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Georgina Banks searches for the truth of what happened to her Great Aunt ‘Bud', killed in the Second World War. Bangka Strait, Indonesia, 1942. Allied ships are evacuating thousands in flight from Singapore, the island having fallen to Japanese Imperial forces. Facing terrifying assaults by fighter planes, one ship, the Vyner Brooke, is badly bombed and sinks. Its survivors swim or paddle for hours to the nearest land, a beach on Bangka Island, parched, many dreadfully injured. One of the survivors is Australian Army nurse Dorothy ‘Bud' Elmes, the great-aunt of Georgina Banks. Bud, along with other nurses from the Vyner Brooke, including one Vivian Bullwinkel, make it to the island, where they tend to the wounded as a plan is formulated. But it is soon discovered the place is occupied by Japanese forces, and two days later they arrive on the beach. Seventy-five years on, Georgina receives an invitation to a memorial service for her great-aunt. She knows little of the national history buried in her family but as she retraces Bud's steps in Indonesia, and then deep in archives back in Australia, she is left making sense of half-truths and confronting the likelihood that she may never know exactly what unfolded on the beach on that devastating day. Back to Bangka: Searching for the Truth about a Wartime Massacre (Viking Australia, 2023) is a deeply moving intergenerational family story; a gripping retelling and investigation of events that throw a spotlight on women in wartime – in their vulnerability and profound strength. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Georgina Banks searches for the truth of what happened to her Great Aunt ‘Bud', killed in the Second World War. Bangka Strait, Indonesia, 1942. Allied ships are evacuating thousands in flight from Singapore, the island having fallen to Japanese Imperial forces. Facing terrifying assaults by fighter planes, one ship, the Vyner Brooke, is badly bombed and sinks. Its survivors swim or paddle for hours to the nearest land, a beach on Bangka Island, parched, many dreadfully injured. One of the survivors is Australian Army nurse Dorothy ‘Bud' Elmes, the great-aunt of Georgina Banks. Bud, along with other nurses from the Vyner Brooke, including one Vivian Bullwinkel, make it to the island, where they tend to the wounded as a plan is formulated. But it is soon discovered the place is occupied by Japanese forces, and two days later they arrive on the beach. Seventy-five years on, Georgina receives an invitation to a memorial service for her great-aunt. She knows little of the national history buried in her family but as she retraces Bud's steps in Indonesia, and then deep in archives back in Australia, she is left making sense of half-truths and confronting the likelihood that she may never know exactly what unfolded on the beach on that devastating day. Back to Bangka: Searching for the Truth about a Wartime Massacre (Viking Australia, 2023) is a deeply moving intergenerational family story; a gripping retelling and investigation of events that throw a spotlight on women in wartime – in their vulnerability and profound strength. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/military-history

Georgina Banks searches for the truth of what happened to her Great Aunt ‘Bud', killed in the Second World War. Bangka Strait, Indonesia, 1942. Allied ships are evacuating thousands in flight from Singapore, the island having fallen to Japanese Imperial forces. Facing terrifying assaults by fighter planes, one ship, the Vyner Brooke, is badly bombed and sinks. Its survivors swim or paddle for hours to the nearest land, a beach on Bangka Island, parched, many dreadfully injured. One of the survivors is Australian Army nurse Dorothy ‘Bud' Elmes, the great-aunt of Georgina Banks. Bud, along with other nurses from the Vyner Brooke, including one Vivian Bullwinkel, make it to the island, where they tend to the wounded as a plan is formulated. But it is soon discovered the place is occupied by Japanese forces, and two days later they arrive on the beach. Seventy-five years on, Georgina receives an invitation to a memorial service for her great-aunt. She knows little of the national history buried in her family but as she retraces Bud's steps in Indonesia, and then deep in archives back in Australia, she is left making sense of half-truths and confronting the likelihood that she may never know exactly what unfolded on the beach on that devastating day. Back to Bangka: Searching for the Truth about a Wartime Massacre (Viking Australia, 2023) is a deeply moving intergenerational family story; a gripping retelling and investigation of events that throw a spotlight on women in wartime – in their vulnerability and profound strength. Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/southeast-asian-studies

Georgina Banks searches for the truth of what happened to her Great Aunt ‘Bud', killed in the Second World War. Bangka Strait, Indonesia, 1942. Allied ships are evacuating thousands in flight from Singapore, the island having fallen to Japanese Imperial forces. Facing terrifying assaults by fighter planes, one ship, the Vyner Brooke, is badly bombed and sinks. Its survivors swim or paddle for hours to the nearest land, a beach on Bangka Island, parched, many dreadfully injured. One of the survivors is Australian Army nurse Dorothy ‘Bud' Elmes, the great-aunt of Georgina Banks. Bud, along with other nurses from the Vyner Brooke, including one Vivian Bullwinkel, make it to the island, where they tend to the wounded as a plan is formulated. But it is soon discovered the place is occupied by Japanese forces, and two days later they arrive on the beach. Seventy-five years on, Georgina receives an invitation to a memorial service for her great-aunt. She knows little of the national history buried in her family but as she retraces Bud's steps in Indonesia, and then deep in archives back in Australia, she is left making sense of half-truths and confronting the likelihood that she may never know exactly what unfolded on the beach on that devastating day. Back to Bangka: Searching for the Truth about a Wartime Massacre (Viking Australia, 2023) is a deeply moving intergenerational family story; a gripping retelling and investigation of events that throw a spotlight on women in wartime – in their vulnerability and profound strength. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/australian-and-new-zealand-studies

