The tag 'Zaibatsu' is associated with 12 posts.

FTR #581 Update on Japanese Fascism

Recorded Jan­u­ary 15, 2007
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NB: This stream con­tains both FTR #s 580 and 581 in sequence. Each is a 30 minute broad­cast.
High­light­ing recent trends toward reviv­ing the ultra-nationalism and his­tor­i­cal revi­sion­ism of Japan’s fas­cist past, this pro­gram sets forth the polit­i­cal agenda being pushed by Shinzo Abe, the newly elected Prime Min­is­ter. The grand­son of Japanese [...]

FTR #580 “The Jews of Asia” — The Sook Ching Massacres and their Significance for Today

Recorded Jan­u­ary 15, 2007
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NB: This stream con­tains both FTR #s 580 and 581 in sequence. Each is a 30 minute broad­cast.
In many parts of the mod­ern world, Mus­lims are in con­flict with other reli­gious groups and, in some places, with them­selves. This broad­cast illu­mi­nates a rel­a­tively lit­tle known his­tor­i­cal episode–the Japan­ese per­se­cu­tion and slaugh­ter of [...]

FTR #509 The Death of Iris Chang

Recorded May 1, 2005REALAUDIOIn Novem­ber of 2004, author and inves­ti­ga­tor Iris Chang was found dead of an allegedly self-inflicted gun­shot wound. This pro­gram exam­ines the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing her death. Ms. Chang was research­ing a book chron­i­cling the expe­ri­ences of sur­vivors of the Bataan Death March—the bru­tal per­se­cu­tion of Amer­i­can POW’s cap­tured in the siege of [...]

FTR #501 Norbert Schlei and the Strange Case of the “57’s”

Nor­bert Schlei, for­mer assis­tant attor­ney gen­eral under JFK, attempted to redeem Japan­ese gov­ern­ment bonds issued against the M-Fund, a slush fund from Japan­ese loot from WWII.

Miscellaneous Archive Shows M1—M30

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FTR #451 Petals from the Golden Lily

Recorded March 21, 2004
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Pur­su­ing the sub­ject of the fab­u­lous amount of wealth stolen by the Japan­ese dur­ing World War II under Golden Lily (the for­mal name of the Japan­ese loot­ing pro­gram), this broad­cast sup­ple­ments dis­cus­sion pre­sented in other ‘For The Record’ pro­grams. Hav­ing secreted over $100-billion (in 1940’s dol­lars) worth [...]

FTR #446 Funds and Games

Recorded Feb­ru­ary 14, 2004
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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 of Japan­ese Trea­sure looted [...]

FTR #441 Pecunia Nervus Belli, Part II

Eco­nomic rela­tion­ships between the Bush admin­is­tra­tion, the Bor­mann — Under­ground Reich milieu, and the Arab petroleum-producing states.

FTR #428 Gold Warriors: An Interview with Peggy Seagrave

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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 was the focal [...]

FTR #426 The Return of the Rising Sun, Part 2

” . . . this pro­gram high­lights the pro­found cor­po­rate con­nec­tions between Amer­i­can finan­cial and indus­trial insti­tu­tions and . . . the giant fam­ily trusts that con­trolled Japan. . . .”

ESSENTIAL BACKGROUND

Martin BormannMartin Borman, Nazi in Exile by Paul Manning. German corporate capital flight program in the waning years of WWII.
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