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Saturday, August 8, 2015

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JAPAN

Maurice Ward, professor at faculty of human and environmental studies Kanto Gakuin university Yokohama Japan. Pro-Muslim.

Jesus Christ was born and lived.

646 – Japanese emperor Kotoku united Japan and issued the Taika reform edicts. (ehistory timeline).

13 May 1652 – Ingen Ryuki was invited to become Abbot of Sofo Kuji temple in Nagasaki. (HistoryOrb.com Today in history 13 May 2015).

27 Jan 1700 – Tsunami Honshu triggered by a 9 quake in California US. Timeline of earthquakes.

30 Dec 1703 – Tokyo 37,000 killed. Timeline of earthquakes.

1831-1969 – British general register office. Foreign returns. Second world war deaths. British prisoners of war in German and Japanese camps and civilians. (Family tree. Dec 2009 p7).

23 Dec 1854 – 8.4 quake Ansei Tokai tsunami caused damage. Timeline of earthquakes.

11 Nov 1855 – 6.9 quake Ansei Edo Tokyo 8,000 casualties 14,000 houses destroyed. Timeline of earthquakes.

1873 – Japan, end Julian calendar and beginning Gregorian calendar. (Ancestry. March April 2007 p21).

1881-1930s – The Kempeitai was also a tool of propaganda. Conducting experiments in a series of countries in Asia, like Auschwitz. The Kempeitai was an old organisation. It was founded in 1881. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton. ©2009 UK).

27 Oct 1891 – Mino Owari 7,200 killed 8 quake. Rapture Ready.

3 Nov 1893 – Floods in Japan. 200 houses swept away and 100 people are missing. The Milwaukee Sentinal US.

21 July 1904 – In Japan in war time. North Otago Times NZ. Papers past.

1908-1930s – The Anglican bishop in southern Japan, correspondence at the British PRO, installation as bishop visits to Japan following the Second World War. (Family history monthly. March 2002 p54).

1910 – Vickers were bidding against Armstrong to build the battleship Kongo for Japan. They arranged to pay large suns to Japans rear Admiral Fujii who was advising on estimates. Vickers got the contract worth 2.4 million pounds. The Kongo was delivered three years later. An inquiry said the web of bribery which included the rear Admiral and agents Mitsui who bribed a friend in the naval stores department. Trials followed the rear Admiral went to jail and the PM Yamamoto resigned. (Arms bazaar. ©1977 Sampson).

1910 – Korea was part of the Japanese empire since 1910 when the Japanese resistance collapsed in summer 1945 at the end of World War Two.

1 Sept 1923 - The great Kanto earthquake in Tokyo, Yokohama and surrounding areas. A Tsunami 11 meters high and a firestorm. Tokyo slums. By 3 Sept 1923 140,000 people were dead, 40,000 incinerated in one enclosed space. Two thirds of Tokyo and four fifths of Yokohama were in ashes. (History Today. May 2014 UK).

1 Sept 1923 – Kwanto 143,000 people were killed in a 8.3 earthquake. Rapture Ready.

1 Sept 1923 – Tokyo and Yokohama Kanto quake 143,000 killed 8 earthquake. Timeline of earthquakes.

12 June 1924 – In “Japanese mission of church closed” Deseret news p6.

1926 – Hirohito succeeded his father as Emperor. (History today. Feb 2014 p9).

7 March 1927 – Tango 3,000 killed 7.6 quake. Rapture Ready.

7 March 1927 – 8 quake Tango. Timeline of earthquakes.

1930s – Japans wartime military police was the Kempeitai or corps of law soldiers, like Germanys gestapo. Bridge house in Shanghai was a torture centre for the Kempeitai during the Second World War. Millions died by the hands of the Kempeitai. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton. ©2009 UK).

25 Nov 1930 – Shizouka 187 killed. Timeline of earthquakes..

1931-1945 – David Gordon. The China Japan war. Journal of military history 2006. Wikipedia.

15 May 1932 – In an attempted coup. The PM of Japan, Inukai Tsuyoshi was assassinated. (Wikipedia 15 May 2015).

2 March 1933 – Sanriku 3,000 killed 8.4 quake. Rapture Ready.

1940 – By 1940 Yamamoto had worked out the details of Operation 2, a southward thrust of Japans naval power, preceded by a strike against the US Pacific fleet, that would prevent the US from reinforcing vital bastions like the Philippines. (Espionage. ©1995 Volkman).

27 July 1940 – The Kempeitai first murdered a British subject in 1940. Melville Jimmy Cox, a 40 year old Reuters correspondent in Tokyo. He was charged with espionage. He was killed in June 1942. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton. ©2009 UK).

1941 – Japan invaded Laos. (Worldatlas.com Laos timeline).

1941-45 – Japan occupied Cambodia during World War two. (Worldatlas.com Cambodia timeline).

25 July 1941 – All Japanese assets in the US were frozen. Japanese military fatalities between 1937 and 1945 were 2.1 million. Wikipedia.

5 Dec 1941 – Ito Morimura, vice consul at the Japanese consulate in Honolulu, received a message from Tokyo. He was told to tell them which warships were in Pearl Harbour. Morimura had been spying on Pearl Harbour for months. Japan was about to go to war against the US, beginning with an attack on Pearl Harbour. (Espionage. ©_1995 Volkman).

7-11 Dec 1941 – An aircraft carrier struck the US navy fleet of ships in Pearl Harbour. Ships sank, others were damaged and more than 2,400 Americans were killed. The US declared war on Japan 11 Dec 1941. (Ancestry. July August 2007 p28).

8 Dec 1941 – Japanese troops, rape, sex slavery “comfort women” from a variety of nationalities. Women forced into sex slavery by the Kempeitai. 60,000 to 200,000 women were forced into sex slavery in military brothels in Korea and China. Institutionalised brothels. The British did the same in India during the 19^th century. “Comfort stations” as the Kempeitai called brothels. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton. ©2009 UK).

10 Dec 1941 – In December 1941 Malaya was invaded by Japan, whose forces swept south through the peninsula, overrunning the British, Indian and Australian forces which faced them on 10 Dec 1941, the Royal navy suffered loss of the battleships, HMS Repulse and Prince of Wales, as a result of attacks by Japanese torpedo bombers.

World War Two – Japanese military brothels, 200,000 women and girls were sex slaves in these camps and brothels. Philippines, China, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and Taiwan. Sex slave camps. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

1942-43 – Forced native women into sex slavery. 300 Dutch women, Jan 1942. Military police the Tokeitai ran brothels and torture chambers similar to the Kempeitai “comfort women” in military brothels up to mid 1943. In Java, Batavia, Bamndoeng, Pakalonean, Magelang, Semarang and Bond Owoso. 20,000 women from internment camps. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton. ©2009 UK).

1942-45 – Mark Felton. Yanagi. The secret underwater trade between Germany and Japan. Pen and sword books ltd. 2005.

Aug 1942 – Wairoa Hawkes bay New Zealand. Salvation army. Brig Annie Smyth had spent 32 years as a missionary in Japan. In 1942 New Zealand was at war with Japan. Murder on 8 Aug 1942. NZ Truth article. She was ound dead on 21 Aug 1942. Unsolved murder. (By a person or persons unknown. George Joseph. ©1982 NZ).