Bruce Springsteen's song Glory Days lyric, “Boring stories of Glory days yeah, they'll pass you by” pops into my head sometimes, when I hear a speaker reminiscing about their glorious past.  I was sitting there at a chamber function when the speaker began to talk at length about his start in sales and his experiences.  It was fascinating for him no doubt, but it made him sound dated. He seemed to have become covered in dusty cobwebs too all of a sudden.  Talking about ourselves is great and dangerous at the same time.  Usually when we speak, there will be our introduction done by the hosts.  If we are on the ball, we don't place ourselves in their hands, so we write what we want them to say.  That doesn't mean they are on the ball and can carry out a simple task.  If we make it too long, the hosts usually manages to murder it by dropping bits or getting things wrong.  I am always astonished that they cannot successfully read a piece of paper with words on it. The audience is also on danger alert because they know the propaganda offensive is about to hit them.  It is hard to write about yourself though, because there are so many things you want to include.  Why is that?  We are desperate to establish our credentials with the audience, so that they will become more accepting of what we are saying.  We believe that volume is important so we should cram as much in there as we can.  In fact, we are defeating our own efforts because either the host mangles the text or the audience switches off. Avoiding the chronology approach is always a good start.  Sometimes these details are included in the programme flyer and you don't need to mention them at all or you can organise your own flyer for the attendees.  This is a good tactic and not hard to do.  When we are speaking about ourselves, we should focus on the key points only.  These are the things which relate to our expertise on this specific topic.  I am a 6th Dan in Shitoryu karate, which is wonderful, but probably doesn't have anything to with a topic like presenting.  I could instead say this is my speech number #342 and that would be congruent with establishing I am a real world expert of the dark art of public speaking and have the experience required to tell others how to do it. Often we are using powerpoint, so we can bring up some slides about our company.  This should also be brief.  Simple clear slides are what we want and the selection of information should be limited to the most powerful USPs or unique selling points of our firm.  Slide after slide makes an audience restless.  They are sitting there thinking, “enough already, get on with it”.  When I worked for a long established Australian Bank which was rather unknown in Japan, I would show a photograph of the establishment of the first branch back in the 19th century.  It was a black and white photograph with people dressed in the fashion of the Victorian era and it oozed with longevity.  I also attached the date in the Japanese Imperial reign format, rather than the Gregorian calendar, to make it seem even more ancient and venerable.  That one photo showed my Japanese audience we had stood the test of time and could be trusted with their money. The CEO cowardly public speaking escape route of reliance on the souped-up corporate video at the start of the talk should be avoided at all cost.  These videos are rarely a good match with the specific topic for that day, because there is usually only one video. It has to be the Swiss Army Knife of propaganda videos, to travel around the world boring people of every persuasion.  If there is a particular section in the video which is really powerful, then just cue that part and don't bother with the left over detritus. Giving our own examples is a good idea in the talk, but again, we have to steer away from too much recalling of our glorious triumphs.  The audience is only interested in how what you are telling them will result in their own glorious triumphs, now and into the future.  We have to get a balance struck between talking about ourselves for effect and not for the stroking of our own massive speaker ego.  Where possible, use client examples of what you did for them, rather than droning on about what you did. It is a tricky equation of how much is too much, which bits are more important than other bits and how much time should I allow for it.  Err on the side of caution and go minimalist, recalling Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, “less is more”.  

