WEBVTT - Part Three: The Slavery Loving Fascist who Built Modern Japan 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:10.760 What. Well, you know, the important thing about growing older 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:13.960 and getting wiser is learning when you shouldn't make a 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:18.840 what's xing my wise joke about a series of profoundly 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:24.120 horrific crimes against humanity, and I I've grown as a person. 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:27.479 So we're just gonna go into the episode and not 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:29.880 think at all about what it is I was going 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:34.200 to say before I stopped myself and narrowly avoided cancelation. 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:37.800 This is Behind the Bastards podcast about the worst people 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:40.080 in all of history, of whom I would have been 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:43.479 one had I completed the sentence that this introduction was 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:46.839 meant to be initially as it was originally planned. But 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:49.920 I didn't, So you motherfucker's can't cancel me. That's right, 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:53.400 I'm gonna go. Fortunately, unfortunately, this also means that you 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:56.120 will never be installed as as as as a leader 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:58.560 of a country by the CIA. I don't don't say never. 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:02.440 Don't say never, you never like what do what do you? 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:03.760 What do you? What do you? What do you? What 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:07.200 do you? I mean? Anybody, look, a man can dream, Christopher, 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:12.360 we're talking more about man Chariot today. We just went 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:15.880 through a lot of war crimes. Uh, where are where 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:17.640 we where we were? What do you? What do you? 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:19.000 What do you? What do you? What do you wear? 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:22.720 What do you wear? Where? What? Where? What is it time? Where? 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:25.639 What is it? Time for the reckoning? As you titled 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:33.560 fu yeah, spicy, let's go. Yeah. So we we are 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:37.920 back in Japan. We are back in and we are 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:40.040 back in well, I guess we're back in. We are 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:43.200 back in the U. S. Occupation And okay, no, I 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:46.959 think up a pretty natural reaction to to seeing the 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:50.320 the words a U. S. Military occupation is to assume 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:53.560 as going to go badly, and it is. But it 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:56.960 actually didn't start out that way. And it didn't start 0:01:56.960 --> 0:01:59.560 out that way because the first phase of the octave 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.480 sort of happens. Occupation by the US is run by 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:05.360 a bunch of new dealers, and these guys look to 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:07.720 Japan and we're like, okay, so what if instead of fascism, 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:09.520 we did a new deal? And so they do a 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:14.239 bunch of stuff that's like really leftist, like example to 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:16.080 the big one that you could never do in the US. 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:19.560 They do this huge land reform package where they they 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:21.519 force all the landlords to own a certain amount of 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:23.920 land to like sell it to their tenants, and you 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:26.280 know it's there, there, there there, there's like there's like 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:30.960 two years seven where you know the US like is 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:33.799 actually kind of trying to make Japan like better and 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:37.000 more democratic and less ship But all of that comes 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:39.919 to an end in nine seven basically a result of 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:43.320 the Cold War. And this this is called the reverse 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:46.480 course and and signifies basically on American business interests like 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:51.000 take control of of of Japan. And you know, like 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:53.399 in nineteen fifty they do this thing called the Red 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:57.440 Purge where they like they just do they use mass 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:01.280 firing of like suspected communists and just yeah, and anyone 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:03.040 who's sort of like vague associate with the left sides 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:04.639 get fired from their jobs, both in the government and 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:08.360 private sector. This is this coordinated and if I'm not mistaken, 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:10.800 this is kind of around the time when there's also 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:14.120 a lot of protests against the American occupiers because a 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:17.240 bunch of g I. S A Are raping ladies. Yeah, 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:20.799 that's just like another major thing that's that that drives 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:25.519 a lot of like the the early protests um post 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:27.880 war in Japan. Yeah, they're also just like shooting people 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:32.280 and we'll we'll get more into soldiers just randomly murdering people. 