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米メディアが衝撃報道 「東京五輪はヤクザ・オリンピック」

米メディアが衝撃報道 「東京五輪はヤクザ・オリンピック」

2014年2月13日 掲載

ＪＯＣ副会長と森元首相の“黒い交際”指摘

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（デーリービーストHPより）
「Ｔｈｅ　Ｙａｋｕｚａ　Ｏｌｙｍｐｉｃｓ」――。月間１５００万の読者を抱える米国最大級の老舗ニュースサイト「デーリー・ビースト」が、こんなタイトルのリポートを掲載し、世界に衝撃を与えている。東京五輪のキーマンと広域暴力団のつながりにスポットを当て、６年後に対する懸念を示したものだ。

そのひとつが、ＪＯＣ副会長の田中英寿氏（日大理事長）と指定暴力団住吉会の福田晴瞭会長の関係。〈田中英寿氏は福田会長と過去においてよい友人であった。また彼が山口組のボスの少なくとも１人、さらにはほかの暴力団の構成員とも友人関係を維持していることを示す書類もあった〉と紹介している。

また、組織委員会会長に就任した森喜朗元首相についても、〈以前にヤクザとつながりがあったと日本の報道機関（毎日新聞、週刊文春など）が報じている〉〈森氏は犯罪組織のボスの息子の結婚式に出席したし、ヤクザが支援する右翼団体のリーダーと親しかった〉と指摘。

〈警察筋によると、この両名が過去にどの程度ヤクザと関わりを持っていたか、そして犯罪組織と現在つながりがあるかについて、調査中であるとのことだ〉と書いた。

English:

The Yakuza Olympics

All eyes are on Russian corruption and incompetence at Sochi, but new reports have emerged about a likely link between Japanese Olympic officials and Japan’s infamous yakuza. Jake Adelstein reports on possible troubles for 2020.

In September of 2012, the U.S. Department of Treasury imposed sanctions on Japan’s second largest yakuza crime syndicate, the Sumiyoshi-kai and its leaders including Chairman Hareaki Fukuda. The sanctions make it possible to freeze their U.S. assets and block their transactions with American entities. They also forbid any US citizen to fraternize or associate with the group.

While Mr. Fukuda and his associates may be on the US government’s blacklist, apparently Japan’s Olympic Committee doesn’t find them unwelcome company. According to photos, documents, and testimony from Sumiyoshi-kai affiliated individuals and police sources, recently reviewed by the Daily Beast, the vice-chairman of Japan’s Olympic Committee, Mr. Hidetoshi Tanaka, was in the past good friends with Chairman Fukuda. According to the documents, he has had friendly relations with at least one Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan’s largest crime group boss and possibly members of other organized crime groups. The Japanese Olympic Committee has helped organize every bid for an Olympic Games by a Japanese city to date and plays a key role in carrying out the wishes of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and making sure the games run smoothly.

In addition, to Mr. Tanaka, Yoshiro Mori, a former Prime Minister of Japan, who is also reported to have had yakuza ties in the past by the Japanese press (by Mainichi Newspaper and Weekly Bunshun, among others), is the head of The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. He took the position January 24th.

Police sources have stated that they are investigating the extent to which both men were involved with the yakuza in the past and whether they have current ties to criminal organizations. The Tokyo Organized Crime Exclusionary Ordinances, in effect since October 1st 2011, makes it a crime for an individual or an organization to associate with the yakuza, provide them funds, or use their services. The yakuza currently number 60,000 people and being a member is not illegal. They are regulated but not outlawed. They have offices, business cards, and fanzines.

The controversy doesn’t give the 2020 Tokyo Olympics quite the “clean and crime-free” image that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s promised when luring the event to Japan. However, when one considers the popularity of Japan’s yakuza in books, magazines, and games―-in Japan and abroad―-maybe a “yakuza Olympics” could draw an unexpected number of tourists. Who knows? After all, the Sega’s Yakuza video games have sold over 6 million copies worldwide.

Sumo, Yakuza, and The Olympics

Mr. Tanaka is a distinguished figure in Japan’s sports world. He is a former amateur Sumo champion, president of the International Sumo Federation, and the chairman of the board of Nihon University, well known for its strong Sumo club. He is also a problematic person for the Sumo world, which was rocked by ascandal involving sumo wrestlers engaged in an illegal gambling ring run by Yamaguchi-gumi members in 2010. The Sumo Association pledged to end yakuza ties the same year.

