Category Archives: Organized Crime

Yamaguchi-gumi using pre-paid internet to sell child pornography?

By Sarah Noorbakhsh | Published: 12 February 2010
According to an organized crime watchdog, police in Wakayama Prefecture have uncovered a child pornography ring that was able to set up a website selling DVDs by abusing the anonymity of pre-paid wireless Internet cards. Pre-paid Internet access through USB wireless modems are becoming increasingly popular, as use does not require a contract with a [...]
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Everything I Ever Really Needed To Know I Learned From The Yakuza or The Cops

By Jake Adelstein | Published: 25 January 2010
There are no small promises. You need to learn this now if you’re going to be a good reporter and if you’re going to walk in and out of our world. If you’re going to be a man. Trust is built on little promises and it can all be lost by failure to live up to them. All promises are important. Do you know the saying, 武士に二言はない--bushi ni nigon wa nai? *Literally—A samurai does not have a second word.
Also posted in Tokyo Vice, Yakuza | 30 Comments

Local areas to beef up anti-organized crime legislature

By Sarah Noorbakhsh | Published: 17 December 2009
There was news this week of four prefectures working on additional legislative measures to stop organized crime organizations from working their way into the operations and offices of legitimate businesses. In Ehime, it was reported by the Mainichi that on Dec. 15 the prefectural government started a project team for the creation of a prefecture ordinance [...]
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Nevada gaming board gets portion of yakuza assets

By Sarah Noorbakhsh | Published: 25 November 2009
U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement have announced that they will share more than $60,000 in assets seized from yakuza Susumu Kajiyama with the Nevada Gaming Control Board. Kajiyama is documented in “The Emperor of Loan Sharks” (pages 213-236) in Tokyo Vice, and Special Agent Mike Cox, who appeared in the 60 Minutes clip, was instrumental [...]
Also posted in Underground Economy, Yakuza | 3 Comments

Welcome!

By Sarah Noorbakhsh | Published: 1 November 2009
Hello to all the viewers of 60 Minutes or the readers of the Washington Post who have stopped by after seeing the program and/or reading the article. We’d like to thank Lara Logan and the rest of the CBS News crew for visiting Tokyo, and hope everyone enjoyed the segment! Browse around the site to learn [...]
Also posted in On the Record, Yakuza | 13 Comments