Matsutarō Shōriki
 Matsutarō Shōriki    (judo master, media mogul, deep state actor) | |
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| Born | April 11, 1885 |
| Died | October 9, 1969 (Age 84) |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Alma mater | Tokyo Imperial University Law School |
| Children | Tōru Shōriki |
Matsutarō Shōriki was a Japanese media mogul and politician.
"Sugamo University"
Shōriki was classified as a "Class A" war criminal after the Second World War, serving 21 months in the Sugamo Prison in the outskirts of Tokyo.[1] Shoriki, Yakuza boss Yoshio Kodama, his friend Ryōichi Sasakawa, a preeminent fascist political fixer, and Nobusuke Kishi, the future key man of the Liberal Democratic Party, lived in the same prison cell and were never judged. Their fraternity formed in the Sugamo Prison continued for the rest of their lives.[2]
On August 22, 1947, a recommendation was made to release Shoriki. He was suddenly released after the Americans determined that the accusations against him were mostly of an “ideological and political nature”. Shōriki later stated that his stay at "Sugamo University" was an ideal networking opportunity. Right-wingers would, with Shoriki's help, come back to rule Japan just four years after America signed a peace treaty with Japan in 1951.[1]
References
- ↑ a b https://www.economist.com/news/christmas/21568589-media-mogul-whose-extraordinary-life-still-shapes-his-country-good-and-ill-japans
- ↑ Koichiro Osaka: The Imperial Ghost in the Neoliberal Machine (Figuring the CIA), e-flux Journal, Issue #100, May 2019
