EVERYONE LOOK... It was made in 1945, by the US ARMY, and it was called TOKYO WOES. To quote the great Henry Cabot Henhouse III, you knew the job was dangerous when you took it. If you can't expect overt, propagandist racism, that's YOUR Problem. I'll admit I'm writing this at the start of the video, so if you don't mind, I'll get back to watching it to find out what the hell it's about.
@Yukoku8Patriotism Obviously you're not a 1st class world power. That's a shame. Let that be a lesson to you monkeymen, Don;t kick a man on the beach (Pearl Harbor) if you don't want to be exterminated. Yup. We exterminated you. And you are not even relevant in the US. Think about it. I am awaiting your apology.
who ever sas this is rasicist STFU it is history deal with it. it happened. it is like we today make fun of terrorists like achmed the dead terrorist and us making fun of the muslim race
I really, really, REALLY, hate it how they make the japanese look like buck-toothed morons! If they knew how confused the Japanese were, maybe we would'nt have to use that stupid atom bomb!
@gokuandmario4ever If we didnt use the atom bombs the japanese wouldnt have taken their men out of China, the Asian Holocaust would have continued and Russia would have killed every last Japanesel the USA needed to scare them out of the war, the Japanese are warcriminals
Strange thing about Tokyo Rose, that is, Iva Toguri D'Aquino. She was an American citizen trapped in Japan who would not renounce her American citizenship, risked her life to smuggle food to starving POWs and was convicted by perjured and suborned testimony. The WWII Veteran's Committee, who sponsored the WW2 Veterans' monument at the National Mall, awarded her its Edward J. Herlihy Citizenship Award in 2006.
@Hobo42pt If you still have WW2 War Bonds, contact your local dealer of collectible coins and stamps for a price quote. There are a lot of WW2 memorabilia collectors, and they might be willing to pay good money for them.
@sawanaki That was Mel Blanc, and the voice was a character he came up for his skits for programs on the Armed Forces Network. It was a character called "The Sad Sack" and spoke in a rambling stutter with sentences ending in a way opposite as they were expected, much like like they were in this cartoon.
@SparkyMK3 There were frequent fears of fires in theaters, so the large stage curtains were made with asbestos cloth, and often had the word "ASBESTOS" sewn onto them. One cartoon even worked it into a gag, reading "WE TRY - ASBESTOS - WE CAN".
@SparkyMK3 asbestos was used in in flame retardant materials (like theater curtains) because asbestos is basically a rock. So the fact that the Japanese made asbestos was burning is saying everything the Japanese make is crap.
The announcer sounds like a Japanese Porky Pig at 0:19. His commercial is a parody of the "Serutan"--a popular health tonic of the day--ads, which in 1945 was as ubiquitous as our Head-On spots.
this looks like it was produced by warner brother sfor the navy. still an amazing cartoon. remember this was war with a very fanatical and bloodthirsty enemy.
Xeno and gabi: Enuff with the politically correct "racist" holier-than-thou crap your radicalized teachers infected you with. This was a world war. Nasty propaganda was produced on both sides. The same has been true in all wars since time immemorial. Xeno: thankfully, the evil "American war machine" beat the more evil Nazi & Japanese war machines so freedom could prevail, ultimately giving you computers, YouTube, and the right to be an ignoramus for the world to see. Stop hating America.
Waldo, I'm sorry if I came across that way. I say gut wrenchingly racist as in is Extremely funny, yet racist. South Park of the '40s. I also meant that the war machine ran BETTER then than it did now. I love my country. And I dont whan to get into a flame war like I did with USArCOWARDS. So, sorry if I offended you
I wonder if the Japanese war-cartoons drew Americans like anime does today, i.e. wavy multi-colored hair, gigantic eyes, and line-thin mouths that open like caverns when they talk..
@Waldocounty I agree with the whole "world war 2 was shit and everyone did this sort of shit" but then I saw the word "radicalized" and "freedom would prevail" (BULLSHIT, the Americans do right in doing what best suits their interests, but for freedom? Are you that naive?) in your post and you made yourself look like one of those propaganda videos in WW2 and made me hate America more than this video. Well done.
@Waldocounty speaking of the right to be ignorant, look no further than yourself. the soviets did way more to stop the germans than he u.s. did. and i'm pretty sure the japanese and germans would have developed cpu technology just as fast if not faster
This is were the bonds were going, Ironically. To make more gut splitting racist cartoons tell you to buy more bonds. At least the American war Machine ran smoothly then.
racist cartoon but then again, I watched an animation the Japanese did in the 1940's and well its pretty much the same as this only racist against american's, everyone hated everyone back then, I just hope people don't think that way now
What most people don't realize today is that the Americans viciously characterized the Japanese for their physical qualities, while the Japanese never did likewise with regard to the West. The Japanese instead attacked Western ideology and leaders like Roosevelt. The racist angle was primarily a Western propaganda tool.
Hooo sorry Kabukiguy-san ! Sorry , honorable jap-loving otaku , I forgot that slaughtering all those chinese civilians at Nanking and gang-raping their female relatives was not motivated by racism !Yeeah , the Chinese , the Korean, and people from southeast-Asia were not considered subhumans ! I'm gonna ask my Singaporean friend to give you apologies! For she dared to be resentful against the Kampetai who killed her grandfather !
I beg your pardon , kabuki-sama , you're right, the japanese are a peace-loving people who did no harm to anyone ! Indeed, the Kampetai officers were not torturers, just nice guys with a particular sense of humor ! Yeah , the "Unit 731" experimental camp never vivisected any chinaman, and no bacteriological weapons were tested on prisonners, that's all propaganda, all these pictures and testimonies are fake !Youre right, Kabukiguy-san , all these gaijins and Chinese are mean, racist people !
