Where Was The True God During The Japanese

Earthquake And Tsunami?

Japan: A Sick Society Of Sodomy And Sexual Perversion

"Shotacon" Perversion Between

Boys With Adults

...And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted, Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.

(Deut. 32:37 -38)

"Akihiro Miwa, a drag queen ...is the television advertisement spokesperson for many Japanese companies ranging from beauty to financial products and TEPCO."

The death toll in Japan's earthquake and tsunami will likely exceed 10,000 in one state alone.

Pornography, Sodomy And Perverse Comic Books Abundant In Japan

March 13, 2011

Pornography, Sodomy And Perverse Comic Books Abundant In Japan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_Japan

     A number of personalities who appear on television in Japan daily are gay or transgender, or cultivate such an image as part of their public persona. In recent years, a small number of artists, nearly all male, have begun to speak publicly about their homosexuality. They often appear on various talk shows and other programmes. Dancer and tarento Kabachan, tarento Gakuseifuku Sakamoto, comedian Ken Maeda, and twin pop-culture critics Piko and Osugi are among these. Akihiro Miwa, a drag queen and former lover of author Yukio Mishima, is the television advertisement spokesperson for many Japanese companies ranging from beauty to financial products and TEPCO. Kenichi Mikawa, a former pop idol singer who now blurs the line between male and female costuming and make-up, can also regularly be seen on various programs, as can crossdressing entertainer Peter. Singer-songwriter and actress Ataru Nakamura was one of the first transgendered personalities to become highly popular in Japan; in fact, sales of her music rose after she discussed her MTF gender reassignment surgery on the variety show Boku no Ongaku in 2006.

     However, some non-gay entertainers have used stereotypical references to homosexuality to increase their profile. Razor Ramon Hard Gay (HG), a comedian, shot to fame after he began to appear in public wearing a leather harness, hot pants and cap. His outfit, name, and trademark pelvis thrusting and squeals earned him the adoration of fans and the scorn of many in the Japanese gay community. Recently, Ai Haruna and Ayana Tsubaki, two high profile transsexual celebrities, have gained popularity and have been making the rounds on some very popular Japanese variety shows. Famous LGBT bloggers have began to gain more traction with the Japanese public, even often attracting fans and readers from outside Japan. A greater amount of gay and transgender characters have also begun appearing (with positive portrayals) on Japanese television, such as the highly successful Hanazakari no Kimitachie and Last Friends television series.

    MediaWith the rise of visible gay community and the attendant rise of media for gay audiences, the Hadaka Matsuri ("Naked Festival") has become a fantasy scenario for gay videos. There is a genre of anime and manga that focuses on gay male romance (and sometimes explicit content) known as yaoi. Yaoi titles are primarily marketed to women, and are commonplace in bookstores (normally found in or near to the shōjo manga section). Various terms are used in Japan to refer to yaoi. The blanket term "yaoi" is an acronym for the phrase "Yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi", which means "no peak, no point, no meaning." (A backronym meant as a joke identifies it as "Yamete, oshiri (ga) itai" which literally means "Stop, my _____ hurts!").

     "June" refers to plots containing romance and drama that feature mature, adult male characters. "BL" ("Boys' Love") refers to stories that either contain younger characters, or more light-hearted romance (as an alternative to more sexual content). The phrase "shōnen-ai", translated from Japanese in the past as "boy love," is used to describe non-sexual homosexuality in either adult male characters or younger male characters. When manga or anime depicts sexual activities between young boys, or young boys with adults (male or female), it is known as "shotacon," which should not be confused with "shōnen-ai." Among the large fan demographics in Western countries, this terminology is more or less condensed to "yaoi" and "shōnen-ai;" "yaoi" is used in reference to graphic descriptions of homosexual sex and/or adult drama, and "shōnen-ai" is used in reference to romantic situations with younger characters. Gei-comi ("gay-comics") are gay-romance themed comics aimed at gay men. While yaoi comics often assign one partner to a stereotypical heterosexual female role, gei-comi generally depict both partners as masculine and in an equal relationship.