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:35.720 But you know, I guess actually speaking of soldiers randomly 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:39.680 murdering people. So one of the reasons why fascism is 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:43.480 never really sort of like crushed in Japan is that 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:46.720 the head of G two, which the army's intelligence session, 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:51.440 is also a fascist. And you know this, Yeah, And 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:53.840 I said, like, this is not me calling Charles a 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:55.800 will or be a fascist, Like this guy is going 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:58.600 to go on to become like Franco's promoter in Europe, 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:05.240 like MacArthur calls him a fascist. Wow, the guy who 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:09.120 suggested new king cities in China to win the Korean War. 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:14.040 If that dude calls you a fascist, yeah, probably pretty 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:16.719 fucking fashy, you know. And and this is a big 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:20.240 issue because Willerby's job, like the actual job he is 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:23.240 there to do, is to like just completely obliterate the 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:26.560 rest of the Japanese fascist organizations in Japanese fascist societies. 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:28.760 And what he does instead is he used the G 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:30.880 twos kind of intelligence core to do union busting and 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:33.760 staging false flag attacks and blaming them on the Socialist Party. 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:36.720 And he does he does one other thing that's both 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:39.040 incredibly important to this story and important the Japanese history. 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:42.080 He decides he wants to start negotiating with the Yakuza 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:43.479 in order to sort of like he used him as 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:47.120 weapon against the left and in order to this Yeah 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:48.600 it's great, it's great. You can you can see where 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.640 this is going. He goes in version of this happened 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:55.520 in Italy with them off too right, and I think, yeah, 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:58.320 I I you know, the Italian Office is interesting because 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:00.320 every once in a while they like will back a 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:02.640 leftist like that's like how the sort of weird Red 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:06.480 Brigade stuff happened. But like the Yakuza, they're just fascist, 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:10.760 like there's no yeah, yeah, it's it's it's great and 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.599 yeah and so so Willoughby goes to Sukamo Prison, which 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:15.600 is like this is this is the giant war criminal 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:17.360 prison where the US is holding all the war criminals, 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:22.359 and he meets with Kishi's selm Mate. Now kishi selm 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:26.599 Mate is a guy named uh Kodama Yoshio, who is 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:29.120 he's like a giant yakas At boss. He's involved the 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:31.920 drug trade. He was also arrested for his plot his 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:36.160 part in the incredibly named League of Blood incident in 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:39.960 Nino which is his giant like fascist plots just assassinated 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:42.480 a bunch of business owners, little politicians, and you know, 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:44.880 so he gets arrested for this is nine two and 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:47.160 gets arrested and then he gets released and then you know, 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:49.640 because again the Japanese Empire just a giant cartel with 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:51.960 like a state attached to it. He spends the entire 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:55.320 war is Japan's like procurement guy, which means that he's 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:58.760 running around like basically trading heroin for like tungsten radium 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:00.960 guns and like other stuff to fight the war. And 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.200 so will it Be meets with this guy because he also, 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:05.320 you know, he sold amongst US connections and he has 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:07.400 like a hundred and seventy five million dollars that he'd 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:09.240 made from the war just like on him. And so 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:12.720 will it Be cuts a deal with Kodama that's like, okay, 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:14.640 I'll get you out of war crimes jail if you 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:16.880 become an American intelligence asset. And Kodama is like, this 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:20.680 is just all winds, and so he Kodama like immediately 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:24.159 like basically reforms this like I don't even I guess 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:27.400 you'd called like the United fronts of like crime and fascism. 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:29.880 It's like it's it's this group. It's this association of 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:33.120 like four hundred right wing like fascist and criminal organizations 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:36.800 that Kodama just like runs. And you know she's going 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:40.680 to spend the next thirty years basically just running Japanese 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:43.320 politics from the from the shadows and being basically like 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:48.480 the ocusive politics guy. Now she she how key she 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:52.160 escaped the news in n subject subdebate, Like so the 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:55.640 US doesn't charge him with the sex slavery crimes or 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:58.880 like the forced labor crimes. What he's charged with is 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:02.039 violent crimes against the peace, which is like starting an 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.560 offensive war. But like even that, even if you just 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:07.159 stick to that, like he is the guiltiest man in 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:10.520 human history, like he signed the declaration of war against 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:14.560 the US, Like he is conviction ever, Like yeah, that 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:17.440 really also ought to like just as a rule, if 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.360 you're like someone else who lives in that country and 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:23.880 a guy is like, hey, I wanna continue being influential. 