UncleHo19, my point was not about racism as carried out by Japanese brutality against the Chinese and others. It was about how propaganda was used to depict the "other." Can you demonstrate how the Japanese made fun of the Chinese for their physical characteristics, which are, of course, not that radically different from those of the Japanese? Ditto for their treatment of the West in propaganda. I never would deny the viciousness of the Japanese toward their enemies, Western or Asian.
Shame on you , outside world ! Why , oh why are you so cruel towards the peaceful Nippon people ! Moreover, theyre not a pervert nation , even if they enjoy organizing mass orgies involving 500 people
@kabukiguy quick question then how do you explain the japanese acing differntly towards the chinese? becuase from wha ti read the japanese treated the chinese as subhumans and American POW the same way.
Not a bad idea, actually. It's a great way for people to voluntarily support the war, and then the government can pay them back whatever they don't use.
...except when the government decides all this nice money laying around after the war could buy some nice rides for the congressmen. =P
In care there are younger viewers who don't get two of the earlier jokes, the announcer is referencing a laxative called "Serutan" ("Natures" spelled backwards), and the "asbestos" curtain was common in many theaters because of fear of the curtains catching fire. Many times the curtain would actually have the word "ASBESTOS" sewn onto it to reassure the audience.
If THIS is the worst thing that happens during war time, we'll have created Heaven on Earth. Listen to Dan Carlin's latest podcast "Ghosts of the Ostfront" about what Russia (and the invading Nazis) went through in WW2. That will give you some perspective.
and you can cry anything you want about pearl harbor, but blow up two civilian objetive with nukes...... i dont know what its worst. your are pathetic
Without intending to sound callous, nasty things happen in wars. Neither Japan nor the US has its hands clean. We could argue forever about who's hands are dirtier, or who committed the worst atrocities, but it would have no point. World War II was a horrific war, and that's all there is to it.
I would like to think that I could forgive the descendants of people who committed atrocities against my country in a war. But if you can't, at least remember that most of us were not yet born then.
@jaimehlers so we should forgive the nazis for killin thousand if not millions of people most of witch wer jews im not a jew but i sill think it should never be forgiven just put in the past but not forgiven
@halodudeh117 Is there some reason you're responding to a comment that's two years old?
The point is that if we cling to the bad things that one group did during a war (or outside a war, for that matter), then other people have the same right to cling to bad things that we did to them. At some point, people do have to be willing to forgive, and if not forget, accept that we can only change what will happen, not what has already happen.
@halodudeh117 So do you think we should still resent what the Nazis did? I don't. It's done with, and resentment is a bitter gall indeed. Isn't part of putting something in the past that you no longer resent it? I think what you mean is that we shouldn't forget that it happened, and I agree with that. But this is a grudge that is best left in the past.
this video is offending, and racial, your northamerican until today you think about japanese people like this video. I have news for you yankies you arent the center of the world
@aoshi01 hah true it is racist but come on stop being so obtuse look at this from american point of view. The japanese government did the same damn thing. This was a propaganda video true it is aoffending and its suspose to be if you don't like it then don't comment lol. One more thing not all Americans are yankies.
@TNstud Do you know the main reason why there were so few Japanese POWs? Most Japanese who tried to surrender were shot by Americans who had learned to think of the Japanese as subhuman. Dead Japanese would be decapitated, ears cut off, or otherwise mutilated
@Pituxalina1A And Nazi's regarded the Poles as subhuman and Russia as living space, small wonder most Russian soldiers were in a take no prisoners mood when it came to fighting the Nazi's after such things as Stalingrad.
this is funny as hell, now don't call me a racist cause germany and japan made stuff like this as well. If anyone whines lik a bitch then look up japen's propaganda during WWII
America had a laugh now, ask questions later kind of attitude during wartime. Yes, this is propaganda, racist propaganda at that, but it also has incredible energy, and a biting satiric humor that's undeniably funny and it probably raised the "can do" level abroad and on the homefront for the Americans that saw it during WWII. America is many things at the same time...just like this cartoon.
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I am Asian and I'm more than pissed, I'm Mad as Hell! Let me tell you something boys and girls: you have no idea how gruesome death can be in the hands of the Japanese during their Pacific campaign!! 'nuff sed. . .
And you have no idea how many innocent Americans died during Pearl Harbor and they didnt die in a war for honor and power, they died the real honorable way for there country!
When Bush Senior was a navy flyer in WWII, he wrote home and told his family about the disgusting propaganda he was subjected to. He must have seen this one.
Yes....you're very correct Dan. But honestly, if you were looking for a mirror into the past about this time, can you agree that this type of thing is a perfect reflection of the attitude of the public? Lets face it. If the characters were replaced by Iraqis or Iranians I'm willing to bet there'd be much more people tolerant of it. Not saying that's right by any stretch of the imagination. But sadly it is what it is.
well yeah. if i was american and lived in america during WW2 i would honestly think that japan is a bad place as well. dont take it the wrong way. in fact i love japan but the fact that not many people knew about japan back then, it was kind of okay. but like u said thats not right.
i've been lookin 4 this cartoon 4 ages, its amazin, it would hav been better if it was snafu instead of mr hook, bt its still gr8!!! jst as good as any other clampett cartoon. shame they didnt use the woman at the end in the main warner bros cartoons, she would hav been very popular, possably better than tex avery's red hot riding hood.
We ought to sell war bonds again. And incidentally did anyone really take Tokyo Rose seriously? I once read that someone claimed she sounded like Gracie from George Burns and Gracie, not exactly an intimidating character to take seriously.
