By Jake Adelstein
After the arrest of a yakuza boss for his alleged role in supplying workers to TEPCO’s Fukushima Daichi Nuclear Plant, we are learning the details of how Japan’s nuclear industry relied on organized crime. Since July of last year, a few months after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami resulted in a triple meltdown at the Fukushima plant, investigators have been probing possible yakuza links to TEPCO and the nuclear industry under the guidance of the National Police Agency.
“Yakuza involvement in the nuclear industry is believed to go back to 2007 or earlier,” said a police source, “and the gangs involved were dispatching yakuza to nuclear sites all over Japan.”
Continue reading at How the Yakuza and Japan’s Nuclear Industry Learned to Love Each Other
For Adelstein’s analysis of the NAIIC (parliamentary investigation) report, see Inept and Ill-Prepared: A Closer Look at the Fukushima Report