1943-44 – June 1943 European women from internment camps. Late 1943, Dec 1943, Nov 1943 prisoners held at Muntilan internment camp. 25 Jan 1944, Feb 1944 Seven women’s internment camps in Java, against the Geneva conventions. Rapes and sadism in Java “comfort women”. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton. ©2009 UK).

1943-45 – Sheldon H Harris. Factories of death. Japanese biological warfare and the American cover up. Routledge 1994.

1944-45 – The Blitz in which a quarter of Tokyo burned to the ground in one night at the hands of the US Air force. 100,000 people were killed. (History today. Oct 2014 UK).

1944-2007 – On 17 April 2007, Yoshimi and Hirofumi Hayashi found documents from the Tokyo trials. Military tribunal, war crimes by Japan. Officials of the Tokeitai military police sex trafficked women into brothels in China, Indonesia and Indochina. 1944 documents, military camps for sex slavery “comfort women”. Thousands of sex slaves died in camps and no one claimed their bodies. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

June 1944-August 1945 – Relentless US bombing raids on Japan from June 1944 to August 1945 killed hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians and destroyed nearly two thirds of the buildings in Japans 66 largest cities, according to a US strategic bombing survey. Even tasking into account the atomic tolls on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, most civilian deaths and injuries were caused by incendiary bombs, forerunner of napalm bombs. Fleets of B-29s loaded with napalm bombs burned at nearly 60% of Tokyo. Nightime attacks involving incendiary bombs. (Vietnam and America. ©2003 D Maraniss).

9 July 1944 – By 1944 the US captured more Japanese occupied territory. US forces took Saipan. The toll was enormous. 30,000 Japanese troops and 22,000 civilians were killed. The US counted 3,000 dead and over 10,000 wounded in the month long battle. On 18 July, PM Hideki Tojo and his cabinet resigned. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).

7 Dec 1944 – Tonankai 1,200 killed 8.1 quake. Rapture ready.

1945 – Japan and Hiroshima, about 70,000 people died immediately and about the same number died over the next few years from radiation sickness and injuries. (The great cold war. Gordon S Barrass ©2009 US).

1945 – Implosion plutonium bomb nicknamed Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki. 40,000 people died instantly. 70,000 people died by the end of 1945 and 140,000 died years later. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).

1945-50 – 6 Aug 1945 Uranium bomb called Little Boy, 16 kilotons of TNT. Hiroshima killed 300,000 civilians, the fireball roasted people. Tens of thousands were killed instantly. 140,000 were dead by the end of the year and 200,000 by 1950. Hibakusha bomb affected persons were burned, naked people, and the atomic bomb. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).

1945-1988 – Descriptive analysis of Japanese organised crime, the Boryokudan from 1945-1988. FF Y Huang and MS Vaughn. Article. International criminal justice review.

19 Feb 1945 – Operation Detachment began during World War Two. 3,000 US marines landed on Iwo Jima to control the island from the Japanese. (Today in history. AP 19 Feb 2015 yahoo news).

9 March 1945 – 334 planes attacked Tokyo with incendiary bombs, napalm, thermite, white phosphorous and other inflammables. The bombs destroyed 16 square miles killing 100,000 people and wounding many more. The scalding inferno melted metal and people burst into flames. The victims were scorched, boiled and baked to death. The US firebombed over 100 Japanese cities, destroying the city of Toyama. Mass slaughter of civilians. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).

August 1945 – After the atom bombs fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Hirohito surrendered. (History today. Feb 2014).

6 August 1945 – The US B-265 bomber planes appeared in Japanese skies and dropped an 8,900 pound atomic bomb on Hiroshima. This bomb destroyed 90% of the city of Hiroshima.

6 August 1945 – An American B-52 bomber drops the world’s first atomic bomb, devastating the Japanese city of Hiroshima and its inhabitants. (Family history. August 2009 p11).

6 Aug 1945 – The US dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima, to end World War Two. This was the first use of a nuclear weapon in war, 140,000 people were killed. (Bad times in history. Roland C Barker. ©2001 US).

8 August 1945 – Two days after the dropping by the US of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and on the day before a second being dropped on Nagasaki, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan. Its armies advanced through Manchuria and continued south into Korea.

15 August 1945 – Emperor Hirohiro’s surrender order across Japan. The Kempeitai destroyed records of their activities and killed witnesses to their crimes. Murdering POWs. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton ©2009 UK).

29 August 1945 – A US B-29 bomber plane flies towards Kyushu island, southwest Japan. The plane changed direction and dropped the bomb on Nagasaki.

20 Dec 1946 – In Nankaido 1,300 people were killed in the 8.1 earthquake. Rapture Ready.

1950 – Materials on the trial of former servicemen of the Japanese army, manufacturing and employing bacteriological weapons. Moscow Foreign language publishing house.

1950s – Cayman islands company ID corp owner was Shig Kataycoma. A key facilitator of Lockheed corp payments to Japanese politicians for aircraft contracts. In the early 1950s drugs for the US intel network. (Global research. Peter Dale Scott. 6 Sept 2008).

Sept 1951 – The Japanese peace treaty was concluded in Sept 1951, by the Republican senator John Foster Dulles. It returned full sovereignty to Japans home islands, while granting US landing rights over the Ryukyu chain and the main US base of Okinawa. The US also had the right to keep military bases in Japan. (Cold war. (c)1993 M Walker).

1952 – US Japan peace treaty in 1952. Peer de Silva CIA intel. Men were trained in Florida, submarine to Sakhalin, an island north of Japan which was occupied by the Soviets at the end of the war. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).

1954 – A Soviet intel officer, Yuri Rastvorov, ran a Soviet espionage ring in Japan, out of the Soviet embassy in Tokyo, he defected to the west. He contacted Australians. (Too secret too long. Chapman Pincher ©1984 US).

1957 – Secret servants. A history of Japanese espionage. Ronald Seth. New York Farrar Staus Cudaly. Worldcat database.

1957 – Lee Harvey Oswald and Roscoe White both were at the Marine corps air station in El Toro in 1957, The same year both went to Japan on the USS Bexar. Oswald was sent to the Atsugi naval air station and White was sent to Tachikowo air base then flown to Okinawa. (Who really killed Kennedy. Jerome C Corsi ©2013 US).

1958-63 – A history of Japan. George Bailey Sansam Sir. Sanford Calif. Stanford uni press. Worldcat database.

26 Sept 1959 – Typhoon Vera hits Japan’s island of Honshu. 4,580 deaths and 658 missing. Chch Star 26 Sept 2014.

19 May 1964 – Kumiko Kudo, female, born Kavasaki Kanagawa Japan.

30 July 1969 – US ambassador to Japan was attacked. AH Meyer was attacked by a knife wielding Japanese citizen.

20 July 1973 – Japanese airlines Tokyo to Amsterdam was hijacked to Libya. 1 hijacker was killed by own grenade.

20 July 1973 – Japan airlines hijack explosion 1 person was killed and 1 wounded.

1 August 1973 – US visit of Japanese premier Kakevi Tanaka, Nixon meeting US.

1976 – Yakuza Japan gambling, drugs, porn, meth and sex slavery. Extortion and drug smuggling. US company Lockheed Martin, Kodama, paid millions of dollars for a contract in Japan airlines jumbo jets. (The history of organised crime. David Southwell ©2006).