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Okayyy.... i forgot that in ww2 the military racist fucktards used cartoons as propaganda it's so easy to lead a bunch of brainless assholes to support a cause if you tell them they do have a common nemesis,the Japs,the Communist,the Muslims,the Mexicans etc..... so when you question your own stupid president 'bout the economy or the war then they will say : WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA SO MUCH?!!
...really? I forgot that all of america's "problems" could be reduced to a poorly punctuated rant. What does an old cartoon meant for soldiers have to do with anything today? Those brainless assholes saved your right to call them brainless assholes. I'm suurrre this 4 minute short was the final step in developing ruthless killing machines. Sheesh.
Got it. Americans always think they are the greatest and everybody else is stupid.
They never ask whether anybody needs "help": they just come over, blow everything up, leave a mess behind and wonder why new anti-americanism is growing up in the ruins. WWII was the last time america build something up after bombing, after that, they let other UN-members do that.
About the UN: The United States are the only guys who cop out of paying the bills, and still demand trops to clean up behind them.
Are you kdding me? if you recall, the U.S. did not force hundreds of thousands of German Americans or Italian Americans into internment camps during the war. It would be the 110,000 Americans of Japanese descent who were specifically coerced out of their homes and into internment camps by executive order; they would be the ones to embody Americans' fear of the "enemy."
I don't mean to be didactic. This was a response to an assertion that Japan/the Japanese would NOT have been ridiculed had there not been WWII going on. Also, I'm puzzled as to why everyone's offended by people describing the toon as racist. I mean, it IS racist. This is actually why I find these cartoons fascinating, at least from an American standpoint! They mark the historical route of Asian representation in the media today, shedding light on how present racist stereotypes came to be.
the reason the Asbestos joke is there is because Asbestos is because its made of a type of stone so it can burn it implies that everything the Japanese made was crap
A number of theatres had curtains made with asbestos lining after horror stories of people dying in fires caused when the curtains caught fire. Often they had the word "ASBESTOS" sewn into the fabric to reassure the audience. I remember one cartoon that used a similar gag with the curtain reading (in pun) "WE TRY - ASBESTOS - WE CAN".
I think this is the first time ever they showed someone on a toliet. Back then they had some very high standards and rules of what they could and could not show. For one thing, a real toliet wasn't shown on TV (or the movies maybe) until Leave it to Beaver in the 50's, and even then, it was only after a massive struggle and they finally permitted only the water tank to be shown and not the whole thing.
Well actually you're right. The movie Psycho was the first ever time a toilet was shown and flushing something down. As I mentioned, in Leave it to Beaver, only the toilet's water tank was shown and not the whole thing.
I know, I've seen it. It's 'You're a sap, Mr. Jap' a cartoon from 1942. The interesting thing about it is that it shows Popeye making a comment about the poor quality of Japanese manufactured goods. A study who did research on it was surprised to see the stereotype go back that far (most people think it was a 60's phenomenon, which Japan worked to remove... successfully.)
If you watch the SNAFU cartoons, you'll see those standards didn't necessarily affect cartoons aimed at soldiers in the millitary (even at what SNAFU stands for).
The vets really did get a lot of freebies after the war. My dad got a car and money for college. Even today vets can buy a house without a down payment.
All the more motivation to join the armed forces. Seriously, for someone straight out of High School and no money and wanting to go to college, sometimes the army/navy/air force/marines will pay for everything and more.
Sure, now. But in WW2 those benefits weren't established. The GI Bill of Rights, set up mostly by the American Legion, established these benefits. The horror stories of veterans from WW1 and 2 trying to make a living after the war are a real cautionary tale.
well, the only one i got to was my friend's grandfather that fought in Normandy, he only talked about d-day and maybe a little about his life back then
Mr. Hook seems to have a similar nasal voice sans the New England accent to Peter Griffin. If Hook's laugh was elongated it would be very similar to Peter's. Of course Seth MacFarlane wouldn't be born for another 29 years after this was made!
remember the japanease at the time sided with hitler...my girlfriend is japanease and my grandmother escaped the holocaust, i dont find the cartoon amusing for its racial depictions but its contextual relevance and importance in my eyes
what are you people saying? firstly in all wars there are forms of propaganda..get used to it. Secondly instead of looking back in the past with todays insight, why not look at the repulsive anti - israel / even more disgraceful anti-semetic propaganda pumped out saudi arabia to the entire arab world and now the filthy liberals defending these fascist crackpots...
They're more funny than what we have today. TAKE THAT FAMILY GUY!
Motion63O 2 months ago
EVERYONE LOOK... It was made in 1945, by the US ARMY, and it was called TOKYO WOES. To quote the great Henry Cabot Henhouse III, you knew the job was dangerous when you took it. If you can't expect overt, propagandist racism, that's YOUR Problem. I'll admit I'm writing this at the start of the video, so if you don't mind, I'll get back to watching it to find out what the hell it's about.
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Aside from the obvious, pretty good!
artistwithouttalent 2 months ago
Racist, sexist, nationalistic, LIARS, yup....that's 1943 allright...
Silver77cyn 2 months ago
Man... You could bite a coconut in half with those chompers. Its no wonder we had trouble fighting the Japanese, one bite and you lose an arm.
rujikin 3 months ago
アメ公め！！
我が日本人をこんな不細工に表現しやがって！！＝３
cyoujinmario 5 months ago
@cyoujinmario 実際これくらい不細工の奴多いだろ。僕の周りも出っ歯ばかりだし。
Yukoku8Patriotism 1 month ago
@Yukoku8Patriotism うむむむ、、、しかし＞＜
確かにその当時アメリカ人から見た日本人はこんな感じかもしれないけど、さすがに酷すぎる、、、、
cyoujinmario 1 month ago
@cyoujinmario What's the matter? Not enough dropped leaflets telling you which cities would be bombed?
