:00:13. > :00:17.Should seaside towns in our region be looking after London's children
:00:17. > :00:26.in care? It is too easy for the London boroughs to dump their
:00:26. > :00:30.children, that is the only word I can use for it. We get to meet new
:00:30. > :00:36.friends and meet new people, but you cannot attach yourself to any
:00:36. > :00:40.one or how anything. The new idea creating the ideal environment for
:00:40. > :00:44.wildlife in the South East. We just have a few wildlife reserves
:00:44. > :00:49.protecting the wildlife, but we need a bigger picture and Living
:00:49. > :00:59.Landscapes. And from Kent to Japan, the story of the blue-eyed Sam
:00:59. > :01:00.
:01:00. > :01:10.arrive. -- samurai. This dog became a samurai in the Showgrounds court.
:01:10. > :01:23.
:01:23. > :01:33.We have untold stories closer to Tonight, we are at Chiddingstone
:01:33. > :01:33.
:01:33. > :01:38.Castle in Kent. More from here later on, but first, here is Rachel.
:01:38. > :01:44.Margate is one of Britain's seaside towns that was once famous for its
:01:44. > :01:49.tourism and in parks. Today it is more of a coastal destination. But
:01:49. > :01:53.like some other towns in the South East, it is also a getaway for
:01:53. > :01:59.children in the care system. Traditionally, chosen were sent
:01:59. > :02:03.year from deprived parts of London for the sea air. -- children resent.
:02:03. > :02:08.Become for foster care and two specialist children's homes. There
:02:08. > :02:13.are 1200 children in Kent Centrum other authorities. But what is the
:02:13. > :02:18.impact of taking in children from outside the area? Firstly, what
:02:18. > :02:23.affect does it have on the children themselves? For the children moving
:02:23. > :02:29.from London, the distances are eight Golf. Bevington the coast
:02:29. > :02:33.leaves behind familiar routes, friends, family and schools.
:02:33. > :02:37.Although there are children from all over the country, it is London
:02:37. > :02:42.that sense the most, and they can find themselves up to 80 miles from
:02:42. > :02:47.home. KJ Simmons was one of those children. I was moved from a
:02:47. > :02:50.turbulent background with my breath mother from London, which
:02:50. > :02:57.culminated in the moving to Whitstable first, and then because
:02:57. > :03:01.I was abused by foster care in Whitstable, I was to move further
:03:01. > :03:06.down to Margate. So this is where the children's home used to be?
:03:06. > :03:09.KJ had to move away because he was escaping from a fraught child had,
:03:09. > :03:15.but for others making the transition from London to the coast,
:03:15. > :03:19.it can be a traumatic uprooting. Drew Ryan was born in Suffolk where
:03:19. > :03:25.he lived with his mother and sisters. He remembers the day he
:03:25. > :03:29.was taken away at the age of eight from London to the coast. It was a
:03:30. > :03:34.shock. I was buying some sweets and I went home. I got to the front
:03:34. > :03:39.door and as I got to the front door, me and my sister were literally
:03:39. > :03:44.taken to the cart, and we were told to get in the car. We had no idea
:03:44. > :03:49.what it was about. It has literally kidnapping. We were going and had
:03:49. > :03:54.no idea what was going on. It was shocking. He founded alienating to
:03:54. > :04:02.be torn from his London home. Everybody I knew, and obviously I
:04:02. > :04:06.still had my family at the time, I was literally ripped array from it.
