Thursday, October 26, 2017

Jessie Koumei and the Soka Gakkai sponsored cable TV broadcast "Why I live in Japan" on cable channel BS7

This initial posting consists of a view clips of the hour-long broadcast, with more clips and commentary to follow.

The purpose of posting now is to call attention to the Soka Gakai sponsorship of this pseudo-internationalization series featuring intelligence officers from different countries:
http://www.bs-j.co.jp/nipponsumu/backnumber.html


The Soka Gakkai is a pseudo-Buddhist (Nichiren-shu ripoff) that is associated with the CIA, Ko-an-sho, and yakuza (as usual, the unholy trinity, as it were).

I will examine the Soka Gakkai in more detail eventually, but suffice it to say that they have their ow n political party (the "Koumei-to") that is the coalition partner of the would-be State Shinto theocracy party the LDP (CIA installed, supported). 


Because of their support of the militaristic policies of the LDP, the Koumei-to has recently seen a fair number of defections from citizens whom had thought they were actual Buddhists, resulting in them losing five seats in the recent lower house Diet elections. One reason that the Soka Gakkai was established was to attempt to co-opt Nichiren Buddhism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nichiren_Buddhism). The background to that is somewhat involved, but encompasses two basic factors.


First, Nichiren Buddhism was a sect of Buddhism that came to prominence in the Kamakura period based on its political activism and protestations against the government. It was the sect that was the foremost proponent of the Mappo doctrine (decline of the Buddhist Dharma (law): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Ages_of_Buddhism). 


In other words, it was a sort of Protestant sect of Buddhism that was highly politically active, earning its founder exile from Edo, etc. 


Second, unlike Korea, where the CIA was able to install a pseudo-Christian as the first president (Sung Man Rhee) and to subsequently back Reverend Sung Yung Moon and the creation of the Moonies to establish the largest presence of Christians (Evangelical Protestants) in East Asia in South Korea, Japan has remained impermeable to Christian proselytization, particularly of the Protestant variety. Only 1% of the population in Japan identifies as Christian, with the majority among them being Catholics, followed by Mormons. 


In short, I speculate that the Soka Gakkai is an attempt to co-opt the strongest protestant strain of Buddhism in Japan. For historical background, Oda Nobunaga (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oda_Nobunaga) had an affinity with Nichiren Buddhism and was betrayed by one of his own generals and ambushed at the Nichiren temple where he was staying in Kyoto called Honno-ji (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honn%C5%8D-ji). The background to that includes that the traitorous general had an affinity with the Tendai-shu temples that Nobunaga had raised on Mt. Hiei after their warrior monks had set fire to many Nichiren-shu temples in Kyoto.
Here, I will show the Soka Gakkai commercial shown repeatedly in this broadcast, and then the portions showing Yoshimura Koumei as well as her Tozan-ryu teacher, whom it appears I had mistakenly take to be her husband in earlier posts. Meanwhile, there is an older individual shown in the program that may be her husband, but I will try to confirm that before posting further clips and analysis.


We learn in the program that Jessie is from Berne, Switzerland, and that her uncle runs an aikido gym there.    

The first clip introduces the Soka Gakkai as sponsor before proceeding to air their commercial. 






The second clip I'll post for the time being is of the end of the program showing her having dinner with both of her shakuhachi teachers, one of whom I've known for years (Yoshimura Koumei, her current teacher: http://kunjuan.jp/archives/1872021.html), and 茅原琮山 (according to the following blog, the reading of those characters is "Kayahara Sozan (Sōzan)": http://aoisora3.exblog.jp/d2010-04-29/), but there are no hits Googling that name in English, and no hits Googling his Japanese name that aren't related to Jessie. That blog links to this video of her playing shakuhachi and him playing koto in April 2010: 



Both of them are suspected to work for the Japanese Public Security Intelligence Agency (Ko-an-sho [公安省]).

  

The third clip from that hour long program shows her visiting Yoshimura for a lesson.



Meanwhile, there had been a YouTuber posting videos from this cable channel BS7 series, but he removed them after I posted a link to the series in the last blog entry. He goes by the pseudonym David Bend:

I happened to be checking his site seeing if he would upload the Jessie video when he was making the others private. This screenshot is from before he's deleted all of them:



This screenshot is from after he made them private videos:



He is obviously an intelligence operative who was promoting them on YouTube. He had linked to a Facebook account (under another pseudonym), which I will upload the Friends data for in a subsequent post. 

