Video: A Peaceful Return
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- By Jessica Habjan
Veterans and families in collaboration with the OBON Society move to return battlefield mementos to Japanese families.
Photos - OBON Society
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Music - Eric Taylor Music
• Traditional Japanese M...
2:55 to 3:10 ... man , it was so hard to watch .... to all heros who lost their lives in war ... regardless which country they're from, thank you for your service !! ✌🏻🇺🇲🇯🇵✌🏻
What an honorable task this couple is engage with. Showing such respect to the flag and the meaning is beyond admiration.
Such beautiful gestures of peace and reconciliation.
The US. Older people a godly and generous generation.
The Japanese people, a suffering, resilient, hard working people. Worthy of great admiration.
I will always keep my eyes open at any antique store for one of these so that I can send them back
Sadly so many have been kept by soldiers.. So many I've seen on war videos.
@@PR4U2NV the 1940's where a different time, hell it wasnt uncommon to keep fingers from japanese soldiers, when I was a kid in the 70's there was a biker who was a ww2 vet he had a Nazi human skull on the front of his Harley, apperently he killed the german and kept his skull was fucked up times for war trophys
@@billbill9392 wtf.. Well, it's a different thing with Germans as it is for Japanese soldiers. Both were committed but, it was more spiritual for the Japanese. I know my uncle kept and broke off many Jaws for gold teeth.
@@PR4U2NV don't get me wrong though I know that many injured or surrendering Japanese were killed by Australians in Papua and by Americans on the island campaign I am just trying to say evil was the name of the game at the time ...
@@triggertroy8266 We're less to believe that only the Japanese and Germans and Italians were evil.
I never knew that about these Japanese flags. So glad they are finding their way back to the Families. Time heals all wounds......
WOW , so nice to see all those flags returned . Giving their families closure . Japan ,once a fierce enemy now an ally an a friend . Cheers to All !!
Right them was some brave men and wemon they gave up so much so we can have what we have now and people is pissing it away
Just amazing. Beautiful.
This is not a flag this is spirit of our japaness souldiers.
Such important work. Thank you for helping to create bonds of peace and healing.
U ever read the rape of nanjing?
@@nova77791 move on dude, move on,
@@wahyukurniawan35p85 why
@@nova77791 Because you are fighting a battle that is not yours. There is something disgusting about civilians being more militant than their own military. If you are one of my countrymen, know that we moved on decades ago. We have a gift that many civilians lack. We have the ability to forgive those we fight, even though there was a time when we would have wanted nothing more than to see our enemies die. My grandparents fought on both sides of the conflict, my father bridged the genetic gap, and I have worked alongside the JSDF to keep both our countries safe. We don't need people living under a rock to try to open up old wounds.
You don't have to agree with me or understand my argument, but you better stay out of our way when we're working towards having stronger ties with our allies.
@@user-do5zk6jh1k oh apologies. on the contrary,, i absolutely agree with u, i lived in chiba before and found japanese peopole, amazingly smart, kind hardworking, all the best things a country culture or people has to offer. ive also lived in seoul and beijing. its not my opinion that is important here friend
I have a flag brought back from the pacific during ww2. It doesn’t have the fancy characters on it but it’s white (stained) with a red Sun and has the American soldiers name and rank on it that brought it back.
0:16 ive never seen so many flags lined up neatly in my country.
The stories of the flags and what they mean to the families in Japan is so hard for anyone to know who has not been through a war where they have lost someone. I honor those who fought in the War on both sides because we sent people because Japan attacked us but we forget that the reason Japanese people attacked us was because they were told to by their leadership and that is where the blame lies not so much with the men who fought but there are some cases of atrocities that were carried out by some of the Japanese troops mostly officers and that is a different story but overall the vast amount of troops who fought on both sides were doing what they were told to do.
The soldiers of World War II or dying. Just like it is their time to return to the unknown. It is time for what remains of their former enemy to return home. In war enemies in peace friends
Beautiful!
respect
A very special video. Thanks
A Beautiful Story....
Human souls are beautiful when racism and politics (ie. the Devil) are separated from them.
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I have seen a video who returned one of the flag ..it was sir martin
Correct! I watched that too.
I love what they are doing.
I love the story and what it's all about and the humanity that has been shown. But has anything from the Japanese come back to any of the American soldiers and their families ?
I hope Asian giants can forgive each other and acknowledge atrocities done during the war. Unfortunately till today 3 months to 2022. There are a lot of distrust
Love this
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Wow.
I see stories like this all the time. But never Japan returning a Marine's dog tags after being dragged down some hole and tortured to death, as was their standard operating procedure.
Exactly, it's pretty one sided. I'll donate our family bring backs when I start hearing of American dog tags being returned to families. No excuses considering the service number on the tag guarantees an ID.
I realize that japanese military personnel stationed on old bases in the pacific do just that. There are a couple japanese civilians that also repatriate personal American items lost in the war.
I'd like to see the families of veterans return the items taken off soldiers.
Japan had a very different culture socially and militarily back then and took over a generation of Americanization for their society to change. Can't hold that against them in modern times.
No! The flag that they mentioned that was recovered from the Philippines should never be sent back to Japan. It should be burned! Let the soldiers (Japanese) soul rest in peace.