1978 – In Japan, BCCI started with a representative office in Tokyo in 1978. Four years later it established a branch in Tokyo

14 Jan 1978 – 7 earthquake in Izu Oshima, 25 people were killed. Timeline of earthquakes.

1980 – Japan at war. Timelife books. Alexandria VA. Morrister NJ school and library distribution, by silver Burdett co. Worldcat database.

1983 – Kempeitai, a history of the Japanese secret service. Richard Deacon. New York. Beaufort books. Worldcat database.

1985 – Michael Schaller. The American occupation of Japan, the origins of the cold war in Asia. New York Oxford uni press.

23 June 1985 – Two cargo handlers were killed at Tokyo airport Japan, when a Sikh bomb exploded in an Air Canada aircraft en route to India.

1986-87 – The underground economy in Japan. Tatsuya Yasukochi. Article ME Sharpe journals.

July 1986 – BCCI Tokyo branch opened.

1987 – Martin J Sherwin. A world destroyed. Hiroshima and the origins of the nuclear arms race. New York Vintage books.

1989 – Peter Williams and David Wallace. Unit 731. The Japanese army’s secret of secrets. London, Hodder Stoughton.

1989 – Ninjutsu the art of invisibility. Japans feudal age. Donn F Draeger. Secret Japanese espionage and assassination. Google books.

January 1989 – Hirohito died of cancer at the Fuklage palace in Tokyo aged 81, after a reign of 62 years. 24 Feb 1989 Emperor Hirohito’s state funeral. (History today. Feb 2014).

1993 – China raps Japan over review of wartime sex slavery apology. Japan undermining its credibility over 1993 apology for wartime sex slavery. (Global post Beijing Yonhap. 23 June 2014.

1994 – Gavan Daws. Prisoners of the Japanese. POWs of the Second World War. London Pocket books.

1994 – Sheldon H Harris. Factories of death. Japanese biological warfare 1943-45 and the American cover up. New York Routledge.

24 Jan 1994 – Bart van Poelgeest. Report of a study of Dutch government, documents of the forced sex of Dutch women, in the Dutch East Indies, during the Japanese occupation.

1995 – George Hicks. The comfort women. Japan’s brutal regime of enforced sex in the Second World War. New York WW Norton.

17 Jan 1995 – The great Hanshin earthquake hit Kobe, 6,000 people were killed and 44,000 people were injured, 250,000 houses were destroyed or burned in a fire. Wikipedia.

17 Jan 1995 – Kobe 6,100 people were killed in a 7.2 earthquake. Rapture Ready

17 Jan 1995 – 7.2 earthquake in Kobe 6,430 people were killed. (Aljazeera 15 Oct 2013).

17 Jan 1995 – More than 6,000 people were killed when a 7.2 earthquake devastated the city of Kobe and neighbouring industrial city’s of Osaka and Kyoto. The worst earthquake in Japan in 50 years, 5,000 people were killed. (Bad times in history. Roland C Barker ©2001 US).

17 March 1995 – Unmasking horror. A special report. Japan confronts gruesome war atrocity. Nicholas D Kristof. New York Times.

20 March 1995 – Tokyo subway station attack. 12 people were killed and about 5,700 injured in a sarin nerve gas attack, on a crowded subway station, in the centre of Tokyo. A similar attack happened, nearly simultaneously, in the Yokohama subway system. The Aum shinri-kyo cult was blamed for the attacks.

1996 – The Samurai a military history. Stephen R Turnball. Google books.

1996 – Michael J Hogan. Hiroshima in history and memory. New York Cambridge uni press.

18 May 1996 – 48 years after the LDS mission reopened, president Gordon B Hinckley visited Japan and spoke. By that time Japan had a temple, church membership had grown to more than 100,000 members in 25 stakes and 9 missions. (Teachings of the president of the church. Heber J Grant ©2002 int reserve US).

1997 – Hidden horrors. Japanese war crimes in World War Two. Yuki Tanaka. Starvation of prisoners of war, rape, forced sex and murder. Google books.

1997 – The opium empire. Japanese imperialism and drug trafficking in Asia 1895-1945. John M Jengs. Westport Praeger. Worldcat database.

1997 – Int org migration. Trafficking in women to Japan for sex exploitation. Filipino women. Geneva.

1998 – Shuji Tamura. The techniques of Japanese embroidery. BT Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-7991-4.

1999 – Encyclopedia of Genocide vol 1. Israel W Charny. Simon Wiesenthal. Desmod Tutu. Japanese unit 731 and medical experiments that preceded the Nazi Unit 731. A Japanese army unit in Harbin China. A secret regiment headed by Itshiro Ishii, cruel experiments on thousands of people. Google books.

2000 – A history of Japan. Conrad Totman. Google books.

2000 – Sex slavery and trafficking of women and girls. Rape is not work. Being starved into sex against your will is not a job. Innocent women get raped. Men who buy women enmeshed in systems of sex slavery. Women forced to have sex against their will. Rape is not work. Girls who are held in sex slavery. Prostitution is willing sex, there is a big difference. Japan is the worlds largest producer and exporter of child pornography and sadism. (Sex slaves. Louise Brown ©2000 UK).

2000 – Brothels and organised crime, politicians, government departments. Yakuza, corruption and government money, organised crime. Real owners of brothels are hidden. Systems of sex slavery, the practise of forced sex exploitation. Starved, control, manipulation, sex slavery. Police arrest women, paid by brothel owners, brothel keeping methods of control. (Sex slaves. Louise Brown ©2000 UK).

2001 – Julia D Gray. Beginners guide to traditional Japanese embroidery. Search press. ISBN 0-8553-2857-6.

2004 – Lords of the mafia. Japanese Yakuza. DVD video Australia (Worldcat database).

19 Oct 2004 – Plane nearly hit Tokyo tower.

2005 – Christopher Bayley. Tim Harper. Forgotten armies. Britains Asian empire and the war with Japan. London Penguin.

2006 – Yakuza Japan. The Yamaguchi Gumi was the largest Yakuza group in Japan. The worlds largest organised crime network with more than 45,000 members, making at least $50 billion. Sex slavery, porn, gambling, corruption and money laundering. (The history of organised crime. David Southwell ©2006).

21 Sept 2006 – Man held attempting to smuggle 15kg of opium into Japan. BBC London. 15kilos worth 150 million yen.

12 Oct 2006 – Japan bans North Korean ships, imports and citizens.

2007 - Gavan Daws. Prisoners of the Japanese, POWs of the Second World War in the Pacific. London Pocket books.

2007 – Slaughter at sea. The story of Japans naval war crimes. Barnsley Pen and Sword books.

2007 – The great starvation experiment. Ancel Keys and the men . Todd Tucker. Nazi experiments, medical experiments by the Japanese. A top secret Japanese military medical detachment called Unit 731. Google books.

2007 – Japans underground economy. Takashi Kadokva article Japanese economics ME Sharpe.

1 March 2007 – Japans Abe. No proof of World War Two sex slaves. Washington Post.

2 March 2007 – Doctors of depravity. Christopher Hudson. Daily Mail.

Nov 2007 – Japan mass graves located on US island. Justin Evers. World War Two.

2009 – David P Forsythe. Ishii a secret Togo unit in the village of Beiyinhe in Manchukuo, 100km southeast of Harbin, medical experiments. Encyclopedia of human rights vol 1. Google books.

