Japan Subculture Research Center

U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement have announced that they will share more than $60,000 in assets seized from yakuza Susumu Kajiyama with the Nevada Gaming Control Board.

これは、世界中でも有名になっている日本人女性の願望だ。しかしこの夢、どうやら「1日3分巻くだけ！絶対小顔コルセット―整形レベルのW巻き（主婦の友)」と付属本で叶えられるらしい。それには、1日3分、激痛を味わうだけでいいのだ。A wonderful translation of our review of this beautiful for human life beauty product.

“Look around you. Do you think Tokyo needs nuclear electricity?” Naoto Matsumura, observing Tokyo life in Yurakucho, one day after all the nuclear power stations have been shut down in…

Golden week started off tragically in Japan this year when on April 29th, a bus full of tourists heading to Tokyo Disneyland ran into a sound-proofing wall on an expressway,…

atariya (当たり屋・あたりや）professional car crash dummy con man who specializes in throwing himself in front of cars and collecting damages from either the driver or the driver’s insurance company. A dangerous…

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…

and a short story about body hair and Tanuki (badger dogs)

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 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.

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…