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.

"Find Your Element": The latest suspected CIA/Ko-An-Cho (公安庁)/MI6 pseudo-religion/pseudo-culture front to cross my news feed

There are a couple of idiot savant poseurs I've already blogged about that are promoted on this CIA operated website (they deleted this live http://findyourelement.jp/fye-leaders-bios/ (but we have Z archives.... - https://web.archive.org/web/20171120013350/http://findyourelement.jp/fye-leaders-bios/) is the latest suspected CIA/公安庁(Ko-An-Cho [Japanese Public Security Intelligence Agency])/MI6/et al. front to show up on my news feed is this website, which advertises a talk that featured Jake Adelstein (http://findyourelement.jp/jake-adelstein-bio/) during the same time frame that I was blogging about him (Fall 2016). I will post more screenshots of these people with their mugshots...

 It seems a little strange that these people (i.e., including known entities, some of whom have already been blogged about) keep showing up in my news feed, and maybe they are intended as bait to divert me from devoting more energy to blogging about the younger, not-yet-known (i.e. identity disclosed) generation in the neo-feudalistic putsch by the CIA et al. to establish the so-called intelligence services as a quasi-hereditary estate. 

I’ll get back to some of the individuals in their 20s that are offspring of people otherwise mentioned on this blog soon enough, but I believe that noting the interference in cultural affairs with this group is particularly poignant, given the nature of the diversity of the collectivity thereof.

Z Archived Page Screenshots ('Happiness is a Warm Gun')

You can click on the images of this archived page to find your way into further dungeons where you can gaze upon the 'personal blogs' of these intelligence operative front-people 'individuals' promoting their neoliberal pseudo-culture so you won't exercise your 2nd Amendment rights to protect the People and the republic from "enemies foreign and domestic"... (The 1st Amendment comes before the 2nd...) But perform navel-gazing yoga exercises so you can learn to observe your own anus from various contortionary improbabilities... Or whatever other that choice distraction that keeps you distracted there while the finance sector sociopaths keep their revolving door spinning so your Treasury, social security, pension, etc. are easier for them to loot... As you passively sit by your live with observer status...
e.g., these are from our Fall collection from 2017: 
https://web.archive.org/web/20160608044017/http://findyourelement.jp/patrick-mitchell-bio/
https://web.archive.org/web/20171119015455/http://findyourelement.jp/timothy-mclean/
https://web.archive.org/web/20171120015129/http://findyourelement.jp/kyoko-seki/
https://web.archive.org/web/20171119015441/http://findyourelement.jp/sarah-furuya-bio/
https://web.archive.org/web/20171120014959/http://findyourelement.jp/class/power-un-condition-yogic-journey-freedom-maneesh-kalra/
https://web.archive.org/web/20171120014033/http://findyourelement.jp/class/shut-mouth-move-ass-sh0h/
https://web.archive.org/web/20171120015337/http://findyourelement.jp/class/letting-life-lead-azby-brown/
https://web.archive.org/web/20171120015142/http://findyourelement.jp/class/move-beyond-ordinary-self-tania-coke/
https://web.archive.org/web/20171120013753/http://findyourelement.jp/class/let-food-thy-medecine-august-hergesheimer/
https://web.archive.org/web/20171120013732/http://findyourelement.jp/class/become-smile-ambassador-guy-totaro/
https://web.archive.org/web/20171120013350/http://findyourelement.jp/fye-leaders-bios/

And a couple more for good measure:
https://web.archive.org/web/20171120013747/http://findyourelement.jp/maxine-van-cliffe-arakawa/
https://web.archive.org/web/20170930025917/http://findyourelement.jp/jeffry-allen-biography/
https://web.archive.org/web/20171008085533/http://findyourelement.jp/eiji-han-shimizu/

Who is Elmar Weinmayr?

The individual that showed up in my newsfeed is a German guy、Elmar Weinmayr, (http://findyourelement.jp/elmar-weinmayr/) who I see prowling about my neighborhood from time to time, apparently on security detail. 

He was a pseudo-scholar (philosophy) that currently operates a gallery part time (http://findyourelement.jp/elmar-weinmayr/) 

and has a condo being advertised for AirBnB purposes (https://thespaces.com/2017/10/06/holiday-home-of-the-week-a-gallerists-minimalist-warehouse-in-kyoto/). 

He is being marketed as a "Classic Homeopath" by Find Your Elelment.

I’ve blogged about the neoliberalist psychologism/self-help/new-age/pseudo-religion covert actions aimed at interfering with cultural affairs here in Japan numerous times, so some of the themes will be familiar, and I don’t have time to examine these individuals presently, aside from mentioning one or two in passing.

Who is Jay Ponazeki?

This collection of suspected intelligence operative sociopaths may strike some of you for their fakeness on first impression; nonetheless, there are a couple whom I should delve into a little in more detail here, starting with Jay Ponazeki: http://findyourelement.jp/class/life-now-never-jay-ponazecki/. (Or is it Ponazaki, as in te photo caption?) We are told that she is a "positive thinker". Are you skeptical? I wonder if she's also a "motivational speaker"?

Ms. Ponazeki, a suspected covert CIA operative, is currently head of the American Chamber of Commerce in Tokyo:  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WtsiTOhg4o&list=PLtaSNlmlMEK7PJxruo1dGlZG36XxGfPYb&index=3. 

She is a former partner, however, at the law firm (Morrison and Foerster: http://findyourelement.jp/jay-ponazecki/) for which Chie Yakura (suspected intelligence operative mentioned in the lawsuit) works (as a partner: https://www.mofo.com/people/chie-yakura.html). 

It bears noting that Morrison & Foerster represented the CIA defendant Arthur Brown in the case Horn v. Huddle, which is an important precedent cited in the lawsuit, as seen from the following filings.

Who is Andrew Capistrano?

It has come to my attention that this individual suspected of being a covert CIA operative has been erased from the current (renamed, etc.) version of the website of the CIA/Ko-an-sho “think tank” front formerly called Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation, so the record needs to be preserved. I have located the archived webpages for the old site, after some confusion...

After posting the first iteration of this post, I realized that the name of the "think tank" previously known as Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation has been changed to "Asia Pacific Initiative". Here is a link to a quasi promotional Japan Times article I just discovered related to the founding of the original organization: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/01/10/national/japan-urged-to-embrace-u-s-style-think-tanks/#.WdADk8ig-Uk

The name was changed in July 2017: https://apinitiative.org/en/

Yoichi Funabashi is suspected to be yet another media mogul (like the deceased former owner of the Japan Times, Mr. Ogasawara, examined on this blog) who works for/with the CIA/Ko-an-sho (公安省). The Asahi Shinbun is regarded as left-leaning historically, but that has not panned out in recent years at all. This guy is undoubtedly part of the reason. He is a stealth neoconservative/neoliberal ideologue aiming to promulgate that ideology in the guise of a "liberal international order". 

This is the link to the archived page: 
http://web.archive.org/web/20160310054928/http://rebuildjpn.org:80/en/about-us/staff/

This is the present version of the former webpage on which Capistrano appeared, which instead lists Harry Dempsey (MI6) and Joseph Doyle (CIA) as “Research Assistants”:

https://apinitiative.org/en/about-us/staff/

Apparently the individuals stationed with this front are being groomed for “official cover” posts in the diplomatic corps, which can be gleaned from the lecture featuring Capistrano at the U.S. Embassy’s “American Center” shown below.

As can be seen from his LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-r-capistrano-414630120/?ppe=1

Capistrano has removed this photo (now the only one a Google search returns as a cached: https://www.google.co.jp/search?q=Andrew+Capistrano,+Japan&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjlmavUxczWAhXJKpQKHdhfAFUQ_AUICigB&biw=1280&bih=601&dpr=1.5#imgrc=Mwd-kRO5lprJtM:) from his LinkedIn profile.

There is only one other specific reference to his ever having been affiliated with said organization, and that is a “Bio-Data” blurb which pops up when you hold the cursor over the link (but doesn’t display as an independent window) on this page on the Korean Association of International Studies page that published a paper he wrote:

http://www.kjis.org/journal/view.html?uid=174&&vmd=Full#B

Archived on list, here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20160703113333/http://www.kjis.org/main.html

And in full, here: http://web.archive.org/web/20170930091239/http://www.kjis.org/journal/view.html?uid=174&&vmd=Full#B

Meanwhile, as shown in the following image, there is an indirect reference to the "think tank" in this publication from UC Berkeley's History Department:

https://issuu.com/ucberkeleyhistory/docs/2017_summer_newsletter

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fhlhx8ZbftAJ:https://issuu.com/ucberkeleyhistory/docs/2017_summer_newsletter+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=jp

That reads

Andrew Capistrano (BA ‘11): “Greetings from Japan to everyone in the history department! After graduation I moved to Tokyo, received a MA in political science from Waseda University, and worked at the US embassy’s public affairs center. Currently I am doing research on the US-Japan alliance for a think tank. I will finally leave in September to start a PhD in international history at the London School of Economics, where I’ll study US-Japan-UK relations and the international order of the early 1920s. I am still glad I took History 118C with Professor Barshay.”

In 2015 he presented a lecture at the American Center operated by the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo:

https://americancenterjapan.com/event/2015070844/

In 2014 he had presented a lecture at something called Knox English Network in a western suburb of Tokyo.

https://www.facebook.com/knoxenglishnetwork/

That lecture was described as:

外国人から見た日本って…？
Mr.Andrew R. Capistrano氏をお迎えして日本に来ての失敗や驚いたことなど、私たちからのたくさんの質問に答えてもらうセミナーです。その他、スピーカーの専門である国際関係論という難しいお話も少ししていただきます。
スピーカーの紹介：
Andrew R. Capistrano　カリフォルニア大学バークリー校卒業。現在早稲田大学院政治学研究科にて国際関係を研究中。

https://www.facebook.com/events/1503362343277014/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%223%22%2C%22ref_newsfeed_story_type%22%3A%22regular%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D

He presented another talk of some sort about a year later, in 2015 at the same place.

https://www.facebook.com/knoxenglishnetwork/photos/a.1571578726391870.1073741828.1562885987261144/1685789564970785/?type=3&theater

https://www.facebook.com/knoxenglishnetwork/photos/a.1571578726391870.1073741828.1562885987261144/1685789561637452/?type=3&theater

https://www.facebook.com/knoxenglishnetwork/photos/a.1571578726391870.1073741828.1562885987261144/1685789541637454/?type=3&theater

https://www.facebook.com/knoxenglishnetwork/photos/a.1571578726391870.1073741828.1562885987261144/1685789361637472/?type=3&theater

And this is the link to the archived page of the "project" with which Capistrano was associated:
http://rebuildjpn.org:80/en/project/japanusmilitary/

Website featuring Thomas Bertrand blocked from web.archive.org, apparently Ko-an-cho (公安庁) connected website...

This article appeared in my newsfeed today:

http://www.nippon.com/en/views/b00206/

Thinking Out of the Box: French Retailer 

Selling “Bentō” Goods to Global Fans

That article features Thomas Bertrand, a suspected French DGSE officer with a hapless persona (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_intelligence_agencies_of_France) whom I first met in @2001--as a hapless French student... His first company is the main subject of the article, but he has another one, a quasi-IT company in the logistics sector called Ship&co. (https://www.shipandco.com/en/).

Like Vogely, he is a covert state actor falsely promoted as an entrepreneur... under the harmless guise of lunch box salesman. He has also opened another business aiming to disrupt logistics in Japan; i.e., to compete with the Japan Post. I won't dwell on this presently. He has been described to the Court in the lawsuit...

Normally this wouldn't merit a blogpost, and the only reason I am posting this is because I discovered, upon attempting to archive the article, that it was excluded from the web.archive.org site (the WayBack Machine). This screenshot shows his store(front) (pun intended).

Then I discovered that the entire website is excluded, indicating that it is likely a website operated by the Japanese joint-duty FBI/CIA called the Ko-an-cho (公安庁):
http://www.nippon.com/en/about-nippon-com/

Bertrand is quite the travelling salesman!

Nippon.com is sponsored by the Sasakawa Nippon Foundation, Ryoichi Sasakawa being an acknowledged CIA asset with organized crime ties, etc., also discussed in the lawsuit:

http://www.nippon-foundation.or.jp/en/who/about/history/01.html

And sociopath Robert D. Eldridge

http://www.nippon.com/en/authordata/robert-d-eldridge/

has been scrutinzed on this blog elsewhere in conjunction with another right-ring publication also featuring Christopher Tate... 

In short, another Sasakawa Foundation funded (Diego Pellecchia, etc.) entity (i.e., media front) used to provide cover for covert state actors and falsely promote them in civil society.

In the meantime, here are three pages from a filing with the D.C. District Court setting forth a paragraph including a list of intelligence agency proprietary front companies including those operated by Bertrand.

  

This is the deleted Facebook page of Sasaoka Teizan, my first shakuhachi teacher (Tozan-ryu)

He is not Japanese Ko-an-sho (joint-duty FBI/CIA: "Public Security Intelligence Agency"), but another of his former students, Shibata Michio (柴田道雄, aka 柴田玉堂 (竹号):http://www.baq.jp/sakka/mitio_sibata/) is, and I believe it was him who caused Mr. Sasaoka to deleted his Facebook page after learning he and I had become friends. Sasaoka Sensei retired some years ago and returned to Kyushu.

The story is complicated, but it involved people that Sasaoka Teizan Sensei introduced me to while I was studying with him, including, for example, another Ko-an-sho individual active in the shakuhachi world who wrote a book I translated a couple of chapters of named Shimura Satoshi.
More about those people later. 

Who is Justin Senryu Williams???

Well, I decided to tell my old friend Blaine about this guy and his associates a couple of weeks ago, and low and behold, his website get hacked--presumably a pretense to provide him cover--but much of it has been archived (not by me, in this case). http://senryushakuhachi.com/

He is promoted by the "intelligence community" as a quasi-pseudo religious/cultural figure, but is nothing more than a fraud... That is not to say he hasn't acquired any skills during his training; it is just to say that he is neither a musician/artist, nor a religious figure. He is an intelligence operative; that is to say, a sociopath infiltrating civil society in a democratic country. http://www.komuso.com/people/people.pl?person=1606

http://web.archive.org/web/20161106100931/http://senryushakuhachi.com/performancehttp://web.archive.org/web/20161106040455/http://senryushakuhachi.com/workshopshttp://web.archive.org/web/20161106102005/http://senryushakuhachi.com/biohttp://web.archive.org/web/20161202054757/http://senryushakuhachi.com:80/

The hacker seems to be aiming to install malware, too! So be carefull in accessing the website...
I don't have time to say anything more about this suspected MI6 cretin at present.

Is this the latest CIA et al. incursion into the translation industry in Japan???

https://gengo.com/ja/?gclid=COrct7Xmu9UCFYakvQodUgsLig