he had japanese friends. heed a hired japanese culture. if you go into the big house, you see all sorts of japanese knicknacks his family brought back from japan. and so fdr did genuinely appreciate japanese but in some undefinable or less important way, they really couldn't come to america and be americans. they couldn't undo in one generation or two generations or three or four generations, their darwinian walsh -- racial programming. so, again, don't say this meant that fdr hated japanese americans. what it meant is that it informed his conduct that in an emergency situation was being called on to act against japanese americans. he really didn't consider very much the rights of 100,000 people he didn't think were really american anyhow, and it inspired an indifference. he didn't really care enough to look into the case for widespread removal and to discover how fictitious it was. >> shout. [inaudible] question. >> what are my findings on mrs. roosevelt? excellent question. my next project is on eleanor roosevelt and world world war i. w

might overrun the exhaust arena but there was no communication from the japanese command the japanese admiral in charge of ship a saki decided to move his headquarters from this area to the south part of the island and when they were doing that they went outside of their bunker and a five and shell exploded right near them and killed them off and in doing that in losing their tactical commander on the first day of the battle the japanese did not mount counter attack in the night which potentially could have driven a range right off the island. i've had my moment of the sun. let's go take a look at those eight inch. the legacy of the battle is still scattered across the sands of beijing. to this day the island is covered with the rusting remains of several of the big guns including the eight inch emplacements. tanks heavily fortified top boxes and the command post. the second day of the invasion was a precarious one for the americans although they had secured two small beaches the marines still had to fight in spite inch to an airfield that bisected the island. after waiting nearly twe

the japanese a kind of defense strategy that covered every inch of the island. hundreds of marines were killed by the accurate mortar and heavy gunfire at the reefs age many had to disembark offshore and slog through withering machine gun fire dangerous mines and deep bomb craters and hope to make it to shore. among the first waves of many heroes save the day one was a young lieutenant alexander bonnie who grow it is meant to push him and be on the pier to the sea wall. after sixty five years leon cooper finally returned to that fateful stretch of sand that had shaped his destiny. ironically his first encounter at the airport would be descendants of his former adversaries. i'm i'm from the united states the teleporter all met her at the time i was here sixty five years ago. i was a member of the vote that i taxed as the japanese who are here defending this island . and we were not very finally starting to gather. we were wrangling toward each other and a lot of people got killed including over four thousand of your of your your people are you here and i want to

we travel with japanese and u.s. doctors who are trying to help them. >>> a security conference in singapore last weekend was the first ministerial level summit to take place following a rise in tensions among china, vietnam and the philippines. the focus of attention was on how china would respond to the elevated sense of vigilance in the international community over territorial disputes in the south china sea. nhk world has more. >> reporter: three-day forum which ended on sunday, discussed the recent trip, the security in the asia pacific region. it was the first time for china to send a representative to the annual meeting. the minister renewed -- >> translator: all countries have their own core benefits when it comes to disputes of sovereignty. that is, issues related to land territory, territorial waters, and airspace. >> reporter: southeast asian countries, aggressive stance. vietnam protested the obstruction of its maritime activities by boats in the sea. cricize cna for transporting building materials to isl

they sent in over twenty six hundred crack japanese imperial marines to defender. massive fortifications with gold including giant pill boxes some over seven hundred feet in height ten large eight inch gun emplacements field artillery and anti-aircraft guns. the war in the pacific was commanded by two key figures general douglas macarthur and admiral nimitz after the japanese lost the battle from guadalcanal in the south pacific macarthur into strips focused on recapturing new guinea nimitz handled the central pacific region. and plans were drawn up to send forces against the japanese strongholds in the gilbert and martial law and. mark no one is a u.p.s. pilot in the world war two military historian he heads the nonprofit organization history flights they are working to locate the over seventy eight thousand missing in action from the second world war wrote way of saying here is a good deed to intelligence a map that the u.s. marine corps put together for what they called helen island which was the code name for a base you know a toll and the tar island region and

the first one is called if they came for me today, the japanese american internment project, and also we have another exhibition called relocation and resiliency, the japanese american internment in california. and both of those are up on the 6th floor and this is the last week, so if you haven't a chance to see these exhibits yet, we really encourage you to go on up and see them because they will be closing on sunday. we really want to thank community works for bringing the exhibit if they came for me today to the san francisco public library. and here to tell you a little bit more about community works is ruth morgan, so help me welcome ruth morgan. thank you. . >> thank you. i do hope that if you haven't seen the exhibit, you will go up to the skylight gallery and see it. the project actually involved over 225 young people who studied the japanese internment through the personal stories of 15 people who were interned or impacted by the internment. and the exhibition highlights the individual stories of each of the japanese americans who came into the classroom, as well as the rich