According to a Sumiyoshi-kai associate and other attendees, the photo (below) was taken at a party commemorating the promotion of gang boss Mr. Fukuda to Chairman of the Sumiyoshi-kai in September of 1998, at the New Otani hotel. Tanaka allegedly came uninvited to the party to congratulate him, along with four other friends. In the lower left of the picture is the Japanese character for celebration: 祝.

There is a terrible irony in JOC members having possible yakuza ties that people in Japan understand better than most. The JOC has been running a “Zero Violence (暴力) in Sports” campaign since last year, designed to discourage the brutality common in Japanese sports. Sumo in particular has had problems with violence, and a sumo stable master was arrested for the fatal hazing of a young sumo wrestler in 2008. Yet, according to police sources, one of the JOC board members has been close to several yakuza, which Japanese police refer to as 暴力団/boryokudan aka violent groups.  According to the National Police Agency, in 2012, 4,933 yakuza were arrested for violent crimes such as assault and battery, inflicting bodily injury, and murder.

While the yakuza claim to be humanitarian groups promoting traditional Japanese values such as reciprocity and loyalty, in practice many of them are nothing more than violent thugs and a far cry from icons of good sportsmanship.

When not apparently hobnobbing with shady figures, Tanaka has been a strong advocate of making Japan’s national sport, Sumo, an Olympic event and lobbied hard for it. He has reportedly asked for help from some strange quarters―one of them a boss in Japan’s largest crime group, the Yamaguchi-gumi.

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According to statements submitted to the prosecution in a fraud case against Yamaguchi-gumi consigliore Kyo Eichu, Tanaka sought yakuza help in trying to push for Sumo’s recognition as an Olympic sport. According to testimony, in March of 1996, Tanaka visited Kyo Eichu’s home and the two discussed getting funds to build a Sumo stadium in Osaka. Kyo pledged to use all his power and political connections to help make sure Sumo was an Olympic event by 2008. Unfortunately, Kyo who was on bail for charges of special breach of trust and corporate tax violations, jumped bail in 1997 only to be later arrested in 1999―and didn’t make good on his promises. He was later convicted of the above mentioned charges in 2001 and ordered to pay the equivalent of $5 million in penalties. He has been on parole since 2013.

Tokyo Loves the Japanese Mafia

The Japan Olympic Committee not only has Tanaka on board, but the JOC sister organization, The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, is headed by former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori who is also well-known for his past social yakuza ties, according to Japanese law enforcement sources. Mori’s alleged organized crime ties are noted in the book, The Yakuza: Japan’s Criminal Underworld. Mori attended the wedding of an organized crime boss’s son and was close with a yakuza backed right wing group leader. In December 2000, pictures of then Prime Minister Mori appeared in the weekly magazineShukan Gendai showing him drinking in an Osaka bar with a high-ranking Yakuza. The scandal hastened the end of his term as PM. Mori sued the publisher of the magazine for defamation but dropped the lawsuit in November of 2011.

Meanwhile, Tanaka’s alleged ties to the yakuza aren’t news to the alternative media. They have been written up in FACTA, the investigative journalism magazine that broke the story of the 1.7 billion dollar accounting fraud involving optical maker Olympus. Recently, Shukan Bunshun, Japan’s best-selling weekly magazine also has called his past into question.

Even Nihon University, apparently concerned over Tanaka’s alleged connections to anti-social forces, had a special investigation called by the Chairman of the Board (at the time) in 2005. According to a former Nihon University board member, it was staffed by six of Japan’s finest lawyer’s including a former head of the Public Security Bureau, Japan’s version of the CIA.

According to the August 17th, 2005 report produced in connection with the investigation, in the section, Relations with Organized Crime Associates (暴力団関係者との交際関係), Tanaka met with Kyo Eichu even after he skipped bail and was in hiding. It also asserts Tanaka was present at a party for a construction company where members of organized crime groups were also in attendance. The report notes: “It is problematic for a board member of our distinguished University to be attending private events with organized crime figures and members of the construction industry…. Tanaka denied all associations with the yakuza to the committee but it does not bear upon our findings.” Someone with knowledge of the investigation told The Daily Beast on background, “The committee did not have the power of the police and couldn’t reach definite conclusions. However, right wing groups threatened board directors who opposed Tanaka around the period the investigation took place. It’s not likely a coincidence.”

