Some people to start traveling again. And the render modi is to address the nation as india expands along down to the viruses spread. Now the worlds biggest sporting event has been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic the tokers some a olympics would begin in july however japanese Prime Minister shinzo says he and the International Olympic committee have agreed on a postponement of up to one year in order to safeguard the health of athletes and everyone else involved vassal follows weeks of insisting that it would go ahead as planned if i go the whole. First of all once again i confirmed with the i. O. C. As President Park that there will be no consolation at the Tokyo Olympics or paralympics furthermore i was the host of the take your lympics. Taking into consideration the Current Situation for the athletes for the athletes of the world for them to be able to compete in the best environment and also for the games to be one in which it is safe and worry free for spectators i a
Easing restrictions where the outbreak began the chinese province will allow some people to start traveling again. So then the worlds biggest sporting event has been postponed for up to a year the japanese Prime Minister asked for the take your Olympic Games to be put off saying when it happens it will be proof of victory over the coronavirus next year broad as this report. Theres been weeks of speculation about whether the tokyo games would go ahead the coronavirus pandemic thats caused chaos the world over made the event increasingly unlikely now japans Prime Minister says tokyo 2020 will be held in 2021 years off. As the host of the Tokyo Olympics taking into consideration the Current Situation for the athletes for the athletes of the world for them to be able to compete in the best environment and also for the games to be one in which it is safe and worry free for specter. I asked if it would be possible to consider perspiring in the games for approximately one year this weekend sa
Thank you very much. Thanks for inviting us and thank you for coming. I would associate myself completely with the excellent textual analysis and i would agree with evans prediction that this could add some momentum, not a lot, but some momentum in their relations and also the relations and also the prescription about what the u. S. Government could do. I never had any expectation or should anyone have any expectation that this would resolve this issue within japan were korea or china or the u. S. For that matter. They famously said in the 70s it would take three generations to resolve this issue. Around the same time they said we leave this issue to the next generation which would be wise. Apparently that wasnt the case. In some ways its gotten harder. But i start with this premise it was never intended or have any chance of resulting the history issue. A lot of the criticism is promised on the need to resolve this and i just would put it to you that that was never for any Prime Minis
Asia and the war in europe, things that were going on there. And maybe the possibility that the u. S. Might get involved. In germany win in europe when germany invaded other countries, it really a topic for the family to , whatbout, about germany the germans were trying to do. Of course it was out there in europe. As far as asia was concerned, since my family came from china we had heard about the invasion in japan and the movement of japan there. Thate really didnt feel. Apan would be touching hawaii and the reason was we had so many japanese Family Friends in hawaii that were like family. It really didnt occur to us about japan invading the united states. Also that theou , wei was fair in school were hearing news about some possibilities of japan at that in invasion of other countries. December 7 was a huge surprise for us. You i was in school, a military school in hawaii up on the hills. Harbor. Ould see pearl i guess the morning of december a. M. , we started to hear these noises.
That. Im going to tell you a little bit about the book and how i came to write it and then move as quickly as possible to questions and answers are or at least questions and attempted answers about the book and about the south and the Confederate Flag and all kinds of things like that. If you are not tired of talking about that already. Wheres that southern accent. I can hear creeping back in again. We will start the questions and answers before the talk. Actually i was born in nashville tennessee and my fathers family is from north georgia and from atlanta and my mothers family is from west tennessee around union city to and i went to Elementary School in atlanta, and that my move to oregon when i was about 11 years old. I did my best with my southern accent as quickly as i possibly could because everybody made fun of me for that southern accent. Its that kind of thing in the lunch line where somebody comes up to you and say, Say Something and you say what you want me to say and they