it was shocking data with japanese media. japanese society took it -- why is that? that is an interesting point. that is because america -- a lot of americans support north korea and recognizing that north korea as a nuclear power. similar results can be found mongst japanese experts. a lot of japanese experts have put the idea of recognizing north korea as a nuclear power, but this is a public poll. general public in america supposing that north korea is a nuclear power was a big surprise or the japanese. north korea, who is the neighbor to us, nobody knows what the leader my to do. our allies, the american people recognizing north korea as a uclear power -- that could possibly dramatically change the strategy under the alliance. in any case, it was shocking to news for japanese society. a lot of media talked about that. at the same time, there was a lot of americans also supporting japan acquiring nuclear power. that was another big surprise. predominant supporters -- dominant supporters were republican, but that caused a lot of uncertainty and concerns amongst ja

is, it is striking because it is number two for the japanese. 43% of the japanese name it as one of the two countries that is most threatening to world peace and security. remember, this will not add up asked them to we list two countries, not one. if you look at 13% of the american public, they say that the united states is the biggest threat to world peace and security and edges china on that in terms of people writing it. it does not mean that they don't not think that china is a threat, it is just what comes to their mind. because if you had to rate each of these countries separately, they may rate china higher. it tells you about how our public is divided on this and you can see the same thing in japan. one reason why this might be so high in japan despite all of the other things we have seen is the following question that i will end up with. which is, please name two national or world leaders you think pose the greatest threat to world peace and security. again, it is an open-ended question. we do not try to lead them in any shape or form. in japan, donald trump number one followe

i was japanese american. years, i spent about half the time working the small little rice farm that my grandmother had left and working alongside of her brother in japan and i remember stopping and thinking, this is exactly what i'm trying to run away from. what is it? it was really the call of the land. but the dynamic was i did not understand how to grow rice. i understand how to -- i did not understand how to grow rice but i understood how to grow peaches. and i realized i need to come back here to see what this was like. so i came back and shocked my dad saying i want to come back and farm a little with you. he was shocked because he thought none of his sons, none of his children were going to farm just like most farms around here. so the transition was wonderful in the sense that my dad was very quiet and very reserved. so when i came back to the farm, started making mistakes, started doing things, there was a lot of just a few soft grunts, nodding the head and then silence. and that's when i began to go

we asked same question of japanese experts. 20% of japanese experts support the idea of japan acquiring nuclear weapons. this is not going to be easy process in japan because this is really acceptable by culture.popular but now because of the situation happening, there are a lot of worries, amongst japanese public. so not recognizing north korea as a nuclear power and being completely aligned across allies as well as neighbors, i think a lot of japanese think that has to be the strategy. that, i think, is a small insight that we have acquired. that probably is the most plausible scenario as we move forward. >> from the important points that our friend, kudosahn, wanted to make -- japanese surprise that the united states would have such a high percent of americans supporting a japanese nuclear option. there is japanese expert opinion that is perhaps moving in this direction gradually, not overwhelmingly, by any means. is one important point. a second important point, assuming your translation worked well, is that japanese were a little taken aback that the united states and americans wou

visible or if you're talking about japanese government policy. you know what's the end game what was. the only the process. so far that hasn't really believe been put out there by the japanese government and. and the idea basically that through pressure of the going to get everything they want doesn't seem to be realistic and nobody will expect to happen so it's not clear that there is really a strategy sort of per se going on in or around the japanese government but more broadly while the japanese public there's always a strong desire for peace it's a country that has a strong are possible since world war two and they were by how possible thank you have friendly relations with all the neighbors it will be interesting to see how things move forward in the coming days and weeks mr thomas the penn thank you very much indeed for your contribution to the program and thank you too for watching you can see the program again and it time by visiting our web site c.n.n. dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com for

japanese public is a whole in. general welcoming of the.intentions have been reduced somewhat although i do think that there's also a lot of caution the japanese public probably isn't deeply aware of what's going on quite yet this is quite new information and many of them want us to not think. as from the japanese government's perspective we are becoming very different now. the army government i think you say is not welcome the peace talks at this time is exactly what good want in terms of their own domestic political agenda which right now is moving forward towards possibly revising the park using abby's perspective actually tensions would be more appropriate. the search i mean you served in the military in south korea i mean it is shaped in contact in the demilitarized zone between the two countries what does it mean from a military perspective from a logistics perspective and is going to be conducive to broader talks about a permanent settlement of the crisis in the peninsula well . first off. along the border as far as i know there is n

