Japanese Mob Boss Plans To Learn About Reincarnation and Karma Really Fast
Goto offered few clues at his ordination, reportedly brushing off questions about his decision with a curt statement: "Buddha will make me his disciple and enable me to start a…
"Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation in Japan. The New Victims: Japanese Teenagers"
Japanese female teenagers are being used to replace foreign women in the sex-trafficking industry, possibly as a result of crackdowns by the Japanese government against the exploitation of foreign women…
Jake Adelstein Yakking About the Yakuza On The Economist Web Site
If you’ve come here because you have a “yen” to know more about Japan’s tattooed brotherhood, please check out TOKYO VICE: AN AMERICAN REPORTER ON THE POLICE BEAT IN JAPAN.…
Onions And Yakuza Front Companies: Some Thoughts
The modern yakuza, or the 成人ヤクザ, make their real money in loan-sharking, stock manipulation, real-estate speculation, and IPOs. They need a veneer of legitimacy to do this and that is…
Hard Times For A Nine-Fingered Man
from http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/japan/090205/even-gangsters-get-the-blues Even gangsters get the blues As Japan’s economy weakens, what are 80,000 gang members to do? By Justin McCurry Published: February 5, 2009 18:35 ET TOKYO — Kazuhiro…
Tokyo set for a turf war as recession-hit yakuza gangsters fight it out
An attractive residential backstreet, a highly desirable postcode and a hugely provocative bit of corporate relocation could unleash a murderous gang war on the streets of Tokyo.
Human Trafficking In Japan: An Older Report But Still Worth Reading
From 2006 to 2007, I worked on US State Department sponsored project to study human trafficking in Japan, and contributed a large portion of the final report. At the time,…
Happy New Year! 今年もよろしく
Takayama Wakagashira : The Defacto Leader of the Yamaguchi-gumi is alive and well….more or less. 2009 should be an interesting year for us all and an especially interesting year in the world of organized crime. Around the close of the year, Takayama…
Japan Subculture Research Center Back From Hibernation：冬眠が終了
by Jake Adelstein JSRC has been in hibernation for most of November, while I’ve been re-evaluating my place in the world after Goto Tadamasa’s fall from power, making a living,…
Suicides Using Toxic Fumes Soar in Japan
More than 870 people have killed themselves in Japan by inhaling toxic fumes from household chemicals this year, 30 times more than the total for all of last year, the…