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gogogo, wish you good luck with your book. Maybe I am wasting my time discussing about the book. Sex and violence sell very well in all countries, within our planet. A lot of people, both women and men, are strongly attracted to them. They can be ubiquitously found on TV, computer games, books, and Internet. Someone, like Jake Adelstein, is smart enough to take advantage of the human race's addiction and weakness to make money for himself.
Posted in: Reporter's look at yakuza gets personal
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Oh! Oh! My mistake and misunderstanding! I just mixed up stall(standing) with stroll(walking). I was wrongly implying that some people would have to pay to a street vendor, sponsored by a Yakuza organization, for walking on a certain street in a red-light district. No problem.
Yes. You are almost right. I live in northern Alabama, the home of so many smart people. I live there almost all of my life. Well, gogogo just explained about a street vendor to me. Now, I perfectly understood. I only learned about Japanese crimes through watching many Japanese movies and checking on some Japanese mainstream-media websites, like JapanToday, News on Japan, etc.
Personally, I think that I am better off if I don't know too much about criminal organizations, from Japan to America.
Sorry, I still believe that America's criminal organizations are much more lethal. They are closely working with another country which I can't identify on JapanToday. They don't have to act aggressively and violently. I am referring them to the financial cartels who handle propaganda, financial networks, underground banking, military adventures, border opening, unstoppable drug smuggling, surveillance (from camera to Internet), corrupted bills, bailouts, job outsourcing, medical scams, global warming scams, etc . Like I mentioned previously, I really can't specifically discuss on JapanToday, otherwise it can lead to a big argument and upset someone.
I consider the Yakuza very powerful IF they know how to use the Japanese propaganda to encourage Japanese to get involved in a war and largely manage the military industries. If Japan and America "switch" criminal organizations, Japan will experience some undesirable wars in other countries and so many lies made by the mainstream media, while America is dealing with prostitution, drug, and racketeering problems which are "already well known" to America. I will say that Japan is preferring to be comfortable with the Yakuza over the American criminal organizations.
Posted in: Reporter's look at yakuza gets personal
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After thinking about gogogo's report about the street vendors for a while, I believe that they are most likely to be found on the streets of Tokyo's red-light districts. Men will have to pay to walk on the sleaze and shady streets to look at tramps and possibly pretty women, from low profile to high profile. Maybe women get free passes. The street vendors must know the exact locations to make money.
Very, very funny!
Posted in: Reporter's look at yakuza gets personal
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BuddhismTech
What a hell of a way to do a business in a large Japanese city!
Posted in: Reporter's look at yakuza gets personal
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BuddhismTech
How nice. A very wonderful gift to FBI. Only to support the filthily rich people in America. I will love to see the billionaires to be eradicated in America, so the U.S. Constitution can be restored to the rightful owners: the ordinary American "citizens". Capitalism needs to modified to prevent a few special people from excessively generating money and taking advantage of the abundant profits to promote the political and self-serving causes.
I don't think that the fresh livers will do any good to them, as long as they don't know how to eat and exercise properly. My grandmother is about 92 year old and still walking and supporting by herself in her own house.
Ok, I am wondering if I can trust Jake on his Yakuza report, especially a fight to death. It sounds more like a fictitious story.
Posted in: Reporter's look at yakuza gets personal
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BuddhismTech
Profile of Jake Adelstein:
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Tokyo-Vice/Jake-Adelstein/e/9780307378798
Jake should not fool around the Japanese underground to make money through writing a book.
Posted in: Reporter's look at yakuza gets personal
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BuddhismTech
NO. The American criminal organizations are much more powerful than extremely conspicuous Yakuza and other Japanese criminal organizations, despite the small Yakuza invasion in America(especially Hawaii) and Mexico for drug, human smuggling, and prostitution operations.
The American criminal organizations are similar to Japanese criminal organizations but their works are much more advanced, versatile, subtle, evasive, and secretive. They are known to run the U.S. media (propaganda to mislead the American society), 9/11/01 plot, military in Iraq and Afganistan (heroin market), puppet installations in the U.S. government, and banking system in America (enables the illegal immigrants to open the accounts in the American banks and micro-manages the mysterious transactions without the ordinary Americans' knowledge, especially via the Federal Reserve. The "Audit the Federal Reserve" bill is already supported by 300 members of the U.S. House of Representratives).
There are even further details which I can't tell on JapanToday. Too controversial, ugly, emotional, political, complicated, and conflict, unlike Yakuza who are only interested in making fast money.
Yakuza, despite their menacing tattoos, look like the gentle kids licking lollipops if compared to the American criminal organizations. Yakuza has no power to massively deceive Japanese, send the soldiers overseas to sacrifice, smuggle all kind of illegal drugs, and build many global military bases. The American criminal organizations already did their homeworks to implement these kinds of operations. Possibly, they looted other countries to support their banking system in America. They have tight control of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. If there is anything wrong with the American banking system, it can be rescued by the central banks in other countries through the injections. They are as powerful as the Japanese emperors before Japan's defeat in the WWII.
Posted in: Reporter's look at yakuza gets personal
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BuddhismTech
First drugs. Now books. Sighing.... It sounds too coincidental and premature. Announcement of the book is already made "before" the start of Sakai's trial? Why?
Klein2 was the first JT reader who suspected about her motivation. I followed Klein2 by my instinct. It looks like Klein2 is so right, but I am uncertain if all of Sakai's incidents were staged.
