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00:03:26 #1 They would never completely understand the Japanese mind,
00:03:29 #2 but then they don't understand ours either.
00:03:32 #3 Otherwise, there would never have been a Pearl Harbor.
00:03:35 #4 But we must try to understand Japan because we have become locked in the closest of all relationships.
00:03:45 #5 Whether we like it or not, we in the Japanese are going to be a very close range for a very long time.
00:03:51 #6 So let's see what kind of people these Japanese really are,
00:03:55 #7 what they believe in, what they want,
00:03:58 #8 they get. And if this tale begins to get a little fantastic, bear with us. We're dealing with
00:04:07 #9 the fantastic people. Let's examine a typical Japanese soldier. His average height is 5 feet
00:04:16 #10 3 inches. His average weight is 117 pounds. He and his brother's soldiers are as much
00:04:23 #11 alike as photographic prints off the same negative. His pay is 10 yen or about $2.36
00:04:31 #12 a month. His personal equipment is simple but practical.
00:04:35 #13 Only supplied with ammunition, the load he carries weighs about 60 pounds, more than half his weight.
00:04:41 #14 His uniform is ill-fitting. His appearance, unsoldierly. Even comic, according to Western standards.
00:04:48 #15 At drill, he may lack precision, but he is high. He is able. He knows his job.
00:04:59 #16 His endurance is phenomenal. He just as soon go over a mountain as around it.
00:05:08 #17 He lives on rice.
00:05:11 #18 Rice and fish, or occasionally rice and meat, but often on rice alone.
00:05:17 #19 And he's proud of it.
00:05:19 #20 He is proud of the fact that to be a soldier is the highest human achievement in Japan.
00:05:24 #21 He has been trained to be a soldier almost from birth.
00:05:27 #22 An into his tough little mind has been drilled and hammered the fanatical belief that Japanese
00:05:32 #23 are descendants of gods and destined to rule the earth and all who live on it.
00:05:39 #24 To this end treachery, brutality, rape and torture are all justified if used against
00:05:44 #25 non-Japanese.
00:05:55 #26 In combat his single aim is to close with the enemy and handle hand fighting.
00:06:00 #27 He believes that in the attack itself, there is some mystic virtue by which greater numbers
00:06:04 #28 bearing superior weapons can be vanquished.
00:06:14 #29 In his mind, there is usually no question of choice between death and surrender.
00:06:19 #30 To him, death in battle is the attainment of an ideal.
00:06:23 #31 Where his flag leads, he bows, and a blind emotional rush.
00:06:31 #32 For his flag not only represents his country, it is also the image of his God of God.
00:06:36 #33 This flag is the rising sun.
00:06:39 #34 The rising sun is the symbol of the emperor.
00:06:45 #35 To the Japanese, their emperor is the most holy of holies, very visible God.
00:06:51 #36 He is also their political ruler, the natural and supernatural.
00:06:56 #37 Religion and politics all done up in a one man package.
00:07:00 #38 In trust to one man, the powers of the President of the United States, the Prime Minister
00:07:05 #39 of Great Britain, the Premier of Soviet Russia, add to them the powers of the Pope, the Archbishop
00:07:12 #40 of Canterbury, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, then top it all with the divine authority
00:07:19 #41 of our own Son of God, and you will begin to understand what Hirohito means to the
00:07:24 #42 Japanese, why they call him the God Emperor.
00:07:28 #43 For to the Japanese, Hirohito is a direct descendant of the Son, and what is so high,
00:07:34 #44 so brilliant and so mighty as the sun.
00:07:38 #45 Accordingly, no one can stand above or look down upon the emperor.
00:07:43 #46 When he passes through the streets, all windows above the first floor must be tightly shuttered.
00:07:48 #47 The train to Tokyo from anywhere in Japan is the up train to Tokyo because the emperor lives there.
00:07:58 #48 Nor can the emperor be imitated in any way.
00:08:01 #49 Only his automobile may be maroon colored.
00:08:04 #50 Not even his tailor may touch the person of the emperor, for who would lay hands upon the sun?
00:08:11 #51 If you are Japanese it actually hurts your eyes to look at Hirohito,
00:08:16 #52 just as it hurts your eyes to look at the blazing sun, nor would anyone dream of handling his uncovered picture.
00:08:25 #53 When Hirohito's face appeared on the front cover of an American magazine,
00:08:30 #54 the Japanese government filed an official protest with the American State Department.
00:08:34 #55 Whatever takes place in Japan, it is he, the God Emperor that causes it.
00:08:40 #56 From him all things emanate, and in him all things subsist.
00:08:45 #57 He makes the Japanese rice grow. He makes Japanese soldiers conquer the world.
00:08:50 #58 In his name they bring to other people justice, enlightenment, truth, co-prosperity and peace.
00:09:04 #59 The year 1940 was a holy year in Japan, but the nation celebrated the 2600th anniversary of its founding by the first god-emperor, Jimu.
00:09:30 #60 If you are Japanese, you believe that Jimu was the grandson of Prince Nenegi, who himself
00:09:54 #61 was the grandson of the Sun Goddess, Amaterasu Omikami.
00:09:59 #62 And she, the son herself, said to Prince Nenegi,
00:10:03 #63 Go down and rule of the luxuriant land of Reed Plains, which your posterity is to govern as monarchs.
00:10:10 #64 Whereon, Nenege descended from heaven to the land of Reed Plains and built a palace,
00:10:15 #65 and took to wife the daughter of a mountain deity, and she bore Nenege a son.
00:10:20 #66 And Nenege's son, in turn, took to wife the daughter of the God of the sea,
00:10:25 #67 and they too had a son whom they named Jimu.
