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The End Of The World And This Blog & Final Chances. Sayonara!

Mayan prophecy moves on Mayan time. Even an 8 year old boy knows this. And an 8 year old boy also knows that not even the end of the world*…

How The CIA Helped The Yakuza & The LDP Get Power & Promote Nuclear Power

Chapter 12: "We Ran It In A Different Way" is a must for anyone interested in the shadow history of Japan. It details how in post-war Japan, the CIA, using…

Why Abe & Adult Diapers Make Shorting Japanese Yen A Sweet-Smelling Deal! (Op-Ed)

The final thing you have to consider, is the way Japanese debt is structured. On the face of it, the country has a debt 195% of their GBP. Meaning the…

“The name is Bond. Japan Bond.” Abe returns as Agent .007 in “Yenwrecker”

"The name is Bond. Japan Bond." Shinzo Abe returns as the economic death-dealing agent .007 in a new action thriller that has all the economists shaking. Will he be able…

Coffee & Cigarettes Together At Last : Speak Lark, Drink up

Any hard-boiled journalist or cop will tell you that coffee and cigarettes go well together. So I guess it was a stroke of marketing genius for Philip Morris to team…

Won’t Get Burned Again? Japan Nuclear Industry And the Mihama Accident

As Japan gets ready to restart nuclear reactors across the country, perhaps it’s time to take a look back at past nuclear mishaps to see if anything has been learned.…

「組長って辛いよ」 後藤組組員らによる殺人事件関連損害賠償請求訴訟の背景

この頃、かたぎ(一般人)の殺害の費用が2億円近くにまで値上がりをしてしまい、それは殺人依頼の額ではなく、組員が殺人を起こした時の賠償額なのだ! 元をたとれば、殺人のインフレの始まりは、山口組末端組員の愚行だ。数年前、京都府のマグドナルドで山口組末端組員がチーズバーガーを食い逃げした事に始まり上部団体組長や山口組組長にまでに求められて損害賠償の動きが高まってきた。

Yakuza Comix: An Illustrated Guide To The Front Company フロント企業図解

To give you an idea of the scale of organized crime front companies in Japan, in Tokyo alone, there were over 1,000 at the end of 2010. And those are…

The Nuclear Mafia Derails Democracy In Japan

By Richard Wilcox Note: We’d like to thank Mr. Wilcox for his submission to the blog. While some of this material has appeared elsewhere, Mr. Wilcox has also found an…

The Trial Of Minoru Tanaka: The high cost of investigative journalism in Japan & “the nuclear mafia”

An article which appeared last year in the December 16 issue of “Kinyobi” weekly written by Minoru Tanaka, resulted in a punitive lawsuit against him.  The article called the head of a…