Meanwhile, a couple of other individuals have posted individual episodes on YouTube, including episodes featuring Sheila Cliff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfi6C7o0KUM
David Calvet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JNfmSTbyCQ
and Mikel, from Poland:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_-Cv5TjJR4&t=1197s

None of those shows the Soka Gakkai commercials, though... I did see a Soka Gakkai website in Japanese website (which I had mistakenly assumed to be run by a Nichiren Buddhist group monitoring them) that links to some of their advertisements. http://takeshi.club/2017/08/31/seikyo-news0831cm/
on a YouTube page called "Soka Gakkai CM and Contents that features a number of videos of Soka Gakkai produced commercials:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2i1iy8wVKsRRb8Z6QQ_-7A
I hadn't expected that they were advertising their own advertisements, but that became apparent after I checked the main page of that website.

In addition, the cable channel BS7 has a YouTube page with 30 second clips from each of the episodes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk0ZmRLZ3FY
Here is the one for the Jessie Koumei episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWyDxo_RKQ8

Monday, October 16, 2017

Jessie Kitaguchi (aka Jessie Koumei) (ジェシー北口, aka ジェシー逅盟) Part 2

Jessie has recently moved her blog and deleted many of the photos I have posted on my blog (you won’t find those anywhere else…). 

I archived only so many of those on the Wayback Machine, and she has deleted many from her new blog, including these:























Which includes following piece from the Kyoto Shinbun, a local newspaper collaborating with the CIA and 公安庁) posted on her old blog as follows.



That image and a part of the newspaper article were logged on this website, but the link to the full article doesn't work:
http://www.47news.jp/photo/1212420.php

The third image is from a recital of some sort (likely held by Yoshimura, center front: suspected Ko-an-cho (公安庁) operative (工作者: website: http://kunjuan.jp/)) featuring the Yamada-ryu strings group in Kobe and with participation by two people (seated between Yoshimura and Jessie) from the Nara shakuhachi group to which I have belonged for the past 10 years or so, as well as an individual whom Jessie advertises/promtes on her blog (in the typical mutual support/promotion practice used by the intelligence operatives infiltrated into civil society as otherwise documented on this blog) named Ramie Yamaguchi (standing, far left) who is another student of Yoshimura’s and a suspected next-generation Ko-an-sho operative about whom I will blog soon: http://raimei.syakuhati.com/index.html). http://web.archive.org/web/20171015184213/http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/hogakuisshin/imgs/7/9/7927e091.jpg


This is a list of all URLs archived for that blog (ignore those from this month, October 2017): http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://ameblo.jp/hogaku-isshin/*






















A fair amount of the otherwise hidden data (due to the misdirection to the new blog) can be accessed from those links, which I have now taken the time to personally archive… She has perhaps been directed to move the blog to attempt to cover up the role of Kyoto Shinbun, which has promoted other CIA et al. operatives that I haven’t had time to blog about…

These two screenshots (not archived) are from an early downloading of a page from her blog (post of July 15, 2014), which includes a description in English of her so-called traditional Japanese music group “Hougaku-Isshin” (apparently defunct). It also lists her performing for NHK as a Tozan-ryu player (using the stage name “Jessie Fujun”).
























She has deleted her biographical profile:























In that she profile she states that she came to Japan in 2004, and started studying Bushido (“the way of the warrior”).

As well as the record of her shakuhachi related activities, of which one page from 2015 was archived:



By clicking on the bottom image from the post about her Tozan-ryu teacher (茅原先生) on this page:










































What I want to focus on here, however, is the NHK angle. Jessie has been filmed by Japanese public broadcaster NHK for a couple of pieces that have unfortunately been removed from their website and no copies available online, but I have a few screenshot traces from her blog, etc., that demonstrate their existence. In fact, she has placed some of the relevant material on her new blog, but you will not find a recording of her playing the shakuhachi anywhere.

She has posted a link on her blog to an episode called “Traditional Musical Instruments: Eternal Tones Waft through the Ancient Capital” from a series on NHK about Kyoto in which she apparently appeared. The video is no longer available:


But this is a remnant:


NHK seems to have archiving blocked for some of these pages, so I’ll post an enlargement of that photo.






















Current episodes from the series can be seen here: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/vod/corekyoto/
The TV video was 28 minutes long…






















NHK is a citizen-subscriber (mandatory payment if you own a TV) funded public broadcaster that has been shaken by scandals for overt political bias in recent years (the scandals surrounding Shinzo Abe and Momii (https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/12/02/national/beleaguered-nhk-chief-momii-unlikely-get-nod-second-term/#.WeTps2hL-Uk, https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/02/23/national/nhk-execs-to-return-pay-over-embezzlement-scandal/#.WeTqk2hL-Uk)), and most recently by the ka-ro-shi death (death by overworking) of a female employee.

Here, however, the focus is their use by the LDP to promote intelligence operatives to the public. The subject of the next post will be another such individual.