:04:06. > :04:11.-- away from it. I had to meet new friends, but then I was moved again
:04:11. > :04:16.and again. I literally had no backbone of friends that I could
:04:16. > :04:21.always turn to. His experience is far from unique. Steven Lucey was
:04:21. > :04:25.another child born in Southwark. He could have stayed near home but
:04:25. > :04:30.there was no where suitable. After initially being based locally, he
:04:30. > :04:35.was separated from his brother and sent to Kent. It was horrible,
:04:35. > :04:39.because a lot of the time, being at school was not always good. It
:04:39. > :04:44.wasn't always bad, but the worst part was, it was hard because you
:04:44. > :04:49.had to make new friends and BTP bought and you could never be
:04:49. > :04:54.attached to anyone or anything, because you would just get attached
:04:54. > :04:59.to it and you would be moved away again. -- make new friends and meet
:04:59. > :05:06.new people. The every disastrous consequences. I got into trouble
:05:06. > :05:12.with the police in a Strood. I was getting into fights. Things that
:05:12. > :05:17.were no good. I was always going down the bad part. Did you get into
:05:17. > :05:24.serious trouble sometimes? Mainly fighting. I had my ribs broken with
:05:24. > :05:30.a baseball bat. Children in foster care often go to local schools like
:05:30. > :05:34.this one. This is Hartsdown Principal College in Margate. Two
:05:34. > :05:38.years ago, their head teacher took the unusual step of turning away
:05:38. > :05:42.some of these youngsters saying the school could no longer cope with
:05:42. > :05:48.children from other authorities, and it wasn't good for the school
:05:48. > :05:53.or for the children. We felt it was quite a cynical take that the local
:05:53. > :05:57.authorities in London were taking by a moving children down here.
:05:57. > :06:03.Devastating they thought they would be placed in a nice, seaside town.
:06:03. > :06:06.It is not quite like that. One of the issues here is that social
:06:06. > :06:11.services are very stretched. The social services come with the child,
:06:11. > :06:17.so if we get a child from Haringey, then the social worker that works
:06:17. > :06:22.with their child has to come to all of the meetings Downing
:06:22. > :06:27.Cliftonville or Margate. It is just that the distances to grate. To get
:06:28. > :06:32.his social worker from Haringey her Lewisham late at night to come down
:06:32. > :06:36.is impossible. The problem of giving adequate care far from home
:06:36. > :06:40.can have other consequences. I have heard of children that have gone
:06:40. > :06:46.missing, because they are so unhappy in their placement and they
:06:46. > :06:51.want to be back where their parents are, which is back in the local
:06:51. > :06:55.authority. The Government was recently so concerned about
:06:55. > :06:59.children missing from care, it commissioned an all-party
:06:59. > :07:04.Parliamentary report into the issue. It took evidence on what happens
:07:04. > :07:08.when children are placed away. replace them outside an area that
:07:08. > :07:13.is familiar to them, of course the first thing they will do is run
:07:13. > :07:20.away. They ran back to their home town or a bear run back to people
:07:20. > :07:23.that they have known. So, they do not like being placed out of
:07:24. > :07:28.familiar territory, and that predisposes them to run away and
:07:28. > :07:33.then puts them at risk. London sense the most children to Kent,
:07:33. > :07:38.but each London of charity has a duty to keep children in care as
:07:38. > :07:44.close to home as possible. But why is the capital sending the dollar
:07:44. > :07:47.but youngsters away? Enfield is one of the London boroughs that sense
:07:47. > :07:52.some of its children to Kent. The director of children's services and
:07:53. > :07:57.Sue Fraser's speaks on behalf of all of the London boroughs, so why
:07:57. > :08:02.are they are sending the children so far away? It is important to say
:08:02. > :08:06.that this is a very complex issue. Making arrangements for these
:08:06. > :08:12.children and meeting their needs, these are very vulnerable children
:08:12. > :08:19.with a wide range of needs. Often they can be specialist needs. To be
:08:19. > :08:22.frank, with in London and within London boroughs, there aren't
:08:22. > :08:26.always sufficient placements. There are insufficient specialist
:08:26. > :08:31.placements. So all of London needs to look at opportunities were there
:08:31. > :08:35.might be specialist, high quality place plants that could be outside
:08:35. > :08:40.of London. In an ideal world, we would want to keep children as
:08:40. > :08:45.close to their home environment for as long as that would be safe as
:08:45. > :08:49.possible. It could be in a position where we have a placement within
:08:49. > :08:54.the borough, or within 20 miles, or replacement that is further than
:08:55. > :08:59.that. But we would prefer to identify and use the placement that
:08:59. > :09:04.best meets their needs and the challenging needs, rather than at
:09:04. > :09:09.placement that might be closer to home but cannot do that are very,
:09:09. > :09:13.very detailed specialist work and with that child or young person.
