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[Oh, Alas!] Who is Obama?

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After reading this article, people who think in dualistic terms may think that Obama who dislikes wars is a hero or light angel. Far from it, he is a NOW promoter. Though he abhors wars, he seems to love killing with pilotless drones those who he does not like. This is a battle between the warmonger (the neoconservative) and an anti-warmonger (Obama). However, it is just like a battle between mafia and yakuza and neither is righteous. Evil groups will destroy each other.

Masatoshi Takeshita

February 5, 2013

English translation of a Japanese article: “Oh, Alas!” – February 4, 2013 –

Who is Obama?

Until recently, Prime Minister Abe was said to visit the U.S. within January. It seems that he was rejected by the country.

No future schedule has been determined.

Who is behind Abe?

Abe who took back power by election fraud is completely under the thumb of U.S. warmongers who practiced election fraud.

Abe is no different from Noda.

Behind the warmongers is David Rockefeller.

David Rockefeller has already fallen from power.

It appears that Obama was elected to the second-term president with support from the Rothschild. He clearly shows himself to be an anti-warmonger.

Obama seemingly does not want to meet with Mr. Abe. He thinks that he has to keep a distance from Abe who unlawfully grabbed the power away from the JDP with support from U.S. warmongers.

Such blatant intervention in Japan’s politics by U.S. warmongers indicates that the U.S. has got cornered. And yet, some foolish politicians still flatter the U.S. What shameful traitors they are!

U.S. President Obama has recommended Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Department of Defense and Jon Brennan as CIA Secretary. This Obama’s personnel selection is characterized by recruitment of people who were placed in unduly low positions due to their criticism on the Bush administration when the Republican Party led by Bush took power.

Secretary State Clinton and Attorney General Holder are likely to resign from office. Treasury Secretary Geithner is also expected to resign from office after completion of the second-term Obama administration. All warmongers will be swept out.

It is hardly possible that Obama who kept a distance from warmongers will meet with Abe who still obey them.

I suspect that many people think it strange that New York Times criticizes Abe.

It may be U.S. warmongers that plan to oust Obama.

The reality is that warmongers who remain influential in the Far East try to encourage North Korea to cause a war by all means.

There is an article “WikiLeaks Discloses! Mr. Ozawa Rejects Demand of U.S.! U.S. Decides to Topple Ichiro Ozawa!” posted in a blog ‘Ashura.’

Needless to say, the U.S. does think so.

I wish for politicians who never betray our country.

Mr. Ozawa, I wish you would stick to it.

However, Japan’s mass media won’t report on any characteristics of the second-term Obama administration.

[Shinshu no Izumi] Mr. Kazuhide Uekusa Sheds Light on True Darkness of Postal Privatization led by Mr. Heizo Takenaka!!

What a piercing analysis! It shows that Mr. Kazuhide Uekusa has brilliant insight. In association with the part shown in red at the last paragraph of this article, the media immediately quote Vice Prime Minister Aso saying that “(Old men) should die nice and quick,” which might be a plot to cut off Mr. Aso.

Masatoshi Takeshita

January 24, 2013

English translation of an excerpt from a Japanese article: Shinshu no Izumi – January 20, 2013 –

Mr. Kazuhide Uekusa Sheds Light on True Darkness of Postal Privatization led by Mr. Heizo Takenaka!!

According to Mr. Uekusa, the “postal privatization” practically led by Mr. Heizo Takenaka is the confiscation of massive assets of the public Japan Post holds. On the Internet and in many writings, light has been shed on the confiscation of enormous amount of postal funds “JP Bank” and “JP Insurance” hold, by foreign capitalists.

Surprisingly, however, Mr. Uekusa points out that the U.S. targets the confiscation of not only postal funds but enormous amounts of real estate Japan Post holds. For details, I want you to read his mail magazine. After reading the magazine, I shuddered to learn the fact. Mr. Uekusa gives a shocking article related to division of JP into four companies. According to him, the government is planning anew to build up 50 trillion yen of SWF*, which is a U.S. conspiracy of confiscation.

*(Note) SWF : Sovereign Wealth Funds, also called “National Funds”

With regard to division of JP into four companies, which is the focal point of postal privatization, this writer thought at first (in 2005) this division is “breaking open the doors of a safe” but has yet to understand what sequence will develop. However, Mr. Uekusa has shown in his mail magazine his astonishing speculation on the intention and progress of this division of four companies. Mr. Uekusa, in his blog, clearly states that “asset allocation” is a key to the division.

