Hearts of Iron 2 Soundtrack - Japanese Overture

[KongTaoluo]

This song is much better than the same in HOI 3.

[Mertyy3]

2:18 the best!

[Afunkyjivechorus]

天皇陛下萬歲!

[sengoku17]

skip to 1:18  +

[Thekingmyboy96]

This may sound ignorant, but what is the figure on the right in the picture?

[Seraj33]

@Thekingmyboy96 Its like the communist equivalent of the statue of liberty. I THINK. You cant see it in this image but there are a woman and a man holding up a hammer and a scythe.

[8peregrint8]

@Seraj33 Its a picture of a statue from the center of the city of Volgograd (Stalingrad) I believe, I could be wrong on that one though

[Alaron755]

All Japan fans check out Unit 731 then talk that Japan doesnt diserve all the catastrophes

[skamecrazy123]

@Alaron755

That idiotic line of thinking is like blaming the current generation of germans for what the Nazis did (utterly pointless, utterly stupid and indicitive of the lack of braincells you seem to possess)

[Alaron755]

@skamecrazy123 Im not talking about that todays Germany or Japan should be blamed im just saying that there was nothing good about about the Axis powers or there pathetic goals.

[skamecrazy123]

@Alaron755

Anyone who isn't a neo Nazi skinhead could have told you that

[TiberianPurifier]

@Alaron755 you are pathetic. germans are the reason you have mobiles satellites jet-aeroplanes computers microwaves good-cars, pretty much 90% of everything you use, even a proper data transfer system was developed by them giving rise to the internet.

oh and im not nazi nor to i hate anyone

[Alaron755]

@TiberianPurifier Again you are criticising me about blaming todays Germany.I am well avear of there technological progress,but you sound as if other countries havent grown since The Great War.In any way Germany should be greatful to USA for The Marshal Plan which allowed Europe to rebuild.You are trying to critisise me of my views of the Nazi regime with talk about today and further more in my first comment i ment the atomic bombs.You Sir have to read comments in more detail.

[Ryanfinder226]

@TiberianPurifier you relize thats not ture right? you want me to belive a dictatorship that belived half the stuff you just said would lead to dissent would build it? alo the microvave was made by Americans, the sattilite by russians almost everything else you said by China/Japan and also the internet by Americans

[TiberianPurifier]

@Ryanfinder226 again microwave was 1st used by german soldiers and german scientists invented it. and what do you mean satellite by russians. this was all german research. Everything else by china/japan? maybe now but not during WWII times. But yea Japan had also invented a lot

[Ryanfinder226]

@TiberianPurifier the russian made the first ever sattilite. thats why you never heard of germany in the space race because they invented nothing towards it. Russia got the first sattilite in space and the USA got the first man in space. Gemany didn't even have an idead on that first

[TiberianPurifier]

@Ryanfinder226 i know all that but that was all based on the German research. most of the men in NASA at the end of WWII were Germans

[Ryanfinder226]

@TiberianPurifier i see your so patriotic in the head i can't break through. oh well go on beliveing your country invented everything.

[Ironfistconsumerist]

Send those western dogs to the bottom of the sea! :D

[therightp4th]

That flute is a Chinese flute

[newtonsecondlaw]

何处哀筝随急管，

樱花永巷垂杨岸。

[IanHawshire]

Pray for Japan

9.0 Earthquake

Nuclear power plant failures

Tsunamis

28 Aftershocks of 6.1 and above

[IanHawshire]

USA Gave the soldiers

UK gave the weapons and the terrain

USSR gave the human shield

[tyskbulle]

@IanHawshire More like: USA Gave the guns & the means. UK gave the possibilites & the opportunites. USSR gave the men & the tanks!

[8peregrint8]

@tyskbulle why did you post four times it is soooo annoying. And honestly the USSR could have beaten Germany singlehandedly though it would have taken longer.

[cowfordflorida1]

@8peregrint8 not if hitler didn't fuck with his generals though

[8peregrint8]

@cowfordflorida1 on one hand i would agree with you from june to december 1941 but after that germany's fate was sealed i think

[giantrobots1122]

Funny enough, this music kept playing while I was thrashing Japan with my German Army.

[yanatsu02]

this song reminds me that even though I don't have anything left...I still have home...it's far away...but I still have what to fight for, what to live for and what to die for...my dear home, Japan...

