RIP 2011. Happy New Year 2012

Sayonara 2011. Welcome 2012!

Taro Kono: A new leader for a new LDP?

Can the party that created Japan’s nuclear industry also clean it up?

The 8th International Conference on Asian Organized Crime and Terrorism

The FBI, the DEA, and the The International Organization of Asian Crime Investigators and Specialists (IOASIS) were kind enough to invite me to speak at their 8th conference, in Las Vegas, and allow me to attend the lectures with other law enforcement officers. I will be spending most of this week learning about areas of [...]

Why Japan’s Mainstream Media Can’t Be Trusted To Report Objectively On TEPCO (東京電力）

When the earthquake struck Japan on March 11th and knocked out TEPCO’s Fukushima nuclear reactor, setting off a chain reaction of disasters–TEPCO’s chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata was nowhere to be found.  Where was he? He was on a tour of China with members of some of Japan’s largest media outlets–and TEPCO was footing the bill. On [...]

Years of Disaster Drills Prevents Tsunami Deaths At Iwate Prefecture Junior High and Elementary Schools

Despite the fact that Unosumai Elementary School in Iwate-ken was engulfed by a tsunami (津波・tidal-wave), every one of the 350 students who were in the building at the time managed to escape, according to an article in the Asahi Shogakusei Shinbun published on March 24th. When the ground started shaking, the students initially all ran [...]