Podcasts about Samah

Samah Karaki est neuroscientifique et essayiste et son dernier essai "contre les figures d'autorité" est la raison pour laquelle je la reçois de nouveau!C'est la quatrième fois que je reçois Samah. Et à chaque fois, je sens que quelque chose me bouscule profondément.Dans cet épisode, nous parlons de notre besoin presque viscéral de figures d'autorité. Pourquoi nous aimons tant certains visages. Pourquoi nous leur déléguons notre jugement. Pourquoi nous sommes parfois déçus comme si nous avions été trahis personnellement.J'ai questionné Samah sur la naissance historique de la figure du “génie”, sur la Renaissance, sur le mythe du héros, sur le mérite, sur la visibilité, sur les médias, sur les algorithmes. Mais aussi sur quelque chose de plus intime : qu'est-ce que ça fait de devenir soi-même une figure d'autorité ?Ce que j'aime dans cette conversation, c'est qu'elle ne cherche pas à “cancel”. Elle cherche à déplacer le regard.On parle de plagiat, de création collective, d'impunité, de Heidegger, de Bertolucci, d'écologie, de réseaux sociaux, de gourous, de soft skills… et surtout d'utopie.Et si la pensée n'appartenait jamais à une seule personne ?Et si le vrai pouvoir, c'était de négocier le sens ensemble ?Citations marquantes “Nous avons besoin de boussoles, mais pas de sommets.”“Le problème n'est pas la signature. C'est pourquoi on voit toujours les mêmes noms.”“Quand on sacralise quelqu'un, on suspend notre jugement.”“La pensée n'appartient pas à une figure. Elle appartient à ceux qui la manipulent.”“L'utopie, c'est un endroit où le sens se négocie en permanence.”Big Ideas (Idées centrales)1. Le besoin d'autorité est humainNous manquons d'attention. Nous avons besoin de repères.

Samah Karaki est neuroscientifique et essayiste et son dernier essai "contre les figures d'autorité" est la raison pour laquelle je la reçois de nouveau!C'est la quatrième fois que je reçois Samah. Et à chaque fois, je sens que quelque chose me bouscule profondément.Dans cet épisode, nous parlons de notre besoin presque viscéral de figures d'autorité. Pourquoi nous aimons tant certains visages. Pourquoi nous leur déléguons notre jugement. Pourquoi nous sommes parfois déçus comme si nous avions été trahis personnellement.J'ai questionné Samah sur la naissance historique de la figure du “génie”, sur la Renaissance, sur le mythe du héros, sur le mérite, sur la visibilité, sur les médias, sur les algorithmes. Mais aussi sur quelque chose de plus intime : qu'est-ce que ça fait de devenir soi-même une figure d'autorité ?Ce que j'aime dans cette conversation, c'est qu'elle ne cherche pas à “cancel”. Elle cherche à déplacer le regard.On parle de plagiat, de création collective, d'impunité, de Heidegger, de Bertolucci, d'écologie, de réseaux sociaux, de gourous, de soft skills… et surtout d'utopie.Et si la pensée n'appartenait jamais à une seule personne ?Et si le vrai pouvoir, c'était de négocier le sens ensemble ?Citations marquantes “Nous avons besoin de boussoles, mais pas de sommets.”“Le problème n'est pas la signature. C'est pourquoi on voit toujours les mêmes noms.”“Quand on sacralise quelqu'un, on suspend notre jugement.”“La pensée n'appartient pas à une figure. Elle appartient à ceux qui la manipulent.”“L'utopie, c'est un endroit où le sens se négocie en permanence.”Big Ideas (Idées centrales)1. Le besoin d'autorité est humainNous manquons d'attention. Nous avons besoin de repères.

Recorded live at a SAND Community Gathering (Feb 2026) Dr. Samah Jabr, a Palestinian psychiatrist and author of Radiance in Pain and Resilience, joins Dr. Mays Imad (with questions from the audience chat) for a conversation about what it means to stay human when the structures meant to protect people are the ones doing the harm. Drawing on decades of clinical work inside the occupation, Dr. Jabr moves past the “sanitized” versions of trauma to speak directly to the heart of colonial harm in Palestine. Central to this dialogue is an exploration of the deep ontological differences between Western psychiatric models and Palestinian lived experience. While Western frameworks often pathologize the individual through the lens of PTSD, Dr. Jabr introduces the concept of iptila—viewing tribulations through a framework of agency, faith, and collective endurance. She challenges the frequent romanticization of sumud (steadfastness), reframing it not as a poetic trope, but as a grueling relational practice and an ethical refusal to disappear when everything conspires toward Palestinian erasure. In a reality where the harm never ends, memory becomes a battlefield, grief a form of testimony, bearing witness an active refusal to normalize the unacceptable, and storytelling a vital survival infrastructure against the assassination of memory. Topics 00:00 Welcome & Why We Need a New Framework for Trauma and Justice 02:15 “If I Must Die”: Carrying Memory, Refusing Normalization 03:13 Introducing Dr. Samah Jabr's Work: Pain, Power, and a Counter-Narrative 07:55 A Childhood Lesson in Naming: Robinson Crusoe and Colonial Language 10:10 Clinic Stories: When Political Reality Shapes Symptoms 14:14 Beyond Western Psychiatry: Language, Resilience, and Context as the ‘Pathology' 17:19 The ‘Fear of Dogs' Case: History, Colonial Violence, and Clinical Meaning 20:40 When Systems Collapse: Gaza's Crushed Mental-Health Response & Organic Community Care 25:04 Collective Healing & the Kite Intervention: Building Agency and Connection 29:31 From Mobilization to Organization: Global Solidarity and Liberation 34:31 How to Keep Working: Hope, Spirituality, and Protecting Health Workers 41:58 Meaning-Making in Crisis: The Palm Tree Story and Spiritual Grounding 45:22 Spirituality as Resilience: Listening for What Helps Each Person 47:13 Scaling Mental Health Support in Palestine: Training Community Helpers 49:00 Creating “Healing Spaces”: Group Support for Journalists, Youth & Displaced Women 53:22 Reporting Gaza From Afar: Citizen Journalism, Narrative Control & Ethical Witnessing 59:44 How to Support Palestine Sustainably: Remote Mental Health, Publishing & Advocacy 01:05:37 Colonialism, Patriarchy & Horizontal Violence: When Trauma Damages the Social Fabric 01:10:03 Meaning-Making Under Protracted Trauma: Tila, Agency & Shattered Belief Systems 01:15:16 Diaspora Palestinians: From Helping Family to Leading Global Political Solidarity 01:21:55 Closing Charge: Being Human After Mass Violence + Upcoming Webinars & Films Resources Dr. Samah Jabr's book Art by Fernando Martí and Jess X. Snow, inspired by Huda Suboh's quote: “In the heart of Gaza, where the echoes of war reverberate through the streets… each day, glimmers of hope that dance across the sky—kites.” — Rafah, 2024 Support this conversation by donating to Sumud Network for Mental Health and Healing for Gaza Where Olive Trees Weep (Film by SAND on Palestine (2024) with more Resources and a course on Palestine)

The Lawyer Stories Podcast Episode 250 welcomes back - and we're excited to do so - Samah T. Abukhodeir, Founder and Managing Partner of The Florida Probate & Family Law Firm, joined by her husband and law partner Jose Ignacio Leon. Since our last conversation (Ep. 224), Samah has been building with intention, growing significantly to almost 50 employees across nine law firms. In this milestone episode, we dive into what she's been up to, what it's really like growing a law firm with your spouse, how they divide responsibilities, and why their chemistry works - both inside and outside the office. Jose shares a powerful insight that anchors the conversation: "No one is going to work harder for you than your family." Together, they reflect on trust, alignment, and the impact they strive to make for their clients, while sharing their vision for the firm's continued growth. An honest, inspiring conversation about partnership, purpose, and building something meaningful - together.