00:10:29 #68 Exactly 2600 years ago, Jimu landed at Yamato and proclaimed himself emperor over all the
00:10:36 #69 islands, saying, let us extend our capital until it covers the eight corners of the world
00:10:42 #70 under one roof, and in this way the Japanese empire was created.
00:10:48 #71 Hirohito is the 128th direct descendant of the sun goddess.
00:10:54 #72 And since from the beginning the emperor gods have mingled their flesh with mortal flesh,
00:10:58 #73 It follows that all Japanese are cousins in divinity, the soldier and the wrestler, the
00:11:05 #74 wrestler and the priest, the woman in the rice fields, the factory worker, the geisha girl,
00:11:14 #75 the businessman, the fisherman off California.
00:11:20 #76 All are members of one family whose blood is superior to the blood of any other race
00:11:24 #77 on earth because it is mixed with the liquid sunshine of the gods.
00:11:29 #78 what's more they believe it and being of divine origin all their acts fall into
00:11:40 #79 the divine pattern called the way of the gods or Shinto which brings us to the
00:11:45 #80 national religion of Japan Shinto is now shintoism will not be easy to understand
00:12:25 #81 but since it is the heart brain and soul of the nation and dictates all
00:12:30 #82 Japanese actions for the living and for the dead it is important that we try
00:12:35 #83 to understand it. According to Shinto, the population of Japan is one son of heaven, the emperor,
00:12:42 #84 nine million minor gods, 75 million living people, and billions upon billions of ghosts,
00:12:49 #85 the spirits of all Japanese who have died in the past. These spirits stand watch over
00:12:55 #86 all Japan, follow their soldiers into battle, and serenely float around in every Japanese
00:13:00 #87 house where guests are frequently introduced to them. They are so near, the living merely
00:13:06 #88 have to clap their hands to call their attention. Their fed choice food and incense is burned
00:13:12 #89 for them. Each living Japanese is merely a link in this endless chain of ghosts. He
00:13:21 #90 is identical with them except for the unimportant fact that he breathes and can be seen. Each
00:13:29 #91 living Japanese knows he is constantly surrounded by these spirits who guard him and watch
00:13:34 #92 over him to see that he obeys the emperor and follows the way of the gods.
00:13:40 #93 To watch over special Japanese activities, there's a host of minor gods.
00:13:46 #94 The volcano is a god.
00:13:51 #95 The lightning.
00:13:53 #96 There's a god of the silkworm.
00:13:56 #97 The god of the night wind.
00:13:59 #98 These pearl divers have a god, and annually they hold a ceremony for him.
00:14:04 #99 These farmers have a rice god to whom they offer prayers for a good harvest.
00:14:12 #100 These scarecrow's are all gods of one kind or another.
00:14:17 #101 There are over 100,000 Shinto shrines in which these local gods and spirits are worshiped.
00:14:22 #102 For the living Japanese, Shinto decrees that all their actions must imitate the way of
00:14:30 #103 the gods, who handle chopsticks thusly, arrange flowers thusly, drink tea thusly, worship
00:14:43 #104 the emperor, Thusley, enter a room, Thusley,
00:14:50 #105 greet an acquaintance, Thusley.
00:14:59 #106 Now on the surface, Shinto seems to be a nice,
00:15:02 #107 cranked religion for a nice, cranked people.
00:15:05 #108 And in the olden days, it used to be just that.
00:15:08 #109 But today, there's a diabolical joker in Shintoism.
00:15:12 #110 For since about 1870, the state has forced
00:15:15 #111 into the teachings of Shinto a mad fanatical doctrine,
00:15:19 #112 a doctrine that has brought suffering and death to untold millions of innocent asiatics
00:15:24 #113 and now to thousands upon thousands of Americans.
00:15:39 #114 This doctrine is based on the Divine Command, the Jemo.
00:15:42 #115 The first God Emperor was supposed to have given his people 2,600 years ago.
00:15:47 #116 Let us extend the capital and cover the eight corners of the world under one roof.
00:15:53 #117 To cover the eight corners of the world under a Japanese roof.
00:15:57 #118 The Japs have a special name for Jimo's divine connect.
00:16:01 #119 It's called Haku Ichiyo, and it has become the national ambition of Japan.
00:16:07 #120 From the viewpoint of Haku Ichiyo, the Emperor of Japan is the Emperor of all the races of the world.
00:16:17 #121 There are no southern seas. All the oceans are to be recognized as the great Japanese sea.
00:16:26 #122 And in 1930, the modern American college educated minister Matsuoka said,
00:16:31 #123 To save humanity in conformity with the great spirit in which the Emperor Jimu founded the empire,
00:16:39 #124 Japan should take over the management of Asia, then extend it to the rest of the world.
00:16:47 #125 If you are Japanese, you believe you have been commanded by heaven to conquer all other races and peoples and put them under a Japanese rule.
00:17:00 #126 If you are Japanese, you believe the place of honor among the spirits is reserved for those who die in battle.
00:17:07 #127 For they become warrior gods and are enshrined in a sacred temple, Yasukuni Shrine.
00:17:14 #128 The names of soldiers killed in battle are written on little tablets and placed at night in the inner recesses of this most holy Yasukuni Shrine.
00:17:24 #129 That is the greatest honor that man can achieve in Japan,
00:17:28 #130 to die in battle and be enshrined in Yaskuni,
00:17:32 #131 for even the Emperor comes to bow to him.
00:17:35 #132 That's why soldiers, when saying goodbye to each other,
00:17:39 #133 often say,
00:17:41 #134 See you in Yaskuni.
00:17:44 #135 That's why mothers and wives accept the ashes of their dead soldiers
00:17:47 #136 without grief or sorrow.
00:17:51 #137 The silent victorious return, it is called.
00:17:54 #138 For the dead are warrior gods who live on beside them
00:17:57 #139 them to be cherished and cared for, to be given food and drink and a lighted cigarette to smoke.