Voxpopuli1861 1 day ago
@Yukoku8Patriotism Obviously you're not a 1st class world power. That's a shame. Let that be a lesson to you monkeymen, Don;t kick a man on the beach (Pearl Harbor) if you don't want to be exterminated. Yup. We exterminated you. And you are not even relevant in the US. Think about it. I am awaiting your apology.
Voxpopuli1861 1 day ago
why do amekoes class japanese people and its culture with chinese that?
ImperialSo 6 months ago
This is very entertaining.
Supergungun 6 months ago
Lieing americans! So many soldiers were left homeless after the war becouse they lost their jobs!
Zanator1 6 months ago
@Zanator1
wikiepedia GI bill moron, if you can read that is.
mgabrysSF 6 months ago
I like the little rhyme the dollar bill says makes me laugh
Welshman2008 7 months ago
you know, after NUKING Japan TWICE, this is looking disturbing when we're giving them bombs that incinerate them.
Pikazilla 7 months ago
worst Nook cartoon ever!!!!!!!!
GhettoKarter1992 8 months ago
Wow! Talk about not PC! I'm glad they are not the enemy anymore!
MarthaStout0202 8 months ago
Best. Navy. Shell. Ever.
Not only does it give your enemys activated explosives, It also gives you Money and nice cars!
awesomeologyism 8 months ago
who ever sas this is rasicist STFU it is history deal with it. it happened. it is like we today make fun of terrorists like achmed the dead terrorist and us making fun of the muslim race
1995marines 10 months ago 5
I really, really, REALLY, hate it how they make the japanese look like buck-toothed morons! If they knew how confused the Japanese were, maybe we would'nt have to use that stupid atom bomb!
gokuandmario4ever 11 months ago
@gokuandmario4ever If we didnt use the atom bombs the japanese wouldnt have taken their men out of China, the Asian Holocaust would have continued and Russia would have killed every last Japanesel the USA needed to scare them out of the war, the Japanese are warcriminals
DarPower1 6 months ago
NO MATTER HOW YOU PUT IT... IS BETTER TO SHOW PEOPLE TO LOVE THEIR COUNTRY, THAN TO TEACH THEM TO HATE OTHER'S.
princecharmonpoirtoi 11 months ago
But whaddaout the front teeth?
AACipria 11 months ago
1:34
Ha! Rum and Coca-Cola! I love that song!
(the Andrews Sisters, in case youve never heard it)
TwitchyMovies 1 year ago
Strange thing about Tokyo Rose, that is, Iva Toguri D'Aquino. She was an American citizen trapped in Japan who would not renounce her American citizenship, risked her life to smuggle food to starving POWs and was convicted by perjured and suborned testimony. The WWII Veteran's Committee, who sponsored the WW2 Veterans' monument at the National Mall, awarded her its Edward J. Herlihy Citizenship Award in 2006.
Yamanoneko 1 year ago
I still have those War Bonds. I wonder if they're worth anything now?
Hobo42pt 1 year ago
@Hobo42pt If you still have WW2 War Bonds, contact your local dealer of collectible coins and stamps for a price quote. There are a lot of WW2 memorabilia collectors, and they might be willing to pay good money for them.
MrUnidyne 11 months ago
racist cartoon
malleo941 1 year ago
Haha i love how the navy did this.
opiates 1 year ago
1:13 sounds like bugs amd porkys lovechild
Mickeanelamburtsters 1 year ago
3:52, isn't that Mac Wolf?
BenHutchinson1 1 year ago
the ending is realy weird :s
cheesyegg87 1 year ago
yes it's sad they felt they had to visually denigrate the enemy.
shinybald36 1 year ago
is that porky pig? my god
sawanaki 1 year ago
@sawanaki That was Mel Blanc, and the voice was a character he came up for his skits for programs on the Armed Forces Network. It was a character called "The Sad Sack" and spoke in a rambling stutter with sentences ending in a way opposite as they were expected, much like like they were in this cartoon.
MrUnidyne 1 year ago
Who needs bonds! Tokyo Rose was Right! Hitler was Right!
Pituxalina1A 1 year ago
No bonds for me. Hitler was right! However the Jew allies can have the Japanzees!
Pituxalina1A 1 year ago
Honorable Asbestos?
SparkyMK3 1 year ago
@SparkyMK3 There were frequent fears of fires in theaters, so the large stage curtains were made with asbestos cloth, and often had the word "ASBESTOS" sewn onto them. One cartoon even worked it into a gag, reading "WE TRY - ASBESTOS - WE CAN".
MrUnidyne 1 year ago
@SparkyMK3 asbestos was used in in flame retardant materials (like theater curtains) because asbestos is basically a rock. So the fact that the Japanese made asbestos was burning is saying everything the Japanese make is crap.
jeff61813 6 months ago
OUTSTANDING!!!
Clappguy 1 year ago
The announcer sounds like a Japanese Porky Pig at 0:19. His commercial is a parody of the "Serutan"--a popular health tonic of the day--ads, which in 1945 was as ubiquitous as our Head-On spots.
0:43--Heh, heh. She's sitting on the toilet....
HaggisMcCrablice 1 year ago
I wish these were more available, they're great! Hook seems to be a more competent cousin of Snafu.
