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By Sarah Noorbakhsh | Published: 28 August 2010
A new interview with Jake Adelstein is up on World Policy Institute focusing on the recent yakuza crackdown, but also touching on some interesting recent topics like their popularity in(...)
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Dirty diapers: How the sumo scandal is a casualty of the National Police Agency war on the yakuza

By Sarah Noorbakhsh | Published: 10 July 2010
Sumo, yakuza, and gambling–What started as a scoop by weekly magazine Shukan Shincho revealing a somewhat imaginable connection between the three has blown up into a huge scandal that has(...)
Also posted in Organized Crime | 16 Comments

Upcoming event: End Modern-day Slavery

By Sarah Noorbakhsh | Published: 12 May 2010
Heads up to all our Japan-based readers! For its latest event, Polaris Project will host author Jake Adelstein and other representatives for an evening on Thursday, May 27 to speak(...)
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Less on livers, more on livelihoods

By Sarah Noorbakhsh | Published: 4 January 2010
The Japan Times published in last Sunday’s paper a mammoth of an interview with Jake by Mark Schreiber, stretching almost two entire pages across the Time Out section. While the(...)
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NPR animates yakuza girlfriends, serial killers, and other exciting things

By Sarah Noorbakhsh | Published: 20 November 2009
After Jake’s interview on NPR earlier this month, Thomas Dreisbach and other interns put their skills to work in editing a segment about Jake’s time covering the case of Gen(...)
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