Japanese Banks Commit Crimes Against Humanity

Japanese Banks Invest in Cluster Munitions

As if the bankers don’t destroy enough lives, the following Japanese banks are listed among the top international investors that ensure the pace of the ongoing global carnage by lending billions of yen to cluster bomb manufacturers:

The Banks:

- Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ
- Mizuho Bank
- Sumitomo Mitsui
- Mitsubishi

To the shareholders, directors and officers of the above banks and the Japanese(!) government:

YOU ARE COMMITTING CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY!

Manufacturers of Cluster Munitions:

• GenCorp (USA). Aerojet, a fully-owned subsidiary of Gencorp.
• Lockheed Martin (USA). Makers of the M26 rockets (used by the US Army in Iraq and Lebanon).
• Raytheon (USA).
• Textron (USA), makers of air-to-surface cluster bomb used by US Army in Iraq.
• Thales (France): TDA, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Thales produces a PR Cargo bombs. and by the Israeli Army in
• EADS (The Netherlands).

Other companies that are involved in the production of cluster bombs:

Rheinmetall, Aerostar, Aselsan and Singapore Technologies, Israeli Military Industries, Diehl Munition Systeme, Giat industries, FAMAE, Dezamet, Honeywell, ATK, L-3 Communications, General Dynamics, Poongsan, Northrop Grumman, etc.

A list of the other banks that are committing crimes against humanity is available at Bank Track

A Surreal Place in Japan (!)

The history of men is reflected in the history of sewers, Victor Hugo wrote in Les Miserables. The sewer is the conscience of the city … A sewer is a cynic. It tells everything.

More than 90 percent of ‘honeytrucked’ Japanifik lacks a conscience.

Japanifik (n.)

The surreal place in Japan where “Gacuette” (blog author) and his family live, and where most people and things do not conform to the norms of civility, reality or logic.

Japanifik (adj.)

Narcissistic, thoughtless and selfish behavior (bordering on lawlessness) of [some of] the indigenous population in Japanifik area.

A Measure of Intelligence

It can be said that the intelligence of a people is inversely proportional to their smoking habits (nicotine and tar intake). Japanifik is the capital of lung cancer in the nicotine-n-tar-addicted Japan.

Another Measure of Intelligence

Traffic laws and speed limits are meant to protect the drivers and pedestrians. People who break those laws are unintelligent criminals. A large proportion of Japanifik drivers does NOT understand traffic signs, road markings and speed restrictions, or they deliberately disobey the laws “to cheat the master” [see blog content about enslaved races in Japan,] while the Japanifik police look the other way ["to avoid being branded a police state like England!"]

 

 

 

 

Foreigners Can Drive in Japan?

Q. Do Gaijin (foreigners) have the right to drive in Japan?

A. Of course they do, and Gacuette has a Gold (clean) driving license to prove it, too!

Note: The kamikaze driver who smashed Gacuette’s car this morning clearly didn’t agree with the premise!

Although the kamikaze driver intentionally rammed the author’s car, the author had to pay about ¥220,000 towards the cost of repairing the other car, in addition to having his car insurance premium raised.  

In another incident, a hit and run driver cruising his 3-ton septic tank at subsonic speeds clipped the side mirror off the author’s car driving on the outer Japanifik’s antediluvian roads about 6 months ago. [Replacement cost: ¥55,000 and lots of inconvenience.]

How Long Should Clothespins Pin?

On their way to the local incinerator/landfill, how long should clothespins pin? A long time? 365 days? 180 days? 90 days?

How about 68 days?

Why do clothespins last only about 68 days? At what point do inbuilt failure mechanisms and carefully crafted redundancy features in consumer products become a criminal offense?

The “Evil Weed”

Top 10 Reasons Why Japanese Loathe Gaijin (foreigners) …

10. Little Boy
9. Fat Man
8. Missionaries
7. Unfair Trade (!)
6. Cruelty to Women
5. Tobacco
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Smoking Addiction

Tobacco was brought to Japan by Portuguese missionaries and traders who were called namban, which means southern barbarians (they arrived in Japan from a southerly direction), mid 16^th century. Cultivation of tobacco began soon after and smoking spread among all classes throughout the country mainly by Buddhist monks, who used tobacco seeds as an expedient currency.

Smoking was prohibited by the Tokugawa Shogun early 17^th century to stop foreigners manipulating the tobacco market, stamp out spate of fires that started by careless smokers and reverse the growing trend of releasing valuable cropland for tobacco cultivation, though the ban proved ineffective. In 1609 cultivation of tobacco was made illegal by imperial decree and tough penalties were introduced for the violations including capital punishment, seizure of assets, imprisonment and fines; however, the no-smoking law proved unenforceable. To bail the Shogunate out of financial crisis, the ban was eventually repealed in 1625.

