The Dawn Empire | Animated History of Japan

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Mongols: Attack Japanese: T Y P H O O N Mongols: Let's try again Japanese: T Y P H O O N 2

Is no one gonna talk about how long this took to animate? Props to the animator for quality content. 👌

Mongols: Surrender or we'll use force gets rekt by typhoon Japan: Huh, neat.

For anyone using this video as a textbook: 02:50 平安京 HEIAN KYO (in video: HEIAN KYO 飛鳥) *飛鳥 reads ASUKA 03:14 橘 TACHIBANA (in video: TACHIBANA 平安) *平安 is HEIAN. And yes, it should be pronounced as tachiBAna, not tachiKAna. 03:30 HOGEN (pronounced hoh-g’en, not hoh-JEN) 保元の乱 (Hogen-no-ran), for anyone interested. 05:43 鎌倉 KAMAKURA (in video: 鎌倉市) *鎌倉市 is City of Kamakura (Kamakura-shi), which is a present-day municipality in Kanagawa pref. 05:45 BAKUFU is BAKUFU, not BAFUKU. 幕府(Bakufu), for anyone curious. 05:57 守護 SHUGO (in video SHOGO) 08:43 MUROMACHI 室町時代 (in video: ASHIKAGA 室町時代) *The era was MUROMACHI (室町), the name of Shogun was ASHIKAGA (足利) 08:55 DAIMYO 大名 (in video: DIAMYO 大名) 09:26 GEKOKUJO 下剋上 (in video: GEKOJUKO 下剋上) 10:41 一向一揆 (pronounced: IKKO-IKKI) wasn’t really a Daimyo but rather rebellious groups of people 10:57 朝鮮 JOSEON (in video: 大北朝鮮) No country is named as 大北朝鮮, but if it were literally translated that’d read “Great North Korea.” Kim is thrilled. 11:18 SEKIGAHARA (in video: SHEKIGAHARA). 関ヶ原(Sekigahara), for anyone wondering. 11:51 Qing (清) or Great Qing (大清). In video: 大慶, which I don’t recall China had such dynasty. 13:05 Overly stereotypical geisha and building depictions aside, the tumbleweed was never common in Japan 15:16 東京へ/ようこそ (in video: 東京へよ/うこそ) 16:33 RYUKYU (in video: RYUKU) 18:30 MANCHUKUO (満州国) or Empire of Manchuria (満州帝国). In video: MANCHUKUO(満州帝国) 20:39 マレー MALAYA (in video: マレーシア MALAYA). マレーシア(Malaysia) is a present day country Malaysia. 22:45 韓国(Hanguk) refers to present day South Korea, in South Korean language. In north, South Korea is called Nam-choson (South-Joseon) Great video, education is indeed really important.

When the Mongols tried to invade both Japan and Vietnam: Japan: Two Typhoons Vietnam: Spikes in the river Hmmm....now I think of it, the Mongols greatest weakness was water. :)

Part two will be exclusively about anime

17:40 "The German soldiers were so impressed with the Japanese army that they openly admired them, and even showed them a sign of great respect as they paraded through the city." This was a victory parade, and the defeated German soldiers were ordered to be there to show respect. The reason they turned their backs to the British, when their contingent of the parade passed by, was because the British soldiers in the parade hadn't done any of the fighting. They had used colonial troops, but it wasn't the colonial troops who were parading.

foreigner: open your country japan: no foreigner: why japan: all our people are under quarantine duh

America: we have the right and duty to expand anywhere we want (manifest destiny) Japan: Cool I’ll do the same America: Wait that’s illegal

Knock knock, it’s the United States. With huge boats, with guns. Gunboats

Thank you, really enjoyed this. Found you while looking for a history of Japan due to an upcoming trip. Will have to watch it a few times to consolidate but a great potted history and great animation!

9:40 small correction, Tanegashima is an island. The Portugese matchlock arquebus used by the samurai were called Tanegashima-teppo, named after the island. It's more convenient to refer to them as arquebuses.

8:18 Someone watched Phineas and Ferb just before writing this.

“Everything should still be fine” (Star spangled banner starts playing) “Oh No!”

Japan before ww2: BANZAI!!! Japan after ww2: KAWAII!!!

These animations are awesome. Thanks for sharing. I have learned a lot of history and had fun doing it too.

13:27 , "Everything should be just fine as long as Japan keeps it's doors-" USA HAS ENTERED THE CHAT

Fun micro-factoid about Japan's meteoric rise from isolationist backwater to Victorian world power: When the Americans opened international applications for space at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, Japan was the first in line for exhibit space and ended up being they third largest spender at the fair behind France and Germany. The Japanese exhibits were also widely regarded as the best of the international visitors, regularly being praised for their consistency in excellence and for the admirable dedication and politeness of the Japanese workers, the only Eastern nation at the time that the Western powers respected as a (near) equal. After the fair, much of the Japanese exhibits' contents were sold or donated to American collectors and museums, and the Japanese structures in the International Section, known as the Ho-O-Den Buildings, became one of only three structures left standing as the rest of the fair structures, all intended to be temporary, were either torn down or destroyed by fire. Tragically, the Ho-O-Den Buildings were also burned during World War II by anti-Japanese rioters.

This really helped with my Presentation on Japan's History! Thanks for making this!