The Yakuza’s Cleanup Crew: It’s Not What You Think But Still Alarming

It has long been known that the yakuza are an impor­tant com­po­nent of Japan’s polit­i­cal pow­er struc­ture. It turns out that Japan’s nuclear pow­er struc­ture has a long his­to­ry with the yakuza too. This became an impor­tant real­i­ty short­ly after the Fukushi­ma cat­a­stro­phe. Seri­ous chal­lenges remain. Yakuza too.