that's where the japanese government comes in. how can the japanese government improve this situation? >> yes. the important thing for japanese government is to establish a system in which a certificate is promptly issued. it is preferable if there is an integrated system under which a company can submit information, which country they're going to export and which kind of product. then immediately obtain the right certificates issued by, endorsed by the japanese government, and another thing the japanese government has to do is to disclose the level of radiation, which shows its safety in industry products, so that in foreign countries, the form people can buy them with peace of mind, and we have not experienced -- no country has experienced such a reputation damaged like japan's, s how janeseovernment deali with this situation could be a big impact, i think. >> junko suatomi. she's a lawyer from baker and mckenzie in tokyo. thank you so much for your perspective. >> thank you very much. >> appreciate it. >>> north korean leader k

a culture i realize that was a lot japanese. even though i hadn't grownup in it and i was as american as apple pie in so many ways that i started to learn more about the culture and i thought, i'm more japanese than chinese in many ways. this book gave that to me. that was the greatest gift of the samurai's garden. that and the fact that somehow people kept reading it. it was the book i was worried about and i had sent it to my editor and she called. i'm telling you the gossip stuff now. i think in a way that's more interesting. i was very nervous because i didn't know how she would receive this book. she called and said to me, well, it's very different. [laughter] and then nobody said anything. i didn't say anything and she didn't i didn't know what to say different good or bad so just with quiet. she said, i think this about part of -- she talked to me about story lines. i realized wow, they are going to publish it. and we talked about it as we would talk about a man script that would be accepted. i'm thinking, i can't believe

> i bet she speaks japanese better than i do. my kids might not me. >> when i had the gun i knew there was a [inaudible] and i started writing down things and i thought in my mind's eye, i think it looks like this. and it would be like that i had a small village in mind. there was a part in time i thought, i could go back to japan and go there and see how it looked. i had in the book and in my heart what i thought it was, i almost knew that if i had gone back it wouldn't be the same. so i made the conscious choice of not going. now that you tell me this i'm thankful i didn't i think it would have destroyed what i created in my head. i thought places are best when they are imagined. i hesitated naming it after a place where my mom said what did exist. i'm glad i didn't go back. making that conscious choice would have changed had i gone back would have changed the direction of the book a lot. >> when i saw it it was so different than how an imagined from reading your books. >> does that teach you never to look up things. always lis

his interests are very un-japanese american. he can't find relationships with a female, he's been introduced by the marriage broker and it doesn't work. but in fact his character, if he were in present-day society, he would be gay. it's sort of interesting and in fact the character whom i wrote it for, gregory wallace, is a gay actor. it's sort of interesting, francis jew, who plays him now, is gay. but you have a type of character who at a particular point in history had to sort of play out a different role but if he were in present day society, he would be, you know, gay and living life and going about his business. so that is sort of interesting about that character. . >> yes, gentleman here. . >> do you think with all the writing and examination of relocation camps that the country has actually learned from the experience, what it's done to the extent that it wouldn't happen again? . >> like arab americans? you know, i'd like to think i could say yes, but i would think not. though in fact there is more information out there

the earthquake and tsunami that he did japanese coast damaged nuclear power plants the disaster happened four months ago but the echo is only getting louder with time germany says it will give up nuclear energy in ten years switzerland among some other countries are full of it but the majority is not ready to say farewell to cheap energy generated by nuclear power plants they say nuclear fears do not hold water and careful and pragmatic planning could bring more benefits than a policy of denial. oh mr mitchell welcome to the show thank you very much for being with us it's a pleasure to be alexander it's a pleasure to be here first of all as. the forum that we talk about what's that motto any idea behind them this forum is it is if you say to parents as i would guess it should be this year the form that's being held in moscow now is an extension of previous events and it basically is an opportunity to showcase the expanding capabilities of the russian nuclear industry which are indeed very proud impressive. those of us who watch nuclear affairs around the world. are deeply impressed by th

american and japanese bodies covering the island were a mute testimony to the ferocity of the bout. one marine commented that it was the closest thing to dantes inferno universe and. it was a hellish wasteland of destruction. literally covered with thousands of bodies and ordnance. now came the grim task of collecting and bury a body. general holland smith in the marine commander was reputed to have said later that tarot was a tragic mistake. after the battle the marines would bury their dead take detailed plot maps of the grave sites and within a matter of days return to their ships. meanwhile the burial were continued on bitch. identification was made more difficult by the condition than decomposition of several bodies in a number were lost at sea. i fortunately had the unpleasant duty of attending a number of burials and say i can't remember how many at least a half a dozen by one a stands out in my memory in particular the chaplain who was in charge of the burial details i was standing next to him after he said his usual words before we got the guy into the date and i said the c