On this episode, the first in Season 9, we get stuck into the vast and sprawling history of The Manhattan Project and the creation of the atomic bomb. The creation and utilisation of such an unbelievably powerful weapon changed the dynamics of power globally and the results are still being felt today. The Manhattan Project was a WWII initiative which brought together the most brilliant of minds to conceptualise and then develop a weapon formidable enough to compel the Axis powers to capitulate. Spearheaded by the now infamous J. Robert Oppenheimer and his macho military counterpart General Leslie Groves, the project mobilised an extensive team of globally reknowned physicists at a secret encampment in New Mexico called Los Alamos. There they collaborated on their own theories and advanced human knowledge leaps and bounds in such a short time; focussing primarily on the new school of their craft, quantum physics and then more practically the design and production of weapons-grade nuclear materials and a mean by which to blow them up! All this was being done amidst fears of Nazi Germany's parallel efforts, the Allied forces hastened to pioneer this groundbreaking technology and have it ready to fire before the lads got their shot off somewhere. Unfortunately for the more trigger happy of the US military elite, Germany's surrender before the bomb was battle-ready meant that the remaining Japanese Imperial forces faced the consequences, with Hiroshima and Nagasaki suffering atomic attacks in August 1945. These bombings, which abruptly ended the war after years of massive conventional bombardments, underscored the terrifying potency of nuclear arms and marked the apex of scientific ingenuity yielding the most destructive force known to humanity. Joining me on this episode I have two Irish comedy legends Edwin Sammon and Chris Kent. You can find Ed here on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/edwinsammon/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@edwinsammon and his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/edwinsammon where you can see loads of clips from stand up, TV and stage appearances and also episodes of his podcast 'Edwin Sammon of Knowledge' which you can also find on Spotify here https://open.spotify.com/show/1koWjRbaPaJcfs5aItOpzO?si=257e5284ee34478d He is gigging all over the country so follow him and get updates for when he's coming to your town! You can find Chris at his website here https://chriskentcomedy.com/ where you can get tickets to the massive amount of upcoming live comedy shows all over Ireland and the UK and loads more too; like his full video comedy specials! Chris is also on all the socials Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriskentcomic/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@chriskentcomic and check out all his video on his YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMkiptOA5pvabk0xRXkFO5g There is a Patreon version of this episode with over 40 mins extra content and if you're a TCG Patreon subscriber, there's a video version in Spotify https://open.spotify.com/episode/59alnTONQdDCJj6CZdCzkT?si=382c80f4a8b848e4 as well as all the other Patreon content sent right to your Spotify app. You can sign up now for a FREE Patreon subscription to TCG and listen to this episode (with the extra stuff) right here https://www.patreon.com/posts/s09e01-manhattan-111508606 Chapters: Introduction 00:00:00 Show Start 00:6:31 Before The Research 00:28:24 The Creation of Atomic Physics 00:40:17 AD INSERT 01:05:29 German Science for German People 01:05:31 The Bomb as an answer for Pearl Harbour 01:12:57 The Manhattan Project Begins 01:20:35 The Problem With Uranium 01:43:47 The General and The Genius 01:58:46 What About Bob Oppenheimer? 02:22:53 Los Alamos: It Takes A Village 02:45:02 VJ DAY TBA 02:55:08 The Potsdam Declaration 03:05:44 Hiroshima and Nagasaki 03:10:53 What That Bomb Do? 03:18:07 The Global Shock Wave 03:44:23 Agent Orange 03:56:43 Oppenheimer Self Exile 04:06:18 Off The Fence 04:11:33 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

天皇、皇后両陛下と長女愛子さまが飼われていた猫「みー」宮内庁は９日、天皇、皇后両陛下と長女愛子さまが飼われていた猫「みー」が、皇居・御所で３日に病気で死んだと明らかにした。 "Mii," a cat owned by the Japanese Imperial couple and their daughter Princess Aiko, died Saturday at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, the Imperial Household Agency said Friday.

"Mii," a cat owned by the Japanese Imperial couple and their daughter Princess Aiko, died Saturday at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, the Imperial Household Agency said Friday.

宮内庁は１７日、２２日から訪英される天皇、皇后両陛下の追加日程を発表した。 Emperor Naruhito will meet with Japanese residents and British people with links to Japan in London Sunday as part of the Japanese Imperial couple's trip to Britain starting Saturday, the Imperial Household Agency said Monday.

Emperor Naruhito will meet with Japanese residents and British people with links to Japan in London Sunday as part of the Japanese Imperial couple's trip to Britain starting Saturday, the Imperial Household Agency said Monday.

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako will visit two towns in Ishikawa Prefecture on Friday to meet with people affected by a magnitude-7.6 earthquake that struck the central Japan prefecture on New Year's Day, the government said Tuesday.

Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.To mark 50 years since the discovery of the Terracotta Army, we're exploring modern Chinese history.We hear from the man who helped to modernise the Chinese language by creating a new writing system. It's called Pinyin and it used the Roman alphabet to help simplify Chinese characters into words.Our expert guest is the writer, Mark O'Neill, whose book 'The Man Who Made China a Literate Nation' forms the basis of a great discussion about historical language changes throughout history.Plus, a first hand experience of life in labour camps during Mao Zedong's cultural revolution and the women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese Imperial army during the 1930s. This programme contains disturbing content.Contributors: Mark O'Neill - writer Zhou Youguang - linguist Jingyu Li - victim of Mao Zedong's labour camps Peng Zhuying - survivor of sexual slavery Yuan Zhongyi - archaeologist Dr Li Xiuzhen - archaeologist Simon Napier-Bell - manager of Wham(Photo: Terracotta Army. Credit: Getty Images)

The Soviets charged the refugees exorbitant fees for the exit visas and travel expenses. The Joint and the Vaad Hatzalah provided funds for these costs, with Rav Avraham Kalmanowitz investing herculean efforts to ensure the Mir contingent were able to fund their escape. Many refugees sold their personal belongings. They then embarked on a 10-12 day train journey on the Trans-Siberian Railroad across the vast expanses of the Soviet Union, arriving in the port city of Vladivostok. From there the Sea of Japan was crossed and the refugees settled temporarily in Kobe and Yokohama. The refugees received a generally warm reception from the local Japanese as well as the small local Jewish community. When it became evident that Curacao wasn't going to be practical as a final destination, Japanese and Jewish activists interceded with the Japanese Imperial government to extend the refugee's visas. As a result, the refugee community was able to remain in Japan for several months.   Cross River, a leading financial institution committed to supporting its communities, is proud to sponsor Jewish History Soundbites. As a trusted partner for individuals and businesses, Cross River understands the importance of preserving and celebrating our heritage. By sponsoring this podcast, they demonstrate their unwavering dedication to enriching the lives of the communities in which they serve. Visit Cross River at https://www.crossriver.com/   Subscribe to Jewish History Soundbites Podcast on: PodBean: https://jsoundbites.podbean.com/ or your favorite podcast platform Follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter or Instagram at @Jsoundbites For sponsorship opportunities about your favorite topics of Jewish history or feedback contact Yehuda at:  yehuda@yehudageberer.com

