This week: Miyazaki’s time as a politics reporter, the end of his reporting career, and his return to the family business. How did he go, in the span of five years, from a successful reporter to a wanted criminal facing police prosecution?
Sources
Miyazaki, Manabu. Toppamono: Outlaw,, Radical, Suspect. My Life in Japan’s Underworld. Trans. Robert Whiting.
Schlesinger, Jacob. Shadow Shoguns: The Rise and Fall of Japan’s Postwar Political Machine
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