The day before the 11h anniversary of the September 11 attacks, 73-year old Japanese Finance Minister Tadahiro Matsushita was found hanging in his home: Japan Banking Minister Matsushita Found Dead at His Home Now, if you're like me, your antennae are immediately pulsing with suspicion over this one. My intuition is telling me this is another case of "murder by suicide," because Matsushita was part of the new Japanese government's attempts to get to the bottom of the plundering and corruption of that country by the decades' long oligarchical rule of the Liberal Democrats. As I have … [Read more...]