Click here for Full Issue of EIR Volume 3, Number 50, December 13, 1976 Japan's No. 1 Traitor: The Black Heart of Takeo Fukuda Part II Exclusive to NSIPS Rearmament" movement, including Class A war In the first part of this series on former Japanese criminals Nobusuke Kishi and Ryoichi Sasagawa, known Deputy Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda two issues ago, today as Fukuda's "godfather," and others. Among them NSIPS detailed the role played by Fukuda in sabotaging was a young bureaucrat and Kishi protege, Takeo the efforts by the government of Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda. Miki to secure Japanese support for a new international Operating with the active support of the U.S. State economic order over the past two years. Since that Department. the CIA began to fashion this group into article appeared, Miki has suffered a major setback in what is today the Fukuda faction, in what was probably nationwide elections, and Fukuda has emerged as the the first CIA covert operation inside Japan. leading candidate to succeed him as prime minister. Since that time, Fukuda has functioned loyally in a Faced with this situation, many Japanese business host of Rockefeller-initiated black operations both inside leaders and industrialists - although fully aware of Japan and throughout the Far East. Today, with the Fukuda's role in wrecking the Miki initiatives toward Rockefellers committed to a policy of austerity and trade economic expansion - are attempting to convince them­ contraction worldwide, there is no doubt that Fukuda will selves that they can "live with" Fukuda in the loyally carry out that Rockefeller policy, even though it premiership. means the death of Japan's high-technology, trade­ Such ideas are disastrous wishful thinking and self­ oriented economy. deception. Fukuda and Nobusuke Kishi Fukuda and the faction he represents was tailored and The story of Fukuda's rise to power is the story of his actively pieced together by the u.S. CIA and occupation mentor, Nobusuke Kishi, tried as a Class A war criminal officials in the aftermath of World War II, when the U.S. following the second World War, whose association with Rockefeller faction found that post-war Japanese leaders the Rockefellers subsequently gained him the post of such as former Premier Shigeru Yoshida were resistant Prime Minister of Japan. Fukuda is the designated heir to the Rockefeller plans for remilitarization of Japan and of the Kishi faction in Japanese politics. an active Japanese role in "rolling back" Communism in The origins of this faction of CIA stooges go back to Asia by means of nuclear confrontation. Yoshida, Rothschild policy in the late years of the nineteenth Japanese ambassador to the Court of St. James and an century, when the nationalistic industrial development ally of the Morgan interests in Japan, was well aware policies instituted by the post-1868 Meji dynasty began to that the provocations of Standard Oil had brought Japan arouse alarm in Rothschild-dominated London banking to war and defeat, therefore he could hardly be relied circles. upon to act as agents of the Rockefeller occupation. Under the Meji, the development model which still Yoshida and other Japanese leaders among the governs Japan's progress was developed by the great nation�s elite of businessmen were willing to ally them­ Japanese intellectual Yukichi Fukuzawa. Fukuzawa's selves with Wall Street only as long as they believed it goal was to prevent Japan from becoming a colony of was in Japan's interest. Faced with demands presented western imperialism, and he saw· the unbridled by John Foster Dulles that Japan re-arm and become industrial development of Japan as the only means of involved in U.S. military adventures in Asia, Yoshida et achieving that goal. Fukuzawa's followers achieved a al. stood fast beside Japan's U.S.-dictated Constitution position of power in the Japanese government bureau­ that prohibited any revival of Japan's military forces. cracy, and from there used the power of the government The Rockefeller-Wall Street interests - whose pre-war to force the nation's development as an industrial power efforts to dominate Japanese affairs had directly in the late 19th and early 20th century. provoked Japan's entry into the war against the U.S. - In order to bring the Japanese under control, the were determined to exercise their complete will over Rothschild interests imported into Japan their synthetic Occupation Japan. They turned the newly-formed intellectual creation, the "German historical school," Central Intelligence Agency to the task of creating a established in the 1860s and 1870s to promote attacks on faction of puppets to run Japan as the Rockefellers high-growth industrialism, which the Rothschilds wanted Japan run. snubbed as "Manchesterism." The decaying Rothschild­ With business layers insisting on a measure of dominated British