Tag Archives: yakuza

Child pornography pulling profits?

By Sarah Noorbakhsh | Published: 20 October 2009
“How can you crack down on child pornography in this country when it is not a crime to be posses it?” “When you are looking at child pornography, you are(...)
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Economics 101: The Yakuza Barometer

By Sarah Noorbakhsh | Published: 7 October 2009
A look at why the yakuza hitting the books is a sure-fire sign that the economy is hitting rock bottom, by Bloomberg’s William Pesek, with added flavor from Jake Adelstein.(...)
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“Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation in Japan. The New Victims: Japanese Teenagers”

By Jake Adelstein | Published: 1 April 2009
Japanese female teenagers are being used to replace foreign women in the sex-trafficking industry, possibly as a result of crackdowns by the Japanese government against the exploitation of foreign women in the country.
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Newspapers Catch Up To Our Goto Coverage: 毎日新聞と朝日新聞は遅れて後藤組問題の結末を報道

By Jake Adelstein | Published: 20 October 2008
October 20th, 2008. Japan’s top two newspapers covered the end of Goto Tadamasa’s reign as head of the Goto-gumi today.　Probably, they didn’t feel this was the most pressing of stories. Maybe they didn’t have the resources to stay on top of the story. Who knows? (...)
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Yakuza bosses take legal classes to evade strict new law

By Jake Adelstein | Published: 7 October 2008
Japan's most powerful gangsters are mugging up on legal terminology in an attempt to skirt strict new laws that make them liable for crimes committed by their henchmen.
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