According to him, a plan to privatize postal services (plainly speaking, this plan is an international conspiracy arranged by the U.S. and Japan) has a dual structure. Mr. Takenaka aims at relocating funds JP Bank and JP Insurance hold and completely disposing super-hot property (prime real estate).

Mr. Uekusa, who penetrated the suspicion of massive financial crime (suspicion of stock price manipulation) involving bailing out failed Resona Bank, has perceived with a keen insight the government’s plot of “postal privatization” quite similar to the suspected insider deal of Resona Bank. Maybe Mr. Uekusa has threatened to put himself in danger of his life again. What is written in his mail magazine is so much shocking.

Mr. Uekusa says that we should not overlook the postal privatization, a case of massive payoff which the state got involved with. This writer feels as if Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, Chief Cabinet advisor Isao Iijima and Mr. Heizo Takenaka had appeared in the second Abe administration with an aim to complete what the Koizumi administration had left undone. Undoubtedly, Mr. Heizo Takenaka is manipulated by the CSIS (Center for Strategic and Information Studies). We cannot rule out the possibility that he will be given a post again to supply the U.S. with all wealth JP holds. If Mr. Tankenaka should be appointed as Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor, it is likely that Prime Minister Abe will call BOJ his own in complete disregard for BOJ’s independence, as an extension of the first Abe cabinet (Cabinet of friends). In such a case, it is most likely that Mr. Takenaka will directly intervene in financial policy-making.

Although Mr. Takenaka expresses opposition to a consumption tax hike, he said: “as long as the prime minister committed to carry out a consumption tax hike, it is highly likely that he will take a political risk if he changes his stance to anti-consumption tax hike. No doubt, it is highly possible that a consumption tax hike will be carried out.” Mr. Takenaka says that he is an opponent of consumption tax hike. I wonder if it is true. Mr. Takenaka is a genius of supplying foreign capitalists with national wealth. Therefore, it appears that opposition to consumption tax hike, which has attributes of introduction of foreign capital contradicts his stance.

If Prime Minister Abe should appoint Mr. Takenaka as BOJ governor according to CSIS strategy or replace Mr. Aso as his current post to appoint him as an important post such as deputy prime minister/treasury minister/finance Minister, there is a possibility, as Mr. Uekusa points out in his blog, that the following three operations to confiscate national wealth will be carried out. As even cabinet shakeup is carried out under the order of the U.S., stubborn cabinet members will be lose their political life. It is easy for them to create scandals about any minister. The following is an excerpt from Mr. Uekusa’s blog.

1. Supply the U.S. with massive capital through manipulating foreign exchange reserve

2. Plan to supply the U.S. with postal money

3. Plot for the U.S. to confiscate Japan’s wealth by building up SWF

[Mr. Eiken Itagaki] Beijing Government Invites Former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama in Respect for Former DPJ Leader Ichiro Ozawa, to Listen to His Opinion about Improvement of Japan-China Relations

Although I don’t deny a concept of “East Asian Community,” it is nonsense if it is a Japanese version of EU. It is apparent that regional currency will hold the key to creating future. If they aim at creating a unified currency, after all, Mr. Ozawa and Mr. Hatoyama turn to be puppets of bankers.

As it appears that Mr. Hatoyama used to be a member of Lodge P2 Freemaisonry, I am not surprised about his disorganized thinking. Mr. Hatoyama, do study PROUT (Progressive Utilization Theory) advocated by an Indian philosopher Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar.

Masatoshi Takeshita

Janauray 13, 2013

English translation of an excerpt from a Japanese article: “Untold Story behind Politics and Economics Not Covered by Media” – January 13, 2013 –

Beijing Government Invites Former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama in Respect for Former DPJ Leader Ichiro Ozawa, to Listen to His Opinion about Improvement of Japan-China Relations

* Former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama who advocates “diplomacy of fraternity” will visit Beijing City from January 15 to 18 to meet Chinese key figures. Reportedly, he has accepted an invitation of the Beijing government.

Mr. Hatoyama did not run in the December 16 election and is retired from politics. He, however, seems to be attached to politics. Mr. Hatoyma, though he wears no Diet member pin, is strongly eager to establish an “East Asian Community,” a Japanese version of EU. For this reason, he has fretted about to how to restore Japan-China and Japan-Korea relations which were deteriorated by former Prime Minster Yoshihiko Noda.

In particular, the Beijing government desires to improve a relationship with Japan before Xi Jinping, President-elect, and Li Kequang, Premier-elect, officially assume the posts on March 15.

