POLITICS
Where in the World is Ikeda Daisaku, Soka Gakkai’s Long-Missing Leader?
Ikeda Daisaku, one of the most powerful political fixers and religious leaders in Japan, hasn’t been seen in public since 2010. Where…
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ENTERTAINMENT
Society Without Honor And Humanity: Japan’s 1970s Yakuza Films
Kinji Fukasaku’s 1970s gangster movies upended decades of depictions of the yakuza and held up a mirror to Japanese society at the…
LAW & CRIME
Hangure: A New Generation of Gangsters Takes Over Japan’s Underworld
Police in Japan are cracking down on the country's organized crime orgs. But the criminals aren't quitting - they're going underground.
ENTERTAINMENT
Tokyo Vice, The Book: We Ask Jake Adelstein Anything (and Everything)
In a continued exclusive for Unseen Japan, Jake Adelstein reflects on writing Tokyo Vice, his true-to-life memoir on the Japanese underworld that…
ENTERTAINMENT
Tokyo Vice’s Jake Adelstein: Everything You Wanted To Know (But Were Mildly Afraid To Ask)
In an Unseen Japan exclusive, Jake Adelstein, reporter and basis of HBO's new series Tokyo Vice, lays down the facts about his…
LAW & CRIME
Japan Gun Laws Spur Astonishing Okinawa Crime
A recent robbery in Okinawa highlights something of a trend in generally gun-less Japan: crimes committed with imitation weaponry.
ENTERTAINMENT
How Yakuza 0 Memorializes Japan’s Bubble Economy
How 2015's Yakuza 0, dated in Japan's 1980s, highlights the successes - and excesses - of the country's Bubble Economy before it…
FEATURED
Furuta Junko: The Horrific Murder That Tested Japan
How the case of Furuta Junko led Japan's press to break the rules, and citizens to question the country's juvenile criminal law.