Last time we spoke about the climax of the battle of Lake Khasan. In August, the Lake Khasan region became a tense theater of combat as Soviet and Japanese forces clashed around Changkufeng and Hill 52. The Soviets pushed a multi-front offensive, bolstered by artillery, tanks, and air power, yet the Japanese defenders held firm, aided by engineers, machine guns, and heavy guns. By the ninth and tenth, a stubborn Japanese resilience kept Hill 52 and Changkufeng in Japanese hands, though the price was steep and the field was littered with the costs of battle. Diplomatically, both sides aimed to confine the fighting and avoid a larger war. Negotiations trudged on, culminating in a tentative cease-fire draft for August eleventh: a halt to hostilities, positions to be held as of midnight on the tenth, and the creation of a border-demarcation commission. Moscow pressed for a neutral umpire; Tokyo resisted, accepting a Japanese participant but rejecting a neutral referee. The cease-fire was imperfect, with miscommunications and differing interpretations persisting.    #185 Operation Hainan 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. After what seemed like a lifetime over in the northern border between the USSR and Japan, today we are returning to the Second Sino-Japanese War. Now I thought it might be a bit jarring to dive into it, so let me do a brief summary of where we are at, in the year of 1939. As the calendar turned to 1939, the Second Sino-Japanese War, which had erupted in July 1937 with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident and escalated into full-scale conflict, had evolved into a protracted quagmire for the Empire of Japan. What began as a swift campaign to subjugate the Republic of China under Chiang Kai-shek had, by the close of 1938, transformed into a war of attrition. Japanese forces, under the command of generals like Shunroku Hata and Yasuji Okamura, had achieved stunning territorial gains: the fall of Shanghai in November 1937 after a brutal three-month battle that cost over 200,000 Chinese lives; the infamous capture of Nanjing in December 1937, marked by the Nanjing Massacre where an estimated 300,000 civilians and disarmed soldiers were killed in a six-week orgy of violence; and the sequential occupations of Xuzhou in May 1938, Wuhan in October 1938, and Guangzhou that same month.  These victories secured Japan's control over China's eastern seaboard, major riverine arteries like the Yangtze, and key industrial centers, effectively stripping the Nationalists of much of their economic base. Yet, despite these advances, China refused to capitulate. Chiang's government had retreated inland to the mountainous stronghold of Chongqing in Sichuan province, where it regrouped amid the fog-laden gorges, drawing on the vast human reserves of China's interior and the resilient spirit of its people. By late 1938, Japanese casualties had mounted to approximately 50,000 killed and 200,000 wounded annually, straining the Imperial Japanese Army's resources and exposing the vulnerabilities of overextended supply lines deep into hostile territory. In Tokyo, the corridors of the Imperial General Headquarters and the Army Ministry buzzed with urgent deliberations during the winter of 1938-1939. The initial doctrine of "quick victory" through decisive battles, epitomized by the massive offensives of 1937 and 1938, had proven illusory. Japan's military planners, influenced by the Kwantung Army's experiences in Manchuria and the ongoing stalemate, recognized that China's sheer size, with its 4 million square miles and over 400 million inhabitants, rendered total conquest unfeasible without unacceptable costs. Intelligence reports highlighted the persistence of Chinese guerrilla warfare, particularly in the north where Communist forces under Mao Zedong's Eighth Route Army conducted hit-and-run operations from bases in Shanxi and Shaanxi, sabotaging railways and ambushing convoys. The Japanese response included brutal pacification campaigns, such as the early iterations of what would later formalize as the "Three Alls Policy" (kill all, burn all, loot all), aimed at devastating rural economies and isolating resistance pockets. But these measures only fueled further defiance. By early 1939, a strategic pivot was formalized: away from direct annihilation of Chinese armies toward a policy of economic strangulation. This "blockade and interdiction" approach sought to sever China's lifelines to external aid, choking off the flow of weapons, fuel, and materiel that sustained the Nationalist war effort. As one Japanese staff officer noted in internal memos, the goal was to "starve the dragon in its lair," acknowledging the limits of Japanese manpower, total forces in China numbered around 1 million by 1939, against China's inexhaustible reserves. Central to this new strategy were the three primary overland supply corridors that had emerged as China's backdoors to the world, compensating for the Japanese naval blockade that had sealed off most coastal ports since late 1937. The first and most iconic was the Burma Road, a 717-mile engineering marvel hastily constructed between 1937 and 1938 by over 200,000 Chinese and Burmese laborers under the direction of engineers like Chih-Ping Chen. Stretching from the railhead at Lashio in British Burma (modern Myanmar) through treacherous mountain passes and dense jungles to Kunming in Yunnan province, the road navigated elevations up to 7,000 feet with hundreds of hairpin turns and precarious bridges. By early 1939, it was operational, albeit plagued by monsoonal mudslides, banditry, and mechanical breakdowns of the imported trucks, many Ford and Chevrolet models supplied via British Rangoon. Despite these challenges, it funneled an increasing volume of aid: in 1939 alone, estimates suggest up to 10,000 tons per month of munitions, gasoline, and aircraft parts from Allied sources, including early Lend-Lease precursors from the United States. The road's completion in 1938 had been a direct response to the loss of southern ports, and its vulnerability to aerial interdiction made it a prime target in Japanese planning documents. The second lifeline was the Indochina route, centered on the French-built Yunnan-Vietnam Railway (also known as the Hanoi-Kunming Railway), a 465-mile narrow-gauge line completed in 1910 that linked the port of Haiphong in French Indochina to Kunming via Hanoi and Lao Cai. This colonial artery, supplemented by parallel roads and river transport along the Red River, became China's most efficient supply conduit in 1938-1939, exploiting France's uneasy neutrality. French authorities, under Governor-General Pierre Pasquier and later Georges Catroux, turned a blind eye to transshipments, allowing an average of 15,000 to 20,000 tons monthly in early 1939, far surpassing the Burma Road's initial capacity. Cargoes included Soviet arms rerouted via Vladivostok and American oil, with French complicity driven by anti-Japanese sentiment and profitable tolls. However, Japanese reconnaissance flights from bases in Guangdong noted the vulnerability of bridges and rail yards, leading to initial bombing raids by mid-1939. Diplomatic pressure mounted, with Tokyo issuing protests to Paris, foreshadowing the 1940 closure under Vichy France after the fall of France in Europe. The route's proximity to the South China Sea made it a focal point for Japanese naval strategists, who viewed it as a "leak in the blockade." The third corridor, often overlooked but critical, was the Northwest Highway through Soviet Central Asia and Xinjiang province. This overland network, upgraded between 1937 and 1941 with Soviet assistance, connected the Turkestan-Siberian Railway at Almaty (then Alma-Ata) to Lanzhou in Gansu via Urumqi, utilizing a mix of trucks, camel caravans, and rudimentary roads across the Gobi Desert and Tian Shan mountains. Under the Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact of August 1937 and subsequent aid agreements, Moscow supplied China with over 900 aircraft, 82 tanks, 1,300 artillery pieces, and vast quantities of ammunition and fuel between 1937 and 1941—much of it traversing this route. In 1938-1939, volumes peaked, with Soviet pilots and advisors even establishing air bases in Lanzhou. The highway's construction involved tens of thousands of Chinese laborers, facing harsh winters and logistical hurdles, but it delivered up to 2,000 tons monthly, including entire fighter squadrons like the Polikarpov I-16. Japanese intelligence, aware of this "Red lifeline," planned disruptions but were constrained by the ongoing Nomonhan Incident on the Manchurian-Soviet border in 1939, which diverted resources and highlighted the risks of provoking Moscow. These routes collectively sustained China's resistance, prompting Japan's high command to prioritize their severance. In March 1939, the South China Area Army was established under General Rikichi Andō (later succeeded by Field Marshal Hisaichi Terauchi), headquartered in Guangzhou, with explicit orders to disrupt southern communications. Aerial campaigns intensified, with Mitsubishi G3M "Nell" bombers from Wuhan and Guangzhou targeting Kunming's airfields and the Red River bridges, while diplomatic maneuvers pressured colonial powers: Britain faced demands during the June 1939 Tientsin Crisis to close the Burma Road, and France received ultimatums that culminated in the 1940 occupation of northern Indochina. Yet, direct assaults on Yunnan or Guangxi were deemed too arduous due to rugged terrain and disease risks. Instead, planners eyed peripheral objectives to encircle these arteries. This strategic calculus set the stage for the invasion of Hainan Island, a 13,000-square-mile landmass off Guangdong's southern coast, rich in iron and copper but strategically priceless for its position astride the Indochina route and proximity to Hong Kong. By February 1939, Japanese admirals like Nobutake Kondō of the 5th Fleet advocated seizure to establish air and naval bases, plugging blockade gaps and enabling raids on Haiphong and Kunming, a prelude to broader southern expansion that would echo into the Pacific War. Now after the fall campaign around Canton in autumn 1938, the Japanese 21st Army found itself embedded in a relentless effort to sever the enemy's lifelines. Its primary objective shifted from mere battlefield engagements to tightening the choke points of enemy supply, especially along the Canton–Hankou railway. Recognizing that war materiel continued to flow into the enemy's hands, the Imperial General Headquarters ordered the 21st Army to strike at every other supply route, one by one, until the arteries of logistics were stifled. The 21st Army undertook a series of decisive occupations to disrupt transport and provisioning from multiple directions. To sustain these difficult campaigns, Imperial General Headquarters reinforced the south China command, enabling greater operational depth and endurance. The 21st Army benefited from a series of reinforcements during 1939, which allowed a reorganization of assignments and missions: In late January, the Iida Detachment was reorganized into the Formosa Mixed Brigade and took part in the invasion of Hainan Island.  Hainan, just 15 miles across the Qiongzhou Strait from the mainland, represented a critical "loophole": it lay astride the Gulf of Tonkin, enabling smuggling of arms and materiel from Haiphong to Kunming, and offered potential airfields for bombing raids deep into Yunnan. Japanese interest in Hainan dated to the 1920s, driven by the Taiwan Governor-General's Office, which eyed the island's tropical resources (rubber, iron, copper) and naval potential at ports like Sanya (Samah). Prewar surveys by Japanese firms, such as those documented in Ide Kiwata's Minami Shina no Sangyō to Keizai (1939), highlighted mineral wealth and strategic harbors. The fall of Guangzhou in October 1938 provided the perfect launchpad, but direct invasion was delayed until early 1939 amid debates between the IJA (favoring mainland advances) and IJN (prioritizing naval encirclement). The operation would also heavily align with broader "southward advance" (Nanshin-ron) doctrine foreshadowing invasions of French Indochina (1940) and the Pacific War. On the Chinese side, Hainan was lightly defended as part of Guangdong's "peace preservation" under General Yu Hanmou. Two security regiments, six guard battalions, and a self-defense corps, totaling around 7,000–10,000 poorly equipped troops guarded the island, supplemented by roughly 300 Communist guerrillas under Feng Baiju, who operated independently in the interior. The indigenous Li (Hlai) people in the mountainous south, alienated by Nationalist taxes, provided uneven support but later allied with Communists. The Imperial General Headquarters ordered the 21st Army, in cooperation with the Navy, to occupy and hold strategic points on the island near Haikou-Shih. The 21st Army commander assigned the Formosa Mixed Brigade to carry out this mission. Planning began in late 1938 under the IJN's Fifth Fleet, with IJA support from the 21st Army. The objective: secure northern and southern landing sites to bisect the island, establish air/naval bases, and exploit resources. Vice Admiral Nobutake Kondō, commanding the fleet, emphasized surprise and air superiority. The invasion began under the cover of darkness on February 9, 1939, when Kondō's convoy entered Tsinghai Bay on the northern shore of Hainan and anchored at midnight. Japanese troops swiftly disembarked, encountering minimal initial resistance from the surprised Chinese defenders, and secured a beachhead in the northern zone. At 0300 hours on 10 February, the Formosa Mixed Brigade, operating in close cooperation with naval units, executed a surprise landing at the northeastern point of Tengmai Bay in north Hainan. By 04:30, the right flank reached the main road leading to Fengyingshih, while the left flank reached a position two kilometers south of Tienwei. By 07:00, the right flank unit had overcome light enemy resistance near Yehli and occupied Chiungshan. At that moment there were approximately 1,000 elements of the enemy's 5th Infantry Brigade (militia) at Chiungshan; about half of these troops were destroyed, and the remainder fled into the hills south of Tengmai in a state of disarray. Around 08:30 that same day, the left flank unit advanced to the vicinity of Shuchang and seized Hsiuying Heights. By 12:00, it occupied Haikou, the island's northern port city and administrative center, beginning around noon. Army and navy forces coordinated to mop up remaining pockets of resistance in the northern areas, overwhelming the scattered Chinese security units through superior firepower and organization. No large-scale battles are recorded in primary accounts; instead, the engagements were characterized by rapid advances and localized skirmishes, as the Chinese forces, lacking heavy artillery or air support, could not mount a sustained defense. By the end of the day, Japanese control over the north was consolidating, with Haikou falling under their occupation.Also on 10 February, the Brigade pushed forward to seize Cingang. Wenchang would be taken on the 22nd, followed by Chinglan Port on the 23rd. On February 11, the operation expanded southward when land combat units amphibiously assaulted Samah (now Sanya) at the island's southern tip. This landing allowed them to quickly seize key positions, including the port of Yulin (Yulinkang) and the town of Yai-Hsien (Yaxian, now part of Sanya). With these southern footholds secured, Japanese forces fanned out to subjugate the rest of the island, capturing inland areas and infrastructure with little organized opposition. Meanwhile, the landing party of the South China Navy Expeditionary Force, which had joined with the Army to secure Haikou, began landing on the island's southern shore at dawn on 14 February. They operated under the protection of naval and air units. By the same morning, the landing force had advanced to Sa-Riya and, by 12:00 hours, had captured Yulin Port. Chinese casualties were significant in the brief fighting; from January to May 1939, reports indicate the 11th security regiment alone suffered 8 officers and 162 soldiers killed, 3 officers and 16 wounded, and 5 officers and 68 missing, though figures for other units are unclear. Japanese losses were not publicly detailed but appear to have been light.  When crisis pressed upon them, Nationalist forces withdrew from coastal Haikou, shepherding the last civilians toward the sheltering embrace of the Wuzhi mountain range that bands the central spine of Hainan. From that high ground they sought to endure the storm, praying that the rugged hills might shield their families from the reach of war. Yet the Li country's mountains did not deliver a sanctuary free of conflict. Later in August of 1943, an uprising erupted among the Li,Wang Guoxing, a figure of local authority and stubborn resolve. His rebellion was swiftly crushed; in reprisal, the Nationalists executed a seizure of vengeance that extended far beyond the moment of defeat, claiming seven thousand members of Wang Guoxing's kin in his village. The episode was grim testimony to the brutal calculus of war, where retaliation and fear indelibly etched the landscape of family histories. Against this backdrop, the Communists under Feng Baiju and the native Li communities forged a vigorous guerrilla war against the occupiers. The struggle was not confined to partisan skirmishes alone; it unfolded as a broader contest of survival and resistance. The Japanese response was relentless and punitive, and it fell upon Li communities in western Hainan with particular ferocity, Sanya and Danzhou bore the brunt of violence, as did the many foreign laborers conscripted into service by the occupying power. The toll of these reprisals was stark: among hundreds of thousands of slave laborers pressed into service, tens of thousands perished. Of the 100,000 laborers drawn from Hong Kong, only about 20,000 survived the war's trials, a haunting reminder of the human cost embedded in the occupation. Strategically, the island of Hainan took on a new if coercive purpose. Portions of the island were designated as a naval administrative district, with the Hainan Guard District Headquarters established at Samah, signaling its role as a forward air base and as an operational flank for broader anti-Chiang Kai-shek efforts. In parallel, the island's rich iron and copper resources were exploited to sustain the war economy of the occupiers. The control of certain areas on Hainan provided a base of operations for incursions into Guangdong and French Indochina, while the airbases that dotted the island enabled long-range air raids that threaded routes from French Indochina and Burma into the heart of China. The island thus assumed a grim dual character: a frontier fortress for the occupiers and a ground for the prolonged suffering of its inhabitants. Hainan then served as a launchpad for later incursions into Guangdong and Indochina. Meanwhile after Wuhan's collapse, the Nationalist government's frontline strength remained formidable, even as attrition gnawed at its edges. By the winter of 1938–1939, the front line had swelled to 261 divisions of infantry and cavalry, complemented by 50 independent brigades. Yet the political and military fissures within the Kuomintang suggested fragility beneath the apparent depth of manpower. The most conspicuous rupture came with Wang Jingwei's defection, the vice president and chairman of the National Political Council, who fled to Hanoi on December 18, 1938, leading a procession of more than ten other KMT officials, including Chen Gongbo, Zhou Fohai, Chu Minqi, and Zeng Zhongming. In the harsh arithmetic of war, defections could not erase the country's common resolve to resist Japanese aggression, and the anti-Japanese national united front still served as a powerful instrument, rallying the Chinese populace to "face the national crisis together." Amid this political drama, Japan's strategy moved into a phase that sought to convert battlefield endurance into political consolidation. As early as January 11, 1938, Tokyo had convened an Imperial Conference and issued a framework for handling the China Incident that would shape the theater for years. The "Outline of Army Operations Guidance" and "Continental Order No. 241" designated the occupied territories as strategic assets to be held with minimal expansion beyond essential needs. The instruction mapped an operational zone that compressed action to a corridor between Anqing, Xinyang, Yuezhou, and Nanchang, while the broader line of occupation east of a line tracing West Sunit, Baotou, and the major river basins would be treated as pacified space. This was a doctrine of attrition, patience, and selective pressure—enough to hold ground, deny resources to the Chinese, and await a more opportune political rupture. Yet even as Japan sought political attrition, the war's tactical center of gravity drifted toward consolidation around Wuhan and the pathways that fed the Yangtze. In October 1938, after reducing Wuhan to a fortressed crescent of contested ground, the Japanese General Headquarters acknowledged the imperative to adapt to a protracted war. The new calculus prioritized political strategy alongside military operations: "We should attach importance to the offensive of political strategy, cultivate and strengthen the new regime, and make the National Government decline, which will be effective." If the National Government trembled under coercive pressure, it risked collapse, and if not immediately, then gradually through a staged series of operations. In practice, this meant reinforcing a centralized center while allowing peripheral fronts to be leveraged against Chongqing's grip on the war's moral economy. In the immediate post-Wuhan period, Japan divided its responsibilities and aimed at a standoff that would enable future offensives. The 11th Army Group, stationed in the Wuhan theater, became the spearhead of field attacks on China's interior, occupying a strategic triangle that included Hunan, Jiangxi, and Guangxi, and protecting the rear of southwest China's line of defense. The central objective was not merely to seize territory, but to deny Chinese forces the capacity to maneuver along the critical rail and river corridors that fed the Nanjing–Jiujiang line and the Zhejiang–Jiangxi Railway. Central to this plan was Wuhan's security and the ability to constrain Jiujiang's access to the Yangtze, preserving a corridor for air power and logistics. The pre-war arrangement in early 1939 was a tableau of layered defenses and multiple war zones, designed to anticipate and blunt Japanese maneuver. By February 1939, the Ninth War Zone under Xue Yue stood in a tense standoff with the Japanese 11th Army along the Jiangxi and Hubei front south of the Yangtze. The Ninth War Zone's order of battle, Luo Zhuoying's 19th Army Group defending the northern Nanchang front, Wang Lingji's 30th Army Group near Wuning, Fan Songfu's 8th and 73rd Armies along Henglu, Tang Enbo's 31st Army Group guarding southern Hubei and northern Hunan, and Lu Han's 1st Army Group in reserve near Changsha and Liuyang, was a carefully calibrated attempt to absorb, delay, and disrupt any Xiushui major Japanese thrust toward Nanchang, a city whose strategic significance stretched beyond its own bounds. In the spring of 1939, Nanchang was the one city in southern China that Tokyo could not leave in Chinese hands. It was not simply another provincial capital; it was the beating heart of whatever remained of China's war effort south of the Yangtze, and the Japanese knew it. High above the Gan River, on the flat plains west of Poyang Lake, lay three of the finest airfields China had ever built: Qingyunpu, Daxiaochang, and Xiangtang. Constructed only a few years earlier with Soviet engineers and American loans, they were long, hard-surfaced, and ringed with hangars and fuel dumps. Here the Chinese Air Force had pulled back after the fall of Wuhan, and here the red-starred fighters and bombers of the Soviet volunteer groups still flew. From Nanchang's runways a determined pilot could reach Japanese-held Wuhan in twenty minutes, Guangzhou in less than an hour, and even strike the docks at Hong Kong if he pushed his range. Every week Japanese reconnaissance planes returned with photographs of fresh craters patched, new aircraft parked wing-to-wing, and Soviet pilots sunning themselves beside their I-16s. As long as those fields remained Chinese, Japan could never claim the sky. The city was more than airfields. It sat exactly where the Zhejiang–Jiangxi Railway met the line running north to Jiujiang and the Yangtze, a knot that tied together three provinces. Barges crowded Poyang Lake's western shore, unloading crates of Soviet ammunition and aviation fuel that had come up the river from the Indochina railway. Warehouses along the tracks bulged with shells and rice. To the Japanese staff officers plotting in Wuhan and Guangzhou, Nanchang looked less like a city and more like a loaded spring: if Chiang Kai-shek ever found the strength for a counteroffensive to retake the middle Yangtze, this would be the place from which it would leap. And so, in the cold March of 1939, the Imperial General Headquarters marked Nanchang in red on every map and gave General Okamura the order he had been waiting for: take it, whatever the cost. Capturing the city would do three things at once. It would blind the Chinese Air Force in the south by seizing or destroying the only bases from which it could still seriously operate. It would tear a hole in the last east–west rail line still feeding Free China. And it would shove the Nationalist armies another two hundred kilometers farther into the interior, buying Japan precious time to digest its earlier conquests and tighten the blockade. Above all, Nanchang was the final piece in a great aerial ring Japan was closing around southern China. Hainan had fallen in February, giving the navy its southern airfields. Wuhan and Guangzhou already belonged to the army. Once Nanchang was taken, Japanese aircraft would sit on a continuous arc of bases from the tropical beaches of the South China Sea to the banks of the Yangtze, and nothing (neither the Burma Road convoys nor the French railway from Hanoi) would move without their permission. Chiang Kai-shek's decision to strike first in the Nanchang region in March 1939 reflected both urgency and a desire to seize initiative before Japanese modernization of the battlefield could fully consolidate. On March 8, Chiang directed Xue Yue to prepare a preemptive attack intended to seize the offensive by March 15, focusing the Ninth War Zone's efforts on preventing a river-crossing assault and pinning Japanese forces in place. The plan called for a sequence of coordinated actions: the 19th Army Group to hold the northern front of Nanchang; the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi Border Advance Army (the 8th and 73rd Armies) to strike the enemy's left flank from Wuning toward De'an and Ruichang; the 30th and 27th Army Groups to consolidate near Wuning; and the 1st Army Group to push toward Xiushui and Sandu, opening routes for subsequent operations. Yet even as Xue Yue pressed for action, the weather of logistics and training reminded observers that no victory could be taken for granted. By March 9–10, Xue Yue warned Chiang that troops were not adequately trained, supplies were scarce, and preparations were insufficient, requesting a postponement to March 24. Chiang's reply was resolute: the attack must commence no later than the 24th, for the aim was preemption and the desire to tether the enemy's forces before they could consolidate. When the moment of decision arrived, the Chinese army began to tense, and the Japanese, no strangers to rapid shifts in tempo—moved to exploit any hesitation or fog of mobilization. The Ninth War Zone's response crystallized into a defensive posture as the Japanese pressed forward, marking a transition from preemption to standoff as both sides tested the limits of resilience. The Japanese plan for what would become known as Operation Ren, aimed at severing the Zhejiang–Jiangxi Railway, breaking the enemy's line of communication, and isolating Nanchang, reflected a calculated synthesis of air power, armored mobility, and canalized ground offensives. On February 6, 1939, the Central China Expeditionary Army issued a set of precise directives: capture Nanchang to cut the Zhejiang–Jiangxi Railway and disrupt the southern reach of Anhui and Zhejiang provinces; seize Nanchang along the Nanchang–Xunyi axis to split enemy lines and "crush" Chinese resistance south of that zone; secure rear lines immediately after the city's fall; coordinate with naval air support to threaten Chinese logistics and airfields beyond the rear lines. The plan anticipated contingencies by pre-positioning heavy artillery and tanks in formations that could strike with speed and depth, a tactical evolution from previous frontal assaults. Okamura Yasuji, commander of the 11th Army, undertook a comprehensive program of reconnaissance, refining the assault plan with a renewed emphasis on speed and surprise. Aerial reconnaissance underlined the terrain, fortifications, and the disposition of Chinese forces, informing the selection of the Xiushui River crossing and the route of the main axis of attack. Okamura's decision to reorganize artillery and armor into concentrated tank groups, flanked by air support and advanced by long-range maneuver, marked a departure from the earlier method of distributing heavy weapons along the infantry front. Sumita Laishiro commanded the 6th Field Heavy Artillery Brigade, with more than 300 artillery pieces, while Hirokichi Ishii directed a force of 135 tanks and armored vehicles. This blended arms approach promised a breakthrough that would outpace the Chinese defenders and open routes for the main force. By mid-February 1939, Japanese preparations had taken on a high tempo. The 101st and 106th Divisions, along with attached artillery, assembled south of De'an, while tank contingents gathered north of De'an. The 6th Division began moving toward Ruoxi and Wuning, the Inoue Detachment took aim at the waterways of Poyang Lake, and the 16th and 9th Divisions conducted feints on the Han River's left bank. The orchestration of these movements—feints, riverine actions, and armored flanking, was designed to reduce the Chinese capacity to concentrate forces around Nanchang and to force the defenders into a less secure posture along the Nanchang–Jiujiang axis. Japan's southward strategy reframed the war: no longer a sprint to reduce Chinese forces in open fields, but a patient siege of lifelines, railways, and airbases. Hainan's seizure, the control of Nanchang's airfields, and the disruption of the Zhejiang–Jiangxi Railway exemplified a shift from large-scale battles to coercive pressure that sought to cripple Nationalist mobilization and erode Chongqing's capacity to sustain resistance. For China, the spring of 1939 underscored resilience amid mounting attrition. Chiang Kai-shek's insistence on offensive means to seize the initiative demonstrated strategic audacity, even as shortages and uneven training slowed tempo. The Ninth War Zone's defense, bolstered by makeshift airpower from Soviet and Allied lendings, kept open critical corridors and delayed Japan's consolidation. The war's human cost—massive casualties, forced labor, and the Li uprising on Hainan—illuminates the brutality that fueled both sides' resolve. In retrospect, the period around Canton, Wuhan, and Nanchang crystallizes a grim truth: the Sino-Japanese war was less a single crescendo of battles than a protracted contest of endurance, logistics, and political stamina. The early 1940s would widen these fault lines, but the groundwork laid in 1939, competition over supply routes, air control, and strategic rail nodes, would shape the war's pace and, ultimately, its outcome. The conflict's memory lies not only in the clashes' flash but in the stubborn persistence of a nation fighting to outlast a formidable adversary. 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. The Japanese invasion of Hainan and proceeding operations to stop logistical leaks into Nationalist China, showcased the complexity and scale of the growing Second Sino-Japanese War. It would not merely be a war of territorial conquest, Japan would have to strangle the colossus using every means necessary.  

