[Mr.Takeshita] Speculation of Bankers: Crisis of European Banks

As for the parts in red of an article shown below, those who watch my video streaming of “Lecture course on Economy” (* not available in English)  will easily understand the fact that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Central Banks (ECB) play a leading role in trying to intentionally shrink economy.

They want to bring in their long-cherished dream of integration of EU, including financial integration, by finally blaming EU countries and their people for depression.  However, that’s not going to happen.  Many people across the world have already understood that such depression has been intentionally created by IMF and central banks.

Masatoshi Takeshita


* Information from Mr. Takeshita posted on his blog – July 7, 2012



English Translation of a Japanese article from Iran Radio (Commented by Bakhtiari) – July 6, 2012 -



Crisis of European Banks 

In spite of an agreement on support of financial organizations by leaders of the EU countries, the number of European banks at the brink of bankruptcy has been increasing day by day.

In response to such situation, on 5th Thursday, the President of ECB and others held a meeting to discuss how to cope with the crisis within the Euro.  In this meeting, it was decided that financial organizations should lower their key interest rates from 1 percent to 0.75 percent in order to control debt crisis and prevent this crisis from spreading to banks.  Cut in interest rate by ECB is the third for the past one year.  This measure was taken based on the agreement reached in the meeting held in Brussels, Belgium on 29th last month.

President Mario Draughi of ECB had already called on the leaders and politicians of EU to make further drastic decisions to cope with the financial crisis.  Furthermore, IMF, in the report on global financial system lately released, says “European economy is expected to be downgraded this year and it seems to be difficult for the area to be liberated from this problem in 2013.”   IMF also says “European major banks will probably shrink their balance sheet amount by 2.6 trillion dollars by 2013, which accounts for seven percent of the whole capital.”

According to experts on political problems, measures to cope with the financial organization crisis can be put into practice only by a drastic intervention by the government and a hike in the citizen tax money.
According to the experts, European leaders decided to give a support of 100 billion euros to Spanish banks, the biggest reason for it was to prevent this crisis from spreading to other countries.  Actually, they are concerned about the likelihood of the same debt crisis as seen in Greek.   The biggest reason why experts and government officials pay attention to the bank crisis is probably that the crisis has spread to Sweden, not EU member country.

However, formation of a bank alliance to monitor the activities of financial organizations within the euro area is one of the important approaches to cope with the European financial crisis.  Generally, the European financial crisis is likely to influence other financial organizations and substructures in the area.

[News U.S.] Dentsu CIA Completely Discloses Your Privacy With Facebook.


I think that even people who dislike so-called conspiracy theory had better know the kinds of risk which are likely to be accompanied by the use of Facebook or Smartphone.
Masatoshi Takeshita


* Information from Mr. Takeshita on his blog – July 6, 2012 


English translation of an excerpt from a Japanese article: News US – July 4, 2012 –


Dentsu CIA Completely Discloses Your Privacy With Facebook


– Headshot, Love Affair, Sexual Preference – Shuddering, Dangerous Watchdog Functions Come Out One After Another



As many as 57 kinds of private data collected by Facebook

One day, Mr. Max Shrem living in Wien, Austria suddenly got interested in how much Facebook knew about himself and demanded it to disclose his personal data.

In social networking service, we can download our own data to back it up. The directive on personal data adopted by the Council of European Union called “Directive 95/46/EU” enables us to demand the disclosure of even non-public data the corporation holds as proof of its legitimacy.

And then Mr. Max Shrem demanded the European office of Facebook in Dublin, Ireland through its website to disclose his own data.  He received the PDF file consisting of a total of 1,222 pages, contained in CD.  Its volume was equivalent to that of “War and Pace” by Tolstoy, which is famous as a voluminous book.  It had far more detailed content than the novel and literally every data he had gained by clicking a computer mouse was recorded in it.


(An omission)

These data shown below seemed to be collected as large category.