MWolfL 1 year ago
Man, I don't really dig the big teeth, but geez, the animation was great with the radio announcer gal.
syrupneko 1 year ago
I prefer Private SNAFU
ObadiahtheSlim 1 year ago
WOWSER on 3:48!!!
live4marilyn 1 year ago
Grusome
imnazhole 1 year ago
this looks like it was produced by warner brother sfor the navy. still an amazing cartoon. remember this was war with a very fanatical and bloodthirsty enemy.
desiguy3 1 year ago
The only fun for stinkers is the racism, blood, and disorder. Just like an evilfan!
TheHollandHS 2 years ago
i like and love this cartoon ))))
vlad9vt 2 years ago
I can't believe they showed a woman siting on the toilet! I thought people were prudes back then?
doobiesmoke15 2 years ago
no, post american cutlure was amazing, i wish i had lived in it, my generation will never compare to it.
americanoxford 2 years ago
This was a military informational film, and wasn't subject to the Hays Office restrictions.
MrUnidyne 2 years ago
Xeno and gabi: Enuff with the politically correct "racist" holier-than-thou crap your radicalized teachers infected you with. This was a world war. Nasty propaganda was produced on both sides. The same has been true in all wars since time immemorial. Xeno: thankfully, the evil "American war machine" beat the more evil Nazi & Japanese war machines so freedom could prevail, ultimately giving you computers, YouTube, and the right to be an ignoramus for the world to see. Stop hating America.
Waldocounty 2 years ago 47
Waldo, I'm sorry if I came across that way. I say gut wrenchingly racist as in is Extremely funny, yet racist. South Park of the '40s. I also meant that the war machine ran BETTER then than it did now. I love my country. And I dont whan to get into a flame war like I did with USArCOWARDS. So, sorry if I offended you
Xeno056 2 years ago
@Waldocounty
I wonder if the Japanese war-cartoons drew Americans like anime does today, i.e. wavy multi-colored hair, gigantic eyes, and line-thin mouths that open like caverns when they talk..
kungfu2u2 1 year ago
@Waldocounty I agree with the whole "world war 2 was shit and everyone did this sort of shit" but then I saw the word "radicalized" and "freedom would prevail" (BULLSHIT, the Americans do right in doing what best suits their interests, but for freedom? Are you that naive?) in your post and you made yourself look like one of those propaganda videos in WW2 and made me hate America more than this video. Well done.
EvilRadiatedMonkey 5 months ago
@Waldocounty speaking of the right to be ignorant, look no further than yourself. the soviets did way more to stop the germans than he u.s. did. and i'm pretty sure the japanese and germans would have developed cpu technology just as fast if not faster
Ayvean 1 month ago
This is were the bonds were going, Ironically. To make more gut splitting racist cartoons tell you to buy more bonds. At least the American war Machine ran smoothly then.
Xeno056 2 years ago
racist cartoon but then again, I watched an animation the Japanese did in the 1940's and well its pretty much the same as this only racist against american's, everyone hated everyone back then, I just hope people don't think that way now
gabi326jjk 2 years ago
lol
Lovesgoats 2 years ago
""Natures' spelled backwards is SERUTAN", the brand of a popular vegetable laxative at the time.
MrUnidyne 2 years ago
What most people don't realize today is that the Americans viciously characterized the Japanese for their physical qualities, while the Japanese never did likewise with regard to the West. The Japanese instead attacked Western ideology and leaders like Roosevelt. The racist angle was primarily a Western propaganda tool.
kabukiguy 2 years ago
I disagree with you, Japan thought that Americans were moral weak and not honorable enought to be treated like normal POWs
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UncleHo19 2 years ago
Hooo sorry Kabukiguy-san ! Sorry , honorable jap-loving otaku , I forgot that slaughtering all those chinese civilians at Nanking and gang-raping their female relatives was not motivated by racism !Yeeah , the Chinese , the Korean, and people from southeast-Asia were not considered subhumans ! I'm gonna ask my Singaporean friend to give you apologies! For she dared to be resentful against the Kampetai who killed her grandfather !
UncleHo19 2 years ago
I beg your pardon , kabuki-sama , you're right, the japanese are a peace-loving people who did no harm to anyone ! Indeed, the Kampetai officers were not torturers, just nice guys with a particular sense of humor ! Yeah , the "Unit 731" experimental camp never vivisected any chinaman, and no bacteriological weapons were tested on prisonners, that's all propaganda, all these pictures and testimonies are fake !Youre right, Kabukiguy-san , all these gaijins and Chinese are mean, racist people !
UncleHo19 2 years ago
UncleHo19, my point was not about racism as carried out by Japanese brutality against the Chinese and others. It was about how propaganda was used to depict the "other." Can you demonstrate how the Japanese made fun of the Chinese for their physical characteristics, which are, of course, not that radically different from those of the Japanese? Ditto for their treatment of the West in propaganda. I never would deny the viciousness of the Japanese toward their enemies, Western or Asian.
kabukiguy 2 years ago
Shame on you , outside world ! Why , oh why are you so cruel towards the peaceful Nippon people ! Moreover, theyre not a pervert nation , even if they enjoy organizing mass orgies involving 500 people
UncleHo19 2 years ago
@kabukiguy quick question then how do you explain the japanese acing differntly towards the chinese? becuase from wha ti read the japanese treated the chinese as subhumans and American POW the same way.
TNstud 1 year ago
this is more racist than tokyo jokio
Flyingcatfly 2 years ago
Wow great comment loser
Deathfromabove5 2 years ago
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kabukiguy 2 years ago
owned 3.29
AzraelBune0 2 years ago
They packed shells in WW2 with money? I don't think the shrapnel would be very effective.. lol
Supergungun 2 years ago
Not a bad idea, actually. It's a great way for people to voluntarily support the war, and then the government can pay them back whatever they don't use.