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Hey before I begin I just want to thank all of you who have joined the patreon, you guys are awesome. Please let me know what other figures, events or other things you want to hear about in the future and I will try to make it happen.   If you are a long time listener to the Pacific War week by week podcast over at KNG or viewer of my youtube channel you have probably heard me talk about Tomoyuki Yamashita, the Tiger of Malaya quite often. It goes without saying when it comes to Japanese generals of WW2 he stands out. Not just to me, from the offset of the war he made a large impression on westerners, he achieved incredible feats early on in the war. Now if you look up books about him, you will pretty much only find information in regards to his infamous war crimes trial. Hell it was so infamous the legal doctrine of hierarchical accountability for war crimes, whereby a commanding officer is legally responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by his subordinates, was created. This is known as the command responsibility or “the Yamashita standard”. His court case was very controversial, he remains a controversial figure, certainly to the people of territories he campaigned in, but I think what can be said of him the most is he was special amongst the Japanese generals. Anyways lets get the show on the road as they say.   So who was Yamashita? When he was 59 years old commanding forces in the Philippines against General Douglas MacArthur, he weighed 220 ls and stood 5 feet 9 inches. His girth pressed out against his green army uniform. He had an egg shaped head, balding, wide spaced eyes and a flat nose. He wore a short mustache, sort of like Hitlers, until it grayed then he shaved it off. He was not a very attractive man, Filipinos referred to him as “old potato face” while Americans called him “a florid, pig faced man”.   Tomobumi Yamashita was born in 1885, he was the second son of Dr. Sakichi Yamashita and Yuu Yamashita in Osugi village, on Shikoku island. Like most males of his day he was indoctrinated into military preparatory school from a young age. Yamashita had no chosen the army as a career, in his words ‘my father suggested the idea, because I was big and healthy, and my mother did not seriously object because she believed, bless her soul, that I would never pass the highly competitive entrance examination. If I had only been cleverer or had worked harder, I would have been a doctor like my brother”Yamashita would graduate from the 18th class of the IJA academy in november of 1905, ranked 16th out of 920 cadets.    In 1908 he was promoted to the rank of Lt and during WW1 he fought against Imperial German and Austro-Hungarian forces in the famous siege of Qingdao, which if you are interested I did an episode over on my Youtube channel about this battle. Its a very overlooked battle, but many histories firsts occurred at it like the first carrier attack. In 1916 he was promoted to captain and attended the 28th class of the Army War college to graduate sixth in his class that year. He also married Hisako Nagayama in 1916, she was the daughter of the retired General Nagayama.    It seems Yamashita's brush against the Germans in 1914 had a huge influence on him, because he became fascinated with Germany and would serve as assistant military attache at Bern and Berlin from 1919-1922. He spent his time in Germany alongside Captain Hideki Tojo, both men would run into each other countless times and become bitter rivals. Both men toured the western front, visiting Hamburg and witnessed first hand the crippling inflation and food prices that came from Germany's defeat. Yamashita said to Tojo then “If Japan ever has to fight any nation, she must never surrender and get herself in a state like this.” He returned to Japan in 1922, was promoted to major and served a few different posts in the Imperial Headquarters and Staff College. Yamashita became a leading member of the Kodoha faction, while Tojo became a leading member of the rival Toseiha faction. In 1927 Yamashita was sent again to Europe, this time to Vienna as a military attache. Just prior to departing he had invested in a business selling thermometers starting by one of his wife's relatives, the business failed horribly and Yamashita was tossed into debt, bailiffs literally came to seize his house. As told to us by his biographer “For a regular officer to have contracted such a debt, however innocently, was a disgrace. He felt he should resign his commission.” Yamashita's brother refused to allow him to quit, instructing him to leave for Vienna, while he resolved his debts. His days in Vienna were the best of his life, professed Yamashita. He studied economics at Vienna university and made friends with a Japanese widow, who introduced him to a German woman named Kitty and they had an affair. This would spring forward his reputation as an eccentric officer. Yamashita was obsessed over hygiene,and refused to eat fruit unless it was thoroughly washed. He avoided ice water, hated dancing and never learnt how to drive a car. One of his most notable quirks was his habit of falling asleep often during meetings where he legendarily would snore. Like I may have said in previous podcast and youtube episodes, this guy was quite a character, often described as a big bear.    Now this is not a full biography on Yamashita so I cant devolve to far into things, such as his first fall from grace. During the February 26th coup incident of 1936, Yamashita was a leading member of the Kodoha faction and helped mediate a peaceful end to the standoff, however in truth he was backing the coup. He simply managed to not get caught red handed at the time doing too much for the mutineers, regardless he lost favor with the outraged Emperor and many young captains whom he loved like sons killed themselves in disgrace. If you want to know more about the February coup of 1936, check out my series on Emperor Hirohito or General Ishawara, they both talk about it in depth and touch upon Yamashita's role a bit.    The coup led to the dissolvement of the Kodoha faction and the dominance of the Toseiha, led by Tojo. Yamashita tried to resign from the IJA, but his superiors dissuade him. He was relegated to a post in Korea, which honestly was a punishment. Yamashita would say “When I was posted to Korea, I felt I had been given a tactful promotion but that in fact my career was over. Even when I was given my first fighting company in North China, I still felt I had no future in the Army, so I was always on the front line, where the bullets flew the thickest. I sought only a place to die.”  He had some time to reflect upon his conduct while in Korea, he began to study Zen Buddhism. He was promoted to Lt General in November of 1937 and when the China war broke out he was one of those speaking out that the incident needed to end swiftly and that peaceful relations must be made with the UK and US. He received a unimportant post in the Kwantung army and in 1938 was assigned command of the IJA 4th division. He led the forces during in northern china against insurgents until he returned to Tokyo in July of 1940. His fellow officers lauded him as Japan's finest general. Meanwhile Tojo had ascended to war minister and one of his first moves was to send a delegation to Germany. Tojo considered Yamashita a ruthless and forceful commander and feared he would become a powerful rival against him one day. Yamashita would go on the record to say then “I have nothing against Tojo, but he apparently has something against me.” You see, Yamashita had no political ambitions, unlike Tojo who was by nature a political monster. “My life, is that of a soldier; I do not seek any other life unless our Emperor calls me.” In late 1940, Tojo asked Yamashita to lead a team of 40 experts on a 6 month train tour of Germany and Italy, a move that kept him out of Tokyo, because Tojo was trying to solidify his political ambitions. This is going to become a looming theme between the two men.   He was presented to Adolf Hitler in January of 1941, passing along messages from Tojo and publicly praising the Fuhrer, though privately he was very unimpressed by the man  “He may be a great orator on a platform, with his gestures and flamboyant way of speaking. But standing behind his desk listening he seems much more like a clerk.” Hitler pressed upon him to push Japan to declare war on Britain and the US. At the time of course Japan was facing China and had two major conflicts with the USSR, thus this was absolutely not in her interest. “My country is still fighting in China, and we must finish that war as soon as possible. We are also afraid that Russia may attack us in Manchuria. This is no time for us to declare war on other countries.” Yamashita hoped to inspect Germany's military techniques and technology to help Japan. Hitler promised open exchanges of information stating “All our secrets are open to you,”, but this would prove to be a lie. “There were several pieces of equipment the Germans did not want us to see. Whenever I tried to persuade the German General Staff to show us things like radar—about which we had a rudimentary knowledge—the conversation always turned to something else.”   Yamashita met with field Marshal Hermann Goring who gave him an overview of the war in europe. Goring would complain about Yamashita falling asleep during lectures and meetings and he believed the man was drunk often. Yamashita met Benito Mussolini in June of 1941 receiving a similar rundown to what he got in Germany. Yamashita visited Kitty in Vienna for a quick fling, but overall the trip deeply impacted Yamashita's resolve that Japan should stay out of the Europeans war and that Germany made a grievous error invading the USSR in June of 1941. This is what he said the members of the commission “You know the results of our inspection as well as I do. I must ask you not to express opinion in favor of expanding the alliance between Japan, Germany and Italy. Never suggest in your report that Japan should declare war on Great Britain and the United States. We must not and cannot rely upon the power of other nations. Japan needs more time, particularly as there may be aggression against us from Russia. We must have time to rebuild our defense system and adjust the whole Japanese war machine. I cannot repeat this to you often enough.” His report was similar, and it really pissed off Tojo who was trying to develop plans for a war against America. Yamashita would then get exiled to Manchuria in July of 1941, but Tojo's resentment towards him could only go so far, because Yamashita was one of their best generals and in his planned war against Britain and America, he would need such a man.   Yamashita's time in Europe reshaped his views on how to conduct war. He saw first hand blitzkrieg warfare, it seems it fascinated him. He consistently urged the implementation of new proposals calling for the streamlining of air arms; to mechanize the Army; to integrate control of the armed forces in a defense ministry coordinated by a chairman of Joint Chiefs of staff; to create a paratroop corps and to employ effective propaganda. Basically he saw what was working for the Germans against the allies and wanted Japan to replicate it. Tojo did not like many of the proposal, hated the fact they were coming from Yamashita, so he obviously was not keen on making them happen. Luckily for Yamashita he would be given a chance to implement some of his ideas in a big way.   On November 6th of 1941, Lt General Yamashita was appointed commander of the 25th Japanese army. His orders were to seize the Malay Peninsula and then the British naval base at Singapore. The Malaya Peninsula snakes 700 miles south of Thailand, a rugged sliver of land that constricts at its narrowest point to about 60 miles wide. It hold mountains that split the peninsula in half, some going as high as 7000 feet. During this time Malaya produced around 40% of the worlds rubber, 60% of its tin, two resources vital for war. At its very southern tip lies Singapore, a diamond shaped island connected to the mainland by a 1115 stone causeway. Singapore's largest asset was its naval base guarding the passage from the Pacific and Indian oceans. Together Malay and Singapore represented the key to controlling what Japan called the Southern Resource Area.   Singapore was known as the gibraltar of the east for good reason. It was a massively fortified naval base. The base had been developed between 1923-1938 and cost 60 million pounds, around 2 billion pounds today. It was 21 square miles, had the largest dry dock in the world, the 3rd largest floating dock and enough fuel tanks to support the entire royal navy for 6 months. She was defended by 15 inch naval guns stationed at the Johre battery, Changi and Buona vista battery. And despite the infamous myth some of you may have heard, these guns were fully capable of turning in all directions including the mainland. For those unaware a myth perpetuated after the fall of Singapore that her large 15 inch guns could not turn to the mainland and that this spelt her doom, no it was not that, it was the fact they mostly had armor piercing shells which are using to hit ships and not land targets. Basically if you fire an armor piercing shell at land it imbeds itself then explodes, while HE shells would have torn any Japanese army to pieces. Alongside the 15 inch monsters, there were countless other artillery pieces such as 9.2 inch guns. By December of 1941 Malaya and Singapore held 164 first line aircraft out of a total of 253 aircraft, but many of the fighters were the obsolete Brewster F2A Buffalo, a pretty slow, fat little beast that could take a licking as it was armored, but against the Zero fighter it was unbelievably outmatched in speed and maneuverability.    The Japanese acquired a major gift prior to the outbreak of war. On november 11th, 1940, the SS Automedon, a German raider attacked the HMS Atlantis which was carrying documents intended for the British far east command. The documents indicated the British fleet was not going to help Singapore; that Britain would not declare war if Thailand was invaded and that Hong Kong was expendable. The Germans gave the documents to the Japanese who were very excited by the information.    Starting in January of 1941, Colonel Masanobu Tsuji led the Taiwan Army Research section based on Formosa to investigate how a campaign could be waged in Malay and Singapore. His findings on the defenses of Malay and Singapore were summed up in these 3 points: 1. Singapore Fortress was solid and strong facing the sea, but vulnerable on the peninsular side facing the Johore Strait;  Newspaper reports of a strong Royal Air Force (RAF) presence were propaganda;  Although British forces in Malaya numbered from five to six divisions (well over 80,000 men), less than half were Europeans.    Now just a little bit about Tsuji as he was to become the chief of staff operations and planning under Yamashita. Tsuji was extremely insubordinate and a political schemer. He was a Toseiha faction fanatic, loyal to Tojo and thus definitely an enemy to Yamashita. Yamashita wrote of Tsuji in his war diary “is egotistical and wily. He is a sly dog and unworthy to serve the country. He is a manipulator to be carefully watched.” Tsuji would go on to have a infamous reputation for ordering atrocities in the name of his superiors, often without them knowing and this would be very much the case under Yamashita. Now using Tsuji's intelligence Yamashita began plans at his HQ at Samah, a port on Hainan island, starting in November of 1941 on how to launch the campaign. He was initially offered 5 divisions for the invasion, but he felt he could accomplish the objective with only three. There are a few reasons why he believed this; first, Tsuji's research suggested the peninsula roads would be the center of the battlefront and that the flanks would extend no more than a km or so to the left or right due to the dense jungle terrain (in fact Yamashita was planning to assault from the jungle specifically); 2nd intelligence indicated the defending troops were not of the highest caliber (the British were busy in Europe thus many of the troops in southeast asia were poorly trained, half were british regulars the rest were Australian, Indian and Malayan); 3rd Yamashita was aware “the Japanese army were in the habit of flinging more troops into the battle than could possibly be maintained” boy oh boy tell that one to the future boys on Guadalcanal. Thus he calculated 3 divisions was the maximum to be fed, equipped and supplied. Based on his recommendations the 25th army was created with 3 divisions; the 5th under Lt General Takuma Matsui; 18th under Lt General Renya Mutaguchi and the Imperial guards division of Lt General Takuma Nishimura. Supporting these would be two regiment of heavy field artillery and the 3rd tank brigade. Something that made Yamashita's campaign quite interesting was the usage and amount of tanks. He was invading with around 200 or so tanks consisting of the Type 95 Ha-Go light tank, type 97 Chi-Ha and Type 89 I-Go medium tanks and Type 97 Te-Ke tankettes. For aircraft he had the 3rd Air division, 459 aircraft strong with an additional 159 aircraft from the IJN to support them. The 3rd air division had a variety of aircraft such as Nakajima Ki-27 Nate's, Nakajima ki-43 Oscars, Kitsubishi ki-51 Sonia's, Kawasaki ki-48 Lily's, Mitsubishi ki-21 sally's, Mitsubishi ki-30 Ann's, Mitsubishi ki-15 babs and Mitsubishi ki-46 dinahs. For the IJN it was the 22nd air flotilla using Mitsubishi G3M1 Nell's, Mitsubishi A5M4 Claudes and some A6M Zeros. To say it was a lot of firepower at his disposal is an understatement, Yamashita was packing heat, heat he could use in a blitzkrieg fashion.   His staff at Samah identified 5 operational objectives: 1 Simultaneous capture of Singora and Patani, Thailand and Kota Bharu, Malaya.  2 Capture of all enemy airfields in southern Thailand and Malaya.  3 Occupation of Kuala Lumpur, Malaya.  4 Occupation of Johore Bahru, and control of Johore Strait.  5 Conquest of Singapore.    Colonel Tsuji, appointed Chief of Operations and Planning for the 25th Army, proposed the following plan which was readily approved:  Land the main strength of the 5th Division simultaneously and without warning at Singora and Patani, and at the same time land a powerful section of the 18th Division to attack Kota Bharu.  The troops disembarked at Singora and Patani to press forward immediately to attack the line of the Perak River Hand capture its bridge and the Alor Star aerodrome.  The troops landed at Kota Bharu to press forward along the eastern coast as far as Kuantan.    The landing at Kota Bharu, the only one in Malaya was expected to be opposed and quite risky. But if it was successful, it would create a useful diversion away from the main force landings in Thailand.   The landings took place around 2:15am local time on December 8th, about an hour and 20 minutes before the attack on Pearl Harbor. The landings went largely unopposed, except at Kota Bahru where the Japanese saw heavy resistance. The British had anticipated this landing point and created operation Matador, a plan to pre-emptively invade southern thailand to secure defensive lines against the Japanese, however this plan was never accepted by British high command for obvious political reasons. But on December 5th, with a Japanese invasion looking certain, suddenly London gave permission to the Far east commanders to decide if Operation matador should be activated or not. The commander in Malaya, General Arthur Percival recommended forestalling it, fearing to violate Thai sovereignty, which ultimately would be the doom of a defense for Malaya.   At the battle of Kota Bharu, the 9th infantry division of Major General Barstow attempted holding off the Japanese from taking the important Kota Bharu airfield. The 8th brigade of Billy Key had fortified the beaches with pillboxes, barbed wire and land mines. The Japanese took heavy losses, but they were able to find gaps and fill them up until Brigadier Key had to ask permission to pull out. The royal air force at Kota Bharu tossed Hudson bombers to hit the troop transports, but it was a suicide mission to do so. Meanwhile the IJA 5th division landed at Pattani and Songkhla in Thailand while the Imperial guards division marched over the border from French Indochina. The Japanese encountered very little resistance, the leader of Thailand Plaek Pibulsonggram had been trying to get assurances from the allies and Japanese all the way up until the invasion, once the Japanese landed he knew his best option was to play nice and sign an armistice. This basically spelt doom for malaya as the Japanese were given access to Thailand's airfields which they used to smash the forward airfields in Malaya.   The first day of aerial encounters were a catastrophe for the British. General Percival would comment “The rapidity with which the Japanese got their air attacks going against our aerodromes was quite remarkable. Practically all the aerodromes in Kelantan, Kedah, Province Wellesley, and Penang, were attacked, and in most cases fighters escorted the bombers. The performance of Japanese aircraft of all types, and the accuracy of their bombing, came as an unpleasant surprise. By the evening our own air force had already been seriously weakened.” Brigadier Key withdrew after causing an estimated 800 casualties upon the Japanese while taking roughly 465. While Kota Bharu was being fought over, Percival unleashed Operation Krohcol, a 2.0 of Matador seeing British forces cross into Thailand to intercept the incoming enemy. It was an absolute disaster, the British attackers were defeated not only by the Japanese 5th division, but some Royal Thai police also defended their territory. The operation had basically become a race to who could seize the important focal point first and the Japanese took it first thus winning decisively. To add to that misery, force Z, consisting of the battleship HMS Prince of Wales,, battlecruiser Repulse and 4 destroyers tried to intercept the Japanese invasion fleet only to be utterly destroyed by overwhelming Japanese airforces.   Within 4 days of the landings, the 5th division advanced from Singora through the town of Jitra to capture the RAF airfield at Alor star, around 100 miles away. Yamashita managed this using flanking techniques that saw his army take town after town and airfield after airfield. There were numerous natural obstacles to the advance such as dense jungles, very long supply lines, torrential rain and heat, but he had a secret weapon, bicycles. At Jitra Percival made his first major stand. Holding Jitra would safeguard the northern airfields of Malaya, but it was a folly to do so as the airfields in question were not provided adequate aircraft and the British lacked something extremely important to be able to defend themselves, tanks. Colonel Tsuji saw the fighting at Jitra first hand and reported “Our tanks were ready on the road, and the twenty or so enemy armored cars ahead were literally trampled underfoot … The enemy armored cars could not escape by running away, and were sandwiched between our medium tanks … It was speed and weight of armor that decided the issue.” The British had spread themselves far too thinly across a 14 mile front with jungle on their right flank and rubber plantations and mangrove swamps to their left. Yamashita used a innovative blitzkrieg like tactic, he combined his air, artillery, tanks and bicycle infantry to punch holes in concentrated attacks forcing allied defenders to withdraw. As Percival would write later in his memoirs “This withdrawal would have been difficult under the most favorable conditions. With the troops tired, units mixed as the result of the fighting, communications broken and the night dark, it was inevitable that orders should be delayed and that in some cases they should never reach the addressees. This is what in fact occurred … the withdrawal, necessary as it may have been, was too fast and too complicated for disorganized and exhausted troops, whose disorganization and exhaustion it only increased”    Yamashita had ingeniously thought of employing large numbers of bicycles for his infantry so they could keep up momentum and speed with his mechanized forces. Oh and he didn't bring thousands of bicycles over to Malaya, the real genius was that they were there ready for him. His intelligence prior to the invasion indicated nearly all civilians in malaya had bicycles, so when the Japanese came over they simply stole them. Half of Yamashitas troops moved in motor vehicles while the rest road on 18,000 bicycles. As noted by Tsuji “With the infantry on bicycles, there was no traffic congestion or delay. Wherever bridges were destroyed the infantry continued their advance, wading across the rivers carrying their bicycles on their shoulders, or crossing on log bridges held up on the shoulders of engineers standing in the stream.” They Japanese overwhelmed the defenders who were forced to fight, flee into the jungles or flee along the roads where they were simply outsped by the faster Japanese. The defenders left numerous stores of food, abandoned vehicles, and supplies that Yamashita's men would dub “churchill's allowance”. British Lt Colonel Spencer Chapmanwas forced to hide on the sides of roads watching Japanese pedal past remarking “The majority were on bicycles in parties of forty or fifty, riding three or four abreast and talking and laughing just as if they were going to a football match.” The Japanese had the ability to carry their gear on the bicycles, giving them an enormous advantage over the allies fleeing on foot. The Japanese could travel faster, further and less fatigued. When the British destroyed 250 bridges during their flight, “the Japanese infantry (to continue) their advance, wading across the rivers carrying their bicycles on their shoulders, or crossing on log bridges held up on the shoulders of engineers standing in the stream”. The British could not escape the bicycle blitzkrieg as it became known, countless were forced to surrender under constant pressure and relentless pursuit.    Alongside the bicycle warfare, whenever Yamashita faced terrain unsuitable for his tanks, he ordered amphibious landings further south to outflank the enemy's  rear.   Meanwhile the war in the air went equally terrible for the allies. The RAF had pulled back its best pilots and aircraft to deal with the war for Britain against the Luftwaffe. 21 airfields were in Malaya and Singapore, few of them had modern facilities, only 15 concrete runways. The heavy rain made the grass airstrips unusable. All the airfields were allocated around 8 heavy and 8 light anti aircraft guns. Quality radar units were completely inadequate. The Super Spitfires and Hyper Hurricanes were mostly in Britain fighting the Germans, while Buffaloes were allocated to Malaya. The Japanese airforces easily overcame the allied opposition and established air superiority quickly. Launching from airfields in Vietnam, they bombed all the airfields into submission and continuously applied pressure to Singapore. . The aerial dominance of the Zero and ‘Oscar' fighters served to undermine the morale of the British infantryman on the ground. As historian H. P. Wilmot has observed, “in the opening phase of the war the Zero-sen was just what the Japanese needed, and the Allies were devastated by the appearance of a ‘super fighter.' To add insult to injury, every airfield taken starting at the most northern going further and further south towards Singapore offered the Japanese new launching points to make for faster attack.   Yamashita's forces reached the southern tip of the peninsula in just 8 weeks, his men had covered some 700 miles, about 12 miles a day on average. They fought 95 large and smaller battles doing so. Multiple lines of defense were erected one after another to try and halt the Japanese advance, to kill their momentum. Starting at the beach landings, to Jitra, then to Kampar, over the Slim river, then Johor. The British failed to employ “leave behind forces” to provide guerilla warfare in lost territories leading not only the Japanese to easily consolidate their gains, the Thai's also came down and grabbed some territory. At the battle of Muar Major General Gordon Bennet deployed the allied defenders south of the Muar River and it was widely believed here they would finally halt the Japanese. Then the Imperial Guards division outflanked them performing an amphibious landing and advancing down the coastal route. The 5th Japanese division followed a parallel route through the center and the 18th division landed near Endau. The allies were thus surrounded and took heavy casualties, countless were forced to flee through swamps and thick jungle abandoned their stuff. Gordons 45th brigade were absolutely shattered, effectively disbanded and left north of the Muar river as the rest of the allies fled south. The defeat at Muar broke the British belief they could hold even a toehold on Malay. Percivals strategy to fight delaying actions until the arrival of reinforcements to Singapore had fatally undermined his troops ability to hold onto defensive positions. As the British governor of the Johore straits settlement, Sir Shenton Thomas would say on January 6th ‘“We … have gone in for mechanized transport to the nth degree. It is a fearsomely cumbersome method. We have pinned our faith to the few roads but the enemy used tracks and paths, and gets round to our rear very much as he likes.”” Yet alongside the conquest came a series of atrocities.    At the Parit Sulong Bridge south of the Muar, Captain Rewi Snelling was left behind with 150 wounded Australian and Indian soldiers not able to trek south. The Imperial guards division herded them into buildings, denied them medical treatment, many of the Indians were beheaded, others shot. This become known as the parit sulong massacre. Its hard to saw what Yamashita would have known about this incident, it technically was under the command of Takuma nishimura. On January 22nd, Nishimura gave the orders for prisoners to be forced outside, doused with petrol and set on fire. Nishimura would be sentenced to life in prison by a Singapore court, but on a flight back to Japan he was hijacked by Australian military police in Hong Kong who grabbed him and held a trial for the Parit Sulong massacre, finding him guilty and hanging him on june 11th of 1951.    When the Japanese reached the straits of Johore, Yamashita took several days to perform reconnaissance, allowing his forces to regroup and prepare to attack the massive fortress. His plan for the invasion would see the Imperial guards perform a feint attack on the northeast side of Singapore, landing on the nearby Palau Ubin island on february 7th. The 5th and 18th division would remain concealed in the jungle until the night of the night of the 8th when they would cross the Johore and hit the northwest side of Singapore. The causeway to Singapore had been blown up by the retreating British, but the ability for Singapore to defend itself from a northern attack was lackluster. When Churchill was told by Wavell the Japanese sat on the other side of the Johore strait ready to attack the fortress he said ““I must confess to being staggered by Wavell's telegram. It never occurred to me for a moment that … Singapore … was not entirely fortified against an attack from the Northwards …””   With barely enough supplies or logistical support for his campaign, Yamashita's rapid advance down the Malay peninsula walked a tightrope of what was possible. His 70,000 men of which 30,000 were frontline troops had overcome a British force double their number. In Japan he garnered the epithet “Tiger of Malaya”, which ironically he was not too happy about. Later on in the war he would bark at a German attache “I am not a tiger. The tiger attacks its prey in stealth but I attack the enemy in a fair play”.   By this point Singapore had swollen from a population of 550,000to nearly a million. Percival had a total of 70,000 infantry of mixed experience plus 15,000 clerks and support staff to man lines if necessary. 38 battalions, 17 Indian, 13 British, 6 Australian and 2 Malayan. He placed his weakest troops west of the causeway, near the abandoned naval base rather than nearby the airfield which he considered was going to be Yamashita's thrust. He placed his best forces over there, which would prove fatally wrong as Yamashita hit west of the causeway. Yamashita meanwhile could only muster 30,000 troops, he was outnumbered 2:1 and amphibious assaults called for the attacker to hold a 2:1 advantage for success. Yamashita's men were exhausted, they had suffered 4565 casualties, roughly 1793 deaths in their 55 day advance south. Worse yet, Yamashita had a critical supply issue. He had greatly exceeded his supply lines and had been surviving on the abandoned churchill stores along the way. His ammunition was critical low, it is said he was down to 18 functional tanks, allowing his men to fire 100 rounds per day, the fuel ran out, and as Yamashita put it “My attack on Singapore was a bluff—a bluff that worked. I had 30,000 men and was outnumbered more than three to one. I knew that if I had to fight for long for Singapore, I would be beaten. That is why the surrender had to be at once. I was very frightened all the time that the British would discover our numerical weakness and lack of supplies and force me into disastrous street fighting.” He told his men of the 5th and 18th division not to build any cooking fires so they could conceal their positions in the jungle as he gathered hundreds of collapsible boats and other crafts to ford the strait. He gathered 40 divisional commanders and senior officers to a rubber plantation and with a flushed red face read out his attack orders while pouring them Kikumasamune (ceremonial wine). He made a traditional toast and said “It is a good place to die; surely we shall conquer”. He had to get the British to surrender quickly, he had to essentially ‘bluff” his enemy. He had to make the British think he was fully armed and supplied for a prolonged siege, how could he do so? He fired his artillery like a mad man, knowing full well they would run out of shells.   Starting on February 3rd,  Yamashita's artillery supported by aerial bombings hit Singapore for 5 days. On the night of the 7th, 400 Imperial Guards crossed to the Ibin island performing their feint attack. Percivals attention was grabbed to the east successfully, while on the night of the 8th the 5th and 18th divisions assembled carefully at the water's edge. At 8:30pm the first wave of 4000 Japanese troops crossed the Johore strait aboard 150 small vessels. The noise of their engines was drowned out by artillery. The thinly spread Australian lines, 3000 or so men led by Major General Bennet were breached fast leading to pockets of surrounded australian troops. As Lewis Gunner cliff olsen recalled “We were horribly spread out and it was pitch black and they [Japanese troops] were very hard to see. They walked through us half the time.” A beachhead was formed, a soon 14,000 Japanese had crossed by dawn.    Communications broke down for the allies, Percival unwilling to believe the Japanese's main thrust was in the west declined to send reinforcements there. When he did finally realize the main thrust was in the west he began to withdraw troops from quiet sectors and built up a reserve. The Japanese held air supremacy and their artillery was fierce. The big 15 inch guns of singapore held mostly armor piercing shells designed to hit ships, there were few HE shells available. When they fired upon the Japanese the shells would hit the ground they would embed deeply before exploding doing little damage. The defenders had no tanks, basically no more aircraft. The last departing ships fled the scene as everything was burning chaos around them. Morale was breaking for the defenders. By the 9th, Japanese bombers were raining bombs on allied positions unopposed. Bennet was forced to pull men back to a new line of defense from the east of the Tengah airfield to the north of Jurong. Poor communications hampered the northern sector of Brigadier Duncan Maxwell whose troops actually battered the hell out of the Imperial Guards who had landed at 10pm on the 9th. The Imperial guards gradually managed a foothold on a beach, but Maxwell feared encirclement and withdrew his men against direct orders of Bennet. The retreat opened up the flank of the 11th indian division who were overrun. All of the beaches west of the causeway fell to the enemy, when they did Yamashita brought over his tanks to smash the new Jurong line. The Japanese could have potentially stormed the city center at this point, but they held back, because in reality, Percival had created a formidable reserve in the middle. The Australian 22nd brigade took the brunt of the fighting.    Yamashita was running out of reserves and his attacks were reaching their limit, but he needed the battle to end swiftly. Yamashita was shocked and shaken when he received a report that the British troop strength within the city was twice what they believed. With covert desperation, Yamashita ordered his artillery to fire until their last rounds and sent Percival a demand for surrender. “In the spirit of chivalry we have the honour of advising your surrender. Your army, founded on the traditional spirit of Great Britain, is defending Singapore, which is completely isolated, and raising the fame of Great Britain by the ut¬ most exertions and heroic feelings. . . . From now on resistance is futile and merely increases the danger to the million civilian inhabitants without good reason, exposing them to infliction of pain by fire and sword. But the development of the general war situation has already sealed the fate of Singapore, and the continuation of futile resistance would only serve to inflict direct harm and in¬ juries to thousands of non-combatants living in the city, throwing them into further miseries and horrors of war. Furthermore we do not feel you will in¬ crease the fame of the British Army by further resistance.”   Singapore had received another order prior to this from Churchill “It is certain that our troops on Singapore Island greatly outnumber any Japanese that have crossed the Straits. We must defeat them. Our whole fighting reputation is at stake and the honour of the British Empire. The Americans have held out on the Bataan Peninsula against far greater odds, the Russians are turning back the picked strength of the Germans, the Chinese with almost complete lack of mod¬ ern equipment have held the Japanese for AVi years. It will be disgraceful if we yield our boasted fortress of Singapore to inferior enemy forces. There must be no thought ofsparing troops or the civil population and no mercy must be shown to weakness in any shape or form. Commanders and senior officers must lead their troops and if necessary die with them. There must be no question or thought of surrender. Every unit must fight it out to the end and in close contact with the enemy. ... I look to you and your men to fight to the end to prove that the fighting spirit that won our Empire still exists to enable us to defend it.”   What was Percival to do? The Japanese had seized control over Singapore water reservoirs, the population would die of thirst within 2-3 days. Japanese shells were causing fires and death everywhere. People were panicking, trying to get on the very last boats leaving the port, even though that surely meant death to the IJN. An American sailor recalled “There was a lot of chaos and people killed on the docks during these bombardments. Everywhere you looked there was death. Even in the water there were dead sharks and people floating all around.” Defeatism was endemic. Australian troops were overheard saying “Chum, to hell with Malaya and Singapore. Navy let us down, air force let us down. If the bungs [natives] won't fight for their bloody country, why pick on me?” Sensing a complete collapse Percival formed a tight defense arc in front of the city, and by the 13th his commanders were telling him they believed Singapore was already doomed. Wavell was asked for approval for surrender, but he replied  “to continue to inflict maximum damage on enemy for as long as possible by house-to-house fighting if necessary.” Percival then told him the water reservoirs were taken, so Wavell sent back “YOUR GALLANT STAND IS SERVING A PURPOSE AND MUST BE CONTINUED TO THE LIMIT OF ENDURANCE”   On the 15th, Percival held a morning conference reported there was no more fuel, field gun nor bofor ammunition. In 24 hours their water would be done. He told them he would ask for a ceasefire at 4pm, by the end of the day Wavell gave him permission to surrender. Over at his HQ on the Bukit Timah heights, Yamashita was staring at a Union Jack fluttering over Fort Canning. Then a field phone rang, and a frontline commander reported the British were sending out a flag of truce.   Meanwhile back on February the 14th, Japanese forces reached the Alexandra Barracks hospital at 1pm. At 1:40pm a British Lt greeting them waving a white flag and was bayoneted on the spot. The Japanese stormed the hospital and murdered the staff and patients. 200 male staff and patients, badly wounded were bound over night and marched to an industrial estate half a mile away. Anyone who collapsed was bayoneted. The survivors of the march were formed into small groups and hacked to death or bayoneted. For a few days over 320 men and women were massacred. Only 5 survivors would give recounts of the event. It is suspected by historians that Tsuji was the architect of the Alexandra hospital massacre. This is because he was the instigator of countless atrocities he ordered unbeknownst to his superior commanders such as Yamashita.    Percival was ordered to go to the Ford motor factory to where he met with Yamashita. Yamashita was hiding his surprise that the surrender party came and as he glanced at the surrender terms he said through his interpreter “The Japanese Army will consider nothing but surrender,” Yamashita knew his forces were on the verge of running out of ammunition and he still held half troops Percival did, he was anxious Percival would figure it out. Percival replied “I fear that we shall not be able to submit our final reply before ten-thirty p.m.,” Percival had no intention of fighting on he simply wanted to work out specific details before signing the surrender. Yamashita was sure Percival was stalling. “Reply to us only whether our terms are acceptable or not. Things must be settled swiftly. We are prepared to resume firing.Unless you do surrender, we will have to carry out our night attack as scheduled.”” Percival replied ““Cannot the Japanese Army remain in its present position? We can resume negotiations again tomorrow at five-thirty A.M”. Yamashita screamed “Nani! I want the hostilities to cease tonight and I want to remind you there can be no arguments.” Percival replied ““We shall discontinue firing by eight-thirty p.m. Had we better remain in our present positions tonight?” Yamashita said yes and that firing would cease at 8:30pm and that 1000 allied men could keep arms to maintain order within the city. Yamashita stated “You have agreed to the terms but you have not yet made yourself clear as to whether you agree to surrender or not.” Percival cleared his throat and gave a simple nod. Yamashita looked at his interpreter “There's no need for all this talk. It is a simple question and I want a simple answer.” He turned to Percival and shouted, “We want to hear ‘Yes' or ‘No' from you! Surrender or fight!” Percival finally blurted out  “Yes, I agree. I have a request to make. Will the Imperial Army protect the women and children and British civilians?”Yamashita replied  “We shall see to it. Please sign this truce agreement”. At 7:50 the surrender was signed off, 40 minutes later Singapore was in the hands of the Japanese. In 70 days Yamashita took at the cost of 9824 casualties, had seized Malaya and Singapore, nearly 120,000 British surrendered. It was the greatest land victory in Japanese history.   Churchill called the fall of Singapore to the Japanese "the worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history" Churchills physician Lord Moran wrote The fall of Singapore on February 15 stupefied the Prime Minister. How came 100,000 men (half of them of our own race) to hold up their hands to inferior numbers of Japanese? Though his mind had been gradually prepared for its fall, the surrender of the fortress stunned him. He felt it was a disgrace. It left a scar on his mind. One evening, months later, when he was sitting in his bathroom enveloped in a towel, he stopped drying himself and gloomily surveyed the floor: 'I cannot get over Singapore', he said sadly   With the fall of singapore came another atrocity, the Sook Ching massacre. After February 18th, the Japanese military began mass killings of what they deemed undesirables, mostly ethnic Chinese. It was overseen by the Kempeitai and did not stop in Singapore, but spread to Malaya. It seems the aim of the purge was to intimidate the Chinese community from performing any resistance. According to postwar testimony taken from a war correspondent embedded with the 25th army, Colonel Hishakari Takafumi, he stated an order went out to kill 50,000 Chinese, of which 20 percent of the total was issued by senior officials on Yamashita's operations staff, most likely Tsuji. It is certain at the behest of Tsuji the orders were extended to Malay. The death toll is a tricky one, the Japanese went on the record to admit to 6000 murders, the Singaporean Chinese community and the Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew allege 70,000-100,000. Historians analyzing the scale of discovered mass graves after some decades think around 25,000-50,000. How much Yamashita knew of the massacre is debatable, the orders came from his office after all, but it seems Tsuji had orchestrated it. Many of Japan's generals wanted Yamashita to be appointed war minister, a move that obviously threatened then Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, who feared his rival. Tojo retaliated, ordering Japan's new war hero back to Manchuria. On the surface, the assignment appeared worthy as Yamashita would serve as the first line of defense against a possible Soviet invasion. But since the two nations had signed a neutrality pact in April 1941, and Soviets were bogged down fighting the Germans, immediate war appeared unlikely. In reality, Tojo had parked Yamashita on the war's sidelines. Tojo went even further, he barred Yamashita any leave in Tokyo, preventing him from visiting his wife as well as from delivering a speech he had written for the emperor. No worries though, an aide of Yamashita's sent him three geishas. Allegedly he said this “I know they want to please me with these girls. But send them back—and don't forget to tip them.” The Tiger of Malaya would maintain a low profile in Manchuria where he received a promotion to full General. As months fell to years Yamashita sat on the sidelines helpless to aid the Japanese forces. His exile would come to an end in 1944 when Tojo was outed and the Tiger was required to try and save the Philippines from General Douglas MacArthur.

