‘HUGE SHAME’
The founding father of J-pop molested young talents for years. When the BBC revealed his crimes in an explosive documentary, Japan’s mainstream media didn’t want to know.
Jake Adelstein has been an investigative journalist in Japan since 1993. Considered one of the foremost experts on organized crime in Japan, he works as a writer and consultant in Japan and the United States. He is also an advisor to NPO Polaris Project Japan, which combats human trafficking and the exploitation of women and children in the sex trade. He is the author of Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan (Vintage) and the forthcomingThe Last Yakuza: A Life In The Japanese Underworld.
MYSTERY
A discarded cigarette butt may hold the key to assassination of fast-food boss. Was it ordered by jailed Yakuza boss who attacked his nurse post-op?
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DISHONEST ABE
The slain former prime minister was responsible for turning Japan into a nation that doesn’t know how to tell the truth.
‘YAMAGAMI GIRLS’
In a twisted turn of events, the man who killed the former Japanese prime minister is being fawned over as a folk hero by scores of supporters across the country.
MOONIE MADNESS
The shooting of ex-PM Shinzo Abe has blown open secret ties between Japan’s ruling party and the mass-marrying Moonies.
opinion
ONE PARTY MAN
His authoritarian legacy will live on for decades to come, and in retaining power, he even trumped Trump.
ASSASSINATION
The suspect was allegedly waiting for Abe to give a campaign speech ahead of Japanese elections before pulling out the improvised weapon and shooting him dead.
HAPPILY EVER AFTER?
From attacking the groom’s ponytail to picking apart his family’s finances, the Japanese press is going berserk over Princess Mako’s imminent wedding to her commoner darling.
BAD OMENS
The woman from Peru, who is Japan’s first known case of the Lambda variant, came to Japan with Olympic accreditation.
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OLYMPICS FIRST
Even after a Lambda case was conclusively identified at the airport, the government omitted the findings from two press releases, reluctant to raise alarms during the Olympics.