Here is a reading of his description of his first sight of the bats and the big cave: "I thought it was a volcano, but then,I'd never seen a volcano nor never before had I seen bats swarm, for that matter.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

But this debate over Futenma has exposed a side of Japan the U.S.has never seen before.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

Because of that, over time he realized that we were abusing the ocean, but people up there didn't know that because they had never seen what was underwater."

VOA: standard.2010.06.18