:09:13. > :09:17.spoke to one of the areas that said they would need four times as many
:09:17. > :09:21.foster carers have to cope with the demand, is that is similar picture
:09:21. > :09:26.across London? Is the real problem with having enough accommodation in
:09:26. > :09:30.London? There is a shortage of foster care. In terms of London, we
:09:30. > :09:35.are in discussion with the mayor's office to launch another big
:09:35. > :09:40.fostering campaign, that we hope will identify more foster
:09:40. > :09:45.placements. There are shortages of residential placements within
:09:46. > :09:52.London. It is very choose to say that all of London boroughs have a
:09:52. > :09:57.number of other authorities looked after children. But according to
:09:57. > :10:01.the local MP, I lack of suitable accommodation in London is not a
:10:01. > :10:06.good enough reason to send so many children to Kent. Somehow, we have
:10:06. > :10:12.to prevail among local authorities to make provision for their own
:10:12. > :10:15.young people in need of care. There will always be very few get further
:10:16. > :10:20.and safety, and because of the potential of violence, for example,
:10:20. > :10:26.have to be taken out of the area. Kent sends a few young people out
:10:26. > :10:29.of Kent for that reason, and that is understood. But it is far too
:10:29. > :10:34.easy for particularly the London boroughs to just dump their
:10:34. > :10:37.children, and that is the only word I can use for it, in Thanet,
:10:37. > :10:44.because it is easier and cheaper and it is out of the weight and we
:10:44. > :10:46.do not have to bother with it, do we? But children in care that spend
:10:46. > :10:52.their child said in an alien environment often find the
:10:52. > :10:56.situation reversed when they reach adult had. When Andrew laughed care,
:10:56. > :11:03.he found himself back where he came from, alone and suffering isolation
:11:03. > :11:08.again. -- left to care. They send you back to be housed in London. We
:11:08. > :11:14.were sent back to Southwark. You are given a house that you have to
:11:14. > :11:20.bid for, and I did that, and I was given one. And now, at the moment,
:11:20. > :11:26.I'm struggling with building up a new friends, I'm just here alone,
:11:26. > :11:31.effectively. KJ once more choices for young people including an
:11:31. > :11:40.option to stay in a new area if the young person has settle there. --
:11:40. > :11:45.KJ once more. The outcome for young people, the at coming care is so
:11:45. > :11:49.low, and that is because people get messed about. You need to make sure
:11:49. > :11:53.that there are positive influences in their lives and they become
:11:53. > :11:58.successful people and they will become successful. If you move them
:11:58. > :12:02.away again and they feel isolated, then they end up doing silly things
:12:02. > :12:06.that land them in prison. Government has commissioned a
:12:06. > :12:13.special report into the placing of children in care away from their
:12:13. > :12:17.home area. It expected to publish its findings in January. For Kent,
:12:17. > :12:21.caring for other people's children has put a strain on the community.
:12:21. > :12:25.For children arriving here, it can be strained and stressful, but for
:12:25. > :12:31.the moment, London says they do not have enough room to look after
:12:31. > :12:41.their own. Or are no easy answers, but the young people we spoke to
:12:41. > :12:47.
:12:47. > :12:51.want their voices and choices to be Coming up...
:12:51. > :12:54.Why is Will Adams so important? is important not only for Guru
:12:54. > :12:56.Nanak Marg Gurdwara in Gravesend has taken eight years to build
:12:56. > :13:00.because he was born here, but for the nation, because he was the
:13:00. > :13:03.first Englishman to find himself in Japan.
