Tsushima Island
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Oct 30, 2026
Brett MurdockPANELIST
But I think the bigger problem is, I don't think there's anything memorable about the female character that I've heard.
Tony PolancoHOST
Okay, just for context, Ghost of Tsushima was one of my favorite games of the last generation.
Tony PolancoHOST
I said it was my favorite game of 2020, right? So obviously, I am the target audience for a sequel, right? Brad, I played Ghost of Yotei for three hours.
Tony PolancoHOST
I'm like, I'm good.
Brett MurdockPANELIST
Your story sucks this time.
Emilio LopezPANELIST
I think the thing about it is also there's also the weight of history.
Emilio LopezPANELIST
For Jin, he was jumping off of an actual event that happened on the island of Tsushima, whereas for her, she's actually a lot more of a fantasy, right? Yeah.
Emilio LopezPANELIST
granted Jin is not a real person you know some of the people around him but what was
speaker_0HOST
They moved along the island chain off the northwestern coast of Kyushu.
speaker_0HOST
taking Tsushima and Iki Islands before landing at Hakata Bay on the northern coast of Kyushu proper.
speaker_0HOST
What followed was one of the more disorienting military encounters in Japanese history, not because of who won or lost, but because of how profoundly the two sides' approaches to warfare failed to connect with each other.
speaker_0HOST
Japanese warrior combat, as it had developed over the previous centuries, was built around individual performance.
JaiGUEST
What were we talking about? The rubber?
ColinHOST
The other thing about Kamikaze 2 is that I think the first historical usage of this is when the Mongols attempt to evade from Tsushima, that they are rebuffed by the wind twice.
ColinHOST
Oh, it's like the wind comes in and completely wrecks their ships two different times.
ColinHOST
And so what I'm saying is that the World War II usage of kamikaze is itself a reintroduction of an older historical idea.
Mr BallenHOST
And so that night the Japanese Navy completely surrounded the Baltic Fleet and then the next day at daybreak they launched their attack.
Mr BallenHOST
It was called the Battle of Tsushima and it was obscenely lopsided.
Mr BallenHOST
The Japanese Navy completely wiped out the Baltic Fleet killing 4,000 of their crew members and capturing 7,300 others, which included Rogozhensky, who had been badly wounded in the battle, but he would survive.
Mr BallenHOST
In contrast, the Japanese only had 100 casualties.
Mr BallenHOST
This victory for Japan really marked the end of the war for Russia, And shortly after the Battle of Tsushima, the Russians agreed to surrender.
Mr BallenHOST
So that's going to do it, guys.
Mr BallenHOST
If you found the secret in today's episode, let us know in the comments what it is and where you found it.
Ryan DawsonGUEST
Japan slapped them back twice in a row, though, but they tried.
Ryan DawsonGUEST
They did take over Tsushima Island and Ika and murder all those people.
Ryan DawsonGUEST
They took Japanese women and wove their hands.
Ryan DawsonGUEST
They took wire and put them through their hands and hung them on the sides of the boats and actually used them as human shields in their siege.
Chris StewartHOST
But until then, please enjoy History Daily with Lindsey Graham.
Lindsey GrahamSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's the early morning of November 5th, 1274 at Komoda Beach on Tsushima Island, Japan.
Lindsey GrahamSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
A Mongolian warrior leaps from his boat and joins his compatriots on the sand.
Lindsey GrahamSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The well-drilled Mongols immediately form a line and notch arrows to their bowstrings.
Lindsey GrahamSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The Mongols mockingly cheer as the Japanese flee.
Lindsey GrahamSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
If the rest of the Japanese resistance is this pathetic, the Mongol warrior suspects the islands will fall to the Great Khan with little difficulty.
Lindsey GrahamSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Tsushima Island falls with barely any opposition.
Lindsey GrahamSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Many of its inhabitants are slaughtered by the ruthless invaders, and Japan seems sure to be the next nation to fall to the Mongols.
AndrewHOST
So, uh, last week I said like I'm gonna try to go back and forth with something, uh, I've, I've already known and have, um, uh, like past favorites or things like that and try to recommend those while also trying to recommend some new things that I'm discovering and enjoy.
AndrewHOST
Well recently I finally [laughs] I just finally finished the, um, uh, the, the video game of Ghost of Tsushima and, you know, this is a game that's been out for six years now.
AndrewHOST
I did start playing it originally on the PS4.
AndrewHOST
And then when I got to the PS5, I got the upgrade for it for that.
AndrewHOST
And even the expansion and the director's cut of Ghost of Tsushima.
AndrewHOST
And there are games that, especially if they're open world video games, there's a chance those games will take me a lot longer to finish because, and I don't have a hatred for open world games.
AndrewHOST
I actually can enjoy them quite a bit, but I also understand the complaints that people can have about it because, you know, if you're someone that's It's different from like when, say, if you're reading something, there's one direction you're going primarily when you read.
AndrewHOST
And I'm not saying that there aren't other ones that I should explore and examine, but like, I think this, I think is just as great as Shogun or maybe even better than Shogun in some ways.
Mike SmithHOST
And [laughs] also I wanna shout out Ghost of Yoite.
Mike SmithHOST
It's, like, the second game after Ghost of, um, Tsushima, but it's a video game, and she's, like, trying to get revenge for her family being killed at the start of the game, but then these wolves help her throughout the whole game, and those wolves are all cool.
Jeff LarsonHOST
Oh, cool.
Jeff LarsonHOST
I need to play that.
speaker_1HOST
At Mukden, Japan beat a Russian army of 350,000 and inflicted 150,000 casualties.
speaker_1HOST
At sea, Admiral Togo faced the Russian Baltic Fleet, which had sailed all the way to the Pacific, and destroyed it at Tsushima.
speaker_1HOST
Peace was reached in September 1905.
speaker_1HOST
Russia gave up Port Arthur and the southern part of Sakhalin Island, and it accepted that Japan's interests in Korea came first.
Sean RakuHOST
I'm telling you.
Sean RakuHOST
[laughs] They name drop Tsushima too.
Sean RakuHOST
I, I, I appreciate it, like, not really.
Sean RakuHOST
They kind of name drop, like, the era of Genghis Khan and his takeover, and it really makes you think about history of, like, oh, this affected, like, the whole world.
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