00:18:17 #140 That's why Jap soldiers would rather be killed and surrender, for to be killed means they become warrior gods.
00:18:23 #141 To surrender means everlasting shame and dishonor to them and their family and all their ancestors.
00:18:29 #142 If you are Japanese, you believe these things implicitly.
00:18:33 #143 Wanda!
00:18:34 #144 But if you are not Japanese, what then is the real Japan?
00:18:51 #145 The Japan of the geographer, the anthropologist and the historian.
00:18:55 #146 The Japan of which the Japanese themselves know little or nothing.
00:18:59 #147 The name Japan comes from two Chinese words,
00:19:03 #148 G and Pen. The literal translation of which is,
00:19:07 #149 the land where the sun comes from. The Chinese called it that because Japan
00:19:12 #150 lay to the east. Geographers say Japan is a chain of volcanic islands,
00:19:17 #151 1,200 miles long and an average of 120 miles wide,
00:19:21 #152 a total land mass being a little larger than the state of California.
00:19:25 #153 Rocky and mountainous, only 16% of Japan is suitable for farming.
00:19:31 #154 Every human being in Japan lives within sight of mountains,
00:19:35 #155 many of them from 6 to 12,000 feet high.
00:19:38 #156 There are some 50 active rockinos scattered through Japan.
00:19:42 #157 On an average of four times a day, Japan has earthquakes,
00:19:46 #158 Severe shocks occurring about once every two and a half years,
00:19:49 #159 with one disaster-serving weight, about every 25 years.
00:19:53 #160 There are some 45 cities with a population of over 100,000,
00:20:05 #161 only three of which are beyond the range of 16-inch naval guns.
00:20:09 #162 Tokyo, the capital, with a population of 7,900,000,
00:20:14 #163 is the third largest city in the world.
00:20:16 #164 And what of the people of Japan and their so-called divine origin?
00:20:22 #165 Answerologists say the original inhabitants of the islands were a hairy barbarian people called Inus.
00:20:29 #166 Later on fierce Mongolian tribes moved in and began conquering the Inus.
00:20:34 #167 Still later other tribes from many sources arrived on the scene.
00:20:38 #168 The fusion of all these tribes and races resulted in the Japanese of today, not of one pure blood,
00:20:45 #169 but of a well-mixed plasma cocktail of Anu, Mongol, Manchu, and Malaysian.
00:20:51 #170 Of the history of Japan, historians say that somewhere around the beginning of the Christian era,
00:21:00 #171 they elevated to leadership a chief, or high priest, in this case the emperor,
00:21:04 #172 who claimed to have an inside track with the gods.
00:21:08 #173 This evolved into Shintoism, and the emperor's son myth became the dominant religion.
00:21:13 #174 But the early emperors had little political power,
00:21:16 #175 for the islands were really divided into many independent and quarrelsome tribes,
00:21:20 #176 ruled over by powerful barons or daimios.
00:21:23 #177 These daimios each had large well-paid private armies of warriors called Samurai.
00:21:29 #178 The Samurai were the important and privileged class.
00:21:33 #179 Real aristocrats who lived off the fat of the land
00:21:36 #180 without working. As a badge of rank,
00:21:39 #181 they wore two swords, a short sword for committing haraqiri when captured or
00:21:44 #182 disgraced,
00:21:45 #183 and a large two-handed sword they fought with.
00:21:49 #184 With this sword it was their privilege to lop off heads, arms, or ears of the peasants,
00:21:53 #185 either for practice or amusement.
00:21:56 #186 To further set themselves apart from the common herd, the samurai developed a code of rules for themselves
00:22:01 #187 called Bushido, the code of the warrior.
00:22:05 #188 Bushido extolled absolute loyalty to one's superior and reckless bravery in battle.
00:22:11 #189 But most important, Bushido not only sanctioned double dealing and treachery,
00:22:19 #190 but looked upon it as an art to be cultivated.
00:22:22 #191 It encouraged ambush.
00:22:24 #192 Jump a man from behind when he's unarmed and you've got a club.
00:22:27 #193 When he's alone and you've got a gang.
00:22:30 #194 That's Bushido, the art of treachery and the double cross.
00:22:34 #195 The national code of Japan.
00:22:36 #196 Harakiri was also a privilege of the samurai.
00:22:40 #197 and condemned to death they were allowed to kill themselves rather than be
00:22:44 #198 beheaded. The executioners acts was for the common people. As a result,
00:22:50 #199 Hara-kiri became an elaborate ceremony, a form of art that showed bravery and
00:22:54 #200 indifference to pain. A man's son or his best friend stood by with a big sword to
00:23:00 #201 chop his head off in case he lost his nerve. The Dimeo's and their paid samurai
00:23:10 #202 engaged in unending bloody civil wars against each other for the right to
00:23:14 #203 become the shogun. Being the shogun meant being top dog among all the daimyo's. A dictator of
00:23:30 #204 dictators. Ruling the islands in the name of the emperor, who was kept in the background
00:23:35 #205 as a religious figurehead. In the year 1592, the powerful shogun Hideyoshi thought he and
00:23:42 #206 Japan were strong enough to make their first bid to cover the world with the Japanese
00:23:47 #207 and as they have ever since, they picked China as the first victim.
00:23:51 #208 Hideyoshi invaded Korea, but Chinese from other provinces came to the aid of the Koreans.
00:24:03 #209 The Japs were stopped, and when Hideyoshi died suddenly, the invasion was called off.
00:24:09 #210 But they did a complete job of plunder, taking back with them all the wealth and art they could carry.
00:24:15 #211 They also brought back 30,000 pickled ears and noses of Chinese and Koreans killed in battle.