:13:03. > :13:09.Now, next time you're stuck in a traffic jam, instead of complaining,
:13:09. > :13:16.have a look out of the window. You might be pleasantly surprised by
:13:16. > :13:19.what you see. This is Gill Tysoe, from Kent
:13:19. > :13:24.Wildlife Trust, doing a survey, back in the summer, of butterfly
:13:24. > :13:27.numbers at a nature reserve near the village of Lydden.
:13:27. > :13:32.And that's the Number 15 Bus to Dover.
:13:32. > :13:35.This is a roadside nature reserve. There are more than 130 of them in
:13:35. > :13:40.Kent, ranging from small verges like this one, popular with slow
:13:40. > :13:50.worms. To massive sites like Bluebell Hill. All of them buzzing
:13:50. > :13:53.and teaming with life. When you were driving past, you're probably
:13:53. > :13:57.going quite fast. You do not realise what is actually here. It
:13:57. > :13:59.is only when you start to walk along that you see how much is
:13:59. > :14:02.growing here. Roadside reserves are just one
:14:02. > :14:04.element in a nationwide scheme called Living Landscapes.
:14:04. > :14:10.A big ambitious plan to try to create a thriving natural
:14:10. > :14:12.environment for animals, plants, insects and people.
:14:12. > :14:18.Because in the last 60 years, Britain's natural habitats have
:14:18. > :14:20.been hit hard. We've lost 98% of our wildflower meadows. And our
:14:20. > :14:27.pollinating insects have suffered hugely, with many species either
:14:27. > :14:31.wiped out or in serious decline. And the space for wildlife is
:14:31. > :14:38.coming under more pressure all the time. There's increasing demand for
:14:38. > :14:42.land from things like agriculture, housing and even generating energy.
:14:42. > :14:45.So that's where the Living Landscapes idea comes in. Here in
:14:45. > :14:47.Romney Marsh, the Kent Wildlife Trust and the Sussex Wildlife Trust
:14:47. > :14:57.are working with farmers, businesses, and volunteers, to make
:14:57. > :14:59.
:15:00. > :15:03.this a Living Landscape. But what exactly does that mean? What we
:15:03. > :15:10.want to do is to create bigger areas for wildlife and make it
:15:10. > :15:15.better, and then to join them up, so that wildlife can move around.
:15:15. > :15:20.And that is the key, isn't it, joining it up? Its species are
:15:20. > :15:23.combined to one area, that is not a good thing, is it? The traditional
:15:23. > :15:28.approach is to create nature reserves and to look after those
:15:28. > :15:32.carefully. That is important, but if conditions change and the
:15:32. > :15:35.reserve is very isolated, then wildlife has nowhere to go.
:15:35. > :15:37.A living landscape needs wildlife friendly corridors to cross man-
:15:37. > :15:40.made barriers like boundaries between land owners and counties.
:15:40. > :15:49.And here at Rye Harbour Reserve in Sussex, humans, birds and insects
:15:49. > :15:53.from both sides of the county line are already connecting quite well.
:15:53. > :15:57.We are right in the eastern corner of the county. A lot of the
:15:57. > :16:03.wildlife character of this nature reserve is shared more closely with
:16:03. > :16:07.Kent and the rest of Sussex. We are working up with site managers in
:16:07. > :16:12.Kent to manage similar habitats. This species need more than one
:16:12. > :16:14.location. If you just live in one place, you're very vulnerable to
:16:14. > :16:18.extinction. Maintaining habitats and linking
:16:18. > :16:24.them together is hard work. It isn't just a case of leaving land
:16:24. > :16:27.to go wild. Roadside reserves need to be left alone in the summer, but
:16:27. > :16:30.cut back vigorously at other times of year. And these reed-bed
:16:30. > :16:33.habitats for wetland wildlife need human effort to stay this way. So
:16:33. > :16:36.these volunteers are chopping down willow trees before they can get a
:16:36. > :16:39.foothold and take over. It's one thing to get volunteers to
:16:39. > :16:42.help maintain habitats on nature reserves. But a farm is a business.