After much anticipation, we are finally releasing our episode with Tosca Lee and Marcus Brotherton! I talked to Tosca and Marcus about their latest book, The Long March Home, which features three friends from Alabama fighting in the Philippines during World War II. This conversation makes a spectacular finale to season five. Here's a description of the novel from Revell: Born and raised in Mobile, Alabama, Jimmy “Propper” Propfield is determined to leave his home behind and see the world with his best friends Billy Crockett and Hank Wright. The Army is his way out. Plus, it will help him forget his high school sweetheart, Claire. At first, life in the Philippines seems like paradise—until the morning of December 8, 1941. Within hours of bombing Pearl Harbor, Japanese Imperial forces turn their attention to the Philippines. For the next four and a half months, the three friends are plunged into a battle for control of the Pacific theater that ends with the largest surrender of American troops in history. Jimmy, Billy, and Hank are rounded up and marched sixty miles up the Bataan Peninsula en route to Camp O'Donnell in what will become known as the Bataan Death March. With no hope of rescue, the three friends vow to make it back home together. But the ordeal is only the beginning of their nearly four-year fight to survive heat, disease, hunger, and life as POWs. The Long March Home is a riveting coming-of-age tale of friendship, courage, sacrifice, and love as three friends struggle to survive unthinkable odds. Purchase The Long March Home on Amazon (affiliate). Check out Tosca's website and follow her on Facebook and Instagram! Check out Marcus's website and follow him on Facebook and Instagram! Subscribe to my mailing list to receive free book recs and samples of my writing! Attend the Montrose Christian Writers Conference where I'll be teaching this summer! Join my community and help support the show on Patreon! Join the Historical Fiction: Unpacked Podcast Group on Facebook! Be sure to visit my Instagram, Facebook, and website. Follow the show on Instagram! Purchase Alison's historical novel, One Traveler (affiliate). Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. If you click them and make a purchase, you help support my work without paying any more for the product. Thank you for your support!

In this week's episode, The Krewe sit down with associate professor of history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), Dr. Hiromu Nagahara for part one of their discussion on the history of the Japanese Imperial Family. In part one, Dr. Nagahara shares his background, the origins of the Japanese emperor, what makes the Japanese Imperial family distinct form other royal families, and so much more!Check out Dr. Nagahara's book:https://www.amazon.com/Tokyo-Boogie-Woogie-Japans-Pop-Discontents/dp/0674971698 This podcast is brought to you by the Japan Society of New Orleans:https://japansocietyofneworleans.wildapricot.org/

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Award-winning artist Mikhail Tank discusses The Magatama, one of the three Japanese Imperial, Jewel, and Spiritual Treasures -- its myth, history, and personal significance. A solo episode of The Archetypal Mosaic.

Tuesday, June 1, 2021 to Thursday, June 10, 2021 Hoover Institution, Stanford University The Hoover Institution Library & Archives and Hoover Institution Press Present the Fanning the Flames Speaker Series in Celebration of the Publication Fanning the Flames: Propaganda in Modern Japan edited by Kay Ueda. Japan’s Meiji Restoration brought swift changes through Japanese adoption of Western-style modernization and imperial expansion. Fanning the Flames brings together a range of scholarly essays and collected materials from the Hoover Institution Library & Archives detailing how Japanese propaganda played an active role in fostering national identity and mobilizing grassroots participation in the country’s transformation and wartime activities, from with the First Sino-Japanese War (1894–95) to the end of World War II. The Fanning the Flames Speaker Series highlights conversations with leading scholars of modern East Asian history, art, and propaganda and is presented in conjunction with the book and upcoming online and physical exhibitions.  UPCOMING EVENTS IN THE SERIES Anchors of History: The Long Shadow of Japanese Imperial Propaganda Tuesday June 1, 12:00 pm PDT Speaker: Barak Kushner, professor of East Asian History, University of Cambridge Moderator: Michael R. Auslin, the Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia at the Hoover Institution “War Fever” as Fueled by the Media and Popular Culture: The Path Taken by Meiji Japan's Policies of “Enrich the Country” and “Strengthen the Armed Forces” Thursday June 10, 4:00 pm PDT Speaker: Toshihiko Kishi, professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University Moderator: Kay Ueda, curator of the Japanese Diaspora Collection, Hoover Institution Library & Archives Additional Lectures in the Series Featured Speakers: Yuma Totani, professor of Japan, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Alice Tseng, Professor of Art History, Boston University Dates and titles to be announced PARTICIPANT BIOS Barak Kushner is professor of East Asian history and the chair of Japanese Studies in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge. He has edited numerous books and written several monographs, including the award-winning Men to Devils, Devils to Men: Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015). In 2020 he hosted several episodes of a major Chinese documentary on Japanese war crimes and is currently writing a book titled The Construction of Injustice in East Asia: Japan versus Its Neighbors. Michael Auslin is the Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. A historian by training, he specializes in US policy in Asia and geopolitical issues in the Indo-Pacific region. His publications include Negotiating with Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004) and Asia’s New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2020). Auslin was an associate professor of history at Yale University, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo.

