" Ethiopia, Arabia, India, China and Japan which ancients or Marco Polo already knew about. Spain had a lot more real discoveries.
This video overlooks the fact and cause that only Japan was able to modernize 100 years earlier than any other Asian country. The reason why Japan was able to develop into a strong country is because of the development of Japanese society, decentralization and the existence of the emperor in the Edo period.
Edo, now Tokyo, was one of the largest cities in the world, the Japanese had the highest literacy rate in the world at the time, and the masses were responsible for commerce, industry, and high culture.
At that time, under the loose control of the Tokugawa shogunate, local feudal lords competed in handicrafts and economics, and there were many excellent samurai throughout Japan. As a result, samurai warriors throughout Japan were able to use the Emperor as a centripetal force to defeat the Tokugawa Shogunate and immediately form a new government to carry out radical modernization reforms.
In other words, the reason why Japan succeeded in modernization quickly was because it had a ruler called Emperor who could replace the old system, reformers called local samurai, and ordinary people who were excellent workers.
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The argument is pretty okay but Tokyo didn't become the largest city till the 50s, and Japan didn't have the highest literacy rate in the world either
日本人並みに日本のこと知ってるの凄いな。厳密には人によって意見が分かれるところもあるだろうけど。
GORO TV didn’t say Edo was the largest city, he said one of the largest. But you’re right that Japan was the highest literate society at the time. It was one of the highest, but not the best. Overall, I would also say Goro TV’s argument is fine.
There has never been a sword so sharp in the world
Samurai are brave and masters of swords, that there are such samurai all over Japan
He was afraid and gave up controlling by force.
He thought of dominating in the economy, but he was Japanese
Self-taught mathematics techniques were already in Europe and America, at the Date clan in Satsuma and Ehime.
I am self-taught to complete a steam engine ship.
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Japan is the eastern version of Germany. They are perfectionists. They are engineers. They are inventors. They were behind European powers during the colonial age but they quickly adopted European military tactics and caught up. They went from Samurai on horseback to bombing Pearl Harbor within the span of a couple of centuries. Incredible!
They always intrigue me. During the Meiji they were so backwards and look like a country during the 1400s. Then by WWI they were still behind but progress so much since the Meiji but later progress way more after WW2.
And they had nearly as many countrys as germany :)
According to Americans they merely copied just like they accuse China of doing.
Actually in just less than a century
Actually Meiji Restoration is just copying what the West have done. The West took many years of research with failure, trial and error before entering industrial revolution, meanwhile Japan just followed them in every aspects in a right way.
In 16th century, Portuguese they sold some musket guns to Japanese, shortly after that Japanese started to copy and mass production, then Japan became heaviest fire armed region in the world.
true. Japan was too powerful to be colonized. Whitemen tried, but soon realized Japanese were in fact more powerful than than themselves. This is true for China and Korea.
But Japan couldn't beat the Korean fleet
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@@sinnopal1 Nein. Belgium is very good country with wonderful culture like waffle🧇 or Belgian fries🍟
@@sinnopal1 The Jesuits got crucified for peddling their Kingdom of God for Jesus the Jewish priest.
nice, and down to the ground analysis. not a mention of samurai, ninja, katana, fantasy stuff.
thanks for this
I’m Japanese who’s from Nagasaki, the one of few open trade site during the isolation (no no Christianity) period. We do have a lot of influence from Dutch, Portugués, China in my town. The food and buildings are culturally unreal here. Pretty town with warm n chill people, worth visiting.
There has never been a sword so sharp in the world
Samurai are brave and masters of swords, that there are such samurai all over Japan
He was afraid and gave up controlling by force.
He thought of dominating in the economy, but he was Japanese
Self-taught mathematics techniques were already in Europe and America, at the Date clan in Satsuma and Ehime.
I am self-taught to complete a steam engine ship.
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でっかいちゃんぽん食ったけどマジで美味かった
私もいつか長崎行きたいなー
ちゃんぽん美味いっす最高っす
Japan and Portugal＝Countries where seafood is delicious.🐟🐙🦐
UK: AM I A JOKE TO YOU?????!!!!!
@@cyberman1305 UK is a joke when it comes to food
@@cyberman1305 Yes. British seafood? Other than fish and chips I can't picture any British seafood.
people always says Japanese sushi.
but we Japanese usually eat baked fish. not sushi.
@@user-ou9ln4vl2n and origin of sushi is Chinese dish called narezushi which were introduced to japan in 8th centery.
As someone already pointed out, the story overlooks the importance of mining exports from Japan which dominated the world's silver and gold market in the era. The Mongolian invasion in the 13th century must be another interesting topic to be touched on. Well illustrated though.
That the whole point silver gold
All countries and islands invaded by leaders dictators and followers
Most are from royalty from different countries but are related and still is today that are greedy especially for silver gold and diamond gems coal what ever government churches politician popes banks they the same family one huge family controlling brainwashing manipulating people it a criminal origination been past on for centuries and people just don't get it
Build a church give the people the bible turn your back on them they taken the land every country this what they do look at every wars and battles it the the same about resources religion and money a value of something corruption and greed
Thing is British military would have used the Spanish military to colonized for gold and creating a false system to other nations for greed and power and slave for the system
this what they do British Spanish military are the pirate's
How many more country they are still trying to take over keep hearing north Korea
@@namename6866 i agree with you but you should try to learn a bit more english grammar as your writting is a bit hard to understand
@@RockBrentwood During the beginning of the video they added an asterisk to indicate that "foreign colonial power" only means "European power"! (Because only Europeans can be colonizers!)
*... because they are intended to colonize Europe before the forced Plaza Accord Japan was going to over take the US economically (by itself its GDP was the twice of the sum of Germany, UK and France Big three of the Europe) ...*
*What kind of propaganda "knowledge" channel is this?*
@@adintoader2401 Totally agree you. Someone's speech is terrible.