:16:42. > :16:45.So can farmers really be persuaded to do their bit for the Living
:16:45. > :16:49.Landscape? At this organic dairy farm near Pevensey some of the
:16:49. > :16:52.grazing land has been replaced by reed beds.
:16:52. > :16:54.But it wasn't cheap and it couldn't have been done without financial
:16:54. > :16:57.help. We are actually paid to create this
:16:57. > :17:03.reedbed area. We get a Government grant through the agriculture and
:17:03. > :17:07.environment scheme. We really believe this is way forward. I
:17:07. > :17:11.think some of the things we do, like a glowing red clover,
:17:11. > :17:14.conventional farmers are doing as well. We're not quite so crazy
:17:14. > :17:17.after all. David hopes that over time, people
:17:17. > :17:20.will be persuaded to buy products from wildlife friendly farms and
:17:20. > :17:23.that this will encourage more farmers to create habitats for
:17:23. > :17:33.wildlife on their land. We do a drinking yoghurt and that's
:17:33. > :17:40.something we put on the bottles, wildlife friendly. We encourage
:17:40. > :17:46.people to visit our website. But what about those of us to do
:17:46. > :17:51.not have acres of land to cultivate? How can we help. We can
:17:51. > :17:55.make her gardens into stepping stones for wildlife. Here, they
:17:55. > :18:05.have got examples of the kind of things you can do. From the
:18:05. > :18:11.
:18:11. > :18:14.slightly scruffy wild meadow look to neater, more formal flowerbeds.
:18:14. > :18:18.It's really the choice of species that was important here, to provide
:18:18. > :18:21.things that provide nectar for bees, for example, over a long period of
:18:21. > :18:24.time. Things that flower either for a long period or at different times
:18:24. > :18:27.over the year, so that you have that continuity of pollen or nectar.
:18:27. > :18:34.And the simple act of drilling holes in a wooden post will provide
:18:34. > :18:39.passing insects with five-star accommodation. This is like a block
:18:39. > :18:43.of flats for bees. Gardens, as a whole, can actually constitute a
:18:43. > :18:47.huge area of potential wildlife habitat. If everybody just did one
:18:47. > :18:50.thing, the potential benefit for wildlife over the area would be
:18:50. > :18:52.huge. Over time, the Wildlife Trusts hope
:18:52. > :18:55.to convince more people and businesses to encourage natural
:18:55. > :19:05.habitats. Because, they say, we'll see the benefits in all kinds of
:19:05. > :19:10.ways. If we look at the risk of flooding
:19:10. > :19:16.and high water covers are wet plants, by changing them over time,
:19:16. > :19:20.we can increase the risk of our own environments flooding. By planting
:19:20. > :19:24.species put such -- such as black poplar, we can really increase the
:19:24. > :19:27.amount of storage for water. Lewes knows a thing or two about
:19:27. > :19:29.flooding. But I've come here to find out more about one of the
:19:29. > :19:32.biggest challenges to the Living Landscapes project.
:19:32. > :19:35.Persuading us, that whether we live in town or country, we should all
:19:35. > :19:39.try to encourage more bees, butterflies and moths onto our
:19:39. > :19:43.doorstep. There's a quote, "Britain was a
:19:43. > :19:47.country of beauty and was turned into a country of beauty spots". In
:19:47. > :19:57.some ways, we were once a country full of wildlife and now we're a
:19:57. > :19:58.
:19:58. > :20:03.country with some wildlife reserves in it. Every were used to be filled
:20:03. > :20:07.with hedgerows and wildlife, but now there is just reserves. Really,
:20:07. > :20:10.we need a much bigger picture. It shouldn't be like this, then?
