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• Fukasaku’s Rebellion with Post-war Japan

  
  Wanderlust — Authority: 442
  Bloggomist: My Celluloid Fix Graveyard of Honor (Kinji Fukasaku, 1975) Almost a decade ago, Kinji Fukasaku passed away. In his wake, the giant of yakuza cinema remolded the genre and left a wealth of intelligent violent films that riveted the imagination with political intrigue and complex storytelling as ...
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• Broke Gangsters III

  
  Japundit - Published news — Authority: 450
  Bankers have their exams, and now it seems the yakuza have theirs! In these tough economic times, yaks are getting their education on, hitting the books in an effort to more fully break into the greatest racket in the world… stocks! They even got a TEST!
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• Interview With Yakuza 4s Porn Lady [Maximum Risky]

  
  Kotaku — Authority: 821
  You remember Rio, right? Shes the star of films like Rio is a Squirting Young Wife and Lets Have Sex at School. Shes also in Yakuza 4 ( Ryu Ga Gotoku 4 ). In this short online promo clip title "Rios Film Set! Part I?", theres a short street interview with the blue movie actress by Noa Mizutani — questions ...
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• The Strange World of Yakuza Fan Magazines

  
  Japundit - Published news — Authority: 450
  The most prominent yakuza fan magazines are Jitsuwa Jidai , Jitsuwa Jiho , Jitsuwa Document , and Asahi Geino . Other magazines, like Knuckles , are not strictly speaking yakuza fan magazines, but often feature interviews with gangsters and articles about them. Each magazine is usually aligned closely with one ...
  4 days ago

• Rumor: Yakuza 3 fully translated to English

  
  Sega Nerds — Authority: 521
  Click here to view the embedded video. How many more rumors about Yakuza 3 do we need? Well, here is another one. According to a poster from GameFAQ boards, 1up editor Sam Kennedy told him that the game is fully translated and should be out here in Spring/Summer 2010. Since most people won’t believe a random ...
  6 days ago

• The Top 100 PS3 Games

  
  PlayStation LifeStyle — Authority: 598
  If you like this article, be sure to check Xbox LifeStyle for a list of the top 100 Xbox 360 games! Intros are lame. So yeah, whatever. Read this article. It’s in ALPHABETICAL ORDER so don’t freak out and post an angry comment. Also, we realize that some of the games on this list haven’t quite been released ...
  1 week ago

• 60 Minutes report on yakuza

  
  Japan Probe — Authority: 645
  60 Minutes reports on yakuza boss Tadamasa Goto’s UCLA liver transplant, a story originally broken by Jake Adelstein, author of Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan : Watch CBS News Videos Online The news report mentions how certain yakuza might want to kill Adelstein for writing ...
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• Tokyo Vice: American mob reporter in Japan

  
  NJN Network — Authority: 489
  If you like true crime books, this may be the book of the year. Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan tells the tale of American reporter Jake Adelstein’s incredible 15 year career crime reporting in Toyko. The book was released last month. Check out the 2008 story from the Washington ...
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• This Mob Is Big in Japan

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 573
  Jake Adelstein in the Washington Post : I have spent most of the past 15 years in the dark side of the rising sun. Until three years ago, I was a crime reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest newspaper, and covered a roster of characters that included serial killers who doubled as pet breeders, child ...
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• Did a Yakuza Boss Pay "A Million Dollars for One Liver?"

  
  Health Care Renewal — Authority: 469
  One of the more bizarre stories to appear on Health Care Renewal just resurfaced.  To summarize, in June, 2008, we posted  about the strange case of four Japanese men, allegedly affiliated with Yakuza criminal organizations, who received liver transplants from the UCLA Medical Center, apparently with some alacrity. ...
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• Outrage: Did the Feds cut a deal with the Japanese Mafia in exchange for livers?

  
  MissInfo.tv — Authority: 695
  Watch CBS News Videos Online I saw this fascinating segment on 60 Minutes last night about a very suspect deal between one of the biggest Yakuza organized-crime lords in Japan, and the FBI. The crime lord, Tadamasa Goto, needed a liver transplant*, so he made a deal with the US Government (according to this ...
  1 week ago

• Yakuza

  
  Japundit - Published news — Authority: 450
  The premier US TV news magazine, 60 Minutes, offers a 12-minute profile of the yakuza (mafia) in Japan. It focuses on the US reporter Jake Adelstein who exposed the scandal of Tadamasa Gotos illegal liver transplant at UCLA. Adelstein later wrote a book about the yakuza and continues to live and work in Tokyo ...
  1 week ago

• Welcome!

  
  Japan Subculture Research Center — Authority: 119
  Hello to all the viewers of 60 Minutes who have stopped by after seeing the program. We’d like to thank Lara Logan and the rest of the CBS News crew for visiting Tokyo, and hope everyone enjoyed the segment! Browse around the site to learn more about the case of Tadamasa Goto and the rest of the Japanese ...
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• Be Nice to the Yakuza, Or Else

  
  Japan Subculture Research Center — Authority: 119
  Another amusing educational lesson by jake Adelstein for Publishing Perspectives , this time about the vital (literally) rules of being a yakuza reporter! So, you want to become a Gokudokisha 極道記者, or rather, a journalist who writes about the yakuza? Then you should now there are some unwritten rules you ...
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• Chinese Mob Vs. Yakuzas

  
  Wildgrounds — Authority: 428
  Remember Derek Yee’s Shinjuku Incident? With Jackie Chan playing an illegal chinese immigrant coming in Japan to become an assassin for the Tokyo underworld? Showing tensions between the chinese community and yakuzas. Well, it was no joke! Japanese newspapers Asahi published an article about how the Chinese Mob is ...
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• The Strange World of Yakuza Fan Magazines

  
  Japan Subculture Research Center — Authority: 119
  It figures that something like this would be coming, since he is such an avid collector of the things, but Jake has written a detailed rundown of magazines published by fans of the Yakuza for Publishing Perspectives . The Japanese mafia, better known as the yakuza, has been the subject of fan magazines for decades. ...
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• Hungry Gang Ate 351 Lunches Without Paying

  
  alafista.com — Authority: 562
  Have you ever eaten lunch without paying for it? As the saying goes, there is no free lunch in the world, and a supposed leader of a gang associated with the Yamaguchi-gumi, his wife and another member were arrested Thursday after they were accused of eating 351 bentos over a period of four-week period without paying ...
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• Criminal Back Matter

  
  Stinkbrown — Authority: 121
  The comic Criminal from the genius teaming of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips has always been a fave. I picked up their four trade run on Sleeper and it instantly became one of my favourite collections, and also showed me what other new stuff could be achieved with comics. The mix of superheroes and noir was ...
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• Wandering Ginza Butterfly (1971)

  
  [CinemaRatty] Latest Articles — Authority: 164
  Wandering Ginza Butterfly ( Gincho wataridori ) was one of Meiko Kaji’s first films for Toei Studios after leaving Nikkatsu, where she’d starred in the very successful Stray Cat Rock series. While the plot synopsis might make it sound like a pinky violence movie, in fact it’s much more of a traditional Japanese ...
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• Gokujo ~ Gokudō Maniac Girl Mizuno

  
  NeoShinka — Authority: 128
  Mizuno really loves anything with manly spirit ~ Nyan Koi E01 極道 (ごくどう, Gokudō, organized crime) The Yakuza films, such as the films of Fukasaku Kinji, early on dealt with highly stylized samurai-era gangs, the precursor of the modern Yakuza gangs today. These films that enjoyed theur greatest ...
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