It's like a mirror image of the British Isles on the other side of the continent. Enough separation from rivals, by sea, that it was always possible to see the invaders coming and prepare an ambush. Large enough population for a decent size army/navy. Production never too far from a port, makes trade of goods and ideas occur quite naturally. Japan also began (relatively early) a concerted (and state supported) pursuit of scientific research and development - in the 1860s.
I was expecting an explanation of why it was not part of China. Perhaps for similar reasons mentioned above.
China had a different system of managing its neighbouring countries, colonization was not particularly in their interest. China is a huge country on its own and i expect there was enough going on within the country. Also being a island did help (for example the origins of the term kamikaze)
Because Ancient China would get big then 3 generayions later a civil war happens and now there are 3 or more kingdom in china
Superb Explanation
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
Japan is also insanely mountainous.
@Jure Dolar Some good points. European powers could have also opted to land troops in the low lying plain areas like the Kanto region to set up bases of operations.
It still would have been extremely difficult to conquer the whole country, but the flat coastal areas would be fair game.
@Jure Dolar
Even with colonials powerful navy, in land they are almost at disadvantage compared to the Japanese forces which are numerically superior, equally armed, and have good amount of experienced Daimyo and commander since they fought like hell during Sengoku Jidai.
also they lived by the Bushido code which was better to die in battle to to flee and live in shame for your entire life.and if it wasn't for the atomic bombs japan would have never surrendered to the USA.
@@godkingemperor7685
No. They will surrender to US eventually, with or without atomic bombs.
@@godkingemperor7685 The atomic bombs wouldn't have done much as what history books say. The Japanese hoped that they could force an armistice by making it as bloody as possible since the US wad only coming from one side. Unlikely that it would, but not impossible, but when the Soviets came in, turning it into a two way way from North and South, the chances dropped to zero. If anything, the atomic bombs seemed more like a perfect excuse to say "Hey we lost because of a miracle weapon", imagine the consequences to the state if they up an told the real truth, that be one hell of a revolt.
Banning Christianity was largely why Japan wasn't colonized imo.
definitely. one of the main reasons the spanish and portuguese colonized so heavily was to spread their religion. japan was already a place with very few useful natural resources and very hard to get to, and now they couldnt spread their religion there. there wouldve been practically no benefit at all to continue colonizing other than just owning some extra land that had practically no use and would be a hotspot for rebellions against the portuguese. and this isnt even mentioning how powerful the japanese already were at this time.
Ah, that’s why Ethiopia got colonized.
Oh wait
Nope, they had modern weapons, and no resources to steal, and was a mountainous region, and the people could easily fight back with the same weapons the Europeans had, and they actually made their own weapons that were just as good..
They would face guns, and cannons, not against spears and arrows.
Christianity had nothing to do with, being able to fight back on an equal footing scared would be conquerers, and no resources meant why, other than slaves, which japan was doing themselves, and they could get slaves much cheaper much closer, there simply was no incentive, and huge risk of being defeated, like France was in Haiti.
this has to be the dumbest comment i've read all day.
@@Tigerex966 Hideyoshi Toyotomi realized that Christianity was a potential threat and before it could take root and sow division in the land that he unified largely without bloodshed; he saw it fit to ban it. Furthermore, he had Christians crucified to set a precedence, it worked..
Its important to remember that at the time of Portugal discovering Japan, the Japanese population was equal to all of Europe due to the plague having reduced European numbers. And the Portuguese introduced guns early which the Japanese quickly learned to make themselves. Combine that with their military structure and it would have been nearly impossible.
That is sad
Japan wasn't colonized because the Europeans weren't the blood thirsty savages they have been portrayed to be. Japan was already highly civilized and the places that the Europeans established colonies were vastly better off after their arrival. Unless your idea of peace and harmony is waring nomads that harvest on subdued human flesh as long as its their culture is a standard of morality in your eyes. The Europeans looked at the other races as a cursed people that needed to be replenished with 'Salt of the Earth' whish is what the Bible refers to as Christians. Read European History with a Biblical point of view and not a 20th century warner bros socialist dogmatic portrayal of Crony capitalism, and things should start to clear up for you. Btw Japan has some of the largest Gold reserves in the world, would have been a wonderful Far East India Company!
Lies again? Vitagen Yakult Funds
It's sad that japanese didn't get colonized by Europeans? 🤣
銃と取り違えてないか。
Did you know Germany 🇩🇪 has a twin ?
Its called Japan 🇯🇵.
Very similar in order, discipline, clean, mentality, industry, highways, trains, schedules (don't be late), perfectionists to the max, a bit egocentric, good beer 🍺 but our food is different we like sausages and they love seafood.
I almost forgot we have 4 World Cups 🏆🏆🏆🏆 and Japan none but they will get there.
Cheers 🥂 to Japan 🇯🇵 our twin in the East.
Greetings from Germany...🍺🖐
YES MY THOUGHT VERY WELL
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ドイツはとても良いところです‼︎
Yay, love you Germany from 🇯🇵
Also ww2 related
Imagine being punished for war crimes during ww2 and your sentence is "you're going to brazil"
Brazil back then was actually rather nice so it’s not that much of a punishment
ww2?? Japanese go to Brazil from 1908～1993.
That's not punishment. They were actually trying to colonize territories like the biritish did to Australia by sending their prisoners you have your peoole taking the land
@Renzo Alarcón lol thank you
There's something called "joke" you know?
Great analysis. Another reason is when the colonial forces have arrived Japan in the 1860s, Japan had studied how China had fallen to colonial forces and vowed not repeat China's mistake. The problem is, Japan had studied the tactics of colonial forces so well that they became one...
Nah,what Japan did was not the same thing as european colonialism. Not even close,at least not on the traditional way.
Yea I’m not sure why Mathew perry wasn’t mentioned
True
@@victornunes6047 please to explain your position.
There were only two choices to survived at the era of jungle law. One is to became a wolf, the other is to remain in status of a sheep. Look at the status of Asia, only JPN and Thailad have been keeping its independence as of 1910, the time when JPN annexed Korea.
very interesting thank you very much
interesting video loved it
Funfact: during japans Isolation of 200 years the Dutch republic was the only European nation that was allowed to trade with them, for the simple reason we didn't care about ideology and spreading our faith.