:20:10. > :20:12.Not at all. Wildlife shouldn't be contained. It should be allowed to
:20:12. > :20:16.roam. The wet summer weather this year
:20:16. > :20:19.wasn't good news for a lot of our wildlife. But the hope is that over
:20:19. > :20:22.the next few years, the habitats of the south east will become richer,
:20:22. > :20:24.more varied and better connected by a network of wildlife corridors,
:20:24. > :20:27.enabling large numbers of pollinating insects and butterflies
:20:27. > :20:37.to get easily from A to B and making a living landscape that
:20:37. > :20:45.
:20:45. > :20:50.works for all creatures, great and Now, around your house there's a
:20:50. > :20:54.good chance you have something that was made in Japan. But how did this
:20:54. > :21:04.trading relationship start with the Far East? Well it all began with
:21:04. > :21:11.
:21:11. > :21:15.the Blue Eyed Samurai from Kent, Gillingham and Japan. Worlds apart
:21:15. > :21:21.when you look at them on a map. But there's one important link, a
:21:21. > :21:28.man that has tied these two places together for over four centuries.
:21:28. > :21:33.And his name is all over this town. From pubs to health centres.
:21:33. > :21:38.To roads. There's even a great big monument
:21:38. > :21:41.to him. But who exactly is Will Adams?
:21:41. > :21:46.Will Adams was a sailor and he became the first ever English
:21:46. > :21:49.Samurai. Born in Gillingham in 1564, he was christened here at St Mary's
:21:49. > :21:59.on the Green, where today I'm meeting Sue Haydock, who organises
:21:59. > :22:00.
:22:00. > :22:06.the annual Will Adams Festival in the town.
:22:06. > :22:09.Why is Will Adams so important? He is important because he was born
:22:09. > :22:14.here, but also important for the nation because he was the first
:22:14. > :22:17.Englishman to find himself in Japan. But why Japan? In those days if you
:22:17. > :22:20.lived by the river, you probably worked on the river. Will Adams
:22:20. > :22:23.undertook a 12 year apprenticeship to learn all the skills you need as
:22:24. > :22:26.a sailor. Will went on to join the Dutch East
:22:26. > :22:30.India Company with his brother Thomas and in the June of 1598,
:22:30. > :22:33.they set sail with a fleet of five ships - the De Liefde, the Het
:22:33. > :22:43.Geloof, the De Trouw, the Blyde Boodschop and Will and Thomas
:22:43. > :22:44.
:22:44. > :22:48.aboard the De Hoop, on a voyage from Rotterdam to South America.
:22:48. > :22:51.Though this journey was going to be far from easy. A tempestuous ocean
:22:51. > :23:01.separated the ships and personal tragedy was waiting in the wings
:23:01. > :23:02.
:23:02. > :23:07.for Will. They were late leaving. That means they missed the best of
:23:07. > :23:12.the trade winds. They had to hold up in different places. They met
:23:12. > :23:18.storms, pestilence, sickness, scurvy, everything you could
:23:18. > :23:22.possibly have. Unfriendly natives. The two brothers were split up to
:23:22. > :23:26.divide their skills in navigating. Tragically, the ship that his
:23:26. > :23:30.brother was on was lost. The treacherous voyage saw many of
:23:30. > :23:34.the ships lost of turned back. And in April 1600, after more than 19
:23:34. > :23:37.months at sea, the De Liefde with a crew of about 20 sick and dying men
:23:37. > :23:47.was brought to anchor somewhat off course at the island of Kyushu,
:23:47. > :23:49.
:23:49. > :23:54.Japan. He was washed up as a shipwrecked mariner in the 1,600.
:23:54. > :23:58.He was very worried you would be executed. He must of been of
:23:58. > :24:02.curiosity to the Japanese. They had never seen an English person. But
:24:02. > :24:05.he was also very skilful. He must have been a brilliant linguist. He
:24:05. > :24:09.picked up Japanese quickly. If being shipwrecked wasn't enough,
:24:09. > :24:16.Japan was in the midst of civil war. And a warlord by the name of Ieyasu
:24:16. > :24:19.imprisoned Will. To find out more, I went for a cup of tea.