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Oxmo Puccino, poète et rappeur incontournable de la scène française, et Samah Karaki, neuroscientifique et autrice du livre Le talent est une fiction, sont mes invités pour un échange aussi puissant qu'intime sur le thème du talent. Ils ne se connaissaient pas avant cette rencontre mais ce sont 2 amis que je connais depuis longtemps pour Oxmo et plus récemment pour Samah.Cet épisode est réalisé en partenariat avec Breakbuild (merci mille fois Amaury)Ensemble, nous avons décidé de faire dialoguer deux personnes qui ne se connaissaient pas encore, mais que je connais profondément. L'idée ? Croiser deux regards – artistique et scientifique – sur une notion qui structure nos vies : le talent.Dans cet épisode, nous parlons du mythe du génie solitaire, des conditions matérielles invisibles qui rendent possible (ou non) l'expression du talent, du soft power des artistes, et de la pression sociale exercée sur ceux qui ont « réussi ». J'ai questionné Samah sur l'origine de son livre, sur l'illusion méritocratique, sur les biais sociaux qui invisibilisent tant de trajectoires. Et j'ai demandé à Oxmo comment il s'est construit en tant qu'artiste, comment il pense la création, la beauté, la transmission, et sa liberté vis-à-vis des injonctions économiques du monde de l'art.On parle aussi de Mozart, de Picasso, des pyramides d'Égypte, de l'enfance et de cette capacité incroyable que nous avons à nous émerveiller… ou à nous habituer. Une conversation sensible, posée, sans posture. Merci à Samah et Oxmo pour leur justesse, leur douceur, leur intelligence vive. C'est un épisode rare, comme je les aime.5 citations marquantes« Le talent est une promesse. » – Oxmo Puccino« Ce que nous sommes est en grande, grande partie fait de circonstances. » – Samah Karaki« Le talent est fait pour être gâché. Beaucoup moins le travail. » – Oxmo Puccino« Comprendre ne tue pas l'émerveillement. » – Samah Karaki« On ne crée pas pour vendre. On partage une émotion. » – Oxmo Puccino10 questions structurées posées dans l'interviewPourquoi as-tu écrit un livre sur le talent ?Comment t'es-tu construit en tant qu'artiste ?Qu'est-ce que le talent signifie pour toi ?Que penses-tu de la notion de mérite ?En quoi les conditions sociales influencent-elles l'émergence du talent ?Peut-on séparer la personne de son œuvre ?Comment abordes-tu ton processus créatif ?Penses-tu que la création artistique doit être rentable ?Que reste-t-il de la beauté universelle aujourd'hui ?Comment la stabilité affective influence-t-elle un parcours ?Timestamps clés pour YouTube00:00 – Introduction de l'épisode et rencontre des invités01:00 – Samah explique la genèse de son livre sur le talent03:00 – Oxmo raconte sa construction artistique06:00 – Débat sur la notion de talent comme construction sociale10:00 – L'influence des conditions socio-économiques15:00 – Le népotisme et la complexité de l'héritage familial20:00 – La beauté, le mystère et le rôle de l'émerveillement30:00 – Le talent face à la norme et aux attentes du public40:00 – Le processus créatif : émotion ou stratégie ?50:00 – Peut-on encore créer librement ?1:02:00 – Clôture, gratitude et réflexions finales Suggestion d'autres épisodes à écouter : #358 Raphaël Quenard & Charles Pépin : la solitude comme force vitale - confidences croisées (https://audmns.com/vZzkTNd) #337 Le piège de l'empathie avec Samah Karaki (https://audmns.com/CVkTKJQ) #206 Comment développer l'esprit critique chez les enfants? Avec Samah Karaki (https://audmns.com/dFSogCP)Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

