Geoguessr pro goes Israel on Japan 🇯🇵 #japan — Transcript

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1. 0:00Ooh, historical GeoGuessr. Okay, not
2. 0:02great quality, but it looks like these
3. 0:03might be members of the Mir Yeshiva. I'm
4. 0:05pretty sure they're located in
5. 0:07Jerusalem.
6. 0:08What?
7. 0:09Why were there Jewish communities in the
8. 0:11middle of the Japanese Empire?
9. 0:14In 1918, the Japanese Empire came out in
10. 0:17full support of Zionist expansion into
11. 0:19Palestine because they wanted to emulate
12. 0:21the cooperative agricultural settlements
13. 0:23in their own colonies of Manchuria and
14. 0:25Korea. In the 1930s, Japan attempted to
15. 0:28implement the Fugu plan. It called for
16. 0:30the resettlement of thousands of Jewish
17. 0:32refugees in Manchuria and Shanghai to
18. 0:34curry favor with the Jewish community
19. 0:36internationally. Top Japanese officials
20. 0:38actually believed that Jews had some
21. 0:40sort of special powers partially because
22. 0:42they had just read this anti-Semitic
23. 0:44text. This plan was in the later
24. 0:46planning stages when Japan linked up
25. 0:48with these two losers and they had to
26. 0:50scrap it. Not to fret though, Nobusuke
27. 0:53Kishi ended up implementing slavery in
28. 0:55Manchuria and overseeing the development
29. 0:57of Unit 731, the world's worst
30. 1:00biological experimentation prison in
31. 1:02history. Kishi actually went on to play
32. 1:04a key role in the founding of the party
33. 1:07that has ruled Japan since the end of
34. 1:09World War II and much like Israel, he
35. 1:12did it with millions of dollars from the
36. 1:13United States, but in this case it was
37. 1:16explicitly to thwart socialism. Now,
38. 1:19Zionist tourists venture to the broader
39. 1:21American Empire to scream at locals who
40. 1:24they thought would uphold those same
41. 1:25values. And if you'd like to learn more
42. 1:28about how Kishi's grandson Shinzo Abe
43. 1:30got his back blown out largely because
44. 1:32of this, watch my most recent YouTube
45. 1:34video.