‘Erase it, or be erased’: Life on a Japanese mafia hit list By Madeline Earp on February 24, 2010 9:49 AM EST As a writer from 1993 to 2005 at Japan’s Yomiuri Shinbun newspaper, Jake Adelstein built up a network of police, yakuza, and media contacts. (CPJ) A polite man in a suit gave investigative reporter Jake Adelstein the message from a leader of one of Japan’s organized crime groups when he wa
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