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Tag: Yakuza

What can the Yakuza explain anyway?

On July 29, 2010 By Tobias S. HarrisIn Observing Japan Blog14 Comments

Having read and enjoyed Jacob Adelstein's Tokyo Vice, it was with considerable interest that I read his article "The Last Yakuza" in the World Policy Journal (h/t to Corey Wallace).Like Wallace, I have no particular expertise with which to assess the role played by the Yakuza in Japanese society. But also like him, I am …

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Subterranean Japan blues

On April 18, 2007 By Tobias S. HarrisIn Observing Japan BlogLeave a comment

The big story, worldwide, out of Japan today was, of course, the assassination of Nagasaki Mayor Ito Itcho. (BBC; CNN; Yomiuri editorial)The suspected assassin, Shiroo Tetsuya, a local Yakuza boss, seems to have had no other motive than to avenge a trivial wrong.The coverage within Japan seems to hinge on the supposed threat to democracy …

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