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540 - The Ni'ihau Incident

540 - The Ni'ihau Incident

Do Go On · Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins & Dave Warneke

February 25, 20262h 12m

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Show Notes

After Japan's 1941 attack on Pearl Harbour, Japanese Pilot Shigenori Nishikaichi needed a place to conduct an emergency landing. He had been told that the nearby Hawaiian island of Ni'ihau was uninhabited, but that intel was wrong. People did live there, and what's more - the island known as "The Forbidden Isle" has a very interesting history...


This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 07:20 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).


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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:

https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-hawaii-rent-free-forbidden-island-strict-rules-niihau-robinson-2025-8

https://www.historynet.com/niihau-incident/

https://www.messynessychic.com/2021/08/25/hawaiis-forbidden-island-and-the-real-life-swiss-family-robinson-who-controls-it/

https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2018/12/06/remembering-pearl-harbor-the-niihau-incident/

https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/japanese/hawaii-life-in-a-plantation-society/

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/japanese-american-incarceration

https://www.britannica.com/place/Niihau

https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2018/11/OF-10b-2054.pdf


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