     Lesbian-romance themed anime and manga is known as yuri (which means "lily"). Yuri is used as a catch-all term, much more so than yaoi; it is used to describe female-female relationships in material marketed to straight men, straight women, or lesbians, despite significant stylistic and thematic differences between works aimed at these different audiences. Another word that has recently become popular in Japan as an equivalent of yuri is "GL" (meaning "Girls' Love" and obviously inspired by "Boys' Love"). Unlike yaoi, yuri is aimed at a more widespread audience. There are a variety of yuri titles (or titles that heavily integrate yuri content) aimed at women, such as Revolutionary Girl Utena, Oniisama E, Maria-sama ga Miteru, Sailor Moon (most notably the third season, as well as the fifth season), Strawberry Shake Sweet, Love My Life, etc.; and there are a variety of yuri titles (or titles that heavily integrate yuri content) aimed at men, such as Kannazuki no Miko, Strawberry Panic! (although it was written by Sakurako Kimino, a female author), Simoun, and My-Hime. There are two manga magazines currently running in Japan that focus solely on yuri stories: Comic Yuri Hime (which is primarily aimed at women), and its newer spin-off, Comic Yuri Hime S (which is primarily aimed at men). While more yaoi manga exists, more yuri tends to be animated.

Abortion Is De Facto Legal In Japan

March 13, 2011

Abortion is de facto legal in Japan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Japan

     Abortion is de facto legal in Japan, with some limitations. Approved doctors can practice abortion to anyone who requests it, under the name of Socioeconomic Abortion stated in Maternal Health Protection Law. Abortion can only be carried out by the doctors approved by the prefectural government and any other persons, including the mother herself, trying to abort the fetus will be punished by the law. Anyone trying to practice abortion without the consent of the mother will also be punished, including the doctors. Oral contraceptives have limited availability, but the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan announced that oral contraceptives will be approved by the end of year 2010.

     Japanese documents show records of induced abortion from as early as the 12th century. It was legal during the Edo period for the peasant class, who had difficulties with the recurrent famines and high taxation of the time. In 1842, the Shogunate in Japan banned induced abortion in Edo, but the law did not affect the rest of the country until 1869, when abortion was banned nation-wide. In 1948 Japan legalized abortion under special circumstances. The country became one of the first to legalize induced abortion through the Eugenic Protection Law of 1948. This law was revised as the Maternal Body Protection Law in 1996.

     Currently, abortion is widely accepted in Japan. According to a survey conducted in 1998, 79 percent of unmarried and 85 percent of married women approved of abortion. According to researchers at Osaka University 341,588 legal abortions were carried out in Japan in 2001, showing a 2.5 per cent increase from 1998 to 2001. However, in 2007 the figure had decreased to around 256,000.

Prostitution In Japan

March 13, 2011

Prostitution In Japan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Japan

     Legal status Article 3 of the Anti-Prostitution Law (Baishun Bōshi Hō) of 1956 states that "No person may either do prostitution or become the customer of it," but no judicial penalty is defined for this act. The definition of prostitution is strictly limited to coitus. This means sale of numerous acts such as oral sex, anal sex, intercrural sex, and other non-coital sex acts are all legal. The Businesses Affecting Public Morals Regulation Law of 1948 ( Fūzoku Eigyō Torishimari Hō?), amended in 1985 and 1999, regulates these businesses.  Soaplands town "yoshiwara:" The sex industry in Japan uses a variety of names. Soaplands are bath houses where customers are soaped up and serviced by staff. Fashion health shops and pink salons are notionally massage or esthetic treatment parlors, and image clubs are themed versions of the same. Call girls operate via delivery health services. Freelancers can get in contact with potential customers via telekura (telephone clubs), and the actual act of prostitution is legally called enjo kōsai or "compensated dating" to avoid legal trouble. Kabukicho, an entertainment and red-light district in Shinjuku, Tokyo, measures only 0.34 km2, and has approximately 3,500 sex parlors, strip theaters, peep shows, "soaplands," 'lovers' banks, porno shops, sex telephone clubs, karaoke bars and clubs, etc.

