The Nippon Foundation that funds this is a strange beast, established to make it legal to bet on speed boats in Japan. A percentage of speed boat betting winnin

The Nippon Foundation that funds this is a strange beast, established to make it legal to bet on speed boats in Japan. A percentage of speed boat betting winnings enables the Nippon Foundation. The first two chair-people were... colorful. Leading to some 'colourful activities': >In 2001, the Peruvian Congress determined that the foundation financed forced sterilizations in that country (1990-1999). First chairman: 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry%C5%8Dichi_Sasakawa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry%C5%8Dichi_Sasakawa >Ryōichi Sasakawa (笹川 良一, Sasakawa Ryōichi, May 4, 1899, in Minoh City, Osaka – July 18, 1995, in Tokyo)[1] was a Japanese suspected war criminal, businessman, far-right politician, and philanthropist. He was born in Minoh, Osaka. In the 1930s and during the Second World War he was active both in finance and in politics, actively supporting the Japanese war effort including raising his own paramilitary units. He was elected to the Japanese parliament during the war. After Japan's defeat he was imprisoned for a time, accused of war crimes, and then found financial success in various business ventures, including motorboat-racing gambling events (Kyōtei) and ship building. He supported anticommunist activities, including the World Anti-Communist League Second chair-woman: 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayako_Sono https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayako_Sono > Sono is considered to be a conservative. She was considered to be an advisor to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. She has drawn controversy for advocating for a system similar to South Africa's apartheid for Japan's immigrants.[1][2][3] She has also advocated for women to quit their jobs after becoming pregnant.[4] The third is less colorful (at least his Wikipedia is highly curated), but the son of the first chairman, so who knows....