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Last time we spoke about the ending of the Second Battle of Changsha. In late September and early October 1941, Chinese commander Chen Cheng planned an operation to retake Yichang, a strategic Yangtze River city whose control was essential for protecting the approach to Chongqing. Japanese forces were pulling back from Changsha, weakened by supply problems and casualties, which created an opportunity for Chen to intensify his campaign. Yichang had been captured by Japan in 1940, a defeat that Chen carried as a personal and political burden. He therefore moved to encircle the Japanese 13th Division inside Yichang and drive it to collapse. Although the Chinese held a clear manpower advantage—fourteen divisions against the encircled Japanese—progress was slowed by stubborn fighting from prepared, entrenched positions. The battle inside the city produced desperate close-quarters combat and heavy casualties, showing how the fate of Yichang and the wider defense of Chongqing were tightly linked.    #214 War hits the Pacific Welcome to the Fall and Rise of China Podcast, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about the history of Asia? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on history of asia and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel where I cover the history of China and Japan from the 19th century until the end of the Pacific War.   The guns fell silent on October 9, 1941, as the Ninth War Zone's forces restored their pre-battle positions, marking the end of the Second Battle of Changsha. The balance sheet was grim on both sides, but it was China that bore the heavier cost. The Ninth Military Front suffered 70,672 killed, wounded, or missing. The concurrent Yichang offensive added a further 21,368 casualties to the Sixth Military Front, a force that outnumbered its Japanese opponents ten to one yet still failed to retake the city. By the time the dust settled, the Chinese army had lost nearly 100,000 men across both theatres. The Chinese command was frank, at least in private, about what had gone wrong. The Japanese had moved with a speed that recalled Blitzkrieg, advancing 130 kilometres in eleven days and withdrawing at twelve kilometres a day, catching the defenders perpetually off-balance. The 26th, 37th, 10th, and 74th Corps had been picked apart piecemeal rather than fighting in concert, the original plan to destroy the Japanese south of the Miluo River coming to nothing. Elite formations had paid a disproportionate price: the 74th Corps suffered 14,521 casualties, the 37th Corps 14,015, and the 58th Division alone lost 6,192 of its 11,907 men, nearly its entire fighting strength.   Yet none of this was the story the public would hear. On October 10th, China's National Day, radio stations announced the "Second Great Victory in Northern Hunan", the annihilation of over 40,000 enemy troops. Newspapers rushed out special editions. Congratulatory telegrams flooded in from government ministries and civic organizations. Senior officials seized on the moment: Sun Ke, Premier of the Executive Yuan, declared that the victory "laid the foundation for the counter-offensive and the recapture of Hankou and Guangzhou," while General Bai Chongxi called it "the pivotal moment for us to turn defeat into victory." Chiang Kai-shek, reading through the pages of triumphant commentary produced overnight by his propagandists, was reportedly impressed by their industry, if not convinced by their content. He had not wanted to call it a victory at all, but the political calculus was unavoidable: after four years of war, an exhausted nation needed the psychological sustenance that only "victory" could provide.   The gap between public performance and private reality was nowhere more visible than in the arrival of a twenty-two-member international press delegation on October 13th. Journalists from Britain, the United States, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Hong Kong, and major Chinese newspapers were flown to Changsha and carefully guided through selected battlefields, where they inspected mountains of war trophies and heard testimony from soldiers and civilians. They left satisfied, presenting their war souvenirs—swords, binoculars, Japanese military flags—to their audiences back home as proof of Chinese heroism and Japanese defeat. Both China and Japan were claiming victory simultaneously. The only conclusion the foreign press could draw was that one side was lying, and it was not the side that had shown them the evidence.   Chiang Kai-shek's real verdict came at the Third Nanyue Military Conference, held from October 16 to 21. His anger was withering. He condemned his generals for their obsession with defending sprawling outer perimeter lines while leaving city centres barely fortified, a mentality so rigid, he said, that the Japanese could announce the exact time of their advance and withdrawal in advance and still execute it on schedule without interference. "Generals, what a disgrace this is!" On the failure to capture prisoners, only 263 prisoners were claimed across the entire front, of whom only 16 names were actually published, he was almost incredulous: "We can definitely defeat the enemy, capture many enemy prisoners, and seize countless enemy weapons! Even if we cannot capture ten thousand prisoners, we should at least capture a thousand! If not a thousand, then at least a hundred! But now, you don't even have ten!" The conference handed down punishments to match the rhetoric. Liao Lingqi, commander of the shattered 58th Division, was sentenced to death for desertion and shot on October 22nd. His men were so outraged that three regimental commanders resigned in protest; the division was pulled from the order of battle entirely and given three months to rebuild. Li Yutang, commander of the 10th Corps, was dismissed—though the Third Battle of Changsha would begin before his replacement could take post, and he would be reinstated to play a key role in the city's defence.   On the Japanese side, the 11th Army acknowledged 1,670 killed, 5,184 wounded, and 14 missing, far fewer than Chinese claims, though post-war regimental histories suggest the true figure was higher. Lieutenant General Anami, who had championed the operation, found himself stung by the charge that the battle had served mainly as material for Chinese propaganda. On November 23rd, he reportedly reacted with visible displeasure when someone in his headquarters said as much aloud.  Anami's annoyance was easy enough to understand, but the accusation carried a troubling degree of accuracy. The Second Battle of Changsha had yielded no decisive strategic gain and no substantial alteration in the military balance. What it did generate, rather effectively, was a story and by the autumn of 1941, stories were one of the few things China still had in plentiful supply. The most consequential struggles were taking place not along the Miluo River, but in foreign ministries and embassies, in Washington and Moscow, in the messages passing between Chongqing and London, and in the increasingly strained calculations of statesmen trying to determine, amid rapidly changing circumstances, whom to support and for how long.   For Chiang Kai-shek, the challenge was never merely military. It was structural, and had been so from the outset. He had always seen clearly, precisely because he understood China's weakness, that Japan could not be defeated by China alone. The country lacked the industrial base, the logistical reach, and after four years of relentless attrition more and more the manpower needed to force a decisive result on the battlefield. China's survival depended on making its war inseparable from the wars of other powers. Since 1937, Chiang's diplomacy had pursued that single objective: convincing enough great powers that their interests were aligned with China's, and holding that coalition together long enough for Japan to be subdued. That effort turned out to be vastly more difficult than it ought to have been.   The problem started with the international order in which the war emerged. Chiang had hoped to assemble a concert of allies willing to help defend China against Japanese aggression. He was blocked not just by the reluctance of neutral states to aid China, but by the speed with which alliances shifted in the opening years of the Second World War. He had never welcomed the prospect of a general European conflict, correctly fearing that it would push China even further to the margins of world attention. Even so, he recognized that once the lines had hardened between the imperial democracies and fascism, new alignments might become possible. From his perspective, the growing amity between Berlin and Moscow was therefore disastrous. He had been eager to draw the USSR into war against Japan. Instead, the Soviets were now effectively aligned with the Nazis, who were themselves allied with Tokyo.   The world created after Versailles had already enraged many Chinese. After all, the May Fourth demonstrations of 1919 had arisen directly from the settlement reached at the Paris Peace Conference. Yet that older order had at least possessed recognizable anchors, especially the dominance of the two great European empires and the United States. Now those empires were weakening, and no one could say with confidence what the new geopolitical order would be. For all Chiang knew, Germany might emerge as Europe's new dominant power. The early years of the European war produced a bewildering spectacle of diplomatic realignment.   The Nationalist government had previously enjoyed a short-lived flirtation with Nazi Germany. In fact, Hitler's regime continued supplying Chiang with munitions in the first months of China's war against Japan. The Anti-Comintern Pact of 1936 had theoretically joined Germany, Italy, and Japan into the Axis, but mutual distrust prevented them from forming anything like a fully coherent alliance. Chiang found it useful to imply to Western powers that he might be pushed into closer alignment with Germany, a particularly disturbing possibility for the USSR, which faced enemies in both Europe and Asia. But eventually the contradictions in German policy toward East Asia became too severe. In April 1938, Germany yielded to Japanese pressure and ended its support for China.   Britain offered little meaningful help. Neville Chamberlain became prime minister in May 1937 at the head of a Conservative-led National Government, and was quickly overwhelmed by the deteriorating European situation. If Czechoslovakia was for him a "far-off country of which we know nothing," China's fate was even more distant and obscure to many,  perhaps most  policymakers in London. The Nationalists had more success in cultivating the United States. At the Nine-Power Conference in Brussels in November 1937, the Chinese delegation failed to persuade Washington to impose sanctions on Japan and confront it directly. By the middle of 1938, however, American views were beginning to shift. As Japan pushed deeper into southern China, it became increasingly obvious that the occupied territory would be closed to foreign trade. In December 1938, Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau arranged a private American loan of $25 million to China, to be repaid through shipments of tung oil, a varnish product whose real importance lay not in itself, but in what the arrangement signified: a quiet American expression of faith that Chongqing would survive. Chiang also held on to the hope of an even less likely partnership. He had become fiercely anti-Communist during the 1920s, yet in the early years of the anti-Japanese war his greatest hope still rested on Soviet entry into the conflict. Soviet advisers and pilots had aided China from 1937 to 1939, but the USSR never formally declared war on Japan. Still, as Japanese aggression in northern Asia intensified, it remained possible that the Soviets would eventually be drawn in.   Then, as so often happened whenever Chiang tried to impose some control over the course of the war, events beyond China's borders altered the struggle in fundamental ways. While Western attention remained fixed on Europe's darkening horizon, a battle with major consequences for East Asia unfolded on the frontiers of Outer Mongolia, Manchukuo, and the eastern Soviet Union. Throughout much of 1938 and early 1939, one faction within the Japanese Imperial Army sought to pressure the Soviets along their eastern frontier. The USSR appeared vulnerable; Stalin's paranoid purges had executed or exiled many of the Red Army's best officers. In May 1939, fighting broke out near Nomonhan between forces from Soviet-backed Mongolia and Japanese troops from Manchukuo. Within days, both sides had reinforced heavily, until nearly 60,000 Soviet troops faced about 40,000 soldiers from the Kwantung Army. Over the next four months, until mid-September, they fought a major battle ending in a decisive Japanese defeat and establishing the reputation of General Georgi Zhukov, who would later become one of Stalin's most celebrated wartime commanders. The much-derided Soviet Army had fought with formidable effectiveness, and the result was not only a ceasefire but also a nonaggression pact between the two sides, extinguishing, in one stroke, Chiang's hopes for a Chinese-Soviet military alliance. The final blow came after developments in northern Europe. In the Winter War of 1939–1940, the Soviet invasion of Finland led Britain and France to back a motion expelling the USSR from the League of Nations. China, then a member of the League Council, declined to use its veto to block the resolution. Stalin was enraged by Chiang's failure to prevent Soviet expulsion, and mutual suspicion thereafter poisoned relations between the two leaders for the rest of the war against Japan. China would now have to continue without further major Soviet backing.   By the spring of 1940, China's position had become deeply precarious. In March, senior Japanese negotiators sought an agreement with Chiang in Chongqing, while Wang Jingwei was trying to formalize his rival Nationalist government in Nanjing. This effort, known in Chinese as the Tong Operation, and in Japanese as Operation Kiri, led to talks in Hong Kong from March 7 to 10, 1940. Militarily, the Nationalists were in grave danger: the United States remained neutral, and Europe was in chaos. Indeed, that same spring, with France seemingly near collapse, the British government also sent out discreet feelers to explore the possibility of a negotiated peace with Germany. For China, Western assistance was nowhere in sight. The Japanese judged the moment favorable for pressing Chiang toward concessions. Faced with serious danger to his regime, Chiang allowed the door to negotiation to open just slightly.   As a consequence, the Japanese delayed full recognition of Wang Jingwei's new government. Through the summer and autumn of 1940, Tokyo remained uncertain about the defector. Prominent Japanese figures such as Count Arima Yoriyasu of the Privy Council said Wang's conduct demonstrated his untrustworthiness, and Foreign Minister Matsuoka Yōsuke continued to express interest in an agreement with Chongqing. Zhou Fohai captured the defectors' frustration, men who believed they had made the highest patriotic sacrifice when he wrote: "Chongqing sees us as collaborators, we see ourselves as heroes. We think only peace can save the country — that's why we think of ourselves as heroes. If we end up classed as heroes, then China and Japan will be at peace. If we end up classed as collaborators, then China and Japan will never be at peace."That formulation conveyed something genuine about the moral dizziness of the period. Most of the defectors were not men devoid of principles; they were men whose principles had carried them to a place that history would find exceptionally hard to pardon.   The "New Fourth Army Incident" brought to a close one of the most consequential years in modern Chinese political history. The battle of ideas unfolding in 1940 was already visible to informed contemporaries. Early in 1941, US Ambassador Nelson Johnson sent Washington a detailed assessment of the Chinese political situation in reply to another report passed along by Major Evans Carlson, an American officer who had made an extensive journey through the Chinese interior. The contrast between the two documents revealed a widening split in American views of China. Carlson, together with his travelling companion, the New Zealander Rewi Alley, had become increasingly sympathetic to the Communists after visiting their territories in 1938 and admiring their discipline. Carlson described the Nationalists as moving toward "fascism," and argued that American aid should be conditioned on Chiang's government being compelled to adopt more "democratic" institutions.   Johnson strongly disagreed. It was "only normal and natural," he wrote, that the Nationalists wanted to retain power, but during the war they had established the National Political Consultative Council, in which multiple parties, including the Communists, were represented. He also noted that the CCP could publish its own newspaper in Chongqing in a way that would have been impossible before the war. One might have expected the Nationalists to use the war as a justification "to extinguish . . . all political opposition," yet instead they had chosen to "muddle along." Johnson further thought that the influence of competing cliques inside the Nationalist Party had been overstated. Chiang Kai-shek, by contrast, had "grown in stature, as he has come to be recognized as the symbol of united resistance to Japanese encroachment"; ultimately, "it is he who makes the final decisions." Johnson did agree with Carlson that Chiang's regime was hesitant to encourage a broad-based popular movement animated by anything beyond anti-Japanese feeling, though he also pointed to Nationalist cooperative programs and county-level reforms. But he rejected the idea that American support should depend on sweeping political transformation. Chiang was committed to continuing the war against Japan, and Washington should back him in that effort. In a notably farsighted passage, Johnson wrote: "It is my view that since the fall of the Manchu dynasty and the collapse of the traditional Chinese concept of government the Chinese people have been feeling their way along toward a new evolving form of government. A definitive form of government has not yet been established and may not be established for decades; it may or may not be in the form of a democracy, but it will be a type of government that will be adapted to the needs of China and its people." The tension between these two American interpretations,  Carlson's idealized belief in the Communists and Johnson's pragmatic support for Chiang was more than a minor bureaucratic dispute. It foreshadowed a debate that would dominate American foreign policy for the next decade, and would still echo when the People's Republic was proclaimed in 1949.   The disastrous experience of 1940 seemed to cast doubt on whether any future for China existed outside the Japanese Empire. As 1941 wore on, another dreadful event shook the exhausted wartime capital. On June 5, Chongqing endured roughly five hours of bombing, driving the population into air-raid shelters. In one tunnel in the Shibati district, the conditions were even worse than usual. The large shelter was supposed to have lights and electric fans, but the generators had never been connected. Inside, the air was dark, hot, and suffocating. Around ten that evening, people began emerging from the tunnel when rumors spread that the Japanese were returning with poison-gas bombs. Air-raid wardens forced people back inside, even as others were still trying to come out. Bodies toppled over one another, and panic spread as people realized they could not breathe. Over the next few hours, hundreds died underground in the darkness. The exact number was never definitively established: the official figure was 461, though a contemporary police report placed it far higher, at 1,527. What rescuers remembered most vividly were the tortured expressions of the dead, people tangled together in each other's arms as they lost consciousness, clothing ripped to shreds by desperate hands clawing at one another, and bodies so drenched in sweat that they looked as though they had been soaked in water. One survivor, Tang Zhengchang, remembered a hand reaching out from a pile of corpses and pleading, "Sir, please help me . . ." The grip on Tang's shorts was so tight that it pulled them off; he escaped the tunnel naked from the waist down. Official descriptions of the disaster were softened. Even so, the tragedy deepened the city's gloom and in a place already saturated with grief, an added layer of darkness mattered a great deal.   Yet events elsewhere would soon offer the National Government a narrow margin of hope. Late in 1940, Franklin D. Roosevelt won re-election as president of the United States. "I am not going to send your boys into any foreign wars," he had proclaimed during the campaign against Wendell Willkie. But Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull both understood that Nazi domination of Europe posed a grave challenge to American influence there. And with China's "Open Door" to trade effectively shut by Japanese occupation, it was becoming increasingly clear that strict neutrality might not remain viable. In a 1941 report on China's domestic and foreign situation, Ambassador Johnson noted that during Germany's sweeping victories across Europe in mid-1940, the Chinese had become anxious about whether the Allies would remain committed to their cause. Britain's refusal to surrender, however, together with continuing Soviet goodwill, lifted public morale in China. People now looked toward the United States and Britain for support and felt that "victory" was "virtually theirs."   Then, on June 22, 1941, the world awoke to news that roughly three million German soldiers were advancing into the Soviet Union. Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of the USSR, dramatically overturned the nonaggression that had governed relations between the two major European dictatorships for the previous two years. It transformed the war in Europe entirely. Less obviously, it also transformed the war in Asia. Thanks to intelligence leaks, Chiang Kai-shek had already realized that war between Germany and the USSR was likely. After the neutrality treaty between the USSR and Japan was signed on April 13, 1941, Chiang predicted that the United States would be drawn into the Asian war, and even that Japan might eventually reverse course and strike the Soviet Union. If that happened, China would become the critical Asian ally of both Washington and Moscow. Stalin had been caught off guard by the German assault — largely because he ignored increasingly urgent warnings from senior colleagues receiving intelligence from well-placed spies in Germany and the Comintern, eager to preserve its alliances, now pressed the Chinese Communists to cooperate more closely with the Nationalists. On June 23, 1941, the CCP Central Committee responded with a declaration that it would "persevere in the Anti-Japanese United Front, persevere in Nationalist-Communist cooperation," and would align itself with the British, the Americans, and others resisting the "fascist rulers" of the Axis.   In Chongqing and Yan'an, the German attack on the Soviet Union was interpreted as a hopeful sign that Japan's fortunes might be beginning to turn. In Nanjing, the reaction was different. On June 22, Zhou Fohai recorded in his diary that, although the outcome "cannot be predicted," members of the Nanjing regime "all believe Germany will win and will take Moscow within two months." Zhou speculated that Japan could not easily reconcile its neutrality treaty with the USSR and its membership in the Anti-Comintern Pact, which was supposed to unite the Axis against Soviet expansionism. Still, because Germany had struck first, Japan was under no formal obligation to help. Zhou also continued to view events through a lens he had never abandoned: that of Chinese nationalism. "If Chongqing joins the Allies and they win," he wrote, "then this is good for China." If they lost, it would be disastrous for Chiang Kai-shek; but because Wang Jingwei had established a government in Nanjing under Japanese sponsorship, China now had "a foot in both boats." It was a ruthless calculation, but not a wholly dishonorable one. Zhou was not merely advancing Japanese interests. He was hedging, wagering on multiple futures in the name of a China he believed would endure beyond whatever constellation of powers happened to dominate at the moment. Whether posterity would judge that conduct prudent or collaborative was a question he could neither settle nor live to see resolved to his satisfaction.   The summer of 1941 marked a major geopolitical turning point in the war. Until then, the conflicts in China and Europe had remained separate, if desperate, struggles on the Eurasian continent. Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union now forced Japan to decide whether it too would enter war against the USSR. Debate in Tokyo was brief. Although some officials, including Foreign Minister Matsuoka, favored striking north before moving south, both the Kwantung Army and the Navy advised against helping Germany at least until Germany had succeeded in drawing substantial Soviet forces away from Siberia and into Europe. Konoye, once again prime minister, agreed. With the northern option set aside, Japanese leaders turned toward another great power instead: the United States. Japan's failure to gain further decisive momentum in China had fueled demands for broader regional expansion, especially into Southeast Asia, with its abundant oil, rubber, and other strategic resources. From 1940 onward, measures such as the pressure to close the Burma Road made it increasingly obvious that Tokyo had adopted a more aggressive posture in Asia. Unable to subdue China, Japanese policymakers chose instead to escalate the conflict still further.   Japanese political life had become ever more dominated by the unresolved war in China. As early as 1938, military expenditures consumed about 70 percent of the national budget, and that same year a National Mobilization Bill granted the government "total war control" over the zaibatsu, Japan's major industrial conglomerates. By 1940, the New Order was making itself felt throughout everyday life, with campaigns against luxury and extravagant consumption taking on new prominence. In February 1940, a parliamentarian was expelled from the Diet simply for daring to criticize the "holy war" in China. In such an atmosphere, retreat from imperial ambitions became increasingly unthinkable. That figure, 70 percent of the national budget devoted to the military is worth dwelling on, because it reveals something essential about the trap in which Japanese strategists had placed themselves. The war in China had not been won, yet abandoning it would have meant admitting a failure so severe that it would have shaken the ideological and institutional foundations of military supremacy in Japanese politics. The only apparent ways out required pushing further in: more conquest, more extraction, more expansion. The logic was brutally clear, and profoundly destructive.   The Roosevelt administration watched these developments with growing alarm. Though still formally neutral, the United States was already using Lend-Lease to provide major assistance to Britain and the Soviet Union in their struggles against Germany. It now expanded aid to China as well. On February 10, Roosevelt's representative Lauchlin Currie visited Chongqing to inform Chiang Kai-shek that the United States would soon provide $45 million in military equipment. General John Magruder, head of the small AMMISCA mission,  the American Military Mission in China had been sent to Chongqing in September 1941, as part of quiet preparation for possible Chinese entry into an alliance against Japan. The China branch of the OSS, precursor to the CIA, was led by General William "Wild Bill" Donovan, whom Roosevelt had dispatched to China in early 1941.   The Americans repeatedly tried to discourage Japan from moving south into Southeast Asia, but relations only grew more confrontational. Japan occupied the southern part of French Indochina, and in response the United States imposed an oil embargo in July 1941. The consequences were immense. Japan imported around 80 percent of its oil from the United States. Without that supply, its navy, the essential instrument for southern expansion  had reserves for perhaps eighteen months. The real question facing Tokyo, then, was not whether it must act, but how soon. Unable any longer to resist mounting military pressure for war, Konoye resigned on October 16 and was replaced as premier by General Tōjō Hideki. Tokyo accelerated its preparations for conflict with the Western powers. Planned targets included Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaya, the Netherlands East Indies, and the Philippines. I should note, if you want to learn about all of this history in more detail, you can go check out the pacific war channel on youtube. I have a chronological series that is just now talking about events like the Japanese invasion of french indochina and the road to pearl harbor.   Throughout the autumn of 1941, increasingly desperate negotiations took place between Japan and the United States. Washington insisted that Japan withdraw from China; Tokyo was equally firm that it would do no such thing. From the Japanese point of view, the demand to leave China was not a serious negotiating position but a demand for national humiliation a call to repudiate four years of war, vast casualties, and the ideological basis of Japanese militarism in a single diplomatic act. In the end, the gulf between the two positions could not be bridged.   While civilian and military leaders in Tokyo argued over the pace at which they should move toward war, few among Japan's rulers doubted that war was coming. At the imperial conference of November 5, it was formally agreed that if no satisfactory diplomatic solution had been reached by December 1, war would follow soon after. Talks in Washington between Ambassador Nomura Kichisaburō, diplomat Kurusu Saburō, and Secretary of State Cordell Hull led nowhere. On November 26, Hull delivered a note repeating the American position that Japan must withdraw from both China and Indochina. On December 1, the imperial conference resolved to go to war; the following day, the date of attack was fixed as December 8, December 7 by American time. In one sense, this was the culmination toward which the entire previous decade had been moving. The war in China had started as a localized conflict, then expanded into a continental one, and was now about to become something larger still: a truly global war, stretching from the North Atlantic to the western Pacific. China's long, lonely resistance would suddenly gain new dimensions and new allies,  though not the ones Chiang had spent four years trying to cultivate, and not under circumstances he would have chosen.   In the early morning of December 7, 1941, the US Pacific Fleet lay anchored at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, its sailors and officers still largely asleep as dawn crept across the Pacific. The attack did not come without warning signs,  American and Japanese diplomats had been locked in increasingly desperate negotiations throughout the autumn, each side hardening its position until no room remained to maneuver. Washington had demanded that Japan withdraw from China, a condition Tokyo viewed not as a serious opening offer but as a demand for national humiliation: a call to repudiate four years of brutal war, hundreds of thousands of casualties, and the entire ideological foundation upon which Japanese militarism rested. No agreement was possible on those terms, and both sides privately knew it.   The strike force assembled in secret was formidable. Six aircraft carriers,  the Akagi, Kaga, Sōryū, Hiryū, Shōkaku, and Zuikaku had sailed under strict radio silence across the North Pacific, launching their aircraft in two successive waves before the American base had any meaningful chance to respond. The first wave of approximately 183 planes swept in just before 8 a.m., targeting the rows of battleships moored along Battleship Row and the military airfields at Wheeler, Hickam, and Ford Island simultaneously, ensuring that American aircraft could not scramble in time to mount an effective defense. A second wave of roughly 170 planes followed less than an hour later, pressing the attack on damaged ships and harbor installations.   The destruction was staggering. The battleship Arizona suffered a catastrophic magazine explosion after a armor-piercing bomb penetrated her forward decks, killing nearly 1,177 of her crew in minutes, almost half of the total American dead from the entire attack. The Oklahoma capsized after being struck by multiple torpedoes. The West Virginia and California sank at their moorings. In total, seventeen vessels were damaged or destroyed, and the vast majority of military aircraft at the nearby airfields were caught on the ground and obliterated before they could take flight. Around 2,400 Americans were killed and another 1,100 wounded, making it the deadliest single attack on American soil or territory in the nation's history to that point.   Yet the attack was not a complete strategic success for Japan. The US Pacific Fleet's aircraft carriers, the vessels that would ultimately decide the naval war in the Pacific happened to be at sea that morning and escaped unharmed. The harbor's fuel storage and repair facilities were also left largely intact, allowing the fleet to reconstitute faster than Japanese planners had anticipated. What Japan achieved in tactical devastation, it partly squandered in strategic miscalculation. The attack ended American neutrality instantly and irrevocably. The following day, President Roosevelt addressed Congress, calling December 7 "a date which will live in infamy," and within hours the United States declared war on Japan. For China, after more than four years of fighting alone, the blow that devastated Pearl Harbor paradoxically carried a thread of desperate hope at last, the great power Chiang Kai-shek had spent years trying to draw into the conflict had arrived, not under circumstances he would have chosen, but arrived nonetheless. I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. After years of fighting, China's situation darkened in 1941 with intense bombing of Chongqing and fears of poison-gas attacks. Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union in June shifted alliances and pressured Japan toward wider war. Japan escalated plans for Southeast Asia, suffered an oil embargo, and negotiations with the United States broke down over withdrawing from China and Indochina. Then the Pearl Harbor attack began the Pacific War.