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:26.440 You know me, I'm the guy who helped declare war 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:29.680 in the US, you would think that like everyone will 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:33.960 be like, well, we shouldn't be listening to anything you say. Yeah, 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:38.800 that didn't go very well you would think, and you 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:42.240 know that I've seen some stories that talk about like 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:45.320 some sort of like group of American business may interceded 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:47.000 on his behalf. I don't know how reliable that is. 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:50.080 The other explanation, and this, this is true regardless of 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:53.320 exactly what happened to Kishi, is that like the Tokyo 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:56.080 War Crimes Tribunal just kind of gave up like trying 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:58.120 to actually prosecute people because it was too much work 0:07:58.120 --> 0:07:59.560 and it was like the Cold War was happening and 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:02.560 they just didn't care anymore. And so they do just 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:05.600 like a bunch of absolutely half ass proceedings, and you know, 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:07.680 they rushed like Tojo to the gallows and few people 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:09.559 all the people that wanted to kill, and then everyone 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:13.040 else just goes free. And so on Christmas Eve nineteen 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.800 forty eight, No Buska Kishi, the man who enslave Manchuria 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.520 and ran the fascist war machine, walked out of prison. 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:21.800 And because his grother, because his brother Fusher Prime Minister 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:27.640 Edoisaku Stok is the cabinet chief secretary, Kishi is immediately 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:33.600 driven to the Prime Minister's house. Yeah yeah, yeah, He's 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:35.840 immediately driven in from Minister's house where he trained his 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.199 trace his prison oranges for a business suit and utters 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:41.880 the immortal words quote, well, I guess we're all democrats now, 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:52.160 oh god, yeahs not good. Bad. And thus and thus 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:56.000 Nobuska Kishi, arch fascist bureaucrat, entered the new world of 0:08:56.000 --> 0:09:02.200 electoral politics. God to see it. Yeah, it's like if 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:05.360 Werner von Brown had run for Congress. Yeah, yeah, as 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:08.680 opposed to just running NASA. Yeah, and you know, okay, 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.680 So initially he starts put putting together basically like the 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:14.360 old fascist base. So like, he gets some business owners, 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:16.640 he gets some like old school nineteen already one like 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.960 fascist terrorists he gets. He gets his friends at Nissan 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:22.400 are like, yeah, we loved this man. Sure he is 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:24.880 ship like when we're giving him all of her money 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:29.600 and the other you know, one of the other like 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.320 very disturbing things about what happened after the war. Is that? 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:34.839 So you know, I talked to the last episode she 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.280 Kishi found this thing called the Ministry Munitions, which is 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:39.760 just like the super super like ministry. It's all does 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.720 all this planning stuff and basically all of his old 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:45.120 like fascist or form bureaucrat buddies who in the Ministry 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:48.120 munitions keep their jobs and the whole the ministry just 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:51.079 turned into the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. And 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:53.439 you know, and Middy is that's called middy. Middy is 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:55.679 the core of Japanese post war development. And it's you know, 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:58.000 it's all the old fascist ship that that Kishi was 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:01.520 doing before, except the different is that it's it's now 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:04.280 being used to sort of like it is being used 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:06.600 to to to feel the American war machine and Korean 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:10.000 Vietnam instead of feeling Japanese war machine also in Korean Vietnam. 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:14.679 So yeah, this is purging the fascist is going well. 