Why you lost to the portuguese in Brazil? Why? :(
@@dr.finnegan3949 because we won in indonesia:)
U only care bout the money hell yeah
@@drpepper3838 no you lose, even nederland is is now colonized by immigrants, that is great return
@@izharcohen4572 not really... 5% is Muslim and you call this a colonization lol?
Fun fact: The Japanese word tempura comes from Portuguese "tempero" which means seasoning.
The food itself is Portuguese.
Fun fact: the word Deki and Sama and other words in Japanese has an Arabic origin.
Seems like kimigayo song is really meaningful and fit with Japan right now. Japan is definitely long lasting country in thousands of years.
LONG LIVE JAPAN! 🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵
I am Japanese. I am very happy to hear that. I don't know what country you live in, but knowing that there are people like you made me want to go.
ありがとう！thank you!
@@user-kw5py9ie8n I'm from Indonesia and I really love a lot of things about Japan. The foods, culture, architecture history, they are all very interesting to me
Very accurate and nice video
Its not. For example at4:18... there is a typo. Its not "Coehlo", it's "Coelho".
@@antideus9389Beside this tiny flaw:D
This was interesting, could you make a follow up with the relation Dutch-Japan?
Love these little history lessons. Please keep them coming.
Even the mongol lead kublai khan,japanese resistant including samurai warriors was very strong
たくさんの外国人が日本の歴史について学んでるコメントを見るのがとても興味深い
Hi😊
2 things. I have hear that Ja[pan at one point had more guns than all of Europe combined.
Also, when we, the US, sort of forced Japan to open to the world, it was not out of colonization but of trade. We were looking for an Asian trading partner to compete with the European powers.
Japan was not stupid. They saw what was happening to China with the British and the French and thus opened to us and then the world.
@Jure Dolar europe consists of many countries and theyre fighting with each other, why dont you compare Japan with one european country instead of whole continent? 😂
Youre right Kevin, Japanese at that time had the most muskets in the world they also had millions of trained soldiers. Lets not forget after one and half century of Sengoku Jidai which cost millions lives Japanese still had 500.000 soldiers to be send to invade Korea in span of 8 years.
@Jure Dolar I believe a slight mention of the OP's comment were made in the netflix documentary about the sendoku jidai, although I question the claim. I mean even if they had amassed an army of 500 000 of which some/most were equipt (160k according to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_of_Japan) with matchlocks then that's nothing when comparing to the population of an entire continent. Remember, firearms were not just used for wars, but used for hunting as well, therefore the number of firearms were not only limited to the military, thus stating that Japan had more guns then Europe, is not really possible to prove and at best would be very hard to substantiate.
@Jure Dolar hi
Wow. 0/2 factual info. Japan never had more guns than Europe. That's just absurd. Also the US forcing their way into Japan was the main driving force behind modernisation. Japan didn't want to have its domestic policy dictated to it by another power.
quick correction, the surname of Gaspar is Coelho not Coehlo. And it means Rabbit.
Japanese were super hard warriors with that samurai code of honor.
I learned this in Econ 201: Economy of Japan but here’s info from Wikipedia. Fact of the matter is, Japan was probably the most monolithic Asian country (island) so they had a lot of control over domestic and international matters whereas China originally had many warring states and later and then nationalists & communist parties. Dunno about Korea but somewhere down the line they got divided.
Sakoku (鎖国, "locked country") was the isolationist foreign policy of the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate under which, for a period of 264 years during the Edo period (from 1603 to 1867), relations and trade between Japan and other countries were severely limited, and nearly all foreign nationals were banned from entering Japan, while common Japanese people were kept from leaving the country.
Japan was not completely isolated under the sakoku policy. Sakoku was a system in which strict regulations were placed on commerce and foreign relations by the shogunate and certain feudal domains (han). There was extensive trade with China through the port of Nagasaki, in the far west of Japan, with a residential area for the Chinese. The policy stated that the only European influence permitted was the Dutch factory at Dejima in Nagasaki. Western scientific, technical and medical innovations flowed into Japan through Rangaku ("Dutch learning"). Trade with Korea was limited to the Tsushima Domain (today part of Nagasaki Prefecture), and diplomatic exchanges were done through the Joseon Tongsinsa from Korea.
Good video. Simple answer: Difficulty in Colonizing = High, Value = Low. Risk far higher than reward.
Perfect. Spaniards did it in the Philippines, but even that wasn't that worthy for them. Good for Japan.
Let's not forget that the attempted invasions of the Mongols centuries prior was a lesson worth taking note of.
Yep. "So the mongols came over ready for war and then they died in a tornado. But then they tried again and had a nice time fighting with the Japanese but then died in a tornado."
Kublai khan attacked japan but because of the weather he was not able to conquer
Thank God ! Japan was an Island nation ethically it couldn't be invaded by Mongols because of the south China sea
i learned about this from ghost of tsushima
@Rudolf Hillard not so much for phillippines and indonesia lol.. who was conquered by western empires for centuries. Your technology & army power matter too...
What about the Meiji Reformation? I think this one additional very important factor
In summary
Japan was united, powerful, and was keen on regulated all foreigners and foreign influences who reached their lands.
other nations such as india or china were in turmoil and civil wars when Europe arrived.
Not really civil war, as an Indian, i have heard that this nation was ruled by different kings and lords, India was not really under a civil war but instead...different kingdoms that weren't United together had been threatening each other.
About China, my history book has a small passage on a Chinese civil war triggered by someone who wanted a "heavenly kindom of peace", i dont know much about them
So the Mongols came over, ready for war, and *died in a tornado*
But they tried again, and had a nice time fighting with the Japanese, but then *died in a tornado*
I litterly see you everywere, even on a 4th of july live stream in disneyland
Not a tornado, a typhoon...twice.
Back then Japan was very hard to invade cause you could only do it by sea, even harder if you do it during typhoon season.