7:15am // A speech from Dr Samah Jabr, a Palestinian psychologist and author of the newly released 'Radiance in Pain and Resilience'. Her book includes insight into the experience of trauma that occurs as a result of the genocidal war faced by Palestinians, and the necessity of psychological aid within war torn countries. Dr Jabr is a trainer and supervisor with a special focus on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), mhGAP, and the Istanbul Protocol for the documentation of torture.  7:30am // Conversation with Kristin O'Connell, an anti-poverty activist who founded The Antipoverty Centre. Kristin speaks to Phuong on how miscalcuated debts from Centrelink have disproportinatiely affected women, first nations people and those facing family violence. Listeners can reach out to the Antipoverty Centre if they may have been impacted by Centrelink's miscalculated debts. 7:45am // Out of the Blue presenter Mimi speaks with Dr Prue Francis, a senior lecturer at Deakin university in Marine Science who specialises in ocean literacy. Their conversation expounds upon how best to strengthen community's relationship to the ocean, to ensure its protection developed through understanding and connection with it. This includes developing strategies such as a coalition to improve ocean literacy. Out of the blue is a 3CR podcast on Sundays 11:30 - 12pm. 8:15am // Lisa Deppler is part of OCEAN, a network that instigates peaceful protest to protect the Otway Basin from seismic blasting and gas development. Lisa and Juliette discuss the effectiveness of getting involved in the resistance agaisnt gas companies attempting to industrialise the Otways. You can find out more about OCEAN through their website and Instagram.  