00:24:22 #212 These they buried in what is now known as the Irma and the city of Kyoto.
00:24:27 #213 It was around this period that something new came into the midst of this warring bloodthirsty people.
00:24:33 #214 Something new and strange.
00:24:39 #215 In the year 1521 Magellan had sailed around the world to the Philippines.
00:24:44 #216 In his wake came Spanish and Portuguese missionaries who eventually visited the Japanese islands.
00:24:50 #217 The strange new thing they brought was Christianity.
00:24:54 #218 the revolutionary doctrine of peace on earth and the equality and brotherhood of man.
00:24:59 #219 Here was something that dignified the lowly Japanese serfs as human beings.
00:25:04 #220 Soon there were some 200 churches and over 200,000 converts.
00:25:09 #221 The warlords became frightened.
00:25:16 #222 These foreign medicine men were teaching tolerance, brotherly love, peace, and even equality, so they acted.
00:25:24 #223 137 churches were destroyed in Nagasaki.
00:25:53 #224 All Christian converts in Tokyo were burned at the stake.
00:25:57 #225 Throw out the West, throw out its poisonous doctrine of peace.
00:26:01 #226 And with that, Japan closed its doors.
00:26:04 #227 No one could leave Japan. No one could enter.
00:26:07 #228 Foreign sailors shipped wrecked on their shores with torture to be headed.
00:26:14 #229 For 200 years, Japan remained completely isolated.
00:26:19 #230 And in those 200 years, the world advanced more than it had in the previous thousand years.
00:26:25 #231 Baltair lived, and Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Pasteur.
00:26:32 #232 The Americans fought a revolution for the belief that all men were created equal.
00:26:37 #233 The French fought for liberty, equality, and paternity.
00:26:42 #234 The power of steam was discovered, and the steamboat and steam engine began to narrow the oceans and connoisseurs.
00:26:48 #235 The telegraph was invented.
00:26:50 #236 China was opened up to the trade of the world.
00:26:53 #237 But during all this time, Japan was closed.
00:26:57 #238 No news reached her shores.
00:26:59 #239 She remained a nation blacked out from the rest of the world, still living in the Middle Ages.
00:27:04 #240 Then in 1853, just 92 years ago,
00:27:08 #241 Commodore Perry's American fleet of four ships sailed into Yokohama,
00:27:12 #242 bearing a message from President Fillmore offering the hand of friendship and the interest of trade.
00:27:18 #243 The Japanese warlords woke with a shock from their 200 years of self-imposed isolation.
00:27:25 #244 They realized that the hairy white barbarian had machines and weapons that made him parl.
00:27:30 #245 If the sons of heaven were to rule the earth, their spears and swords would be of little avail.
00:27:36 #246 Also, they realized how weak and divided they really were compared to western nations.
00:27:42 #247 Hastily, the feuding barons stopped fighting among themselves and joined together.
00:27:47 #248 but they needed a central figure around whom they could rally.
00:27:51 #249 Available was the God Emperor, who up to now had been more or less a vestige.
00:27:55 #250 So in 1868, the warlords did away with the position of Shuga
00:28:00 #251 and elevated Emperor Meiji to supreme dictatorship over all Japan,
00:28:05 #252 reserving for themselves and themselves alone,
00:28:09 #253 the right to speak for him and to guide his policies.
00:28:12 #254 A position the warlords have hung on to ever since.
00:28:16 #255 Now for a strong military. The paid warriors, the samurai, were too few for a national army.
00:28:23 #256 So they introduced another revolutionary idea into Japanese life.
00:28:27 #257 The sons of peasants were suddenly permitted the great privilege of bearing arms.
00:28:33 #258 And it was a great privilege for being a soldier, almost meant being a noble.
00:28:38 #259 And to sell this program to the Japanese, the warlords should be used religion.
00:28:47 #260 They revised ancient Shintoism to suit their purpose and forced Emperor worship, military glorification,
00:28:54 #261 and fanatic thoughts of conquest to be preached by all Shinto priests.
00:28:59 #262 Thus Japan rid herself of the old samurai, but their fanatical spirit was passed on to the new peasant soldier, Bushido Kodonor.
00:29:09 #263 The warlords now flung open their doors to the west.
00:29:13 #264 Posts and telegraphs were introduced, railroads, the European calendar, photography,
00:29:20 #265 European dress, a frenzy of modernization seized upon the land.
00:29:25 #266 With the politeness such as the world has seldom seen, the Japanese invited other nations to help them build up their military power.
00:29:33 #267 And always with the thought, treat with the foreigner, learn his weapons,
00:29:38 #268 and then used them to destroy him.
00:29:40 #269 The old Bushido double cross.
00:29:42 #270 The English having the best navy in the world
00:29:44 #271 were invited to build up and train the Japanese navy.
00:29:48 #272 The French supposed to have the best army in the world
00:29:51 #273 were invited to train the Japanese army.
00:29:54 #274 But when they saw the French defeated by the Germans
00:29:57 #275 in the Franco-Prussian war,
00:29:59 #276 the Japanese switched to German advisors for their army.
00:30:02 #277 From the English and the Americans,
00:30:10 #278 they borrowed the outward forms of democracy.
00:30:13 #279 ministers and their representative body the diet. But this was all a cruel joke.
00:30:19 #280 The Army and Navy cabinet ministers still actually descendants of the old feudal
00:30:24 #281 barons are above and beyond any law-making body. They have direct access to the
00:30:30 #282 emperor and can entirely bypass the civil government. In fact, whatever Japan took
00:30:36 #283 from the West or the Chinese, the warlords never took the moral or ethical
00:30:41 #284 principles that went with them.
00:30:43 #285 All modern knowledge that has come to the Japanese people, all culture, all ideas, all
00:30:49 #286 thinking has been filtered through to the people from the top down.
