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Business/Economics

Bad economy revives Yakuza violence! U.S. connection?

25 February 2016 (09:08 UTC-07 Tango 01) 06 Esfand 1394/16 Jumada al-Ula 1437/18 Geng Yin 4714

“This is a tough time for them as their revenue sources have shrunk dramatically…because of tougher laws…pressuring members for regular payments…some do not want to pay and that’s why there was a split.”-Yamanouchi Yukio, attorney for Yamaguchi-gumi

An attorney representing some of the larger factions of Japan’s mafia (known as Yakuza in the United States) is blaming the declining economy for recent shootings between rival gangs.

He says because of the bad economy members of the biggest Yakuza group, Yamaguchi-gumi, are having a hard time paying their membership dues, with many Yamaguchi-gumi members breaking away forming new Yakuza gangs.  The result is a spike in violence.

Yakuza violence had been subdued after Japan’s government passed tougher anti-Yakuza laws because of the Yakuza war in the 1980s.  However, news reports say a new ‘Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi’ gang has somehow avoided being officially classified as a violent gang and is immune from those laws, which helped it to become the third largest Yamaguchi-gumi group in only a few months time!

The formation of Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi took place at the end of 2015.

Attorney Yamanouchi warned that because of declining revenues the various branches of the Yamaguchi-gumi are now in survival mode.  A former Yakuza bodyguard blames it on an obsession with money: “…loyalty and brotherhood….are long gone…..It’s now all about money-money and money alone. It is no longer duty or honor.”-‘Takegaki’, explaining why he left theYamaguchi-gumi

While looking over recent Yakuza articles I found a picture of current neo-imperialist Japanese prime minister Abe Shinzo with U.S. politician (and professed ‘christian’) Mike Huckabee standing next to a man the Japanese National Police associate with Yamaguchi-gumi;  Nagamoto Icchu.

Nagamoto was arrested and charged in 2012 with strong arm loansharking.

Fukushima

More Fukushima Fallout: Homeless people used as slave labor by Yakuza! Decontamination efforts are bogus? Don’t eat the fish! California getting hit with radiation! NSA coverup?

30 December 2013 (04:15 UTC-07 Tango)/26 Safar 1435/09 Dey 1392/28 Jia-Zi (11th month) 4711

“The construction industry is 90% run by gangs.”-Hayashi Fuminori, construction employment manager who recently paid a $5-thousand USD fine for skimming wages

“Many homeless people are just put into dormitories, and the fees for lodging and food are automatically docked from their wages. Then at the end of the month, they’re left with no pay at all!”-Aoki Yasuhiro, Christian homeless advocate

An investigation by Reuters found massive contractor corruption and crime, regarding the ongoing disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuke facility.  At least 56 subcontractors are suspicious as they have not been certified by the Ministry of Construction.  At least five companies have no public records!

The former advisor to ex-Prime Minister Kan Naoto has implied that the whole ‘decontamination’ effort at Fukushima Daiichi is bogus: “There are many unknown entities getting involved in decontamination projects. There needs to be a thorough check on what companies are working on what, and when. I think it’s probably completely lawless if the top contractors are not thoroughly checking.”-Igarashi Takayoshi, Hosei University

This is not the first time Yakuza were involved with Fukushima Daiichi.  Back in 2011 I wrote about Tokyo Electric Power Company blaming many of their problems on Yakuza supplied workers.

The Japanese government is now authorizing the “throwaway” workers to be kept inside No Go radiation zones 24 hours a day.  Government officials claim it’s the only way they can speed up so called decontamination efforts for towns and cities inside the radiation danger zones.

This doesn’t make sense because a person can be safely exposed to radiation for a specific amount of time, so keeping them locked down in a radiation area for 24 hours will only speed up their exposure rate.  It will only increase the demand for cheap (or even free) “throwaway” workers!

A man in San Francisco, California U.S.A., is using a hand held geiger counter to test for radiation at Pacifica State Beach.  His video shows the geiger counter going past the ‘alarm’ stage, the closer he gets to the water.

Most geiger counters read radiation that is ‘surface’ radiation.  They can’t detect what is called Hot Particles, or airborne contamination.

Reports showing that most fish caught by fishermen near Fukushima are indeed contaminated.  This after many official reports saying catches were not contaminated.  That’s because people are being bribed to shut up: “Most of the fish caught within the 30 kilometer radius is thrown into the garbage because it is radiated. And TEPCo is paying to local fishermen for it, so that they’re happy and keep silent on that. Some of it though makes it to stores, but only locally.”-Kurosaki Hirokai, whistleblower economist

The Washington Times accusing the U.S. NSA (National Security Agency) of knowing U.S. military personnel were being irradiated while taking part in Operation Tomodachi, yet saying nothing to warn them.   NSA should have been privy to the massive amounts of phone calls from Tokyo Electric Power Company and Japanese government officials.

Fukushima

Yakuza admit they’re having problems reaching quake/tsunami survivors

There are a lot of examples of how Japanese government officials failed in their reaction to the 9.0 quake/tsunami.  The Yakuza even made a show of their own fast disaster relief response.

However, even the Yakuza are no match for Mother Earth.  Yakuza leaders are admitting that they are having trouble getting to the hardest hit areas, just like the government: “Because of the devastation, it’s been impossible to make contact with our people in Miyagi, Iwate and Fukushima prefectures. We haven’t been able to make contact by telephone, and in some cases, damage to the roads made it impossible to get through to the towns.”

This is proof that the 9.0 quake/tsunami was truly catastrophic.