2009 – A Unit 731 doctor, Masaji Kitano, is president of Japans largest pharmaceutical company, Green Cross. Equivalent of Auschwitz war criminal Dr Joseph Mengalen on the board of directors of Bayer healthcare or GlaxoSmithKline. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton. ©2009 UK).

2009 – Mark Felton. Japan’s Gestapo. Murder, mayhem and torture in wartime Asia. The Kempeitai “comfort women” UK. ISBN 978-1-84415-912-3. Pen and sword books ltd.

2009-12 – Edward Snowden said that complaining upwards only led to punishment. In Feb 2009 he resigned from the CIA. His next employer was the NSA. A contract at an NSA facility on a US military base in Japan. Top secret clearance. He left Japan in 2012. (The Snowden files. Luke Harding. ©2014 UK).

9 Aug 2009 – 7.1 earthquake in Honshu. (Aljazeera 15 Oct 2013).

2010 – In Japan, young girls are made into sex slaves. Sex trafficking by the Yakuza, the police say, the sex slaves are just willing prostitutes, who have no rights. Yakuza, their main business is the sex trade. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho. ©2010 UK).

4 Oct 2010 – BBC Pacific. Exploring the world of Japans Yakuza mafia. Dave Lee.

2011 – Illicit migration and sex trafficking in Tokyo. Rhacel Salazar Parrenas. Stanford California press. Worldcat database.

March 2011 -Fukushima area is a swamp of radioactive material. Daiichi nuclear power plant is a swamp full of radioactive material. TEPCO has been pumping contaminated water, ejecting it into the Pacific ocean. 1 Aug 2014 Natural news. David Gutierrez.

11 March 2011 – Japan suffered the strongest earthquake in its recorded history. Honshu a size 9 magnitude earth quake and a tsunami. Wikipedia.

11 March 2011 – 9 earthquake and tsunami 15,000 people were dead in Tohuku and 26,000 people were injured. (Aljazeera 15 Oct 2013).

11 March 2011 – 9 earthquake and tsunami 19,000 people were dead or missing (Hindustan Times 2 April 2014).

11 March 2011 – 27,000 people were killed in a 9 earthquake. Rapture Ready.

11 March 2011 – Tsunami Natori 9 earthquake Flattened houses and 20,000 people were killed. (ABC Australia 6 Feb 2013).

11 March 2011 – 9 earthquake in Sendai Japan and tsunami, killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear incident in history. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 11 March 2015).

7 Dec 2011 – LA Times world. Traces of radiation found in Japanese baby formula.

8 Dec 2011 – Japan imposes new Iran sanctions. Yoree Koh Tokyo. Wall street Journal mid east.

2012 – The archives of censorship in Japan. Jonathan E Abel ebook govt pub. Berkeley uni of California press. Worldcat database.

16 September 2013 – Japanese crime syndicates seen cashing in on internet casinos. Yakuza. Gambling is still illegal in Japan. The Yamaguchi Yumi, Japan largest Yakuza gang.

30 May 2014 – Tokyo runs out of time for punt on casinos. Mochizuk Takashi. The Australian Canberra ACT Legal casinos.

23 June 2014 – CCTV China criticises Japans sex slavery record. Beijing. Japans intention to play down its crimes.

23 June 2014 – Global post. China raps Japan over its review of wartime sex slavery apology. Beijing Yonhap. China criticised Japan for undermining its credibility, of the 1993 apology for wartime sex slavery.

23 June 2014 – China criticised Japans sex slavery record. CCTV Beijing Xinhua. China has criticised Japans review of an apology for its wartime sex slavery saying it exposes Japans intentions

25 June 2014 – Japan unveils world’s first android newscaster. The Rakyak post. Female humanoid robots, otonaroids. Kodonoroid. Tokyo AFP.

25 June 2014 – Tech news. AFP Relaxnews. The Star online. Japan unveils world’s first android newscaster.

28 June 2014 – US lawmakers blast Japan’s review of landmark sex slavery apology. Arirang news. Forcing women into sex slavery, comfort women.

7 July 2014 – The Star AFP. Japan issues highest alert over super typhoon Neoguri. Okinawa.

8 July 2014 – Archives detail Japans wartime human experimentation. Crienglish.com. Archives declassified by the US detail experiments many people were involved.

12 July 2014 – Strong earthquake hits Japan and causes tsunami. 6.8 quake close to the nuclear power plant. Off the coast of Fukushima, northeast of Tokyo. TVNZ One news

31 July 2014 – Japan used inmates in World War Two medical experiments. Chinese prisoners. Ecns. Xinhua, Mo Honge. Takeo Utsugi and Manchukuo China.

27 Sept 2014 – Japan volcano eruption kills one traps others. BBC UK. Volcano erupts in cental Japan. Jenny Wivell.

28 Sept 2014 – Stuff.co.nz AAP. Dozens of people are trapped and hurt on Japans volcano. Eruption on Mount Ontake, at least 30 people are injured, 10 are unconscious.

29 Sept 2014 – Stuff.co.nz. Elaine Lies. Over 30 dead after volcano eruption. Mount Ontake eruption. Toxic gas. More than 40 with broken bones. 45 people missing.

30 Sept 2014 – ABC news Australia. Another eruption possible. The last eruption, not the one to come?

4 Oct 2014 – Mount Ontake eruption. 16 people are still missing on the Japanese volcano as typhoon Phanfone approaches. Sydney Morning Herald.

6 Oct 2014 – Japan volcano victims took photos of their last moments. Hindustan Times. 100 photos.

9 Oct 2014 – News.com.Australia. Vongfong super typhoon approaches Japan.

22 Oct 2014 – Japan Communist party leader to visit south Korea. The Japan Times. Japanese Communist party.

23 Nov 2014 – Xinhuanet. Over 50 people were inujred when a powerful quake hit cental Japan. Tokyo. 57 people hurt and 10 houses collapsed. 6.7 quake, more than 100 houses lack water, landslides.

23 Nov 2014 – Xinhuanet. Quake in Japan deaths and injuries. Over 50 people injured. A popular ski resort. The Straits Times. The Sunday Times. Quake in Hakuba town Nagano prefecture. 6.2 quake many houses destroyed 6.8 quake.

28 Nov 2014 – Jains Yomiuri Shimbun. Comfort women, sex slaves. Xinhua news agency. Women raped into sex slavery. Japan’s army during world war two.

28 July 2015 – The Japan Times. Feritile eggs donated by anonymous women, women with ovarian problems, fertility treatment in Japan. Kyodo news.

30 July 2015 – Search for missing people on the crater of Japan's mount Ontake resumes. Prensa Latino. Search for 6 people missing after the eruption of a volcano in Sept 2014.

30 July 2015 – Digital archives on Fukushima nuclear disaster. The Japan Times. Tokyo non profit digital archives and the 2011 nuclear catastrophe at Fukushima.

Pacific research

PACIFIC

1826 – Methodist missionaries arrived in Tonga from Australia. (Timeline internet).

1860 – Natives of Vanuatu were kidnapped as slaves for sugar and cotton plantations in Queensland Australia and Fiji. (8 July 2011).

10 Oct 1874 – Fiji became a British possession. (Chch Star NZ. 10 Oct 2014 p11).

1876 – The log of Thomas Andrews, govt agent on the five month labour voyage of the “Jessie Henderson”, from Fiji to the Solomon islands to New Hebridies in 1876 has survived. Fiji archives. (NZ genealogist March April 2012 p64).

