It's no problem man, you probably make the single best documentaries on this site and I've never seen I video you've made I didn't like! You may not be the most objective documentarian out there, but none of your work seems politically motivated either. You show us some sites, tell a story, say your opinion, and let the viewer decide how to feel from there. Simply put, you are a true story teller, and I'm grateful to see your just as good at it today as you've always been. Can't wait to see your next masterpiece!

Happy to see you upload! You're amazing!

No, You're amazing!

I didn't see my name at the end, and remembered that I'd had to draw down my commitment during COVID. Instead of that, I think I'll ask for a post card. Thank you for everything you two do, Kata and Evan.

Hi Evan, welcome back. ❤

Then buckle up because I'm about to drop 20

you never know if it's a blessing or an evil to stay unknown to the rest of the planet. however I have a few dozen Micronesian stories from my father that I love to share, one is hilarious, another one profound all the others are just super interesting. I would have loved to have a chance to sail out that way on my fathers steps

You're literally amazing~@@RareEarthSeries

What exactly does being Micronesian mean? I cannot imagine the horrors island people went through. My grandfather fought in the pacific theater in the navy. He passed before I could ask any questions or learn what he experienced.

​​@@mknewlan67It can mean two things: one is an ethnic background referencing one of three waves of people that populated the Pacific, and the other is a citizen of the Federated States of Micronesia (one of a number of countries in the region called Micronesia)

Apocalypse after the apocalypse. The 1600s-1800s weren't a walk in the park either.

@@BrandanLee Yeah, but those were more of a slow burn of disease, slavery, minor conflicts and other typical colonial stuff and less of a singular event of utter hellfire. For a few places there were even some slight positives, like some places such as New Zealand finally regaining connection to the wider world after the voyaging stopped, some trade, and some new crops. Definitely a rough prelude to even rougher times though.

Very first thing we learned in Japanese History class is to call it the Pacific War, not the second World War, because for East and Southeast Asia, these conflicts were entirely removed from whatever the Europeans were up to, and much of it predated their war too. But alas, Western history books are written from a Western perspective, so we call it the big World War while ignoring the hyper complex political history of anything east of Moscow.

@@Jon_East pretty sure no matter where you got your indoctrination, Hilter inviting the Japanese newly named Western Style God Emperor into the Axis as Honorary Arians made the whole situation a little bit of a Whole World kind of War.

@@Jon_East Western books written from a western perspective? What a shock. Who is stopping asians from writing books from their point of view anyway?

Truly the most impressive dive spot on earth, bones aside

That's pretty much the answer right there. Let the bones be collected, this isn't ancient history.

I wounded how many of the visitors to the island are Japanese.

@@oldmech619 5% or so, I'd wager. But they tend to stay/dive from the Japanese speaking accommodation on Jeep Island.

@@RareEarthSeries Thanks. That’s about what I figured. Most Japanese like to travel in groups.

I wonder if that's a Pilot. They pride their use of Urushi over Ebonite, before the plastics

@Shiruvan it was in a transport ship in the forecastle, so I doubt that. No reason for a pilot to be in that part of a ship. Ebonite was pretty ubiquitous then, the thing that was different was (I collect and restore antique fountain pens) the quality of the urushi lacquer and the nib material. Gold was a limited material, so it was either prewar or very expensive (most used "shiro" spring steel nibs)

He means the pen might have been a Pilot, not that it was a pilot's pen.

@carlrusso3338 oh no, that makes less sense. Sailor made predominantly more gold nibs in that era, but the big three of sailor, pilot and platinum were less established at the time and many of the fountain pens in the 1910's thru the 1940's were made in small artisan shops, this is one of those (remember Japan didn't heavily industrialize until after the war, even during the war they still had a large base of rural and agricultural folks, which hurt their damage control compared to Americans, who by then almost universally had some exposure to machinery)

@@colinmartin9797 I got what you mean the first time, arguably those brands were indeed not yet big names, its just that Pilot/Dunhill-Namiki is proud of the urushi-coated ebonite since even behind those times, including 1920s duofold flattop lookalikes they made. Platinum got a bunch of Celluloid torpedo models with eyedropper/vac system but their production time in war time was cut for war effort. Gold nibs probably weren't as much revered either, more than they were practical for handling acidic inks, as we see that even post war Japanese pen models has been staying more gold nibbed than say Parker, Sheaffer or Waterman in the 60s.

Agreed. Without those bones who would pay the $$ to travel to and stay in that remote location? There's really no other reason to go there that I can see as dive sites are common enough there's no need to travel there.

The people of Guam can fault the USA and Chuuk. The USA cut a deal giving every Chuukese citizen a kind of quasi-US citizenship in exchange for the promise of not allowing China or Russia to build military bases there. So thousands of Chuukese got in a plane for the USA. As in Guam, USA. Because USA = free welfare, Food Stamps, Medicaid, Section 8 housing. So now Guam is drowning in Chuukese who see no point in getting jobs, stay drunk day and night, have exploded the drug and burglary crime rates. So now the largest employer in Guam is a company that provides security guards to provide protection on an island that once had virtually no crime. Guam is mostly ruined now.

