540 - The Ni’ihau Incident

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...

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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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