FTR#1424 Cartels, Part 2

Intro­duc­tion: This broad­cast con­tin­ues dis­cus­sion from FTR#1423. The man­i­fes­ta­tion of what Mus­soli­ni called “The Cor­po­rate State” is illus­trat­ed by the Zaibatsu–the giant fam­i­ly trusts that dom­i­nate Japan­ese eco­nom­ic, polit­i­cal and mil­i­tary life.

The 1960s were aes­thet­i­cal­ly dom­i­nat­ed by the Bea­t­les, and John Lennon in par­tic­u­lar.

Mr. Emory does not share his fel­low “Baby Boomers’ ” infat­u­a­tion with the late John Lennon.

That notwith­stand­ing, Lennon’s mur­der appears to have been a polit­i­cal­ly moti­vat­ed assas­si­na­tion and Mark David Chap­man was­n’t the killer.

One of the most fas­ci­nat­ing and rel­e­vant aspects of the deep pol­i­tics sur­round­ing Lennon, his mur­der and the behav­ior of Yoko Ono con­cerns the back­ground of the wife/widow, her father’s work as a
pay­mas­ter for Japan­ese Naval Intel­li­gence pri­or to World War II and his piv­otal work in the finan­cial indus­try after the war.

The Yasu­da Trust and the Mit­subishi Cor­po­ra­tion fig­ure promi­nent­ly in the dis­cus­sion.

The arti­cle below is on Mr. Emory’s Patre­on plat­form.

Key Points of Infor­ma­tion and Analy­sis Include: The adopt­ed grand­son of the founder of the Yasu­da trust is Yoko Ono’s mater­nal grand­fa­ther; Review of Mit­subishi’s pri­ma­ry role in using Allied POWs as slave labor in World War II and the fir­m’s cen­tral role in the Japan­ese-dom­i­nat­ed nar­cotics trade; Mit­subishi’s dom­i­nance of the Japan­ese cor­po­rate land­scape by the end of 1945; Fred­er­ick Rut­land’s employ­ment by Mit­subishi train­ing Japan­ese pilots to take off and land on ships; Rut­land’s appar­ent cen­tral role in the events lead­ing up to the attack on Pearl Har­bor; Yasu­ki Ono’s role as Rut­land’s Japan­ese Naval Intel­li­gence pay­mas­ter; the role of the Yoko­homa Specie Bank in secret­ing abroad Emper­or Hiro­hi­to’s enor­mous wealth (much of it gleaned from the loot­ing of Asia dur­ing World War II); Gen­er­al Dou­glas MacArthur and Emper­or Hiro­hi­to’s co-own­er­ship of the Showa Trust at the San­wa Bank (which gen­er­at­ed a bil­lion dol­lars a year in inter­est by 1982!); The renam­ing of the Yoko­homa Specie Bank as the Bank of Tokyo; Yasu­ki Ono’s pri­ma­ry posi­tion with the Bank of Tokyo when it net­worked with Schroder­bank of Lon­don to re-enter the West­ern finan­cial world after World War II; The entry of the above-men­tioned San­wa Bank into the word of West­ern finance post-World War II; John Mark Ram­sey­er’s posi­tion as the Mit­subishi Pro­fes­sor of Japan­ese Legal Stud­ies at Har­vard Law School; Ram­sey­er’s his­tor­i­cal revi­sion of the Kan­to Mas­sacre of 1923; Ram­sey­er’s his­tor­i­cal revi­sion of the Japan­ese slave pros­ti­tutes; U.S. Ambas­sador to Japan Thomas Foley’s work negat­ing attempts to sue the Japan­ese gov­ern­ment for using Amer­i­can POWs as slave labor­ers; Foley’s work as a key mem­ber of Mit­subishi’s board of, and lob­by­ist for, Mit­subishi; Foley’s wife’s work for the Sum­it­o­mo zaibat­su; Foley’s assis­tant Christophe LaFleur’s mar­riage to the daugh­ter of for­mer Japan­ese Prime Min­is­ter and man­ag­er of the M‑Fund Miyaza­wa; Mit­subishi’s mur­der of Allied POWs work­ing its gold mine on Sado island.