Today we hear from Dr Samah Jabr, a Palestinian psychiatrist living in Jerusalem who recently visited Australia for the first time to tour her new book, Radiance in Pain and Resilience: The Global Reverberation of Palestinian Historical Trauma.We spoke with Dr Jabr shortly ahead of a lecture and panel discussion organised by the Shifa Project held at RMIT on August 17.The event was MCed by Nasser Mashni along with panellists Leah Manaema Avene and Tasnim Samak. Dr Gary Foley was also scheduled to speak but was unfortunately unable to attend on the day.

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Samah Karaki est neuroscientifique et autrice du livre L'empathie est politique. Je pense que Vlan! a été le 1er podcast a lui donner le micro il y a 2 ans et demi et depuis par sa pertinence et son travail, nous la voyons partout sur tous les médias!J'adore Samah, pour ne rien cacher nous sommes devenus amis et dans cet épisode, elle nous invite à déconstruire notre vision de l'empathie, souvent perçue comme un trait universel et positif.Pourtant, nous n'éprouvons pas tous la même empathie pour tout le monde, et ce biais est largement influencé par notre culture, les médias et les dynamiques de pouvoir.J'ai questionné Samah sur la nature biologique et sociale de l'empathie, sur la manière dont certains groupes sont déshumanisés dans nos imaginaires collectifs, mais aussi sur le rôle crucial des récits médiatiques. Comment se forge notre perception de l'« autre » ? Pourquoi avons-nous plus de compassion pour certains et moins pour d'autres ? Quel impact cela a-t-il sur nos sociétés et nos décisions politiques ?Au fil de cette conversation passionnante, nous avons aussi parlé du biais de confirmation, du rôle des réseaux sociaux dans la polarisation des opinions et de la manière dont l'individualisme moderne façonne notre rapport à l'altérité.Un épisode puissant qui pousse à la réflexion et à l'introspection.Les questions que l'on traite : Qu'est-ce que l'empathie et comment la définir ?Pourquoi l'empathie est-elle essentielle à notre évolution ?Quelles espèces animales possèdent également une forme d'empathie ?Qu'est-ce que la contagion émotionnelle et comment fonctionne-t-elle ?L'empathie est-elle une capacité innée ou acquise ?Comment les médias influencent-ils notre perception de certaines populations ?Pourquoi avons-nous plus d'empathie pour certaines personnes que pour d'autres ?Peut-on apprendre à être plus empathique ou à contrôler notre empathie ?En quoi les récits historiques et politiques modèlent-ils notre empathie collective ?Comment éviter de tomber dans le piège du biais de confirmation ?Timelaps :00:00 – Introduction et présentation de l'épisode01:18 – Définition de l'empathie : un phénomène biologique et social02:36 – L'évolution de l'empathie chez l'homme et les animaux04:51 – La contagion émotionnelle : pourquoi imitons-nous les émotions des autres ?08:09 – Pourquoi n'avons-nous pas tous le même niveau d'empathie ?12:11 – L'exemple des nazis et la déshumanisation des groupes17:39 – L'influence des médias sur notre perception des autres25:33 – L'essentialisation des minorités dans les productions culturelles35:25 – Pourquoi avons-nous plus d'empathie pour les victimes que nous voyons ?53:19 – Le rôle des journalistes dans la construction de notre empathie58:27 – Comment éviter les biais de confirmation ?01:00:32 – Trauma et empathie : quel impact ?01:02:54 – L'instrumentalisation de l'empathie à des fins politiques01:08:00 – Conclusion et réflexions finales Suggestion d'autres épisodes à écouter : #206 Comment développer l'esprit critique chez les enfants? Avec Samah Karaki (https://audmns.com/dFSogCP) Vlan #108 Pourquoi la culpabilisation écologique ne fonctionne pas? avec Albert Moukheiber (https://audmns.com/KOfUemJ) #326 Le vrai du faux sur le cerveau avec Albert Moukheiber (partie 1) (https://audmns.com/BlnwPcX)Distribué par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Supply chains must be a product of the geography they support, leading to specific requirements around transport modes, temperature control, and even warehousing capacity. This also means that supply chain experts must be as well versed in the infrastructure and logistics of their local area as they are that of their suppliers. In this episode of The Sourcing Hero podcast, Host Kelly Barner welcomes Samah Mahdi Abdulla. Samah is a supply chain professional with over 15 years of experience and a master's degree in Logistics, Procurement, and Supply Chain Management. She is based in Bahrain and has worked in industries as diverse as retail and food production.  Shares her unique perspective on procurement and supply chain: The benefits of specialized - and continuing - education in procurement and supply chain How working from an island nation has shaped her work The speed of business in Bahrain that supply chains must be prepared to support Links: Samah Mahdi Abdulla on LinkedIn

You can have it all—healthy, delicious, and actually crave-worthy. This week, we're joined by the brilliant and bubbly Samah Dada—cookbook author, wellness creator, and the force behind the cult-favorite blog Dada Eats. She's here to prove that clean eating doesn't have to mean boring, and that indulgent recipes can still be nourishing. From her viral avocado cream pasta to the frozen date desserts that taste like Reese's, Samah shares her go-to summer staples, pantry must-haves, and the five spices that will change your cooking forever. We dive into her journey from The Today Show to building her own brand, how she healed her body after a PCOS diagnosis, and why flavor (and fun) are the key ingredients to feeling good. Whether you're cooking for a crowd, trying to eat cleaner, or just want to fall back in love with food, this episode is packed with practical hacks, thoughtful wellness tips, and inspiration to make your kitchen—and your life—a little more joyful. Mentioned in the Episode: Dada Eats Love to Cook It: 100 Plant-Based Recipes for Everyone at Your Table An Anti-Inflammatory Cookbook by Samah Dada Dada Eats Recipes Dada Eats Blog Dada TV Alien Eau de Parfum by Mugler  REVLON Super Lustrous Lipstick in Smoky Rose MERIT Beauty Shukette Restaurant NYC A Sony Music Entertainment production.  Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us at @sonypodcasts  To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email podcastadsales@sonymusic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Lawyer Stories Podcast Episode 224 features Samah “Sam” Abukhodeir, Founder and Managing Partner at The Florida Probate and Family Law Firm.  Sam shares her story of patience and perseverance and how she grew her law firm to 12 attorneys and 30 plus employees across nine offices.  The firm is dedicated to serving clients throughout Florida in the areas of probate, guardianship, estate planning, elder law, and family law.  We first shared Sam's story with the Lawyer Stories Community in October of 2020.  Sam is also a Founding Member of Lawyer Stories Connect!

En un giro inesperado, Alemania, que solía ser una país abierto a la migración, rechaza recibir a miles inmigrantes sirios en 2015. La canciller Angela Merkel, admirada por su compasión frente al drama humanitario, cambia de opinión y se vuelve una férrea defensora de las fronteras y los "verdaderos valores" europeos. ¿Qué implicaciones hubiera tenido esta posición? En este episodio hablamos con Samah Abdulhamid una psicóloga, pintora y cantante siria que vive en México.Este es un podcast de ucronías: relatos de ficción basados en hechos históricos pero que no sucedieron. Todo lo que aquí se dice es una charla entre amigos y no entre historiadores. Sean curiosos, los invitamos a imaginar con nosotros y a no creer todo lo que les dicen, y menos lo que decimos aquí.Una coproducción de Secuencia Digitalhttps://instagram.com/secuenciadigitalhttps://www.secuenciadigital.comY Tiempos Imposibleshttps://tiemposimposibles.com

