Many people don’t know that Japan and the Soviet Union never made peace with each other after the Second World War (which Japan started years before Germany fired a shot). Even after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991/92, Russian and Japanese officials could not bring themselves to settle their differences regarding the territorial disputes as a result of the end of the Second World War.
For the past decade, Russia has built-up military forces on islands that are almost a stone’s throw from Hokkaido.
On 16MAR2022, Japan threw its hat into the Ukraine Crisis ring, on the side of Ukraine, sending a shipment of supplies onboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globmaster-3.
Video, by U.S. Navy’s Petty Officer Second Class Jack Aistrup, of remarks made by U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel, Oniki Makoto from Japan’s Ministry of Defence, and Deputy Chief of Mission Embassy of Ukraine in Japan Oleksandr Semeniuk:
16 March 2022 (12:11-UTC-07 Tango 06) 25 Esfand 1400/12 Sha’ban 1443/14 Gui Mao 4720
The first quake (at about 08:00 Mountain Time North America) maxed out Japan’s magnitude scale, which tops out at 7. First quake was felt Fukushima Prefecture’s Sōma City, at a depth of 63km (USGS data). Second quake of less than 6 on the Japan mag-scale reported in other areas. Nuclear power plants in Fukushima now offline, sudden water loss in reactors and cooling pools for spent fuel rods.
Toshima ward in Tokyo, 16MAR2022. Photo by Issei Kato.
Fukushima nuke plants that went offline supply power to Tokyo. So much for A-I/’smart’ homes/apartments, residence who live in those computer controlled residences say the doors automatically locked them inside the home due to the power outage! One bullet-train traveling from Fukushima has derailed. Avalanche warning issued.
I checked recent earthquake records and it appears Miyagi Prefecture, which borders Fukushima Prefecture, has been experiencing mid-level magnitude quakes for past several weeks.
Video of this morning’s (North America time, during the night in Japan) earthquake showed what looks like transformers exploding in the distance. At least one death in Sōma City reported.
This is just the tip of the complicated iceberg of international natural gas shenanigans that could plunge the globe into a new World War:
On 11FEB2022, the U.S. Army Recruiting Command announced new bonuses for recruits who can quickly ship-out for basic training: $5-thousand if you can ship-out within 90 days, $9-thousand if you can ship-out within 30 days, and somewhere in-between for those who can ship-out within 60 days!
On 11FEB2022, Japanese news media reported that the United States and Japan made a deal so that Japan could sell any surplus natural gas (LNG) to NATO Europe/European Union, in case Russia cuts off NATO Europe’s gas supply. 40% of NATO Europe’s LNG comes from Russia. The Japanese news media said Japan’s LNG shipments to Europe are set to start in March. Is that when the shit hits the fan in Europe?
It should be noted that Japan has to import LNG and/or refine it from imported oil. Recently Japan has cut back on LNG imports due to the skyrocketing cost of LNG, which is caused by the saber rattling in Europe. As a result, Japan’s stockpile of LNG is actually dropping. So is Japan’s offer to send (sell?) Europe LNG just a Paper Tiger?
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Third Class Edward Wargo.
In May 2019, the U.S. Coast Guard approved the ship Marvel Crane to carry LNG/Natural Gas. It is one of several LNG export projects planned for Louisiana in the next five to ten years.
This is a 2019 U.S. Defense Logistics Agency video, by William J. Miller, revealing how involved the military is in supplying your petroleum products like LNG:
2016 U.S. Coast Guard video, by Petty Officer Second Class Jonathan Lally, explaining why the Department of the Navy supported the creation of the LNG facility in Port Fourchon, Louisiana, the first such port in the U.S.:
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Robert Jackson, 10JUN2020.
Apparently only 49 were made before he end of World War Two, and this is supposedly the only one left alive.
USMC photo by Robert Jackson, 10JUN2020.
It was based on the Type 95 hull, and was originally intended to carry personnel and supplies from ship to shore and back again. However, somebody decided to also use them in suicide attacks on U.S. ships, but testing in 1944 showed they were much to slow and noisy for such a sneaky job.
The Japanese AmTrack could carry 13mm machine guns, and during the Kamikaze testing was able to carry and launch two torpedoes (after setting sail from its submarine transport).
The USMC originally had the Ka-Tsu on display on Camp Pendleton, also in California.
For the past 23 years, the imperialist Japanese army (Japan is a Constitutional Monarchy) has been training for war on the U.S. Army’s (USA) Yakima Training Center (YTC), in the state of Washington. It is officially called Exercise/Operation Rising Thunder.
Yakima Training Center, Washington, 2017. Photo via U.S. Army’s 7th Infantry Division.
Japan Ground Self Defense Forces (JGSDF) use many different armored vehicles during the war games, including the Cold War era Type 74.
33rd Infantry Regiment, 10th Division, Type-74 on YTC, September 2015. USA photo by Staff Sergeant Steven Schneider.
USA photo by Staff Sergeant Steven Schneider, September 2015.
Low-Rider tank of the 33rd Infantry Regiment, 10th Division, YTC, August 2015. USA photo by Staff Sergeant Steven Schneider.
The Type 74 has a collapsible suspension.
USA photo by Staff Sergeant Steven Schneider.
16th Regimental Combat Team, JGSDF, at Yakima Training Center during Operation Rising Thunder, September 2013. USA photo by Sergeant Bryan Spradlin.
USA video interview-explainer by Sergeant Bryan Spradlin, which includes Type 74 live fire, September 2013:
Type 74 live fire on YTC, September 2013. USA photo by Sergeant Austan R. Owen.
