Wed Feb 24, 2010 at 19:24:51 PM PST
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Investigative reporter Jake Adelstein is on the hit list of Japanese mafia. Anyone who has encountered the dark side of Soka will see some similarities between his experience and the experience of those who dare criticize SGI:
Indirect threats, vulnerable sources and family members, and inadequate support from law enforcement in the form of programs like witness protection, are all factors that make the yakuza danger intangible and hard to combat. Adelstein identifies the yakuza's preferred form of retaliation, which, he says, is usually a disappearance or apparent suicide. He tells me of his survival strategy: "You make it clear you won't kill yourself."
In Tokyo Vice, Adelstein's source tells him the story of Japanese director Juzo Itami, whose 1992 film Minbo no onna satirized organized crime. Itami was apparently planning a new movie about Goto's yakuza faction and its relationship with the religious group Soka Gakkai.
"Goto wasn't happy about that," Adelstein's source told him. "A gang of five of his people grabbed Itami and made him jump off a rooftop at gunpoint. That's how he committed suicide."
Anyone surprised to see Soka Gakkai linked to organized crime and forced "suicide"? |
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