01: About Me
02: Account End Date
03: Account Status History
04: Address
05: Alternate Name (e.g. if you got married or if you have a name in a non-Latin script)
06: Applications
07: Chat
08: Checkins
09: Connections
10: Credit Cards
11: Currency
12: Current City
13: Date of Birth
14: Education
15: E-Mails
16: Events
17: Family
18: Favorite Quotes
19: Friend Requests
20: Friends
21: Gender
22: Groups
23: Hometown
24: Last Location
25: Linked Accounts (e.g. twitter, youtube or skype)
26: Locale
27: Logins
28: Machines
29: Messages
30: Minifeed
31: Name
32: Name Changes
33: Networks
34: Notes
35: Notification Settings
36: Notifications
37: Password
38: Phone Numbers
39: Photos
40: Physical tokens (This field was empty in all sets of data we got.  It might be a future feature for secure identification.)
41: Pokes
42: Political views
43: Privacy setting
44: Profile Blurb (This field was empty in all sets of information we got.)
45: Realtime Activities
46: Recent Activities
47: Registration Date
48: Relationship
49: Religious Views
50: Removed Friends
51: Screen Name (skype name)
52: Shares
53: Status Updates
54: Vanity
55: Wallposts
56: Website
57: Work

Source: Facebook’s Data Pool

(An omission)

What will happen if you make Facebook your enemy?
If Facebook gets serious about finding out a specific target, it is quite easy to completely disclose the person’s private data.
When you carry a Smartphone with you, it is almost equal to reporting “I am here” by the minute to CIA.

The real purpose of Facebook is not advertisement.
The corporation does not need to make big profits because a lot of money flows into it from CIA.
Their ultimate goal is to complete a terrible all humanity watchdog tool.

Rotten NHK – Syria is State of War


NHK has consistently merely relayed the propaganda released by Europe and America on the Gulf War, air strikes against Afghanistan and the Iraq War.  It has now been revealed that the causes for which the wars were justified were all false.

However, NHK has not yet given any public apology though it had apparently justified the wars and sided with them.  NHK covered the issues on nuclear power plants and Syria the same way.  I think we should criticize and stage demonstration against NHK and media first.

Masatoshi Takeshita


* Information from Mr. Takeshita posted on his blog – July 1, 2012 

English translation of an excerpt from a Japanese article: ROCKWAY EXPRESS July 1, 2012 


Syria is State of War – 1 –

(Photo)
Armed terrorist with bishop’s robe on who plays with a cross in a destroyed church

June 29

In the suburbs of Damascus, a privately owned Syrian satellite TV station was attacked by armed insurgents.  In Homs, churches was attacked and destroyed.  Attackers were not “innocent citizens” but Sunni foreign terrorists who attacked “innocent citizens,” who were financed by Sunni Gulf monarchies which planed to overthrow the Shiite Asad regime and change Syria into the Sunni country.

“Innocent citizens” will never attack a privately owned TV station.  So it is high time for Japanese media including NHK to stop using such expression that the Asad regime in Syria has been oppressing innocent citizens.  With the coverage too different from or opposite to the truth, it seems to be quite difficult to keep our sanity.  Their foolishness seems never to end.

Under the situation in which NATO led by Europe and America, Turkey and Arabian monarchies overtly show their fangs and are going to attack Syria, Russia seems to have a faint hope for a meeting on Syria by the concerned countries to be held this weekend.  Considering the development to date, however, such hope may be futile.  We can see on the horizon a future of an all-out confrontation between a league of NATO/Turkey/Arabian monarchies and that of Russia/Iran/Hezbollah.

[Mr.Hatoyama] On Vote on Bills Related to Social Security and Tax Reforms

Whatever he may say, Mr. Hatoyma is always made fun of.  But I place my hopes on him.
Masatoshi Takehsita

* Information from Mr. Takeshita posted on his blog – June 27, 2012 

English translation of a Japanese article from Yukio Hatoyama’s Official Website – June 26, 2012 -

On Vote on Bills Related to Social Security and Tax Reforms

I voted against the bill for revision of the consumer tax rate submitted by the government, which will be urgently submitted to a plenary session of the House of Representatives.

I think that it was change of Japan’s politics that the public hoped for most when a change of administration took place three years ago.  And what we should have had to do most to live up to their expectations was to fight against vested interests.  We insisted that we make a better society in which each citizen can feel affluent with no sense of unfairness, by changing the politics and economics trapped by vested interests.  We also insisted that we shift from the politics left entirely up to bureaucrats to the politics in which politicians take the initiative in policy-making, and more importantly the politics led by the people.

