WW2 From the Japanese Perspective | Animated History

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Imagine being a Japanese soldier and remaining isolated on a small isle unaware of what's happened to the rest of the world till the 1970s.

My great granddad Feser was at Pearl Harbor on the USS California. After the bombing, he was reassigned to the USS Aragon, and saw action at every battle of the Pacific except for Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima. He later went on to fight in Korea. I never knew him, sadly, as he died before I was born

You should do the Napoleonic retreat from Russia from the french soldier's perspective. I think that would be very interesting. Keep it up Griffin 🙏 (Edit): OMG thanks for all the likes, hopefully Griffin could one day make this happen 👍

my great grandfather was drafted to the imperial japanese army, he escaped through a small sewer few hours before his unit was sent to the Battle of Okinawa, he told my dad that none of his comrades came back home (he is from korea)

I was kind of surprised not to see any mention of the incident between Japan and the USA that involved the USS Panay river gunboat. It definitely caused a lot of anti Japanese sentiment in the USA, and could have led to war between the 2 if FDR had felt the USA was ready to fight. It is also surprising that there was no mention at all of the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact of April 1941. That had a huge impact on the course of the war, and I am frankly a bit shocked that Armchair would leave it out entirely.

I was waiting so long for a video on Japan, and I'm kinda mixed. The full documentary on Germany takes 1h30 but this video on Japan is a 17min one-shot. Sure it is very well made and sums up everything very well, but it kinds of feels rushed. Even the end is kind of abrupt. I don't think this video does enough to really highlight the Japanese role in WW2. It's even shorter than the video on Italy (one of the best btw). I hope that this was just a summary video and that the team plans on other videos on the pacific theater that will go more in-depth, like a video on the quality of the Japanese navy like you did on the Kriegsmarine.

It should be noted that at the battle of midway, the divergence of forces to the Aleutian Islands may have been a secession to the army who wished to expand the defense perimeter. The army and navy did NOT get along or agree in the Japanese government at the time and bothe of them often had to sacrifice parts of their plan to the other just so the plan could be carried out.

Damn, I'm always amazed by how good the artwork is. Let the artists know their hard work doesn't go unnoticed.

The stupidly fast rise of japanese naval force is scary as hell. They went from nothing to competing with Britain and the US. Would like you to do a video centered about it like you did with the Kriegsmarine.

"The rise of the japanese empire" from backwater to global powerhouse on par with European powers would be an interesting topic.

Sometimes I think the scale of the Pacific and Sino-Japanese theaters get overshadowed by the war in Europe and Africa, but man, WW2 was just horrific all around. Thank you for another interesting episode. God be with you out there everybody. ✝️

I’ve always thought a civil war from the slaves perspective would be interesting and important as a relatively overlooked subject

How did Japan go from war crimes to cute anime girls it's like they pulled a Michael Jackson on the world lol

You should talk about the rivalry between the Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy.

A description of WW2 from the Japanese perspective is incomplete without mentioning indoctrination about specifically racial superiority. The Japanese viewed themselves as the "master race" of Asian peoples. In contrast, the peoples conquered in the "Co-prosperity Sphere" were viewed as subhuman, justifying the atrocities committed against them. This explains why Japan killed arguably more civilians than Germany while actually fighting - and killing enemy soldiers - far less. In summation, presenting the "Japanese perspective" without mentioning the view of racial superiority is akin to describing Nazi Germany's actions without including also Aryan supremacy: incomplete and historically misleading.

Have you taken a look into World War Two from the Norwegian perspective? You should also try taking a look at the fighting in Myanmar and Thailand.

Worth noting early in WW2, Japan had one of the best Air forces worldwide. The US was forced to play catch-up after Pearl Harbor

That early intro with the rising sun's beams shining over Asia is so menacing but cool at the same time!

People forget that despite US condemnation of japan and assurances to China, US still trade with Japan even peaked in war material. It is until that Indochina was attacked by Japan, US (and the west) began to react and sanction Japan and helping china.