Edible soap? Yakuza Arrested For Claiming Sex-Shop Payment Was For Dining
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Organized Crime Control Division General Affair Division (警視庁組織犯罪対策総務課） arrested three members of the Inagawa-kai, Japan’s third largest organized crime group, on April 27th for computer…
No-No-Hair Summer: Time To Trim The Fur in Japan
and a short story about body hair and Tanuki (badger dogs)
Yakuza Terminology: Updated With Weasels and Monsters
If you're interested in the Japanese underworld and anti-social forces, have a read. Brush up on the Japanese you shouldn't know. By the way, if someone knows how to play…
The $1,000 Pineapple. Japanese Police Offer Rewards For Hand Grenades
The Fukuoka Prefecture Police have become the first in Japan to offer cash rewards to anyone who reports finding a hand grenade, called "pineapples" in yakuza slang.