Then I was raised even to the position of prime minister to achieve this mission and made efforts to rework the groups spoiled by vested interests with overwhelming support of the people.  However, bureaucrats, Finance Ministry officials and major mass media which surmised the intentions of the U.S. fiercely resisted our efforts.  I am deeply sorry for my fault that I failed to survive such resisting forces.

I still believe the direction I tried to go to was not wrong.  However, subsequent administrations made an about-face on the party’s stance, for they took me as a negative example and thought “Mr.Hatoyama failed because he resisted bureaucrats and the U.S.  We will have no trouble as long as we get along with them.”  For what did the change of administration take place?  I am strongly indignant with them.  They had the same way of thinking about the issues on nuclear power plants including their restart, and TPP.

And this time the consumption tax hike bill!  The consumption tax hike is a long-cherished desire of the Treasure Ministry, the biggest bureaucratic organization.

I asked voters in my constituency about this consumption tax hike bill.  Seventy-nine percent of them opposed to it.  There are many people who think it is necessary to raise the consumption tax at some future day.

However, people, especially those living in rural areas will have difficulty managing the household budget with a tax increase of one hundred thousand yen per person.  The top priority should be given to economic recovery.

I am the very person who fought in the campaign with a manifesto that “it is not necessary to raise the consumption tax for four years.”  As Prime Minister had said, we should exterminate white ants during the years.  Implementation of a consumption tax hike without exterminating white ants will attract a swarm of white ants taking the lion’s share of it.

Though social security and tax reforms are murmured, we cannot get clear image of social security.  If the guaranteed minimum pension program and medical care system for people aged 75 and over, which DPJ strongly appealed to the public, is submitted to the National Council, it is not late to discuss from what source of revenue to finance them after conclusions have been reached.

What is needed most for DPJ is its philosophy and policies as the ruling party, which should return to the starting point.


Now we Japanese must be in the midst of working together as one under the slogan of unity and ‘kizuna’ to recover from the unprecedented disaster which hit the Tohoku district.
In reality, however, the lesson we should use for future is going to be forgotten as the past incident.  Politicians are responsible for never having the March 11 forgotten.  The current DPJ executives have forgotten the mission as the ruling party and appear to have been reduced to the old-fashioned LDP, of which the people showed disapproval in the last election.  

Even now as many as one hundred sixty thousand people are forced to live the lives of refugees away from their homes which have not been decontaminated.  In spite of this fact, with the firm commitment to economic activities, the Noda cabinet has decided to restart nuclear power plants while many people question their restart because the cause of the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident has not yet determined.  It is inexcusable to try to implement a consumption tax hike by talking among LDP, New Komeito and DPJ behind the closed door.  What should DPJ as the leading party do to live up to the expectations of the people?

Mass media is also of a problem.  Their news coverage is focused on counting the number of votes for and against the bill on consumption tax hike.  They should realize what to discuss with the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident as a lesson because we are in the midst of restructuring the Tohoku areas.  It is not the time for mass media to forecast the political situation.  We should not forget the fact that many people all over the world were impressed by the Japanese seriously working for the recovery.

Some members within the party have asked me to behave confidently as the founder of the party.  I love DPJ more than anyone and I have intended to work for the party.  Now, my role is to have the party return to the right direction.  I’d like to work with a strong resolve to do nothing wrong.

June 26, 2012    Yukio Hatoyama

So Many Duplicates of Mrs. Ozawa’s “Letter of Divorce” Sent to Ozawa’s Supporters



The letter of Mrs. Ozawa seems to be a significant damage to Mr. Ozawa because not only the problem of lovers but the fact that “he ran away out of fear of radiation” can be fatal to a politician.  Though I don’t intend to speak for him, I think his action as an ordinary person was proper and reasonable.  If I had lived in Tokyo, I would have instructed my family to immediately leave there.

Nevertheless, speaking of a man who can put into practice such a sneaky behavior of sending so many letters to so many people in this form at such a time, the only person I can call to mind is Sengoku.  I don’t know whether it is legal or not to publicize and send such a private letter without permission of Mrs. Ozawa.