     Tokyo prostitution: In Tokyo, prostitution is among the oldest forms of commerce, with a history of several hundred years. In the early 17th century, first attempts were made to criminalize prostitution in Yoshiwara in Edo (present-day Tokyo). A law was passed which required prostitutes to register and work in secured facilities, its main purpose being for tax collection. Prostitutes were divided into classes or ranks, and the men of society would use the services of those afforded to their position in the city. In modern times, Tokyo's prostitution trade is well regarded for its high class of services and large customer base. Because of Tokyo's position as a top 5 global business and trade city, prostitution continues to thrive in Tokyo. Clients on business trips or trade conventions, along with traditional tourists, continue to provide demands for Tokyo's sex industry, providing economic benefits.

   "Several terms have been used

for euphemisms for the sex industry in Japan"

Baishun literally "selling spring" or "selling youth," has turned from a mere euphemism into a legal, the modern meaning of the word is quite specific and is usually only used for actual prostitution. The word for "prostitute" in Japanese is "baishunfu."

Mizu shōbai the "water trade," is a wider term that covers the entire entertainment industry, including the legitimate, the illegal, and the borderline.

Fūzoku literally "public morals," is commonly used to refer specifically to the sex industry, although in legal use this covers also e.g., dance halls and gambling and the more specific term seifūzoku "sexual morals" is used instead. The term originates from a law regulating business affecting public morals.

Human trafficking in Japan: Japan is a top destination for victims of human trafficking, according to a report produced by the UNODC. Women and children from East Asia, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, Russia, and Latin America are trafficked to Japan for commercial sexual exploitation.

Bureaucratic Corruption in Japan

April 2001

JPRI Working Paper No. 76,

Bureaucratic Corruption in Japan

by David T. Johnson

http://www.jpri.org/publications/workingpapers/wp76.html

     There is a persistent myth in Japanese studies that politicians are dirty but bureaucrats are clean. Though bureaucrats have been involved in all of the major post-war scandals and have been the primary culprits in many, the myth persists.

-- Steven R. Reed

     Nonsense is hard to stomach, no matter who dishes it out, but it is especially distasteful when disingenuously offered up by a government in the guise of an official report. Japan's Foreign Ministry (Gaimusho) recently issued such a report, on a senior official's embezzlement of huge sums from a secret fund ostensibly designed to help diplomats build relations with foreign countries. The official, Katsutoshi Matsuo, headed the Gaimusho's Overseas Visit Support Division between October 1993 and August 1999, where he helped organize trips by prime-ministers, diplomats, and other high-ranking governmental officials. But Matsuo routinely deposited secret Gaimusho funds in his personal bank accounts, from which he then paid for his own trips and trysts with various mistresses. He also purchased eight golf club memberships, five of which together cost 43 million yen, fifteen racehorses for some 140 million yen, and a luxury condominium in Tokyo's Bunkyo ward for a mere 80 million yen. Until his arrest in late January, 2001, Matsuo had obviously been living beyond his salaried means.

      The Foreign Ministry's report maintains that Matsuo is a single bad apple in the Gaimusho barrel. But the notion that Matsuo could conduct this massive embezzlement-- measured in millions of dollars-- while other Ministry officials remained unaware and uninvolved is implausible in the extreme. Money is mother's milk for the Ministry, and it stretches credulity beyond the snapping point to suppose that Matsuo is the only official who illicitly stole from the $47 million (5.6 billion yen) in classified annual funds.

     There are three plausible possibilities: Ministry managers either knew about and condoned the crimes, or they were grossly negligent in managing their budget, or both. The Ministry's report is couched in convenient euphemisms that obscure the secret nature of the funds. Its "bad apple" theory is not only incredible; it is also inconsistent with what anonymous Ministry officials have revealed to reporters-- namely, that Japanese diplomats think nothing of using official funds for purposes that have little to do with their work. Indeed, several Gaimusho officials have acknowledged that proficiency in embezzlement is one fast track to success. "The more a non-career official can squeeze cash through unofficial channels for high-ranking officials to spend freely," one bureaucrat reports, "the more likely it is for that person to be promoted. There are many government officials both inside and outside Japan who could easily become another Matsuo."