Empire correctly understood that it autonomy, the CIA turned to a collection of pre-war was the expansion of a powerful industrial-based rival fascist bureaucrats and convicted war criminals capitalism which led to the ultimate loss of British grouped around Frank Buchman's pro-Nazi "Moral control over the United States economy - especially 44 NSIPS © 1976 EIR News Service Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. with the victory of the North in the u.s. Civil War. To corporations held three-quarters of all direct foreign block this growing threat, the Rothschilds and the British investments in Japan - a total of about $110 million. The Foreign Office fostered a deliberate low-growth Rockefellers' key investments were tied up in their ideology. Through their ideologues in both the British special field, energy. The Rockefellers sank large U.S. Fabian Society and in Bismarck's Germany, the investments into Japan's power companies beginning "theory" was developed which holds that capitalist with a $2 million Dillon-REad investment in the Daido modernization must be subordinated to more important Power company in 1924. things: "national culture" and immaterial "values" and Yet throughout the 1930s it was not the Rockefellers but "ethics." Opposing the laissez faire attack on the state, the Morgan family and its largely Rothschild allies in the the new ideologues of "national" and "welfare social­ City of London ' which dominated Anglo-American ism" glorified the role of the state bureaucracy as the interests inside Japan. With such U.S. ambassadors to "mediator" between capitalist growth and the rest of Japan as W. Cameron Forbes, a director of the Morgan­ society. dominated American Telephone and Telegraph and The British saw in this strategy the perfect ploy to Joseph Grew, a cousin of J.P. Morgan, the Morgan­ spike the industrialization policies of Fukuzawa and British line stressed a policy of cooperation with Japan's reinforce the old Tokugawa-based feudal system of rule financial elite, centered around the Mitsui firm. - but dominated by an obedient, European-trained The RockefefIers, whose empire was built on the bureaucratic elite. The role of this elite would be to looting of natural resources and not in the financing of administer the growth of the Japanese economy, but only heavy industry like the Morgans, were not content to sit at the rate allowed by the U.S. and British overseas back and allow the Morgans and their British friends to banks which controlled the development of Japan's control the Far East. Insisting that Americans must modern industry sector. dominate the world and not "share it," the Rockefellers At the turn of the century, accordingly, one Noburu set out to provoke a confrontation that would once and for . Kanai, Japan's first academic economist, returned from all break the power of the British-Morgan-Mitsui training in Germany to launch an attack on Fukuzawa's alliance. The initial stakes were control of China. "Manchesterism. ". Kanai, along with his follower Through their extensive Standard Oil-linked networks, Kumazo Kuwata, rejected the "universalism" of the Rockefellers, following the earlier footsteps of U.S. Fukuzawa, which held that "all men possessed a cabalist E.A. Harriman, began to sponsor Chiang Kai­ common humanity and hence all were subject to the Shek's Kuomintang government. At the same time, the same laws of social development." Instead, they argued, Rockefeller-Harriman wing of U.S. capitalism set out to "history was the molder of a national spirit that gave break up the hated " Anglo-Japanese Alliance." Japan unique qualities." At the same time, the Rockefeller family's law firm, Kanai and Kuwata founded Tokyo University's Sullivan and Cromwell, and the Dillon Read banking German Law School, to train a cadre of bureaucrats house forged the Rockefeller-Nazi alliance. Sullivan and instilled in their protofascist, zero-growth ideology, and Cromwell partners Allen and John Foster Dulles were counteract the influence of the followers of Fukuzawa. the chief liaison men between the Standard Oil empire Both Nobusuke Kishi and Takeo Fukuda graduated and the fascist German industrialists - in particular from the German Law School. I.G. F arben, the principal financial backers of Hitler. The post-World War I period saw the growing influence The fruits of the Rockefeller policy in Asia was Pearl in Japan of the German Law School-trained fascist Harbor. Six months before the attack, the Rockefellers layers in the Japanese bureaucracy, which ran the clamped an oil embargo on Japan. The regime of the Japanese war economy from positions in the corporatist Rising Sun was provoked into a war which Japan's top "Cabinet Planning Agency," and gained experience military strategists knew from the start was doomed to administering the statist economic experiment carried failure. The war in the Pacific insured the U.S.