However, the Japanese government led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, which is far from showing a willingness to improve relations with China, has a sense of vigilance against China’s strong stance on the territorial rights over the Senkaku Islands.

So, it appears that the Beijing government desires to invite former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, who is an advocate of “diplomacy of fraternity” and an ally of Ichiro Ozawa, former DPJ leader, with an aim to listen to his opinion about bilateral relations in the future. Their true intention seems to personally invite Ichiro Ozawa, former DPJ leader, (Life Party) who enjoys intimate relations with Xi Jinping, President-elect, and Li Kequang, Premier-elect, and to renew old friendship. However, it seems that considering Ozawa’s position in Japan’s political world and relations with the U.S., they are going to tentatively have a talk with Hatoyama and exchange opinions with him about future bilateral relations. It is truly a loyal diplomacy.

*As for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, he has no fixed schedule for a summit meeting with U.S. President Obama. On top of this, he is “in a standoff” where he finds it difficult to have a summit meeting with Xi Jinping, President-elect, and Li Kequang, Premier-elect. Therefore, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe feels “displeased” with Hatoyama, who will visit China at the invitation of the Beijing government without fully discussing with the Abe administration. This is because the Abe administration is concerned that this might make the world feel dubious of the administration’s “skill of diplomacy with U.S. and China.”

Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga expressed an uncomfortable feeling at a press conference on 10^th, saying “We have heard about it for the first time now. That’s all.”

Beijing has still felt genuinely indebted to former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka as “a benefactor who dug a well for the first time” since he contributed to normalization of diplomatic relations between Japan and China. As the government still has such feelings toward Ichiro Ozawa who learned directly from Tanaka, they think that they should not improve bilateral relations without taking any thought of Ozawa. This is the reason why they purposely invite Hatoyama.

[Nikkan Gendai] Prime Minister Visits U.S. With Present

We have to bear looking at this rotten face for a while.

Masatoshi Takeshita

January 5,, 2013

English translation of a Japanese article: Nikkan Gendai – January 4, 2013 –

Prime Minister Visits U.S. With Present

Purchase of Osprey Priced 10 Billion Yen per Aircraft – Don’t be Silly!

There is a danger that death toll would rise. It is almost certain to equip the Japan’s Self-Defense Forces with Ospreys, defective helicopters used by the U.S. forces. The Self Defense Forces has decided to make a budgetary request of 10 million yen of “investigation expenses” for the 2013 budget. If “investigation expenses” are accepted, it is certain that the Osprey will be adopted some day in the future.

However, the “Osprey” is a defective aircraft which has caused many accidents, resulting in a heavy death toll. And yet, it costs as much as 10 billion yen per aircraft. Why do we have to pay enormous amount of money to the U.S. in order to purchase them? This is obviously a “present” with which Prime Minister Abe will visit to the U.S. in the middle of January.

“Every Japanese prime minister’s visit to the U.S. used to be poked fun of as ‘sankin koutai’* and he always brought some present with him every time he visited it. Prime Minister Abe are going to make the purchase of the Osprey his present. It is certain that the U.S. will be delighted. It is said that the U.S. has spent $2 trillion developing the Osprey. It is their real intention to have other countries purchase Ospreys to recoup the development costs as much as possible. With the sale of one Osprey, the U.S. not only gets 10 billion yen but makes a great deal of money due to a combined sale with its operating system.” (Mr. Tetsuo Maeda, a military commentator)

*(Note) alternate attendance to the capital by a daimyo in Edo period

It is possible to have Japan purchase at least 12 aircrafts. However, Prime Minister Abe is going to purchase defective helicopters by using Japanese taxpayers’ money to please President Obama. By no means!

“Prime Minister Abe tries to be bossy but weak-kneed to the U.S. He is a typical person obedient to Washington to gain its favor. To my astonishment, the foreign policy the prime minister has set is completely the same as a report by the “Heritage Foundation,” a U.S. think tank, without any change. The Foundation suggests what the U.S. should promote: (1) to have Japan assume greater international services, (2) to have the country increase defending expenditure and (3) to have the country flexibly interpret the right of collective self-defense. Prime Minister Abe seems to believe that it is enough to curry favor with Washington to maintain the security of his administration,” a person in political circles says.

How can he take responsibility if a dangerous Osprey should crash over the people? This man is never concerned about the national interest.

