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WILL BUSH INVADE THE YAKUZA?

A US State Department talking torso said just now that North Korean WMDs are financed in part by funding from Japan's yakuza. Somehow I can't picture the yakuza funding anything with as low a vig as WMDs, let alone in another country run by an even bigger gang. But the US bureaubabble on this (those desk careers know all about what's really going on on the world) is oddly remeniscent of the extended froth over the Iraq-al Qaeda link, and look what happened to Iraq, for not even a single WMD. So apart from the truth of the accusation (how often does truth get in the way of government?), after the Bush coalition has invaded and occupied the entertainment districts and the pachinko parlors, are there any statues of famous yakuza they can pull down?