@@RogueSeraph it's a reference to "history of japan" by bill wurtz, where he says those lines calling it a tornado rather than a typhoon (jokingly? but idk)
@@RogueSeraph Mongols didn't know anything about sub trophical climate, sea faring, monsoon season or typhoon. The ships that Mongol used were built by Koreans and Chinese. Koreans told Mongols to NOT invade Japan during the typhoon season, but Mongols didn't listen. because they thought they knew better, which they didn't.
also, Japanese were good at fighting...
When you try to colonize Japan but Japan colonizes you.
There's actually a Korean Admiral who manages to prevent them from colonizing Korean Yi Sun Sin but losses were still brutal.
Isn't Japan colonizing the West culturally with Anime/Games?
@@deadby15 nani?!?!? UwU
Ye, CULTURAL VICTORY
@@deadby15 Yes. Biggest movie last year, Demon Slayer: Mugen Train, biggest show last year, Attack on Titan. Biggest game, Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
Dude, Japan is a USA colony
If Japan remained as it was, it would have been colonized in the not too distant future. They learned that the environment for maintaining peace in the Edo period had disappeared. There is no doubt that they were people with a base who could know, study, absorb and rapidly modernize the world situation so that it would not be colonized. After that, there is only one goal. "To become a country that is considered to be on par with Western countries and to eliminate the fear of being invaded by the West." They acted "for them" with all their might.
They chose to evolve and advance.
Based.
Japan was never going to be colonized and was never at risk of being colonized. The European presence in Japan was tightly controlled by the Empire.
The Japanese studied the the Western conquest of Asia. They understood the rivalry and history of the European powers and created policies to make them compete with each other. Combined with the lack of economic reasons and the brutal suppression of those Japanese warlords who aligned themselves with the Europeans, the Japanese were able to become colonizers themselves.
200IQ play by Japan
I respect that you play Kimogayo ,Japan's national song at the ending. Thank you. Arigatou.
We have Shinto with 8 millions gods in every single being..... even we say that 7gods exist in a grain of rice...so we respect and thank to food which are given..
The Japanese culture accept all kind of god, so why thousands of gods from Shinto, Buddhism, Hindus, Alah, to Geovah, Jesus also respected as one of the God. They are friends!
@@HabuTaizan still to many gods can't remember all of them so there is only one God Allah
@@tempest3927 the one and only true God whom we pray and believe in ....we don't believe in multiple God concept we believe in oneness of God,everlasting and never ending ....because if there would have been multiple gods so there would have been multiple problems one god wanted to make sun rise at night one in the morning ,one would have wanted summer to come in a year twice and other would have wanted summer to not to come once in a year ....simple is that there is only one boss in the company so there is also only one god whom we call Allah the creator of whole universe
Nice video, it has more reasons that European nations faced at that time such as strong ottoman empire, neighboring hostile countries, etc...
As a Japanese we tend to learn the reasons to be mainly because we do not have spices, rubber, iron, oil, anything valuable except for gold mines.
Seeing a history in other person's view is simply mind blowing and nice.
That's true, learning the same history lessons taught by other nation's view is always interesting
Sorry for respond so late, but as a Portuguese, there wouldn't be any chance of Portugal coqueering Japan. The whole population of Portugal at that time was about 3 million people, who wouldn't be fully mobilised, agaisnt 15 million japanese people.
Respect for all japanese people for such wonderful History and Country you guys have.
PT❤JP
As a Portuguese that has been writing about Japanese subjects (baseball), Iwish Portugal and Japan had a more active relationship today :/
I really surprised because I have never learned of slavery by Portuguese in Japan. Our history textbooks don’t mention about that. Thanks.
Your text books also does not mention the Nanjing Massacre for all that it's worth, but that's ok, Portuguese text books does not mention travesties like Jewish pogroms (i.e. 1506 Easter Slaughter).
@@Kronos777Lusos Sometimes minunderstandings are distibuted by some reason, however almost textbooks in Japan mention "Nanjing incident."
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너무 많은 조선인 포로를 팔아서 국제 노예 시세가 대폭락 했었음 총 한자루에 조선인 20명을 팔았다고함
slave trade argument is the weaker of the arguments of why the Japanese curtailed European influence in Japan. I would say it had mostly to do with the Dutch showing up and the Portuguese asking the Dutch be expelled etc in a zealous manner because of the wars of religion in Europe that were occurring between Catholics and Protestants. The Oda nobunaga and other Daiymo had a hard time fighting and defeating the buddhist religious based faction armies of the Ikko-Ikki in the warring states era and were not looking for more religion based conflicts, thus expelling the Europeans from the vast majority of Japan (they had one or two ports still open, but contact at a minimum and no conversions) to keep the population with the Shinto and Buddhist religions versus bringing in an aggressive religion that risk starting up zealot armies to spring up again. Also, keep in mind the Tokugawa Shogunate also fought christian samurai in the Shimabara Rebellion (supported by portugeuse, and tokugawa supported by Dutch) reinforced this was the proper move to expell the foreigners and their influence.
A far better explanation.
As a Portuguese, I fully support your explanation. Yes our colozination pratices of slave trading did scare the Japanese, but the wars with the Ottoman, and the danger of Spain invasion by that time, and the religion fobia of Japan along with the Dutch competition were much more weightful than the slave issue.
@@Icefrostmiguel I think its because the Japanese were more superior to Portuguese. Jesuits were crucified and drowned and these frightened the europeans.
@@leapround2848 I do not think that is a matter of Japanese being superior. Its the fact that Portuguese were in war with many fronts. By 1550 Portugal had a colossal navy, with the most advanced ships and weapons. Botafogo was a ship with more than 200 cannons that destroyed the ottomans at the battle of Diu. Japan was not as profitable, and worth loosing the other battle fronts to allocate resources. Besides this the Ottomans suceeded im defeating Portuguese army, and slain the king and only heir of the throne (Sebastion). Then, spain Invaded. Now get the picture: Japan with few resources, and difficult to conquer, with the Portuguese fighting the Dutch, Ottoman empire, Spanish empire and after loosing to Spain being draft to fight the French and British. Portuguese resorted to culture assimilation, however japanese were warned by the Dutch and it didnt work. Did you really think Portuguese defended colonies in Iran and India against the ottoman empire with Jesuits? Its absurd. It was by firepower, slaughter and war.
