Kharkiv batra, reporting for duty his real name is mizuho kobayashi, but batra fits better with his online persona. He creates video blogs. The 31 year old previously served in the Japanese Armed forces, or the selfDefense Forces as theyre known here. He still feels a connection with the military and is voluntarily seeking to recruit more young people. His sign reads would you go to the selfDefense Forces . What have you heard about what its like in the army . Its really strict. Im not a morning person. I dont want to get up so early. Its hard work. They even have to go out when it snows, and sleep in a tent. The training is really tough. People rarely say yes. Young people often dont know much about the selfDefense Forces. And theyre not interested. Theyre mostly indifferent, neither positive nor negative. At the headquarters of the Armys First Division in tokyo, new recruits come to swear an oath of allegiance. But the chairs are largely empty. The army is especially short of ground
Sara, i heard you just received some sort of new information about the explosive. Reporter thats right. Nypd here are saying that preliminarily they believe this material may have been contained within a plastic bag. Theyre being very, very clear they are not calling this any kind of device. Theyre not saying that they are that they believe there is any necessarily any link to any intent to harm someone. They believe at this point that it may have been a homemade or experimental type of material put together to create an explosion or a loud noise given the Holiday Weekend. They say around this time of year, they often see members of the public doing something that they obviously dont advise, which is going on line, looking up chemistry and putting together devices or materials that they believe, you know, could be some sort of crude kind of firework. They are being very clear that they dont have evidence one way or the other. They actually opened up the press conference by saying they