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Octafish

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16. That is heartbreaking.
Sat Jul 12, 2014, 08:24 PM
Jul 2014

The government of Japan serves the Japanese people in a criminally negligent manner, for a reason.



Japan’s Nuclear Industry: The CIA Link.

By Eleanor Warnock
June 1, 2012, 10:18 AM JST.
Wall Street Journal Blog

Tetsuo Arima, a researcher at Waseda University in Tokyo, told JRT he discovered in the U.S. National Archives a trove of declassified CIA files that showed how one man, Matsutaro Shoriki, was instrumental in jumpstarting Japan’s nascent nuclear industry.

Mr. Shoriki was many things: a Class A war criminal, the head of the Yomiuri Shimbun (Japan’s biggest-selling and most influential newspaper) and the founder of both the country’s first commercial broadcaster and the Tokyo Giants baseball team. Less well known, according to Mr. Arima, was that the media mogul worked with the CIA to promote nuclear power.

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Mr. Shoriki, backed by the CIA, used his influence to publish articles in the Yomiuri that extolled the virtues of nuclear power, according to the documents found by Mr. Arima. Keen on remilitarizing Japan, Mr. Shoriki endorsed nuclear power in hopes its development would one day arm the country with the ability to make its own nuclear weapons, according to Mr. Arima. Mr. Shoriki’s behind-the-scenes push created a chain reaction in other media that eventually changed public opinion.

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Mr. Shoriki, backed by the CIA, used his influence to publish articles in the Yomiuri that extolled the virtues of nuclear power, according to the documents found by Mr. Arima. Keen on remilitarizing Japan, Mr. Shoriki endorsed nuclear power in hopes its development would one day arm the country with the ability to make its own nuclear weapons, according to Mr. Arima. Mr. Shoriki’s behind-the-scenes push created a chain reaction in other media that eventually changed public opinion.

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http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2012/06/01/japans-nuclear-industry-the-cia-link/



We should leave the soil and bring all the Japanese people to Texas or wherever they'd like to live.

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Is TEPCO lying again? nt bananas Jul 2014 #1
I'm sure they are madokie Jul 2014 #4
Their lips were moving. nt Mnemosyne Jul 2014 #8
rofl - Inspections and monitoring showed "no abnormality" at the leaking crippled reactors bananas Jul 2014 #2
That's a very good point, thanks for the info! Rhiannon12866 Jul 2014 #3
'monitoring showed “no abnormality”' - abnormal is the new normal. n/t PoliticAverse Jul 2014 #5
Isn't that what they told us last time. jwirr Jul 2014 #6
Kinda hard to damage something that's already damaged to hell, aye? Myrina Jul 2014 #7
"and they're not leaking anything, either" nt MisterP Jul 2014 #9
And ''plutonium is not a health risk to humans.'' Octafish Jul 2014 #10
Tokyo's soil..... DeSwiss Jul 2014 #15
That is heartbreaking. Octafish Jul 2014 #16
Must be some terrible damage. Espcially to the WhiteTara Jul 2014 #11
From their own reports..... DeSwiss Jul 2014 #12
Thanks! I was hoping this OP would elicit more information Rhiannon12866 Jul 2014 #13
I stay on top of it, but...... DeSwiss Jul 2014 #14
Thank you! There is no way we can afford to ignore this, deserves to be on the front page every day Rhiannon12866 Jul 2014 #17
I was going to post IOW the buildings didn't fall down completely magical thyme Jul 2014 #20
Cause we all know that band-aids are earthquake resistant n/t Strelnikov_ Jul 2014 #18
I emailed the journalists locks Jul 2014 #19
There is no evil if you see no evil and hear no evil and say no evil lunatica Jul 2014 #21
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