Posted in: Book looks at 24 years of Noriko Sakai's life
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Oh well, I think that it was very naive for Amy Savoie to get involved in her current husband's problem. She should stay away from his conflict with Noriko, otherwise she would look like a criminal accomplice. She is so stupid and loser!
Posted in: American arrested in Fukuoka for kidnapping own kids from ex-wife
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Cicada
Thanks. Seems like you are supporting Noriko. I do, too. I can't read all of so many comments in this thread but I did read every sentence of yours under my comment. Smile. A very good comment!
Posted in: American arrested in Fukuoka for kidnapping own kids from ex-wife
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BuddhismTech
Wow. Noriko must be very smart to abduct the children and bring them to Japan. She knows about the cultural and law differences between Japan and U.S.
Christopher Savoie is now the sorriest person on the planet for marrying and divorcing this Japanese woman. He is suffering the serious consequences for rudely throwing Noriko into another land, failing to keep his married relationship with her ongoing, fooling around, and marrying another woman. His second wife should not deserve an interview with any American and Japanese media. Why should she? Stupid.
I am totally on Noriko's side and very proud of her genius strategy.
Posted in: American arrested in Fukuoka for kidnapping own kids from ex-wife
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JPgirlEpert
You don't really know Sakai alone and a woman's capability to do bad things. Like many, many male fans, you are easily enticed by Sakai's beauty, otherwise you would not join to make your own comment. Women changed greatly in 20 years. They are much more liberal now. My mother said so. Many young women now wear tattoos and even drink beer more. Last night, in a Floridan resort lobby, I saw two women were arriving in. One was totally drunk while her friend was helping her. After that drunkard saw me sitting on a bench, she made an odd approach to me. I was so scared that I had to move away. But they decided to pass me for an elevator. What a big relief. It was my first time in my life seeing a drunk female. Wow.
Posted in: Noriko Sakai hiding out in high-security ward of university hospital
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BuddhismTech
Living with her step mother may not be a bad idea, but her home is still in Tokyo. Sakai can continue to go to filthy places if she wants to. She will not have to clean the house. It may be better for her kid. But she can't look too ahead and prematurely tell about her plans. First, she should worry about the court.
Looks like Sakai is undergoing a major treatment to detoxify her body. This is a big job. That tells her drug using was not so small. .If she used it a few times, she may not need an advanced treatment. I don't think that she should participate in anti-drug campaigns anymore. Japan is already a changed country and stopping to trust in Sakai.
Sakai can go ahead to tell all in her book. Will she sell books in English?
Posted in: Noriko Sakai hiding out in high-security ward of university hospital
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BuddhismTech
The Japanese media and journalists are not the problems. Sakai is. Hiroshi Morisu should not get involved in Sakai's affair. He must be quiet.
The media can report a new incident relating to Sakai anytime. We can make new comments but we should stop discussing any further to safely overlook Sakai's tiny drug problem. Too late now. Forget that. The damage is already done. Sakai did not make a "small" mistake.
Sakai is not like any Japanese, American, or international actress in the world. Once we "touched" her real life, starting with the arrest of her husband, the result was a chain of the succeeding curses.
Drug is drug. Graffiti is graffiti. Arson is arson (not including other arsons to distract firemen from Sakai's home). Mistress is mistress. Stinking condo is stinking condo. Lying is lying. Running away is running away. Evidence destroying is evidence destroying. Nightclub is nightclub.
Arson is very dangerous. The fire had potentiality to spread to other houses and trees. Don't forget about the other nearby arsons at the similar times. Thanking to Sakai's tiny mistake, like forgetting to take the aluminum-foil wraps out of her cosmetic bag, it opened Pandora's box to endanger the Japanese society.
Posted in: Celebrity drug offenders face public humiliation
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I think that it is best for us, including Hiroshi Morisu, to refrain ourselves from making opinions or further comments about Sakai's drug using. Wait until Sakai's trial and verdict time then we can say more. We don't know much about her. The police and prosecutors have more information about her than we do. They are saving it until the court time.
Before Sakai's arrest,do we know about any Japanese actress who was on drugs, having her home getting graffiti and arson, going to a nightclub often, deliberately destroying evidence, lying to the police, failing to keep her stinking and messy condo cleaned to be more suitable for a child, running away, and allowing a mistress to live in her house?
It is so rare, even for a Japanese commoner.
Posted in: Celebrity drug offenders face public humiliation
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The highway guardrail was erected too close to the road. Must be something wrong with the Japanese highway regulations governing installation of guardrails.
I never heard about this kind of accident in America, despite its population is much larger.
JapanToday, please let us know as soon as the police releases the details.
Posted in: Two children die after car crashes into guardrail in Okayama
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BuddhismTech
If Yukio Hatoyama lost, Miyuki would not tell stupid jokes.
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Did Miyuki Hatoyama come to the U.S. to look for Tom Cruise?
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BuddhismTech
Yes. Dubya tells it all. That saves my time from writing a comment.
Check Fuji News Network. The winter just started in Hokkaido Prefecture last Monday.
http://www.fnn-news.com/en/news/headlines/articles/CONN00163325.html
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BuddhismTech
Maybe smelly seafood improperly disposed. Don't Japanese love seafood meals?
Posted in: Police investigators find Noriko Sakai's luxury condo in filth