And with that, Akagi transitions to a hard mahjong show, which will most likely alienate anyone who isn't really into riichi mahjong. It's still a tense show, with a good - if not oddly familiar - soundtrack. We talk about episodes 4-6 this week. We also talk about The Steve Miller Band, phone numbers without area codes, Ice Ice Baby, and Oh You Thought This Was a Rabbit? | Follow us on Apple Podcasts | Support us on Patreon | Follow us on BlueSky | We're on Threads/Instagram | Subscribe to us on YouTube | Join the fan Discord

Judeu Ateu, Estranho, Luki e Mateus (Vigilância Sanitária) fazem uma nova iteração do quadro “Um mangá de…“, da versão em que criam um mangá com os máximo clichês de um autor. Neste episódio, a tensão psicológica do autor de Akagi, Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji, The Legend of the Strongest Kurosawa e muitos outros: Nobuyuki Fukumoto.Apoie o AoQuadrado² no APOIA.seCronologia do episódio(00:00:00) Um Mangá de… Nobuyuki Fukumoto(01:12:45) Recomendação da Semana – Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray

For this tabletop-focused episode, we watched FOUR episodes of Akagi, the high-stakes mahjong anime. Well, half of us watched 1, 2, and 4, and the other half watched 1-3. Also we got Emrhys back on the pod, hooray. We also talk about Mahjong Tayo, System of a Down, the Mario Galaxy Movie, Weird NJ places, Free Solo, that one Silver Series Self-Defense ad, and falling down the free-to-play rabbit hole. | Follow us on Apple Podcasts | Support us on Patreon | Follow us on BlueSky | We're on Threads/Instagram | Subscribe to us on YouTube | Join the fan Discord

Author : J. L. Akagi Narrator : Jo Moran Host : Matt Dovey Audio Producer : Eric Valdes PodCastle 947: Why a Spider Needs a Parachute is a PodCastle original. Content notes for domestic violence and spiders. Big — friendly! — spiders Rated R Why a Spider Needs a Parachute by J. L. Akagi   […] The post PodCastle 947: Why a Spider Needs a Parachute appeared first on PodCastle.

En este episodio exploramos la personalidad de Ikumi Akagi a través de la culpa, el remordimiento y su sobrecompensación en uno de los casos más interesantes de esta temporada.

For this edition of International Feature, we dive into The First Slam Dunk, exploring how the 2022 anime film became the highest-grossing basketball movie of all time with nearly $300 million worldwide. They analyze the revolutionary animation style that blends 2D and 3D techniques while discussing whether it successfully welcomes newcomers to the franchise.• Groundbreaking animation combining traditional 2D with CGI creates an immersive basketball experience• Authentic basketball sound design captures the feel of being on the court• Film's narrative structure alternates between championship game and character flashbacks• Challenges in connecting with multiple characters within the limited runtime• Comparison to other sports anime like Blue Lock and what makes sports stakes compelling• The film's climactic final moments utilize innovative visual techniques• Discussion of whether the film succeeds as an entry point for newcomers• Box office success demonstrates the global appeal of sports animeLetterbox'd Synopsis: Shohoku's “speedster” and point guard, Ryota Miyagi, always plays with brains and lightning speed, running circles around his opponents while feigning composure. In his second year of high school, Ryota plays with the Shohoku High School basketball team along with Sakuragi, Rukawa, Akagi, and Mitsui as they take the stage at the Inter-High School National Championship. And now, they are on the brink of challenging the reigning champions, Sannoh Kogyo High School.

Shownotes :: (show 1018) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With Akagi, recorded live December 8th, 2024.   This week we watched a show about mahjong? What did we think? ask us on Discord, even better listen to the show and find out. Community OG Networks OGN Discord OG BlueSky Spotify OG|N Patreon Link(s) and Stuff Show Links (discussed) Feedback channel Join us next week... when Paul comes up with more winners like "Tony Snarks".

In this episode, fueled by an anime watching experience that was certainly, uhm, well, anyway, we zoom in on Washizu Iwao from mahjong anime Akagi, who plays mahjong with your blood, but not necessarily with your heart because he's kinda, well, anyway, we ask a very geometric question: What are the shapes on this man's face actually supposed to be? Why does he look so different sometimes and exactly the same others? Follow along: https://mahjongsoul.club/character/IwaoWashizu Create a Soul Mates! Surgery Recovery Tier List: https://tiermaker.com/create/soul-mates-characters-surgery-recovery-tier-list-17453479 Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show on Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/soul-mates-podcast Follow the show on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Soul-Mates-Podcast Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: https://togetherweshine.podbean.com Art by Ryegarden: https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden Music by Sueños Electrónicos: suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com Follow and support ash: https://ko-fi.com/asherlark

In this episode we watch Akagi. But more importantly, Soul Mates! is giving away 5 FREE tickets to see Smooth Hands & The Hole LIVE in concert, featuring the WORLD PREMIER of their newest single from their upcoming album! Plus, one of those winners will get a GRAND PRIZE featuring tonnes of Smooth Hands & The Hole merch, a commemerative 12" vinyl record of their first album, Show Me The Blood! plus a backstage pass to meet Smooth Hands & The Hole in person! How do you enter? Just send us a message using the Tumblr asks feature or the YouTube comments feature with the hashtag #smoothhandsandthehole and your favorite fact about the band, along with your favorite song! It's that easy- so enter NOW! Some conditions apply. Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show on Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/soul-mates-podcast Follow the show on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Soul-Mates-Podcast Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: https://togetherweshine.podbean.com Art by Ryegarden: https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden Music by Sueños Electrónicos: suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com Follow and support ash: https://ko-fi.com/asherlark

Our latest movie catch-up ended up being a milestone episode for two reasons. One, it's probably the longest and most diverse list of films we've ever discussed on an episode. Two, we probably got the angriest we have ever been discussing a movie on the show, which was a film sent to us by one of our kind Patrons! Did you know our supporters on Patreon have access to a PO Box, where they can send us movies to check out as well as a bunch of other bonus features? Check it out: www.patreon.com/almostcultclassics.  You can also find us on Twitter: Joe: https://twitter.com/joeramoni Ryan: https://twitter.com/ryanlancello And don't forget to check out our website and merch store: https://www.almostcultclassics.com   00:00:00 - Oscars Recap 00:07:50 - Ricky Stanicky (2024) 00:13:05 - Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Trailer 00:16:06 - Akagi (2005) 00:18:50 - Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 00:21:24 - The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 00:23:21 - The Man Who Would Be King (1975) 00:26:15 - Easy Rider (1969) 00:30:53 - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 00:33:29 - Mighty Aphrodite (1995) 00:38:43 - The Palace (2023) 00:43:28 - I Love You Daddy (2017) 00:57:48 - Fool's Paradise (2023)

Welcome to Episode 135 Sponsored by CultTVMan, Sean's Custom Model Tools and Return To Kit FormHostsStuartGeoffTerryThanks to our latest Patreon and Buy Me a Coffee Supporters:Check out our What We Like page for lists of what we like.***************************************LATEST NEWSHeritageConKCCON 2024March 9thKC First Church of the Nazarene11811 State Line RdKansas City, MO***************************************MAILBAGTerry got some great feedback about tips when modelling on the road.We want to hear from you! Let us know if you have any comments or suggestions scalemodelpodcast@gmail.com.Terry correction: last episode I mentioned Macross started in the late 80s. The series storyline begins in 1999 when the alien ship crashed on Earth, and the first episode is ten years later, when the Zendradi show up.***************************************LATEST HOBBY ANNOUNCEMENTSHobbyBoss MarchTrumpeter MarchHasegawa March and AprilHasegawa April AnnouncementsResKit New ReleasesF-15 Eagle Camouflage Paint Masks Set 1/72nd1:48 scale Douglas A2D-1 Skyshark from ClearPropICM New ItemsAoshima March ItemsGreat Wall Hobby's new-tool 48th scale A-10C Thunderbolt IIA 35th scale Zero & the Akagi's bridge from Border ModelSome newer items from AMT What's new at Scalemates.com***************************************SPONSOR AD #1Cult TV Man***************************************WHAT'S ON THE BENCHStuart - YF-21 painted up. Decals are going on. Looking really good now. Going to be called the CF-21 Peregrine.Moosaroo Cup needs to have pictures done this week.Geoff - Wayward Zeppelin LZ77 is cruising above an uncharted tropical volcanic island near Iceland after being blown WAY off course during a raid in 1916. Harassed by Pteradons, their accompanying (don't ask how they got there!) Fokker DR1 Triplanes cannot protect the doomed ship! Dinos and DR1's are coming this week from fellow club modeller Ron, but it's really coming along nicely - even with the required PE work!Terry - Not a lot of time while I was traveling for business, at our plant so just a single hotel but still, not a ton of time. Big dinners are awful. On the plus side the Steam Deck is great for travel time. I did get some work done on a few projects, the P-47H is coming along, and I brought the 1/48 Jeep which comes with the Tamiya P-47M kit to the club meeting which was fun to work on. Getting the paint touched up a bit on the Regult so I can mask off grey areas. ***************************************WHAT WE ARE READINGStuart - The Year Without Summer:1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed HistoryGeoff - Mostly online stuff about Zeppelins…. And plowing through a collection of Scale Model magazines going back to the 1970's!Terry - Started reading Anna Ploszajski's Handmade: A Scientist's Search for Meaning. She is a materials scientist who has chosen a number of materials and objects to describe while making things in workshops, like iron, glass, plastic, brass etc. Very interesting and I've been interested in materials scienceI started reading the graphic novel omnibus of Fritz Lieber's Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, which I think I signed up for via Kickstarter? This is a major influence on fantasy to come - like Elric etc.***************************************SPONSOR AD #2Seans Custom Model Tools***************************************THINGS WE'VE SEENKitmasx, is a guy making masks for various aircraft and vehicles - window masks, markings and more. Erin Lantz did a great job on a Nissan Fairlady and took plenty of pictures in progress. He took gold last weekend. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10224849912221324&type=3&ref=embed_post***************************************THE LAST WORDSMP Ep. 135 is also sponsored by Return To Kit Form (R2KF). Check out their web store! For more modelling podcast goodness, check out other modelling podcasts at modelpodcasts.comPlease leave us a positive review if you enjoy what we're doingCheck us out: FaceBook, YouTube, and our very own websiteWe also have merchandise now. Check it out on Redbubble 

 He was named Doris, as the midwife who assisted his mother was convinced before his birth that the baby would be a girl.   He was the third of four sons and helped around the house, cooked meals and did laundry, as well as worked on the family farm. He was a fullback on the football team at Waco's Alexander James Moore High School.[14] He began attending the eighth grade on January 25, 1937, at age 17; he repeated the grade the following year because of poor performance, so he decided to drop out of school.[15] He filled his time squirrel hunting with a .22 rifle and completed a correspondence course in taxidermy. He applied to join the Civilian Conservation Corps but was not accepted. At that time, he was 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) tall and weighed more than 200 pounds (91 kg).[15] Miller worked on his father's farm until shortly before his 20th birthday.   Miller's nickname "Dorie" may have originated from a typographical error. He was nominated for recognition for his actions on December 7, 1941, and the Pittsburgh Courier released a story on March 14, 1942, which gave his name as "Dorie Miller".[16] Since then, some writers have suggested that it was a "nickname to shipmates and friends".[15]   Miller enlisted in the U.S. Navy as a mess attendant third class at the Naval Recruiting Station in Dallas, Texas, for six years on September 16, 1939.[2] Mess attendant was one of the few ratings open at the time to black sailors.[17] He was transferred to the Naval Training Center, Naval Operating Base, Norfolk, Virginia, arriving on September 19.[2] After training school, he was assigned to the ammunition ship Pyro (AE-1) and then transferred on January 2, 1940, to the Colorado-class battleship West Virginia (BB-48). It was on West Virginia where he started competition boxing, becoming the ship's heavyweight champion. In July, he was on temporary duty aboard Nevada (BB-36) at Secondary Battery Gunnery School. He returned to West Virginia on August 3. He advanced in rating to mess attendant second class on February 16, 1941.[3][17] Miller woke up at 6 a.m. on December 7, 1941, aboard West Virginia. He served breakfast mess and was collecting laundry at 7:57 a.m. when planes from the Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi fired the first of seven torpedoes that hit West Virginia.[15] The "battle stations" alarm went off; Miller headed for his battle station, an anti-aircraft battery magazine amidships, only to discover that a torpedo had destroyed it. He then went to "Times Square" on deck, a central spot aboard the ship where the fore-to-aft and port-to-starboard passageways crossed, reporting himself available for other duty and was assigned to help carry wounded sailors to places of greater safety.[15] Lieutenant Commander Doir C. Johnson, the ship's communications officer, spotted Miller and saw his physical prowess, so he ordered him to accompany him to the conning tower on the flag bridge to assist in moving the ship's captain, Mervyn Bennion, who had a gaping wound in his abdomen where he had apparently been hit by shrapnel after the first Japanese attack.[18] Miller and another sailor lifted the skipper but were unable to remove him from the bridge, so they carried him on a cot from his exposed position on the damaged bridge to a sheltered spot on the deck behind the conning tower where he remained during the second Japanese attack.[18][19] Captain Bennion refused to leave his post, questioned his officers and men about the condition of the ship, and gave orders and instructions to crew members to defend the ship and fight.[18] Unable to go to the deck below because of smoke and flames, he was carried up a ladder to the navigation bridge, where he died from blood loss despite the aid from a pharmacist mate.[18] He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.[20] --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/momentsofgrace/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/momentsofgrace/support

As Shintami puts the finishing touches on his ritual, the party rushes to stop him. Their climactic clash will determine the fate of Wakuzana. Can they put a stop to the ritual? Will Diego get revenge for Akagi? Will Peter get revenge for Sulfur? Icy deaths, prickly brains, and a self destructive sacrifice await you on this episode of Dieing Five!Don't forget to leave a review!!! Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@dieingfive Twitter - https://twitter.com/dieingfive Goodpods - https://goodpods.com/podcasts/dieing-five-228471 Bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/dieingfive.bsky.social Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@dieingfive?lang=en