How the Japanese imperial system inspired a sci-fi book series with Juliette Wade Check the book out here https://amzn.to/39KwCbD Interview Timeline Juliette Wade loves to learn and has degrees in both anthropology and linguistics. She… Read More The post How the Japanese imperial system inspired a sci-fi book series with Juliette Wade appeared first on FULL CONTACT NERD.

U.S. General Edward King, commander of all American armed forces on Bataan Peninsula in 1942, told his men, “We have no further means of organized resistance, we are low on ammunition, have virtually no medical supplies, and our food is all but gone. The situation has become hopeless. You did not surrender; I ordered you to surrender.” 78,000 U.S. and Filipino soldiers were put at the mercy of their Japanese Imperial captors, including former Notre Dame fullback, Mario “Motts” Tonelli. 5-years prior, Tonelli's 70-yard rush in the USC game had helped preserve a win for the Fighting Irish and Tonelli's spot in the history books. Now, he was part of the grueling 60+ mile Bataan Death March, and trying to navigate the hellish conditions his captors were subjecting him to. Holding on to the thoughts and memories of his family and his home, Tonelli would rely on every ounce of his experience and training as a collegiate athlete, to not win a football game, but to survive. Part II, Run to Daylight, next on the Missing Chapter…. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/themissingchapter/support

Bruce Springsteen's song Glory Days lyric, “Boring stories of Glory days yeah, they'll pass you by” pops into my head sometimes, when I hear a speaker reminiscing about their glorious past.  I was sitting there at a chamber function when the speaker began to talk at length about his start in sales and his experiences.  It was fascinating for him no doubt, but it made him sound dated. He seemed to have become covered in dusty cobwebs too all of a sudden.  Talking about ourselves is great and dangerous at the same time.    Usually when we speak, there will be our introduction done by the hosts.  If we are on the ball, we don't place ourselves in their hands, so we write what we want them to say.  That doesn't mean they are on the ball and can carry out a simple task.  If we make it too long, the hosts usually manages to murder it by dropping bits or getting things wrong.  I am always astonished that they cannot successfully read a piece of paper with words on it.   The audience is also on danger alert because they know the propaganda offensive is about to hit them.  It is hard to write about yourself though, because there are so many things you want to include.  Why is that?  We are desperate to establish our credentials with the audience, so that they will become more accepting of what we are saying.  We believe that volume is important so we should cram as much in there as we can.  In fact, we are defeating our own efforts because either the host mangles the text or the audience switches off.   Avoiding the chronology approach is always a good start.  Sometimes these details are included in the programme flyer and you don't need to mention them at all or you can organise your own flyer for the attendees.  This is a good tactic and not hard to do.  When we are speaking about ourselves, we should focus on the key points only.  These are the things which relate to our expertise on this specific topic.  I am a 6th Dan in Shitoryu karate, which is wonderful, but probably doesn't have anything to with a topic like presenting.  I could instead say this is my speech number #342 and that would be congruent with establishing I am a real world expert of the dark art of public speaking and have the experience required to tell others how to do it.   Often we are using powerpoint, so we can bring up some slides about our company.  This should also be brief.  Simple clear slides are what we want and the selection of information should be limited to the most powerful USPs or unique selling points of our firm.  Slide after slide makes an audience restless.  They are sitting there thinking, “enough already, get on with it”.  When I worked for a long established Australian Bank which was rather unknown in Japan, I would show a photograph of the establishment of the first branch back in the 19th century.  It was a black and white photograph with people dressed in the fashion of the Victorian era and it oozed with longevity.  I also attached the date in the Japanese Imperial reign format, rather than the Gregorian calendar, to make it seem even more ancient and venerable.  That one photo showed my Japanese audience we had stood the test of time and could be trusted with their money.   The CEO cowardly public speaking escape route of reliance on the souped-up corporate video at the start of the talk should be avoided at all cost.  These videos are rarely a good match with the specific topic for that day, because there is usually only one video. It has to be the Swiss Army Knife of propaganda videos, to travel around the world boring people of every persuasion.  If there is a particular section in the video which is really powerful, then just cue that part and don't bother with the left over detritus.   Giving our own examples is a good idea in the talk, but again, we have to steer away from too much recalling of our glorious triumphs.  The audience is only interested in how what you are telling them will result in their own glorious triumphs, now and into the future.  We have to get a balance struck between talking about ourselves for effect and not for the stroking of our own massive speaker ego.  Where possible, use client examples of what you did for them, rather than droning on about what you did.   It is a tricky equation of how much is too much, which bits are more important than other bits and how much time should I allow for it.  Err on the side of caution and go minimalist, recalling Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, “less is more”.

Sailor Noob is the podcast where a Sailor Moon superfan and a total noob go episode by episode through the original Sailor Moon series!Things get glamorous when the princess of the Diamond Kingdom throws a masquerade ball, but it's all business for Usagi and the Sailor Scouts as they're on the hunt for the legendary Silver Crystal. Can they solve the mystery of the princess before Nephrite blows them away?In this episode, we discuss the Japanese royal family, constitutional monarchy, the Japanese Imperial regalia, the divinity of the emperor, kunzite, and facial masks in Japan. We also talk about old guy tuxedos, sweat and Corn Nuts, a salt restaurant, Pokemon spirits, Jesus juice, kissing a sick girl, Clark Kent shopping at Sunglasses Hut, whether cats can read the newspaper, and EVIL NARU!If you can't have God, have Godzilla.We're now on iTunes and your listening platform of choice! Please subscribe and give us a rating and a review! Arigato gozaimasu!https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sailor-noob/id1486204787Sailor Noob is a part of the Just Enough Trope podcast network. Check out our other shows about your favorite pop culture topics and join our Discord!http://www.twitter.com/noob_sailorhttp://www.justenoughtrope.comhttps://discord.gg/ATMBeUD

