WEBVTT - Part One: The Slavery Loving Fascist who Built Modern Japan 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:05.720 Well, Sophie, I don't know if I agree with you 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:09.680 that a Kamala Harris themed erotic vampire anime would be successful. 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:13.200 But I guess we all have different opinions on things. Oh, 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:16.880 I didn't notice the audience had had come in here. 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:20.200 I'm Robert Evanance. This is Behind Bastards. It's a podcast 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:22.840 about the worst people in all of history. Sophie and 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:26.239 Christopher and I were just having a conversation about manga's 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:30.280 that we think would be successful. Um so, Christopher, I 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:33.440 don't know, what do you think erotic Kamala Harris vampire anime? 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:36.040 I mean I can see it. Look okay, the you 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:37.760 know the advantage you get you get out of out 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:41.360 of it? About of anime? Right, everyone's eyes enormously large. 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:45.920 You can lose. You cannot loose with this. Yeah, absolutely, 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:48.400 eyes are too big. Science says that we find the 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:53.360 big ice cute, cannot go wrong, cannot go wrong. Um, well, 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:56.400 other things you can't go wrong with our classic Behind 0:00:56.480 --> 0:01:01.000 the Bastard's reverse episode where where one of my Sophie 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:05.480 are we allowed to call them indentured servants? No, we're 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:11.840 one of my indentured podcast guests in this case. Christopher. Also, um, well, okay, 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:15.040 Sophie one of our team members, one of the members 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:19.080 of our squad, Sophie, there is no iron team, but 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:22.040 several of the letters that are also in Indentured Servant 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:25.600 are in the worst team. So, Robert, that was worse 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:27.960 than that was worse than the fake laugh you did 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:31.200 at the start of this episode. Christopher Wong, who is 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:35.720 on our team, a valued member of the Zone Media squad. 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:42.640 I'd prefer uh hunt the cool Zone Media Hunt. I've 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:45.559 always felt we were more of a regime. Oh god, 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:49.120 you know your your web cram being broken and me 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:51.200 not being able to look you in the eyes when 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:54.200 I'm angry really upset to me. I know, I know 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:57.200 that's part of why I haven't fixed it. Christopher, are 0:01:57.240 --> 0:01:59.720 we gonna learn about today well on this podcast for 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:03.200 before we formally start. Robert, how do you feel about 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:07.360 Operation paper Clip? Um? Oh, you know, so when World 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:10.400 War two ended, right, same kind of feeling that I 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:13.000 got when like the last Lord of the Rings movie finished, 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:15.800 or like when Firefly got canceled, and I'm like, but 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:18.960 I wanted more. I wanted more from these kookie Nazis 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:22.000 and their crimes and then the US government and the 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:26.000 Russian government in two separate operations, were like, don't worry, Robert, 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:29.480 We're gonna give those guys future jobs. You can keep 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:34.520 following the careers of Albert Speer, Verner von Brown, a 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:37.920 bunch of other Nazis, including that guy the CIA hired, 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:42.720 and see what they do after the war. It's like, um, 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.120 you know what it's like. Uh, it's like that TV 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:49.400 show Joey after Friends got canceled. That's what Operation paper 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:52.960 Clip is for the Nazis. And I I personally, as 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:56.040 a fan of both Joey and World War two history, 0:02:56.200 --> 0:03:00.400 I think that's great. What's Joey's last name, Triviana, something 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:03.840 like that. More or less, it's been a long time 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:06.000 since I watched the episode of Friends. Look, it's been 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:13.720 like fifteen years. Come on, oh well, Robert, you're you're 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:17.600 going to love part two of this. And I'm gonna 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:19.360 start out at this episode. I'm gonna make an incredibly 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:21.240 bold claim and we'll see how to see if you 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:23.320 agree with it after after after the part the second 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:27.800 part of this episode, UM, I maintain that the rehabilitation 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:30.639 of Nobisuka Kishi, who is the subody give today's episode 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:34.000 is the single worst example of the US rehabilitating a 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.680 war criminal after the end of the days, this is 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:40.000 the worst one. I'm excited because this is a new 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:42.920 war criminal for me, which is a huge day in 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:48.080 Robert Land. Yeah, yeah, alright. So Kishi was born on 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:53.520 November eighte in a village Inmgushi Prefecture of Japan. Now 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:56.200 she she is born in an incredibly important time in 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:59.360 Japanese history, right, just literally right at the beginning of 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:02.400 the second phase of Japanese imperialism. So to get us 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:05.680 to the second phase, um so, after the restoration the 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:10.560 Emperor and the Meiji restoration of Japan rapidly starts importing 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:14.600 European technology, European organizational principles, your Pean ideology, and European 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:18.480 racism in order to do a rapid quote unquote modernization 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:22.160 campaign in order to compete with the European nations. Now, 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:25.640 Japan was not exactly like an egalitarian paradise before they 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:29.800 started doing this. And you know the consequence of this 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:33.000 is that you know, they take the colonialism like a 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:35.840 fish to water. And this starts what I'm going to 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:39.760 call the three phases of Japanese imperialism. You have imperialism one, 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:43.880 imperialism to imperialism harder, and imperialism with three tokyo drift. 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:46.640 I'm very frustrated that that you didn't do an imperialism 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:51.360 too electric boogaloo. But but you know, we'll we'll discuss 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:54.640 that at your next performance evaluation. I will I I 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:58.200 will endeavor to get better references when I name phases 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:02.320 of imperialism to after bad movie idols. Yeah. So, imperialism 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:05.520 one basically starts right as the major restoration happens, and 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:08.720 and it lasts roughly from about eighteen sixty eight to 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:11.520 the start of the Sino Japanese War in eighteen ninety four. 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:14.640 And and this is the phase that everyone ignores because 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.839 it's you know, this phase imperialism is very very local 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:21.440 or it's happening inside Japan itself, but it's extremely important 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:23.720 to understand, like everything's gonna happen next we're gonna talk 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:26.120 about it for a little bit. And now. So the 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:28.920 the sort of the defining characteristics of this first phase 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:32.799 are the horrifically violent assimilation of the Anui people in Hokkaido, 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:36.479 the annexation of the Rioku Islands. Might not know what 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:39.039 those are the biggest one is Okinawa. You probably know 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:42.560 what that is. Yeah. My my half of my family 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:45.840 has been half of their lives there. Yeah. Yeah, very 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:50.600 nice place, Very very bad things happened to people there. Yeah. 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:52.760 There's a monument at the north of the island called 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:55.560 Peace Prayer Park because when the when the US took 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:58.720 the island, the Japanese occupiers told them like, hey, you're 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.640 all going to get murdered and raped by US troops. 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:04.400 You should just kill yourselves now. And so a shipload 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:07.720 of Okahoma has just flung themselves off the cliffs. Uh. 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:10.760 And now there's a very nice monument there. Um, it's 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:18.760 a lot of bad things have gone down in the Yeah. Yeah, 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:22.960 this is the Japanese Empire is just sending enormous numbers 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:27.280 of people to their deaths. Is running FEMA this episode. Yeah, 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:31.520 it's it is remarkable when you're telling a story that 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:37.520 takes place, when you're telling a story about colonialism in Asia. Uh, 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:41.719 and the US is not the specific bad guy at 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:45.760 the story. Yeah, like like, yeah, the Empire of Japan 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:48.920 got like yeah, like this is the thing that like 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:51.640 the Americans don't become the bad guys in this story 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:55.240 until two years into the occupation, which is like like 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:57.040 I'm trying to I can't. I don't know if like 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:59.920 another time ever the U. S has like military occupy 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:01.960 another country and it took two years for them to 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:05.600 become like the bad guys. It's yeah, we got faster, 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.520 don't worry, guys. Yeah, yeah, we've We've improved our game. 