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Last time we spoke about Admiral Togo's struggle to destroy or firmly blockade the Russian fleet at Port Arthur and the bloody battle along the Yalu river. Togo had a tough time getting the Russians to come out to play with him. Ultimately Admiral Makarov had been a gleaming hope for the Russian navy, but his death spelt utter doom to them as well. Now that the Russian navy was effectively bottled up in Port Arthur and unwilling to come out again, the land campaigns of the war could begin. As the 2nd IJA were landing along the Liaodong Peninsula the 1st IJA of General Kuroki were going to have their first great battle of the war, at the Yalu river. Kuropatkin did not want to defend so south near Korea, but Alexeiev forced the issue and thus the Russians made a doomed defense at Yalu. Utterly defeated the Russians now had to flee north.    #76 The Russo-Japanese War part 3: the battle of Nanshan   Welcome to the Fall and Rise of China Podcast, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about the history of Asia? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on history of asia and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel where I cover the history of China and Japan from the 19th century until the end of the Pacific War. The Russians collapsed at Yalu and now were fleeing northwards towards Liaoyang. It was shocking. An oriental army had beaten a european one. The Japanese confidence exploded and the Russian morale imploded. As the Russians fled they chose not to set up intermediate defensive positions in the mountains overlooking the road to Fenghuangcheng nor the Great Wall due south of the town. Instead they bypassed it all to head for Liaoyang as quickly as possible. Thus the strategically important town of Fenghuangcheng was wide open to the Japanese who would bypass it as well and kept a even pace also heading for Liaoyang. The reason for this was simple, the 1st IJA's job was to cut off the retreating Russian force from Port Arthur as their comrades in the 2nd IJA landed on the Liaodong peninsula to hit port arthur. The victory at Yalu had removed any threats upon Korea. Russia had demonstrated her inability to go on the offensive both at sea and on the land. Desperate times called for desperate measures. With the Russian pacific fleet stuck in Port Arthur, attempts began to be made for their rescue. The first idea put forward was to release the Russian Black Sea fleet, but this was problematic. Russia had recently fought a war with the Ottomans in 1877. They approached the Sultan about the issue as treaties had been made to keep the Russian fleet north of the Dardanelles forts. 12 warships would have to depart the Black Sea, and take a trip via the Suez Canal to get over to the Indian and then Pacific Oceans. It would take at least 63 days and over 65,000 tons of coal. It was an incredible gamble. If the fleet made it to the Pacific too late they may find Port Arthur captured and Vladivostok blockaded spelling catastrophe. Despite the naval losses and the loss at Yalu, Russia was still strong and could manage a defensive campaign. It was hoped if the Japanese extended further into the Kwantung peninsula and Liaoyang the Russians could recoil a bit, grab their immense reserves and launch counter attacks. But such maneuvers would require Russia to abandon Manchuria and then launch large scale counter offensives, something they were unwilling to do. On the other side, the fact the Russian fleet was not destroyed within Port Arthur was a thorn in their side. Rumors spread that the Baltic fleet would come over. Together the two fleets could overwhelm the Japanese. The Japanese had to seize Port Arthur strategically, and emotionally it was of the utmost importance to take revenge for the slighting she received during the Triple Intervention. On May 5th the 2nd IJA began to unload near Pitzuwo which lies between the Tasha and Lilan rivers. The Japanese newspress began to write of the landing and how the Japanese would next strike Nanshan. The Russians reading all the news trying to figure out the Japanese strategy began to believe they would strike anywhere but Nanshan. Meanwhile Admiral Alexeiev was ordered by the Tsar to take a train from Port Arthur for Mukden. This left General Stoessel in command of the Kwantung Peninsula, General Smirnov in command of Port Arthur's fortress and Admiral Witgeft to lead the trapped naval forces. On May 6th Alexeiev gave firm advice to Witgeft that performing attacks upon the Japanese transports currently unloading freely upon the Liaodong peninsula just some 60 miles east of him, would be “desirable”. He did not give him a direct order to do so however, so Witgeft got his war council together to discuss the matter. No senior naval officer was willing to take initiative on their name. As you can imagine it was a case where no one wanted to give the order fearing repercussions, including Alexeiev. Thus Witgeft calculated the safest decision was to do nothing and await the baltic fleet. The naval officers watched as most of their high caliber guns were removed from the ships and added to the land defenses of port arthur.  General Oku's 2nd IJA consisted of the 1st, 3rd and 4th division. Their first order of business was to seize Dalny so it could be used a landing and base of operations. To get to Dalny they would have to pass over Nanshan. It was a risky endeavor as the Russians could potentially received reinforcements from the north, thus Oku began his campaign by requesting reinforcements in the form of the 5th division and 1st cavalry brigade, though he would start his campaign before they could arrive. Oku ordered the 3rd and 4th divisions to block the potential threat from the north while the 1st division advanced southwards to Chinchou. Oku's intelligence indicated the 2nd brigade of the 4th siberian rifle division led by major General Nadyein had recently been reinforce to roughly divisional strength from Port Arthur. At around 12:30pm Oku's 1st division and the Nadyeins force ran into another and after losing 150 men Nadyein pulled back to Nanshan. Oku's small victory here managed to sever rail communications of the Kwantung peninsula from the north. For those of you without a map on hand, the Liaodong peninsula and Kwantung peninsula are connected by an isthmus around 4000 yards wide. On both sides are muddy foreshore which at lower tides adds another 4000 yards of width. To the east is Dalien, to the west Chinchou bay. Southwest some 35 miles is Port Arthur with various large hill controlling its land approach. The most forward of these is Nanshan, a feature to the sea with large guns, that had to be overcome to get to Port Arthur. The position overlooked 4 miles to the east where there was the 2200 foot tall Mount Sampson and to the southwest was Nankuangling. The defense of Nanshan fell technically upon the commander of the 4th East Siberian rifle division, Lt General Fok, but in reality it would really fall upon Colonel Tretyakov of the 5th east siberian rifle regiement. General Fok was what was commonly referred to as a “police general”, a general produced during peace times. Like so many of these type of men, he rose through the ranks as a military trainer, as an administrator or just brushing the right shoulders. He was extremely suscepitable of other commanders ideas and this would really mess things up. Kuropatkin wanted to avoid another Yalu debacle so he cautioned Fok against against fighting the enemy too long at the cost of a proper withdrawal. Kuropatkin did not mean to imply Fok should withdraw at all, just that he must not allow his forces to be obliterated. Now General Stoessel also advised Fok. He told him to hold at Nanshin and go on the offensive as soon as the Japanese approached. These two contradicting pieces of advice would greatly confuse the battle for Nanshan.  Two miles behind Nanshan was a small town called Maoyitui where the 13th east siberian rifle regiment and another two miles behind them was the 15th east siberian rifle regiment. South east of them was the village of Lower Nankuanling where the 14th east siberian rifle regiment were stationed. Upon the narrow point of Dalienwan was a battery of heavy guns looking over Hand Bay where the gunship Bobr was also patrolling. Bobr was sealed in by minefields hoping to lure in some IJN warships. Colonel Tretyakov had 8 companies in his front line, one and half companies in local reserve, two companies of the 13th east siberian rifle regiment in general reserve and some scout forces of the 13th and 14th east siberian rifle regiment. In all he had roughly 2700 riflemen. North of him lay 3 IJA divisions of the 2nd IJA, the 3rd IJA division was just released from her holding position as the 5th IJA division just arrived to the scene.  On the 19th of May, the 10th IJA division landed at Takushan completely unmolested. The landing was done to confuse the Russians and offer flank protection. The 4th IJA division advanced from the direction of CHinchou taking the right flank, the 1st took the middle and the 3rd the left flank. The 2nd IJA had a total strength of around 38,500, 31,000 or so were riflement. The Russians had a potential 17,000 men to toss at the incoming Japanese but ultimately only 3000 would participate in the battle for Nanshan. Colonel Tretyakov had personally aided in the fortification of Nanshan during the Boxer Rebellion and war in Manchuria. At its height Nanshan was equipped to be garrisoned by two battalions and 90 guns, but its maintenance had really fallen apart. When the war broke out with Japan the Russians sought to repair and refortify Nanshan and hired 5000 Chinese coolies for the work, amongst them in disguise was Colonel Doi of the IJA. The eastern face of Nanshan held minefields and barbed wire fences over which Russians held excellent fields of fire. The western side was also defended by barbed wire fences laid across ravines, but the Russians found it unlikely the Japanese would advance from there. A continuous line of shelter trenches ran around the top of the hills providing a depth of four lines of alternative trenches. The Russians had learnt their lesson at Yalu and now dug their artillery in and connected them to telephone. Despite the excellent state of its defenses, Tretyakov was not fully happy. He recognized his western flank was a bit weak and his prospects for counter attacks or a withdrawal were unfavourable. What Tretyakov wanted and pleaded for was to release more men so he could close up his southern face and add more options to the battle, but General Fok rejected this and said to him “less heroism is required to defend this position than to retreat from it”. The 2nd IJA had 198 field and mountain artillery at their disposal, ut none of the enormous 4.72 inch howitzers at this time. The Russians had 48 quick firing field guns out of a total of 114 artillery pieces of various calibers between 3.4 to 6 inches. The Russians would enjoy the advantage of cover but only had around 150 shells per gun. This time it would be the Japanese obliged to expose their artillery when firing. Oku chose the 24th of May to begin the attack. A signal was sent to the IJN who dispatched the Akagi, Chokai, Heiyen Tsukushi to bombard the Russian positions over the next 2 days. The main assault would kick off on the 25th after naval and land artillery and softened up the Russian positions and the 4th IJA division had seized Chinchou, garrisoned by no more than 400 men. Terrible weather prevented the IJN forces from performing their naval bombardment on time, thus Oku postponed the main attack until the 26th.  Up on his HQ lookout, Tretyakov watched as the torrential rain tore at the mud, uncovering countless mines. There was no time to rebury them, the rain would continue to pour until the night of the 25th. Meanwhile the 4th IJA division was trying to break through the north gate of Chinchou and failing at the task. Because of the holdup, the 1st IJA division lent two battalions who hit Chnchou's eastern gate and at 5:20am sapper blew in the gate as the Japanese stormed the city. The Russian defenders fled through the south gate, only to be cut down by the 4th IJA divisions fire. Around half a company would manage to survive and reach Nanshan's trenches. The main attack finally kicked off at 4:30am with a 3 hour artillery duel. The Japanese focused their artillery upon the exposed minefield. The IJN flotilla arrived to Chinchou bay at 6am and began adding their cannons. The gunfire was so thunderous, the 3rd IJA landing at Pitzuwo could hear it. The 4th IJA division advanced from Chinchou along the beach. The Russians took notice to the threat to their left flank and began withdrawing two batteries from hills on Nanshan to the southwest to better hit the 4th division. The IJN flotilla saw this and mistakenly believed a retreat was in progress so they moved further south intending to bombard the Russians fleeing. This left the 4th IJA division without proper artillery support and they were torn to pieces by the batteries that had been moved. Signals were frantically tossed at the IJN who moved back to their original position by 10am and resumed their bombardment. The warships would remain there until 2pm, when the tide changes forced them to pull out. The Japanese had a terrible time advancing three divisions in a narrow front. Military advice of the day would have been something along the lines as “Algerian Tactics”, a colloquial term for the type of frontal attacks the French had made during their campaign in north africa. It was basically like a Prussian advancing phalanx, but these types of tactics had become useless with the advent of trench warfare. Oku preferred a three pronged simultaneous advance. By midday, the Japanese believed the Russians were shell shocked by the artillery and IJN fire, so two battalions were sent forward to seize the first row of trenches. A correspondent for the time had this to say “At first the straggling walls of Mauchiaying give them some cover, under which they have a moment's breathing space. Then the gallant little infantry press on again up the breast of the slopes of the Russian position. It is an almost impossible task. As yet the defenders are not sufficiently shaken. An avalanche of concentrated fire from the infantry in the trenches, the machine guns in the Russian works, and the quick firing field artillery supporting the defences strike the Japanese to the full. They melt away from the glacis like solder before the flame of a blow pipe. A few who seem to have charmed lives struggle on till they reach the wire entanglements. It is a vain, if heroic, effort. Wasted within fifteen minutes, these two battalions cease to exist except as a trail of mutilated bodies at the foot of the Russian glacis.” The 1st IJA division was now halted 300 yards from the Russian trenches. Two out of the three battalions in the reserve were moved forward. The 3rd division was under enfiladed fire coming out of the southern shore. The 3rd division received the last reserve battalion to keep up their advance. The Japanese tossed over 9 charges at Nanshan throughout the day, but by 6pm the battle had reached a stalemate. Both sides had exhausted the majority of their artillery munitions. Tretyakov tossed his local reserve to his right flank and had held off the 3 Japanese divisions quite well. To his rear, General Fok held the reserve 13th, 14th and 15th east siberian regiments. Tretyakov had requested two companies, and although Fok promised to hand them over they had not come. Fok refused to hand over the forces because he was convinced the Japanese were going to land behind Tretyakov. Tretyakov's right and center were holding well, but the constant shelling was taking a toll upon his left flank. The 5th and 9th companies were down to half their numbers under the intense artillery fire and the 4th IJA division was beginning to drive them out along the coastal area. The 4th division had waded through deep water and mud under fire against the Russians. Tretyakov had asked for his expected two companies from Fok to reinforce the left flank, but only arrived at the last minute and were useless. A dispatch from Reuters said of the collapse of the left flank “when the Russians finally retreated, the water was literally crimson”. Upon breaking the left flank, the Japanese turned inland to pursue them as they fled through ravines. General Fok was at his forward flank and saw this and immediately ordered his companies to withdraw, but he failed to pass this knowledge over to Tretyakov who was trying to salvage the situation. As the Japanese advanced up the feature, their comrades in the other flank and center surged forward causing an onslaught. The Russians were tossed into confusing seeing some of their forces in the failed flank withdraw. Some began to withdraw to the next line of trenches without orders, some stood their ground. Tretyakov toured the front to assess the situation and saw a munition dump at the railway station of Tafangshen suddenly explode killing nearly 20 men. He was enraged to find out Fok ordered the dump destroyed fearing it would fall to the Japanese. He also found out for the first time, forces he had requested from Fok, around 3 regiments who were to man defenses in the south had never been committed. He had planned to use such a force in the south to swing a counter attack against the Japanese.  Panic was overcoming the defenders, men began to rout, many fleeing south. Many Japanese began to bivouac on captured hills. Tretyakov attempted to restore order and managed to pull his forces together to make a more orderly withdrawal. His men had fought very well, losing 450 during the proper combat, but when the routing began he had lost 650, he was enraged and threw scorn at Fok. At 7:20pm the rising sun flag was raised over the heights of Nanshan, by 8pm the Japanese were eating their dinner upon their prize. The Japanese had 739 deaths and 5459 wounded. Amongst the dead was the 26 year old Katsusuke, the eldest son of General Nogi, a veteran of the battle for Port Arthur in 1894. He died of his wounds on May 30th of 1904. When Nogi received news of this he was about to travel over to take command of the 3rd IJA. He said this “There is to be no funeral ceremony, no mourning until the end of this war. When my surviving son and myself will be among the mourners or the mourned.'  The Japanese counted their munitions, they had expended 174 rounds per gun. Thus they had expended more rounds in a single battle than what was used during the entire Sino-Japanese war. At Nanshan 34,000 shells had been tossed alongside 2.2 million rounds of small arm munitions. Such news shocked Tokyo, but it was lessons the world would soon face in 1914. To give you an idea, at the third battle of Ypres in 1917, the British would expend 4,283,550 shells within two weeks. Basically war had evolved. The Japanese had to wait for their munition columns to reach them, which would occur by May 27th and then they resume their advance to Nankuanling junction and Dalienwan.  Dalny lying 8 miles away from the Nankuanling junction remained a well fortified position that could serve perhaps superior to that of Nanshan. Tretyakov's men withdrawal was in the direction of Dalny as they abandoned 82 pieces of artillery and 10 machine guns in the process. They expected to take a rest and eat at Dalny, but General Fok ordered the entire echelon to make for Port Arthur with haste. The residents of Dalny found out Nanshan had fallen when the soldiers arrived, panic broke. Over 600 Russian civilian began to flee southwards as Dalny's facilities were destroyed. General Stoessel made an official report that it had always been his intent to abandon Nanshan and dismissed the rumors of so much abandoned equipment as “old pieces of Chinese equipment from 1900”. When Tretyakov's men arrived to Port Arthur on May 30th, Stoessel shouted at them “You are a wretched undisciplined corps of traitors, cowards and blackguards. I will try the lot of you by court martial. How did you dare leave Chinchou? Don't dare to show yourself in Port Arthur, lest by your presence you infect the whole garrison with your cowardice.' Stoessel than with reluctance handed out the Cross of St George to the wounded because it was the Tsar's orders to do so. Tretyakov would later write in his memoirs ‘These were the sole recipients of rewards for the Nanshan battle, those slightly wounded receiving nothing for their bravery.' It should be noted there were three unwounded men who received the Cross of St George for their bravery and one was General Fok. On May 3th, the 3rd IJA division entered Dalny uncontested, finding the town had been ransacked heavily by local Chinese. Much of the food provisions had been dispersed, but the dockyards, 290 railway wagons, workshops were all fully intact. The great port of Dalny was now in the 2nd IJA's hands. The Japanese 1st and 11th division advanced through the 2nd IJA enroute to the 3rd IJA of General Nogi. Nogi was given the daunting task of bringing Port Arthur to her knees. Now the Russians had fallen back to a 15 mile long line of defence that ran from Shiapingtao on the east coast all the way to Anshishan on the west coast. Shiapingtao was roughly 18 miles south west of Dalny and Anshishan was around 18 miles away from Port Arthur. The first line of Russian defense was around the 800 foot high Waitoushan and 1000 foot high Prominent Peak. Prominent Peak which would later be named Sword Hill or “Kenshan” by General Nohi was vital to the security of Port Arther as it held an observation point that could see the movement of ships and overlooked Dalny. So it was one of the first major objectives required to be taken before a proper siege could be erected against the city.  On June 26th, Nogi had his men fight through the passes who easily dislodged the Russian defenders upon Waitoushan, but found Kenshan a much tougher nut to crack. A Russian naval force appeared around Shiapingtao, caused a delay to the seizure of Kenshan. The Russians launched 5 counter attacks to try and retake Waitoushan and secure Kenshan but they failed. When the cause seemed hopeless, Stoessel ordered the men to fall back 4 miles to the Green Hills to prepare the next line of defense. Meanwhile General Nogi was biding his time, awaiting reinforcements and further supplies to be brought over to Dalny. By mid July he would receive the 9th division to add to his 1st and 11th. Along with this he would get two independent reserve brigades, a naval brigade and an independent mixed artillery brigade. The 3rd IJA were soon 60,000 men strong.  On July 26th the 3rd IJA began an advance against the Russian defenses along the Green Hills. They would be formidable if it was not for their length and proximity to the railway offering the Japanese excellent outflanking options. It took three days to break the Russian lines. The Russians had fought very well suffering around 1000 casualties for the 4000 the Japanese incurred. Nogi ordered the men to advance quickly to not give the Russians a breath. The Russians pulled back to Fenghuangshan known also as the Wolf Hills. Tretyakov had this to say “I learnt that our men on Fenghuangshan had hurriedly retreated into the fortress without offering any serious resistance to the enemy. This was extremely unwelcome news, for now we should have to come into direct touch with the enemy round the fortress itself. “ General Nogi's men were only receiving the first appetizer of the horror to come. The hill filled path to Port Arthur enacted devastating casualties upon the 3rd IJA, but when they would face the real defensive lines of Port Arthur, such as the Orphan hills and 203 meter hill, the Japanese would learn what 20th century warfare truly had become.  I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. General Nogi lost countless men and even his eldest son taking the formidable position of Nanshan. The Japanese were bleeding themselves in a new era of warfare to take back what they felt was theirs, the formidable Port Arthur. What more would it could the Japanese, and that of Nogi? 

Time for another recent anime you may have missed - thanks to a Patreon pledge, we checked out Saga of Tanya the Evil this week on JJBPod. We also talk about being mixed up with other kids, stupid-ass World War 1, Volkswagen, maybe re-watching Akagi, and why flying mages are better than aeroplanes. | Rate us nicely on Apple Podcasts | Support us on Patreon | Follow us on Twitter | Subscribe to us on YouTube | Join the fan Discord --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jjbpod/message

This week Seth, Bill, and frequent and always welcome Wingman Jon Parshall take a look at the recently released underwater archaeological video footage of the wreck sites of AKAGI, YORKTOWN (CV-5), and KAGA. The trio breaks down what we see in the footage, how the damage shown relates to the battle, what happened in these historic locations, and much more. Tune in and see what the team has to say about the incredible video footage and (we think) pretty cool commentary.

