Category Archives: Dark Side of the Sun

Yakuza and Pushing Their Buttons

By Jake Adelstein | Published: 14 April 2010
I was going to visit a former yakuza boss in the hospital a few weeks ago. He was dying of lung cancer and the doctor had given him only a(...)
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The Invisible Yakuza And Those That See Them

By Jake Adelstein | Published: 22 February 2010
Maybe it seems like we glorify the yakuza on this website, and perhaps we do a little. But they are called 暴力団 (boryoku-dan –violent groups) by the police for a(...)
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We take bullets very seriously. Even the fake ones. Part 1.

By Jake Adelstein | Published: 14 February 2010
A few weeks ago, I had to go apologize to a yakuza boss. Always a scary thing, especially when you’re in the wrong. He had agreed to help out with(...)
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Homes and hotels during the recession

By Sarah Noorbakhsh | Published: 7 January 2010
The talented Hiroko Tabuchi of the New York Times published an article recently focusing on a group of Japanese people who have been forced out of their homes and into(...)
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Thank You For The Kind Letters About TOKYO VICE (from Jake)

By Jake Adelstein | Published: 2 December 2009
I’ve been heartened by a huge number of letters I’ve received in the last three weeks from people who read the book and were moved by it, inspired by it,(...)
Also posted in Tokyo Vice | 25 Comments

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