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:17.440 And when I say going well, I meet an entitive 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:20.079 to two. The US just like gave up any semblance 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:22.200 of trying to get rid of fascism and just unperfect 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:25.280 everyone they've purged, We pardoned a lot of them, We 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:29.640 gave the other's jobs. Yeah yeah, And and you know 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:32.000 the interesting with Kishi. So so the Prime Minister at 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:34.080 the time, Yoshida shi Guru, who was like this is 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:36.040 not a good guy, like he was also a fascist 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:39.040 for the war. But she tells the Americans do not 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:41.439 unpurge this guy, like, do not on perched Kishi and 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.000 it's extremely funny because you know I mentioned last episode, 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:47.000 like yo, she is like is related to Kishi, Like 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.040 you remember that uncle that Keshi really liked, who like 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:52.160 raised him for a little bit before. Yeah, so that 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:55.840 guy's daughter like is Yoshia's wife, Like they know each other, 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:59.040 Like she knows this guy's family. And she's still just like, 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.520 do not do this, do not let this guy come 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:04.400 back into politics. And the US is just like, no, 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:08.880 fuck it, Well he's back. She's back. Yeah, and you know, 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:13.000 so he of us. We're the United States. We don't 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:15.839 think things through Nope. Well I mean you know I 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:17.720 would say this, this works out great for the US, 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:23.559 um yeah, yeah, yeah, And you know, and so she 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:27.400 runs this this electoral federation thing in two and it 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:30.960 just gets like destroyed, like because two everyone's like, we 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:32.880 don't like this guy, and I mean he has like 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:34.360 he has a lot of money. He's like hundreds of 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:37.560 millions of YenS. So they get like whacked. And so 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:40.080 she starts like wheeling around the political scene going okay, 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:42.400 like what can I latch onto? And like he he 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:45.400 almost joins the right wing at the Socialist Party, which 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:47.640 would have been the single weirdest pit of it I've 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:50.920 ever seen in my life. But his brother convinced him 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:53.240 to join this the ruling sort of center right Liberal 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:57.079 party instead, and you know, like this is Yoshida's party, 0:11:57.200 --> 0:11:59.640 and she like doesn't like Kishi, but the Liberal Party 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:01.560 is also falling apart, so he's like, okay, we need 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:05.000 keis she support? And so in three, Keishi joins the 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:08.840 part part joint joins the party and wins a seat 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:11.720 in the diet. Now, Yeshida, she is getting help from 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:13.720 a lot of places in that election because three is 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:16.480 the first post war election after American occupation. And if 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:20.560 you know anything about elections that happened in fascist countries 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:23.520 immediately after uh at the end of World War two, 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:25.480 you know that Yoshida is being backed by the CIA, 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:29.439 like yeah, yeah, And if you know anything that happened 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:32.680 about elections that happened in these countries after World War two, 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:36.800 you know that they didn't Yeah, well, you know, yeah, 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:39.880 this is interesting because it's like I think this story 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:43.080 is weirder than than like the Italian stories, like you know, 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:45.720 and and you know, so, so the way this is 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:48.040 funded is that at the beginning of the Korean War, 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:50.600 like the US needed a bunch of tungsten, and American 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:53.200 intelligence basically was like, we need to keep the Socialist 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:56.160 Party from literally ever taking power, like at all costs. 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:59.480 And so they talked to Kodamo's that yakuza guy from 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:01.959 before the or who will erb had broken out of 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:04.440 jail and if they get him to smuggle a bunch 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:06.319 of tungsten that have been left over from Japan's worldhere 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:07.960 two stockpiles to the US and then they like, they 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:09.959 pay him ten million dollars, and the CIA throws and 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:11.640 two point eight million dollars of their own, and that 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:14.600 money is like that that that money is how liberal 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:18.640 the Liberal Party like wins elections. It's great, it's great. 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:21.560 I mean it's gonna get fine. I bet we did 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:25.200 good stuff with all that tungsten. Yeah, we absolutely bombed 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:31.640 the ship didn't get bought fired into multiple countries worth 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:36.040 of civilian It's great. Okay, anyway, you know yeah now yeah, 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:38.400 So so you know, she gets selected as part of 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:41.160 the Liberal Party. But you know, Kishi is a back 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:44.920 stamiccent of a bitch, and he immediately turns on Yoshida 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:46.920 and like starts announcing him, and she kicks him out 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:48.840 of the party, but she's able to get this like 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:51.839 breakaway factions that join him, and he forms something called 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:55.520 the Democratic Party, and through a lot of incredibly complicated 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:58.280 electoral bullshit, like they're able to ouse Yoshida as Prime Minister. 