In either case, no doubt he has used his trump card.  Being viewed from the opposite side, I think that Sengoku will be brought to bay if Mr. Ozawa can endure this personal attack.  It is the best policy to make a wrongdoer disappear soon.

Masatoshi Takeshita

* Information from Mr. Takeshita posted on his blog – June 24, 2012 -



How Dirty!  So Many Duplicates of Mrs. Ozawa’s “Letter of Divorce” Sent to Ozawa’s Supporters

English translation of a Japanese article: Gendai Net – June 23, 2012 

Who and For What?

Things take a strange turn.

A weekly magazine Shuukan Bunshun released on 14th run the story of “To Ozawa ‘Letter of Divorce’ from Wife.”  This letter is said to be sent by Mrs. Kazuko Ozawa, wife of Ozawa, former representative of Democratic Party of Japan (DPL) to interested people in his supporters’ group of his electorate Iwate.  The letter, which is totally against him, says that “Ichiro Ozawa ran away out of fear of radiation immediately after the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant accident.”  What a surprise: it is found that so many duplicates of the letter have been sent not only to the offices of lawmakers in ruling and opposition parties but also to the homes of individual supporters of Ozawa.

“I found a duplicate of the 11-page letter in a brown envelope with no name of the sender.  I wonder that as I have made personal donation, my address is known through the income and expenditure report that has been made public.”  (A supporter who got the duplicate)

Around 21st the same envelopes were sent to other supporters.  Addresses were all typed up on a word processor to make handwriting unidentifiable.  The envelopes are postmarked by an Akasaka post office on 20th this month.  There is a remark that “so many duplicates of that precious letter have been circulated!  Some big organization must get involved behind the scene.”  (A person involved in major mass media)

These envelopes have been circulated not only to mass media but also to individual supporters of Ozawa!  Furthermore, at the time of an approaching vote on the passage of a consumption tax increase bill!  What a dirty trick! 

Spirituality of Yukio Hatoyama as Politician

This article literally shows how I feel about Mr. Hatoyama.  I quite agree with Mr. Yamashina.
Masatoshi Takeshita 
* Posted by Mr. Takeshita on his blog – June 24, 2012 -



Spirituality of Yukio Hatoyama as Politician

English translation of an excerpt from a Japanese article: Kyousuke Yamashina’ s blog “Musou Roukan” – June 20, 2012 -

To be honest, I personally like a politician named Yukio Hatoyama.
I got the impression that in the political world filled with evil spirits, he still preserves something like “spotless purity” which a well-bred young girl has.  This kind of purity must be due to the environment where he grew up, but it is impossible to preserve it because of good breeding alone.  He must have had to make a tireless effort, which must be a basis for his spirituality.  Generally speaking, spirituality itself gets impure when anybody gets involved in the environment around him.  However, it is not true with him.  He seems to preserve pure spirituality for a long time.  Independently of how he really appears as a politician, therefore, my interest is inevitably focused on his inner spirituality.

In the Japan’s political world today there is no unique existence other than him.  He is polite, sincere and serious.  People tend to see him playing to the grandstand, though he doesn’t have such intension.
He must get a panoramic view of practical power structure but I can’t feel he is powerful enough to confront it.
This is the biggest difference between Ichiro Ozawa, a strong-arm politician, and him.  Looking back, Hatoyama and Ozawa were good pals.

Yukio Hatoyama, who once had an experience as prime minister and has disclosed his lack of ability as real politician, has only an “influence” as afterglow within the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) but will never stop his own activities. Giving the highest priority to internal party harmony, he has developed his own foreign policies with a personal experience as former prime minister.

As for his personality, I have nothing to mention any more.
He is a scatterbrained and well-bred greenhorn who doesn’t know even the price of pot noodle.  Somehow, I don’t feel like hating him.

He received a doctorate at Stanford University, U.S.A., worked as an assistant for the faculty of engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology and as an associate professor for the faculty of business administration, Senshu University.  He is a graduate in science and engineering.  I had read a little of his thesis before, which was beyond me to understand.  His cleverness is guaranteed.

