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Yakuza and NGO? o_Ô
Mar. 28th, 2011 06:35 amI felt like I was in the twilight zone when I read this article in LeMonde.fr: La reconstruction après le séisme, un enjeu pour la mafia japonaise.
( The article (in French) )
The name Jake Adelstein is not unknown to me. I remember that someone mentionned his Tokyo Vice book when we were discussing about Saki Aida's S series. Maybe I should find his book and read it.
I don't put much faith in Le Monde's articles. It's my personal point of view that many of their journalists no longer investigate thoroughly a topic before writing an article — I suspect the French journalist Antoine Bouthier who wrote this article must have very likely just translated/synthetized articles in other languages, thus I'm not too sure of his accuracy and personal knowledge in this field contrary to Adelstein who is known to be an expert.
This article about the yakuza surprised me. I do think there is truth in this for I have already watched reports on TV about yakuzas and organizations trying to look more "normal" like so the society would accept them more. I just don't totally rely on this article for the journalist might have "embellished" his story to present his scoop.
But that's an interesting anecdote. Despite the tragic situation in Japan, this article made me think of fictitious Asami Ryuuichi and what he would do in these current events. I really imagine his men acting the same way as the yakuzas in this article: providing concrete help to the victims of the earthquake where the Japanese government is inefficient, part for the profit and part out of solidarity.
( The article (in French) )
The name Jake Adelstein is not unknown to me. I remember that someone mentionned his Tokyo Vice book when we were discussing about Saki Aida's S series. Maybe I should find his book and read it.
I don't put much faith in Le Monde's articles. It's my personal point of view that many of their journalists no longer investigate thoroughly a topic before writing an article — I suspect the French journalist Antoine Bouthier who wrote this article must have very likely just translated/synthetized articles in other languages, thus I'm not too sure of his accuracy and personal knowledge in this field contrary to Adelstein who is known to be an expert.
This article about the yakuza surprised me. I do think there is truth in this for I have already watched reports on TV about yakuzas and organizations trying to look more "normal" like so the society would accept them more. I just don't totally rely on this article for the journalist might have "embellished" his story to present his scoop.
But that's an interesting anecdote. Despite the tragic situation in Japan, this article made me think of fictitious Asami Ryuuichi and what he would do in these current events. I really imagine his men acting the same way as the yakuzas in this article: providing concrete help to the victims of the earthquake where the Japanese government is inefficient, part for the profit and part out of solidarity.