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:01.440 And then she she has this giant plan to like 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:06.360 reunify the two wings of the like basically reunified the 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:08.080 two wings of the of the right. There's like his 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:09.800 wing as Democratic Party, and there's a Liberal Party, and 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:11.560 he has to reunify them. And the reason he wants 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:13.520 to do this because he wants to control it. But 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:15.640 the other reason that the reason it actually happens is 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:18.959 that the Socialist Party had split in like ninety eight 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:21.280 or something, and at five they come back together and 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:23.800 that just like freaks all the Conservatives out and they're 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:27.160 like okay, okay, fine, like will well you know, we'll 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:29.480 we'll we'll, we'll join this new party. And the new 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:32.920 party they form is called the Liberal Democratic Party. Now 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:34.680 this is important. The reason I spent so much time 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:36.840 talking about this is that the LDP is the single 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.600 most important party in Japanese politics, and in the sixties 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.720 six years since they were founded, the LDP has been 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.120 out of power for six they were in power for 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:48.520 the other chess Christ, Yeah, this is the Japan Japan 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:52.040 Is party state. Yeah, yeah, it's it's unbelievable. And you know, 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:54.360 and this is this is Kishi's party, like he is 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:56.960 the guy who single handedly built this party. This party 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:59.600 would not exist if Kishi had not gone into the 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:02.680 Liberal part Party like tore them apart and then forced 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:04.880 them to joint his breakaway faction. And you know, like 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:08.160 he's the reason why it exists. And this this party, 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:10.000 like this is the party that's the basis of the 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:15.320 entire modern Japanese political system. And yeah, it's great. He 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:18.160 she you know, he makes himself the general secretary of 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:20.360 of of the of the party and wins, you know, 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:22.920 and in his first election, he wins an absolute majority 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:25.200 in the Diet for the l d P. But you know, 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:27.720 instead instead of becoming prime minister himself, he spends his 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:32.520 time sort of biting, like building up American support for him. Now, 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:34.520 you know, we talked about that the CDP, I mean, 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:36.360 the CIA had been having involved with Liberal Party and 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:39.360 they've they've been heavily involved with Liberal Democratic Party like 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:41.320 from the start. Um, I mean this this is from 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:44.840 a New York Times article. We financed them, said Alfred c. 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:47.560 Lermer Jr. Who ran the CIA's Far East operations from 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:51.840 fifty eight. We depended on the LDP for information. He 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:54.880 said the CIA had used the payments both to support 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:57.480 the party and recruit informants from it from its earliest days. 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:00.400 And so the CIA, like there were king with the 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:04.120 LDP on like a candidate by candidate basis like this. 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:07.080 They like, the CIA has their own electoral guys, and 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:09.520 the electoral guys will like go to a candidate and go, 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:11.280 we need you to win this seat, and they'll like 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:13.880 hand like personally hand the money. And so you know 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.320 this is this is this is where you get the 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:18.760 first of the Doulas brothers entering entering the sort of 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:23.840 political arena. Yeah. And then and then it's like, actually, 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:25.720 I SI to let you before you also get the 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:29.640 second Doulas brother, Secretary of State John Foster Dulas, who 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:33.240 like basically straight up yeah, like he just like like 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:36.840 straight up is like the Liberal like he like tells 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:40.160 the Japanese like the Liberal Party will unify with the 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:44.400 Democratic Party and like if you don't like vague threat 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:49.520 insert here, and so John Foster Dulas directly responsible in 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:52.360 many ways. Both of the dolls Plars are responsible for 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:55.240 Kishi like forming the most important political party in the 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:59.360 history of Japan. And all of this ends with Kishi 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:05.280 becoming primary started and he he just immediately starts doing crime. 