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[TIL] Yoshio Kodama, yakuza and "political fixer" for the japanese ultra right wing after WW2, had his mansion targeted by a kamikaze in 1976
Linked to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshio_Kodama#Lockheed_scandal_and_final_years
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/56933851
In a rather unsurprising twist, the pilot, porn actor Mitsuyasu Maeno, was an ultranationalist.
The attack was due to the bribery scandal after Kodama was exposed as lobbying in favor of Lockheed-Martin in Japan, which the ultranationalists loathed as they still saw the USA as an evil alien that should be expelled from their country.
Oh, he was also a CIA asset