[Vitoethiche]

Here's a video I made.

[PypeMaypetasy]

Excellent breath control and/or editing!

However;
.... you failed to mention Akira Kurasawa.............????

200 Hayasuburi!!!

[Serereids]

You learn something every day. Land of the sunny book. Ha ha hah ahahhhaaa!

[tigoCeree]

Pretty funny.

But no mention of the occupation of Korea. That'd cause a furor over here.

[KLhdfskja]

I was totally expecting this to turn up somewhere in the intro http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iUMWy4hqAg good stuff

[ARKLqAZ6]

Awesome video. I liked the part where you did that thing.

[dosugxxx]

Pretty funny.

But no mention of the occupation of Korea. That'd cause a furor over here.

Had to strategically cut out some parts. Especially WW2, China and Korea. I showed this at a presentation to give people a brief idea of Japanese history, and since half the audience were Japanese I wanted to avoid anything that could cause negative feeling. There were a few Korean and Chinese Americans, Canadians, Australians, etc as well who may have taken exception to potraying pretty serious stuff in a light and rapid way.

I was going to make a more detailed video about that time period but I was worried about offending people. I suppose taking it out is just as offensive to some others though.

[neeclindy]

It does sorta conflict with the light, bubbly mood of the video. I guess that's the problem with recent history.

[Creva4k]

Very nice Alex! I enjoyed it thoroughly.

[GooogleGuy]

Loved it!
Particularly liked the Fujiwara references.
What was the specific purpose of the video? Just fun, or something a little deeper?

[Liaiskelile]

I thought that Christianity hit Japan much earlier!

[saruxanset]

Great job. Funny and informative. Props

[goldcigarettes]

I thought that Christianity hit Japan much earlier!

Francisco Xavier is credited with bringing Christianity to Japan. He arrived in Kagoshima in 1549 and began teaching. He gained a lot of converts in Northern Kyushu in particular, including several daimyo.

At it's height Christianity accounted for about 2% of the population.

Oda Nobunaga didn't seem to be bothered by it, but Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu were, and banned it's practice and crucified followers. They made "fumie" one of which was in the video, as an image of Christ that people had to tread on to prove they weren't Christian.

This culminated in the Shimabara rebellion. Said to have been led by a sixteen year old boy called Amakusa Shiro it saw 120000 Tokugawa troops armed with Dutch rifles and Dutch ships kick the crap out of 37000 rebellious peasants.

After this "Hidden Christians" continued to practice their beliefs in secret using Buddhist images with hidden Christian symbols as objects of worship. Maria kannon is a good example as it looks like the kannon bosatsu but is actually an image of the virgin Mary.

[WrinnaArraple]

And, believe it or not, the persecution of Christianity is believed to be the major reason bread was practically non-existant during the Edo period.

[RerRibreLok]

Francisco Xavier is credited with bringing Christianity to Japan. He arrived in Kagoshima in 1549 and began teaching. He gained a lot of converts in Northern Kyushu in particular, including several daimyo.

At it's height Christianity accounted for about 2% of the population.

Oda Nobunaga didn't seem to be bothered by it, but Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu were, and banned it's practice and crucified followers. They made "fumie" one of which was in the video, as an image of Christ that people had to tread on to prove they weren't Christian.

This culminated in the Shimabara rebellion. Said to have been led by a sixteen year old boy called Amakusa Shiro it saw 120000 Tokugawa troops armed with Dutch rifles and Dutch ships kick the crap out of 37000 rebellious peasants.

After this "Hidden Christians" continued to practice their beliefs in secret using Buddhist images with hidden Christian symbols as objects of worship. Maria kannon is a good example as it looks like the kannon bosatsu but is actually an image of the virgin Mary.

thanks for this. But I read some years ago which noted that there is a claim by Japan that Jesus is buried there (obviously pooh-poohed by modern Christians) and that there has been a form of Christianity there for 1900 years but it became popular at the time you mentioned. Are you aware of this or have any infor which supports or disproves this?

Lee

[Charryith]

And, believe it or not, the persecution of Christianity is believed to be the major reason bread was practically non-existant during the Edo period.

Must have been panned!

Ahem

[dicemets]

thanks for this. But I read some years ago which noted that there is a claim by Japan that Jesus is buried there (obviously pooh-poohed by modern Christians) and that there has been a form of Christianity there for 1900 years but it became popular at the time you mentioned. Are you aware of this or have any infor which supports or disproves this?

Lee

Saw that on TV a while back. It's in Aomori somewhere. Batshit insane.

Japanese people may have met Christians in the 800s or 900s on expeditions to China I gues, but I think Jesus being from Aomori is a stretch.

[MiniBoy]

thanks for this. But I read some years ago which noted that there is a claim by Japan that Jesus is buried there (obviously pooh-poohed by modern Christians) and that there has been a form of Christianity there for 1900 years but it became popular at the time you mentioned. Are you aware of this or have any infor which supports or disproves this?

Lee

The story is famous enough around here. Any truth to it is rather unlikely. I could be wrong, but there is supposedly some degree of evidence that someone of foreign origin did end up in that village in Aomori many a year back and they had some sort of legend or story built up around said person. What I have heard from a few sources who don't take the whole thing seriously (I don't know that there are many who do), supposedly later when Christians came and heard about Jesus they were like "Oh yeah, we had a guy just like that who settled down and died here. Must have been the same guy" kind of deal. Not surprising really, I mean how many graves does Musashi have?