U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Michael S. Murphy.
US-2 gets fueled on Anderson Air Force Base, Guam, 20FEB2020.
Photo via ShinMaywa Industries.
First flight of the prototype PX-S was in October 1967. The production Patrol Seaplane-1 (PS-1, aka SS-2) flying boat is a anti-ship combat aircraft which does not have conventional landing gear, it is not amphibious as the ‘landing gear’ is actually beaching gear (with each main gear leg having one wheel/tire) and cannot withstand the impact of landing on a runway.
Photo via ShinMaywa Industries.
ShinMaywa flying boats incorporate a ‘spray suppressor’ around the forward hull, to allow rough seas handling.
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Todd F. Michalek.
In October 1974, the prototype US-1 first flew.
Photo via ShinMaywa Industries.
The US-1A (aka PS-1 Kai, aka SS-2A) is a Search And Rescue (SAR) plane that has conventional landing gear (with each main gear leg having two wheels/tires) which allows the flying boat to land on a paved runway, making it a true amphibious aircraft. The visual difference between a PS-1 and US-1 is the bulge housing the conventional type landing gear on the US-1, the PS-1 has no side fuselage bulge.
Short USMC video, by Corporal Waiyan Tin, of US-1A taking off from U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, 2017:
Cockpit of US-2 (US-1A Kai). USMC photo by Lance Corporal Todd F. Michalek.
Typical interior of PS-1/US-1A. Photo via ShinMaywa Industries.
In the 1980s, Japan replaced its PS-1s with Lockheed designed P-3 Orions (Kawasaki began licensed building of P-3Cs in 1978).
USMC photo by Sergeant Chase Tillett, MCAS Iwakuni, 05MAY2017.
The US-1As were retired in 2017, replaced by the updated US-2 (prototype US-1A Kai which first flew in December 2003, and began operations as US-2 in March 2007).
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Todd F. Michalek.
The visual identifier of the upgraded US-2 (US-1A Kai) are the propellers.
USMC photo by Lance Corporal Harrison Rakhshani.
US-2 (US-1A Kai), MCAS Iwakuni, May 2019. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Kenny Nunez.
USMC photo by Lance Corporal Kenny Nunez. US-2 (US-1A Kai), MCAS Iwakuni, May 2019.
USMC photo by Lance Corporal Nathan J. Maysonet. US-2 (US-1A Kai), MCAS Iwakuni, 2018.
MCAS Iwakuni, 09AUG2017. USMC photo by Lance Corporal Gabriela Garcia-Herrera.
MCAS Iwakuni, July 2017. USMC photo by Lance Corporal Jacob A. Farbo.
USMC video by Lance Corporal Cory Schubert, US-2 (US-1A Kai), January 2015:
Shin-Meiwa US-2 lifts off, 07JAN2015. USMC photo by Private First Class Carlos Cruz Jr.
USMC photo by Lance Corporal Todd F. Michalek.
Warming up the modern engines of the US-2, U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, 08JAN2013.
USMC photo by Lance Corporal Todd F. Michalek.
Starting the old-skool three-prop engines of the US-1A, U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, 08JAN2013.
USMC photo by Lance Corporal Todd F. Michalek.
ShinMaywa Industries reports that as of 2020: PS-1 ASW Flying Boat 23 aircraft in total (Completed production)
US-1A SAR Flying Boat 20 aircraft in total (Completed production)
US-2 SAR Flying Boat 7 aircraft in total (in production)
ShinMaywa video documentary, history of the company:
Incomplete list of links to news reports which should cause you to question the main stream excuse that automotive industry problems are due to pandemic caused computer chip shortages. The biggest proof that it isn’t computer chip shortages, is that electric car sales and production are at record levels, partly because of government mandates and partly because the car makers themselves are shifting to only electric vehicle production! Perhaps the shutdown of combustion engine vehicle production is just a false flag operation to re-tool factories for electric car production?
Electric Viking video report, 200% increase in e-car sales in European Union (EU) despite so called pandemic shortages, also explains how Toyotas’ booming e-car sales in Europe might be the true cause for its halt to combustion car production, also, the EU is banning non-electric cars:
KPIX video report, U.S. Labor Day combustion engine car sales crashed and burned in mandated electric car California, of course ignorantly blamed on computer chip shortage:
KVVU video report, fewer people are looking to buy new cars in Las Vegas, ignorantly blames lack of customers on lack of parts (maybe it’s actually about price?):
The never ending flood of global migrants and refugees, combined with pandemic and comedy-of-errors Afghanistan, has pushed many countries to the edge. Incomplete list of links to news reports as of 10 September 2021:
Data from Gallup proves most migrant workers don’t plan on returning to their country of origin!
The Japanese distributor of Moderna coronavirus vaccines, Takeda Pharmaceutical, is demanding an explanation after doses of the vax were found to be contaminated with unknown particles.
On 25AUG2021, the Japanese Health Ministry halted the use of Moderna’s vaccine, but some of the 1.63-milion doses have already been administered. The vaccines carry the lot numbers 3004667, 3004734 and 3004956. They were made in Spain.
On 17AUG2021, U.S. Army medics began vaccinating civilian (Arab) employees on Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, using Moderna’s vaccine.
Philippines to issue 20-million Moderna doses, reveals that drug companies can make more money through taxpayers/governments than through private sector:
Reuters video report says CoViD vaccines, and now boosters, are all about the money:
Australia about to issue 25-million Moderna doses:
Pfizer and Moderna vaccines dropped from 91% to 66% effectiveness with Delta:
