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Yoshio Kodama (児玉 誉士夫, Kodama Yoshio, February 18, 1911 – January 17, 1984) was a Japanese right-wing ultranationalist, Imperial Japanese Navy rear admiral and a prominent figure in the rise of organized crime in Japan.
13 de dic. de 2020 · La trayectoria política de Yoshio Kodama, del ultranacionalismo a la CIA, revela las estrategias de los servicios secretos estadounidenses que actúan en Japón mediante jefes de bandas yakusas. Del fanatismo ultranacionalista al saqueo de China.
18 de ene. de 1984 · Yoshio Kodama, a shadowy ultrarightist and one of Japan's backstage power-brokers until his trial as a central figure in the multimillion-dollar Lockheed bribery scandal of 1976, died yesterday...
9 de oct. de 1994 · So did Yoshio Kodama, a political fixer and later a major C.I.A. contact in Japan who worked behind the scenes to finance the conservatives. These politicians also drew support from a group of...
The man who brought peace to the warring factions and unified the yakuza was the group's first 20th-century godfather, Yoshio Kodama. Kodama's gift was his ability to balance his affiliations to both right-wing political groups and criminal gangs, using each to keep the other in check.
6 de sept. de 2020 · It was founded in November 1955 with the help and funding of war criminal, fixer, and yakuza associate, Yoshio Kodama. The CIA archives put it bluntly: “Yoshio Kodama…was instrumental in founding the LDP, had a hand in naming several Prime Ministers.
Kodama Yoshio had it all: Power, influence, money. Despite all this, the Japanese business man and Yakuza-affiliate managed to stay out of the limelight, for...