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:15.040 That's what Taylorism brings you. Yep. Yeah, actually this was 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:18.480 the Gakishi. We a lot of just got cut. But Kishi, 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:23.480 big fan of Taylorism, absolutely loves it. And yeah him 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:28.640 and are cops yep, yep. It's it's great stuff. And 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:31.240 you know, there's one more thing that happens, and this 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:32.920 is I think the least well known of the stuff 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:34.600 that happens in Japan in this period, which is that 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:38.880 there's this just mass destruction and looting of thousands and 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:42.320 thousands of these local non Shinto shrines like in Japan itself, 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:44.920 and they had this this this giant like culture Confian 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:47.840 just like annihilates like all of this sort of like 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:51.680 local non like Shinto religions, and you know, all of 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:53.880 this violence is about sort of it's about annihilating any 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.840 other culture in Japan and forcing everyone to sort of 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:58.920 assemblight to the new Japanese nation state. And you know, 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:01.440 I mean, this is this is what nine century nationalism is. 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:04.400 This this attempt to impose like a single national language 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:06.680 and culture on a bunch of people who you know, 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:09.640 until this point, like the only thing most a lot 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:11.840 of these people have in common is that like armed 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:13.760 men show up every year and take stuff, some of 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:16.120 them to give it the same king. Like. Other than that, 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:19.000 you know, they have different cultures, have languages, and you know, 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:21.400 and in order to get rid of days that used 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:23.840 to be all government was was armed men taking your 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:25.800 stuff and giving it to the king. And one day, 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:29.720 when libertarianism wins, we'll get back to that. I wonder, yeah, 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:32.000 I wonder how long it would take for for the CEO. 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:34.960 So it just literally started pointing themselves monarchs. I don't know, 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:39.400 you know, there's that um the Twitter account run in 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:41.840 part by the Kent State gun Girl, the Liberty Hangout 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:46.840 accounts like a libertarian conservative account like four years ago, 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:48.880 and in about a year and a half was like 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:52.480 an ironically advocating the establishment of a monarchy contract. That's 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:54.760 why I made that joke. It's like literally a thing 0:08:54.800 --> 0:09:00.040 that's happening incredible. Yeah, okay, continue, Yeah, you know, and 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.000 all the violence of you know, we've been talking about 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:04.959 the violence in Okkaido, the violence in the islands, and 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:06.920 the violence in Japan itself. Like this is this is 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:10.480 the crucible in which Japanese nationalism is formed. And you know, 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:13.160 and like like like the rest of the twenty century nationalisms, 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:17.280 the only place so that goes is imperialism, to imperialism harder. 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:22.480 And this this phase begins in eight when Japan launches 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:24.960 a war against China basically over control the Korean Peninsula 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:28.400 and they just like they just smashed the Chinese army. Um. 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:30.840 We we talked about this war a little bit from 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:34.560 the Chinese side and our Jong Zung Chong episode, but 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:37.760 you know, from from the Japanese perspective, this war makes 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:41.160 Japan like the premier like power in East Asia. Like 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:44.000 they're they're they're they're they're the big Asian power and 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:46.800 you know, and Kishi is born the year after Japan 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:50.679 wins the Sound Japanese War, and when he's eight years old, 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:53.000 Japan wins his next major war, which is the Rusto 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:57.520 Japanese War. Yeah, you know, yeah, yeah, Japan, Like, yeah, 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:05.760 Japan beats Russia so badly war it's amazing. Yeah, that's like, yeah, 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:08.840 the Russians are so like start the war with such 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:11.920 a like we're gonna win us an easy victory against 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:16.160 the savages and then lose their entire north fleet just 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:20.240 just just their asses hand to them almost like one 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:23.240 of the biggest ass whoopings of the entire century military. 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:25.760 It's it's it's kind of funny because it's like, okay, 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:27.160 so like you know, they sailed this, they sailed the 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:29.720 second fleet from like all the way around Europe, around Africa, 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:31.640 and you know, I destroyed to but the first fleet 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:35.600 like the reason next, so there there is exactly one 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:38.320 guy in the entire Russian Navy who has any idea 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:40.520 what he's doing. His name is Makarov. He's he's the 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:42.200 guy who had to the icebreaker, like like he actually 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:45.720 does what he's doing. And also from him, yeah, he's 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:48.000 a he's a cool guy. And then like like at 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:50.880 like at max range, just like a random Japanese cannon 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:53.280 shot just like killed him in the entirety of like 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:55.839 Russian like high command, and that was it for the 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:57.559 Russian Davy because there's no one else in the whole 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:01.960 navy that like wasn't just like rand aristocratic appointment. It's 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:06.560 it's a god yeah, it's it's great because you know, 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:10.559 it takes a lot to stand out as a Russian 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:15.520 naval disaster, because the Russian Navy has pretty comprehensively been 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:18.240 a ship show. We could talk about the Kurs or 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:21.120 the fact that their only aircraft carrier, the Admiral koltz 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:24.000 nets Off, keeps loking. It's dry dock on fire. We 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:26.640 can talk about a lot of stories of the Russian navy, 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:28.800 but please we should probably continue. We'll do a whole 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:33.160 Russian navy. Yeah yeah, you know, and like like in Russia, 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:34.840 like they lose this war so badly it causes a 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:38.719 revolution and you know, but in Japan, this is like, 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.040 you know, this is when Japan like becomes one of 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:42.720 the great powers. It's no, it's no longer this like 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:44.720 minor regional power. Like it's one of the great powers, 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:47.040 and you know, everybody's going to take them seriously after 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:50.560 this the biggest land empire in Europe. Yeah yeah, well 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.240 and everything, it's like, you know, they beat a European power. Yeah, 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:55.520 like that that's a huge deal in this period, and 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:56.880 like there's a lot of people who will support the 0:11:56.960 --> 0:12:01.040 Japanese Empire like out of like anti imperialism. Basically, it's 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:04.080 like they're a non white empire. We have to yeah, 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:07.840 and this is yeah, you know, trying to explain that, 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:13.120 I don't know, somebody in Nanjing. Yep, yep. Oh boy, 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:19.040 don't worry. It's an imperialist empire that's shot your family 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:23.160 to debt anyway. Yeah, yeah, it's it's bad stuff. But 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:24.800 you know, like they're the product of this is like 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:27.480 she's is growing up in the period like when Japan 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:29.559 becomes like a super power and you know, they're they're 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:32.080 they're like a minor great power, Like they're not like 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:34.840 Germany or like like I don't know, or like the 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:36.679 UK or France at this point, but you know, they're 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:39.679 still a great power. And you know, and this is 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:41.839 this is this is going to be sort of important 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:43.319 because this is the sort of this is the sort 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:45.600 of like era of nationalism and era sort of like 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:48.760 triumphalism that that she's coming up in. And Kesh is 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:52.120 going to be one of, if not the main, architect 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:54.679 of imperialism with three Tokyo drift when that phase starts 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.920 thirty seven and then that that's the fascist phase. So 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.719 we're gonna we're we're yeah, we're gonna, We're gonna work 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:04.240 our way up to that throughout the course of this. 