His carelessness while in the post of prime minister was shown by the fact that he directly faced the Japan’s “evil.”   He was not able to show his potential as prime minister because Ichiro Ozawa had not finished maneuvering subversive activities to pave the way for future. 
Though belatedly, I keenly feel the importance of right order to make things go well.

Speaking about his policies, he made the biggest mistake when he set out “Okinawa,” which he did not have to do so soon.  On the other hand, his weakness in spirituality was shown by the fact that he underestimated the existence of power-oriented politicians who gave top priority to power.
A person who cannot be manipulated by money does not recognize its satanic nature.
Hatoyama should have anticipated that anything unexpected could happen in political landscape because the party has a history of repeated mergers and breaks-up.

He can intuitively take a panoramic view just externally, but he has never experienced the reality of the party nor had to get involved in it.   This is the only weakness as well as the virtue Yukio Hatoyamas as politician has.
As politics is a fierce competition for money, he should take an initiative to deal the cards.  Therefore, he has to understand the greed of money mongers not intellectually but “physically.”

In the coming vote on the passage of the consumption tax increase bill, no doubt Ichiro Ozawa and Yukio Ozawa will vote against it.  But if they should abstain from the vote or fail to appear as usual, they would lose their political life.

Anyway, the fact that Yukio Hatoyama and Ichiro Ozawa have strong will to carry out party reform is nothing new.  I am sure that they will not be crushed so easily and they will continue committing themselves to working for the future of Japan.
Especially Hatoyama is a rare politician who is free from the spell of money.  I earnestly wish him to do his utmost to realize his spirituality in whatever form.

[Mr.Takeshita] I have great expectations for Mr. Yukio Hatoyama


Like Mr. Motozawa, I have great expectations for Mr. Hatoyama.  I feel Mr. Hatoyama and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter are very much alike.  Now many people have got to understand the greatness of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.  He followed the same fate as Mr. Hatoyama: he was also thrown out of power because his policies put the interests of people with authentic power at risk.
Masatoshi Takeshita.

* Posted by Mr. Takeshita on his blog - June 21, 2012 -

English translation of an excerpt from a Japanese web article: Jiro Motozawa “Japan's Landscape” (1079) posted on “Media Association” Organ Bulletin - June 21, 2012 -

Betrayal of Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and New Komeito Bowing to U.S. Pressure

Japan's politics has finally entered the final stage by addressing a significant tax increases with a bucket having no bottom.  They try to introduce a new cause of recession into the global recession.  Workers are already under harsh conditions and some of serious workers are brought to the verge of depression or suicide.  A tax increase is a stupid plan which will give further impetus toward worsening this situation.  An agreement on a tax increase secretly discussed by the three parties, which bow to the pressure of Washington/CIA and obey them, is a betrayal to the nation.  I wonder what would come after the bad government.

Betrayal of major media

I wonder why every political party is shameless and so is every politician.  This is because journalism which is supposed to keep an eye on the Diet does not leave it incompetent and irresponsible but rather it itself has become insane, too.

In such a turbulent political situation, the confidential funds in the Cabinet Secretariat are being used and the moderates within the DPJ inexplicably have got shaky.  This shows something is working behind the scenes.

Even if the media should have honest reporters, their sound arguments would not be reflected on papers or pictures because of executives of editing office and management executives blindly following authority.

Mass media manipulated by money of the zaibatsu conglomerates

Influential figures in the business world become executives of editing office or management executives.   It is quite natural that mass media becomes corrupt.  On the other hand, bureaucrats actually control Japanese politics and the mass media's collusive relationship with them will naturally lead to money.  They will know how much the government's annual advertising budget is without checking it out.

Behind this phenomenon is the mass media which never reflects public opinion.  Newspapers and TV stations, which never serve the nation, are also rushing into corruption.  In Japan today truth comes out as part of Internet information.

Newspapers and TV stations bowing to pressures from CIA

I was a little bit surprised at the policies the Hatoyama administration announced in 2009.   One of them was about a plan to transfer the Futenma base, Okinawa.  He pledged to transfer the base from the prefecture and from Japan. He presumably thought of Guam.  I applauded for his sound argument.

