"The big taboos are 'burakumin' (Japan's former outcast class), the Imperial Family, yakuza, negative stuff about big corporations -- any sort of corruption or big scandal that is not being investigated by the police," he says. "It is safer to say it through me," says Fulford. "I have been told many times that if I was Japanese I would have been killed already." http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20050322zg.htm