@@leapround2848 Just worthless. Europeans had much more lands and gold in America, thats why Mayan, Inca and others got destroyed. If Japan had lots of Gold as the americans had, it would ended up being smashed for so many europeans at the same time. Good for Japan and their folks that it was not the case and the europeans were split and in war for so long
The only real trading partner was the Netherlands from 1634 to 1854. The Dutch were welcome because they did not impose the faith. The Netherlands imported many books about the new European technologies, science, astrology, medicine, world maps, etc. In exchange, the Netherlands received copper, porcelain and silver.
The very first Japanese ambassador and entourage was welcomed in London and Paris. Then they went to Amsterdam. They felt so at home in the Netherlands because they recognised many things that the Dutch brought to Japan. What was also special was that the Japanese ambassador and his entourage spoke Dutch. Because all the books that the Japanese received from the Dutch were written in Dutch. The first Japanese ambassador stayed in the Netherlands for a month.
Holland was the only foreign language for the Japanese people,so Japanese scholars had to translate documents written in Dutch into Japanese.
"解体新書(kaitaishinsyo)" is surprisingly example.It is Medical books translated Dutch into Japanese.people who translated it can't understand Dutch,but they accomplished translation by themselves.It is said like cryptanalysis.
Such this way,Japanese can use Dutch technology,and can happen Meiji ishin.
from Japanese,with broken English:)
@@TV-gj3ll Genpaku Sugita, who translated Kaitai Shinsho, is very much loved in Japan. in a joking way
やっぱ識字率の高さだよな
The guns used during the warring states era were made locally using Portuguese technology but weren't imported from Portugal. Oda Nobunaga made tens of thousands of guns by this time.
the first two guns were. One dude bought 2 of them and revealed on how to make them. Some even say that Japan had 50 percent of all the world’s guns by 1580
When you write “Japan” in the title or make any video about Japan, you can get many views.
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Weeaboo army ready to bow to their idol Pervertland at every turn.
It's not. Unless the title or the thumbnail is interesting.
The Portuguese and the Spanish had plans to colonize Japan in the 15th century. But there were as many guns in Japan as the guns in all Europe combined. Many were imported, and many were also made in Japan by the Japanese themselves. Samurais were carrying the swords all the time. They saw no reason to yield to the foreigners. Simply, those Europeans had absolutely no chance to colonize Japan.
If they wanted they could easily established some forts near the cost. It was simply not worth it...
Japanese firearms the highest quality :D As many as in all europe? LOL....well maybe not colonized but destroyed yes and easily.
@@kcapt96 The West has colonized many places that had nothing but poverty. Japan had much more wealth. They, the greedy savages, would have if they could.
They decided they could not outright take Japan militarily. They tried spreading Christianity (evangelism), that too did not work.
@@cozecoze1 "Japanese firearms the highest quality"? Who said that? Is that you who think so?
"As many as in all Europe" -- That is what a European staying in Japan wrote. Historians have procured many such documents. No Japanese has been to Europe. They had no way of knowing anyway.
@@cozecoze1 The Japanese are not much into firearms anyway.
Everyone knows Europeans make the best guns. The American white, the Europen transplants, also make good ones though, some say, not quite as good. That's the reputation.
The beginning of video a little bit confusing. Because the sponsor plates are very faded, I took the first three seconds of the video as "Special thanks to Saudi Arabia, Iran, ...". Hilarious montage blunder.
You forgot to mention the trade outpost of Dejima in Nagasaki, for the Netherlands.
I am only at the beginning, but it already seems a great video! Congrats!
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Colonizer: sees pic of 👹🏯
Colonizer: Swipes left
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I’ve always respected how Japan adapts
Occupation and colonization are different. Japan didnt try to take away peoples identities.
Japan made use of the new Dutch Republic (17th century) to force Portugal out of Japan when the Dutch also contested for its Indian colonies (nowadays Indonesia and bits of Malaysia). After that the Dutch were allowed one island of Japan to trade and make contact as the only foreign country at the time. Japan had the say on who was allowed to depart and arrive and when on the island.
So the Dutch were the only European force who was able and allowed to trade with Japan in the 17th and 18th century. Until Americans tried to open up the Japanese market.
This is because the Dutch promised not to spread Christianity to Japan. The reason for this is that the purpose of the Dutch was not to spread Christianity, but to make money.
Portuguese sold so many muskets to Japan that at the end of Sengoku period, Japan was the most armed country in the world. Nobody dared to touch them at the time.
Many of the rifles in the Sengoku period were locally made. They had the metal-working skills from their sword-making technology, they cracked the keys to the process of making rifles, and manufactured muskets in addition to those they bought.
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Actually, Nobody bothered to touch Japan at the time. East Asian geography was fixed, there wasn't much of a boundary dispute. Japan was separated by sea. China, Korea, and Manchuria were all blocked by mountainous regions so neither could easily invade each other. Also, the region overall was generally peaceful under the Ming hegemony.
Also, Japanese firearms were unknown to Korea or China. That's what made the Japanese invasion of Korea in 1592 so effective. Considering that those two are the only neighbors that can actually "touch" Japan, we can conclude that nobody was intimidated because of the superior Japanese firearms.
@@user-sf2if2df4n I mean, the Europeans where the guns were came from also dare not touch Japan. Portuguese already mauled kingdoms from Cape Good Hope thru Malacca. Spain already bludgeon kingdoms in the Philippines to submission. Turkey had vassals at Indonesia. England, Dutch, and France would came within a few years.
Those Europeans had the habit of bullying the locals.
@@boulderbash19700209 Mostly for spices yeah, and even then limited to either smaller islands or coastal settlements for trade. None of these played a significant enough role for the colonial powers to invest such large amounts of money and effort in an operation that would never break even.
