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The tag 'Zaibatsu' is associated with 13 posts.

Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish: Sun Myung Moon Exits Stage Far Right

A self-proclaimed mes­siah who viewed the polit­i­cal sub­ju­ga­tion of the United States as essen­tial, Sun Myung Moon headed the Uni­fi­ca­tion Church. With strong con­nec­tions to the Bush fam­ily and ele­ments of the Cen­tral Intel­li­gence Agency, the Uni­fi­ca­tion Church appears to be an exten­sion of the Japan­ese patri­otic and ultra­na­tion­al­ist soci­eties that brought fas­cism to Japan. The group’s pri­mary fund­ing may well come from Japan­ese heavy indus­try, the Mit­subishi Cor­po­ra­tion, in par­tic­u­lar. Moon has finally passed away at age 92.


FTR #581 Update on Japanese Fascism

Recorded Jan­u­ary 15, 2007 REALAUDIO 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 [...]


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

Recorded Jan­u­ary 15, 2007 REALAUDIO 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 [...]


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 #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

Pro­gram details and audio links.


FTR #451 Petals from the Golden Lily

Recorded March 21, 2004 Lis­ten: MP3 Side 1 | Side 2 RealAu­dio 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 [...]


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 #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

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 [...]