Police raid Daikanyama club in Kanto Rengo-kai crackdown
Recreational drugs becoming a risky business in clubs
Going through the motions in The Great Happiness Space
Director Jake Clennell gives the deets on what exactly the film was about
Book: Black Passenger Yellow Cabs
Editor’s note: Mr. Bryan sent us JSRC the book a few months ago but as we were getting ready to post the review, 3/11 came upon us. It seemed like…
Whoot! What? Wut! German Fashion finds a home in Tokyo
Japan Subculture Research Center is going through puberty and heading towards adulthood. After a long discussion with the Japan Subculture Research Center team, we’ve decided to expand the blog to…
Teaching an old dog (breed) new tricks
Japanese police force welcomes first-ever native Japanese police dog
Tokyo Court Upholds Ban on Use of Yamaguchi-gumi Kodo-kai front company office
The Tokyo District Court on the 21st of July (2011) rejected the legal pleas of the head of the Yamaguchi-gumi Kodokai （山口組弘道会）Komatsu-gumi and upheld a preliminary injunction against him which…
"Hey kids, it's going to be really f**king hot tomorrow!" Japan Meteorological Agency institutes "Hot Weather Warning System"
The Japan Meteorological Agency, (JMA/気象庁) which is Japan’s weather bureau, began issuing “Extreme High Temperature Forecasts and Warnings”(高温注意情報) this week, starting on the 13th and posting in English from the…
US report: human trafficking inside government’s foreign trainee program
Just two months after Japan got burned in the US State Department’s 2010 Human Rights Report, a new paper pins the country’s foreign trainee program as being almost as close…
Einstein, Insanity, Nuclear Meltdowns and Tokyo Electric Power Company
“Would there have been a meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant even without the tidal wave?” 福島原発事故の記録：津波が来なくてもメルトダウンは起きた？ The July 11 edition of the 週間エコノミスト (The Weekly Economist, a…
Missing Organs, Missing Donors, & Yakuza Involvement in Organ Transplants: This time in Japan! (Not UCLA)
On June 24th, 2011, A doctor, a Sumiyoshi-kai gangster, a former mobster and two others were arrested on suspicion of conspiring to illegally trade a kidney and faking an adoption…