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Japan's ruling party selects Shigeru Ishiba as next prime minister
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2024-09-30 at 5:25 PM UTC
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2024-09-30 at 6:19 PM UTC
If you want to understand post-World War II Japanese politics, you’d better know about him. Without him, you aren’t really understanding what happened or what is still going on. In the question, the word ‘yakuza’ is used. He, Yoshio Kodama, the man in the picture, was released from Sugamo prison in 1948 by U.S. military authorities to help calm the chaos of more than 5,000 out-of-control gangs who were fighting each other for supremacy in the absence of a clear leader.
Kodama had contacts, money and leadership potential. The result was a truce between the warring factions, which were united under the collective title yakuza.
Kodama wasn’t done. Using his wealth, including money gained from dealing heroin in occupied China, he funded the ‘Liberal Party’ which merged with the Democratic Party, and under the leadership of Nobusuke Kishi. Kodama knew Kishi, they shared a cell together.
Thus the 1955 system was born: What is the 1955 system in Japan? The current prime minister of Japan, Shinzō Abe is Kishi’s grandson.
The chapter ‘Kodama Years’ in this book gives a fairly good summation of Kodama’s influence.
Note: Junichiro Koizumi, one of the longest serving Japanese prime ministers, had a yakuza grandfather, who was also a politician: Koizumi Matajirō.
The main thing to consider about yakuza is that they are mainly concerned about money. Just like Al Capone is said to have said, “I’m a hundred-percent supporter of the American free enterprise system.”
To that end, they like compliant politicians, who stay bought.
“The involvement of prominent, yakuza-tainted politicians like Koichi Hamada in the ultranationalist Summer Storm Society is no accident. The effect of the yakuza on public policy is difficult to gauge. The structural corruption that pervades so much of Japanese society is often inspired and lubricated by the gangs. Certainly, regulatory reforms in yakuza-dominated industries, such as longshoring, construction, and moneylending, have long been delayed, due in part to influence by yakuza and their friends in the Diet. But it is in the rightist-yakuza nexus that the gangs’ political impact is most severely felt. The yakuza are so closely entwined with Japan’s modern ultranationalist movement that it is frequently hard to tell the groups apart.” Taken from Yakuza
Okay Kodama, whose fixer career was curtailed by his entanglement in the Lockheed bribery scandals , largely disappeared from view until his death in 1984. Yoshio Kodama - Wikipedia
so it would seem like anywhere else, that both the left and far right are involved with crime families thanks to the US government. That would explain why even the far right is pro immigration and supporting the myth of population collapse.
I heard a rumor that yakuza were very pro immigration, and they do employ a lot of non-Japanese.
sort of like the italian or albanian mafias helping to smuggle illegal immigrants into Europe. The US/Israeli regime and their NGOs use crime families as the muscle behind their weaponized immigration. Thats why the american right never does anything significant regarding illegal immigration when they seem to gain any footing in politics. -
2024-09-30 at 6:46 PM UTCI heard this "Shiba Inu" guy is pretty popular on tiktok
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2024-10-01 at 1:48 AM UTCThe yakuza has an alliance with the triads of China. The tension between China and the usa is mostly just sabre rattling since the crime families that run the US have ties to the ones in China.
Supposedly the yakuza is very anti white supremacist or white nationalist and given the history of world war 2 and subsequent US occupation of Japan, resentment of whites also partially fostered by jooz makes sense. Apparently the yakuza has also clashed with Aryan Brotherhood.
