{"id":7350,"date":"2009-04-20T12:08:38","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T18:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=7350"},"modified":"2010-01-13T13:27:24","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T19:27:24","slug":"capitalism-vs-bushido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/capitalism-vs-bushido\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitalism vs Bushido&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;or the downfall of &#8220;GoldmanSachs with guns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5hOIf4jWtE_SA7-akgJoC_g9OXmFw\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/hiramatsusits.jpg\" alt=\"hiramatsusits\" title=\"hiramatsusits\" width=\"186\" height=\"279\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7352\" \/><\/a>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5hOIf4jWtE_SA7-akgJoC_g9OXmFw\" class=\"external external_icon\">It&#8217;s unheard of, the sort of numbers of yakuza who are being laid off<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hiramatsu now works as a truck driver and, in his spare time, is learning to use computers and play the guitar &#8212; despite a missing pinky he chopped off years ago with a kitchen knife to atone for a sin he prefers not to discuss.<\/p>\n<p>Hiramatsu is proudly old-school. His broad tatooed back features a samurai warrior clasping a knife between his teeth beneath a rippling black cod. His arms are laced with sakura cherry flowers, an ancient symbol of Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting cross-legged in a Tokyo house, he says he doesn&#8217;t have much time for the new generation of mobsters who have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5hOIf4jWtE_SA7-akgJoC_g9OXmFw\" class=\"external external_icon\">traded the mean streets for the corporate boardrooms, and their nine-milimetre automatics for the Nikkei-225<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Times are tough for everyone, it seems.  <\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5hOIf4jWtE_SA7-akgJoC_g9OXmFw\" class=\"external external_icon\">AFP<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;or the downfall of &#8220;GoldmanSachs with guns.&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s unheard of, the sort of numbers of yakuza who are being laid off.&#8221; Hiramatsu now works as a truck driver and, in his spare time, is learning to use computers and play the guitar &#8212; despite a missing pinky he chopped off years ago with a kitchen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,73],"tags":[1132,1128,900,1134,1129,1130,1133,600,1131],"class_list":["post-7350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-only-in-japan","category-versus","tag-capitalism-vs-bushido","tag-crime","tag-japan","tag-killing-a-guy-just-isnt-enough-anymore","tag-nikkei-225","tag-organized-crime","tag-samurai-gone-astray","tag-the-economy-sucks","tag-yakuza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9570,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7350\/revisions\/9570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}