00:30:53 #287 Any new idea is first tried out by the ruling classes, changed to suit their purpose, then
00:30:59 #288 with the emperor's blessing handed down to the people as defined law.
00:31:04 #289 In our western civilization, practically all the ideas, the forces that have changed
00:31:08 #290 our thinking have come from the bottom up. Evolution or revolution starts with the people.
00:31:15 #291 With the Japs, evolution is handed down to the people. Japan was westernized by decree,
00:31:21 #292 not by popular desire. In spite of westernization, everyone in Japan still rules over his inferior
00:31:28 #293 and in turn bows down to his superiors just as they did in the Middle Ages. Women have
00:31:34 #294 the least standing of all. They must obey the males in all things. Even today there
00:31:41 #295 isn't any more right or wrong in Japan. Merely are you or are you not obedient to your
00:31:47 #296 superiors? For instance, today a father still has the power to sell his daughter when she
00:31:53 #297 is 11 or 12 to a factory or a mill. She will eat, sleep and go to school in the factory
00:32:00 #298 but all her earnings will go to her father.
00:32:04 #299 Or if she is a little older and he needs money,
00:32:07 #300 the father can sell her outright to a geisha house
00:32:09 #301 or house of prostitution.
00:32:12 #302 And modernization has done even less
00:32:14 #303 for the standard of living.
00:32:16 #304 Individual welfare still doesn't come.
00:32:19 #305 This comfort is supposed to be a defined virtue.
00:32:22 #306 And that's why the people of Japan
00:32:24 #307 all work as long as they can
00:32:25 #308 and as soon as they can and as hard as they can.
00:32:28 #309 For they too considered themselves as soldiers with a defined mission.
00:32:33 #310 These women beat the earth in humble rhythm,
00:32:35 #311 less as they did a thousand years ago.
00:32:39 #312 These women were day after day, month after month in the rice fields,
00:32:43 #313 human machines producing rice and soldiers.
00:32:47 #314 Over their heads fly the latest planes to the wars,
00:32:50 #315 a diesel train, thunder's passed.
00:32:53 #316 But these farmers work and live and eat like they did in the 17th century.
00:32:58 #317 The income for the whole family as high as $150 a year and as low as $16 a year.
00:33:23 #318 The Jap peasant works harder, eats less, and pays more taxes than any other peasant on earth.
00:33:29 #319 But he seldom complains, for he is carrying out the divine will of the emperor.
00:33:36 #320 The white collar Japanese in the daytime uses telephones and adding machines.
00:33:41 #321 But when he goes home he puts on a kimono and lives as his ancestors did in the Middle Ages.
00:33:45 #322 Japanese houses have no foundations.
00:33:51 #323 There are no walls as we know them.
00:33:53 #324 No windows, no paint, no varnish, no curtains, no chairs, and no beds.
00:34:00 #325 To sleep they spread a couple of quilts on the floor with no sheets and lay their heads on hard-rung pillows.
00:34:06 #326 Their food lacks albumin, fats and sugar.
00:34:10 #327 The standard of living is the same as it was hundreds of years ago, one of the lowest on earth.
00:34:15 #328 First on Earth, for Japan became industrialized, not to raise the standard of living, but to prepare for conquest.
00:34:22 #329 This man in the factory doesn't work a six-day, 48-hour week for good wages.
00:34:29 #330 He works a 72-hour week at starvation wages and frequently dies of tuberculosis at the age of 40.
00:34:36 #331 Why do Japan's millions accept their fate in dumb, regimented silence?
00:34:41 #332 Why don't they rebel, revolt, organize labor unions?
00:34:45 #333 Well, first of all, having dedicated their lives to the Emperor,
00:34:50 #334 belief in Japan's divine mission to conquer runs through the whole people.
00:34:55 #335 This makes practically all of them willing prisoners of a vicious ironclad social structure.
00:35:00 #336 A system of regimentation so perfect it made Hitler's mouth water.
00:35:05 #337 On top of the heap of this social structure are leaders of the Army and Navy,
00:35:12 #338 the warlords who surround the emperor.
00:35:14 #339 They are Japan's first team.
00:35:17 #340 Nearly equal in power are the half dozen super rich
00:35:19 #341 industrial aristocratic families who own the wealth.
00:35:23 #342 They're the second team.
00:35:24 #343 And they play ball with the military rulers
00:35:26 #344 because the warlords give them cheap,
00:35:28 #345 uncomplaining labor and lush profits.
00:35:31 #346 And they in turn provide the money for the war machines.
00:35:34 #347 Next in line are the professional politicians
00:35:37 #348 who are appointed by the government as rulers
00:35:39 #349 over the 47 provinces.
00:35:41 #350 These political stuages slavishly follow orders because their jobs and their very lives depend on the whims of the army and Navy leaders.
00:35:48 #351 At the bottom of the heap are the peasants and workers, the heart-to-loy, the masses.
00:35:54 #352 To make sure the masses stay in their place, there are the police, the gendarmes, the Japanese Gestapo,
00:36:02 #353 and the billions of ghosts of dead Japanese ancestors who watch over every act of the living.
00:36:08 #354 And just in case some Japanese don't believe in ghosts, they have an efficient, unique
00:36:13 #355 Japanese invention, the Thought Police.
00:36:16 #356 Yes, Thought Police, whose business it is to arrest you if you think dangerous thoughts.
00:36:24 #357 Who decides when you're thinking is dangerous?
00:36:26 #358 That's easy.
00:36:27 #359 The Thought Police decides.
00:36:31 #360 About 10,000 people a year are arrested for thinking bad, selfish, dangerous thoughts.
00:36:40 #361 To keep the aristocrats and government officials from straying from the straight and narrow Japanese line,
00:36:44 #362 there is another strictly Japanese invention, secret organizations like the Dreaded Black Dragon Society.