Portugal warred viciously with the Ottomans, a formidable opponent as well, over trade on the Indian west coast, because those settlements were worth a lot. It shows that if enough economic incentive was there, one of them probably would have eventually attacked Japan.
They were very organized and militaristic, smart too. And it was an island nation.
The Japanese language still has many words imported from Portuguese. Tempura (seafood fritters), Tabako (tobacco, from tabaco in Portuguese). We still press "botan" (buttons, from botão in Portuguese) on screens.
Are you sure this is not an American influence?
@@na-lm1pk No. Because historic documents show that those words were there long before Americans had come to Japan. Modern U.S. ships came to Japan in 1850s whereas these words are proven to have existed in 1700s.
Fun fact, Actually the dutch had the most influence over Japan. As the dutch eventually were the only nation from 1639 until 1853 that were allowed to trade in Japan. the dutch also provided Japan's first ever Steam-powered warship the, Kankō Maru. And eventually Dutch Studies also known as Rangaku was replaced with Western Studies after the Americans forced the opening of the country to foreign trade besides the dutch in 1854.
Dutch🇳🇱 and Japan🇯🇵 be good friends forever!
中国もですよ
He says it was not only Dutch but also China, at that time Qing dynasty, which is true.
@@habibi9497 good friend? When the Dutch still controlled Indonesia, Japan came and defeated the Dutch in Indonesia, then Japan not only colonized Indonesia but also mainland Southeast Asia.
@@maulanasabrian2909 I do apologise for what our ancestors have done in the past. I am not asking you to forget.
actually Spain was interested to colonize Japan because is was highly useful as a military base for the invasions of east Asia. And also Marco Polo written Japan as “golden country “ in his books which is The Travels of Marco Polo.
So Spain sent their missionary to Japan to research Japanese military power. But at that time was right after the Japanese warring state period. so there were experienced Samurais all over the country and Spain concluded that invading Japan is impossible. They were amazed by samurai’s combat abilities, so europeans started hire Samurai to invade south east Asia and maintain their control. A lot of samurais became mercenaries and fought in South east Asia for Spain,British and Dutch.
Marco Polo ? You mean that time Mongolia invaded Japan?
Spanish military in 16th century was OP. Spanish conquistadors were better fighters with better equipment than Japanese.
@@michaljezek2664 true but I don’t think they could colonise Japan cause of their war like culture and how easy they can adapt
@@boxcuber spanish army was superior and more advanced if spain wanted to shift its colonial strategy into japan it would ve been easy but it did not for many reasons , japan was not attractive enough what good could offer for the european market at that time the answer is nothing, spain and portugal were interested in tropical plantings like spices, tea, sugar, cotton, chinese handcrafts, silk , gold and silver none of that was realy produced in japan and even its geographical position is not interesting for european powers it is not on any international maritime road unlike malaysia and indonesia or the philippines so why bother to occupy it would be a waste of time and money and to illustrate that and for your info when France negociated a peace treaty with England after the seven year war France gave up the huge territory of Canada in exchange to keep the tiny island of Guadaloupe because Guadaloupe offered sugar planting with high revenue that time while Canada was a waste of money it required more money than what it produced, another thing japan was in the hemisphere of portugal so an intervention in japan it might triger war with the protuguese so it is another potential reason to not engage in it
@@abedbbb7083 nah your forgetting how big Japans population was they are not some uncivilised bunch of people the Europeans usually colonised people with no technology otherwise they would of just colonised the whole of china Ethiopia and what not 🤦♂️🤦♂️ and plus moors held Spain for 800 years
A tiny artificial island called Dejima was built off the coast of Nagasaki City as the place (the only place) where foreign ships were allowed to dock. Ship traffic there was also severely restricted, and sailors were not free to go ashore into Nagasaki proper. The island was built several years prior to the Portuguese being kicked out, the general ban on Christianity, and the persecutions that followed. With the Portuguese gone, the Dutch East India Company stepped in and took over operations on Dejima, remaining there all the way till the end of Japan's isolationist period. Today, Dejima is no longer an island, but a block within Nagasaki City itself. This is due to land reclamation projects in more recent times. There are mockups of the old buildings there now, and a fascinating museum. The exhibit I found most moving, oddly enough, was a cow's skeleton. The card beside it said that this cow was discovered by archaeologists there, and because it was found whole and not dismembered, they think it was used not for food but for the production of smallpox vaccine, which began for Japan at Dejima, its only window into the wider world.
Same reason how Britain wasn't colonized, the sea has got their back
For the same reason Imperial Japan felt it had to expand; Japan has very little in the way of natural resources.
Palau, Taiwan, and Korea weren't colonies of Japan, but the annexed territories, much like Texas and California for the US. Yeah, you can say "but Japanese send colonies of settlers to those territories", but the biggest difference between colonization and annexation is that the same laws were applied equally to locals and newer settlers, by locals protected with basic human rights under the same Constitutions. Everywhere else, in South East Asia, even a part of China, Japan had freed them from western colonial powers and set up their own government with their own leaders.
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일본제국은 한국인을 억압하고 학살했다. 조선총독부의 존재를 무시하지 마라. 명목상 합병이지 사실상 강제점령이었다.
Koreans received the same constitutional application and treatment as the Japanese?
Japan did not liberate Joseon from the West, but rather plundered and took all its rights, forcibly detained and threatened the king who killed the country's queen and sought help from China and Russia to escape from Japan and eventually colonized it Korea's history of having an independent state of half a thousand years was forcibly destroyed by them, and all Koreans were forced to change their names to Japanese style to exterminate pure culture and letters, and to praise the Japanese king every day while singing the national anthem We had no human rights at all If you study a little bit about the March 1st peace demonstration in Korea, you can see it They demonstrated peacefully, not at all violent, simply hoping for Korea's independence, but a huge number of people were shot at the scene and subsequently executed as torture by the Japanese police Because of this, March 1 is the biggest anniversary in Korea
insane, no, as indonesian that is not true we stuck as failed country because there is no decolonisation and japan help the leader of the communist partisan, soekarno.
@@werren894 It must have failed because there are Indonesians like you.
