Japan Subculture Research Center

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…

It's politics of free news, it's the journo's blues.

Last year, we told you the story of Naoto Matsumura, Tomioka City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan–the last man standing in  Fukushima’s Forbidden Zone. He will not leave;  he risks an early…

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…

Some in-house book news: Atlantic Wire contributor Jake Adelstein has a deal for his book The Last Yakuza: A Life in the Japanese Underworld. Adelstein, an expert on organized crime…

By Gilles Poitras Screenshots courtesy of Michelle A. Hoyle Nitta Tatsuo’s Shizukanaru Don (静かなるドン), translated into English as The Quiet Don, began publication in November 1988 in the men’s manga…

Tokyo Stock Exchange listed companies in collusion with yakuza? Shocking.