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samedi 5 août 2023

Japan Furusato no kaze on 15475 in Japanese via uzbekistan relay

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https://shortwavearchive.com/archive/furusato-no-kaze-september-17-2015

https://eternalperspectives1.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/nippon-no-kaze1/

Radio Shiokaze and Furusato No Kaze Japan is looking for its ancestors.

Two radios help Japanese kidnapped by North Korea during the War

https://www.schoechi.de/cl-kre.html

North Korea listening to the radio.

The COMJAN (Commission of Inquiry into Missing Japanese Probably Linked to North Korea) is trying by all means to establish, gather information and establish contact.

She had put the maximum effort into interrogating the North Korean refugees. This is how she found that North Koreans often listen to medium wave broadcasts from South Korea. For this reason, the investigative committee had considered implementing medium-wave broadcasts.

The Radio Shiokaze project is launched.

In 2005, COMJAN equips a small studio in its offices and prepares for the production of its broadcasts.

The programming is simple: broadcasts Japanese music and family messages. She wants to use a medium wave transmitter from Japan or South Korea. Despite the steps undertaken, it will never manage to obtain a license to broadcast or share an antenna with a broadcaster.

Looking for a medium wave transmitter.

COMJAN contacts VT Communications (Badcok), the British broadcasting company which has taken over the BBC transmitters and provides relays for Radio Japan NHK.

VT Communications offers to rent them time slots in the facilities of the Mongolian city of Choibalsan.

Shiokaze was finally on medium wave. The programs were sent by Internet to London, which was responsible for transmitting them to the transmitter.

When using it, Shiokaze finds that the signal received in Pyongyang was of poor quality and only passed at night. The transmitter was located 1,350 km from Pyongyang!

Added to this was a second concern: the cost of transmission was too high for this association: $13,000 per month by broadcasting a daily thirty-minute program. It is untenable!

Change of issuer.

VT Communications offers an alternative solution, at approximately $9,700 per month, for a broadcast of two and a half hours per day. The offer seems interesting, but the broadcast will be carried out on short waves.

At the same time, talks with the Japanese government are moving forward in hopes of broadcasting inside Japan.

A programming that does not please the North.

Under a humanitarian approach, the programs of Shiokaze, aim broader: "We aim for the release of all the abductees and all the North Korean citizens who suffer under a dictatorial regime."

Shiokaze sends information to North Korea in hopes of reaching the abductees and that they should not give up hope of returning home.

Shiokaze empowers North Koreans to provide information to the outside world that will be helpful in solving the abduction problem. What to attract the wrath of North Korea.

The rest of the time Radio Shiokaze broadcasts the names of the kidnapping victims: “Ms. XXXX. She was born on March 1, 1950, and Ms. XXXX disappeared at the age of 20 in Yokohama-Shi Kanagawa Prefecture on May 1, 1970. Now Ms. XXXX is 54 years old,” etc.

Around 50 notices of missing persons are read every day and it takes 5 days to finish reading missing persons. Messages from the families of the victims are read by the presenter or family members.

The North Korean jamming

In the face of such broadcasts, North Korea attempted a series of measures to block Shiokaze's broadcasts. For its part, Shiokaze has multiplied its frequencies and the changes of wavelengths.

It broadcasts from Yamata station in Koga-Shi Ibaragi prefecture in Japan

COMJAN plans to extend the transmission time when the financial situation, as it is dependent on donations.

In these donations are the QSL verification cards, because COMJAN sends a verification card if the listener sends a donation of $10 by money order with his listening report

Basically, she plans to pass on Shiokaze until the kidnapping issue is resolved.

Shiokaze's audience.

The figures for the number of Japanese held in North Korea is not known and is disputed on all sides.

There are reportedly 250 missing Japanese who are on the COMJAN list, 17 abduction victims recognized by the Japanese government and a few recognized by NARKN (National Association for Japanese Kidnapped Rescue by N.Korea). The total number of missing is around 270.

Furusato No Kaze, a government initiative.

Besides Radio Shiokaze, there is also Furusato No Kaze: A Japanese government-made program broadcast on shortwave for Japanese people who are still being held captive in North Korea.

Its content, updated weekly, includes information on the concrete steps taken by the government to address the abduction issue, the situation in North Korea, messages from families and friends, as well as familiar Japanese songs.

The program airs in Japanese titled Furusato No Kaze (Hometown Wind) and in Korean titled Nippon no Kaze.

The station is run by the Japanese government.

Shortwave frequencies:

Radio Shiokaze http://short-wave.info/index.php?station=Shiokaze

Furusato No Kaze http://short-wave.info/index.php?station=Furusato%20no%20kaze

https://www.media-radio.info/radiodiffusion/index.php?radiodiffusion=Japon&id=197&cat_id=65

Furusato no kaze