Hi, i'm portuguese. It's Gaspar Coelho, not Coehlo. Nice video!
Portugal started/created the global world we live in today. They were the most technological advance country in the world back then (1450-1580). They knew how to navigate and had ships that could withstand any sea for a long time. They also had the best german engineers living in Lisbon that allowed for the ships to be formidably equipped with the best guns. There was simply no match to the Portuguese back then. Each ship returning from Asia (spice trade) brought a cargo averaging 2billion/USD today’s money. They also had the monopoly of the lucrative China Japan trade. Portugal had a very small population, many times smaller than their neighbours (Spain, France, England..). They did not think about colonies or to be colonisers until much latter. The portuguese were pro mixing unlike other European nations and it was that African, Malay, Chinese, indian, mainland portugal mix (the true portuguese are literally represented by everyone ) that made Portugal, a very tiny country and with a very small population, a powerful global world trading nation. Their downfall was religion and in the name of this waged wars and made numerous shameful atrocities. They simply stopped islam spreading all Africa and Asia..... Also, cannot ignore the slave trade, the most shameful episode of mankind, for which the portuguese had the largest share. We have to live with that dark side of our history too and not just mention the global world legacy.
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Worldwode trade started way before
That.
@@amazigh8776 No, it started with the opening of the sea routes led by the Portuguese in the late 1400s/early 1500s. Through the Portuguese the world became interconnected. You could trade with Japan, directly with India and China, with any part of Africa and the Americas.....
@@josesilva4171 the iberian nations used the routs used by the moors just like the new world routes
@@amazigh8776 Portugal discovered new sea routes that made the world interconnect for the first time. The Moors had a good presence in the indian Ocean but you cannot compare the scale of this with what was achieved by the Portuguese.
Korea was not a colonization. It was an annexation.
Japan was referred to as Cipangu by Marco Polo. Cipangu was thought to be rich in silver and gold. Back then, due to the volcanism of the islands, Japan had access to these ores without resorting to advanced mining technologies.
It is usually described as [Zipangu.]
in indonesia we also called it "jepang" as malay prononciation of cipangu, but in malaysia they called it jepun for the modern term.
4:17 - Just a little correction... His last name is Coelho, not Coehlo.
最近日本史やってるから他の国目線の動画面白いしありがたい
There will be an Alternate universe where japan was colonized, and I'm scared what will happen
In our universe Japan was already "colonized" by U.S.A. Both economically and military.
Japanese speaking with British accent 😳
@@Maydaypayday7 Boe jiden
at least learning Japanese language would be easier. hiragana, katakana and of course specially kanji would be replaced by latin alphabet or cyrillic one(in case colonized by the russians)
Oh no there's no imperial japan and the second world war is shortened by about 2 years oh dear
Silver production at the Iwami silver mine was one of the largest in the world in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Yeah but gold and giant productive lands were the real deal... and the spaniards didn't even had ships enough to transport so much gold as the portuguese didn't even had people enough to produces and transport their productions in Brazil. So, luckyly, Japan was worthless for the europeans.
The high literacy rate was one of the biggest reasons Japan quickly adopted the European military. They were successfully modernized and became a coloniser from a Japanese point of view.
check then jp+pg to HK with koi still filling it...the key!
Excellent video. I learned a lot of new things! Thank you! (I'm not saying that lightly, I'm a PhD candidate focusing on decolonization in East Asia)
However, it would have been reasonable to focus more on the period following the Opium Wars.
Japan kept developing without invaded and destroyed by external forces like Mongols and others, unlike most other near-by nations in the continent, was the most important factor that enabled the successful catching-up with the Western civilization and keep moving on while fully adopting the Western international rules.
What made it possible were: large number of people with high-level of education backed by very high literacy rate among common people; people with more honest and straight forward characters backed by wisdom of long tradition, backed by long family lineages, which was made possible by centuries of stability in the societies of the nation.
Western Europe shares the same luck of being located far away from the invasion by nomads, such as the Mongols.
You forgot about the Dutch trade influence in Japan
You missed two attempts of invasion from Mongolia in 13th century which Japan defeated Mongolian both time.
00:02 you ran?
When the portuguese were kicked out of Japan ,the Japanese preferred to start trading with the Dutch. They were offered an island called Deshima south of Nagasaki. The Dutch were the only people who were accepted by the Japanese. This is not mentioned at all....
Nagasaki was a portuguese city so what
@@RafitoOoO Lissabon was Japanese so what....
@@hectorberlioz1449 lmao
Wait I remember watching a video of the history of Japan and it said they only traded with the dutch
Guess Dutch are just cooler
@@justacommonman5935 I guess I mean honestly that’s what the other Europeans should have done instead of spreading the faith that would most likely never be spread especially since it’s across the world they should have focused on profits
Random People: How come Japan wasn't colonized?
Japan: We took over the world through war and anime.
Rurouni Kenshin
Japanoid kamikaze robots and Godzilla are forthcoming , along with carnivorous combustion engines by Toyota , Nissan , Mitsubishi , Honda , and Suzuki.
@@AlexanderDunetz Subaru will make the all wheel drive for the robots
I recall distinctly (1980's) when Japan was regarded as the greatest threat to our (USA) fantastically misperceived global industrial hegemony.
And then ....... Japan with it's globally preeminent workforce centered in Tokio prefecture decided to "Slow down and smell the flowers along the way to work."
Now PRC is the monster utilizing "slave" labor to run all low and high tech competion off the global market .
CONCEPT:
Exploitation of human labor resources beats ass on natural resource exportation in this century.
EXAMPLE :
Once Brasil sells it's Petrobras fossil fuel and its forests for pennies ...... and it's beef export market implodes , Brasil after Haiti becomes the poorest per capital nation of the Western Hemisphere .
@@AlexanderDunetz USA/European hypocrite nations n corporations who lust over all other nation's natural resources (especially oil) want n wanted Mexico's oil n were getting close to owning it but their new president stopped that n so these lustful beasts hate him for that..lol
If Japan had truly remained "untouched by colonialism", they wouldn't have become colonizers. The history of their interactions with Western powers, as well as observing what happened to other nations who failed to stand up to them, is what drove many of the Japanese Empire's actions.
