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Lisa Katayama of Tokyo Mango has whipped up a fantastic two-part interview with Jake for Boing Boing.

In part one (“Meet Jake Adelstein, a Jewish reporter who thinks like a Japanese gangster) we get taken through the general Q&A run, but with a little added flavor here and there. Part two (“The politics of yakuza“) answers all those nitty gritty yakuza questions that have been nagging at you, like “Do yakuza come from broken families?” and “Do yakuza kill random people?”

Also to supplement the interview and further our readers education into the world of organized crime in Japan, we’ve posted a list of all twenty-two officially designated yakuza (boryokudan aka violent groups) organizations with the symbols for each group and their office locations. Please do not go knocking on their doors or try and get an autograph; they don’t have a good sense of humor. Probably dangerous.  The point is to show that the yakuza are not hiding and that the police know exactly where they are. Materials taken from Japan’s National Police Agency 2008 White Paper on Crime.

Check out parts one and two of the Boing Boing interview.