[Mr. Jiro Motozawa] Colossal Japan Colonization by Washington

The Lehman’s fall has destroyed neoliberalism. has already been destroyed. Near-sighted politicians represented by Obama seem to completely fail to grasp the trend of the times. Fools will be destroyed in a moment, though they make last-minute fruitless struggle for a while.

Masatoshi Takeshita

January 1, 2013

photo from wikipedia

English translation of an excerpt from a Japanese article: “Media Association” Club Bulletin – January 1, 2013 –

Jiro Motozawa’s “Japan’s Landscape” (1239)

<Colossal covert operation against Japan by Washington>

An unhappy new year 2013 has started. There are people who enjoy a life like slaves or mistresses, though derogatory expression. Such people do not always have to be women.

Sly leaders in small countries are willing to be prepared to offer gifts or sacrifices to the great power. When a new leader requests an audience with Washington like ‘Sankin Koutai,’* he mentions such gifts secretly to ask it to secure his security and protection. Japan’s new leader is such a typical example.

(Note) * The system of alternate attendance by a daimyo in Edo period

Etsusaburo Shiina, a bureaucrat-turned politician and foreign affair minister, called such Washington “my dear watchdog” and swooned to its feet. Officials in the foreign ministry spoke highly of Shiina as a “capable foreign minister.” This proves that Japan is an unhealthy nation. Smooth words make smooth ways. It is true that I catch his enthusiasm for becoming a clever mistress and slaver.

Washington, watchdog and lord, has been exclusively waging wars and its financial condition or economy has been impoverished. For this reason, it starts to operate a colossal colonization policy to wring profit from whomever its close slave and mistress is.

Some conscientious people have appeared before my eyes and taken the trouble to let me know such seemingly false truth. It is about some confidential information that is available exclusively to people who have worked at core areas of Washington and Tokyo. Many of their comrades take such top secrets to their graves. However, a small number of people refuse to do so in Japan. Top secrets are sure to be disclosed by such people.

There exist honest people. Some get such secrets down on paper.

Now I can reveal such top secrets about “colossal Japan colonization policy” on January 1, 2013. I wonder if I have enjoyed a great New Year’s Day.

<Target of TPP>

The liar prime minister pretended to go down on his knees in front of Washington with using TPP as a point of issue in the December 16 general election. However, what TPP is all about is still uncertain. Interest of the people was attracted by totally-unrelated issues of the Senkaku, amendment of the Constitution and economy.

However, all concerned who know Washington and Tokyo had already been well informed about it in detail. Financial clique elite, bureaucratic elite and academic elite had received detailed instructions a long time before. TPP is a perfectly free trade policy with no tariff barriers imposed and it is also a neoliberalism policy, in which the weak are the victims of the strong.

<TPP covering food, clothing and medical services>

A net has been spread around Japan with Singapore, New Zealand, Mexico and Canada prepared as fishing fries. What comes to the net is something related to food, clothing and medical services instead of food, clothing and sheltering.

Medical services include everything on human health such as welfare. It is easy to say, but introduction of TPP would actually bring about disastrous result.

Japan’s agriculture, fishery and food service industry will also be affected by TPP. TPP will seriously affect food, whose self-sufficiency rate has already been rapidly reduced.

Additionally, arenas of housing, construction, road and bridgework will be besieged. In comparison with overseas, each cost is absurdly expensive in Japan. This will make some consumers feel happy but drive many industries into bankruptcy or merger and acquisition. Industrial arena cannot afford to be easygoing.

In short, Japan will be deprived of the foundation of people’s life. “TPP is utilized to colonize Japan,” well-informed conscientious specialists have clearly stated.

<Education also targeted>

In the last election, Abe of the LDP made many remarks about educational reform. So did Nakasone. Specialists point out that human remodeling is incorporated in TPP operation.

Educational reform to extreme-rightwing bias is also an order from Washington. It is an educational theory available to Japanese who never think.

<Discrimination against the yellow race>

Japan had already been forced to accept a strong yen resulting from the Nakasone bubble economy. It had lost its assets equivalent of 1,500 trillion before the country knew it, and encountered the second defeat. On top of it, they are going to drive Japan into the third defeat by depriving it of foundation of life.

It is said that the same thing will come to the surface in China and ASEAN. Whys so? Experts point out that there exists Caucasian discrimination against the yellow race. Using your head, you will understand why A-bombs were dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

This is the horrible part of masked American democracy and humanitarianism. We have to watch it out. Korea has already been taken over by Washington. I should be safe and say that such is the case with Taiwan.