Mindset is a big deal in sports.  We understand that it is important in business too, but we sometimes miss the point that it also applies to how we approach public speaking.  We can exude confidence or terror.  Either way the audience will buy what we are selling. How do we exude confidence?  This comes back to our basic beliefs about ourselves as a speaker, which then determine the mindsets of “I can do this really well and be successful” or “I hate doing this and I am not very good at it”. Confidence doesn't arrive from wishing. We need to work hard to build that feeling of confidence in our presentation capability.  Proper preparation and ample rehearsal practice build belief an that determines a positive winning mindset.  Great, but how do we do all of that?   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 Abe cabinet is pushing hard to bring in foreign workers to Japan but not everyone is for this idea. There was a protest march through the Ginza area recently organized by Japan First, waving Japanese Imperial flags and urging the plans withdrawl.  Mikio Okamura head of Japan First in Tokyo said, “Before you let in foreigners, you should deal with Japan's unemployed.  Then we would have Japanese people looking after the elderly. That would be the happiest result for the Japanese”.  The Japan Trade Union Confederation known as Rengo, questioned the lack of a public debate on the subject and said that foreign workers shouldn't be accepted without careful consideration.  On the other side the Japan Chamber f Commerce and Industry noted in June that two thirds of companies said they were short of workers.  The number of companies folding because of a lack of workers jumped by forty percent in the first half of the financial year, compared to the same period last year, according to the Teikoku Databank.  In other news, at the Beijing International Book Fair in August, a Chinese translation robot, the Yudao AI Translator translated Srinivas Mahankali's one hundred thousand words or roughly a three hundred page non-fiction book into Chinese in thirty seconds, with ninety five percent accuracy.  A professional editor spent two weeks cleaning it up for publication and this compares with the normal six months required to do the same tasks.  Also In China, the Xinhua News Agency launched a world first with an English AI Anchor debuting at the World Internet conference in Zhejiang province.  The robot was developed together with the Chinese search engine company Sogou with the robot physically modeled on the Xinhua agency's presenter Zhang Zhao. According to Xinhua, the robot learns from live broadcasting videos by himself and can read texts as naturally as a professional news anchor. Watching the video, the voice was eerily real, as was the robot resemblance to the actual Zhang Zhao. Looks like news anchors and translators had better start retraining for other professions. This is episode number sixty twoand we are talking about  The Winning Presentation Mindset Soredewa ikimasho, so let's get going.   Our mental approach to our activities determines our success.  We know this in sports and in business, but when it comes to speaking in public, we somehow manage to forget this vital point.  In fact, when it comes to presenting in front of other people we often have a negative mindset about the activity.  We may be reliving humiliations from elementary school or high school, when we had to make a presentation and were teased about it.  Perhaps without even actually remembering any particular incident, we manage to maintain a dread for speaking in public and carry that into adulthood. This was absolutely me by the way. I avoided public speaking pretty successfully, until I was around 29 years of age.  I was really fearful of it and there must have been something in my darkest memory, which was driving that fear, even if I can't nominate any particular trigger.   Here is the rub. As we get older and advance in our careers, we cannot avoid public speaking and giving presentations, whether we like doing them or not.  We know we have to make a presentation, the date has been set and there is no escape.  How do we approach it?  We usually get straight into the nitty gritty details, the mechanics and logistics, without spending even a moment on our proper mindset for the activity. This is a bit of a crazy allocation of priorities though.  We are putting our personal and professional brand out there for all to see, so we should recognise this as a fairly important opportunity to get it right.  If you think reputation has significance then we are putting ourselves in the danger zone. That is probably why I avoided public speaking for so long.   The mindset game is a critical one, especially if we are nervous about giving presentations.  Confidence is firmly paired with credibility in the presentation game and we have to exude both.  We may be very unsure, nervous, even petrified but we must never ever show that side to our audience.  Hesitation kills the message delivery and therefore the message impact.    I saw a speaker recently and I felt he was impressive.  Thinking back about it, why did I feel he was a good speaker? On closer inspection, I realized he wasn't saying anything breakthrough or particularly valuable. He wasn't bringing much in the way of new information or insights to his audience.  What he was bringing though, was a tremendous amount of confidence to be standing there, in front of all those quizzical eyes, looking back at him. We in the audience were buying his confidence, more than anything else. There is a powerful insight right there and if you can combine that confidence with really good content, then that will be an unbeatable combination   Often when we are anticipating the presentation, we imagine that our wondrous content on its own will carry the day.  We justify our ineptitude by presuming that we can be hopeless presenters, but somehow because of the quality of our material, it won't matter in the end.  Be in no hesitation, this is completely delusional and it is total folly.  There are very few subjects in business where we are the font of all knowledge and therefore everyone else has to put up with our lack of professionalism as a speaker.     Normally, we are competing for the attention of our audience.  Social media is a modern scourge in many ways from mindlessly wasting people's valuable time, to having to joust with scammers, to cyber bullying.  It has made a hell for presenters. Nowadays, within two seconds, our audience can vanish and escape to any number of other more interesting worlds.  People are becoming more used to multi-tasking.  They are reading their Facebook feed, searching for things on Google, checking out Instagram, replying to emails and scrolling through LinkedIn or Twitter all the while they are doing something else quite important, like supposedly listening to us.  What can we do about this? Find out more when we come back from the break Welcome backWe need to have a powerful presentation and speaking faculty to compete with the idle wonders of the Internet. A big part of our appeal is our message's worth and the potent delivery of that worth. We need to understand that both are required.  To get the right combination, we need to sell that we are confident in what we're saying and that our content is valuable. This means we are able to deliver the talk without having to read the text.  We can talk to key points in front of us in our notes or up on the screen.  This is quite different from burying our heads in the text, looking down the whole time reading the content and not engaging with our audience.  To have the confidence to work the room while speaking, means you have to know the content.   You can do it, because you created it or you adjusted what someone else had put together for you.  Regardless, you will know much better than your audience what it is you are going to say, so you are in total control.   Start with a powerful opening, including the key message later captured in your conclusion. Isolate out 3-5 key points so make your argument and support them with evidence. Design both your first close and your second close for after the Q&A. You have managed your schedule well, so that there has been ample opportunity to practice the delivery.  This is how you build a powerful, positive mindset about public speaking.  People who are spending all their time on the making the slides forget they have to rehearse the delivery for an audience. They usually prefer to practice on their audiences, then wonder why the whole thing was very flat with no engagement of their audience.  After this near death experience, they retreat back into their foxhole and have to be pried out to make any further presentations.   In the weeks leading up to the talk we are the thinking about what we want to say and how we might say it, we are combing the media and books for juicy quotes and examples to back up what we are saying. We are playing it out in our mind's eye.  During this mental imagining, we see ourselves as very confident and successful - we are predicting our success by seeing it before we even do it.  We are seeing the audience nodding and agreeing with what we say.  We can see ourselves enjoying the moment and feel in full control.  This is what the top athletes do before their matches. They see themselves being successful, they see the details of how that success is being built up throughout the match, they see the elation of victory at the end.  We should be doing the same.   When we have rehearsed, we know the timing, the cadence of the talk.  We know where to pause, which words to hit harder than other to emphasize our key points.  We are confident on the flow of our talk and with this knowledge we can now relax and enjoy the process rather than dreading it.  We be successful have to work on our mindset toward what we are doing.  We have to change our self-talk around how we approach the talk.  We have to focus on the benefits of building our personal and professional brands.  We have to look for every opportunity to talk, because that is how we become better and better.  If we can change our mindset, we can change our starting point and that will bring the results we know we need to generate.  Mindset matters.  We will have one either way, so why not make it a winning mindset. Action Steps Decide you will have the right mindset for your talk Understand your delivery is what makes your content work, not the other way around Don't read the text – speak to your points or use the screen for your prompts Carefully design your opening, your key points (3 to 5) and your two closes Use mental imaging to see yourself being successful giving the talk Rehearse – don't practice on your audience 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. In episode 63 we are talking about What Salespeople Care About, If They Are Smart. 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!!!