However, the mass media which was supposed to support it reported only the claim by Washington which openly opposed his argument, and finally drove him to resign.  This clearly showed that Japan's mass media did not stand for Tokyo and Okinawa but for Washington.

Mr. Hatoyama's plans of an equal Japan-U.S. partnership, priority to Asia, and formation of an East Asian Community seemed to give an impression of return of the liberal Tanaka and Ohira administrations

That was the very reason why CIA, Kasumigaseki (bureaucrats) and Otemachi (business world) reacted strongly against his plans by mobilizing the prosecutor and the mass media.  When we pay attention to the development of the mass media controlled by CIA, it is found that some figures appearing in the CIA list have slipped into major mass media.

If we doubt of the close ties between the journalists with experience as foreign correspondents in Washington and CIA, such people can be found not only in Yomiuri and Asahi Shimbuns but in NHK.
Japanese have been forced to share values from Washington, not from Tokyo.


Noda, LDP and New Komeito Prevents No-nuke Movement

Yesterday at the metropolitan assembly, a ballot measure on anti-nuke, the legislation of which more than three hundred thousand Tokyo residents call for was rejected mainly by LDP and New Komeito, promoters of the use of nuclear energy.
Unless the structure of a coalition of LDP, New Komeito and Noda is changed, I can tell that another Fukushima disaster will occur.  A grand coalition of the conglomerate puppet government, LDP and New Komeito has already started up.  They all promote a significant tax increase, the use of nuclear energy and TPP.  They seem to underestimate Japanese citizens.  The public is sometimes foolish but clever in other cases.



Unification against the three parties

Form a new party with campaign slogans of abolition of nuclear power, anti-10% consumption tax and anti-TPP!  The anti-mainstream faction of DPJ focuses its campaign strategy on such slogans.  Take to the street after a forced vote for a 10% consumption tax!  Appeal to the public to get public trust!
If a new party gets united and conduct a general election campaign against the three parties, it will definitely get a new administration.  Declaration of Japan as a nation to promote the use of natural energy will serve as a catalyst for rebirth of the nation.  It will also give birth to a new administration independent of the U.S.  Small parties will disappear.  Unification of the public opinion will be exactly the surefire way for promising future of Japan.  Hatoyama, never take down your own flag!

Crazy agreement among the three parties: Japan’s economy will go into a deep recession! (Nikkan Gendai – June 16, 2012)

As you see in the issue of return of nuclear reactors, politicians obey major banks’ intentions. With a two-fold increase in consumption tax, major banks, the owners of non-banks, would make massive profits because people in need get to depend on credit cards.
Masatoshi Takeshia


* Posted by Mr.Takeshita in his blog dated June 17, 2012

English translation of an excerpt of "Hibi Tantan" Document blog June 16, 2012

Crazy agreement among the three parties: Japan’s economy will go into a deep recession!  (Nikkan Gendai – June 16, 2012)

Extra ¥300,000 of Burden on Ordinary Households despite No Raise in Pay

The “agreement among three parties” of the Democratic Party of Japan, the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito has added a final touch to the passage of a bill on consumer tax increase.

The force of numbers the three parties boast of can brush aside the 100 insurgents of the Ozawa group.  However, a 10% increase in consumption tax will detrimentally affect the household economy and SMEs.  It will surely worsen the Japan’s economy.

We don’t know exactly why, but major mass media will never report possible effects of the 10% increase.  It will wreck the life of salaried workers.  Even now the households with no savings account for 28.6% of all households.  With a rise in consumption tax from 5% to 10%, no doubt more and more households will fall into “the red.”

According to estimates by Dai-ichi Seimei Life Research Institute, in case of a standard household with annual income of 5 – 5.5 million yen, an additional burden will be ¥119,300.  And an additional burden of ¥137,900 for that with annual income of 6.5 – 7 million yen and ¥154,400 for that with annual income of 7.5 – 8 million yen, respectively.  As much as ¥20,000 or ¥30,000 per year will be lost for consumption tax alone.

SMEs also directly hit.

Consumption tax is paid at stores by consumers, but it is actually paid to tax offices by small-sized stores and companies.  However, there are many SMEs which cannot afford to pay tax though they are willing to do so.  “The amount in arrear of consumption tax” for FY2010 is approximately 340 billion yen, which accounts for half of arrear of the whole national tax.

