jakeadelstein

It is generally considered that the media is the Fourth Estate. Their primary function is to monitor and observe the activities of the other great powers in society, however some…

It's the story of Sorato, a high school student who's deceased father was a sculptor of Buddhist images (仏師/busshi）and seems to have passed his unusual talent on to poor Sorato-kun.…

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. You can tell more about a man by his enemies than you can by his friends. A man with no enemies is…

In 2008 revisions were made to the Organized Crime Countermeasures Law (暴力団対策法) which made it possible to hold organized crime bosses responsible for the actions of their underlings in civil…

These days the price of a standard civilian hit-job can run as high as $2 million. That’s not the price to get the job done―that’s the price if one of…

I wanted to share with the students the things in life I wish I'd learned when I was younger. 継続は力 (Keizoku wa Chikara). Persistence is power. Sometimes, the only difference…

This week Kazuo aka Kazuya Uchibori, the de facto head of the Inagawa-kai, Japan’s 3rd largest organized crime group, turned himself into the Tokyo Metropolitan Police. He was wanted on…

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！ 元をたとれば、殺人のインフレの始まりは、山口組末端組員の愚行だ。数年前、京都府のマグドナルドで山口組末端組員がチーズバーガーを食い逃げした事に始まり上部団体組長や山口組組長にまでに求められて損害賠償の動きが高まってきた。

This week Japanese police has finally put an end to a 17 years criminal investigation into a series of Aum Shinrikyo cult incidents. On Monday, September 24th,  Tokyo prosecutors indicted the last…

The faith-healer and self-professed exorcist, Sachiko Eto, her daughter and another accomplice had beaten their victims to death, using thick drumsticks designed for the Japanese 太鼓 (Taiko) and other blunt…