The tag 'Japan' is associated with 84 posts.

Blast from the Past: Reagan, George H.W. Bush Administrations Aided Secret Japanese Nuclear Weapons Program

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ April 9, 2012 ⋅ One comment

Rea­gan, Bush I admin­is­tra­tions secretly armed Japan with weapons-grade plu­to­nium. Space explo­ration projects a cover for Japan­ese nuclear arms devel­op­ment. How far do these ten­ta­cles reach?

Economic Difficulties Fuel Rise of Far-Right Groups in Japan; They Compare Themselves to “Tea Parties”

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ August 28, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

Com­ment: The social dis­lo­ca­tion pro­duced by the eco­nomic dis­tress of Japan’s “Lost Decade” has stim­u­lated the rise of far right groups rem­i­nis­cent both of the patri­otic and ultra-nationalist soci­eties that led to the rise of fas­cism in Japan in the 1920’s and 1930’s and the “Tea Par­ties” in the U.S., with whom many of them [...]

Consortium of European neo-Fascists Visits Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ August 27, 2010 ⋅ One comment

Com­ment: An inter­na­tional fas­cist organization–primarily Euro­pean in character–has vis­ited the con­tro­ver­sial Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. Com­mem­o­rat­ing Japan­ese war dead and count­ing war crim­i­nals among those com­mem­o­rated there, the shrine is con­tro­ver­sial, and Japan­ese lead­ers vis­its to it have stirred hos­til­ity in coun­tries vic­tim­ized by the Japan­ese in World War II. Vis­ited by Jean-Marie Le Pen and [...]

The Moonies and Michael Jackson

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ July 2, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Com­ment: In FTR #695, we exam­ined the array of sin­is­ter forces grouped around Jack­son at the time of his demise. To these, we can now add the Moonies–the Uni­fi­ca­tion Church of Sun Myung Moon, ana­lyzed in AFA #7 and FTR #291 as exten­sions of the Japan­ese Patri­otic and Ultra-Nationalist soci­eties. [Those soci­eties paved the way [...]

Japanese politicians plundered bottomless state fund

Posted by ftrreading ⋅ November 16, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Senior Japan­ese politi­cians used a secret bot­tom­less state fund to bribe oppo­nents and help fund their elec­tion cam­paigns, it has been dis­closed. by Julian Ryall Telegraph.co.uk For­mer offi­cials have come for­ward to describe a huge safe in the chief cab­i­net secretary’s office stacked with tens of mil­lions of yen that they were able to hand [...]

FTR #689 Interview with Sterling and Peggy Seagrave

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ October 13, 2009 ⋅ One comment

William Faulkner noted that “the past is never dead and buried. It isn’t even past.” War Gold stolen by the Japan­ese dom­i­nates the con­tem­po­rary eco­nomic land­scape; the engines of world polit­i­cal power turn in pre­ci­sion with these hid­den engines of wealth.

FTR #688 Darkness in the Vaults

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ September 30, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

Global finan­cial sys­tem pred­i­cated on tril­lions of dol­lars in wealth stolen by the Axis in WWII; “vic­to­ri­ous” allies shared in the spoils; the rule of law is totally dis­carded in order to pre­serve the sta­tus quo and the secrecy that sur­rounds it.

Defense Minister Ishiba Considers Japan’s Options in UFO Attack

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ December 21, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

by Stu­art Biggs Bloomberg Japan’s Defense Min­is­ter Shigeru Ishiba is con­sid­er­ing how his Self-Defense Forces could respond to an attack by space aliens while adher­ing to lim­its on mil­i­tary action under the country’s war-renouncing Con­sti­tu­tion. Ishiba is the sec­ond Cab­i­net mem­ber to pro­fess his belief in uniden­ti­fied fly­ing objects after Chief Cab­i­net Sec­re­tary Nobu­taka Machimura [...]

FTR #616 Going Native, Part 3: Homeland Insecurity

Posted by FTR ⋅ November 13, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Recorded Octo­ber 28, 2007 MP3: Side 1 | Side 2 REALAUDIO Con­tin­u­ing analy­sis from FTR#550, this pro­gram looks at the use of native, “unrep­re­sented” peo­ples by polit­i­cal ele­ments that don’t appear to be gen­uinely con­cerned with the wel­fare of those pop­u­la­tion groups. Specif­i­cally, we look at a strange brew of Tibetan Bud­dhists, Mon­go­lian Bud­dhists, Islamists [...]

Oil Price Rise Causes Global Shift in Wealth

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ November 10, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Iran, Rus­sia and Venezuela Feel the Ben­e­fits By Steven Muf­sonWASHINGTON POST High oil prices are fuel­ing one of the biggest trans­fers of wealth in his­tory. Oil con­sumers are pay­ing $4 bil­lion to $5 bil­lion more for crude oil every day than they did just five years ago, pump­ing more than $2 tril­lion into the coffers [...]

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