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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,(...)
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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 government said Friday.
Rainy Day Yakuza #10,001
I hate them. Most yakuza do. People get taken out when it rains -- the rain washes away the blood, the trace evidence, the footprints, everything. You can't hear a gunshot in the rain, you can't hear the whoosh of a sword, you can't even hear people walking behind you. Rain makes it dark, makes it hard for eyewitnesses to see anything. Makes it hard for you to see anything. And... if you're holding an umbrella, you can't react. You're handicapped. We get killed on rainy days. And, of course, that's also the day that, if you're going to take someone out, you'd choose to do it. Maybe just snatch them off the empty streets. Take them somewhere else and kill them. If there's a turf war going on, a downpour tells me someone is going to die.
Amazon Japan Says Goodbye to Covert Child Porn