1879-1906 – About 60,000 south sea islanders were brought to Queensland Australia by “Blackbirders” or slaves for sugar plantations. 7 Dec 2012 ABC net.au Tony Eastley. Sugar cane farmer seeks recognition for buried slaves.

1879-1919 – Indo Fijian history. Indians in Fiji 1879-2004. Sugarcane plantations from 1879-1919. (NZ genealogist May June 2011).

14 May 1879 – The first group of 463 Indian slaves arrived in Fiji. Leonidas. (Wikipedia 14 May 2015).

31 Jan 1885 – The Solomon islands. Auckland Star NZ. Papers past.

1893-1898 – In 1893 American sugar planters with the US minister in Honolulu. US marines and sailors toppled Hawaiian Queen Lilinokalani, and installed American Sanford Dole, a cousin of the pineapple magnate James Dole as president, the US annexed Hawaii in 1898. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US)

11 July 1902 – The coronation celebration in Fiji. ODT NZ. Papers past.

20 Feb 1929 – American Samoa became a territory of the US. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history 20 Feb 2015).

1 Nov 1952 – The US reconstructed a small part of the earths surface, by detonating the first thermonuclear device, on a Pacific atoll, which did not survive the blast. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

1 Nov 1952 – The first US thermonuclear test, on the Pacific atoll of Eniwetok. The blast incinerated birds in flight for miles around, singed feathers and burned birds. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

1 March 1954 – The US detonated its largest thermonuclear device, over Bikini atoll on the 1 March 1954. The BRAVO test. 15 megatons, it caused a 250 feet deep crater a mile cross, and a fireball for two miles from the test site. Radiation fallout spread hundreds of miles, causing the first human casualties from the H bomb era. 28 Americans, 236 Marshall islanders and the crew of a Japanese fishing boat were exposed. The boat was the Fukuryu maru, fishermen got ill and died. Radiation levels. Nov 1952 test, BRAVO explosion. (We know now. John Lewis Gaddis ©1997 US).

1 March 1954 – US oil supplies as the US was beginning to import lots of oil. The first US test of an H bomb at Faniwatok atoll. 15 megatons, it was over 1,000 times greater than the bomb dumped on Hiroshima Japan. (The great cold war. Gordon S Barrass ©2009 US).

1957-58 – Atomic nuclear tests. Victims got compensation from Fiji. British colony, nuclear tests on Christmas island in 1957 and 1958. (Independent UK. Rob Hastings. 31 Jan 2015).

15 May 1957 – At Malden island in the Pacific. The UK tested its first hydrogen bomb. In 'Operation Grapple'. (Wikipedia 15 May 2015).

11 May 1962 – An underwater nuclear test by the US during “Operation Dominic”. Pacific coast off California. Pbs.twimg. Pinterest.

1968-76 – Christian brother Ian Robert Carroll in PNG Fatima Banz. Working with Street kids. He lived in PNG for 26 years. Catholic paedophiles.

25 Nov 1969-1971 – Plague, Malaria and vaccine experiments on humans. On 25 Nov 1969 pres Nixon put and end to all US biological warfare, and ordered the US arsenal to be destroyed. Deadly biological weapons to kill and incapacitate. In 1971 on the atoll in the south Pacific called Johnston island, Red Hat operation. Johnston atoll where chemical agents were leaking VX. (Operation Paperclip. Annie Jacobsen (c)2014 US).

1970s – Book Body of secrets by James Bamford. “Operation Ivy Bells” in the early 1970s. NSA submarines in the sea of Okhotsk tapped cables connecting the Soviet Pacific naval fleet base in Petropavlovsk to its HQ in Vladivostok. Divers from the USS Haliburt sent tapes with recordings to NSA HQ. Info on the Soviet Pacific fleet. Tapping undersea fibre optic cables and collecting info. (Black code. Ronald J Deibert ©2013 Canada).

1973 – Nuclear tests and NZ protesters in the Pacific. Wayne Thompson. NZ Herald. Radiation health studies. French tests on the Polynesian atoll. Muruoa atoll. 2 Aug 2015.

1976 – Roger Dingman. Power in the Pacific. The origins of naval armed limitation 1914-22. Chicago uni of Chicago press.

1976 – Christian brothers at Nukutere college Rarotonga. br Simon Germaine Coughla. Catholic paedophiles..

March 1978 – Terry Clark, Maria Muhary, sister Angelique and Jim Shepherd went to Fiji, March 1978. Before Rabuka’s military takeover. The Fiji island of Taveuni. The Fiji trip, they met up with Chinese Jack Choo and Martin Johnstone at the Regent hotel in Nadi. The NZ police rugby team was at the hotel and they moved to the Hyatt hotel. (Mr Asia. Jim Diamond Shepherd ©2010 Australia).

March April 1978 – A meeting in Fiji in March or April 1978 at the Roget hotel in Nadi. Terry Clark, Chinese Jack Choo, Martin Johnstone and Jim Shepherd. Chinese Jack Choo was related by marriage to Khun Sa. (Mr Asia. Jim Diamond Shepherd ©2010 Australia).

6 March 1981 – France conducts a nuclear test at Muruora island. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 6 March 2015).

Late June 1981 – Michael Hand fled Australia under a false identity, that of a butcher, Alan Glenn Winter, on a flight to Fiji in late June 1981. He spent a week in Fiji, false beard and mustache, then went to New York City, Nugan Hand bank, money laundering for the CIA. (Wiki. Nugan Hand bank). (The anals of unsolved crime. EJ Epstein ©2012 US).

1985 – East Timor violations of human rights, executions, disappearances, torture and political imprisonment 1975-1984. book. Worldcat database Amnesty int. London UK.

1987 – Lagaga. A short history of western Samoa. Malama Meleisea. Penelope Schoeffel Meleisea. Google books.

1987 – Tropical Cyclone Uma hit Vanuatu, 48 people died and 5,000 people were made homeless. A category 4 storm. (The Guardian UK 13 March 2015).

1989-1997 – br Anthony Roberto Gherardi taught at Nukutere college Avarua Cook islands Catholic Christian brothers, paedophiles.

1995 – The French government continues testing of nuclear devices at Moruroa Atoll. On 20 July 1995, 6 Aug 1995 PM NZ Jim Bolger. Boats to Rarotonga 18 Aug 1995. Cook islands Moruroa Tahiti. Previous nuclear tests. French boats, planes and helicopters. An orange hue tainted the sky over Moruroa atoll, the French had exploded a nuclear device. (Peter Williams QC ©1997 NZ)

17 July 1998 – New Guinea 2,100 people were killed in a 7 earthquake. Rapture Ready.

17 July 1998 – Papua New Guinea tidal wave. 7 quake. Solomon islands 3,000 people were killed. Malol Arop Otto Sissano. Timeline of earthquakes.

17 July 1998 – Three tsunamis, caused by an earthquake, rose 30 feet, destroying 7 villages in Papua New Gunea. The death toll was about 4,000, half the local population. (Bad times in history. Roland C Barker ©2001 US).

