In order to understand Japanese society, you have to understand the yakuza. They are deeply entrenched into the culture there and unlike the mafia, in the USA, the yakuza are accepted. Perhaps because they think of themselves, as Robin Hoods, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, but anything is true, but that lie. The yakuza are gangsters and they make the poor, poorer, by giving them the burden of crime to deal with, in addition to poverty. Recruits, known as the kobun, have to be blind, to the truth and if the crow is black and the oyabun or 'godfather' says it's white, then the kobun have to agree. We have our Gambinos and they have their Yamaguchi-gumi family. It's easy to learn about the yakuza, when Anthony Bruno writes a great article and that article is read to you, while you follow along with the actual text, right in front of you, on your computer screen. Now, since Benjamin Fulford often speaks of the yakuza, you might ask, is he associated with them? It seems that he has risen to a very high level in Japanese society and one would expect that he's encountered numerous yakuza in his dealings. How could anyone at that level not have such connections? After studying the yakuza for just a short time, I see that it would not be likely not to know some yakuza. It might be like rising to a high level in American society, without knowing those who have so much power in the society, be it gangsters or politicians. To me, almost all politicians are gangsters ...