the japanese defense minister also sounded a lot of caution when. north korea goes through phases of apparent dialogue and provocations but either way north korea is continuing its nuclear and missile development we have no intention of weakening our warning and surveillance. it is new year's day speech said north korea with its nuclear weapons program and even called for the mass production of deployment of nuclear warheads and this house. from the conservative perspective in north korea trying to buy time the majority seems to believe the north korea is trying to finalize its technical development to to achieve operational i.c.b.m. so you know as us the cia has announced before they are talking about two or three months time in terms of finalizing the i.c.b.m. system and it looks like this is a perfect action on their side you know to buy time. last year north korea test fired three intercontinental ballistic missiles or i.c.b.m.'s including one that it's capable of reaching the u.s. mainland many hope the upcoming talks remain the best option for

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relations between the south koreans and the japanese are not good. japanese militarism causes further mistrust among the south koreans. one way of viewing what the north koreans are doing is forcing all of the nations involved -- south korea, the united states, and japan, to ask fundamental questions about the relationship with each other and the security of northeast asia. the answer to those questions will not be agreeable to all parties. >> in closing, as a historian, is there a metaphor you can use to describe the current situation as you're looking at it? i am thinking -- is it a tinderbox waiting for a spark or something other than that? >> a better metaphor might be some sort of precarious tower that is fairly strong but brittle, something made of iron. it is strong, but it cannot stand a lot of shocks. it can look strong and collapse suddenly. our alliances with south korea, with japan are fairly strong and robust, but that does not mean that certain actions, particularly preventative strikes against north korea, could cause this edifice to c

the japanese-german attack was japanese-german alliance was imperfect. taylor's first reaction to the firstharbor -- hitler's reaction to the pearl harbor was one of relation. at almost precisely the same moment, a few hundred miles away, winston churchill heard .he same news over the wire he had no advance knowledge of the attack and we don't know what he said at the moment, but we do know what he said -- what when he after the war heard the pearl harbor news eare. -- thee the following united states was in the war, up to the neck and into the death. we had won after all. england would live. slept thebed and sleep of the saved and the thankful. what is remarkable about these two remarks is here are two major actors in this great historical aphis owed -- makingcal episode absolutely opposite appraisals of what would now be the implications of american belligerency. what this tells us historically is, even as late of december 1941, it was not clear how the united states would fight the war, with what composition of forces and what timetable and guided by

my grandfather was a boy during the japanese occupation so he grew up speaking japanese and had a japaneseuldn't express anything in korean and had to hide that. the two sisters at the centre of this book who live by the sea and do all the things you do to keep yourself going, to find things that can be sold and make a living, they are in a sense holding onto a culture which they feel inside themselves as permanently under threat. it actually was. they are really the only divers on the island and the japanese prise them, so they would take a lot of them to japan to dive, so to stay in that small area they were lucky and to be able to do it themselves. lucky but we have to see what happens to them on this story cannot be described as lucky, they undergo appalling deprivation and are taken effectively to a brothel forjapanese and are taken effectively to a brothel for japanese soldiers. we see what happens to one of them there and it is a very seeding expedients for a young girl. your call theme is the relationship between these two can triumph over even disaster. i feel like the bonds betwe

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japanese militarism causes more distrust among south koreans. one way of viewing what the north koreans are doing now is forcing all nations involved -- south korea, u.s., and japan, to ask fundamental questions about relationships with each other. he answer will not be agreeable he answer will not be agreeable to all parties involved. host: as a historian, is there a metaphor you can use to describe the current situation as you are looking at it? is it a tinderbox waiting for a spark, or something other than that? mr. fields: i think a better metaphor might be some sort of precarious tower, that is actually fairly strong or iron.e, made of it can look strong and collapse suddenly. our alliances with south korea and japan are fairly robust,sud. but that does not mean certain ations, particularly preemptive strike against north korea, could cause this edifice to come down with shocking speed. a timely context for north korean affairs. thank you very much. >> a a timely context tweet aske that still resounds today. his question is about how many p