Peter and Keith go over Tony Takezaki's Neon Genesis Evangelion. So join us as we learn of the sexy EVA, Shinji gets way to into it, Fuyutsuki gets buff and Misato is a dork. 01:55 Synopsis of Episode 04:25 What Happened 49:25 First and Last Time 52:39 Where to Find Us 53:33 Next Time On... Follow Us At: Instagram: YouTube: Music Included: Shinji The Real G - Cruel Angel's Thesis (Remix) Silent Partner - Heartache Music from YouTube Audio Library [Aka YAL] Music provided by RFM: --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/farewell-evangelion/message

On the version of Hot off the Wire posted Oct. 2 at 7 a.m. CT: STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries that enabled the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 and could be used in the future to create other shots. Katalin Karikó is a professor at Sagan's University in Hungary and an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Drew Weissman the director of the Penn Institute for RNA Innovations at the University of Pennsylvania. The panel said they were awarded the prize Monday for “their groundbreaking findings, which have fundamentally changed our understanding of how mRNA interacts with our immune system.” LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has named Democratic strategist and Kamala Harris 2020 presidential campaign adviser Laphonza Butler to fill the U.S. Senate seat made vacant by Sen. Dianne Feinstein's death. Newsom is fulfilling his pledge to appoint a Black woman if Feinstein's seat became open. The long-serving Democratic senator died Thursday after a series of illnesses. Butler leads Emily's List, a political organization that supports women who favor abortion rights. Butler lives in Maryland but owns a home in California and is expected to reregister to vote there. Newsom had faced pressure from some Black politicians and advocacy groups to select Barbara Lee, a prominent Black congresswoman who's already running for the seat. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court justices are taking the bench for the first time since late June. Their new term begins Monday with ethics concerns swirling around the court. The only case being argued Monday concerns the meaning of the word “and” in a federal law dealing with prison terms for low-level drug dealers. The length of thousands of sentences a year is at stake. The court also is expected to get rid of hundreds of appeals that accumulated over the summer. The term is shaping up as an important one for social media as the court grapples with applying older laws and rulings to the digital age. WASHINGTON (AP) — New polling finds America's college campuses are seen as far friendlier to liberals than to conservatives when it comes to free speech. Polling from the University of Chicago and the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds 47% of adult Americans say liberals are free to express their views on college campuses, while 20% say the same of conservatives. Free speech debates have roiled campuses in recent years, with conflicts arising over conservative guest speakers. Republican lawmakers in dozens of states have proposed bills limiting public colleges from teaching topics considered divisive. The poll finds 30% of Americans say states should be allowed to restrict what state universities teach. MOREAU, N.Y. (AP) — Police were searching for a missing 9-year-old girl who had been camping with her family in upstate New York. Charlotte Sena was last seen on Saturday evening in Moreau Lake State Park, about 35 miles north of Albany. Gov. Kathy Hochul told reporters that the girl had been riding her bike around a loop in the bucolic park around dinnertime with other children when she decided to ride one last loop by herself. Her parents became alarmed when the fourth grader failed to come back after 15 minutes. Police said it was possible she was abducted. The more than 100 searchers Sunday included police, forest rangers and civilians. VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis will open this week a global gathering of Catholic bishops and laypeople to discuss the future of the church. It's a meeting where women, their voices and their votes, will take center stage for the first time. Francis earlier this year agreed to let women and laypeople vote alongside bishops at the synod, putting the laity and hierarchy on equal ground. Supporters say that as a result of this, the gathering, which starts on Wednesday, is a watershed moment for the Catholic Church and quite possibly the most consequential thing Francis will have undertaken as pope. The meeting runs through Oct. 29, and will be followed by a second session next year. ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter put off his usual Sunday practice of watching church services online to instead celebrate his 99th birthday with his wife, Rosalynn, and their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren in Plains. The gathering will take place in the same one-story structure where the Carters lived before he was first elected as a state senator in 1962. Carter's family views it as a way to honor his personal legacy. But tributes have come from around the world, with celebrities and political figures wearing “Jimmy Carter 99” caps as they offer video messages to the former president. The Jimmy Carter Library & Museum and The Carter Center hosted a full weekend of festivities, including a naturalization ceremony Sunday for 99 new U.S. citizens on Sunday. LOS ANGELES (AP) — The unsolved killing of rapper Tupac Shakur has taken a major turn. Duane “Keffe D” Davis was arrested Friday morning and indicted on a murder charge. The case returned to the spotlight in July when Nevada authorities served a search warrant this week in connection with the rap star's shooting death. The renewed activity comes nearly 30 years after Shakur was gunned down on Sept. 7, 1996. Shakur, one of the most prolific figures in hip-hop, releasing hit records while he was alive as well as posthumously. Friday's arrest reopens, again, one of the most infamous killings in hip-hop history. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ahead of Dustin Lynch's sixth studio album, “Killed the Cowboy,” the 38-year-old country star sensed some inner conflict. He had achieved many of his goals; he spent the last decade securing country radio hits and ranking in a cumulative billions of streams. The question became, what next? Should he settle down and, figuratively kill his interior cowboy? “Where do I want to be in five, 10, 20, 30 years?” he told AP. That question isn't exactly answered on the record, but no vulnerability is left unexplored across it: from the sole collaboration with Jelly Roll, “Chevrolet,” a reimagination of Dobie Gray's 1973 hit “Drift Away” to playful tracks like “Honky Tonk Heartbreaker” and “George Strait Jr.” LAS VEGAS (AP) — Two helicopters zoomed through the starlit skies before producing spotlights over a Las Vegas desert and U2 frontman Bono, who kneeled to ground while singing “Vertigo.” This scene may seem customary, but the visuals were created by floor-to-ceiling graphics inside the immersive Sphere. It was one of the several impressive moments during U2's “UV Achtung Baby” first residency show at the high-tech, globe-shaped venue, which opened Friday night. The legendary rock band performed for two hours inside the massive,state-of-the-art spherical venue. Throughout the night, U2 took 18,000 attendees on a musical journey accompanied by a plethora of attractive visuals. NEW YORK (AP) — After several quiet weeks in movie theaters, four films entered wide release over the weekend. “PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie” came out the top dog, with $23 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. The performances of all four films – “PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie,” “Saw X,” “The Creator” and “Dumb Money” – told a familiar story at the box office. What worked? Horror and animated franchises. What didn't? Originality and comedy. “Saw X" managed to bounce back from a franchise low with an opening weekend of $18 million. “The Creator,” made for $80 million, debuted with a modest $14 million. The GameStop stock comedy “Dumb Money” disappointed with $3.5 million in nationwide expansion. VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has presided over a ceremony to create 21 new cardinals. They include key figures at the Vatican and in the field who will help enact his reforms and cement his legacy. With the ceremony Francis has further expanded his influence on the College of Cardinals who will one day elect his successor. Nearly three-quarters of the voting-age “princes of the church” owe their red hats to the Argentine Jesuit. Among the new cardinals is the controversial new head of the Vatican's doctrine office, Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez. Leaders of the church in geopolitical hotspots like Hong Kong, Jerusalem and South Sudan filled out the roster. Francis said their variety and geographic diversity would serve the church like musicians in an orchestra. Footage from deep in the Pacific Ocean has given the first detailed look at three World War II aircraft carriers that sank in the pivotal Battle of Midway. The video could help solve mysteries about the days-long barrage in 1942 that marked a shift in control of the Pacific theater from Japanese to U.S. forces. Remote submersibles operating 3 miles below the surface conducted extensive archeological surveys in September of the U.S.S. Yorktown, as well as the Akagi and Kaga, two of the four Japanese aircraft carriers destroyed. The imagery is expected to provide insight into conflicting reports about what happened in the battle. —The Associated Press About this program Host Terry Lipshetz is a senior producer for Lee Enterprises. Besides producing the daily Hot off the Wire news podcast, Terry conducts periodic interviews for this Behind the Headlines program, co-hosts the Streamed & Screened movies and television program and is the producer of Across the Sky, a podcast dedicated to weather and climate. Lee Enterprises produces many national, regional and sports podcasts. Learn more here.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

En este pódcast Fran nos trae a «Isawa Hiromi» escritora de la aventura para Dama de corazones, Haiku, y del sistema que implementan todas las 15 aventuras para este libro. Desde hace al menos ciento cincuenta años los Clanes Akagi y Moritama, fronterizos uno con el otro, han estado en guerra Debido a un ajuste de honor que tienen entre estos. El Clan Moritama y Akagi debían haberse unido en alianza a través de un matrimonio que resultó fallido en el pasado, haciendo que la escalada de violencia entre estos llegue hasta la actualidad, siendo tan insoportable que por fin sus daimyos han decidido acabar con aquella guerra de desgaste que los está llevando al borde de sus energías. La música que se escucha al principio es The Edge de Swoop.

Scuba Diving Magazine's September/October issue is their 2023 Photo Issue. In this issue they present the 2023 winners of the Through Your Lens photo contest. The Women Divers Hall of Fame is now accepting applications for their 2024 Scholarship and Grant programs. Deadline for application is November 15, 2023 at 5 pm eastern. More info. Ocean Explorer Trust had released footage from the EV Nautilus expedition where they surveyed three historic WW II aircraft carrier wrecks from the Battle of Midway. Three videos from the exploration of the Japanese carriers Akagi and Kagi along with a video of the USS Yorktown are on the EV Nautilus YouTube Channel. Here are the latest firmware updates for Shearwater dive computers. Peregrine - V86, Perdix and Perdix AI - V93, Perdix 2 - V95 and the Teric - V23 Commentary Earlier this month we had another local dive shop close here in Connecticut. While there are a number of reasons why this shop closed there is one element that we cannot ignore. Many local dive shop owners are getting older and there will come a time when these dive shop owners will retire. What then? There are two options - find another, younger owner to take over or close the shop. With so many headwinds, running a full service local dive center is complicated. Will the local dive shop model evolve from the high flow business of the 1980s and 90s? Only time will tell. The 2020 Divers Alert Network Annual Diving Report provides information from 2018 on diving related fatalities, injuries as well as information on equipment failures. The report is 92 pages and broken down into five sections and five appendices. DAN started this report in 1988 and plans to release the next Annual Diving Report before the end of 2023. If you are a DAN member you can download a copy and then share it with your dive buddies.

Welcome to Episode 125 Sponsored by CultTVMan, Sean's Custom Model Tools and Return To Kit Form HostsStuartGeoff Thanks to our latest Patreon and Buy Me a Coffee Supporters: ***************************************LATEST NEWS Southwestern Ontario Scale Model Expo - We will be there!We will also be taking a break for the next episode due to most of us helping at the show. Windsor Model Show 26th Model Show of the GPC - Plastic Modeling Group of Campinas Strange things afoot at the Nats ***************************************MAILBAGWe want to hear from you! Let us know if you have any comments or suggestions scalemodelpodcast@gmail.com. I just finished listening to Anthony's interview with Rob Booth concerning the future of the IPMS and I wanted to write in to say thank you.I am exclusively a Sci-Fi modeler. Thanks to Dave over at the PMM podcast I am also a member of IPMS/USA but it's only because I feel an obligation to support the hobby in general. There is honestly not much for me in IPMS currently, and I'm not very engaged in the organization. However, thanks to Anthony's interview with Rob, I decided to vote on the new amendments to the constitution and by-laws, in the interest of inclusivity. I imagine there are a lot of people out there like me who would love for IPMS to promote and support their niche of this fantastic hobby but who are apathetic to the current iteration of the organization.One issue I would have loved to hear addressed in that interview is the chicken and egg problem of new contest categories. Rob said that they track the level of participation in each of their categories and try to respond with new categories and modifications to existing ones where necessary. My question then is: why would modelers enter sci-fi / gundam / other "niche" models into IPMS contests if there are no categories that properly value their contest entries? And if IPMS is waiting until they see significant levels of participation in those niches to create sensible contest categories... well, you see the problem.If IPMS wants to truly be seen as inclusive it needs to proactively court modelers in areas of the hobby that it has traditionally overlooked by reaching out to those communities and working directly with them to establish new contest categories and other opportunities within IPMS. If you want something, you have to go after it. You can't wait for it to come to you.Just my 2 cents.Keep up the great podcast,Gino ***************************************LATEST HOBBY ANNOUNCEMENTSSprues of MiniArt's new 48th scale P-47D-25 RE ThunderboltHobbyboss SeptSpecial Hobby re-releasesHKM 1/48th scale Lancaster B.Mk.III Dambusters kitMagic Factory's new 35th scale MRZR D4 kitBorder Model's 35th scale Akagi & B5N2 KateHpH news - 1/32 Kate, Marauder, Ventura and 1/48 B-471/72 - McDD F-15 Eagle family by FinemoldsPreview: New Mirage 2000-5 1/32 Resin cockpit from ResKit What's new at Scalemates.com ***************************************SPONSOR AD #1Cult TV Man***************************************WHAT'S ON THE BENCHStuart - Work continues on the 2023 Moosaroo build, the 1/72 Ural truck, I've got more of an idea of what I want to do for a diorama for it. I think as building continues it will become more clear. I also primed the tires.Geoff - Spent the whole time sorting through a ton of magazines, books and paints I received from a retiring modeller. I did splash some paint on the very odd experimental British WW2 “fighter” whose name I cannot recall again.*************************************** SPONSOR AD #2Seans Custom Model Tools ***************************************What are we Reading Stuart - Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil Degrasse Tyson  Geoff - Every frigging aircraft and modelling magazine known to man! THINGS WE'VE SEENInside the Armour Publications ***************************************THE LAST WORD  SMP Ep. 125 is also sponsored by Return To Kit Form (R2KF). Check out their web store! For more modelling podcast goodness, check out other modelling podcasts at modelpodcasts.com Please leave us a positive review if you enjoy what we're doing! Check us out: FaceBook, YouTube, and our very own website We also have merchandise now. Check it out on Redbubble 

“There is a story, no doubt apocryphal, that gamers at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, have many times replayed the 1942 Battle of Midway - but have never been able to produce an American victory.”     – Taken from historian Robert Cowley's book What If? “Find better gamers.”    – My response. In this episode, we look at the celebrated Battle of Midway, in which US naval forces decisively defeated the Imperial Japanese Navy.  The prevailing narrative, as portrayed in two Hollywood films, was the plucky and outnumbered Americans were the beneficiaries of good fortune.  A deeper analysis reveals that the two sides were almost dead equal in the most important weapons system, carrier aircraft, and the United States had numerous advantages stemming from its massive industrial base.  Japan did not lose because it was unlucky or was the victim of an unfortunate confluence of events.  The battle itself reveals many of the factors that the United States possessed over Japan in the capacity to wage total war.

