Ino Kenji

Ino Kenji was born in Shiga Prefecture in 1933. He began his career as an in-house reporter and editor at magazines and newspapers and has long worked as a freelance journalist. Ino ranks as a pioneering journalist in the coverage of yakuza, ultra-rightists, and sokaiya extortionists. Works include Yakuza to Nihonjin (Yakuza and the Japanese People), Nihon no uyoku (Japan’s Right Wing), and Yamaguchi-gumi gairon: saikyō soshiki wa naze seiritsu shita no ka (An Introduction to the Yamaguchi-gumi: The Formation of Japan’s Strongest Criminal Organization).

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Dec 7, 2015