変な風邪をうつされてな。
You make it sound as if the colonial policies of Western nations are great.
this far from true japanese empire have always tried to expand into Korean peninsula and take on the Chinese dynasties they veiw great Ming as the ideal kingdom of heaven veiwed the fall of ming and tang dynasties as end of Chinese civilization and valled Machu people barbarians destroyed civilization , that why they tried many times to invade Korean even before japanese know or come into contact with Europeans
@@docaz9453
Japan only invaded Korea twice, under the Toyotomi shogunate, and the reason was not to conquer Korea but to drag attention from Japan to Korea for the Daimyos who opposed Hideyoshi.
Hideyoshi ordered the Korean invasion to be headed by Daimyo and Ronins who didn’t follow his orders, so he could redirect their attention from himself to Korea, weakening their power by making their soldiers die in Korea while Hideyoshi can secretly establish control in their home territory.
So no, Hideyoshi didn’t invade Korea to actually conquer Korea. Stop spreading misinformation
Did you know that *A roman coin bearing the face of Constantine the first was found in the ruins of a medieval japanese castle*
Japan was too strong and too well organized, and if they were invaded, I think they would have been a far more dangerous foe than anyone could know
yes, that is why us nuked japan
@@jinji0205 no.
@@jinji0205 No it was just a insane experiment by the president with F name.
@@hc68913 it was better for Japan this way
The other option was The USA and USSR invading the main islands of Japan
More people would have died plus Japan could have been divided like Germany
And the Americans probably would remove the emperor for refusing to surrender a causing more unnecessary deaths
Even now, empires fail to beat unfriendly Terrain + Guerilla warfare.
With its 70% forestation, mountainous terrain and complex coastline, Japan is a heaven for a Guerilla army.
Hideyoshi ' Stop buying the slaves we're selling you!'
Japan is great country🇯🇵
こうやって日本を説明してくれて嬉しいわ
By the time they invaded Korea in the 16th century, Japan had a very sophisticated assembly line gun manufacturing system. They invaded with a force of 250k men, a large percentage armed with guns. Compare that with European countries, whose largest army was perhaps 20k. The Spanish Armada invasion force paled in comparison to Japan's.
finally Japanese navy get defeated by the small Korean fleets and can't even conquer the peninsula,
Japanese fans keep repeating how powerful were the samurais, but they spemt most of their tike on civil war inside their 3 islands
when their Chinese and Mongol neighbors have conquered large territories and build empires several like bigger than Japan,
before Meiji Restoration, China never took Japan as serious opponent,
@@Emilechen Don't be fooled by the Korean hype。
@@user-ez8mu2pd6w The nonsense of the Japanese... Korea is the country that created Japan's first national system in 670.
Japan have unique story in East Asia. Being isolated from mainland, which protect them from mainland, and avoided most of the big fights, not getting destroyed by nomadic tribes or absorbed by china. They maintained a good ancient han chinese cultural heritage. A lot of the old han and tang dynasty culture are lost or destroyed in china but still kept in Japan, I really envy them. China had gone through mongol and manchu rule, A lot of the old han chinese culture are gone.
DNA analysis shows that Han Chinese and Japanese are not close.
@@user-lf6hn3ns8t Culturally maybe - you don't have to have similar DNA to adopt someone's culture,
@@theskeptic2010 What kind of Chinese culture is left in Japan now?
@@user-lf6hn3ns8t well perhaps Chinese characters? I see them still using nowadays. And lots of Chinese visit Nara for the Tang Dynasty style structures/temples because there basically not much Tang style structures left in China. And perhaps some food? Some music instruments?
@@user-lf6hn3ns8t pretty much everything from the tang dynasty?
Imagine a Japanese version of 55 days at Peking but it’s in Kyoto against samurai rebels
It be an enormous pain to conquer and expensive to hold.
In 1856, the US showed up in the Japanese shore to open up sea ports and establish bilateral trades. It was supposed to be a 'friendly' gesture, except that the US turned up in huge war machines with their shiny guns and japan sign a one sided treaty.
This humiliation by the west was the turning point and what followed was rapid upscaling of their military/navy power in the following Meiji restoration period.
The rest, as they say, is history
The interesting thing is that I sometimes teach at a school founded by some of the Jesuits who had come to Japan. Few of the students are actually christian.
Actually maps of Japan from the beginning of the 1700s show all of Sakhalin and the island all the way to the Kamchatka Peninsula as well as locations on the coast of Siberia. Most of these were gradually lost during the next 150+ years. By 1875, it had lost all of those except the last half of Sakhalin and a few nearby islands with the Russians pushing toward those islands and Hokkaido; so a treaty was made ceding the last half of Sakhalin to protect those islands and Hokkaido.
This video also ignores that Spain actually ruled Portugal during part of the period, and the very real concern was the Catholic Church. An embassy left Japan in the late 1500s and went around Spanish South America and saw what happened in Peru to the Incans. After they returned, the Japanese increased their opposition to Roman Catholicism (notice them continued to have limited ties with the Protestant Dutch). This ultimately led to outlawing contact with those nations following the Catholic Church. Initially, they also continued trade with England, who cut ties because it wasn't profitable and the Civil War in England; when they tried to restart it following the Stuart Restoration; however, due to the King's wife being Roman Catholic, they were banned. Is video left out a great deal of detail and fact that would have made it more accurate and infinitely more complex. There is a Japanese word "aite" (sp? Not working with my notes), it means both companion and opponent. This is like the history of Japan and the West, complex and not simple.
Watching from Brampton, Ontario, Canada 😅😅😅
Canada, colonized by the British and French, who then opened the floodgates to all nationalities, pounding in the last nail of the coffin of indigenous society. I always find it ironic how liberals are so pro-immigration, completely forgetting it's not their land to make that decison.
1:49 uh did you know that's Chinese Major pentatonic, not Japanese minor?