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Hello and welcome to the history of Japan podcast, episode 278, The Men Who Stayed Behind.

So lately, as part of my day job, I've been gearing up four-unit-on-a-Vietnam War with my students,

and in the process, I've been doing some reading, as you do.

While I was doing it, I found a very interesting story about Japan, Vietnam,

and their relationship during World War II and its aftermath,

and of course, I happen to know the perfect place to tell a story like that.

But first, a little background on the conflict itself, if you're not familiar with it.

And before that, one quick disclaimer, I have never studied Vietnamese as a language. It is a difficult one to pronounce correctly if you are not a native speaker.

I will do my best, that said, apologies to those of you more familiar with the Vietnamese language than I am.

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