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In 1940, Charlie Chaplin put aside the Tramp character to write, direct, and star in "The Great Dictator." Rather than his usual slapstick comedy, "The Great Dictator" was a thoughtful political comedy, that not only satirized but also denounced authoritarianism. In the film, the Barber, played by Charlie Chaplin, is mistaken for Hynkel, the great dictator. Hynkel, being an obvious stand-in for Adolf Hitler. Rather than letting this opportunity of mistaken identity slip through his fingers, the Barber addresses a crowd as Hynkel, to explain that he's had a change of heart. And Charlie Chaplin delivers what many consider to be one of the greatest speeches ever to be recorded. Though "The Great Dictator" was a criticism of the Nazis, it rings especially true today. Because in many ways, the Nazis won. Now, I'm not going to go into the typical storyline about racism in America. No, that's too obvious. What everyone ignores is the not-so-obvious, but the one we're constantly immersed in. Like fish, since Nazi efficiency has become like water, we no longer see it. But it makes sense then that World War II was the marriage of Nazi efficiency and Japanese Imperial efficiency. The Nazis and the Japanese didn't win World War II but in many ways, they won the war of work... Books Hard Times (https://amzn.to/2J8J74I)– Charles Dickens Keep the Aspidistra Flying (https://amzn.to/2Lt1EqR)– George Orwell 1984 (http://amzn.to/1JTeoUi)– George Orwell Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna (https://amzn.to/2INsnwH)– Edith Sheffer In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed (https://amzn.to/2J4usYt)– Carl Honore My Autobiography (http://amzn.to/1WJ4bzt)– Charlie Chaplin Music Theme – Chosen by Ross Bugden Equal Value – Jared C. Balogh Reverie – Ross Bugden Industrial 8 – Soularflair Awaken From A Nightmare – Silver Process There Is Only This Love – Siddhartha If you'd like to support my podcast and help me do this full-time, become a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/musttriumph (a site where you can monetarily support your favorite content creators). As a thank you, you will get access to bonus episodes along with transcripts for every episode (including this one).