:24:19. > :24:29.I found out that a big battle was on the horizon and Ieyasu bought
:24:29. > :24:33.all the cannons from the wreck of Will's ship.
:24:33. > :24:41.He took these cannons to the battlefield. You can imagine what
:24:41. > :24:45.happened. If it hadn't been for his cannons, our history would have
:24:45. > :24:47.been completely different. In October 1600, Ieyasu won a
:24:47. > :24:53.decisive battle over his enemies, which eventually saw him become
:24:53. > :24:57.Shogun. As soon as he was in power, he sent for Will Adams and moved
:24:57. > :25:01.him into a house close to his castle at Edo, which is now modern
:25:01. > :25:05.day Tokyo. Where Will Adams did wonders for
:25:05. > :25:14.the Japanese. He helped open trade routes with the west and founded
:25:14. > :25:16.the Japanese navy. Which led to the Shogun Ieyasu making him a Samurai.
:25:16. > :25:19.I've come to Chiddingstone Castle near Penshurst, the home of a
:25:19. > :25:29.special collection of Japanese artefacts, to find out more about
:25:29. > :25:34.
:25:34. > :25:39.the ways of a Samurai. Here, we have got two Japanese swords. A
:25:40. > :25:44.long-sought and a short sword. The samurai carried two swords. Both
:25:44. > :25:52.the long one and the short one. Will Adams would have been entitled
:25:52. > :25:56.to both of them. The show gun made him summarise. He was the first
:25:56. > :25:58.summarised who was a foreigner in Japan and the samurai were the only
:25:58. > :26:03.class who were allowed to carry two swords.
:26:03. > :26:07.Will Adams had been in Japan for almost a decade when he picked up
:26:07. > :26:11.rumours over English traders in the East Indies. He started writing
:26:11. > :26:15.letters to these men, hoping to persuade them to come to Japan.
:26:16. > :26:21.Some of these letters survive and they are amazing. They're a little
:26:21. > :26:25.snapshot of his life in Japan. Of all his letters, do you have a
:26:25. > :26:30.fear that it? I like this one. This line here...
:26:30. > :26:36.Now for my service that I have done, being employed in the Emperor's
:26:36. > :26:41.service, the emperor has given me a living, as in England, a board ship
:26:41. > :26:45.with 19 people as my sleeves or servants. This is Will Adams, an
:26:45. > :26:48.impoverished seadog from England has risen to become a samurai.
:26:48. > :26:58.It wasn't just lands and swords that came with being a Samurai. He
:26:58. > :27:03.
:27:03. > :27:10.was even given a new name. He was given a new name. That is
:27:10. > :27:13.why his names were swapped around. His first name means Navigator.
:27:13. > :27:22.That is his name. But there was trouble in paradise.
:27:22. > :27:27.Will still had a family back in England he hadn't seen in years.
:27:27. > :27:31.Did he ever see his family again? There is one very poignant letter
:27:31. > :27:36.Seng that he was on the other side of the world. He wrote it to his
:27:36. > :27:40.wife. It was like an angler squire. After a few years, he realised he
:27:40. > :27:44.was never going to get back to England. That is there any takes
:27:44. > :27:47.the momentous decision to marry a Japanese girl. Now, he has two
:27:47. > :27:50.wives on different sides of the world!
:27:50. > :27:53.Will Adams never got to come home from Japan. When he was finally
:27:53. > :28:03.granted the permission to visit his family, his health had deteriorated
:28:03. > :28:03.
:28:03. > :28:07.and on the 16 May, 1620, Will Adams, the blue-eyed Samurai, passed away.
:28:07. > :28:11.So, next time you see the words "Made in Japan", remember how it
:28:11. > :28:21.all began and the adventures of Will Adams. The one and only
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:28:23. > :28:26.Now, if you want any more information on tonight's show, you
:28:26. > :28:34.can visit our local Kent or Sussex websites, and even watch the whole