To wrap this up, she has recently 
blogs about being filmed for another TV program on another blog she keeps: http://blog.livedoor.jp/kyoto_kunjuan/. The program is produced by a cable TV company BS Japan, and is only in Japanese, the title translating as “Why I live in Japan” (http://www.bs-j.co.jp/nipponsumu/backnumber.html). There is a collection of @70 video episodes interviewing foreigners living in Japan posted on that page. 

Such conspicuous media coverage, focused substantially entirely on images (whereas she is being promoted as a musician) leads one to wonder why there is so much interest in this unaccomplished, unremarkable individual. That is basically the same modus operandi seen with the likes of Sean Lotman, Jake Adelstein, etc.

Saturday, October 14, 2017

Who is Satoshi Shimura (志村哲: Satosi Simura, aka “Simura Zenpo”)?

Was approached for a music related translation job through the JAT website and decided to proof this old translation, which had included an expedient or two, to send it to the publisher. So here is the proofed version....

I don’t have much time to spend describing this individual, but may supplement later.

 He was introduced to me by Sasaoka Teizan, the Tozan-ryu shakuhachi teacher whom I started studying the shakuhachi with. I was a translator interested in history as well as making shakuhachi, and Shimura (who prefers to spell his name “Simura”) was an adjunct professor who had written on classical shakuhachi and had an X-ray machine at his disposal, and happened to be interested in having some of his work translated. Like Sasaoka Teizan, his wife had died and left him a widower, but I don’t recall any other biographical information about him.
 
He gave me a copy of a book (with accompanying CD: https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E5%8F%A4%E7%AE%A1%E5%B0%BA%E5%85%AB%E3%81%AE%E6%A5%BD%E5%99%A8%E5%AD%A6-%E5%BF%97%E6%9D%91-%E5%93%B2/dp/4882932164/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8) he’d published recently, and I translated a couple of chapters of it for him, the entirety of which I’ve posted below. He subsequently used that in a presentation at the 2004 New York Shakuhachi Festival:

http://www.bigappleshak.com/bas/dailyprogramprint.html
























I gave a copy of that translation to Brian Schultz (aka Brian Uneme), a student of Preston Houser (a defendant in the lawsuit), and tried to help Schultz with his Japanese, etc. I have presented the Court with excerpts of emails with Schultz, but not of the following chat, where he mentions "simura" and "syakuhati".



































We were always on opposite sides of various issues, including his support of the linguistically illegitimate approach to Romanizing Japanese pronunciation. I don’t recall who developed the system, but it is basically aimed at mystifying Japanese, making it phonetically inaccessible through adopting spellings such as “syakuhati” instead of the phonetically more accurate (and readily accessible) ‘shakuhachi’. As I said, there’s a mystification subterfuge to it, and that had always made him somewhat suspect, but he respected my stance as a linguist, so I only spelled his name using that system in the paper.

Someone else that subsequently studied with him at Osaka College of the Arts (suspected CIA et al. operative Kiku Day) did adopt some of his spellings when talking about his work in a paper she published (available here: http://www.kikuday.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Changes-of-construction-of-jinashi-shakuhachi_2.pdf) The last time I saw him was at the shakuhachi festival in Kyoto (CIA organized: he is a suspected Ko-an-sho (公安省) officer), and he Kiku Day was at a presentation he was giving attended by only a handful of people. I didn't know anything about the woman at that point, and she didn't seem very intelligent, but now I understand why he was reticent, and believe that she probably knew who I was.

Shimura’s Facebook page his here:

And these are links to a few relevant photos:


























Thursday, October 12, 2017

Monday, October 9, 2017

Who is Chie Yakura (矢倉千恵: maiden name Katashima (片嶋))?

This photo is circa 1999, at my apartment.







































What is disturbing about the prospect that this woman, along with Ms. Ponazecki (or Ponazacki, whichever spelling is correct), who are attorneys at law--a profession is governed by a special law due to the nature of the relationship between clients and attorneys, etc.--are also working for intelligence agencies (i.e., the 公安庁 (Japan's Public Security Intelligence Agency), one would assume there to be an inherent problem with respect to the law governing attorneys, as it would compromise the legal profession, and potentially enable such individuals to undermine the law. Civil society is underpinned by the rule of law...
https://www.mofo.com/people/chie-yakura.html
https://www.mofo.com/people/chie-yakura.pdf
http://www.mofo.jp/attorneys/ito_mitomi/chie_yakura.html 

These are pages from of couple of filings with the Court in which she is mentioned, the first being a page from the cover letter I faxed to the DOJ in September of 2011, the second being from the initial Complaint. I don't intend to say anything more about her presently.