safety form opens in vienna aimed at improving safety regulations and preventing a repeat of the japanese presence. at every other state once the second time around but it's the people who have the final word so says president medvedev he still hasn't announced whether he'll stand again but did rule out a face so for the prime minister to pull the. plug thirty pm here in moscow next for you the emotional crusade of an eighty nine year old us world war two veteran outraged by what he believes is the indifference of his country towards the memory of foreign soldiers. the large concentration of litter on the beach poses an additional health houser when the refuse and swept out to sea during the storm despite this danger leone saw no empty aluminum cans or plastic bottles he found a base yos major recycling plant near by road loom fans are crushed in both counts . leon paid a visit to the owner and manager of the plant terror and your war that i wrote repeatedly to the washington usual suspects the president and the white house the secretary of defense and chairman of the joint chiefs of staf

the japanese to be very strong, the japanese are very expensive compared to the rest of the world that, provides the sharp downward pressure of wages the last two decades. talking about the yen, the stop of the yen appreciation, it is remarkable last march we have experienced that sixth time of the g-7 coordination intervention, which the minister of finance never expected. the reason i think is very important and the most important reason is that global authorities especially u.s. authority really needs japan for a strong recovery of economy so that we gain japanese presence in east asian region so that it creates a very strong i think counterpart with china. >> you mentioned intervention in the currency markets. what do you think the central bank and the government should do now to revitalize the japanese economy? >> i think the much aggressive monetary easing so that the depreciated japanese currency so that it pushes pressure to japanese financial assets including real estate. that kind of turnaround is so important for bank of japan responsibility. however, current bank of japan d

japanese stocks are trading higher pretty much across the board. nikkei average adding more than 100 points from the previous session. global stocks had a pretty good day on tuesday as the key indices in tokyo, london and new york all ended higher, and that's largely due to easing concerns about the fiscal problems in greece. now if you look at overnight moves in new york the dow posted its biggest gains in more than two months on optimism that the austerity plansz will be pushed through the greek parliament this week. the first vote is set for later today. energy and retail stocks led the gains in new york. the dow finishes at 12,188, up about 2% and nasdaq finished at 2729 up about 1.5%. here in tokyo those overnight gains in new york at a weaker yen are expected to lend some support for japanese stocks and speaking of the weaker yen, it extended its fall against the dollar in new york overnight. on tuesday at this hour, dollar/yen was trading in the upper 80s but we're seeing that pair trading in the lower 81 yen level. deal about the dollar as

the japanese were on a mission to bomb and strafe the tower landing force. by ten o five that morning the americans had shot down seventeen of the twenty bombers and force the remaining three back to the basics the remains on the base here were safe and potentially devastating casualties. meanwhile supported by reinforcements and artillery fire from nearby islands the marines used all means necessary to systematically take out the japanese defenders they slowly advance toward the narrow eastern tip of the ark. leon paid a visit to mother superior margaret sullivan at our lady of the sacred heart mission she showed in the declaration the japanese government that is at a just hours after they took over the island and now that you have and i am playing on a warning that japan was going to occupy these island all of a sudden they simply showed up as a right to die if that's really what i want to think about i think the descendant of those of the other nodded where they land and basically as his outreach to local officials continued leon and ted met with the mini

of books event in addition to the japanese still going to take for the main gun it's a thirty seven no room still the whole explosion room a lot of room. up on your head like this very carefully. by the end of day to the ground commander colonel chute who had been wounded by shrapnel during his landing the day before rallied his troops to capture the airport runway this effectively cut the enemy defenses into. day three began with an easier landing of additional marines at the western shore as the american forces began to outflank the japanese defenders that morning a chance event was taking place in the skies nearby. a flight of hellcat fighter planes on routine patrol from the aircraft carrier lexington accidentally intercepted a formation of twenty japanese sikhs fighters based from the nearby marshall lines the japanese were on a mission to bomb and strafe the tower landing force. by ten o five that morning the americans had shot down seventeen of the twenty bombers and force the remaining three back to their base the marines on base year received from potentially devastating casua

radioactive ripples far beyond the exclusion zone as news emerges of a loophole allowing contaminated japanese cars into the european market. palestinian sentiment spreads across europe as activists demand authorities stop ignoring the israeli occupation of the west bank and call for a boycott of goods from illegal settlements. with the media craze in america flaring around the sex related scandal involving a senator questions are being raised about whether news outlets are telling him to . international news and comment live from our studios here in central moscow this is . a highly toxic radioactive material has been detected in groundwater and seawater samples near the fukushima nuclear facility in japan in the instruction has been found in concentrations two hundred times over the safety limit and can cause bone cancer and leukemia. health and labor ministry says the number of workers exposed to dangerous levels of radiation has risen to eight r.t. shaun thomas has been at pushing a city to measure radiation levels and here's what he's discovered. here we're. going to this area. many many