Friday, April 20, 2007

YAKUZA JapanTimes: "One of the leading voices against nuclear proliferation was silenced Wednesday when Nagasaki Mayor Itcho Ito died from gunshot wounds. He was 61. It is part of the job of political leaders in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the only two cities to have had an atomic bomb dropped on them, to oppose nuclear weapons. Ito had a particularly high profile as mayor and was widely respected." There is at present a militaristic trend in Japanese politics and one wonders who is behind this heinous attack. The yakuza are not just a criminal organisation, but are part and parcel of the economical and political system, they are not a secret organisation. BBC: "Japan's lower house of parliament has approved guidelines to amend the country's post-war pacifist constitution for the first time." 11:00:04 AM

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