     Readers of the Japanese press may recall similar revelations about fiscal misconduct in other parts of Japan's bureaucracy. To take only the most troubling example, the creation of slush funds-- uragane-- by cooking the books through illicit accounting -- fusei keiri -- has been practiced for decades by Japan's most powerful administrative agency: the police. Notwithstanding the prevailing view that police in Japan are as pure as the driven snow, the evidence that they misuse tax money is abundant. In 1984, for example, Tadamitsu Matsuhashi, a former supervisor of superintendents in the National Police Agency, wrote a book revealing that "police organizations all over Japan are manufacturing slush funds." In subsequent years reporters have documented police slush-fund crimes in Tokyo, Nagoya, Nagasaki, and elsewhere. In just the last two years, emboldened by revelations in several police scandals, ex-cops have authored books documenting how police organizations systematically divert money from their budgets to cover under-the-table transfers to senior police officials and to pay for gifts, entertainment, and other illicit purposes.

     Then there were the Ministry of Finance (MOF) wining-and-dining scandals that were uncovered in 1997-98. Although the subsequent investigations revealed that hundreds of MOF officials engaged in illegal and unseemly acts, precisely one official on the elite career track was charged with a crime. Internally, MOF itself disciplined at least 112 officials, but the punishments were light and were directed only against personnel who accepted entertainment from financial institutions and insurance companies. Budget Bureau officials who were wined and dined by bureaucrats from other agencies (kankan settai) got off scot-free.

Police Corruption

     Police corruption is a double problem: it reinforces a culture of secrecy and deceit that is itself a breeding ground for police abuses ranging from perjury to brutality, and it prevents police from properly enforcing criminal laws against other bureaucratic wrongdoers. Police responses to allegations of misconduct take two main forms. Usually they attempt to "kill complaints with silence" (mokusatsu suru), in large part because police managers strictly enforce a code of silence against their subordinates. As former Tokyo Metropolitan Police officer Akio Kuroki has written, cops who tell tales out of class, no matter how truthful, are certain to suffer severe career consequences.

     When silence fails to quell the criticism the police resort to their second strategy: they issue nonsensical "reports" of the kind the Foreign Ministry recently produced. These reports pin police problems on one or a few individuals, thereby denying the need for change in the police's organizational culture and the need for creating external organs that would hold police more accountable for how they spend their huge budget and exercise their formidable powers.

     In December 2000, Japan's Management and Coordination Agency finally said enough is enough. For the first time in the postwar period it conducted an administrative inspection of the police and issued a report and advisory of its own. The latter mandates that police redo their inquiry into police misconduct and produce another report, minus the nonsense. Time will tell whether the police comply. I am hopeful but not optimistic. There is plenty of reason for pessimism. At the end of the year 2000, for example, during which Japan had experienced an unprecedented number of police scandals, the Asahi Shimbun surveyed thirteen prefectural police departments in order to ask what they considered the year's top ten news stories from their respective beats. Almost all the departments responded with resounding success stories, from big cases cracked to well-run security at official events. As one cop critic succinctly summarizes the situation, everyone fears the police but the police fear no one.

Lessons

     There are at least two lessons to be learned from these tales of bureaucratic corruption. First, it appears that students of Japan-- and academics especially-- have been mistaken about one big fact concerning that country's leaders. We knew that politicians were dirty, but we also believed that bureaucrats were unsullied by the grime of crime and corruption. We were wrong.

     Second, the opaqueness of decision-making in Japan's bureaucracy is a recipe for robbery of the taxpayers' money. This, more than anything, is the thread that connects abuses in the Foreign and Finance Ministries and in various police departments. The treatment for this disease arises directly from the diagnosis. Transparency must be the first and biggest plank in any platform proposing to solve government graft.

     There is good news and bad news about the prospects for reform. The good news is that in April 2001, when Japan's new freedom of information act goes into effect, disclosure of how taxpayers' money is spent will become, in principle, the rule. This law is long overdue. The bad news comes in two installments. First, the police remain, in crucial respects, "beyond the scope" of the new law's purview. Even in Miyagi prefecture, where the citizens' ombudsman has fought valiantly for greater police openness, the government eventually capitulated to almost all police demands for sustained secrecy. The closure of police and diplomatic budgets to outside scrutiny is a problem to which the answer is known. Unfortunately, the political will to implement the answer is absent.