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:09.200 Now she she's great grandfather was actually like yeah, you know, 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:10.880 this is another source of the sort of like nationalism 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:12.640 and patriots. And he comes up in is he was 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:16.040 like famous enough for doing like anti shogun stuff if 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:18.000 for the restoration that like when he dies, there's like 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:20.760 a bunch of articles on newspaper about it. But you 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:23.439 know she doesn't that you know too. And after she dies, 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:27.320 the Kishi family business goes under and this starts off 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:31.800 this just really weird set of family drama and she 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:35.680 Kish's family is wild. Um. So she's older brother is 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:38.840 Sato Ihiro, and you know he becomes a vice amirald 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:42.240 the Navy. His younger brother, Sato Issaku, is the third 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:45.800 longest serving prime minister in Japanese history. Kishi spoiler alert, 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.280 is also going to become prime minister. And he's like 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:52.040 kind of distantly related to a third Japanese prime minister, 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:55.040 you Shota Shiguru, which is extremely funny and reasons that 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:57.440 we'll get into in the second episode. Like like these 0:13:57.440 --> 0:13:59.720 people are like they're like the Japanese bushes, except like 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:02.560 the Patos are just like they're just random people, Like 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:06.120 they're not like rich, like they're just Yeah, it's it's 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:09.480 it's the opportunity ship. Yeah, yeah, like that. It's like 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:12.319 that they they just like for one generation. Actually, you 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:14.760 know after the after, they're gonna keep they're gonna be 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:19.200 staying politics like that one generation just like just ran 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:22.920 Japanese politics for like half a century. It doesn't seem 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:26.640 like that's ever a good idea. Yeah, it's it's not great. 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:31.320 Perhaps running paras politics isn't such a great idea, but 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:35.520 that's a cop out anyway. Now because the sort of 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:39.800 the family business imploded, like she she's uncle. Mansasuke goes 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:42.240 to such like studying medicine in Tokyo and becomes a 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:46.600 professor obstetrics. Yeah, and you know, so Matsuke doesn't have 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:50.080 any sons, and so he adopts she she's younger brother Issaku, 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:52.680 to to marry his daughter. And again I want to 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:56.760 point out, okay, Mantasuke is she's uncle, right, that means 0:14:56.800 --> 0:15:02.280 that Eaku is marrying his first cousin, and she also 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:05.920 marries his cousin Like this is like not like a 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:09.360 normal thing in this period, Like people don't marry their 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:11.600 first cousins like that often. And like both of the 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:14.640 people in this family directly people knew a while ago, 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:17.880 people knew a long time before this that like that's 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.760 not really a great idea that happening. Don't aren't looking 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:27.240 so good like they do it anyways, and it's it's 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:28.760 it's a great it's a great sign of where this 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:32.200 is going. So so Kishi stays with Matasuke when he's 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:35.320 like very little, and his uncle realizes that Kishi is 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:38.560 extremely smart, and you know, like he hires a home 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.400 tutor to help Kishi passed is like incredibly selective interest 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:43.360 exams for this middle school, and then he hires want 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:46.000 to teach him English, and you know, it's this whole 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:48.160 thing where he's a child prodigy and his uncle is like, 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:50.360 I'm going to raise him, and you know, like like 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:54.920 Martsasuki like like deeply genuinely love's Kishi. One of his 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:58.600 biographers described it, quote treating his uncle like a son. 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:01.840 Massasuke showered as much afection on Novasuke as did his 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:05.360 own parents. Now, unfortunately for Kishi and unfortunately for like 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:08.840 all of East Asia, uh In, in the middle of 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:11.800 second year of middle school, Montessuke dies of pneumonia and 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:13.840 she sent off to live with what there was other aunts, 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:16.440 and you know, like this is this is like pretty, 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:18.520 but he's still like a young kid at this point, 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:20.880 and this is like this is really bad for him emotionally, 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:23.360 and you know that the second family that he gets 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:26.680 sent to live with is like way less nice to him, 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:29.800 and so you know, he still get support his academic career, 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:32.680 but he has his like he he he has his 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:35.680 weird young age trauma, which like a couple of one 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:37.960 of his biographers like points this out and and it 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:40.120 is like, yeah, he has all the things that you 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:42.000 need for a great leader. He has he's a he's 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:43.440 a good family, he has a he's a family that 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:45.360 wants to do education, and he has trauma. And I 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:50.000 was like, do you understand where this is going. It's 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:53.000 very weird. Yeah, yeah, And Kishi, you know it's like 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:55.480 she she's a genius, like he's he has top of 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:56.960 he's at the top of his class in middle school, 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:58.880 he graduates top of his class, again in high school, 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:02.640 and in nineteen he's accepted into the incredibly prestigius Tokyo 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:05.960 Impure University. Now what she sees in college, she starts 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:09.640 to formally intellectually encounter the new Japanese far right, and 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:13.080 he becomes particularly enamored with like the er Japanese fascist 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:17.199 Iki Kita, who he is a weird guy that he 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:20.199 has a lot of sort of eclectic ideas, but like 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:21.720 his big things that he wants the emperor to see 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:24.280 his power in a coup, like dissolve the parliament to 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:28.000 create a fascist state m hm. And you know, she 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:32.760 she she she's kind of soft on the like coup part, 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:36.840 and Keita has some ideas about like well, okay, so 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:38.520 you're gonna cup the government, right, and then you have 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:40.600 a fascist state and the fascist state's gonna like kind 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:44.320 of resource redistribution, and she's like, he's he's kind of 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:46.840 soft in that part, but like, you know, the fascist 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:51.440 state part, he's he's incredibly in favor of. And you know, 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:53.240 I mean, at this point in time, there's no evidence 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:55.560 that it could possibly be a bad thing. Yeah, yeah, 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:57.359 this is you know, this is yeah, this is this is, 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:00.399 this is, this is pretty busily promising new political theory. 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:04.320 Yeah yeah, now yeah, so so when when when he 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:08.719 graduates from university in n there's a couple of weird 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:10.280 things about it. So like okay, so not he's on 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:11.840 the top of his class, right, but like not only 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:14.080 is the top of his class, he he has the 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:17.080 highest test scores that anyone has ever seen, like in 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:19.200 the history of university. He has the best test scores. 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:21.240 And then he also like he takes a sivil the 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:24.239 Civil service exam, but like he takes it as like 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:26.760 you know, you're supposed to spend like four or three 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:28.399 or four years in college. He just takes us a 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:31.760 second year and passes. And so you know, he has 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:33.840 this whole arc where he's basically like you know, he 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:35.960 but for most of his career he's seen this just 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:39.399 it just like prodigy and it's like sort of true. 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:46.600 We'll get into you know, it's not being true when 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:50.760 the war machine starts to come apart. But yeah, you know, 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:53.359 in in this period, he he makes what looks at 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:56.520 the time like a really weird decision. Um, you know 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:58.879 he she's yeah, he's a projecty, like he could easily 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:01.040 have entered like the home office us like that're the 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:02.720 Home ministry, and you know, he would have had this 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:05.560 very easy career, like very safely could have become a 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:09.040 vice moandistic or like a governor. And instead he joins 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:11.159 the Ministry of Commerce, which at this point is like 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:14.000 a fairly minor like government government industry. And and and he 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:18.119 does this because specifically, like he really really wants to 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:21.760 be in charge of the Japan's industrialization process. And you 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:23.400 know this is this is gonna be She's like big 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:26.040 thing over his career is he's he's he's planning be aercrat. 