Aujourd'hui, Licka a l'immense plaisir d'accueillir Samah Karaki, neuroscientifique, autrice et fondatrice du Social Brain Institute, qui met son expertise au service d'une meilleure compréhension des comportements humains.Dans cet épisode, nous allons plonger ensemble dans un sujet fascinant : le rôle du jeu dans le développement des apprentissages chez les jeunes enfants. Comment le jeu, bien au-delà de l'amusement, peut-il influencer l'émergence du libre arbitre, l'éveil individuel et les capacités d'apprentissage ?À travers les éclairages des neurosciences sociales et cognitives, Samah nous aidera à explorer comment les premières expériences de jeu façonnent les fondations de la personnalité et de l'intelligence des tout-petits.Installez-vous confortablement, et laissez-vous guider dans cet échange riche et inspirant avec Samah Karaki.Bonne écoute !Découvrez en plus sur Les Petites CanaillesHébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Samah Karaki est neuroscientifique et autrice du livre L'empathie est politique. Je pense que Vlan! a été le 1er podcast a lui donner le micro il y a 2 ans et demi et depuis par sa pertinence et son travail, nous la voyons partout sur tous les médias!J'adore Samah, pour ne rien cacher nous sommes devenus amis et dans cet épisode, elle nous invite à déconstruire notre vision de l'empathie, souvent perçue comme un trait universel et positif.Pourtant, nous n'éprouvons pas tous la même empathie pour tout le monde, et ce biais est largement influencé par notre culture, les médias et les dynamiques de pouvoir.J'ai questionné Samah sur la nature biologique et sociale de l'empathie, sur la manière dont certains groupes sont déshumanisés dans nos imaginaires collectifs, mais aussi sur le rôle crucial des récits médiatiques. Comment se forge notre perception de l'« autre » ? Pourquoi avons-nous plus de compassion pour certains et moins pour d'autres ? Quel impact cela a-t-il sur nos sociétés et nos décisions politiques ?Au fil de cette conversation passionnante, nous avons aussi parlé du biais de confirmation, du rôle des réseaux sociaux dans la polarisation des opinions et de la manière dont l'individualisme moderne façonne notre rapport à l'altérité.Un épisode puissant qui pousse à la réflexion et à l'introspection.Les questions que l'on traite : Qu'est-ce que l'empathie et comment la définir ?Pourquoi l'empathie est-elle essentielle à notre évolution ?Quelles espèces animales possèdent également une forme d'empathie ?Qu'est-ce que la contagion émotionnelle et comment fonctionne-t-elle ?L'empathie est-elle une capacité innée ou acquise ?Comment les médias influencent-ils notre perception de certaines populations ?Pourquoi avons-nous plus d'empathie pour certaines personnes que pour d'autres ?Peut-on apprendre à être plus empathique ou à contrôler notre empathie ?En quoi les récits historiques et politiques modèlent-ils notre empathie collective ?Comment éviter de tomber dans le piège du biais de confirmation ?Timelaps :00:00 – Introduction et présentation de l'épisode01:18 – Définition de l'empathie : un phénomène biologique et social02:36 – L'évolution de l'empathie chez l'homme et les animaux04:51 – La contagion émotionnelle : pourquoi imitons-nous les émotions des autres ?08:09 – Pourquoi n'avons-nous pas tous le même niveau d'empathie ?12:11 – L'exemple des nazis et la déshumanisation des groupes17:39 – L'influence des médias sur notre perception des autres25:33 – L'essentialisation des minorités dans les productions culturelles35:25 – Pourquoi avons-nous plus d'empathie pour les victimes que nous voyons ?53:19 – Le rôle des journalistes dans la construction de notre empathie58:27 – Comment éviter les biais de confirmation ?01:00:32 – Trauma et empathie : quel impact ?01:02:54 – L'instrumentalisation de l'empathie à des fins politiques01:08:00 – Conclusion et réflexions finales Suggestion d'autres épisodes à écouter : #206 Comment développer l'esprit critique chez les enfants? Avec Samah Karaki (https://audmns.com/dFSogCP) Vlan #108 Pourquoi la culpabilisation écologique ne fonctionne pas? avec Albert Moukheiber (https://audmns.com/KOfUemJ) #326 Le vrai du faux sur le cerveau avec Albert Moukheiber (partie 1) (https://audmns.com/BlnwPcX)

In this conversation, procurement expert Samah Mahdi, with 15 years of experience in procurement, logistics, and supply chain management, joins to discuss the transformative impact of AI and robotics. She explores how AI enhances efficiency, optimizes supplier management, and automates procurement tasks while robotics revolutionizes warehousing and transportation. Samah highlights key challenges, including resistance to change and data quality, and shares her vision for a future driven by AI-powered, autonomous supply chains.

Today, Raha meets Samah. Samah Fahs is the owner and founder of activewear brand CoreFit – and a mother of two. She's all about empowering women through fitness.Takeaways:Finding balance in life is a continuous dance.Women's empowerment is essential for societal change.Self-care is not selfish; it's necessary for well-being.Setting boundaries is vital for self-love.Produced by Pineapple Audio Production and supported by TRXاليوم، تلتقي رها بسماح.سماح فحص هي المالكة والمؤسسة لعلامة الملابس الرياضية "CoreFit" – وأم لطفلين. تركز على تمكين النساء من خلال اللياقة البدنية.النقاط الرئيسية: - إيجاد التوازن في الحياة هو رقصة مستمرة. - تمكين النساء ضروري لتحقيق التغيير المجتمعي. - العناية بالنفس ليست أنانية؛ بل هي ضرورة للرفاهية. - وضع الحدود أمر أساسي لحب الذات. من إنتاج Pineapple Audio Production وبدعم من TRX. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today, Raha meets Samah. Samah Fahs is the owner and founder of activewear brand CoreFit – and a mother of two. She's all about empowering women through fitness.Takeaways:Finding balance in life is a continuous dance.Women's empowerment is essential for societal change.Self-care is not selfish; it's necessary for well-being.Setting boundaries is vital for self-love.Produced by Pineapple Audio Production and supported by TRXاليوم، تلتقي رها بسماح.سماح فحص هي المالكة والمؤسسة لعلامة الملابس الرياضية "CoreFit" – وأم لطفلين. تركز على تمكين النساء من خلال اللياقة البدنية.النقاط الرئيسية: - إيجاد التوازن في الحياة هو رقصة مستمرة. - تمكين النساء ضروري لتحقيق التغيير المجتمعي. - العناية بالنفس ليست أنانية؛ بل هي ضرورة للرفاهية. - وضع الحدود أمر أساسي لحب الذات. من إنتاج Pineapple Audio Production وبدعم من TRX. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello, friends - we're back with a really special episode! Soaliha Iqbal got to sit down with Samah Sabawi to discuss Samah's book Cactus Pear For My Beloved. It's a really moving conversation.Samah shares the story of her parents, and many like them, who were born while their parents were being forced to leave their homelands. Cactus Pear For My Beloved is a narrative memoir of her own family's story from before the Nakba in 1978 until now - and draws on Samah's PhD in post memory within the context of generational trauma and exile.As you can imagine, this book is more timely than ever - and absolutely a must-read.

Comment l'iA peut révolutionner l'accès aux soins pour les non-francophones en France ? Découvrez l'impact de la data avec Samah GHALLOUSSI fondatrice d'AALIA.TECH. Cette chronique est extraite de l'épisode : Robots tueurs : l'IA au service de la guerre ? Elles font la Tech, la chronique de Sandrine Charpentier pour saisir sur le vif un portrait de femme qui compte dans l'univers très masculin de la Tech ***** À PROPOS DE TRENCH TECH *****LE talkshow « Esprits Critiques pour Tech Éthique »Écoutez-nous sur toutes les plateformes de podcast

On this episode of the Sumud podcast, we uplift, empower, and amplify Palestinian psychiatrists and psychotherapists, Dr. Samah Jabr. Dr. Samah is the head of the mental health unit at the Palestinian Ministry of Health. She has become a key figure in addressing the mental health crisis in Palestine. Her contributions reach beyond clinical psychiatry, encompassing education, advocacy, and writing. Connect with Dr. Ed Hasan on Instagram @DrEdHasan or LinkedIn to join the conversation. Connect with Dr. Samah Jabr on Instagram and Threads @jabrsamah. Check out Dr. Samah's books and lectures on her Linktree page at https://linktr.ee/jabrsamah.

In this episode from the “School of Divine Mysteries” series by the Qaim Aba Al-Sadiq Abdullah Hashem, join believer Samah al-Almahdi as the Qaim exposes "Fake Islam" and the deceptive governments aligned with the devil. Hear the bold proclamations of Imam al-Mahdi and what the Mahdi truly desires from us today. Discover how the religion of Islam has been misguided by traitorous leaders and examine the true call of Imam al-Mahdi. Pledge your support today - what you have been promised has arrived!

This episode is a SOLO episode that I have been eager to record and get some 1:1 on time with all of you, that I have been missing so much while I've been blessed with LI USA Interviews. I am talking about all of the shows I have been watching lately, updating you on the things going on in my life & doing a brief recap on the first 2 episodes of The Bachelorette. This episode I wanted to take time to talk about a few things that extend beyond Reality TV - Trigger Warning - this episode talks about the genocide against Palestine and also Black mother's mortality rate in NJ. The episode resumes TV takes at 8:28. Follow Brad to Donate to Samah's family & get a free design: https://www.instagram.com/fulloutbrad/?hl=en Follow Positively Uncensored on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@positivelyuncensored?lang=en Subscribe on YouTube to watch my video episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@positivelyuncensoredpodcast To submit a question for an interview or report some tea - send me an email at: positivelyuncensored@gmail.com

Join us as we sit down with Samah El Hage, a leading influencer in technology and AI, known for her innovative and forward-thinking ideas. Author of "Redefine the Lead" and "Next Generation Motherhood," Samah explores the role of technology in leadership and motherhood. With a strong foundation in computer science engineering, she has led groundbreaking technological solutions in the automotive and telecom industries. Samah is also a key voice in sustainability discussions, adept at simplifying complex tech concepts and highlighting their broader implications. Beyond tech, she expresses her creativity through photography and painting, with her work showcased at renowned galleries and festivals like Art Basel. All this and more on Debugged!

About Our GuestSamah (“Sam”) T. Abukhodeir was born and raised in Lake Wales, Florida. Following high school, Ms. Abukhodeir moved to Tallahassee, Florida, to pursue a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology with a Minor in Arabic and Child Development at Florida State University. Ms. Abukhodeir obtained her Juris Doctor from Florida International University College of Law, where she was on the Dean's List and earned two CALI Excellence for the Future Awards in Islamic/Sharia Law and Judicial Externship. While in law school, Ms. Abukhodeir worked as a Graduate Assistant to Law Professor Cyra Choudhury and was a judicial intern for the Honorable Marisa Tinkler Mendez, Circuit Court Judge in the Criminal Division of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit in Miami-Dade, Florida, and the Honorable Maria M. Korvick, Circuit Court Judge in the Probate Division of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit in Miami-Dade, Florida.     Notable Links:Official website: https://floridaprobateandfamilylaw.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/floridaprobatefamilylawyerInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/lawyerladyboss/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-florida-probate-family-law-firm/?viewAsMember=true       **********  "Women Winning Divorce" is a radio show and podcast hosted by Heather Quick: Attorney, Entrepreneur, Author and Founder of Florida Women's Law Group, the only divorce firm for women, by women. Each week Heather sits down with innovative professionals and leaders who are focused on how you can be your best self, before, during or after divorce. In these conversations, we are looking at how women can win at life.  With our guests, we enjoy the opportunity to explore ways all women can win and enhance their life, no matter where they are in their journey, because divorce is just point in life, not the end and not what defines you, rather it can be a catalyst for growth. Come join the conversation on social media, and join our Facebook group, Women Winning Divorce and send comments and suggestions, we want to bring you content that helps move your life forward.Women Winning Divorce Podcast Series https://www.womenwinningdivorce.com/Women Winning Divorce Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/685277376560289Florida Women's Law Grouphttps://www.floridawomenslawgroup.com/Divorce 101 Online Course: https://heather-quick.mykajabi.com/   Thank you for listening. Please share the podcast with your friends and colleagues. Send your questions, comments, and feedback to marketing@4womenlaw.com Women Winning Divorce is supported by Florida Women's Law Group Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not an advertisement for legal services.  The information provided on this podcast is not intended to be legal advice.  You should not rely on what you hear on this podcast as legal advice. If you have a legal issue, please contact a lawyer.  The views and opinions expressed by the hosts and guests are solely those of the individuals and do not represent the views or opinions of the firms or organizations with which they are affiliated or the views or opinions of this podcast's advertisers.  This podcast is available for private, non-commercial use only.  Any editing, reproduction, or redistribution of this podcast for commercial use or monetary gain without the expressed, written consent of the podcast's creator is prohibited.  

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Continuing our discussion from S2E15 with warrior, Samah Khan. Samah's dream was to be a doctor. She was making her dream a reality when in her penultimate year of medical school, mysterious and chronic symptoms started. She graduated but her health issues forced her to give up practicing medicine, her passion in life. Samah spent the following years searching for her diagnoses, being dismissed by the medical profession, and managing her new reality. With persistence, Samah was finally diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis, fibromyalgia, and joint hypermobile syndrome or Ehlers-Danlos, but to this day, doctors are unresolved on her conditions, leading her to suffer from improper management. In Part Two, Samah shares her unique perspective on why doctors tend to dismiss patients with chronic illness especially functional disorders such as fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome and the importance of believing the patient. If you would like to become part of Samah Khan's Facebook group, go to PICK SEBBIE BC SEBBIE PICKS U and send an invitation request. 

We are throwing back to S2E14 with warrior, Samah Khan. Samah's dream was to be a doctor. She was making her dream a reality when in her penultimate year of medical school, mysterious and chronic symptoms started. She graduated but her health issues forced her to give up practicing medicine, her passion in life. Samah spent the following years searching for her diagnosis, being dismissed by the medical profession, and managing her new reality. With persistence, Samah was finally diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis, fibromyalgia, and joint hypermobile syndrome or Ehlers-Danlos, but to this day, doctors are unresolved on her conditions, leading her to suffer from improper management. Tune in as Samah reveals how redefining success for herself was instrumental in finding new meaning in her life again and allowing her to move forward as a medical editor and writer and founder of the Facebook group called PICK SEBBIE BC SEBBIE PICKS U where many chronically ill come for support. Samah also discusses the lack of proper training for doctors especially as it pertains to rare and chronic conditions. If you would like to become part of Samah Khan's Facebook group, go to PICK SEBBIE BC SEBBIE PICKS U and send an invitation request. 

We are throwing back to S2E14 with warrior, Samah Khan. Samah's dream was to be a doctor. She was making her dream a reality when in her penultimate year of medical school, mysterious and chronic symptoms started. She graduated but her health issues forced her to give up practicing medicine, her passion in life. Samah spent the following years searching for her diagnosis, being dismissed by the medical profession, and managing her new reality. With persistence, Samah was finally diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis, fibromyalgia, and joint hypermobile syndrome or Ehlers-Danlos, but to this day, doctors are unresolved on her conditions, leading her to suffer from improper management. Tune in as Samah reveals how redefining success for herself was instrumental in finding new meaning in her life again and allowing her to move forward as a medical editor and writer and founder of the Facebook group called PICK SEBBIE BC SEBBIE PICKS U where many chronically ill come for support. Samah also discusses the lack of proper training for doctors especially as it pertains to rare and chronic conditions. If you would like to become part of Samah Khan's Facebook group, go to PICK SEBBIE BC SEBBIE PICKS U and send an invitation request. 

