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