- Sat. Jul 27th, 2024
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Telepathy (以心伝心) and Other Coincidences (奇遇)
The Race To Run Tokyo: Who’s going to be the next governor of the megapolis?
Battle for Venus: Kamakura’s 68-Year-Old Cafe Faces Forced Eviction
The Silent Fraud: How A Brunei Group of Conmen Swindled Japanese Nationals for Years
How a sumo tournament led to the downfall of the yakuza
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…
Jake Adelstein Featured on BBC World Service
The BBC's International Radio Station did a story on Wednesday's program on Jake Adelstein becoming an "accidentally intrepid" crime reporter. The information on the July 16th Program can be found…
Salaryman in Japan
You wouldn’t expect The Japan Travel Bureau to put out the finest sociological treatise about the pathology and isolation of modern life in Japan, but here it is. It’s a…
Tokyo Vice Featured on Australian ABC Radio International's "The Media Report"
So, where to start? Well let's begin with the Japanese mafia, the Yakuza, and the desire of one mob boss to terminate (with extreme prejudice) the career of an American-born…
Prostitution isn't just for Professionals anymore! How to find a high-paying job in Japan's Sex Industry.
In Japan, prostitution isn’t just for professionals anymore. The quasi-legal sex industry in Japan is estimated to be a multi-billion dollar market and all signs indicate that it continues to…
Welcome to the other side.
Welcome. This blog will help you find the latest information on the "other" Japan – that largely unknown to the foreign public. Topics such as organized crime (ヤクザ, the Yakuza)…