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87.4M views · 10 years ago · comedy · evergreen

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

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.

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5 comments from Hacker News

@umvi2025 · in ““There are people who can see and others who cannot even look””

> and to slow the predatory opening of Japan that had begun with American warships’ arrival in 1854. Reminds me of: ▶ this video

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@SimbaOnSteroids2017 · in “American Equity”

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 ▶ this video

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@klez2017 · in “History of the entire world, i guess [video]”

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] ▶ this video

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@_nedR2016 · in “China, Japan, Russia, and South Korea Plan Renewable Energy Super Grid”

The only reason i know these countries have a history is from watching this video a couple day back( ▶ this video ). It is strange but i never really thought of Russia as neighbours with China or Korea with a shared history.

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@po2016 · in “Bot-controlled piano emulating spoken voice (2009) [video]”

Not mechanical, so much lower resolution... but you might have recently seen the History of Japan video being linked around... the guy who did that, Bill Wurtz also did this: link There's an entire subreddit of this stuff as I guess it's really good practice for playing by ear: link It includes this awesome Palin one: link P.S. In case you missed it this is the History of Japan one again: ▶ this video If you watch it again, you can hear him using that technique of harmonizing with his own spoken voice in the background music of that video.

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