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JAPAN - THE UNDERWORLD WITH AN ADDRESS

By Kenji Morioka · 4 parts · 12 h 41 min · English

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Japan, 1945 to 2026. One of the safest countries on earth never made it a crime to belong to a gang: its gangsters kept headquarters with crests at the door and the police counted them. This book follows the money that moved around that underworld in plain sight — a trucking company's loans to gang-linked firms and its cash to a kingmaker, a trading house's overpriced paintings, a utility's gifts, a gang treasurer's notes in a tax court — and the anonymous fraud economy that replaced it, which in 2025 took a record ¥142 billion by telephone, mostly from the old. Covers Satoru Nomura and the Kudo-kai, Kenichi Shinoda and the Yamaguchi-gumi, Shin Kanemaru and Tokyo Sagawa Kyubin, Tsukasa Akimoto and 500.com, and Mark Karpelès and Mt. Gox.

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  1. Part 01

    3:19:24

  2. Part 02

    2:52:35

  3. Part 03

    3:05:20

  4. Part 04

    3:23:50

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