00:36:52 #363 This secret gangster organization made up of thousands of fanatics was headed by one of the world's most sinister characters,
00:36:59 #364 Mitsuru Toyama, chief of Japan's murder incorporated, sometimes called the unofficial emperor.
00:37:06 #365 90 years old when he died in 1944 this dreaded master murderer held the threat of death over everyone in Japan who dare to pose the warlords too strongly
00:37:18 #366 1930
00:37:20 #367 Plenier Hamabuchi shot down his desk
00:37:24 #368 1932 Prime Minister Inukai
00:37:28 #369 Finance Minister Inouye
00:37:30 #370 Aaron Takuma-dan head of the House of Nitsui
00:37:34 #371 1936
00:37:35 #372 Four political leaders killed.
00:37:38 #373 Five ministers escaped.
00:37:39 #374 Brother-in-law shot by mistake.
00:37:42 #375 But the main reason the warlords have been able to maintain their vicious grip on Japan lies in the educational system.
00:37:51 #376 Education is compulsory in Japan.
00:37:53 #377 97% of the Japs are literate.
00:37:56 #378 But the Japanese school is not an institution for the development of the mind.
00:38:01 #379 It is a government-controlled institution designed to teach only officially selected facts.
00:38:06 #380 and officially approved ideas.
00:38:09 #381 The object is to mass-produce students who all think alike.
00:38:14 #382 To teach in the shortest possible time, only the knowledge and skills necessary to make the student an obedient, loyal subject of the divine Emperor.
00:38:23 #383 The children are taught only how to do things.
00:38:26 #384 Their minds absorb the official lessons like a sponge absorbs water.
00:38:30 #385 And like a squeed sponge, they give back the same water.
00:38:35 #386 Teachers are trained only by the government and only those fanatically loyal to the emperor are allowed to teach.
00:38:42 #387 Here are some of the divine thoughts that are ham at home every day.
00:38:46 #388 Our lives will become sincere and true only when they are offered to the emperor and the state.
00:38:53 #389 Our race has before it a great ideal, a great commission to assimilate the earth and the universe.
00:39:00 #390 It's from childhood the Japanese are taught their descendants of gods, a race apart and
00:39:08 #391 superior to all others, born for only one purpose, to dedicate their lives to the Emperor.
00:39:17 #392 The cardinal virtue, obedience to superiors.
00:39:21 #393 The cardinal ambition, mako ichi-yu, to cover the earth under a Japanese roof.
00:39:28 #394 That is briefly the social structure of Japan.
00:39:32 #395 That is the vicious system of political and religious regimentation that hammers, needs
00:39:36 #396 and molds the whole population until it becomes an obedient mass with but a single mind.
00:39:45 #397 By 1894 the warlords thought they were ready for their first modern test of strength.
00:39:50 #398 As usual their first move was against China.
00:39:53 #399 The process was simple.
00:39:54 #400 You send your armies over and attack.
00:39:58 #401 Japs got the island of Formosa.
00:40:03 #402 On February 8, 1904, the Jap stepped into the big league.
00:40:08 #403 Without warning, they attacked the Russian fleet at the Port Office.
00:40:11 #404 Three days later, they remembered to declare war.
00:40:14 #405 By defeating Russia, they temporarily obscured that country's influence in the Pacific.
00:40:20 #406 The Japanese were delirious.
00:40:21 #407 They had arrived.
00:40:22 #408 They had defeated their first major world power.
00:40:30 #409 And six years later, in 1910, they simply marched in an annexed Korea.
00:40:37 #410 In 1914, during the First World War, the Japanese correctly figuring the allies would win,
00:40:43 #411 declared war on Germany, took the Shang-Tung Peninsula from the Germans,
00:40:48 #412 and grabbed off the German-owned martial Caroline and Mariana Islands.
00:40:53 #413 After the war, the Japanese emissaries signed anything and everything,
00:40:59 #414 League of Nations, Disarmament Agreement, Nine Power Treaty.
00:41:04 #415 But they insisted on keeping the marshals and carolines
00:41:08 #416 and declared them taboo to royal foreigners.
00:41:11 #417 Aco Ichiyu was coming through.
00:41:14 #418 The Japs couldn't seem to make mistakes.
00:41:16 #419 They won every war in the field and in politics.
00:41:19 #420 Every time they tangled with the West, they got new territory.
00:41:23 #421 The warlords grew more popular than ever.
00:41:26 #422 In 1927, one of them, Baron Guy Chitinaka,
00:41:29 #423 made out a secret modern blueprint to achieve this mad greed
00:41:33 #424 and handed it to the emperor.
00:41:35 #425 It is called the Tanaka Memorial, Japan's main camp.
00:41:39 #426 It was a simple plan, but carefully thought out.
00:41:42 #427 To cover the earth with a Japanese roof, the Japs had burst to conquer Asia.
00:41:47 #428 To conquer Asia, they needed manpower and raw materials.
00:41:51 #429 China had the manpower.
00:41:53 #430 Manchuria had iron and coal.
00:41:57 #431 So Manchuria would be first.
00:42:00 #432 Then China.
00:42:02 #433 The next step was Siberia with its vast resources of timber, coal, wheat and metals.
00:42:08 #434 Then South into Malaysia and the East Indies with its fabulous empire of tin, oil and rubber.
00:42:15 #435 The United States was the last then.
00:42:18 #436 And when the Orange Groves of California and the cotton fields of Alabama were part of Japan's empire,
00:42:25 #437 When the factories of Los Angeles and Detroit were producing for Japan's war machine,
00:42:30 #438 then the rest of the world would fall like a ripe plum,
00:42:33 #439 and the Japs would have fulfilled Jimu's divine command.
