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It’s Not Easy Being a Yakuza Boss (Part 1)

These days the price of a standard civilian hit-job can run as high as $2 million. That’s not the price to get the job done―that’s the price if one of…

Three Lessons I Learned On The Police Beat: For My High School

I wanted to share with the students the things in life I wish I'd learned when I was younger. 継続は力 (Keizoku wa Chikara). Persistence is power. Sometimes, the only difference…

Won’t Get Burned Again? Japan Nuclear Industry And the Mihama Accident

As Japan gets ready to restart nuclear reactors across the country, perhaps it’s time to take a look back at past nuclear mishaps to see if anything has been learned.…

UPDATE: Japan’s 3rd Most Powerful Yakuza Boss Arrested On Money Laundering Charges

This week Kazuo aka Kazuya Uchibori, the de facto head of the Inagawa-kai, Japan’s 3rd largest organized crime group, turned himself into the Tokyo Metropolitan Police. He was wanted on…

「組長って辛いよ」 後藤組組員らによる殺人事件関連損害賠償請求訴訟の背景

この頃、かたぎ(一般人)の殺害の費用が2億円近くにまで値上がりをしてしまい、それは殺人依頼の額ではなく、組員が殺人を起こした時の賠償額なのだ! 元をたとれば、殺人のインフレの始まりは、山口組末端組員の愚行だ。数年前、京都府のマグドナルドで山口組末端組員がチーズバーガーを食い逃げした事に始まり上部団体組長や山口組組長にまでに求められて損害賠償の動きが高まってきた。

Exorcism Gets Everybody Killed; Female Faith Healer Gets The Gallows

The faith-healer and self-professed exorcist, Sachiko Eto, her daughter and another accomplice had beaten their victims to death, using thick drumsticks designed for the Japanese 太鼓 (Taiko) and other blunt…

Yakuza Comix: An Illustrated Guide To The Front Company フロント企業図解

To give you an idea of the scale of organized crime front companies in Japan, in Tokyo alone, there were over 1,000 at the end of 2010. And those are…

UPDATE: 10 Thugs Club Man To Death While 300 People Dance at Roppongi Club

"The killing was meant to be a warning, not just a death sentence. The very public execution is more typical of Kansai and Kyushu yakuza are foreign gangs. It may…

Remembering Ms. Mika Yamamoto; War Journalist Killed In Action

Ms. Yamamoto had a very strong sense of justice, and she felt that what is right is right. However, currently in the Japanese society it is difficult to have such…

Life With Zero Electricity: Naoto Matsumura in Fukushima, “it’s Possible”

Tokyo – September 11/ 2012 was the one year and six months anniversary of the big Tohoku earthquake and tsunami disaster, followed by the Fukushima nuclear accident. The nuclear disaster…