Les Loken is a witness to history!
16th November 2006
Found this video with World War II veteran Les Loken. He was stationed in Japan in the 1940:s and 1950:s and worked with re-building. His witness is very interesting. Imagine for example that all officers were forced to quit the Japanese army. Where did they go? I assume into the industry, that is part of the reason the why the Japanese industry was so military like. When the samurai era finished many samurai became school teachers, maybe the same happened to the WW II officiers? Even the Japanese schools have some of this in its organisation. Well, these are just my theories. Listen to Loken instead. He was here at the time.
More of Les Loken here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
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November 19th, 2006 at 11:41 pm
(Sorry for the random-ness of this post)…
Four months ago I posted on many blogs, letting everyone know that we were trying to start a podcast (Rabbit Hole Daily) by people who had emigrated to other countries…
I thought it would be interesting to share all of our “misadventures” and news… I had hoped to get a contributor to/from every continent (i.e., a Brazilian in Japan, a Japanese person in France, a French person in Australia, etc.).
People leave their respective home-countries for all kinds of reasons; some people marry a “foreigner” and leave their country, some people take a job or do academic research out of their country, some are forced to leave for political reasons, some do it for the adventure. The podcast was designed to welcome all of these points of view. We’ve been working with mixed success to get all types of voices…
Podcasts are a great way to get complex stories out that would never make it onto tv or radio, and we’d like to use the medium to create something that’s informative, eclectic, and interesting, all voices and topics welcome (provided they’re well-written)!
At any rate, I’m writing to renew my call for contributors and say that we’re still around. We were accepted by itunes, we’ve been publishing consistently, and although we’ve had some technical concerns (people write articles, read them into a mic, then get them to me via internet or skype; getting it all edited evenly has been a challenge), we’ve just received some equipment donations by listeners that will make it possible to produce with ever-better audio quality.
Please consider listening to the podcast, and more importantly, contributing articles. (Articles are 2-3 pages, submitted 4-6 times per year, contributors are featured on our “contributor profiles” page, rules for contributing can be found on the “contribute here” portion.) If you know someone who has emigrated from their country of origin and is a good writer, please pass the word!
Thanks!
Bradley.
www.freewebs.com/rabbitholedaily
rabbitholedaily@hotmail.com