AKB48 “Connected To Yakuza”
Sankaku Complex | May 24, 2013 (Warning: NSFW banner ads)
The latest scandal to surface around “national idol” group AKB48 may be the most damaging yet--it has emerged that the group’s founders apparently enjoyed close relations with the yakuza, leading to the profoundly unsavoury conclusion that the Japanese government has been using public funds to subsidise a yakuza-connected idol group in order to promote Japan’s image overseas…
According to a report just published in Shukan Shincho, the AKB48 founders--Yasushi Akimoto, Yashushi Kubota and Kotaro Shiba – enjoy close ties to Japanese organised crime.
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