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:30.200 He he's you know he yeah, like what while while 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:32.240 while when he gets to the Ministry Commerce, he starts, 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:33.560 you know, he does he does all this research and 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:34.879 send him all over the world to like look at 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:37.080 every people's planning models, and like he gets obsessed with 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:42.159 like nineteen late nineteen twenties German planning stuff, which you 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:44.360 know looks kind of weird given what's about to happen 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:47.240 in the German economy. But yeah, and he starts advocating 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:50.159 this thing called industrial rationalization, which is you know, this 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:53.479 is this is like economic state planning. But you know, 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:55.920 his the way this is sort of different from like 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:58.160 the Russian model, is that like he wants to still 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:00.520 have corporations, but he wants the core rations is sort 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:02.160 of be run by government beacrasts. I mean, they're still 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:03.679 like capitalists, but like he wants to be run by 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:05.920 government beeracrasts, and he wants them to be sort of 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:08.399 run for the state interests. And you know, and this 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:11.240 is the other thing about this part, Like anytime someone 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:14.000 says state interest and they're like a beeracrat nine thirties Japan, 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:16.520 what they mean is like building a war machine. And 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:19.000 so you know, you get these like weird, these weird 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:20.920 passages where it's like you read it, this person sounds 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:23.160 like a socialist, and then you read like two more 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:25.440 paragraphs and it's like, oh, right, they want a bunch 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:27.240 of stay controls they can build like the largest army 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:30.159 the world has ever seen in over state is a 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:34.080 gun to these Yeah, it's it's not entirely different with 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:35.600 like a lot of the ways the Nazis would talk 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:37.720 about this state, like the state in the state is 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:41.280 a race too, Like it's it's yeah, yeah, yeah, And 0:20:41.359 --> 0:20:44.040 you know, and he she the way she thinks about 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:46.119 this is that you know, he's gonna chart like a 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:49.679 third path, which we liberal happens is capitalism and communism. 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:52.400 And this position it becomes held by a group called 0:20:52.440 --> 0:20:54.720 they're servi innoculously called the reform Bureaucrats. And the thing 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:56.800 that's important to understand about the reformed Bureaucrats that lots 0:20:56.840 --> 0:20:58.840 of people like don't get when they study this is 0:20:58.840 --> 0:21:02.160 that the reformed aureaucrats, like all of them, including Kishi, 0:21:02.200 --> 0:21:04.960 are fascists. But the thing that's different about them, and 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:09.120 the thing that's you know, makes it sort of obscurest fascism, 0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:12.199 is that, unlike most fascists, the way they're trying to 0:21:12.240 --> 0:21:14.800 do fascism is it just works in the bureaucracy. And 0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:16.760 so you know that basically like they have the that 0:21:16.800 --> 0:21:18.880 the strategy that they're gonna work for breacracy can work 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:21.399 for the inside out. And you know, she she's aided 0:21:21.440 --> 0:21:24.919 in this by the fact that his boss, um yesh Shinji, 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:27.760 is the head of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry 0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:31.399 and he basically just like gives Kishi free rein to 0:21:31.440 --> 0:21:33.800 do whatever he wants. And so Kishi goes, Okay, we're 0:21:33.840 --> 0:21:37.040 gonna we're gonna start doing war planning, and you know, 0:21:37.320 --> 0:21:39.440 he wants to take over, like stay control of major 0:21:39.480 --> 0:21:41.639 industries so they can do kind of planning for form 0:21:41.640 --> 0:21:44.120 military stuff. And this gains him a lot of connection 0:21:44.200 --> 0:21:46.960 to support in the fascist sections of the army. Now, 0:21:47.280 --> 0:21:50.560 Keish allies with what's what's called the Control Faction of 0:21:50.600 --> 0:21:53.639 the Army, which is founded by someone you I'll probably 0:21:53.720 --> 0:21:59.240 name at least recognize Hideki Tojoe, which yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:22:01.000 --> 0:22:08.480 failed to shoot himself in the heart yep, great stuff. 0:22:08.680 --> 0:22:11.000 Yeah yeah. You know what's sort of weird about the 0:22:11.040 --> 0:22:14.680 Control Faction is that like they're founded kind of ironically 0:22:14.720 --> 0:22:18.200 like to stop another faction of the army like from 0:22:18.240 --> 0:22:21.680 doing fascism. And you know this this confuses a lot 0:22:21.720 --> 0:22:25.240 of people because it is confusing. Yeah yeah, yeah. Do 0:22:25.480 --> 0:22:27.479 you know, do you know what else is confusing Robert 0:22:28.440 --> 0:22:33.200 Um The fact that no one has developed a system 0:22:33.480 --> 0:22:37.720 that's been capable of dethroning global capital. That is confusing. Yeah, 0:22:37.720 --> 0:22:39.640 it is. It is confusing a lot of people say 0:22:39.680 --> 0:22:42.399 they've got the answer, but he's done it. It's true, 0:22:42.560 --> 0:22:49.040 but it's true. Yeah, I was, I was what I 0:22:49.080 --> 0:22:50.840 was just gonna say, confusing that people don't buy our 0:22:50.880 --> 0:22:53.800 products and services. It is that we show on here 0:22:55.400 --> 0:23:00.000 because maybe the answer to dethroning capitalism is to participate 0:23:00.160 --> 0:23:05.200 paid in it. Don't think about that too much, think 0:23:05.200 --> 0:23:15.720 about these ads. Alright, we're back, all right, Chris, let's uh, 0:23:15.800 --> 0:23:19.280 let's let's continue forward. Yeah. So so, yeah, we're going 0:23:19.359 --> 0:23:23.480 to talk about the absolute mess that is Japanese fascism. 0:23:23.520 --> 0:23:25.200 So we talked about the Control of faction. The Control 0:23:25.320 --> 0:23:28.440 faction is formed to stop the the Imperial Way faction 0:23:28.960 --> 0:23:31.440 of the army from doing terrorism. And these guys, these 0:23:31.440 --> 0:23:35.920 guys hate each other, like the the Imperial Way spends 0:23:35.960 --> 0:23:37.800 like a good part of the early thirties just like 0:23:37.880 --> 0:23:40.680 murdering this ship out of control faction officers and both 0:23:40.720 --> 0:23:42.560 of them are just like purging each other from the army. 0:23:42.600 --> 0:23:44.840 And this, this whole thing is part of what a britishown. 0:23:44.960 --> 0:23:48.400 This is called the period of government by assassination. And 0:23:48.560 --> 0:23:50.919 this period starts when a group of fascists, this is 0:23:51.040 --> 0:23:53.359 one of the there's a million fascist groups in Japan, 0:23:53.800 --> 0:23:56.000 this is one of the smaller ones, like assassinated the 0:23:56.000 --> 0:23:59.879 prime minister in one and after that everyone just goes, oh, 0:24:00.119 --> 0:24:02.560 hold up, we can just kill ministers and so you know, 0:24:02.680 --> 0:24:05.159 they killed this just enormous number of government officials, They 0:24:05.200 --> 0:24:07.359 killed a bunch of politicians, they killed businessmen, like they 0:24:07.400 --> 0:24:12.399 killed two more finance ministers, and like they do like 0:24:12.440 --> 0:24:14.880 they do. So there are so many coup attempts that 0:24:14.920 --> 0:24:17.920 like you could literally just do an entire podcast series 0:24:17.920 --> 0:24:19.920 that is just the coup attempts they attempt in these 0:24:19.960 --> 0:24:23.760 like five years, because it's like every every different faction 0:24:23.800 --> 0:24:26.040 and every like possible coalition of these factions has their 0:24:26.040 --> 0:24:29.560 own coup attempts. And you know, finally, this this period 0:24:29.560 --> 0:24:31.840 sort of ends when the Imperial Way and their allies 0:24:31.880 --> 0:24:34.960 trying to do like one last giant coup in six 0:24:35.000 --> 0:24:38.639 called February twenty incidents, and they get kind of close, 0:24:39.520 --> 0:24:42.080 like they take a bunch of government ministries, like they 0:24:42.240 --> 0:24:45.359 almost killed the prime minister, they almost killed the Defense minister. 0:24:45.440 --> 0:24:47.040 I think, I think they do kill the Defense minister, 0:24:47.880 --> 0:24:52.439 but they lose. And after that, Japan, the Japanese government 0:24:52.480 --> 0:24:54.320 is just like, Okay, we're just gonna kill you all, 0:24:54.800 --> 0:24:57.959 and so they do this like mass execution of of 0:24:58.000 --> 0:24:59.720 like every fascist leader they can get their hands on, 0:24:59.720 --> 0:25:03.080 in being uh Ichikdo, who is not involved in this 0:25:03.119 --> 0:25:05.560 in any way. But just like on principle, they were like, okay, 0:25:05.560 --> 0:25:07.080 the one thing all the fascist to be arounds that 0:25:07.119 --> 0:25:09.439 they like you, so we're just gonna assassinate you, and 0:25:09.440 --> 0:25:10.959 so well they don't say something that they put them 0:25:10.960 --> 0:25:12.680 on trial and a show trial and convictim and killed 0:25:12.720 --> 0:25:17.119 them all, and a lot of people, including you know, 0:25:17.160 --> 0:25:20.640 people who are like pretty reliable fascism scholars like Robert Paxton, 0:25:21.440 --> 0:25:23.560 We'll look at this trial and go, oh, well, okay, 0:25:23.560 --> 0:25:25.160 this this is this is like this is as if 0:25:25.200 --> 0:25:27.280 like I don't know, like Moosi leads martial, Weba failed 0:25:27.359 --> 0:25:28.920 and like this is the end of fashions in Japan. 0:25:29.720 --> 0:25:33.040 And I think they're wrong. And the reason I think 0:25:33.080 --> 0:25:35.800 they're wrong is that if they're looking for the fascist 0:25:35.800 --> 0:25:39.880 revolution in Japan itself, and the fascist revolution doesn't happen 0:25:39.880 --> 0:25:44.040 in Japan, it happens in Manchuria. Now we we we 0:25:44.160 --> 0:25:47.560 have talked about Manchuria before on this show UM D 0:25:47.800 --> 0:25:51.320 D Chong episodes. Um it's you know, it's it's it's 0:25:51.480 --> 0:25:53.560 it's like the northeast China equivalent New England that like 0:25:53.600 --> 0:25:56.080 you know, Portos, Russia borders Korea. It's really close to 0:25:56.160 --> 0:26:00.960 Japan also boris Mongolia. Um know that there's there's a 0:26:01.000 --> 0:26:03.960 lot of industry there, and you know it's it's it's 0:26:04.000 --> 0:26:06.840 the base of Jong's boss, who's also named Jong Junctu Ling, 0:26:07.480 --> 0:26:09.760 and you know he he's the warlord that Japan had 0:26:09.800 --> 0:26:12.520 been backing, dream dreamed in the whole world periods of 0:26:12.560 --> 0:26:15.399 a civil war era. But both Jongs lose the war 0:26:15.400 --> 0:26:17.359 against Chinese nationalists. And you know, like when when when 0:26:17.440 --> 0:26:20.679 we last left Mancharia, like a bunch of piste off 0:26:20.800 --> 0:26:25.159 Japanese officers had just like bomb Junctu Ling's train, and 0:26:25.359 --> 0:26:27.760 you know, after that, Manchuria sort of falls into the 0:26:27.840 --> 0:26:30.280 hand of the nationalists. It becomes technically part of the 0:26:30.359 --> 0:26:33.600 Chinese Republic. And this is where okay, things have always 0:26:33.640 --> 0:26:34.840 been weird to man sure, this is where they get 0:26:34.880 --> 0:26:39.879 even weirder. UM anarchist revolution breaks out in Shiman Prefecture 0:26:40.200 --> 0:26:43.000 that calls itself the Korean People Association to Mancharia. Now 0:26:43.160 --> 0:26:46.520 Shimman's like right on the border with between Mancharia and Korea. 