japanese militarism causes further mistrust among the south koreans. one way of viewing what the north koreans are doing is forcing all of the nations involved -- south korea, the united states, and japan, to ask fundamental questions about the relationship with each other and the security of northeast asia. this is at a time when the answer to those questions will not be agreeable to all parties. >> in closing, as a historian, is there a metaphor you can use to describe the current situation as you're looking at it? i am thinking -- is it a tinderbox waiting for a spark or something other than that? >> a better metaphor might be some sort of precarious tower that is fairly strong but brittle, something made of iron. it is strong, but it cannot stand a lot of shocks. it can look strong and collapse suddenly. i think our alliances with south korea, with japan are fairly strong and robust, but that does not mean that certain actions, particularly preventative strikes against north korea, could cause this edifice to come down with shocking speed. >> a ver

as far as incarcerating the japanese, it was a way at the time of striking back against japan because now they were american citizens. roosevelt had the good sense to let them enlist in army and japanese american unit distinguished itself in combat. they segregated the navy, they could be cooks, but in the army they were also segregated but they set up area in which african americans would train to be pilots and to fly bombers and eleanor roosevelt went down to alabama where they were training and she drove in a plane with one of these crews, you see. and they were complaining because they didn't send them to combat and she pressured and roosevelt pressured the army, they sent them to combat and they compiled record superior, shooting down nazi planes and medals. but still, you know, you can't say that it was heroic, fighting for equal rights, against nazis. >> so you spend some time describing his medical history with polio. you also are quite candid about his financial decline. >> yeah. >> which was also hidden to most americans, and -- and the first signs for his age were around th

and japanese military aggression across asia. and attacked by the japanese in china. let them pay operations, make retaliate, what was that gunboat doing their? don't get us into a war. it was a very difficult, challenging time and he understood america needed to act and churchill understood, the japanese admiral who planned the pearl harbor attack, he said the american last 6 months in the new war, japan loses because he understood the industrial might of america and its ability to mobilize and support the russians and churchill said in his memoirs after pearl harbor, accept the sleep of babes because i knew now the americans in the war. 419,000 americans lost their lives in that conflict and to this day i don't know how many, it is very moving. >> tell us a little more how he navigated, that sense of neutrality, antiwar sentiment and strong anti-immigration views, anti-semitic views. even though the public increasingly reviled hitler there was no sense that there was a threat to the homeland, yet he was able to move the country. extraordinary. >> because he spoke no

well, we have prided ourselves in presenting the contributions of japanese-americans during world wari, and today we get to talk about an effort to make their history a part of the literary landscape in a big way. joining me to talk about the coffee book, "the go for broke spirit: portraits of courage" are robert horsting, the oral historian and co-author, and photographer and co-author shane sato. welcome to the show. robert horsting: thank you for having us. robert handa: great to have both of you here. well, give me an idea. first of all, we were talking a little bit earlier about, you know, the idea of this, and how it got started, and your collaboration. give us an idea in terms of the origins of this book, and how you guys ended up collaborating. go ahead, robert. shane sato: well, i've been working on this book for over 20 years, working with the veterans, trying to take their photos. and at first, i really didn't know what i was going to be doing with the photos. i tried to take the photos 'cause i really felt that it was necessary. but i first did a black and white series wit

that is weighing on japanese equities.also seeing a general loss of momentum today, tracking the pullback in the u.s. great to have you. i want to start with this quick chart that quickly painted where we are at. 4429 on the bloomberg. we have global equities. world index still sitting at record highs. everywhere is in overbought territory except perhaps european equities. at the moment in an environment like this, weird you go? we do you find opportunity and value this year? guest: good morning and happy new year. thank you for having me. , and theight short-term many markets look over balked. -- over-bought. what we did when we look that are a location, we basically increased our cash quarter. we continue to like equities over all other asset classes going forward because there are still fewer alternatives. we do think it is better to take some ships off the table. markets do look a little frothy here and there. we have late cyclical behavior valuations, chase chasing things simply that rise whether they make sense or no