00:42:37 #440 To cover the eight corners of the world with a Japanese roof.
00:42:42 #441 That was the plan, the blueprint, the specifications for a world conquest.
00:42:47 #442 But the Japanese are careful people.
00:42:52 #443 There was much to do.
00:42:54 #444 Many details to prepare at home and abroad before putting the plan into action.
00:42:59 #445 First make sure of the home front, for in spite of every conceivable method of thought control,
00:43:05 #446 certain western ideas were seeping into Japan, especially among city people.
00:43:10 #447 So western music was banned. Instead the government approved this.
00:43:16 #448 Western dancing was forbidden.
00:43:20 #449 Western movies were thrown out and the people were made to see pictures of their ancient war heroes.
00:43:26 #450 Musicals began singing the praises of the Axis.
00:43:30 #451 Western card games were purged in favor of this. It's a game of super chess called Goal.
00:43:37 #452 Actually, it is a game of military strategy.
00:43:40 #453 Western books and magazines not in accord with Japanese militarism were banned.
00:43:46 #454 Instead, these books were declared official reading.
00:43:49 #455 If we fight by Admiral Shin-saku Horata, the attack on Hawaii must be the first battle in the war of the Pacific Ocean.
00:43:58 #456 If one snatches away the enemy's pluck in the first battle, the American Navy will certainly become weary in the wind of panic.
00:44:07 #457 Therefore, attack!
00:44:09 #458 Arguments against American Policies by Kawashima Sachiro.
00:44:14 #459 We can land in a Puget town and Columbia River,
00:44:17 #460 the vicinity of San Francisco,
00:44:19 #461 and the vicinity of Los Angeles.
00:44:21 #462 But this is possible only after we have destroyed the American fleet.
00:44:27 #463 Baseball was becoming Japan's national sport.
00:44:30 #464 It was popularized in Japan by visiting American teams.
00:44:34 #465 In 1931, an all-star team led by Lou Gehrig, Al Simmons,
00:44:38 #466 and Lefty Grove played in Tokyo to Stamming Room only.
00:44:44 #467 The warlords became afraid of baseball. They tried to stop it. And one later on, Babe Ruth
00:44:58 #468 was brought over by a Tokyo newspaper publisher, the Hatchetman Act. One night, the newspaper
00:45:05 #469 publisher was found butchered to death. To try to take the place of baseball, the rulers
00:45:12 #470 These encourage the old shinto-approved sports like sumo, kendo, and judo.
00:45:21 #471 Judo or jiu-jitsu is the act of giving in, making your opponent lose his balance, then
00:45:27 #472 tripping, choking, hit, chomp, poke, or kick his vital spots the way a gentleman is.
00:45:35 #473 Jap dipto bats think in terms of judo.
00:45:38 #474 For example, make an offer of peace just before you intend to attack.
00:45:45 #475 Kendo means the way of the sword.
00:45:47 #476 There's no defense in Kendo.
00:45:49 #477 It's all offense.
00:45:51 #478 You either kill or are killed.
00:45:55 #479 The Jap Army thinks in terms of Kendo.
00:46:03 #480 Sumo or Japanese wrestling is the act of calmly waiting or stalling for time.
00:46:09 #481 Then a slipchart's to overcome your opponent.
00:46:12 #482 The Japanese people think in terms of Sumo.
00:46:21 #483 calm, peaceful, serene, like their volcano Mount Fuji,
00:46:26 #484 with violent eruptions of brutal passions in between.
00:46:29 #485 But even as they hammered their home front into shape,
00:46:40 #486 the gentlemen of Japan were softening up the rest of the world for their Tanaka plan.
00:46:45 #487 To every country marked for conquest, they sent their agents,
00:46:48 #488 army officers posing as laborers, shopkeepers, gardeners.
00:46:57 #489 Along the coasts, officers of the Imperial Japanese Navy, masquerading his fishermen,
00:47:02 #490 piloted tiny boats equipped with diesel engines and radio sending sets.
00:47:07 #491 They fished for pearls off the South Pacific islands.
00:47:11 #492 They fished for tuna off the coast of California.
00:47:14 #493 They made some good haulers.
00:47:19 #494 Other Japanese traveled widely as tourists,
00:47:22 #495 photographing the sites of Harlula in Seattle,
00:47:25 #496 something to show the folks back home.
00:47:32 #497 Still others went to work in barber shops.
00:47:35 #498 Strange barbers who didn't talk.
00:47:41 #499 All this information was collected, studied, filed away.
00:47:45 #500 In Tokyo.
00:47:46 #501 Ready for use when the day came for the army to go into action.
00:47:50 #502 Wherever Japanese spies went, Japanese propaganda followed, especially in Asia.
00:47:55 #503 The message was simple.
00:47:57 #504 The white man is exploiting you.
00:47:59 #505 Drive him out.
00:48:00 #506 Asia for the Asiatics.
00:48:02 #507 Japan is your protector.
00:48:05 #508 Meanwhile, to finance the war machine, the second team, the industrialists, started their briefcase offensive.
00:48:11 #509 From the factories of Osaka, the mills of Tokyo, the chemical plants of Nagoya, the steel mills of Yawata,
00:48:23 #510 the shipyards of Nagasaki came the economic bulls.
00:48:27 #511 But these belching factories in the cities were not the real machinery behind Japan's trade war.
00:48:33 #512 For here was the real machinery.
00:48:36 #513 The slums of the cities where 64% of Japan's products were made in small back room factories employing five people or less.
00:48:45 #514 There are hundreds of thousands of these factories in the home where father, mother and children work in semi-slave.
00:48:53 #515 Taking advantage of these low labor costs, the industrialists of Japan knew they could undersell every other nation on Earth, and they did.