[TheConnorian]

There were always 3 main powers that needed to stay alive or the war would have been lost. The UK, USA, USSR. without the UK Germany would have turned its armies around and killed the USSR and the USA wouldn't be able to bomb them. without the USA the UK would have been overwhelmed and the same would have happened with the USSR. without the USSR the Germans would have focused their forces on the UK and defeated it, then would have been able to invade the USA.

[looker999997]

@TheConnorian, I dunno about this U.S. invasion stuff, the Kriegsmarine couldn't beat Royal Navy, let alone Royal Navy + USN, and Japan would have gone down anyway. Maybe decades into the future...

[Selenagomezbigfanguy]

this game has simply the greatest music in Strategy Game History!

[Costeniok]

@TheFriendlypie That's true,that about US and UK bombing industry and navy siege so germans couldn't take many resources they needed.But about Japan... well, I think Japan is overwhelmed in historic terms. They were not stronger than fascist Italy I think.Soviets did take just a week to destroy the best imperial divisions in Manchuria.The US put its sforce in the Europe more than in Japan until 1945, and even so,it didn't take many risk to destroy their navy.Island battles were a different story

[broaniki1]

@Costeniok

Don't know about that. Japan was able to capture chunks of territory from China and Southeast Asia but Italy couldn't take over Ethiopia. While China was in a desperate situation, Ethiopia wasn't in top shape either.

[Costeniok]

@TheFriendlypie I have to agree, the cooler tanks of the war were the Tiger, Tiger II, Ferdinand... but germans did some crazy things like the super heavy tanks as the Maus and Maus II, or the crazy Panzer VII Löwe ¡¡¡and designed even tanks of 1000 tn!!! What were those germans thinking in??? The Maus oculd't pass through any bridge, it had to go under the water because it was too heavy!!! And reach less than 20km/h. That's like go on a donkey.

[Costeniok]

Anyway, panthers are Tigers are more like heavy soviet tanks like KV-1 or IS-2.

[Costeniok]

@TheFriendlypie That's just silly. The best tank isn't the one most powerful in the battlefield; we're in the times of total war. It means, wars are won in the factories more than in the frontlines. Panthers and Tigers were one of the bullshits of the nazi war industry; with the time and cost needed to make a german Tiger, soviets could make more than 20 T-34-85. And Tigers were the mechanicals nightmare;half of them didn't reach the battlefield because of their lack of fiability.

[Cpt0bvious1]

@Costeniok I completely agree that the best tank isn't the most powerful, but i do disagree about the T-34 being the best in the war. The Sherman Firefly was the best in my opinion, because the British essentially took a Sherman that they got for free from the US, and attached a 17 pounder to it. The 17 pounder could pierce the armour of a tiger at about 1700 meters away, while the T-34 could only penetrate the tiger's armor at 500 meters away or less.

[Costeniok]

EuroAmericanNazi, you have no idea at all. CCCP won the Second World War. 85% of german army was still fighting in the East fron while they defeat the americans in the ardens. T-34. the best tank of the war, was enterely made in the CCCP by russian engeniers. At the end of the war, the CCCP had the best army in the world, and most powerful and advanced in land than the US. Still fucking bullshit about the war, nazi american fat ass.

[Costeniok]

I'm a quite cold man, but Japan Overture always make me cry, thinking in the determination of this island condemned to lose the war before it began. Japan Overture sounds like a navy sailing to its fate. Everyone can fight in a battle believing they can obtain the victory. Very few will knowing they're only delaying the defeat. None do it without a hope to survive... Bravest men the world has seen.

They did horrible things in China and Korea, but anyway, Japan has my ethernal respect.

Banzai!!

[Redhammer627]

Also works well when you play as any Chinese faction and try and unite all of China. I think of the Communists and their 6000 mile march, what an amazing feat, and they even united all of China. The hardships of China in the early 20th century were truly trials only a great nation could endure...

[EuroAmericanReich]

@Redhammer627 BAHAHAA Mao was a bandit scum who raided defenseless villages and slaughtered 10's of millions in "The great leap forward".

Franklin Delanor Roosevelt is the only reason Communism exists in Russia China Korea or otherwise, he gave them the cash and the engineering to make it possible. Communism is the largest hypocrisy ever.

Heil Hitler.

