#JAPAN:REST OF THE STORY. GRANT NEWSHAM
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 14 May 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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TOKYO 1930
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| 0:00.0 | The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be |
| 0:06.8 | wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain |
| 0:13.0 | that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching |
| 0:18.7 | their peak in the afternoon. |
| 0:23.0 | Not in the mood for miserable weather. |
| 0:25.6 | Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express. |
| 0:28.7 | Sun Express, non-stop sunshine. |
| 0:37.8 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:39.8 | Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:44.0 | Grant Newsham, Colonel Grant Newsom, |
| 0:45.7 | United States Marine Corps retired, |
| 0:48.3 | writing most recently of Japan. |
| 0:51.0 | He is traveling in the Pacific now, |
| 0:57.5 | and Japan is ever more important in any nation in the Pacific, but during these days of waiting for a trade deal that's acceptable to so many parties, we focus on Japan |
| 1:05.1 | because it has a great deal of investment into the United States Treasury system. |
| 1:12.5 | That is, that they're holders of a vast amount of treasury bills are debt. |
| 1:18.2 | They are very good allies. |
| 1:20.4 | They have made remarks these last years that it will join in the defense of Taiwan and |
| 1:26.1 | the rest of East Asia on the possibility of China attacking. |
| 1:31.4 | In addition to that, they're very good businessmen, and having visited a week there and broadcast |
| 1:35.9 | from the Imperial Hotel, it's a beautiful culture, extremely well organized. You want to |
| 1:42.6 | go where they go. So, Grant, you spend many years in Japan, |
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