27 Nov 1999 – Mass graves found in Timor. John Aglionby. The Guardian UK.

21 Dec 1999 – Mass graves found in East Timor. John Aglionby. The Guardian UK.

2000 – 357kg heroin was found in Suva Fiji, worth $100 million. One of the worlds largest ever drug seizures. Trans shipment through Fiji. (Stuff.co.nz 22 Dec 2014).

24 Oct 2000 – Fiji asks New Zealand to warn about visits by paedophiles. Leah Haines. Dominion Wellington NZ. Paedophiles travel to Fiji, travel and extradite.

30 Oct 2000 - $100m heroin haul. Drugs destined for Australia, in Fiji. Illawarra. Wollongong. NSW. Fiji on drugs charges.

16 Nov 2000 – Papua New Guinea tidal wave. 8 earthquake. one person died and 5,000 people were made homeless. Timeline of earthquakes.

8 March 2001 – Fiji a Pacific for organised crime, police. Neil Mercer. Sydney Morning Herald. Drugs and people smuggling. Mr Mick Palmer.

8 March 2001 – Fiji a Pacific paradise for organised crime, police. Neil Mercer Adelaide. Sydney Morning Herald NSW. Organised crime groups are targeting the south Pacific, trans national crime syndicates.

4 July 2001 – East Timor militia leaders. Timorese Socialist party. BBC London UK. Political party Timorese Socialist party PST.

28 Sept 2001 – Australian police, Vanuatu for heroin cache. Ben Bohane. Port Villa. Sydney Morning Herald. Peter Bong. AFP. Bob Lehman.

9 Sept 2002 – Papua New Guinea 3 people were killed when a tidal wave hit and 40 homes were washed away. Timeline of earthquakes.

31 Oct 2002 – Vanbdhana Pritika Jeet disappeared in Fiji. She disappeared when she was 18 years old. Missing person.

17 December 2002 – Fears of a coup and renewed violence, sparked by disgruntled police, who fired on the PM’s home in Honiara. New Zealand born … Lloyd Powell and others fled the country on a chartered plane. (Christchurch Press AFP Kiwis flee Solomon islands.)

23 December 2002 – PM pays extortionists. Australia criticised Solomon islands PM, Sir Allen Kemakeza, for using public money to pay more than $A 360,000 to police, who were extorting him. We have made the point that the Solomon islands government cannot give in to extortion. New Zealand and Australian police were trying to restore law and order. (Christchurch Press AFP)

11 Oct 2003 – Samoa warns no leniency for foreign paedophiles. BBC London. Lilu Vaomalo Kini, paedophiles.

2004 – Suva Fiji a factory, chemicals to make $1 billion worth of meth. Hong Kong and Malaysians were arrested. Exporting meth. Six New Zealand police officers went to Suva Fiji. (Stuff.co.nz. 22 Dec 2014).

9 Aug 2004 – Chinese Communist party invites Vanuatu PM to Beijing. BBC London UK. Central committee of the Chinese Communist party vice minister Mr Zhang Zhijun.

22 or 27 November 2004 – Vanuatu stolen aid. Australia has expressed concern about trans-national crime in Vanuatu and the implications for regional security, lawlessness and deeply entrenched corruption. PM Serge Vohor visited Taiwan to sign a military agreement to grant Taiwan official diplomatic recognition in spite of Vanuatu’s recognition of China. Australian aid to Vanuatu is being stolen by the government. No money was going to the people. Australia threatened to cut aid. Pm Serge Vohor refused to take part in Australian diplomatic talks in Port Vila. (AFP Christchurch Press).

27 November 2004 – Takiveikato was found guilty on three charges of inciting a mutiny. On 2 November 2000 in which rebel soldiers tried to kill military commander Voreque Bainimarama. (The Fiji Times Christchurch Press AFP).

2 December 2004 – A report the Pacific is viable, written by Australian national university professor Helen Hughs, was released by the centre for independent studies. The report suggests policy changes, including abandoning communal land ownership for individual property rights and freeing up labour markets. Aid to the Pacific region was more than $1.5 billion a year. (Christchurch Press NZPA).

10 Dec 2004 – Paedophiles top online crime threat. Papua New Guinea Post Courier Port Morsbey. Online paedophiles are a threat on the internet, British.

21 April 2005 – Illegal fisheries part of organised crime. Papua New Guinea Post Courier Port Morsbey. Organised Asian crime syndicates.

12 May 2006 – Organised crime claim. Sheila Lasibori. Papua New Guinea Post Courier port Morsbey. Asian organised crime transnational crime int TNCU.

15 Sept 2006 – Officials confirm threats. Papua New Guinea Post Courier Port Morseby. Malaysian and Chinese triads are operating in the country.

18 October 2006 – Fiji PM warns of a coup threat.

1 November 2006 – Commodore Bainimarama is in Iraq. He told the Fiji Sun newspaper, the EU, Australian, NZ and US. Governments had been deeply corrupt and unconstitutional practises by the Qarase led government. (Stuff NZ news Michael Field).

20 November 2006 – International criminals are said to have laundered billions on the island of Nauru in the past ten years. The US accused Nauru of selling large numbers of false passports. (VOA Phil Mercer Sydney).

27 November 2006 – Tension grows with coup alert. There was clear evidence that the military chief was planning to stage a coup within two weeks. (Fiji Pacific).

19 Feb 2007 - US to stage biggest anti-terrorist exercise on Guam. The worlds biggest anti-terrorism exercise will be held this year on Guam. Underscoring the Pacific islands groups importance to Washington. Exercise TopOff4 is part of a series of large scale moves, to strengthen the US ability to respond to terrorist attacks involving WMD. William Marhoffer the US coast guard commander in Guam said the TopOff4 exercise would be bigger than last years Valiant shield war game in which the US, 30 ships, 280 aircraft and 22,000 military personnel. (Washington Times 19 Feb 2007. Cable gram. Agence France presse)

6 March 2007 - Vanuatu PM Ham Lini state of emergency. Port Vila ethnic clashes left two men dead and eight others in hospital. Armed police arrested more than 100 people. Dozens of armed personnel from the Vanuatu mobile forces made arrests for unlawful assembly, assault and property damage said police spokesman Willie Ben (Christchurch Press AP).

2 May 2007 – Papua New Guinea parliament votes to allow casinos and internet gambling. BBC London.

3 May 2007 – PNG bets on casinos The Daily Telegraph Surry hills NSW. Passed a law allowing casinos and internet gambling PNG.

7 Feb 2008 – Foreign drugs now on the streets in PNG. Pearson Kolo. Papua New Guinea Port Morsby, cocaine.

28 March 2008 – Organised crime business in the city. Papua New Guinea Post. Courier. Port Moresby. Organised crime international.

15 April 2008 – Asian mafia has grip on PNG. Daniel Kumbon. Papua New Guinea Post. Port Morsbey. Chinese mafia, Triads, already in PNG. Canada and Australia.

5 June 2008 – Fiji forum, Pacific transnational crime. BBC London. Cocaine and heroin.

6 June 2008 – Transnational crime a threat. Verenaisi Raicola. The Fiji Times Suva. Cocaine and heroin.

17 June 2008 – Sophisticated crime shows triads. Papua New Guinea Courier Port Morseby. Chinese triads entering country.

19 Aug 2008 – Niue meeting told transnational crime a threat in Pacific. BBC London Cocaine heroin.

29 Sept 2009 – Samoa islands 8.3 earthquake and tsunami. (Aljazeera 15 Oct 2013).

29 Sept 2009 – 8.3 earthquake and tsunamis in Samoa 136 people were killed dozens of people were missing. Timeline of earthquakes.