the other downside was the japanese internment. how did that happen and how do you explain that in the context of this otherwise extraordinary event? roosevelt understood at the time the united states had gotten back on its heels. they were caused in the pacific but because they want to make it first. they lost opinion in the united states. the rate on tokyo didn't do significant military damage the reporters asked where did those planes came from? and it was a mythical place in the novel in the 1940s, you see. as far as incarcerating the japanese, it was the way at the time of striking back against japan. the japanese-american unit worked its way up it distinguished itself. they could be cooks and stewards of the. eleanor roosevelt went down to improve in a plane and they were complaining because they didn't send them into the combat. they were getting up there saying they were fighting for equal rights and the kind of barbariskind ofbarbarism that t a. >> you spend some time describing his medical history with polio and are also

my grandfather was a boy during japanese occupation, so he grew up speaking japanese.ajapanese name. he couldn't express anything in korean. he had to hide that. so the two sisters at the centre of this book who live by the sea and dive and do all the things that you do to keep yourself going, to find things that can be sold and create a living, they're, in a sense, holding on to a culture which they feel, i suppose inside themselves, is permanently under threat? well, it actually was. they were really the only divers on the island. and the japanese actually prized them. so they would take a lot of them and transport them to japan to dive over there as well. so to stay in the little small area that they were, they were very lucky and to be able to do it for themselves. well, lucky but we have to say that what happened to them in this story cannot be described as very lucky. they undergo appalling deprivation, they are taken to what is effectively a brothel forjapanese soldiers, we see what happens to one of them there, it is a very searing experience, of course, for ef

japanese equities are doing well. it is about japan.eople want to know more about what is going on and where japanese companies are making their money and any information moving markets. it is not just twitter, but anything to do with japan is in vogue. k inlittle tweet -- twea the wording, people want to know about it. yousef: thank you again for coming on the show. let's bring in the vice president and senior investment bc bank out ofoc singapore. as you digest the latest comments from the boj, the softer tone dropping keywords like "aggressive," what does that mean for how you look at the japanese story for the rest of 2018? >> i think it is still early days. central banks at the beginning of the year, they would tighten policy and scale back on asset purchases. the boj has been behind the curve. governor kuroda does comments will be checked by the markets. what we have learned from the normalizationcle expectations have a big impact on currency markets and mid cycle and late cycle tightening. thatts are expecting governor kuroda is

mainland japanese husband yoichii.ess would be japanese-okinawan-american slash hawaiian. and son-in-law robert who is, of course, mexican. >> mark: it's the pig feet. >> anthony: oh, nice, that's pretty. oh, wow look at that! >> mk: that's the tripe, that's the tripe. >> anthony: that looks good. [ laughter ] >> mark: spam and bitter melon! >> anthony: now we are talking. oh that's awesome. >> andrew: i just call it local food. >> anthony: right. >> andrew: but local just, like, covers, like, a wide net. when i look at this table, again, i just get hawaii. it's got portuguese, japanese. you got okinawan. world war ii, i don't know some type of -- >> anthony: korean. >> andrew: korean, japanese, hawaiian. love child plate of awesomeness. >> anthony: right. the food is some bone deep hawaiian stuff, my friends, which is to say a delicious mash up of, well, look -- take taco rice, it's a dish created in okinawa to approximate tex-mex for home sick american gis that was then appropriated in a post-ironic way by younger ge

i have grandchildren, three japanese grandchildren, the oldest is 28. he has a masters in physics from the mit of japan. he is one of 100 people who got a job from 23,000. his brother, simon, name that after my father but you japanese characters, graduated from university of the city of london, a four-year course in philosophy and was awarded a two-year course at oxford to get a masters in philosophy, which he graduated from in one year. and a 21-year-old granddaughter, sarah. so my enemy is my family. my whole thought process of world war ii was to kill japanese, and now i am three grandchildren in japan, , family japan. i found that was the biggest learning experience that i could ever have. i wrote a book about that in 1988 called a war and weddings. i don't like to promote myself but it's a book that you can read on amazon. and i'm proud of them. i'm proud of my three grandchildren, and my love for them. >> to your right. [applause] >> we have time for one last question. we will take that now and then we will hear from our choir in band, the very dr