[Shinshu no Izumi] I don’t know why, but I cannot help but be skeptical about the election returns. (I have a hunch that the dark ages are coming.)

I think that things will go like this at least temporarily. However, they have tried too hard because they have been driven to the edge of the ring.

Soon, they will be destroyed even if we leave them alone. At present, this world is completely controlled by deities.

Masatoshi Takeshita

December 22, 2012

LDP Shigeru Ishiba & Shinzo Abe

photo from google image search

English translation of an excerpt from a Japanese article: Monju Bosatsu - December 17, 2012 –

I don’t know why, but I cannot help but be skeptical about the election returns. (I have a hunch that the dark ages are coming.): Shinshu no Izumi – December 16, 2012 –

Seventy or eighty percent of the people think they dislike operating nuclear power plants. In spite of this, why did the election returns make the LDP led by Abe win a landslide victory?

I wonder if many people who voted for LDP thought that it would help things change for better to entrust everything to the LDP without confronting the three pending problems which put Japan in danger, namely, the dangers of nuclear power, accelerated deflation and the downturn in economy due to consumption tax hike.

And the consumption take hike was decided by an agreement of the three parties – LDP, New Komeito and JDP. As the consumption tax hike is what originally the LDP asked for, the repugnance people have for JDP which tries to destroy their life should also be directed to the LDP in terms of nuclear power and consumption tax hike. Speaking of a coalition government of the LDP and New Komeito, a nightmare of structural reform strategy Koizumi and Takenaka adopted would be resurrected.

In a word, as explained by the Fujisankei Communications Group and others, did votes heavily go to LDP as pendulum effect or backlash against the DPJ-led politics? If so, it turns out that the people were almost never concerned about the above-mentioned “nuclear power,” “consumption tax hike” and “TPP.” However, this writer does not feel so intuitively. At least I feel that people around me had a sense of crisis about nuclear power and consumption tax hike. It is consistent with those massive demonstrations in front of the prime minister’s official residence.

I can hardly think that the people have neglected the above-mentioned three issues and their interest changed over revision of the Constitution and national defense force. This transition seems to be too queer. Suppose the number of votes is counted normally and the election returns are right as the mass media reported, it turns out that majority of the people were agitated by the mass media and followed blindly what the LDP had said without questioning. Does it mean brainwashing of the major mass media had a profound effect on the people? Or was large-scale ballot-counting manipulation involving the Board of Elections operated? This reminds me of the case of Al Gore and George Bush Jr. What happened in the U.S. happens in Japan, too.

Mr. Toru Hashimoto and Mr. Shintaro Ishihara are supported by the CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies) behind the scene. If they form a coalition government with the LDP, the Abe-LDP-led coalition government will be a puppet government of international financial mafia, which will pave the way for fascist regime soon. In view of major mass media’s abnormally biased coverage and strategy to manipulate people, using psychology, it is possible that they will use a dirty trick to secure victory in a House of Councilors election slated for next year.

What I am most deeply concerned about is a great possibility that the Abe-led coalition government will follow in the footsteps of Mr. Yoshihiko Noda and put in place a system for extensive suppression of free speech. Once such a huge network of political organizations led by the government is created, it is impossible to break down unipolar domination network in the House of Councilors, which is obedient to Washington. International financial mafia is sure to order Abe, the president of LDP, to enact the Japanese version of “Patriot Act.”

[Mr.Naoto Amaki] Advocators of denuclearization, rally together for Town Mayor Idogawa!

I wonder what the town assembly members who voted non confidence against Mayor Idogawa would do when their children or grandchildren are adversely affected by radiation in years to come.

How can human beings act as a tool of the bad, yielding to the temptation of immediate profits?

I have thought that law should require half of lawmakers to be women, but it might not be good. This is because most of people who desire to be lawmakers are greedy, regardless of gender.

Masatoshi Takeshita

December 21, 2012

Naoto Amaki - a former Japanese diplomat

English translation of an excerpt from a Japanese article: Blog of Amaki Naoto – December 21, 2012 –

Advocators of denuclearization, rally together for Town Mayor Idogawa!

Katsutaka Idogawa, town mayor of Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, was voted non-confidence unanimously in the town council on December 20, 2012.

It is not unusual that a town head is voted non-confidence in the town council.

The head must have a quarrel with the town council again in a small town of Fukushima. However, unanimous consent is quite unusual. The town mayor must have done something extremely wrong.

