Living With The Mob: Yakuza Deeply Rooted In Japan
Once the yakuza move in, they don't move out easily. YAKUZA WARS by David McNeill and Jake Adelstein A bloody dispute between two rival Yakuza groups in a southern Japanese city has led to a historic fight-back by local people. But rooting out the mob from society will not be easy. Read More Read More
From The Guardian: Residents go to courts to evict yakuza
By Justin McCurry in Tokyo From the guardian.co.uk Tuesday August 26 2008 Residents of a city in western Japan this week became the first to turn to the courts for help in ridding their neighbourhood of organised crime, amid fears that they will become the next victims of a violent power struggle. Around 600 residents of Kurume, in Fukuoka prefecture, have asked a local court to order members of the Dojinkai yakuza gang to vacate an office building... Read More
Rainy Day Yakuza #10,001
I was knocking back drinks with a former bodyguard in the Yamaguchigumi, and it was raining outside. He is about fifty years old, six feet five, and has arms that are bigger than my legs. I was sitting on the tatami listening to the rain outside, and while he lit up his twentieth cigarette of the day I said, “I love rainy days.” He didn’t agree. Read More Read More
Tokyo Vice featured in South China Post Sunday Book Section
The stories Jake Adelstein wrote as a crime reporter for a Japanese newspaper have earned him and his family a death threat from one of the country’s most notorious and influential yakuza. Writing a book about crime and criminal culture in Japan is likely to have further enraged the Tokyo uderworld. Adelstein never planned it this way. Read More Read More