THE ZERO HOUR
J-Rock with J. C. Kaelin!

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That's right! THE ZERO HOUR returns to the airwaves after a lifetime with what Martin Luther King called "the weapon of love" - the *incredible* rock music the Japanese have made their own & added their own unique sparkle and genius to - and it's gunning for YOUR heart, you lovely soldier of love, you!!!

It's been three generations since THE ZERO HOUR was, to the benefit all concerned, successfully knocked off the air by the victory of America and her allies over the Imperial Japanese war machine.

Then, it was a satire of a propaganda show, aimed by Japan at American G.I.'s in the Pacific, written by American P.O.W.'s who were beaten and starved into doing it, featuring popular American music and starring the great American saboteur Iva Toguri, the disc jockey these P.O.W.'s trained in the subversion and undermining of its content.

But now...the weapon that Tojo and his militarist clique dropped has been picked up & turned back against them - & in the grooviest possible way, baby!

THE ZERO HOUR once again returns to the airwaves -- only THIS time, it features contemporary Japanese rock bands performing in New York City, playing music our grandparents fought to free them up to play, mixed in with the rarest Japanese World War II radio there is direct from J. C.'s own famed "Ozone Lair" media archives, and aimed at the greater New York Metropolitan area & the whole wide world via the world wide web!!!

In addition to having gained an especial expertise in her known surviving ZERO HOUR show recordings, Iva Ikoku Toguri a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose", the infamous but innocent Japanese-American radio broadcaster of the Second World War, was my good personal friend and mentor, and the press release she authored for use when she passed on thanked me as well as others for standing by her and fighting to correct the historical record regarding her. I was fortunate through her friendship and that of her associates Dafydd Dyar and Barbara Trembley to obtain access to much valuable material, the most important resource being Iva herself, ultimately resulting in my creating the The EarthStation1 "Orphan Ann" (Tokyo Rose) Sound & Picture Archive and THE ZERO HOUR World War II Sound & Picture Archive in 1997, featuring her complete known ZERO HOUR recordings, which I digitally remastered from often inaudible originals, and an extensive online photo gallery containing many taken from her own personal photo albums and library.

Iva and I often had conversations where we each expressed our firm belief that Japan's greatest global contribution was not to be found in her economic or technological dominance but rather in her art and culture. To my mind, Japanese rock music *embodies certain proof of that contribution on a grand scale*, it's everything Tojo and his gang would have hated, and I daresay it's all Yamamoto and those of his lot would have smiled upon - and it says so much that the state of advancement of Japan's culture is now such that she unselfconciously sports Churchill's "'V' For Victory" hand signal as a customary greeting of peace and good will!

In spite of all she endured at the hands of both the American and Japanese governments, Iva made me promise that I would do whatever I could to help bring about good American/Japanese relations. At the time, I did not know quite how I would be able to do that - but now that I've got THE ZERO HOUR J-Rock Podcast goin', I don't wonder any more!!!

THE ZERO HOUR is BACK on the air, and it's playing the *excellent* Japanese music that embodies the very best of the hopes and dreams of all the brave young Americans who fought and died to ensure that Japan's children and grandchildren would grow up living in freedom!!! NOW, America & Japan are locked in a rock lovin' embrace & ***they ain't nevah lettin' go!!!*** THE ZERO HOUR is back on the air, soldiers of love everywhere!!!

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For more about J. C. Kaelin, check out: EarthStation1.com: Old Time TV, Radio, Movie & Historical DVDs & CDs [http://earthstation1.com] EarthStation1com: About J. C. Kaelin [http://www.earthstation1.com/Merchant/About_J._C._Kaelin.html] J. C. Kaelin's TV Interviews on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/user/jckaelin] J. C. Kaelin's Newspaper Interviews [http://www.earthstation1.com/MediaKit/] To see, hear and learn more about THE ZERO HOUR, Iva Toguri and the myth that was "Tokyo Rose", check out The EarthStation1 "Orphan Ann" ("Tokyo Rose") Sound & Picture Archive [http://www.earthstation1.com/Tokyo_Rose.html]. *Listen For Our Radio & Other Audio Contributions Throughout Ken Burns' New Hit World War II Documentary Series THE WAR On PBS!* I'm Organizer For This Extraordinary Meetup Group! [http://japanese.meetup.com/396/?track=i3/mu_ar1095os7u] [img:http://earthstation1.com/JapanFilesWhite180.jpg] [http://www.japanfiles.com] [img:http://earthstation1.com/Pacifiction.gif] [http://www.pacifictionrecords.com]

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