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The tag 'Yakuza' is associated with 10 posts.

The Yakuza’s Cleanup Crew: It’s Not What You Think But Still Alarming

It has long been known that the yakuza are an impor­tant com­po­nent of Japan’s polit­i­cal power struc­ture. It turns out that Japan’s nuclear power struc­ture has a long his­tory with the yakuza too. This became an impor­tant real­ity shortly after the Fukushima cat­a­stro­phe. Seri­ous chal­lenges remain. Yakuza too.


FTR #584 Rewriting History

Lis­ten: MP3 Side 1 | Side 2 REALAUDIO In Mein Kampf (his auto­bi­og­ra­phy and polit­i­cal man­i­festo), Adolph Hitler spoke of the big lie: “Most peo­ple tell lit­tle lies. They would be ashamed to tell big ones. They would never credit oth­ers with such great impu­dence as the com­plete rever­sal of facts. Even expla­na­tions would long [...]


FTR #551 Moonlighting

Sushi indus­try dom­i­na­tion in the United States by True World Group—a Moon proprietary


FTR #509 The Death of Iris Chang

At the time of her death, Iris Chang was research­ing a book chron­i­cling the expe­ri­ences of sur­vivors of the Bataan Death March.


FTR #490 3rd Interview with Robert Parry

Recorded Decem­ber 12, 2004REALAUDIOCon­tin­u­ing our dis­cus­sion with ground-breaking jour­nal­ist Robert Parry, this broad­cast begins with the appar­ent sui­cide of inves­tiga­tive jour­nal­ist Gary Webb, whose career was destroyed after he authored an inves­ti­ga­tion of the CIA’s com­plic­ity in the Contra/cocaine con­nec­tion. Parry eulo­gizes Gary Webb and dis­cusses the main­stream press’s shame­ful treat­ment of Gary and his [...]


FTR #446 Funds and Games

Recorded Feb­ru­ary 14, 2004 Lis­ten: MP3 Side 1 | Side 2 RealAu­dio High­light­ing the post­war use of Axis trea­sure recov­ered by the Allies after World War II, this pro­gram talks about these Funds and the Games that were played with (and because of) them. Par­tic­u­lar empha­sis is on the post­war use of the mas­sive amount [...]


FTR #428 Gold Warriors: An Interview with Peggy Seagrave

Lis­ten: MP3 Side 1 | Side 2 RealAu­dio Fol­low­ing directly and sup­ple­ment­ing FTRs #426 and #427, this inter­view with Peggy Sea­grave high­lights many of the key points of dis­cus­sion in the remark­able new book authored by Peggy and her hus­band Sterling–Gold War­riors: America’s Secret Recov­ery of Yamashita’s Gold. (The Sea­graves authored The Yam­ato Dynasty, which [...]


FTR #291 From Kennebunkport to Pearl Harbor: Bush, Moon, and The Rising Sun

” . . .the broad­cast fur­ther devel­ops the rela­tion­ship between the Bush fam­ily and . . . the Japan­ese patri­otic and ultra-nationalist soci­eties and the Moon outfit. . . .”


FTR #290 The Japanese Economy and the Kido Organization

The post-war Japan­ese econ­omy is inex­tri­ca­bly linked with the flight cap­i­tal pro­gram set up by Koichi Kido, Hirohito’s prin­ci­pal assistant.


FTR #296 The Return of the Rising Sun, The Reemergence of Fascism in Japan

As in Europe and the United States, fas­cism was not elim­i­nated in Japan at the end of the Sec­ond World War.