30 Nov 2009 – State Human trafficking. Timoci Valu The Fiji Times Suva. International human trafficking.

23 Dec 2009 – Paedophile Roderick Robinson aka MacDonald was due to face trail in NZ on 3 counts of sex attacks on 2 girls under 12. 3 to 8 Nov 2008 in Hamilton New Zealand. Trial was due 31 May 2010. He fled to Fiji before 23 Dec 2009. False passport? (TVNZ 23 Oct 2014).

2010 – Palermo in the Pacific. Organised crime in the Asia Pacific region. Andreas Schloenhardt ebook Martinus Nijhoff pub (Worldcat database).

4 Jan 2010 – Tsunami in the Solomon islands 1,000 people were made homeless. There were 8 earthquakes since 3 Jan. 7.2 earthquake in Gizo. Timeline of earthquakes.

5 Jan 2010 – Triads after PNG shooting. The Australian national. Organised crime, triads Chinese migrants.

25 March 2010 – Chinese stunned. PNG Post Courier. Papua New Guinea. Chinese triads are sponsoring candidates in the 2012 election.

25 March 2010 – Triads in PNG politics. The Australian national. Asian triads are sponsoring candidates for next election.

19 May 2010 – Loopholes allow trafficking. Shareen Chand. The Fiji Times Suva. Sex trafficking of children. Sexploitation. Iris McKenzie. Sex trafficking is mistakenly called willing prostitution.

22 June 2010 – US demands action on child trafficking. The Fiji Times Suva Child trafficking in Fiji.

16 Dec 2010 – New Zealand spied on the Fiji military. Wikileaks cables show. Stuff.co.nz. Michael Field.

February 2011 – Elder Perry creates the first LDS stake in Guam. (Ensign p78).

30 March 2011 – AFP Fiji police operation results in cocaine bust. PAC news Suva. Importing cocaine into Australia from Fiji.

26 May 2011 – NZ police detective, Mark Franklin, was arrested and charged with drug dealing in Rarotonga. (Political kiwi).

5 July 2011 – Sex trafficking is a huge problem in the northern Marianas. Pacnews Suva. Sex trafficking victims in Pacific countries.

16 July 2011 – Two casinos have opened in Samoa. Kate Chapman The Press Christchurch. First casinos to be built in Samoa, license one on each of Samoa’s main islands.

18 July 2011 – Samoan casinos forbidden for locals. Pacnews Suva.

21 Oct 2011 – 7.6 earthquake in Tonga. Timeline of earthquakes.

9 Feb 2012 – Ecuador. Police in Italy found nearly 90 pounds (40 kilos) of cocaine in January 2012, in diplomatic mail sent to Italy. Two suspects were arrested. Crates inspected by police dogs before leaving Ecuador, travel to Italy through a third country (AP 2/9/12 timeline internet).

17 April 2012 – 7 earthquake in Papua New Guinea. Timeline of earthquakes.

7 November 2012 – Big gold and silver find in the waters off Tonga. Nautilus mineral mining company. (TVNZ Stuff.co.nz Michael Field)

16 Nov 2012 – Body, cocaine haul find on yaught, 200kg cocaine destined for Australia. Found on yaught on a Pacific atoll. ABC Sydney.

16 November 2012 – Cocaine and a corpse was found on an Australian bound yacht. In Tongan waters. (Lisa Martin AAP.The Australian).

16 November 2012 – Corpse and cocaine, worth $120 million, was found on a shipwrecked boat in Tonga. Suspected to be from Ecuador. (The Vancouver Sun AP Sydney).

16 November 2012 – The Pacific’s largest cocaine haul was found on a yacht in Vava’u Tonga. From Ecuador bound for Australia, the US DEA said in August 2012. Organised crime syndicate and a dead body was on the boat too. (Matangi Tonga online).

16 November 2012 – Nauru police charged 15 Iranian asylum seekers with doing damage on the island. (Herald Sun).

16 Nov 2012 – Tonga police uncover massive cocaine haul. TVNZ yacht in Tonga with a dead body on board a cargo of cocaine.

19 Nov 2012 – World bank approves $US1.8 million grant for Tonga. Matangi Tonga online.

23 Nov 2012 – Australia defends tough media detention centre restrictions. VOA Sydney, Papua New Guinea and Nauru media are banned.

6 Feb 2013 – 8 earthquake on the Solomon islands and a tsunami. 9 people were killed and homes were destroyed. Timeline of earthquakes.

17 April 2013 – 6.8 earthquake in Papua New Guinea. Timeline of earthquakes.

22 August 2013 – Australian police seized a huge cocaine haul in the Pacific. Fox news. 750kg yachts trafficking drugs in the south Pacific.

23 August 2013 – Vanuatu police snare record cocaine haul in Port Vila harbour. 600kgs of cocaine with the Australian federal police. Radio NZ int.

23 August 2013 – AFP probe Australian links to Vanuatu drug boat 750kg. news.com.au.

23 August 2013 - $425 million worth of cocaine was seized from a Vanuatu yacht. NZ Herald. US and Australian agents. Stuff.co.nz, 750kg cocaine on a yacht in Vanuatu hidden under concrete

24 Aug 2013 – Vanuatu, huge drug haul. Dominion Post Wellington NZ p4.

16 Oct 2013 – 7.1 earthquake in Papua New Guinea. Timeline of Earthquakes.

2014 – Solomon islands flooding and earthquakes, disaster.

1 April 2014 – PNG transnational crime. PNG Papua New Guinea. Crystal meth worth $US 20 million..

2 July 2014 – Radio NZ. Alleged interference in Vanuatu citizenship.

2 July 2014 – Radio NZ. Malnutrition Pacific poverty. Severe malnutrition in the Pacific region especially children

21 Aug 2014 – Truth of shooting still murkey. Fiji police investigation shows a video of men shot at sea, a Somalian pirate hijacking.

23 Aug 2014 – Human trafficking UN. Uni of Guam sex trafficking. Pacific daily news www.unwht.org

30 Aug 2014 – Radio NZ. Unemployment and poverty are major factors in the Pacific. IMF. Fiji Times reports.

17 Sept 2014 – TVNZ One news. 6.7 earthquake hits Guam. Minor damage and power cuts.

17 Sept 2014 – Reuters 7.1 earthquake strikes Guam. Manuel Mogato and Nick Macfie.

17 Sept 2014 – Guam earthquake 6.7 in Lalate St Louis. ABC news.

19 Sept 2014 – Guam police officer was charged with sexual assault. San Francisco Chronicle Hagatna Guam AP. Charged the police officer with misconduct and sexual assault.

30 Sept 2014 – Sydney Morning Herald. Sex abuse and rape threats. Nauru asylum seekers. Threats by guards. Sarah White. Michael Gordon. Detention centre.

12 Oct 2014 – Unions in Tonga threaten strikes over the cost of living. Radio NZ. Trade unions and public servants, Tonga strikes.

20 Oct 2014 – Crime syndicate busted, 9 people were charged with drugs and a gun. Involved in a drug syndicate which imported drugs from Papua New Guinea. Meth. Australian police, crime ring linked to cannabis in Queensland. (ABC Australia).

