A Brief History Of Punishment In Ancient Japan - A Day In History
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Date: 2022-09-18
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Sonny
I've seen a documentary about the origins of Japanese people and where they are came from. It stated there that the first settlers In Japan were not actually Asian, but a mix of Middle Eastern and European people they are called Ainu and settled in Northern Japan. As probably most of people knew Ainu are the indigenous people of Japan and looked very different from the Japanese as we all know today. Those Japanese that we know about are the Yamato people and it is stated that they are originally, Jeoseon (Korean) people. They dominated the existing settlers in Japan pretty much like the white americans dominated the native Americans.
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I've seen a documentary about the origins of Japanese people and where they are came from. It stated there that the first settlers In Japan were not actually Asian, but a mix of Middle Eastern and European people they are called Ainu and settled in Northern Japan. As probably most of people knew Ainu are the indigenous people of Japan and looked very different from the Japanese as we all know today. Those Japanese that we know about are the Yamato people and it is stated that they are originally, Jeoseon (Korean) people. They dominated the existing settlers in Japan pretty much like the white americans dominated the native Americans.
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Manuelslayor
Trial by ordeal seemed to have been a very effective way of determining guilt. If people really belive that the gods would help or not a person guilty of a crime especially ones that won't get the death penalty would never take the trial. After all to them it was having a burnt hand and having to pay up or joust pay up. The outhorities new this and often did not make the water hot enough to give burns.
Your innocence was not proven by the ordeal but by the fact you where willing to do it
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Trial by ordeal seemed to have been a very effective way of determining guilt. If people really belive that the gods would help or not a person guilty of a crime especially ones that won't get the death penalty would never take the trial. After all to them it was having a burnt hand and having to pay up or joust pay up. The outhorities new this and often did not make the water hot enough to give burns.
Your innocence was not proven by the ordeal but by the fact you where willing to do it
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Saber
Kirisute Gomen was the most common form of punishment by the samurai class upon peasants; simply beheading them to pay for whatever insult they might have perceived.
Putting heads on display at execution grounds continued into the late 1800's. In fact, samurai children (5-6 year olds) were sent to spend a night at the local execution grounds to prove their courage.
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Kirisute Gomen was the most common form of punishment by the samurai class upon peasants; simply beheading them to pay for whatever insult they might have perceived.
Putting heads on display at execution grounds continued into the late 1800's. In fact, samurai children (5-6 year olds) were sent to spend a night at the local execution grounds to prove their courage.
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Brian
Thank you for this documentary. I have trouble reconciling the Japan that abolished the death penalty and slavery with Imperial Japan that raped and beheaded its way across the pacific and Asia in the 30s and 40s.
Did these laws apply only to Japanese people, while all foreigners were considered subhuman?
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Thank you for this documentary. I have trouble reconciling the Japan that abolished the death penalty and slavery with Imperial Japan that raped and beheaded its way across the pacific and Asia in the 30s and 40s.
Did these laws apply only to Japanese people, while all foreigners were considered subhuman?
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Strawberryknight
0: 45 it seems you have jumped 1, 000 years in history in 10 seconds. 0: 57 The painting of Himeji was already in 16th century and that time it was ruled by Ikeda Terumasa during beginning of Tokugawa era.
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0: 45 it seems you have jumped 1, 000 years in history in 10 seconds. 0: 57 The painting of Himeji was already in 16th century and that time it was ruled by Ikeda Terumasa during beginning of Tokugawa era.
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Zach
Was the death penalty only banned for the nobility or was it banned for the peasantry as well? I know a lot of feudal and nobility systems had a different punishments for the different classes.
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Was the death penalty only banned for the nobility or was it banned for the peasantry as well? I know a lot of feudal and nobility systems had a different punishments for the different classes.
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Jerome
The extreme cruelty and total merciless behavior displayed by the Empire of the Rising Sun in WW II as a member of the evil Axis seems to have had roots that were growing for millenniums.
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The extreme cruelty and total merciless behavior displayed by the Empire of the Rising Sun in WW II as a member of the evil Axis seems to have had roots that were growing for millenniums.
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Edwina
By adopting Buddism, it would make logical sense to stop the death penalty, but the info in this video seems so different from the impression of ancient Japan told in the west.
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By adopting Buddism, it would make logical sense to stop the death penalty, but the info in this video seems so different from the impression of ancient Japan told in the west.
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theo9952
Humans are such amazing creatures. Really God Almighty's greatest creation and reputed to be ''in his own image'' too. At least that is what the Good Book says
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Humans are such amazing creatures. Really God Almighty's greatest creation and reputed to be ''in his own image'' too. At least that is what the Good Book says
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Thomas
The best way to get punishment is from a young brown eyed blonde like Britney spears. That's the only form of discipline I accept. Otherwise I'm not having it. T
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The best way to get punishment is from a young brown eyed blonde like Britney spears. That's the only form of discipline I accept. Otherwise I'm not having it. T
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Sopha
I am impressed if this is fact of the abolishment of death penalty ( hanging, beheading, stoned to death) by Japanese earlier than other countries in the world.
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I am impressed if this is fact of the abolishment of death penalty ( hanging, beheading, stoned to death) by Japanese earlier than other countries in the world.
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Type_xviiia
First country to abolish the death penalty yet one of the few 1st world countries to still practice the death penalty in current times. Ironic lol.
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First country to abolish the death penalty yet one of the few 1st world countries to still practice the death penalty in current times. Ironic lol.
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education
Please post a video about Indian torture methods. I gues, they were less innovative than other. Chineese also had intelligent torture systems.
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Please post a video about Indian torture methods. I gues, they were less innovative than other. Chineese also had intelligent torture systems.
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CallinicusHu
Slavery was banned in Catholic Europe during the middle ages. Hungary abandoned slavery practices when it took the cross at 1000.
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Slavery was banned in Catholic Europe during the middle ages. Hungary abandoned slavery practices when it took the cross at 1000.
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hot
Funny my father was a slave of japanese owners in ww2. So the part of that they did not have slaves anymore is puzzeling to me
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Funny my father was a slave of japanese owners in ww2. So the part of that they did not have slaves anymore is puzzeling to me
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Strawberryknight
Do you consider 400 hundred years ago as ancient? I may as well call the American Revolution as ancient event.
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Do you consider 400 hundred years ago as ancient? I may as well call the American Revolution as ancient event.
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philipcanada78
or you can name this video as punishment method of Saudi Arabia TODAY; ) best friend of freedom USA hahhhaaaa
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or you can name this video as punishment method of Saudi Arabia TODAY; ) best friend of freedom USA hahhhaaaa
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Gaves
Nothing but rot. Even videos presented are not japanese. Mostly european and chinese images and prints. waste of time.
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Nothing but rot. Even videos presented are not japanese. Mostly european and chinese images and prints. waste of time.
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alex
Ancient Japan still has death penalty 'harakiri. It was ordered by boss to any subordinates who were punished.
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Ancient Japan still has death penalty 'harakiri. It was ordered by boss to any subordinates who were punished.
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