With a 10% of consumption tax, the amount in arrear will surely increase.  As annual 14% of tax rates on arrear is imposed on delinquents, it is apparent that companies going bankrupt will drastically increase.

The number of companies which have benefitted from relaxed conditions on loan return to banks due to the “Act concerning Temporary Measures to Facilitate Financing for SMEs, etc.” is approximately 2,280,000 cases, and approximately 400,000 enterprises has survived longer due to the relaxed conditions.  With the introduction of a 10% consumption tax, one-third or half of the companies, that is, approximately 100,000 to 200,000 companies will threaten to face a crisis of bankruptcy.  (A researcher from a private think tank)

Ms. Hiroko Ogiwara, economy journalist, says.
“For these several years, salaried workers have gotten no rise in pay.  On the other hand, hikes in electric rate and health insurance expenses as well as a tax increase for restoration will be burdened on salaried workers who barely survive.  Additionally, they are thinking of a two-fold tax increase, which is absolutely crazy.  Life of salaried workers will collapse.  The economy will be worse and tax revenues will decrease.  Why did the three parties agree on a consumption tax increase?  They must be crazy!”  

When the consumption tax was raised from 3% to 5% in 1997, we saw a rapid economic downturn and a rapid decline in tax revenues.  Now many people know about the fact.  I wonder what Prime Minister DOJO is thinking about.  At this rate, people’s lives will get terrifying.


Additional burden on households by consumption tax increase

[Annual income (unit: ten thousand yen)] [10% consumption tax]
450 – 500 ¥108,990
500 – 550 ¥119,300
550 – 600 ¥121,900
600 – 650 ¥125,700
650 – 700 ¥137,900
700 – 750 ¥125,200
750 – 800 ¥154,400
800 – 900 ¥149,000

Estimates by Dai-ichi Life Research Institute

The End of Ichiro Ozawa as Man as well as Politician: Wife Finally Thrusts Relentless Letter of Divorce at Him


This is a bombshell statement, almost fatal to Ozawa admirers.  Strangely, however, it sounds very understandable to me.  As posted in my blog dated June 20, 2011, I am cautious and suspicious about Mr. Ozawa because his real intention is apparently to get power, not public opinion.  Coincidentally, this article has disclosed this fact.
Masatoshi Takeshita


* Posted in Mr. Takeshita's blog on June 15, 2012

English translation of an excerpt of a Japanese article:  J-Cast Television Watch June 14, 2012

“I feel deeply ashamed that I have helped put such a man out into the national political scene.”

“[..........]  Learning the suffering of the people who have supported us in every way for many years, I am deeply sorry that I cannot do anything. Politicians should be the first to stand up against such an unprecedented disaster, but in fact, Ozawa ran away with his secretaries out of fear of radiation.  After witnessing Ozawa who ran away and abandoned the people who had supported him in Iwate for many years when they needed help most, I got divorced because I found him the last man to do for Iwakte and Japan.  [……….]

Eight years ago it was found that he had an illegitimate child.  The child called ….. is over twenty years old.  The child’s mother was a woman with whom he had had a romantic relationship for three years.  She told him to take in the child because she would marry another man.  So he made another woman called ……, with whom he had had another romantic relationship before he married me, adopt the child on condition that he would pay money on a monthly basis all his life.  According to Ozawa, he intended to marry this woman called ….., but this marriage was strongly opposed by his supporters because the woman working for a bar would have an adverse image in the election campaign.  So he tried to marry a rich woman and happened to marry me because Mr. Kakuei Tanaka introduced me to him.  And he said to me “You married me because you just wanted to get a status”, and instead of apologizing me, he said to me “I have no recollection of your having helped me in the election campaign.  Don’t have a swollen head.  You have done nothing.”  Furthermore, he said “I can split up with you, but not with that woman (….).  I can divorce you anytime.”  These words have destroyed my pride to pieces and at one time I contemplated committing suicide.  To date, I have scarcely survived with the support of my sons.  But even now I sometimes feel disturbed by chagrin and emptiness.  [……….]