[Redhammer627]

@EuroAmericanReich Wow, obviously you hate communism you piece of Nazi trash because the Soviet Union slaughtered your precious reich all the way to Berlin. BTW lend lease was the biggest fucking joke ever, Russia recieved barely any oil, tanks, or weapons. The only thing we got a lot of were shitty american machine guns and radios that used a completely different frequency than Russian broadcast. Rot in hell with your hitler Soviet Union won the war.

[EuroAmericanReich]

@Redhammer627 Wrong again, the USSR lost the entire rodina in under a year to Nazi Germany. FDR had to send emergency supplies tanks guns food and bullets to stalin since the Nazis had annihilated what little mechanized forces they had left.

"Lend lease was the biggest fking joke ever" Why don't you actually look it up rather than make up nonsense. FDR is the savior of communism not stalin or mao LOL you are just plain wrong and dumb. Hitler > You deal with it. USSR went broke on its own

[Redhammer627]

@EuroAmericanReich Wow, we did not lose the entire country to the Germans fool, Hitler never took Moscow or Leningrad. The reason the Soviet Union survived is because Stalin had enough sense to move industry behind the Urals, where Soviet weapons were mass produced for the army. Once the factories were set up, Soviet soldiers held the line rather well. It was only in 1941 and the early part of 42 did Nazi make huge advance into Ukraine and Russia. Lend Lease almost never arrived anyways.

[EuroAmericanReich]

@Redhammer627 You completely lie about how necessary the lend lease was. Stalin gave huge sighs of relief whenever FDR won election. FDR signed presidential decree giving Stalin half USA uranium stockpile and it was FDR's administration that gave the USSR the a-bomb designs as well. Mao would have never won in China had Solomon Adler and Henry Morgenthau never illegally fixed the price of gold and silver so Chiang couldn't compete. FDR sent engineers to the USSR stalin's industry is USA made.

[Redhammer627]

@EuroAmericanReich Germany never took Moscow or Leningrad! Those are Lies!!! USSR built its own industry before the war, and built it during the war. Soviet Union never once recieved anything nuclear from anyone, that means matieriel or designs. Mao would have never taken China had it not been for Stalin's gift of Manchuria, giving Mao the industry and manpower he needed. Soviet Union recieved few items because Japan and Germany deystroyed many transport carrying goods, USSR won its war alone.

[EuroAmericanReich]

@Redhammer627 USA Congressional investigations confirm everything I am saying, and it also dis-confirms the fantasy that you have that says the USSR did all of this on their own. It proves that FDR and his communist spies solomon adler george marshall betrayed chiang kai shek to mao and engineered the war via roosevelt's alliance with stalin. Roosevelt recognized the USSR in his first year of office sent hundreds of engineers to stalin and the equal amount of $150 billion.

[EuroAmericanReich]

@Redhammer627 Hitler did take Moscow and Leningrad actually....

[Jac3k89]

The best one ;-)

[222Kaiser]

I game with Japan and the music comes ever ;)

[jackowackopb]

I love this track, it's really elegant and graceful. Commendations to Andreas Waldentoft for composing such a moving piece!

[Strelok10]

The greatest piece of the soundtrack

[accwyse]

this song makes me think of a vast fleet mobilizing.. with scrambled fighters... and a resolute naval commander on the bridge of an aircraft carrier... and plenty of nippon flaggzzz

[dokotomonaku]

send my regards to your imagination buddy...

[Pappy55]

@accwyse

exactly thwe same image i get :)

[ImperialGuard9001]

Banzai! I love this type of Music Japanese are the best!

[Ryanfinder226]

@ImperialGuard9001 what does Banzai even mean?

[ImperialGuard9001]

@Ryanfinder226 Ten thousand years. Is basicaly a warcry for the Emperor Tehn Thousand Years for the Emperor it originated in China ironicaly and was adopated by Japanese circa 8th century. Since then it was reused by Meiji Restoration and reused again by Japanese Militarism during 30s and 40s as sort of warcry for their military. Its great warcry it trully represents the Yamato-damashii that is the essence and spirit of Japanese Spirit its traditions codes of honor and culture.

[Ryanfinder226]

@ImperialGuard9001 uhhh more fact than needed but glad for the extra learning anyway! thanks for responding first of all

[Novrick]

can't wait til hearts of iron 3 :D

[mini1gerbel]

I love this music, I dont only think of the Japs when I hear this music.

[MegaJapanese]

Japanese nation is best in the world!