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Sakura and the Spirit of France: “LIGHTS OF FRANCE” Exhibition Illuminates Oji This Weekend
Pedaling Through Paradise
Art and DEI Get Cozy at the agnès b. Gallery in Aoyama”
The Documentary Black Box Diaries and Marriot International: Who’s Actually Protesting?
Ex-Japanese Lawmaker Found Guilty Of Sexually Assaulting Pre-Teen – and Walks
Occupy Tokyo: Another Good Excuse to Come Out and Hate on TEPCO
Saturday, October 15th, Occupy Wall Street went global. Around 300 people around Tokyo came out to march in 2 separate locations. Japan Subculture went to check out what was happening…
The Yakuza Code Of Ethics: Compliance In the Underworld
The yakuza, Japan’s organized crime groups, have close to 79,000 members. It’s very hard to understand why they are tolerated in Japanese society and not simply banned. Part of the…
"No one is safe from the new yakuza." ABC's stellar documentary.
Child pornography, along with prostitution and drugs, allows the Yakuza - Japans 80 000 strong mafia - to rake in 50 billion dollars a year.
Japan-related blogs now have a homebase!
Your most favoritest Japanese underworld guide and yakuza blog, Japan Subculture Research Center (<— us!) has recently been listed on the brand-new Japan Blog Directory! The Directory is only 2…
Japan's First Food Bank: Applying Japanese Efficiency to the Problem of Hunger
the non-profit organization that pioneered a whole new field in Japan
Ghosts in the Shell 2 (Innocence) Review and Second Opinion
Innocence focuses on the increasingly shrinking barrier between humans and technology, addressing the question of what it means to be alive, and pulls in a bit of political commentary as…
October 1st: Nationwide in Japan Anti-Yakuza Laws Go Into Effect: "Do Tell, We Won't Ask."
The new laws criminalize profit-sharing with the yakuza or paying them off. Both the yakuza and those who use them face severe punishment for illegal activity. The autumn of the…
Cops To Close Curtains on Yakuza Hollywood: The Timeline
1957: The 3rd Generation Yamaguchi Leader, Kazuo Taoka, sets up and registers Kobe Geinosha (Kobe Performing Arts Promotion) under his own name. (The Yamaguchi-gumi is currently Japan’s larges organized crime…
20msv/yr: What Does The Rest Of The World Think?
July 19th, 2011 Fukushima City “It is correct, is it not, that Fukushima citizens have the same and equal right as other Japanese citizens to spend their life without receiving…
Meet The Yakuza: The Yakuza Movie Book, more than just about movies.
"There are parallels, however, between Kitano's dirty heroes and Takakura's clean-cut ones: Both are contemptuous of death in the best samurai tradition and both define macho cool for their respective…