HAPPY WOMEN'S MARCH!!! Trained extensively in martial arts, this woman helped lead a fiery rebellion that kept Japanese Imperial forces fighting for an entire year: Takeko Nakano. Intro and Ad Music provided by BenSound.com Logo Art by Sydney Tannenbaum Subscribe to The Bitchery of History! umpboh.com

Our guests today are writers Bob Drury and Tom Clavin to discuss their latest book, Lucky 666-The Impossible Mission. Mavericks or "Screw ups" Jay Zeamer and Joseph Sarnoski, sent to the Pacific Theater to help defend Australia from invasion by Japanese Imperial forces, will end up rebuilding a dilapidated B-17 and volunteering to photograph the western coast of Bougainville for the impending U.S. invasion. Little do they know that they will be involved in the longest dogfight in history. One of them will not make it back alive.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this weeks podcast, we travel to the ancient Japanese Imperial court, were the Emperor has entrusted us to care for his bamboo garden--home of a giant panda bear, the symbol of peace. Add in some dice rolling, territory building, farming, tile placement and some killer panda bear minis and you have Takenoko. Come for the high-quality/cute components--stay for the solid game play, or vice versa. We cover both Takenoko and the expansion Takenoko: Chibis, which add a Miss Panda figure, baby panda disks, and new tiles and cards.  

Three months after the surrender of Nazi Germany to Allied forces concluded World War II in Europe, fighting was still raging between the Allies and the Japanese Imperial government. Between mid-April and mid-July, 1945, Japanese forces inflicted half as many casualties as those suffered during the three previous years of fighting in the Pacific. With the capture of the Japanese Island of Okinawa, American forces were at the doorstep of the main island. With his military advisors cautioning Harry Truman that a conventional attack would result in over 1 million American casualties, the U.S. President faced one of the most difficult decisions in world history: risk millions of lives in a ground invasion or use the most powerful weapon ever developed against a civilian population.

 On this episode of week 2 of KPFA's fund drive (1-800-HEY-KPFA, 1-510-848-5732): Anthony Brown (photo courtesy of Kathy Sloane, copyright)   We take a look and a journey exploring the Asian American Jazz movement with two major figures in the scene, Anthony Brown and Mark Izu. Percussionist, composer, ethnomusicologist, educator and Smithsonian Associate Scholar Dr. Anthony Brown is a seminal figure in the contemporary California creative music scene, directing the Asian American Orchestra in addition to performing with some of the foremost musicians in jazz today. In 1997, the Asian American Jazz Orchestra was founded under Brown's artistic direction for a federally-funded national educational touring project about the Japanese American internment experience of World War II. After the project ended in 1998, Brown expanded the group and renamed it Anthony Brown's Asian American Orchestra, in keeping with the traditions of King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, and Machito and his Afro Cubans. The Orchestra has been featured at the Monterey, San Francisco and Chicago Jazz Festivals, the San Francisco Asian American Jazz Festival, the Earshot Festival, the Smithsonian Institution, and numerous universities and concert halls nationally. (http://www.anthonybrown.org) Mark Izu (photo courtesy of artist)   Mark Izu, known for his integration of jazz with global modalities and instrumentation, composes for orchestra, jazz ensemble, film, theater and dance; plays contra bass, the sheng (Chinese traditional multi-reed instrument) and the sho (Japanese tradition multi-reed instrument). The only symphonic sho composer in the world, Izu premiered Mermaid, an orchestral work for Kent Nagano and the Berkeley Symphony. In 2005, he wrote the sho solo for, The Manzanar Project, also with Nagano. He received a 2009 Emmy for Bolinao 52, a documentary about the Vietnamese boat people. Izu's odyssey began in 1976 with Japanese Imperial court master musician, Suenobu Togi, and continued until Togi's death over 30 years later. Izu's CD, Threading Time features the final recording of Togi Suenobu with Zakir Hussain (tabla), and was released in Tokyo. It received Tokyo's Critic's Choice for Top 10 jazz releases of 2008. Izu's film scores include Academy Award-winning Days of Waiting; Emmy; Award winning, Return to the Valley; and a new score for silent masterpiece, Dragon Painter. His theater scores were performed at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and Sundance Festival. He was awarded a Dramalogue Award and two INDIE Awards for composition. Izu has received three Meet the Composer Commissions, a Japan/US Creative Artist Fellowship, and an ASCAP Award. Izu is a founding faculty member of Stanford University's Institute of Diversity in the Arts. He lives with his family in San Francisco. (http://www.aokizu.com/) Anthony Brown and Mark Izu will be in studio to talk about their longtime work, love, way of life: Jazz. We'll listen to some of their work, and other important Asian American Jazz artists. As a thank you gift to our listeners who decide to pledge during the show hour, we offer the documentary on Anthony Brown and Mark Izu, Don't Lose Your Soul (dir. Jim Choi, Chihiro Wimbush). With Host RJ. The post APEX Express – May 10, 2012 appeared first on KPFA.

Just in time for Thanksgiving, it's the trial of Shiro Yoshida: SUNFIRE! Created near the end of X-Men volume 1, Sunfire has intrinsic ties to Hiroshima, to the Japanese Imperial flag, and to many racist tropes and portrayals over the years. With a new hero's journey in the Krakoan age, Sunfire is ready for an incredible trial! Featuring the talents and insights of Trung Nguyen! Jason Loo! Andrew Drilon! Justin Park! And Steve deG!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy