山口組が
「麻薬追放国土浄化同盟」
という名で
ホームページを立ち上げたらしい。
☆ 記事URL:http://zenkokumayakubokumetsudoumei.com/
驚くのは、
現安倍政権の
「右傾化」
を糾弾している点だ。
「任侠道」
のコーナーをみると、
「この頃の安部（ママ）首相の発言を見るに、国家主義に移行しつつあり、国民の平等の権利が脅かされつつある現実を鑑みると、憂国がファシズムに暴走し始めている事に気付かなくてはならない。」
と書いてある。
☆ 記事URL:http://ninkyoudou.jimdo.com/
「憂国」は、
「ファシズム」と似て非なるもの
ということだろう。
この点は、
その通りと思う。
ただ、
任侠道から
今の政治のあり方は
許せない――
と言われても、
どう対応していいのか
分からない面がある。
もっとも、
相手が
やくざだからというだけの理由で、
人権を侵害してよい
という話にはならないのは確か。
AFP通信が
今月２日、このニュースを配信し、
イギリスの高級紙
「ガーディアン」などが
次々と記事を
掲載しているとのことだ
（９日発行、日刊ゲンダイ記事「山口組 ホームページ開設」参照）。
「ガーディアン」の記事、
探した。
…あった！
下に資料として転載しておく。
〔資料〕
「Japanese mobsters launch their own website」
The Guardian（Wednesday 2 April 2014 08.53 BST）
☆ 記事URL:http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/02/japanese-mobsters-launch-website-yakuza
Yakuza underworld syndicate in bid to prove humanitarian credentials with corporate song and a strong anti-drugs message
Kenichi Shinoda, the boss of Japan's largest yakuza gang, the Yamaguchi-gumi, in 2011 after his release from a Tokyo prison. Photograph: Jiji Press/AFP/Getty Images
Japan's biggest organised crime syndicate has launched its own website, complete with a corporate song and a strong anti-drugs message, as the yakuza looks to turn around its outdated image and falling membership.
The clunky-sounding Banish Drugs and Purify the Nation League website is an offering from the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest yakuza grouping.
It includes shaky footage of members making their new year pilgrimage to a shrine. The soundtrack is a traditional folk-style song with lyrics extolling the virtues of the "Ninkyo" spirit – an ideal of masculinity that battles injustice and helps the weak.
"Nothing but Ninkyo, that is the man's way of life," say the lyrics. "The way of duty and compassion, bearing the ordeal for our dream."
Another video shows men with crew cuts pounding sticky rice for a new year festival, and there are galleries of pictures showcasing the cleanup work members did in the aftermath of the 2011 tsunami and the 1996 Kobe earthquake.
The website is not the Yamaguchi-gumi's first foray into media – the crime syndicate last year began publishing a magazine for its members that includes a poetry page, senior gangsters' fishing diaries and a message from the boss.
Like the Italian mob or Chinese triads, yakuza syndicates are involved in activities ranging from prostitution to extortion and white-collar crime. But unlike their underworld counterparts elsewhere, the yakuza are not illegal and each of the designated groups, like the Yamaguchi-gumi, have their own headquarters, with senior members dishing out business cards.
They have historically been tolerated by the authorities and are routinely glamorised in fanzines and manga comics. But crackdowns have increased and there is evidence the mob's appeal is waning. The number of people belonging to yakuza groups fell to an all-time low in 2013, slipping below 60,000 members for the first time, police said last month.
An increasingly poor public image and Japan's flagging economy have made the lives of the gangsters difficult, which has made membership less attractive for potential recruits, experts said.
The website, which looks outdated, is an attempt to counter the yakuza's image as "antisocial forces" – the police euphemism for them – by showing how neighbourly its members are, experts say.
One page shows men collecting litter along the banks of the Toga river near the Yamaguchi-gumi's headquarters in Kobe, western Japan, with a nearby sign reading "Purge yakuza".
Jake Adelstein, a journalist and author who has written extensively on organised crime in Japan, said the Yamaguchi-gumi's online offering was an effort to prove its humanitarian credentials.
Adelstein, whose account of his life working the crime beat for a Japanese newspaper is being made into a film starring Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe, said the site was an attempt to whitewash an unsavoury truth.
"The yakuza motto is 'help the weak and fight the strong.' In practice, it's usually the reverse," he said.
Police officials said they could not immediately confirm the website was made by the Yamaguchi-gumi, nor comment on it.
The website, which comes complete with a "contact us" button, can be found at: zenkokumayakubokumetsudoumei.com.
「麻薬追放国土浄化同盟」
という名で
ホームページを立ち上げたらしい。
☆ 記事URL:http://zenkokumayakubokumetsudoumei.com/
驚くのは、
現安倍政権の
「右傾化」
を糾弾している点だ。
「任侠道」
のコーナーをみると、
「この頃の安部（ママ）首相の発言を見るに、国家主義に移行しつつあり、国民の平等の権利が脅かされつつある現実を鑑みると、憂国がファシズムに暴走し始めている事に気付かなくてはならない。」
と書いてある。
☆ 記事URL:http://ninkyoudou.jimdo.com/
「憂国」は、
「ファシズム」と似て非なるもの
ということだろう。
この点は、
その通りと思う。
ただ、
任侠道から
今の政治のあり方は
許せない――
と言われても、
どう対応していいのか
分からない面がある。
もっとも、
相手が
やくざだからというだけの理由で、
人権を侵害してよい
という話にはならないのは確か。
AFP通信が
今月２日、このニュースを配信し、
イギリスの高級紙
「ガーディアン」などが
次々と記事を
掲載しているとのことだ
（９日発行、日刊ゲンダイ記事「山口組 ホームページ開設」参照）。
「ガーディアン」の記事、
探した。
…あった！
下に資料として転載しておく。
〔資料〕
「Japanese mobsters launch their own website」
The Guardian（Wednesday 2 April 2014 08.53 BST）
☆ 記事URL:http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/02/japanese-mobsters-launch-website-yakuza
Yakuza underworld syndicate in bid to prove humanitarian credentials with corporate song and a strong anti-drugs message
Kenichi Shinoda, the boss of Japan's largest yakuza gang, the Yamaguchi-gumi, in 2011 after his release from a Tokyo prison. Photograph: Jiji Press/AFP/Getty Images
Japan's biggest organised crime syndicate has launched its own website, complete with a corporate song and a strong anti-drugs message, as the yakuza looks to turn around its outdated image and falling membership.
The clunky-sounding Banish Drugs and Purify the Nation League website is an offering from the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest yakuza grouping.
It includes shaky footage of members making their new year pilgrimage to a shrine. The soundtrack is a traditional folk-style song with lyrics extolling the virtues of the "Ninkyo" spirit – an ideal of masculinity that battles injustice and helps the weak.
"Nothing but Ninkyo, that is the man's way of life," say the lyrics. "The way of duty and compassion, bearing the ordeal for our dream."
Another video shows men with crew cuts pounding sticky rice for a new year festival, and there are galleries of pictures showcasing the cleanup work members did in the aftermath of the 2011 tsunami and the 1996 Kobe earthquake.
The website is not the Yamaguchi-gumi's first foray into media – the crime syndicate last year began publishing a magazine for its members that includes a poetry page, senior gangsters' fishing diaries and a message from the boss.
Like the Italian mob or Chinese triads, yakuza syndicates are involved in activities ranging from prostitution to extortion and white-collar crime. But unlike their underworld counterparts elsewhere, the yakuza are not illegal and each of the designated groups, like the Yamaguchi-gumi, have their own headquarters, with senior members dishing out business cards.
They have historically been tolerated by the authorities and are routinely glamorised in fanzines and manga comics. But crackdowns have increased and there is evidence the mob's appeal is waning. The number of people belonging to yakuza groups fell to an all-time low in 2013, slipping below 60,000 members for the first time, police said last month.
An increasingly poor public image and Japan's flagging economy have made the lives of the gangsters difficult, which has made membership less attractive for potential recruits, experts said.
The website, which looks outdated, is an attempt to counter the yakuza's image as "antisocial forces" – the police euphemism for them – by showing how neighbourly its members are, experts say.
One page shows men collecting litter along the banks of the Toga river near the Yamaguchi-gumi's headquarters in Kobe, western Japan, with a nearby sign reading "Purge yakuza".
Jake Adelstein, a journalist and author who has written extensively on organised crime in Japan, said the Yamaguchi-gumi's online offering was an effort to prove its humanitarian credentials.
Adelstein, whose account of his life working the crime beat for a Japanese newspaper is being made into a film starring Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe, said the site was an attempt to whitewash an unsavoury truth.
"The yakuza motto is 'help the weak and fight the strong.' In practice, it's usually the reverse," he said.
Police officials said they could not immediately confirm the website was made by the Yamaguchi-gumi, nor comment on it.
The website, which comes complete with a "contact us" button, can be found at: zenkokumayakubokumetsudoumei.com.
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