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:10.520 So yeah, yeah, I mean, you know, like this she's 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:14.000 she's like she's an incredible money launderer um from from 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:16.159 his time at Materia, like you know, and and she 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:20.440 he devises a scheme to like make some money off 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:22.679 of the reparations payments that Japan had to pay to 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:25.600 the countries that invaded after the war. And so he 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:27.800 basically what he does is he negotiates to have these 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:30.679 reparations payments like paid in Japanese goes in services, and 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:33.000 so he buys those Japanese goes in services with state 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:36.920 money from his own political allies. And then yeah, he turns, yeah, 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:39.240 it's great, it's great. He's he's using the reparations payment 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:41.480 to like pay off his like fascist buddies. And then 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:44.520 he does the exact same thing to like the Japanese 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:48.600 uh for an aid like projects. It's also all just key. 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:53.080 She's like buddies paying themselves and you know ke she 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:55.919 he also like he develops the system of like so 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:58.440 she like constantly rotaste to cabinets in the time that 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:01.200 he's prevued like constantly. And and the reason he's doing 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:04.720 this is because it's basically a way to buy off 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:06.879 his political allies. So like, you know, you give an 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:08.680 ally a cabinet minister, and then they get alluded a 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:11.000 bunch of money, and then once they've taken enough money, 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:12.119 you put in the next person, to put in the 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:14.239 next person, to put in the next person. And you know, 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:18.000 he's also just like he's not only doing this with 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:21.080 with like sort of politicians and like businessman, he's doing 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:25.480 this with the yakuza. So what if the the you know, 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:28.080 he he makes like a sworn yak is a guy 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:32.480 like his Ministry of Agriculture. And then there's the wonderfully 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:38.120 named Bumbouko oh No, who like, yeah, it's amazing and 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:41.480 he he she makes this guy the secretary generals Liberal 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:44.000 Democratic Party and he's and he stays in that position 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:48.520 until oh No dies in. And oh No is wonderful 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:51.880 because he he gives a speech to two thousand Yakuza 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:54.679 members in the sixties where like she just straight up 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:56.840 says like, yeah, I'm yakuza, but I do it by 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:59.639 being a politician instead of being a criminal. It's like 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:03.159 it rules and so, and you know, the other thing 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:05.480 is happening is that she's she's still you know, she 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:08.359 she's connected to sort of Kodama and Kodamas like whole 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:12.240 like Yakuza American intelligence network. And so when when Lacked 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:14.960 Martin is trying to get the Japanese Defense Force to 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:18.000 buy they're like F one O four star Fighter over 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:22.280 north Gremmen's h F eleven. F uh. Their guy in Japan, 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:25.280 who just happens to be an old G two intelligence 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:27.400 guy is like, I know a guy. And the guy 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:30.720 that he knows his Kodama, who he pays like millions 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:32.919 of dollars in bribes too, is like they give him 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:34.960 like a six hundred thousand dollar commission on every plane 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:37.840 they sell to get this sold to the Japanese government. 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:40.840 And so Kodama goes to his Yakasa connections in the government, 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:42.679 which is you know, because Yaka is a buddy and 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:45.199 newly mentioned LDP Secretary of General Obamako on No and 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:48.959 his good friend Nobusuka Kishi, and she she buys the Starfighter, 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:53.119 and Locky just like keeps Kodama on retainer for like 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:55.560 the next third the years. And you know, I want 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:58.359 to give people's sense of like how embedded this like 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:02.760 intelligence fascist yakuza network is in the LDP, because it's 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:04.359 not like this is the thing that's only Keishi and 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:07.800 it goes away, Like like in the nineteen seventies, Kodama 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:10.480 gets hired again by Lackey to do exactly the same thing, 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:14.000 and he pays out like several million dollars in bribes, 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:18.560 Like he bribes the Prime Minister again, and this time 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:22.280 he gets caught and you know, he and he took 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:24.639 so much money from like the Americans bribesling people that 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:27.480 like he managed to piss off both the far right 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:29.840 and the far left, and so you know, they start 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:33.520 protesting his house and on on. On May twenty, nineteen 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:36.760 seventy six, a fascist porn star named Miss Sua Maneo, 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:41.520 who had been a huge Kodama fanboy. Oh yeah, yeah, 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:43.240