Japanese Consulate San Francisco Vice Consul Charged with Assualt and 14 Counts of Domestic Violence

Japanese Consulate San Francisco Vice Consul Charged with Assualt and 14 Counts of Domestic Violence

An interesting turn of events that should test the diplomatic will of Japan and the  application of domestic and international law. The LA TImes reports:
“A Japanese consulate official faces felony charges after San Mateo County …

Osaka Baller Doesn’t Score with Drug Bust

A very sad turn to what could have been a great story on a foreigner making good in Japan. The Japan Times reported, California native and “Osaka Evessa power forward Lynn Washington, the most famous …

Japanese teen murders Kadena High School student on Okinawa

The Stars & Stripes reports that an unemployed Japanese national teenager in the Takashiho district of Okinawa stabbed and killed a 17-year-old USFJ Army (Torii Station) dependent and Kadena High School student, Edward N. Allshouse, …

The Yakuza

 
[Via Journeyman TV] Child pornography, along with prostitution and drugs, allows the Yakuza – Japan’s 80,000 strong mafia – to rake in 50 billion dollars a year. We pry open a window on this deadly criminal …

Gimmeaflakeman: What happens if you’re arrested – Part 1

Obama Declares War on the Yakuza

Here’s an informative post from the Japan Subculture Research Center (@japansubculture). The US has declared war (not in the military sense) on the yakuza, one of four transnational criminal organizations singled out by the POTUS …