Last time we spoke about about the first large land battles of the First Sino-Japanese War: the battles of Seonghwan and Pyongyang. The Qing's plan to perform a pincer attack from the north and south of Korea was smashed when they lost Asan. However not all was lost, they still held the extremely formidable defensive position at Pyongyang with some of their best units and best equipment. The Japanese 1st Army deceived the Qing defenders and made an incredible victory at Pyongyang sending the remaining survivors fleeing towards the Yalu River. It was a tremendous blow to the Chinese despite their home press proclaiming every event to be a victory. Now the Qing have their backs against the wall along the Yalu, if the Japanese were to take it they could march right into Manchuria. While the Qing be able to rally themselves and hold the Japanese within Korea, or will this war see action within their borders?    #51 The First Sino-Japanese War of 1898-1895 Part 3: The battle of the Yalu River   Welcome to the Fall and Rise of China Podcast, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about the history of Asia? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on history of asia and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel where I cover the history of China and Japan from the 19th century until the end of the Pacific War. Literally a day after the battle of Pyongyang, the second major battle of the entire war took place. The IJN had been trying to engage a very reluctant Qing navy who were under orders not to cross the Yalu-Weihaiwei line. Well the Japanese crossed it for them. The Beiyang fleet had difficulties operating in the open sea, where the IJN warships held an advantage in speed and better maintenance. The Beiyang fleet thus operated more so along the coastlines, with her two colossal German built battleships the Dungyuan and Zhenyuan only capable of hitting 15-16 knots speed. To give a comparison, the IJN ships had a rough average speed of 20 knots. Now in early September, Li Hongzhang decided to reinforce the Qing forces at Pyongyang and he had his Beiyang fleet escort their transports to the mouth of the Taedong River. On September 12th around 4500 Qing troops left Dagu aboard 5 transports heading for Dalian where they joined 2000 more troops. Admiral Ding Rucheng, initially wanted to send the transports with only a light escort, keeping the bulk of the Beiyang fleet in a safer position incase the IJN combined fleet offered battle. However reports of sightings of the Japanese cruisers Yoshino and Naniwa who were performing reconnaissance near Weihaiwei led to disaster for the Qing. The Beiyang Fleet commanders took these reports to indicate the IJN combined fleet were all around Weihaiwei, it just so happened the entire Beiyang Fleet was to head to Weihaiwei on the 13th. The Qing hunted down the cruisers for an entire day, but found no sight of them, so Admiral Ding turned back for Dalien arriving on the 15th.  The Japanese victory at Pyongyang meant the Qing land forces were concentrating at the Yalu River. Reports began to reach Admiral Ding about the supposed grand victory, but he read between the lines the truth of the matter when the reports also stated the transport of further troops to the mouth of the Taedong river was no longer necessary. Admiral Ding surmised correctly that the Qing line of defense would now be established on the Yalu River, so he decided to bring the troops there. At around 1:00am on the 16th the Beiyang fleet and the 5 transports departed Dalian Bay. The Beiyang fleet consisted of the 2 ironclad battleships, the Dingyuan and Zhenyuan, a smaller coastal defense battleship called the Pingyuan, the cruisers Laiyuan, Jiyuan, Jingyuen, Jingyuan and Zhiyuen, smaller cruisers Chaoyong, Kwan Chia, Yangwei and the gunboats Guangbing, Zhennan, Zhenzhong, Fulong and Zuo 1. Now I really need to take a moment here to explain a lot about the two opposing naval forces. These Qing ships I just listed, most of them were built before 1887, for the Japanese the majority would be built after 1890. About 10 significant ships from each side would take part in the upcoming battle; for the Qing the two battleships which each holding ⅓ more displacement than the largest Japanese warship. The Qing warships could only go as fast as their slowest, and the two battleships only pulled 15 or so knots, meaning the IJN would enjoy a massive advantage in speed.  The armaments of the Beiyang fleet were created mostly at the Jiangnan and Fuzhou Shipyards and they were by far and large superior to that of the Japanese. They had foreign expertise overlook the developments, but because of the nature of the Qing navy this did not extend to the maintenance for the ships. Qing regional leaders were skeptical of Li Hongzhang and the naval board, and refused to pay anything more than the bare minimum required for the basic maintenance of the navy. Many of these regional leaders were not happy about the naval board having its director being the Manch Prince Chu'un, and his successor Manchu Prince Qing. Why were they not happy you might ask, well other than the regular ethnic rivalries. Neither Manchu director could administer funds properly nor prevent Empress Dowager Cixi for allegedly diverting funds for other purpose, now hold on a minute for those who might be screaming “thats a myth” I will get to it. A lot of rumors sprang up that the Empress Dowager had embezzled funds from the navy to restore the old summer palace, this is infamous to anyone who learns 19th century Chinese history. In fact, as the story goes Cixi had rebuilt the expensive Marble Boat in the palace garden with funds that were earmarked for modernizing the navy. It is alleged Cixi devoted 100 million taels to the purpose of rebuilding the summer palace and the Qing navy would not see additional funding after the year 1889. Some estimate the summer palace renovations took 11 million from the naval funds, enough to buy around 6-7 warships. To be honest I am a huge fan of a podcast called “Our Fake History” and I hope he tackles this myth one day. But it seems Empress Dowager Cixi was not wholly at fault for the decline of the Qing navy. No it seems Emperor Guangxu's quote “lack of interest” in developing and maintaining the military was to blame. Grand Tutor Weng Tonghe advised Guangxu to cut all funding to the navy and army, because he did not see Japan as a true threat, and during the 1890's large natural disasters occurred which seemed a much more pressing issue to allocate funds to. After the Taiping Rebellion could you blame the emperor? Regardless its just to say its not black and white, there were numerous variables when it came to the funding scandals. But as a Chinese friend of mine put it once, “everyone learns about Cixi embezzling for the palace at the cost of the navy”, it certainly is the prevailing idea.  Li Hongzhang's ordnance supply officer for the Beiyang fleet was his son in law Zhang Peilun who was referred to by Professor Wiliam Lockwood as a quote “champion swindler”. He described the man to so corrupt, sailors would often find shells filled with sand and quote “when the shooting began, the Chinese fleet found that its total supply of ammunition amounted to fourteen shells per gun. Two 7000 ton ironclads had only 3 shells in all for their 10 inch guns”. There is zero question on the issue of corruption when it came to the Qing navy in the late 19th century. They were hampered with shortages of ammunition, there are even reports some shells were filled with cement rather than explosives. Not only would the Qing sailors find little shells to fire during the battle of Yalu, imagine the lack of practice as a result of never having ammo? Poor accuracy and seriously questionable naval orders during battle would plague the Beiyang fleet. Alongside the lack of ammo it is also alleged the Qing warships had half their crews, because of salary embezzlement. So the Beiyang fleet would come into the battle undermanned, undertrained and underequipped, the recipe for disaster. Now as for the Japanese, the IJN combined fleet consisted of 2 formations: the flying squadron composed of the 4 fast cruisers: Yoshino, Takachiho, Akitsushima and Naniwa led by Admiral Tsuboi Kozo. And the main fleet consisting of the cruiser and flagship Matsushima followed by Chiyoda, Itsukushima, Hashidate and the ironclads Fuso and Hiei led by Admiral Ito Sukeyuki. There were also two dispatch vessels, the Saikyo Maru led by the Swedish born captain John Wilson and the Gunboat Akagi. Unlike the Beiyang fleet which was 1 of the 4 non cooperating fleets that made up the Qing navy, the IJN combined fleet were consolidated under a single command, always unified, trained extensively together as a single fighting force. Although many of the Qing ships had more armor, they were slower and the Japanese specifically trained using the Jeune d'ecole strategy, emphasizing speed and quick firing guns to overcome larger opponents. The Japanese would be coming into this battle with adequate ammunition, better training and the specialization in fighting larger battleship class ships by outmaneuvering and outfiring them. I always found it easier using gamer terms, the Japanese adopted a glass cannon strategy, relying on speed over defense, but alongside that their enemy greatly lacked proper firing capabilities making the Japanese a charmander to the chinese bulbasaur. The Qing's ironclads had short barrels as main armaments, meaning their shells had low muzzle velocity, resulting in poor penetration and terrible accuracy, especially at long range which they never should be firing at anyways. Although the Qing sailors were well drilled, they had practically no gunnery practice as a result of having no ammunition to work with. The lack of training in gunnery in combination to not having shells to fight with, or having the wrong caliber shells on certain ships and literally finding out some shells might be filled with cement or porcelain would lead to disaster. Aboard the Jingyuan was US naval advisor Philo McGiffin who went on the record saying “many of the gunpowder charges were thirteen years old and condemned”. Sadly Li Hongzhang had tried to delay a naval battle against the Japanese specifically to give his fleet more time to equip their ships with additional ammunition, but the Qing imperial court deemed this cowardice and forced his hand to press on. In the end, the Qing fleet was bigger and armed with bigger guns, but the Japanese would be faster, and capable of firing their smaller guns more so and more accurately.  Admiral Ding's Beiyang Fleet reached the mouth of the Yalu River at around 2pm. The transports escorted by 5 warships: the Zhennan, Zhenzhong, Guangbing, Pingyuan and a torpedo boat landed the troops until the morning of the 17th. Meanwhile the other Beiyang ships anchored in some shallow waters around 8 nautical miles south west of the mouth of the Yalu river. At 9:20am on the 17th the fleet conducted a training exercise lasting for about an hour and a half, before returning to their anchorage, but soon after at 11:28am, observers aboard the Qing warships began to spot smoke coming from the south-west.  Admiral Ding attempted to form his fleet into a southward facing line abreast using his two battleships in the center. In the line going left to right were the Guangjia, Jingyuan, Jiyuan, Zhiyuan, Laiyuan, Jingyuen, Yangwei and Chaoyong. Another group of four ships led by the slow Pingyuan were escorting the transports upriver and were forced to try and catch up which they would around 2:30. Late in the morning the two fleet began approaching another in very different formations. The Qing were trying to uphold their line abreast, but there was enormous confusion in signals, no doubt to the fact all of their signal books were written in english and very few of the officers could speak or were familiar with english. Added to this was the differing speeds of the various ships, thus they ended up in a asymmetricalwedge formation with the two battleships at the fore and the other vessels trailing behind on two flanks. According to various accounts, there was a consensus that the formation was done in great disorder. In fact it may not have been a deliberate formation, but rather the order in which the warships simply foundselves in as they tried to form a line abreast. For the IJN combined fleet they approached in a single column formation with the flying squadron in the front, followed by the main squadron. The order of ships in line for the Japanese was first the fasted protected cruisers, Yoshino, Naniwa Takachiho and Akitsushima. Then came the flagship Matsushima alongside her two sisters, followed by Chiyoda, Fuso, Hiei, Akagi, and the Saikyo Maru. With the Beiyang fleet in sight, Admiral Sukeyeki gave orders for the flying squadron to attack the Chinese right flank, hoping to annihilate their weaker boats at the end of the formation. Upon seeing the flying squadrons maneuvers, Admiral Ding ordered his ships to change course in such a way that it would have exposed his flagship, the Dingyuan, but put the rest of the squadron in a good position to fire upon the Japanese. However, Admiral Ding's Captain aboard the Dingyuan ignored the order allegedly out of cowardice, instead he ordered the Dingyuan to fire its main guns well before the Japanese were even within range. The order to fire apparently caused great confusion amongst the other ships, seeing the Chinese right flank firing into a maelstrom against the IJN warships, but the CHinese left flank basically was left out of the action. Now Admiral Ding aboard his flagship Dingyuan, alongside her sister Zhenyuan went straight forward against the IJN's center hoping to tussle the most while the rest of the Beiyang fleet maneuvered around to avoid hits. In one source I was reading, they tell a tale that the initial firing of Dingyuans main battery was aimed directly forward and thus literally destroyed her own flying bridge and quote “thereby demolishing the temporary flying bridge on which Admiral Ding was standing. Ding's leg was crushed so he could not stand, let alone walk, during the hositilities. This made it impossible for him to repeat his order in time. The wounds would also make it fiddicult for him to follow the battle”. However as pointing out by Pilo McGiffen in his memoris “Ding was merely catapulted by the shockwave of the guns going off”. Historians have come to a consensus today that the flying bridge was hit by the Japanese and Admiral Ding's poor legs were crushed as result of their gunfire to it, alongside countless officers who were killed and injured.  The Dingyuna opened fire at 5000 meters, which was ridiculously too far to cause damage to the Japanese ships. As soon as the Dingyuan opened fire, the rest of the Qing warships followed suit, wasting countless precious shells firing from too far a range to possibly hit the Japanese vessels. According to Vice Admiral G.A Ballard of the British navy, the Qing formation doomed her from the beginning, as the line abreast strategy required the strongest ships, not the weakest to be on the wings in order to prevent the weaker ships from being picked off, which the Japanese would do. The Qing also failed to change course in such a way as to prevent the Japanese from going around their wing allowing their vessels to deliver full broadside gunfire at close range. The Japanese held their fire for a full 20 minutes as they simply headed diagonally across the Beiyang fleet going twice their speed. On the signal of Admiral Ito the Japanese squadrons divided with the flying squadron led by Tsuboi ramping from 8knots to 14knots heading for the center of the Qing formation. The Qing were confused by this sudden bullrush towards them, but then Tsuboi's formation turned slightly to port, moving around the right flank of the Chinese formation as they began to open fire on the weakest units from the effective range of 3000 meters or less. The Japanese gunfire first battered the Chaoyong and Yangwei, as Tsuboi steered his squadron northward to engage the Qing reinforcements coming from the Yali River, this was the Pingyuan group.  Meanwhile the IJN main squadron followed the same course direction as the flying, but to the Chinese left flank, making a full turn around them to circle behind and hit their rear. However their slowest ships, the Fuso and Hiei came instead came into a shorter range and boldly steered right between the two Qing battleships, passing through their line receiving and returning fire as they did. They would join their main squadron coming out on the opposite side. Unfortunately for the Akagi, she broke through the Chinese line towards the left its center and came across 3 Qing warships to her stern, just within 800 meters. Akagi was hit with a shell to her bridge which killed her Captain and several others; her forward magazine was destroyed and she tried to speed up to avoid more hits. Over in the flying squadron, the Yoshino could see the peril of the Hiei and Akagi, so instead of leading down the enemy's rear, she changed course more to starboard to come to their rescue, wedging herself between the enemy and the Akagi. As Yoshino did this she poured shells from her broadsides upon the enemy and now the Chinese right wing was enveloped between two fires. The flying squadron was now turning with starboard helm, passing a second time entirely around the Chinese right flank. The Hiei and Akagi signaled their damage and and received permission to retire out of action. Three Qing warships the Laiyuen, Zhiyuen and Kwang-ki tried to pursue the Hiei and Akagi, but despite their damage they managed to outpace them and returned fire from a distance. The Zhiyuen returned to the battle, the Laiyuen received too much damage had was taken out of the action and the Kwang-ki fled. In the center and right of Admiral Ding's fleet the gun battle was raging. The admiral had been wounded 20 minutes into the fight and because of his injured Commodore Liu Tai Tsan had to take command of the fleet. All four of Zhenyuans heavy guns were knocked out by IJN quick firing guns early into the fight, thus she was reduced to using her 6 inch guns. The Yangwei and Chaoyong who were stuck on the very outside of the right flank received the initial hellstorm from the Japanese as they passed by. Both ships were battered early and unable to fire back. The Chaoyong was ablaze and ran aground over a large rock while the Yangwei also ablaze beached to save herself. The Chaoyong was last seeing settling after, before sinking with her upper mast remaining above the surface. The Zhiyuen was forced to retire early as all 3 of her gun carriages were hit by IJN quick firing guns. The Beiyang fleet as a whole was caught between the two IJN squadrons who were unleashing their broadsides upon them to devastating effect. The Qing were evidently tossed into a state of chaos with some ships fleeing, others dueling, some sinking already. The Japanese kept up their column formation, making circles around their enemy, they would make 3 full circles during the battle. After some time the DIngyuan attempted to close in on her enemy, to the Japanese it looked like she was trying to ram one of them. She broke the formation with 3 other ships charging at full speed. Admiral Ito reported in his action report “that at half past 2 the Jingyuan steamed past the front of hi squadron, but she received such a storm of projectiles that her crew seemed to fall into a state of the greatest confusion, and presently she took fire” The Jingyuan was battered too badly that she adopted to try and flee at the last moment, but the Japanese flying squadron chased her down battered her until she sank. It is said her gunners kept returning fire until she was under the waves. At 3:20 the severely damaged and burning Zhiyuan had returned to the fight after chasing the Akagi and attempted to ram the Naniwa or Yoshino depending on the source, but she would be shot upon until she sank in the process taking with her Captain Deng Shichang. Captain Shichang was one of their greatest commanders and spent some time overseas evaluating foreign fleets, his loss was a grave one. At 3:30 the two flagships were in close range and the Matsushima's main turret was hit by a 12 inch shell. There was not great damage, but fires began over the deck. Another shell hit Matsushima's forward 4.7 inch rapid fire gun killing some men and hurtled the turret across the ship violently. The Japanese flagship had been the target of many of the Qing warships from the offset of battle and received numerous hits. Her commander and first Lt were killed alongside 120 men. Admiral Ito was forced to transfer his flag to the Hashidate. Also at 3:30 firing ceased on both sides as many were putting out massive fires. It took around an hour for the gun duels to really pick up again. 5 IJN warships of the main squadron were fighting back and forth with the 2 Qing battleships until around 6pm. The Dingyuan and Zhenyuan were able to resist the punishment because of their heavy armor, but all the sailors on deck were decimated by shells and fragments going everywhere. When the Qing opened fire upon the Japanese as they passed from port to starboard, they failed to score any significant hits using their 12 inch and 8.2 inch guns. The two IJN squadrons had made full circles of the Beiyang fleet, using their quick firing guns, smashing the Qing warships superstructures and swept their deck's with carnage.  During the melee, quite a few of the IJN warships received devastating hits as well. The Yoshino, Akagi and Saikyo Maru were put out of action from sustained hits. The Hiei who was a much slower ship than the rest, received severe damage and it did not help her captain had decided not to follow the flying squadrons sweep maneuver, but instead pass directly through the Qing line. This poor decision made the Hiei a very easy target as she ran a gauntlet. By late afternoon the Beiyang fleet was tipping to the point of collapse, many warships had literally fled for their lives or had been sunk. The Dingyuan and Zhenyuan were nearly out of ammunition. Aboard the Dingyuan, Admiral Ding was pretty much out of commission and their foremast was destroyed making it impossible to signal to the rest of the fleet. The rest of the Qing ships began forming up into pairs of 3 to mutually support another in the duels.  When the Japanese had begun firing, the Jiyuan turned to flee from the offset, and upon seeing this the Guangjia joined. Jiyuan was hit only once, as for Guangjia, she quickly became lost and ran aground, forced to be scuttled by her crew later. There are also claims, the Jiyuan may have collided with the Yangwei causing her to sink during this process. The Saikyo Maru tried to finish off the Yangwei which managed to beach itself. The Saikyo Maru got roughly handled from the beginning of the fight. She had first opened fire from a long range, but then got close to the Qing ironclads. After an hour of combat, her steering gear got damaged sending her sailing off uncoordinated. Upon seeing her in distress the Pingyuan tried to hunt her with some torpedo boats. Torpedoes were fired at the Saikyo Maru, they all missed with some getting within 40-50 yards of her. The Saikyo Maru fled for her life and would escape. The better trained, better maintained IJN rapid firing guns simply out performed the Chinese, who had limited ammunition, ill maintained equipment, less gunnery training and well when you find out some of your shells have cement or porcelain in them, I would say demoralized as well. While the Japanese were certainly scoring better and more significant hits, this did not mean the Qing were not fighting for their lives however. The Qing warships continued to fire everything they had. The Laiyuan, despite being a burning wreck continued to fire upon the enemy to the bitter end. The primary armaments of the Qing battleships fired 197 rounds, scoring around 10 hits. While this is extremely low, when they did hit they knocked out the Japanese flagship from the battle, but unfortunately for the Chinese they were unable to deliver killing blows. Overall the Beiyang fleet scored about 10 percent of their hits. The Japanese scored roughly 15 percent, but take into consideration the Japanese were firing at a rate 3 times to that of the Chinese.  When night was coming upon them, Admiral Ding gathered the remnants of his Beiyang fleet and steered towards Lushunkou. The Japanese had 4 ships severely damaged, with some light damage to two. The Japanese had around 180 deaths, 200 wounded. The flagship Matsushima suffered the worst amount of casualties at around 100, after receiving a 12 inch shell. Hiei would have to be retired from combat because of her injuries; Akagi lost many men and required repairs; the Saikyo Maru which was not really a warship, she was actually a converted liner that lacked offensive armament, but came into the fray nonetheless was hit by 4 12 inch shells which knocked out her steering sending her wandering for quite some time. The Qing had lost the Zhiyuen, Yangwei, Kwang-ki, Chaoyong and Jingyuan, with 850 deaths and 500 wounded. The Dingyuan was reported to have been hit with no less than 200 hits, but her thick armor protected her from serious damage. The deepest dents were around 3 inches. Her upper deck was completely destroyed by fire; two secondary battery guns were disabled, all of her signal halliards were shot away, but her engines were in perfect working order. The Zhenyuen was hit approximately 120 times, but her injuries proved worse than her sister. Her main battery was crippled and when she made it to anchorage she was nearly sinking. The Laiyuen suffered most from fire damage, she had to be gutted fore and after with the deck and bulkheads about her magazines being found red hot. The Pingyuan according to Admiral Ito's report suffered horribly from fires, but she took little part in the fighting. Of the entire fleet only 3 escaped without serious injury, the Jingyuen, Jiyuan and Guangbing. The Yantai correspondent of the Shanghai based newspaper, the China Gazette had this to say after the battle "There is no doubt the Chinese fought bravely, but they were no match for the Japanese whose tactics were admirable throughout the fight...The unfortunate Chinese gunners lost their heads and fired wildly, their officers left their ships at the mercy of the enemy by their clumsy seamanship while, on the other hand, almost every shot of the Japanese told." A reporter for The Japan Weekly Mail said this "The Japanese men-of-war preserved their battle array intact from first to last, but the Chinese were soon compelled to fight without any tactical order." The New York Times ran the headlines, "China's Waterloo in Corea. Japan's Great Naval Victory." After the battle the Japanese discovered to their intense interest that some of the Chinese shells were filled with cement instead of explosives. They also reported finding some ammunition filled with porcelain, others being the wrong caliber for the guns on the ships. It seemed to the Japanese military leadership they had grossly underestimated the degree of corruption and incompetence within the Qing dynasty. Admiral Ito chose not to pursue the fleeing Beiyang fleet because he knew his fleet lacked weapons capable of sinking the two ironclad battleships. Unbeknownst to him the Beiyang fleet had basically fired all of their ammunition and the two battleships were sitting ducks. According to Sir Robert Hart, the inspector general of the Qing maritime customs, on the eve of the battle of the Yalu quote “the Chinese had no shells for their Krupp artillery and no powder for their Armstrong guns, these were some of the main offensive weapons of their fleet”. The IJN would be criticized for not pursuing the Qing later on, but the admirals were making decisions based on the knowledge they held at the time and that knowledge was that they could not take down the two battleships.  The loss at Pyongyang on land and at Yalu upon the sea were devastating to the Qing and absolutely dazzled foreign presses. It was recognized that after the battle of the Yalu, it was Japan who controlled the sea. Meanwhile the official battle report handed back to the Qing imperial court was this “the Chinese fleet had defeated a numerically superior fleet of the Woren...sinking three of the enemy's ships and severely injuring the rest, but losing four of our own in the battle." The Japanese would actually find an official dispatch to Li Hongzhang later on in Port Arthur that said this concerning the battle of Yalu "more terrible than any to be found in the Naval records even of Western countries. The ships of both sides were considerably damaged, especially those of the enemy. The enemy retired first, so that victory may more or less be said to have rested with us. Had not our rear become disordered, the entire victory would have been ours." The dispatch also went on to recommend rewards for those who fought bravely at Yalu. I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. While the Qing had the bigger ships, bigger guns and more armor, the Japanese managed to defeat them because of better training, better maintenance and well, having ammunition seemed an important variable also.  

Adrian el genio. Adrian Newey es uno de los ingenieros más exitosos y respetados de la historia de la Fórmula 1. Sus diseños han ganado 11 campeonatos de constructores y 195 Grandes Premios (hasta el momento) con tres equipos diferentes: Williams, McLaren y Red Bull. Pero antes de llegar a la cima, Newey tuvo que empezar desde abajo y demostrar su talento en un modesto equipo que marcó un antes y un después en el diseño aerodinámico de los monoplazas: March.Pero antes... DiscosDuros.net patrocina Historacing. Newey se incorporó al equipo March, que había resucitado en 1987 bajo la dirección del ex editor de Autosport Ian Phillips, como director técnico. Su primer proyecto fue el March-Judd 881, un coche revolucionario que introdujo varias novedades que luego se convertirían en estándar en la F1: el morro levantado, los endplates delanteros y traseros esculpidos y el difusor avanzado. Newey se centró en la aerodinámica como elemento clave del diseño, aprovechando el bajo consumo del motor Judd atmosférico frente a los potentes pero gastones motores turbo.El resultado fue un coche muy eficiente aerodinámicamente que sorprendió al mundo de la F1 en 1988. Con Ivan Capelli y Mauricio Gugelmin al volante, el March 881 logró dos podios (segundo en Portugal y tercero en Japón) y acabó sexto en el campeonato de constructores, por delante de equipos como Lotus, Arrows o Tyrrell. El propio Newey reconoce que fue el primer coche con el que cambió la dirección de diseño de la F1 y que sentó las bases para sus futuros éxitos.Leyton HouseEn 1989, el equipo March pasó a llamarse Leyton House Racing, por el nombre del patrocinador principal, una empresa japonesa de productos para el cabello. Newey diseñó el March CG891, pero este no fue un digno sucesor del coche del año anterior. El equipo sufrió problemas de fiabilidad y rendimiento, y solo consiguió un podio más, con Gugelmin tercero en Brasil. Además, Newey tuvo que lidiar con las presiones e interferencias del dueño de Leyton House, Akira Akagi, que quería imponer sus ideas sobre el diseño del coche.En 1990, Newey siguió trabajando para Leyton House, pero su relación con Akagi se deterioró aún más. El March CG901 fue un coche más competitivo que el anterior, pero seguía estando lejos de los mejores equipos. El momento más destacado de la temporada fue el Gran Premio de Francia, donde Capelli y Gugelmin lideraron gran parte de la carrera con una estrategia sin paradas. Capelli estuvo a punto de lograr la primera victoria del equipo, pero fue superado por Alain Prost a tres vueltas del final y acabó segundo. Gugelmin abandonó por un fallo eléctrico cuando iba tercero.A finales de 1990, Newey recibió una oferta del equipo Williams para ser su jefe de aerodinámica. Newey aceptó el reto y se marchó de Leyton House, dejando atrás una etapa difícil pero fructífera en su carrera. Os dejo los enlaces que hablamos en el audio...  Foroslot https://photos.app.goo.gl/SK3qibs5syWKy5HRATandas Jarama https://photos.app.goo.gl/cLsY3euRCQcNpGTz9Os dejo unas fotos del superdetallado que está haciendo un maquetista español al modelo de Tamiya. ContactoTwitter @historacingemail: historacingpodcast@gmail.comCanal de Telegram: Es privado...  pide invitación, en telegram uy ultrafotoCarlos; @fotocarloscast ( mi perfil personal de twitterNuestro Feed. http://feeds.feedburner.com/HistoracingEstamos en Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/236uEP7hZdSirmS8vVKHTeTambién en Tunein. https://tunein.com/podcasts/Automotive/Historacing-p1175114/?lang=es-ESNuestro nuevo enlace a Amazon https://amzn.to/3SzCKJ2Esta es mi lista de deseos: LISTA DE DESEOSPaypal:  Si quieres donar este es el link https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ultrafoto

Keith and Peter review the Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Shinji Ikari Raising Project Volume 16, so join us as Shinji learns about bros before hoes, we witness a classic Akagi move, and Rei thinks about what Shinji would do 00:24 Synopsis of Episode 00:52 What Happened 42:25 First and Last Time 44:05 Where to Find Us 44:41 Next Time On... Follow Us At: Instagram: YouTube: Music Included: Shinji The Real G - Cruel Angel's Thesis (Remix) Silent Partner - Heartache Music from YouTube Audio Library [Aka YAL] Music provided by RFM: --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/farewell-evangelion/message

SPOILER-FREE tayo this week! Kuwentuhan lang! As you know, kakatapos lang ng Darna starring Jane de Leon and Janella Salvador. Did it live up to the hype? Was it a huge letdown? Honestly, we may not be the best people to provide a verdict dahil yung finale lang ata ang episode na napanood namin nang buo in a long time! Nevertheless, here we are, so might as well. Just correct us if we're wrong (we probably are), we don't mind! Also in this episode, may mga kuwento rin kami about our premiere night adventures when we attended the screening of Direk Jun Robles Lana's Ten Little Mistresses. Sila Eugene Domingo, John Arcilla, Agot Isidro, Carmi Martin, Christian Bables, at marami pang iba--nandito silang lahat in this comedy murder-mystery that promises to be the mistress movie to end all mistress movies! Mapapanood 'yan sa Amazon Prime Video on February 15! Lastly, we get into some basketball action/drama/90s kid nostlagia with Takehiko Inoue's The First Slam Dunk! Ah, Sakuragi, Rukawa, Akagi, Miyagi, and Mitsui--walang kilala si Ham kahit isa sa Shohoku high school basketball team, but maybe she still enjoyed the movie? Game on! Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Tiktok @pleasepauseph and tell someone about Please Pause! Shopee or Lazada, Please Pause can help you with your internet shopping needs! Just use the links below to get into their website or app and start shopping! Make sure to use our links to let them know you heard it from us! Shop on Shopee using the following link for special offers: podlink.co/yih Shop on Lazada using the following link for special offers: podlink.co/go3 Thank you for supporting Please Pause!

