It’s Not Easy Being a Yakuza Boss (Part 1)
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…
Won’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.…
Japanese Police Women To Go Up To 10% Of Force….by 2023.
The National Police Agency 2012 Edition of the annual White Paper on Crime hit bookstores last week with details of Japan’s shocking plan to raise the number of women in…
Yakuza Go On The Record About 3/11 Relief Efforts In July Fanzine (実話時代）
"The Inagawa-kai is a yakuza group and our family motto is one word 我慢 (gaman/endurance). This is a time when that motto is very important--in the face of a rain…
Ex-Prime Minister Blames Meltdown on “Nuclear Village”, Inadequate Laws and TEPCO/NISA Incompetence
Tokyo – May 28th, 2012 The former prime minister of Japan, Naoto Kan, speaking on the record about Japan’s worst nuclear accident in history, blamed the disaster on the nuclear…
RSF Reproaches Japan’s Treatment Of Free-Lance Journalists
Reporters Without Borders denounces the discriminatory measures taken by the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) and the Japanese government against freelance journalists.
A Light In The Dark Empire: The Man Who Fought TEPCO.
Katsunobu Onda is a writer and investigative journalist who has been chronicling the corporate malfeasance in Japan’s nuclear industry for over two decades and his book Tokyo Electric Power Company…
Independent Commission on Nuclear Accident: Earthquake, TEPCO negligence, Myth of Safety Caused Meltdown
According to the investigation of this panel commission, perhaps the greatest achievements of Mister Kan could be that he “was able to prevent TEPCO to retreat entirely from the Daiichi…
RIP 2011. Happy New Year 2012
Sayonara 2011. Welcome 2012!
Taro Kono: A new leader for a new LDP?
Can the party that created Japan's nuclear industry also clean it up?