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• Take it to the Streets with Yakuza 4 Screenshots

  
  PlayStation LifeStyle — Authority: 583
  Ryu ga Gotoku 3, or Yakuza 3 here in the west, released earlier this year in Japan and while the rest of the world still waits for the game, Sega Japan is moving on with Ryu ga Gotoku 4: Densetsu wo Tsugumono. The translation of this latest game is Yakuza 4: Successor of the Legend.  Sega Japan has released new ...
  18 hours ago

• Yakuza 3 Will Probably Not Be Coming Out In English: Why, Yes I do Hate You Sega.

  
  Letters to a Dying Dream — Authority: 118
  Sega is not going to release Yakuza 3 (Ryū ga Gotoku 3) in English.  Fuck you!  Maybe more than 40,000 people in America would have bought Yakuza 2 had you actually tried to promote the thing!  But nooooooo, you didn’t did you?  Now because you don’t think Yakuza 2 sold well enough (because you didn’t [...]
  1 day ago

• A plethora of new Yakuza 4 screens

  
  SCRAWL — Authority: 678
  Sega Japan has released a plethora of new screenshots for their upcoming PlayStation 3 sequel, Yakuza 4 . The new screenshots detail Yakuza 4 ’s four main protagonists Kiryuu Kazuma, Akiyama Susumu, Saejima River, and Justice Tanimura; them as well as other important characters like (prepare for a list of names) ...
  1 day ago

• ‘Tokyo Vice’ author was offered $500,000 to cut liver transplant scoop

  
  Japundit - Published news — Authority: 450
  The shocking revelation that Japanese yakuza gangsters received liver transplants in the U.S. over a four-year period might not have ever come to light had crime reporter Jake Adelstein accepted a six-figure compensation payment to kill the story, the writer said recently at a press luncheon. read more
  2 days ago

• Another Interview with Yakuza Muckraker

  
  Japundit - Published news — Authority: 450
  Jake Adelstein has been making the rounds on his tour to publicize his book on the Japanese Yakuza (mafia). He was recently on 60 Minutes (US TV show). This is a radio interview on NPRs Fresh Air. read more
  4 days ago

• 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 ...
  5 days ago

• 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!
  5 days ago

• Interview With Yakuza 4s Porn Lady [Maximum Risky]

  
  Kotaku — Authority: 824
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• 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 ...
  6 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 ...
  1 week ago

• The Top 100 PS3 Games

  
  PlayStation LifeStyle — Authority: 583
  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: 644
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• 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 ...
  1 week ago

• This Mob Is Big in Japan

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 583
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Did a Yakuza Boss Pay "A Million Dollars for One Liver?"

  
  Health Care Renewal — Authority: 514
  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. ...
  1 week ago

• Outrage: Did the Feds cut a deal with the Japanese Mafia in exchange for livers?

  
  MissInfo.tv — Authority: 702
  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: 118
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Be Nice to the Yakuza, Or Else

  
  Japan Subculture Research Center — Authority: 118
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• 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 ...
  1 week ago

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