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.02.02.526771v1?rss=1 Authors: Qi, C., Hasegawa, M., Takao, M., Sakai, M., Sasaki, M., Mizutani, M., Akagi, A., Iwasaki, Y., Miyahara, H., Yoshida, M., Scheres, S., Goedert, M. Abstract: Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) occurs in some individuals after measles infection, following a symptom-free period of several years. It resembles chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which happens after repetitive head impacts or exposure to blast waves, following a symptom-free period. As in CTE, when present, the neurofibrillary changes of SSPE are concentrated in superficial cortical layers. Here we used electron cryo-microscopy of tau filaments from two cases of SSPE to show that the tau folds of SSPE and CTE are identical. Two types of filaments were each made of two identical protofilaments with an extra density in the {beta}-helix region. Like in CTE, the vast majority of tau filaments were Type I, with a minority of Type II filaments. These findings suggest that the CTE tau fold can be caused by different environmental insults, which may be linked by inflammatory changes. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC

Photo: No known restrictions on publication. 1938. Akagi and escorts @Batchelorshow #Bestof2021: 1/2 The Sputnik moment of China's hypersonic missile test; & What is to be done? Jerry Hendrix III. (Sagemore Institute) (Originally posted October 25, 2021) https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.hudson.org/Jerry%20Hendrix_The%20Sputnik%20Moment%20-%20Historic%20Lessons%20for%20Our%20Hypersonic%20Age.pdf 1/2

Slam Dunk uno de los animes más populares de los años 90´s al fin estrena su primera película oficial después de 26 años THE FIRST SLAM DUNK estrenada en Japón el pasado 3 de Diciembre. Acompaña a Vitoco (@vito_lloy) en esta introducción de este entretenido anime para que conozcas las aventuras del autodenominado talentoso Hanamichi Sakuragi y el complejo camino a convertirse en el mejor basquetbolista y campeón de torneo nacional de Japón junto a sus amigos y compañeros del equipo de Shohoku quienes son Akagi, Miyagi, Mitsui, Kogure y su archirrival en el deporte y el amor Rukawa. #SlamDunk #TheFirstSlamDunk #Sakuragi #Rukawa #Shohoku #Anime #Manga Video editado por @godgreen_bartender

Aboard the Japanese CVsWhat is the morning looking like at this point aboard the CVs?What are the Japanese briefed about?When do they launch?Who is the strike leader?Talk about the flight into Midway…Aboard the American CVsReveille for US aircrews is at 0300, breakfast at 0400, ready rooms shortly after thatTalk about the anticipation in the ready roomsNervous energy Aboard Midway islandSearch planes take off around 0415Americans prepare for the battle they know is coming todayPlanes fueled and armedBert Earnest and his two dollar bill At 0545 a search plane sees the incoming strike and radios “Many Planes Heading Midway” PBY search planes sight Japanese CVs at 0552 Because of incoming aircraft and CV sighting, Midway scrambles damn near everything with wings by 0600 Japanese Midway strikeGive us the run-down of the Japanese attack on the island and the aerial encounters with the American fightersBill Brooks and his Brewster engage Japanese as they come into the island around 0616What are the effects of the Japanese strike on the island?Who decides another strike is needed?Why?When does Nagumo get word of another strike being needed?Take us through his decision making here Aboard the American CVs0645 Pilots Man Your Planes!Dusty KleissDon HoffSpruance on orders from Fletcher decides to launch at 0700CV6 launches and orbits the TF awaiting CV5 and her birdsUS CV strike launch is discombobulated and unorganized (clusterfuck is a good term but we shouldn't say that)“Proceed on mission assigned” flashed to McCluskyHornet's strikeStanhope Ring versus John Waldron As the American CVs strike is being launched, the first attackers from Midway see the Japanese CVs…Bert Earnest and Harry Ferrier in 8-T-1 attack HiryuThe B26s attack Akagi at almost the same timeTalk about the near miss by the B26 on Akagi's bridge0800 VMSB-241 attacks Japanese fleetJapanese CAP proves to be incredibly deadly to these attacks While the Midway based aircraft are attacking the fleet, the Japanese are also attacked by a submarine Talk about the effects that the Nautilus attack on the fleet have as far as timing is concerned, and what do the Japanese do Nautilus' attack, while not successful, is HUGE when it comes to the events that soon followArashi… Around 0840 the American attacks ceaseTalk about Nagumo's timetable…What does it look like inside the hangar decks of the Japanese CVs right now?US VT attacks on Kido ButaiVT8 and VT6 shortly afterwards Let's once and for all dispel the George Gay myth… The Flight to NowhereWhere the hell is HAG?What happens to them?Could they have helped?Tease the cover up by Mitscher for Ring to be discussed at length in the next episode EAG flight and McClusky's decisionTalk about what is happening in the air right now What is McClusky thinkingWhat is happening to the SBD formation?McClusky's decision to continue the searchSeeing Arashi…Set up the attack of EAG on Kaga and Akagi from Japanese and US sidesWhat is going on aboard the Japanese CVs right now?PLANES ON THE FLIGHT DECKS MYTH!Flash warning to KagaMcClusky breaks doctrine and attacks Kaga Attack on Kaga and AkagiEarl GallaherDusty KleissDon HoffAboard KagaBriefly discuss attacks on SoryuTalk about the damage done to Kaga, Akagi and SoryuJust how bad is it? Discuss the Hiryu strikes on CV5 Afternoon strike on HiryuLots of AAA this time and CAPDusty KleissDon Hoff Wrap up June 4 and tease the next episodeJapanese lossesUS losses

June 4, 1942. Commander Mitsuo Fuchida, leader of the Pearl Harbor attack, was steaming across the ocean on the aircraft carrier Akagi, alongside the powerful Japanese navy. Six months after crippling the United States Pacific Fleet in Hawaii, he was poised to destroy another target—the US airfields of Midway. Fuchida felt invincible—except for a ruptured appendix. After surgery, he was recovering on the flight deck, when he saw American Dauntless bombers diving straight for him. “Hell-divers!” a lookout screamed. A one thousand-pound bomb rocked the ship. During the attack, Fuchida broke both of his ankles. The explosions and fires eventually brought the Akagi to a watery grave, along with three other carriers and over three hundred of Japan's best planes and pilots. Fuchida, unable to walk, was rescued and taken to a nearby destroyer. He later found that everyone else in the sick bay, which he left before the attack, had died from a direct hit. On August 5, 1945, Fuchida was ordered from Hiroshima to Yamato. The next day, the United States' atomic bomb flattened Hiroshima. Fuchida had barely escaped. Later, he accompanied a search party to assess the damage. One by one, every member of his group died from radiation poisoning. Only Fuchida survived. After the war, Fuchida became very bitter. He hated the Americans for destroying his country. One day, he read a tract that led him to the Bible. Soon he came to Jesus's words, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing” (Luke 23:34). Fuchida realized Jesus was praying for him! Then, Fuchida began a new life with his Savior. Until his death, Fuchida was an international evangelist, preaching the power of Christ to replace hatred with love. • Jonathon Baker • Have you experienced Jesus's radical forgiveness? If you want to learn more, our "Know Jesus" page. • Do you have any hatred or bitterness in your life? How might Christ's prayer of forgiveness make a difference to you? But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his immense patience as an example for those who would believe in him and receive eternal life. 1 Timothy 1:16 (NIV)

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In this episode, I am here with my good friend, Jim Peterson, serving in Japan for almost three decades! Jim is a lover of Jesus and a second-generation missionary in Japan. Currently, Jim and Hydi are Evangelical Covenant Missionaries in the countryside of Japan. They live on this beautiful mountain called Mt. Akagi where they run the Akagi Bible Camp and host various ministries throughout the year. Jim is a lover of all things mountain, outdoors, and theology. In this episode, we talked about the gray area of what it means to honor and revere ancestors, holding the tension of the Japanese traditional yet being true to Christianity. This podcast exists to showcase how much God loves Japan through different stories of people. It is like God sending a care package to the ones He loves in Japan! If you would like to share your experience with us, please email carepackagetojapan@gmail.com, and we would love to have you on the podcast as well! Let's all continue to pray and praise God for the beautiful country of Japan. Pray for Japan

In this episode, I am here with my good friend, Hydi Peterson, serving in Japan for almost three decades! Hydi is a lover of Jesus and a third-generation missionary in Japan. Currently, Hydi and her husband Jim are Evangelical Covenant Missionaries in the countryside of Japan. They live in this beautiful mountain called Mt. Akagi where they run the Akagi Bible Camp and host various ministries throughout the year. Hydi is a lover of all things mountain, outdoors, and sports - and she uses her God-given talents to do ministry in all aspects of life and fully embraces her unique identity as who God created her to be. The purpose of this podcast is to showcase how much God loves Japan through different stories of people. It is like God sending a care package to the ones He loves in Japan! If you would like to share your experience with us, please email carepackagetojapan@gmail.com and we would love to have you on the podcast as well! Let's all continue to pray and praise God for the beautiful country of Japan. #prayforjapan

In 1942, Darwin was a small town with limited civil and military infrastructure. Seeing its location in close proximity to the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), Portuguese Timor and others, the Royal Australian Navy and Royal Australian Air Force constructed bases near the town in the 1930s and the early years of World War II (1939-1945). In spite of being the Northern Territory's capital city after the Territory split from South Australia in 1911, Darwin's pre-war permanent non-military population was 5,800 – for comparison, Sydney passed that population level in convicts alone, in 1816.Considering all this, it's not surprising that Darwin became a target for the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces. Early in the morning of February 19, 1942, four Japanese aircraft carriers - Akagi, Kaga, Hiryū, and Sōryū – launched 188 aircraft into the sky, heading south for Darwin. By the end of the day, the city was gone.

In 1942, Darwin was a small town with limited civil and military infrastructure. Seeing its location in close proximity to the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), Portuguese Timor and others, the Royal Australian Navy and Royal Australian Air Force constructed bases near the town in the 1930s and the early years of World War II (1939-1945). In spite of being the Northern Territory's capital city after the Territory split from South Australia in 1911, Darwin's pre-war permanent non-military population was 5,800 – for comparison, Sydney passed that population level in convicts alone, in 1816.Considering all this, it's not surprising that Darwin became a target for the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces. Early in the morning of February 19, 1942, four Japanese aircraft carriers - Akagi, Kaga, Hiryū, and Sōryū – launched 188 aircraft into the sky, heading south for Darwin. By the end of the day, the city was gone.

Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! Fue el principal bombardero naval en picado de los primeros compases de la Campaña del Pacífico, y el que más toneladas de buques aliados hundió. Y eso que las fuentes occidentales lo declararon obsoleto. Participó junto a los Nakajima B5N Kate en el ataque a Pearl Harbour desde los portaaviones Akagi y Kaga. Bombardero eficaz, pronto se volvió obsoleto debido a sus pobres prestaciones frente a la aviación enemiga. Estamos en: casusbelli.top Facebook, nuestra página es @casusbellipodcast https://www.facebook.com/CasusBelliPodcast Telegram, nuestro canal es @casusbellipodcast https://t.me/casusbellipodcast Nuestro chat de aviones es https://t.me/aviones10 Twitter, como @casusbellipod https://twitter.com/CasusBelliPod Pinterest, como @casusbellipod, https://es.pinterest.com/casusbellipod ¿Queréis contarnos algo? También puedes escribirnos a casus.belli.pod@gmail.com Si te ha gustado, y crees que nos lo merecemos, nos sirve mucho que nos des un like, que es el corazoncito que sale en el episodio en el móvil arriba a la derecha, si nos escuchas desde la app de ivoox, sea android o IOS. Muchas gracias por escucharnos, y hasta la próxima. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

In 1942, Darwin was a small town with limited civil and military infrastructure. Seeing its location in close proximity to the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), Portuguese Timor and others, the Royal Australian Navy and Royal Australian Air Force constructed bases near the town in the 1930s and the early years of World War II (1939-1945). In spite of being the Northern Territory's capital city after the Territory split from South Australia in 1911, Darwin's pre-war permanent non-military population was 5,800 – for comparison, Sydney passed that population level in convicts alone, in 1816.Considering all this, it's not surprising that Darwin became a target for the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces. Early in the morning of February 19, 1942, four Japanese aircraft carriers - Akagi, Kaga, Hiryū, and Sōryū – launched 188 aircraft into the sky, heading south for Darwin. By the end of the day, the city was gone.

In 1942, Darwin was a small town with limited civil and military infrastructure. Seeing its location in close proximity to the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), Portuguese Timor and others, the Royal Australian Navy and Royal Australian Air Force constructed bases near the town in the 1930s and the early years of World War II (1939-1945). In spite of being the Northern Territory's capital city after the Territory split from South Australia in 1911, Darwin's pre-war permanent non-military population was 5,800 – for comparison, Sydney passed that population level in convicts alone, in 1816.Considering all this, it's not surprising that Darwin became a target for the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces. Early in the morning of February 19, 1942, four Japanese aircraft carriers - Akagi, Kaga, Hiryū, and Sōryū – launched 188 aircraft into the sky, heading south for Darwin. By the end of the day, the city was gone.

It's almost Halloween, and the Forest begins to fill with ghouls and ghosts... Actually, no, that's just our crew here in the FIA studio! YES!!! The studio has finally been completed, so strap yourself in and bathe in soothing audio splendor as FIA goes PC like never before! This week, #RebelZen explains milk bottles as The Producer muses on fallen seed. Recommended series of the same genre: Kaiji, Akagi, Liar Game, Alice in Borderlands, Darwin's Game, etc The mentioned twitter thread - https://mobile.twitter.com/momofnorank/status/1446149270793555971 The Technology Episode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhgjilqfa_c&list=PLpWIUJHWiUOKwi9olsTb8nsJWFnozAf4U&index=5 For more on the difference between the USA vs UK's "countryside", check out https://soundcloud.com/projectfia/ep-74 For more Halloween-themed stuff, throwback to https://soundcloud.com/projectfia/ep-17 Send us your comments/questions: projectfia.rebelrated@gmail.com www.twitter.com/projectfia (@ProjectFIA) Youtube channel for the FULL COMEDY SERIES and extras! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkDgEUIBLOU9iLXo_h2Hr2A/ Special thanks to our sponsor, Hobo Bait! http://bit.ly/HoboBaitShop

Thüt, Maryna, and Wellby set off on their way to the pirate city of Drohst in order to rescue Duke Graycastle's young boy from the clutches of Orc raiders operating under the banner of Akagi the Destroyer.

Moritomo Gakuen is a Japanese private school operator located in Osaka, Japan, which found itself at the center of a scandal in 2017 involving a steep discount given by the Japanese Finance Ministry's Kinki Bureau on the sale of the plot of the formerly government-owned plot of land which the elementary school would be built on. Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's wife, Akie Abe, was found to be named honorary principal of the elementary school before it was built, sparking allegations that the steep discount worth more than 800 million yen was offered due to the school operator's relationship with the then First Lady. The issue resurfaced in June this year when the Osaka District Court finally disclosed the documents compiled by deceased Finance Ministry bureaucrat Toshio Akagi detailing instructions he received to falsify public records relating to the sale of the plot of land. The document, dubbed the “Akagi file”, includes documents on instructions given in the period between February to April 2017 to alter records regarding the sale of the plot of land, as well as email exchanges between the Financial Bureau's ministerial headquarters in Tokyo and the local finance bureau in the Kinki region. Toshio Akagi committed suicide in 2018 after allegedly suffering from depression due to having to follow orders to falsify the documents. Our resident news anchor discusses the development of the scandal from 2016 to the present. - Summary - What is the Moritomo Gakuen scandal about? 森友学園問題とは - What is the Kakei Gakuen scandal about? 加計学園問題 - The truth behind these scandals 事件の真相は --- FNN Prime Online YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/FNNnewsCH Disclaimer: News Anchor Japanese is not affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected with Fuji News Network, Inc., or any of its subsidiaries or its affiliates. The official FNN Prime Online website can be found at https://www.fnn.jp/

Kyler Akagi has already accomplished some cool things even though this is just his second year teaching. He created the podcast, "Death of the Roman Republic." In this episode, he shares technology he has found especially useful with the changes brought by the pandemic and gives some wise advice for new teachers that some experienced teachers will find beneficial as well. You can find more information about "How We Teach This" on our website, www.emporia.edu/HWTT plus watch videos of the presenters, access resources they mention, and find links to other websites related to the episode. If you'd like to leave us a comment about this podcast episode, you can do that here.

Kyler Akagi has already accomplished some cool things even though this is just his second year teaching. Find out what tips and tricks he's learned on our first episode of How We Teach This.

FREE PLAYING VS. CORONAVIRUS! http://bit.ly/2ISJQFt E FABIO CHE NE PENSA? (Immagine: https://bit.ly/3cyUVey) 0:00:00 INIZIO 0:33:26 SIX DAYS IN FALLUJAH FA PROPAGANDA POTENTE (Facebook, Facebook) 1:17:29 XBOX GAME PASS, LA GENTE GIOCA DI PIÙ E SPENDE DI PIÙ (Facebook) 1:46:22 #VG: YAKUZA, CE L'ABBIAMO FATTA #UOMOBIGGIO (Amazon) 1:54:48 #FILM: MAN IN BLACK 1 & 2 #UOMOBIGGIO (Amazon) 1:56:45 #SERIE: INVINCIBLE #UOMOBIGGIO #BRUNODINOI #MAESTROMIRCO (Amazon Prime Video) 2:16:00 #VG: IT TAKES TWO #DRIZZT (Link) 2:24:36 #PODCAST: CACHEMIRE CON EMANUELA FANELLI #VITADANEGOZIO (YouTube) 2:30:11 #SERIE: THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER #VITADANEGOZIO (Disney+) 2:34:03 #SERIE: DUCKTALES (2017), STAGIONE 2 #VITADANEGOZIO (Disney+) 2:38:57 #ANIME: AKAGI #BRUNODINOI (Trakt) 2:42:52 #FILM: LA TIGRE BIANCA #SAGGIOSIMONE (Netflix) 2:47:56 CONCLUSIONE 2:50:17 #EXTRA: ANDREA GAMINACTION - FP 2020 REMIX AKA BRUNO COCKBLOCK PSICOLOGO SENSIBILE FUCK THE POLICE Le note dell'episodio complete: [https://www.freeplaying.it/fp435]

FREE PLAYING VS. CORONAVIRUS! http://bit.ly/2ISJQFt FINALMENTE JUSTIZIA PER LA JUSTICE LEAGUE! (Immagine: https://bit.ly/2NGahUW) 0:00:10 INIZIO 0:15:44 HA USCITO LA SCHNEIDER’S CUT (Facebook) 1:03:25 FABIO SI SENTE VECCHIO PER PERSONA 5 #DRIZZT (Facebook) 1:30:20 NIENTE SUPER SEDUCER 3 SU STEAM (Facebook) 1:33:50 #SERIE: THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER #SAGGIOSIMONE (Disney+) 2:00:22 GLI EXTRA CREDITS UN PO' A CASO DELL'#UOMOBIGGIO 2:03:54 GLI EXTRA CREDITS RIPETUTI DI #VITADANEGOZIO 2:07:10 #VG: LIES BENEATH #DRIZZT (Oculus) 2:12:02 #VG: DEAD SPACE 2 #MAESTROMIRCO (Amazon) 2:13:32 #VG: CODE VEIN #MAESTROMIRCO (Amazon, Humble) 2:19:13 #VG: JEDI: FALLEN ORDER #BRUNODINOI (Amazon) 2:23:27 #ANIME: AKAGI #BRUNODINOI (Trakt) 2:26:20 CONCLUSIONE 2:29:26 #EXTRA: ANDREA GAMINACTION - FP 2020 REMIX AKA BRUNO COCKBLOCK PSICOLOGO SENSIBILE FUCK THE POLICE Le note dell'episodio complete: [https://www.freeplaying.it/fp434]

In this episode we are joined by Kana Akagi. Kana is a multi-faceted entrepreneur on and off who leads with passion and a big heart. To give you an idea of just how deeply she lives this mantra, Kana wrote a book on how business success, particularly her business success, follows making family a priority. In this episode we learn about challenges and opportunities of founding the first ever hackathon in Japan. And Kana shares how creating communities not increasing followers is the key to building a robust business in a digital age.I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did! Please leave your feedback with me on your favourite social media platform.Key Conversations 03:20 | Leveraging success from other fields to lead a new venture - Japan's first ever Hackathon14:15 | The value in community over followers16:50 | 3 pillars of creating engaged communities---If you want to know more about Kana:Japan Hackathon | https://www.japanhackathon.comLinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/kana-kanako-akagi-4255861a0/Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/1QnboZC)