in the u.s., they write in english and japanese. in japan, they write in english and japanese, allowing them to practice what they are studying and allowing the other side to learn from a native speaker. it is collaborative. it has been interesting to hear more from the government, the policy sector, and public opinion, and students. we have taken these tools and brought it to the educational level. i think what has been hit upon is important is that you were saying, but human connection, and everyone is saying it is so important. we do not see digital diplomacy as digital versus in person, but rather the pipeline to in person. we have all had an experience in our life that somehow sparked interest and a flame to really want to be curious about international things or learn a language. there is a program in japan and they do international exchange programs for students in japan. they have a large amount of data about the students on their programs. the big thing they found is that everyone had that moment. for one kid, it was the ne

i have three japanese, six grandchildren, three japanese grandchildren. the oldest is 28. from the mit of japan. and is one of 100 people who got a job from 23,000 applicants. his brother simon -- named simon not after my father, but two japanese characters -- graduated from the university of london, a four-year course in philosophy and was awarded a two-year course at oxford to get a masters in philosophy which he graduated from in one year. and a 21-year-old granddaughter, sarah. so my enemy is my family. my whole thought process of world war ii was to kill japanese. and now i have three grandchildren in japan, family in japan. and i found that that was the biggest learning experience that i could ever have. i wrote a book about that in 1988 called "of war and weddings." it's -- i don't with like to promote myself, but that's a book that you can read on amazon. and i'm proud of them, i'm proud of the three american grandchildren. we're all the same in my love for them. >> off to your right, sir. [applause] >> we have time for one last question, and we'll take that now, a

soon after, the japanese conceded. again, it came down to this whole notion of unconditional surrender. the japanese agreed to surrender after the second bomb under certain conditions, and they were very concerned about their emperor. we had to figure out how to connect the dots, and i believe it was the navy secretary who had this brilliant idea -- if the emperor, himself, surrenders unconditionally, thereby giving -- sending the message to the japanese that we will not incarcerate or execute this man, we will accept their surrender. that is exactly what happened. >> the replica of the two bombs, the first one was dropped, little boy, then the second one, fat man. there's little boy on the screen. anything we should know about why they named them this? fat man was the one dropped over nagasaki? >> correct. >> the difference between the bombs, anything? >> here's an interesting fact. i believe these replicas are at the air force museum in dayton. 1.i can make about little boy which is fascinating,, the trinity shot use

a quick check on japanese auto climbers.ighest level in two years, despite a drop in u.s. sales for december and the murky outlook for 2018. betty: thank you so much. taking a look at the first day of trade in japan for 2018. after months of saber rattling from north korea, we may see a thaw intentions. kim jong-un ordering the reopening of the cross-border hotline, paving the way for discussions about next month's winter olympics. its hotline with its neighbor to the south, south korea. let's discuss implications with our seoul reporter. this is an interesting development. has this lifted the mood in south korea? peter: definitely. the markets were acting positively to it. they see this as a big reversal intentions that have been with aing for months, north korea continuing to test their missiles and continuing to do their missile tests, to develop a nuclear weapon that could reach the u.s. betty: you heard the u.s. will respond to this saying, they do not believe this. they have hideouts about the sincerity of kim jong-un'

handshakes handsha kes and japanese handshakes and japanese flags, a surprisingly warm welcome, perhapsshinzo abe, so farfrom home. but that the faction has deep roots dating back to the second world war. —— that affection. shinzo abe's visit was to a museum that once served as the japanese embassy in lithuania. a month before, chiune sugihara was appointed vice consul in1939, sugihara was appointed vice consul in 1939, german and allied soviet forces attacked neighbouring poland, prompting a flood of german refugees eastwards a cross prompting a flood of german refugees eastwards across the border. when lithuania was itself invaded by the soviet union, crowds of refugees began seeking visas to flee. chiune sugihara defied orders from tokyo, sometimes working 18 hour days to issue transit visas, opening a route for the refugees to escape across russia to japan and elsewhere. he worked with the dutch consul, enabling some to reach the dutch territory of caress our. chiune sugihara is credited with saving an estimated 6000 jews from certain death. he was honoured by israel in 1984, two ye