00:49:02 #516 All over the world they dumped their cheap labor funds.
00:49:06 #517 And to their dumping they added piracy.
00:49:10 #518 Countless patented articles were manufactured and sold throughout Asia under their American names.
00:49:16 #519 The two best known American spark plugs.
00:49:19 #520 Genuine old Scotch whiskey was made in the distilleries of Osaka.
00:49:24 #521 Matches made in Kobe were labeled Made in Sweden.
00:49:28 #522 They undersold silk to the silk-producing Italians.
00:49:32 #523 They undersold England's cotton goods in the home of her own cotton industry.
00:49:38 #524 They undersold beer to the beer-producing Germans.
00:49:42 #525 American toothbrushes, retailing at 35 to 50 cents each,
00:49:46 #526 were copied in Japan to retail in American chain stores at 10 cents each.
00:49:51 #527 They even undersold us with our own American flag.
00:49:55 #528 And with the money accumulated in foreign countries with these cheap labor exports, did they intern
00:50:03 #529 by automobiles, iceboxes or food?
00:50:07 #530 Did they erect better homes for the job workers or improve their living conditions?
00:50:11 #531 No, indeed.
00:50:13 #532 Instead they imported oil, scrap iron, tin, rubber, aluminum and secretly built up their
00:50:22 #533 power for war machine.
00:50:25 #534 A fanatic nation turning its sweat into weapons for Congress.
00:50:30 #535 Sweat for guns.
00:50:35 #536 Sweat for planes.
00:50:37 #537 Sweat for ships.
00:50:42 #538 Sweat for war.
00:50:47 #539 The greatest weapon made in Japan, the Japanese soldier.
00:51:15 #540 As iron ore is melted in furnaces to remove impurities.
00:51:19 #541 So in Japan, humanitarian impurities are burned out of the child.
00:51:24 #542 As the steel is shaped by beating and hammering.
00:51:28 #543 So is the boy hammered and beaten into the shape of the fanatic samurai.
00:51:33 #544 The Japanese soldiers smashed and slugged Jap superiority into all non-Japanese people.
00:53:06 #545 And so on September 18th, 1931, the first team kicked off.
00:53:11 #546 The warlords faithfully following the Tanaka plan
00:53:14 #547 launched their shooting war in Manchuria.
00:53:22 #548 Co-prosperity, enlightenment, justice.
00:55:11 #549 Filipino prisoners were lined up, beaten and searched,
00:55:16 #550 then herded together for what was to be for them
00:55:19 #551 the March of Death.
00:55:21 #552 This March of Death is a lasting monument
00:55:23 #553 to the insane arrogance and brutality
00:55:25 #554 of the Japanese soldier.
00:55:28 #555 Burning with malaria, racked with diarrhea
00:55:31 #556 and dysentery, the men barely able to stand were marched for some seven days without
00:55:36 #557 food or water. Their helmets were purposely knocked off to expose them to the blistering
00:55:42 #558 sun. For hours at a time they were given the torturing sun treatment. At night they were
00:55:49 #559 packed into enclosures so tight the men lay in their own human defecation. In the daytime
00:55:56 #560 they marched in the sun.
00:55:58 #561 Thousands dropped out who were bayonetted and shot.
00:56:02 #562 Those that made it to the prison camps were subjected to unspeakable humiliation and torture.
00:56:07 #563 Three years later when rescued by MacArthur, this is how they looked.
00:56:27 #564 In retreating before MacArthur, the enraged japs wantedly burned most of the city of Manila.
00:56:32 #565 Before our men could kill them all, the sons of heaven had bound and slaughtered thousands of helpless Filipino civilians in the inner city.
00:56:40 #566 enlightenment.
00:57:42 #567 Roughly your enemy Japan, a nation with a tough season fanatic army of four million still
00:57:48 #568 practically intact.
00:57:50 #569 A nation that can supply a million new conscripts a year willing to die in their thoughts over.
00:57:57 #570 A nation that believes we will throw in the sponge because they will out fight it, out
00:58:02 #571 laugh, out die it.
00:58:04 #572 A nation hell bent to rule the world or commit national suicide.
00:58:23 #573 In this nation it is necessary of shooting down a mad dog in your neighborhood.
00:58:31 #574 With only a portion of our total strength we have already cracked Japan's outer defenses.
00:58:50 #575 General MacArthur has brilliantly retaken the Philippines and cut their supply lines to the Indies.
00:58:56 #576 The triphidious power attack to retake the Regidor was the payoff that thrilled the hearts of the Regidor's
00:59:02 #577 North American and Filipino defenders of 1942.
00:59:43 #578 They taught their glorious fighting history
00:59:45 #579 by killing 20,000 Japanese on Iwo Jima.
00:59:49 #580 On Okinawa, we trapped and destroyed over 100,000 of their best troops.
01:00:08 #581 Our Navy is sent to the bottom approximately three ports of their naval strength.
01:00:38 #582 Our submarines and air forces have sunk millions of tons of their shipping.
01:00:47 #583 From the airfields near Japan paid for in American blood,
01:00:51 #584 our air forces are systematically blasting
01:00:54 #585 jet factories and warplanes.
01:01:06 #586 And now that the massive gangsters have been blown apart,
01:01:10 #587 now we can concentrate the full fury of our total power
01:01:13 #588 on Japan.
01:01:16 #589 The power of a navy bigger than all other navies combined.
01:01:20 #590 The power of an air force greater than all other air
01:01:43 #591 forces combined.
01:01:52 #592 The power of the best equipped and hardest-hitting army
01:01:56 #593 The world has ever seen.
01:01:58 #594 We are going to destroy Japan's armies, Japan's Navy, Japan's air forces, Japan's war factors,
01:02:10 #595 Japan's full power to wage war.