Akagi The story revolves around the mahjong gambling exploits of Shigeru Akagi After a death-defying game of chicken one evening in 1958, Akagi nonchalantly enters a yakuza mahjong parlor to shake the police's trail. Although he is unfamiliar with the rules of mahjong, his gambling intuition saves a small-time gambler, Nangō, and grants him a seat at the gambling table. As the night progresses , the stakes are raised both within the game and for Akagi, who is under the suspicion of the local policeman, Yasuoka. However, Akagi manages to defeat Keiji Yagi —despite Yagi's cheating during the game—and impresses the members of the gambling house. Kaiji Gambling Apocalypse: Kaiji is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nobuyuki Fukumoto. It has been published by Kodansha in Weekly Young Magazine since February 1996. The story centers on Kaiji Itō, a consummate gambler and his misadventures around gambling. The series has currently been divided into six parts. The current part, Tobaku Datenroku Kaiji: 24 Oku Dasshutsu-hen, started in 2017. Podcast Host - Shawn Best & Dwayne Small Shawn's info Twitter - https://twitter.com/DatBoiBest Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/datboibestgaming/ Twitch- twitch.tv/DatBoiBest Dwayne's Info Instagram - KureiguStudios Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyyaY9idsbpao18u-tOSzrA --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/no-country-for-otakus/support

Doctor Juliox recomienda lo mejor en #anime #manga o comic! Tras el anuncio de una proxima pelicula, Doctor Juliox tiene que hablarnos de #SlamDunk! Hanamichi Sakuragi, un joven de 15 años, problemático y pandillero ingresa a un equipo de Basketball. Una serie donde vemos la evolución como persona y como jugador!Vale la pena? Nuestro Doctor nos cuenta todo de esta serie.Solo dale play

This Week we are looking at one of the most famous naval battles in the second world war Midway the turning point in US superiority over the Japanese

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I was thinking of a different anime when I (Ernest) stumble upon Akagi anime about a gambling legend for the game Mahjong. This anime was exciting so hear Jon and me discuss the game of Mahjong and talk a bit about the major characters featured in Akagi. If you have any anime suggestions please hit us up at ThisIsAnimeArchives@gmail.com

Struggle to care as Levins reads all 307 chapters of the mahjong manga masterpiece Akagi! He also read a new Jeff Lemire graphic novel. Siobhan read a comic about a tree or something. Plus: we answer YOUR questions!SUPPORT US ON PATREONSUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES / STITCHERFOLLOW US ON FACEBOOKJOIN THE SERIOUS ISSUES FACEBOOK GROUPFOLLOW US ON TWITTERTWITTER: LEVINS / SIOBHANINSTAGRAM: LEVINS / SIOBHAN–Serious Issues is a comic book review podcast, hosted by Andrew Levins and Siobhan Coombs at Kings Comics in Sydney.Find every comic we review on the show at Kings Comics in Sydney or online at http://kingscomics.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tonight on GeekNights, we review the Nobuyuki Fukumoto manga Gambling Apocalypse: KAIJI. Not to be confused with the gambling anime Akagi that we reviewed in 2006. This manga covers the events planned in Mr. Tonegawa: Middle Management Blues. In the news, Masaaki Yuasa has retired as president of the prolific Science SARU studio, Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! is good to the end, and Viz licenses the Super Mario Bro. manga.

「わたしは人類」と「柿ゲノム」の共通項を無理やり探しました。Show notes 死がふたりを分かつまで やくしまるえつこ　わたしは人類 (YouTube) やくしまるえつこさんによる「わたしは人類」の解説 … やくしまるえつこさんによるわたしは人類の解説。ぜひ読んでいただきたい。 やくしまるえつこさんによる「わたしは人類(I’m Humanity)」の解説 … シアノバクテリアと塩基の情報があります。 Ohno and Ohno. Immunogenetics (1986) … 大野夫妻によるDNA music論文のオリジナル Susumu Ohno, DNA Music (YouTube) 空間知覚拡張のための“聞こえる化”デバイスの開発 … 未踏2015にて発表された「聞こえる化」のデバイス Genomes OnLine Database: GOLD … ここで既に読まれた、もしくは現在進行中のゲノムプロジェクトを調べることができます。 Akagi et al., Science (2014) … 柿のY染色体のゲノムシーケンシングとRNA-Seqを通して、OGIとMeGIという遺伝子を発見した論文。OGIとMeGIはパラログであり、OGIはフレームシフトなどによりタンパク質としての機能は失われ、ncRNAとして働いていると考えられる。植物において初めて性決定遺伝子が同定された。OGIによるメカニズムの詳しいメカニズムは不明と言いましたがRNAiのような仕組みが働いていると考えられているようです。 Akagi et al., PLoS genetics (2020) … 今回の柿ゲノム論文。SiMeGI(Sister of MeGI)を新たなパラログとして同定。Whole genome duplicationとgene duplicationにより、カキノキ属の性決定遺伝子であるOGIとMeGIが作られたことが推定された。 whole genome duplication … 全ゲノム重複。ゲノム全体が二倍になる。 遺伝子重複(gene duplication) … 遺伝子重複。ある遺伝子が二倍になる。 パラログとオソログ Akagi et al., Plant Cell (2018) … キウイフルーツにおける性決定遺伝子「Shy girl」を同定した論文。 Kiuchi et al., Nature (2014) … カイコにおける性決定システムとncRNAに関する論文。 Editorial notes エスパーリスナーは　未来に　攻撃を予知した！(coela) Researchat.fmは、リスナーからのお便りで出演者が勉強するpodcast番組です (soh) ミームが発現し始めているのかそれともエスパーからの投稿なのか見分けがつきません…また、植物の用語がわからずメチャクチャになってしまい申し訳ございません (tadasu)

¡Hoy hablamos de Space Opera! ¡Hoy hablamos de Macross! Y junto a un gran y conocedor invitado, ¡Akagi! Repasemos la historia de esta mítica saga desde Macross a Macross Delta.

Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! A las 02:30 del 4 de Junio de 1942 a bordo del IJN Akagi se tocó diana y los marineros y el personal de hangares se levantaron para una dura jornada de combate. Nada hacía supones lo que al final les deparo esa jornada fatal. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Have you enjoyed a hanami or cherry blossom flower viewing party this year.  One of the great Japanese traditions I have to say. Today we are talking about when the system fails you, what do you do?  Creativity isn't part of the Japanese education system and how to think is being replaced with how to do.  We need innovation though and we need creative people.  Today we are going to look at what we need to be doing, given the government has dismantled liberal arts curriculums in favour of hard skills.  How do we get ideas from our teams so we can win the battle for innovation in business.  Welcome back to this weekly edition every Tuesday of "THE Cutting Edge Japan Business Show" I am your host Dr. Greg Story, President of Dale Carnegie Training Japan and best selling author of Japan Sales Mastery. We are bringing the show to you from our High Performance Center in Akasaka in Minato-ku, the business center of Tokyo. Why the Cutting Edge?  In this show, we are looking at the critical areas for success in business in Japan.  We want to help advance everyone's thinking so that we be at the forefront, the Cutting Edge, of how to flourish here in this market.   Before we get into this week's topic, here is what caught my attention lately. The number of Japanese farmers shrank  fifty  six percent since nineteen  ninety five  to one  point eight  two  million.  Their average age rose to sixty  seven from fifty  nine  in the period since nineteen  ninety  five. To cope with the issue the Agriculture Ministry adopted a “smart agriculture” policy in two  thousand and fourteen  to promote robotics and information technology to boost farm productivity.  Machinery maker Kubota developed self driving tractors that cost eleven million yen or around one hundred thousand dollars.  They also sell pesticide spraying drones to automate some of the field work.  The smart agriculture market is expected to grow by fourteen  percent to  fourteen  point seven  billion  yen or one  hundred  and  thirty  million dollars, this year and double in the next five  years according to the Yano Research Institute. In other news, US food company Just and Japanese meat producer Toriyama Chikusan Shokuhin have forged a partnership for the development of lab grown wagyu beef, with the aim of distributing it globally.Just will culture cells taken from Akagi brand wagyu cows in order to v=create the same quality as real Akagi beef. The US Food and Drug Adminstration and the Agriculture Department have agreed to jointly introduce regulations on lab grown meat in anticipation of its expected commercialization.  Finally, in  two thousand  and  sixteen social security expenditures including public pensions, medical insurance and other benefits reached  one  hundred  and  sixteen point  nine  trillion yen or over one  trillion dollars.  I wonder how much a trillion dollars is?  Too many zeros.  Anyway, it's a lot.  In twenty  twenty  five all of the post war baby boomers will be seventy  five  or older, further pushing up the cost of social security benefits.  Expenditures are expected to hit one  hundred  and  ninety trillion yen or one point seventy  two  trillion dollars.  The population of over sixty  five year olds will peak in twenty  forty  two  at thirty  nine  million. This is episode number seventy five and we are talking about  War Declared On Soft Skills In Japan     Soredewa ikimasho, so let's get going.The road to innovation in Japan has been a long one.  The “yutori” or relaxed education experiment started in the late 1980s didn't last very long.  The idea was that the focus on rote memorization needed to be changed to include more emphasis on creative thinking.  School days were reduced to five from six days a week.  Homework burdens were lightened.  The idea was a good one, yet as soon as Japan started to sink in international rankings for tests that favour rote memorization skills, the Japanese establishment panicked and threw the whole experiment straight out the window.    Fast forward to 2015, when then Education Minister  Hakubun  Shimomura told Japanese universities to take “active steps to abolish (social science and humanities departments) or convert them to serve areas that better meet society's needs”. There was no wiggle room on interpreting the message – he clearly said do what we say or we will cut your funding. Japanese universities were weak in the face of the new policy position of the Japanese government and meekly complied.   The justification was that this was needed  “in light of the decrease of the university age population, the demand for human resources and the function of national universities”.  Abenomics declares that the role of national universities is to produce “human resources that match the needs of society by accurately grasping changes in industrial structure and employment needs”.  Abe himself declared in  2014 in his OECD speech that “rather than deepening academic research that is highly theoretical, we will conduct more practical vocational education that better anticipates the needs of society”.   This was pretty curious stuff coming from Abe's Cabinet.  A couple of years ago, for the first time, we started to hear from our clients about their interest in having  more liberal arts aspects to their company in-house education programmes. They told us they need people who can think, can articulate their thoughts and they are looking to encourage more diversity of views.  They wanted to encourage innovation as a direct result of this effort.   Was this another part of the political thrust to the right under Abe?  Was the objective to create a technocrat population of docile people who can toe the line and follow orders?  The Japan Times noted, “Without exception, totalitarian states invariably reject knowledge in the humanities and states that reject such knowledge always become totalitarian”.  Was this a Sputnik moment for Abe, when his answer to Japan falling behind was to ape the America of the 1950s and stress mathematics and science subjects, to produce more engineers to solve Japan's problems?   The vocational relevancy of Abe's attack on “soft skill” subjects is in serious doubt.  Companies we deal with are stressing the development of people who can communicate, think, share ideas and be creative.  The Japanese industry peak body, the Keidanren, was at complete odds with the Abe Cabinet over just what are relevant vocational skills.  Then Keidanren Chairman  Sadayuki  Sakakibara, from Toray, made this point, “Some media reported that the business community is seeking work-ready human resources, not students in the humanities, but this is not the case”.  He also noted that Japanese business people desire the “exact opposite”.  They want students who can solve problems based on “ideas encompassing the different fields” of science and humanities.   The Science Council of Japan at the time weighed in as well backing the importance of the humanities. In cooperation with the natural sciences they are there to solve “contemporary problems domestically as well as internationally.  So what does this all mean? Find out more when we come back from the break   Welcome backAre we setting ourselves up for failure?  The population of students is set to decline by one third from  650,000 students in  2018  to 480,000  in 2031.  Abe was correct to identify the critical importance of a diminishing human resource for business, but his antidote seems completely at variance with what business needs in Japan.    As many companies make the move overseas, technical abilities are needed but dealing with diversity as a leader becomes even more critical for the success of the enterprise. It is well recognised that soft skills are the keys to successfully leading an international business.  The supply of humanities graduates will disappear in line with government policy. Therefore, the pressure on companies to compensate becomes much greater.  Companies however are not liberal arts colleges where students have the luxury of time, to sit around thinking and pontificating on philosophical matters.   What can be done within companies to encourage more out of the box thinking?  Creating a safe environment for idea generation would be a good start.  Most brainstorming methodologies used in Japan in firms tend to kill ideas at the generation stage by critiquing them as they emerge.  Better to allow a thousand flowers to bloom, to get out as many ideas as possible, before any cutting is done.   Bosses constantly yelling orders to their staff, need to ease up on that and instead ask questions. These will get their staff thinking rather than just doing.  Inviting staff ideas on what needs to be done, as well as how to do it makes a lot of sense if your want to create a creative environment.   The hardest thing in Japan will be how to deal with errors and mistakes.  This whole country is a mistake free zone.   Understanding that the innovation process is messy is a good staring point.  Expecting that people won't do new things perfectly from the start is also a necessary shift in thinking.  Some “yutori” injection is needed inside companies to encourage people to step outside their comfort zone.   If you haven't started looking at these issues now would be a good time to start.  The educational system will continue to put forth robots, who will be passive and wait for instructions.  It will be like a nation of Siris and Alexas will be produced, hanging around to be told what to do.   Start with some regular brainstorming activities for the teams.  These creative muscles need regular than infrequent exercising. Instead of beanbags and electronic games, give the team something concrete and interesting to work on. Also implement the results because this is highly motivating and where most companies fail.  Get those great ideas off the paper stuck to the walls and get them into plans with names, dates, and measures attached to them. THE Cutting Edge Japan Business Show is here to help you succeed in Japan.  Subscribe on YouTube, share it with your family, friends and colleagues, become a regular. Thank you for watching this episode and remember to hit the subscribe button. Our website details are on screen now, enjapan.dalecarnegie.com, it is awesome value, so check it out. Please leave me some feedback on YouTube, I would love to know how this show helped and what other topics you are interested in for me to cover.  Remember I am here as a free resource to help you, so just tell me how I can help you best. In episode seventy six we are talking about Your Own Leader Voice. Find out more about that next week. So Yoroshiku Onegai Itashimasu please join me for the next episode of the Cutting Edge Japan Business Show We are here to help you and we have only one direction in mind for you and your business and that is UP!!!

Join the senior staff of the Akagi as they follow the threads of a mystery and end up in combat against the Klingons. Star Trek Adventures by Modiphius: https://www.modiphius.com/star-trek.html Space 1990 Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ “Star Trek and all related marks, logos and characters are owned by CBS Studios Inc. This fan production is not endorsed by, sponsored by, nor affiliated with CBS, Paramount Pictures, Modiphius Entertainment, or any other Star Trek franchise, and is non-commercial intended for recreational use. No commercial exhibition or distribution is permitted. No alleged independent rights will be asserted against CBS or Paramount Pictures.”

Join the senior staff of the Akagi as they preside over a murder trial involving a Klingon Ambassador. Star Trek Adventures by Modiphius:https://www.modiphius.com/star-trek.html Space 1990 Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ “Star Trek and all related marks, logos and characters are owned by CBS Studios Inc. This fan production is not endorsed by, sponsored by, nor affiliated with CBS, Paramount Pictures, Modiphius Entertainment, or any other Star Trek franchise, and is non-commercial intended for recreational use. No commercial exhibition or distribution is permitted. No alleged independent rights will be asserted against CBS or Paramount Pictures.”

Join the senior staff of the Akagi as they nearly all die to Talarian Hook Spiders. Star Trek Adventures by Modiphius:https://www.modiphius.com/star-trek.html Space 1990 Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ “Star Trek and all related marks, logos and characters are owned by CBS Studios Inc. This fan production is not endorsed by, sponsored by, nor affiliated with CBS, Paramount Pictures, Modiphius Entertainment, or any other Star Trek franchise, and is non-commercial intended for recreational use. No commercial exhibition or distribution is permitted. No alleged independent rights will be asserted against CBS or Paramount Pictures.”

Join the senior staff of the Akagi as they rush to repair a station containing a star from going hypernova! If you want to catch earlier episodes, check out my Youtube Channel! Star Trek Adventures by Modiphius: https://www.modiphius.com/star-trek.html Space 1990 Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ “Star Trek and all related marks, logos and characters are owned by CBS Studios Inc. This fan production is not endorsed by, sponsored by, nor affiliated with CBS, Paramount Pictures, Modiphius Entertainment, or any other Star Trek franchise, and is non-commercial intended for recreational use. No commercial exhibition or distribution is permitted. No alleged independent rights will be asserted against CBS or Paramount Pictures.”

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Kai Akagi • Selected Scriptures

This is our second visit with aviation artist and historian John Mollison. In this interview, John discusses his newest film, the award-winning South Dakota Warrior: The John Waldron Story. On 4 June, 1942, LtCDR John C. Waldron led 29 other men into battle against the Japanese at the Battle of Midway. The result was (nearly) utter annihilation of his squadron...and the moment that assured that the United States would utterly defeat the Japanese. His mission led to the destruction of four Japanese aircraft carriers (the Soryu, the Hiryu, the Kaga and the Akagi) during the Battle of Midway, which changed the course of the war in the Pacific. In Mollison's film, we learn the John Waldron story and the lessons of the Battle of Midway.

This week marks two very significant anniversaries in aviation history. Both occurred during World War Two. The Battle of Midway occurred 75 years ago this week, June 4-7 1942. Although it was a naval battle, the dramatic results were achieved primarily by naval aviation. Only seven months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, which launched the United States into the war, the results of the battle crippled the Japanese navy for the remainder of the war. In this one battle, four Japanese aircraft carriers (Akagi, Kaga, Hiryu and Soryu) were destroyed. The U.S.S. Yorktown was the only American aircraft carrier loss. In terms of casualties, the results were equally as dramatic. The Japanese navy suffered 3057 dead, while 307 Americans had lost their lives. In the European Theater, Operation Overlord - the Normandy invasion - commenced 73 years ago, on June 6, 1944. This was the largest seaborne invasion in history, with nearly 5,000 landing and assault craft, 289 escort vessels, and 277 minesweepers participating. On just that one day, 160,000 allied troops crossed the English Channel. Allied casualties were immense, with 4414 confirmed dead on just that first day. Airpower played a major role in the invasion. The allies had air superiority, which meant that their ground forces were not subject to German bomber attacks. Paratroopers were carried by transport aircraft, and gliders transported ground forces to unimproved sites in the dead of night. American fighter-bombers hammered German emplacements. In terms of the overall plan, the invasion did not initially meet its objectives. The invasion beaches did not link up as planned, and the five critical bridgeheads did not get connected for six more days. Compared to allied casualties, the Germans lost 1000 men. But the Normandy invasion was the beginning of the end for the Third Reich, and the lives lost, including a cousin I never met, were not in vain.

In 1998, Noriko Shizuka, disappeared while traveling with her family to the picturesque Akagi Shrine. She stepped away from one group of relatives to catch up with her husband. Curiously, as family members watched Noriko walk off, she veered away from the direction of the shrine and disappeared from view. Noriko Shizuka hasn't been seen since. What happened that day and where is Noriko? Contact info: Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/599855356835724/ Email truecrimejapan@gmail.com

On the 19th of February 1942 Japanese carrier and land based aircraft attacked the Australian port of Darwin. The 1st Air Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy was fresh from it's attack on the US Naval base at Pearl Harbour just 10 weeks prior and focused its attention on Darwin to prevent the allies using it as a base to interfere with the Japanese conquest of Timor and Java. This is an interview with Peter Grose, author of 'An Awkward Truth' an excellent account of the Darwin raid.

