A Japanese Film Asking Americas About Their Views Of Japan & The Vietnam War [1967]

Neomarxisme has uncovered this bizarre 1967 film in which an aggressive Japanese woman interviews Americans about their views on Japan:

13 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - August 2, 2007 at 9:19 pm

Syd

Wow… that was interesting.

She interviewed some educated people. The one man knew a lot about Japan including the date when Hiroshima was bombed. It was funny the man who answered “Prime Minister” as the most important person was asked what type of government Japan has as a follow up question.

It seemed she was interviewing near a base, anyone else know more about this?
I’ve never been so proud of Americans before! I couldn’t have answered better myself.

I loved the part when she asked “Have you heard about Hiroshima?” and got in return; “Have you heard about Pearl Harbor?”

I feel bad Japan was represented by someone so… weak.
Aki

I loved the part when she asked “Have you heard about Hiroshima?” and got in return; “Have you heard about Pearl Harbor?”

When I see this kind of comment, I always ask myself “Should America be nuked by Iraqi?”…..and I cannot find proper answer.
The Unkown

Too bad for you Aki, Iraq doesn’t have nuclear weapons. Your wish won’t come true.

Aki

Syd, I understand what you meant. Sorry for my misunderstanding.

It seems that this video was produced concerning the renewal of the treaty of mutual cooperation and security between the US and Japan. Japanese back then too would have watched this film as a funny one. The producer of this experimental film, Haruhiko Hagimoto (萩元晴彦), produced good TV shows such as 遠くへ行きたい (a show for travelling) and オーケストラがやってきた (a show of classic music) in 1970′s and 1980′s.

Jim

So, would you say japanese people are tragic or comic? And why are they so small?!

Overthinker

They’re so small as they need to pack 127 million of them into one ‘semai’ country. I’m sure that was the answer she was fishing for. Unlike Americans who live in a BIG country and so can be BIG.

Aki

Syd, I understand what you meant. Sorry for my misunderstanding.

It seems that this video was produced concerning the renewal of the treaty of mutual cooperation and security between the US and Japan. Japanese back then too would have watched this film as a funny one. The producer of this experimental film, Haruhiko Hagimoto (萩元晴彦), produced good TV shows such as 遠くへ行きたい (a show for travelling) and オーケストラがやってきた (a show of classic music) in 1970′s and 1980′s.
Syd

Aki,

Thanks for understanding. By no means do I support such an indiscriminate method such as atomic weapons. I’ve been to Hiroshima and must say… it’s beyond sad what happened.
My argument was just putting people on the spot like that. I teach courses in ‘propaganda’ at a uni level and stuff like that irks me. When people bait someone, almost any answer is bad. For example, “do you feel Japanese are tragic or comic”, either way the answer is insulting.

Thanks for the information on Haruhiko Hagimoto, I will research more about him.
http://deleted John

I ask my grandfather who severed in world war 2 about the atomic bombing. He was medic for the army and station in hawaii. He said that like the movie Pear harbor, They woken a sleeping gaint. He also said people started enlisting in the army.