More than half the Japanese male population over the age of 15 are addicted to smoking (about the same rate of addiction as the Native Americans in Oklahoma). The rate among Japanese women in the same age group is 15% but rising. [23 percent of Japanese women in their twenties smoke because the advertising campaigns promise smoking helps them stay slim, never mind the bad breath, tainted teeth, lung cancer...]

[Large variations are noted in the smoking-related statistics depending on the source of the data.]

Japanese smokers puffed away at 365 billion cigarettes in the last 12 months, more than 2.5 times the global average [the cigarettes consumption data for Japan varies between 280-380 billion cigarettes depending on the source of the data.] They purchased their fix of the “evil weed” from tobacco stores, liquor stores, supermarkets, convenience stores (there are about 50,000 outlets in Japan where the underage can freely buy cigarettes), on Internet…and the ubiquitous vending machines (more than 500,000 vending machines serve the addicts 24/7 in every nook and cranny throughout the country), making Japan the most smoking addicted nation in the “developed” world. In our prefecture, smokers get their regular fix even while riding a bike.

Japan’s big tobacco seller, Japan Tobacco, or JT, a government monopoly until 1985, is world’s third largest tobacco company with 2006 sales of about $40billion, trailing Altria and British American Tobacco.

The tobacco industry is among the largest revenue sources for the Japanese government contributing about 25 billion dollars a year to the Treasury both in taxes and dividends.

Japan’s Tobacco Business Law stipulates that the government must own at least 50% of Japan Tobacco in perpetuity and, as a matter of national policy, “promote the healthy development of the tobacco industry and ensure stable revenue in the interest of a sound national economy.” The Finance Ministry now owns 50.2% of JT.

Tobacco Business Law also requires every cigarette packet to carry the following ‘warning’: Try not to smoke too much, as it may affect your health.

Smoking related diseases kill more than 100,000 Japanese smokers each year, 50 percent more casualties than the US firebombing of Tokyo in March 1945, which killed about 72,500 people. United States was the enemy!

The author was unable to obtain the even more important data concerning the number of victims of secondhand smoking in Japan.

Smoking Facts

Each year nearly 600 million trees are destroyed to provide fuel to dry tobacco. Put in another way one tree is destroyed for every 300 cigarettes.

Number of cigarettes sold globally in 2006 ~ 5.8 trillion [At least 4.5 trillion [non-biodegradable] filters discarded somewhere in the world.]

Amount of tobacco puffed away (2006) ~ 4,446,000,000 kg;
weight of discarded filters ~ 955,909,091 kg;
volume of discarded filters ~ 2,804,000,000 liters;
cigarette paper consumed ~ 348,000,000 kg;
discarded packaging (excluding promotional materials and advertising) ~ 3,016,000,000 kg; nicotine released to the biosphere ~ 4,640,000 kg;
tar ~ 69,600,000 kg.

Tobacco is a sensitive plant prone to many diseases. It therefore requires huge chemical inputs: up to 16 applications of pesticide are recommended during one three-month growing period. Aldrin and Dieldrin, and DDT are among the chemicals used. Methyl bromide, widely used as a fumigant in developing countries, contributes significantly to ozone depletion.

In 1995 worldwide tobacco manufacturing produced 2.26 billion kilograms of solid waste and 209 million kilograms of chemical waste.

Tobacco is the second major cause of death in the world. It is currently responsible for the death of one in ten adults worldwide (about 5 million deaths each year). If current smoking patterns continue, it will cause some 10 million deaths each year by 2020. Half the people that smoke today -that is about 650 million people- will eventually be killed by tobacco.

No. of restaurants, eateries, buffets… in the Japanifik area where children (or adults) could have a meal without the risk of developing blood poisoning as well as heart, kidney and respiratory diseases caused by exposure to secondhand smoking ~ one! [About 120 food outlets were surveyed.]

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Related Links:

Smoking and the Environment

Cigarette Butt Litter

Environmental Health Perspective

http://www.who.int/tobacco/health_priority/en/index.html

http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Consumption/Tobacco.asp

http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/display.cfm?id=349008

http://web-japan.org/trends/business/bus031024.html

http://www.anti-smoke-jp.com/keneneg.html

http://www.procor.org/section_news.asp?section=S1&SiteCode=procor〈=L1

http://www.kanai.net/weblog/archive/2002/11/20/10h32m28s

http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/intl-tobacco/2002q4/000825.html

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http://www.tobacco.org/resources/history/Tobacco_History17.html

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http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/9/1/3

http://www.jti.co.jp/Culture/museum/

http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/03/09/intl/intl.1.html

http://www.taima.org/en/nicotine.htm

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http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/review/spring07/spr07tobacco.html

http://www.oralcancerfoundation.org/tobacco/problem_tobacco.htm

http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/news/smokingdisaster_costs.html

http://www.tobaccoasia.com/news.asp?id=1111

http://www.bigempire.com/sake/smoke.html