about digital diplomacy, since i came from japan, i want to share about japanese issues. use of it, for example, they made a cultural media policy. based on those policies, they have an account now, for example, twitter, youtube, and one is very famous as a communication tool. you can get a message from your government. for example, last december, there was an abduction problem between japan and north korea, government sent an image of director he's so we can get information from our government now. that this can be more use for our countries. hearing, we are just the information among japanese the people who are interested in diplomatic issues. perspective, we can improve some things. campaigning can spread the information and what we want to tell people all over the world, or they can promote things, like the issue of diplomacy by using digital diplomacy and if they can conglomerate views, like people to people diplomacy with digital property. for example, i joined there to pharmacy -- i joined their diplomacy program last summer between japan and korea, and pictureed w

she claimed that six weeks earlier she had met a japanese man called james. offered her a job on a hidden camera prank show for youtube. >> when she met this so-called james, sheas asked to watch another lady to see how the prank was being played. and thereafter she was asked to play about three pranks, and after the prank she was paid a certain sum of money. e and xt day again she was taken to the airport where, again, they ayed about three pranks on-- at the arrival area. > arrator: with james, siti thid she carried out more 20 filmed pranks on people she thought were unsuspecting members of the public. siti posted this video on facebook.>> hen we go... >> narrator: the man she knew as james seemed a little camera shy. >> now siti was a social escort, and she was also a masseuse, and her income wasn't very high, and she didn't quite like the job that she was doing. and wh she was introduced to play these pranks, she was quitu excited abthe whole thing. ieshe even told all her frnds about the pranks that she played because she actually believed that this cou

they write in english and japanese. and in japan they write english and japanese and allowing them to study and the other side to learn from a native speaker of the language they're studying so it's very collaborative. it's been interesting to hear more from like, you know, the government, the policy sector and kind of public opinion and from the students as well. we've kind of taken these tools and brought it down to the educational level and i think what's been hit upon as well that's important is that like you were saying, the human connection and everyone is saying the human connection is so important. and we don't see digital diplomacy as a digital versus in person, but rather, digital diplomacy is the pipeline to in person. right? so, we all have had an experience in our life that somehow sparked interest in us, in a flame to really want to be curious about international things, to learn a language. there's a program in japan and they do international exchange programs for students in japan and they have a large a

are there any others like him or her on japanese social media?e many other twitter users in the japanese poster world that would market moving news onto the platform so you can really see how social media is becoming a part of our financial markets today. >> it is very interesting, we will watch that. the clue is coming up from that twitter taylor -- twitter handle. that is our social velocity reported joining us from tokyo. time for a quick look on what is coming up in the next few hours. heidi, someone who is always on social media, what are you watching? haidi: we had the big picture stuff, speaking to none other than david lipton who is the international monetary fund first deputy managing director will be live in hong kong in the asian financial forum. here are the big risks when it comes to asia, is it the fed, the policy misstep? is it these tensions between north and south korea? we do have the talk of the next hour, these talks between north and south resuming as well after reports that south korea is bringing the u.s. some concern side,

i'm serving for the seventh japanese conference. as a student, i have been interested in thinking about my future carrier as a professional medical doctor. i'm curious about the ways of balancing my life and my work and i'm still searching for better answers for my career and my life. that is why i'm here today. before talking about my opinions and expectations for the future, i would like to mention two points about the situation in japan that had some connection with work-life balance. my first point is about the connection of birthright and an amount of time spent on work. there are many factors that inference the birthrate, but according to research, i found out that the decision of having the second birth has a lot to do with husbands amount of time contributing to the household work. older japanese government are trying very hard to increase the low fertility rate. they are having very difficult time. i think that this specific characteristic of japanese working situation, i heard that some male workers, have to under go a har

residents are buying japanese stocks.his is about business confidence, current conditions, and the foreign -- forward looking gauge. japan had a cracking start. s for many of the issayers, i was one of them, this a template that japan needs to continue to deliver these kinds of returns in terms of current conditions? simon: the japanese economy, let's celebrate the success they are achieving at a time when those structural problems, you are stillone, manus, very much in play. still very fairly valued. line with itsy in normal discount compared to u.s. markets. the crucial thing about this -- weis you're seeing should celebrate that pickup. it makes the rally more sustainable than previous episodes were japanese executives got a head of themselves. anna: thank you very much. simon french, chief economist, panmure gordon. join us on bloomberg radio. you can find us on the mobile device. manus: coming up, president trump is accused of racism after reports of a foul mouth outburst. was he being pro-america? we try to judge th