Guess it's ok to be an asshole if you've got a good enough reason?

It also begs the question, how long ago does a person have to have died for it to become archeology? If there is nobody left alive who remembers them are they fair game as an educational/historical site? Nobody sees an archeological dig and asks "Is this morally Ok?:

​@@skeetsmcgrew3282I'd like to think that modern archaeology employs some amount of decorum. Certainly to the point that there's a world of difference between an archaeological dig and taking admissions for tourists to play with corpses.

@@konayasai Ok but if someone dug up your grandfather's grave and was like "Its for science bro, we will be cool about it," would that make it significantly better than a common graverobber?

@@skeetsmcgrew3282 Yes. It would. I wouldn't mind one bit. Heck, I wouldn't mind if the same happened to me. If I'm dead, I can't mind, because I'm dead. The only people who have any business minding are my living descendants, and I'd like to think that I'd raise my kids better than to be upset over something so silly as their old man's bones being useful to science instead of rotting away in a ditch.

@@konayasai Yeah, same honestly. But I have a genuine respect for all the different ways people choose to honor their dead. The craziest one I ever saw was this village that smoked their dead like a giant brisket. It takes like two weeks and the person looks just as bad as you'd imagine, it's horrifying. But to them it's just... what you do. When we are talking about theoretical ancestors though, like the person shares your general racial background... man idk. I think that's where the line blurs for how much respect I can feel for a bunch of old bones. I have to wonder how many specific bodies are being sought after. Like how many Japanese grandmas out there are asking for their war criminal father's remains back? And anyway, did they just gather the bones up and huck them in a mass grave? Like that's so much better? I guess of all the fates, tourist trap is probably one of the worst imaginable lol

Thanks for calling it esoteric, you made me look it up. lol I do like that word now and esoteric topics is where I wander regularly.

The gift shop at the Eagle's Nest/Kehlsteinhaus sells a selection of US police force badges alongside mugs and fridge magnets - some tourists go for the wildest things

As an avid diver myself and very much involved in the international dive community. I have never heard of a diver that wanted to go to Chuuk to see the bones. I’m sure there are people out there that go there for that reason but I dare to say 95% of the divers that want to go there just want to go there for the world class wreck diving and flora and fauna.

@@Danheart12 It could be that Rare Earth over emphasized that part in order to ratchet up the drama a bit.

Wounds heal but scars remain.

@@wolfbyte3171 "russia has begrudingly accepted" its literally illegal in russia to talk poorly of the "great patriotic war" or the actions by the soviet union. Putin has effectively re-stalinified.

​​​@@wolfbyte3171Japan has deeply apologized for what it did in Micronesia, which it has acknowledged, and in turn spent decades working with their governments and people to make what they did right. I'm confused what you mean by saying they never apologized or accepted what they did. Perhaps you're overstating the case due to their poor actions elsewhere.

@@RareEarthSeries My apologies, I was thinking of their actions in China and some of their other wartime actions, such as Unit 731.

I don't think it heals, I just think we eventually forget. Like go back far enough and it's all lost in the folk lore and tales of generations retelling those stories.

If it where the skulls of baby-faced G.I.'s he wouldn't think like that. Just treat them with respect. In russian territories there are wehrmacht forces found to this day, and guess what? They are send back. Identified or not. Warcriminals or not.

Agreed, this line of thinking is very bizarre and belongs in the dark ages not the 21st century.

@@Commander23c You realize how cruel the Japanese were to American pows? You realize how even worse they treated the people they came across during their land grabs? It’s horrific.

@@YaakovEzraAmiChithat’s irrelevant the vets of that war are a hundred years old, it’s their grudge to fight, not ours.

yeah, every time I come back to watch a video the sub count always surprises me. He's been making these things for years, and the quality was always top notch. I guess it just goes to show how saturated KZfaq is nowadays, its hard to even find the good content amidst all of the garbage

These videos always make you think. Always challenging.

His sword is located at a public library in Brookings Oregon.

Of course they knew it, the Japanese government and military of the time didn't exactly try to hide it.

It's not the Japanese regime itself who did those things but the Japanese themselves, boots on the field. It is silly to remark that they "knew", as THE DID IT themselves. They took pictures of themselves happily beheading people and playing with their skulls... No amount of Hello Kitty can whitewash that...

The leader of the first attack wave on Pearl Harbor, Mitsuo Fuchida, later became a Christian and an evangelist.

@@TubeRadiosRule is that supposed to be some kind of accountability? lmao

Kosrae as well. All the main islands would survive. Comparably to other Micronesian nations, the FSM are arguably the best off for surviving the current predictions of climate change.

lol, we'll see!

Probably not well. Aside from increasing sea level, the storms in the region are getting more powerful. Super hurricane and such. There will be a lot more storm surges and likely higher one too.

@@nickl5658 How many years of records do we have? How far has the sea level risen so far in this area? Based on that how long before that 120' dive is say 140'?