...except when the government decides all this nice money laying around after the war could buy some nice rides for the congressmen. =P
BanditRingtail23 2 years ago
I showed this video to my great uncle, he served in the pacific during the war, and he says they got that bitch Tokyo Rose down well.
Linkster2o 2 years ago
they got the wrong girl
i think either jimmy carter or gerald ford pardoned her
duhduhduhda 2 years ago
In care there are younger viewers who don't get two of the earlier jokes, the announcer is referencing a laxative called "Serutan" ("Natures" spelled backwards), and the "asbestos" curtain was common in many theaters because of fear of the curtains catching fire. Many times the curtain would actually have the word "ASBESTOS" sewn onto it to reassure the audience.
MrUnidyne 2 years ago
5/5 just for the Tokyo Rose animation-wish more girls were done like that in cartoons. :-)
IBetYouWillFemales 2 years ago
lol boobs
skinnerburgers 2 years ago
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This is brilliant.
Down with Japan.
chinchilla2302 2 years ago
because everything you use now isn't produced there
bluesheep02 2 years ago
It's not.
chinchilla2302 2 years ago
If THIS is the worst thing that happens during war time, we'll have created Heaven on Earth. Listen to Dan Carlin's latest podcast "Ghosts of the Ostfront" about what Russia (and the invading Nazis) went through in WW2. That will give you some perspective.
ProfSai 2 years ago
Haha getting people to buy bonds using cartoons
bobthecowkiller 2 years ago
and you can cry anything you want about pearl harbor, but blow up two civilian objetive with nukes...... i dont know what its worst. your are pathetic
aoshi01 2 years ago
Without intending to sound callous, nasty things happen in wars. Neither Japan nor the US has its hands clean. We could argue forever about who's hands are dirtier, or who committed the worst atrocities, but it would have no point. World War II was a horrific war, and that's all there is to it.
I would like to think that I could forgive the descendants of people who committed atrocities against my country in a war. But if you can't, at least remember that most of us were not yet born then.
jaimehlers 2 years ago 12
i must say your answer was great, and you have right
aoshi01 2 years ago
@jaimehlers so we should forgive the nazis for killin thousand if not millions of people most of witch wer jews im not a jew but i sill think it should never be forgiven just put in the past but not forgiven
halodudeh117 5 months ago
@halodudeh117 Is there some reason you're responding to a comment that's two years old?
The point is that if we cling to the bad things that one group did during a war (or outside a war, for that matter), then other people have the same right to cling to bad things that we did to them. At some point, people do have to be willing to forgive, and if not forget, accept that we can only change what will happen, not what has already happen.
jaimehlers 5 months ago
@jaimehlers ok i didnt no it was 2 yrs old i just wasnt lookin plus i stil think they shoulden be forgiven just wat they did put in the past
halodudeh117 5 months ago
@halodudeh117 So do you think we should still resent what the Nazis did? I don't. It's done with, and resentment is a bitter gall indeed. Isn't part of putting something in the past that you no longer resent it? I think what you mean is that we shouldn't forget that it happened, and I agree with that. But this is a grudge that is best left in the past.
jaimehlers 5 months ago
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@jaimehlers sry about the 2 yr old thing didnt pay attention and i still think they shouldent be forgiven just wat they did put in the past
halodudeh117 5 months ago
this video is offending, and racial, your northamerican until today you think about japanese people like this video. I have news for you yankies you arent the center of the world
aoshi01 2 years ago
and your complaining about a video that is decades old. Back when everybody was racist
hifly2008 2 years ago
@aoshi01 hah true it is racist but come on stop being so obtuse look at this from american point of view. The japanese government did the same damn thing. This was a propaganda video true it is aoffending and its suspose to be if you don't like it then don't comment lol. One more thing not all Americans are yankies.
TNstud 1 year ago
@TNstud Do you know the main reason why there were so few Japanese POWs? Most Japanese who tried to surrender were shot by Americans who had learned to think of the Japanese as subhuman. Dead Japanese would be decapitated, ears cut off, or otherwise mutilated
tehreporter 1 year ago
@tehreporter
They did the same with German soldiers as well as Italian ones. As for me, I would have sided with Nazi Germany and marched for them! 14/88!
Pituxalina1A 1 year ago
@Pituxalina1A And Nazi's regarded the Poles as subhuman and Russia as living space, small wonder most Russian soldiers were in a take no prisoners mood when it came to fighting the Nazi's after such things as Stalingrad.
cha5 1 year ago 2
this is funny as hell, now don't call me a racist cause germany and japan made stuff like this as well. If anyone whines lik a bitch then look up japen's propaganda during WWII
joejoe0105 2 years ago
America had a laugh now, ask questions later kind of attitude during wartime. Yes, this is propaganda, racist propaganda at that, but it also has incredible energy, and a biting satiric humor that's undeniably funny and it probably raised the "can do" level abroad and on the homefront for the Americans that saw it during WWII. America is many things at the same time...just like this cartoon.
potaluca 2 years ago
Tokio rose??
DarkVampirePiscis 2 years ago
Dude its a cartoon made in wartimes so get over it you fag
Kevinioto12 2 years ago
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I am Asian and I'm more than pissed, I'm Mad as Hell! Let me tell you something boys and girls: you have no idea how gruesome death can be in the hands of the Japanese during their Pacific campaign!! 'nuff sed. . .
jaec45 2 years ago
Shut up, you stupid gook.
machineowar 2 years ago
And you have no idea how many innocent Americans died during Pearl Harbor and they didnt die in a war for honor and power, they died the real honorable way for there country!
landlord248 2 years ago
When Bush Senior was a navy flyer in WWII, he wrote home and told his family about the disgusting propaganda he was subjected to. He must have seen this one.
luridplanet 2 years ago 2
i am asian and that kind of pissed me off.
danielsuh23 2 years ago
Relax...its a WW2 propaganda cartoon. It's a good reflection of the times. Think the japanese were any less forgiving in theirs?
Quasimodo1957 2 years ago 2
yes yes i understand there was anger between the two but looking at it now thats considered racism.
danielsuh23 2 years ago 2
Yes....you're very correct Dan. But honestly, if you were looking for a mirror into the past about this time, can you agree that this type of thing is a perfect reflection of the attitude of the public? Lets face it. If the characters were replaced by Iraqis or Iranians I'm willing to bet there'd be much more people tolerant of it. Not saying that's right by any stretch of the imagination. But sadly it is what it is.
Quasimodo1957 2 years ago
well yeah. if i was american and lived in america during WW2 i would honestly think that japan is a bad place as well. dont take it the wrong way. in fact i love japan but the fact that not many people knew about japan back then, it was kind of okay. but like u said thats not right.
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jaec45 2 years ago
Ok you're Asian, but are you Japanese?
Nigralurker 2 years ago
The U.S. Army had "Pvt. SNAFU", and the U.S. Navy has "Mr. Hook."
Pretty nifty, huh. ;)
SailorCallie 2 years ago 2
There was also Snafu's brother, Tarfu who was in the Navy.
1947Desoto 2 years ago
i've been lookin 4 this cartoon 4 ages, its amazin, it would hav been better if it was snafu instead of mr hook, bt its still gr8!!! jst as good as any other clampett cartoon. shame they didnt use the woman at the end in the main warner bros cartoons, she would hav been very popular, possably better than tex avery's red hot riding hood.
littlefilmsJN 2 years ago
Mel Blanc!
mrgoodvibrations 2 years ago
We ought to sell war bonds again. And incidentally did anyone really take Tokyo Rose seriously? I once read that someone claimed she sounded like Gracie from George Burns and Gracie, not exactly an intimidating character to take seriously.
schizoidboy 2 years ago
History: Japan raped China.
And in those days, we called them "Japs". Big deal, we also called people from Britain, "Brits".
AcePilot101 3 years ago
WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?!
xarealpersonx 3 years ago
porky pig?!?!? in a crappy hook cartoon
GhettoKarter1992 3 years ago
nothing crappy about it.
This is Bob Clampett at his best
TheShoeOfMattie 2 years ago
ALL
I
HAVE
TO
SAY
IS
HOLY
CRAP!!!
@_@
cosmiccocoon 3 years ago
The Mr. Hook character was created by Hank Ketchum, who later went on to create the well-known comic strip and cartoon character, Dennis the Menace.
PatrickRsGhost 3 years ago 2
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Okayyy.... i forgot that in ww2 the military racist fucktards used cartoons as propaganda it's so easy to lead a bunch of brainless assholes to support a cause if you tell them they do have a common nemesis,the Japs,the Communist,the Muslims,the Mexicans etc..... so when you question your own stupid president 'bout the economy or the war then they will say : WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA SO MUCH?!!
shinoharataro 3 years ago
...really? I forgot that all of america's "problems" could be reduced to a poorly punctuated rant. What does an old cartoon meant for soldiers have to do with anything today? Those brainless assholes saved your right to call them brainless assholes. I'm suurrre this 4 minute short was the final step in developing ruthless killing machines. Sheesh.
duffman1442 3 years ago
It's because of people like you.
cocopugg 3 years ago
Got it. Americans always think they are the greatest and everybody else is stupid.
They never ask whether anybody needs "help": they just come over, blow everything up, leave a mess behind and wonder why new anti-americanism is growing up in the ruins. WWII was the last time america build something up after bombing, after that, they let other UN-members do that.
About the UN: The United States are the only guys who cop out of paying the bills, and still demand trops to clean up behind them.
muell0815 3 years ago
BULL!
schizoidboy 2 years ago
Wow, that's fucked up. And talk about propaganda.
CaptVelocity 3 years ago 3
Not really fucked up. Just a product of it's time.
Had there not been a war going on, I doubt there'd be any ridicule of Japanese people.
TheShoeOfMattie 3 years ago
Are you kdding me? if you recall, the U.S. did not force hundreds of thousands of German Americans or Italian Americans into internment camps during the war. It would be the 110,000 Americans of Japanese descent who were specifically coerced out of their homes and into internment camps by executive order; they would be the ones to embody Americans' fear of the "enemy."
greyblob 2 years ago
I don't mean to be didactic. This was a response to an assertion that Japan/the Japanese would NOT have been ridiculed had there not been WWII going on. Also, I'm puzzled as to why everyone's offended by people describing the toon as racist. I mean, it IS racist. This is actually why I find these cartoons fascinating, at least from an American standpoint! They mark the historical route of Asian representation in the media today, shedding light on how present racist stereotypes came to be.
greyblob 2 years ago 2
It was Pearl Harbor that did that.
Dietpepsivanilla 2 years ago
@greyblob
Yeah, but Germany and Italy didn't attack us until after Japan did and the entire Axis declared war on us.
And we didn't kill them either, like the Nazi concentration camps or rape them and then murder them like Nanking.
awesomeologyism 8 months ago
funny!
KiCreativeStudios 3 years ago
Argh! Can somebody please tell me what Rose is saying at the begining? She speaks very fast and i lose everything.
Thanks in advance.
xarisal 3 years ago
I knew Porky Pig was secretly a Japanese person with giant teeth.
Cpryd001 3 years ago 5
Bill Melendez did alot of animating for this one.