Today on Subscribing to Wellness we are joined by Samah Dada. She is a New York City–based recipe developer, food photographer, and the blogger behind Dada Eats. Drawing from her Indian heritage and inspired by the foodscapes of London, California, and New York, she is the host of Cooking with Samah Dada on the Today show's digital channel. We chat with Samah about her very own Erewhon Drink Collab, her path to Dada Eats and so much more. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wellbeingintheworld/support

Julie Mente sat down with Samah Sisay, Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, to shine a light on the human rights violations occurring at Orange County Correctional Facility. Samah delves into the true reality of immigration detention in New York, sharing stories of inhumane conditions faced by people detained and how they have organized and advocated against these conditions. Finally, learn about the lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights, NYCLU and Bronx Defenders against Orange County, ICE, and officials and discover how you can support efforts to end immigration detention in New York and support those inside.  Notes: https://ccrjustice.org/home/what-we-do/our-cases/ortiz-v-orange-county-ny --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dismantlinginjustice/support

J'adore regarder mes filles jouer ensemble. Certes c'est un grand moment de répit pour moi mais c'est avant tout un bonheur immense de les voir s'épanouir ensemble, rire et inventer leur propre monde. Le jeu participe depuis toujours à l'évolution de l'enfant. C'est en jouant qu'il socialise, qu'il découvre, qu'il invente et qu'il progresse… L'importance du jeu est même notée dans la Convention des Nations Unies relative aux droits de l'enfant de 1989 qui stipule : que « les États parties reconnaissent à l'enfant le droit au repos et aux loisirs, de se livrer au jeu et à des activités récréatives propres à son âge, et de participer librement à la vie culturelle et artistique ». Samah Karaki est neuroscientifique et la fondatrice du Social Brain Institute. Elle est à l'origine d'un rapport fourni et interdisciplinaire sur l'importance du jeu libre. Le jeu comme principal vecteur d'apprentissage. Mais comment ça se passe concrètement, dans leur cerveau mais aussi dans leurs liens sociaux ? Les réponses dans cet échange. L'épisode est passionnant et nous encourage à leur rendre leur liberté de jouer… pas facile quand on est parents… Je vous souhaite une très bonne écoute. Pour lire le livre mentionné par Samah Karaki : Le maître ignorant de Jacques Rancière.

How does a fashion designer's daughter get obsessed with lizards and oil spills? Hear Sama Wareh's inspiration for becoming a naturalist and Director of the Art & Wilderness Institute. What is a naturalist? You'll find out in this episode!Having met our very own female Indiana Jones, we don't have enough good things to say about the work of the Art & Wilderness Institute and its programs. They're getting Muslim families outside to learn about the earth and its many gifts. You don't have to be a survivalist to be a good steward of the planet, but you do have to get to know the planet to steward.Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, or check out the landing page on our website and LEAVE A REVIEW if you're on a podcast app. You can also send us a review at salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com.Links:Art and Wilderness Institute Website: https://www.artandwildernessinstitute.com/Green Masjid Initiative: https://www.artandwildernessinstitute.com/green-masjid-initiative.html Art and Wilderness Institute on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artandwilderness_institute/Samah's book recommendations: Last Child in the Woods and The Secret Network of NatureWeb: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.comEmail: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.comFB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim groupIG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1wSupport the showWeb: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.comEmail: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.comFB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim groupIG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

Content creator Samah Dada talks about the evolution of how cataloging her meals turned into a full time venture with @DadaEats. Samah describes her “accidental” cooking style and how she incorporates her plant-based lifestyle with the flavors of her Indian heritage. She talks about her most significant culinary influences and minimal approach to meals. Samah pleads for those who are bored with vegetables to stop steaming and start seasoning and why eating dinner together every night with her family made her a mindful eater. Jaymee and Samah relate to the pressure and vulnerability of sharing your life on the internet and Samah offers advice for aspiring culinary creators and cookbook authors. Follow Food Network on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/foodnetworkFollow Jaymee Sire on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaymeesireFollow Samah Dada on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dadaeats/Watch Samah's Crack An Egg With Episode: https://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/crack-an-egg-with/episodes/crack-an-egg-with-samah-dadaFind episode transcripts here: https://food-network-obsessed.simplecast.com/episodes/samah-dada-is-begging-you-to-season-your-veggies

Docteure en Neurosciences : voilà qui a attiré mon attention quand j'ai découvert le travail de Samah. J'ai une fascination pour le cerveau, sur ses capacités, sur son pouvoir. Mais on en entend de plus en plus de bullsh*t à ce propos, et j'avais envie de démystifier le sujet avec une experte en la matière. Samah Karaki est une neuroscientifique qui va parfois à contre-courant de la pensée traditionnelle : elle explique beaucoup plus qui l'on est par notre environnement, que par nos gènes. Ainsi, il n'y aurait pas des personnes avec du talent d'un côté, des personnes sans talent de l'autre : mais des personnes qui ont pu le développer, et d'autres non. Heureusement, il n'est jamais trop tard, et Samah nous partage dans cet épisode comment utiliser la plasticité cérébrale pour progresser, comment on peut continuer à apprendre au quotidien, et quels sont les pièges dans lesquels il ne faut pas tomber. Un épisode d'une richesse incroyable, qui m'a donné envie de faire une partie 2 : vous me direz sur Insta si vous la voulez aussi ! Bonne écoute ! Pour découvrir les coulisses du podcast : https://www.instagram.com/inpowerpodcast/ Pour retrouver Samah sur les réseaux : https://www.instagram.com/samah_karaki/ Et pour suivre l'aventure MyBetterSelf au quotidien : https://www.instagram.com/mybetterself/ Si cet épisode t'as plu, celui-ci te plaira surement : https://app.ausha.co/app/show/23818/episodes/preview/1338810

"Le problème de l'éco-anxiété, ce n'est pas l'éco-anxiété, c'est ce qui la cause" Samah Karaki, docteure en neurosciences, nous explique quels sont les phénomènes qui mènent à l'anxiété et surtout, comment y faire face de façon rationnelle, avec les outils à notre disposition.  Pour Samah, on peut travailler sur son cerveau pour progresser, pour se libérer et pour vivre plus sereinement, en identifiant les causes qui nous paralysent.  Cet extrait introduit l'épisode qui sort demain, dans lequel Samah nous décrypte les mécanismes du cerveau et la façon de s'en servir le mieux possible. 

Extraits de l'épisode 114 avec Samah Karaki----Retrouvez tous les épisodes et les résumés sur www.sismique.frSismique est un podcast indépendant créé et animé par Julien Devaureix.

Samah Karaki est docteure en neuro-sciences et dans son dernier ouvrage, elle déconstruit les notions de talent, de réussite et de mérite qui sont centrales dans la construction de nos sociétés et souvent dans notre manière d'éduquer des enfants ou encore de construire des organisations.De quoi parle-t-on ? 0:00:00 Introduction : La thèse de Samah Karaki sur le talent0:01:35 Présentation de l'invitée et de son approche interdisciplinaire0:08:07 Déconstruction de l'idée de l'inné et de l'acquis, et de leur influence sur ce que nous sommes et sur les débats publics0:10:17 La complexité de l'espèce humaine rend la génétique impossible0:15:12 La phrase "les Noirs sont meilleurs en sport" est scientifiquement fausse et problématique0:18:12 Les sports comme symbole d'accès à certaines pratiques0:20:19 Le travail est censé favoriser la réussite0:26:41 Le mythe des 10 000 heures de travail pour devenir un génie0:35:12 Les moyens avant la gentilité des individus0:40:12 Le principe de mérite et les privilèges socio-économiques0:43:25 Les transclasses : déjouer les déterminismes ?0:47:31 Communautés et intégration : différences sociologiques0:51:03 Division raciale du travail et stéréotypes culturels0:52:06 Recrutement basé sur des tests de personnalité0:55:38 Les statistiques ethniques et la discrimination positive1:00:24 Repenser le prestige et la séparation entre notre dignité humaine et nos réalisations1:02:21 Les normes implicites de la société façonnent nos vies1:05:53 Préserver l'hédonisme de l'enfance pour une vie à part entière1:07:29 Inquiétude face au refus de questionner le monde1:11:44 Pression moindre et deux oeuvres marquantes----Retrouvez tous les épisodes et les résumés sur www.sismique.frSismique est un podcast indépendant créé et animé par Julien Devaureix.

Nous avons quasiment tous tendance à croire que le talent est une chose innée. Certains l'ont et d'autres ne l'ont pas et puis c'est tout. Or le talent est une conséquence de conditions sociales et non le résultat de notre constitution génétique. C'est la thèse que défend mon invitée de la semaine, Samah Karaki, neuroscientique et auteure de plusieurs livres dont le dernier traite justement de ce sujet de talent. Les travaux de Samah portent notamment sur les impacts de nos interactions sur notre santé mentale et c'est passionnant. Avec Samah, on a déconstruit pas mal d'idées préconçues sur les notions comme : - l'intuition - la résilience - la méritocratie Un épisode plein de peps et très instructif qui j'espère vous plaira! Je vous souhaite une très belle écoute. Références Désormais, retrouvez toutes les reférences dans la News de Gatemeri que j'envoie mensuellement. Pour s'inscrire c'est par ici >>> https://ngeur.substack.com/ Let's keep in touch 1. Gatemeri lance sa chaine Youtube!!! Pour visionner certains interviews, rendez-vous sur notre nouvelle chaine Youtube, abonnez-vous et surtout partagez autour de vous

Veganism Is Not Anti-Indigenous by Samah Seger at SentientMedia.org Original post: https://sentientmedia.org/veganism-is-not-anti-indigenous/    Sentient Media is a nonprofit news organization that is changing the conversation around animal agriculture across the globe. They seek to create and sustain a sense of global urgency about the agriculture industry's impact on the climate crisis, extraction of natural resources and systematic exploitation of the fringes of society. They're doing this through critical commentary, investigative journalism, creating resources, strengthening the journalist and advocate community, partnering with publishers and holding the media accountable when it fails to report on the most pressing issues of our time.    How to support the podcast: Share with others. Recommend the podcast on your social media. Follow/subscribe to the show wherever you listen. Buy some vegan/plant based merch: https://www.plantbasedbriefing.com/shop  Follow Plant Based Briefing on social media: Twitter: @PlantBasedBrief YouTube: YouTube.com/PlantBasedBriefing  Facebook: Facebook.com/PlantBasedBriefing  LinkedIn: Plant Based Briefing Podcast Instagram: @PlantBasedBriefing   #vegan #plantbased #plantbasedbriefing #animalagriculture #indigenous #antiindigenous #colonization #veganism #decolonial    

Continuing our discussion with warrior, Samah Khan. Samah's dream was to be a doctor. She was making her dream a reality when in her penultimate year of medical school, mysterious and chronic symptoms started. She graduated but her health issues forced her to give up practicing medicine, her passion in life. Samah spent the following years searching for her diagnoses, being dismissed by the medical profession, and managing her new reality. With persistence, Samah was finally diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis, fibromyalgia, and joint hypermobile syndrome or Ehlers-Danlos, but to this day, doctors are unresolved on her conditions, leading her to suffer from improper management. In Part One, Samah reveals how she redefined success for herself. In Part Two, Samah shares her unique perspective on why doctors tend to dismiss patients with chronic illness especially functional disorders such as fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome and the importance of believing the patient. If you would like to become part of Samah Khan's Facebook group, go to PICK SEBBIE BC SEBBIE PICKS U and send an invitation request.

Aujourd'hui dans Graine de Métamorphose, Agathe Lévêque reçoit Samah Karaki, biologiste, docteure en neurosciences et fondatrice du Social Brain Institute.La pomme de Newton, l'Eurêka d'Archimède, l'E=MC2 d'Einstein… Chaque grand savant a, dans la mémoire collective, une phrase, une fable attachée à ses découvertes qui de pionnier l'a fait devenir génie mythique. Mais qu'est-ce que le génie ? Ces êtres talentueux étaient-ils vraiment nés pour théoriser la gravitation universelle, percer les secrets de la flottabilité, ou de la relativité ? Peu importe le domaine, que ce soit les arts, les sports, les sciences, le travail, nous sommes convaincus que certaines personnes naissent avec des aptitudes supérieures à d'autres. Cette quête du haut potentiel, de l'exceptionnel participe pourtant à rendre invisible bien des facteurs socio-économiques et à dégrader notre société. Face à ces conséquences, Samah Karaki a décidé de prendre la parole pour déconstruire étape par étape la fiction du talent et de questionner notre idéal de société.Épisode #31Quelques-unes des questions à Samah Karaki:Friedrich Nietzche parle du talent comme d'une “lorgnette merveilleuse”, toi tu dis qu'il est un “refuge causal quand on ne comprend pas d'où une faculté a émergé”, alors qu'est-ce que le talent ?Si le talent n'est pas inné, qu'est-ce-qui fait que certaines personnes sortent “du lot” dans certaines disciplines ?La méritocratie existe-t-elle aujourd'hui et a-t-elle un jour existé ?Qu'est-ce qui ne va pas dans notre conception de la réussite et de l'échec ?Est-ce que notre société se porterait mieux si l'on déconstruisait le mythe du talent ?Qui est mon invitée du jour Sarah Kamaki ?Samah Karaki biologiste, docteure en neurosciences et fondatrice du Social Brain Institute.Quelques citations du podcast avec Sarah Kamaki"Il y a une continuité d'un système de dominance des plus forts qui justifient leurs positions de pouvoir par leur talents, c'est un raisonnement qui est complètement fallacieux.""Les disciplines biologiques comme les neurosciences ne sont pas suffisantes pour appréhender la complexité de l'humain.""Une société ne peut pas être construite sur la simple promesse de s'élever et de gagner.""À chaque fois que l'on se trompe le cerveau se met dans une disposition beaucoup plus ouverte à l'apprentissage."Rejoignez-nous sur notre nouveau site Internet et abonnez-vous à notre Newsletter www.metamorphosepodcast.comSoutenez notre podcast en rejoignant dès maintenant la Tribu Métamorphose : http://www.patreon.com/metamorphoseRetrouvez Graine de Métamorphose sur Apple Podcast / Spotify / Google Podcasts / Deezer / YouTube / SoundCloud / CastBox/ TuneIn.Suivez l'actualité des épisodes Métamorphose Podcast sur Instagram, découvrez l'invité de la semaine et des surprises ;-)InstagramPhoto DR Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Retrouvez l'ensemble des épisodes du podcast Ping! de Grégory Pouy #07 Comment prendre soin de sa santé mentale au travail avec Samah Karaki Samah Karaki est neuroscientifique et la fondatrice du Social Brain Institute, elle est l'autrice d'un ouvrage, le travail en équipe, sorti chez Dunod. On parle beaucoup de pandémie de santé mentale, de grande démission, de burn-out, de bore-out, de démission mentale et de manière plus pragmatique, on voit bien autour de nous que nos amis, nos collègues parfois nous même avons du mal à faire face aux différentes injonctions auxquelles nous devons faire face dans cette période particulièrement anxiogène. A travers cet épisodes, vous allez comprendre beaucoup de processus que Samah explique parfaitement et qui vont vous permettre de vous aider mais aussi d'aider les personnes de votre équipe à se sentir mieux quand parfois vous avez la sensation d'être totalement démuni et de ne pas savoir par où débuter. Samah explique parfaitement les processus mis en place dans notre cerveau et casse beaucoup d'idées préconçues sur toutes les notions liées à la santé mentale au travail comme par exemple l'équilibre de vie pro et vie perso mais aussi les raisons du burn-out par exemple. Je vous souhaite une excellente écoute!