Japanese Crime

"Having fled her home in Nirasaki, abandoning every fragment of her old life, and immersing herself in the yakuza's criminal underworld, Makai Akira is far from the young woman she left behind. However, some ghosts can never be outrun, as Akira discovers when she is reunited with what she thought she had lost while being haunted by a man she believed to be nothing more than a grim memory. Though vast, even the city of Tokyo cannot allow Akira to hide from her past, and now she finds herself with few options but to right her wrongs while fighting to protect that which she has grown to hold ...

"After avoiding accusations of murder, life for Makai Akira had become everything she’d ever wanted; Daily routines, friends to hang out with, not to mention a loving girlfriend. With the school semester coming to a close and the New Year just around the corner, Akira took it upon herself to introduce a new challenge to her life, work. Taking up a job in the kitchen of a local restaurant, Akira soon finds herself surrounded by many unique individuals, two of whom stand out from the rest. Ketsueki Mao, a server who’s polite and beloved by all, and her jerk of a coworker, Kobayashi Eishi,...

"After having proven herself worthy of being called yakuza, Makai Akira begins her long journey of fitting into a world that is hostile towards her. As she settles into the ways of the yakuza, Akira seeks out those who knew her parents, desperate to learn about the family she lost. In her search for answers, Akira meets two unique individuals who shape her path forward. Isayama Sayuri, a young girl held captive by the notorious Nagamine Family, and Takanori Botan, a jaded old ex-yakuza who once worked alongside Akira's father. Finding herself at odds with her personal beliefs and the ...

Ousted by a rival cartel, a brutal drug lord flees Mexico to the distant East. An unwanted child commits a terrible deed and is locked away for years. A Japanese heart surgeon is shunned by the medical community and turns to working as an illegal organ broker. Three lives become entangled in threads of flesh and are plunged deep into a world of blood and bone. Together, they carve out a new criminal empire, but how long can a dynasty last? Destiny is not for mortals to decide. It is cast by the Night and Wind. It is cast by Tezcatlipoca.

Newly reinstated to the homicide division and transferred to a precinct in Tokyo, Inspector Iwata is facing superiors who don't want him there and is assigned a recalcitrant partner, Noriko Sakai, who'd rather work with anyone else. After the previous detective working the case killed himself, Iwata and Sakai are assigned to investigate the slaughter of an entire family, a brutal murder with no clear motive or killer.

"Miguel Ángel", un joven de 28 años nacido en Medellín y graduado de la facultad de Derecho de una universidad bogotana, llega a Tokio en la primavera de 1992 en busca del "sueño americano en versión japonesa". Con el paso de los años se covertiría en "toda una leyenda del submundo y la vida nocturna clandestina" en el país del Sol naciente, primero ejerciendo él mismo la prostitución y luego convirtiéndose en ficha clave para la Yakuza, la más temible mafia asiática, en la trata de prostitutas colombianas en el Lejano Oriente.

In the Chizurui family mansion, a haunting presence casts a shadow over its residents. By night, an eerie figure, clad in a sinister Hannya mask is seen roaming around the house. An amateur murder mystery writer, Akimitsu Takagi, is sent to investigate—but his investigation takes a harrowing turn as tragedy strikes. Within the confines of a locked study, the head of the family is found dead, with only an ominous Hannya mask lying on the floor by his side and the lingering scent of jasmine in the air.

"After leaving Tokyo, Akira finds herself in the vast city of Los Angeles, California. She now faces a formidable threat that none in the Hisakawa Clan have been able to handle: the Yato No Kami. This gang, comprised of remnants of the yakuza and led by the ruthless young head, Shuko Hisakawa, holds a stranglehold on the city. Akira has been given the mission to eliminate him, but she knows she cannot accomplish it alone. Always resourceful, Akira searches for allies to stand by her side and forms alliances to bolster her position in the city. However, she is well aware of the power ...

After a brutal murder investigation ripped apart his life, Kosuke Iwata quit both his job as a detective with the Tokyo Police Department and his country, leaving Japan for the hopefully sunnier shores of Los Angeles, California. Iwata sets up shop as a private investigator. Approached by an old contact whose daughter has been murdered and the case laid to rest - unsolved - Iwata agrees to take on the case out of loyalty. But what seems initially like a cold-blooded murder takes a different turn when a homeless witness recalls the murderer’s parting words: “I’m sorry.”

老若男女、出身も様々な9人の読み手が「うちなぁぐち」の人気コラムを朗読　－　語感、味わい、共通語とのずれ、言葉と言葉の間にある揺れやフィーリングを、生活に馴染みあることばで生き生きと表現しました。ときおり、昭和時代の懐かしいひびきも聴こえてくるかもしれません。うちなぁぐちを勉強中のみなさんも、普段触れることのないみなさんも、どうぞ、ことばの響きやリズム、“沖縄的感覚”をお楽しみください。では、グスーヨー（皆さん） クリカウーティ（ここら当りで） グブリーサビラ（失礼致します）。 本商品は『うちなぁぐちフィーリング』(沖縄タイムス社刊 儀間 進著 ISBN:978-4-87127-0109-9 1,480 円(税込)) / 『続うちなぁぐちフィーリング』(沖縄タイムス社刊 儀間 進著 ISBN:978-4-87127-110-2 1,480 円(税込)) / 『うちなぁぐちフィーリング パート4』(沖縄タイムス社刊 儀間 進著 ISBN:978-4-87127-172-1 1,575円(税込)) を音声化したものです。

In Murder in Manchuria, Scott D. Seligman explores an unsolved murder set amid the chaos that reigned in China in the run-up to World War II. The story unfolds against the backdrop of a three-country struggle for control of Manchuria—an area some called China's "Wild East"—and an explosive mixture of nationalities, religions, and ideologies. Semyon Kaspe, a young Jewish musician, is kidnapped, tortured, and ultimately murdered by disaffected, antisemitic White Russians, secretly acting on the orders of Japanese military overlords who covet his father's wealth.

LA gardener Mas Arai returns to Hiroshima to bring his best friend’s ashes to a relative on the tiny offshore island of Ino, only to become embroiled in the mysterious death of a teenage boy who was about the same age Mas was when he survived the atomic bomb in 1945. The boy’s death affects the elderly, often-curmudgeonly, always-reluctant sleuth, who cannot return home to Los Angeles until he finds a way to see justice served.

2024年 第22回 開高健ノンフィクション賞受賞作　JAで「神様」と呼ばれた男の溺死。執拗な取材の果て、辿り着いたのは、国境の島に蠢く人間の、深い闇だった。

トクリュウの拠点は、台湾にあった!トクリュウこと匿名・流動型犯罪グループの大きな拠点の一つは台湾にあり、日本の暴力団は完全に台湾黒社会の下請。そんな情報を仕入れたジャーナリストが、台中のアジトに潜入取材した。

Nikko: As the “Handler” my duty was to protect, not fall for the captives. Margo shattered those rules. Now, she’s trapped in my world of carnal iniquity, her horror-stricken eyes haunting me. My first assignment since disgracing the Yakuza-either a test or punishment. Margo’s sorrow awakened sentiments thought long dead and buried. I never expected to be uncontrollably enamored by her. Extracting her would ensure certain death, but her enchantment compelled me to undertake this hazardous mission. Risk it all to escape this hell and the darkness within myself. Saving her might be my...

―過去に重大犯罪を犯した人間が、会社の同僚だとわかったら?― ジャーナリストを志して夢破れ、製作所に住み込みで働くことになった益田純一。同僚の鈴木秀人は無口で陰気、どことなく影があって職場で好かれていない。

不条理な暴力に私たちはどう抗えるのか――【第53回大宅賞受賞作】1972年11月、革マル派が支配していた早稲田大学文学部構内で、一人の学生が虐殺された。

Inspired by the real-life Glico-Morinaga kidnapping, an unsolved case that terrorized Japan for two years, Lady Joker reimagines the circumstances of this watershed episode in modern Japanese history and brings into riveting focus the lives and motivations of the victims, the perpetrators, the heroes and the villains. As the shady networks linking corporations to syndicates are brought to light, the stakes rise, and some of the professionals we have watched try to fight their way through this crisis will lose everything—some even their lives.

金属バットで両親を撲殺、女性8人を強姦して殺害、妻をチェーンソーでバラバラに切断、教え子をソープに沈めたのち殺害……。高度経済成長やバブル景気に浮かれた昭和後期に起きた、25の凄惨な事件。

スパイ取材の第一人者である山田敏弘（国際ジャーナリスト）が構成として参画。スパイ業界最強のタッグが放つ「スパイ本」の決定版！！