0:26:46.800 --> 0:26:50.960 And this anarchist revolution is driven in large part by 0:26:51.359 --> 0:26:54.520 this enormous Korema million like two million people like Koreans 0:26:54.560 --> 0:26:58.200 have fled to the Japanese occupation in uh you know, 0:26:58.200 --> 0:27:00.920 the Jackie is Japanese occupation of Korea and into Mancharia, 0:27:01.720 --> 0:27:04.040 and you know, and you know, and it's it's it's 0:27:04.080 --> 0:27:06.240 a weird project because you have a bunch of you 0:27:06.280 --> 0:27:07.440 have a bunch of anarchists, and you also have a 0:27:07.440 --> 0:27:10.680 bunch of Korean nationals working with each other because the 0:27:10.760 --> 0:27:12.080 thing both of them agree on is that they hate 0:27:12.080 --> 0:27:15.680 the Japanese. And you know that the anarchists sort of 0:27:15.720 --> 0:27:17.400 take the lead. They formed a bunch of these councils. 0:27:17.440 --> 0:27:20.560 They start organizing the economy, aroun mutual aid, and you know, 0:27:20.600 --> 0:27:22.320 they start to set up the education system. They do 0:27:22.400 --> 0:27:24.159 all this stuff, and then everyone immediately start trying to 0:27:24.240 --> 0:27:27.840 kill them, and so as as is like anarchist tradition, 0:27:27.920 --> 0:27:31.760 the Soviets start immediately assassinating people. Um if these guys 0:27:32.000 --> 0:27:34.480 have another disadvantage, which is that the Japanese army also 0:27:34.480 --> 0:27:37.480 starts assassinating them, and eventually this this whole sort of 0:27:37.640 --> 0:27:41.320 anarchist like prefecture, sort of mini territory collapses nine thirty one. 0:27:41.440 --> 0:27:43.480 When you know that the incident that I would consider 0:27:43.520 --> 0:27:47.080 the actual sort of fascist coup in Japan starts, which 0:27:47.119 --> 0:27:49.280 is it is the Muckton incident that triggers this full 0:27:49.320 --> 0:27:52.560 scale Japanese invasion of all of Mancharia. Now, the Muckton 0:27:53.000 --> 0:27:58.320 incidents extremely weird. Basically, what happened is that a group 0:27:58.359 --> 0:28:02.119 of officers in the Quantung Army, which is the japan 0:28:02.240 --> 0:28:04.280 has this army in Manchuria that's there to like protect 0:28:04.280 --> 0:28:07.280 their railroads basically because Japan like tendically owns all the land, 0:28:07.280 --> 0:28:09.520 the railroads a wrong, they have some other concessions, and 0:28:09.600 --> 0:28:11.520 so they have this army that's just like in Manchuria 0:28:11.600 --> 0:28:14.440 that they can legally have, and the offer some of 0:28:14.480 --> 0:28:17.760 the officers at that army basically look at the situation, 0:28:17.840 --> 0:28:19.359 they look at what's happening the rest of trying to 0:28:19.440 --> 0:28:21.399 look at the anarchist revolution, and they're like, okay, we 0:28:21.480 --> 0:28:24.480 need to take over Manchuria like entirely. But you know, 0:28:24.560 --> 0:28:26.159 they have no they don't have like a natural pretext. 0:28:26.200 --> 0:28:28.440 So they stage a false flag, false flag attack on 0:28:28.480 --> 0:28:31.520 their own railroad and use the attack as like a 0:28:31.600 --> 0:28:33.680 free tense that started a full scale invasion in Manchuria. 0:28:34.119 --> 0:28:36.840 And yeah, it's it's bad, it's and the other other 0:28:36.880 --> 0:28:39.080 phone part about this story that We're talking more about 0:28:39.200 --> 0:28:42.080 Yakuza later, but like those guys, so they go to 0:28:42.240 --> 0:28:45.000 like the Japanese government. In Japanese governments like, you cannot 0:28:45.040 --> 0:28:47.280 do this, and so they go to some right wing 0:28:47.400 --> 0:28:49.040 industrialists trying to get funding, and they won't do it. 0:28:49.040 --> 0:28:50.720 And the people who will fund them are the Yakuza, 0:28:51.240 --> 0:28:53.320 and so that they have like like thirty million yen 0:28:53.640 --> 0:28:55.840 just just like from the Yakuza that the Yakas are 0:28:55.920 --> 0:28:57.920 like here, yeah, used to take over from Manchuria. And 0:28:58.000 --> 0:29:02.280 so they do. And you know, and the civilian government 0:29:03.000 --> 0:29:05.840 in Japan doesn't want this, but they basically have no 0:29:06.000 --> 0:29:08.480 choice because the invasion is like incredibly popular among the 0:29:08.560 --> 0:29:11.360 Japanese like public, and you know, one of the reasons 0:29:11.360 --> 0:29:13.680 it's popular is that it you know, there's very I mean, 0:29:13.720 --> 0:29:16.480 there is some fighting, but Shinkai check in the Nationalists 0:29:16.800 --> 0:29:18.960 are you know, they're deep in their civil war with 0:29:19.200 --> 0:29:21.720 Mao and the communists in China, and they're just like, okay, Japan, 0:29:21.760 --> 0:29:23.440 you can just have this, and so they let they 0:29:23.560 --> 0:29:25.960 let them have this without without a fight. And the 0:29:26.080 --> 0:29:29.240 consequence is that the Quantuan army, which is you know, 0:29:29.400 --> 0:29:31.800 it's chocked full of imperial way followers. The whole there's 0:29:32.080 --> 0:29:34.800 like the whole army is just a bunch of different 0:29:34.840 --> 0:29:37.640 people in different fascist groups. These guys wind up ending 0:29:37.720 --> 0:29:39.200 up in charge of setting up a new state in 0:29:39.280 --> 0:29:42.440 Materia called by Chuqua. And the product of this is 0:29:42.480 --> 0:29:45.760 you get and it's just an extremely weird state with 0:29:45.920 --> 0:29:48.840 like sixteen different versions of fascism, and you know, this 0:29:48.920 --> 0:29:51.240 is supposed to be like an independent state, and it 0:29:52.320 --> 0:29:55.640 like kind of is a little bit like they install Pouyee, 0:29:55.680 --> 0:29:57.840 who's like the last emperor of China as like the 0:29:57.920 --> 0:30:00.120 Emperor of Machuqua, like this new state, and you know, 0:30:00.160 --> 0:30:02.720 they have all this propaganda about like the state's gonna 0:30:02.720 --> 0:30:05.160 have are gonna restore the kingly way, and it's going 0:30:05.240 --> 0:30:07.200 to be like a direct relationship between the emperor and 0:30:07.240 --> 0:30:08.640 the will of the people, and there's gonna be these 0:30:08.680 --> 0:30:11.680 like autonomous agrarian villages ruled by landlords and everyone's gonna 0:30:11.760 --> 0:30:14.640 like live in harmony. And did that? Did that happen? 0:30:17.520 --> 0:30:21.480 So so the strongest group in in in in this 0:30:21.920 --> 0:30:24.800 like sort of nude fascist utopia. It is called the 0:30:24.840 --> 0:30:28.680 Concorde Association, and they're this like they're this like fascist 0:30:28.760 --> 0:30:31.320 pan Asian group that you know, they have this whole 0:30:31.360 --> 0:30:33.640 line about like okay, we're doing ethnic harmony and like 0:30:33.640 --> 0:30:35.400 all the races are gonna work together, We're gonna work 0:30:35.400 --> 0:30:38.720 together to like expel the like the wide imperialists. And 0:30:38.920 --> 0:30:41.160 the reason they take this line is that like the 0:30:41.280 --> 0:30:44.520 actual Chinese people there don't want Thementaria, they don't want 0:30:44.560 --> 0:30:47.160 the Manchucal government there because they're like, okay, all of 0:30:47.240 --> 0:30:49.320 the officers in this thing and all of the government 0:30:49.360 --> 0:30:51.360 officials or Japanese like this is this is just a 0:30:51.440 --> 0:30:54.120 Japanese occupation, but you know, you have this sort of 0:30:54.240 --> 0:30:57.760 this this fascist like mass organization, and their goal is 0:30:57.760 --> 0:31:00.280 to build popular support for this because you know, the 0:31:00.400 --> 0:31:04.600 Japanese can't really just purely hold this a military force 0:31:04.720 --> 0:31:07.280 at this point. So they have this public government and 0:31:07.960 --> 0:31:10.760 you know, for about two years they really they rule 0:31:10.840 --> 0:31:14.960 like relatively unopposed. But in age thirty three, the Communist 0:31:15.040 --> 0:31:17.440 Party sort of at the at the behest of the 0:31:17.560 --> 0:31:18.680 U S s R. The USR is like, okay, you 0:31:18.720 --> 0:31:20.760 guys need to do this, and so the CCP goes okay, 0:31:21.360 --> 0:31:22.680 and what they do is that they start like the 0:31:22.720 --> 0:31:25.719 series of insurrections launched at like driving the Japanese out, 0:31:26.200 --> 0:31:31.440 and the Japanese responded by slaughter the entire villages very 0:31:31.560 --> 0:31:34.920 kingly way, very very very harmony between the races that 0:31:35.400 --> 0:31:38.360 there's you know, there's individual villages where they walk in 0:31:38.720 --> 0:31:40.800 they killed they killed two thousand, five hundred people in 0:31:40.880 --> 0:31:44.680 like a single massacre and you know, betweteen forty they 0:31:44.760 --> 0:31:47.400 kill sixty people trying to suppress the communists, and they 0:31:47.480 --> 0:31:51.600 move at five point five million people most mostly real 0:31:51.680 --> 0:31:55.240 people into these like the ten thousands of these hamlets, 0:31:55.640 --> 0:31:59.200 which I think if if if anyone studied the Vietnam 0:31:59.320 --> 0:32:01.480 War and you were prestigia handlets from that, like this 0:32:01.680 --> 0:32:03.800 is that like these handlets have they have three they 0:32:03.840 --> 0:32:06.239 have three meter high walls, they have barred wire, they 0:32:06.320 --> 0:32:09.480 have forced labor, and so you know, this is this 0:32:09.600 --> 0:32:11.720 is this is the state of like this, this is 0:32:11.800 --> 0:32:13.800 the state of like the Kingly Way in in in 0:32:13.840 --> 0:32:16.000 sort of fascist menshuko. Yeah, and it's you know, I 0:32:16.040 --> 0:32:18.040 mean one of the things that I think is and 0:32:18.160 --> 0:32:21.000 that you were getting get earlier when people talk about 0:32:21.120 --> 0:32:24.479 kind of the rise of the the o G fascists, um, 0:32:24.640 --> 0:32:27.720 it tends to be very eurocentric, but there's very much 0:32:27.840 --> 0:32:30.680 an open exchange of ideas that the Japanese are a 0:32:30.760 --> 0:32:33.560 part of that's that's going, but that includes concentration camps 0:32:33.600 --> 0:32:36.440 and it's not just and to that point, the Japanese 0:32:36.480 --> 0:32:39.360 are probably they're they're not really I would doubt their 0:32:39.400 --> 0:32:42.640 inspiration is the German concentration camps or anything that a 0:32:42.720 --> 0:32:46.760 fascist well that a recognize like what we can traditionally 0:32:46.760 --> 0:32:49.240 consider a fascist power zone. They were probably looking back 0:32:49.320 --> 0:32:53.520 at the Spanish and the British, my guess, yeah, yeah, 0:32:53.640 --> 0:32:57.520 and the United States possibly is the Spanish. The concentration 0:32:57.600 --> 0:33:02.040 camp concept kind of originated from Spanish general who deployed 0:33:02.040 --> 0:33:04.240 it in Cuba, but he got the idea from embedding 0:33:04.280 --> 0:33:07.880 with the U. S. Military after the Civil War. Anyway, Yeah, well, 0:33:07.960 --> 0:33:09.120 and you know, and you can you can treat it 0:33:09.240 --> 0:33:11.360 sort of more directly too, because like all of that stuff, 0:33:11.840 --> 0:33:13.840 you know, it boom boomerangs back to the Philippines and 0:33:14.400 --> 0:33:17.320 the American occupation there, and like you know, then that 0:33:17.560 --> 0:33:19.960 that's one of the things, this is one of the 0:33:20.040 --> 0:33:22.160 reasons that that stuff, like all the stuff he uses 0:33:22.200 --> 0:33:25.440 in the Philippines, that that is like in large part, 0:33:25.840 --> 0:33:27.560 like that's a big part of the reason why this 0:33:27.600 --> 0:33:30.080 sort of Japanese very fission to fascism is is popular 0:33:30.680 --> 0:33:33.000 to some extent in East Asia because you know, okay, 0:33:33.040 --> 0:33:36.480 but before they like really openly start to massacre everyone. 0:33:36.640 --> 0:33:39.000 You know, it's just popular because I mean, japan Seed 0:33:39.120 --> 0:33:41.000 is like the only power, you know, the only not 0:33:41.160 --> 0:33:42.720 my power in the East that can that can resist 0:33:42.960 --> 0:33:46.280 just the app I mean just the just incredible genocides 0:33:46.360 --> 0:33:50.720 that just like absolute horror that that that that is 0:33:50.760 --> 0:33:55.080 happening just across the rest of East Asia. Awesome, It's 0:33:55.120 --> 0:33:59.240 it's great. And yes, so Keishi starts becoming interested in 0:33:59.560 --> 0:34:02.880 Menshuk around nineteen thirty four, and partly he's interested in 0:34:03.000 --> 0:34:05.880 it because of the fascism, but his big interest in 0:34:05.920 --> 0:34:08.760 Machuqua is the natural resources in the sort of industrial 0:34:08.800 --> 0:34:11.800 base it has, and through through his sort of position 0:34:11.840 --> 0:34:14.239 in the in the government bureaucracy, she's able to start 0:34:14.280 --> 0:34:18.360 working on on the first Manchuqua five year Plan. Now, 0:34:18.480 --> 0:34:23.000 now it sort of weirdly, you know, the fascist officers 0:34:23.040 --> 0:34:25.160 who are who are in the Japanese army there, uh, 0:34:25.560 --> 0:34:28.480 they want this whole thing to be like an independent 0:34:29.280 --> 0:34:31.600 like state that's like free from the like corruption of 0:34:31.640 --> 0:34:34.360 liberalism and capitalism and stuff. From whatever that that like, 0:34:35.040 --> 0:34:37.400 you know, it makes makes Japan like in Pierre and 0:34:37.440 --> 0:34:40.279 like the loose relation to the empire. And she she 0:34:40.440 --> 0:34:42.040 looks at this and goes like, okay, wait, but we 0:34:42.200 --> 0:34:44.719 we want we want we want this state to help 0:34:44.840 --> 0:34:48.440 run our war machine. And you know, and he this 0:34:48.520 --> 0:34:51.480 five year plan is is this giant like war mobilization 0:34:51.600 --> 0:34:53.600 thing to create this sort of they called the National 0:34:53.680 --> 0:34:56.200 Defense State. But basically like it's turning the entire society 0:34:56.200 --> 0:34:58.480 and the entire state, the entire economy into a war economy. 