E temos mais um Fate Masters Analisa. No retorno das férias, os Fate Masters Rafael Meyer (o Velho Lich), Fábio Costa (o Mr. Mickey) e Luis Cavalheiro (o Cicerone do Fate Horror) se embrenham em meio a violência, corrupção, mahjong e lamen de Chinatown e analisa mais um produto do Deus do Milho, Igor Moreno, e um produto que já foi mencionado anteriormente: Chopstick!, um produto de um nível altíssimo que chegou no nível de Masters of Umdaar Vamos falar sobre novas regras, novas leituras, níveis de campanha (do mais realista ao mais roubado do Wire-Fu), sobre ação e sobre sorte, sobre como evitar o número 4 e damos também algumas sugestões adicionais à Locadora do Sr. Lao! Um exemplo dos dados de Sic Bo: E aproveitamos para convocar toda a comunidade Fate a contribuir com o Apoia.se do Igor Moreno para que tenhamos mais e mais RPG, de preferência (quem sabe), um Bukatsu! Shippuden ou um Chopstick - Vingança Assassina! Abaixo segue nossa atualização do Rank dos Fate Masters Analisa Posição Cenário Mr. Mickey Velho Lich Cicerone Média 1 Masters of Umdaar 5 4,5 5 4.83   Chopstick 5 4,75 4,75 4.83 3 Bukatsu 4,75 4,5 4,5 4,58 4 Atomic Robo 4 4,5 —- 4,25 5 Atomic Robo: Majestic 12 3,5 3,5 —- 3,5 6 Projeto Memento 3,5 3,75 2,75 3,33 E por fim, a cena que citamos de Baahubali: Lembrem-se: qualquer dúvidas, críticas, sugestões e opiniões você pode enviar na comunidade do Google+ do Fate Masters, na comunidade do Facebook do Fate (com a hashtag #fatemasters), e pelo email fatemasterspodcast@gmail.com Além disso, temos agora nosso Espaço no Google Space para você ouvinte comentar, trocar idéias, sugerir pautas e tudo mais. Link para o programa em MP3 Participantes: Fábio Emilio Costa Rafael Sant’Anna Meyer Luiz Cavalheiro Duração: 80min Cronologia do Podcast: 00:00:10 - Abertura 00:02:03 - Apresentando Chopstick e o 4 da Morte 00:10:21 - Sobre a Chinatown 00:14:59 - Analisando o Livro (ou melhor, o PDF) de Chopstick 00:20:32 - Artes Marciais e a Locadora do Senhor Lao 00:27:17 - Chopstick é um livro auto-contido 00:28:46 - Sobre o rolamento de dados em Chopstick (e porque não são os 4dF, mas os dados de Sic Bo) 00:31:24 - Sobre as Abordagens, os Pilares, Abordagens Dominada e Defeito e como tudo isso impacta nos níveis das aborgadens de acordo com o nível da Campanha 00:34:55 - Moedas da Sorte e Biscoitos da Sorte 00:39:12 - Aspectos, Descrição do Personagem e Relações Criminosas - apresentando Koji Sawada, o Deus das Apostas 00:46:35 - Sobre o Número da Morte 00:48:00 - Proezas em Combates 00:51:46 - Começando as novas regras, com as Armas Letais 00:54:16 - Rumores, Fama e Apelidos 00:59:04 - Quadrilhas, Gangues e Organizações Criminosas - sua criação e estrutura 01:04:34 - As Apostas em Chopstick 01:10:10 - Aproveitando Idéias de Chopstick e rankeando! 01:15:03 - Considerações Finais, incluindo nosso apelo - participem do apoia.se do Igor Moreno! Links Relacionados: Chopstick Link para o FMA do Chopstick Sobre o 4 da Morte A Cena do Baahubali citado pelo Mr. Mickey Sobre Baahubali Samurai X - Live Action Warriors of Fate Dynasty Warriors Yakuza Sleeping Dogs Mahjong (Regras) Mahjong (Wikipedia) Feng-Shui Police Story Black Lagoon Sic Bo Ficha do Koji Sawada, o Deus das Apostas Akagi Link para a comunidade do Google+ do Fate Masters Comente esse post no site do Fate Masters! Assine no iTunes Trilha Sonora do Podcast: Police Story Theme por Jackie Chan Ambient Pills por Zeropage Ambient Pills Update por Zeropage

Neon Genesis Evangelion: A Commentary is a commentary style podcast examining the 1995 anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. Episode 21 is a history lesson, providing backgorund for the organization that has become known as Nerv. Told through a series of flash backs from the most secretive cast members, the story of Seele and the man who defied them for someone he loved becomes clear. Topics for this episode:  A rundown on the episode that features a complete history of Nerv and Seele, shedding light on Yui and Gendo Ikari, Naoko and ritsuko Akagi, and Misato A whole lot of information about Gendo's right hand man, Vice Commander Fuyutsuki A summary of responses collected from a poll on those social medias. A musical spotlight on Shiro Sagisu's Hostility Restrained with a character spotlight on Kozou Fuyutsuki Thank you for downloading and listening. Feel free to reach out on twitter and instagram @intheseaofdirac. You can email the show at intheseaofdirac@gmail.com and you can find the show on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/intheseaofdirac. #evangelion #psychology #anime #podcast #podernfamily

Neon Genesis Evangelion: A Commentary is a commentary style podcast examining the 1995 anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. Episode 13 is just bursting with technological babble and scientific theory regarding bio-technology. The three Magi are compromised as the eleventh Angel Iruel attempts to break into the supercomputer and self-destruct. However, Dr. Akagi is there to save the day and in the end, we find out a little bit about her mother, Naoko Akagi. Topics for this episode: A rundown on the episode that features some background on Ritsuko and her battle against the smallest Angel, Iruel A super scary jounrey into the inner workings of the Magi supercomputer A pitiful attempt to analyze the series' use of biological nomenclature A musical spotlight on Shiro Sagisu's Harbinger of Tragedy, a piece that is more of a cacophonous assault than a musical selection Thank you for downloading and listening. Feel free to reach out on twitter and instagram @intheseaofdirac. You can email the show at intheseaofdirac@gmail.com and you can find the show on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/intheseaofdirac. #evangelion #psychology #anime #podcast #podernfamily

The Battle Of Midway To learn more and watch this video visit Public Access America https://youtu.be/FM6CTalWAWA Location: Midway Atoll 1,300 miles northwest of Oahu Date: June 4-7, 1942 Background: One of Japan’s main goals during WWII was to remove the United States as a Pacific power in order to gain territory in East Asia. Japan hoped to defeat the US Pacific Fleet and use Midway as a base to attack Pearl Harbor, securing dominance in the region. The Battle Early morning on June 4th, aircraft from four Japanese aircraft carriers attacked and severely damaged the US base on Midway. Unbeknownst to the Japanese, the US carrier forces were just to the east of the island and ready for battle. After their initial attacks, the Japanese aircraft headed back to their carriers to rearm and refuel. While the aircraft were returning, the Japanese navy became aware of the presence of US naval forces in the area. TBD Devastator torpedo bombers and SBD Dauntless dive bombers from USS Enterprise, USS Hornet and USS Yorktown were sent to attack the Japanese fleet. The Japanese carriers Akagi, Kaga, and Soryu, were hit, set ablaze, and abandoned. Hiryu (the only surviving carrier) responded with two waves of attacks—both times bombing the USS Yorktown, leaving her severely damaged, but still afloat (she would later be sunk on June 7th by a Japanese submarine). That afternoon, a USS Yorktown scout plane located the Hiryu and the USS Enterprise sent dive bombers to attack. The attack left the Hiryu burning and without the ability to launch aircraft. Over the next two days, the US Navy and US forces on Midway continued their attacks, forcing the Japanese to abandon the battle and retreat to Japan. The Japanese lost approximately 4,800 men, four carriers, one cruiser, and hundreds of aircraft, while the United States lost approximately 307 men, one carrier, one destroyer, and over 100 aircraft. This critical US victory stopped the growth of Japan in the Pacific and put the United States in a position to begin shrinking the Japanese empire through a years-long series of island-hopping invasions and several even larger naval battles.

Its finally here! On this episode of Life Lessons, we are joined by a very special guest, that guest being none other than long time Gintama translator himself, Bomber D. Rufi!! For years, BDR has been an integral part of the Gintama community, being one of the only two people who have been (and are still) translating the manga every week for years now. Today he joins Colton for his first episode of the podcast, as they cover Chapter 70 of the manga, in which Gin and Hasegawa gamble….we promise its a lot funnier than it sounds. Afterwards, we talk about the chapter title during the Life Lessons segment, followed by an Anime/Manga Comparison segment discussing Episode 49! Discussion points include BDR’s experiences in translating Gintama, how the structure of a manga chapter may or may not affect the story being told, and why you should watch both Kaiji and Akagi. Special thanks to BDR for coming on the show this episode! And join us next time as we go over Chapters 71-73 of the manga, aka the Dog God arc, with special guest Doctor of Just A Gintama Podcast and the SSAA Podcast. Enjoy! 0:00:00 Introduction(s) 0:27:31 Manga Recap: Chapter 70 1:24:02 Life Lesson 70 1:39:13 Anime/Manga Comparison: Episode 49 2:14:47 The End

“The body needs nutrition for optimal health and performance.” Today we visit with lifetime runner, Mike Akagi and learn about his path back to optimal health and performance in his 60s. After a major breakdown of his health, he discovered the Kyani products and got major relief and was able to start running again, getting times he hadn’t had since his 30s. As a network marketing professional, he is currently a Red Diamond in Kyani and one of the top leaders in Kyani worldwide.

  Shownotes :: (show 538) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With Akagi, recorded live September 27th, 2015. This week, we finally discussed the Akagi (live action) J-Drama. Join us, for another week, another show, with more otaku-tainment! Also #DFMPIA (Don't Forget Matt Pyson is still Awesome!) Community OG Networks Facebook (the page) OG twitter Call Us! ::: Skype Voicemail ::: You can leave us voicemail using Skype, at: otakugeneration or call: (610) 628.3154 -or- (206) 965.8154 ::: Google Voice ::: You can also leave us voicemail with Google Voice, at: 484.393.1405; remember to hit # after the tone.   Mentioned Stuff and Link(s) (during the show) OG Link Stitcher Patreon Monthly DVD Releases (2.0) by Albert :: (releases@otakugeneration.net) 2015-09-29 Bleach(Uncut) Set 26 Descendants of Darkness Complete Collection Durarara!! x 2 Volume 1 (DVD, Blu-ray) Free! -Eternal Summer- Season 2 (DVD/Blu-ray Combo+LE+Premium Edition) Go Nagai World Nobunaga the Fool Collection 2 (DVD, Blu-ray) Persona 4 The Animation Complete Collector's Edition (DVD/Blu-ray Combo) Persona 4 the Golden ANIMATION Volume 2 (S) (Blu-ray) Super Dimension Century Orguss Nickname ME! by Alan :: (nickname@otakugeneration.net) None this week. Don't let that stop you from requesting one! =D You know you want one. Don't be shy! Email us and tell us something about you! Then you'll be uniquely identifiable among the other OG listeners! Check out the most recent nickname logo-mashup(s)! tama x tama     And some other nickname logo-mashups we did! Email us for your nickname and you'll get one as well!   ...and now you get your own logo-mashup for your nickname... If you send us feedback, and you want us to nickname you, email us, at: otaku.generation@gmail.com With somewhere in the subject: NICKNAME ME NOTE: If we've already nicknamed you, you can't be re-nicked... unless you plead... lots! ...and we mean LOTS!!! =D For Podcast promos or MP3 Feedback, email us, at: otaku.generation@gmail.com With the exact subject: MP3 PROMOTION :: (for podcast promos) MP3 FEEDBACK :: (for audio feedback) In the body of the message, put: Your Name Your Podcast Your website Brief copy about your podcast for us to read NOTE: No copyrighted music, or clips! We won't play promos with this kind of content! Unless you own the copyright, and have given us written authorization! Join us next week... for something that smells like a podcast, looks like a podcast, and sounds like a podcast but really isn't what you thought. A new show every Wednesday, so "podcast-in" with us! Download us, snear at us, but give us a listen... and maybe we won't respect you in the morning... *unless you're wearing PJs than we can talk* It's still September! So far this month we marched forth and had pie. If you want to send us goodies like pie, we often don't say no. (pie, cake and cookies, papercraft, OG comics; like many listeners have) ...and if you can't do that will take your pitty or votes and [insert OG-bribes here]. We appreciate the votes, donations, and comments even if we don't read them on the show... and iTunes reviews. Word-of-mouth advertising is also appreaciated. Thanks for the support!

In today’s episode, I talk about the Avril Lavigne controversy because it’s so close to your anime interests (you anime nerds) and a 2005 anime called Akagi in relation to Kaiji. Look at how crazy these shows are: Kaiji’s agonizing face Akagi’s amazing poker face Y’all know what to do, right click, save as to […]

Olá querido visitante. O tema desse AnimecoteCast é Mahjong e Saki. Se você assistiu Saki e ficou boiando nas partidas de mahjong ou não assistiu o anime porque não entende nada de mahjong, essa é a oportunidade perfeita para você enteder sobre o jogo e apreciar os animes que existem sobre esse tema. Tais como Saki, Achiga-hen, Akagi e Legend of Koizumi. Nesse podcast respondemos as seguintes perguntas: O que é mahjong?, De onde surgiu?, o que é Riichi Mahjong?, Como jogar mahjong? e Onde jogar mahjong?. Ouça o podcast para saber as respostas.

A 3.5 Hour Podcast after Returning from the Christmas Break?! It must be the Will of Stein's Gate! For the first cast of the New Year, Nintendo Free Radio enforced their resolution by bringing on a forum guest for the whole show. Stephen, Austen and Donald are joined by Remus "RazorKid" Harris for a Longcat-Sized New Business. Remus brings the love for classic Carroll with Alice: Madness Returns, modern platforming in Rayman Origins, and the taste of flesh with ZombiiU. Donald picks up the baton of the undead with Glitch... Walking Dead (XBLA) and fires off his Christmas bounty before the unexpected golden shower of New Super Mario Bros 2. Austen goes to town with Eh-pic Meh-ckey 2 and gives us a Disaster: Day of Crisis update (bearrorist threat level: red) before visiting the butcher in adventure game/dating sim Pandora's Tower and dropping a Vita doubleshot of Little Big Planet and DJMax Technica Tune. Stephen ends the round by providing the Western interpretation of giant robots in MechWarrior Online, wiping out Danica Patrick in Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed and takes notes on EscapeVektor and Gunman Clive, before answering the most important question of all: What is this thing that took up the Vita's 15 minutes at Sony's E3 2012 show, the Wonderbook? If you survive past Now Posted, or became part of the undead in the process, the second half loads up on 80s and 90s nostalgia. Whatcha Watchin' opens with Remus's classic cartoon duo of Bobby's World and Akagi as well as touching base on 80s cartoons (cowabunga!), while Donald has the legend of Bo Jackson and survived Christmas at Ground Zero with the two good Home Alones and nerd blackface sitcom Big Bang Theory. Stephen boldly goes where nobody has gone before with Star Trek: The Next Generation and shows that sometime it's better to get money for nothing with Undercover Boss, while Austen goes Back In Time with Steins;Gate (yes, that spelling is correct) and doesn't Start The Fire with Shakugan no Shana Season 2 (tempting though it might be). An unexpectedly heated Feature Discussion springs from Remus's simple question: How has gaming changed for you since you were a kid? As usual, the Mushrooms provide the seventh course of this podcast feast, with hatred for GOTY selections and excessive hype balanced by a side of Christmas and film restoration love. You can send your feedback by email to nintendofreeradio@gmail.com, leave a comment here or hit the hosts on Twitter (@donaldmick, @cericme, @broodwars64 and the guest @remus.harris). We're always looking for volunteers for the fourth chair, so let one of the regulars know if you're interested! But we will warn you... a long cast is LONG. This show was edited by Austen Parkin and Stephen Shook. All music used under Fair Use permission. NOTE: After receiving feedback on the original version of this episode, we have made adjustments to the audio mix & replaced the old episode with this new one. We hope you enjoy it!

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“If I’m the man nerdy enough to break down the wall between reality and delusions, then I don’t care where I am! I’ll transform and fight!” Image courtesy of the awesome kholendx78 This episode, we wrap up Akibaranger with a … Continued

Battle of Midway Interview. A small piece of oral history of WW2. This special podcast is dedicated to all members past and present of the US Navy and USMC. I posted an interview that I did back in 1999, while on Midway Island. With two veteran PBY pilots of the battle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBY_Catalina The Battle of Midway is widely regarded as the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. Between 4 and 7 June 1942, approximately one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea and six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States Navy decisively defeated an Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) attack against Midway Atoll, inflicting irreparable damage on the Japanese fleet.[8] Military historian John Keegan has called it "the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare." The Japanese operation, like the earlier attack on Pearl Harbor, aimed to eliminate the United States as a strategic power in the Pacific, thereby giving Japan a free hand in establishing its Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. The Japanese hoped that another demoralizing defeat would force the U.S. to capitulate in the Pacific War. The Japanese plan was to lure the United States' few remaining aircraft carriers into a trap. The Japanese also intended to occupy Midway Atoll as part of an overall plan to extend their defensive perimeter in response to the Doolittle Raid. This operation was considered preparatory for further attacks against Fiji and Samoa. The plan was handicapped by faulty Japanese assumptions of American reaction and poor initial dispositions. Most significantly, American code breakers were able to determine the date and location of the attack, enabling the forewarned U.S. Navy to set up an ambush of its own. Four Japanese aircraft carriers and a heavy cruiser were sunk in exchange for one American aircraft carrier and a destroyer. After Midway, and the exhausting attrition of the Solomon Islands campaign, Japan's shipbuilding and pilot training programs were unable to keep pace in replacing their losses while the U.S. steadily increased output in both areas.

  Shownotes :: (show 289) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With Akagi, recorded live December 19th, 2010. This week we talked about the anime Akagi. Mafia. Mahjong. What else would you want? Plus feedback, something from Bernhard, Kyle and more. Join us, for another week, another show, with more otaku-tainment! Community Google (the buzz) Facebook (the page) Facebook (the group) Live Journal Live Feeds OG (justin.tv) OG (livestream) Call Us! ::: Skype Voicemail ::: You can leave us voicemail using Skype, at: otakugeneration or call: (610) 628.3154 -or- (206) 965.8154 ::: Google Voice ::: You can also leave us voicemail with Google Voice, at: 484.235.5033; remember to hit # after the tone.   Mentioned Stuff and Link(s) (during the show) OG Link Shortner OG twitter Anime Plot Generator MagFest Bernhard Rants! (1.0) by Bernhard :: (rants@otakugeneration.net) Bernhard entertains us this week with another delightful and humorous rant! Audio Nuggets of Joy (1.0) by TV's Kyle :: (toons@otakugeneration.net) Kyle shares a taste of his amazing talents with us...   TV's Kyle "Sings the Cartoons" Frog Raccoon Strawberry (on dummcomics.com) Kyle's Blog Moobeard the Cow Pirate! Lake Kyle Send us or Kyle questions you were always dying to know about the animation process, but were fraid to ask! ...and he'll answer your questions only the way TV's Kyle can! Promos / Break Applesauce vs. Sour Cream :: by The LeeVees Do Somethin :: by Wylde Bunch Jefferson's Weird News/Stuff (1.0) by Jefferson This week Jefferson shares things interests him...   (link) :: A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi, New York Times (review), (Amazon link) Monthly DVD Releases (2.0) by Albert :: (releases@otakugeneration.net) 2010-12-21 Eyeshield 21 Collection 3 One Piece Season 3 Part 4 Tenchi Muyo! GXP : Complete Collection (Viridian Collection) Oh My Sex Goddess 2010-12-28 Baccano! Complete Collection (Viridian Collection) Dragon Ball Movie 1: Curse of the Blood Rubies (Uncut) Dragonaut: The Resonance Complete Collection Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Part 3 (DVD,Blu-ray) Gintama Collection 03 Kaleido Star: Season 2 + OVAs Collection Queen's Blade Vol. #3 Ragnarok: Complete Collection (S.A.V.E. Edition) Snow Night Nickname ME! by Alan :: (nickname@otakugeneration.net) One this week. But don't let that stop you! =D You know you want one. Don't be shy! Email us and tell us something about you! Then you'll be uniquely identifiable among the other OG listeners! Check out the most recent nickname logo-mashup(s)!   dr. hops   And some other nickname logo-mashups we did! Email us for your nickname and you'll get one as well!     ...and now you get your own logo-mashup for your nickname... If you send us feedback, and you want us to nickname you, email us, at: otaku.generation@gmail.com With somewhere in the subject: NICKNAME ME NOTE: If we've already nicknamed you, you can't be re-nicked... unless you plead... lots! ...and we mean LOTS!!! =D   For Podcast promos or MP3 Feedback, email us, at: otaku.generation@gmail.com With the exact subject: MP3 PROMOTION :: (for podcast promos) MP3 FEEDBACK :: (for audio feedback) In the body of the message, put: Your Name Your Podcast Your website Brief copy about your podcast for us to read NOTE: No copyrighted music, or clips! We won't play promos with this kind of content! Unless you own the copyright, and have given us written authorization! Join us next week... for something, something, something... podcast. (can you guess the reference?) A new show every Wednesday, so "podcast-in" with us! Download us, snear at us, but give us a listen... and maybe we won't respect you in the morning... *census/meh* It's December! So please bribe us delicious pie or cake or cookies (like Traeonna does)! ...and if you can't do that will take your pitty or votes and [insert OG-bribes here]. We appreciate the votes, donations, and comments even if we don't read them on the show... and iTunes reviews... even here: www.PodcastAlley.com. Word-of-mouth advertising is also appreaciated. Thanks for the support, and the people who have been voting for us! Z4H VOOOT3Z...they melt in your podcast, not in your vote!!

Leon and Lyzl get into the gritty world of mahjong gambling in their review of Akagi. If you have any questions, comments, or requests, please send them to aniview@hotmail.com

Leon and Lyzl are back for another week with a look at these anime: Watching: -Akagi Watched: -Seirei no Moribito -Gunslinger Girl ~ Il Teatrino -Wolf's Rain Dropped: -Boogiepop Phantom -Kare Kano -The Big O Requests: -Black Blood Brothers -Shikabane Hime Aka -Fate/Stay Night

To ring in the new year, we have Episode 16. I know, it’s already the 9th (or the 10th depending on where you live), but that doesn’t matter. The first episode of 2009 contains the usual news and a review … Continue reading →