1939is the year Britain went to war with Germany. The magazine I was holding would have been read just weeks before war was declared. It gave me an entirely new doorway into that world and, for the first time, made me think about writing historical fiction.
TOKYO: The Japanese mafia, better known as the yakuza, has been the subject of fan magazines for decades. These magazines serve as de-facto trade periodicals for a world of vicious, autocratic thugs, men who are handy with swords and guns, sport full-body tattoos, deal in illegal contraband and laundered money, and rip off the general public; all the while funneling money and power to their families and kigyoshatei (corporate blood brothers). What may be even more surprising is how easy the yakuza fan magazines are to find: they are readily available at newsstands, convenience stores, bookstores, public libraries and even some government offices.
The one group that does not fully cooperate with the magazines is the dominant Yamaguchi-gumi, which has taken a no interview policy with the press since the ascension of a new boss, Tsukasa Shinobu, in the summer of 2005. The Yamaguchi-gumi have allowed the press to film the annual rice-cake pounding ceremony at the start of the New Year, but almost no Yamaguchi-gumi boss has had an on-the-record interview under his own name for close to four years.
Despite the enduring popularity of the yakuza fan magazines, public sentiment has begun becoming more critical of the yakuza itself, forcing organizations such as the Yamaguchi-gumi to try and recede even further from the public eye. In response, the fan magazines have been forced to become more aggressive in their news gathering and a bit more realistic about what the yakuza actually are. Recent issues of the magazines have begun to include detailed news round-ups of actual crimes committed by yakuza members, something that naturally runs counter to the interests of the yakuza themselves.
Jake Adelstein is the author of Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan, published this month by Pantheon. He spent 12 years a reporter for the Yomiuri Shinbun and is an expert on Japanese organized crime, actively involved in combating human trafficking in Japan.
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