Michael Bradley
speaker
194 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 6 Sep
Michael Bradley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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On islands from Kyushu.
the southernmost of the four main Japanese islands.
Right down to Yonaguni from where, on a good day, you can see Taiwan.
We've done our best to ignore the arms race happening in the background.
As with parents everywhere, balancing family life with work has been pretty all-consuming.
Maybe not so typical are the communication challenges we've faced at home.
Trying to rear the family bilingually.
Over the past couple of decades.
has meant lots of English books and DVDs.
While at the same time I struggled to learn Japanese.
One minute I'd be berating the kids for not speaking English, the next
I'd be given off to Naogo for not talking to me in Japanese.
But as the children have got older, they've found their own path to bilingualism.
And I've found myself with time on my hands
as they've grown up and headed off to university.
Time to observe what's going on beyond our cozy refuge.
In truth, the increasing volume of air traffic over recent years has been hard to ignore.
I'm never sure whether the jets which pass overhead would
Often several times daily.
Belong to the Japanese self defense forces?
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