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history of japan

bill wurtz · 87.4M views · 2016-02-02 · 9:01

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Overview

Bill Wurtz's fast, comedic and musical run through the whole history of Japan in nine minutes.

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HN mentions it as an entertaining quick history, and as a stylistic reference or joke in threads about history and the creator's other videos.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2016–2025

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klez · 2017-06 · Recommendation

Those jingles are funny the first few times, but they get annoying pretty fast. Anyway, happy to see this linked here. He also did a similar video for the history of Japan [0], quite entertaining. [0] [VIDEO]

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umvi · 2025-05 · Joke / meme

> and to slow the predatory opening of Japan that had begun with American warships’ arrival in 1854. Reminds me of: [VIDEO]

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SimbaOnSteroids · 2017-11 · Joke / meme

There is an option for enforcement you're not realizing here, called the Commodore Mathew Perry method, it goes like this. --Location: Tax Havens-- > Knock Knock Its the United States With huge boats, with guns, gunboats. >Open your banks' records, stop having them be closed and theres not much they can do about. So they sign a treaty making sure their banks' records are not closed. -------------------------------------------------------------- Inspired by this, both historically and in delivery [VIDEO]

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