The question is why is this photo surfacing now? An organized crime analyst with the National Police Agency explains it as follows: “It may be a deliberate leak. The Sumiyoshi-kai is not happy with Mr. Tanaka. For years they supported him and several years ago, he apparently seemed to have changed alliances to the Yamaguchi-gumi. He reportedly has been associating with a high-ranking member of the Yamaguchi-gumi who is also on the US black list. A Yamaguchi-gumi connected company was granted a security contract with Nihon University. That doesn’t sit well with his old friends.”

Police are now worried, according to Japanese government sources, that Mr. Tanaka and perhaps even Mr. Mori could be conduits to organized crime influence in the games. There is certainly a lot of money at stake. The National Construction Industry Association of Japan estimated 2020 Olympic constructions costs to be as much as $3,800,000,000.

A police source notes, “There are billions of dollars worth of construction planned for the 2020 Olympics. The construction industry is still a huge cash cow for the yakuza and they are estimated to consume 5% of annual profits. If they had a ‘friend’ in the JOC who could get them insider information, it would help their front companies secure lucrative contracts or they could sell the information to major construction companies for a hefty profit and a promise of subcontracting work.”

US government officials who are aware of possible friendly connections between JOC members and yakuza commented on background. “Under an executive order of President Obama, Americans are not supposed to associate or do business with members of the yakuza or their associates. If one or more of them is in charge of running Japan’s Olympics it raises a number of issues. We hope that our Japanese counterparts will take a serious look at the issue.”

Nihon University’s public affairs department speaking on behalf of Mr. Tanaka said, “The photo was taken a long time ago and he has no memory of the event. He attended many parties in the past. Mr. Tanaka has met Kyo Eichu but they had no special relationship.”

The office of Mr. Mori responded, “He is currently at the Sochi Olympics and can’t be reached for comment.”

It’s possible that Mr. Tanaka and Mr. Mori no longer have tight associations with the yakuza and that they are as clean as the snow in Sochi, if there was snow in Sochi. There was a time in Japan, decades ago, when socializing with the yakuza was acceptable. It is not any longer; in fact, it’s against the law. Tokyo has vowed to make the 2020 Olympics safe and “drug free.” Let’s hope it can also keep them yakuza free as well.

小泉元首相に続け 自民党からも脱原発

小泉元首相に続け　自民党からも脱原発

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小泉元首相に続け　自民党からも脱原発

BS11　本格報道 Inside Out　2013.11.4.

いよいよ、動きが本格的になってきました。

ガス抜きで終わらないことを祈るが。

真の愛国心とは何か？森元首相・キューバ大使館レセプションに出席

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真の愛国心とは何か？
森元首相・キューバ大使館レセプションに出席

これはキューバ大使館のレセプションに出席していた友人が撮影したものである。
その友人から許可をいただいて掲載している写真だが、キューバ大使館のレセプションに森元首相が出席している様子である。

キューバはカストロが支配する共産主義国家であることは承知の事実であるが、そこに有神論者の森元首相が登場するとは驚愕すべきことだと私は思う。

安倍首相も所属している神政連（神道政治連盟国会議員懇談会）全国の元会長でもあるが、少しは愛国心というものが分かってきたのか？

この御仁は首相時代、「我国は八百万神信仰だ」などと発言していたが、その発言とはおおよそ正反対の言動ばかりしていたことは言うまでもない。

そもそも八百万神とは、ユダヤ教、キリスト教、イスラム教等々の一神教の「神」の定義とは異なり、「森羅万象に神の発現を認める古代日本の神観念」のことである。

要するに古く言えば、キリスト教が布教される以前に存在した中世ヨーロッパでの土着信仰と同じようなものであるが、全てのものに神が宿っている、という考え方だ。

と、神云々を語り出せばなぜかロマン香りが匂ってきそうだが、その基本でいけば、我国の領土を簡単に破壊するような原発を誘致すること自体、間違っているように思うが、如何なものだろう？

地政学的見解でも「原発を誘致する」ことは「活断層の存在する我国」には不利だということは言うまでもないが。

また、憲法９条や９６条を改憲すると安倍首相が暴走しているが、自衛隊を国軍にし、どこかの国と戦争を勃発させるつもりなのだろうか？

改憲されれば、米軍は時期を見て必ず全面撤退するだろうが、それはべつに我国のためではなく、米政府の財政赤字による軍事費削減のためであることは承知の事実。

はてさて、米軍撤退後、我国の自衛隊が国軍となるわけだが、中国軍や韓国軍に比べ、防衛一つにも時間のかかる我国の自衛隊に果たして祖国を守ることができるのかどうかは甚だ疑問であるが。