Such a small article must be read in this way without attracting a lot of attention from people.

However, that is not true.

This incidence has a symbolic meaning that advocators of denuclearization in this country will be expelled or eliminated one after another.

Mayor Idogawa is one of the few heads who have accused the government of taking no countermeasures against radiation contamination in Futaba and continued encouraging the residents to evacuate the town to save their life.

He resolved to go to Geneva, where he tried to make known to the world the relief of exposed residents and the incompetence of the Japanese government in the UN Commission on Human Rights.

The media that did not report about Mayor Idogawa’s words and deeds in Geneva don’t try to report about him correctly now.

As you know, the government has consistently discouraged evacuation of the residents in Fukushima Prefecture to hide the seriousness of the Fukushima accident from the people. It has tried to cope with radiation contamination by spending a huge amount of money and energy for decontamination.

The government has plotted together with the local government. They take skillful advantage of the sentiment of residents who cannot abandon their hometowns.

Of course, vested interests and money are involved behind this problem.

Advocators of denuclearization should rally together in Futaba town, Fukushima, and appeal for reelection of Mayor Idogawa. Unless realizing it, they are deceitful.

It is fine to voice objections against restarting nuclear power plants in front of the Diet building. It is fine to promote development of new energy. It is fine to sue TEPCO. It is fine to chant a slogan of denuclearization in the election.

However, what matters most in the issue of nuclear power is relief of exposed residents and compensation to them. To this end, we have to fight against the oppression of state power. We have to confront the bureaucracy, an executor of power.

Just now with a defeat in the general election of political parties which advocated abandonment of nuclear power, politics is about to head in the direction of maintaining it at once.

The non-confidence motion on Mayor Idogawa has been passed right on cue, which seems to symbolize this move.

Advocators of denuclearization after the general election should start fighting here.

[Nikkan Gendai] Immaturity of Japanese Who Worship Junichiro Koizumi, a Fraud

Information from Mr. Masatoshi Takeshita posted on his blog – December 20, 2012 –

Junnichirou Koizumi ^

(*fake photo - source unknown)

English translation from a Japanese article: “Hibi Tantan” Document Blog – December 18, 2012 –

Immaturity of Japanese Who Worship Junichiro Koizumi, a Fraud

Koizumi Ranks Second in Questionnaire Survey of “Ideal Leader” for High School Students

High school students today like Junichiro Koizumi. Such survey result has been released. When Nagase (Musashino City, Tokyo) operating “Toshin High School,” a prep school for university hopefuls, asked 3,535 high school students in their first to third years about “who is an ideal leader,” Steve Jobs ranked first (with 250 votes), followed by Junichiro Koizumi (226 votes).

Third place went to Ryoma Sakamoto (180 votes), followed by Barack Obama (102 votes) and Abraham　Lincoln (96 votes).

I am not satisfied with these results. Koizumi imposed new liberalism, market fundamentalism and relaxation of regulations on the people after becoming prime minister in 2001, saying “I will destroy the LDP.” The reason for an increase in the working poor is because the people fell for his propaganda.

So why do the youth in their teens highly evaluate Koizumi?

“Because their parents have no spirit of criticism,” Mr. Shinya Gaku, a sociologist and writer, points out.

“It was seven years ago that the Koizumi administration won a big victory in an election held after the House of Councilors was dissolved because the postal privatization bill was rejected in the House. Seventeen-year-old high school students now were still ten. At that time their parents praised Koizumi without thinking deeply and frantically supported him. Then children of such adults got to worship Koizumi under the thumb of them. They have inherited a negative asset of “uncritical acceptance” and are unconscious of Koizumi’s deceit. In fact, university students today have weakened spirit of criticism.”

By curious coincidence, the LDP has won a big victory in the House of Representatives election. Shinzo Abe, president of LDP, has a plot to revise the Article 9 of the Constitution and change the SDF into a “National Defense Force.” In spite of that, many people have no sense of crisis.

“Parents and children cannot make a connection between different things – it has become difficult for university students to get jobs, for which Koizumi is blamed and it is likely that they will be drafted if Abe should go out of control. Such people are easily controlled by the policymaker of the day. “Immaturity” of both parents and children seems to make Japan all the more go headlong into danger.” (Mr. Shinya Gaku)

It is likely that we will see a restoration of the pre-war Dark Ages.