On March 16 (last year*  Note: the present write) in the morning, Chief Secretary Kawabe, who comes from Kitagami, came to me and said proudly “Gaining private information on radiation, Mr. Ozawa instructed us secretaries to be evacuated.  I had already had my family evacuated to Osaka.”  On top of all that, he said “As Mr. Ozawa will be evacuated, please seek any place of evacuation for you and your sons”

An evacuation order has been ordered only around the nuclear power plants even in Fukushima.  What a surprise: Ozawa, a politician, will try to run away from Tokyo!  Flabbergasted by his words, I asked him “I can’t believe that you Diet members are going to run away from Tokyo first?  You shouldn’t do that, do you?  Why don’ you come back to Iwate?”  According to Kawabe, the prefectural governor told them not to come back to Iwate, saying that it would cause a panic if they let the public know.  Diet members who are supposed to protect the life of the Japanese people are going to abandon them and run away out of fear of radiation!  [……….]  Kawabe hastily excused himself, saying no men would run away, and went back to Ozawa to give a report.   Ozawa said “Well, we have no choice.  We have sufficient food stock.  Buy up salt!” and he ordered Kawabe to do so.  After that, he locked himself inside his house and never tried to go out.  He didn’t participate in deliberations on a reconstruction bill.  [……….]  It was found that he refused to go to Iwate for the reason of disciplinary action of disqualification as party member.  He didn’t go to Iwate simply out of fear of radiation, not because the governor told him not to come.  [……….]  I have found him incorrigible and have been angry with him.  To tell the truth, he has contemplated to run for the election in Kyoto for a few years and discussed it even with the head of his support group.  He had never thought anything about Iwate.  [……….]  In an unprecedented national crisis, he not only ran away out of fear of radiation, but never sympathized with the suffering of the people who had supported him in every way for many years.  And yet he tries to maneuver national politics out of self protection.  I feel deeply ashamed that I have helped put such a man out into the national political scene.  [……….]  When I receive alimony paid by a divorce, I will donate it to Iwate.  It is the least I can do to show my apologies.   [………]

Kazuko Ozawa

[Mr.Takeshita] The truth about the Aum incident seems to be far from what is generally understood

Mr.Takeshita wrote:
Here are two photos of Naoko Kikuchi. (*one of wanted Aum members: See 1995 Tokyo sarin gas attacks and related incidents)
I don’ think they are the same person.  If a completely different woman pretending to be Naoko Kikuchi should have been arrested, it would show what an inexplicable, mysterious incident the Aum incident is.  I don’t know the truth about the incident, but there seems to be a catch to it, which is far from what is generally understood. 

People who try to plot such incident tend to make a long-term elaborate plan.  Considering that they plan to cause chaos similar to the Aum incident in the Tokyo Metropolitan area, spark a panic, declare martial law, and implement constitutional amendments, everything seems to make a sense to some extent.  This kind of reasoning does not seem to completely miss the point.

Masatoshi Takeshita

* Posted by Mr.Takeshita on his blog – June 11, 2012 -



What I have thought anew about the Aum incident after looking back on it - Fuji Fuji’s Filter Blog: June 6, 2012 -

English translation of an excerpt from a Japanese article of the above blog, by Monju Bosatsu, June 10, 2012

This is about the Aum Incident*.    *Note) What lies behind the Aum incident.

It is said that Naoko Kikuchi was arrested due to an anonymous report.  I was very surprised to know that there was somebody who had recognized her just by seeing the photo on the wanted list, for she looked so different.  Even investigators said they could never identify her because she was like a different person.  She had lived a life of seclusion together with a man in an almost crumbling shabby house with no trace of habitation.  Whenever she went out, she used a car, and she walked with her face down.  This is why she was not discovered.  She had identified herself as Chizuko Sakurai.

The Subway Sarin Incident in 1995 was terrorist attacks.  The incident had the scenario of terrorist attacks in common with 9/11.  At that time massive coverage of the incident was given in a way to amuse us.  A fixed idea that the Subway Sarin Incident was responsible for the Aum might have been instilled.  I feel now that as Mr. Joyu, former ranking member, says, the Aum might have been caught in the trap.