PunkyBear36 3 years ago
the reason the Asbestos joke is there is because Asbestos is because its made of a type of stone so it can burn it implies that everything the Japanese made was crap
jeff61813 3 years ago
There's that Japanese/Asbestos joke again, the other is in that one 'toon with Daffy and the Nazi crows.
I don't quite get it. ^^;;;;
Xunkun 3 years ago
A number of theatres had curtains made with asbestos lining after horror stories of people dying in fires caused when the curtains caught fire. Often they had the word "ASBESTOS" sewn into the fabric to reassure the audience. I remember one cartoon that used a similar gag with the curtain reading (in pun) "WE TRY - ASBESTOS - WE CAN".
MrUnidyne 3 years ago
Hm, so it has nothing in specific to do with any of the Axis powers, then?
Thanks for the info
Heh, asbestos and reassurance....
Xunkun 3 years ago
I think this is the first time ever they showed someone on a toliet. Back then they had some very high standards and rules of what they could and could not show. For one thing, a real toliet wasn't shown on TV (or the movies maybe) until Leave it to Beaver in the 50's, and even then, it was only after a massive struggle and they finally permitted only the water tank to be shown and not the whole thing.
Hotshotter3000 3 years ago
Ah? I thought the first time was in Psycho; a scene sometime before the infamous stab scene, they show Marion Crane tearing up and flushing a note.
Hm, maybe one was the first time for Film, and this for TV?
Xunkun 3 years ago
Well actually you're right. The movie Psycho was the first ever time a toilet was shown and flushing something down. As I mentioned, in Leave it to Beaver, only the toilet's water tank was shown and not the whole thing.
Hotshotter3000 3 years ago
In two WWII-era Popeye cartoons, Popeye sinks an enemy battleship, and while it sinks the sound effect is of a toilet flushing.
1947Desoto 2 years ago
I know, I've seen it. It's 'You're a sap, Mr. Jap' a cartoon from 1942. The interesting thing about it is that it shows Popeye making a comment about the poor quality of Japanese manufactured goods. A study who did research on it was surprised to see the stereotype go back that far (most people think it was a 60's phenomenon, which Japan worked to remove... successfully.)
Hotshotter3000 2 years ago
If you watch the SNAFU cartoons, you'll see those standards didn't necessarily affect cartoons aimed at soldiers in the millitary (even at what SNAFU stands for).
AntonioTheFFFFFox 3 years ago
Tokyo Rose is not the most attractive girl in the world. She sounds like a grown up chipmunk. lol XD
stomachvyrus 3 years ago
I think it's pretty damn hawt, actually.
albertomin 3 years ago
She is a cartoon character, she isn't real.
buttscrew12 3 years ago
my gosh that is racist! but we still won aftar all.
kapitankartoon 3 years ago 2
Well seeing as America, Australia, New zealand and England our all allies. Wouldn't that mean we all won?
crowdedenz87 3 years ago
Did they have silicon implants back in 1945?
ytspenning 3 years ago 5
she's soooo annnoying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
4thSennin 3 years ago 5
The vets really did get a lot of freebies after the war. My dad got a car and money for college. Even today vets can buy a house without a down payment.
kristell9 3 years ago 5
All the more motivation to join the armed forces. Seriously, for someone straight out of High School and no money and wanting to go to college, sometimes the army/navy/air force/marines will pay for everything and more.
Hotshotter3000 3 years ago
Sure, now. But in WW2 those benefits weren't established. The GI Bill of Rights, set up mostly by the American Legion, established these benefits. The horror stories of veterans from WW1 and 2 trying to make a living after the war are a real cautionary tale.
kristell9 3 years ago
A bit tired of the racism accusations from people who are too young to remember a President beyond Bill Clinton.
1. The buck teeth and glasses were a characture of Japanese Prime Minister Tojo. He DID have teeth and glasses like that.
2. We were at war with a warlike totalitarian regime that brutalized not only its own people, but everyone else.
3. This isn't ancient history. Plenty of people walking around today LIVED it.
I challenge you to talk to people alive during that time.
sctanker 3 years ago 6
well, the only one i got to was my friend's grandfather that fought in Normandy, he only talked about d-day and maybe a little about his life back then
Messerchmitt11B 3 years ago
One reason why history will repeat itself.
Nigralurker 3 years ago
Mr. Hook seems to have a similar nasal voice sans the New England accent to Peter Griffin. If Hook's laugh was elongated it would be very similar to Peter's. Of course Seth MacFarlane wouldn't be born for another 29 years after this was made!
spindalis79 4 years ago
an old snafu
zizumia 4 years ago
remember the japanease at the time sided with hitler...my girlfriend is japanease and my grandmother escaped the holocaust, i dont find the cartoon amusing for its racial depictions but its contextual relevance and importance in my eyes
cheebacheeba 4 years ago 2
what are you people saying? firstly in all wars there are forms of propaganda..get used to it. Secondly instead of looking back in the past with todays insight, why not look at the repulsive anti - israel / even more disgraceful anti-semetic propaganda pumped out saudi arabia to the entire arab world and now the filthy liberals defending these fascist crackpots...
cheebacheeba 4 years ago
are you all forgetting the context of the time, he fact that the japanese sided with hitler?
cheebacheeba 4 years ago
people will use any video as an excuse to make the craziest statements.
MrPresidentFox 4 years ago
Oh hai, Fox.
Nigralurker 3 years ago
Helo thar
MrPresidentFox 3 years ago
sometimes i wonder if people in US think about the a bombs as mass murder war crime,'cause i do.write sth,please
hipp6y 4 years ago
You're an idiot. Looking at the past with eyes of today. Please go become an hero
HitoriJin 4 years ago 3
Nothing worst than propaganda
camorramerda 4 years ago