[Terrifying Truth Unknown to Japanese] Unification Church + Soka Gakkai = Coalition Government of LDP and New Komeito

This article was posted in October 2006. Only now we realize what was written in the article. Reading the article, everybody must understand the meaning of a landslide victory of LDP and New Komeito in the House of Representatives election. Incidentally, the people are foolish enough to have made such a choice.

Masatoshi Takeshita

December 17, 2012

English translation of an excerpt from a Japanese article: “Terrifying Truth Unkown to Japanese” – October 25, 2006

Unification Church + Soka Gakkai = Coalition Government of LDP and New Komeito

Mr. Masatomo Yamasaki, former vice chief director of Soka Gakkai who also served as legal advisor, has made an accusation: “Soka Gakkai is not only a religious group. It is a colossal powerful conglomerate unique in the world which expands into different areas of politics and economics. It has mighty power, outstanding financial power and an elite bureaucracy occupied by graduates of Tokyo University and Kyoto University. Furthermore, it has its own intelligence agency with division units, which have the mission of operating “special activities,” both legal and illegal. Soka Gakkai has a legal team consisting of over 100 lawyers. Most of them entered the legal profession after they had been offered special education for gifted children and ingrained with ‘Hail Ikeda!’ since the days of elementary school, junior high school and senior high school. They put Soka Gakkai profits before order of state law; they don’t care about committing perjury in court. They put pressure on the police, tactfully lobby prosecutors or judges to favor them, and in some cases bribe an attorney of the adverse party with money.”

Next, I’d like to cite the book “Junichiro and Pathology of Japan” by Hajime Fujiwara.

Soka Gakkai is designated as a cult religious group in France.

At the end of 1996, the administrative court in Paris rendered a decision: “Soka Gakkai makes the best use of commercial activities in the form of magazines, accessories and meetings. They do business with 50 percent of sales profit rate, using most of its income and they aim to penetrate their activities into public authority.

When Soka Gakkai formed Komeito and went into politics, Soichi Oya (1900-1970) pointed out that “Soka Gakkai has character of fascism.” Former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka criticized Daisaku Ikeda by name, saying “He is Hitler chanting the Lotus Sutra. He rebuked Soka Gakkai, manipulator of New Komeito, for its organizational character.

Actually, Daisaku Ikeda, at a conference of presidents’ organization in 1972, said, “Now is the time of individualism and liberalism. Actually, totalitarianism is an ideal system.” It was around the time that Gakkai launched its activities to “rule the world.”

Thus, Ikeda’s ambition and self-righteousness made Soka Gakkai enhance its image as a cult, deviating from faith. Soka Gakkai had been excommunicated by Nichiren Shoshu Sect in 1990 and ended up as Ikeka Religion. Obsessed with “ruling the world”, they ventured into a “total evolution.”

Top-priority targets for total evolution are the Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. One hundred Gakkai members have already become prosecutors. A quarter of employees of official diplomatic and consulate offices abroad are Gakkai members and the fate of one-third of LDP members is held in Soka Gakkai’s grip. Beneath them are people of lower-class traditional group. There are a great number of secret members in the entertainment world and the Self Defense Forces. Its organizational power is extended over a wide range of fields.

Elite Gakkai members are mainly made officials of the Justice and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and especially remarkably penetrate into the bureaucracy of the Ministry of Justice. Fifteen prosecutors of Supreme Public Prosecutors’ Office are said to be Gakkai members. Therefore, LDP members with vested interests who are tainted by patronage get scared in front of the “authority” of the prosecutors who monitor lawmakers tainted by corruption. This is said to be a reason why LDP sucks around Komeito.

In “Monthly Gendai” (July 2005 issue) is posted an article on a talk between Akira Uozumi, a journalist and Sadao Hirano, former member of the House of Councilors, entitled “When power yields to religion.” In the talk Hirano points out terrifying state of affairs as follows:

“Hirano: The current LDP/New Komeito coalition government is composed of Prime Minister Koizumi, who excludes flexible conservatives within the LDP from inner circle of government, and New Komeito which tends to get fascistic at once. This makes the Diet dysfunctional. If LDL and New Komeito come to an agreement over something, they never let DPJ discuss it because they hold the majority of lawmakers. Given this situation, Diet members who are supposed to act as a check on the government at the request of the people cannot perform their duties.

Uozumi: Ultimately, the Diet has not function well since the start of LDP/New Komeito coalition government.

Hirano: Precisely so. This is a problem. What worries me most is the possibility that New Komeito will never reflect on what it has done, keep taking this tough line and form a coalition government with Shinzo Abe.