In theory 20 feet is achieved in 2100 or later. But chances are that won't be the case, as 80 years has a way of changing things, and the main islands of FSM are well above that height. Compared to the many other atolls of the region, the FSM would be comparably well-off.

Umm..I suggest that you google Japans apologies for WW2. Wikipedia has a short list of several HUNDRED official apologies. Seriously, do some research on this. I have heard no apologies for the Allied atrocities throughout the first half of the last cantury, the same time frame. I think Japan has exceeded its obligations post WW2.

@@rowbearly6128you’re not mentally all there huh

@@jtorola Google it kiddo.

@@rowbearly6128 Hmmm lets browse the same article oh dear. The paragraph after details the controveries of the insincere apolgies. Oh whats that the NHK director says the Nanjing Massacre was fake.

​@@rowbearly6128Japan did apologized. Many times. And then reverted back to worshipping their war criminals who are equivalent of hitler, himmler and heydrich. In Japan, history is taught that their colonies were made affluent thanks to their involvement, and their expansion was to ensure peace in Asia. To this day, majority of those who are in the leading political party are grandsons of war criminals designated by the far east trial. In short, it is hard to take an apology when the assailant immediately turns back and claim to the world 'it was all in good faith, and they are playing the victim'

Did you also cringe at the arm flapping and dangling SPGs? No way the majority of divers in this video have the proper certs to be on those wrecks.

heading there Jan 24th.

Maybe he meant chain ganged

Could be they were press ganged into a chain gang.

@@bryceanderson4864 yes indeed !

I really wouldnt call prisoners on a voluntary chain gang abused but whatever.

​@@jamesbaker3153 What part of prisons is voluntary to you?

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Tourists pull them up but not out

Over the next few months I'll be releasing about 20 from Micronesia and the Marshalls. Hope you enjoy!

@@RareEarthSeries thank you for being a thorough content creator, I apologize that sounds like an insult. Most content creators leave you less intelligent after you witness their creation. I believe you are a documentarian that highlights the less known facts on intriguing parts of history, science and biology perhaps. I have traveled to Palau and my grandparents speak Palauan and Japanese and I was born and raised in Guam. Two very different outlooks from the people who lived through WWII . I was raised and new Chamorros who survived tinta and faha which were the pits that Japanese made the Chamorro people dig and had them pile in and used one grenade to execute them to not waste ammo. And my grandma told me about the Japanese when they first came to Palau. Palau was the only island in the pacific that to y knowledge they did a different approach with the native inhabitants. They were spotted stealing taro and lurking in the outskirts. Almost like ghosts or a supernatural being, until more crops were stolen. And some were captured. Their approach was wrong to survive and if it wasn’t for the geographical features of this island I probably wouldn’t be alive. The first mistake I was told is if you are familiar with the rock islands of Palau then you would know about the mushroom shape they have gotten over time. Before I was told these stories about I was told when we were in the rock islands to never drink the water dripping through the underside. It would make people assume that it’s filtered like percolating through the rocks but it’s the opposite. For warned of the pathogens that would make you sick. This happened to the Japanese. If it was easier to see and get to the native population they probably would have seized control, but by probably getting Giardia or other parasites and pathogens the troops were not in physically good shape. And needed food. And from the accounts I heard Japanese were executed by Palauan people first for being caught stealing food. All in all the Japanese collaborated and built an infrastructure consensually with the Palauan people. My grandma told me they set up schools and it was the first modern education she received, and the first time she had ever been given manufactured slippers ( zori) is the Japanese name and is used in Guam still even though they have a now weakening deep animosity towards Japanese. My grandma’s age group has the same animosity towards Americans. Long story short is that they viewed them as a nation bringing them into the twentieth century and then the Americans bombed it because of the Japanese infrastructure, radio towers and visible Japanese machinery. Wiped them out and left Palau to clean up a mess. Any ways I’ve been to red beach and I love history, my grandpa and my grandmothers brother served in WWII my grandfather was an air traffic controller on midway and his brother in law is guy gabaldon that has the us war record for the most single handed surrendering to one individual. He did the very insubordinate act of going out at night because he knew Okinawan dialect of Japanese due to being raised kinda by his best friends family in Los Angeles. This took place in Saipan. There is a movie about him called “ to hell and eternity “ I believe. But I’ve been to red beach in Palau and sat on the decoy battle ship that they made. It’s kinda remarkable i. They made a full size Japanese battle ship out of cement next to an island with a cliff line close to the decoy . It looked like the enemy ship was tucked next to the island to be more concealed to me . And when the Americans came close to bomb it the Japanese had gunners in the cliff to shoot down the fighter planes. It was an actual successful tactic, not to sure if they had slaves building it though, I can’t see soldiers doing it for it’s enormous size, it’s called red beach because the battle left it drenched in blood and it’s been oozing the red color ever since due to the blown up metal machinery dispersed everywhere. If you haven’t been there I highly recommend that you do , it was in two pieces when I was there maybe three and climbed on it, that’s in 03’ don’t know if it’s completely submerged yet

@@jaysaburo5108 thank you for taking the time to write this out, I appreciate the stories

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