(Conspiracy Nation, 2/24/02) -- People of Japan! Read this book!
Know that your "divine emperor" was only a lightning rod put into place by the real power to deflect attention away from themselves.
Know that the zaibatsu, your ultra-wealthy hereditary conglomerates, now control that smiley-face stooge, your prime minister Koizumi.
Know that your "Liberal Democratic Party" is neither liberal, nor democratic, nor a party.
These and other facts will be explained to you, modest people of Japan, when you read the book, The Yamato Dynasty. (By Sterling Seagrave and Peggy Seagrave. New York: Broadway Books, 1999. ISBN: 0-7679-0496-6)
Yes, it is known that Adolph Hitler's Nazis looted Europe and the Jews of billions of dollars. Not widely known though is that the Empire of Japan stole from Asia a plunder many times greater than the Nazi gold.
True: That after World War II Germany was made to pay war reparations amounting to about 30 billion British pounds. Hiding the truth: Japan was supposedly "bankrupt" after the war and therefore had to pay relatively minuscule reparations of about 2 billion British pounds.
Japan was supposedly bankrupt, but its WWII Operation Golden Lily vast plunder of treasure was not mentioned publicly. Where did all that stolen gold wind up?
One-hundred billion dollars worth of gold and gems were hidden at over 200 locations in the Philippines. Some sites represent complex treasure map and engineering feats reminiscent of Captain Kidd and the unrelated (to Kidd) North American Oak Island Money Pit. The loot would have been immediately transported to Japan, but the 1943 U.S. submarine blockade of the Philippines necessitated a piratical buried treasures option.
After World War II though, in 1952 when the U.S. occupation of Japan ended, the secret zaibatsu treasure trove ensured Japan's "miraculous" economic recovery. Most of the fortune in gold and gems gradually made its way back to Japan. Other gold was recovered by Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines and greatly assisted his power over that group of islands. And a solid gold Buddha, stolen from a neighboring country by Japan, now somehow resides in a bank vault in Switzerland!
The Yamato Dynasty gives a complex, subrosa and sad look at the real Japan: how it has operated and still does operate for the few and by the few.
Also looking shady in the overall big picture of events are former U.S. president Herbert Hoover, General Douglas MacArthur, and the House of Morgan banking octopus, among others.
The Yamato Dynasty shows how some of the zaibatsu treasure was recovered by the OSS/CIA and that this massive recovery of war loot was known to General William Donovan (OSS chief), General MacArthur, and Herbert Hoover. This particular dig for buried treasure, known as "the Santa Romana recovery," was deposited in 176 bank accounts in 42 countries and was used by the CIA for "off the books" operational funds. (Similar to Iran- Contra and other financial hanky-panky.)
The larger picture which emerges from the Seagraves' well- researched book is of a collaboration between the U.S. financial elites and their Japanese counterparts: a "gentlemen's agreement" that mutually benefited the "gentlemen" but left the common people of Japan and the U.S. completely in the dark as to what really happened.
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