0:34:58.680 --> 0:35:01.080 And his plan to do this is She's going to 0:35:01.239 --> 0:35:04.919 bring in Nissan and have Nissan run like every war 0:35:05.040 --> 0:35:10.280 industry in Manchuqua. Well, Nissan almost makes an acceptable truck, 0:35:10.640 --> 0:35:16.760 so you know almost, you know, it verges on being 0:35:16.920 --> 0:35:22.000 as good as a ram Uh. Look, Nissan cars are 0:35:22.080 --> 0:35:25.080 are are all right, but don't don't use them for 0:35:25.320 --> 0:35:29.640 agricultural work. Get it to coma. Now, if you're telling 0:35:29.680 --> 0:35:32.120 me they wanted to put Toyota in charge of everything, 0:35:32.719 --> 0:35:35.960 we say, that seems like a flawless plan. I'll bet 0:35:36.000 --> 0:35:38.600 Toyota has never been involved in any kinds of crimes 0:35:38.640 --> 0:35:41.000 against humanity. You know, there's there's that, there's there's like 0:35:41.080 --> 0:35:44.560 a fun there's a fun thing here where So so 0:35:44.760 --> 0:35:46.719 the there's these things in Japan called does I about 0:35:46.760 --> 0:35:49.239 Sue and it's about and you know, there's these like 0:35:49.280 --> 0:35:51.560 giant mega lambres like that the people who own like 0:35:51.640 --> 0:35:53.920 Toyota are one of the conglomerates. Nissan is another one 0:35:53.960 --> 0:35:55.840 of them. And like the army and most of the 0:35:55.880 --> 0:35:58.279 fashions like hate these guys because they see these like 0:35:58.320 --> 0:36:01.879 giant capitalist things. Is like this is like a Western thing. 0:36:02.040 --> 0:36:04.919 It's like unpeered. They let these corrupt bureaucrats and again 0:36:04.920 --> 0:36:06.000 in the way of us and the emperor, and so 0:36:06.160 --> 0:36:09.320 like she she has to like do this incredibly elaborate 0:36:09.440 --> 0:36:12.320 dance to convince all of the the fascist officers in 0:36:12.680 --> 0:36:15.080 in in Manchukuo that like, no, no, no, Nissan is 0:36:15.120 --> 0:36:17.719 not like Toyota, that they're they're not like the other conglomerates. 0:36:17.800 --> 0:36:20.239 Y're not like Mishibi through a new conglomerate, and they're 0:36:20.239 --> 0:36:24.360 they're gonna they're gonna do fascism for us. And this 0:36:24.719 --> 0:36:29.040 works eventually, um and she gets transferred fully to Maduria 0:36:30.280 --> 0:36:34.320 and all of this stuff gets approved basically because she's 0:36:34.400 --> 0:36:36.839 moving in there and proposing this this five year plan, 0:36:36.880 --> 0:36:38.560 which is the normal is expensive, by the way, But 0:36:38.680 --> 0:36:40.960 but the reason, the reason that she's able to do 0:36:41.120 --> 0:36:44.440 this is rights is getting in there. The Second Sino 0:36:44.560 --> 0:36:48.239 Japanese War starts, which is part of World War two 0:36:48.640 --> 0:36:51.040 kind of kind of its own thing. I don't know, 0:36:51.160 --> 0:36:54.399 there's a lot of running arguments. They had a war 0:36:54.719 --> 0:36:58.920 that was in its brutality and death toll comparable to 0:36:59.040 --> 0:37:01.319 World War Two. With the same time World War Two 0:37:01.480 --> 0:37:06.600 was going on. Um, you know, I occasionally Americans noticed it. 0:37:06.680 --> 0:37:09.320 There's some good Woody Guthree songs that thank the mighty 0:37:09.440 --> 0:37:13.640 Chinese vets. But um, yeah, you know what I mean, 0:37:13.800 --> 0:37:15.560 like that, there's this whole thing like I mean like 0:37:15.800 --> 0:37:17.360 like in China, like a lot like it's like that 0:37:17.480 --> 0:37:19.640 whole war is called the Anti Japanese War or the 0:37:19.680 --> 0:37:23.880 war resistance, because yeah, you know, because like like that, 0:37:24.120 --> 0:37:26.520 like you know, for most of the time this is happening, 0:37:26.680 --> 0:37:30.680 they from for about three or four years, China is 0:37:30.760 --> 0:37:34.200 just fighting the entire Japanese army by itself, and you 0:37:34.280 --> 0:37:37.000 know this is yeah, well we'll we'll we'll get into 0:37:38.280 --> 0:37:41.240 the stuff that that that the Chinese government is always 0:37:41.280 --> 0:37:44.440 going to sort of suffer in this. But you know, 0:37:44.600 --> 0:37:46.600 but the consequence of this for Chi she is that 0:37:46.960 --> 0:37:50.920 like he gets just total economic power and sort of 0:37:50.960 --> 0:37:52.760 political power menure. He can just you can do literally 0:37:52.800 --> 0:37:55.759 whatever he wants. And the thing that he wants to 0:37:55.800 --> 0:37:57.880 do so okay. So so his big thing is his 0:37:57.960 --> 0:37:59.480 big major thing is he wants to implement the five 0:37:59.560 --> 0:38:01.759 year plan to you know, turn this Joe warconto me. 0:38:02.120 --> 0:38:03.879 The second thing he wants to do is just get 0:38:03.960 --> 0:38:08.240 absolutely wasted literally every single night, like he she okay, 0:38:08.320 --> 0:38:11.080 well that scans Look if you're gonna be war crim 0:38:12.280 --> 0:38:15.400 sober yeah no he yeah, And like you know, like 0:38:16.280 --> 0:38:18.440 all of the sort of Japanese officers and Japanese bearcats 0:38:18.440 --> 0:38:21.440 like go clubbing, but like even the other like the 0:38:21.800 --> 0:38:25.160 other versa. I know, every now and then I go 0:38:25.280 --> 0:38:27.160 out club and get a little drunk with my friends, 0:38:27.239 --> 0:38:31.160 commit a couple of war crimes. This is padlock an 0:38:31.200 --> 0:38:42.640 apartment gate closed with anyway, all right, what this continue? God? Well, 0:38:43.480 --> 0:38:46.160 the thing with Kishi is like, okay, so everyone's doing 0:38:46.200 --> 0:38:48.400 this a bit at the time. She she is literally 0:38:48.840 --> 0:38:52.279 going to clubs and getting wasted every single night. Like 0:38:52.400 --> 0:38:55.040 even the yakuza people are like, what are you doing 0:38:55.960 --> 0:38:59.319 like it's like I have to take a second here 0:38:59.360 --> 0:39:03.120 to tell the story about the absolute shattist Japanese officer 0:39:03.160 --> 0:39:04.799 I've ever heard of. So when I was in I've 0:39:04.840 --> 0:39:06.919 been Okinawa a couple of times because my parents lived 0:39:06.960 --> 0:39:08.640 there for years and years and years, both when they 0:39:08.680 --> 0:39:11.399 were kids and then later as adults. And like, I'm 0:39:11.400 --> 0:39:14.640 not trying to like whitewash the problems with American bases. 0:39:14.920 --> 0:39:17.400 There's a big, very active and I think very righteous 0:39:17.440 --> 0:39:19.680 movement try to remove the basis on Okinawa. But we're 0:39:19.680 --> 0:39:21.440 gonna talk about the origin of that too. Yeah, I 0:39:21.520 --> 0:39:23.920 had I I had no no say in any of that. 0:39:24.040 --> 0:39:27.600 My parents just lived there. Um. But so I went 0:39:27.680 --> 0:39:30.000 on this tour of like sites from World War two 0:39:30.080 --> 0:39:32.520 on on Okinawa, and one of the stories they told 0:39:32.600 --> 0:39:35.520 us was about this Japanese officer who when the Americans 0:39:35.560 --> 0:39:38.799 invaded Okinawa, he was at a brothel just like, had 0:39:38.840 --> 0:39:43.280 been drunk and fucking for days, and they Americans advanced 0:39:43.360 --> 0:39:45.960 quickly enough that by the time he sobered up, he 0:39:46.040 --> 0:39:50.320 found himself several miles behind the American lines and alone, 0:39:50.960 --> 0:39:54.720 hung over and having just fucked himself, silly snuck past 0:39:54.800 --> 0:39:57.360 the American lines. Made it back to his unit and 0:39:57.400 --> 0:40:00.480 then proceeded to lead them in battle for weeks. Is 0:40:01.440 --> 0:40:05.200 incredible chat energy. You know. I say this so like 0:40:05.400 --> 0:40:08.279 like this is just that's just the default condition of 0:40:08.320 --> 0:40:10.600 the Japanese officer cord in this whole war like that, 0:40:10.760 --> 0:40:12.640 that's like they like this is this is what they're 0:40:12.640 --> 0:40:14.920 doing all of the time. If it weren't for the 0:40:15.000 --> 0:40:18.759 millions of dead, it would be a real rock situation. Yeah, 0:40:19.080 --> 0:40:22.279 Like you know, like we're not saying these dudes rock. No, 0:40:22.560 --> 0:40:25.120 these dudes in fact do not rock. Do not rock. 0:40:25.440 --> 0:40:27.280 And I'm going to emphasize this by like how cringe 0:40:27.360 --> 0:40:30.480 Kishi actually is, Like okay, so there there's a quote 0:40:30.560 --> 0:40:33.560 of Kishi where he he said he describes himself as 0:40:33.600 --> 0:40:37.279 and this is a direct quote quote Playboy of the 0:40:37.400 --> 0:40:44.640 Eastern World, Like she just calls himself this, okay, Yeah, 0:40:45.200 --> 0:40:48.440 you know. He also spends just like an enormous amount 0:40:48.440 --> 0:40:50.960 of time in in the brothels. Do we have a 0:40:51.040 --> 0:40:53.320 picture of this man? I feel like I need a 0:40:53.440 --> 0:40:58.000 visual of somebody who would dare to give themselves that title. Unfortunately, 0:40:58.040 --> 0:40:59.719 most of the pictures of him are from like when 0:40:59.800 --> 0:41:03.359 he's old Dick Pills look if you're gonna be, if 0:41:03.440 --> 0:41:06.880 you're gonna if you're gonna be fucking like a Japanese 0:41:06.960 --> 0:41:10.800 imperial officer, you're gonna need dick pills. Look, there's no 0:41:11.000 --> 0:41:16.160 shame in it. Like the best athletes like Lance arms 0:41:16.200 --> 0:41:20.520 Strong fuck Like yes, the saying is Keishi probably needed 0:41:20.600 --> 0:41:23.759 dick pills. I'm sure he did. If you're going to 0:41:23.840 --> 0:41:29.400 be the Lance arms Strong of lecherous Japanese military officers, 0:41:29.440 --> 0:41:32.000 you're gonna use some. You're gonna dope, and that's fine, 0:41:32.600 --> 0:41:42.359 and that's why we sell dope. Dick dope. Here's some ads. Okay, 0:41:42.400 --> 0:41:46.640 this man is this man is not like Okay, Okay, 0:41:46.880 --> 0:41:50.000 That's all I'll say is he's not it. Okay, But Sophie, 0:41:50.200 --> 0:41:54.359 I think if if there's one reason why men join 0:41:54.480 --> 0:41:58.200 imperial militaries and travel to foreign lands to do violence, 0:41:58.640 --> 0:42:01.520 it's because it's yeah, he's here for them to get 0:42:01.600 --> 0:42:05.240 laid that because they're not they're not. You know, people 0:42:05.280 --> 0:42:08.920 who were like really pulling it in back home generally 0:42:08.920 --> 0:42:12.600 don't invade foreign countries. I mean, fair enough, the Nazis 0:42:12.880 --> 0:42:15.240 still not a lot of guys who were like knocking 0:42:15.320 --> 0:42:17.440 it out of the park with the with the with 0:42:17.600 --> 0:42:19.880 the exception of oh ship what was his name? The 0:42:19.920 --> 0:42:21.960 guy Hitler had killed in the Night of Long Nights. 0:42:24.080 --> 0:42:27.279 Ernst Rome was pulling it down, and it's baffling that 0:42:27.400 --> 0:42:29.759 he became a Nazi in the ship. But anyway, whatever, 0:42:30.000 --> 0:42:32.920 I mean, this man does have like a decent like no, 0:42:33.200 --> 0:42:38.200 he doesn't take it. I've got I've gotten, Sophie, this 0:42:38.360 --> 0:42:43.040 discussion on our side podcasts. How fuckable was this war criminal? Yeah, 0:42:43.040 --> 0:42:45.320 I mean coming out on the I Heart radio network 0:42:45.400 --> 0:42:49.239 and July of you just went back in time. But 0:42:49.440 --> 0:42:54.400 that's so I know, Sophie, Chris. Would you like to 0:42:54.440 --> 0:42:58.799 continue this podcast? We've del guest. Sophie's derailed you enough. 0:42:59.640 --> 0:43:03.080 I will fight you continue. Yeah, well, I'd like to 0:43:03.120 --> 0:43:07.040 see you try. Robert is actually like Robert is kind 0:43:07.120 --> 0:43:09.320 of onto something on the like the reason you go 0:43:09.800 --> 0:43:12.360 to do imperialism is so you can just like have 0:43:12.560 --> 0:43:17.080 sex constantly. Yeah, absolutely, well you know and did yeah yeah, 0:43:17.080 --> 0:43:18.360 And this is what the Japanese is doing it. And 0:43:18.600 --> 0:43:20.600 this is where we should mention that Kishi is an 0:43:20.640 --> 0:43:26.040 inveterate rapist, like like sereal mass rapist. Um. Yes, so 0:43:26.160 --> 0:43:31.919 so those those brothels I was talking about, so well, yeah, 0:43:32.120 --> 0:43:34.440 so there's there's like there's like a small number of 0:43:34.520 --> 0:43:38.240 people in there who, like our sex workers, like eighty 0:43:38.360 --> 0:43:40.360 to ninety percent of those people were just like kidnapped 0:43:40.360 --> 0:43:44.279 from Japan and like brought there by force. And yeah, 0:43:44.400 --> 0:43:46.360 and so you know, and this is you know, and 0:43:46.560 --> 0:43:49.960 she's going there like every like one or two days. Right, 0:43:50.040 --> 0:43:52.320 he's at one of these brothels. And you know, Okay, 0:43:52.520 --> 0:43:55.880 even if like somehow, like by like some miracle, he 0:43:56.080 --> 0:43:59.160 somehow only had conseexual sex there, he's also just like 0:43:59.800 --> 0:44:02.400 he he's like he has one of the weirdest like 0:44:02.640 --> 0:44:04.680 sex things I've ever heard of, which is that like 0:44:05.040 --> 0:44:07.279 every time like he was served a meal, he would 0:44:07.280 --> 0:44:12.440 demand to have sex with the raitress. Um. Yeah, it's yeah, 0:44:12.719 --> 0:44:16.040 you know and like those those people, like those women 0:44:16.160 --> 0:44:18.640 like absolutely did not consent to that, which means he 0:44:18.840 --> 0:44:21.880 is like this man. Yeah, he is like raping people 0:44:21.960 --> 0:44:25.640 like basically every day. So far as to say that 0:44:25.719 --> 0:44:29.359 in most situations, you can't properly consent to a man 0:44:29.600 --> 0:44:33.399 occupying your country with armed force, now, I will say 0:44:33.520 --> 0:44:36.280 I will say so so because because he is a racist, 0:44:36.400 --> 0:44:39.000 like inveterate racist, he will only sleep a Japanese women. 