After Sasakawa became rich by gambling, he set up the "Japan Ship Promotion Association" on 1962, cleverly used the distribution of huge tap money, put a large sum of money into the pockets of politicians and bureaucrats, and donated a small sum of budget to social welfare organizations, which won wide influence from political circles and good reputation from society in one fell swoop. The godfather of the mafia suddenly became a world-famous philanthropist. Later, Sasakawa became the highest adviser to the plenary session of the All-Japan Patriotic Association, which has more than 400 far-right groups and is the largest right-wing group in Japan after the war. In addition, because of the "Lockheed" scandal, Sasakawa jumped from the right-wing black bishop to the right-wing pope in Japan.
After Sasakawa's post-war career flourished again, just like the pre-war action, it began to spread its influence to all parts of the world. From 65438 to 0963, Sasakawa assisted the development of the universal church movement in Japan and became a Japanese consultant to the movement. 1968, Sasakawa became the president of the International Communist Victory Federation.
In addition, Sasakawa also organized related enterprises of Sasakawa Group, such as Japan Shipping Association, All-Japan Karate Alliance and Blue Ocean Greenland Consortium, centering on Japan Shipbuilding Promotion Association, and then used this group to make "charitable donations" around the world to expand its influence. In the1980s, Sasakawa was the largest individual sponsor of the United Nations and a super donor of AIDS research in American medical field. In addition, Sasakawa also established the "Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Scholarship Fund" to gradually expand its influence in the cultural and educational academic circles in the name of supporting cultural and educational undertakings and academic research. Therefore, when Sasakawa generously donated $2 million to the US government to improve the equipment of the presidential library, former US President Carter publicly praised Sasakawa's outstanding contribution to world peace.
After the late 1980s, with the development of Chinese mainland's economy, Sasakawa Foundation provided a large amount of Japanese research funds to academic institutions and government think tanks in Chinese mainland, which influenced the CPC's views and decisions on Japan in tangible and intangible ways.
Sasakawa Foundation, formerly known as Nippon Foundation, was named Tokyo Foundation in 1995, and Tokyo Foundation, a private fund, was established in 1997, flaunting itself as a non-governmental public welfare organization. However, the activities of the Tokyo Consortium are mainly funded by the Japanese Consortium, and the main financial source of the Japanese Consortium is its income extracted from the domestic rowing gambling business in Japan. Rowing gambling can be said to be a gambling industry operated by the Japanese government in disguise. The Japanese consortium can extract about 3.3% of its annual income of about 2 trillion yen. Together with the annual income of Japan Shipping Promotion Association, the annual income of this association is as high as 654.38+000 billion yen.
At present, Sasakawa consortium has changed its signboard to Tokyo consortium, which is divided into three aspects: promoting research, academics and information exchange. Among them, the Tokyo Foundation Scholarship Department is responsible for managing the Ryoichi Sasakawa Outstanding Youth Education Fund, and Peking University, Fudan University, Nanjing University, Chongqing University, Jilin University and other national 10 universities are all funded by the Tokyo Foundation Scholarship Project. In the past ten years, the Nippon Foundation (or Tokyo Foundation) has sponsored 65 universities in 43 countries to conduct international scholarships and research. The godfather of underworld exploits money by gambling, believing that "money makes the mare go", remoulds Japan's world image of "invading in the past and loving peace now" and extends its influence to all parts of the world.
Due to historical factors, Sasakawa has no contact with China for a long time. However, with the great changes in the world, after the resumption of diplomatic relations between China and Japan in 1972, especially after the conclusion of a treaty of peace and friendship between China and Japan and the implementation of reform and opening up in China, Mr. Sasakawa's thoughts were deeply touched. He realized that Japan should reflect on and repent of its past war of aggression against China. "Japan-China friendship can guarantee peace and development in Asia." He said, "Japan has benefited from China in history, and China is Japan's most respectable big brother." . He said that he would follow the trend of the times with practical actions, devote himself to the cause of Japan-China friendship and "pay debts" to China.
Ryoichi Sasakawa's decisive decision to carry out Japan-China friendly activities has attracted China's attention. Deng Xiaoping praised Mr Sasakawa as a "loyal" person and instructed him to do a good job. From 65438 to 0984, Mr Ryoichi Sasakawa visited China for the first time, and the following year he visited China at the age of 86. When meeting with him, Comrade Deng Xiaoping said that we are both witnesses of Sino-Japanese relations for a century, and we should make joint efforts to make the two countries more friendly in the 2 1 century. Sasakawa said that he would do more work for peaceful Japan-China friendship by "subtracting the mood of 60 years old".
Mr Sasakawa, together with his Japan Maritime Promotion Association (later renamed "Japan Foundation"), Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Sasakawa Health Cooperation Foundation, Japan Fire Protection Association and other non-governmental organizations, enthusiastically carried out Japan-China friendly activities. He personally went to Guangdong to build a leprosy research institute for free; Set up Sasakawa Medical Scholarship and provide 2 billion yen free of charge to support thousands of Japanese doctors to study in China; Enthusiastic donations for Daxinganling fire, Jiangsu and Anhui floods, Yunnan earthquake, etc. In particular, 1989, 1989 In February, Mr. Sasakawa invested 5 billion yen to set up the Sasakawa Japan-China Friendship Fund, which was used for friendly exchanges between Japan and China in the political, economic, cultural and educational fields free of charge. 1993, Mr Sasakawa decided to increase this fund to 100 billion yen, making it the largest non-governmental friendship fund for China in Japan and playing an active role in non-governmental exchanges between Japan and China.
In addition, Mr Sasakawa personally led 600 Japanese youth friendship ships to visit China, enthusiastically promoted the Emperor's visit to China, supported China's peaceful reunification, and led the heads of nine island countries in the South Pacific to visit China.
1In the autumn of 992, Mr. Sasakawa invited a large delegation headed by Huang Huawei and with Ye Xuanping as the highest adviser to visit Japan to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan. He said excitedly: "I am very happy to see that Japan-China relations are moving from stability to development, from exchanges to cooperation." This sentence tells the true feelings of Mr Sasakawa. Sooner or later, friendship is out of order. In the last ten years of his life, Mr Sasakawa worked hard and devoted himself to Japan-China friendship. In June, Deng Xiaoping met with Ryoichi Sasakawa, who visited China again, and praised his efforts to develop Sino-Japanese friendship. Until/kloc-0 died in July, 1995, although he was 96 years old, Ryoichi Sasakawa was still concerned about the exchange of "Friendship Fund" when he was dying.
Friendship from generation to generation, children inherit their father's business. Since the 1980s, Mr. Sasakawa's third son, Yohei Sasakawa, has been helping his father to set up the Sasakawa Japan-China Friendship Fund and has done a lot of work for developing exchanges with China. After the death of Mr. Ryoichi Sasakawa, Yohei Sasakawa took over as Chairman of the Nippon Foundation and Chairman of Sasakawa Japan-China Friendship Fund. He said: "Although my father has passed away, I will continue to carry on the cause of the Sasakawa Japan-China Friendship Fund he started." He believes that "Japan and China need to build mutual trust through practical actions."