森元首相を始めとする神政連も本音としては原発を誘致したくないのかもしれないが、自民党と各国間での密約があるという噂があり、それに真っ向から歯向かうことはできない、というべきところであろう。

よって、改憲は時期尚早だと判断すべきだと思うが。

というわけで、私たち有権者は、政治家の行動を見ながら、どの党に投票すべきかを見極めていきたいものである。

真の愛国心とは何か？古賀誠元議員は間違っていない！

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真の愛国心とは何か？古賀誠元議員は間違っていない！

自民党の古賀誠元幹事長が共産党機関紙「しんぶん赤旗」のインタビュー、6月2日付けの日曜版で「96条改憲に大反対」と主張している。

志位和夫委員長のツイートによると、古賀氏は

「戦後の長い期間、自民党と共産党は、立場や政策は違っても、それぞれが自負も誇りも持って活動してきた。私にいわせると自共こそが『ニ大政党』だと思っています」

などと述べたという。

昨年末で引退したとはいえ自民党の元実力者が他政党のメディアに登場するのは極めて異例。

安倍晋三首相が憲法96条改正に前向きで、党内に歯止め役がいないことに危機感を募らせた可能性もある。

さて、これについては賛否両論があるが、私は素直に古賀誠氏の行動を評価したいと思う。

真の愛国心とは、

祖国とそこに住んでいる民の命が危機状態になることを回避すること。

だからだ。

それを基本に考えれば、党派を超えた古賀氏の行動は賞賛に値するだろう。

そこに精神異常者たちが発明した哲学等々の論理を入れ込むこと自体が間違いというもの。

未だに何世紀も前のフランス議会の真似をしている右翼や左翼がくだらん哲学の中で我国の民を翻弄させている間に、他国は次の地政学的戦略を展開しているわけである。

はっきり言うが、欧米の戦略家たちは宗教論理や既成哲学を基本にはしていない。

戦略を展開する上で、それらを利用することはあるが、基本は「自分の判断力と分析」のみである。

宗教論理や既成哲学は、丁度、恋愛のようなもので、宗教や哲学に囚われると正確な判断力を失ってしまうからである。

「首相は憲法哲学を」　古賀誠氏琉球新聞でのインタビュー

−なぜ９６条改正に反対するのか。

国政に携わる人が憲法をきちんと勉強し、研究するのは当たり前のことだ。

しかし改憲の発議要件を過半数にするなど、ルールを勝手に変更するのはあり得ないことだ。

最高法規のハードルが高いのは当然で、一般法と同じようにする必要は何もない。

戦後の廃虚から今の日本になったのは平和憲法が根底にあったからだ。

主権在民、平和主義、基本的人権の尊重という三つの精神を絶対に忘れてはいけないというのが私の哲学だ。

日本には立派な憲法があり、他国が何十回改憲していようと関係ない。

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橋下氏の発言撤回、辞職を求める 京都の共産党女性議員５０人が声明

橋下氏の発言撤回、辞職を求める
京都の共産党女性議員５０人が声明

日本維新の会の橋下徹共同代表・大阪市長の「慰安婦は必要」との発言に対して15日、日本共産党の京都府内女性議員50人が連名で、発言の撤回・謝罪と市長辞職を求める声明を発表しました。

女性議員は倉林明子京都市議（参院京都選挙区候補）を先頭に、府議、京都市議ほか14市６町１村の議員が名を連ねています。

声明は、橋下氏の発言について、「女性をあたかも性の道具として扱い、ひいては人間の尊厳をおとしめるもので、女性として絶対に許すことはできま せん」と指摘。

また、同氏が沖縄の海兵隊司令官に「風俗業を活用してほしい」と求めたことについて、「米兵等による女性や子どもへの事件があいついでいる 原因を全く捻じ曲げ、基地被害に苦しむいすべての皆さんを冒涜ぼうとくするもの」と述べています。

さらに、同氏がインターネット上で同様の発言を繰り返したほか、日本維新の会の石原慎太郎共同代表が擁護する発言をしたことなどを挙げ、「言語道 断であり、私たちは満身の怒りを表明するものです。

政治家としての資質も資格もない橋下徹氏の妄言の撤回と謝罪、市長辞職を強く求めるものです」と訴えて います。

ベソかきながらの重罪発言。

橋下氏の黒子もギブアップしたようですね。

そもそも法律家がこんな発言するわけないですから。

とりあえず、今回も私の勝利ということで。