0:44:39.760 --> 0:44:42.440 But those people were also brought there by force by 0:44:42.960 --> 0:44:46.800 by the opposite and she so. So while he's imprisoned 0:44:46.840 --> 0:44:48.600 in Ete forty eight, he has there he has an 0:44:48.640 --> 0:44:51.840 interview and his description of this time is quote, I 0:44:52.000 --> 0:44:54.040 came so much it was hard to clean it all up. 0:44:54.320 --> 0:44:56.640 Like he has like he has he has a he 0:44:56.719 --> 0:44:58.520 has a guy, Like he has a specific guy. He's 0:44:58.520 --> 0:45:00.719 like a specific maid who's job it is to clean 0:45:00.800 --> 0:45:05.520 up his sheets every night. Like yeah, he's God and 0:45:05.800 --> 0:45:09.719 you know he's got to come servant. That's yeah, this 0:45:10.040 --> 0:45:11.200 is like a thing. This is like a lot of 0:45:11.280 --> 0:45:14.000 the like the weird Japanese sex fascists. Like there's like 0:45:14.080 --> 0:45:15.799 a person who has to clean up all their ships. 0:45:15.880 --> 0:45:17.839 Like there's there's I'm blanking on Blanco name. Like there's 0:45:17.880 --> 0:45:21.680 that famous, uh, like fascist Japanese poet who's like like 0:45:21.760 --> 0:45:24.319 the Japanese Nobel laureate who's a fascist and like kills 0:45:24.360 --> 0:45:26.680 himself in the sixtet or something when when his coup fails, 0:45:27.080 --> 0:45:30.239 like that guy. Also, yeah, like there's there's a person 0:45:30.440 --> 0:45:32.960 who had to clean out his sheets and like his 0:45:33.120 --> 0:45:38.000 robes and ship. Also check out my upcoming punk band 0:45:38.239 --> 0:45:42.839 out weird Japanese sex fascist. Yeah. There, there's gonna be more. 0:45:42.880 --> 0:45:45.560 Don't worry where we we have not yet reached the 0:45:45.680 --> 0:45:50.560 weirdest of the Japanese sex fascist that's coming next episode. Yeah, 0:45:51.360 --> 0:45:56.160 quotes in this episode already. Yeah, you know, but I mean, 0:45:56.200 --> 0:45:59.000 like so like the fact that he's raping women like 0:45:59.160 --> 0:46:03.840 every day. I think like this helps explain what otherwise 0:46:03.880 --> 0:46:06.920 I think is kind of almost unexplainable thing that we're 0:46:06.920 --> 0:46:08.920 going to talk about in a bit, just like the 0:46:08.960 --> 0:46:11.560 amount of violence that we're about to see. But you know, 0:46:11.800 --> 0:46:14.360 so the other thing that's happening here, she's going to 0:46:14.440 --> 0:46:17.839 brothels like it's not It starts out as just like keis, 0:46:17.880 --> 0:46:21.520 she's like a statistic rapist, but he also is doing 0:46:21.560 --> 0:46:23.759 official business there, and and his official business is that 0:46:23.800 --> 0:46:26.520 he's networking with local yakus at bosses. And this is 0:46:26.520 --> 0:46:28.920 where we get to sort of like formally introduce the 0:46:29.080 --> 0:46:32.120 third piece of the sort of fascist triad in Japan. 0:46:32.680 --> 0:46:35.080 So you know, you have you have fascist army officers. 0:46:35.120 --> 0:46:37.120 Do you have people like Kishi who are bureacrat technically 0:46:37.120 --> 0:46:39.920 civilian bureaucrats, but you know, are also fascist and working 0:46:39.920 --> 0:46:42.080 through the sort of planning agencies there, and the third 0:46:42.120 --> 0:46:46.360 wheel is organized crime. Now the yakuza there there. You 0:46:46.400 --> 0:46:49.160 know a lot of organized crime winds up sort of 0:46:49.239 --> 0:46:52.880 backing fascists. But the yakuza are different from you know, 0:46:52.920 --> 0:46:56.879 say like the Italian mafia in that they're like fanatically 0:46:56.960 --> 0:46:58.760 right wing and they have been basically in the eighteen seventies, 0:46:58.760 --> 0:47:00.840 and they're like these are like the Yakas are a 0:47:01.080 --> 0:47:03.480 lot of people who invented fascism in Japan. Like they're 0:47:03.480 --> 0:47:05.480 they're like they're like the first proto proto fascist groups. 0:47:05.520 --> 0:47:09.080 Are are these like giant Yakasa organizations and they're I 0:47:09.120 --> 0:47:11.480 mean they're really tied in with the state that there's 0:47:11.520 --> 0:47:13.759 this story about how like so one of the one 0:47:13.760 --> 0:47:15.680 of the first giant yakas a fascist groups is called 0:47:15.760 --> 0:47:19.120 the Dark Ocean Society. And these guys, you know that 0:47:19.200 --> 0:47:21.719 their triads like they did they're doing drug stuff. But 0:47:22.080 --> 0:47:25.360 like the Japanese Ministry of the Interior asks them to 0:47:25.480 --> 0:47:27.200 like this this isn't like ninety ten. They asked them 0:47:27.239 --> 0:47:29.600 to help like Japan's stage and incident that will let 0:47:29.640 --> 0:47:33.120 them invade Korea. And so like these guys like they 0:47:33.160 --> 0:47:36.920 have like they have like special forces training myself. Oh no, 0:47:37.760 --> 0:47:40.840 oh yeah, I mean you know, that's what's what you 0:47:40.920 --> 0:47:43.200 do when you're young. Everyone's got to do a little 0:47:43.239 --> 0:47:46.200 bit of invading Korea. It's yeah, yeah, well, as long 0:47:46.239 --> 0:47:50.239 as you don't take it too far, it's fine. Oh boy, yeah, 0:47:50.320 --> 0:47:52.120 we're well, yeah, we're we're gonna get your taking it 0:47:52.239 --> 0:47:54.120 too far. But you know, like the thing is, like 0:47:54.200 --> 0:47:56.839 these guys like they like break into the Imperial Palace 0:47:56.840 --> 0:48:02.680 and assassinate the Empress of Korea. Like yeah yeah, Like 0:48:02.760 --> 0:48:05.120 the like the Akasa, like they have they have military training, 0:48:05.160 --> 0:48:08.720 they have intelligence training, they're they're incredibly efficient political source, 0:48:09.120 --> 0:48:12.560 like like sort of private political operation. And when Kishi 0:48:12.600 --> 0:48:15.000 meets with them, they basically just agree to solve all 0:48:15.040 --> 0:48:17.080 of Kishi's funding problems. And you know, they can do 0:48:17.120 --> 0:48:20.400 this because the japan like the Akasa has an enormous 0:48:20.440 --> 0:48:23.160 amount of the accusan and Mentua is like an enormous 0:48:23.160 --> 0:48:25.160 amount of money. And the reason I have this money 0:48:25.280 --> 0:48:28.640 is because they run the drug trade. Like basically it's 0:48:28.640 --> 0:48:31.160 a good way to make money. Yeah yeah, yeah, And 0:48:31.440 --> 0:48:34.279 you know, and Kishi she basically like offers to like 0:48:34.440 --> 0:48:36.640 formally let him into the Japanese state and you know, 0:48:36.680 --> 0:48:38.480 and the everything is offering them was like, hey, you 0:48:38.520 --> 0:48:40.840 guys want to do fascism, Like if you fund me, 0:48:41.000 --> 0:48:43.160 I will do so much fascism. And the accus is 0:48:43.239 --> 0:48:46.200 like hell yeah. And you know, and this is this 0:48:46.239 --> 0:48:47.799 is the thing I don't think people understand, but about 0:48:47.800 --> 0:48:50.600 the Japanese Empire, like it's a cartel, Like the whole 0:48:50.600 --> 0:48:52.320 thing is a cartels. It's like a cartel with like 0:48:52.360 --> 0:48:54.200 an army and a bureaucracy strap to it. And and 0:48:54.719 --> 0:48:57.160 this is especially true true and menchu Quo, where you know, 0:48:57.480 --> 0:49:00.360 with with Yakuza backing, like this project is like almost 0:49:00.360 --> 0:49:03.319 self financing, like the you know, but by by by 0:49:03.360 --> 0:49:06.840 by the mid nineteen thirties, like fully twenty percent of 0:49:06.880 --> 0:49:10.080 the Japanese population is addicted to either opium, heroin or 0:49:10.120 --> 0:49:12.720 one of the other drugs that the Yakas aren't running. 0:49:12.840 --> 0:49:15.320 And this means that, you know, when when the Accusa 0:49:15.800 --> 0:49:17.880 really start to formally ally with with the sort of 0:49:17.920 --> 0:49:19.480 state government, and you know, the state government people are 0:49:19.520 --> 0:49:21.759 also doing drug running, but you know, there's just like 0:49:21.840 --> 0:49:25.560 full scale emergence and by that point, fifty of all 0:49:25.640 --> 0:49:28.439 state revenue in manchu Quo is just from the drug trade, 0:49:28.719 --> 0:49:30.840 and you know, like the Quantum Army, like they literally 0:49:31.040 --> 0:49:34.280 like they start they launched invasions of parts of China 0:49:34.360 --> 0:49:36.440 so they could take over opium and heroin factories, and 0:49:36.480 --> 0:49:38.800 they just they just like start making heroin and opium 0:49:38.840 --> 0:49:41.560 like for the Accusa. Because this whole thing is just 0:49:41.719 --> 0:49:44.399 a cartel. Yeah, I mean everything is when you get 0:49:44.480 --> 0:49:46.920 right down to it. Yeah, in the British are like, 0:49:47.200 --> 0:49:51.440 this is a podcast cartel, and like any other cartels, 0:49:51.560 --> 0:49:55.200 we're actively engaged in battling the Mexican military in the 0:49:55.280 --> 0:49:58.440 foothills of of of northern Mexico. You know. Look, I 0:49:58.719 --> 0:50:03.000 keep like I keep saying, Japan is China's Mexico mm 0:50:04.120 --> 0:50:07.200 and and as a result, we are also fighting the 0:50:07.320 --> 0:50:10.600 Japanese military in order to aid in the spread of 0:50:10.680 --> 0:50:14.759 podcasts across the aisles. Um. They actually have taken no 0:50:14.880 --> 0:50:17.640 efforts to stop us. So it's been very hard to 0:50:17.719 --> 0:50:20.000 start those fights. But we're working on it. We're working 0:50:20.080 --> 0:50:22.200 on it. Look, you can you can always get into 0:50:22.239 --> 0:50:24.840 a gun battle with the facts, if if if you believe, 0:50:25.400 --> 0:50:28.319 if you believe, Sometimes you have to force yourself into 0:50:28.400 --> 0:50:31.440 being an armed cartel. Sometimes the state says what you're 0:50:31.480 --> 0:50:33.719 doing isn't illegal, and there's no need for us to 0:50:33.840 --> 0:50:36.680 have have an armed conflict. But you know, that's what 0:50:36.840 --> 0:50:41.680 separates uh, you know, the cartels from the people not 0:50:42.160 --> 0:50:46.240 committing organized criminal activity. So the sort of final stage 0:50:46.280 --> 0:50:50.520 of this is that so Kishi's successor in has this 0:50:50.680 --> 0:50:53.360 idea and you know, and you could just like persistently 0:50:53.440 --> 0:50:56.120 has labor shortages, and his plan is, oh, wait, hold on, 0:50:56.400 --> 0:50:58.640 we can use that. We can use the opium problem 0:50:58.680 --> 0:51:01.279 to solve solve our labor problem. And so they start. 0:51:01.400 --> 0:51:03.560 She sets up this like the series of these uh 0:51:03.840 --> 0:51:07.560 what are supposed to be drug rehabilitation centers, and you know, 0:51:07.600 --> 0:51:10.200 about two million like drug addicts show up to work 0:51:10.560 --> 0:51:13.480 because you know, they show up to drug rebilization centers 0:51:13.480 --> 0:51:15.640 because people like don't want to medict it. And what 0:51:15.760 --> 0:51:17.680 the centers actually are is you walk into the center 0:51:17.680 --> 0:51:18.759 and you walk on the back of the center, and 0:51:18.800 --> 0:51:21.640 then you're into force labor camp. Yeah yeah, they got them, 0:51:21.800 --> 0:51:24.640 they got It's great, it's great. And then and then yeah, 0:51:24.640 --> 0:51:26.879 they tricked them. And then so there's like two hundred 0:51:26.920 --> 0:51:28.920 thousands of people who like are brought by their families 0:51:28.960 --> 0:51:30.760 and like they show up like they they're not physically 0:51:30.760 --> 0:51:34.600 fit to work, So the Japanese government injects them with 0:51:34.760 --> 0:51:38.440 what they call an opium detox supplement, and the opium 0:51:38.440 --> 0:51:45.360 detox supplement is actually in fetamine. Means it's great and 0:51:45.480 --> 0:51:48.800 it's funny. We just recorded the episodes that they're running 0:51:48.840 --> 0:51:51.719 the week we we record this about like the Nazis 0:51:51.760 --> 0:51:54.719 and drugs. But yeah, when meth first came out in 0:51:54.880 --> 0:51:57.520 Nazi Germany, was obviously invented in Japan. But when meth 0:51:57.600 --> 0:52:01.480 first got popular in Nazi Germany, it was advertised as 0:52:01.480 --> 0:52:05.040 a treatment for opiate addiction. Um, which I guess, yeah, 0:52:05.080 --> 0:52:07.960 if you get horribly addicted to meth, you you you 0:52:08.040 --> 0:52:11.080 won't do as much opium. Yeah, well, you know what, 0:52:11.239 --> 0:52:13.080 what what the Japanese government want out of this is 0:52:13.120 --> 0:52:16.120 that like, okay, so these people can't physically move, and 0:52:16.160 --> 0:52:17.920 we need a drug that can allow them to like 0:52:18.080 --> 0:52:22.120 move so they can be our slaves. And yeah, so 0:52:22.239 --> 0:52:26.239 that that that's that's a solution to that. And yeah, 0:52:26.400 --> 0:52:28.719 so you know, not wanting to be outdone in the 0:52:28.760 --> 0:52:31.960 sort of forced labor department. In August seven, she she 0:52:32.120 --> 0:52:35.799 signs this bill that lets him just enslaved prisoners of war. 0:52:37.200 --> 0:52:41.000 So sorry, sorted. It starts with POWs and is expanded, 0:52:41.239 --> 0:52:43.880 and you know, by the time you get to the expansion, 0:52:44.719 --> 0:52:48.080 it's like anyone doesn't have a job, where like anyone 0:52:48.160 --> 0:52:50.320 they define as a bandit, which is like a bandit 0:52:50.440 --> 0:52:53.640 is just anyone who doesn't like the government. And so 0:52:53.800 --> 0:52:57.560 you know, Butty eight, it's okay, we can enslave just 0:52:57.920 --> 0:53:01.680 anyone we see on the street, and the people who 0:53:01.760 --> 0:53:05.160 aren't technically enslaved. She pushes this thing that he calls 0:53:05.320 --> 0:53:10.080 unifying wages, which means forcing like everyone in you know, 0:53:10.360 --> 0:53:13.040 every everyone in Mentriqua, including like just the other random 0:53:13.080 --> 0:53:15.920 capitalists are still there to to lower all of their 0:53:15.960 --> 0:53:18.880 wages down to to to like follow his planning model. 