22 Oct 2014 – New Zealander, Labour MP Shane Jones becomes Nauru’s new High Commissioner to the small island state. Waatea news.com.

22 Oct 2014 – Papua New Guinea Bouganville government begins a missing persons policy. ICRC press release. Port Morsbey Red Cross, missing person cases.

23 Oct 2014 – NZ union backs charity educating Fiji workers. Radio NZ. A charity backed by NZ unions in Fiji workers struggle.

30 Oct 2014 – UN hears Fiji police brutality is not new. Radio NZ. Assault in police custody is not new in Fiji. Police corruption and brutality.

31 Oct 2014 – Corruption in Papua New Guinea. Crawford school of public policy. Australia national university.

31 Oct 2014 – Billy Ginger Hanson aged 9 who disappeared from Seattle US with his father is found. Daily Mail. Found on a remote island in the South Pacific 5,500 miles from home.

1 Nov 2014 – Australia to invest $8.8 million in Fiji. The Australian. Funds over 4 years. Australia new aid policy. Foreign minister Julie Bishop.

2 Nov 2014 – Quake hits off Fiji. Stuff.co.nz. 5.3 earthquake.

2 Nov 2014 – 6.9 earthquake off Tonga. ABC online. South Pacific west northwest of Tonga north east of Ndoi island in Fiji.

8 Nov 2014 – Earthquake Papua New Guinea 6.4 or 6.6 or 6.9. ABC Australia widely felt.

10 Nov 2014 – Australian riot police in the Solomon islands for elections. Radio NZ. More than 90 police were flown in to cover next weeks elections.

12 Nov 2014 – PNG police say corruption is widespread. Radio NZ. Papua New Guinea.15 MPs are currently under investigation.

13 Nov 2014 – Military news in the Pacific and Ukraine show Russia is back. The Australian. Convoy of Russian warships in international waters north of Australia. Jared Owens The Times UK. AFP.

17 Nov 2014 – Independent commission needed in Solomon islands to tackle corruption. ABC Australia.

1 Dec 2014 – Armed men held passengers captive, ransacked the offices of Papua New Guinea’s second largest airport. ABC Australia. Liam Cochrane. Nadzab airport, broke into a safe, the Air Niugini safe. The men escaped.

13 Dec 2014 – Missing people. Fiji Times. Increase in the number of people reported missing in Fiji in recent days.

22 Dec 2014 – Heroin found in Fiji $20 to $30 million worth of heroin was found in quad bike tyres. A man was arrested. Stuff.co.nz. Heroin found in quad bike tyres.

22 Dec 2014 – The Fiji Times online. Police FRCA raid uncovers $30 million worth of heroin. Timoci Vulc. Heroin hidden in a container. Tyres of a quad bikes, heroin consignment from China.

23 Dec 2014 – Fiji’s biggest heroin bust. Radio NZ $25 million worth at Fiji’s Latoka wharf, the largest heroin seizure in Fiji. One person was arrested. Fiji Sun online. Fiji Times. Businessman to appear in court, a 40 year old.

28 Dec 2014 – Democrat Akilisi Pohiva is Tonga’s new PM. Radio NZ. He was elected ‘by the parliament’ in Tonga.

30 Dec 2014 – Big volcanic eruption near Tonga’s capital. Michael Field. Stuff.co.nz.

31 Dec 2014 – New eruption at Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apei. Wired. Erik Klemetti.

2015 – Radiation is killing the Pacific. Fukushima Japan. Dr Apsley, videos on YouTube. Amazing discoveries. No date. TEPCO has been pumping contaminated water into the Pacific ocean. 1 Aug 2014. David Gutierrez. National news.

8 Jan 2015 – 11 people are missing at sea in Papua New Guinea. PNG Today. Three children are included. A search is underway.

23 Jan 2015 – Vanuatu 7 earthquake reported on Twitter.

24 Jan 2015 – Thousands protest in PNG over the police shooting of young man. Radio NZ. Hanuabada police HQ in PNG, police shooting of a young man.

31 Jan 2015 – Atomic nuclear tests on Christmas island in 1957 and 1958. A British colony. Victims got compensation from Fiji. (Independent K. Rob Hastings.)

31 Jan 2015 – 1957 and 1958 British nuclear tests, Christmas island. Mirror UK. Susie Boniface.

5 March 2015 – The Guardian UK. Toby Manhire. New Zealand spies on the Pacific for NSA’s Five Eyes says Edward Snowden.

13 March 2015 – Vanuatu in lockdown for cyclone Pam, superstorm, a category 5 storm. Cellphone and other networks down. Flooding and landslides. At 4pm trees were beginning to be uprooted. Cave systems in Tanna and Erremanga. People in the Solomons sheltered in caves. (Radio NZ int).

13 March 2015 – BBC UK Cyclone Pam news.

13 March 2015 – SBC Australia APP Flooding in Vanuatu, Kiribati and Tuvalu as cyclone Pam strengthens.

13 March 2015 – The Guardian UK. Joshua Robertson. Cyclone Pam, a massive storm bearing down on Vanuatu. 260,000 people in its path. Port Vila in lockdown, a category 5 storm.

13 March 2015 – Radio NZ int. State of emergency in Tuvalu. Cyclone Pam flooding washing away homes and damaging grave sites.

13 March 2015 – Radio NZ Int. Cyclone Pam in the Solomon islands. People are seeking shelter in caves. Category 5 storm destroyed homes. Extensive damage to homes. Tikopia lost 90% of its food crops and fruit trees. Water is contaminated. All phone lines are down.

15 March 2015 – Newstalk ZB. New Zealand’s GCSB is targeting the Solomon islands PM’s inner circle. Dylan Moran. Cyclone Pam just hit the Solomon islands. People sheltered in caves.

19 March 2015 – Radio NZ Int. Mass immunisation in Vanuatu. Vaccines by UNICEF. 1,000 children vaccinated in the next ten days. They have already vacinated 1,000 children under 5, in the last 24 hours. 10,000 to be vaccinated in the next 10 days. Malnourished children with no food to eat.

30 March 2015 – RT 7.7 earthquake in Papua New Guinea, near the Solomon islands. USGS.

30 March 2015 – Three undersea earthquakes near Niuatoputapu. Matangi Tonga. Three large quakes 6.8 and 6.4.

30 March 2015 – Earthquakes strike Samoa and Tonga. The Guardian UK. A series of quakes. Two size 6 quakes hit off Samoa's east. ABC online.

30 March 2015 – Daily Mail online UK. 7.7 earthquake in Papua New Guinea. Tsunami, a small one. Aftershocks expected.

30 March 2015 – Times of India. AP Sydney. 7.7 earthquake Papua New Guinea. Tsunami warning issued. Only a small one. Aftershocks expected.

31 March 2015 – Tsunami warning after PNG hit by 7.5 quake aftershock. Arab news.

21 May 2015 – 6.9 earthquake in the Pacific. An undersea quake near Santa Cruz, Honiara Solomon islands. No tsunami warning was issued.

22 June 2015 – Deep 6.5 earthquake near Ndoi island Fiji. (Anonymous Twitter).

18 July 2015 – A 6.9 earthquake near the Solomon islands. An undersea quake. Originally a 7.5 but was downgraded. Stuff.co.nz.

31 July 2015 – Anonymous uncensored Twitter. Manam in PNG a large volcanic eruption. Wired science. Erik Klemetti.

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