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Yakuza Comix: An Illustrated Guide To The Front Company フロント企業図解
Sometimes, a picture is worth a thousand words. Of course, if it’s a thousand words of bullshit–the picture isn’t actually that useful. Hopefully, this is worth at least 800 words. Understanding...
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「組長って辛いよ」 後藤組組員らによる殺人事件関連損害賠償請求訴訟の背景
*今年９月28日 The Atlantic Wire (米国大西洋通信)に掲載された英文記事の和訳） この頃、かたぎ(一般人)の殺害の費用が２億円近くにまで値上がりをしてしまい、それは殺人依頼の額ではなく、組員が殺人を起こした時の賠償額なのだ！...
View ArticleWon’t Get Burned Again? Japan Nuclear Industry And the Mihama Accident
As Japan gets ready to restart nuclear reactors across the country, perhaps it’s time to take a look back at past nuclear mishaps to see if anything has been learned. The Mihama Incident which occurred...
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奇遇: Synchronicity & The Police Beat. An unpublished chapter of TOKYO VICE
奇遇 (Kigu) an unpublished chapter of Tokyo Vice: An American On The Police Beat in Japan Today (October 14th) marks the 3rd anniversary of the publication of my first book. It also marks the fourth...
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Coffee & Cigarettes Together At Last : Speak Lark, Drink up
Any hard-boiled journalist or cop will tell you that coffee and cigarettes go well together. So I guess it was a stroke of marketing genius for Philip Morris to team up with Tully’s Coffee and offer a...
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On Modern Slavery: Thoughts on Human Trafficking
Michiel Brandt died from complications of leukemia in July of 2012, at age 30. This was the essay she submitted to the Monterey Institute of International Studies on why she wanted to attend the...
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“The name is Bond. Japan Bond.” Abe returns as Agent .007 in “Yenwrecker”
I was reading an article today about how the return of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, now head of the LDP, as the new Prime Minister, could be absolutely devastating in terms of the value of...
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Why Abe & Adult Diapers Make Shorting Japanese Yen A Sweet-Smelling Deal!...
As many of you know, the lower hours elections were held in Japan today and the LDP and New Komeito Alliance scored a clear victory. It means the likely return of Shinzo Abe aka Mr. Bond, Japan Bond,...
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How The CIA Helped The Yakuza & The LDP Get Power & Promote Nuclear Power
I just finished re-reading Tim Weiner’s magnum opus, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA ,which is perhaps the best book ever written on the Central Intelligence Agency, and its general history of...
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The End Of The World And This Blog & Final Chances. Sayonara!
This post has been scheduled to post before midnight GMT of LA time, which as we know, was the official time zone of the once thriving Mayan culture, that predicted the world would end today. And...
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Whaling is not a sustainable industry in Japan anymore, says study
Patrick Ramage, Director of the International Fund for Animal Welfare Global Whale Programme gave a press conference in Tokyo yesterday Yesterday, February 5th, the International Fund for Animal...
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“May I have some more whale, sir….”
In the United States, serving whale meat can cost you decades of jail-time as one sushi chef in Los Angeles recently learned; in Japan it costs you about $10, for the whale tempura special (￥980)*. If...
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Goodbye Friendly “Mild Seven” Cigarettes; Hello “Mevius”!
Mild Seven cigarettes are no more to be found in the smoker’s paradise. Japan Tobacco Inc. changed the name of its flagship cigarette brand from “Mild Seven” to “Mevius” in a bid to expand its global...
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Cutting Subsidies to Chongryun`s Schools Punishes Zainichi Koreans Not Pyongyang
On February 25th, 2013 Shin Gil Ung, thePrincipal of a Tokyo Korean Junior-Senior High School and two students gave a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan. (Photo: FCCJ)...
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Japan Lax Nuclear Security Could Make It The Land Of The Melting Sun
Japan is a giant nuclear pressure cooker. Let’s hope it doesn’t get set off. full article is in the Japan Times (May 5th, 2013) On April 15, two alleged terrorists in Boston killed three people,...
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Combatting human trafficking: 1st Winner of Michiel Brandt Memorial Prize...
Elena Kokhanovski, a first year MPA student, has been awarded the $1500 cash prize to support her internship in the anti-human trafficking field. Elena is undertaking academic and non-academic...
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Doglegs disabled pro-wrestling: The fight club that wants you to stare
They’re uncomfortable sights, even for seasoned ringside aficionados: A deaf man and his opponent–paralysed from the waist down–bound at both hands and feet, reduced to head butting. Two men, normally...
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The Polaris Project Japan Responds to Mayor Hashimoto: “You’re clueless”
The Polaris Project Japan is an organization dedicated to combatting human trafficking and child pornography in Japan, who Jake has worked with for almost seven years. Recently, Japan’s controversial...
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ABEGNOMICS: The Most Magical And Mysterious Economic Policy In The World!
Japan is populated by magical creatures. There are the leprechauns that stole millions from Olympus, Lehman Brothers Japan–then a billion dollars from AIJ and MRI and then vanished. There are also the...
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Japanese rockers sing the truth about post-meltdown Fukushima. Is anyone...
“We’re living in a material world. A radioactive material world, ” jokes the lead singer. “This isn’t the future we hoped for.” Two years have passed since the triple meltdown in Fukushima Prefecture...
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