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Update from the USA, June 11th

Added 2025-06-11 18:35:16 +0000 UTC

We arrived into JFK on time and now in the USA! The jet lag as expected is bad but I've got my computer set up and editing again. POSTCARDS were sent today from Shizuoka - on the way! This month, the MIYAZAKI MANGO AUCTION, those "Taiyo no Tamago" (Egg of the Sun) branded mangoes go for $5000 at auction and I was there for that a few years ago. July's postcard is planned to be sent from the POST OFFICE atop Mt Fuji. I'll be filing with Japan Post at their post office on the top for an episode and dropping it off there with a video of me doing that :) so make sure you're signed up by July 5th. I'll send them by July 10th with a special postmark from the JP POST team declaring it sent from the highest point in Japan! I'll stream soon from the US with updates and back in Japan on June 23rd JST. Kanae and Leo are staying in the US with my family as I film and get work down.

I have to grind a few episodes out and then return to the US after the Mt Fuji shoot. July is also the Nagasaki A-Bomb survivor and Epicenter tour video release which many of you have asked for. I will give this the hard work it deserves to tell this story.

No immediate plans to visit NYC at the moment but this could change in July before the family returns to Japan.

Talk again soon! -John