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FTR #813 Return of the Rising Sun, Part 3

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ October 5, 2014 ⋅ 11 comments

Grand­son of the Japan­ese war crim­i­nal who signed that coun­try’s dec­la­ra­tion of war against the U.S., Shin­zo Abe is fol­low­ing in the foot­steps of Nobo­suke Kishi (his grand­fa­ther), as well as those of Kishi’s asso­ciates in Japan’s expan­sion­ist empire. Revis­ing school text­books about World War II, pass­ing a new secre­cy law, insti­tut­ing greater state con­trol of news media, dra­mat­i­cal­ly increas­ing defense spend­ing while mov­ing to alter the con­sti­tu­tion to per­mit a more mil­i­taris­tic agen­da, Abe is turn­ing back the Japan­ese his­tor­i­cal and polit­i­cal clock. Japan­ese gov­ern­ment offi­cials are open­ly sanc­tion­ing anti-Kore­an racism and net­work­ing with orga­ni­za­tions that pro­mote that doc­trine. Sev­er­al mem­bers of Abe’s gov­ern­ment net­work with Japan­ese neo-Nazis. Vice-Prime Min­is­ter Taro Aso is a long­time admir­er of Nazi polit­i­cal strat­e­gy and advo­cates using the Nazi method for seiz­ing pow­er to sneak con­sti­tu­tion­al change past the Japan­ese pub­lic.


Dark Cloud on the Rising Sun

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ March 6, 2014 ⋅ 2 comments

In his sec­ond stint as Prime Min­is­ter of Japan, Shin­zo Abe is reboot­ing the right-wing polit­i­cal agen­da he pur­sued dur­ing his first term in the last decade. The grand­son of promi­nent Japan­ese war crim­i­nal Nobo­suke Kishi, Abe is imple­ment­ing revi­sion­ist pol­i­tics designed to obfus­cate Japan’s actions dur­ing World War II, includ­ing edit­ing text­books to change writ­ten his­to­ry of the war, imple­ment­ing a new secre­cy law, bring the respect­ed NHK tele­vi­sion net­work under gov­ern­ment con­trol and negat­ing accounts of Japan­ese war crimes.


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

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ September 3, 2012 ⋅ 2 comments

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

Posted by FTR ⋅ February 6, 2007 ⋅ One comment

Record­ed Jan­u­ary 15, 2007 Lis­ten: MP3 This is one, 30-minute broad­cast. REALAUDIO NB: This stream con­tains both FTR #s 580 and 581 in sequence. Each is a 30 minute broad­cast. Intro­duc­tion: 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 […]


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

Posted by FTR ⋅ February 6, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

In Asian coun­tries, the pros­per­ous, edu­cat­ed Chi­nese minori­ties endure an often lethal per­se­cu­tion sim­i­lar to that endured by the Jews of Europe. The Japan­ese used this dynam­ic to per­pe­trate the “Sook Ching Mas­sacres” dur­ing World War II.


FTR #509 The Death of Iris Chang

Posted by FTR ⋅ May 17, 2005 ⋅ One comment

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”

Posted by FTR ⋅ March 29, 2005 ⋅ 2 comments

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

Posted by FTR ⋅ January 2, 2005 ⋅ 9 comments

Pro­gram details and audio links.


FTR #451 Petals from the Golden Lily

Posted by FTR ⋅ April 29, 2004 ⋅ One comment

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

Posted by FTR ⋅ March 26, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

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 […]


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