Nago, #OKINAWA: When the PLANavy Attacks will Tokyo be ready. @Michael_Yon
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🗓️ 22 July 2024
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https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20240712_20/
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch. |
| 0:10.0 | He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right. |
| 0:19.0 | All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. |
| 0:23.0 | Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge. |
| 0:26.0 | Piando Ferries, there is another way. |
| 0:30.0 | This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor Michael Yahn. |
| 0:35.0 | Michael underlined Yahn is where to watch his reporting on Twitter. |
| 0:40.0 | We go now to where in the world is Michael Jan. I've been following for several weeks now guessing |
| 0:47.0 | that he's not in Central America, he's not in Europe, he's not in Florida. It was possible. I mean just a possible that he was in Japan |
| 0:56.2 | he also might have been somewhere in southeast Asia it did not come to me for some days that Okinawa was possible, and it is, it turns |
| 1:08.1 | out to be the right answer. |
| 1:10.1 | He's in Nago Okinawa, which is a city in the middle of the very long boot-like Okinawa. |
| 1:19.6 | This is a series of violins. |
| 1:21.6 | So it's the Okinawa chain not just Okinawa itself. |
| 1:26.0 | Okinawa is important for American history because that was one of the last challenges |
| 1:32.0 | the US Army and Marine Corps took on before the war ended and the |
| 1:38.4 | fighting on Okinawa was a larger version of the fighting on Iwo Jima in which the Japanese army meant to sacrifice itself to protect the homeland, the emperor, |
| 1:50.0 | and to wear the Americans down so that they negotiated. |
| 1:52.9 | It didn't happen, but Okinawa was especially fierce |
| 1:57.5 | the number of casualties every week, |
| 1:59.8 | not only among the Japanese and the Americans fighting but also the |
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