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REPORTAGE
Jake Adelstein, a writer based in Tokyo, was a reporter for 12 years at the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest newspaper,
and later served as the chief investigator for a U.S. State Department-sponsored study of human trafficking in Japan. His
most recent book is Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan (Vintage-Anchor Books, 2010).
His second book, The Last Yakuza: A Lifetime in the Japanese Underworld, will be published in 2011.
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In Broad Daylight
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No Mafiosi
A Growing Problem
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monies, with
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hen house."
The Fox
Shizuka Kamei was born in Shobara, Hi
roshima, on November 1, 1936. His father,
Soichi Kamei, was a farmer, while his older
brother, Ikuo Kamei, later became an ldp
legislator. The younger Kamei graduated
from the prestigious Tokyo University with
a degree in economics. During his college
years, he studied Marx and Lenin, but never
supported communism. After graduation, he
worked as a laborer at a large Japanese
chemical company. The anpo toso?the na
tional movement opposing the U.S.-Japan
security treaty in the early 1960s?led
Kamei to a dramatic career change.
According to the newspaper Chugoku
Shimbun, Kamei witnessed students protest
ing the anpo toso break through crowds of po
will be yakuza.
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While Kamei has been connected to a num have started to bankrupt Japan's consumer
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verge of forming
an alliance with Komeito to maintain a ma
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