0:53:19.840 --> 0:53:21.719 And when when I say lowering wages, what I mean 0:53:21.880 --> 0:53:25.000 is that he figured. You know, Kishi's thing is that 0:53:25.040 --> 0:53:27.520 he's a beercrat. Right's about efficiencies, on about rationality, And 0:53:27.600 --> 0:53:29.759 the thing that he's rationally and efficiently decided is that 0:53:30.560 --> 0:53:34.400 you should pay Japanese Chinese workers exactly enough they don't starve. 0:53:35.200 --> 0:53:37.560 I guess it's better than paying them enough so little 0:53:37.640 --> 0:53:41.040 that they do starve. Well, that that starts to happen too, 0:53:42.080 --> 0:53:46.560 and then you know, yeah, yeah, and then the wage 0:53:46.640 --> 0:53:48.920 the wages keep going down because they need to bring 0:53:49.040 --> 0:53:50.560 labor costs down that you know, because that's the other 0:53:50.560 --> 0:53:52.000 way they're funding all of this is by just not 0:53:52.120 --> 0:53:57.040 paying people. Now, you know, and labor in Mentriqua had 0:53:57.120 --> 0:54:00.279 already how already basically been a bunch of the acaste people, 0:54:00.640 --> 0:54:02.840 like like a bunch of oks of people are in 0:54:02.880 --> 0:54:04.319 the factory and if you take a step out of line, 0:54:04.360 --> 0:54:07.600 they beat you. Now she she's like, okay, we're going 0:54:07.680 --> 0:54:11.200 to rationalize this, and she's rationalization means that you know, 0:54:11.239 --> 0:54:14.400 instead of it being independently the the aucus of hoting 0:54:14.440 --> 0:54:17.000 these people to work for like nothing, Uh, he's going 0:54:17.080 --> 0:54:18.600 to bring you know, he's gonna bring them into the 0:54:18.640 --> 0:54:21.120 state and so you know, he's gonna replace the paramilitaries 0:54:21.120 --> 0:54:23.200 with militaries. The accuser and the MP's are going to 0:54:23.239 --> 0:54:26.560 get replaced with you know, bureacrats, regular police. And the 0:54:26.640 --> 0:54:30.400 final thing this means is conscripting or enslaving like Chinese 0:54:30.480 --> 0:54:32.560 male farm workers to work in work camps and then 0:54:32.880 --> 0:54:35.120 forcing their families and children to work in the fields 0:54:35.160 --> 0:54:40.080 in their place. It's yeah, and this this is where 0:54:40.120 --> 0:54:45.239 the race science starts, because you know, Japan, Japan has 0:54:45.320 --> 0:54:49.000 its own race science that they kind of developed by themselves, 0:54:49.040 --> 0:54:51.840 and they kind of import from Europe and you know 0:54:51.960 --> 0:54:54.439 this this is part of their like tailorism, like labor 0:54:54.480 --> 0:54:58.280 discipline rationalization process is they start doing these quote unquote 0:54:58.320 --> 0:55:02.279 scientific tests for for body shape, for cranial size, for 0:55:02.440 --> 0:55:05.880 nose structure, and they turn these measurements into these like 0:55:06.080 --> 0:55:11.200 basically racial baseball cards with like numerically ranked Yeah, yeah, 0:55:11.320 --> 0:55:13.480 raceball cards. Yeah that they you know, they'll they'll be 0:55:13.560 --> 0:55:16.160 like different points for like how much like like what 0:55:16.320 --> 0:55:17.920 what the shape of your skull is, like how big 0:55:18.000 --> 0:55:20.080 your noses? And these gives you more or less points, 0:55:20.080 --> 0:55:21.480 and you like you hold up, you hold up the 0:55:21.560 --> 0:55:24.960 raceball card, and you know you nextra a migrant worker 0:55:25.000 --> 0:55:28.080 and you're like, okay, so which how how highly does 0:55:28.120 --> 0:55:31.680 this person score? And I'm going to read a quote 0:55:31.760 --> 0:55:34.520 from the book Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque, which is a 0:55:34.719 --> 0:55:38.120 history of this period of a title. Yeah, it's great, 0:55:38.200 --> 0:55:41.480 it's it's it's it's an incredibly wild book. It's like 0:55:41.520 --> 0:55:44.640 it's like half about fascism and half about the way 0:55:44.719 --> 0:55:48.040 that it's sort of the way that it's driven by 0:55:48.600 --> 0:55:52.000 what what this this like thirties Marxist like Japanese sociologist 0:55:52.080 --> 0:55:54.440 calls the declining rate of pleasure, which is about how 0:55:54.520 --> 0:55:55.960 like and you know, and I think this is this 0:55:56.080 --> 0:55:57.840 is actually fist is what happens in Japanese Empire is 0:55:57.880 --> 0:55:59.879 that you know, this is already a really violent place, 0:56:00.400 --> 0:56:02.839 and you know, in order to sort of extract more 0:56:02.920 --> 0:56:05.799 pleasure out of like sex, right, they start getting they 0:56:05.800 --> 0:56:07.680 start going to stuff as more and more violence. And 0:56:07.840 --> 0:56:09.920 this isn't just like a sort of like porn thing 0:56:10.040 --> 0:56:11.800 or like the points more stream like no, no, like there. 0:56:12.480 --> 0:56:15.480 They constantly have to seek out like more like increasingly 0:56:15.560 --> 0:56:18.360 more violent ways of like raping people. And this is like, 0:56:18.440 --> 0:56:19.719 you know, this is one of the sort of psychoses 0:56:19.760 --> 0:56:22.480 that like drives this whole, like ex matsion project and 0:56:22.520 --> 0:56:25.560 the other one, the other psychosis is racism. So yeah, 0:56:25.560 --> 0:56:27.920 I'm gonna I'm gonna read this quote. Um. Actually, the 0:56:28.080 --> 0:56:30.880 the s r M, which is the State Reeler Company 0:56:31.280 --> 0:56:35.600 Studies classified coolies into three types, the Shandong type, Tohobei type, 0:56:35.640 --> 0:56:39.440 and the Manchurian type, consistently making up over se of 0:56:39.520 --> 0:56:43.480 all the North Chinese immigrant immigrant laborers. Shuang Dung coolies 0:56:43.520 --> 0:56:46.800 were profiled as a quote thick gold type representing a 0:56:46.880 --> 0:56:50.000 low level of culture and capacity quantities confirmed by their 0:56:50.200 --> 0:56:56.120 strong backs and powerful grip. Their biometrics of large jaw cranials, 0:56:56.120 --> 0:56:59.279 circumference of fifty five centimeters facial length at one point 0:56:59.400 --> 0:57:02.000 three five to one point four times the line of 0:57:02.080 --> 0:57:05.840 the lower jaw, prominent cheekbones, stupidity, big teeth, a bridge 0:57:05.880 --> 0:57:10.200 of the nose that indicated docility, submissiveness, and barbarity added 0:57:10.280 --> 0:57:13.719 up to quote a type perfectly suited for physical labor. 0:57:14.480 --> 0:57:16.960 Who Abe coolies were a little smarter than those from Shendong, 0:57:17.040 --> 0:57:21.360 Thanks so they're anthropologically superior cranial shape. Owing to this 0:57:21.520 --> 0:57:24.040 racial profile, who coolies were seen as the best for 0:57:24.120 --> 0:57:29.040 semi skilled labor of carpentry, plastering, and bricklaying. Wow, I 0:57:29.120 --> 0:57:31.200 want one of those. I want I want that meme 0:57:31.280 --> 0:57:33.320 of the two hands meeting in the middle. That's like 0:57:34.640 --> 0:57:38.920 Western racists Japanese racists and in the middle exactly the 0:57:39.040 --> 0:57:45.120 same ship. Yep, Like it's you know, what if? What if? 0:57:45.160 --> 0:57:46.640 The things that I was realizing, like as I was 0:57:46.680 --> 0:57:48.720 reading this is the extent to which Japan is basically 0:57:48.840 --> 0:57:51.840 just like like Japan is just like like it's like 0:57:51.960 --> 0:57:54.960 it's it's East Britain. Like they have cousin marrying, they 0:57:55.000 --> 0:57:57.520 have all this weird pedophile stuff. They have this giant empire, 0:57:57.600 --> 0:57:59.840 they have like all the skull measurement cranial stuff. They're 0:57:59.840 --> 0:58:02.040 both from this island. They both have this just like 0:58:02.200 --> 0:58:07.160 incredibly weird like sort of sort of psychoses embedded in there, 0:58:07.240 --> 0:58:10.800 in there like like in international culture that like it's 0:58:11.120 --> 0:58:13.480 it's a bummer that like one of the chunks of 0:58:13.560 --> 0:58:19.560 Asia that most successfully resisted being colonized and being oppressed 0:58:19.680 --> 0:58:23.720 by European powers did it that way by basically yeah, 0:58:23.760 --> 0:58:28.560 by kind of like the British Empire but slightly different. Yeah, 0:58:29.000 --> 0:58:34.960 and like you can like like I think, yeah, like Ethiopia, 0:58:35.040 --> 0:58:37.520 which like for a long time sort of like successfully 0:58:38.360 --> 0:58:41.280 like repelled repelled etons, repelled or colonial forces, and they 0:58:41.360 --> 0:58:44.800 like don't do this. Yeah, it's a likely way to 0:58:44.880 --> 0:58:47.760 do things. Yeah, yeah, they're like, you know, there were 0:58:47.840 --> 0:58:52.360 other ways. It's just the Japanese were like imperialism, what 0:58:52.480 --> 0:58:57.600 if we did it? And you know, and you know, 0:58:57.880 --> 0:59:00.200 I think part of this is that like you know, 0:59:00.320 --> 0:59:02.160 in order to be able to do forced labor, right, 0:59:02.240 --> 0:59:05.800 Like it is actually kind of hard to get human 0:59:05.880 --> 0:59:09.160 beings to like make other like compel other human beings 0:59:09.240 --> 0:59:11.880 by forced to do things. And you know, and this 0:59:12.000 --> 0:59:15.280 sort of necessitates developing this like this sort of like 0:59:15.440 --> 0:59:17.720 European style race science or just like keep the forced 0:59:17.760 --> 0:59:21.760 labor system alive. And you know, this is this racism 0:59:22.920 --> 0:59:25.400 and the mode of race theory. It's not confined to 0:59:25.480 --> 0:59:27.840 sort of just like lower rank over people like Keishi 0:59:28.440 --> 0:59:32.040 Keshi is an inveterate racist, Like he goes on everyone 0:59:32.080 --> 0:59:34.200 who worked around him at the time. We'll talk about 0:59:34.240 --> 0:59:35.880 he would just like stop in the middle of like 0:59:35.960 --> 0:59:38.000 I'm beating and go on this rant about how all 0:59:38.120 --> 0:59:40.720 Chinese people are like lawless bandits and capable of following 0:59:40.880 --> 0:59:45.200 rules and all of this. Yeah, you know, and you know, 0:59:45.320 --> 0:59:46.800 and his solution to that is like, well, okay, so 0:59:46.880 --> 0:59:50.360 Chinese people like inherently can't follow laws because of racial stuff. 0:59:50.360 --> 0:59:51.400 So the only way you can get them to do 0:59:51.520 --> 0:59:53.760 things is by like treating them like a dog and 0:59:53.840 --> 0:59:56.680 just beating them, which is you know, not hire street dogs. 0:59:57.240 --> 1:00:00.560 But you know, and and this this just like pervasive 1:00:00.680 --> 1:00:02.760 racism is a big part of how you get everything 1:00:02.760 --> 1:00:06.760 that happens next. So the Japanese like atrocities and chuqua 1:00:06.920 --> 1:00:09.400 are are so bad that we don't have time to 1:00:09.440 --> 1:00:13.280 talk about Unite one, which is Japan's like well that's yeah, 1:00:13.800 --> 1:00:16.400 it's own episode. The whole thing. That's Japan's kind of 1:00:16.600 --> 1:00:21.640 Doctor Mangela mixed with Auschwitz. Yeah. Yeah, they test you. 1:00:21.680 --> 1:00:23.560 I mean they do a bunch of likes, but whatever 1:00:23.600 --> 1:00:26.720 you get. Yeah, yeah, it's like basically they're doing biological 1:00:26.760 --> 1:00:29.760 weapons testing on like live Chinese and Russian prisoners, like 1:00:30.040 --> 1:00:35.240 A grade crimes against humanity and the Scottie Tiff of 1:00:35.360 --> 1:00:39.480 crimes against humanity. You know, if it's I don't know basketball, 1:00:39.520 --> 1:00:42.440 I assume he was right, Sophie. He was the best 1:00:42.520 --> 1:00:45.640 point guard of all of the touchdown footballer. You're doing 1:00:45.760 --> 1:00:56.440 great birdies serving bicycle. Yeah, absolutely, Okay, it's really got 1:00:57.000 --> 1:01:04.600 bro parts of that were me joking. Hearts all right, 1:01:04.880 --> 1:01:08.880 please Chris continue. So, so Unit seven one is operating 1:01:08.960 --> 1:01:12.040 under Kichi sturistiction, like you know, it's operating in in 1:01:12.080 --> 1:01:15.000 metrical while he's there under sturisdiction, and we don't have 1:01:15.120 --> 1:01:16.840 time to talk about that. That needs its own episode. 1:01:17.440 --> 1:01:19.400 What we are going to talk about next time is 1:01:19.560 --> 1:01:23.840 Japan's forced labor system. Oh yeah, now that sounds you 1:01:23.920 --> 1:01:28.680 mean by forced labor, I assume you mean like Jedi, right, 1:01:29.200 --> 1:01:31.400 Like it's it's we're gonna talk about Star Wars now 1:01:31.440 --> 1:01:34.200 we're gonna pivot. I mean, I think I think the 1:01:34.360 --> 1:01:36.560 Japanese would have benefited from just having the ability to 1:01:36.600 --> 1:01:39.640 mind control people. And you know, I guess like militaries 1:01:39.680 --> 1:01:41.240 would have. Yeah, yeah, and you know, I guess the 1:01:42.000 --> 1:01:45.480 Jedi do like kidnap children and like educate them into 1:01:45.480 --> 1:01:48.280 a religious cult, so you know, and they also they 1:01:48.280 --> 1:01:51.960 also employed an enormous child slave soldier army. So yeah, 1:01:52.480 --> 1:01:54.640 it is Star warship because let us know how many 1:01:54.800 --> 1:02:02.920 Star Wars fans get in your very Yeah. Yeah, well 1:02:03.000 --> 1:02:06.600 all right then, so we'll be back. We'll be back tomorrow. 1:02:06.920 --> 1:02:10.400 Because this is a motherfucking three parter, a mother fucking 1:02:10.680 --> 1:02:13.400 three parter. There's just something. There's just so much ship 1:02:13.560 --> 1:02:15.840 to say. There's a lot of ship to say about 1:02:16.120 --> 1:02:20.880 piece of ship anyway, anyway, you can find the US, Yeah, 1:02:21.080 --> 1:02:23.480 you can find us. Look, do it yourself. 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