In fact, Soka Gakkai has had close ties to former Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi since the times of President Josei Toda. When Mr. Kishi passed away, Seikyo Shimbun reported his death on its front page, even carrying a written memorial.

It is highly likely that Abe, who inherits political DNA of Kishi, will be joined together with Soka Gakkai, which is under the control of Daisaku Ikeda who faithfully observes the will of Josei Toda. I am worried about it. Some forces within the country try to manipulate Abe. If Soka Gakkai joins it, undoubtedly Japan’s democracy will be destroyed.”

And now the situation Mr. Sadao Hirano was worried about has appeared.

[Ms. Nobuyo Yagi] Patriotism, Nuclear Power Generation and TPP

Ms. Yagi uses the word ‘patriotic’ instead of ‘patriot.’ She has a way with words. I am not a patriot, either, but I think I could call myself patriotic.

I’d like to define as patriots those who are narrow-minded enough to think that Japan alone is an important country.

Strange enough, so-called patriots are those who work for U.S. for some reason as the country wants them to do. I understand that it means that such people can easily be caught with the bait of money and power.

Masatoshi Takeshita

December 9, 2012

Nobuyo Yagi - Vocalist & Writer

Photo from Official Biografy

English translation of an excerpt from a Japanese article: Nobuyo Yagi’s Monologue – December 9, 2012 –

Patriotism, Nuclear Power Generation and TPP

Please don’t misunderstand me. I am patriotic.

I am good at cooking Japanese cuisine and love Japanese national costume ‘kimono’, which I often wear in wintertime.

Then, why do I, a patriotic person, oppose nuclear power generation and TPP? Needless to say, nuclear power plants have not only damaged the beautiful nature of Japan and its safety on an incomparably larger scale than the Senkaku Islands and Takeshima Island issues but carry a finite risk in the future. This is the biggest reason. With regard to opposition to TPP, I don’t simply speak for Japan Agricultural Cooperatives. Of course, issues on mixed treatment (treatment partially covered by insurance) and ISDS (Investor State Dispute Settlement) are not negligible, but the biggest problem is that introduction of TPP will devastate Japan’s rice farming.

As I spend a couple months a year in Mexico, I know well that California rice is very cheap, one-fifth the price of Japanese rice, and is not of poor quality. If conclusion of TPP results in import of California rice, even though by gradual process, Japan’s rice can’t win.

In 1994, Mexico signed the NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) with the U.S. with great fanfare. At that time Mexico greatly expected the agreement to create a big economic growth in the country. Compared with the U.S., labor costs are overwhelmingly lower and agricultural products are cheaper in Mexico. Mexico expected that they would be able to export their agricultural products and other products to the U.S., which would work to the benefit to the U.S.

And needless to say, this fell far short of their expectations.

Most Mexican agricultural products, almost everything but tomatoes and some fruits, was exploited by the U.S. Even the corn, Mexican staple, for which self-sufficient ratio was 100 percent and which was considered rather as exports, (whose free trade, as you might expect, was not allowed at first for the reason that the corn is the staple food of Mexico, the foundation of the country, but later liberalization of the corn market was gradually carried out), have lost ground to American corns with a decline in self-sufficient ration to some 60 percent.

Why is the corn produced in Mexico with advantage of far more cheaper land cost and labor cost defeated in price competition by that produced in the U.S.? Compared with small-scale farming in Mexico, American farmers not only grow corns like industrial products mass-produced on a large scale but also are subsidized by the U.S. government to make international corn prices cheaper than Mexican corn price. This subsidy system caused Mexican corns to be defeated in competitiveness.

It can be said to be the way in which so-called big super market has a special sale with the slogan of slashed price immediately after expanding its business to destroy retailed businesses in the neighborhood.

In a word, Mexico was trapped.

Additionally, most of distributors in Mexico have been bought out by Walmart. The work force has been changed into temporary workers and the disparity between the rich and the poor has been wider. Finally, as a result of insecurity and aggravated conflict among mafias, many civilians have got involved in drug wars.

Looking back, Japanese rice is already expensive. If the government introduces measures for deregulation without subsidizing farmers, it is perfectly clear that rice farming in Japan will be devastated in no time.

What will happen then?

It is not only an emotional problem that we will lose our culture (though it is also an important problem).

This is a problem on what we think about the fact that it is highly likely that we will depend on the U.S. for almost 100 percent of staple food in ten years’ time.

I can’t help wondering why people who call themselves conservatives or patriots could be indifferent to this problem which is strategically and diplomatically important.