la classe dirigente giapponese non è di certo meno corrotta e mafiosa della nostra.
fonte?
se arrivano a dimettersi per una gaffe o 2000 euro, è difficile da credere. a meno che non siano estremamente bravi nel nascondere gli impicci, ma talmente bravi che non deve esserci nemmeno il sospetto. inverosimile.
qualsiasi libro di politica/storia moderna giapponese, dal dopo guerra ad oggi.
Ci furono (e ci sono) persino esponenti riconosciuti della yakuza, con tanto di tuatuaggioni sotto la giacca.
How about in politics?
The Liberal Democratic Party was founded on yakuza money. Former prime minister Koizumi's grandfather was a member of the
Inagawa-kai; he was tattooed all the way down to his wrists. According to magazine articles written in the nineties, the current minister of finance Kamei Shizuka received $400,000 from a yakuza stock speculator and certainly received donations from the emperor of loan sharks.
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What's preventing change from taking place?
Polticians. They don't want a criminal conspiracy law in the books. I don't think there are any politicians who don't have any dirt of them. And if any politician starts coming down hard on organized crime — if they don't physcially kill him like they did the mayor of Nagasaki — they'll ruin his reputation.
http://boingboing.net/2010/03/18/jake-a ... expla.htmlguarda proprio recentemente sto leggendo il libro famosissimo di Adelstein: Tokyo Vice