      There is more bad news. The new freedom of information law, like the many laws already on the books that could be used to target financial improprieties, will be only as strong as its enforcers are skillful and vigorous. Judging from recent history, there is more than ample reason to believe that the big gap between "the law on the books" and "the law in action" will continue to yawn wide even after the new law goes into effect. For example, the Board of Audit (Kaikei Kensain), which is constitutionally charged with overseeing how tax money is spent, has been singularly unwilling to follow any of the many leads it has had into police slush funds and illegal accounting. Indeed, every year for the last half-century the Board has exposed not a single case of improper police accounting.

     The Prosecutors' Office has done no better. Between 1980 and early 1999, prosecutors had received eleven complaints about illegal accounting in various administrative agencies (these are just the complaints they accepted; prosecutors refused to hear many more). Of the nine cases prosecutors have decided so far, all ended in "no indictment."14 It appears that leniency in the procuracy arises in part because prosecutors create and misuse slush funds as much as other bureaucrats do. For instance, investigative reporters for a Japanese monthly magazine recently revealed that the procuracy receives about two million dollars each year for special "information gathering" and "investigative activities." These funds are known as chosa katsudohi, or chokatsu for short, and neither prosecutors nor their bosses in the Ministry of Justice are obligated to divulge how the money is spent.

     Reporters found that Shunsuke Kano, the current chief prosecutor (kenjisei) of the Osaka District Prosecutors Office, embezzled thirty to fifty thousand dollars from this account when he was chief prosecutor of the Kochi District Prosecutors Office between July 1995 and July 1996. Kano is said to have spent the money on meals at high-class restaurants, entertainment at bars and nightclubs, and golf. As in the police department, this misspent money was mobilized by subordinates who concealed it in a second set of account books. And as in the police department, embezzlement resulted in excessive leniency toward other white-collar offenders.

     In May 2000, after a three-year investigation into alleged embezzlement by twenty-five officials in the Osaka prefectural government, prosecutors in Osaka found "insufficient evidence" to indict three of the twenty-five officials but adequate proof to charge the other twenty-two with crimes. However, none was indicted. "In consideration of extenuating circumstances" (the embezzlers returned the stolen loot during the course of the investigation) prosecutors suspended charges (kiso yuyo) against all the wrongdoers. Front-line prosecutors wanted to proceed to trial but their boss -- the same Kano -- killed the cases. In the procuracy, as in the police department, corruption debases justice.

Conclusion

     Students of Japanese government disagree over the prospects for purifying a system that has been characterized as "rotten to the core. Some contend that "there is far less corruption now than there was in the past" and predict that corruption is "almost certain to continue to decline in importance" in years to come. Others argue that corruption "will continue to flourish in Japan" because its cultural roots are deeply imbedded in government and society. I doubt that corruption in the bureaucracy has declined. If anything, the number and seriousness of bureaucratic scandals have increased during the last decade (although the relationship between "corruption revealed" and "real corruption" is famously difficult to discern). Whatever the long-range realities, one may still ask who, ultimately, is responsible for the dirty messes Japan's government so frequently finds itself in. For me at least, this question admits no easy answer.

Where Was The True God During The Japanese Earthquake?

    Japan is a perverse society that exploits children and sex. The government is corrupt and covers up these crimes. Sodomy is overtaking Japan and the Lord will not let these wicked crimes go unpunished. The Lord has sent many true, Bible believing missionaries over the centuries and still the nation refuses to repent. The Lord will not help because the Japanese are not trusting in the true God nor have repented and asked the Lord for His help. The Lord is asking where are the false gods of the Japanese now? They have sacrificed and worshiped to these false gods that cannot see or hear and they cannot help them now. It is nice the world is pouring help into Japan but it will be pouring money down the drain. The Japanese must turn and repent to the true and living God, the Lord Jesus Christ for real help. Until then, Japan will continue to perdition trusting in their worthless false gods and false religion and sick society. 

For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them. They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction:

...And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted, Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.

(Deut. 32:21-38)

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