I dont hold grudges for what America did during during WW2 for What IJ did too is of the same seed. I believe for any sides, when two of opposite trying to find a mutual understand there shall be, as long as both sides are will to give into one another to a certain extent. "Both"
Considering that Japan was the instigator, not sure how America gets tied in to being of the same seed. Not pointing the finger, stating facts.
Most of the japan n British soldiers die in nagaland, india during the second World War..in wich the British tank is still in kohima. .
If they don't find the owner do they send it back to people in America?
They likely go to a museum in Tokyo.
Mista Miyagi yes Daniel son.
so, they STOLE the flags like some trophy
why "return" ?
So wrong for them to take!
thats why they are returned
@@bluskytoo I have one that I'm selling on ebay. If you want to purchase it and track the family down, let me know. I need the cash
I wonder what life will be like today if the Japanese would have won the war? Leave ur thoughts below⬇️⬇️
Powerful world.
Chingy
No Communist China most likely.
They would still be performing dissections on live Chinese peasants and believing they were the master race.
i have this flag .can look my video
Flag World War Two japanese 1945 Us Army Yosegaki Hinomaru
Who do we return Nazi flags to? 😬🙄
I saw flag like that in jpan🇯🇵🙏🏾👊🏿
Are dog tags taken off POW'S being returned to families in America for closure?
My Grandfather fought in WW2 , was on a troopship bound for Singaporeo but luckily for him his ship was diverted because Singapore had fallen, so he missed out on being subjected to despicable Conduct by the Japanese Imperial Army. He then fought in Burma, in the Arakan and at Kohima and Imphal. Then down through Burma to Rangoon , seeing final action on the Sittang River. He was in an AA Battery until the Japanese ran out of aeroplanes he then became an infantryman. He rarely spoke of his war experiences, he suffered boughts of malaria up to his death. He did not speak well of the Japanese soldiers, the atrocities he saw and heard of he rarely spoke of. He did on occasion mention that he felt the Japanese, as a society did not accept their culpability for the countless war crimes they committed. Though individuals were tried and sentenced it is important to remember that they were the product the Japanese culture. Japan did not accept collective responsibility as the Germans did. The www2 Japanese Army is still revered by some. My Grandfather brought back from Burma a Japanese flag, we know from research it's one of those good luck flags. It has holes in it and what can only be bloodstains. He gave various explanations for how he got it ranging from swapping a packet of tea for it to "tickling a jap to death or it". My Grandfather was fortunate to have survived the war, some of his comrades did not. They were the victims of Japanese imperialism, not only them but 10000's like him and MILLIONS of Chinese. The flag he brought back is now part of my family history, a commemoration of his war service and will serve as a reminder in my family of the despicable conduct of some types of society.If there is a family or village in Japan that is missing this flag, it's absence will be reminder to them of the sort of society that existed in their country and what it did. It is ours and will never be returned. In the crudest of terms it's a war trophy..
You are wrong for that! How disrespectful! My Grandfather served in the war and saw terrible things, he still did not have this outlook! I feel so sorry for your family and their bitterness!
My friends grandfather ( uk soldier) was tortured by the Japanese.they pulled out all his toenails. She said he suffered nightmares even till he died in his eighty’s.
War is terrible end of story.
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Did any of these Japanese soldiers write on any of these flags. How they tortured and butchered their opponents on the battlefield ?
Did america talk about bombing innocent people and causing more wars afterwards? Mind your business. Why come here to hate? Only losers like you go out of your way to make every thing hateful.
@@emmettlester739 to answer your question yes. We talk about it all the time. While in Japan is part of teaching in the schools that most of the horrible things they did never actually happened.
And that is every decent human being's business, you excepted.
@@loetzcollector466 Yeah america teaches kids in class today how in the past 15 years, they destroyed cities, killed innocent people, create ISIS, and fuel an unnecessary war... oh wait lol they don't. Its to defend freedom. i forgot
I have one of these flags. Blood spatter on it. I'm not returning it, trying to sell it to the highest bidder. The family wants it, they can buy it like everyone else on ebay.
As much as I hate to say it, these shouldn't be returned until Japan acknowledges what it did in the war. How many Chinese, Filipinos, and other Asians get no closure? The closest thing they will get is Japan at least apologizing for every atrocity it committed, as Germany did.
That was some stupid shit you just said. Its not about a country and its history, its about the people and their families. America isn't clear from its own wrong doing in the past. Fuck outta here.
@@emmettlester739 Quit whining.
@@emmettlester739 I think the difference that you're either pretending not to understand or maybe actually are too stupid to understand is that America does acknowledge and is constantly coming to grips with what it did in World War II. Whereas Japan lies to its own people and the rest of the world about WW2 to this day.
Again you morons. This is about families. Not your brain dead patriotic views.
@@emmettlester739 There's nothing braindead about it.
Japan has yet to acknowledge their war time atrocities. I cant sympathize with Japanese soldiers when they could have easily done terrible things like the things they did in Nanjing, which rival the Nazis.
A completely understandable sentiment friend. I also know the history behind it. Still, I believe there is something very 'human' about this. Forgive, but never forget....
I don't know man. Two cities of vaporized civilians seems like fair punishment.
@@fouronetwo813 true, but we're talking more about acknowledgement and coming to grips as opposed to punishment.